Spring's comin' a callin'

[Mantis]

Wow, Full Moon great looking setup there. Love the high raised beds, and your plants are looking really good.

[Full Moon]

Thanks for the good words guys.
Spatz, I thought you new lol!

[Spatzbear]

Grub, I hope your seedlings will survive and do well!

My little chilli and tomato seedlings got a beating last night, as we had a very icy and fierce wind the whole of yesterday, throughout the night and still today. Some look quite sad. Let's hope they pick up. The teenies are doing well.

Full Moon, you disguised yourself too well!

Mantis, your plants are real rippers! When will you harvest your first ripe tomato, you reckon?

[Mantis]

Some of the Juanne Flammes have that look about them that says I'm about to change colour. But they have looked that way for days. They are not getting any bigger so it won't be long me thinks. Of the bigger ones I reckon some of them wont be far away by the end of the month. Thats nearly six months since sowing.

[Grub]

I hope your babies are okay too, Spatz That cold change whistled through here yesterday, sending the temperatures from 31C to 18C in no time. Everything, as in peppers and eggplants and tommies, are a tad yellow from the silly overnight low temps. Mad extremes. Low is 11C tonight but soon it'll be back to 19-31C. And not a drop of rain in sight.

[Mantis]

Frosts here again tonight for the third night in a row. Getting sick of covering the tommys but it has to happen eh. Winds going northerly for the next 4 days so no chance of frost for a short while. And its the same down here Grub with not a chance of any rain in sight.

[Grub]

All planted out on the tommy front. A few pots to go. Then peppers and eggplants. After that the tomato drugs come out. And the fallcrop gets planted in the spare bed.

So it's almost time for a cold pilsener, some hot salsa, the boat, nude Twister, a dive and the general two-finger salute to the workaday week as we've come to know it here for the past six months.

[Mantis]

37 degrees here today with hot northerlys. Lucky I pulled the shadecloth over the greenhouse this morning.
Hope the roots don't cook in the outside pots that I haven't yet wrapped up with bags or beer boxes to cool them down.
Note to self: Need to drink more beer

[Grub]

My bubs are still getting over the frying from last week. 33C and more in coming days. This is ridiculous. Soon I'll be starting the seeds when these sleepy NHers do.

[Mantis]

Back home now , with some beers onboard hic. Plants survived pretty well.

[Grub]

First wine of the week. Shocking suburban thai yet again.

Planted out a bunch of peppers 2day.

[Tomstrees]

Fullmoon ...

wow ... I'm gonna pay !!!

~ lol ~

Tom

[Full Moon]

Tom, that's the plan

How crazy is this weather! My plants are all ok so far. I'm glad to have the irrigation in the pots. I never thought I would water twice a day in October.

[Tomstrees]

Have you noticed any differenece in your plants
gorwth with the application of
seaweed ?

You guys are getting some
high temps ...

When is your:
spring: average date
summer: average date
fall: average date
winter: average date
?

~ Tom

[Full Moon]

Our seasons.....
spring: September 1st
summer: December 1st
fall: March 1st
winter: June 1st

So to get almost 100F in October is not the normal average temperature (not where I am anyway). Although I'm not sure there is such a thing as a "normal average" anymore. There was a frost warning at the beginning of the week for some part of Victoria and wednesday it was total fire ban! Try to figure that one.

We're in for a long hot and dry one me thinks.

Mantis, that is the best excuse for drinking beer that I heard of....better make sure DH doesn't read this.

I'll keep you posted on the seaweed results too early to say.