VEGE PATCH. What's growing in yours?

[Wishfull]

Silver. How deep do you plant your spuds?
I have had mixed results with them over the years.
Can never seem to get large spuds. I know your supposed to have sandy loam but still not that big.
What fertilizer do you use ? Do you plant in furrows and then cover as they grow ?

 

[goody2shoes]

Had baked Spuds for dinner.. So yummy

Goody

 

[Bjay]

no need for sandy loam. Red volcanic soil is the best but theyll even grow in sand if ya give em enough food and water. Wishfull sounds like there probably not getting enough water. There thirsty buggers.

 

[silver]

Silver. How deep do you plant your spuds?
I have had mixed results with them over the years.
Can never seem to get large spuds. I know your supposed to have sandy loam but still not that big.
What fertilizer do you use ? Do you plant in furrows and then cover as they grow ?

I just put them under their own thickness wishfull. No furrow, and the fertilizer there is down on that grass layer area(rooster booster) and the compost layer with the ash (more food).
That soil won't be tired either as it was growing sparse grassses and weeds in the semi shade for the past 19 years that I know of. I'll just be hopefully optimistic that the plants will respond as they dig deep into those layers..... gotta be better than my last try in the tyres.... that was a complete no show lol. These ones had shoots so got planted today... just a filler so something is growing in there lol.

 

[Flowerpot]

Hi ho silver, you are always so busy in your garden and it looks great too... how do you find time to go out detecting for silver?
Youve gotta be too busy to get into any trouble too. ]

 

[sand surfer]

Hi wishfull you do not have to drill plant the spuds as silver said,i always did, but for comercial cropping only more spuds,more kg,more :money: ,as bj said they can be thirsty buggars, you may also have hungry soil, spuds like a slightly acid to neutral soil (PH 6.0 t0 7.0)use gypsum at 2kg to the square meter to lift PH, do not use lime as it can create a fungus which can miss shape or lower production,we put urea at 20 grams per meter of row as a side dress,you must cover the urea with soil or the sun will evaperate the nitrogen, you only have do it once,or you can use yates thrive or any other trace element fert,mix a watering can up once a week and apply after fourth week until digging,if like silver,you use rooster booster or other chook poop ferts, dont use urea or you may have plants 4 foot high and no spuds it will be to much nitrigen,base ferts if you have like black soil alluvials a N:K of 17:3:6 15:3:10 13:2:13 15:4:11 10:2:8,or if on phosphorous marginal lighter type soils a NPK of 12:14:10 11:12:17 would be rough starting points, anything close to them would be ok hope this helps you to get big yummy spuds.You can get a PH test kit from bunnings ,get the one with the bottles of test liquid in them,i have found them to be not to bad, to camparing to my comercial soil test's.

 

[silver]

Hi ho silver, you are always so busy in your garden and it looks great too... how do you find time to go out detecting for silver?
Youve gotta be too busy to get into any trouble too. ]

Gday Flowers, that time to make the garden bed only has to happen once... then the garden just grows in it. Those other beds would be well over 10 years old (and I only had to make them once).
The garden itself gets most everything it produces going back into it (unless it gets to be too much to do, then it goes off site), that suppresses weeds around trees and bananas etc.
Weeds in beds get pulled if big enough to be seen (or when I remember to look) that way they are minimal.... eventually I will cover all the ground in the bed area with mulch and beds, so then seeds of weeds in those areas will minimalize too over time.
time itself is precious and so I can only afford a small amount for gardening (the tree's and plants just have to grow themselves).... my favorite thing is to watch things grow (and dig silvers up)
Finding time..... well somethings gotta give, and there's plenty of time for sleeping when I'm just fertilizer myself hey !
:zzz: :skull: .......

 

[Wishfull]

We have heavy brown loam soil that has a bit of clay in it over limestone which cover the cerntral parts of Yorke Peninsula. I'm lucky where I am we have 400 to 500 mm of top soil. My neighbor mixes sand with his soil for better drainage.
Our biggest problem in winter is the winds and frosts. In summer it's the wind, heat and lack of rain.
I have been experimenting with kitchen waist compost tea. It's pretty strong so I dilute it quite well. My capsicums love it and so do the snow peas.

Might have to get some gypsum as you say sand surfer. The farmers around here use it a bit to break ip the clay in some areas.

I'm thinking I might use some of the big safety glass sheets I scored at a garage sale as a bit of a wind shelter for my cauliflowers and spinach I've just put in.

 

[sand surfer]

G'day wishfull, had to hit and run this morning, packed to head to the qld gem fields tomorrow,if you got a bit of clay in the soil, a bit of gypsum thrown around would help,if the kitchen waste compost is a bit rich, and you have a saw mill close and handy or you have bench saw saw dust at home, put it 50/50 with your kitchen waste,it will even out the kitchen compost, don't use chainsaw dust it will have bar oil in it.Those safety glass sheets sound like the good's ,a couple of 2"x2and 1/2" timber stakes to stand them up would be the good's,good luck mate, no vegetable garden here at the moment dam's a dust bowl and don't want to flog the bore.Be at the gem fields for a week if you want any info feel free to ask ,will have limited internet access while away but can answer when i get home :beer: :beer:

 

[Rockhunter62]

Carol found these 2 zucchini hiding in the garden today.

May have to have a better look next time.

Cheers

Doug

 

[silver]

Big enough to scare a cat lol.
Amazing what you can find when you look though hey ! :drooling:

 

[silver]

Its aliiiiive ! Mahhahahaha. Talk of spuds has got me thinking, spuds in a tree ? No wait that cant work layful:

Upside down spud.... just use a big water cooler bottle to hang from the tree (and stronger twine lol) :Y:

 

[Goldfreak]

Its aliiiiive ! Mahhahahaha. Talk of spuds has got me thinking, spuds in a tree ? No wait that cant work layful:

Upside down spud.... just use a big water cooler bottle to hang from the tree (and stronger twine lol) :Y:

sounds like a plan :Y:

 

[silver]

Bought some Tumeric the other day for planting.... got pieces the right size that I wanted so that I did not have to break them.
Don't want to plant them with a fresh wound as they would rot instead of grow.
Put them in the new garden.

also took the piece I had growing

and transplanted that in where I put the new bits

first of those spuds are poking through in that garden now too.
:drooling:

 

[Wishfull]

Question: I bought a Rhubarb plant about a month ago. Got the garden bed ready while the pot plant got acclimatized. Put it in 2 weeks ago then the leaves went red and fell off. Been watering and has blood and bone in the soil. Not sure what's going on? Anyone know ?
Never grown it before. My Mum used to make a mean Rhubarb pie, great with custard.

 

[goody2shoes]

Dormant for the winter maybe

My mum use to make the best Rhubarb pie,

She was a old fashion cook..

She would say that looks about right....then put in a tad more...

She could cook for 5 or 5 hundred...

Goody

 

[silver]

Here you go Wishful.
coupla things to keep in mind
not sure where she is from, so Febuary may be for the northern hemisphere. .. if thats the case then we'd be opposite (august).
And I would have teased the roots just a little before planting... so they become adventurous. :Y:
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/NQMZEgSA5H0[/video]

 

[Wishfull]

Thanks Silver gor that. The video didn't really tell me anything I didnt already know though. I planted it basically as she did but, I did tease the roots out a bit. I did a 12 month horticulture course back in 1990 so I do know a little bit sbout growing plants. The only thing that I can think of is that the leaves may have died off from shock as it did come from a large green house type shop. I am hoping it will reshoot at some stage. Either that or it got some disease, as far as I am aware though Rhubarb are fairly resistant to many problems like that.

 

[silver]

I like looking over fences into other peoples veggie gardens..... maybe you could spot some rhubarb like that..... and swap something for one of their plants (after a lengthy conversation about gardening with them) might get a good one cheap that way.
all I can think of is that she said they die down... so I suspect that would be over winter.. maybe they are best bought and planted in spring.

 

[goody2shoes]

Above 32C, rhubarb will go into dormancy until temperatures drop, when it will shoot away again. ... In our temperate climate rhubarb is usually winter dormant, but you can force it by covering the stalks with an open-ended box or tube. The resulting early, etiolated (pale) stalks are especially tender.

Goody