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Today, I boxed in my Black rapsberries with below ground retaining boards so they cant escape into my neighbours place and have a nice layer of leaves covering the soil to hinder weds from growing meanwhile. I did have to dig out set of roots out to make room for the boxing. That got taken to...

Yep, thats the one. Hungry little beggars too.

Thats sad. Fortunately, I'm not seeing that here. For example, I used to have a major problem with white butterfly totalling my broccolli and cauliflowers. This year, they nibbled the leaves but I still got a good crop of both. I have a few winter sprouting type broc's that are still producing...

That really sad. What it says to me, is your land is dying and everything is hungry......whats the answer? Feed them

....please stop spraying bugs. I realise this sounds totally contrary to everything but, nature needs these. Some of the bugs you are spraying are the good guys, some are fantastic food for birds/lizards... even some of the bad guys do good-wasps eat the white butterfly catepillars for...

We need a "yum" button!

Congrats on your newbeez!!

Wow! That looks so amazing! Did your mom take to France- Versailles by any chance? That what your garden reminds me of.

Well thats good news!! Hopefully, they continue to find a better spot for their hives. I'd like to think that mine would not be such a nuisance, but to be honest, there is just no way of knowing unless somebody says they are having a problem. My little Wax Eyes, (small finch sized birds) have...

I'm eating Cauliflower- Green Macerata and Sicilian Violet. The Violet one does not look nice cooked, more a nasty khaki coloured. The green one is my fav. A baby leek- I just had to add my fattest leek to the soup pot even though it wasnt really all that big. Same with the Red Cardinal Chard. A...

We dont have any unless somebody has a good hunting cat. I did once, but they didnt eat them, just brought them inside and left mice/rats/rabbits outside my mother bedroom door, or in her slippers. lol

Wow, you have been busy, its sounds like a real slice of paradise! ....more beans?? my eyes are crossing. lol .....I put bait out....unashamedly. I had a rat come into the house and try to set up house, so that was it!! I have four spots around the property that I use as bait stations. I...

I just harvested my first ever Parsnips!!! I thought they were dying from powdery mildew so decided to dig them up. Me and mum had what I used to call a cheesy pot luck- Lots of vegies, like potato, kumara(sweet potato), butternut/pumpkin, carrots, broccolli, Parsnips!!!! in a really cheesey...

I spent alot of time over the last few days in between rain, weeding. Had to carefully transplant a couple of red cabbage seedlings from a clump over to where the Starlings had dug things up. Found a couple of different types of fungi and took pics so I could post them for ID. Found the packet...

I found that if I watered them with a light seaweed tea, the roots stayed in their pots and they seemed to do much better. This year, I also did a trial with bits of mushroom mycelium and found they did well even with out the seaweed tea.

My seedless green grape is over in a corner that i just havent got to yet...its hanging in there but not really producing enough at the moment to warrant trying to turn them into raisens. I'm sure I read somewhere that the raisens you buy in the shops are actually a type of currant and its...

I'll take some pics in the morning....its almost 11 pm here now.

I spent hours weeding Watsonia out of a bed along the boundary line. My neighbour came along with her blower clearing her drive way, giving us both a fright....I hadnt put my hearing aids in... Mowed the front lawn and used the catch to mulch this bed, then found a long enough bit of timber to...

I wound up planting out the Shallots, they were starting to sprout These went in the 1 meter wide bed, 6 per row and 14 rows long. I kept the small ones to eat. Dead heading flowers, trimming over grown things back, sweeping up leaves and scattering them back under trees or over whatever bed is...

I sowed two rows each of 4 different types of onions last week and today decided to plant out my shallots even though its a bit early for that here. I ran my hand through the open box I kept them in, only to feel something damp. They were all in the early stages of sprouting so, out with my...