James Purser [INSERT WITTY CATCHPHRASE HERE]

I'm sitting here, it's the middle of November and I am seriously considering whether we need to put the heater on. This is nuts.

Not only but also, I'm a little concerned about the effect that the high winds are going to have on the veggies, especially the foot long zuchinni that's been growing nicely. If it survives, I'll post some photos.

I've just finished watching the second trailer for the new Star Trek movie and it's about as bad as I thought it would be.

We're not talking about going where no man has gone before anymore. We are firmly in the "re-imagining" space. God I hate that term.

I'm sorry, I must be getting old and set in my ways, but I prefer to see new things and new ideas rather than watching someone responsible for the travesty that was Cloverfield "re-imagine" Kirk, Spock, Scotty and McCoy.

As promised in the last post here are some photos of the growing green type things:

Enjoy :)

Well Joxer has done it and so has cafuego, so here's mine:

First the instructions:

•  Grab the nearest book.
•  Open it to page 56.
•  Find the fifth sentence.
•  Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
•  Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

And now the result:

"He produced a length of shiny black wood from the ragged pocket."

From Terry Pratchett's "Jingo".

I was forking some compost onto our garden beds just now and I got a whif of that beautiful moist earthy smell that comes with well cooked compost. Some of you might remember from when you were kids and mucking around in the backyard in the morning, before the dew had burnt off the grass, it's that kind of smell.

Might take some photos for the next post, got a couple of good zuchinnis coming up.

Well the last episode of Open Source On The Air is now sitting at 124 downloads since it was released, which isn't bad.

If you haven't caught it already you can grab the show from the following:

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With the current focus on the dodgy ISP Filtering plans of the Labor Government, I thought I would revive an old shirt I did during my abortive run for the Senate.

Could probably do with some work but it's there if anyone wants to wear their feelings on their chest.

You know, for our first effort at this vegie gardening lark we haven't done too badly. We've learnt lessons along the way and will certainly be preparing a bit more for the winter season, however given the crop we've got coming up, we can hold our heads up high. So far we've got the following coming to crop:

• Zuchinnis - Black, Golden and other
• Squash of many varieties
• Cherry Tomatos
• Stringless Beans
• Pumpkin (growing in the old compost heap of all places)
• Capsisum
• Eggplants

So really can't complain :)

Occasionally we get some beautiful sunsets down here and I manage to get a couple of pics off.

As I continue on this gardening kick I've been looking at exploring the whole fertiliser concept. While I think I've got the compost concept down I haven't turned my hand to creating organic fertilisers yet.

So the other day I decided to try and make some liquid green manure. For those of you who don't know what a green manure is, essentially it's a plant that you either grow or harvest purely for the purpose of composting. It can be anything from a bed of comfrey (which I'm told makes an excellent green manure) or any non seeding weeds you find.

The idea behind the liquid green manure fertiliser is to in essence speed up the process of breaking down the green manure and getting at the nutrients contained within. The process is pretty simple. Take a bucket, fill it most of the way up with green manure and then fill it the rest of the way with water. Place a lid over the bucket and then leave it. Stir every couple of days over the next few weeks.

By the end of the process you should have a mass of vegetable matter at the bottom of the bucket and a green liquid that smells something chronic. You can then take that liquid, water it down (a ratio of 1:3 is recommended according to what I've read) and apply it to the stems and roots of your plants. Don't water it directly onto plants with edible leaves, just around the base should do just as well.