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   Yvonne Perkins (perkinsy@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 09:32:57 JST Yvonne Perkins

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   Someone at work showed us a phot of his enormous jasmine and said that it had grown rapidly after he started tipping his coffee grounds underneath.

   About 6 months ago I planted some jasmine cuttings that were barely 10 cms after 3 years of tending them in a pot. I planted them in front of our garage in a small patch of dirt that I am sure is very poor quality. About three months ago I started putting coffee grounds at the base of them. They both responded, but one more so than the other. Just this week I tipped a lot more on the one that was not growing so vigorously and it has grown amazingly in the days since.
   #GardeningAU #Melbourne #jasmine

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     Yvonne Perkins (perkinsy@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 09:32:57 JST Yvonne Perkins

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     This morning I brought the worm farm inside for the summer. I also gave them pieces of paper that I had soaked overnight in water to bring up the moisture content in the worm farm. Yesterday we fed them small pieces of water melon peel which should also help re-hydrate them.

     It is going to be 42 degrees tomorrow. This looks like it is going to be a very hot summer.
     #Melbourne #WormFarm #GardeningAU

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     Yvonne Perkins (perkinsy@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 09:32:58 JST Yvonne Perkins

     I am sitting in our small back garden eating breakfast and surrounded by the gorgeous fragrance of gardenias.

     These gardenias are about 7 years old. It is the best flowering they have had since we moved them from Sydney to Melbourne. I put that down to the fact that we moved them into bigger pots over the last 6 months or so. Previously they were drying out very quickly whereas now I can give them a good water and leave them for a few days.
     #GardeningAU #Melbourne #Gardenia

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     Yvonne Perkins (perkinsy@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 09:32:58 JST Yvonne Perkins

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     Yesterday we did a bit of work in a section of my mother's garden that I don't photograph but needs quite a bit of work. I called on @alan_perkins to help with removing a submerged rock, then we transplanted plants from pots into that area and the common area along a path in her block of flats. Mum will water the plants in and I will apply a layer of paper and mulch on top next week.

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