House & Home The Vege Garden Thread 2020

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  1. geoffw

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    geoffw, 16th Mar, 2020
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    @Nodrog, you've been on fire for a long time.
     
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    Some people wouldn't know if their **** was on FIRE. :rolleyes:
     
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    I've found the videos in Aussie Gardener to be a quite good intro to gardening, as well as a refresher.
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    They do have stuff to sell (otherwise it might not be free), but the content seems ok.

    There's a course advertised on Facebook on sustainable gardening for $27. Avoid it. The information is really light on.
     
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    Dang brush turkey has come for a visit for the past 2 days.

    Noticed that it's been rooting around in the pile of leaf mulch and started a bit of scratching around in the garden. A few feet to the left and it would've wiped out some carrots. :eek:
     
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    Harvested olives for the first time ... snipped and soaking for 10 days before putting in pickling brine ... be interested to see how they turn out

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    STRAW (not Hay) ..... does anyone use it as a garden mulch and where do you source it from?

    Any decent alternatives that don't absorb too much water? Ie sugarcane mulch is terrible as it absorbs copious amounts of water.
     
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    @Lizzie - looks like you've burnt them. :oops:

    We've got a brush turkey popping it's head into the garden at present, scratching around, digging through the mulch, turning over the winter plants etc. :mad:
     
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    I´ve tried a few times, I have an olive tree that produces thousands every year. But the olives stayed fairly hard even after weeks pickling in salty water with garlic, don't know what I did wrong. Also tried smashing them a bit before pickling but didn't work. They are edible, but nothing like supermarket quality.
     
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    How often did you change the brine? A workmate was doing olives and was changing it every day or two for the first week or two before slowing down water changes. He had 30 or 40 buckets full so quite the operation, said he went through quite an amount of salt
     
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    Nah - I like mine sweeter, hence wait for them to ripen
     
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    Depends on the type of olive - some varieties are better for oil and some are better for eating ... but if it's an "oil" tree, then wait until they go black (but not over ripe)
     
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    Change it daily - but don't oversalt it at this stage
     
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    Every second day was changing. I only used olives that had fallen to the ground already but not started to rot. Could be the variety perhaps.
     
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    Thinking of knocking on the door 5 houses down to ask if I can strip their Lilly Pilly hedge for jam ...
     
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    So it's not just me grabbing a handful of lillipillis for a quick munch as I walk up the street.
     
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    Got a couple of bods in today to do a little bit of pruning & gardening for me. Made sure that they were socially distant... (oh, the garden is some 5-10m below those branches :eek:).

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    Thought I would resurrect this old thread with @Nodrog talking about shrooms on the LIC thread. Anyhoo here’s a handful of chillies from a bush my mate at the nursery gave me ‘cos it was nearly dead. We still have a freezer full from last year. 9EB93CAC-F6C8-4E93-AE0C-1395B571E977.jpeg
     
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    My chilli plant is going nuts but, as I can't eat chilli due to a food intolerance, hubby takes them to work where they are snapped up.

    Will start a new thread for 2021 ... 2020 being forgotten year ... :)
     
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