I have been wondering up north, can you grow tomatoes, corn, zucchini, pumpkins and such all year round???
I have often wondered about this and as I sit here……… I thought I;d ask, while I think of it.
Lucky1 said:
I have been wondering up north, can you grow tomatoes, corn, zucchini, pumpkins and such all year round???I have often wondered about this and as I sit here……… I thought I;d ask, while I think of it.
Not here, not really, we can get frosts in July/August…
Sonny Joe started a pumpkin in May once, it grew like billy-o but the winter was very mild.
Tomatoes all year round, yes…
I agree with Pepe, if you can get them going before the nights turn chilly, you’ve a better chance of a crop during the winter…
We can also grow Chilli during winter :S
and apparently the basil, parsley (I know that’s definite) and aubergines are year-round goers, here…
Corn is strictly summer…
We tend to grow our strawberries in winter…
I find the humidity knocks around the potatoes if I try to grow them during the hot months…definitely a cold weather crop up here…
Non hearting varieties of lettuce, year round (I’m told)…
We need to shade some stuff during the really hot days or it gets sunburnt…
Thanks Dinetta. I have often wondered about this…….
Mind you, I quote from what I can remember my father growing…peas in the winter was another…it amazes me that Pepe can get sweet peas in the summer months…up home they were planted on the Ides of March, and flowered in time for the local Flower Show (1st weekend in September)…
Dinetta said:
Mind you, I quote from what I can remember my father growing…peas in the winter was another…it amazes me that Pepe can get sweet peas in the summer months…up home they were planted on the Ides of March, and flowered in time for the local Flower Show (1st weekend in September)…
i’m like lucky – i can’t figure out how gardening in the various parts of the deep north operates.
but then again – how do things work down here? not sure – umm
pepe said:
Dinetta said:
Mind you, I quote from what I can remember my father growing…peas in the winter was another…it amazes me that Pepe can get sweet peas in the summer months…up home they were planted on the Ides of March, and flowered in time for the local Flower Show (1st weekend in September)…
i’m like lucky – i can’t figure out how gardening in the various parts of the deep north operates.
but then again – how do things work down here? not sure – umm
It can be confusing at times ….lol
pepe said:
Dinetta said:
Mind you, I quote from what I can remember my father growing…peas in the winter was another…it amazes me that Pepe can get sweet peas in the summer months…up home they were planted on the Ides of March, and flowered in time for the local Flower Show (1st weekend in September)…
i’m like lucky – i can’t figure out how gardening in the various parts of the deep north operates.
but then again – how do things work down here? not sure – umm
I am not the deep north, Pain Master is on the southern borders of it…I am central queensland, and on the inland highlands…if you go 60 miles north or south, you will get dry summers…absolute bakers…but here I have humidity in the summer because of that great body of water known as Lake Maraboon…
It’s confusing on the “gardening maps”, as this area is on the corner of about 4 different areas…generally sub-tropical with temperate winters (chances of frost)…
Lucky1 said:
pepe said:
Dinetta said:
Mind you, I quote from what I can remember my father growing…peas in the winter was another…it amazes me that Pepe can get sweet peas in the summer months…up home they were planted on the Ides of March, and flowered in time for the local Flower Show (1st weekend in September)…
i’m like lucky – i can’t figure out how gardening in the various parts of the deep north operates.
but then again – how do things work down here? not sure – umm
It can be confusing at times ….lol
Well it was news to me but made sense, when Longy suggested I hold off the corn and pumpkin until January…should be over the worst of the heat (hahahaha) by then, and the Wet will have started…
I suppose growing vegetables under shade is a different concept as well…but we are currently getting UV ratings of 13 (on a scale of 1 – 10, I believe)
Another question…….
Mangos are being flogged on an add from Woolies. The farm looks very big… are mangos harvested from a tree only once a year??? If this is correct what do the farmers grow on their work farms for more $$$ other times of the year????
Lucky1 said:
Another question…….Mangos are being flogged on an add from Woolies. The farm looks very big… are mangos harvested from a tree only once a year??? If this is correct what do the farmers grow on their work farms for more $$$ other times of the year????
I think it varies slightly between varieties but not by much.
Maybe they grow other things as well? I wouldn’t think it’s unusual for a farmer to only get one big pay cheque per year. There’s lots of things that are only harvest in season.
bubba louie said:
Lucky1 said:
Another question…….Mangos are being flogged on an add from Woolies. The farm looks very big… are mangos harvested from a tree only once a year??? If this is correct what do the farmers grow on their work farms for more $$$ other times of the year????
I think it varies slightly between varieties but not by much.
Maybe they grow other things as well? I wouldn’t think it’s unusual for a farmer to only get one big pay cheque per year. There’s lots of things that are only harvest in season.
Thanks Bubba:)
= I have been wondering up north, can you grow tomatoes, corn, zucchini, pumpkins and such all year round??? =
If you mean North as in North of Rockhampton (Tropical), then yes. Also other stuff like capsicum and cucumber grows well all year round. Spuds don’t do well at all.
Hey Lucky, as I learn, I shall share. So far in our really first attempt of Tropical Gardening (I don’t think anyone else on this forum is further north than I) I will try to let youse all know what is happening.
To date and this really is from February 2010, we have had 2 corn crops. A 3rd is in now but not growing like the first 2.
We are pulling out and leaving some of our second crop of toms. Some were just starting to not work and the locals say give up now and wait until next year. We think it may be just the variety…
Chillies and Capsicums are now fantastic and the first crops…. we are aiming to see how long these guys survive our summer.
Cos lettuces are into their third crop, and we will keep trying these through the wet.
The long beans have worked okay, but not great. we are planting other beans now.
The sunflowers have flower buds.
basil, coriander, and parsley we just try to keep getting seed in the soil whenever we can.
Eggplant has been growing well, first crop still producing but we have planted some young replacements
cucumbers were good for a while, no pumpkin, plenty of squash, and now the pumpkin vine is fantastic. Zuchinni has not fruited on second crop.
the sweet potato is the success story. Amazing, and we aim to use this as a preparatory crop for suture garden beds. We planted the one tuber on top of a piece of turf, newspaper, mulch, and straw and now we have a harvest, a 12 sqm patch and gorgeous fluffy soil.
Winged beans are a tropic worth trying. I’ve never eaten one but I’ve heard good reports.
the sweet potato is the success story. Amazing, and we aim to use this as a preparatory crop for suture garden beds. We planted the one tuber on top of a piece of turf, newspaper, mulch, and straw and now we have a harvest, a 12 sqm patch and gorgeous fluffy soil.
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fresh sweet potato is possible down here but your results sound terrific. 12 sqm. from one tuber – and they grow deep as well.
the ones i have harvested here have a firmer, lighter, juicier tuber than the old dark spounge of the s/marts.
i have just harvested 5+ kilos of my last irish spuds (nicola). we might have to arrange a north south swap somehow.
pepe said:
the sweet potato is the success story. Amazing, and we aim to use this as a preparatory crop for suture garden beds. We planted the one tuber on top of a piece of turf, newspaper, mulch, and straw and now we have a harvest, a 12 sqm patch and gorgeous fluffy soil.
——————————————————-fresh sweet potato is possible down here but your results sound terrific. 12 sqm. from one tuber – and they grow deep as well.
the ones i have harvested here have a firmer, lighter, juicier tuber than the old dark spounge of the s/marts.i have just harvested 5+ kilos of my last irish spuds (nicola). we might have to arrange a north south swap somehow.
sounds ideal…. our potato crop wasn’t a success, so a taste of some nice fresh pepe spuds would be lovely.
Drove past some spud fields during the week eh?
pain master said:
pepe said:
the sweet potato is the success story. Amazing, and we aim to use this as a preparatory crop for suture garden beds. We planted the one tuber on top of a piece of turf, newspaper, mulch, and straw and now we have a harvest, a 12 sqm patch and gorgeous fluffy soil.
——————————————————-fresh sweet potato is possible down here but your results sound terrific. 12 sqm. from one tuber – and they grow deep as well.
the ones i have harvested here have a firmer, lighter, juicier tuber than the old dark spounge of the s/marts.i have just harvested 5+ kilos of my last irish spuds (nicola). we might have to arrange a north south swap somehow.
sounds ideal…. our potato crop wasn’t a success, so a taste of some nice fresh pepe spuds would be lovely. Drove past some spud fields during the week eh?
ah-ah! Kuranda?
the trouble is finding planes that need a backload between towntown and luckyland.
pepe said:
pain master said:
pepe said:
the sweet potato is the success story. Amazing, and we aim to use this as a preparatory crop for suture garden beds. We planted the one tuber on top of a piece of turf, newspaper, mulch, and straw and now we have a harvest, a 12 sqm patch and gorgeous fluffy soil.
——————————————————-fresh sweet potato is possible down here but your results sound terrific. 12 sqm. from one tuber – and they grow deep as well.
the ones i have harvested here have a firmer, lighter, juicier tuber than the old dark spounge of the s/marts.i have just harvested 5+ kilos of my last irish spuds (nicola). we might have to arrange a north south swap somehow.
sounds ideal…. our potato crop wasn’t a success, so a taste of some nice fresh pepe spuds would be lovely. Drove past some spud fields during the week eh?
ah-ah! Kuranda?
the trouble is finding planes that need a backload between towntown and luckyland.
close too liklik. Up around Marreba is real Spud country…. but I ventured further than that, and to places much damper.
pepe said:
the sweet potato is the success story. Amazing, and we aim to use this as a preparatory crop for suture garden beds. We planted the one tuber on top of a piece of turf, newspaper, mulch, and straw and now we have a harvest, a 12 sqm patch and gorgeous fluffy soil.
——————————————————-fresh sweet potato is possible down here but your results sound terrific. 12 sqm. from one tuber – and they grow deep as well.
the ones i have harvested here have a firmer, lighter, juicier tuber than the old dark spounge of the s/marts.i have just harvested 5+ kilos of my last irish spuds (nicola). we might have to arrange a north south swap somehow.
My Grandparents grew some whoppers on the Sunshine Coast.
The sweet spuds had the run of the rooster pen in rather sandy soil.
The butternut pumikins have gone berserk Lucky! They are taking over!
The Sweet potato patch is monstrous, and is just new and new shoots daily.
The eggplants are doing well again.
The passionfruit is fruiting.
The snake beans are still going great.
The chillies are just amazing, we are harvesting 20 -30 red chillies everyday, we now have chillie oil, dried chillie flakes, chillie powder….