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Any Youse blokes ever tasted a fresh quince ?

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They are huge, apple/pear like and weigh about a half a kilo These two old trees I found in Varsseveld, in a front yard and are about 7 metres high I picked them off the ground on the street side.  Offered to buy them but no one at home, put a couple of € in the mail slot. Ya can't eat 'em raw, really astringent, like an unripe persimmon, but when simmered down turn pink, have a wonderful unforgettable flavour, or and texture. I remember the smell from when a kid in Oz, 70 years or so ago, but I don't remember seeing or recognizing the fruit. No locals here knew what it was either.......

Found some mates over here........

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Warning sign, really dangerous, mate... Then these little blokes hopping around Cute little buggers,  rock Wallabies about 1/2 metre tall Even some white boys...

Aeroponics, hydroponics and tray growing system experiments

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Experimenting with a couple of systems to produce nutritional microgreens indoors Testing several systems, tray and jar sprouting for micro greens, plus the self contained hydroponics and aeroponics systems for seeds, cuttings and clones. Started with a small hydroponics system with built in adjustable grow light. 18/6 8 lights =€ 35 at Aldi supermarket. These are tray sprouted and just utilizing the light while my seeds  germinate and propagate. About a week later, the basils are transplanted cuttings, sprouts are popping and new seeds sprouting.  Will stagger plantings to produce continuous micro greens. This is a passive system, planted in Rockwool or Jiffy seed started pellets.  The roots dangle in water and nutrients solution and the light is moved up as the plants grow  This is an 'AEROPONICS' System that uses a pond fogger to produce mist that circulates around the roots and diffuses through the coarse clay pebble medium, vapor israpped by the dom