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Post by SA Hunter on Jan 19, 2023 19:56:25 GMT 10
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malewithatail
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Post by malewithatail on Jan 20, 2023 6:48:00 GMT 10
We are growing a lot of vegies in Tyre gardens. Simply cut the side out of a truck/tractor Tyre with a demolition saw, put a thick mat of paper /cardboard under, fill with soil/compost and plant. Mulch well and it works. You can even paint the Tyre for added color !
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Post by Stealth on Jan 20, 2023 15:54:22 GMT 10
That's such a cool idea! I wonder if you could do eggplant like that as well. I have several types of seeds that I'm about to try to germinate and I have a few thai ones that are quite small and would hopefully do well in buckets.
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Post by spinifex on Jan 21, 2023 10:38:37 GMT 10
_  These are just planted in 20L drums with 5cm deep gravel in bottom and silty soil belended with lucerne chaff, a tablespoon of super phosphate and a half teaspoon of trace element mix. Note that the eggplant below is nitrogen deficient. It is in an unprepared soil (ie none of the extra additives blended into it.) I have added nitrate and SoA and trace element mix via watering on a regular basis but it has never looked really verdant. It does, however, still produce a decent amount of fruit. Attachments:
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Post by Stealth on Jan 21, 2023 11:33:36 GMT 10
_ View AttachmentThese are just planted in 20L drums with 5cm deep gravel in bottom and silty soil belended with lucerne chaff, a tablespoon of super phosphate and a half teaspoon of trace element mix. Note that the eggplant below is nitrogen deficient. It is in an unprepared soil (ie none of the extra additives blended into it.) I have added nitrate and SoA and trace element mix via watering on a regular basis but it has never looked really verdant. It does, however, still produce a decent amount of fruit. That's awesome! Do you just have the one plant in the eggplant bucket? I'm pretty sure that's the same variation that I have stored away for planting. |
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Post by spinifex on Jan 21, 2023 13:22:35 GMT 10
Yep. 1 eggplant per pot. I always sow 5-7 seeds and starting about 2 weeks after they emerge, pull out the weakest looking one each week over a few weeks until the strongest one remains. I do same with capsicums and tomatoes.
With cucembers I plant 5 and thin down to 2.
With climbing beans I plant 5 and thin to 3.
Herbs I plant as seedlings 2 per pot for parsley, basil, lemon thyme and 1 per pot for mint and Thai basil.
Garlic I put in five cloves per pot and let them all go to maturity.
I make square 'all round' tresllises for cucumbers, tomatoes and climbing beans. With the containers I use I get 10cm wire mesh and bend it every 3 squares to get a structure that slips over the pot and can be cable tied to the top edge of the pot through holes drilled in it. I join to 90cm high treslisses together to make them 1.8m ... which is the height of my greenhouse.
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Post by spinifex on Jan 21, 2023 13:37:23 GMT 10
One thing I like about the design in the video at the top of this thread is the perforated bottle burried in the centre. It would make watering and fertigating more reliable - I have noticed a tendency for the soil in my containers to separate from the walls of the containers and even just a tiny gap of 1mm or less tends to let the water applied in the top of the pot to run down the gaps around the edges and drain out and not wet the entire mass of soil ( I know this as I've tipped out a recently watered pot to see what was happening to the soil inside it.
I think a 25mm pvc pipe with many small holes drilled in it, capped on the bottom and burried upright in the centre of the pot would enable water to be applied from the "inside out" rather than "top down" and dissoloved nutrients would get deeper into the soil as well. I think using a plastic bottle burried takes up too much volume at th expense of soil and root mass. A bottle could be siliconed on to the top of the pipe to create a bigger reservoir of water.
I might try using 15mm plastic pipe with holes and placing a dripper into the top. This would enable automated watering that works from "inside out".
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Post by malewithatail on Jan 21, 2023 14:42:06 GMT 10
These are smaller car type tires with passion-fruit in them. The idea is the same for truck and tractor tires as well, cut the side out and use.
Cut the grass back to bare dirt underneath he tire, place a thick layer of cardboard or papers under it, fill with soil/compost/potting mix, and plant into. Mulch well. We use cardboard boxes from the supermarkets as they are food grade. As for the newspapers, they should be OK as well.
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Post by spinifex on Jan 22, 2023 17:42:14 GMT 10
 The Taiwanese eggplant is fruiting well ... I've put a 3cm deep layer of lucerne chaff on top of the soil as mulch. The plants seem to enjoy this. I pick about 4 fruit per week from it. Potted vegetables work pretty well. |
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