Fresh Eggs Daily blog

Still no eggs

I found this great post on Fresh Eggs Daily blog yesterday about adding fresh and dried herbs to your chooks feed, via Pinterest, and found it interesting and informative so I'm posting it here to share the tips they have.

I have herbs growing wild here and there is always an abundance so it only seems fair to share them with my chooks.

Although the weather is very Spring like here at the moment they still haven't started to lay. With a bit of luck this might get them going.

Cheers and hope you enjoy,

Stewart.

Tomato cuttings.

I do this every year. I usually pinch my lateral shoots out early when they are small but I'll let one grow to about six or seven inches long and Bobs your uncle you have a new tomato plant.

 I buy one tomato plant and then every three or four weeks I plant a cutting and I've got tomatoes all season. And it's as easy as it looks. I even just stick the cutting straight into the ground where I want it to grow.





Big thanks to Mr. Brown Thumb for making this video and he also has an excellent blog you might want to visit by clicking this link. Mr Brown Thumb's blog link.

Cans

Just a photo I liked and I really wanted to Pin It to my Pinterest and seeing as it was posted on facebook (you can't pin from facebook for some reason) the only way I could think of to get it Pinned was to upload it to my blog.

If you're interested this is a link to my Pinterest page

Cheers
Stewart.

Me and My UC

It sure has been a long time but everything should start getting busy from here on out.

I've always liked gardening and growing plants but it all turned serious abour six years ago when I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis (UC). I was hoping if I lived the good life then it all might go away.

Well as hopeful and optimistic as I was it wasn't to be, stubborn and persistent disease is UC. About eighteen months ago I saw a few specialists and the verdict was I need an operation to have my Colon removed. The last and only permanent cure for UC.

I went down hill in the last twelve months and as such the veggie garden has suffered greatly from neglect, but on the fourteenth of June I received the phone call I'd been dreading but also needed and with only five days notice I was operated on on the eighteenth of June and by the end of the day I was colon free, had what's known a a J Pouch and a stoma and a stoma bag. (I need a second operation to reverse my stoma and attach it to my J Pouch and apart from a few extra visits to the loo each day I'll be basically, for the want of a better description, normal)

I'd like to say it's been easy since then and I'll spare you all the gory details but I've had more twists and complications than a Batman Movie. Needless to say I'm about a month behind in my recovery but, and this is a good but, I'm glad to say I'm well and truly, fingers crossed, on the mend.

Besides being on the mend and colon-less I am also free of all the symptons of my UC, big yeah there.

So with renewed health, vigor, and passion I'm chomping at the bit to make my self the best veggie garden I've ever created. While it is still at least a month away that is going to give me a great start on a spring veggie garden.

Until then, happy veggie gardening.
Cheers
Stewart

Last Sunday

Last Sunday, unlike today that is cold and rainy, was absolutely glorious. Beautiful sunshine with only a light zephyr blowing, a perfect morning to hit the trail at Mt. Kingsthorpe, all 618mts of it. I didn't get a height reading from the start but I'd doubt if the climb was more than 300 mts. The walk itself was only 1040mts. The views, though, are to die for with about a 300 degree views of the surrounding Darling Downs.

This is walk #8 in the local walks guide I've been using. Apart from the steep climb by road to the car park area at the beginning of the walk the grade was fairly easy.

The video is a view from the top looking out over the Darling Downs starting east of south and finishing north of east.

 Me trying to get a little arty.

Looking North West half way up.

 Mt. Gowrie that I'd like to climb but I'm not sure if I'm allowed.

Section of path on the way up. Pretty easy walk.





Anyhow, until next time, cheers.

Recky

Just came back from a recky on the bike to see if I could find walk #7, 'Kingsthorpe Hill', in the Bush Walks In The Toowoomba Region book,
It was easy enough to find so if the weather is fine I'll go out and do the walk. It's nothing huge by any means, about 1.5k's up and back but the views of the surrounding downs promise to be spectacular.

About a month ago now I went out to crows nest falls, #19 in the Bush Walks In The Toowoomba Region book.
 It was a cool morning and the ride out though uneventful a bit on the cool side.
It's an east enough park to find and the walking paths well worn and easy to find and follow.

Here is a video of the Vally of Diamonds which is walk #20 but a little beyound my skill and fitness level but I hope to find someone that can show me the way one day.


Anyway, I'll be back with some photos and video after I get to the top of Highfields Hill.
See ya then.