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Post by jack on Nov 15, 2009 3:05:22 GMT -6
Giddat
Thank you Shelly. So it isn't just my imagination.
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Post by jack on Nov 15, 2009 3:01:45 GMT -6
Gidday
$Rum, that must have been a very special poppy, Eh!
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Post by jack on Nov 12, 2009 2:34:16 GMT -6
Gidday
Well I do not know how you people will take this, but from what I have heard and read way down here it looks to me like Islam has actually infiltrated even into the highest office of your political system.
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Post by jack on Nov 8, 2009 2:11:10 GMT -6
Gidday
Unfortunately I fear that it is already too late.
I would never of thought that they could actually infiltrate the U.S. military.
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Post by jack on Nov 7, 2009 3:43:29 GMT -6
Gidday
Here is a warning that the entire free world should sit up and take notice of.
A German's point of view on Islam"
by Dr. Emanual Tanay, Psychiatrist
A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to
World War ll owned a number of large industries and
estates. When asked how many German people were
true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our
attitude toward fanaticism.
'Very few people were true Nazis 'he said,' but many
enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more
were too busy to care. I was one of those who just
thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the
majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then,
before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost
control, and the end of the world had come. My
family lost everything. I ended up in a
concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my
factories.'
We are told again and again by 'experts' and
'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace,
and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to
live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion
may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is
meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and
meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics
rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this
moment in history.
It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics
who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It
is the fanatics who systematically slaughter
Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are
gradually taking over the entire continent in an
Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead,
murder, or honor kill. It is the fanatics who take
over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who
zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape
victims and homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact
is that the 'peaceful majority', the 'silent
majority', is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just
wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists
were responsible for the murder of about 20 million
people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.
China's huge population was peaceful as well, but
Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70
million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War
ll was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan
murdered and slaughtered its way across South East
Asia in an orgy of killing that included the
systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians;
most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.
And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into
butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of
Rwandans were 'peace loving'?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and
blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often
miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:
Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by
their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our
enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend
from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that
the fanatics own them, and the end of their world
will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians,
Rwandans, Serbs, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians,
Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have
died because the peaceful majority did not speak up
until it was too late.
As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay
attention to the only group that counts: the
fanatics who threaten our way of life.
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Post by jack on Nov 7, 2009 3:41:44 GMT -6
Gidday
I too want to express my heartfelt condolences to you people.
When are we all going to realise that the muslim religion is not one of peace but of evil. Some claim otherwise but how could that be when we see what happens in this rotten old world.
You, like us, still hold to the ideal of freadom of religion but that must stop if this evil is to be stopped infiltrating every bit of our societies. They have even infiltrated the U.S. military.
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Post by jack on Oct 20, 2009 3:35:19 GMT -6
Gidday
Bloody hell youre in a bad way mate.
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Post by jack on Jun 26, 2009 1:16:53 GMT -6
Gidday
Hey Cavey, you get your ass back in the saddle mate. You are my best cyber mate so don't let nothing happen to you.
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Post by jack on May 1, 2008 4:19:34 GMT -6
Gidday
To me that looks like it's had a whiff of some hormone weed spray. It may have been drift or even someone with spray on their clothes come too close but sure looks like that"s the problem, that is unless you can actually se the aphids on em.
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Post by jack on Apr 30, 2008 4:34:41 GMT -6
Gidday
Yep I have sheep and used to actually be a shearer. My best days were 426 lambs in a day and with grown sheep 340 in a day.
Bloody hard work though.
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Post by jack on Apr 24, 2008 1:56:32 GMT -6
Gidday
I too grow our own spuds and only wash them and cook with skins on. Caint see the sense in cutting them off then cooking them separtely.
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Post by jack on Apr 20, 2008 4:26:54 GMT -6
Gidday
Nature sure is strange and bloody powerful too. Down here earthquakes are quite common. We even lived on a road called Earthquake Road until February this year.
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Post by jack on Apr 20, 2008 4:23:18 GMT -6
Gidday
Some of them can bit or sting or something and cause a lot of pain too, but that is very rare.
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Post by jack on Apr 11, 2008 3:13:34 GMT -6
Gidday
I have heard one of our experts down here say they are very good in the garden as they break down a lot of organic matter.
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Post by jack on Jan 7, 2007 3:11:55 GMT -6
Gidday
I haven't got a clue what sorta cabbage it is.
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Post by jack on Jan 6, 2007 18:29:17 GMT -6
Gidday
That aint wire but a very fine plastic netting. Yep it's for those little feathered critters. My compost has a huge amount or worms in it because I don't always get it to a very high heat. I get more weeds as well as more worms and I like the worms but so do the birdies around here and they don't give a stuff about anything else either.
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Post by jack on Jan 5, 2007 14:25:03 GMT -6
Gidday Bloody hell you jokers go to a lot of trouble. You should grow bloody good veges in that, even if it is to pay back for the time spent.  This is what I do, and I either just fill it with compost or put my sheep's guts in the bottom first. When I have had a couple of crops outa it I move it on and spread what's left out over the rest of the garden. _________________ |
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Post by jack on Jul 29, 2007 0:54:39 GMT -6
Gidday
Strange, of course we are strange.
Which means:- Out of the ordinary; unusual or striking. Differing from the normal.
All of which apply.
Well my garden has taken a hiding this year. The coldest December on record which was the middle of 5 months of bellow average temperatures. Then my cow got in the garden which didn't help much and now we are hopefully coming out of a cold winter. For a month up till Tuesday our garden was frozen about 3 inches in. But still eating a few things out of it, especially the carrots.
As this is the first year we have been milking our own house cow, milk for the house that is cos I don't sleep with the cow in our bed, I have been taking wheel barrows full of cow poop into the garden. I will be growing most of my brassicas straight through it, but because us strange Kiwi do such a thing I am not suggesting you try.
The big difference, I figure, between us here and you up there, is that we don't have any genetically modified cows or crops and we don't have animal on low dose antibiotics for any period of time so many of the bugs we do have are probably not as virulent or dangerous as yours might be. And also I believe that many of us have a stronger imine system as well.
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Post by jack on Jul 28, 2007 4:00:17 GMT -6
Gidday
Yep permaculture sounds good but they seem to be making lots of rules and the only rules I like to use are those of nature itself. One thing with permaculture is the mixed species planting and aint that what nature is all about?
And yes, there are a lot of strange people down this way with very strange ideas, and a lot of those ideas actually work.
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Post by jack on Jul 24, 2007 4:28:38 GMT -6
Gidday
Well I am definately not a Northern Yankee, but a Southern Kiwi.
I don't think about organic gardening but think of it as natural gardening cos I am plumb sure I caint do better than the Good Lord can. And besides, I am a lazy old sod as well. So I look at how He set things up. Take a look at your long grass prairies, or the great rain forests. Look how many hundreds of tons of growth on them per year without anyones help. And yet when men com along and try to farm them it don't take too long before they are having to add all sorts of stuff to get things to grow. Cut down a rain forest and it can only be farmed for at the most ten years before the soil is all tuckered out.
Both the above rely on compost, tons of the stuff. It is not turned or tilled in either and no sweat is spilt getting it to work, and that's the way I like things.
Now me and old Phil disagree on this and I am not wanting an arguement but to just make my point. And don't get me wrong, compost is great stuff, and compost tea is about the best thing man can do as well. But nature don't make compost in one place then try to shift it and dig it into another place.
I say, you are better to throw your stuff straight onto the garden and let what the Good Lord made, do the work for you. Decomposition on the surface of the soil will not reduce nitrogen available to the plants, it's only if you till it in and then every bit is surounded by soil that it will drag nitrogen out, and then only for a short time before it releases even more. Decomposing plant material on the surface of the soil has only one molecule thickness in contact with the soil and those little soil bourne livestock of yours that do the work aint great travellers so they will just concentrate on the one thing at a time, like decomposing that stuff for you. In doing that they will have a bit of flatulence, in the form of carbon dioxide, but that stuff is heavier than air so it will stay down there in the litter on the soil. Then when it rains, or you water the garden the CO2 will disolve in the water and become carbonic acid and slowly move down into the soil.
Carbonic acid is one of the best things you can get to disolve the non organic mineral particles in your soil, and in doing that they will make available the whole range of trace elliments and minerals that your plants, and you need. So by composting on your garden amoungst your plants you not only get all the goodness you can from compost, but also the full range of minerals from your soil that were not otherwise available to your plants, providing your plants are growing there at the time, otherwise the carbonic acid and those vital netrients will just keep on movin down through the soil till they are out of reach of your plant roots.
I know that aint a tidy way of gardening, but is nature very tidy all the time?
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Post by jack on Mar 5, 2007 3:34:14 GMT -6
Gidday
Well I know I am more than a bit unconventional but I reckon you should hoe or till or whatever you call it, the cover crop intoonly the surface couple of inches of soil. It is then best to plant straigh away into the soil so that the cover crop is still decomposing while your cabbages etc. are growing.
You do not need to add any nitrogen and don't add any lime and the higher acididty may slow the growth down a bit but your cabbages etc, will be hugely more good for you.
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Post by jack on Jan 16, 2007 12:18:46 GMT -6
Gidday
At the risk of sounding like a cracked record, cover the soil with organic matter. You say it is on a slope, then that makes it even more important. Not only will the rain stirr the soil and disolve the nutrients when it lands, but running off the slope will excellerate the rate that things get moved off. If you see any movement of silt, then you will get the idea as the amount of loss will be thousand time more than you see, cos you caint see what is disolved and silt is just what's too heavey to move too far.
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Post by jack on Jan 15, 2007 12:16:49 GMT -6
Gidday
Cover the soil with organic matter. That is the most important thing to do.
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Post by jack on Jan 15, 2007 3:29:55 GMT -6
Gidday
Very well said Phil. As long as you can build up plenty of humus you won't have much of a problem.
Do your bit by building up the carbon cycle in your soil and then that extra carbon you have in your garden not only holds the nutrients in the soil but gets the carbon outa the air as well.
But you don't need to dig your compost down deep, as the soil life, like worms and micro biology will do that a hellava lot better than you. The grass clipping and any other green material are better on the or just under surface. They take nitrogen outa the soil to decompose then replace it later with heaps more, but if they are only on the surface they are only in contact with a very thin layer so very little nitrogen is taken out the soil.
The other very good reason to keep the surface of the soil covered with vegetable matter is that is will protect the soil from the falling rain so the rain drops won't disolve the soil particles and your leaching will be very much reduced.
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Post by jack on Jan 11, 2007 12:30:30 GMT -6
Gidday
Well I don't think you need both lime and wood ash as both are very alkali and could stuff up your PH.
There would be very little nitrogen in leaves because they have all dried out but the leaf mould would have from the bacterial action after the decomposition.
Why not just mulch all your garden in the leaves and let them break down there to save the double handling?
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Post by jack on Dec 9, 2006 5:06:58 GMT -6
Gidday
Go for it Old Bear. It should be real good. Of course, if you want an easier way you could set up some straw bales to garden in.
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Post by jack on Sept 17, 2006 13:42:16 GMT -6
Gidday
Well if your tomatos didn't set any fruit then it would appear that you had way too much nitrogen and not enough potash.
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Post by jack on Aug 8, 2006 13:23:20 GMT -6
Gidday
From what I gather, your growing season is just about drawing to an end and just aboiut to start down here.
What I am going to do is try to grow some toematoes by my tank stand this year. It is where the wife had a bit of a garden that the weeds won in so I will go right through the whole process. I think this being an area with fair solid clay and stones it should be a good ecample.
I did post it on another thread when I first come here in "Couldn't resist joining" reply 10, so in the meantime have another look at that.
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Post by jack on Aug 8, 2006 0:35:16 GMT -6
Gidday
I don't know where you are or how far from anywhere they grow grain, but if you can get you hands on some small square bales of straw you can grow straigh in the bales above the soil and when it's done you will have compost to dig in. It does work great, but you have to be able to get the bales of staw first, so if you can get some, let's know and I will guide you through how to do it.
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Post by jack on Nov 15, 2006 12:11:17 GMT -6
Gidday
O.K., yes Ceresone, you are so right. When I answered I was sticking too much to the question which was CAN I till and the answer to that is yes, but I agree with you the better option is probably to just plant through it and let the worms do the tilling.
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