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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1650 on: March 04, 2019, 09:37:09 pm »
Golden nugget pumpkins the small ones . How can we grow watermelon is beyond me but lots of water and just brought a huge smile to DD .

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1651 on: March 04, 2019, 09:37:53 pm »
The tomatoes look good, Chookie.

I love seeing and hearing about what everyone has got growing in their gardens.

I recently prepared a herb bed, so far only one chilli plant in it, but it looks very healthy.  Trying to decide what else to put in it.  I use the term "pot" very loosley, it is actually one of those old concrete (or stone) twin trough washing tubs that used to be in every wash house until washing machines arrived on the scene.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1652 on: March 05, 2019, 12:29:45 am »
A nice selection of tomatoes Chookie.  Our tomatoes are just about finished now.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1653 on: March 05, 2019, 05:37:43 am »
A perfect 'pot' Marina. It has a drainage hole and will be cooler being concrete.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1654 on: March 05, 2019, 11:16:24 am »
They make a great garden bed Marina,
Chookie my eldest DD and I love tomato on toast for breakfast.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1655 on: March 05, 2019, 08:26:53 pm »
Lovely array of tomatoes Chookie.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1656 on: March 06, 2019, 08:31:34 am »
I’m very excited. My Dragon fruit has grown a branch and there are more coming. We also have another pineapple growing.


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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1657 on: March 06, 2019, 11:05:49 am »
Cookie, how exciting.

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« Reply #1658 on: March 06, 2019, 09:36:07 pm »
Very exciting.  Is that a baby pineapple developing near the base of the pineapple?  The dragonfruit plant does not look at all like I had envisaged a dragonfruit plant to look like.  I wonder how long it will be before it bares fruit.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1659 on: March 06, 2019, 09:51:57 pm »
Interesting photos cookie, are you guaranteed to get fruit from the dragonfruit plant and how long will it take?
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1660 on: March 07, 2019, 11:10:40 am »
I don't know if the Dragon fruit will have fruit. I hope it does.
The thing that looks like another pineapple is a new plant. Each plant only has one fruit and then it shoots out another plant and you chop the bit off that fruits.(after the fruit has ripened)
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1661 on: March 07, 2019, 08:01:37 pm »
Great to see the Dragon Fruit and Pineapple plants Cookie.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1662 on: March 07, 2019, 08:43:39 pm »
We are about to decide what we might plant for Autumn. 

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1663 on: March 08, 2019, 02:38:19 am »
We are about to decide what we might plant for Autumn.
I'm off to the nursery tomorrow morning for that very same thing, Chookie.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1664 on: March 08, 2019, 02:54:51 am »
Marina, let us know what you decide.