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Post by jack on May 13, 2012 4:01:25 GMT -6
Gidday
We use loads of parsley. I often put thyme in most things too and rosemary in our mutton roasts ofter too.
"roesmary is a wild nutrient boost period."
Scuse my ignorance but what do you mean by that?
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Post by jack on May 11, 2012 14:05:16 GMT -6
gidday
Free always costs something cos nothing is really free Eh!
What sorta trees are those?
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Post by jack on May 2, 2012 16:02:18 GMT -6
Gidday
I am very openly admitting that I am an untidy gardener. I do it as a deliberate policy because I have always noticed that nature is also very untidy and just drops it's litter wherever it falls or blows and I try to garden as naturally as possible.
Like when I pick my veges for my evening dinner I simply cut the, say cabbage that I want and trimm off all the outside leaves and let them lay and when I pull my carrots I rip the tops off and let them drop to whence they came.
O.K. I know I could put them into the compost but my argument is that nature does not like bare soil. Besides, I know I can make good compost but no way can I make it as good as the Good Lord can and He makes his compost on the surface of the soil by using worms, fungi and bacteria from the soil and the result is a much healthier soil. And another advantage is that the slash from the veges also works as a mulch to suppress weeds.
I am lazy yes, and when it comes to weeds I don't attack them as often as I should but once again I only cut them off and let them lie where they are for the same reason.
So YES I AM A UNTIDY AND LAZY GARDENER but at least I have a good reason.
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Post by jack on May 2, 2012 4:53:22 GMT -6
Gidday
I AM A LAZY GARDENER.
I suggest that you just tell them the truth, you must do it all or don't bother doing anything.
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Post by jack on Apr 29, 2012 3:27:29 GMT -6
Gidday
Garden Happy, I must apologize to you cos somehow I have missed this thread till now. I sure believe that I have never seen a more fitting name because you sure are happy and it's gardening that does it to you.
I have been sitting here reading this thread with tears in my eyes, just amazed at what you seen to be acheiving. Good onya mate.
I too use seaweed. I wait till there has been a bit of a sytorm and there is heaps of seaweed on the beach then go down on my tractor with a couple of 44 gallon drums on and almost fill them with the seaweed then they are topped up with water and just left, for ages, sometimes many months. I then just throw the tea onto the garden ans hose it off the leaves cos sometimes it is too strong otherwise. It's all simple but seems to work for me so simple and it works sos I aint gonig to change.
Garden Happy, God bless you and all that you are doing.
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Post by jack on Apr 23, 2012 19:29:46 GMT -6
Gidday Well this is the sorta thing that is happening down here and we used to have one of the best health systems in the world. ******************************************************** "Shortly after Skylah received her vaccination injections in August 2007 she developed flu-like symptoms. Ms Pupuke gave her Pamol but, by August 19, her cough had a high pitch and she had diarrhoea. The next day she took Skylah to Waitangirua Health Centre, where the baby was diagnosed as having bronchiolitis and continued paracetamol was prescribed. Later that afternoon, she developed a high temperature and was bleeding from the nose. Her mother took her to the emergency department at Kenepuru Hospital, but the doctor was not concerned, again diagnosing bronchiolitis. In the following days, Skylah remained very sick and continued to lose weight. On August 29, Ms Pupuke again took her to Waitangirua Health Centre, where she was seen by locum Dr Nguyen. Skylah was dehydrated, had severe diarrhoea, was pale and losing weight. www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/6795172/Dying-baby-sent-home-three-times |
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Post by jack on Apr 23, 2012 4:41:32 GMT -6
Gidday
Well that joker Bill Gates reckons he is going to lower the world population through inocculations.
You thought that was for savin people didn't, not for reducung the numbers(killin)
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Post by jack on Apr 20, 2012 3:37:09 GMT -6
Gidday Now I am not going to cut and past this whole article because it is very long and fairly heavey reading. I have often wondered why when I was a boy there was bugger all cancer that anyone knew of then suddenly from the late 1950's onward there was a huge surge in cancer cases and it continues to skyrocket right through to today. Well this explains some of it anyway. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Simian virus 40 (SV40), an agent that infects Asian macaques, contaminated the early poliovirus vaccines used in the United States, Europe, and other regions during the late 1950s and early 1960s (1). SV40 was discovered in 1960 (2), and evidence of its oncogenicity in rodents was reported in 1961 (3). That same year, the U.S. government required that all newly manufactured poliovirus vaccine be free of SV40. However, previously produced vaccine was not removed from the mass immunization program and, considering its possible storage for up to 1 year and its 6-month shelf life, SV40-contaminated poliovirus vaccine was likely in widespread use in the United States from the start of the mass immunization program in 1955 through 1963 (1). jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/95/1/38.long@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Some experts argue that wild virus polio rarely causes paralysis and was declining on its own before the Salk vaccine (http://www.vaclib.org/basic/polio.htm). Ironically, the Salk vaccine contained SV-40 (Simeon virus 40) associated with cancer's surge since the 1950s. Learn more: www.naturalnews.com/035627_polio_....l#ixzz1sZSO9mZuRead more: www.kiwioldies.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=582#ixzz1sZVtgPGo |
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Post by jack on Apr 11, 2012 1:29:35 GMT -6
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Post by jack on Apr 11, 2012 1:05:41 GMT -6
Gidday
Sprinklers for frosts?
We have been told that you are having unusual hot weather.
Are we being led to down the global warming parth or is your weather as patchy as ours can be?
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Post by jack on Apr 10, 2012 3:21:53 GMT -6
Gidday But if you ask me ... Peanut butter loaded trap is the only way to actually RID them  Well it aint worked on the little bugger that has taken up lodgings with us. |
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Post by jack on Apr 9, 2012 20:49:14 GMT -6
Gidday
Thanks mate. I know that after thise few days away I don't seem to worry bout the fact that I am now in me 70's
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Post by jack on Apr 9, 2012 3:42:02 GMT -6
Gidday  After a good look around Matakanui we headed up over Thompsons Track which goes over the Dunstan range. And down where that smoke is coming from is a small modern gold workings where they are getting aluvial gold.  Though some fairly rugged country  To the little sheepherds hut that was build by the council for the sheep and cattle drovers way back in 1908.  And we even signed a visitors book.  But I had to wonder how long ago the fireplace was used by a drover.  and we headed over the next ridge  and down to some old gold workings   and the old stamper battery.  and we continued on to Bendigo where I was a bunny hunter on the bunny baord back in 1970.  then up to another ghost town called Welshtown.    All this sure was a great distraction and I don't feel another day older. |
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Post by jack on Apr 9, 2012 3:23:13 GMT -6
Gidday  Now the next day we headed down to Omakau and then up to the old ghost town of Matakanui.  There's the old library  Hotel  Stable  Store and managers house   And we even got inside to have a look around.  and there was the old cash book for the store too. |
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Post by jack on Apr 9, 2012 3:05:44 GMT -6
Gidday again   We carried on up the lake  Past Glenorchy   Through some bush  and further up the river  To a place called Paradise and it aint too far wrong neither.   Then we went passed Paradise and further into the mountains.  We had to ford a few streams  Under more mountains  And right to the end of the road.  and on the way back I did a bit of tree hugging with an old Totara tree. |
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Post by jack on Apr 9, 2012 2:44:17 GMT -6
Gidday again. The next day which was my actual useby date, you know, four score years and ten, such is the time allotted to men, as the old saying goes.  We headed up the Kawarau Gorge,   Under the Nevis bluff and then  Passed the Gibson Valley vinyards.  and the famous bridge where Hackett throws people off.   and in to Arrowtown.  Where the trees are starting to turn.  Then we headed up the Wakatipu  Where we found a nice place for lunch. |
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Post by jack on Apr 9, 2012 2:26:44 GMT -6
Gidday Last week I passed my useby date so we went on a commiseration distraction couple of days away.  We stopped off at the Blue Lake then went on up to St. Bathans.  Where we had a drink in the Vulcan Hotel   And had a bit of a walk around the old town. Then we went on to Cromwell where we stay a couple of nights with our friends in their holiday home. |
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Post by jack on Apr 9, 2012 2:00:16 GMT -6
Gidday
Methinks that you should be pretty happy there mate.
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Post by jack on Apr 6, 2012 19:13:32 GMT -6
Gidday
Down here we have more troble with the little buggers in the Autumn,(Fall)
They try to come inside for the warmth before winter. Snd the cat don't help by catchin them and bringing them in to play with then losing them inside.
I don't think I will want any soup when I come to visit you mate.
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Post by jack on Apr 2, 2012 2:23:50 GMT -6
Gidday
Can I ask what is probably a silly question.
What is the PVC pipe with the holes in it up the centre of the drum for?
If it is just for aerating it why not just drill small holes in the drum?
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Post by jack on Mar 29, 2012 2:21:17 GMT -6
Gidday
Hey thanks Y'all.
Had a great time.
Will post a few pics when I get myself back together.
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Post by jack on Mar 24, 2012 0:19:35 GMT -6
Gidday Never heard of the arthritis index. What is it ? I would think it would be sore. |
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Post by jack on Mar 24, 2012 0:17:47 GMT -6
Gidday
Little old me way down under is confused again. You started this thread March 6.
Now methought that yall up there were different to us down here, like I thought blackberries were harvested in the autumn or as you say fall and that is what it is here so shouldn't you be having spring.
I have lately been thinking about going and trying to find blackberries when I get a chance in a few days time.
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Post by jack on Mar 21, 2012 3:45:08 GMT -6
Gidday
I should have known he would be a friend of yours cos he makes good tucker.
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Post by jack on Mar 19, 2012 2:37:21 GMT -6
Gidday
Electric fences have been used for everything from snails to elephants so you could try one for deer.
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Post by jack on Mar 18, 2012 3:12:19 GMT -6
Gidday
Try a .3030
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Post by jack on Mar 10, 2012 3:26:43 GMT -6
Gidday
Actually Spuds the gear I talked about is a hand piece that is driven mechanically from above through a tube and it is fitted with a comb that does like any comb and moves on the skin through the wool and on it is a smaller cutter that is driven left to right etc. and cuts the wool that comes down the teeth of the comb.
A comb will normally last a full run but a cutter may only last 15 minutes then has to be changed. It is these things that have to be resharpened so often. Wool is a brilliant product and for the equivilent thickness is about as hard to cut as steel. But that can be made way worse if there is much dust on the wool too because that can mean that sometimes the gear will only last a much shorter time so have to be changed more often and sharpened much more.
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Post by jack on Mar 9, 2012 1:40:02 GMT -6
Gidday That's some skill! I worry about their math tho. "a 9 hour day from 5 am to 5 pm"? 3 hour lunch? LOL. We often had to get up well before 4.00am and drive for up to an hour to start at 5.00am and shear for 2 hours then have breakfast. Breakfast was an hour break but in that time we would get our gear re-sharpened for the next run from 8.00am for one and three quarter hours and have a half hour break, cuppa tea and a small bit to eat. Then another run of an hour and three quarters till lunch at 12 mid day. Lunch an hour and get gear resharpened then two more runs of an hour three quarters split by half hour cuppa break and finnish at 5.00pm and once again get the gear re-sharpened for the morning run, have a bottle of beer then drive all the way home again. During the day we would drag 3 or 400 sheep in excess of a hundred pounds each out, roll them around and take the wool off them despite them not alway really wanting to co-opperate and throw them out. I assure you that it is far from easy and some have likened it to running two marrathons every day and would would often work several weeks without a day off because we would have to get as many done as possible whilst the weather was fine. |
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Post by jack on Mar 8, 2012 2:44:50 GMT -6
Gidday
And it aint easy work but by looking at them you would think it is Eh!
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Post by jack on Mar 6, 2012 1:15:18 GMT -6
Gidday
Well I was starting to think that at least you dpon't normally get aftershocks with a tornado like yiu do with an earthquake. But to have that snow, and the cold that goes with it, and probably most of your clothes blown away, my heart sure is bleeding you y'all.
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