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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Ceejay on February 06, 2010, 05:30:13 am
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Currently my garden is a tad run down... the tumeric is going well as is my basil, some of the parsley, the dill, chives and the rosemary bush is taking off.
I'm pondering what to replant next month....
I'm thinking:
Onions
Garlic
Ginger
Baby Spinach (a staple here)
Silverbeet (need to extend the bed a bit as it gets so big!)
Cherry tomatoes (haven't had much luck in the past but I'm tenacious ;))
We also have a lemon tree, mulberry tree, 2 passionfruit vines (one courtesy of the neighbour over the fence!) and half of another neighbour's mandarin tree... ;D
Suggestions for other easy grow items are welcome!! :-*
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We use heirloom seeds from Eden Seeds. ATM we don't have much in but I do have garlic, tomatoes, parsley, basil, cucumbers, gooseberries. In the orchard we have apple, banana, QLD nut (of called it that since I was a kid and won't change!), mulberry, avocado, bunya nut, lemon. Mother-in-law up the rd has orange, plum, apricot, peach,persimmon. Sister-in-law up the road has black Russian tomatoes and dragon fruit! My mum has some habanero chili, pineapple sage, mint, etc. So a bit of variety around here. But really want to get stuck into making a good kitchen garden like the one on Better Homes last night. (Not that I got to watch it all - damn cricket!!) ;)
Better Homes and Garden Vege Patch
http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/better-homes-gardens/tv/watch/-/6767024/vege-patch-make-over/
Eden Seeds
http://www.edenseeds.com.au/content/default.asp
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i was planning a blog post on my garden this weekend!!
we jsut went to the nursery today and i got a dwarf meyer lemon, brussels sprouts, onions, turnips, spinach and maybe something else, i forget.
growin atm is beetroot, a few last carrots, a mini watermelon, basil, dill, vietnamese mint, regular mint, tomatoes, coriander, potatoes, silverbeet, garlic and lemongrass, capsicum and oregano, and strawberries.
how can i tell when the lemongrass is ready, does anyone know? does it dry out like the garlic or is it basically ready any time?
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thank you so much nay-nay, that link is brilliant for someone like me who is desperate for raised garden beds full of vegies but with no idea of what to do LOL we actually went to the nursery to ask about materials for constructing some beds (though we cna't afford them atm :() but couldn't find anyone to talk to... will check those out
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Only snow and lots of sprouts :D
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Love this link, so will go out to the veggie garden and take a photo. We are cold climate, bit like Tassie, so can't grow tomatoes (although I try). But i can grow silverbeet, lettuce, radishes, berries, (birds love these) have to be covered with nets. Cress, rhubarb
herbs of most kinds and bay. We have had problems growing lemons, but built a high/long stone wall and planted the lemons next to it. Every day, through out the year we eat something from the garden. We had 4 inches of rain over the new year so this year has been very productive. We belong to' Diggers', who have very good seeds and we mail order. Tonight we are going out to tea, so will take a large basket of greens. I always look to the forum for recipes so that we can try different ways with the fruit and veggies. We don't spray with anything. We swap with other who grow other things, and give to a cook who cooks for the Elderly Citzs.
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i was planning a blog post on my garden this weekend!!
I see my mind reading powers are getting better! ;)
Nay, I'd love to visit you and your garden! Only it's around 2.5hrs drive away! LOL
Interesting varieties so far! I've never been a keen gardener but the chooks and the amount my kids eat seems to have changed that! :D
I do tend to *cheat* and use organic seedlings from our local organics store as I seem to get the best results that way.
Will be growing the ginger, onions and garlic from organic bulbs I have though. We use so much of them in our day to day cooking, I figure every little bit counts! :)
The tumeric was a gift from friends who have an extensive organic garden and they gave us so much I just stuck some of it in the ground and kinda forgot about it... :-[ But it's just thrived!
Looking forward to what others have or are planning! :-*
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Garden has been neglected in the last seven months but I have
avocado
artichokes
mangoes,
snow apples
asparagus
pepinos
grapes,
passionfruit
lemon
mandarins
oranges
lemongrass
garlic
shallots
coriander
guava
mulberries
midyim berries
loquat
blueberries
kale
onions
silverbeet
spinach
amaranthe
quinoa
tomatoes
cape gooseberries
tomatillos
pumpkins
zuchinni
rockmelons
cucumbers
medlar
pears
nashi
figs
stevia
brahmi herb
basil
rocket
arrowroot
sweetpotatoes
ginger
coffee
peach
apples
hmmmm, can't remember the rest offhand.
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Wow, TheCrone, where do you live?
I now have to hang my head and shamefully say we have very little to eat in our garden. When we built here we decided to have very little garden for our elder years. We have a meyer lemon (dwarf) that has its first lemon on, some basil, parsley (both in the front) and a few dwarf beans around the roses. We really have no back yard as our house is built to within a metre of the fenceline. The sides of the house and back are all paved and the front has lawn and roses.
We decided this when Dad died suddenly and he had an enormous vegie garden and block, full of garden and then Mum developed Parkinson's disease and couldn't manage it all even with our help.
We are very fortunate though, the place that DH does some relief work has big vegie gardens and we get a lot from there.
No rhubarb yet though VHJ :'(
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WA
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Me too. Are you up in the hills to grow all those lovely things?
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I wish I was in the Hills! I'm in a suburb EOR famous for it's Bikie gang HQ :P
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Oh I see. Dh used to teach at the high school there quite a few years ago and I did a bit of relief at one of the primary schools a couple of years ago. Was a bit shaken when the deputy said a few of the Dads were bikies, but she then added that they 'were generally very nice'.
Hope they don't steal all your lovely food.
What are midyim berries and tomatillos please? Do you have great success with the blueberries?
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midyim berries are a native west australian berry which look like a whitish blueberry and taste of aniseed. Tomatillos are like cape gooseberries in that they have the paper cover but taste like a sharp tomato.
Blueberries need the same soil as cameleas and azaleas and like to be constantly damp. They hate weeds.
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This question was right up my alley seeing as I have just redone my garden and bought myself a raised garden bed last week.
I planted basil, parsley, coriander, fancy lettuce, spinach, spring onions, dill and a chilli plant in the corrogated iron raised bed & some Vietnamese mint and marjoram in pots. I already had sage, oregano, mint & chives growing plus a bay tree. All the rosemary bushes have been done away with the newly revamped front and side pebble gardens so I will have to get myself another plant just for cooking. Wanted rhubarb too but they had none. May have to get another tub as there is still a lot of things I would like to grow. Can't match your list though TheCrone - that is amazing and how I would love to wander through all the above gardens. Cookie1, we could just sit and talk and you could point out your little patch ;D ;D ;D I know where you are coming front and these modern houses don't leave much room for gardening. Still, you do have a few things growing in your limited space so have nothing to feel ashamed of. :-* :-*
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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.
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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. :)
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Chelsea that is beautiful.
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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.
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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.
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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 ;D ;D ;D 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 :)
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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.
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Wow.. some great gardens out there! :o
I'm going to resist the urge to double mine right now... and work my way there slowly! :D
Does anyone have any good tips for keeping away grasshoppers???? >:(
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Cats. My cats love fresh crunchy grasshoppers.
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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!!
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Cats. My cats love fresh crunchy grasshoppers.
Oh dear... my foxie x doesn't like cats... she puts up with the chooks though. :P
But they aren't allowed near my vegie garden! :D
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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.
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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 ;D 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 :-* ;D
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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!
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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! 8)
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It looks so peaceful, where do you live Chelsea?
It is relatively peaceful JD - aside from all of the birds that are busy eating our orchard fruit ;). We live in the village of Forth in Tassie. :)
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Feels like I'm getting somewhere! 8)
That is good C :) Hey I had a dream that I was skyping you last night lol :P
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planted all my seedlings today. got seeds to put out too but not sure where i'll fit them LOL
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Nay, I'd love to visit you and your garden! Only it's around 2.5hrs drive away! LOL
Anytime Ceejay! ;) Oh and I also forgot to mention the prickly pear (not grown intentionally) all around the paddock. I was going to make jam out of them once. Picked a whole heap with my leather gloves then chickened out cause I didn't know how to peel them without getting the little prickles all over me! ;)
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Chelsea and Brazen, although we live in different states, our climate may be similar. Gardening is hard work but is also fun.
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That is good C :) Hey I had a dream that I was skyping you last night lol :P
LOL Meagan! What on earth were we talking about? Or shouldn't I ask? ;)
Anytime Ceejay! ;)
You never know Nay... if you hear lots of noise coming down the driveway, you'll know it's me and the kiddos! ;)
Guess I'd need to stash my TiM in the car too.... :D
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wow what good gardeners we all are!
I can't list everything in our garden as I am not the gardener, that is my wonderful green-thumbed partner
He just got back from Carnarvon with a trailer- ful of wonderful tropical fruits, including tropical blueberries!
Someone on here said they were growing quinoa! anyone know where I can get that from to grow it?
A list of good nurseries would be fantastic!
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LOL Meagan! What on earth were we talking about? Or shouldn't I ask? ;) [/color]
I woke up just as the web cam started to connect lol so we weren't actually talking about anything!