Re: Composting manure

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"Farm1" <please@askifyouwannaknow> wrote in message news:45aae71b$0$27941$5a62ac22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

"0tterbot" <spl@xxxxx> wrote in message

even our Dear Jackie

Who?

Jackie French - an Australian garden writer that Otterbot and I both
admire. She doesn't reiterate all the old gardening crud but actually
does some research for herself and reports on her own experieinces. A
lot of the garden law that applies/applied in the old world is simply
not applicable or even useful in Oz and much of it would not even
still apply in the old world if more gardeners were willing to try new
things.


i'm a huge fan of john seymour, but even his "australian & n.z. edition" of one of his books is just cobblers. i don't mean all of it of course (otherwise i wouldn't be a huge fan!!) but in the editing process i think all that happened was they exchanged the names of months to the one 6 months hence. so the general advice is excellent, but frankly he can stick his holding beds where the sun doesn't shine :-) life's too short - you don't garden here like he does in a moist, englishy place with a "short growing season".

anyway! as you were.
kylie


I've noticed in NZ occasionally those rather lovely garden books which seem to be put together by non-gardeners - titles usually something about fragrance in the garden or various aspects of decor! - consisting of lovely colour photos and information sourced by "research" (v loose use of term) and adapted in a hit-or-miss fashion, then the title includes "for the New Zealand gardener"! So the months may be reversed from the northern hemisphere source material, but it's anyone's guess whether the plant "ideal for the south side of a building" is a sun- or shade-lover!

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