Posted by FarmI on April 4, 2010, 4:35 am
>>> i have a few gardening friends who've given me some nice things too - it
>>> would be good to join or create a really devoted & enthusiastic veggie
>>> gardener's club (i reckon).
>>
>> Speaking of seed saving, I've just been saving bean and cucumber seeds so
>> dug out my seed saving books. the American one 'Seed to seed' gives me
>> the poops, whereas the Aussie on done by Michel and Jude Fanton is just
>> the bees whiskers.
> i agree, _that_ is an excellent book (indeed it's the only seed saving
> book i even have).
>> But yes, I agree with you about the veggie growers club. I'm part of a
>> network of gardeners like that here but it's an underground thing really.
> i think that's what tends to happen, it would just be nice to have lots of
> organised, involved people all in it together & have public meetings. or
> something. actually, what am i saying? :-)
> i have some spare potimarron seed with your name on it!!
Thank you Kylie. I need to send you an 'e' about a garden tour - we've
changed providers.
Posted by Ross McKay on February 18, 2010, 4:36 am
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:41:17 +1100, Trish Brown wrote:
>> [...]
>> The mozzies are back in abundance. #$%^. ZzzzzzZZZZ!...zzzzZZZ! :/
>You're not wrong there: we've got tiny little black ones that always
>seem to bite where you can't reach 'em. I don't s'pose you'd get Hexham
>Greys out where you are? We live about a block away from the edge of
>Hexham Swamp and so we get a few from there. They seem to have made a
>comeback in recent years and I can't say I think that's a good thing.
We have exactly those tiny little black ones. It isn't so much the
one-on-one fight as the mob violence that ensues when they gather en
masse. Watering time isn't as much fun now as it was before Xmas, and
the weeds are growing.
I think I know what you mean about the Hexham Greys, we may have had
some a few years back -- are they stripy? A few pulling together could
just about lift a small child. Sharp painful bite IIRC.
Good luck with the Indian Mynas.
--
Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia
"He plants trees to benefit another generation"
- Caecilius Statius
Posted by Trish Brown on February 18, 2010, 5:15 am
Ross McKay wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:41:17 +1100, Trish Brown wrote:
>
>>> [...]
>>> The mozzies are back in abundance. #$%^. ZzzzzzZZZZ!...zzzzZZZ! :/
>> You're not wrong there: we've got tiny little black ones that always
>> seem to bite where you can't reach 'em. I don't s'pose you'd get Hexham
>> Greys out where you are? We live about a block away from the edge of
>> Hexham Swamp and so we get a few from there. They seem to have made a
>> comeback in recent years and I can't say I think that's a good thing.
>
> We have exactly those tiny little black ones. It isn't so much the
> one-on-one fight as the mob violence that ensues when they gather en
> masse. Watering time isn't as much fun now as it was before Xmas, and
> the weeds are growing.
>
> I think I know what you mean about the Hexham Greys, we may have had
> some a few years back -- are they stripy? A few pulling together could
> just about lift a small child. Sharp painful bite IIRC.
>
> Good luck with the Indian Mynas.
Yeah, the Hexham Greys are grey, striped with dark brown or black and
*huge*.
I had a beaut hit on an IM today: got 'im with the hose on 'jet', right
up the Khyber. It made my day! ;->
--
Trish Brown
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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>>> would be good to join or create a really devoted & enthusiastic veggie
>>> gardener's club (i reckon).
>>
>> Speaking of seed saving, I've just been saving bean and cucumber seeds so
>> dug out my seed saving books. the American one 'Seed to seed' gives me
>> the poops, whereas the Aussie on done by Michel and Jude Fanton is just
>> the bees whiskers.
> i agree, _that_ is an excellent book (indeed it's the only seed saving
> book i even have).
>> But yes, I agree with you about the veggie growers club. I'm part of a
>> network of gardeners like that here but it's an underground thing really.
> i think that's what tends to happen, it would just be nice to have lots of
> organised, involved people all in it together & have public meetings. or
> something. actually, what am i saying? :-)
> i have some spare potimarron seed with your name on it!!