Judi B

Sorry I’ve been awol but the past 6 months has been crazy, checking up on family in Brisbane, hubby being sick and back and forth to Drs and now it is my turn for Drs.
It has been very hot and dry here and most of the garden has died and I have pre-cooked vegies in the wicking beds, there is a month waiting list to get water which we can’t drink…[Read more]

Hi ballamara…
How are you? I hope you’ve had some rain. We’ve been busy here chopping wood to get enough wood put aside, have to find another wood stove saw some really nice ones in Toowoomba a chap down there does them up just have to save.
We haven’t had much rain but it is so cold 8.30pm and its already -3°C so will be a white Winter…[Read more]

Looks like Winter is here, we haven’t had a frost yet but the temps have dropped last few mornings 1.5°C.
I have been busy the last few days in the garden planting seedlings of silverbeet and broccoli and taking cuttings of pepino, mugwort and wormwood took some about 10 days ago and they already have roots if more than what I need strike I’ll…[Read more]

I’m trying to send it to you but it wont listen to me, we’ve been getting mizzle more mist than drizzle can’t do anything outside the grass and weeds are getting away from me….. Why is it weeds and grass only need to smell rain and they grow??

Hi ballamara,
I hope you get some decent rain soon we’ve had a bit but not enough to fill the dam. I’ve got lots of trees to goin but waiting till we have enough water.
We’ve been so busy this is the first chance I’ve had to check in here.

It has been so hot here that lots of the trees have dropped their leaves even though I’ve been watering from the dam but that is now too low to pump from.

We’re fine Floods are nowhere near us I’d like a bit more rain than we’ve had this year we’ve had 16mm I’ve given up on the vegie garden

crazy weather all over ….. we’ve had the fan on of a day and blankets on at night

We’ve had some good rain 85mm things in the garden are going balistic, the zucchini had been sulking but now growing well, tomato plants have doubled in size in a week but the rain didn’t come soon enough for my cucumbers……. but the weeds are growing the fastest.
I’m starting to switch my garden over to wicking pots and have been using blue…[Read more]

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Christmas

Thank you Dan I was really missing ALS.
I had fun logging in as well.

We’ve been having some nice rain and everything has gone from brown and crunchy to a green that hurts your eyes, the garden has really come to life with the asparagus waking up we had some last night yummy.
We had to go to Brisbane last week for the BIL’s birthday was a big one he turned 70 so just had to go, he had his first ever Birthday cake…[Read more]

calliecat I have 3 spare bags if you want them let me know…
still on mushrooms I was naughty and didn’t check on them since Friday morning and I just went out and found 6 the size of bread and butter plates …………… guess what we are having tonight???? LOL

calliecat I posted on the permie and share pages about getting the spent mushroom compost, not sure if Kylie is coming over this way again but I have 3 spare bags @ $5 a bag.

I bought a mushroom kit and got a handful of mushrooms I’m getting way more from the spent mushroom compost.

I’m using it in the vegie garden the soil here is crap and mushroom compost was cheap and the garden needs all the organic matter it can get and the mushrooms were a bonus. pH of mushroom compost is slightly acid to neutral I think.

I had some spent mushroom compost delivered on 8th September and have been picking mushies since but today was a good haul 1kg of yummy mushies so tonight we had steak with mushroom gravy

calliecat nice to see some of the oldies come back ….. I don’t like the way you have to navigate here I come look and have a bit of a read, but it is nowhere as good as it used to be.