Don't need to worry about upsetting us Kiwis. we sympathise with you as we
have an of shore island somewhere out west and I think it is called
Australia!!
Peter.
You will upset my kiwi cousins referring to it as my South Island. I
am in
Port Lincoln, South Australia. They also get upset when
Gil - Apologies to any participating Kiwis; I took your recent reference to
the 'land of the long white cloud' to indicate that you live there. Yes, I
live quite near Llanrhidian. Milford Haven is quite similar to the Fal
estuary - of which, incidentally, I've also done an ecological survey.
Gil - nothing so grand as 'farming', I just have 2-3 acres of roughish land,
a little of which I use to grow veg for household use, a little more as
relatively tame garden, the rest as wet paddock or wettish spinney. It's on
the north side of the Gower peninsula in SW Wales, west of Swansea or
I don't think we have any big ag farm pesticide problems up ditch
from us, but you never know. We also have a pipe directly to the
river (not viable in low water months) and a deep underground well.
We'll do the best we can.
Do you find using a pendulum useful in your farm work? Have you
Probably not a problem in your area, Tom, but you have to watch
irrigation ditch water as a possible source of highly contaminated
runoff from your chemically managed neighbors. I read a study a while
back that California farmers who were trash pumping 'lost water' on
their off days (water
It's probably not relevant to you but I have a stream fed by an old mining
adit which provides typical iron-waste water (deposits of soft, sticky
orange-coloured sediment). In the stream-bed, I grow the most luscious,
tangy watercress I've ever tasted. I occasionally water other crops with it
