Posts by andrew llewellyn
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Its not about guilt - see what I mean about reactionary responses?
Russell asked for tips on improving the lives of everyone. It was a tip, not an order. Jeez, you meat eaters are angry
Nah, we're hungry.
Actually Michael, some of those points you listed do cross my mind now & then & I do question my meating practises on occasion.
Not that I'm likely to be converted to vegetarianism any time soon, but you can count on me being hypocritical enough (just plain too squeamish actually) to never work in an abattoir. Nor to be able to actually kill & eat any animals in my care.
Although a pig that broke into our property once was lucky I didn't have a gun handy.
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See I was told to plant in September
Yikes, about 100 cloves of garlic were planted last weekend - I do hope the chief gardener got it right :)
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planning bucket-based tomatoes for summer).
did that too, in one place we lived with a sunny courtyard - I used black polythene planting bags - big ones (20 litre). Smaller varieties seemed to grow better like that, but probably depends on watering.
My wife did something clever last year though (not that unusual), she planted corn one weekend, about 6 of them in a circle, then a few weeks later, she planted runner beans around the corn - ready made climbing frame!!
Nice beans & corn too.
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Mind you - speaking of official growing seasons - last Saturday was the official day to plant garlic (windsor park at Te Horo sell NZ garlic).
The story is: plant them on the shortest day, harvest on the longest. But unofficially, it doesn't have to be so precise, a few weeks either side will work just as well.
So... this weekend plant garlic - around your roses they say, it keeps the bugs away.
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Andrew, can you start growing potatoes by this method anytime of the year?
Yep, I don't know when official potato growing season is, but when I heard about this trick, they said grow them all year round & it seems to work.
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Tempted to post a how to grow lambs in small cages... but I suppose that'd be pushing it a bit.
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but I guess other sound effects would be included.
Oh yes, down to comments on the soundtrack - "trumpet music ends with flourish".
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How much room and how many buckets would you need to maintain year-round potatoes??
Depends how many potatoes you eat :) I used to have 6 going at a time, & that kept us (3 adults) pretty sorted. These days we eat very few potatoes compared to then & I grow a couple of buckets a year & supplement from the local vegie outlet.
Thinking of planting a row in tyres later this year though - maybe after I source some old tyres.
But I checked, they take 10-12 weeks from planting to harvest, so 2-3 months was right.
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I've never heard og agrias! Will look out for them though - or I'll ask the chief gardener & shopper to look out for them anyway.
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I've only done it with jersey bennys (potatoes, I've grown yams like this too), they work well, all year round even (Wgtn weather).