Thrilling title, eh!
Great to be out there though, forking. Yesterday's cultivation success has inspired me to fork on to bigger and better things. Already today, I've combed out the volunteer plants from another bed and tagged it for cranberries. I've got a dozen of those growing in pots and want to set their roots into the open ground so that dry weather doesn't put them at risk. They'll go in tonight, once the sun goes down. It's a very warm day here in the South and any transplants have to be carefully managed. Once I've cooled down by sitting inside as I am now, I'll head out to clear and cultivate another garden alongside of the west wall of my house, where I'll also plant cranberries. Already the area has blueberries, red currants and raspberries, but there's room for other things as well. This afternoon, it's apple trees and their needs I'll be meeting. The crops that have set on those are huge again this year. I've black currant bushes to plant out too. Saw a fish in the spring yesterday and that was nice to see, meaning that there is still life in the creek from which it must have wriggled. I noticed too, that the kahikatea are growing strongly and straight up toward the sky. They have the straightest trunks of any of the native trees.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
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Isn't it a bit off, forking in the garden like that? What if you were seen?
Paranormal
So what do you think of Green Party activist Sam Mahon's depiction of a dead John Key Robert? Is that the kind of politics you embrace?
We'd all love to hear the answer when you're finished in the garden...
Try it, Para. You'll like it.
Inventory2 - who is John Key Robert, and how did he die?
This is ill news indeed!
I didn't even know.
I'll look into it soon, Inventory2. I have guests here, wanting a garden tour. When I've showed them around, I'll see if I can work out whether it was Mrs Peacock, with a candlestick, in the library (or not).
I take it, Rg, your non comment about the Rena is because you have been busy in your forest garden.
I've been waiting for the 6:00 news, Fred (but now see I've missed it!!)
That the oil has been removed from the Rena is most excellent news. I'm delighted that the threat to the environment has been lifted. I've a friend who was piloting one of the tugs and now that he's back here in Riverton, I'll go and have a talk with him about it all. I did speak with two of the ES staff who were seconded to help up there and their stories were very interesting indeed. Looks like I'll have to catch the delayed news in 3/4 of an hour. I got busy answering emails and wasn't watching the time...
Inv2 - thanks for the invite to share my views on the Mahon game. I've left my comments over on your blog, but in a nutshell, it doesn't interest me much. I'm not a board-game kinda guy, even though we have a collection of scores of olf-fashioned games, like 'Pit' and 'Scoop' that I have played, but I get restless :-) Pit though, is pretty cool. It's a stockmarket-y, trading sort of game.
Oil is just one of the threats to the environment posed by the Rena. It's great that most of the oil has been removed, there are still plenty of other things on the Astrolabe Reef that would not normally be found there.
Like...a ship?
Some/many of those containers are of concern, Armchair Critic, but perhaps you allude to other ills?
Just as you say in your most recent post that the green desert that is the plains of Southland, I say that the presence of a ship, or a shipwreck, on a reef leaves that reef away from its natural state. It is tens of thousands of tons of litter.
Agreed, AC. It'll be a hulk for a long time and a dirty one at that.
I get fired up about this shipwreck - it should not have happened! Just like Pike River. Remind me who was on watch for these disasters, please.
What really got me going yesterday was the announcement that all the oil was off. First thought = great. Second thought = oil isn't the only pollutant, so it's still a problem. Third thought = isn't it Maritim NZ's job to announce this, not the PM's?
I spent Sunday in the garden, too. The old silverbeet were removed, replaced with broccoli and lettuce. Another ten sq.m of raised bed were brought on line, with phlox, stock and verbena as the first inhabitants. Lots of wheebarrowing manure and forking, after an initial bout of carpentry.
"Third thought = isn't it Maritim NZ's job to announce this, not the PM's?"
Ought we to be surprised, AC?
There are some who wouldn't know what you were going on about :-)
Sunday was a great day for working the soil. So's today. I prepared a big bed for sweetcorn and I'm salivating already!
Yeah, having a PM who only turns up when there is good news to announce seems to pass a lot of people by. You should plant more kahikatea.
AC - re kahikatea, I was involved in some decision-making recently, that will aid in the restoration of an old kahikatea remnant, where funding is being sought for re-establishing the stand, with the help of the students from a nearby primary school. It's a very good project. Today, I'm going to open the canopy above my youngest kahikatea to give it a boost, following your suggestion :-) Sometimes we need encouragement and direction, eh!
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