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Started this discussion. Last reply by Janet Jinkner Jan 31.
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We never spray but every couple of seasons we have a harvest that is not wormy. A chill winter helps kill the things in the soil that hatch and eat the peaches. One year we planted fennel around the fruit trees. They were so pungent, I think they co…
We do this sheet mulching straight onto the grass. It works well. Try the local council or an architect or building company because they often go through huge amounts of paper at blueprint poster size. This is really good quality paper and can reduc…
Hey Edson I've tried lots of different ways. I bought seed raising trays about the size of a bread board and I can reuse them over and over again to start seeds. They are fairly shallow though and if I want to grown something a bit bigger like ginge…
Pumpkin Scones -
1 cup cold mashed pumpkin (boiled and mashed with a little butter, let cool)
1 Tablespoon butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 3/4 cups SR flour
pinch of salt
Cream butter and sugar, beat in egg. Add pumpkin and beat. Add flour. If too dr…
My daughter will be so excited. We often hear references to pumpkin pie on the american TV shows and we've never really understood what they are or how they taste. We really don't have an equivalent. I saw years ago a recipe for sweet potatoes (yams…
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Hey Janet - we know about drought. This place must be drought capital of the world maybe but not where we live now on the coast. Now the rain drives me crazy. When we lived in the outback, we had sattelite TV and radio - it was wonderful! With all t…
Hi Janet - chokos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote
They are sechium edule or sayote apparently - I just looked them up. They grow like weeds, die off in the winter and come back in the spring with a flush of fruit. Its not uncommon for us to p…
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- Living in sub tropical Australia on six acres after a decade in the outback semi desert areas where we managed extensive grazing properties.
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