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nice work what a dry autumn it is ionly thing recently to fruit is pleurotus tuber-regium under my tangelo tree

cuts like butter through bamboo i love my Bahco pruning saw but ill never love anyone ore than my hoe

i realise that its a real problem weve all gone down to tiny blocks the main reason for the large space is that the rotational garden bed thing works OK but when you end up getting clubroot (stays in the soil for YEARS) or bad nematodes as you will eventually you can abandon it/sow it to pasture to fallow a few years this gets rid of the pathogens and also rejuvenates humus. permanent pasture is an excellent carbon sink after reading it i remmeber how my grandparesnt used to get huge crops they had 3/4 acre and would rotary hoe up a patch in the large lawn and plant veggies. the first year was a bumper crop and declines the year after, then theyd abandon it to the kikuyu again and do a new area, and rotate. the yield was perpetual. doen the back was a large chook run and this provided waste disposal and fertliser for the veg patch like slash and burn, or ley farming in a low energy world this is the way to go if you cant then i guess u have to make do and accept lower yields due to pathogen buildup my veg gardens measure maybe 6 x 20m but 25% of that is currently a shadehouse and cactus and a chook run too i can easily see its not enough but anything is better than nothing

Ive seen all the sheetmulching stuff and tried it with varying sucess its great for turning lawn to forest but shit for vegetable gardens not enough nutrition, not enough soil depth, too many snails and slaters i found this book very helpful in finding a new and old way with extensive low input cultivation methods http://www.amazon.com/Gardening-When-Count...r/dp/086571553X ive found this book very refreshing for instance ive rediscovered the value of sharp tools lol and im in love with my Hoe not all is gospel and im happy to talk about percieved errors in the method - mostly to do with the fact that being brier subtropical im on the edge of the useful territory. And to do with seed quality but the majority of it is very good in practice The mulch is back aroundthe trees and on some paths where it belongs theres a great recipe for COF (complete organic fertiliser) ive switched to usining on edibles over various crappy organic and some potent inorganic ones ill copy it out later bit busy now anyway great book its really the second opinion you need if youve tried other methods and you arent winning or if you think its hard work growing veggies

doesnt kill it though but it can be useful if you want to like blady grass the new growth is soft and palatable so you can graze it out (blady grass = poor mans oats) or give it a weak spray

i could go to the shroomery dont make me go in there mama please! its not so easy to sift through all the shite. and if you search you have to search the threads not the main site or you get very little info on anything they are, if its a cube, hardened growths that are like sclerotia in this effect but have no known function unlike real sclerotia they dont cope with adverse conditions then fruit if its blue its good there was also talk bout over incubation bein good its a known phenomenom in biotechnology that usually once sugar is used up the secondary metabolites increase significantly did it fruit?

so wahts wrong with "sodium laurel sulphate!" ive heard rumours but usually alongside other conspiracy theories anyone done their homework? new thread?

Or Jade perch http://www2.dpi.qld.gov.au/fishweb/14076.html http://www.ausyfish.com/jade_perch.htm or if you have to even kissing gourami from the petshop get to 20cm and are raised in indonesia for eating where admitedly they prefer smaller fish

LOl heres my aquaculture effort atm i collect water in drums all over the garden in each i put fish to eat mozzies air breathing ones like gourami or just hardy ones like guppies now they are overwintering in the greenhouse with some late test germinated lotus one day ill do better

might not be a hybrid the current paucity of named species available is probably at odds with the actual number of species out there There has probably been more seed and clones collected from remote valleys throughout western south america than there has been botanists time to name them. this may be one? Take the Peruvianus for example If you discount whats the kk242 and its allies and the peru/macrogonus (like icaros) overlap or synonymity you are still left with a large number of distinct forms lumped as either peruvianus or some with their own names like T santaensis I know of one peruvanus that looks intergraded between santaensis and the more macrogonus type. wild looking plant one of the reasons i unashamdely try and score every wird trch i hear of is i like to put them next to one another, and try and see how they relate to each other if possible, or at least group them into allied subgroups based on distingusihing shared features this two spine thing adds to another outlier to make a new cluster. to my eyes its a 'peruvianoid' of unknown affilliation ramble ramble my point is theres no reason to assume its a hybrid straight away just cos it looks wierd try and find out who planted it there is sometimes info attached you can sleuth out

i use lemon grass too but its not as cold hardy, it does frost back and this has a far deeper root system id offer slips but i want to be sure i have this monto variety b4 speading it about i may have to got to the bris botanic gdns as ive had no luck in replies from the proffessors involved in the qld work

im on it ta

ive heard of the weed thing but most grass in australia today is Monto, a sterile cultivar sourced from the brisbane botanic gardens and as noted its VERY susceptible to glyphosate. a burn and a spray would kill all adults

sorry wasnt referring to physical addiction just to desire it tastes good (novo i mean, dont like coca at all), its good for you, and it makes you feel good and strong top that :D no availability means i left it off #1 on my list re lime i have a recipe i can dig out of a book for lime used for betel nut chewing looks like the same process

IME a defining feature of eilee is the shapeshifting spination is all over the place from ) ,1,2,3 to 5 or so and this can all be next to one another and shes generally fatter so That is def not eileen look at the regularity of it among other things still tho....want to trade for a tip cut with flower buds like those have :D nice find. its mature i have one kinda like it with the two pronged spines. may be synomymous , might not be i can swap like for like if you care to any (ahem) bioassy info known to you?

consult a sparky it can be done safely but no i mean professional heatmats like they use in commercial propagation setups id expect they arent ever cheap, but compared to the shite sold to the general public they would be DL once said they had good ones as water bed heaters attach a decent thermostat and youre laughing best used on an insulated surface to avoid creating a heat sink below

just shutting down my plants now i put them in a dry greenhouse and give plenty of daytime heat , give them their last liquid ferts and seaweed and let them dry out over the next month then ill wrap them in hessian or frostguard and store dry over winter (june 1st plus 4 months) with maybe a light water in a warm spell ill put them inside the shed , greenhouse or leave out in the open depending on cold tolerance - teh real touchy ones go inside with the iboga all but a few cacti - incl the grafted lophs stay outside so long as the frost isnt directly falling on them and they were quite dry i didnt have any troubles with lophs and subzero nights last year they purple a bit but come back very healthy in the spring when nights warm up

I had some GP's but the cae was inadequate either they got out , or more likley something got in and whittled them down to 1 - which is obviously unsustainable :rollseyes: gotta redesign the quarters and restock will they cohabit with chooks? we have 2 x light sussex , maybe more later i admit ive only eaten wild rabbit too if the GPS get a good varied diet and lost of fresh grass as opposed to pellets shouldnt they tatse better? chicken certainly does

all my water currently goes to the septic system of 2 tanks when the second fills an auto pump comes on and pumps it into a 10m x 9m gravel filled trench where it 'evaporates' in reality though i think a fair bit seeps out ill get pics soon ive put my citrus peaches and mulberries around it theres also arrowroot (mulch only) over which my gourds have gone mad if i was frost free id have several banana plants instead alongside all this is lots of comfrey and vetiver grass to suck up lots of water we try and use low sodium , but i prefer the high phosphorus detergents cos i WANT that 'free' fertiliser, o/wise im going to have to buy it anyway - like binbags the idea is to assist in the safe retention and use of this water, and to recycle the nutrients back into the rest of the garden all seems to be working well so far its a patch job really on a broken system before i moved in. if i was to design one from scratch id do it a lot better and id have a composting toilet so there wouldnt be much except grey water id have the grey water subsurface irrigated to the fruit and nut trees and any excess going to a vetiver or reed 'swamp' to be biofiltered. then id cut this a couple times a year or more and mulch the trees with it also id run the absolute excess of the rainwater system through it too in season to flush the system of accumulated salts

not a good flowering year so far for me nothing now and nothing apparent in the near future

i would think biogas would be the best? if all you are extracting is carbon hydrogen and oxygen as alcohols then all the sludge with all the nutes goes back on the same land there would be less loss than current agriculture of course unless its legislated for then it wont go back to the same land. it will become a commodity of its own and get squandered Also theres no reason for biofuels not to co-exist with food production palm oil plantation in malaysia are doing better now there are polycultures using cattle to eat down the weeds, which themselves are part of biodiversity, and this predation should lead to an increase in diversity at ground level they are also experimenting with understorey cropping medicinal plants - like tongkat ali as a perrenial crop its got a lot of things going in its favour Canola - rape seed ,is on the other hand one of the very worst of all crops for disease and effect on soil fertility

I find long handled loppers more effective ive been clearing out a 1/4 acre stand of a phyllostachys sp (aureus?) it spreads fast and quite weedily , but once it has a hold over competition it gradually thickens up so im in the centre chopping out all the junk and either using it or felling it and chopping up with loppers to smaller bits to rot faster ive thought about giving it a feed i get so much use from it i wouldnt be shy to spread a good amount of ammonium sulphate about. that should kickstart the N cycle if i can clearit out enough id think of some understorey legume to put in there - maybe even a native desmodium or glycine if itll take and also id like to in time innoculate some fungi in there they should love the litter itd be even better in a wetter climate. Azures like grass wastes and ive seen a cyanescens woodchip bed in a bamboo grove. im sure they d adjust with the edibles theres alsway bamboo mushroom - dictyophora and i once grew H ulmarius on pasteuised bamboo leaves and twigs I think ideally one would manage it like Asparagus, both having similarities in mode of growth from a monopodal culm trying to manage energy reserves in the rhizomes and encourage fewer but larger stems to make best use of the water and nutrient resource im getting in some see dof buddha belly bamboo off ebay. seems to be a bit of it available. Moso bamboo too

im sure the reward is better from seed u make yourself and 5% isnt too bad anyway with some cacti, its just the cost of that 95% lost is annoying with Arios prices vary but say here say from one website i have imported from ariocarpus agavioides 100s = 4.2 pounds 500s = 17 pounds plus any CITES permits AQIS have really come down hard on CITES requiremnets lately HTF? its a pinhead id need pindick fingers to be able to manipulate it ive read they arent hard - its just TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME waiting and theres the expensive seed issue again if you peres graft you get free fresh seed quickly dunno. guess im just never happy growing just one, or just a few of anything it feels a waste of effort like cooking for 1 its hardly any more effort to cook for 3 or 4 and much more rewarding cos of the wait, the chance of complete loss, the lack of excess to trade and the bottleneck genepool of a few inbreeding stock planst thereafter im not really happy till i look out and see multiple trays of 50 healthy planst all flowering away happily in the garden

yes you can eat cakes there was much talk a year or 2 ago bout this esp using azurescens to make cakes crush up and wash with cranberry juice or other acididc juice drink i Azure cake was like 4 doses?? in addition, overmatures substrate can be eaten once dried a FOAF ate 3g of dried overincubated grain/myc and had a mild but nice exp. 5-6 g would have been more effective those lumps are wierd sounds like pseudosclerotia some cube strains form them i think SE asian ones in particular some info at the nook or shroomery - long time ago also i havent been hangin either place for nearly a year, more at the shroomery

Aztekium come up fine and seem fairly hardy but by hell they are slow a 1 year old seedling is pinhead size i put down 100 seeds and have 6 or 7 pinheads HTF can you graft that??? the cost of seed,CITES certification, poor germinataion in many cases and sensitivity to sun have kept me back ive sorted the sun issue now but the other issues remain IME you really need to put down 100 seeds to hope to get a few plants by the time they are 5 years old