House & Home The Vege Garden Thread 2023

{Note from mods: continued from thread The Vege Garden Thread 2022}

Apricot tree have a sap and kind of a timber dust around the sap, not sure how to treat this any suggestions please.

 

Looks like you've got a serious borer problem ... take your photos to the local plant nursery and ask what you need ... it may not be save-able

 

Thanks Lizzie, will do.

 

Metal coat hanger wire into the hole.

 

Lets say you wanted to go organic, permaculture and sort of live self sustaining where would you go in Australia for best crop success?
I saw this on domain and thought it was interesting.
https://www.domain.com.au/living/th...where-you-can-live-a-sustainable-life-990509/
Willunga SA looks interesting.

 

Byron Bay and Sunshine Coast hinterlands for soil climate and like minded souls

 

No photos, as the harvest doesn't last long enough (get in my tummy), but I'm still cutting a dozen asparagus spears every second day ... after the plants have been pruned back, mulched and supposedly put to bed for the winter

Garlic, peas, beans and winter lettuce went in last weekend ... pumpkins still coming off ... passionfruit had decided to flower again (not expecting it to fruit) ... and have leaf miner in my grapefruit

 

Gotta love Newy, Lizzie! Perfect climate...

 

The veggie garden's looking just a little bit good ... ... harvesting snow peas and butter beans atm with the garlic powering along

 

Like a Monet painting.

 

Great effort! enjoy

 

She's the stress relief - or the cause - depends on the day

 

I met a guy recently who is planning to do this. He is from India and chose to buy in Collie WA to eventually retire young with his small family and live sustainably. He wants to grow traditional Indian foods. He chose this location as it was cheap to buy a large block. Currently living in Perth for schooling he said it was easier to do this in Aus than India. He still visits India every year and has relatives visit Aus every year. I thought it was quite interesting that he had such a strong desire to make this big move to live his dream.

 

Friends did massive statistic studies and decided the best place for them was Meeniyan due to average rainfall and temperatures and fertility etc

 

Wow, Interesting.

 

We used to eat a lot of these as kids in Western Australia's North West (As well as Mangoes & other fruits) yet when I talk to a lot of other Aussies they aren't aware of the fruit

 

The garlic is in, (nearly) dried and trimmed - with the biggest bulbs put away for next year's seed stock ... there's a lot more in that basket than appears - nomnomnomnom - now prepping the beds for sweet corn and watermelon