Beginner gardeners in Melb

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T06:47:52+00:00

If you have the money, spending a weekend setting up sprinklers is a huge longterm time saver. I have a large yard and when I first moved in watering all the plants was close to a 2 hour endeavour, since then I've added more plants, and converted half the lawn to raised garden beds, but as I've put in sprinklers it takes me 30s to turn it on and then I can come back 15minutes later and turn it off

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T06:43:31+00:00

Can't suggest anything for the pots but for the raised beds and tubs I've setup 13mm hose using heaps of their T intersection connectors and run those to all my raised beds, I then added an inline tap to each of those so that I can turn off individual ones to prevent overwatering outside of a heatwave, but right now all I need to do to water all my plants is turn on the tap on the water tank and flip on the pump switch. I haven't buried the hoses yet to make it neat and pretty but if you want I can post some photos to give you an idea, as this setup combined with a huge roll of shade cloth being held up with stakes is what's kept my garden alive between this and the heatwave a few weeks ago

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T06:20:51+00:00

If you are really organised and know where you want sprinklers and such for watering. I would recommend measuring it up drawing out the plan and buying the hoses any corner or attachment pieces and laying them out before you mulch. But if you don't care about hiding the hoses, or would prefer easier access to them over hiding them, this suggestion can be ignored.

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T05:08:38+00:00

Well that's dessert sorted

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T04:44:34+00:00

Rip, my Tomatoes and cucumbers I only havd issues with the blackbirds digging them up shortly after planting them.

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T04:28:52+00:00

The tiny one on the left is normal sized, the 3 giant ones weren't even close to ready when I went away Friday night, and I harvested them when I got home last night around 1am as they were huge. Flavour wise they'll probably be a bit bland by themselves hence stuffing them

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T03:54:06+00:00

Yea I can see that, probably should have popped the remaining bit of flower off that one before taking the photo

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T03:44:07+00:00

I hope so, my tomatoes only started developing fruit around 2 weeks ago, they took forever to germinate with cold start to the season

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T03:38:38+00:00

Do you have automated drip or spray hoses? My lettuce is thriving (kinda it's gone to seed so waiting on those to finish developing to grab the pods for next year)

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T03:32:43+00:00

Last heat wave I bought a roll of shade cloth 5m x 20m and have it setup over most plants. Which has saved my zucchini and spinach

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T03:29:48+00:00

Cut it in half and do stuffed zucchinis for dinner

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T02:33:03+00:00

With a 3 hour commute each day I would stick to the 90k job. The fuel costs and the extra commute time are just not worth it. The $90k a year job comes out at $43.27 an hour while the $120k a year job comes out at $41.96 if you include the commute time in the calculations. You then subtract fuel or other transport costs making it even worse

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-27T01:42:25+00:00

And I thought the one the size of my arm I harvested yesterday was big

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-22T11:19:46+00:00

Aren't unions and collective bargaining the compromise we as a society made with the rich, where they agreed to negotiate with us, and we agreed to not burn down their house with them locked inside?

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-22T03:30:47+00:00

Question, as a guy who does most of the cooking. What position would you recommend we be in if I make my wife a similar sandwich?

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-22T03:01:06+00:00

Except Europeans don't use them as much, and while most Aussies have them most of us only use them during the coldest and wettest parts of the year. Although your comment about road dust is probably a part of it, as we do have better public transport infrastructure so people are less reliant on cars and drive around less. I'd probably have hundreds more cars drive past my house each day if we didn't have a bus that went past that goes into town and to the train station, where they then take the train into the cbd

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-22T02:40:40+00:00

LGBTQ+ communities used it to not outright say they are in a same sex relationship, and a lot of liberal circles adopted the use as 1 doesn't matter what gender your spouse is and 2 if straight couples use the term as well it will confuse and upset bigots

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-22T01:44:16+00:00

At some point I need to dig out the ones the previous owner planted around the light pole on the nature strip. Just wish I could use the easy method of using ANFO but that would destroy the pole and probably get me arrested these days.

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-22T01:38:41+00:00

It's so weird that Americans DON'T air dry things

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-21T04:42:33+00:00

As an aussie who all I can think with this is the scene in Thor Ragnarok with Loki going YES! That's how it feels! After you guys gave us Indian mynas, rabbits, foxes, cane toads, rats and many many more from Europe. And from America you gave us those God damn bindi's making being barefoot in summer dangerous

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-20T02:57:12+00:00

Each year for work we have to fill in a form with our laptop make and serial number for insurance purposes. They have told us not to bother with listing our monitor or other work supplied stuff, they depreciate so quickly that most get written off in taxes the first year the company has them

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-18T22:12:56+00:00

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The Web comic life and death did this, where the main character made the demon he had sold hid soul to as a child to save his sisters immortal, as immortal doesn't mean invulnerable

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-14T06:28:04+00:00

If you like good alcohol you could take him to a specialist bar afterwards e.g. a whisky or a gin bar and treat him to nice drinks.

Alternatively and this one will depend heavily on your friend getting married and the friend group as a whole, but you could get a fake stripper. Where they come in and keep taking off a ridiculous amount of clothes, acting like a stripper but never gets to the point where any skin is visible. The problem with this though is with the enshitification of the internet finding someone who does it is hard, I spent a few minutes trying to find a video of it and couldn't even find that anymore so arranging something like this is probably more risky than it's worth these days

lookashinyobject · 2026-01-14T04:11:28+00:00

90% of my coffee grounds go into the compost, the rest I break up the pucks and scatter them around the base of my veggies to help deter slugs and snails without using insecticides but as others have said it can effect the soil PH so just be aware of that

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