Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Still spring I see…
Good to see, though not looking quite springlike here yet.
The little yachts of Chch on Hagley Park's post-quake refurbished Lake Victoria this afternoon. -
Capture: Auckland Rock City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Those Scawts pronunciations . . . if McWhirter is pronounced as MacFeeter, then should a Scottish foetus be spelt as whirtus?
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Paul Williams,
the Brashism about "mainstream" NZers
Perhaps Ansellism would be more accurate. If the poor old human spreadsheet had followed whatever flickering inner lights he had, instead of being guided by that dismal troll, he'd be in line for a consolatory knighthood and maybe a High Commissionership, instead of languishing on the worst kind of political skid row. AND he'd have voted yes last night if he'd stayed in a safe Nat seat.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Leigh Russell,
We pay ’em back in planarians.
Joe, that's a fascinating website! :-)
To everything, worms, worms, worms
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Islander,
English*
*which is almost certainly wireworm came from
We pay 'em back in planarians.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Leigh Russell,
I have hundreds of marigolds growing all over the place here. I'm not sure what a miniature one is. Mine are like the one above...
This is what I recall - the little pom-pom shaped ones with the feathery foliage. I recall that any marigold was claimed to work on account of some property they had that repelled wireworm, so the miniatures were chosen because they fitted well between the potatoes. The idea came from one of those 70s organic gardening books, probably Ruth Stout. Not all of her recommendations worked for me, but that one sure did.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Leigh Russell,
I have no experience of wireworm and carrots, but companion planting of marigolds in an area where the wise old locals swore that wireworms made growing spuds next to impossible worked like a dream. Rows of dwarf marigolds between the rows of spuds did the trick, with only one wireworm found. For whatever it may be worth, it was a very high rainfall area.
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Not quite such a classic as Sofie's immaculate Triumph, but nice if you like this kind of thing. -
Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
snap with the carnivores. Amazing looking things eh?
Nepenthes. Love 'em to bits.
Oh, and bikes, like this one...
Handsome brute, though you'd be dismounting every 50 miles or thereabouts to relieve your tail as there's no rear suspension.
Wonderful shots Sofie.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Peter Alsop,
I will need to sell a couple of posters soon to recaibrate my collecting post the book . . .
Thanks Peter, it'd be a great honour, but given my past luck with retaining stuff I'd best defer to those with proven curatorial talents. What an opportunity though for such a delightful item to be given a place of public appreciation in one of Chch's discerning & resurgent bars & eateries.
