I like the folded end option as it makes it easy to flush the pipe through if required. A 13mm tap would do the same job.
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Yeah I’m not flushing mine. It is pretty ghetto.
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Are you even doing a project if you only go to Bunnings once?
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No, no you are not.
Maybe consider this:
I use secateurs and it is a pretty inadequate and shoddy way to cut the pipe.
I probably would’ve used my craft knife, but this looks a lot safer.
I think I accidentally killed the tomato plants that self-seeded, so I am sitting on my hands to stop myself from trying to plant anything I actually want to grow until after I get this irrigation laid. It’s only for this year if the renovation goes ahead, but good practice for the year after. I plan on pulling up any affected irrigation to reuse it.
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On the weekend I helped with some work at the orchard, building a retaining wall out of bluestone. It encompass an area yet to be planted out in bulbs like these Glads.
Netted some fruit trees that should have been done earlier and found plenty of Cox Orange Pippins.
Today I went out and picked up a dozen bamboo stakes for the Sultana grapes for a mere $2 for the lot, bargain!
And at home it’s been raining for two days, so now that the rains stopped I managed to get out and pick some berries.
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Berries look delish.
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Would any US folks be interested in a seed swap?
It occurs to me that no way is my garden org going to have theirs this year. Last year it was a week before lockdown - and is always a free for all with lots of people in an enclosed space.
I am also realizing that my seed catalogs seem to be casualties of the USPS problems; usually I’d have gotten a few by now and I have NONE. Boooo.
Anyway, if folks are interested, maybe a separate thread? I have no idea how it should be organized though, beyond people posting here’s what I have, here’s what I need?
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I’d be interested.
Me too!
I’m going through my FedCo catalogue and I have two questions:
- the soil I bought last summer was really dense and clay-y. I’m cheap enough that I don’t want to replace it all, so I was going to buy compost/amendments to mix in. Any tips for what to choose?
- I’m renting and don’t want to dig up the front yard, so I’m doing container gardening. Is it a good idea to mulch containers? My front yard is blasted by sun from like 11 am to 8 pm so I was watering every day. Would mulching help?
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Maybe some Gypsum to break up the clay, or fine bark to mix through the potting mix so it’s not so dense?
Mulch for pots is a good idea.
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This made me happy.
That’s a grapevine caterpillar parasitised by a wasp with the eggs showing as the yellow balls on its back.
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It’s about time for me to get tomato starts going. So now I have to decide which tomatoes to do. Do I bother with the ones that maybe died because they weren’t good for the climate or maybe were just in a less ideal part of the yard?
I think some of them got way too little shade. Full sun here often means completely clear ultra intense all summer sun.
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We are starting tomato seeds this weekend too. Only in the new baby mayhem I just left the seeds we saved open on the kitchen bench for 6 months. 
they are ok.
I’m a two chances kind of person. I’d give them the best chance this season and then resign them if they fail.
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YAASSSS!!!
I have also started tomato seeds recently. I have planted three varieties of cherry tomatoes:
- TOMATO CHERRY 'Baby Red Pear' seeds – Boondie Seeds
- TOMATO CHERRY 'Pink Ping Pong' seeds – Boondie Seeds
- TOMATO 'Cherry Roma' / Mini Roma seeds – Boondie Seeds
I fully expect the crop to fail due to other priorities - but you’ve gotta keep trying.
I wonder how they’re doing actually…we’ve had consistent rain the last 4 days.
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