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Claud The Backyard Farmer (self proclaimed)
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[QUOTE="kingofnobbys, post: 1959819, member: 81934"] At least you'll know what a potato plant looks like in future. Been bucketing down rain here for over a week , closer to two weeks , even had flash flooding in low lying suburbs like Mayfield, Hamilton, Broadmeadow, Hexham and the harbour is full of flotsam from up river and very dirty with thick silt laden layer on the top. Kiss good bye to fishing for livebait in the harbour , or snapper of the breakwalls for month or so , and the seas too big to risk fishing the walls for monster jewfish ( which will be there ) because of the TC north of Fiji ( seas up to 8 m here last few weeks , been several rockfishermen taken by rogue waves , near here ( Fraser NP , Wybung and Snapper Heads ) and even as far south as Pt Kembla ( some fishers killed there when the platform was hit by a 10m plus rogue wave ). I like fishing for monster jewfish if I have live bait on hand, but it's not worth risking your life to catch them , might be relatively safe 8m to 10m above the water on top a break water , but you still have climb down to close enough to gaff the fish ( most guys only have 12ft to 16ft long poles on their "cliff gaff" and you cant always use a flying gaff - so you run the risk of being in the wrong place when a rogue wave hits with no quick easy escape to higher / safer ground.). Does this mean the water restrictions have been lifted ? NO So my beds remain fallow for now as there are big fines for anyone caught using fixed irrigation or hosing for longer than 1 hr per day . Wish I'd taken the opportunity to plant some silverbeet, peas, spring onion, carrot, lettuce, beetroot, spinach, rhubarb ( my wife lives rhubarb pie ,her grandmum used to make it) and broccoli a couple of weeks ago when wet season set in up north in NW WA, NT and NQLD, as we always get a lot of wet weather drawn across the continent from NW WA & NT in Feb of the monsoon is strong. But it was heatwave conditions here then ( very low humidity ( < 20% ) , and daytime temps peaking at 38 to 42 degC for near 2 weeks here even though we're only a few km from the sea and the big tidal lake ( Lake Macquarie) ) . I didn't want to risk planting the seeds in the beds only to have die from being cooked because we were back up to Lev 2 water restrictions here when the heatwave arrived . Lesson learnt - should have put the seeds into small seedraising coir pots and got them started indoors if need be. My nasturtium plants ( in the top front 3x3m bed is growing like crazy, loves the soil there and will soon cover the entire top half the big 2 level 6x3m bed at the front of my house ) , the bees and butterflies love the flowers !! Tough are as nails these nasturtiums - all the flowers wilted and dropped in the heatwave but the leaves and plants were otherwise fine ( with an 10min water from a handheld misting nozzle each evening about 5pm). Will start harvesting some flowers and leaves for the dragons and bluetongues to add to their salad, might eat some myself too. The Pomegranate cuttings ( 2 of 6 cuttings are growing , one near the edge of the pot much more vigorously ( gets warmer ?? ) . The black mulberry sapling is still going good , likes the spot it's pot is in . The seedlings from my seeds in Jun are now in one of the beds. ( The herbs and veg that survived being neglected and just watered - carrots were tiny and replanted in the bed nearest our back steps.) I keep forgetting to plant the berry seeds that I have in the freezer …. might do this job this week if it's not too late in the season. Noticed Woolworths sell Macro Organic Sweet Potato , we usually don't bother with organic produce , but might add a small bag (500g) to the next grocery order and have a go at trying to get them as starters. I never managed to get the "standard punnet packed" ( treated / sterilised ?? ) sweet potatoes to sprout , ended up rotting in the planter tray. Might be more successful with organic sweet potatoes. [/QUOTE]
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