In the Garden

[Booney]

Snow peas are in full bloom at the moment and some are about a week from being ready. Planted 3 rows + one raised pot, at a rough count last night there's around 200 flowers ready to fruit. Love them.

[Lightning McQueen]

I went to add some manure, soil and dynamic lifter to my compost the other day to prepare for planting the vegies by months end.

I was shocked to see no worms unlike the last couple of years, I throw in heps of veggie scraps every week and thought the soil would be quite rich and full of worms.

Do I need to add worms before I mix it in with my veggie soil or will it be fine how it is? If so, where do I buy worms from?

Unusual.

Perhaps the worms are below the fork depth. Did it look like the scraps had been taken care of by the worms? Large amounts of acidic scraps like onions can drive worms away.

Perhaps dig somewhere else in the garden and if you find worms relocate them.

I don't put onions in there, I buy a qtr of watermelon and a half of rockmelon every Sunday, I put their skins in there along with the off-cuts of cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, potato and pumpkin that I cook every Sunday for lunches for the week.

I will try the re-locating method, I have time up my sleeve, as long as I have my seedlings in by the end of August I will be happy, I'm going a bit bigger this year and will gorw some other seedlings in pots and then try putting them in a garden bed that I have had little success with over the years due to whatever keeps eating the leaves and killing off whatever I'm growing. I will put egg shells around the stalks this time.

[Booney]

I went to add some manure, soil and dynamic lifter to my compost the other day to prepare for planting the vegies by months end.

I was shocked to see no worms unlike the last couple of years, I throw in heps of veggie scraps every week and thought the soil would be quite rich and full of worms.

Do I need to add worms before I mix it in with my veggie soil or will it be fine how it is? If so, where do I buy worms from?

Unusual.

Perhaps the worms are below the fork depth. Did it look like the scraps had been taken care of by the worms? Large amounts of acidic scraps like onions can drive worms away.

Perhaps dig somewhere else in the garden and if you find worms relocate them.

I don't put onions in there, I buy a qtr of watermelon and a half of rockmelon every Sunday, I put their skins in there along with the off-cuts of cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, potato and pumpkin that I cook every Sunday for lunches for the week.

I will try the re-locating method, I have time up my sleeve, as long as I have my seedlings in by the end of August I will be happy, I'm going a bit bigger this year and will gorw some other seedlings in pots and then try putting them in a garden bed that I have had little success with over the years due to whatever keeps eating the leaves and killing off whatever I'm growing. I will put egg shells around the stalks this time.

Been to the Farmers Market at Pooraka mate? Great value on fresh fruit there.

[Lightning McQueen]

Been to the Farmers Market at Pooraka mate? Great value on fresh fruit there.

I have heard that, used to go to Virgara's out at Angle Vale but have discovered the F&V in Hollywood Plaza, I ca get a quarter of cabbage andf half cauli's plus their broccoli is $2.99 per kg. I know I've gotta get my arse out to Pooraka though.

[Booney]

Been to the Farmers Market at Pooraka mate? Great value on fresh fruit there.

I have heard that, used to go to Virgara's out at Angle Vale but have discovered the F&V in Hollywood Plaza, I ca get a quarter of cabbage andf half cauli's plus their broccoli is $2.99 per kg. I know I've gotta get my arse out to Pooraka though.

A Sunday morning well spent. Pick some F&V, have a coffee, get some fresh bread and eggs. Good way to start the day and with gold coin entry a cheap Sunday morning out and about.

[Lightning McQueen]

Been to the Farmers Market at Pooraka mate? Great value on fresh fruit there.

I have heard that, used to go to Virgara's out at Angle Vale but have discovered the F&V in Hollywood Plaza, I ca get a quarter of cabbage andf half cauli's plus their broccoli is $2.99 per kg. I know I've gotta get my arse out to Pooraka though.

A Sunday morning well spent. Pick some F&V, have a coffee, get some fresh bread and eggs. Good way to start the day and with gold coin entry a cheap Sunday morning out and about.

Might tee up meeting the daughters there.

[Booney]

Snow peas are in full bloom at the moment and some are about a week from being ready. Planted 3 rows + one raised pot, at a rough count last night there's around 200 flowers ready to fruit. Love them.

They hit the 2m tall mark over the last week and I'm pulling* around 30 a day off them at the moment. Measured one of them last night, 15cm long x 3cm wide at the thickest.

Every morning as I leave for work I grab 8-10 for munching on throughout the day and then grab another 15-20 at night to put in or alongside whatever is for dinner. Absolute gold.

[Lightning McQueen]

Snow peas are in full bloom at the moment and some are about a week from being ready. Planted 3 rows + one raised pot, at a rough count last night there's around 200 flowers ready to fruit. Love them.

They hit the 2m tall mark over the last week and I'm pulling* around 30 a day off them at the moment. Measured one of them last night, 15cm long x 3cm wide at the thickest.

Every morning as I leave for work I grab 8-10 for munching on throughout the day and then grab another 15-20 at night to put in or alongside whatever is for dinner. Absolute gold.

What about the snow peas?

[DOC]

My sugar snap peas are oat the top of my 2 metre trellis but few flowers.

My Golden Podded snow peas are getting there and are full of flowers and pods. Grew them this year after trying them at a mates near Clare. Slightly nutty in flavour. Quite delicious.

Still picking capsicums (small) and will prune them back . The plants in one section are four years old and after pruning, fertiliser and mulching make a much early start to fruiting than new seedlings.

Veggie garden is covered in chook pellets and complete D waiting for this rain. As yet nothing bar a light sprinkle or two.

[MW]

After 25 years of loyal service, the mower is about to give up on me. I dont have a huge lawn area, are people still using petrol over battery? I would prefer to keep petrol, what is the better option these days? Not looking for the best, but dont want the worst either.

[Lightning McQueen]

After 25 years of loyal service, the mower is about to give up on me. I dont have a huge lawn area, are people still using petrol over battery? I would prefer to keep petrol, what is the better option these days? Not looking for the best, but dont want the worst either.

I still have a petrol mower for the bugger all lawn that I have, my blowers and snipper are petrol too, I am going to go all electric eventually as my petrol goes off before I get to use much of it.

[wenchbarwer]

Petrol goes off?

[Dutchy]

After 25 years of loyal service, the mower is about to give up on me. I dont have a huge lawn area, are people still using petrol over battery? I would prefer to keep petrol, what is the better option these days? Not looking for the best, but dont want the worst either.

I just retired my petrol mower after 28 years, hadn't serviced it for 15 years and it just kept working until I busted the pull cord, tried to fix it and gave up.

Ive just invested in a battery mower (Ryobi) and while its a bit weird to get used to, its doing the job nicely plus I need to carry the mower down 7 steps to get to my backyard so the weight drop has been hugely appreciated by my back.

BTW if anyone knows where I can get rid of my old mower please let me know.

[Booney]

After 25 years of loyal service, the mower is about to give up on me. I dont have a huge lawn area, are people still using petrol over battery? I would prefer to keep petrol, what is the better option these days? Not looking for the best, but dont want the worst either.

4 stroke if you go petrol, my old Rover never skips and beat and no mixing oil.

Ryobi, all my drill, blower etc is Ryboi do a 36v 6.0Ah dual battery mower that looks pretty well suited to larger lawns and I have around 150m sq to cover. I reckon that'll be my next one at around $800.

[Booney]

After 25 years of loyal service, the mower is about to give up on me. I dont have a huge lawn area, are people still using petrol over battery? I would prefer to keep petrol, what is the better option these days? Not looking for the best, but dont want the worst either.

I just retired my petrol mower after 28 years, hadn't serviced it for 15 years and it just kept working until I busted the pull cord, tried to fix it and gave up.

Ive just invested in a battery mower (Ryobi) and while its a bit weird to get used to, its doing the job nicely plus I need to carry the mower down 7 steps to get to my backyard so the weight drop has been hugely appreciated by my back.

BTW if anyone knows where I can get rid of my old mower please let me know.

Got a mens shed near you?

[Dutchy]

Probably, would they take it for parts?

[Booney]

Probably, would they take it for parts?

Parts or training tool for people. I'd give them a go or chuck it on Market Place for free, someone will take it.

[wenchbarwer]

Or maybe a TAFE, I can remember disassembling one at trade school

[dedja]

put it on the kerb with a FREE sign on it, will be gone in a day

We can only hope that you don’t apply the same ‘service routine’ of your now departed mower for your cars.

[Dutchy]

put it on the kerb with a FREE sign on it, will be gone in a day

We can only hope that you don’t apply the same ‘service routine’ of your now departed mower for your cars.

Im pretty much in a no thru road and yes cars get serviced regularly, I didnt see the point on a $200 lawnmower, the thing kept starting so I kept using it