permaculture, chooks & stuff in the Samford Valley (Queensland)
Posted in weather on Oct 31st, 2009
Monday (26th), the mini-drought in Brisbane did break, 53mm of delicious rain fell here and we’ve been able to throw away the chlorophyll-tinted glasses we had all taken to wearing.
Great news…..but of course rain never falls in an egalitarian fashion with places like Rockhampton still desperate for a good fall – can’t be too far [...]
Just a simple thing….. finding an unusual frog while digging up potatoes this afternoon.
Still a little pleasure, that I surely wouldn’t have been able to enjoy had I been using any toxic sprays in the vegetable garden.
My first thought was that it was a baby cane toad, however although it was somewhat toad-like, it had [...]
Posted in vegetables, weeds on Jul 25th, 2009
It was a good day today – I finally got to start putting one of those rash eBay purchases (that I’m occasionally guilty of) to good use. I’m talking about a few hundred second hand retaining wall blocks – seemed like a great idea at the time!
This morning my wife muttered something about the fridge [...]
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