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South Australia - January 2002 |
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7th |
I
planted six seeds of the Yates ‘Ecstasy’ double sunflowers two month
ago in a hot part of Annie’s cottage garden. Two seeds per planting hole
and roughly a metre apart. Well are they a picture right now. At least
sixty flowers in the clump 1 and a half metres tall, covered in enormous
golden double blooms and absolutely defiant of the heat |
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14th
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There are two Mediterranean fruit fly outbreaks
in the Adelaide metropolitan are at present at Millswood and Walkerville,
with most likely source being fruit entry from Western Australia. If you
suspect fruit fly due to any sort of maggot in your fruit ring the 24 hour
hotline 8269 4500 and place some of the infected fruit in a sealed container
by your front door.
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21st |
The
young members of our family report recently having seen a program on
television about a prominent ‘US footballer’ who has been using the
miracle herb "Brahmi" to cure some brain damage, incurred
playing sport and apparently the results have been sensational. Now I’d
reported this earlier in this column so it’s only reasonable to expand
on its reported memory retention characteristics.
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28th
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Have you noticed the brown edges on your older
rose leaves lately? They are the result of too much fertilizer that causes
the leaves to burn due to the effect of drying soil. Also known as salt
toxicity, it’s common after a sustained bout of hot weather.
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