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Gidday

Kansasterri, I take it that that you are living in a fairly rural area, going on the fact you have to ask here where to get hydoponic stuff. Now I have no idea what goes on in your farming areas up there as I live on a little speck down at the bottom of the Pacific.

But iffin you don't want to dig your root crops because of your health or physical condition you can still very easily grow any vegetables mush more naturally than in perlite or similar. Iffin you can get yourself a lot of small bales of straw. Any straw will do, or you can even use lucerne or alfalfa hay. Place these where you want your garden bed then cover them with something that has a high nitrogen fertilizer or manure on top of the straw and water till the straw is wet right through and just keep it moist after that.

The wet straw will start to decompose and with the added nitrogen well really start to heat up. The hotter the better. When is cools down you can plant straight into the straw.

Plant the likes of pototoes by driving a crowbar down into the straw to make a hole then plant the spud as deep down as you can get it. And with thing you have to plant by seed just scatter the seeds on top and rub it in with your hands and then make sure they don't dry out, and you can also transplant any othere plants straight into it.

You will find that you root crops will just pull out so easiley when harvesting and they will also come out clean.

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"The spring frost-free date in my garden is __"

I wish we could get one of those. Our trouble is we can get late frost when totally unexpected as well as early ones when you are hoping something will ripen before it happens.

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Well we are in our last week of our summer which only started a few weeks ago. The air in the morning has a bit of a autumn chill in it but still fairly warm days, like around 20C.

Had a terrible cold summer realy and not looking forward to what you jokers are having at the mo.

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Actually it aint as old as I said. It aint 1040 but a 1940 10/4 which means 10 horses and 4 cylinders.

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My first car was a 1040 Vauxhall 10/4 like this one.

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Hey that is very interesting.

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Good onya mate.

See yall soon.

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Hey lambs balls don't come from the bloody sea. You orta stick to those oysters mate.

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Hey mate, just seen this and it don't make too good a reading. A real bummer but it looks like things are slowly coming right.

God bless you all mate.

Cheers

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Intriguingly........................Godd word Eh!

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Well I believe that ewe jokers up there reckon that Rednecks come from the south but we are a bloody side more south than America and ifin you replace America or USA with New Zealand then I sure as hell am a really redneck as they come.

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That;'s what I was thinking of doing but just wanted to here you pumpkin experts say so too.

Cheers

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Well that was very inmteresting. I have always believed that you should never put coal ash onto gardens apart from on paths.

But I have always put my wood ash onto the garden. We also burn all our bones in the fire so there is a portion of bone going onto the garden at the same time.

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Hey thanks for all this. It really makes interesting reading for this old Kiwi bow from way down under.

I have always believed that the word climate meant changing paterns of the weather and it has always been changing. Some years good some bad, some hot some cold. It all goes in cycles.

You up there have continental climates and we are just on an island but because of a range of mountains running right up accross the prevailing winds some parts inland have continental or similar climate too.

Here we are sitting right smack bang on the 45th. parrallel so are ecactly half way from the equater to the south pole. In other words in the centre of the roaring forties which the old sailors used to dread.

Being insular in climate we just caint say that our frosts will start or stop on any day, or month for that matter, so there is a lot more guessing as when to plant.

We have only been in this place for less than two years and my garden is therefore very new. Lots of weeds and still fairly poor textured soil for gardening. And as we are sitting on the top of about a 100 foot bluff up from the ocean we do get a bit of problem with salt in the air. But hey, it has it's advantages too, with this time of the year the sun rising over the Pacific Ocean and streaming in through our bedroom window before 6 in the morning.