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Doing a mature aged apprenticeship in plumbing and gas ( off the job schooling once a month ) Massive weeks sometimes!!

^ stop press , awesome find man!! Mt macedon ussually will get a bit colder than most suburban melbourne areas at this time of the year ,but a good sign - looks a bit wet in thoses shots too.

^ Well sort of dirt prickly7 feeling It kinda feels like an alergic reaction (im NOT alergic to anything on this planet!! except the normal stuff , hot weather ,falling bricks ,funnel web spider) if i could imagine what one is like...... -sorry to wonder wayward mutant Any way this guy i know reckons that rubbing away ,the "fine hairy coating" makes no differnce to nausea at all ,not that this will convince anyone otherwise who beleives otherwise, Seeds vary in potency greatly ( be careful hey) and it seems that with greater "actives" greater nausea comes as well - what you guys think?? , thats my take on it ,iv been quite worried about the pain behind the knees but that goes with movement and sensible strectching.

Yeah agreed was way too quiet , c'mon guys

Well in my experience - My mum dumped a whole 20 kg bag of "Dynamic Lifter" on a Prunus species that was suffering badly from Armillaria , in winter the bloody tree came back with a' vengance next spring ,looked fantastic and there was no sign of root rot any more ,checked every week over the autum and winter periods and when i pulled the tree out about 2 years later ( we got sick of it ) the rot looked like it wasnt affecting the tree at all any more it looked like root rot had only got too the middle of the tree trunk a little bit and then was stopped. Let me tell you once this fungus takes hold on a tree it ussually kills the tree within two three years. Why dont you pick a spot where some fungus fruits from dump a whole lot of fert on it ,like 10 kg blood and bone or something like that ,(great time of year to be trying out some kind of garden experiment regarding fungus) and tell us about it...... lol please do this on your own garden or with prior permission form land owner. Have a fat one mate

4 the victorian season - Yeah 70mm at Moorabin at an unofficial rain gauge from friday night thru sunday morn , the ground is nice and wet too ,fair way down. Just need it to stay reasonably cool though for a bit yet into mid april.

Yeah it was a goodie - predictably at the hieght of the storm five calls came through about roof leaks and broken skylights ,one guy moaned his arse of too me about the service fee on a weekend $$$ then bitched even further when i said anyone would be crazy to get on a roof for the next 4 hours - it was deadly out there. It was hard work to get it across to him to simply move the microwave and tea towels so they were not directly beneath the damaged area. What's funny about this is when we follow up the calls next week ,every one will say "its alright ,its ( heavey rain) not happening anymore ,dont need my stormwater pipes cleaned at the moment ,costs too much anyway" In situations like this a sensible bit of on going maintenance goes a long way - it will happen at least once again in the next twelve months for sure ,hopefully minus the ice blocks

Yeah ,top photo's Micro ,thanks for posting!!

About five years back anzac day (mid april) yeilded good finds , pins would have been earlier!! Filthy stinking hot summers and dry autum periods make the season peak in the depths of winter ,as i have seen lately ( last few years )

Ah Mites! ( ya get that on the big job's ) They will hopefully go with the season , other wise like blowng mentioned over head watering has worked well 4 me too , but when im mean "over head" i mean - i use a fine mist sprayer just like a hair dressers sprayer and go under the leaves and all (iv never had too do my cactus) , also i time this real late in the after noon , give em a nice cold wet night. Now i do realise this is a cactus based topic and i dont grow loph's and never have (one day i will tho) and some plants will not like this method ,maybe worth doing once. Mites really love warm weather , poor air flow ,dry conditions and they seem too really take too stressed plants as well check plant health and climatic conditions then do the mites.

Yeah i reckon it is too , If it is in your own garden or one you look after you can prune them to shape after flowering , keeps them nice and bushy - if you DONT want seeds of course.

......Something so infinantly small that it has to be ,in turn ,part of something that again is so infinantly small which again is probably fitted into something smaller again......... and so it goes on

"It´s funny to see that they are only humans too." Hahaha , yeah but its also funny that humans are the only animals who do that kind of thing!! (fly high then crawl low)

Maybe the shop keeper only cares about $$ ,often pondered why the people in charge of choosing to stock stuff in supermarkets really care that they move heaps of em - its like thier own little moral stand in the war ,or something ,lol. Oh well if i had a job like that id stock heaps of nangs all the time and take 'picture' and 'people' mag off the shelves.

Nah im betting it was a big fat opuntia ,secondary bet would be euphorbia

EG you should come over here for a holiday!! One place that i think is totally remarkable ( others will say its as boring as dog shit) i'v never been there ,but its my next holiday destination - Port Augusta in Sth Aus Any members in this place?? Is most of the work mainly in larger organisations like "Bluescope" and "Linfox" sites or is there a bit of small stuff going on over there like domestic building ,road construction or agriculture?

It grows like a ground cover , once you get it established it needs no care at all and just handles hot weather real well ,but goes a little bitter - the best tasting leaves are the ones that have grown in cooler weather.

Hey man ,yeah as a few have mentioned ,QLD would probably suit you best - Jobs ,Rain ,parks ,plants ,fishing and lack of traffic are all standard features of most regional coastal QLD towns. I wouldnt suggest Inner or Suburban Melbourne, like wise Sydney either - Way too big now!

Check seasol "power feeder" its the one in green bottle made by the same company and is seasol plus trace elements and better n.p.k content, than ordinary seasol. You get the plant tonic and the feed in one bottle. But yeah Charlie carp , good shit!

YAY Worth mentioning for eastern melbournites IGA @ post code 3183 has them now!! 1min walk from nearest train station.

Re- " i strongly believe things might be better if she had had some. Acid or something" Well yeah, she may have seen through you - seen that ,you probably wont stop smoking ,probably cheat again and go through bouts of self pity and get hung up on where she lives. Take no offence man, i dont mean it in a bad way. You sort of mentioned this. From what i'm reading here i dont think she would buy into that "jibberjabber" about how salvia has a lasting effect, when you have said so far that she has done well on her part but you have not been so determined. Smoking lots of green and thinking heaps about what could have been if you didnt smoke so much ,makes you feel a little at loss for your choices ,hahahaha welcome to the real nasty psycadelic effects of weed , you can only reach these sad states by smoking heaps and slowly lossing the actute psycadelic effects of THC. I guess these sort of states can be a bit teaching or a bit destructive. I guess im with chiral on this one ( about the pot ) give it up (look forward to what will eventuate) or keep going brother , (look forward to simply enjoy the taste of lung excreta)

Fixed that!!

Crush the leaves, see if it smells like lemon grass ( will smell like lemon candies if it is ) , cos thats what it really looks like to me. "Cymbopogon species"

Didnt think we had that many senior citizens here!! ( check the ages hmmmm ) Anyway thanks chiral but my bithdays still a week away on the 7th , - it would be typical of me to not fill out something like that correctly - lol

Ash from log and wood fires also makes a really good compost accelerant ( nearly as good as burnt lime, like un believeably good )