i’ve got my spring seedlings planted today
echinacea, jolly roger & early chief corn, green sprouting calabrese broccoli, savoy cabbage, roma tomatoes, zucchini, sweet basil, 2 types eggplant, 2 types capsicum.
no lebanese cuey yet.
i’ve no camera at present but will have one later in the week to show piccies.

pepe said:

i’ve got my spring seedlings planted today
echinacea, jolly roger & early chief corn, green sprouting calabrese broccoli, savoy cabbage, roma tomatoes, zucchini, sweet basil, 2 types eggplant, 2 types capsicum.
no lebanese cuey yet.
i’ve no camera at present but will have one later in the week to show piccies.

Wow Peps, you’ve been busy! No frost tender ones ?

orchid40 said:

pepe said:

i’ve got my spring seedlings planted today
echinacea, jolly roger & early chief corn, green sprouting calabrese broccoli, savoy cabbage, roma tomatoes, zucchini, sweet basil, 2 types eggplant, 2 types capsicum.
no lebanese cuey yet.
i’ve no camera at present but will have one later in the week to show piccies.

Wow Peps, you’ve been busy! No frost tender ones ?

yep – all are frost tender but no frosts here – i will plant out the 6 week old seedlings in early september.

pepe said:

orchid40 said:

pepe said:

i’ve got my spring seedlings planted today
echinacea, jolly roger & early chief corn, green sprouting calabrese broccoli, savoy cabbage, roma tomatoes, zucchini, sweet basil, 2 types eggplant, 2 types capsicum.
no lebanese cuey yet.
i’ve no camera at present but will have one later in the week to show piccies.

Wow Peps, you’ve been busy! No frost tender ones ?

yep – all are frost tender but no frosts here – i will plant out the 6 week old seedlings in early september.

they are all in a hothouse.

pepe said:

pepe said:

orchid40 said:

pepe said:

i’ve got my spring seedlings planted today
echinacea, jolly roger & early chief corn, green sprouting calabrese broccoli, savoy cabbage, roma tomatoes, zucchini, sweet basil, 2 types eggplant, 2 types capsicum.
no lebanese cuey yet.
i’ve no camera at present but will have one later in the week to show piccies.

Wow Peps, you’ve been busy! No frost tender ones ?

yep – all are frost tender but no frosts here – i will plant out the 6 week old seedlings in early september.

they are all in a hothouse.

Oh well that’s different!

and i resurrected the hot water urn in the shed today.
it will give me hot water for hot chook mash (vg’s idea) plus help to break down coir bricks better and – maybe- get the old homebrew working again.

on 29th june i planted the understorey of my native section.
about 20 shrubs and ground covers between the 18 native trees that are growing well.
i used paper and straw mulch to keep the weeds at bay.

pepe said:

and i resurrected the hot water urn in the shed today.
it will give me hot water for hot chook mash (vg’s idea) plus help to break down coir bricks better and – maybe- get the old homebrew working again.

thats a good idea pepe, We have one of those hot water things as well.

nearly 50mm of rain here in july
some piccies – the new clear polycarb walling in the hothouse, tomatoes growing up string and the onion seedlings

looks good pepe.

the winter garden – savoy cabbage, leeks and the blanched celery

all the photos look good.

sweetpeas and the new understorey plants in my native corner

veg gardener said:

all the photos look good.

thanks vg
i took advantage of a patch of blue sky to photograph.
i emptied the rain gauge of 14mm this morning and its got another 5-6mm in it.
bbl.

Wow Peps, you have been busy – such a productive vegie selection! Your tomatoes are great, as is the rest of it. My Savoys are miles behind yours! I have got peas nearly ready to pick though :). I might do the camera thing today.

Great photos Pepe…..love the toms under the green plastic:)

the winter garden – savoy cabbage, leeks and the blanched celery
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With your celery, do you pick a whole celery or do you harvest them by the stalks????

Lucky1 said:

the winter garden – savoy cabbage, leeks and the blanched celery
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With your celery, do you pick a whole celery or do you harvest them by the stalks????

one stalk at a time – we had them in salad last night and they are stringless and tasty fresh.
probably could grow celery in richer soil – but i didn’t have any ready at planting time.

Lucky1 said:

Great photos Pepe…..love the toms under the green plastic:)

thats a ‘growing bag’ that my daughter bought and then gave to me. its spose to be easy – just soak the soil in the bag and pop in seed and the bag will do the rest.

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

the winter garden – savoy cabbage, leeks and the blanched celery
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With your celery, do you pick a whole celery or do you harvest them by the stalks????

one stalk at a time – we had them in salad last night and they are stringless and tasty fresh.
probably could grow celery in richer soil – but i didn’t have any ready at planting time.

Thanks….I am going to do the same thing as well. Just wanted to know if I could. How old were the plants when you started harvesting stalks off them??

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

Great photos Pepe…..love the toms under the green plastic:)

thats a ‘growing bag’ that my daughter bought and then gave to me. its spose to be easy – just soak the soil in the bag and pop in seed and the bag will do the rest.

Eons ago we had a gardener called “Wombat” and he grew tomatoes in a grow bag and kept us posted on how the plants went.

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

Great photos Pepe…..love the toms under the green plastic:)

thats a ‘growing bag’ that my daughter bought and then gave to me. its spose to be easy – just soak the soil in the bag and pop in seed and the bag will do the rest.

I bought one of those last season Peps. I found it to be no good at all. The tomatoes were stunted and I threw it all in the compost. Yours might work though.

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

Great photos Pepe…..love the toms under the green plastic:)

thats a ‘growing bag’ that my daughter bought and then gave to me. its spose to be easy – just soak the soil in the bag and pop in seed and the bag will do the rest.

Eons ago we had a gardener called “Wombat” and he grew tomatoes in a grow bag and kept us posted on how the plants went.

I used to grow tomatoes in growbags in the UK. They were a lot bigger and had the tomato food included in them. They worked well.

Thanks….I am going to do the same thing as well. Just wanted to know if I could. How old were the plants when you started harvesting stalks off them??
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they are from the same batch of seedlings i gave you. i planted these seedlings out early may – so i guess it was 6-8 weeks before i started picking. they respond to liquid feed but the cold weather might slow them.

I bought one of those last season Peps. I found it to be no good at all. The tomatoes were stunted and I threw it all in the compost. Yours might work though.
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its a ‘lazy’ concept – we will see. so far aquarium’s potting mixture with the coir and bentonite is proving very good.

pepe said:

Thanks….I am going to do the same thing as well. Just wanted to know if I could. How old were the plants when you started harvesting stalks off them??
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they are from the same batch of seedlings i gave you. i planted these seedlings out early may – so i guess it was 6-8 weeks before i started picking. they respond to liquid feed but the cold weather might slow them.

Great thanks:)

sweetpeas and the new understorey plants
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My sweetpeas look exactly like yours Pepe, cept my climbing stems are a bit taller than yours. I’m still fascinated to find out when the horizontal stems will start to climb.

the blanched celery
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That celery looks yum!

pomolo said:

the blanched celery
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That celery looks yum!

I have been convinced to try growing celery – I’m going outside now to see where I can fit it in. I think I’ll buy seedlings . Is this the right time of year for it down here does anyone know please?

orchid40 said:

pomolo said:

the blanched celery
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That celery looks yum!

I have been convinced to try growing celery – I’m going outside now to see where I can fit it in. I think I’ll buy seedlings . Is this the right time of year for it down here does anyone know please?

Hm. Maybe not. I just looked in my GA diary and I think I have to wait till Oct.

orchid40 said:

orchid40 said:

pomolo said:

the blanched celery
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That celery looks yum!

I have been convinced to try growing celery – I’m going outside now to see where I can fit it in. I think I’ll buy seedlings . Is this the right time of year for it down here does anyone know please?

Hm. Maybe not. I just looked in my GA diary and I think I have to wait till Oct.

O40 are those diary any good ones does it have in them i was thinking about getting one once before.

pepe said:

sweetpeas and the new understorey plants in my native corner

mine are taller then this. Hope this is the right photo.

I have been convinced to try growing celery – I’m going outside now to see where I can fit it in. I think I’ll buy seedlings . Is this the right time of year for it down here does anyone know please?
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no – not officially the right time – september now is the earliest.
mind you everyone is now planting whatever when ever.

pepe said:

I bought one of those last season Peps. I found it to be no good at all. The tomatoes were stunted and I threw it all in the compost. Yours might work though.
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its a ‘lazy’ concept – we will see. so far aquarium’s potting mixture with the coir and bentonite is proving very good.

There was an article in Bris Sunday Mail gardening section last week on using a paste (home made) as a fertiliser on tree trunks and the like. It seems to be working very well in the experimental stages and bentonite was one of the ingredients.

If I knew how to do it I would put up the link so you could all read it. It was most interesting.

yes VG – they are the sweet peas.
when did you (and OC40) plant peas??
a few more piccies of the winter garden – broad beans, brassicas, spinach and carrots, red cabbage and lettuce.
you have to click the photo to see the veges because the weeds are everywhere at present.

pepe said:

yes VG – they are the sweet peas.
when did you (and OC40) plant peas??

i planted mine ages back ill just check now.

14/04/08.

veg gardener said:

14/04/08.

kk – you probably planted after the first rains in autumn – thanks.

pepe said:

veg gardener said:

14/04/08.

kk – you probably planted after the first rains in autumn – thanks.

when did you plant yours?

veg gardener said:

pepe said:

veg gardener said:

14/04/08.

kk – you probably planted after the first rains in autumn – thanks.

when did you plant yours?

after the shortest day (june 21) – i think yours look better and i’ll try earlier if OC also planted when you did. mine are very young now – just shoots.

pepe said:

veg gardener said:

pepe said:

veg gardener said:

14/04/08.

kk – you probably planted after the first rains in autumn – thanks.

when did you plant yours?

after the shortest day (june 21) – i think yours look better and i’ll try earlier if OC also planted when you did. mine are very young now – just shoots.

yeah, On the weekend i m getting a trailer load of cow poo for free from the farm up the road. not sure if i should pull most things out.

orchid40 said:

pomolo said:

the blanched celery
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That celery looks yum!

I have been convinced to try growing celery – I’m going outside now to see where I can fit it in. I think I’ll buy seedlings . Is this the right time of year for it down here does anyone know please?

Pepe gave me our celery back when HP came visiting. Pretty sure that was when it was. Are was prepared and here’s hoping it grows as good as everyone else’s:)

yeah, On the weekend i m getting a trailer load of cow poo for free from the farm up the road. not sure if i should pull most things out.
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is that question?
i would carefully put the cowdung around those brussel sprouts of yours. i reckon they might be real good if they get a boost about now.

Pepe gave me our celery back when HP came visiting. Pretty sure that was when it was. Are was prepared and here’s hoping it grows as good as everyone else’s
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you need a cold, wet spring – rain plus cool weather in september could give you a bumper crop.
the spuds i planted for last summer are growing really well now. which means i should have planted my spuds in march this year!
who knows??

pepe said:

yeah, On the weekend i m getting a trailer load of cow poo for free from the farm up the road. not sure if i should pull most things out.
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is that question?
i would carefully put the cowdung around those brussel sprouts of yours. i reckon they might be real good if they get a boost about now.

yeah. and my peas.

O40 are those diary any good ones does it have in them i was thinking about getting one once before.

Yes Veg, they are good. They have a page for every month to tell you what you can plant that month, and the jobs that need to be done that month also. It’s info you can get anywhere else I guess, but good for a quick reference and I like to keep a diary anyway.

I planted my peas in April, Peps.

orchid40 said:

O40 are those diary any good ones does it have in them i was thinking about getting one once before.

Yes Veg, they are good. They have a page for every month to tell you what you can plant that month, and the jobs that need to be done that month also. It’s info you can get anywhere else I guess, but good for a quick reference and I like to keep a diary anyway.

ill try and get on for next year.

pepe said:

nearly 50mm of rain here in july
some piccies – the new clear polycarb walling in the hothouse, tomatoes growing up string and the onion seedlings

Cor blimey, garden porn!!!!!! Love it :D

Yeehah said:

pepe said:

nearly 50mm of rain here in july
some piccies – the new clear polycarb walling in the hothouse, tomatoes growing up string and the onion seedlings

Cor blimey, garden porn!!!!!! Love it :D

Lol at yeehah, you make me laugh. please don’t make me spill my ginger beer all over my pj’s.

orchid40 said:

I planted my peas in April, Peps.

thanks – looks like i’ll try that next autumn.

Cor blimey, garden porn!!!!!! Love it :D
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photos are good !
i put the clear plastic on the hothouse and it instantly became my favourite garden – thus it is looking cared for at present. it could do with improvement but hothouses are beautful places when the winter sun is shining through.

pepe said:

Cor blimey, garden porn!!!!!! Love it :D
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photos are good !
i put the clear plastic on the hothouse and it instantly became my favourite garden – thus it is looking cared for at present. it could do with improvement but hothouses are beautful places when the winter sun is shining through.

yep photos are good.

the new rooster (thanks to Lucky) practising his crowing

pepe said:

the new rooster (thanks to Lucky) practising his crowing

looks good pepe.

i tried to photograph the steam coming off the compost when i turned it – but it comes out as a grey shadow – i guess because it is moving and the camera speed is not fast enough to freeze it.

yeah mine gets some steam when i turn it as well.

pepe said:

the new rooster (thanks to Lucky) practising his crowing

Standing tall and proud:)

just harvested 1.2 kg of spuds from regrowth of last years crop.
the cabbage is from my daughter.

just harvested 1.2 kg of spuds from regrowth of last years crop.
the cabbage is from my daughter.
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Very impressive:)

Lucky1 said:

just harvested 1.2 kg of spuds from regrowth of last years crop.
the cabbage is from my daughter.
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Very impressive:)

ta
- my daughter put a bag of spuds in the ground in march this year – i think she is going to fluke a good crop by the looks of them.

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

just harvested 1.2 kg of spuds from regrowth of last years crop.
the cabbage is from my daughter.
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Very impressive:)

ta
- my daughter put a bag of spuds in the ground in march this year – i think she is going to fluke a good crop by the looks of them.

Good on her:D

looks good pepe.

veg gardener said:

looks good pepe.

thank and good morning VG.
we’ve got no grazing animals here so i’ll be weeding now until october.

pepe said:

veg gardener said:

looks good pepe.

thank and good morning VG.
we’ve got no grazing animals here so i’ll be weeding now until october.

good morning i got up 14 minutes ago :P

veg gardener said:

good morning i got up 14 minutes ago :P

that’s not like you to sleep in Veg….

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

good morning i got up 14 minutes ago :P

that’s not like you to sleep in Veg….

well i did get home at 1am from seeing some live county music.

veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

good morning i got up 14 minutes ago :P

that’s not like you to sleep in Veg….

well i did get home at 1am from seeing some live county music.

Is county music like country music vg? heehee. Just ribbin ya.

veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

good morning i got up 14 minutes ago :P

that’s not like you to sleep in Veg….

well i did get home at 1am from seeing some live county music.

did you have fun?

Crinkle said:

veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

good morning i got up 14 minutes ago :P

that’s not like you to sleep in Veg….

well i did get home at 1am from seeing some live county music.

Is county music like country music vg? heehee. Just ribbin ya.

we all like to help Veg out with his spelling, don’t we Veg?

:D

Crinkle said:

veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

good morning i got up 14 minutes ago :P

that’s not like you to sleep in Veg….

well i did get home at 1am from seeing some live county music.

Is county music like country music vg? heehee. Just ribbin ya.

its some pretty good stuff we went to see the McClymonts

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

good morning i got up 14 minutes ago :P

that’s not like you to sleep in Veg….

well i did get home at 1am from seeing some live county music.

did you have fun?

yep.

bluegreen said:

Crinkle said:

veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

good morning i got up 14 minutes ago :P

that’s not like you to sleep in Veg….

well i did get home at 1am from seeing some live county music.

Is county music like country music vg? heehee. Just ribbin ya.

we all like to help Veg out with his spelling, don’t we Veg?

:D

yes you do i am still asleep =D

veg gardener said:

yes you do i am still asleep =D

well I got up even later than you. Mr BG is sick at the moment and neither of us is sleeping well.

bluegreen said:

Crinkle said:

veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

good morning i got up 14 minutes ago :P

that’s not like you to sleep in Veg….

well i did get home at 1am from seeing some live county music.

Is county music like country music vg? heehee. Just ribbin ya.

we all like to help Veg out with his spelling, don’t we Veg?

:D

Well it’s hard for “WE” who are perfect … like myself … who never make spelling mistakes. It’s just the darn pooter doing typos !!! ;) :p