VEGE PATCH. What's growing in yours?

[Mackka]

I love every part of your planning process and the use of what nature has provided you.
Excellent work Silver.
Mackka :Y:

 

[silver]

Proof will be in the pudding fellas, we'll watch it as it grows... planting day on Monday Morning. :Y:

 

[Ramjet]

My garlic and other veges are doing OK but this wind is knocking them around. My home made green house has lots of seeds sprouting and seedlings doing well.

 

[Solid Luck]

Hard luck, What is the name of the tomatoes in your 3rd Pic?... And the really dark ones?.... Very cool, good tasting? Never seen them before.. :Y:

LW...

Sorry mate. Just saw this. The big slicer is Big Rainbow and that dark one is Brads Black Heart.
The BBH is an excellent tommie, great tasting and a good producer.
the Rainbow is rather bland tasting. I have found multi coloured varieties to be pretty average in taste.
Best Orange tomato I have grown is the KBX. Big slicer and unreal taste.

 

[silver]

Looking great RJ, all you need is a warm change now that you have a good head start. :Y:

 

[iamagoldenoldie2]

Bought a punnet od snow peas about 6 weeks ago, they looked healthy in the punnet but very wilted in the ground 3 out of the 7 seem ok maybe its the winter, the banana passion fruit has just started to look ok harvested the jureselum artichokes these look like a ginger tuber, the herbs gone to seed . looks like i don't have green thumbs

 

[Ramjet]

Bought a punnet od snow peas about 6 weeks ago, they looked healthy in the punnet but very wilted in the ground 3 out of the 7 seem ok maybe its the winter, the banana passion fruit has just started to look ok harvested the jureselum artichokes these look like a ginger tuber, the herbs gone to seed . looks like i don't have green thumbs

The ones in my greenhouse are double the size of those in the garden. All from the same punnet. On average it is around 10 degrees warmer in the greenhouse than it is outside.

 

[iamagoldenoldie2]

yep, been looking at making a small green house , got a few sheets of poly carbonate to use but the green thumb stuff is my wifes domain,,,she's got plants everywhere all in the road, how dare you hack my frangipani and the hibiscus shrub !!!!!! , and you broke the bird bath,, luv, I thought i was doing you a favour,,, the frannie got in my face when getting the rainwater drum to fill the bird bath,,,and the bush thing behind it was growing up and over the garage gutters,, thought it was a weed ,, those white cockies tipped you birdbath over just after the ***** your lemon tree they bit off all the small green lemons,, so I have been warned keep out of the shade hut, don't touch any plants, stay out of " MY garden " but you can trim the jasmine bush growing along the fence, its going wild with hands reaching for the sky, a nasty thing, when you trim it it leeks a milky white juice bet is dangerous that why i got that job "women " never think ahead the bird over the back has 2 privets, a jacaranda tree and some sort of lilli pill tree , planted on the fence line they are affecting the fence and the roots are in my sorry my wife's garden time for some garden maintenance with glysulphate not the water down stuffs but the 490 gm stuff any one know what the farmers use to kill trees

 

[silver]

Neighbor(owner of the house next door... not the tenent) killed my big old deciduous tree (well... half of it). He decided to poison all the weeds in the greenhouse in his yard right next to my big tree, and of course all my trees feeder roots were having a great time on that greenhouse floor. But they ended up sucking up his poison spray. He denied it of course, but his tenant spoke the truth lol. Was funny to see cause this giant of a tree only died on his half where the greenhouse was, cause tree roots mirror their branch counterparts and vice versa with the suns energy to the roots (that's why the entire tree never died) ,.... Of course you can't explain rocket science (or botanicals) to a goose(not meaning any of us) lol...... Anyway... I digress... what I mean to say.... is be careful that you don't end up with one half of a dead tree either by accident or design.

 

[silver]

That's a nice looking garlic bed too RJ, could imagine harvest time being fun
My eldest young fella put in 3 cloves to grow from grocery store stock, but hasn't been happy yet with its performance. I'm sure I saved an Aussie grown clove somewhere to try growing.... something yet to learn for us up here is growing good garlic.

 

[Jaros]

See if one of your Greek or Italian or Ukrainian neighbours will give you a couple of their home grown cloves cos I think a lot of the shop bulbs are imported from overseas and could be treated with alien XYZ rays so they don't strike as well.
Jaros. :Y:

 

[silver]

Planted up this morning
carrots on left and both ends
yellow squash through the middle
peas (seed) down the right side.

had to look through old seeds from up the bush (more than ten years old)

not sure if these will be snow peas or normal peas (but I'm going with snow peas).

also put in watermelon seeds around some banana plants so they can meander through (bought seeds)

and here are the eldest young fellas garlic plants.... nothing like the RJ garlic fields but growing in leaf litter just the same :Y:

 

[silver]

Picked a nice lot of snowpeas today :Y:

and looked in on my tomatoes 8)

and grabbed half a dozen oranges on the way in too.

 

[Jaros]

They always taste nicer if they are your own-good work Silver.

 

[silver]

They always taste nicer if they are your own-good work Silver.

They do mate .... and nothing like the smell of a tomato bush too, as you rummage amongst the leaves for a look(ahhh.... the smells of the garden fresh )

 

[Ramjet]

Lookin good silver.

 

[silver]

Lookin good silver.

Tasting good too RJ.... steamed with tea last night.
Gave some to my elderly neighbor too (snowpeas). :Y:

 

[silver]

Had Breakfast out of my garden this morning

Lettuce
Oregano
Sage
Thistle
Snowpeas
Strawberries
Capsicum
Chillie
Orange.
:Y: :Y:
Capsicum sorta tasted out of place.. the chillie was a well chewed Birdseye finale`.

 

[silver]

Here's how the veggie patch is moving along
bit more sunshine on the tomatoes since we reduced a hibiscus out of the way (a bit).

other side looking back... peas etc

the peas are finished now and I've saved some on the vine for seed.

And that's those red onions next to the peas (they are growing more vigorously next to the nitrogen fixing peas... less so next to the nitrogen hungry tomatoes).

tomatoes are going to crop well.

strawberries speak for themselves.

latest garden doing alright, but no sign of the ten year old pea seeds sprouting at all.

and the herb garden is still looking good too.

 

[Billy]

And that is how you do it folks

Great stuff Mr Silver :Y: