Gardeners PAY horse farmers for it around my area!! They bring their trucks and pay upto 20 US dollars a scoop, which fills a 1/2 ton pickup bed. Previously the horse farmers couldn't get rid of the stuff, now they can't keep it in stock!! The Arabian Horse farmers sell out first, then the other kinds of horse farmers. Seems people think Arabian Horse dung is 'prime stuff' for gardens, I think they are nuts as all the horses eat basically the same thing!! I buy Miracle Grow for my deck planters, easier and don't need a pickup truck! I only grow tomatoes and only on my deck. I do have a rain barrel though. I have six plants, all about five feet or so tall, and ate my first tomato of the season two days ago!! The cages top out at seven feet tall so after that the plants spill over the top. I only grow cherry tomatoes as I LOVE to eat them either right off the plant or after they have been rinsed and then chilled in the fridge. I eat them by the bowl full!!
Good quality crap is a boon to life. If you want the absolute apex then Parliament House in Canberra is the place to take your pickup. They even have crap mines to dig up the older vintage stuff. A Cornucopia of Crap that has never run short, and it is constantly recycled. I think the only risk is that it may form an event horizon one day. It will beat horse poo no problemo. But I'm sure you all have your own local supplies ..... there are pretty rich seams at most town halls.
Personally I go for 'Roma' tomatoes which are oblong and from the right grower are delicious. Our valley is chock full of market gardeners who mostly sell to nearby Melbourne, but if you want the really good stuff then roadside outlets and the weekly farmer's market are the go. We don't bother with supermarkets ( they get supplied with a quality that matches their outlay ).
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) So I guess with the Canberra variants flooding the market then the privately owned stuff gets marked down.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
At many Australian golf courses, a ball that hits a kangaroo must be played where it lies.
What will happen if the ball disappears in kangaroo's pouch? :D
Then the ball will likely bounce out of bounds, so that's normally a stroke and distance penalty. Of course that depends upon how well you know the kangaroo .... possibly offering a beer may help. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Gardeners PAY horse farmers for it around my area!! They bring their trucks and pay upto 20 US dollars a scoop, which fills a 1/2 ton pickup bed.
What is that following me? Not my idea of an "air freshener".
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I only grow tomatoes and only on my deck. I do have a rain barrel though.
Here is a DWC setup for tomatoes that might be ideal for your situation. If you live in a cooler climate it might work out better for you then for me. The summers here are so hot that plants just slow down.
That's pretty neat but my area hit the mid 90's for air temps the past few days and will do so again 4 of the 5 days of this coming week. That means the water temps would get too high, sometimes the water coming out of my rain barrel is even warm to the touch! I hand fertilize 2 or 3 times during the season and after starting with a half full planter fill it full after the tomatoes have grown a bit. I planted plants in April this year, fertilized in May and filled the planters in late June. I have eaten 1 tomato so far, with 5 more in the fridge chilling and hundreds more on the plants still green. This Spring I also had 6 big trees removed, they were all storm damaged, and this has kept the squirrels from visiting my deck as often as in the past. I bought an electric paint ball gun that I shoot biodegradable pellets at the squirrels with when they do visit. It is NOT very accurate but when I do hit them they jump up and run away faster. They run when I shoot at them, they don't like the noise the pellets make when they hit the underbrush in the woods behind my house. Me screaming at them when I come out on to the deck doesn't make them happy either!! I do have a CO2 pellet gun but it can kill them and the codes in my area say I can only shoot them 'in season'. My wife isn't into killing them either, so the plastic pellets it is and they work pretty well. One year I trapped about 10 of them, relocating them to a National Forest about 3 miles away from me. They made new friends over there and never came back and for a couple of years I was 99% squirrel free, but now others have moved in and scaring the poop out of them is more fun, and easier anyway!
Will I survive Friday
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Will I survive Friday evening, or will I be lynched by German soccer fans?
Love, Michi
RE: Gardeners PAY horse
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Good quality crap is a boon to life. If you want the absolute apex then Parliament House in Canberra is the place to take your pickup. They even have crap mines to dig up the older vintage stuff. A Cornucopia of Crap that has never run short, and it is constantly recycled. I think the only risk is that it may form an event horizon one day. It will beat horse poo no problemo. But I'm sure you all have your own local supplies ..... there are pretty rich seams at most town halls.
Personally I go for 'Roma' tomatoes which are oblong and from the right grower are delicious. Our valley is chock full of market gardeners who mostly sell to nearby Melbourne, but if you want the really good stuff then roadside outlets and the weekly farmer's market are the go. We don't bother with supermarkets ( they get supplied with a quality that matches their outlay ).
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) So I guess with the Canberra variants flooding the market then the privately owned stuff gets marked down.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Goodnight everyone. :-)
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Goodnight everyone. :-)
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At many Australian golf
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At many Australian golf courses, a ball that hits a kangaroo must be played where it lies.
RE: At many Australian golf
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What will happen if the ball disappears in kangaroo's pouch? :D
Love, Michi
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Then the ball will likely bounce out of bounds, so that's normally a stroke and distance penalty. Of course that depends upon how well you know the kangaroo .... possibly offering a beer may help. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: RE: Gardeners PAY
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That's pretty neat but my area hit the mid 90's for air temps the past few days and will do so again 4 of the 5 days of this coming week. That means the water temps would get too high, sometimes the water coming out of my rain barrel is even warm to the touch! I hand fertilize 2 or 3 times during the season and after starting with a half full planter fill it full after the tomatoes have grown a bit. I planted plants in April this year, fertilized in May and filled the planters in late June. I have eaten 1 tomato so far, with 5 more in the fridge chilling and hundreds more on the plants still green. This Spring I also had 6 big trees removed, they were all storm damaged, and this has kept the squirrels from visiting my deck as often as in the past. I bought an electric paint ball gun that I shoot biodegradable pellets at the squirrels with when they do visit. It is NOT very accurate but when I do hit them they jump up and run away faster. They run when I shoot at them, they don't like the noise the pellets make when they hit the underbrush in the woods behind my house. Me screaming at them when I come out on to the deck doesn't make them happy either!! I do have a CO2 pellet gun but it can kill them and the codes in my area say I can only shoot them 'in season'. My wife isn't into killing them either, so the plastic pellets it is and they work pretty well. One year I trapped about 10 of them, relocating them to a National Forest about 3 miles away from me. They made new friends over there and never came back and for a couple of years I was 99% squirrel free, but now others have moved in and scaring the poop out of them is more fun, and easier anyway!
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Preparing for the FIFA Football match Germany - France and hoping to spend an amusing evening at Bierbörse Eppelheim as the probably sole francophile
Love, Michi
Good morning everyone.
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Good morning everyone. :-)
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More than 75% of all American homes have at least one can of WD40.
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