PiledHigher said:http://bikelanediary.blogspot.com/2006/01/style.html
cfsmtb said:Hmm, the guards match Furry Frank's banana seat:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035538080@N01/85083798/
Yeah, you're right. I like gardening & growing kennebec potatoes near the front fence. The sunflower forest is currently turning a few heads too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035538080@N01/tags/gardenpixjan06/
Why not, huh?
eddiec said:oooh. jealous... my pathetic new patch of veggie garden aspires to be like yours... damn broccoli and leek seedlings taking forever and non-sprouting pumpkin seeds!!
cfsmtb said:Don't know the details of your veggie patch, but I'll hand out some aus.bicycle.gardening.cats advice.
It's not too late to kick off some summer crops or start winter crops (like leeks etc) - but they will need plenty of mulch, nutrients, moisture and protection. Hint: peastraw, worm farm castings (very easy - just feed from kitchen scraps) & newspaper underneath. We actually put up a shadesail on the recent 40C+ days, but the potatoes still ended up 'rooted'. And please - water only during the evening. Otherwise it's just wasting your time & water. Leafy greens like lettuce, chicory, pak choi & rocket are very easy.
ahh to have pawpaw trees and avocadoes in the yard again...that's all I miss about south east queensland, but at least i do have a prime example of the ubiqitous Beaumaris lemon tree which supplies all my neighbours fish and chip dinners and some pretty neat stone fruit I share with the avian population....and if some one can come up with a camelia recipe then I will never starve, they are prolific and even my Possum tribe ( which seems to dine on my Camelias endlessly) thank me with waves and smiles from the ridge capping most nights....LotteBum said:Holy smoke, cfsmtb, you've got quite the vegie patch.
Abby should have a look at your photos.
My new house (move in next weekend) is seriously fruity! There are 4 or 5 pawpaw trees, a suspected avocado tree, a lemon tree, a well established chilli bush and 3 or 4 banana palms (or herbs.. whatever they are). Will have to take photos once we move in. That is, of course, before the dogs eat all the pawpaws and proceed to squirt them all over the back yard by way of diarrhoea.
Lotte
cfsmtb said:Don't know the details of your veggie patch, but I'll hand out some aus.bicycle.gardening.cats advice.
SNIP:
And please - water only during the evening. Otherwise it's just wasting your time & water.
I was told never to use cat or dog droppings in compost because the worming agents we use come out in their poo and kills earth worms as well. If you could use dog poo in your compost, then that's just about all my compost bin would comprise - my dogs, combined, leave behind about 4kg of **** every day.HughMann said:Gardening Tip for bike riding cat owners. Use Pony Pellets ( small) or small Lucern pellets ( cheapest small pellets will do) instead of "kitty litter" or similar clay products that you can only throw away.
Contents of the cats tray can then be tipped into the compost bin or sprinkled around trees. Usual warning about using gardening gloves if you have a cat. They can pass on some soil borne disease to humans but I forget its name.
***********, and they leave the fish bones all over the footpath , blighters...Tamyka Bell said:rooman wrote:
>snip...
>
> ahh to have pawpaw trees and avocadoes in the yard again...that's all I
> miss about south east queensland, but at least i do have a prime example
> of the ubiqitous Beaumaris lemon tree which supplies all my neighbours
> fish and chip dinners and some pretty neat stone fruit I share with the
> avian population....and if some one can come up with a camelia recipe
> then I will never starve, they are prolific and even my Possum tribe (
> which seems to dine on my Camelias endlessly) thank me with waves and
> smiles from the ridge capping most nights....
>
> --
> rooman
A lemon tree that supplies fish and chip dinners? Where do I get me one
of them?
Tam
LotteBum said:I was told never to use cat or dog droppings in compost because the worming agents we use come out in their poo and kills earth worms as well. If you could use dog poo in your compost, then that's just about all my compost bin would comprise - my dogs, combined, leave behind about 4kg of **** every day.
Lotte
P.S. Did I mention my dogs **** a lot?
Tamyka Bell said:A lemon tree that supplies fish and chip dinners? Where do I get me one
of them?
TimC said:>What about just watering the ground, and not the plant itself?
TimC said:>You are not meant to get water on leaves during the day, because somehow the water and sunlight ends up burning the leaves.
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