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I havent done much in the garden today, but yesterday I dug a hole for a new nectarine tree. Transplanted some strawberries. Moved a bunch of big pots around and shaped the hedges. Everything is growing crazy fast with all the rain and now sunshine. There is grass coming up under the hedges and...

Coffee time! Hopefully without bunny fur... the boy bunny pretends he wants cuddles but is really just looking for breakfast bacon crumbs.

Crisp clear blue skies. Spring time weather, but I prefer the clouds :( too bright to work outside. I hope winter comes back soon. All of the water has drained away now, the ducks want new ponds!

Wait, whats happened in Australia? I havent read the news today, but usually I hear if something big happened? What happened?

We had little flecks of ice and snow falling over the weekend :D hardly enough to call it "snow" but its always a delight for me to see. It stuck up the hill, people drove for hours and hiked through the night to make a snowman less than a foot high, haha. Some of the rain was fiercely heavy. A...

bit of a random throw together tonight. Hard boiled eggs with cheese and bacon, sprinkled with parsley with a side of beetroot. Probably tinned pineapple for desert.

I have neglected my hard working feet over the years, and I am wondering what you guys do to care for them. I am interested in home made soaks and cracked heel creams. I have used epson salts for foot soaks before, sometimes with some mint. I tried a tea foot soak years ago, but much prefer...

Rain rain and rain :D:D:D I love it! It is more than we'd usually see. My ducks have new ponds to play in EVERYWHERE! They are very muddy ducks. My town is handling it ok, but the roads are near on washing away in places down on the coast. Lots and lots of pot holes and water over the road...

Nice work :)

I have been meaning to respond to this thread for quite a while, sorry for the delay! 1. What is your general location, garden zone, type of soil, amount of daily sunlight? Southern Hemisphere, south western edge of Australia, about 100 kms inland. The zones are a bit foreign to me, summers...

Rosemary grows great here. Everyone has it. Bees love it. Good stuff. I just cut back my huge bush to a more manageable level. It had grown right over a pathway I forgot was there! Oregano on the other hand... Dies over winter here. I have it in a pot near the front door for morning sun and its...

Pea and ham soup with white dinner rolls. Not a traditional type, no ham bone, just a bit of smoked ham I picked up on special and a whole bunch of veggies to add bulk. Ran some over to the neighbour and came home with a side salad from his garden.

Timely topic with the power outage. Mine was out last week for just over 24 hours after a storm. I was thinking of starting a thread soon on alternative power options for those times. The cafe had a generator but the petrol powered type are not economical for me. Man oh man, I was glad to have a...

I live in a place that still requires signs in car parks to tell people not to leave children in hot cars :confused: Its nice to know people are thinking of the animals in the heat. Remember to change the water troughs more regularly as well as bacteria thrives in warm still water.

Winter is here! Light frost last night, expect it very light again for the next week. Just enough to burn the soft grasses and weeds but not really damage my beans. The days are over 10C so its really not "cold" , totally fine at night with the fire on. I always fear the 0C overnight temps...

Chopped some branches off the lilly pilly. The ducks were at my feet grabbing the fruit as it dropped down and surprisingly graceful in dodging the branches. I sort of regret not doing anything with the fruit. I picked a couple of the good ones to eat and they were beautiful and sweet and got...

There are currently more people with blood clots caused by the vaccine receiving treatment than there are covid cases receiving treatment in Australia. It sucks people are having reactions to it, but also makes the fear of the vaccines validated. I do not trust the drug companies purely from a...

Its prime gardening time for me right now. Everything is green and its lovely and cool in the garden. I took the hedges in 1-2 foot which was a big job. Some bulbs are flowering and the rest coming up. They dont seem to rot with mulch around them as I had worried about. The mulch has made...

Something similar happened to My limes earlier in the year. At the time the tree was loaded and the weather was wet and hot, so I assumed the rot was caused by that. My fruit doesnt tend to get very big generally so i figure a few were on the overripe side for my young trees. I picked as much...

Snow expected up the hill this weekend! Currently 21C/70F here now but it will drop tomorrow. Its unlikely to snow where I am but we get occasionally some floaty flecks of ice rain that never seem to land. I do hope for some wet rain or I am gona have to water. Might start the fire tonight...