i dont know if they have different names from place to place
not that they or i care all that much
i ll give the recipie to my mother and see what she can do about it
i grow this crop well in my area and get left over ones that i dont have room for
i cut it up an give it to my chooks as a part of their diet and all of what is left is green rings the next day
they love it :weee :ya :frow
our sheep grating has holes that are small enough to firt ur pinky in but it is heavy and designed for sheep
our shearing sheds have it really isnt all that cheap
i wold look for metal engineering shops/ workshops etc
our local one has a whole catalouge that has the different sizes of mesh he...
thin egg shells usually means that the chooks havent got enough calcium
a good form of calcium is crushed shell grit you should get from a feed store
stores well and mice will not have a go at it
if you guys need chook info then you shoul go to back yard chickens forum
really helpful info...
yer but i have read (after i posted this) that ur supose to bend the stems when they are a goood size so they die and u can let the onion stalk drie out in storage
if u have had a strange season like i have
check every now and then if the top of the onion has gone soft where the green stem starts
normally the onions fall over but on quarter of mine did
although some of the stems stayed green and did not fall over so i thought they had not matured
i...
i have good tomato plants this year and it has been a strange season
the tomato fruit has got marks on them on the top half when you look at it
the whole crop does not have the marks and mainly affected where the fruit is on the outside of the cluster of plants
the marks colour is dull white...
Are you starting to get warm weather these days? Did you have a harsh winter? I spent some time in NSW way back in the 60s and fell in love with that area.
it is starting to warm up now and it was a long weird cold winter
thanx 4 that i will now be saving water because of u people.
does dirty water influence the quality of the fruit of health or tree/ plant? is it safe if i use dirty old dog water on trees that bear fruit? does algea water applied to plants affect them? is it safe or not?
we have working dogs and i bulk feed them at every week end so their is enogh food for them. a flood cam and was only high enough to fill the containers with water and making the food a slush. can i put this on my compost? would it be bad?
got a seasol liquid fertilizer hose attachment works ok but could be bettter. does any one have a set up that controls the amount of liquid fertilizer in the flow of a tap water. dispensiong it evenly. if posssible i'll make a stationary rig that gets water pumped through fertilized and sent...
we put open ended drums around our native trees along with two posts either side of the the tree. it keeps hungry sheep and rabits out and should protect the trunks from deer. we bought them from somewhere and brought home a lot of drums. once the trees bet big enough or to big for the druum...
i make separate rows and put black plastic beetween the rows for weeds and works well. poke small holes in plastic for water penetration and covered the plastic with hay.
i would find a tractor magazine and buy a ex-golf course or something small that has a three point linkage, loader and enough horse power to drive and mow at the same time with not to much effort. replacing belts often tells me the belts are too tigh or the belt gearing is damaged so it damages...