Water Issues
#181
Rocket Scientist
Joined: Aug 2003
Location: Dreamland AKA Brisbane which is a different country to the UK
Posts: 6,911
Re: Water Issues
I'm not sure that will happen. People tend to vote out old governments rather than vote in new ones, (if that makes sense ) and I don't think Johnny has done anything bad enough to be voted out.
People here haven't forgotten that Kevin Rudd voted down water infrastructure measures years ago.
Jane
People here haven't forgotten that Kevin Rudd voted down water infrastructure measures years ago.
Jane
#183
Rocket Scientist
Joined: Aug 2003
Location: Dreamland AKA Brisbane which is a different country to the UK
Posts: 6,911
Re: Water Issues
We're good, having a quiet weekend at home which doesnt happen very often now, usually busy doing something, but I decided to drop in & check my PMs the other day since I hadn't been on. How's things with you, it's been so dry, how's your garden going, hope you havent lost too much stuff because of the lack of rain? Having the tank must be a lifesaver, my roses etc have all died, even the natives that we planted & we've put all our garden plans on hold, it's depressing .
#184
Re: Water Issues
We're good, having a quiet weekend at home which doesnt happen very often now, usually busy doing something, but I decided to drop in & check my PMs the other day since I hadn't been on. How's things with you, it's been so dry, how's your garden going, hope you havent lost too much stuff because of the lack of rain? Having the tank must be a lifesaver, my roses etc have all died, even the natives that we planted & we've put all our garden plans on hold, it's depressing .
Jane
p.s. when I say we, I mean Jim. I just supervise.
#185
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,066
Re: Water Issues
We've planted mostly water tolerant plants so haven't lost too much. Lost our potatoes over Christmas because we went back to the UK for 5 weeks and Jim didn't set up irrigation for them. I love new potatoes and you don't get them here, really. We'll try again next year, the 5 we had were yummy . We haven't planted any grass because we didn't see the point. We just have mulch everywhere. If we didn't have piles of sand and gravel and wooden pallets out the front, the garden would look quite nice.
Jane
p.s. when I say we, I mean Jim. I just supervise.
Jane
p.s. when I say we, I mean Jim. I just supervise.
http://www.humeseeds.com/potato.htm
You also can plant potatoes under black plastic. Cut open a piece of the black plastic, and plant a potato piece. The potato tubers will develop as they would in the open ground. However, the tubers that develop close to the surface of the soil are shaded by the black plastic and should not develop the green inedible portions that often are found on other tubers. The black plastic also will aid in controlling weeds.
There's also an interesting bit about growing in tires in there as well.
#189
Re: Water Issues
Our pumpkins are growing well, though. Only trouble is, we only like them in soup so now we've got a pumpkin mountain.
Jane
#190
Victorian Evangelist
Joined: Sep 2005
Location: Melbourne, by the beach, living the dream.
Posts: 7,704
Re: Water Issues
Buzzy