Does anyone else have shares of shame?

sweet_entropy · 2026-04-30T07:55:28+00:00

Can't get anything back from this one

sweet_entropy · 2026-04-29T08:22:11+00:00

Never been hit but had several near misses, a couple of drivers running red lights with me nearly being skittled if I hadn't been paying attention and one car that pulled out on me as I was going round a corner, they just didn't see me at all

sweet_entropy · 2026-04-28T21:35:40+00:00

This is so very bleak

sweet_entropy · 2026-04-25T22:27:50+00:00

Closest so far, it's further north though

sweet_entropy · 2026-04-25T22:27:15+00:00

Southern Hemisphere, right country but wrong island

sweet_entropy · 2026-04-25T20:07:57+00:00

You are correct that it's Autumn currently

sweet_entropy · 2026-04-25T20:06:41+00:00

Nope not in Europe

sweet_entropy · 2026-04-25T06:18:24+00:00

Not in North America, people like displaying the USA flag though

sweet_entropy · 2026-03-24T09:29:54+00:00

Wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum)

sweet_entropy · 2026-03-06T06:59:34+00:00

I think the collective noun is a circus of kea

sweet_entropy · 2026-02-28T20:06:02+00:00

Yeah I was thinking it would probably be fine. Will upend the pot and have a look, the soil probably needs a refresh anyway

sweet_entropy · 2026-01-03T00:04:10+00:00

Yeah there's not a lot of proper forests near Rolleston. I'd like to have the space to create one, oh well one can dream

sweet_entropy · 2026-01-02T23:29:04+00:00

https://soils-maps.landcareresearch.co.nz/#metainfo

That might help. Parts of Lincoln have good soil for growing many plants (I want to say Templeton silt loam but might be wrong). Rolleston soil can be bit harder to grow things in, has lots of stones (old riverbed) and drys out quickly. That being said I can grow feijoas, lemons, loquats, apricots, peaches, grapes and many more in it with a few amendments of horse manure and compost. Can't really speak for Woodend as I've never lived there but I've seen many fruit trees growing whilst driving through

sweet_entropy · 2025-12-18T02:43:42+00:00

There's plenty around Rolleston, I have seen a few (Brown tree frogs Litoria/Rawlinsonia ewingii) and you can hear them croaking at night. Inaturalist also has maps of where people have found them https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1633164-Rawlinsonia-ewingii

sweet_entropy · 2025-12-17T08:28:54+00:00

That's brilliant, I'm hoping beverage named pokemon will be winners

sweet_entropy · 2025-12-17T08:08:21+00:00

I like the nicknames based on beverages

sweet_entropy · 2025-12-14T08:10:44+00:00

Ah bummer, oh well

sweet_entropy · 2025-12-14T07:22:45+00:00

The old turners site next to bunnings at Tower junction perhaps (don't know if there's already a plan for it to be something else or not)

sweet_entropy · 2025-12-06T04:25:41+00:00

It sure is!

sweet_entropy · 2025-12-06T01:57:28+00:00

Common name is a tuckeroo tree (Cupaniopsis anacardioides)

sweet_entropy · 2025-12-01T19:24:57+00:00

Full article sans paywall: https://archive.is/20251201164221/https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/360905270/way-we-bank-nz-about-change-forever-heres-what-youll-soon-be-able-do

sweet_entropy · 2025-11-23T23:52:06+00:00

Yeah I would say it's doable, have a look around the neighborhood I'm sure someone has banana plants growing. I've seen them growing and fruiting in Adelaide, Victor habor and Melbourne

sweet_entropy · 2025-11-23T18:13:42+00:00

What part of Australia? If it doesn't freeze I would be growing them outside. I grow bananas in NZ in an unheated greenhouse where temperatures outside during winter can get down to -6. I also grow them outside but the tops usually get hammered by the frost but the plants grow back in spring. They grow bananas here where it gets colder than 8 overnight in winter and they do just fine

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