Local Food Growers club

[sprintcyclist]

I remember, way back, while still married and living in St Ives (Upper North Shore in Sydney) and I asked hubby to make a vegetable garden ready for planting. Hoping that veges would make him interested in "gardening". Didn't work.

He dug and dug (great soil) and made a whole patch of "vege garden beds". Then, when done, came inside and said "Well, that's done ... now YOU can plant what you want". Grrr. I sent him off to Bunnings (or whatever it was back then) and he came home with TURNIPS, CARROTS and CORN. Turnips? The carrots were pulled up before mature ... first by Daddy then the child ... the corn got watered and produced a few cobs ... the turnips grew wild and I ended up giving them away to the local lady who had billy goats ... that lot will eat anything, including chokos.

Nef the ungrateful

[Neferti]

I remember, way back, while still married and living in St Ives (Upper North Shore in Sydney) and I asked hubby to make a vegetable garden ready for planting. Hoping that veges would make him interested in "gardening". Didn't work.

He dug and dug (great soil) and made a whole patch of "vege garden beds". Then, when done, came inside and said "Well, that's done ... now YOU can plant what you want". Grrr. I sent him off to Bunnings (or whatever it was back then) and he came home with TURNIPS, CARROTS and CORN. Turnips? The carrots were pulled up before mature ... first by Daddy then the child ... the corn got watered and produced a few cobs ... the turnips grew wild and I ended up giving them away to the local lady who had billy goats ... that lot will eat anything, including chokos.

Nef the ungrateful

Rows and rows of TURNIPS? Who eats turnips?

Did I mention the Sydney Funnelweb Spider? We found 25 of them down cicada holes in the back yard ... and had a 2 year old kid ....

[sprintcyclist]

I eat turnips.

Did he plant the funnel web spiders ?

[Neferti]

I eat turnips.

Did he plant the funnel web spiders ?

No, of course not. Do you know what a Sydney funnel web spider looks like and how DEADLY they are?

[sprintcyclist]

I eat turnips.

Did he plant the funnel web spiders ?

No, of course not. Do you know what a Sydney funnel web spider looks like and how DEADLY they are?

Of course it is deadly.
Look how black it is.

[BigP]

I eat turnips.

Did he plant the funnel web spiders ?

No, of course not. Do you know what a Sydney funnel web spider looks like and how DEADLY they are?

Of course it is deadly.
Look how black it is.

Strate outta Afreca dat one

[mellie]

I love all root vegetables, turnips, parsnips, carrots, sweet potato.... actually, I just love all vegetables, period.


And Nef, I get your concern re- funnel webs, I think before I left Sydney, not long before, I posted a scary confrontation I had with one whilst simply at the clothes line. Think I posted a pic of it, before we killed it. You'd need to do a search. It was a male I think.

Not pleasant, I was living at Baulkham hills at the time, Crestwood Dr, so not only a St Ives problem, but definitely worse in St Ives.

A regular occurrence in St Ives, not overly common where we were living.

Horrible bloody thing's, glad to be in Victoria.

[BigP]

Im partial to a root myself every now and then Mel

[The Mechanic]

I eat turnips.

Did he plant the funnel web spiders ?

No, of course not. Do you know what a Sydney funnel web spider looks like and how DEADLY they are?

Of course it is deadly.
Look how black it is.

[Black Orchid]

That tickled me too