two probs
garlic is dropping – lack of water probably?
beans are yellowy – i don’t know why – maybe a lack of sun.

3 photos out of my bedroom window.
the pink hollyhocks were black (very dark red) last year but have cross pollinated with pink ones

vege garden progress

pepe said:

two probs
garlic is dropping – lack of water probably?
beans are yellowy – i don’t know why – maybe a lack of sun.

What variety of beans???? Try some potassium, beans love it.

pepe said:

two probs
garlic is dropping – lack of water probably?
beans are yellowy – i don’t know why – maybe a lack of sun.

Ckeck the base of the garlic out…. maybe nibbled at or something stood on them????

pepe said:

vege garden progress

Lovely Pepe, sure is growing…any fruit on the marties yet??

thanks lucky
i will try potash on the beans and look at the garlic roots for grubs.
no marties yet but flowers.

……………….Looks good Pepe,did you get a thunder shower this morning? We got 8 mills at Snowtown………..AL

al said:

……………….Looks good Pepe,did you get a thunder shower this morning? We got 8 mills at Snowtown………..AL

2.5mm here at gawler.
congrats that should freshen the garden.

looks good pepe i have a few flowers on my roma tomatoes.

pepe said:

al said:

……………….Looks good Pepe,did you get a thunder shower this morning? We got 8 mills at Snowtown………..AL

2.5mm here at gawler.
congrats that should freshen the garden.

We got nothing here @ Parafield.

nothing visible on the roots of the garlic.
applied potash to one patch of peas and urine to another. i think its a nitrogen deficiency associated with too much or too little of something. if this doesn’t green them up i’ll try a dilute mix of molasses, epsom salts and borax. i regularly feed with worm wee, pigeon poo and seaweed.

veg gardener said:

looks good pepe i have a few flowers on my roma tomatoes.

thanks veg
- if its a tomato race between us – i’ll back you LOL

pepe said:

nothing visible on the roots of the garlic.
applied potash to one patch of peas and urine to another. i think its a nitrogen deficiency associated with too much or too little of something. if this doesn’t green them up i’ll try a dilute mix of molasses, epsom salts and borax. i regularly feed with worm wee, pigeon poo and seaweed.

peas shouldn’t need nitrogen. you could be giving them too much with all that pigeon poo.

pepe said:

nothing visible on the roots of the garlic.
applied potash to one patch of peas and urine to another. i think its a nitrogen deficiency associated with too much or too little of something. if this doesn’t green them up i’ll try a dilute mix of molasses, epsom salts and borax. i regularly feed with worm wee, pigeon poo and seaweed.

hhhhmmmm wonder if something just pushed the garlic over??? Hope the beans pick up… lurv beans.

spuds are flowering

epis are flowering
sweet peas are going great guns
my black hollyhock is still flowering black out the front

pepe said:

spuds are flowering

Mine is a pinkish color,,,,,, wonder if its the variety???

Mine is a pinkish color,,,,,, wonder if its the variety???
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yep
funny you should say that because mine are a pink spud.

pepe said:

veg gardener said:

looks good pepe i have a few flowers on my roma tomatoes.

thanks veg
- if its a tomato race between us – i’ll back you LOL

yeah just flowers and they are smaller then luckys plants.

veg gardener said:

pepe said:

veg gardener said:

looks good pepe i have a few flowers on my roma tomatoes.

thanks veg
- if its a tomato race between us – i’ll back you LOL

yeah just flowers and they are smaller then luckys plants.

I’m not even in the line up yet – I’ve direct sowed some seeds but they haven’t come up yet, either that or the birds got them. Mind you Melbourne is having a cool spring this year by the looks of it so maybe they are just waiting for the soil to warm up a bit more.

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

pepe said:

veg gardener said:

looks good pepe i have a few flowers on my roma tomatoes.

thanks veg
- if its a tomato race between us – i’ll back you LOL

yeah just flowers and they are smaller then luckys plants.

I’m not even in the line up yet – I’ve direct sowed some seeds but they haven’t come up yet, either that or the birds got them. Mind you Melbourne is having a cool spring this year by the looks of it so maybe they are just waiting for the soil to warm up a bit more.

lucky’s on a roll VG. did you get any spuds in VG?
i heard that victoria had a late frost or two BG. makes it hard to plant out.

pepe said:

bluegreen said:

veg gardener said:

pepe said:

veg gardener said:

looks good pepe i have a few flowers on my roma tomatoes.

thanks veg
- if its a tomato race between us – i’ll back you LOL

yeah just flowers and they are smaller then luckys plants.

I’m not even in the line up yet – I’ve direct sowed some seeds but they haven’t come up yet, either that or the birds got them. Mind you Melbourne is having a cool spring this year by the looks of it so maybe they are just waiting for the soil to warm up a bit more.

lucky’s on a roll VG. did you get any spuds in VG?
i heard that victoria had a late frost or two BG. makes it hard to plant out.

na havent worried about them this year.

pepe said:

two probs
garlic is dropping – lack of water probably?
beans are yellowy – i don’t know why – maybe a lack of sun.

neither potash nor nitrogen worked on the beans so i have tried epsom salts and molasses (magnesium) since the veins are green and the leaves yellow like in citrus.
probably just dryness in the garlic. with mid week waterings allowed now, weeding finished and my winter garden coming to a close i can probably correct the watering.

harvesting red cabbage and brocolli

tomato with basil, first tomato fruit, biggest garlic

black hollhocks gone red, swallows on the pool

celery going to seed with onions in the background, sweetpeas and spuds, bottlebrush in the native corner, lemon verbena making a comeback from my pruning

celery going to seed with onions in background, a young pumpkin

this little welcome swallow (?) was staring out thru’ the glass of the slow combustion heater this morning. they must come down the flue – pass the sooty smoke chambers and finally into the burning chamber.

i bought seedlings – italian parsley, zucchinis, and lebanese cucumber to replace losses.
i’ll do my watering and plant out tonight.

pepe said:

this little welcome swallow (?) was staring out thru’ the glass of the slow combustion heater this morning. they must come down the flue – pass the sooty smoke chambers and finally into the burning chamber.

Good grief….. he/she has a story to tell its friends……

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

this little welcome swallow (?) was staring out thru’ the glass of the slow combustion heater this morning. they must come down the flue – pass the sooty smoke chambers and finally into the burning chamber.

Good grief….. he/she has a story to tell its friends……

it flew away as if nothing had happened.

hot day in adelaide today
- so virtually no water left in the birdbath for these two european goldfinches

pepe said:

hot day in adelaide today
- so virtually no water left in the birdbath for these two european goldfinches

Aw, poor little birds, they seem to be looking at you saying “Where’s our water?”
Love goldfinches, hey take me back to my childhood. Actually it’s a worry how many things do that. Second childhood approaching?? LOL

orchid40 said:

pepe said:

hot day in adelaide today
- so virtually no water left in the birdbath for these two european goldfinches

Aw, poor little birds, they seem to be looking at you saying “Where’s our water?”
Love goldfinches, hey take me back to my childhood. Actually it’s a worry how many things do that. Second childhood approaching?? LOL

i filled the birdbath.
fixing our yearning for youth might be more difficult. LOL.

pepe said:

hot day in adelaide today
- so virtually no water left in the birdbath for these two european goldfinches

38 here today:(

pepe said:

hot day in adelaide today
- so virtually no water left in the birdbath for these two european goldfinches

That’s a great shot there Pepe. We have to fill our birdbath daily around here. I’m glad the birds don’t use towels and bath mats as well cause I’d be washing every day too.

38 here today:(

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You have my sympathy. That’s way too hot.

pomolo said:

38 here today:(

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You have my sympathy. That’s way too hot.

good morning,

i’m a morning person which is good, because that’s the best time of day, but this morning i walk through so many spider webs that i reckon these hot nights see a lot of interesting activity as well.
many plants love the heat – corn, cueys, toms, basil all grew inches yesterday. even the yellowing beans seem to have greened up.

picking strawbs (just 2 fruit) – and baby spinach is only a week away.

Morning from me too. Hot and windy here. The vege patch is looking like a jungle. Today I’ll ferret for some spuds. The celery is stunning to eat just picked. Cauli’s however are coming out , the small heads are’t well formed, I will put some silverbeet in their place. Hers a flower pic for yous, Dianthus ‘cherry pie’.

Ohh poo ,wrong thread. sorry Peps

Happy Potter said:

Morning from me too. Hot and windy here. The vege patch is looking like a jungle. Today I’ll ferret for some spuds. The celery is stunning to eat just picked. Cauli’s however are coming out , the small heads are’t well formed, I will put some silverbeet in their place. Hers a flower pic for yous, Dianthus ‘cherry pie’.

that is so stunning. I really like dianthus but ones I have grown have all turned up their toes.

Happy Potter said:

Morning from me too. Hot and windy here. The vege patch is looking like a jungle. Today I’ll ferret for some spuds. The celery is stunning to eat just picked. Cauli’s however are coming out , the small heads are’t well formed, I will put some silverbeet in their place. Hers a flower pic for yous, Dianthus ‘cherry pie’.

wow that is stunning.
just swapped eggs and leeks with the neighbour and got small lemons and big grapefruit in return.

Happy Potter said:

Ohh poo ,wrong thread. sorry Peps

I don’t care what thread you put flower pics in. I just love to see peoples floral achievements now an again. We mostly seem to have vegie pics on here. Don’t get me wrong, I like vegies as much the next person but flowers brighten up my day.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Ohh poo ,wrong thread. sorry Peps

I don’t care what thread you put flower pics in. I just love to see peoples floral achievements now an again. We mostly seem to have vegie pics on here. Don’t get me wrong, I like vegies as much the next person but flowers brighten up my day.

there, there pomolo (pats head) LOL.
here’s a tiny little cactus flower – the plant lives in a wheelbarrow with lousy soil, no water and not enough sun.

pepe said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Ohh poo ,wrong thread. sorry Peps

I don’t care what thread you put flower pics in. I just love to see peoples floral achievements now an again. We mostly seem to have vegie pics on here. Don’t get me wrong, I like vegies as much the next person but flowers brighten up my day.

there, there pomolo (pats head) LOL.
here’s a tiny little cactus flower – the plant lives in a wheelbarrow with lousy soil, no water and not enough sun.

Many thanks to you Pepe. I loved your flower too.

i’ve been won over to lucky’s potash treatment. i’m dosing spuds, strawbs, toms, brassicas and beans with soluble potash and seaweed (maxicrop) every week now.

pepe said:

i’ve been won over to lucky’s potash treatment. i’m dosing spuds, strawbs, toms, brassicas and beans with soluble potash and seaweed (maxicrop) every week now.

blushes wow two impacts with one watering can:)

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

i’ve been won over to lucky’s potash treatment. i’m dosing spuds, strawbs, toms, brassicas and beans with soluble potash and seaweed (maxicrop) every week now.

blushes wow two impacts with one watering can:)

hi lucky
out of interest what does your moon chart say about november 12th?
i haven’t lost any plants since then, my beans have greened and a lot of pests disappeared.

the potash does seem to help the flowering plants.

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

i’ve been won over to lucky’s potash treatment. i’m dosing spuds, strawbs, toms, brassicas and beans with soluble potash and seaweed (maxicrop) every week now.

blushes wow two impacts with one watering can:)

hi lucky
out of interest what does your moon chart say about november 12th?
i haven’t lost any plants since then, my beans have greened and a lot of pests disappeared.

the potash does seem to help the flowering plants.

Next best time for fruiting plants…..

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

i’ve been won over to lucky’s potash treatment. i’m dosing spuds, strawbs, toms, brassicas and beans with soluble potash and seaweed (maxicrop) every week now.

blushes wow two impacts with one watering can:)

hi lucky
out of interest what does your moon chart say about november 12th?
i haven’t lost any plants since then, my beans have greened and a lot of pests disappeared.

the potash does seem to help the flowering plants.

Next best time for fruiting plants…..

right – um – an inauspicious day then. thanks.

those onions i bought from virgara haven’t kept too well – about15 of them have gone rotten.
so their produce is cheap – but none too fresh.

those onions i bought from virgara haven’t kept too well – about15 of them have gone rotten.
so their produce is cheap – but none too fresh.
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One of our plum trees from them didn’t even shoot a leaf:(

Garden Grove is much better.

Lucky1 said:

One of our plum trees from them didn’t even shoot a leaf:( Garden Grove is much better.

yep – i won’t be hurrying back.

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

One of our plum trees from them didn’t even shoot a leaf:( Garden Grove is much better.

yep – i won’t be hurrying back.

Us neither…… no come back on the tree:(

some flowers

onions and the pecan tree (no fruit on pecan)

pepe said:

some flowers

That purple-y one looks like crepe myrtle? Ours have all finished…

Dinetta said:

pepe said:

some flowers

That purple-y one looks like crepe myrtle? Ours have all finished…

D’oh, just enlarged the photo, it is bouganvillea…

blush

Nice show tho’

:)

Dinetta said:

pepe said:

some flowers

That purple-y one looks like crepe myrtle? Ours have all finished…

from top left
yellow iris
orange canna tropicana
purple-y bouganvillea
white spanish bells (yucca gloriosa)

pepe said:

Dinetta said:

pepe said:

some flowers

That purple-y one looks like crepe myrtle? Ours have all finished…

from top left
yellow iris
orange canna tropicana
purple-y bouganvillea
white spanish bells (yucca gloriosa)

Oh so pretty….. lurv yellow flowers:D

spinach and beans, carrots and corn, spinach and carrots for dinner (with leek and spud pie)

pepe said:

spinach and beans, carrots and corn, spinach and carrots for dinner (with leek and spud pie)

Are they some of my carrots??? My spinach is all gone here now. Can I plant another crop from scratch or would it be too hot now Pepe???

horseradish, certified spuds are still weeks away from harvest, zuchini and cabbages.

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

spinach and beans, carrots and corn, spinach and carrots for dinner (with leek and spud pie)

Are they some of my carrots??? My spinach is all gone here now. Can I plant another crop from scratch or would it be too hot now Pepe???

yep – your carrots
put spinach seed in now. semi-shade is alright this time of year. otherwise just keep damp
- i can probably set aside a dozen seedlings for you – since mine are too close.

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

spinach and beans, carrots and corn, spinach and carrots for dinner (with leek and spud pie)

Are they some of my carrots??? My spinach is all gone here now. Can I plant another crop from scratch or would it be too hot now Pepe???

yep – your carrots
put spinach seed in now. semi-shade is alright this time of year. otherwise just keep damp
- i can probably set aside a dozen seedlings for you – since mine are too close.

Oh yes please…… love some. Will have some extra tomato seedlings by the end of the year, if they germinate too, for ewe:D

Oh yes please…… love some. Will have some extra tomato seedlings by the end of the year, if they germinate too, for ewe:D
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ok – i’ll pot some spinach seedlings up.
if you give me toms i’ll try to grow some in the hothouse over winter. i’ve run out of space and water in the garden.
how are your toms looking now?

pepe said:

Oh yes please…… love some. Will have some extra tomato seedlings by the end of the year, if they germinate too, for ewe:D
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ok – i’ll pot some spinach seedlings up.
if you give me toms i’ll try to grow some in the hothouse over winter. i’ve run out of space and water in the garden.
how are your toms looking now?

Oh looking sexy as and full of plump fruits. I fed them some worm wee, potash & seasol today. Tomorrow I have to tie them up more again.

looks good pepe.

pond2 with the yellow water iris(?) looks ok.

pepe said:

pond2 with the yellow water iris(?) looks ok.

That looks really nice Pepe, water irises are elegant. Is that a frog pond?

orchid40 said:

pepe said:

pond2 with the yellow water iris(?) looks ok.

That looks really nice Pepe, water irises are elegant. Is that a frog pond?

that one’s the fish pond
g’day pomolo.

pepe said:

some flowers

Onya Pepe.

pepe said:

onions and the pecan tree (no fruit on pecan)

None on mine either Pepe. I thought 2008 might be THE year.

Love the yellow Iris :)
Very nice Peps.
I have a purple one the same, but only one single flower this year.

have a look at the clay soil here.
it doesn’t hold water when its cracked !

my first poegranates

pepe said:

my first poegranates

the flowers look nice.

veg gardener said:

pepe said:

my first poegranates

the flowers look nice.

thank Vg
pomegranates is the correct word.
they are a good tree – very drought tolerant, deciduous and fruit bearing – altho’ i haven’t worked out how to eat them yet (apart from raw).

pepe said:

veg gardener said:

pepe said:

my first poegranates

the flowers look nice.

thank Vg
pomegranates is the correct word.
they are a good tree – very drought tolerant, deciduous and fruit bearing – altho’ i haven’t worked out how to eat them yet (apart from raw).

yeah i have heard about people eating these i think same with Pumkins flowers.

yeah i have heard about people eating these i think same with Pumkins flowers.
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i hadn’t intemded eating the flowers – there are red seed that come inside a case when the fruit split open.
i know maggie beer eats zucchini flowers (lightly battered and fried) – i dont know about the other pumpkin flowers.

sweet peas – almost finished and producing lots of seed for next year

pepe said:

sweet peas – almost finished and producing lots of seed for next year

Pepe, had a FAB TAB of a showing……very pretty to see and smell.

pepe said:

sweet peas – almost finished and producing lots of seed for next year

Mine were a dismal failure. All pulled out now and composted.

the tree feller felled 6 dead pines and had them sawn up by lunchtime. it would have taken me four days.
i spent the whole day sorting and stacking the wood

Mine were a dismal failure. All pulled out now and composted.
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poor pom. still – you probably grow a brilliant flower garden and don’t need them.
mine were self sown and a pure fluke – they grew themselves on the windy west side of the shed.

pepe said:

the tree feller felled 6 dead pines and had them sawn up by lunchtime. it would have taken me four days.
i spent the whole day sorting and stacking the wood

Oh wow…… looks great… warm cosy winters by the fire in a year or so,

not enuff pictures LOL
white cannas, strawbsa nd onions

pepe said:

not enuff pictures LOL
white cannas, strawbsa nd onions

looks good pepe.

pepe said:

not enuff pictures LOL
white cannas, strawbsa nd onions

Onions look beautiful…… soil around them looks FAB TAB as well.

looks good pepe.
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thanks VG
I’m not sure where the white onions came from – they were suppose to be red.

Onions look beautiful…… soil around them looks FAB TAB as well.
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thanks L1
might think about putting some ‘hawkesbury brown’ onion seed in one of those polystyrene seed trays pretty soon – for winter planting.

pepe said:

looks good pepe.
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thanks VG
I’m not sure where the white onions came from – they were suppose to be red.

Not coriander or maybe celery????;P

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

looks good pepe.
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thanks VG
I’m not sure where the white onions came from – they were suppose to be red.

Not coriander or maybe celery????;P

laugh if you like – but i think well ahead – only sometimes i forget to label

hey lucky -
I’ve got about 6 marigold seedlings coming up next to a young basil plant.
- do you want/need marigolds in your patch?

Very nice pepe. When did you plant your onions please ?

orchid40 said:

Very nice pepe. When did you plant your onions please ?

thanks orchid

i planted them 21st september – spring equinox.
i will plant the winter onions about 21st march – the autumn equinox.
on both occasions i try to plant the seed about 8 weeks (or more) prior to that date
8 week old seedlings are usually big enough to plant.

pepe said:

orchid40 said:

Very nice pepe. When did you plant your onions please ?

thanks orchid

i planted them 21st september – spring equinox.
i will plant the winter onions about 21st march – the autumn equinox.
on both occasions i try to plant the seed about 8 weeks (or more) prior to that date
8 week old seedlings are usually big enough to plant.

Thanks Pepe :)

second year rosita eggplant, watermelon seedlings in old compost area and beans beginning to climb and flower

aspro and the girls hiding from the wind in their walled garden

an old friend of mine has just identified my pink spuds as desiree (i’ve been calling them pink eyes).
good as chips but not mashed.

pepe said:

an old friend of mine has just identified my pink spuds as desiree (i’ve been calling them pink eyes).
good as chips but not mashed.

Mmmm, they tend to go gluey when you mash ‘em. I mash some up one day; it was like eating pre-school glue.

Probably the only thing I like about Woolies F&V – the potatoe signs tell you what they’re good for. Handy for working out what to do with the spuds you’ve got in the pantry already ;-) (Or the ground LOL)

some flowers for the last week of november

and some produce – quince, corn and onions

i’m proud of these golden ash and carob trees that we grew from seed. we moved them here in pots after selling our old property, they provide cooling summer shade. unfortunately the golden ash have aggressive roots and will be felled over the next several years.