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20 Nov 2009
And then there were...more! 12 Poultry garden
27°C / 81°F
The peeper hatched overnight…in fact, it must have been in the last hour or so (I’m writing this at 8am) as it’s still wet. He’s small & cute & still not quite fluffy…& I’d say he’s going to be a cute wee wheaten or buff, judging by his colour...
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14 Nov 2009
What are these bugs? 10 Iris Established and Apt Windowsill garden
Cloudy 56°C / 133°F
I found these weird bugs on my iris plants that I recently brought inside before I move. They almost look like aphids, but they were pinkish-red…almost brown. I power-washed them off with the hose and squished the rest, but so I’m hoping I got them all. I went outside to check the ...
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21 Nov 2009
Potatoes:First harvest from the tank rings
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Potato (Kipfler) Harvesting and Frontyard garden
Overcast 19°C / 66°F
The heat got to these, and the lack of water too.
They’d been watered with grey water (Shh! – we promise we won’t eat them) but that wasn’t enough to cope with the recent hot weather that saw them exit stage left.
These were grown from 12 small tubers and considering the q...
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20 Nov 2009
Coldframe giddiness and zombies
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Overcast 10°C / 50°F
Just a little work outside today. This time of year there’s not too much to do until things really start dying back, although I have yet to cut back the bermuda grass that’s inching hungrily toward my beds in the Patch.
I check daily on the coldframe. I did mention my excitement, no?...
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21 Nov 2009Cloudy 17°C / 63°F
Sigh…I really wish I could show you some more video – mum & chicks spent the day in the run eating, drinking & sleeping. Life is pretty good for a chicken.
We have 8 adorable little fluff balls. The are gorgeous in every way. I think I have two favourites at the moment –...
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20 Nov 2009
My brother's garden
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Rainy 5°C / 41°F
7.28pm
It was such a pleasure to see brilliant green grass and growing plants when I got to the UK. I last saw my brother’s garden in February 2007, not long after he had moved into the house, and at that time the only things planted were the cordoned apple trees along the wall. These trees...
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20 Nov 2009
Twin Toddler work crew!
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Driveway garden
Rainy 15°C / 59°F
Don’t call protective services or anything, but yesterday I conscripted my grand babies into helping me with garden chores. I didn’t call it chores. Or work. Or anything suspicious. I called it playing with rocks. They were all for it.
The leaves and debris in my rock garden ha...
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19 Nov 2009
Home again.
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Winter garden , Christmas Cactus , Moth Orchid , and Corkscrew Hazel
Rainy 3°C / 37°F
6.58pm Raining and everything looks sodden; the snow is down to less than a hundred metres above the valley bottom.
In the garden, there are still some fresh Autumn crocuses, including in the Bay Garden towards the east end, and lots of bashed down, limp bodies. The pink chrysanthemum is floweri...
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21 Nov 2009
Wish me luck!
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Sunny Outdoor Container garden
In my biggest endeavor to-date.. I am attempting to move my garden from one country to another.. It’s Eid Holidays, and I’m packing to go home.. the person who usually looks after my garden whilst I’m gone won’t be able to look after them this eid, and all attempts to brib...Cloudy 23°C / 73°F -
16 Nov 2009
Moved
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Vinca Potting Up, Square Foot Bed #2 garden , and Containers garden
clearing out my bed to start over for winterCloudy 11°C / 52°F -
21 Nov 2009
More from my brother's garden
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Cloudy 3°C / 37°F
7.00am
Flowers too, I counted about 15 in bloom, nothing like their summer glory but I was not complaining.
Photos: This small-flowered rose is right outside the kitchen door at the top of the cordon tree bed, I think it is probably a climbing or rambling rose. At the other end of that bed is th...
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21 Nov 2009
Amaryllis - Lemon Lime
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Amaryllis: Lemon-Lime Budding
Cloudy 13°C / 55°F
It is just shooting up! I wanted to get a photo update of it before it actually blooms.
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21 Nov 2009
It's amazing what happens when you ignore your garden
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Square Foot Bed #1 garden , Eggplant "Black Beauty" Flowering, Bell Pepper Flowering, Onion 'Parade' , Onio...
I have been a bad gardener. A bad bad gardener. Or perhaps a laissez-faire gardener, which gives me a lot less guilt about it. :) But regardless, I have ignored my garden. When I ventured back out into the backyard last week, after the weeks of scorching hot “fall” and the pouring ...Rainy 12°C / 54°F
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21 Nov 2009
Lining up the border plantings
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Welcome garden , Daffodil (Narcissus) 'Cheerfulness' Sown, Daffodil (Narcissus) 'Fortissimo' Sown, Daffodil...
Sunny 19°C / 67°F
Originally written 21 Oct 2009; updated 31 Oct 2009; updated 7 Nov 2009; updated 21 November 2009
It was a beautiful day today, and I had to take advantage of it even though I was home sick. (I work in health care and a cold with cough, sneezes and sniffles is not a good thing to bring to work. A...
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21 Nov 2009
Leeks are growing!
Leek Jaune Du Poitou
26°C / 79°F
They’re not as fat as what you get in the supermarket, but they’re bigger than when they first sprouted. Aw!
I want to eat some and let the others go to seed, coz that is meant to be gorgeous!
https://secure.diggersgardenclub.com.au/p-957-leek-jaune-du-poitou.aspx
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