If 20% of our recent gardening efforts has any result, we will have an amazing next 2 years.

Growing your own food are liberating.

My tomatoes just doubled in height over the last two days... Spring is in the air... and off they go...

Got a few avocados that are a bit off - not the ones I brought back from Queenslund - and might plant those in pots and see how they go.  Got some cherry seeds on the go, too, see how they go sprouting into future trees.  Have to keep them in the fridge for a season or so.... cold winter tree....

Little side business is selling trees started from seed and some plants the same.  Made heaps at a fair with my excess home sprouted tomato plants one year.  Grown locally from seed and thus acclimatised to local environment.

Still going to move the orange and the lemon the turkey previous owner planted in shade here... into a good garden bed near my coffee tree... some good oranges so not yet.

Weather here is good this year - last year was dreadful with the wet and overcast and not much worked well.... tomatoes were dire.... pumpkin tasteless..... carrots only got a few.... spinach doing well this year and things look good.  Got onions, white and red, and garlic in, herbs .... bewdiful green and rich, celery and some lettuce... gotta keep those slugs and snails off...

(sighs) no Blue Tongued Lizard here to tell me the weather report.... remember Bluey - when the rain was coming she headed for the high gardens... Bluey the Weather Meister.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Sep 17^th, 2022 at 8:35pm:


The first verb may arguably be conditioned by the preceding 'efforts' (plural) {adjectival phrase}. However this is not convincing in current parsing schema. It's preferable to divert to the head subject expressed in numeric cypher as '20%' (admittedly conditional on the alternative 'if') definitely plural even if fractional. As you can then analyse, it's 'have' not 'has'.

Obviously this has plural consequences for 'result', the wilted, black rusted overgrown plantation where 4/5 are cactus. No, it's cacti.

My arms are sore and scratched and I've got no fingernails left. My body is aching and I am sunburned (ie very brown).

Why? Gardening. 6 hrs of it.

I've dug, planted, sugar cane mulched, potted and hosed everything. I even threw the weed n feed on all our lawns. The sun is still out and I'm having a cuppa whilst I'm enjoying the view.

I think I'm gonna die soon because I've got a few awful blisters coming up. Still I'm happy with how beautiful it all looks. I miss Mum. We used to do stuff like this together 🥺

Lisa Jones wrote on Sep 19^th, 2022 at 4:18pm:


Pure bullshit this. Larry has maybe one or two pots to grow something in. They are receptacles for his cigarette butts.

Ask Larry about growing broadbeans 

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Sep 19^th, 2022 at 8:08pm:


We seen a few blue tongue lizards around our yards here. It's terrible when they appear suddenly out of nowhere. They give everyone the fright of their life!

It's real weird ... you're there in the backyard happily hanging up the family washing in the glorious sunshine and then you notice what initially appears to be a snake. A few seconds later you realise it's a blue tongue lizard. But those few seconds can really terrify you and anyone else around.

Dnarever wrote on Sep 19^th, 2022 at 4:30pm:


Lovely postings, thanks.