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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1485 on: October 12, 2017, 10:23:30 am »
Mab, sounds interesting. May be a pumpkin.

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1486 on: October 12, 2017, 06:03:42 pm »
There has been an odd seedling growing in the potting mix in with my potatoes, so yesterday I put in it's own pot to see what grows.  I hope it isn't a cucumber, I don't like them and they don't like me.
LOL You will have to let us all know what it turns into Margaret.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1487 on: October 12, 2017, 11:45:40 pm »
I'm hoping it will be a pumpkin or maybe a zucchini. :)
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1488 on: October 19, 2017, 09:06:44 am »
Interesting mab :)
I have a something plant growing in with my garlic .... in a container  ???  Have no idea how it got there
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1489 on: October 21, 2017, 07:30:09 am »
Love there little free plants. Found some self seeded parsley today.

Baby artichokes picked today. Have only ever had those in the jar. Reading up how to prepare them.
Bought 4 tomato plants today. Won’t be planting them out until mid November.
Have started picking snow peas and the broad beans are covered in flowers.

Planted out a dwarfed Bay tree today and looking for a good hot spot for a fig tree.

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1490 on: October 25, 2017, 08:36:09 am »
Just a small harvest today.


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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1491 on: October 25, 2017, 09:29:16 am »
impressive Chookie.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1492 on: October 25, 2017, 09:43:31 pm »
Wonderful produce Chookie 8)
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1493 on: October 25, 2017, 10:36:31 pm »
Gave a neighbour some eggs and she gave me some seedlings.
Gave a SD loaf to our gardener and she brought Ral some honey from a neighbour.
Love this cashless economy.

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1494 on: October 25, 2017, 11:56:59 pm »
Gave a neighbour some eggs and she gave me some seedlings.
Gave a SD loaf to our gardener and she brought Ral some honey from a neighbour.
Love this cashless economy.
It's a lovely way to live, isn't it, sharing between friends and neighbours.  I think it brings communities closer together.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1495 on: October 25, 2017, 11:59:56 pm »
It sounds like a good deal to me Chookie. The City of Ballarat certainly suits your lifestyle.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1496 on: October 26, 2017, 12:02:46 am »
We have a friend with a big garden so I swap sewing and mending for vegetables.  Also fresh fish if DS has been out fishing.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1497 on: October 26, 2017, 07:08:15 am »
It all sounds perfect.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1498 on: October 27, 2017, 01:07:49 pm »
Nice to see swapping is alive and well.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1499 on: October 28, 2017, 12:20:17 pm »
Our two small vegetable patches had another work over today . DS and I added some soil to top them up , we forked them over so many times to mix it all together and we added sheep manure . Finally  we are getting closer to planting out the vegetable seedlings. The soil was a little to sandy thus the amount of fork work needed. A bee decided my hair was a plant , it got into my hair and buzzed like crazy , DS & DD came running to see a mad woman screaming . DD managed to pull it out with a clump of my hair ! All good .