Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?

[judydawn]

Nice pickings BB - is that a watermelon on the right?

[Jude59]

Oh wow! Jealous of your wonderfully full wheelbarrow!

[cookie1]

I wish I lived a bit closer, I would happily swap.

[berringamababe]

Busy making relish and fruit salad. I ate the mulberries as figs as I harvested.  My partner works always do just me at home, had 5 families 'shop' over the weekend and this is just todays

[berringamababe]

Nice pickings BB - is that a watermelon on the right?

Sure is and 7 rock melons on the bottom I through 4 that had gone rotten out.  Chooks are fat healthy little thing. So there are Rockies watermelon lemon tomato pumpkin zucchini beetroot beans potato corn and I ate the mulberries and figs as I went, didn't pick egg plant or lettuce

[Halex]

BB, wow, fantastic produce. Wish you lived nearer

[goldfish]

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[dede]

My raised garden beds are going great. We are eating cucumbers and silver beet. Zucchinis will be ready in a few days too.

[Jadey]

I really think I need to get a garden started - just have no idea where to put it right now. I'd love to rip out the flower bed down the side of the house (useless! No one goes there) But I think the MIL might have something to say about that since it's her garden. In the meantime I've decided I need a couple of basics like a rosemary bush and a Lemon tree.

Has anyone got a fruit salad tree? Did you make it or buy it? Got any tales to tell?

Thanks

[achookwoman]

Jayde,  love my herb bushes.  They grow well in large pots. I like to have them near the kitchen door so I can pop out and get them.  Lemon tree is great.  We live in a cold climate and struggled for years to get one to grow.  Now we have a large stone wall that hold the heat and the lemons love it.  I use a lot of lemons.  better not touch MIL's garden. !!!!! 

[Halex]

Jadey maybe get herbs in pots

I wouldnt be without mine, use hers every day from the garden.  They are so expensive in the shops

[obbie]

I have a big terracotta herb garden pot

[Jadey]

I think that may be the way to go girls. Will a lemon tree grow well in a pot too?

No one has a fruit salad tree? I was thinking of getting a citrus one and doing Eureka Lemons, Limes and Oranges - If I do a couple of different types of oranges I should have fruit all year. Apparently you can have up to 6 citrus growing on them but I don't eat grapefruit or anything.

[Frozzie]

Yes a lemon tree will grow in a pot.. In cooler climates its the only way you can have one as the cold weather if left outside will kill them .!

[goldfish]

I love pots Jadey - but if you have the room your citrus trees would really do better in the ground.  Having said that, in large pots and fed well and often, they'd do very well.  Haven't had any experience with the grafted fruit salad trees but would be interested to hear if anyone has had success with them.