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President Elect, The Mechanic Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17501 Gender:	Spring is Just around the Corner.. Aug 16^th, 2015 at 8:24pm and the first Blue Bell is out...
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 109303 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Spring is Just around the Corner.. Reply #1 - Aug 16^th, 2015 at 9:49pm Yes - spring is in the air - officially only 2 weeks to go. Let's hope we get a break from this cold weather.
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Agnes Gold Member Offline fish dinner Posts: 6081 Bedford Park rnd	Re: Spring is Just around the Corner.. Reply #2 - Aug 16^th, 2015 at 10:42pm Bobby. wrote on Aug 16^th, 2015 at 9:49pm: Yes - spring is in the air - officially only 2 weeks to go. Let's hope we get a break from this cold weather. Seriously it doesnt really get cold in Australia..
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Reply #3 - Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:09am

Agnes wrote on Aug 16^th, 2015 at 10:42pm:

Bobby. wrote on Aug 16^th, 2015 at 9:49pm:

Yes - spring is in the air - officially only 2 weeks to go.

Let's hope we get a break from this cold weather.

Seriously it doesnt really get cold in Australia..

Ha! You sound like my mum.

We're never allowed to complain about the cold weather here in Oz because....when/where she grew up, no one could open doors or windows for months because of 3 metres of snow.

Just thinking here, I probably should ask her how they all went to the loo. They only ever had one...and it was an outside loo. There were 9 kids + 2 parents = 11 people. Hmmmm. Wonder what she'll tell me when I throw this question at her today lol.

Country people... all very weird if you ask me Tongue

Anyway....

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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: Spring is Just around the Corner.. Reply #4 - Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:28am we had snow on Canberra last week... is it choko time??..
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 40816 Gender:	Re: Spring is Just around the Corner.. Reply #5 - Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:39am Spring is here. Saw wattles in bloom last weekend. This weekend more wattles and the smell of spring.
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Lisa Jones Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 39047 Sydney Gender:	Re: Spring is Just around the Corner.. Reply #6 - Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:39am cods wrote on Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:28am: we had snow on Canberra last week... is it choko time??.. No! Choko's hate the cold...and it's still cold. My 2 choko vines still look cut back with minimum growth. Now if you wanna talk BROAD BEANS or PASSION FRUIT....
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Lisa Jones Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 39047 Sydney Gender:	Re: Spring is Just around the Corner.. Reply #7 - Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:44am You know what? I'm over it. I wanna post some pics of my produce. Someone help me out here. I take the shots with our camera. Then what? Oh and who wants a shout out? Cods, Sprint, Agnes, Mechanic....who else? I'll show the OP what a garden really looks like lol.
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Re: Spring is Just around the Corner..
Reply #8 - Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:48am

Lisa Jones wrote on Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:39am:

cods wrote on Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:28am:

we had snow on Canberra last week...

is it choko time??..

No! Choko's hate the cold...and it's still cold.

My 2 choko vines still look cut back with minimum growth.

Now if you wanna talk BROAD BEANS or PASSION FRUIT....

I have an electric blanket for mine lisa so alls good..

my recipes for chokos are such a best seller... I cant afford not to have all year round chokes... I am always inventing...I now doing choko fudge...yummo I can tell you...chokos are also good in a foot bath... I will pass that on at no cost as I realise how important good feet are to the world..

yes please dear show us your chokos... I am sure they are extraordinary

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Reply #9 - Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:58am

Re chokos.

The last one I picked off the vine wasn't all too big.

So I thought... ohhh well...I'll cut it up with some spuds and throw it into a soup to use it up.

I left it on an outside table and completely forgot about it...until yesterday's bbq lunch. There it was behind a pot plant, facing the sun, and it had somehow, despite total neglect and abandonment started to sprout.

I kid you not, it's now sitting on the back patio table on an old dinner plate....a new choko vine, growing out of a mediocre sized choko...all by itself with no soil, no water, no bloody nothing.

Don't believe me?

No worries.

I myself still don't believe it.

And I'm looking at it as I type this.

I need to take a pic of that...nature's absolutely remarkably resilient if you ask me.

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President Elect, The Mechanic Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17501 Gender:	Re: Spring is Just around the Corner.. Reply #10 - Aug 17^th, 2015 at 7:46pm doinnnng.!!
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President Elect, The Mechanic Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17501 Gender:	Re: Spring is Just around the Corner.. Reply #11 - Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:05pm as I was saying in another thread... I have put in a couple of Butterfly attracting bushes... I do not recall the name ... damn it.. but one of them got its first flower today.. it burst out and looks sensational... heaps more are about to burst out..
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Grappler Truth Teller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 86516 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: Spring is Just around the Corner.. Reply #12 - Aug 17^th, 2015 at 10:26pm Beautiful day yesterday - today windy and cold again and frosts coming for at least two days again.. Old Man Winter hasn't quite given up the fight... fruit trees are starting to bud - hope the wind stays away while they flower and the bees get to them...
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Re: Spring is Just around the Corner..
Reply #13 - Aug 17^th, 2015 at 10:28pm

cods wrote on Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:48am:

Lisa Jones wrote on Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:39am:

cods wrote on Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:28am:

we had snow on Canberra last week...

is it choko time??..

No! Choko's hate the cold...and it's still cold.

My 2 choko vines still look cut back with minimum growth.

Now if you wanna talk BROAD BEANS or PASSION FRUIT....

I have an electric blanket for mine lisa so alls good..

my recipes for chokos are such a best seller... I cant afford not to have all year round chokes... I am always inventing...I now doing choko fudge...yummo I can tell you...chokos are also good in a foot bath... I will pass that on at no cost as I realise how important good feet are to the world..

yes please dear show us your chokos... I am sure they are extraordinary

Don't much like broad beans - had 'em on year.... Snow peas are looking good... carrots are fine - need thinning out...

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Re: Spring is Just around the Corner..
Reply #14 - Aug 18^th, 2015 at 8:17am

Grappler Truth Teller wrote on Aug 17^th, 2015 at 10:28pm:

cods wrote on Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:48am:

Lisa Jones wrote on Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:39am:

cods wrote on Aug 17^th, 2015 at 8:28am:

we had snow on Canberra last week...

is it choko time??..

No! Choko's hate the cold...and it's still cold.

My 2 choko vines still look cut back with minimum growth.

Now if you wanna talk BROAD BEANS or PASSION FRUIT....

I have an electric blanket for mine lisa so alls good..

my recipes for chokos are such a best seller... I cant afford not to have all year round chokes... I am always inventing...I now doing choko fudge...yummo I can tell you...chokos are also good in a foot bath... I will pass that on at no cost as I realise how important good feet are to the world..

yes please dear show us your chokos... I am sure they are extraordinary

Don't much like broad beans - had 'em on year.... Snow peas are looking good... carrots are fine - need thinning out...

I've tried growing carrots.

I just could not get them to grow long and straight.

I had to rip them all out in the end. Sad

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