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Looks like a pumpkin. Looks like the same as what I have.
When I asked I was told it was most likely a butternut.... or a blue, or a jap :-) Sorry I can't help more than that, but that's how freebies go eh?

So the one on the right is the boys tub and the left one is for girls (or is that Miss TT's)

took me awhile to get ur point Ell, then realized the colours. Derr!

Sorry TT, just finished a nice ale and it put my mind on a different/higher plane

TT, remebered you were thinking of injecting pure oxygen into your fish transport tank.... might be worth a read.....

http://www.oxyedge-chum.com/diffuser,_o ... ubbles.htm

And this one has a handy "SAFE OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS FOR LIVE FISH TRANSPORT" chart...

http://www.oxyedge-chum.com/how_much_oxygen.htm

Both articles relate directly to transport of "Live" bait fish... but are probably worth a read anyway.

TT how do you harvest fruit and pick out the laterals with the Tom vines encased in the chicken wire?

AP

...with great diffficulty

Thx Rupe, will have a good read.
Aussie, the ends of the chicken wire are only crossed over each other at 2-3 places. When that bottom lot are ready I will just unhook the bottom join and cut the whole truss at once.

Great growth TT - those toms nearly look like rose bushes - and thems big rose hips :-)

Nah... these are big rose hips

You're meant to pick those hips Rupe, it encourages the lovely flowers Just nip em off and toss em in the compost

Mate only place I'm tossing them buggers is into a damn nice salad, or thinly sliced on toast, or a nice pasta sauce or .......

well with the 8 initial beds established, I had procrastinated long enough. Yesterday, I dug the drain line for 4 more bathtubs to run lengthways along the gh. This will add another 1000lts of gb space to the system.

I have room at the western end for a 200lt half barrel bio. I may pump to this, drain to some of those 150mm nft stormie pipes I have and drain into the bathtubs underneath. All i need is a connecting pipe from the 150mm stormies to a gb below. I could also use this connecting pipe as a standpipe to set a constant water height inside the stormie pipe. (Just need to cut a hole in the base of the stormie and insert the drain/standpipe to a given height.)

The stormie pipes will need some airstones, haven't got that sorted. Atm, I don't run any power to the gh. Rupe is organising some net pots and away we go. Bit of work but I have a picture of it in my mind. (Which is a lot more than I had when I started on this madness in Feb last year.)

Last wknds new seedlings are firing away Some pics next wk. Harvested 3kg of golden nugget pumpkins so far. Tommies about 2-3 weeks away, pick a zuch every day. Too lazy to pollinate the eggplant so will see if we get anything there.

Dasall, off to Jim's!