it sounds like a grand topis but not much is happening in the garden – apart from the first flush of weeds.
celery and onion seedlings, toms in pots, the garden and its weeds.
looks good pepe
although the winter garden is just starting – the autumn harvest is not too bad.
kale, beans, cuey, pumpkin and sweet potatoes. just add onions, herbs and spuds and you’ve got dinner.
I bought twelve indigenous (to this area) native understorey plants. They are ground covers and small shrubs so I will pot them up for a month while i weed a large area to plant them in. I’ll have to hoe the ground at least twice judging by the amount of weed germinating we are getting after rain.
pepe said:
I bought twelve indigenous (to this area) native understorey plants. They are ground covers and small shrubs so I will pot them up for a month while i weed a large area to plant them in. I’ll have to hoe the ground at least twice judging by the amount of weed germinating we are getting after rain.
Before and after pics requested please Pepe.
hi pomolo – your request is my command
pink gum (over 1.5m high), hoeing areas for seedlings, potting up.
pepe said:
hi pomolo – your request is my command
pink gum (over 1.5m high), hoeing areas for seedlings, potting up.
Very egg-citing times at your place Pepe:)
Lots going on Pepe
ssssssshhhhhhh!!!
goes back to sleep at desk
;)
bluegreen said:
ssssssshhhhhhh!!!goes back to sleep at desk
;)
Tucks BG in… moves coffee cup away from reach….. pull power cord out of socket….
Who’s going to be a busy bee then ? It’ll be nice when you’re finished. (I’m saying that to myself a lot these days. lol.:) Pink gums are beautiful.
Lucky1 said:
pepe said:
hi pomolo – your request is my command
pink gum (over 1.5m high), hoeing areas for seedlings, potting up.
Very egg-citing times at your place Pepe:)
slow – the trees were planted two years ago.
now for the understorey.
we hope to attract the 7 types of local bats and get the bearded dragon living there again.
The Estate said:
Lots going on Pepe
compared to whom? (have you seen your place thru my eyes?)
this will be a scrappy looking bushland. its main purpose is to
- provide firewood
- provide habitat, biodiversity and hopefully some more wildlife.
its not quite ‘plant and forget’ but not a lot of maintenance – i hope.
orchid40 said:
Who’s going to be a busy bee then ? It’ll be nice when you’re finished. (I’m saying that to myself a lot these days. lol.:) Pink gums are beautiful.
no – shouldn’t be too much work – i hope.
i keep thinking if the original owners had done this thirty years ago i would be walking thru native bushland now.
yeah pink gums ( e. facsiculosa) are classics.
pepe said:
hi pomolo – your request is my command
pink gum (over 1.5m high), hoeing areas for seedlings, potting up.
That’s a pretty large project there Pepe. I’ll look forward to seeing the end results. When I get to Adelaide next time I might just come and see your plot in person. Just to make sure your on the right track. LOL.
slow – the trees were planted two years ago.
now for the understorey.
we hope to attract the 7 types of local bats and get the bearded dragon living there again.
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I admire your motives Pepe.
That’s a pretty large project there Pepe. I’ll look forward to seeing the end results. When I get to Adelaide next time I might just come and see your plot in person. Just to make sure your on the right track. LOL.
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i must have given the wrong impression – its not a large job – i’m only hoeing enough to plant the new plants.
i would love to meet you when you’re down south pomolo.
pomolo said:
slow – the trees were planted two years ago.
now for the understorey.
we hope to attract the 7 types of local bats and get the bearded dragon living there again.
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I admire your motives Pepe.
ms pepe and my daughter are keen naturalists (?)
i originally allocated the space as a woodlot for firewood.
i would like to have the bearded dragon here and bats are insectivours.
pepe said:
That’s a pretty large project there Pepe. I’ll look forward to seeing the end results. When I get to Adelaide next time I might just come and see your plot in person. Just to make sure your on the right track. LOL.
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i must have given the wrong impression – its not a large job – i’m only hoeing enough to plant the new plants.
i would love to meet you when you’re down south pomolo.
I would love to meet you all !
I would love to be part of a ‘community ‘garden thing for us , where we meet up to help out whomever is ill/ crook back/ too big a job for one /ageing ect.
Oz is huge…but I’d be in it :D
I would love to be part of a ‘community ‘garden thing for us , where we meet up to help out whomever is ill/ crook back/ too big a job for one /ageing ect.
Oz is huge…but I’d be in it :D
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stuth – no – i was thinking of cups of tea – none of this work business LOL
well – sun is out – i will get my fingers warm with a bit of work cya
pepe said:
That’s a pretty large project there Pepe. I’ll look forward to seeing the end results. When I get to Adelaide next time I might just come and see your plot in person. Just to make sure your on the right track. LOL.
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i must have given the wrong impression – its not a large job – i’m only hoeing enough to plant the new plants.
i would love to meet you when you’re down south pomolo.
You might’nt have a choice. I might just land on your doorstep. Might be very soon as well. I’ll be in contact through Lucky1 anyway.
I’m only joking really but I might be down there soon just the same.
You might’nt have a choice. I might just land on your doorstep. Might be very soon as well. I’ll be in contact through Lucky1 anyway.
I’m only joking really but I might be down there soon just the same.
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Love to see you again….:)
not a good photo – but my pincushion hakea (laurina) has put on its first flower. not bad after surviving two drought years under pine trees.
pincushion hakea in focus, our first ‘japanese seedless’ mandy is big and beautiful, citrus topdressed with chicken manure.
pepe said:
pincushion hakea in focus, our first ‘japanese seedless’ mandy is big and beautiful, citrus topdressed with chicken manure.Wow is that mandarine off that little citrus tree? Well done !
My mandarine’s are quite big, but stil green. I’m not sure when they should colour up.
Happy Potter said:
pepe said:
pincushion hakea in focus, our first ‘japanese seedless’ mandy is big and beautiful, citrus topdressed with chicken manure.Wow is that mandarine off that little citrus tree? Well done !
My mandarine’s are quite big, but stil green. I’m not sure when they should colour up.
the picture is an orange but its the same size as the mandy tree.
your orange tree is a nice size and i do suspect the sheep manure has converted to soil. no harm done tho’ and nice detective work to sniff it out.
pincushion hakea in focus, our first ‘japanese seedless’ mandy is big and beautiful, citrus topdressed with chicken manure.Wow is that mandarine off that little citrus tree? Well done !
My mandarine’s are quite big, but stil green. I’m not sure when they should colour up.
the picture is an orange but its the same size as the mandy tree.
your orange tree is a nice size and i do suspect the sheep manure has converted to soil. no harm done tho’ and nice detective work to sniff it out.
Converted to soil eh..ok.
I shall try to go lightly next mulch.
I still have a way to go down before I even see any surface root’s though, and it will get some worm wee.
The problem is that now it will be much lower than the other 2 citrus, but it was the first thing I planted when we moved in over 20 year’s ago now. I added soil way back then too as the block has the slightest slope and I levelled the back with about 20 meter’s of loam.
The problem is that now it will be much lower than the other 2 citrus, but it was the first thing I planted when we moved in over 20 year’s ago now. I added soil way back then too as the block has the slightest slope and I levelled the back with about 20 meter’s of loam.
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the tree is going well so not much is wrong. i’m not sure how it can be drained if its in the lowest spot in the garden.
pepe said:
The problem is that now it will be much lower than the other 2 citrus, but it was the first thing I planted when we moved in over 20 year’s ago now. I added soil way back then too as the block has the slightest slope and I levelled the back with about 20 meter’s of loam.
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the tree is going well so not much is wrong. i’m not sure how it can be drained if its in the lowest spot in the garden.
maybe a top dressing of gypsum once or twice a year will help.
pepe said:
The problem is that now it will be much lower than the other 2 citrus, but it was the first thing I planted when we moved in over 20 year’s ago now. I added soil way back then too as the block has the slightest slope and I levelled the back with about 20 meter’s of loam.
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the tree is going well so not much is wrong. i’m not sure how it can be drained if its in the lowest spot in the garden.
I will ask at the nursery for the solution to that , but I thought some drainage around it will be first on the list. And I still have that 30 mt long length of pipe the plumber left, so I’ll work on using that.
bluegreen said:
pepe said:
The problem is that now it will be much lower than the other 2 citrus, but it was the first thing I planted when we moved in over 20 year’s ago now. I added soil way back then too as the block has the slightest slope and I levelled the back with about 20 meter’s of loam.
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the tree is going well so not much is wrong. i’m not sure how it can be drained if its in the lowest spot in the garden.
maybe a top dressing of gypsum once or twice a year will help.
I’ll put that on my list too BG , thank’s
Happy Potter said:
bluegreen said:
pepe said:
The problem is that now it will be much lower than the other 2 citrus, but it was the first thing I planted when we moved in over 20 year’s ago now. I added soil way back then too as the block has the slightest slope and I levelled the back with about 20 meter’s of loam.
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the tree is going well so not much is wrong. i’m not sure how it can be drained if its in the lowest spot in the garden.
maybe a top dressing of gypsum once or twice a year will help.
I’ll put that on my list too BG , thank’s
oooh sorry talking over your thread Pepe ..
oooh sorry talking over your thread Pepe ..
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no probs – makes the thread look popular LOL.
pepe said:
not a good photo – but my pincushion hakea (laurina) has put on its first flower. not bad after surviving two drought years under pine trees.
very pretty…lovely pink tones:)
I hoed out about 50 horehound weeds that had grown in my one acre paddock. then i saw the icecream container full of celery seedlings that needed potting up – so i planted them in the paddock where the horehound had been.
Now i’m thinking i will plant bok choy and amaranthus in the paddock too – chopping out weeds and planting in the hole. The paddock is dominated by soursob and soursob are utterly useless for composting. If you piled a heap of soursob up, the size of a mountain, and came back next year, there would be absolutely nothing there.
thus begins another longterm project…..
sounds good pepe
soursob spread like crazy on infertile soil. cut them down before they set seed, which will weaken them, and fertilize.
veg gardener said:
sounds good pepe
i hope so veg. i might raise some lucerne seed and plant them out as seedlings too.
how was the open garden?
aquarium said:
soursob spread like crazy on infertile soil. cut them down before they set seed, which will weaken them, and fertilize.
too late – this place has been occupied for nearly forty years by non-gardeners – thus soursobs are endemic.
my best bet is to provide competition.