My filtered drinking water solution

Coffee filter into a spring water bottle. Set the iPhone timer at 25 minutes, come back and get my water.

My wife Sylvia hasn't been drinking my rainwater for some time now. I think it's because she didn't like the floaties.

I think she's cool with the rainwater now.

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Self seeded something: perhaps mulberry?

I hope so. This thing sprung up on a very convenient place. Next door has a mulberry tree and I wouldn't be surprised if this is a "bird distributed volunteer seedling".

So can anyone tell me if they think it looks like a mulberry to them? And will it give true fruit?

Below or @cullenofadelaid on Twitter.

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Laying a path as a hobby

I got these pavers 10 months ago as they were demolishing the place across the road.


I like a garden with paths. I had some paving sand delivered three weeks ago and it's been an albatross since then:


I finally got the sand off the lawn and into the garden and built my little "fairy paths.


Those Correas I've just cut back hard and even in this tiny plot there's also a Cape Wattle, Olive, three Daisies, Agapanthus and some Marigolds.

And they come off of some older existing paths I laid down over 15 years ago.


Walking in my front garden is even an adventure for me.

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Scare Cat: The Most Thoughtful Ever KK Present

Given that I spent six hours on Christmas eve putting the nets on and there's another four to go, this secret Santa present was very thoughtful.


Keeping the birds off the nashis, plums and figs needs to be a multipronged attack.

Many thanks to Chris Graves.

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A Case of Mexican Beer and Emergency Chill Down

The power of suggestion. The car that passed me as I walked out of Bunnings had a case of Mexcan beer in the boot. What a great idea. Hot home and it was a little warm, no ice in the freezer.

So I'll use a convenient method involving some frozen stock and a deep saucepan. Emergency chill down.

And apparently this new Blogger+ app works ok too.

Milk appears to kill downy dead

I put a post in the other day where I sprayed with milk. I've done it a few times recently because the weather is shocking for downy mildew.

I think Juliet Henderson was right. Milk 10-20% kills downy mildew dead. When it's growing it looks fluffy and a little white on the back of the leaf. And a berry hit with downy looks like a furrball.

But with this milk spraying the grapes have got some grey on them, but not that rampant mildew growth. That grey I only ever saw at the end of the season, thick and ugly and the grapes were beyond redemption.

So perhaps milk works. It's gentle and organic I suppose (whatever that means). And the best thing for me, when I spray they smell reminds me of the days I'd work in a National Foods cheese plant.

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Carrots: Apparently I can grow something else

It needs a sandy loam soil and not too much fertiliser as well as a long time unharried to mature. Amazing it got all that with the chooks scratching around them.



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