finbar visits horse or: for God's sake I hope that tomato plant survives!

[finbar]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Well as I mentioned the vegetable patch is coming. Now that I've got that compost heap going we can look at putting a vegetable garden in. The boys, to my surprise, are quite interested in growing some veges. Its the right time of year to make a start.

Yep. Ideal time. Knock over those fruit trees nearest the compost heap and get on with it. And I hope Mrs Horse has already turned that seedling in the kitchen window. Transplant it when it gets to about 4 inches and it's nice and sturdy. Unlike the other one, it will need serious staking. Tomato stakes are dead cheap at the local nursery.

Chooks would be another possibility except for the heightened rodent and snake risk. Having the second most poisonous snake in the world common around the neighbourhood is a bit of constraint.

Invite Sneak. Tie him to a stake just outside the chook pen.

[Alexander's Horse]

I think we can keep our fruit trees and have a vegetable garden too.

We also get foxes.

[Caligastia]

finbar sure is into vegetables. He reminds me of...who was it that said "vegetable rights and peace!"?

[finbar]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
I think we can keep our fruit trees and have a vegetable garden too.

Just have to watch the shade and the roots.

We also get foxes.

Mmmmmm. Foxes + Chooks = fat foxes and enough feathers to stuff a mattress.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Caligastia
finbar sure is into vegetables. He reminds me of...who was it that said "vegetable rights and peace!"?

Never heard of it and I have no idea what it means.

Vegie growing is great therapy. I have an excuse to escape from the computer to prowl the garden. There's also nothing nicer than stuff fresh from the garden. Haven't bought salad makings in several years. I had a massive crop of peas this year. Taste a freshly-picked pea and you'd never eat frozen peas again.

So what are you growing in your apartment's windowbox?

[SuperSneak]

Is that a gauntlet I hear hitting the ground?

Apparently, all that time stuck in a car with an overheated dog, combined with the unenviable yet familiar experience of being a human jungle gym for disease ridden and smelling of poo children, has made my man Finbar a bit surly.

I can't say I'm not flattered to be the sudden subject of your gibes and gamboles, sir, however, I must emphasize that I am not the common rube you would encounter here, unaccustomed and unprepared to duel verbally with such a towering intellect as your own.

Bear in mind that I have weathered the unfettered verbal ministrations of the best the Catholic church has to offer, both in the form of sexless, frustrated nuns and oversexed, vicious, Jesuit priests. Toss in an overachieving older sibling, a type A parent, my current employer, and the various pretenders to the throne here on the net, and I feel I am well prepared for whatever onslaught an addled and enfeebled epistoler such as yourself can muster--between sessions of muttering in dirt, that is.

In short, do your best, for, in the end, I will most assuredly cut you down so low that whale**** on the bottom of the ocean will look like fleecy white clouds from where you're standing.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by finbar


Never heard of it and I have no idea what it means.

I was quoting Neil the hippie from "The Young Ones".

Vegie growing is great therapy. I have an excuse to escape from the computer to prowl the garden. There's also nothing nicer than stuff fresh from the garden. Haven't bought salad makings in several years. I had a massive crop of peas this year. Taste a freshly-picked pea and you'd never eat frozen peas again.

So what are you growing in your apartment's windowbox?

We have a small balcony with some boxes attached to the railing that we grew a few wildflowers in. They came up pretty fast, but their roots were too exposed due to my wife not putting enough soil in when she planted them (I told her!).

Here is what they looked like when the shoots were first coming up.

[finbar]

Re: Is that a gauntlet I hear hitting the ground?

Originally posted by SuperSneak
Apparently, all that time stuck in a car with an overheated dog, combined with the unenviable yet familiar experience of being a human jungle gym for disease ridden and smelling of poo children, has made my man Finbar a bit surly.

I can't say I'm not flattered to be the sudden subject of your gibes and gamboles, sir, however, I must emphasize that I am not the common rube you would encounter here, unaccustomed and unprepared to duel verbally with such a towering intellect as your own.

Bear in mind that I have weathered the unfettered verbal ministrations of the best the Catholic church has to offer, both in the form of sexless, frustrated nuns and oversexed, vicious, Jesuit priests. Toss in an overachieving older sibling, a type A parent, my current employer, and the various pretenders to the throne here on the net, and I feel I am well prepared for whatever onslaught an addled and enfeebled epistoler such as yourself can muster--between sessions of muttering in dirt, that is.

In short, do your best, for, in the end, I will most assuredly cut you down so low that whale**** on the bottom of the ocean will look like fleecy white clouds from where you're standing.

Yep. All the hallmarks of a Trabant driver.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Caligastia


I was quoting Neil the hippie from "The Young Ones".

How could I have forgotten?

but their roots were too exposed due to my wife not putting enough soil in when she planted them (I told her!).

Tell me about it. Mrs finar planted some native shrubs in containers at the bottom of our garden. There's more rock than soil down there, so containers were the go. I did suggest to her that one of the containers was too shallow for the job. Four weeks later, sure enough, the shrub was cactus. Botanically metaphorically speaking.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by finbar


How could I have forgotten?

Classic stuff.

Tell me about it. Mrs finar planted some native shrubs in containers at the bottom of our garden. There's more rock than soil down there, so containers were the go. I did suggest to her that one of the containers was too shallow for the job. Four weeks later, sure enough, the shrub was cactus. Botanically metaphorically speaking.

It took a little longer for ours to die. The wildflowers were pretty hardy. They grew like mad for a couple of months, then turned into dry husks.

[Alexander's Horse]

You're much more tolerable on gardening than race.

[TCO]

This thread is really hard to read with you on ignore. Especially since I am too lazy to click the read ignored post buttons.

Can't even remember why you are on ignore.

So when will you host Dave?

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
You're much more tolerable on gardening than race.

Don't click on race threads then.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Caligastia
They grew like mad for a couple of months, then turned into dry husks.

Story of my life, really.

[Alexander's Horse]

you could just go to the shop and buy some.