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Post by token on Oct 24, 2016 17:57:00 GMT 10
Noticed a few brushed potatoes sprouting at my neighborhood fruit market, so I grabbed one, cut it into a few chunks and buried them in the corner of my herb garden as a bit of an experiment. As far as ive learned, your meant to let the cut pieces sit and dry out for 24hours before planting, but it is a spud and boy do they have a strong survival ratio. |
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Post by ziggysdad on Oct 24, 2016 19:30:12 GMT 10
Noticed a few brushed potatoes sprouting at my neighborhood fruit market, so I grabbed one, cut it into a few chunks and buried them in the corner of my herb garden as a bit of an experiment. As far as ive learned, your meant to let the cut pieces sit and dry out for 24hours before planting, but it is a spud and boy do they have a strong survival ratio. Maybe I'll grab another tomorrow and let that one dry out for 24 hours before planting and compare the two. Not planning to mound them, just see how they do in the corner of the herb garden. Might try one amongst the peas as well. |
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Post by ziggysdad on Oct 29, 2016 20:33:15 GMT 10
Doubled the number of cherry tomato plants in the garden. Made a marinara sauce from freshly harvested tomatoes and basil for dinner.
Herbs are growing well and cucumbers are thriving, but peas and radishes are getting too much sun.
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Post by Peter on Oct 29, 2016 22:29:26 GMT 10
We have a frog now living in our garden. I only hope it eats the little bastards that are eating our leafy herbs & veg.
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Post by SA Hunter on Oct 30, 2016 15:36:28 GMT 10
Planted cucumber, cherry tomatoes, Black Russian tomatoes, climbing beans, yellow capsicum, plus some pumpkin.
The weather is too moody at the moment, 31c yesterday, 17c today!!!
Once the warm weather is a bit more consistant, will plant out more tomatoes, and fill in the gaps with herbs.
I've also been scrounging styrafoam boxes. I plan to have one whole side of my yard with these boxes full of soil, and use them for growing whatever I can. I had experimented with Silverbeet in containers, and they are going great, so I will now try a whole swag of veggies and see how I go.
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Post by Beno on Nov 1, 2016 7:05:55 GMT 10
pumpkin, tomato (grosse lisse) yellow cucumber, hippy beans, watermelon, herbs.
im hoping they'll go the distance out here. peoples gardens are looking stunning in the hill this time of year.
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Post by token on Nov 1, 2016 7:52:07 GMT 10
Pulled up some spuds yesdey! Cleared the way for more seedlings to replace the area.
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Post by SA Hunter on Nov 14, 2016 18:20:49 GMT 10
Planted out more beans, cucumber and Black Russian cherry tomatoes.
Then, lo and behold, there are tomato seedlings popping up all over the garden - guess some seeds from last years crop decided to germinate and grow.
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Post by Peter on Nov 16, 2016 20:53:19 GMT 10
Not much is growing in my garden.
A couple of moderately hot days revealed that the vertical herb garden I planted doesn't hold water long enough. Other plants have been ravaged by a heap of white moths, and even froggy gave up on eating bugs and ended up minus his skin in the pool pump.
Time to brush the dust off and start again, methinks.
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Post by ziggysdad on Nov 17, 2016 8:16:36 GMT 10
A baby bush turkey appears to have taken up residency in our front garden. My wife and daughter are enjoying his presence, so they planted new tomato plants around him.
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Post by Peter on Nov 17, 2016 22:34:25 GMT 10
That reminds me... I told Mrs Pete the other day that I think we should celebrate Thanksgiving this year.
She laughed and said, "So you want to cook a turkey, huh?" She knows me too well...
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Post by SA Hunter on Dec 24, 2016 23:32:48 GMT 10
Well, 2 days ago went to Bunnings and got some more seedlings - chilli, eggplant & cucumber. $3.25 per punnet.
Then, I go back the next day for an indoor plant, and, those same seedlings are discounted to .50c each. I blew $2.00.
My experimental garden in styrafoam boxes is going ok - some tomato bushes are now full of tiny tomatoes. Basil is going nuts too. One thing I found is that they need a lot more feeding, as they tend to turn yellow if not regularly fertilised.
I'll be planting a zucchini bush in a pot, as well as chilli, to see how they go as well.
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Post by paranoia on Dec 25, 2016 0:00:29 GMT 10
Pot gardening seems to just be a way to make things difficult for yourself... Edges of the pot cause issues regardless of what they're made of and the tiny garden swings wildly in terms of moisture and nutrients due to fast drying out and nutrient leaching. Cant maintain a healthy mycellical population...
Every year or so I get excited, try another few pot plants and most of them die lol. Its like trying to keep a tiny fish pond, maintenance is huge... Make a dam and you can throw a few fingerlings in and walk away.
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Post by SA Hunter on Dec 25, 2016 20:35:22 GMT 10
Pot gardening seems to just be a way to make things difficult for yourself... Edges of the pot cause issues regardless of what they're made of and the tiny garden swings wildly in terms of moisture and nutrients due to fast drying out and nutrient leaching. Cant maintain a healthy mycellical population... Every year or so I get excited, try another few pot plants and most of them die lol. Its like trying to keep a tiny fish pond, maintenance is huge... Make a dam and you can throw a few fingerlings in and walk away. Yeah, some things work well for me in a pot - some don't. Worked: Silver Beet, Chilli, Herbs, Lemon Grass, Chives. Not So Good: Spuds, Silver Beet, Herbs, Tomatoes. I think it comes down to keeping watered and well fed ( $$$$$ ). |
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Post by tyburn on Dec 26, 2016 15:31:49 GMT 10
We're heading into the business end of winter now, so heavy frosts should be the norm starting the next few days. Consequently most gardedning will just be the stuff we have in pots, which will go into our sunroom.
Not that we have much under cultivation at the moment -- basically just some mint and garlic chives in pots, plus around 1sqm of leafy greens. I'm not quite sure what variety the greens are, however saw some huge ones growing wild by the side of the road last week, so if they survive the low temps, should be able to get a good few meals out of them.
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Post by blueshoes on Dec 26, 2016 16:13:44 GMT 10
I have some seedlings just coming up - the lettuce, bok choy and silverbeet coming up fast isn't that surprising, but it looks like some corn and sunflowers are coming up - I've never grown either from seed before, it's very exciting  I pulled up my first garlic this year - planted about 30 sprouting cloves of garlic 6 months ago, including the 12 the chooks dug up... the 15 out the front all just rotted in the ground, of the three remaining cloves out in the back veggie patch that I found under the dirt after the chooks got into the patch... two actually formed proper heads! Yay Still, 30 cloves in and 2 heads out is a pathetic hit rate. Also the kale, silverbeet and mustard have all gone to seed and I'm just waiting for them to dry out before collecting it and digging over those patches... I have a rosemary plant, and a thyme plant - but I think my neighbour poisoned my thyme plant along with a bunch of weeds though, it was going gangbusters and suddenly died this week. Along with the now-almost-dead bottlebrush tree next to it that I really don't care about. At least our fruit trees seem unaffected... so far. I garden without relying on poisoning stuff (who says you'll be able to get glyphosate forever?) but the next door neighbour just sprays and poisons anything lol |
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Post by upthecreek on Feb 10, 2017 21:58:08 GMT 10
At the moment have cherry tomatoes, Spanish toms,groseelisse toms and some other unknown tomatoes that are self seeded , jap pumpkins, grey pumpkins, green beans , lettuce ,few spuds , strawberries, blackberries Meyer lemons , pears 2 varieties on one grafted tree and raspberries , that's all for this season , change a few next year and rotate the beds
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Post by Chloe on Feb 11, 2017 12:02:22 GMT 10
Well mine is definitely not as large as everyone else's, but it's a good place to start right? Lol, I have beans, cherry tomatoes, capsicums, cucumbers, spring onions, radish and spinach  |
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Post by jo on Feb 12, 2017 1:58:56 GMT 10
Went to my local market today and found some unusual plants..... a Longan (which is a cousin of a Lychee), a verigated chilli, a banana flavoured passion fruit and a Naranjilla (has a sweet yellow fruit but has major prickles) can't wait for the heatwave to be over so I can plant these goodies |
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Post by paranoia on Feb 23, 2017 15:28:54 GMT 10
Figs! Bunnings had a special on brown turkey figs for $12 each so I bought a couple yesterday and decided to spend a little time in the 'messy' garden. This is my experimental area where I run no-till, don't pull weeds and try to let things 'do their own thing'.
Whilst my little one dug the holes I decided to take some photos.
^ huge solarium nigrum (blackberry nightshade) in the foreground a couple years old now is covered in berries at the moment, they taste a little like tomatoes.
^self seeded 'red winter' kale with arrowroot in the background. generates a lot of mulch and stays leafy even in dry conditions, makes tubers which can be used as potato substitutes
^^ has come a long way from the compacted grass field I bought. Red Clover, ribwort, rocket, Lucerne and obviously sunflower have all been introduced to suppress the grass/weeds. there are also Jerusalem artichoke plants in the forground but difficult to spot in the photo.
^^ daughter finished planting the fig Can also see marigolds and rainbow chard, also self seeded
Garden was started 3 springs ago. It's just starting to 'do its own thing' which I'm very happy with. It's starting to expand as the self-seeding plants are blown further each season. Can't wait to see where it goes next.
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