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Because Oct 31 = Dec 25. Seasons greetings to all. Weedpharma

After months of wet weather when I go to my farm in the south west of Western Australia, last weekend was beautiful and sunny but cool. Just right for digging up some dirt to turn into a vege patch. The area is in my small "orchard". I have pulled out some non productive fruit trees and used the...

Do they taste anything like these?

12 mths of no problems. Now pop ups on TBN. Seems ok on other sites. :thumbdown: Weedpharma

I have a home brew composting toilet on my weekend farm. It has been in use for about 4 years before I emptied it a few weeks ago. I simply dug a good size hole and built a small shed over it. I then got some formwork ply as a floor. The throne is a 20ltr drum with the bottom cut out with a box...

I am using the iPad browser ( prefer it to app). When I touch a page number to move to next page, the above message appears. This is annoying as I have just touched the page I want to go to. Any ideas? Weedpharma

When a Kid is Hooked up to a Fake Lie Detector... — Swing by Swing Golf

Yes I am a pedant but I wish to point out a common error appearing often. There is no such thing as watts per hour or amps per hour. Both watts and amps are instantaneous values with no time element. The terms that involve time are amp hours and watt hours. These represent amps times hours and...

When I reply to a post, the cursor dissapears until I start typing. If I move the cursor to edit what I have written, the cursor stays in the original location until I start typing. If I stop typing it dissappears until I type again. This happens often though in this new thread there has been...

I purchased some 27W LED floodlights via ebay. I powered one from a power supply and found it only drew 1.25A. This is only about 15W. When I contacted the supplier, He checked his stock (after I taught him how to use the multimeter!) and he agreed that it was not 27W. He offered to give a...

Anger over photos of Indonesian cattle cruelty - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) This is just a taste of their treatment of cattle. Australia has already had problems of Indonesian cruelty to animals. Weedpharma

My plan to to take on the Chinese garlic market has had a slight setback. Most garlic in Australia comes from China and I wanted to grow my own and more. This year I planted a couple of thousand bulbs in autumn and have now picked them. Unfortunately it was not a great success. While they all...

I have a paddock of approx 5 acres that is currently just weed. A neighbour is considering growing pumpkins on the paddock next season (October). We have agreed that if he does, he will plough the area, grow pumpkins and then level and seed for hay. I then get the hay. No money changes hand. I...

My tractor is on my farm and I need the size of a particular bolt so I can buy a spanner for my next trip. I would appreciate anyone with an L4400 telling me what size a the bolt is. On the right side under the floor is a connection block for hydraulic pipes. The bolt I need is holding on a...

I have now had my country estate for 20 years. Over this period I have turned my camp into some sort of comfort. It has a caravan under a tin roof extending to a verandah. My power is solar (64W of panels) and a ~2500Ahr battery bank. I have dam water gravity fed from a tank and rainwater for...