Re: [gardeners] Re: Hello! and West Australia report.
Marc Winterburn (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 5 Feb 2003 23:12:11 +0800
Will do, I try anything for relief.Thanks
Kind regards
Marc Winterburn
The Oz Chilli Man
----- Original Message -----
From: lneuru <lneuru@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>
To: <gardeners@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:57 AM
Subject: RE: [gardeners] Re: Hello! and West Australia report.
> Investigate orthopedic pillows, the ones which have a curve for your head
> and take the pressure off you neck - it works its way down, eventually: I
> find all of life's trials eventually become pains in the arse. The other
> thing which helps us is a feather bed - here in Canada one can get a
feather
> topper 2-3 inches thick and it moulds to one's body, taking the stress of
> adjusting to a hard/soft/lumpy/whatever mattress off one's back. It's
also
> warmer, but I guess that's not an issue down there. I don't remove it for
> summer and we don't find it hot, BTW. Best of luck, Lucinda
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com
> [mailto:owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com]On Behalf Of Marc Winterburn
> Sent: 04 February, 2003 1:44
> To: pennyx1@juno.com
> Cc: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> Subject: [gardeners] Re: Hello! and West Australia report.
>
> Hi Penny and every one. Thanks for the thoughts.It sure is busy here at
the
> moment.
> I took delivery of 35 tonnes of chicken poo that has been composted with
> brewery waste. I also got 1.3 tonnes of sheep dag pellets ( Sabrina Hahn's
> Sheep Dags, More than just sheep poo!) to help build up the soil. I am
also
> using fish/seaweed and soil microbes to reestablish the floriculture in my
> soil. Check out the products I am using on this site.
> http://www.ecogrowth.com.au/
> I have at the moment approx 5000 plant a mix of Zucchinis, basil ,
lettuce
> , various capsicums ( Sweet Bell Peppers) and melons oh and of course
> chilies ready to plant. A lot of the plants were donated by a nursery some
> 350 kms away after they heard of my plight.
> They would normally have thrown them out but decided to gift them to me to
> help me out.
> The weather is pretty much just hot with a couple of cooler days thrown
in.
> We did get a smattering of rain on Sunday but although Perth had a really
> heavy down pour 1" in total we only got a trace.
> I am getting a little 16hp 4wd tractor with a range of implements with it
> so that should make life a lot easier. I am also looking at becoming the
> agent for a local wildflower packaging company that packages small
> mounts( home garden)
> They have a huge range and I do love my wildflowers.
> If anyone would like some WA wildflowers let me know and I can see what I
> can do. Check the West Australian wild flowers out on google of similar.
> West Oz is world renowned for its native spring displays.
> I go into hospital at months end to have the first of my carpel tunnel
> operations then the second some six weeks later. After they are done with
> they can then hopefully find whereabouts my back pain is coming from. It
> makes life very hard when you cant walk for a couple of hours in the
> mornings. I have to swallow a few painkillers and wait a while and then I
> can function. I broke my back in 1983 and it has been relatively well
> behaved up until last winter when it went again. It hasn't come right
since.
> Must away more work to do, keep up the good work everyone.
> Kind regards
> Marc Winterburn
> The Oz Chilli Man
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <pennyx1@juno.com>
> To: <marcw@iinet.net.au>
> Cc: <pennyx1@Juno.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 12:57 PM
> Subject: Hello!
>
>
> >
> > Hi there, Marc -- I've been hoping that the weather conditions in
western
> >
> > Australia had smoothed out some, but we have not heard from you --
> > this is a private message only because I wanted to send you several
> > attachments concerning the fires and flooding, and we are not allowed
> > to post them thru Gardeners...
> >
> > Did the torrential rain reach south to you? Three weeks ago I looked up
> > where you live, but right now I am not sure where the rain line fell.
> > Lancelin and Mogumbar, 50 miles north of Perth -- only I have a problem
> > placing them on the full west coast of Australia.
> >
> > Flooding in Western Australia
> > http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=5381
> >
> > No, the more I look at it, the more I realize that you must be quite a
> > ways
> > south of the rain. Have you been blessed with any at all...?
> >
> > http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=5384
> > http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=5375
> >
> > As for the fires on the east coast, they apparently rage on and on. Here
> > in
> > New York, right beside the Atlantic Ocean, we are occasionally subject
to
> >
> > dreaded hurricanes, bringing with them strong storm surges which drown
> > coastal properties and homes (my friends in Connecticut and South
> > Carolina,
> > for instance); we do periodically suffer an intense drought; we had one
> > winter about 10 years ago which brought 18 snow storms (phenominal - for
> > the norm is about 2); and we actually had a moderate earthquake about
> > 10 years ago, (epicentured only 4 miles away!) which woke us up in
> > amazement. But the usual weather pattern for New York City is very
> > moderate -- perhaps down to 20*f in winter, and up to 90* or 95* for a
> > few days only in summer. This winter IS different: -10f to -15f every
> > night for two weeks ... and everyone in the area has fallen trees,
> > myself
> > included. Nature has evidently gone nuts.
> >
> > How are the zucchini plants doing...? What else have you put in the
> > ground?
> >
> > You are welcome to reply to me directly on the Gardeners line, since I
> > know
> > so many people are really interested in your well-being ....
> >
> > Penny, NY
> >
> >
> >
> > .
> >
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