Thread: How oldies entertain themselves

there is an organisation here in Qld who will give you tadpoles ....and the advice to go with them.....to grow.

they will give you the correct species for your area.

they will also advise you how to make your "pond" canetoad resistant.

some of your "breed" will come back to you to breed and you can perpetuate the cycle.

declare war on any cane toad though.

can't find that site but for those interested this may help....
Frog Safe, Inc.

Neighbours have pond with frogs and we have for most of the year swampy ground down the back of our block. So at night you get the frogs in the pond doing some long distance chat with the frogs down the back of our place. Usually one will start then there is a reply and of they go.
Cheers Hall

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

there is an organisation here in Qld who will give you tadpoles ....and the advice to go with them.....to grow.

they will give you the correct species for your area.

they will also advise you how to make your "pond" canetoad resistant.

some of your "breed" will come back to you to breed and you can perpetuate the cycle.

declare war on any cane toad though.

Frog Society I believe.
No good if the dam cane toads can access the same water as the frogs.

For those of you who may be at all interested in growing frogs, below is my water lily tub (alias old bath tub) where our accidental myriad of tadpoles are living at the moment. Don't panic about the way the bricks are stacked, they merely fill up the hole and are not supportive.


I have a thing about recycling junk to a certain extent, not fanatical by a long shot, nor a real hoarder, but a couple of years ago when Brisbane was desperately short of water I took it into my head to grow our meagre vege garden in a manner where we could recycle the scarcest ingredient in gardening at the time, water.
What better than a bathtub.
Most people who buy an older house tend to modernise and do up the bathroom at some time in the project, and as a result there is always a reasonable supply of bath tubs to be had.
School desks are a spasmodically changed item and a bathtub fits nicely on top of a recycled set of old school desk legs, so when the chance came up to grab a dozen or so old desks the project sprang into being.
By taking the top off the desks, then simply placing the bath tubs on or in the leg frame assembly, we suddenly have a garden that is workable at waist height (got to look after the Boss's back), ground pest free and allows the water used to be recycled, simply by placing a bucket under the plug hole to catch the used water.
So far it has been reasonably successful and fruitful, but mainly as the title of this thread suggests, it entertains us oldies without putting too much strain on us physically.

The Gunbuggy in the background is to satisfy the Land Rover content critics!


The vine in the back is a white passionfruit and this year the fruit is like footballs, The bush at the rear of the tub is a white capsicum, then working forward, Basil and a rhubarb plant.


Capsicum white and green and a passionfruit.


Remains of the corn crop.


The Boss harvesting spinach


Home made worm farm where all the vege scraps end up.

That, fiddling with old Land Rovers, attending what seems like an endless cycle of various association and club meetings of all types and watching the seemingly endless stream of birdlife that passes through our backyard (despite the fact that we have a cat), grown up kids and grand kids, seem to keep us oldies reasonably entertained all year round.
Wouldn't swap it for quids.
Regards
Glen

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