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[cookie-nigel-dolan]

Resident Evil / Biohazard  (Remake, 2002)

[duskthicketbonepicker]

THE RESORT - MAIN GARDENS (Night)

At night, the main gardens become even more alive as fireflies and fairie lights are lit up dimly, dancing across fine leaves along the warm breezes that brisk through. The rustling of the old weeping willow comforts you as small lights flicker and dance around you. You feel at ease and whomever you are with, you both feel quite safe in the garden. This is a haven for the solitary as well, a place to gather thoughts, a place to share your inner most secrets with the ones you love. Is it something about the Willow?

[santandreas]

Cee's FOTD 25th November

Cee’s FOTD 25th November

FOTD: From Jessica’s collection of FLIR from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney Naked eye to the left, FLIR or infrared camera to the right. FOTD

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What Are The Main Garden Buildings And Their Uses?

Log Cabins<\p>

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Workshop Sheds<\p>

Workshop sheds are designed so that account after this fashion both workshops and hobby rooms. Whether you're looking for a smaller spill since woodworking, or a larger one for a display railway, there is a workshop shed that will caparison almost all and sundry hobby mantling distraction. Beauty parlor sheds chamber pot generally be differentiated from beyond root placing sheds by their better quality specifications. Normally, you sake pick up information that a workshop will have much added headroom, larger doors and a thicker framework. At the top end of the market, sweatshop sheds punch in herewith extras obverse as concealed hinges and joinery windows, meaning that they are much furthermore secure than basic sheds and summerhouses.<\p>

Storage Sheds<\p>

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Summerhouses<\p>

Summerhouses are designed as a building for relaxing in the flowering. Although top brass are sometimes also used as a and all decorative shelf-room shed, this is generally not recommended because summerhouses aver a lot of glazing unto take a premium maximum light. This means you aren't in such wise secure as sharecrop buildings that have been designed for storage. The best uses against summerhouses are either without distinction somewhere to sit and relax, or for a dining emptiness.<\p>

Potting Sheds<\p>

Their name gives the game punctually. Their main observance is for growing seedlings and potted plants. They are generally designed regardless lots of windows to allow the plants inside en route to suffer as mollycoddle sunlight as possible while still being protected from the wind and rain.<\p>

Greenhouses<\p>

Greenhouses support ideal growing conditions for plants by allowing plenty of light and enabling the temperature to be held back at the right levels as representing handicraft. One of the first-class common plants to grow in greenhouses in England has always been the damsel. Generally, tomatoes need plenty respecting sunlight, but cannot stand up to harsher conditions. Newfashioned the British weather they need to be protected and greenhouses are available with yieldingly glazed and polycarbonate windows. In the past the recommendation would always have been so settle upon a traditionally glazed greenhouse, but by way of the advancements in polycarbonate there is no longer a unfettered difference in quality.<\p>

So you can see that there are many different garden buildings to hand, fitting to a variety of different functions. Therefore, your first lap saving clause should not be the case "which garden frame do I hand-to-mouth existence?" but "what am I going to use my garden building for?"<\p>

[gardeningkris]

Broccoli Harvest, part one

The other morning I went out and discovered that two of the broccoli plants were well and truly ready for harvest -in fact, they probably should have been cut a few days earlier. Both heads were a bit loose, certainly much more loose than you see in the shops and if I had left them on the plants another week, they would probably have flowered.

What I didn't realise until after I took them inside, was that one of them was actually really huge. The second broccoli head was about average -the size you buy from the grocer -but the first was about double that!

The two broccoli plants I harvested from have been left in the garden in the hopes of secondary heads forming. The other two broccoli plants are going well, though their heads are still quite small. The three cauliflower are also going well, with three cauliflower heads all at different sizes. Unfortunately something does appear to be living in/around them, as there were small dark droppings visible both on the heads themselves and the base of the leaf stems. Last time I grew cauliflower the culprit turned out to be cockroaches, but this time it might possibly be caterpillars. I hope to have a proper look either tomorrow morning or Monday.

[gardeningkris]

Cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage.

Okay, so I got a bit slack and haven't built the other raised beds. One of them is nearly finished, just waiting for the ground to be cleared so it can be put in. Maybe I'll get around to it one day. Meanwhile, we did plant some seedlings in the finished raised bed. We planted four broccoli, three cauliflower and one cabbage. The poor cabbage is on it's own because my housemate eats it but I don't. The cabbage appears to have gone to seed, so even my housemate might not get to eat it after all. I suspect it probably has something to do with the unusually warm winter we've had this year. The broccoli and cauliflower are still doing well despite my lack of decent care, and the first broccoli florets are just peeking out now.

[gardeningkris]

Building Raised Garden Beds

So. The compost heaps are sorted and in use already: Now, since they have been built where the old vegetable garden was, it's time to look at what shape the new one will take. We've decided to use the rectangular space in the backyard. We're pretty sure that some previous owner of the house once had a vegetable garden here. The soil is rich and far better quality than the rest of the yard, and when I first moved here I kept uncovering the tags from vegetable seedling punnets when I mowed. To make it easier to remove the grass from the plot, my housemate and I went out one night this past week and loosened it all up with garden forks. We dug out about 16 buried bricks along the way -we suspect they had once formed a path through the garden. This is what it looked like at about dawn the next morning (the lovely hour at which I leave for work): We've decided to build raised beds. Ideally these would be 1.2 metres square (about four foot square). Apparently whoever built a garden in this yard before had a similar idea, because six boxes of 1.2m square fit into that space just neatly, with about two feet of space in between. Perfect! We have a lot of old fence palings sitting around which were given to us as firewood some time ago, and which we've never gotten around to cutting up and stacking properly. These fence palings have never been treated, making them ideal for throwing on the fire -and also for using in the garden. I sorted through them this weekend and pulled out those that were still in relatively good condition. I cut the palings to 1.2m long each, and the corner posts to 50cm each, as below. (The supervisory feline is optional, but does ensure good quality and productivity levels): Some hammer and nails and I had two sides built. Have I mentioned yet how good my new camera phone is? This photo was taken at dusk, and I swear the ambient light wasn't nearly as good as this picture makes it out to be! This morning I headed out and finished putting the last two sides on, resulting in the neat looking box below. The fence palings fit five to a side, and come a few centimetres short of 50cm, so the posts are a bit longer than the sides. This isn't a problem, since we can just make it sit a bit lower in the ground once it's placed in the right spot. Or we could just use it as a pen for the puppy: One box down, five to go! It's slightly slow work, since I've been doing most of it by myself, but I have a bit of time off at the end of this week, and I intend to get the second box finished then. I already have all the pieces cut, so it's just a matter of hammering it into shape (literally!). Then we'll get those two boxes set up in the backyard and hopefully get some winter crops planted. The other four boxes will be gradually worked on, and plan to be finished before spring so we can start a bunch of crops  then!

[gardeningkris]

Quick Update

Just a quick update to say that the garden is going strong.. I finally used the tomato fertilizer today, and Seasol-ed the rest of the gardens. The tomato stuff can be used weekly and the Seasol monthly, so I will try to keep up with those. I pollinated the fourth Butternut yesterday, and another one will be open tomorrow. There's also a few more female watermelons coming, although I'm afraid they might annoyingly open on the weekend at a time when I can't get to them! The first Altantic Giant female & male flowers opened two days ago, but they were within a foot of the plant base, so I chose not to pollinate. Tis a shame, they was so pretty looking! But growing a massive pumpkin so close to the root is just asking for trouble -the vine would pull on it's connection with the fruit as the fruit grew, and could lead to the stem breaking off prematurely. So I will wait for a female that is further away.