megami wrote:
I've also driven the Great Ocean Road and seen the Apostles formations. Just as impressive to me as the cliffs and seastacks were the pastel water colors - unlike anything I'd seen elsewhere in Australia and possibly anywhere. There was an uncomfortable number of tourists at the main lookout but elsewhere in that area there were tracks down to beaches with comparatively few (or no) people milling around.
Yes, it is a beautiful stretch of coastline for sure. Did you make it as far as My Gambier, just across the South Australia border as we did megami?
Sorry for the late response
Only made it as far as Warrnambool, then up to the Grampians. 40C and bushfire warnings inland... it felt like the vegetation was ready to spontaneously combust (which I believe eucalypts can actually do!)
Only made it as far as Warrnambool, then up to the Grampians. 40C and bushfire warnings inland... it felt like the vegetation was ready to spontaneously combust (which I believe eucalypts can actually do!)
No problem re response megami
It is all lovely country down that way and yes, eucalypt trees do explode in intense bush fires.
Further to my last post: Wife's PC problems - yes the video card died(?) and the hardware didn't have the plug and waste fitting I was after so I am off the the specialist supplier Tuesday ($$$) as today is a Public Holiday.
xer0s wrote:I expanded the garden this year. Added room for tomatoes, peppers, green beans, corn, squash, cucumber, zucchini, watermelon, and strawberries.
xer0s wrote:I expanded the garden this year. Added room for tomatoes, peppers, green beans, corn, squash, cucumber, zucchini, watermelon, and strawberries.
xer0s wrote:I expanded the garden this year. Added room for tomatoes, peppers, green beans, corn, squash, cucumber, zucchini, watermelon, and strawberries.
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The corn sprouting!
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I'm about to lease a garden in a "gardening community" near my home. I'ts about 20x30m, has a small wooden cabin on it and even a greenhouse. Size should be ideal for me. I hope I can take it over this or next week. I'm planning to plant some potatoes, carrots, peas, beans etc. on the existing beds an tomatoes/sweet peppers in the greenhouse. The rest I'll just leave growing over the year to see what comes out... Theres a grapevine at one side of the cabin and also a recently planted small pear tree. I hope it will survive since there are some junipers in neighboured gardens which can cause fungal infections with pear rust on pear trees.
Pics follow after I moved in...
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I had to look this one up. Always been zucchini to me!
Awesome
I've about 100m² of "vegetable garden" space at my house.. I keep thinking it would be fun to grow something but then I realise I'm lazy and made a bigger lawn instead
The last thing I tried to grow (chillis) got ate by mice after several weeks of nurturing
chopov wrote:
I'm about to lease a garden in a "gardening community" near my home. I'ts about 20x30m, has a small wooden cabin on it and even a greenhouse. Size should be ideal for me. I hope I can take it over this or next week. I'm planning to plant some potatoes, carrots, peas, beans etc. on the existing beds an tomatoes/sweet peppers in the greenhouse. The rest I'll just leave growing over the year to see what comes out... Theres a grapevine at one side of the cabin and also a recently planted small pear tree. I hope it will survive since there are some junipers in neighboured gardens which can cause fungal infections with pear rust on pear trees.
Pics follow after I moved in...
That sounds nice. How does a gardening community work? Are there different sized plots you can rent? Are you required to share your harvest?
xer0s wrote:I expanded the garden this year. Added room for tomatoes, peppers, green beans, corn, squash, cucumber, zucchini, watermelon, and strawberries.
[lvlshot]http://i.imgur.com/yWzpBXL.jpg[/lvlshot]
The corn sprouting!
[lvlshot]http://i.imgur.com/t0q27U9.jpg[/lvlshot]
I'm about to lease a garden in a "gardening community" near my home. I'ts about 20x30m, has a small wooden cabin on it and even a greenhouse. Size should be ideal for me. I hope I can take it over this or next week. I'm planning to plant some potatoes, carrots, peas, beans etc. on the existing beds an tomatoes/sweet peppers in the greenhouse. The rest I'll just leave growing over the year to see what comes out... Theres a grapevine at one side of the cabin and also a recently planted small pear tree. I hope it will survive since there are some junipers in neighboured gardens which can cause fungal infections with pear rust on pear trees.
Pics follow after I moved in...
fucking awesome! you are going to have so much fun... I can mail you some hot pepper seeds if you're interested...
xer0s wrote:I expanded the garden this year. Added room for tomatoes, peppers, green beans, corn, squash, cucumber, zucchini, watermelon, and strawberries.
I'm about to lease a garden in a "gardening community" near my home. I'ts about 20x30m, has a small wooden cabin on it and even a greenhouse. Size should be ideal for me. I hope I can take it over this or next week. I'm planning to plant some potatoes, carrots, peas, beans etc. on the existing beds an tomatoes/sweet peppers in the greenhouse. The rest I'll just leave growing over the year to see what comes out... Theres a grapevine at one side of the cabin and also a recently planted small pear tree. I hope it will survive since there are some junipers in neighboured gardens which can cause fungal infections with pear rust on pear trees.
Pics follow after I moved in...
Good stuff guys, please post the results when they're ready
chopov wrote:
I'm about to lease a garden in a "gardening community" near my home. I'ts about 20x30m, has a small wooden cabin on it and even a greenhouse. Size should be ideal for me. I hope I can take it over this or next week. I'm planning to plant some potatoes, carrots, peas, beans etc. on the existing beds an tomatoes/sweet peppers in the greenhouse. The rest I'll just leave growing over the year to see what comes out... Theres a grapevine at one side of the cabin and also a recently planted small pear tree. I hope it will survive since there are some junipers in neighboured gardens which can cause fungal infections with pear rust on pear trees.
Pics follow after I moved in...
That sounds nice. How does a gardening community work? Are there different sized plots you can rent? Are you required to share your harvest?
Gardening community movement here dates back to mid 19th century when in times of industrialisation some factory owners wanted to offer their workers better and healthier living conditions. Often they built working class districts around their factories but also provided gardening plots for many families so they could add themselves to their alimentation. Lateron also independent gardening communities developed ("Schrebergarten"). After WW2 these gardens saw quite a revival, first mainly again for just producing food against hunger, but after the years more and more also just for recreation. Nowadays most of these gardens are organized in smaller or bigger communities/societies/associations (?). The ground belongs to the public sector and is leased for quite small amount. My community consists of about 30 gardens. They are all more or less the same size. Everyone can grow and cultivate more or less what he/she wants on his plot as long as you don't use it only for laying in the sun. You should at least use 1/3 to grow something. With your harvest you can do whatever you want as long as you don't use it commercially and make a business out of it. There is a managing committee of the community, which acts just as reference persons for the public hand on the on hand and for the members on the other hand. Theres also a consultant especially for gardening/plant/agricultural subjects.
In past decades these communities had the reputation for having mostly quite smallminded straight-laced elderly people as members. But since some years it's becoming quite hip among younger people...
https://www.google.de/maps/@52.2652654, ... !1e3?hl=de
The cabin in the middle with the smaller reddish glass house left to it will be my plot. Zoom out and you will notice there is quite a huge count of these gardens in the area...
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HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:fucking awesome! you are going to have so much fun... I can mail you some hot pepper seeds if you're interested...
depends on your definition of "hot". I'm not so much into very hot food since my stomach kills me otherwise. But I really enjoy mildly hot stuff.
Do you have some seeds in that area? What climate do these peppers need?
In any case: thx a lot for your offer.
SoM wrote:send him some of them ganja seeds
Do you have seeds for ganja which actually looks like tomatoes or zucchinis?
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Today, for the first time and as I was about to click the "V" just below the red X in the top right hand corner of 'File Explorer' I saw a comment saying Expand the Ribbon (Cntrl +F1)
I'll be speed climbing over 4,000 ft in a little over an hour this Saturday as a fundraiser for cancer research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre here in Toronto. So far, I've raised close to $800.
I'd like to think that I would have been helping to prevent people from losing their balls, but turns out it was just benign.
If anyone is interested in making a donation, PM me.
and as I was about to click the "V" just below the red X in the top right hand corner of 'File Explorer' I saw a comment saying Expand the Ribbon (Cntrl +F1) 
