Gardening Forum

[DiscoMick]

No thanks, I have more than enough bindi of my own to deal with.
I haven't tested the noise generating capabilities of mangoes, but I guess being bigger would also make them noisier.
I dread to think about the noise if a grapefruit ever hits our roof!
Maybe I should do a calculation using a formula with weight and distance travelled and volume of noise generated. Then I could add a figure for supermarket price. Then we could have cost per gram times speed equals the expense of
generating a certain volume of sound.
Gives me a headache just thinking about it.

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[1950landy]

The guy next door to us at out last house started fertilizing clover in his front yard & when I asked him what he was doing he said that in Adelaide having a clover lawn was good . I told him when it goes to seed he wont think so.
So 1month on it had gone to seed & he was out there spraying it. I told him it was too late now .
The next year as soon as the clover appeared he was out with the clover spray trying to kill it.

[DiscoMick]

No thanks, I have more than enough bindi of my own to deal with.
I haven't tested the noise generating capabilities of mangoes, but I guess being bigger would also make them noisier.
I dread to think about the noise if a grapefruit ever hits our roof!
Maybe I should do a calculation using a formula with weight and distance travelled and volume of noise generated. Then I could add a figure for supermarket price. Then we could have cost per gram times speed equals the expense of
generating a certain volume of sound.
Gives me a headache just thinking about it.

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I found a quicker solution to the falling avocado problem - I pruned the tree so they won't fall on the studio roof any more. Good excuse to fire up the Stihl! Plus more firewood for next winter.

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[DiscoMick]

Got another bucket of bindi today, this time from our backyard.
Visited the youngest heirs new place today while he is away for work so I could mow the lawn and decided to do something about the carpet of bindi on the footpath, so off to Bunnings for the nastiest bindi-killer spray I could find. Used the whole bottle to spray the bindi and other weeds. I joked there were so many bindi and weeds there wasn't much room for grass, so the footpath will look brown for a while, but it will go green in the end. I am the bindi-killer!

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[LandyAndy]

Ive done more time in the vegie patch yesterday/today.
A few more jobs to do and I will post some pics.Extra long weekend over here
A little bit of hard work makes thing look so much neater.
Andrew

[BMKal]

While on the subject of bindi's - there may be a dollar to be made from them if you are as enterprising as some kids I watched many years ago ...............

I was visiting a mate in Geraldton, who had just moved into his new house - the first to be built in a developing area. Much of the land around him was still undeveloped. While we were having a beer out the back, his kids and their friends came in, removed their thongs and started to scrape what were obviously bindi's (elsewhere known as three cornered jacks) into plastic buckets.



When they had completed this, they started putting about a spoonful of the bindi seeds into small calico sample bags which they had in a box.



When I asked the kids what they were doing with these bindi's in the calico bags, they told me ..............

The US Navy is currently in town with a couple of ships down at the wharf. We show the sailors our pet Thorny Mountain Devil ....................



and a lot of the American sailors ask us what it is and where can they get one. We then sell them a bag of our "Mountain Devil Eggs" for five bucks, and tell them to keep them in a warm dry place until they get home, and then spread them in the garden in places likely to get regular water and plenty of sunshine, and they will soon have the same small lizards living in their back yards.

Aussie ingenuity at its finest .......................

[1950landy]

When my daughter got her first teachers posting in Charleville she had a government house & we went up to visit her. She was saying she had these large prickles in the back yard & couldn't go out the back. I was wearing my new work boots& these prickles would go through the soles of the boots.
These prickles hade 4 prongs on them & which ever way they lay on the ground there was always 3 prongs touching the ground & one sticking straight up. The prongs were 12 to 15mm long , long enough to go through the thick soles of work boots & stick into your foot. Not sure what there name was , I think it was Devils something but worst prickle I have ever seen.

[LandyAndy]

A few pics of my vegie garden.Its now set-up ready for spring/summer.
Tomatoes/Capsicum/Chillies/Zuchini waiting for warmer weather.


Chookies jungle,we haven't seen eggs in the hen house for months,Deb went into the jungle today and found 4 hidden nests full of eggs,1 for each chook,naughty chooks!!!!!





Asparagus patch,just coming into season,we get a huge crop each year.The rolled tin/white posts is a compost heap,I set it up in spring.Ive got a commercial chipper/mulcher.All the prunings/branches go thru it,plus all our newspapers/cardboard.


Spare beds,ready to plant out.




Beetroot.


Garlic.


Broadbeans,just starting to produce.


Olive Trees.
We have 14 trees,best sofar has been 17 litres of oil for a season.Most are Calamata,which can be used for oil or pickling.Deb makes some really nice olives!!!!!



Onions.


Strawberry bed.They don't like our cold winter,starting to grow now its warming up a bit.


Broccoli/Cauliflower,the Broccoli has been harvested,still has useable side shoots.


Late Broccoli/Cauliflower.


The fruit trees in the Chookies Jungle don't get much love but do produce quite a bit of fruit.There are oranges ready now,we get apples,mandarines,plums,nectarines,apricots and peaches out of there.Meditteranian Fruit Fly is a big issue,we bait to reduce numbers,many don't.There is no longer suitable sprays on the market.There is much more blossom on them this year so we should get a feed.All our grey water is piped to the trees.
Andrew

[trog]

Well with the abundance of flat weeds and bindii it seems that there is not any nut grass about. That was the majority of my lawn when living in the house. I still expect to see it coming up through the balcony slab.

[V8Ian]

When my daughter got her first teachers posting in Charleville she had a government house & we went up to visit her. She was saying she had these large prickles in the back yard & couldn't go out the back. I was wearing my new work boots& these prickles would go through the soles of the boots.
These prickles hade 4 prongs on them & which ever way they lay on the ground there was always 3 prongs touching the ground & one sticking straight up. The prongs were 12 to 15mm long , long enough to go through the thick soles of work boots & stick into your foot. Not sure what there name was , I think it was Devils something but worst prickle I have ever seen.

I know them as Goat's Heads, had them in Karumba and Pt Hedland.