VEGE PATCH. What's growing in yours?

[silver]

Looking nice green n healthy there nucopia !

Bet everyone wants to cuddle the babies :heart:

 

[silver]

The asparagus ended up with a few new little shoots telling me it was time to prepare the bed

so I carefully removed the old tops

you can see what was there.... I did end up eating that

found two new baby plants just outside the bed... I'll see where there is a gap to shift them into once all the eating is over and done with for the season

I saved some seed from the female.... they tell you only to grow males, but I recon that just stops you growing fresh stuff by yourself

got a barrow full of tops

threw it out on some fresh mown grass (no seeds)

first reduction..... then went over it once more with the mower

added a good scoop of rooster booster to the bed

then put the tops back on as mulch.... in nature the tops would end up going back into that soil over time... helping to build some deep humus I'd recon.

anyway.... jobs done now... just waiting for the feed.
I know self praise is no recommendation.... but... I did good
.. that's the best its ever looked

 

[nucopia]

Looking good Silver .
Yeah mate they are cute..

 

[Topenda]

Made some Rosella jam a few months ago and gathered some seeds from old pods and also left others to the elements to just hopefully grow on there own .
Some have already got flower buds and are only tiny plants?

Also chucked an Avocado seed from the shop in a pot plant on the off chance it might germinate.

Had to dig it up a bit to see what was going on, turns out this seed has 3 plants emerging from the one seed ?
Unusual ?
Hopefully i did not disturb the avo too much and it will continue to grow. :drooling:

 

[Gypsyd]

Not much happening here I have seedlings in but taking a long time, Have some Beetroot in not doin well. Got myBig Brandy in Tasty Big fruit.
Weeds starting to take over again, Bugs are coming too.

 

[Jaros]

If you're worried about using chemicals try eco oil it smothers the pests and they die,

 

[silver]

Not much happening here I have seedlings in but taking a long time, Have some Beetroot in not doin well. Got myBig Brandy in Tasty Big fruit.
Weeds starting to take over again, Bugs are coming too.

When ya got weeds Gypsyd.... ya make weed tea.
Hopefully it'll all take off for you soon.... mulch, fertilize, and watery sunshine.... then just watch the leaves grow hey ! erfect:

 

[silver]

The asparagus is responding

put some bok choy in with a few of the cucumber seedlings.... bit of brick protection so the dog and little visitors know it's a garden area

4 potatoes in the compost are all up

they're getting enough of what they need by the looks of it

getting snow peas every day now

cleaned up the tumeric tops as they'd all died off.
gunna leave the tumeric and ginger in the ground to get a lot bigger with the best undisturbed prospect I can.

Tumeric

Ginger

and even though I usually only end up with 1 or 2 macadamia nuts per flower spike.... I recon there may be a fair few nuts next crop just going by the flower spikes

Looking foreword to how this year pans out

 

[PabloP]

No photos yet but -
- Spuds, rhubarb, various lettuces.

And just planted
- Beetroot, broad beans, different spud type, pumpkins.

A few weeks for the newbies to get going, but the Rhubarb and some leafy lettuce can be used.

Rob P.

 

[numpty]

that macadamia tree looks like it will pump out a lot...... one of the best nuts you can eat, pistachio and smoked almonds and nice fresh walnuts too. yummo.

have you got any dates ? i love fresh dates not that dried **** that comes in a bag from Iraq though.

 

[Jaros]

I used to eat the raw rhubarb straight from my parents huge backyard veggie garden--sooo bitter. i didn't eat the leaves at all. I now know they are poisonous.
Still here 65 yrs later.

 

[numpty]

silver if you get a few kilo's and want to sell some let me know when you harvest them :Y: erfect:

 

[numpty]

I used to eat the raw rhubarb straight from my parents huge backyard veggie garden--sooo bitter. i didn't eat the leaves at all. I now know they are poisonous.
Still here 65 yrs later.

rhubarb is great in a pie jaros give it a try, has that appley taste :Y:

 

[Jaros]

My wife makes apple and rhubarb crumble when it's in season--yep unhealthy but beautiful.

 

[silver]

that macadamia tree looks like it will pump out a lot...... one of the best nuts you can eat, pistachio and smoked almonds and nice fresh walnuts too. yummo.

have you got any dates ? i love fresh dates not that dried ***** that comes in a bag from Iraq though.

Was an aussie bag of pitted dates.... I found one seed they missed.
I'll plant it and see how I go... who knows in anither 20 or so yrs I could have the dates for my chutney

As for the macadamia nuts.... I recon if I was to use mencozeb and copperoxychloride each spray of flowers would end up being all nuts.... then I'd have some to spare hey !

 

[silver]

The organic Mulberries got bigger this year..... specially after I cut the tree back a while ago

 

[Bjay]

Hopefully get some this year. Trees been in for a few years now.

 

[silver]

Hopefully get some this year. Trees been in for a few years now.

If it doesn't get flowers out with it's first leaves this year... roll up a newspaper Bjay and give it a bit of a flogging (don't mind if a few leaves go south in the process) This will stress the plant and make it believe it needs to reproduce for its own sake.... and voila... fruit.

(If it doesn't work this time... repeat process again same time next year)

 

[Jaros]

What size block are you on Silver?

 

[Bjay]

Nooo I think my poor trees stressed enough as it is. Got plenty of flowers but the poor thing tries to grow too early for our climate I think. Lots of flowers which most drop off later and plenty of pale washed out leaves. Gets better in the summer. Maybe it just needs a good stern talking to. ower: :Y: