What's in your (edible) garden!

[cookie1]

Thanks for the information TheCrone.
Judy, your garden sounds as though it is coming on really well. I'd like to have a small raised bed in our 1 metre at the back but DH says we're away too much! He is probably right, although we didn't get away much last year. Hopefully the SA trip will be on this year after we do our car rally in September. (12th I think) I'm really looking forward to it.

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

We are coming to the end of our summer planting now and only have a few spring onions, leeks, Italian parsley, tomatoes, a few carrots, red onions and lots of zucchini left now.  Tomorrow we are digging our big trenches for the horse manure and then planting some spring onions, Brussels spouts, celery, broccoli, leek and maybe some beetroot well above it.

In our orchard gardens we have 2 cherry trees, 2 lemon trees, 1 lime tree, 2 apricot trees, 2 apple trees and 2 apricot trees.

It's a bit too dark to take photos of our vegie garden tonight but here are some spring-time photos of our orchard gardens. 

[cookie1]

Chelsea that is beautiful.

[judydawn]

It looks so peaceful, where do you live Chelsea?

Cookie, if you make it to Adelaide we will have to organise a meeting.  We were going to do it last year, long before these events started becoming a regular thing in various parts of Australia but with one thing and another, your trip didn't happen.

[Michp]

We have:
tomatoes
rainbow chard
spinach
squash
zucchini
watermelon
strawberries
basil
thyme
capsicum
chilli
spring onion
chives
broccoli
celery (gone to seed)
Parsley (gone to seed)
Onion
double graft apricot
double graft orange / mandarin
dwarf peach
dwarf nectarine
blueberry
raspberry
midyim berries (eagerly awaiting for my first crop of berries to ripen)
and an old old olive tree (the house is about 80 years old so I figure that the tree is a little younger than that) but we dont like olives so they just make a mess of the paving

Some of the garden is a bit sun ravaged at the moment and I have let some things go to seed, it'll be time for a tidy up and some planting shortly.

[Meagan]

Well we have a lemon (original tree from the house 50's) and mango about 9yrs old and heavy with fruit :)yummo
cherry tomatoes
eggplant
capsicum
parsley
chives
spring onions
red spring onions

and all the vegies that are growing at the community garden over the road  We have been allocated a plot but we haven't finished the building of the beds and the surrounding areas yet. We have a busy bee on tomorrow

[Michp]

Oh wow Meagan how great would it be to have a community garden right over the road, so easy to maintain your plot, almost like its in your own garden.

[Ceejay]

Wow.. some great gardens out there! 

I'm going to resist the urge to double mine right now... and work my way there slowly! 

Does anyone have any good tips for keeping away grasshoppers? 

[TheCrone]

Cats.  My cats love fresh crunchy grasshoppers.

[meganjane]

My vege garden is very sad. I didn't prepare it this year and no one would go under the shearing shed for my sheep manure, so I made do with Dynamic Lifter which did stuff all.

Parsley, gone to seed
Marjoram, threatening to take over
Asparagus, gone to seed
Baby spinach
Basil
Passionfruit with lots of flowers
Little Bay Tree
Sage
Rosemary
Thai Basil

We have pathetic water pressure, being on the end of the line, so lemon tree is not doing well and most other fruit trees died. I'm going to get me some of those raised bed kits and have a real vege garden this Autumn!!

[Ceejay]

Cats.  My cats love fresh crunchy grasshoppers.

Oh dear... my foxie x doesn't like cats... she puts up with the chooks though. 
But they aren't allowed near my vegie garden! 

[judydawn]

Today I managed to get my rhubarb plants and also picked up patio tomato bushes and zucchini plants.  My dear old dad would have been thrilled to finally see his DD planting vegies instead of flowers.  Don't think I will ever reach his standard though and mine is on a much smaller scale. 

[Meagan]

Oh wow Meagan how great would it be to have a community garden right over the road, so easy to maintain your plot, almost like its in your own garden.

Yes Michelle we are stoked   it is so convenient (there is also a fenced playground right next to it too) and the bonus is meeting people in the community and getting a bit of exercise too!

We got so much done today   paving finished, building the beds and some mulching - such a great sense of achievement  

[cookie1]

Meagan that is wonderful about the community garden. My DH lived quite near where you are for the latter part of his growing up time. That was why I found it so easy to call over for the wheat!

[Ceejay]

The rain hasn't stopped today so I haven't planted anything! 

I have the garlic ready to go.. and I need to sort through the onions.

A friend is bringing some ginger from her garden for me to plant tomorrow since it divides so well.  Then I'll pick up the spinach and tomato seedlings in a couple of days times while the kids are busy at daycare and school. 

Feels like I'm getting somewhere!