Toast Regional Roos Thread - Down on the farm Roos

[koshari]

Stick it in a tub of molasses. It'll come good.

its only surface rust, dragging it round for 10 mins behind the tractor will clean it up. and fwiw vinegar does the trick as well.

 

[ferball]

I was going to suggest Hydrofluoric Acid, but yeah, molasses. That could work.

Less chance of having to amputate an arm with molasses

 

[Nate7]

just picked up an old 5t chain block for 50 bucks, the block is cactus but the 8m of 80 grade 13mm chain was worth the deal.


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Clean it up, melt it down and go blacksmithing on it, if you're any good at it like me.

 

[koshari]

Clean it up, melt it down and go blacksmithing on it, if you're any good at it like me.

damascus steel hey, well its worth a lot more to me intact,

 

[Samsquanch]

Clean it up, melt it down and go blacksmithing on it, if you're any good at it like me.

Are you any good at making swords. Not shitty lightweight toys? I'm talking the good stuff like Claymores and the like.

Asking for a friend.

 

[Nate7]

Are you any good at making swords. Not shitty lightweight toys? I'm talking the good stuff like Claymores and the like.

Asking for a friend.

Should be fairly easy, have done a few, made a few artistic knives, garden bench, etc.

 

[Hojuman]

just picked up an old 5t chain block for 50 bucks, the block is cactus but the 8m of 80 grade 13mm chain was worth the deal.


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Reckon l need one of those.

 

[Samsquanch]

Should be fairly easy, have done a few, made a few artistic knives, garden bench, etc.

Can you deliver the claymore when you've finished it? Meet up at Frankston station.

 

[Gasometer]

koshari this is the first lot of cherry

 

[Gasometer]

This is the problem bush

We had a massive downpour Sunday night and some of the riper ones split yesterday

I have salvaged these green ones and hopefully they ripen up…everything ripens in that spot in the kitchen so here’s hoping koshari

I can grow cherry and small Roma by the bucket load but these larger ones I struggle with.

 

[koshari]

Lowest rainfall in 18 years
Jan 14 2025
Updated 5 hours ago
2 min read

The Gazette
West Gippsland recorded its lowest annual rainfall in 18 years last year, with below average rainfall in December capping off a dry year for the district.

The annual total of 759.4mm was well below the 115-year average of 1013.9mm - and the driest year since 2006 when 674.9mm was recorded.

 

[koshari]

koshari this is the first lot of cherry


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Couple of small fruits appearing here.

 

[Gasometer]

koshari this is the first lot of cherry


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Could have eaten the whole bowl. Bloody delicious on ciabatta toast this morning

 

[koshari]

Could have eaten the whole bowl. Bloody delicious on ciabatta toast this morning

they are among the sweetest tomatoes, bloke i work with used to bring little yellow ones in by the bucket load, they were very good,

 

[Gasometer]

This is the problem bush

We had a massive downpour Sunday night and some of the riper ones split yesterday

I have salvaged these green ones and hopefully they ripen up…everything ripens in that spot in the kitchen so here’s hoping koshari

I can grow cherry and small Roma by the bucket load but these larger ones I struggle with.

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[koshari]

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Save the seeds and use them for next year, i have been told subsequent generations pick up beneficial traits related to where they grow.

 

[Emma12]

Save the seeds and use them for next year, i have been told subsequent generations pick up beneficial traits related to where they grow.

Yes definitely works well
We grow pretty well all of our veggies from seeds we collect from what we grow & we have about 20 raised beds & a few ground beds

 

[koshari]

Permit issued. Adler landed. Along with a box of shells and clays, happy days ahead.

 

[Gasometer]

The heat is ripening the mini Romas too quickly

A heap ready to be picked now

Nice problem to have but they are a little under sized

 

[Samsquanch]

The heat is ripening the mini Romas too quickly

A heap ready to be picked now

Nice problem to have but they are a little under sized

Put 'em in the fisher paykels a to slow them down or make chutney out of them. Theres a few of us who will want a jar.

 

[Gasometer]

Put 'em in the fisher paykels a to slow them down or make chutney out of them. Theres a few of us who will want a jar.

Lol

They are so sweet they are like lollies

They be all eaten by Wednesday

 

[koshari]

Lol

They are so sweet they are like lollies

They be all eaten by Wednesday

wife ate the 1st cherry tomato that ripened today, its really dry here, they along with the other plants are really struggling. been watering them every night but really just keeping them alive, they are hardly thriving. :-(

 

[Emma12]

wife ate the 1st cherry tomato that ripened today, its really dry here, they along with the other plants are really struggling. been watering them every night but really just keeping them alive, they are hardly thriving. :-(

We’ve been getting the cherry tomatoes for the last 3 weeks, sweet as
Rest of the garden is going ok with plenty of water
My chilli’s are going gang busters
Our fruit trees don’t have much fruit on them but we still have heaps preserved from the last couple of years

 

[koshari]

hooked a 24v bore pump up temporarily to a solar panel in the back paddock to pump some of the water out of the back dam thats about 6 inches deep , full of silt and the water is green from algie, figure i may as well put the water on the paddock, may even get a patch of grass back there, aim is to get the excavator in there and clean it out a bit, its the worst dam on the property, pic of the dam in greener times full of azolia.

 

[rickety]

Lol

They are so sweet they are like lollies

They be all eaten by Wednesday