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- Unley City Council residents have a double blue 110 litre mobile garbage
bin (MGB) for household rubbish and use a grey 240 litre MGB for green
organics, so there’s no excuse for not putting all your leaves, prunings,
weeds etc. out for the UCC leaf cruncher fortnightly collection. Many other
Councils in and around Adelaide also have similar collections these days
too. Well so what you ask?
- It’s good to see Council’s doing something about reducing greenhouse
gases, which is mostly methane to us plebs, when it’s buried in landfill.
The green organicsthey collect will be windrow-composted to get the carbon
element fixed in Planet Earth’s carbon sink. Some recalcitrant councils
still need to get serious about green organics and recycling and stop their
plastic bags from blowing all over the eastern suburbs and into waterways
and gutters and we’ll be the greenest region in SA.
- On greenhouse gases, our lawn clippings in landfill, make up one third of
all greenhouse gases, another third is from your car while cows make up the
rest belching and farting their way through the day.
- I’ve got an old 240 litre MGB (from when I had to pay for it in Mitcham
CC, that Unley’s waste contractor refuses to collect, so I’ve turned it
into a really salubrious worm farm, with a few lengths of PVC and a tap to
drain the wormilizer water from the bottom.
- It’s now safe to plant early season tomato seed and seedlings into small
holding pots and provide some frost protection. These are then planted out
next month. Last known frost day is 18th August for Kent Town and
most of this area, that’s when air temperatures drop to 2.2ºC and frost
can form on the ground.
- Curl-leaf is appearing on some Peaches and Nectarines at present,
especially where humidity is high. That diminishes fruit set, so you need to
spray with a fungistatic fungicide like copper oxychloride, then follow up
with a film of PestOil™. After a week, pluck off the effected curly leaves
and spray again with copper oxychloride. At this time of year, the new
leaves emerge quickly and you need those two sprays to gain control.
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