Prices are always rising.

What have you found good for saving a dollar?

The leaves are falling... What are your plans over Autumn?

Trying to get my head around crop rotation.

It’s not traditionally used for pots I don’t think but I just can’t face the physical job of emptying and sterilising all the soil and pots or buying more potting mix after the tomatoes and zucchini are spent. (They got hit by black spot and powdery mildew despite the spraying.)

I’m willing to pull out and dispose of the spent diseased plants afterwards and maybe dig in some manure but am trying to avoid the physical labour of emptying the pots and thought of treating them more like a garden bed.

Maybe I’ll try just chucking a different fungal resistant plant in there afterwards. Perhaps it might be ok if I choose resistant hybrids. Beans and peas are recommended after tomatoes and zucchini to restore nitrogen but also get fungal diseases so I don’t know.

I could just be lazy and do a manure crop over autumn or winter.

The leaves are starting to fall. Is it Autumn already?

What do you have planned for your plants or garden?

Have you found a good bargain lately, made a repair, or figured out something that works for you?

This is also for any topic requests, suggestions, or tips that might not require their own thread.

I ended up learning how to do this and it worked well. Definitely practice first somewhere like a patch of your leg, upper lip, big toe, anywhere it doesn’t really matter about precision.

It’s much quicker than tweezing and can take off more than you intend so go slowly with short strokes and be very careful around arches. (I did my upper arches and between my eyebrows but left the bottom arches for when I get more confident.)

Do not do this for the first time before an important event!

I didn’t use any lotion but it still worked.

If your skin is sensitive it can get red bumps in the follicles afterwards. Keep everything as clean as possible during and after and perhaps use some Savlon.

I’m going to try doing this.

Transparency, it could cost more than 10 dollarydoos. I wanted something with UV resistant plastic to not crumble so I ordered a 60L outdoor bin ($15) and its lid ($6-ish) from Bunnings plus delivery.

You also need to have, buy or borrow a drill of some kind. And buy or have soil

(Early so I don’t forget)

A heat wave is coming this week!

What do you have planned for your landscape, pots, patch, window box - or even the lone houseplant/cactus in your apartment?

(Early so I don’t forget)

Have you found a good bargain lately, made a repair, or figured out something that works for you?

This is also for any topic requests, suggestions, or tips that might not require their own thread.

These could stand to be more common knowledge. This is a quick skim and not an exhaustive list so check your area and see if each organisation has a service I didn’t mention.

I may edit for more info so check back.

SCAR https://secondchanceanimalrescue.com.au/resources/outreach-program/scar-pet-food-pantry/

Anyone who is struggling can get food for their pet

POTH (Pets Of The Homeless) https://www.petsofthehomeless.org.au/how-we-help/pet-food

https://www.petsofthehomeless.org.au/how-we-help/get-help

Not only for the homeless but for anyone in financial hardship. Requires a referral from a case manager. Food, help with veterinary care, temporary crisis foster/boarding (they mind your pet for a while in an emergency and you get your pet back)

Each community partner may have specific criteria for accessing support, e.g Must live in the local area or have a concession card so you might want to check.

Pet Pantry https://www.humaneanimalrescueaus.org/about-5

Food. Free desexing of the mother pet on surrendering the whole litter of kittens/puppies. Free parasite control for dogs (treatments sent via mail)

Lort Smith

Discounts for veterinary care for pensioners. Payment plans.

https://lortsmith.com/our-programs/emergency-welfare-assistance-program/

Emergency foster - requires genuine crisis and referral from a case worker

Lort Smith/Launch

https://lortsmith.com/our-programs/community-partnerships-2/ Pilot program helping pets get into crisis accommodation and rentals along with owners. I can’t find much about this so not sure if it exists yet or no longer exists. Definitely try to check it out anyway.

Lort Smith/Good Shepherd

https://lortsmith.com/about-us/#%3A%7E%3Atext=As+a+partner+of+Lort%2Cto+%242%2C000+for+veterinary+costs. Emergency no interest loans of up to $2000 for veterinary costs. Must be arranged before payment

RSPCA

https://rspcavic.org/assistance-after-a-disaster/ Disaster assistance