House & Home The Vege Garden Thread 2022

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  1. geoffw

    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    Is this a description or an instruction?
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    Mushroom Elixir to replace the coffee

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  3. Scott No Mates

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    We've taken 3 of our pumpkins off the vine, a couple of kilos each.

    We gave one to the neighbour, the two year old had the biggest grin as he struggled to carry it home. It was much bigger than his noggin.

    The look was priceless.
     
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    End of month update.

    I finally got around to planting a tangelo and another mandarine over the weekend.

    End of April, I'm told is garlic planting time - tick.


    Moved several potted gardenia cuttings into a sunnier location, planted a few more in the compost as they're a little longer.

    Pulled out the spent tomatoes and pumpkin, took another 3 off which are drying nicely.

    Oranges, mandies and lemons are still very green, another couple of months before they're ripe.

    One of the orchids (Zygopetalum) has 12 spikes and will be spectacular when they open.

     
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    My daughter's in-laws have a very mature citrus tree, with grafted oranges, lemons, mandarins and tangelos all growing well on the one tree. It's fantastic!

    But they are garden buffs. He has tomato "trees", with tomatoes hanging above the head. Everything else is thriving. And on a block of land nearby, he's got persimmons, pecans, apples, plums, figs, feijoas etc etc.

    The persimmons are fruiting beautiful, and we've brought home a shopping bag full. We've got loads of pecans - we found however that removing the green husks by hand leaves a dark mark which I cannot remove. I look like I've smoked for years. The feijoas are mostly with fruit fly or similar.

    We have three huge pumpkins - two of the largest butternuts I've seen. We need to find out what to do with them without becoming completely sick of them.
     
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    Cousins in Melbourne (near the Dandenongs) have got a very (small) unkempt garden but they have about 12 thriving lemon grass bushes, persimmons, dragon fruit and jujubes - all fruiting a month ago when we visited them and took some home. Mostly growing in containers.
     
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    Done ^^^^^
     
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    Looking forward to seeing all the orchid flower stems open in due course - it should be spectacular
     
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    Last September, I discovered this in our backyard. Not sure what type of orchids it was. Not spectacular in colour but still looking nice. The hanging pot was very crowded so I have divided and repotted it and will give some to relatives and friends later this year.
     
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    My garden has no idea what time of year it is. Just pulled out the beans and planted beetroot and lettuce (in a sheltered position)

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    Put in my garlic around a month ago - already it's around 30+cm high
     
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    It's a coelogyne.

    They thrive on neglect (pot in a hanging basket with course bark medium)
     
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    Thanks, Scott No Mates. Good to know this. I tried to google but could not find the exact match for it. I have potted some in soil. But, I think I should tip out the soil and replace with bark mulch.
     
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    Unfortunately the tag on ours has faded so I can't even give you a hint.
     
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    Similar here. In the photos below (right side of tunnel) my wife assures me there are exactly 400 garlic plants. Varieties being Italian Red / Pink, Glen Large and Kaban. Left side is mostly various asian greens.

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    First sweet potato ... :D ... might need anther few days before full harvest

    p.s. it's smaller than it looks


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    Dang sulphur crested cockatoos hit the blood orange this arvo, stripped a dozen oranges 2 weeks prior to ripening.
     
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