{"id":1338,"date":"2018-08-19T12:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T02:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2018-08-19T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T02:23:55","slug":"working-bee-planned-for-sunday-26-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/2018\/08\/working-bee-planned-for-sunday-26-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Bee planned for Sunday 26 August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8775.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1341\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/2018\/08\/working-bee-planned-for-sunday-26-august\/img_8775\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8775.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4032,3024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 8 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1531494831&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;25&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Harvest Vegetables\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8775.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1341\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8775.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Snow Peas, chillies and coriander\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8775.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8775.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8775.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8775.jpg?w=2000 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8775.jpg?w=3000 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Unlike today (in Melbourne &#8211; cold rain and a maximum of 8\u00b0 Celcius &#8211; this day is expected to be a warm 18 degrees with 1% chance of rain. Additionally after consulting the lunar gardening calendar for Melbourne &#8211; It is fortuitous for growing and planting &#8211; the moon will be full and it is also a good time to fertilise. The moon is in Aquarius, but confusingly it is not the best time to water (but the next day is so I will take that on and do it on Monday 27 August). Hope to see you there&#8230; What to plant? Beetroot, Silverbeet, Cabbage, Carrot, Capsicum, Chillies, Celery, Coriander, Dill, Eggplant, Lettuce, Parsley, Parsnip, Pumpkin, Squash, Radish, Rocket, Rockmelon, Watermelon, Spring Onion, Strawberry, Tomato and Turnips&#8230; I don&#8217;t think pumpkin and watermelon are options for the private plots&#8230; a rogue pumpkin plant in the community garden might be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Now on a less interesting technical note, FaceBook is changing (or rather removing) the ability to automatically publish to a personal timeline &#8211; which is what I sometimes do. It does allow you to publish to a page that is created within a personal Facebook profile. Why? to guard us against bad folks I think&#8230; Anyway, the upshot is that I have created a page where these blog posts land&#8230; That means you can either subscribe to this blog, or subscribe to the page&#8230; which is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/xsymetrix\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/xsymetrix<\/a>\u00a0or if I think I know you well enough&#8230; you might get an infrequent MailChimp Newsletter in your mailbox &#8211; which you can unsubscribe from at any time&#8230; This is just about sharing stories, purely social and not commercial&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Although I have published links to the lunar planting calendar before, Here it is again and as an added bonus for the data devourers &#8211; I include the link to the trees database for the City of Melbourne and also a link to a photographic survey of houses in the suburbs of Kensington and Flemington compiled from the mid 80&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lunar Planting Calendar &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/au.rhythmofnature.net\/gardener-calendar\">https:\/\/au.rhythmofnature.net\/gardener-calendar<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Melbourne city council trees visual database &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au\/#mapexplore\">http:\/\/melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au\/#mapexplore<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Flemington &amp; Kensington Conservation Study 1985 survey images &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/michaeluren.id.au\/maps\/\">http:\/\/michaeluren.id.au\/maps\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike today (in Melbourne &#8211; cold rain and a maximum of 8\u00b0 Celcius &#8211; this day is expected to be a warm 18 degrees with 1% chance of rain. 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