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This week, my first lot of purple potatoes were ready to come out- just in time for Christmas dinner. These are the long skinny ones which usually are quite small and so hard to find, I referred to them as my catshat taties. they have a nice firm texture and dont go mushy. I dont know how they...

Finally, I managed to inspect both hives- Christmas eve. I started with the original one cos I thought it might take a bit more time and needed to have a smoker that was reasonably fresh, so it didnt go out on me. I knew I had a lot of interfering to do. Because they had been backfilling the...

Today, during a lull in the rain, I went out to check things out to find my tomatoes looked like they had the start of blight. I havent seen that before this early in the season and put it down to the warm temps and all this rain we are experiencing. I got my secateurs and starting from the...

My grandkids had a great weekend chowing down on my Black Rapsberries. Loved my loose leaf lettuces and giant spring onions in their salads, but didnt like the peas, probably cos I had grown them specifically for seed for next year and they were on the mature side.

I couldnt do much today. Had to take mum to an appointment and then when we got back the sky had opened up again along with the thunder and lightening. Had a quick peek at everything and noticed that some of my Butternut seedlings have come up after all, so all is not lost. The Globe Artichokes...

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I remember watching that on the news. Terrifying and a real reminder of the power of nature.

My daughter and her family are coming to visit from the big smoke. So yesterday was tidying up the messy bits of my back yard and today was doing my mums yard....except it rained so hard before I got to finish everything....I was actually planting my Painted Mountain corn in her old chicken pen...

I did get to visit the Island about 18 months ago. It is a weird place. They should not have been there given that there had been more activity noted....It is a dangerous place at the best of times and its history is well documented. Before we left for the Island, we were told that there is...

Thats really good to hear, they need all the help they can get. Hope they can get these under control. This summer has seen so much more rain than usual and I think that my be a direct result of the fires over there....well that sounds lame, I'm complaining about rain while they are losing...

um, I dont know. The 'sticky boards' I have under the mesh screen bottom of the hive are really well oiled so those that fall onto it drown. I dont recall seeing any info to be able to answer this question, sorry.

Thank you. I was told I should have laid them on leveled compacted sand, but I have a bad habit of not doing what I am told. So far they are still very stable. Once I have them in place and stable, I pack the dirt in around the bottoms so they cant move. When the whole path or part thereof is...

I did an Oxalic acid vapor (OAV), treatment the other day on both hives. The original wound up with a mite drop of 21 in 24 hours and 51 in 48. the second hive didnt show anything, but I dont think the brood nest is over the sticky board yet, sooo.... Tomorrow, when I get home from work, I will...

This week is supposed to be the first week of summer, but.... today, we had fog too that didnt lift til mid morning. i put it down to all the 'wildfires' going on all over the world For me, its the ones in Australia that are probably causing our odd weather, or those in Brazil, seeing as they...

I just know you are speaking English, but...... Somehow I think my IT son would know exactly what you are talking about, nodding his head all the while. Me- I'm glad my smartphone slid off the dash, out the window. Saved me the trouble of throwing it out. Now that my laptop actually turns on and...

I love urbanite. Yesterday I inspected both hives. The second, strangely enough is doing better than the original one. That may not be all that odd seeing as they have the original Queen which I think superseded the winter Queen. Okay. 1st Sept, I look through the window....again, just before...

To be honest with you, my neighbour has saved my sanity by asking me to please take all this away!!! It would have cost her hundreds to take it to the dump and for me, it would have cost even more to buy the paving and pay somebody else to do all of this. Never again will I ever need to waste...

Today it was run around and pull out all the convovulus before it starts to flower. I found that if I just cut the main leader off and left it hanging above the soil, it would die. that only works if there isnt any flower buds. Those get to dry out o the path, then go on the 'to the green waste...

Thank you.

I mowed my mums lawn for the third time in a week. My grandson was supposed to do it but wasnt turning up so I asked her if she minded if I did it cos I needed the clippings. "Why do you need them?". "Cos my lawns are too small and I dont have enough to mulch the roadside bed which I need to do...