Dadanga
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Today was spent driving to Pinjarra to grab a big capacity incubator that I'm chuffed with since it's pretty clean and has a lot of neat features. So I'll be sorting them tonight and hopefully running between 60-90 eggs.
As for the garden, things continue to roll. Happy with the eggplants kinda. I probably need to fertilize more often. I decided to rip all the cucumber types that were next to my passionfruit kratky. Chickens got a score of PM riddled green waste. I decided to leave the okra there for now to see what happens. I think it's okra. Either that or Rosella. I'm starting to get the two mixed up LOL.
The climbing beans are doing work despite the heat. I'll get a cover on them soon. I also rolled out my two tier coop to it's final resting place in the chicken run and that'll keep me busy tomorrow. I also had to fill the big concrete water tank by running the bore pump which pumps bore water into the holding tank then I use that water with a normal 240v pump.
I wish my garden was a bit more filled. I don't like how barren it is in places but maybe I am just impatient. My oriental plane tree out front continues to die and since tomorrow is going to be a scorcher of 36c the poor thing will probably utter its last breath. 36c isn't much of a scorcher really but with the way this thing is going I wouldn't be surprised if it gets killed off. It's kinda funny because on the flemmings card it states well-draining fertile soil and I used up all my compost. Maybe the error was not mixing the sand into it enough or adding some sort of coco/perlite.
Tomorrow I'm also picking up a heap of 20L and 10L free drums from a nearby suburb that I will use for my quail coops and the IBC wicking bed. What I might do is cut slits into the drum length ways instead of across so it still maintains its structural integrity when all the wet soil is sitting on it. I'll probably run a big mesh panel across the top of them to help distribute the load. Still on the fence as to what to use. Feel like it's gonna be some sort of drainage gravel; the river sand would never work unless I socked the drums. Maybe a combination of sorts where there's an inch or so of coco on top of all the gravel.
Anyways. I gotta start playing with these monitors and the incubator. I managed to save up 99 quail eggs for it LOL.
As for the garden, things continue to roll. Happy with the eggplants kinda. I probably need to fertilize more often. I decided to rip all the cucumber types that were next to my passionfruit kratky. Chickens got a score of PM riddled green waste. I decided to leave the okra there for now to see what happens. I think it's okra. Either that or Rosella. I'm starting to get the two mixed up LOL.
The climbing beans are doing work despite the heat. I'll get a cover on them soon. I also rolled out my two tier coop to it's final resting place in the chicken run and that'll keep me busy tomorrow. I also had to fill the big concrete water tank by running the bore pump which pumps bore water into the holding tank then I use that water with a normal 240v pump.
I wish my garden was a bit more filled. I don't like how barren it is in places but maybe I am just impatient. My oriental plane tree out front continues to die and since tomorrow is going to be a scorcher of 36c the poor thing will probably utter its last breath. 36c isn't much of a scorcher really but with the way this thing is going I wouldn't be surprised if it gets killed off. It's kinda funny because on the flemmings card it states well-draining fertile soil and I used up all my compost. Maybe the error was not mixing the sand into it enough or adding some sort of coco/perlite.
Tomorrow I'm also picking up a heap of 20L and 10L free drums from a nearby suburb that I will use for my quail coops and the IBC wicking bed. What I might do is cut slits into the drum length ways instead of across so it still maintains its structural integrity when all the wet soil is sitting on it. I'll probably run a big mesh panel across the top of them to help distribute the load. Still on the fence as to what to use. Feel like it's gonna be some sort of drainage gravel; the river sand would never work unless I socked the drums. Maybe a combination of sorts where there's an inch or so of coco on top of all the gravel.
Anyways. I gotta start playing with these monitors and the incubator. I managed to save up 99 quail eggs for it LOL.
Home Depot normally has something like a 30-day return policy on tools. However, if you use a Home Depot credit card to buy Ryobi tools, you get a 1-year return for any reason exchange period. There is some added value to using a Home Depot credit card if you are buying Ryobi tools at the store (or online).
Speaking of which, Home Depot no longer takes any tools back for warranty repairs. You have to send it back yourself to a repair company, on your dime. That's an unfortunate change in their policy. With 3-year and 5-year warranties on some items, you might find out that it would cost you more to send in a tool repair than the used tool is worth. I suspect that is why Home Depot dropped that program.
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