VEGE PATCH. What's growing in yours?

[Solid Luck]

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

You still waiting to eat them?

 

[Mackka]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: yeah mate, slack i know.
Mackka

 

[Mackka]

More from the tiny patch. The Tuscan Nero Kale is going off and apart from having it in salad i also baked some chips with salt and another batch with dried chilli flakes ( a bit heavy handed) that nearly killed me.
Cheers
Mackka

 

[silver]

When it comes to my strawberry patch('s)
The new one is doing great
(as are the saved seeds snow peas)

my dilema with the old bed had been that because I was going to get rid of them I let the weeds go.... but then I was too slow and flowers started, so of course I had to keep them then as it was too late really to give them away.
I've weeded a fair bit of it now

just one section left to go (almost entirely pennywort herb as the transgressor)

They are already fruiting where there were no weeds (next to the bare spot where I took all the plants for that new bed)

here's the offending pennywort herb

because it has a low type spreading type growth on the ground under the strawberry canopy... I'm just removing the leaves to reduce its energy potential.
I go over the bit I've done everyday to remove anything new or anything I've previously missed.
I've even noticed that it's making some leaves the same color as the strawberry leaves now to try and outsmart me... I also delve deeper now to get any lower canopy and smaller leaves as well.
all the offenders are centre photo

the guinea pig gets all the pennywort that comes out....she loves it

anyway... as the weed struggles it'll get weaker and weaker as I get more and more strawberries seems fair enough to me (plus I get exercise too)

 

[silver]

Those garlic plants seem to love their fairly sunny spot

Yellow paw paws getting ripe

red ones will still be a fair while

little pawpaw came up by itself (not where I put seeds)

Oranges are ready enough now

comfrey loving where I shifted it too

Macadamia has its first flowers of the season opening

I've planted some cherry tomatoes in under the passionfruit vines (gunna be sunny there for a while still)... and some lettuce on the outsides

I picked the best looking tallest cherry type tomatoe plants I could find at bunnings and trenched them in in a laying down possition.... all the hairs along the stem will turn into roots.

I'll probably be cutting the Asparagus back next month to start the harvest going there for a few months

plenty of tomatoes coming up from where I spread my compost around for the Avocado tree to get a feed

still no coffee seeds sprouting

always plenty to look over... watch the leaves grow an all that

 

[numpty]

great spread of fruit and veg silver, i would love all that in my backyard, my black thumbs aint much good though.

 

[silver]

great spread of fruit and veg silver, i would love all that in my backyard, my black thumbs aint much good though.

The plants just grow themselves numpty... we just supply the site in the best conditions we can for them.... I'm pretty terrible myself when it comes to feeding them properly, I like to see them foraging for themselves.... thus the organic natural type approach where I can, with nothing being taken out of the cycle except what's eaten (because I have no black waste system,.... that all just goes down the $hitter and is lost to us forever.
In order to reap what we sow in the longer term we have to start somewhere at sometime... the first step is a doozy, because it involves a color change of thumbs which can only occur when we get strong enough to believe in our inate ability to flourish within a garden of our own making... even if it is only a partial step towards a whole end result it is still only daunting within our own mind.
Take strength mate.... and plant a seed
... nudge nudge

 

[Jaros]

Too old for that too....

 

[nucopia]

Some of the Pak Choi looks ready to harvest .. :drooling:

 

[Mackka]

And the bugs left you some, excellent, they look delicious.
Mackka

 

[nucopia]

One of our neighbor near our garden in PI , got tired on manually pumping water ..
This is their solution ..
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/FlnIq5fAEAQ[/video]

 

[nucopia]

Bit off topic.
But I thought I would throw it out there..
This is a deep well hand pump ( piston pump ) I have on our garden land .. I think its a 2 inch diameter pipe going down about 30 meters from memory ..
Im looking at ways to convert it from a manual pump to mechanical.. the video I posted is one way but Im not keen on the set up ..to me it looks like a good way to damage the pump or hurt some one ..
Any one have an alternative suggestion ?
Id like to put a submersible pump but they are big bucks and like hens teeth in the PI
Thanks ..

 

[nucopia]

Spent this morning with the local garden club.. once a month we meet at different members homes/ gardens ..todays meetup was held at a 2500 square meter community garden of a retirement village in Cooranbong. The retirement village gardeners each tend their own section of the garden where they can work and plant vegetables of their choice..
not one of the 20 or so gardeners I met today was under 80 and a few were in their 90s ..amazing ..
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[Goldfreak]

Bit off topic.
But I thought I would throw it out there..
This is a deep well hand pump ( piston pump ) I have on our garden land .. I think its a 2 inch diameter pipe going down about 30 meters from memory ..
Im looking at ways to convert it from a manual pump to mechanical.. the video I posted is one way but Im not keen on the set up ..to me it looks like a good way to damage the pump or hurt some one ..
Any one have an alternative suggestion ?
Id like to put a submersible pump but they are big bucks and like hens teeth in the PI
Thanks ..
https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...3595_d6a59319-a729-4e7e-a17f-65e79adc7482.jpg

there is anouther way to do it but it bit would involve power and compressed air. Might just be able to squeeze down your existing pipe.

https://www.iamcountryside.com/self-reliance/diy-airlift-pump-design-pump-water-with-compressed-air/

 

[woomera]

Bit off topic.
But I thought I would throw it out there..
This is a deep well hand pump ( piston pump ) I have on our garden land .. I think its a 2 inch diameter pipe going down about 30 meters from memory ..
Im looking at ways to convert it from a manual pump to mechanical.. the video I posted is one way but Im not keen on the set up ..to me it looks like a good way to damage the pump or hurt some one ..
Any one have an alternative suggestion ?
Id like to put a submersible pump but they are big bucks and like hens teeth in the PI
Thanks ..
https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...3595_d6a59319-a729-4e7e-a17f-65e79adc7482.jpg

there is anouther way to do it but it bit would involve power and compressed air. Might just be able to squeeze down your existing pipe. https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...1627213471_images_-_2021-07-25t210916.967.jpg
https://www.iamcountryside.com/self-reliance/diy-airlift-pump-design-pump-water-with-compressed-air/

Instead of a air compressor use a old gas cylinder with water in it, light a fire underneath it to create a bit of steam pressure, making sure it has a relief valve

 

[Goldfreak]

Bit off topic.
But I thought I would throw it out there..
This is a deep well hand pump ( piston pump ) I have on our garden land .. I think its a 2 inch diameter pipe going down about 30 meters from memory ..
Im looking at ways to convert it from a manual pump to mechanical.. the video I posted is one way but Im not keen on the set up ..to me it looks like a good way to damage the pump or hurt some one ..
Any one have an alternative suggestion ?
Id like to put a submersible pump but they are big bucks and like hens teeth in the PI
Thanks ..
https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...3595_d6a59319-a729-4e7e-a17f-65e79adc7482.jpg

there is anouther way to do it but it bit would involve power and compressed air. Might just be able to squeeze down your existing pipe. https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...1627213471_images_-_2021-07-25t210916.967.jpg
https://www.iamcountryside.com/self-reliance/diy-airlift-pump-design-pump-water-with-compressed-air/

Instead of a air compressor use a old gas cylinder with water in it, light a fire underneath it to create a bit of steam pressure, making sure it has a relief valve

Thats a really interesting idea. But please be VERY careful trying to use pressurised steam. A faulty releif valve, blockage or a number of other things could be incredibly dangerous.

 

[silver]

Snow peas have no flowers yet

got 3 tubs of ash from the fire pit for the garden

put some around the avo tree

the rest went into some of the garden beds

I planted some cucumber seeds along the outside of the garden

hoping they go off like after a forest fire now

being that there is absolutely no nitrogen at all in potash, I'll be giving it a drink of my wet compost manure water as well some time soon

 

[Mackka]

My plate of Black Russian yumminess.
Mackka

 

[silver]

:drooling: :trophy: .....Mmmmmm

 

[nucopia]

Wow marckka they look really succulent. :drooling:
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