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  1. Posted

    18 hours ago, Cubism said:

    If you're happy to go with bunnings then I saw some comfrey today at the subiaco store. 

    Thanks! I'll check my local.

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  2. Posted · Edited by XavierDass
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    Can anyone point me in the direction of a nursey or a SAB member that has comfrey to sell (location W.A)? rooted plants or seedlings?

  3. Posted

    @FerdieJ, sounds like we have similar goals.

    I've got a few hugels planned -- also heard daikons and radishes can be good for penetrating heavy soils and introducing organics deeper into the earth.

    Vetiver grass seems like it also has some uses for our soil-rejuvenation and preservation goals (as well as a great plant for carbon sequestering).

     

    For now, we have a lot of weeds covering most of the property and all through the existing orchard -- so we've got some ground cover and free compost while I do my planning! :P

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    I've had success with neem oil, used once the sun is soft and setting, to avoid adverse affects from the increased photo-toxicity.

    It works by suffocating scale and other pests such as aphids. I find it best used in a regimen as a prophylactic rather than a treatment (once original infestation is stamped out).

     

    I have seen some people report adverse affects on their cacti from various horticultural oils, though applying around sunset has been working well for me.

  5. Posted

    Recently potted up and labelled all of the hybrid seedlings I received from a friend, repotted my tallest PC into a 50L pot. Really need to get it in the ground once I get my hard clay soil transforming into something more living!

    Spent some time at my new property planning out our food forest and thinking how I'm going to rejuvinate the clay soil into something better (over a long period of time).

     

    17 hours ago, Enjaytee said:

    Also got the mixer out the other day and did a big batch of fluffy soil.

    Got more info on this soil tek? :P I've not heard of people using a mixer to fluff it up. Guessing it helps with aeration?

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  7. Posted

    8 hours ago, Gimli said:

    I have some cuttings (mids) but you'll need to collect today

    Thanks for the offer, Gimli, I didn't check the forum soon enough.

     

    14 hours ago, Enjaytee said:

    Hi @XavierDass

     

    I can send some unrooted cuttings if you would like. 

    Fantastic. Pm'd

  10. Posted

    This poem never fails to make me nostalgic and eager for that bucolic stillness and the beautiful Australian (so-called) landscape.

     

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    Axe-fall, echo and silence. Noonday silence.
    Two miles from here, it is the twentieth century:
    cars on the bitumen, powerlines vaulting the farms.
    Here, with my axe, I am chopping into the stillness.

    Axe-fall, echo and silence. I pause, roll tobacco,
    twist a cigarette, lick it. All is still.
    I lean on my axe. A cloud of fragrant leaves
    hangs over me moveless, pierced everywhere by sky.

    Here, I remember all of a hundred years:
    candleflame, still night, frost and cattle bells,
    the draywheels' silence final in our ears,
    and the first red cattle spreading through the hills

    and my great-great-grandfather here with his first sons,
    who would grow old, still speaking with his Scots accent,
    having never seen those highlands that they sang of.
    A hundred years. I stand and smoke in the silence.

    A hundred years of clearing, splitting, sawing,
    a hundred years of timbermen, ringbarkers, fencers
    and women in kitchens, stoking loud iron stoves
    year in, year out, and singing old songs to their children

    have made this silence human and familiar
    no farther than where the farms rise into foothills,
    and, in that time, how many have sought their graves
    or fled to the cities, maddened by this stillness?

    Things are so wordless. These two opposing scarves
    I have cut in my red-gum squeeze out jewels of sap
    and stare. And soon, witha few more axe-strokes,
    the tree will grow troubled, tremble, shift its crown

    and, leaning slowly, gather speed and colossally
    crash down and lie between the standing trunks.
    And then, I know, of the knowledge that led my forebears
    to drink and black rage and wordlessness, there will be silence.

    After the tree falls, there will reign the same silence
    as stuns and spurns us, enraptures and defeats us,
    as seems to some a challenge, and seems to others
    to be waiting here for something beyond imagining.

    Axe-fall, echo and silence. Unhuman silence.
    A stone cracks in the heat. Through the still twigs, radiance
    stings at my eyes. I rub a damp brow with a handkerchief
    and chop on into the stillness. Axe-fall and echo.

    The great mast murmurs now. The scarves in its trunk
    crackle and squeak now, crack and increase as the hushing
    weight of the high branches heels outward, and commences
    tearing and falling, and the collapse is tremendous.

    Twigs fly, leaves puff and subside. The severed trunk
    slips off its stump and drops along its shadow.
    And then there is no more. The stillness is there
    as ever. And I fall to lopping branches.

    Axe-fall, echo and silence. It will be centuries
    before many men are truly at home in this country,
    and yet, there have always been some, in each generation,
    there have always been some who could live in the presence of silence.

    And some, I have known them, men with gentle broad hands,
    who would die if removed from these unpeopled places,
    some again I have seen, bemused and shy in the cities,
    you have built against silence, dumbly trudging through noise

    past the railway stations, looking up through the traffic
    at the smoky halls, dreaming of journeys, of stepping
    down from the train at some upland stop to recover
    the crush of dry grass underfoot, the silence of trees.

    Axe-fall, echo and silence. Dreaming silence.
    Though I myself run to the cities, I will forever
    be coming back here to walk, knee-deep in ferns,
    up and away from this metropolitan century,

    to remember my ancestors, axemen, dairymen, horse-breakers,
    now coffined in silence, down with their beards and dreams,
    who, unwilling or rapt, despairing or very patient,
    made what amounts to a human breach in the silence,

    made of their lives the rough foundation of legends-
    men must have legends, else they will die of strangeness-
    then died in their turn, each, after his own fashion,
    resigned or agonized, from silence into great silence.

    Axe-fall, echo and axe-fall. Noonday silence.
    Though I go to the cities, turning my back on these hills,
    for the talk and dazzle of cities, for the sake of belonging
    for months and years at a time to the twentieth century,

    the city will never quite hold me. I will be always
    coming back here on the up-train, peering, leaning
    out of the window to see, on far-off ridges,
    the sky between the trees, and over the racket
    of the rails to hear the echo and the silence.

    I shoulder my axe and set off home through the stillness.

     

  11. Posted

    Would love to see this site implement 2fa for added layer of user security and privacy. As with the HTTPS migration, I'd be happy to help with implementing this.

     

    I think maybe a section for your public key could be a solid idea, and the server generates a unique code that you decrypt with your private key -- rather than google auth (I prefer to manage my own keys).

  14. Posted

    On 22/09/2019 at 1:09 PM, withdrawl clinic said:

    sorry to say, I don't like those bee's!

    they compete with native bees & insects for food,

    :slap:

    honey bee's are bullie's

    compared to native bee's,

    and not as good pollinators!!:bootyshake:

     

    This is info I need to remember if I think about expanding.

     

    I'm soon moving to a property that has a single beehive, though it hasnt been tended in awhile, so I hope it is doing well and I can take care of it!

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