VEGE PATCH. What's growing in yours?

[Jaros]

Thanks for your personalised advice--you're going great up the road.
Thanks wishfull we don't really need a hothouse up here - but many thanks.

 

[Wishfull]

Cheers mate. Takes a fair bit of time but I do love it. Very rewarding.
I reckon vegies are going to get fairly expensive later.

 

[silver]

If I had the money I'd have shade house with a clear plastic roof over a big veggie garden.... no pests or weed seeds coming in on the breeze, and nothing dropping eggs in through the plastic top... good air flow... would be the ducks guts I recon. Bit of chook wire fencing to keep the fowls away.... and even if it was raining... well I could still be out there doing things

 

[Wishfull]

Thanks for your personalised advice--you're going great up the road.
Thanks wishfull we don't really need a hothouse up here - but many thanks.

Lucky you mate. It does keep out a lot of hungry bugs and things. I have never had vegies so health looking.

 

[silver]

Chocolate pudding fruit
This is how they generally look while actively growing

as some of them get closer towards ripening the bats do a scratch n sniff as they watch the crop and fight off intruder bats if need be

some must get checked by other sneaky bats too (or they use a few to teach their young)

they are wary of going too low down in case the dog is outside (good crop there)

the bats are messy eaters and drop bits sometimes

othertimes they must get a bit clumsy and bump a ripe one the wrong way as they land in the tree... and down it comes (they're very soft when ripe)
Splat....

if they're ripe throughout the day and I miss them... the birds'll have a crack too

I don't mind sharing if the one side's ok

my half looks great

seeds are big

plenty of meat once the seeds are out

and it's good all the way down to that thin skin

and don't it taste great too (neater with a spoon)

and not as meesy either (can look a bit disturbing hey )

Anyway.... to beat the bats you can pick the big ones (or the bats tester fruits) and let them sit on your window sill until they ripen by themselves 3-5 days usually (if they were close enough to it anyway.

The tree itself is sentient(seems like it lol)... and will stagger its ripening with 1-3 fruits everyday over a 2-4 month period (roughly)

Just thought it may be good info for some of us

 

[silver]

First big pick of snowpeas
Learnt while young to leave them just reach their best size to get the most food potential out of them.
colander full

so I blanched them for 30 seconds
then topped and tailed them to remove the spine

looking nice

split them into 4 snaplocks ready for the freezer(couple from quality control left over for the guinea pig)

be nice to have some of our own out of season

 

[silver]

Todays produce from the veggie patch :drooling:

and the end of another perfect day.. right here

 

[Jaros]

This is what my veggie patch will look like. 6m long at back and 2.6m arms. 450mm high and 1/2 full of Golden Palm leaves, cow manure, special mix veggie soil on top.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ATYAAOSwDz9gvfZC/s-l800.webp

 

[Mackka]

Very noice, Jack.
Mackka

 

[Jaros]

Can't wait to have Tommies and spring onions in-lettuce-cucumber in a separate pot-not into asparagus. Snow peas/beans. Bok Choi, Potatoes in a separate huge garden pot I have -pile it up as it grows. Yum.Oh Jalapeno's with the Tommies as well as Capsicums.
Enough for now.....tired already.

 

[silver]

That looks good mate
(Image from link)

I like how you can get to all sides... yet it's a bigger bed.
how many of those are ya gunna fit in the patch ?

 

[silver]

Got some nice mulberries... gave this lot to a friendly neighbor

and they taste soo good when ya rip in while pickin (some just scream out eat me)lol

 

[Jaros]

That looks good mate
(Image from link)
https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...1631025059_screenshot_2021-09-08-00-30-05.jpg
I like how you can get to all sides... yet it's a bigger bed.
how many of those are ya gunna fit in the patch ?

Just the one-snot a big backyard.

 

[Deepseeker]

Got some nice mulberries... gave this lot to a friendly neighbor
https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...1631025294_screenshot_2021-09-07-19-14-06.jpg
and they taste soo good when ya rip in while pickin (some just scream out eat me)lol

Great Mulberries there Silver. How big/old is the tree?

 

[silver]

It about 20 yrs old now Deepseeker(the mulberry tree)gets cut back every few years to keep it manageable.
even though you could hardly tell

Still need to stand on a chair to harvest the higher ones

grows some decent leaves though

I used to net it, but share with the birds now if they want a few... I also eat the almost there berries to, as the birds are waiting for them to release easy for a quick swallow.
With heavy watering this year just as the tree was awakening the fruits have swelled to bigger than normal size, this too may be hampering the birds ability to get them down.... thus leaving almost the entire harvest to us this year (been great), and I've saturated the ground 3 times all up so far since it woke up (I'm doing that with the mango, avocado, plum, passionfruit, and soon the macadamia tree too this year.... see how they all go at fruit holding capacity.

 

[silver]

Got the safe spray(squirt bottle for insects inside the house) and added a little Morning Fresh dish washing liquid as a wetting agent

And went outside in the garden with a torch and did all the paw paws (seeing as the white oil didn't seem to get rid of the little blue men) (blue lady beetle type bugs)
Anyway I hope this gives them curry up

I'll get out in the morning and use the hose on all the pawpaws to wash it all away before the sun hits it too strongly (don't want to burn any of them at all)
We'll see how it goes

 

[silver]

Little bit of news on the coffee seeds

Just one getting ready to raise its little head.... been full on moist all the way through this

this is my first ever coffee baby...eva

 

[Jaros]

Had a call from my garden builder-could be weeks until the wood and hi tensile corrugated iron sheets become available--looks like Woollies this year again.

 

[silver]

Had a call from my garden builder-could be weeks until the wood and hi tensile corrugated iron sheets become available--looks like Woollies this year again.

Mines all preloved wooden fencing material, and as long as there's no awards for best looking beds, and as long as it does the job and is free... then that is good enough for me.

Any fencer will probly let you cart away the old hardwood timber for free (cause it'll save them the dump fees)... coupla days denailing and a couple a days building... job done cheap too.

 

[Jaros]

I just don't have the "back" left to do this stuff anymore and I'd like it to look good as well and be able to mow around it.