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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #435 on: January 12, 2013, 09:55:36 pm »
They'll be amazing, dede!  A good job with the piping, too.  Possums are our most pesky perpetrators - cute but create a lot of carnage . .!! ;D

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #436 on: January 12, 2013, 10:04:42 pm »
Mandi you have been working hard - good workout but of course you would be aching using muscles you haven't been using lately.  I can understand your thinking about a cigarette after all the work was done but think of it this way, you probably couldn't have done all that work if you had still been smoking  ;)  Well done, the pests attempts to do damage to your new beds will be thwarted by that great structure you have assembled. Would love to see a photo down the track when the beds are in full growth.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #437 on: January 12, 2013, 10:10:50 pm »
The main reason I'm using bird netting is to keep the chooks out. Oh and cats as well. We don't have problems with possums here thank goodness :)
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #438 on: January 13, 2013, 03:38:35 am »


Done. ;D, added another bale of pea straw per tank, half a bag of sheep poo per tank, blood and bone, 1/2 meter of compost that I had delivered. 6 bags of organic compost and 2 bags of sugar cane mulch. They finally all full. ;D
Have planted a zucchini, cucumber, spring onions, leek, silver beet, broccoli, cauliflower and lettuce.

Kids enjoyed helping me, DH came home and was shocked that I finished them. :)
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #439 on: January 13, 2013, 03:41:02 am »
An absolutely awesome effort, dede!  With that mixture the plants will be leaping up and out in no time at all!!   ;D ;D

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #440 on: January 13, 2013, 03:43:52 am »
I told the kids that we will have the best veggies in the world with everything in the tanks :)
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #441 on: January 13, 2013, 04:28:26 am »
Fantastic job Mandi, when you start a job you really do get on with it don't you?
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #442 on: January 13, 2013, 04:32:34 am »
when you start a job you really do get on with it don't you?

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #443 on: January 13, 2013, 04:33:01 am »
I try to Judy. I don't like stretching it out over weeks. And I'm a real impatient person :D
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #444 on: January 13, 2013, 04:34:47 am »
I have learnt a lot of skills from being impatient over the years. I don't like waiting for someone to do it for me, so I just do it myself. :)
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #445 on: January 13, 2013, 04:44:21 am »
Wow Mandi, great job!
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #446 on: January 13, 2013, 05:02:15 am »
They look great Dede, a great job

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #447 on: January 13, 2013, 06:32:22 am »
I thought my zuchini plants were dead, look what I picked today, & theres more
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #448 on: January 13, 2013, 06:47:12 am »
we have bird netting over our veges too, like a shed, but with netting.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #449 on: January 13, 2013, 08:15:34 am »
Nice looking Zucchinis Halex. Hope mine grow that well. Between my family and all my birds we go through a lot of veggies all year round :)
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