Our hobbies other than bikes

The garden centres in NZ have taken a beating too but we have a couple of good ones near here.

Sweet basil is an annual here. We get decent frosts over winter so I plant basil with my tomatoes in late spring when the frosts are gone. Made a stupid mistake last year planting tomatos and sunflowers together. They are definitely not companion plants and the tomato's shrivelled up and died. Five minutes online and I soon discovered that's a known issue

Chives are a favourite. Often mix them with scrambled eggs for lunch.

Got a few fruit trees. Mandarins lemons, grapefruit, fejoia, apples plus a very hopeless plum which may come out. Best by far is my apple. Grapes are also up for replanting because I want a desert grape. The Wairarapa where I live is a very popular wine area specialising in super expensive Pinot Noir.

Shame about your house plants. Only one of my kids are interested in gardening and he lives in the centre of London. Manages to keep a couple of plants going in his flat but unfortunately too high up for a window box. He and I used to plant seeds for a rough cottage flower garden when he was 4 years old.

Right this moment I'm sitting in the sun at my Velo friends place. Had a small operation yesterday for a men's issue. Nothing even closely remotely as bad as the issues your dealing with but I'll get to spend a few weeks on the deck watching the garden grow. No bike riding for 4 weeks.

Take care and keep moving forward.

I had one Roma tomato bush growing in my garden a few years ago, this one plant produced so many tomato's and it kept producing more and more we got so much off it we couldn't keep up with it, Debra had to make tomato relish, over time she made 3 batches off that one bush as well having tomato's with everything we ate, never in my whole life of growing tomato's did I ever have a bush produce so much off it, it finally ran its course and the tomato relish was great with cooking.

I was just about to go do more work up in the shed, but just got a email telling my diecast cars/trucks for my layout is being delivered today between 11am and 1pm, not bad 5 days since ordering them from the UK, yet it take 5 to 6 days to get things delivered from Western Australia to the east cost to Queensland by post, anyway I just heard the postie going up the road he be here soon if they been delivered by him, I better throw on my leg just incase, 10 die cast models.

No wasn't with the postie, be coming by a delivery van, so now I got to hang around till it comes, Debra is still in bed and 1/2 the day is gone, she is a late owl and stays up into the wee wee hrs of the morning, she wasting a perfect spring day here not a cloud in the shy and its our anniversary today 36 years we got married, still no parole for me, I must be a lifer and I been a good boy, well lately anyway.

Ashley

I have 2 gardens on the go at our Artist community historic building and park in Toronto .
The past 3 days pouring 8 buckets of boiling soapy water onto the master yellojacket wasp nest nearby . Then run like hell . Great fun . They're gone .

johnm said:

Not very cool but I do like a bit of gardening.

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I should send you some Dahlias, John. My wife has a Dahlia business that I help her with.

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