Weeds

Here's some interisting thoughts on weeds.

What do you think?

It's a girl

My Bantam laid her first egg today. Happy about that.

Now I have two Isa browns (Bill and Ben) and a Bantam (Shirley) laying eggs. Now if I can just get these lazy Light Sussex to lay!

United Breaks Guitars

Here's one for the little guy.

Story posted on Nine News

Guitarist's anti-airline hit takes off

California Dreamin'

Hi all,

as you can see it's pretty slow in my veggie world at the moment.

I did manage to plant some Purple Dragon carrot seeds and a few more lettuce and spring onion seeds.

But apart from weeding and watering there's not much happening.

But what did happen was my first flower on my purple podded peas which I grabbed the camera for to take photo of. Then I noticed all of the flowers in the garden and started thinking that for the dead of winter its a pretty showy place around here and proceded to take photos of the rest of the flowers in our garden.




Here's the purple podded pea flower that started all this flower photo taking.

















































































































































































































































































































If you have gotten this far down then I like to share with you a song I always tend to sing to myself at this time of year.

aaarrrgggghhhhh, blame it on triple j.

I've been listening to the triple j top 100 of all time and yesterday they pranked their listeners by announcing this song as being in their top 100 songs.

Thankfully they didn't play the whole song and let us know it was a prank, but I'd heard enough of it to get it stuck in my head. Hopefully posting it here will mean it moves out of my head and into someone else's.

Thanks for nothing triple j.

Go on, play it, I double double dare you!!

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
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It's Rhubarb not Brain Surgery

Edit 8/8/2010 New planting of Rhubarb 'ever red'

That's right, planting Rhubarb is as easy as falling off a log.

A/ Gather what you need. In this case a digging fork (I use a fork rather than a spade because I don't want to cut any of my wormies in half), 20l bucket of compost, 10l bucket of bulls*&T (cow manure) and two recently purchased Sydney Crimson Rhubarb plants.




B/ Spread the compost and cow manure evenly over the soil surface and turn in to the soil using the digging fork.

C/ Dig yourself a little hole the same depth as the plant you have. You can test it buy sitting the pot in the hole and see if it's to deep or shallow.






D/ Knock the plant out of its pot sit it in the hole and back fill to the same height as the potting mix it came in. Firm down into the soil gently (but not to much) to help the plant adjust to its new surroundings.

* I won't be adding any fertiliser at this stage. I'd like the plant to begin establishing a root system first and then apply a half strength fertiliser.
Maybe even a week liquid fertiliser in about four weeks time.
The main reason for this is I don't want to take the risk of having any new developing roots being burnt by to rich a soil base.




E/ And finally some recently raked out of the chook pen straw mulch and a good bucket of water each and Bob's your Auntie, Rhubarb planted.


Till next time, cheerie bye and happy rhubarbing.

Stewart