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So its AP all round!
How are you going niloc?
Is there a storm going thru your way ATM?
We had hail and heavy winds last night...
Tanks are over flowing - Rain water that is!
It will be nice to get some sun!

No rain here C1,nice sunny day.Probably rain tonight (rains almost every night lately)fish tank up to 13.6degrees so fish are eating again! Lifes Good! Now if i can just get a job again instead of living off my wife itll get even better!

Its super windy here atm (has been pretty gusty for the last hour or two), apart from that its nice and sunny

Hows this?Fruit trees havent even lost their leaves ,yet theyre flowering! I think were having a strange change in the weather pattern.

My Newcastle apricots have been flowering for 2 weeks and I hadn't even pruned the tree yet. They normally fruit in early December so it is at least 1 month early flowering.
Well, I suppose that I won't need to thin the fruit once I have pruned the tree.
I had better get onto pruning the other fruit trees very soon.

Regards,
Tony

noticed 2 flowers on my apricot as well tony ( not sure what variety ), doubt ill get any normaly the fruit fly get most of them

Yeah I haven't pruned my fruit trees either.....

i kinda did mine but was all a bit of a rush job as two weeks after moving house was a greenwaste collection

had a climbing rose that had been let go a little too far and was threatning to strangle a lemon and a mandarine tree ... took bloody ages but i got teh vengefull sukker on the verge and the nice men came and mulched it up .. verry satifying

Well, We have lived here for just 12 months so far. We managed to get a couple of apricots, about 10 nectarines and a couple each of the white and red plums. No apples, no pears, no almonds, but a couple of buckets of olives (a few pecked olives, but the birds didn't get the taste for them).

I lost almost all of the fruit to birds. Even though I didn't spray fro fruit fly, I doubt that they got much to breed in.

This valley (where I grew up) used to be a major stone fruit source for the Perth Metro area. It was rare to have birds eating the fruit (the old 410 shotgun took care of those who ventured into the orchard)
These days, a flock of parrots descends on the orchard and the whole crop is gone in an afternoon.

I hope to be able to provide a bird net this year and spray for fruit fly so that we gain a crop of fruit to preserve.

Regards,
Tony

are tere organic type stuff for Fruit fly?

Organically speaking, I would try traps for fruit flies, but that might not be as practical on a large scale.

Posted a homemade fruit fly trap over in the Pest Control thread ...

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