08-10-2003 07:36									#61
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse Well as I mentioned the vegetable patch is coming. Now that I've got that compost heap going we can look at putting a vegetable garden in. The boys, to my surprise, are quite interested in growing some veges. Its the right time of year to make a start.

Yep. Ideal time. Knock over those fruit trees nearest the compost heap and get on with it. And I hope Mrs Horse has already turned that seedling in the kitchen window. Transplant it when it gets to about 4 inches and it's nice and sturdy. Unlike the other one, it will need serious staking. Tomato stakes are dead cheap at the local nursery.

quote: Chooks would be another possibility except for the heightened rodent and snake risk. Having the second most poisonous snake in the world common around the neighbourhood is a bit of constraint.

Invite Sneak. Tie him to a stake just outside the chook pen.

	08-10-2003 08:15									#62
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I think we can keep our fruit trees and have a vegetable garden too.

We also get foxes.

	08-10-2003 08:32									#63
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finbar sure is into vegetables. He reminds me of...who was it that said "vegetable rights and peace!"?

	08-10-2003 08:42									#64
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse I think we can keep our fruit trees and have a vegetable garden too.

Just have to watch the shade and the roots.

quote: We also get foxes.

Mmmmmm. Foxes + Chooks = fat foxes and enough feathers to stuff a mattress.

	08-10-2003 08:45									#65
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quote: Originally posted by Caligastia finbar sure is into vegetables. He reminds me of...who was it that said "vegetable rights and peace!"?

Never heard of it and I have no idea what it means.

Vegie growing is great therapy. I have an excuse to escape from the computer to prowl the garden. There's also nothing nicer than stuff fresh from the garden. Haven't bought salad makings in several years. I had a massive crop of peas this year. Taste a freshly-picked pea and you'd never eat frozen peas again.

So what are you growing in your apartment's windowbox?

	09-10-2003 01:20									#66
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Apparently, all that time stuck in a car with an overheated dog, combined with the unenviable yet familiar experience of being a human jungle gym for disease ridden and smelling of poo children, has made my man Finbar a bit surly.

I can't say I'm not flattered to be the sudden subject of your gibes and gamboles, sir, however, I must emphasize that I am not the common rube you would encounter here, unaccustomed and unprepared to duel verbally with such a towering intellect as your own.

Bear in mind that I have weathered the unfettered verbal ministrations of the best the Catholic church has to offer, both in the form of sexless, frustrated nuns and oversexed, vicious, Jesuit priests. Toss in an overachieving older sibling, a type A parent, my current employer, and the various pretenders to the throne here on the net, and I feel I am well prepared for whatever onslaught an addled and enfeebled epistoler such as yourself can muster--between sessions of muttering in dirt, that is.

In short, do your best, for, in the end, I will most assuredly cut you down so low that whaleshit on the bottom of the ocean will look like fleecy white clouds from where you're standing.

	09-10-2003 01:37									#67
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quote: Originally posted by finbar Never heard of it and I have no idea what it means.

I was quoting Neil the hippie from "The Young Ones".

quote: Vegie growing is great therapy. I have an excuse to escape from the computer to prowl the garden. There's also nothing nicer than stuff fresh from the garden. Haven't bought salad makings in several years. I had a massive crop of peas this year. Taste a freshly-picked pea and you'd never eat frozen peas again. So what are you growing in your apartment's windowbox?

We have a small balcony with some boxes attached to the railing that we grew a few wildflowers in. They came up pretty fast, but their roots were too exposed due to my wife not putting enough soil in when she planted them (I told her!).

Here is what they looked like when the shoots were first coming up.

	09-10-2003 04:09									#68
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quote: Originally posted by SuperSneak Apparently, all that time stuck in a car with an overheated dog, combined with the unenviable yet familiar experience of being a human jungle gym for disease ridden and smelling of poo children, has made my man Finbar a bit surly. I can't say I'm not flattered to be the sudden subject of your gibes and gamboles, sir, however, I must emphasize that I am not the common rube you would encounter here, unaccustomed and unprepared to duel verbally with such a towering intellect as your own. Bear in mind that I have weathered the unfettered verbal ministrations of the best the Catholic church has to offer, both in the form of sexless, frustrated nuns and oversexed, vicious, Jesuit priests. Toss in an overachieving older sibling, a type A parent, my current employer, and the various pretenders to the throne here on the net, and I feel I am well prepared for whatever onslaught an addled and enfeebled epistoler such as yourself can muster--between sessions of muttering in dirt, that is. In short, do your best, for, in the end, I will most assuredly cut you down so low that whaleshit on the bottom of the ocean will look like fleecy white clouds from where you're standing.

Yep. All the hallmarks of a Trabant driver.

	09-10-2003 04:13									#69
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quote: Originally posted by Caligastia I was quoting Neil the hippie from "The Young Ones".

How could I have forgotten?

quote: but their roots were too exposed due to my wife not putting enough soil in when she planted them (I told her!).

Tell me about it. Mrs finar planted some native shrubs in containers at the bottom of our garden. There's more rock than soil down there, so containers were the go. I did suggest to her that one of the containers was too shallow for the job. Four weeks later, sure enough, the shrub was cactus. Botanically metaphorically speaking.

	09-10-2003 06:52									#70
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quote: Originally posted by finbar How could I have forgotten?

Classic stuff.

quote: Tell me about it. Mrs finar planted some native shrubs in containers at the bottom of our garden. There's more rock than soil down there, so containers were the go. I did suggest to her that one of the containers was too shallow for the job. Four weeks later, sure enough, the shrub was cactus. Botanically metaphorically speaking.

It took a little longer for ours to die. The wildflowers were pretty hardy. They grew like mad for a couple of months, then turned into dry husks.

	09-10-2003 07:10									#71
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You're much more tolerable on gardening than race.

	09-10-2003 07:14									#72
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This thread is really hard to read with you on ignore. Especially since I am too lazy to click the read ignored post buttons.

Can't even remember why you are on ignore.

So when will you host Dave?

	09-10-2003 07:17									#73
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse You're much more tolerable on gardening than race.

Don't click on race threads then.

	09-10-2003 10:20									#74
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quote: Originally posted by Caligastia They grew like mad for a couple of months, then turned into dry husks.

Story of my life, really.

	09-10-2003 10:38									#75
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you could just go to the shop and buy some.

	09-10-2003 14:33									#76
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quote: Originally posted by finbar Mmmm. My smilies work. Why don't yours?

The day I posted, the smilies were not displayed.

	09-10-2003 14:47									#77
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Oh Jeez ... they're working again!

	09-10-2003 16:21									#78
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Anyone have ideas for what to do with a ****-load of walnuts? Apparently, the things that have been falling out of the trees like an arty barrage are small walnuts. I've been chucking them out and letting the dogs eat em but now that I've looked at them proper and know what they are ........?

	09-10-2003 18:20									#79
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You should be able to find something to do with them here.

	09-10-2003 20:02									#80
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What, no recipe for sauteed walnuts in walnut oil and a trout walnutdine sauce?

You're slipping, Fin.

	09-10-2003 21:22									#81
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I think they'll work out well in banana nut and fruitcakes (although I didnt like the recipe on that site). I've also got figs, plums, and grapes but no veggies. The last tomatoes I planted got blasted by a severe southern thunderstorm followed by 100 degrees F temps. Needless to say they didnt make it.

	10-10-2003 08:25									#82
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quote: Originally posted by SpencerH The last tomatoes I planted got blasted by a severe southern thunderstorm followed by 100 degrees F temps. Needless to say they didnt make it.

There's always next season. I've got half a dozen varieties in the ground at the moment - flowers just starting - and another dozen or so varieties to get going over the next couple of months.

	10-10-2003 08:43									#83
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I don't want to needlessly alarm you fin but its, um, snowing down here today.

I checked the plants were still alive as at 8.30am this morning.

	10-10-2003 10:04									#84
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Cover them up!

	11-10-2003 01:17									#85
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And still no pictures of The Finbar family (though I already know the most important member, Dermott)...

	12-10-2003 10:46									#86
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that is his family

	12-10-2003 15:03									#87
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I have seen the pictures, at last!



These pictures confirm what I already thought, Dermott is a real killer beast... the Ultimate Hunter.

Finbar, you could have at least trained Dermott to keep those kids at bay.

	12-10-2003 19:23									#88
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quote: Originally posted by Tamerlin Finbar, you could have at least trained Dermott to keep those kids at bay.

I did! I trained him to hate kids as much as I do! Only he's very disobedient!

	13-10-2003 03:28									#89
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quote: Originally posted by finbar I did! I trained him to hate kids as much as I do! Only he's very disobedient!

I have heard that once dogs have tasted some sheep's blood they become addicted to it and will kill them by tens... Do you think it could work with kids?

	13-10-2003 04:46									#90
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Only very woolly ones crawling on all-fours while bleating.