Growing Food and Animal Husbandry, Including Pics!

[Nuytsia]

I thought I'd start a dedicated thread for these topics, since I tend to like to waffle on about them in other threads and maybe not everyone is interested in these topics

Now I can go on about it here! Yay!!

Anyhoo, the weather has been really overcast and mild here this summer, so some things are struggling to make much growth outdoors.

Luckily I decided to grow some insurance plants indoors as an experiment! This has turned out really well so far with capsicums ......

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[Farseer]

I'll be happy to join in with this thread (though will have to do something about my photos first eg photo bucket!). Love the topic, and a great idea to grow capsicums indoors, Nuytsia!!!

['thul]

These beings have had a couple of dead cacti... they died not from drought or over-watering, but from maltreatment... The pots did not have any good places to be, so they got knocked over.

'thul also has a resurrection plant in a box somewhere, but not gotten around to planting it...

[Nuytsia]

Hey my pic is tiny!
They changed the way they show pics on Facebook ...... must be something to do with that (it's a link to that)

Farseer this will freak you out I bet, my tomatoes are still not ripe! (yours are virtually all year round or something, right?)
BUT they DO have lots of fruit and it HASNT been eaten by anything.... YAY!

Bad news is SOMETHING ate my alpine strawberry plants..... waaaaah (no strawberries yet, just the plants). I cannot be sure it was not an animal as our fence seems to be breachable..... but I THINK it may have been a bird, as nothing else was touched. Hmmmmm not sure what bird eats strawberry plants though.....

Our chooks haven't started laying yet.... but their combs look bigger and their tails so I guess they are growing.....
My mum's coming over for a visit in about a week's time so it doesn't look like she'll be having any fresh eggs

['thul]

hmm... tomatoes... ahh... yes... 'thul recalls one dog that had a tendency to like eating them... directly from the plants at that...

[Nuytsia]

You're not the first person that's said that to me!
Lucky we don't have a dog!

['thul]

dogs are nice animals... but they do get cranky when old...

This last summer the same dog started eating strawberries as well...

[Mervi]

Could be the dog is looking for something that is missing from his diet. The digestive mechanism of older dogs changes and they often require different sort food from what used to be good when they were younger. Could be a vitamin deficiency or a need for extra fiber - or simply a new acquired taste. Anyway, I'd ask the vet during the next check-up.

['thul]

well, the next time that dog is likely to go to a veterinarian is for its lethal injection... its 13 years old, and in somewhat bad health... For one, it has a major hip problem and has trouble walking on any type of floor without carpeting or similar...

[Farseer]

Just out of interest, is the hip problem merely from age, 'thul? Or is it due to having had a previous hip condition eg Perthes Disease?