Judi B

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.

Oh yes Gringo was something else…. Bushy had wonderful plants and was full of information …. Sassy well I’m friends with her on fb…. so many people I wonder what they are up to now??

I think all the new ones are spammers even in the hey day this group never had so many

MistyH I haven’t seen many others when I come to look, this forum was great 🙁 but since fb not many come here I was one of the early members here and this place was so alive… and could always find someone to chat with the shoutbox was great with Tullymoor miss her and Bushy was a fountain of information and Sassy good to chat with….. OH the…[Read more]

Ballamara looks like you and I are the only ones that come here now……………. so sad was a great group once

Today I walked around on grass that didn’t crunch…. we had a spot of rain 11mm…. I do hope those that need it get enough rain.
Yesterday I watered the garden (that is why we had rain) and was being followed by 4 two lined dragons they were licking up the water off the leaves poor things, I do have bowls of water out but not in the vegie garden.

Hi…………. I have been putting cages around trees and tie the cage to stakes trying to keep them a few inches up put down mulch really thick around the tree keeping it away from the trunk, then I use a Kama from Green Harvest to weed next to the tree trunk very carefully getting in under the cage…………….. if you know what I mean

Hi … good to see more coming back