House & Home The Vege Garden Thread

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  1. Lemmy a fiver

    Lemmy a fiver Well-Known Member

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    Some lettuce coming out for Christmas salad tomorrow.

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  2. Phar Lap

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    You mustn’t get out much Geoff, hydroponic farming is alive and well, and I’m not talking illicit drugs. But yes, it’s also used for that. Me?, nope. Haven’t tried it but want to. There are kits at garden nurseries ect with vats that the liquid fertiliser cycles thru.
    It’s a thing I’ll do when more time becomes available, soon.

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    Keep forgetting to take photo’s.

    So much produce at present the wife gave about 90% of our beans to the neighbours, mostly snake beans (my favourite especially in stir fries) before I got a photo:

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    And for a Mexican flavour. Jalapinos, cucumber (white wonder) and Tatume squash (Mexican heirloom). Tatume when picked young is a great substitute for zucchini:
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  4. Scott No Mates

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    No photos but we're pulling off 1/2-3/4 punnet of tomatoes daily.

    A few orange sweet potatoes & chats are doing their thing.

    Oregano, rosemary, ginger & basil going gang busters. Parsley - some has bolted but remaining plants OK.

    Blood oranges/mandarines/lemonades - healthy looking for late next winter. Meyer lemon - time to put a new one in as this one has failed to produce (again). Passionfruit hasn't flowered (when it does, it doesn't hold the fruit). Avocado - not yet fruiting.

    Lilipilli - decimated by possums (again).

    Garlic - harvested & in the shed drying.
     
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    I've managed to successfully kill off most of mine. Silverbeet, bok Choi and lettuce bolted. Celery still limping along, but not really growing. Capsicum's some has grown to around 20cm, the rest are still alive, but only around 5-10cm. There are a few baby capsicum coming along though. Dwarf beans, I have one plant out of 10 that has given us beans. Most of the plants lost all their leaves & just sit there in the soil doing nothing. I got one yesterday (bean), besides that, I think we've had a total of maybe 5-6 beans, but it has a few little ones on it now, so maybe next week I'll get another 5 from it. I have two spinach plants that are growing nicely & have had a couple of meals from them. They will be ready to pick again soon.

    The stellar performers are the tomatoes. I got a punnet of 6 plants. Two were planted near the pool, where nothing ever grows, the rest in the vege garden. The vege garden ones have done next to nothing, however I'm getting around 1kg of fruit a day from the two near the pool. I've also got a cherry tomato plant that is doing well.
     
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  6. Hodor

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    Try pumpkins, I always find them nearly unkillable and a single pumpkin can make a good soup so it all feels worth it. I cleared my vege patch in spring of knee high weeds, found that a pumpkin had still been growing and harvested a couple of pumpkins.
     
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    Oregano, rosemary, ginger & basil going gang busters. Parsley
    Lilipilli - decimated by possums (again)./QUOTE]
    Have been cutting rosemary out of our will......if i can help it......place stinks, goats wont eat it after a few mouthfuls.....and it is prob 2x5m even after a chop....it has spread too......enough for a few hundred people here....
     
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    Gardening Australia tonight suggested hanging mothballs in trees to discourage possums. Apparently they dislike Vics Vapour rub too it confuses their sense of smell.
     
  9. Scott No Mates

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    I've got no issues catching moths but I can't work out how to separate the females from the males let alone how to get them to part with their balls. :eek:
     
  10. Kesse

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    Oh man, I'm going to cry! Been away for nearly 2 weeks and being the wet season I thought it would actually rain on my plants and they would be ok... But nope, I've come home tonight to a brown, crunchy massacre. :(

    Only thing that looks kind of OK is the rosemary.

    I guess this is a good time to get the garden bed happening and irrigated.... :rolleyes:
     
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    Beans by the handful being harvested almost daily at the moment. We pick the capsicums early and let them ripen inside to minimise bug damage:
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    This one picked last season at 1 metre long and nearly all flesh would provide enough soup for a month:D. Like @Hodor said pumpkins pretty much look after themselves but do need a decent amount of space:

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    Love this time of the year!

    Tomatoes
    Herb cuttings that I planted today
    Pepino plant

    I also planted some lavender cuttings to encourage bees

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