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- Two weeks ago I mentioned how the "Snail Vine" Vigna
carracalla did not set seed in Adelaide, well two readers have got a
small seed set, at Melrose Park and Clapham. Both in full sun and not a
regular event. Well done folks!
- With so much mild weather and the ‘Cockies’ crying out for
cereal-sowing rain, it would be prudent to keep an eye on soil moisture. I’ve
been watering Annie’s cottage garden twice a week the past few weeks, the
vegetable garden weekly and containers almost daily, especially if they are
in full sun.
- I must tell you how well the Nemesia ‘Caberet’™ seedlings are doing.
This new cultivar really loves our mild autumn and unlike the usual Nemesia
varieties, it flowers well without the really cold weather. I have them
growing on rich compost as well as our usual clay and they are thriving and
flowering from quite small plants, while the Poppies do nothing (just yet).
- Bloody "Sour-sobs" are pushy little bastards aren’t they? I
reckon they could push up a slab of concrete and they certainly have no
trouble with gravel, I’ve discovered. They laugh at Roundup™ and No-Grow™
and even MCPA-Dicamba, takes at least three weeks to make a dent. Then they
shoot again anyhow. I’m told Paraquat is effective, but it’s also a
schedule 7 "Dangerous Poison", which I wouldn’t use. You please
yourself!
- If you wonder what happened to the S5, S6 and S7 labels that used to
appear on home garden toxic chemicals, but don’t any longer, it seems we
have a new system, based on a New Zealand model. ‘Tell ‘em nothing’
and labels now use nebulous descriptions like "Caution" which is
to alert you to the fact you have a schedule 5 poison in your hands at the
supermarket, or "Poison" to describe the old S6 and of course
"Dangerous Poison" = S7 buried deep in mountains of text
(frequently concealed inside the packaging) is supposed to alert you to the
fact that the contents are so toxic they should not be on offer to a home
gardener.
- These are the recommendations of a Senate inquiry into labelling on
Agricultural & Veterinary products five years ago. Time to write to a
Senator?
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