VEGE PATCH. What's growing in yours?

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Thought I would start a topic for all the vegetables gardeners. I haven't had any veges in for a couple of years but I started to prepare my overgrown beds for spring. I had no plans for winter veges but got carried away and planted in a couple of beds. I have one bed of garlic which is doing really well. Also went to bunnies to see what seedlings they had. I grabbed some peas, snow peas, spinach and silverbeet. Planted a row of carrots as well. OH a couple of blueberry bushes too.

Another project I have been thinking about is converting an old aviary into a greenhouse. Got the plastic on it today and already have a few seedlings in pots. Planted some heritage tomato seeds as well as some been and chillis.

So whats growing in your patch?

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PabloP said:
Crikey Silver, how do you find time for detecting/fossicking?

Rob P
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Truth is Rob.... I'm tiring a little :D
but nah.... doesn't take much to make a garden work, just the weeds that ya gotta defeat at first that causes consternation.
I think it's the want of fresh food that you know you will eat... that is the driving force (otherwise ya'd just grow flowers hey !).
One must first have a need that can be channeled into a fulfilling learning experience, but likened to detecting one must research and learn the ways of those that came before in order to achieve successfully that which they envision. ;) ;)
 
I grew some nasty hot habaneros a few years back and made the best tasting mango chilli sauce, yep same as yours Dave, was totally inedible. Habaneros are super hot but nothing like that reaper chilli.

I think they used to call habaneros 4 pot chilli, you could add 1 to 4 pots of food to add a bit of heat. :)
 
It's amazing how fast things grow too (when your watching them over time)
Here's the updated garden shots.
A few extra lettuce
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the new lettuce here will replace the older ones as they get eaten
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it's not always good news though
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lookin like the beans don't want the same amount of water as everything else.
lookin like bacterial wilt
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once you have good control of weeds it becomes as easy as this
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look... a weed in the strawberry patch :eek:
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that's why it pays to look... so you can weed.
here's my eggplant
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And some early tomatoe flowers
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and a coupla banana bunches
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and a choclate pudding fruit
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and how quickly the oranges ripen
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happy gardening :D
 
Looking good Silver.
I have just pulled out my lettuce as they went to seed ( too many plants and not enough salads) and put new plants in two weeks ago with some red kale.
The lettuce will be ready to take a few leaves off next week with this weather staying warm and the occasional shower in the afternoon.
The kale will go well in a salad and I still have some Tuscan Nero Kale which is fantastic.
My tomatoes didn't do any good so they went west also.
I love what all of you blokes are doing and an Italian mate of mine in Perth has his front and back yards both under crop and he never, ever goes to the green grocer. Magnificent.
Cheers
Mackka
 
Compost is important too.
it's amazing that after more than 80 dry days once at my Mothers place SEQ.... it was still damp ground underneath one foot deep mulch where it had never even been watered.
You can mulch in a compost bin
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Anything... as long as it's organic in origin
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or you can make a wooden compost bin of your own
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main thing is try to not throw anything organic away just use it as a mulch under your trees.
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it's like... new banana spot.... mulch beats weeds
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and whatsoever will not mulch down easily for you.....
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Burn...baby....B U R N :D
and put it all back into the garden as ash...
it's got everything still their except for the nitrogen. :D :Y:
 

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