VEGE PATCH. What's growing in yours?

[silver]

Visitor today

grrrr.... looks like a cabbage moth to me

saving grace....

pollinating my strawberry flowers

tennis racquets in the old days... lets the air through (only)

 

[silver]

9 days later....
first flowers showing on the mango trees
3rd July

lots of fruit on the chocolate pudding tree

miniature outie brom in full bloom

I've pulled up some pumpkin vine (got 6 japs this year)

what I've cut so far making a healthy addition to the compost

beans have pumped

beans and even the peas are reaching up

strawberries

gunna be a long season

tis the first fruit of the season today :drooling:

getting there slowly.... as fast as it will grow

 

[Jaros]

:clap: Looking very healthy-and don't they taste better than the supermarket variety.

 

[Topenda]

Does the fruit really taste like chocolate pudding? Got a 3 year old one , no fruit yet, how old is your tree?
Other than eating when ripe have you tried any other ways of using them , like baking or jam, chutney, etc? :Y:

 

[nucopia]

nucopia some insects show up in the dark if you use a UV light.... if it's only some plants out of lots getting bitten into then it could be a grub that's not travelling very far(localised damage).

And yeah Blocker... looking great there :Y:

Bought a 2 Lt pressurised spray bottle today and mixed up a home made insecticide solution ..
1 table spoon of bi- carb , 1 table spoon of olive oil and 1 table spoon of dish washing liquid mixed into 500ml of water..
sprayed on the vegetables.. its supposed to keep the chewing insects away from the leaves... :/ will see how it goes over the next week..

 

[silver]

:clap: Looking very healthy-and don't they taste better than the supermarket variety.

Ain't that the truth

 

[silver]

Does the fruit really taste like chocolate pudding? Got a 3 year old one , no fruit yet, how old is your tree?
Other than eating when ripe have you tried any other ways of using them , like baking or jam, chutney, etc? :Y:

Tastes differ depending on taste buds I recon... and the ripeness of the fruit.
myself.... cooked pumpkin texture... chocolate pudding taste.
Our tree is somewhere just over 20 years old if'n ya include the coupla years it spent with the lovely lady that helped sprout the seed before we planted it. It was broken off when our neighbor dropped a tree on it from over the fence... and ring barked once by a whipper snipping incident involving an Irishman helping out on holidays, but .... it lived. Seedlings can take around seven years to mature enough to fruit... then get better at it each year.

 

[silver]

Bought a 2 Lt pressurised spray bottle today and mixed up a home made insecticide solution ..
1 table spoon of bi- carb , 1 table spoon of olive oil and 1 table spoon of dish washing liquid mixed into 500ml of water..
sprayed on the vegetables.. its supposed to keep the chewing insects away from the leaves... :/ will see how it goes over the next week..

In trying something new to me, I myself would be inclined to try it in one spot first (just in case)... and in the late afternoon so the sunshine couldn't burn the plant while it's getting used to it being on it(if it causes the stomata to open in direct sunlight the delicate structures inside can sustain damage beyond repair)

 

[nucopia]

Ill keep a close watch Silver :Y:

 

[Topenda]

Had ants all over my lime, lemon and grapefruit trees .
Used a solution similar to yours and it worked wonders. :Y:
2 cups of veggie oil and 1 cup of dishwashing liquid in a bottle and shake. This is a concentrate.
Mix tablespoon of concentrate with 750ml of water in a spray bottle and spray the whole tree top to bottom.

 

[Mackka]

That mix would give you approximately 28 litres of solution, very economical.
Mackka

 

[nucopia]

Spray solution seems to be working , leaves have a lot less damage on them now and look more healthy than they were before applying the spray.. :Y:

 

[nucopia]

They are planting the vegetable garden on the farm today..
600 egg plant ,600 tomato, 240 chilli, 360 okra , 120 bitter melon , 400 Pak Choi seedlings and 90 Calamansi trees which are similar to limes..

:inlove: erfect:

 

[silver]

Was cutting back some hibiscus the other day
(so I could get into the shed easier)

later out in the garden talking with Mrs S.... she spots a tree pumpkin

Now I was right in under there cutting bits out and taking them off to the compost bin , where I'd reduce them to smaller bits to break down easier.
(so I was back and forth for a while doing that)
And I never ever seen that pumpkin just above head height.

its a ripper too.... amazing how fresh eyes see soo much more hey

I'd a wondered where it came from meself, once it rotted out of the hibiscus and splattered over the ground if Mrs S haddnt'a found it

 

[Mackka]

A lovely surprize.
Mackka

 

[Mackka]

Just picked my very first Black Russian tomatoes with about 20 more on the vine slowly ripening.
Mackka

 

[Jaros]

Bloody beauties. :clap:

 

[Mackka]

Thanks mate my brother in law in Canberra suggested i try them so i bought one seedling and it grew to about 6' and the fruit is about the size of a cricket ball, some bigger. I think they will be great in a salad or a sandwich.
Cheers
Mackka

 

[silver]

Looking good there Mackka, you've done well !
:drooling: :Y:

 

[Mackka]

Thanks Silver, they started to ripen just after your comment, thanks. Hoping they taste as good as they look.
Mackka