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| bio | website | gplus.to/lisadp |
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| location | Adelaide, South Australia | |
| age | 30 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 10 months |
| seen | May 14 at 1:51 | |
| stats | profile views | 52 |
Adelaide plains:
- Australian hardiness zone 4 (USDA zone 10):
- Köppen-Geiger climate: Warm, semi-arid (BSh/BSk)
- Mean maximum temperature: 22°C (72°F)
- Mean minimum temperature: 12°C (54°F)
- Annual rainfall: 545mm (21.5")
I'm an Australian software engineer and tweet as lisa dp. Some plants I'm cultivating now... and being a geek figuring out the family cultivation commonalities between...
- Alismatales - Araceae: peace lilies
- Apiales - Apiaceae: carrots, celery, coriander, parsley; Araliaceae: Japanese aralias; Pittosporaceae: pittosporum screener
- Arecales - Arecaceae: cane palms
- Asparagales - Amaryllidaceae: onions, spring onions and other alliums; Xanthorrhoeaceae: aloe vera
- Asterales - Asteraceae: lettuces, dahlias, gazanias, common daisies, sea daisies; Goodeniaceae: fan flower
- Caryophyllales - Amaranthaceae: beetroots, chard; Nyctaginaceae: bougainvillea; Polygonaceae: rhubarb
- Brassicales - Brassicaceae: rockets, cauliflowers, mustards and other brassicas
- Cucurbitales - Cucurbitaceae: cucumbers, zucchinis, pumpkins
- Fabales - Fabaceae: navy beans, happy wanderer
- Lamiales - Lamiaceae: mint, basil, catnip, rosemary, lavender; Scrophulariaceae: creeping boobialla (in lieu of lawn)
- Rosales - Moraceae: figs, ornamental ficuses; Rosaceae: apricots, nectarines, apples, standard roses
- Poales - Poaceae: sweetcorn
- Sapindales - Rutaceae: limes, boronia
- Solanales - Solanaceae: tomatoes, capsicums, potatoes, tabasco chilis, bird's eye chilis, Brunfelsia latifolia
- Vitales - Vitaceae: red grapes
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Apr 12 |
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What can I grow in a sealed office environment with no natural light or airflow? added 82 characters in body |
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Apr 12 |
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What can I grow in a sealed office environment with no natural light or airflow? added 82 characters in body |
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Apr 12 |
asked | What can I grow in a sealed office environment with no natural light or airflow? |
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Apr 4 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Apr 4 |
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How should mustard seeds be collected? +tag |
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Mar 30 |
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seeds wiki description clean up full tag |
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Mar 30 |
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Can I harvest vegetable seeds and store for the next year? I also feel I should point out that the natural alteration (i.e mutation) of DNA is what gives us the sheer variety of plants we already have through entirely natural processes. The tree of life is not immutable and the misunderstanding that it is will stymie efforts to understand and effect plant propagation in your garden. |
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Mar 29 |
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Can I harvest vegetable seeds and store for the next year? Sorry but this is not good advice. Growing from seeds is an excellent idea in general. If you are worried about GM crops then don't collect your seeds from a GM vegetable or fruit or grain. |
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Mar 29 |
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How should I build a raised garden bed? +1 for the point about the arsenic treatment leeching into soil. |
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Mar 29 |
suggested | suggested edit on seeds tag wiki |
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Mar 26 |
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How do I care for potted apple seedlings over the winter? Those are beautiful seedlings, but remember that all established apple cultivars are clones (typically grafts). I would recommend using these two apples as rootstocks and purchasing (or pinching) grafts from known cultivars to grow actual fruit. You could then graft these on when the saplings are big enough. |
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Mar 26 |
answered | Do homemade paper pots for seedlings really work well? |
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Mar 26 |
answered | What varieties of plum tree produce small green plums? |
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Feb 24 |
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What are common places to try for alternatives to commercially available seeds? update |
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Feb 3 |
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What are common places to try for alternatives to commercially available seeds? FYI mainstream media in Adelaide just did a story about the local vege swap I attend: adelaidenow.com.au/dont-ditch-swap-vegies-instead/… |
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Jan 24 |
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How do you deal with disposing of bougainvillea branches? In case you're interested I did another big huge trim over the weekend and largely managed to avoid being scratched. The council took away the unwanted thorny limbs this morning from our green organic rubbish bin. |
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Jan 20 |
awarded | Excavator |
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Jan 20 |
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lawn-mower wiki excerpt added 48 characters in body |
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Jan 20 |
suggested | suggested edit on lawn-mower tag wiki excerpt |
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Jan 20 |
wiki | created lawn-mower excerpt |
