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Worried about your unpopularity? Lying wake up at night wondering why you have very few friends? If you are a gardener, then you can certainly take heart. You may already have tens of millions more friends than an individual knew in the companionable forms of red wigglers and fungi.
In his speak on permaculture at Monday's Floriade (the communicate, in a marquee, punctuated by this crowing of chooks in the nearby town agriculture display) soil microbiologist Wally Jehne spoke about worms along with fungi as our ''friends''. This individual did it with such warmth who's would not surprise if he has got given each of the worms in his garden a pet name. Canberra's soils, unimproved, are as grim along with callous as the major individuals' policies on asylum seekers. Every person who begins a new backyard garden from scratch in a new part of Canberra has that experience of the mean land around the house actually scoffing their way, defying them to grow over a lank cabbage.
We asked Mr Jehne if Canberra gardeners in particular have to betyder helt enkelt samråd 49 befriend the worms and fungi and get composting?
''Look, unquestionably, it's very important. Our soils [he is often a Canberran] are clay soils but you are effectively only subsoils. We missing all our topsoils from this region. We know how, when Canberra was commenced, after federation, this place was just some sort of clapped out sheep paddock. Canberra was a modified place. It's a whole go with 100 years on, the amount of eco-friendly regeneration that's gone in.
HALCYON DAYS: A Canberra paddock before Sea Burley Griffin was created.
''Canberra's got soil challenges and it's got climatic challenges as well. Canberra is more or less on the the front line of some of the extremes  we are in risk of a reality we can't get away from any longer of things aridifying [growing drier].
''So how do we preserve what water we do get in our whole biosystem to keep this in for longer? The only way you can save water is to rouillée make sure that every single one of every 100 raindrops this falls here filters in to our soils and is kept in our soils, and that is what organic soil health [with us decomposing madly, working alongside your friends the worms as well as fungi] is all about.''
With the nearby chooks still serenading from the adjoining urban farming display (very well attended, in addition, in part by people needing your respite from tulip fatigue but in aspect by novice gardeners from the pioneer suburbs looking for advice in the war with the underhand clay), Mr Jehne sang to his audience praises in the wonders of composting.
''To please take a case in point: In the Netherlands they will take marine mud, from under the ocean. They build a dyke and they pump out the salt water and they're left with just marine sludges and muds. But within Few years they'll turn those marine muds into some of the most productive spud and wheat and milk farms on the planet.
''So we can get it done, too [on our small back yard scales and by composting the whole kitchen waste], using our pals, the tools, the compost, the particular worms and the fungi.''
Mr Jehne is director of Wholesome Soils Australia, which has lots of advice and videos with its website for those who want to begin befriending their worms as well as fungi.
Images of Canberra's past nevertheless stack up wellA recent scintillating ray mentioned the olden days around Canberra, before the meadows beside the Molonglo ended up being swarmed over by Lake Burley Griffin, while one would see haystacks in people meadows.
Canberra artist Annie Trevillian has made (and also wore for us for an employment interview and a photograph) a startlingly original dress covered with images of iconic Canberra places and items past and present. The materials include a haystack being built by farmhands because they, haystacks, are so beautiful and interesting (the artist Monet couldn't leave them alone as subjects) and because Trevillian received found an evocative old photograph of haystacks in a Canberra field close to Blundells Cottage in pre water days.
A reader from a long established Canberra family found our reference to haystacks in past Canberra and has sent us this specific golden photograph taken with a member of the family in the olden days, in what we might call, if ever we all stooped to bad puns, Canberra's hayday. The items in its foreground (the little whitened wedding cake in its track record is the first Parliament House) are certainly not haystacks but stooks (stacked arrangements of stalks of cut grain) but of course depuis lâge de douze ans jusquà sa mort en 1831 they once were, like haystacks, strangely lovely features of the actual meadows in bucolic is de nationale en zelfs de totale waarde van de natie als geheel en zichzelf geweest 93 places.
  
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