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Interesting ABC Landline program last Sunday on Potatoes and itbeing Internatinal Year of the Potatoe. About 1,700 varieties exists. Podcast from ABc if interested. Very informative about potatoes role to solve hunger. china apparently double production last year and becamethe worlds biggest produce,with Russia now second. Interesting question; where did the spud originate from? > Interesting ABC Landline program last Sunday on Potatoes and itbeing > Internatinal Year of the Potatoe. About 1,700 varieties exists. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Interesting question; where did the spud originate from? More interesting why do they only seem to sell 4 varieties in WA and persist in selling crap Nadine variety. More work should have been done to increase the yields and strength of Delaware. We have a Royal Blue variety which is excellent but you have to use them within a week or they sprout. The supply line of these isn't that crash hot either where some weeks marble sized potatoes hit the shelves. Now I know they grow sebago here but never ever do these get sold in fruit & veg shops. I wonder where they go to. I guess the Potato Marketing board has it all tied up. Meanwhile we dip out on decent white potatoes. >> Interesting question; where did the spud originate from? south america, along with their relative the tomato. <loosecanon> > More interesting why do they only seem to sell 4 varieties in WA and > persist in selling crap Nadine variety. More work should have been done to > increase the yields and strength of Delaware. there are literally thousands of potato cultivars out there. as with other "supermarket" veg, commercial growers tend towards a handful of varieties only, to suit supermarket purposes (ripening time, transportation, long storage etc). further to your comment on nadines, different potatoes cook best in different ways (find yourself a list). there is personal preference & there is right cooking method for the type - there aren't really any "bad" potatoes. i'm pretty sure desiree & pontiac sell so well commercially because they are all-purpose & you can't really go wrong with them. diggers club (no doubt, amongst others) is promoting more potato types every year for home growers, so try them. iirc they sell perhaps 15 kinds (which is still only the tip of the iceberg). > We have a Royal Blue variety which is excellent but you have to use them > within a week or they sprout. The supply line of these isn't that crash > hot either where some weeks marble sized potatoes hit the shelves. see above - not everything is suitable for mass commercial sale. > Now I know they grow sebago here but never ever do these get sold in fruit > & veg shops. I wonder where they go to. I guess the Potato Marketing board > has it all tied up. Meanwhile we dip out on decent white potatoes. in nsw you can't get away from bloody sebagos! which are not at all my personal preference. however, they're pretty good in & of themselves - they keep growing in one patch of my garden despite all my efforts, so from that pov i can't fault them ;-) if you really like sebagos, get some seed potatoes & go for it! or move to nsw <g>. kylie >>> Interesting question; where did the spud originate from? > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > seed potatoes & go for it! or move to nsw <g>. > kylie Eastern states companies could sell 100 different varities none would get past quarantine into WA. The AG department and the Potato Marketing board have it sown up. Royal Blues are not sold as certified potatoes. The Delaware they sell are not the same as 30 years ago, I reckon there was a sneaky cross sometime. As for moving to Sydney nah.... The Landline story was interesting as the Peruvians grow these spuds at 3000 ft above sea level. Not many potato grows at that altitude here. "Loosecanon" <loosecanon@iinet.net.au> wrote in message > "0tterbot" <spl@t.com> wrote in message ;-) if you really like sebagos, get some >> seed potatoes & go for it! or move to nsw <g>. > As for moving to Sydney nah.... "Move to nsw" does not mean the same as "move to Sydney" As a rural New South Wales rural dweller, I feel very ticked off to have my State reduced in status to equate with that boring cesspool located on the central NSW coastline. > "Move to nsw" does not mean the same as "move to Sydney" > > As a rural New South Wales rural dweller, I feel very ticked off to have my > State reduced in status to equate with that boring cesspool located on the > central NSW coastline. N.S.W. = Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong <don asbestos> does the rest count </da> V.B.G. The only thing that keeps me in S is money, or lack of it, "terryc" <newssixspam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote in message >> "Move to nsw" does not mean the same as "move to Sydney" >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > N.S.W. = Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong Nah! It really means Nelligen, Stockinbingal, Wellington. > <don asbestos> does the rest count </da> V.B.G. Only if you want a decent conversation with people. My biggest problem when in Sydney is finding someone I can be bothered talking to. I have trouble finding Sydney people who actually 'do' things - busy, busy, busy all the ttime but not actually 'doing' anything other than what I would put into the category of 'socialising' and 'having fun'. There is only so much that can be meaningfully said about those activites before bordom sets in. > The only thing that keeps me in S is money, or lack of it, Yeah. I can understand that, having been a wage slave for years. But then in the country it is surprising how little some people live on very happily and very successfully. Many years ago when I was earning $40K+/year (an upper middle bracket salary for that time) and probably wasting most of it, I found out that a couple that I knew were earning $11K. I couldn't understand how they made ends meet as they had recently built a house and had 3 children. I watched and learned. > Only if you want a decent conversation with people. My biggest problem when > in Sydney is finding someone I can be bothered talking to. I have trouble > finding Sydney people who actually 'do' things - busy, busy, busy all the > ttime but not actually 'doing' anything other than what I would put into the > category of 'socialising' and 'having fun'. There is only so much that can > be meaningfully said about those activites before bordom sets in. I've met them too, but I must say that none of them are librarians! Do you have relatives in banking or finance or something? They tend not to want to talk shop, for some reason... My friends tend to be in "Doing" professions like teaching and engineering. > > The only thing that keeps me in S is money, or lack of it, > > Yeah. I can understand that, having been a wage slave for years. But then > in the country it is surprising how little some people live on very happily > and very successfully. Well, in our case it's the prospect of ageing relatives (my Dad is still independent, but he turned 88 last week) and that my hubby will only ever be employed in either Sydney or Bleak City, and he'll never stop being a programmer -- it's his vocation, and not one that can be fulfilled outside of a major city. But we've always known these things, and that's why I have a large block (by Sydney standards, and given our other need for being less than half an hour from the city). It was one of the essential criteria for our house.  SignatureChookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ "Chookie" <ehrebeniuk@fowlspambegone.com.au> wrote in message >> Only if you want a decent conversation with people. My biggest problem >> when [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > professions > like teaching and engineering. No rellies in finance or banking, anywhere. I do have a number of librarian friends, in fact all 3 of my closest female friends (of nearly 40 years) trained as librarians but none of them have ever worked in Sydney. The Sydney people I know best are my sister and her family, medicos, business people (mostly better off), and my husbands family (most of whom have now left Sydney and those that haven't are tolerable for a short time but still have the "up with the Jones" Sydney mentality). It might help if Sydney was full of librarians but even they might get seduced by the typical Sydney mindset (Melbourne has a similar one). One story I tell about my issue with the Sydney mindset is: for my sister's big 50th, I bought her the complete Oxford in Micrographic form (cost about $300 - she's a bibliophile). Her husband bought her a $50,000 diamond ring a humungeous and very ugly single diamond solitaire. Big party, we are the only non-Sydney people there. All those who arrive should know of my sister's passion for books as she talks of little else other than golf (her husband still hasn't figured out her preference for books even after decades of marriage). Everyone who comes in the door wants to see the ring, The first thing she says to them after a quick flash of the ring is "Come and see what my sister bought me!" And she carts them off to see a dictionary and they all look quite bewildered at her excitement. Mind you, even my book loving sister has only now got onto the No1 Ladies Detective Agency and I can't remember how long since I read the last one of those. I know there is a new one out coming shortly. I can give Sydney about 2 days for the Opera and museums/galleries etc and after that, I'm well over it and just want to escape. >> > The only thing that keeps me in S is money, or lack of it, >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > of > a major city. :-)) I like that reference to Bleak City but it certainly couldn't be a reference to the weather given that it gets more sunlight hours per year than Brisbane. > But we've always known these things, and that's why I have a large block > (by > Sydney standards, and given our other need for being less than half > an hour > from the city). It was one of the essential criteria for our house. My husband started out as a programmer in Bleak City way back in the early days of the industry. We escaped after only 10 years to live in the country. He still commuted and stayed in the profession before moving into straight management where his analytical skills resulting from the IT background were very useful. Our earliest amibitions were to have 5 acres in the country. Now we have 2 farms. Maybe a case of be careful what you wish for? > Mind you, even my book loving sister has only now got onto the No1 Ladies > Detective Agency and I can't remember how long since I read the last one of > those. I know there is a new one out coming shortly. Thanks for the tip. The chief pussy here likes those stories. > I can give Sydney about 2 days for the Opera and museums/galleries etc and > after that, I'm well over it and just want to escape. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>> But then in the country it is surprising how little some people >>> live on very happily and very successfully. No longer a wage slave and definitely not a surprise how little you can live on. It is more being able to afford a bit of land where you are not cheek by jowl, but still being able to come back to syndey for medical servicing. > Our earliest amibitions were to have 5 acres in the country. > Now we have 2 farms. Maybe a case of > be careful what you wish for? It depends on what the farms are? > One story I tell about my issue with the Sydney mindset is: for my sister's > big 50th, I bought her the complete Oxford in Micrographic form (cost about > $300 - she's a bibliophile). Her husband bought her a $50,000 diamond ring > a humungeous and very ugly single diamond solitaire. Ahhhh OK... that is definitely NOT the kind of circle I move in -- not as far as the rock goes anyway. The book thing I *can* imagine! I have met younger members of the northwest nouveaux riches; they would put a $5000 diamond on their credit cards, but they would not go to $50K because their mortgages are starting to hurt now. I am guessing that your sister lives Mosman way or Vaucluse way, or possibly Northern Beaches. I have heard of a couple of women up that way who spend their time getting pedicures, and whose only work is hostessing for their husbands' business dinners -- not even charitable work, and certainly not raising their children -- that's what nannies are for. I haven't met them. I have met their employees and their (significantly poorer) relatives. I think it is rare to find people who are a total waste of space, though -- a lot of the glitterati do actually help out with Variety Club and other charities, as do the Old Money types. The closest I have got to prestige is that good friends of ours (not listed on the page below) helped in the endowment of the John Lions Chair in Operating Systems: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/JohnLions/ If I were to move in more rarefied circles, I'd pick the academia-and-classical-music group, not the Variety Club Bash types. But I would be much more likely to join the Mighty Duck River Restoration Collective than help endow a chair. SignatureChookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ "Chookie" <ehrebeniuk@fowlspambegone.com.au> wrote in message > "FarmI" <ask@itshall be given> wrote: >> One story I tell about my issue with the Sydney mindset is: for my >> sister's [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > far > as the rock goes anyway. The book thing I *can* imagine! Thought you might :-)). When it came for my big 50th, guess what I asked for and got in return? I use it a LOT. > I have met younger members of the northwest nouveaux riches; they would > put a > $5000 diamond on their credit cards, but they would not go to $50K because > their mortgages are starting to hurt now. :-)) I've stopped wearing all rings, they interfered with getting my garden gloves on. I am guessing that your sister > lives Mosman way or Vaucluse way, or possibly Northern Beaches. Nah, she's in Sutherland Shire. I have heard > of a couple of women up that way who spend their time getting pedicures, > and > whose only work is hostessing for their husbands' business dinners -- not > even > charitable work, and certainly not raising their children -- that's what > nannies are for. Strewth - my sister is nothing like that, thankfully. I haven't met them. I have met their employees and their > (significantly poorer) relatives. I think it is rare to find people who > are a [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Collective > than help endow a chair. Much too useful to society. :-)) I guess you don't want to hear the story of the photo of a Eastern suburbs dwelling brother in law (not my sister's husband) with his arm around Pamela Anderson? > Thought you might :-)). When it came for my big 50th, guess what I asked > for and got in return? I use it a LOT. A gardening fork? {:-). "terryc" <newssixspam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote in message >> Thought you might :-)). When it came for my big 50th, guess what I asked >> for and got in return? I use it a LOT. > > A gardening fork? {:-). Nah. Don't buy a ticket in a meat tray till you get it right :-)). > Nah. Don't buy a ticket in a meat tray till you get it right :-)). No point in me doing that. I'll just get arsy to do it. Just about every month she wins something at her quilters group. > I am guessing that your sister > > lives Mosman way or Vaucluse way, or possibly Northern Beaches. > > Nah, she's in Sutherland Shire. Sorry -- forgot about that little southern outpost of the North Shore. Easy to do -- I come from St George! > Much too useful to society. :-)) I guess you don't want to hear the story > of the photo of a Eastern suburbs dwelling brother in law (not my sister's > husband) with his arm around Pamela Anderson? Of course I do -- dish the dirt! SignatureChookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ >> I am guessing that your sister >> > lives Mosman way or Vaucluse way, or possibly Northern Beaches. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Easy > to do -- I come from St George! Is that the real St George (Qld) or the NSW immitation?????? >> Much too useful to society. :-)) I guess you don't want to hear the >> story [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Of course I do -- dish the dirt! -- Posted on news://freenews.netfront.net - Complaints to news@netfront.net -- "SG1" <Lost@the.races.com> wrote in message > "Chookie" <ehrebeniuk@fowlspambegone.com.au> wrote in message >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Is that the real St George (Qld) or the NSW immitation?????? It's the St George where they can spell ;-)) I simply couldn't resist that opening. > "SG1" <Lost@the.races.com> wrote in message >> "Chookie" <ehrebeniuk@fowlspambegone.com.au> wrote in message [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > I simply couldn't resist that opening. Thats ok I went to a Very private school south of the Murray. Never cud spel & never claimed I could???? -- Posted on news://freenews.netfront.net - Complaints to news@netfront.net -- > > Is that the real St George (Qld) or the NSW immitation?????? > > It's the St George where they can spell ;-)) Correct! And, of course, deadly enemies of our neighbours in the Shire, especially during footy season. SignatureChookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ >> > Is that the real St George (Qld) or the NSW immitation?????? >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > And, of course, deadly enemies of our neighbours in the Shire, especially > during footy season. we have a set of weekender-neighbours (ho hum) who come from "the shire". to myself, i call them "the donahers" (remember them?) because the resemblance is just uncanny. <snort> kylie "Chookie" <ehrebeniuk@fowlspambegone.com.au> wrote in message >> I am guessing that your sister >> > lives Mosman way or Vaucluse way, or possibly Northern Beaches. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Easy > to do -- I come from St George! Actually I like the Sutherland Shire bods better than the North Shore types. Still well heeled, but not quite as vacuous. My husband's family were North Shore types and he spent his formative decades there before he escaped (and his leaving Sydney was definitely an 'escape' tactic) so we used to see them in action a lot. I always used to complain about their vacuous lives. >> Much too useful to society. :-)) I guess you don't want to hear the >> story [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Of course I do -- dish the dirt! Well I was so gobbsmacked by the photo at the time that I can't really tell you how he managed to get it. He has a background in Health campaigns so has contact with lots of media people so presume he was at a 'do' that she was also at. One thing is clear though, they are both obviously posing for the camera. Smiling at it with their arms around each other in a crowd of less well dressed, obviously adoring and envious males who don't look like they'd have a hope of getting her to put her arm around them. But I'll tell you the background so you'll know why I was so gobbsmacked and had the wind taken out of my sails to such an extent that I forgot to ask for the gory details (which you've now reminded me that I must do before I die - it's a good story to put into the family history). As you know, my husband's career was in IT. One day I was thinking about what I'd write about him to put into the family history. Given the range of work he'd done and the amount of money his organisation had spent with various US companies and the trips he'd done to the US for his work, I wondered if he'd ever come across Bill Gates in his travels so I asked him. Response; 'Yes'. (Monsyllabic male). I pushed; 'Have you ever been introduced to him?'. 'Yes'. 'Really introduced? Shook his hand. Weren't just in the same room as him'. 'Yes'. 'How many times?' '3 or 4'. 'Why didn't you tell me?' 'It's just work'. I was so gobbsmacked by husband's reply that he also stopped me in my tracks. I can think of hundreds of people I know (me included) who would love to brag about having met Bill Gates, but not my bloody husband. He thinks it's 'just work' and therefore not really important in his real life! And he knows I love to have snippets to include in the family history! Yet another story about him though that HAS gone into the family history because it reveals so much about him. He isn't a blow hard by any stretch of the imagination (I am or would be if I had access to some of the people he has had). Anyway, shortly after this incident, we were going to Sydney to a sit down family 'do' with the Pamela Anderson brother in laws' family. They have 2 teenage boys who are totally and utterly computer mad but like all young males are monosyllabic and disinterested and I can never figure out what to say to them to engage them. I finally thought I had something of interest and that they might be interested to know that their Uncle had met Bill Gates so told them the story at the dinner table. At this point, the brother in law said I've met Pamela Anderson and raced off to his study to get the pic of him and Pamela. Pamela Anderson trumps Bill Gates in any male mind. I still couldn't engage the youngsters as all attention then turned to the photo. > I still couldn't engage > the youngsters as all attention then turned to the photo. Ask them if they play any mmmorpg games? See if it has a free trial and play it. The trouble with IT is that it covers a very wide area, but they are probably wintel PC area. "terryc" <newssixspam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote in message >> I still couldn't engage >> the youngsters as all attention then turned to the photo. > > Ask them if they play any mmmorpg games? > See if it has a free trial and play it. Jeeze! I have enough trouble getting them to speak English without starting to use a foreign language myself! > "Loosecanon" <loosecanon@iinet.net.au> wrote in message >> "0tterbot" <spl@t.com> wrote in message [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > my State reduced in status to equate with that boring cesspool located on > the central NSW coastline. Oops my bad "Loosecanon" <loosecanon@iinet.net.au> wrote in message > "FarmI" <ask@itshall be given> wrote in message >> "Loosecanon" <loosecanon@iinet.net.au> wrote in message [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Oops my bad Glad you can see the errors of your ways. :-)) > As a rural New South Wales rural dweller, I feel very ticked off to have my > State reduced in status to equate with that boring cesspool located on the > central NSW coastline. Ahem! Sydney is NOT a boring cesspool. You are thinking of the Legislative Assembly. But this is the wrong week to visit unless you are a young Catholic. SignatureChookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ "Chookie" <ehrebeniuk@fowlspambegone.com.au> wrote in message >> As a rural New South Wales rural dweller, I feel very ticked off to have >> my [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Sydney is NOT a boring cesspool. You are thinking of the Legislative > Assembly. Nah, that's just an additional feature of the boring cesspool. > But this is the wrong week to visit unless you are a young Catholic. Indeed. Such a scary sight. >> As a rural New South Wales rural dweller, I feel very ticked off to have my >> State reduced in status to equate with that boring cesspool located on the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Sydney is NOT a boring cesspool. Sydney? I wondered why Farm1 was dissing *Cessnock*! :-) SignatureJohn Savage (my news address is not valid for email) >>Sydney is NOT a boring cesspool. > > Sydney? I wondered why Farm1 was dissing *Cessnock*! :-) I'll take Cessnock over Sydney any day. >>> Sydney is NOT a boring cesspool. >> Sydney? I wondered why Farm1 was dissing *Cessnock*! :-) > > I'll take Cessnock over Sydney any day. Ask some of the g*ys about boring... Its the boring capital of australia. I'm prejudiced of course living in Melbourne. Bigger bay, bigger bridge bigger crooks and maybe even bigger bridge, but not even wanting to go there wouldnt know. We've also got bigger mouths. Ask and Sydney sider. Thats why our restaurants are so much better.... As far as Cessnock goes, its reputation is well known here. Thats where we sourced our crims. We got the best gardeners from there as well. Theyre great with hydrophonics... The Police are most impressed. > As far as Cessnock goes, its reputation is well known here. Thats where > we sourced our crims. We got the best gardeners from there as well. > Theyre great with hydrophonics... The Police are most impressed. Just so 80's. Cessnock was just one location on the northwards trip from Sydney of the green herb growing industry during the 20th Century. no idea where it went after that, but it recently made big news about a kilometre west of here. Lol, we always joked about funding uni studies from small deals way back then and to have the opportunity again sorecently. All that time that time I was commuting to TAFE by bicycle, I could have just detoured around a few streets. "Jon" <jjff@fairfines.com> wrote in message >>>> Sydney is NOT a boring cesspool. >>> Sydney? I wondered why Farm1 was dissing *Cessnock*! :-) [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > We've also got bigger mouths. Ask and Sydney sider. Thats why our > restaurants are so much better.... LOL. I used to upset my Sydney born spouse by saying that if you HAD to live in a city then I'd choose Melbourne over Sydney because it was easier to get around, but I no longer say that. Having spent 2 days in Melbourne recently in 40degree heat, I'd give it a wide berth too and choose Hobart. > As far as Cessnock goes, its reputation is well known here. Thats where we > sourced our crims. We got the best gardeners from there as well. > Theyre great with hydrophonics... The Police are most impressed. Surely you jest!!!!!! Victorian police wouldn't be the least bit impressed by a few lads from Cessnock growing a few herbs. The Vic cops are more impressed by being involved with violent murders of crims thereby cleaning up the Melbourne streets. > "Jon" <jjff@fairfines.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > impressed by being involved with violent murders of crims thereby cleaning > up the Melbourne streets. Well this is a gardening area...All this murder and mayhem involves who can grow the most exciting items to market. The Cops themselves are cleaning themselves up lately.... Always a few weeds in the system... The problems are sometimes in their hierarchy. You wonder how they get there...But theyre being weeded out. Christine Nixon is a most impressive weeder... > The problems are sometimes in their hierarchy. You wonder how they get > there...But theyre being weeded out. Well,I don't know about Vic plods, but NSw plods were characterised to me as "Always looking for someone to blame". So it hardly encourages an atmosphere of openess. >> The problems are sometimes in their hierarchy. You wonder how they get >> there...But theyre being weeded out. > > Well,I don't know about Vic plods, but NSw plods were characterised to me > as "Always looking for someone to blame". So it hardly encourages > an atmosphere of openess. That is standard deceitful human nature. I read a book on the Sydney police enqiury fro mthe local library and it really opens your eyes about the drug scene and attitudes and how the crime stats are worked out. No arrests no crime etc. I wonder how many innocents they put away. But it would be interesting to read it again. >>> The problems are sometimes in their hierarchy. You wonder how they get >>> there...But theyre being weeded out. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I wonder how many innocents they put away. > But it would be interesting to read it again. Basicly too much power & too much time to exercise it. The officers I have dealt with in Qld have always been professional and I have no complaints or convictions (had to put that in). -- Posted on news://freenews.netfront.net - Complaints to news@netfront.net -- >>>> The problems are sometimes in their hierarchy. You wonder how they get >>>> there...But theyre being weeded out. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > -- Posted on news://freenews.netfront.net - Complaints to news@netfront.net -- Oh yeah Queensland. Bjelke and power. Seems they have a nice way of doing things too. Like when I complained about some Pollie about something I got very nice letters which contained veiled nicely done threats to "leave it alone" and the way it was passed from department to department, with me being kept informed seemed like it was getting to be known to all Queenslanders. I dont think I'll set up my garden there too soon. I figured I must have stood on some ones toes...It was a basic open comment... No convictions,but close when racing home to plant some seedlings on a very hot day, but I was never caught...(grin!) "Jon" <jjff@fairfines.com> wrote in message >> "Jon" <jjff@fairfines.com> wrote in message >>> As far as Cessnock goes, its reputation is well known here. Thats where >>> we sourced our crims. We got the best gardeners from there as well. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Well this is a gardening area...All this murder and mayhem involves who > can grow the most exciting items to market. :-)) Well I understand it did make an impressive TV prog. I haven't seen it though. > The Cops themselves are cleaning themselves up lately.... > Always a few weeds in the system... > The problems are sometimes in their hierarchy. You wonder how they get > there...But theyre being weeded out. Christine Nixon is a most impressive > weeder... Yep. Impressive all round. > "Jon" <jjff@fairfines.com> wrote in message >>> "Jon" <jjff@fairfines.com> wrote in message [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Yep. Impressive all round. You said it. Do you reckon she should use zero ? or Round Up ? "Jon" <jjff@fairfines.com> wrote in message >> "Jon" <jjff@fairfines.com> wrote in message >>>> "Jon" <jjff@fairfines.com> wrote in message [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Do you reckon she should use zero ? > or Round Up ? A controlled nuclear device might be better. Depends on the extent of the problem......... > "Jon" <jjff@fairfines.com> wrote in message >>> "Jon" <jjff@fairfines.com> wrote in message [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > A controlled nuclear device might be better. Depends on the extent of the > problem......... Its HUGE! But then again, it looks like global warming will sort it... Unfortunately, mother nature doesnt give damn! Git rid of it all! "terryc" <newssixspam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote in message >>>Sydney is NOT a boring cesspool. >> >> Sydney? I wondered why Farm1 was dissing *Cessnock*! :-) > > I'll take Cessnock over Sydney any day. So would I and I'd never diss Cessnock. > Eastern states companies could sell 100 different varities none would get > past quarantine into WA. The AG department and the Potato Marketing board > have it sown up. Too true. It's pretty hard to get anything across the WA border if you've got Solanaceae on or near your property (if you're honest enough to tell them) let alone the potatoes themselves. There's only really a handful of varieties that make up the bulk of potatoes sold. The other varieties are not competitive as a 'supermarket' food crop and are only available through smaller suppliers. I suspect, as is the case with most of the smaller plant suppliers, it's not worth the money and effort to get the more obscure varieties past WAQIS when the eastern market will sustain their business. > Eastern states companies could sell 100 different varities none would get > past quarantine into WA. The AG department and the Potato Marketing board > have it sown up. mm, that's a point. however, there must be local gardeners or seed companies who grow others & have been for decades, there simply must be! > Royal Blues are not sold as certified potatoes. The Delaware they sell are > not the same as 30 years ago, I reckon there was a sneaky cross sometime. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > The Landline story was interesting as the Peruvians grow these spuds at > 3000 ft above sea level. Not many potato grows at that altitude here. no but the potatoes we eat now have been extensively developed from the wild potato & have slightly different requirements most likely. however, speaking generally, they like altitude as apparently the various blights & problems they can have occur commonly at low altitudes. iirc(?!) certified seed potatoes are generally grown at a higher altitude because of this. kylie g'day terry, was an interesting program hey? potato's where developed by those southern american natives of peru or brazil where ever, that is why they have this research centre situated there. interesting how many varieties they seem to regularly grow in those countries, yet in our country we grow maybe a handfull of varieties for general consumption. snipped With peace and brightest of blessings, len & bev -- "Be Content With What You Have And May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In A World That You May Not Understand." http://www.lensgarden.com.au/ |
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