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What are you planting next?
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Posted by pepino Werribee Vic (My Page) on Tue, Mar 29, 05 at 18:41
| This question was posed in another thread and I thought I'd start a new one.
At the moment my garden is resting with a heap of compost going on top. When I fix it up I will plant some broad beans, garlic and perhaps some peas. I'm not sure how much room I'll have and by when as I have grape cuttings growing through it and it won't be until mid-winter when I can take them to their proper home.
What is going in your garden now?
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RE: What are you planting next?
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| Good question, Pepino. Right now I have two half-empty beds and about 30 scraggly tomato bushes with some green fruits here and there and lots of yellow cherries. I have two cucumbers along the fence battling mildew, and a zucchini near the clothesline suffering a similar fate. I have a choko vine reaching up about 50ft into a gum tree. Self-seeded parsley is popping up. The oregano fills a circle about two-metres across and spreading. Rosemary is good, just need some affordable lamb. The lettuces are finished but seeding. Strawberries are hibernating. Citrus? The lemon is fruiting very well, the lime is stalling, however the mandarin looks great as usual. Plenty of work ahead. As I mentioned elsewhere I'm thinking Kohl Rabi, carrots, silverbeet, broadbeans, some onion or other, and various lettuces/salad greens next. Plus building a new raised bed and buying some tin and cutting it to sized so I can create portable chicken pens so the chooks can spend a day or two turning those old tomato beds. Last but not least, the compost piles are looking good after six months of chook poo, straw, grass clippings and veggie scraps. BTW: The fruit fly problem is so bad this year that there is a letter in the SMH from someone who also had them hatching in their kitchen. |
RE: What are you planting next?
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Pepino,
At the moment for me it's is a question of whats coming up next in the mulch.
I lost my chickens to a fox so I raked the chook yard into the veggy patch yard,not long after I noticed some pumpkin plants in the mulch so I now have a Jap pumpkin vine excercising its right of way over every thing.I tried growing onions and let one go to seed now I have onions every where.It's like my own mini permaculture garden.
Found an old out of date packet of carrot seed so i threw it down not expecting much,they're doing okay.Mind you the
regular watering from the Hardie timer tap is a great help.
I planted zuchinnis,about six plants.Nobody told me how easy these are to grow.It is a good thing I can swap zuchinis for tomatoes with the neighbor.
I spend my days farming for a living but I have followed the Grub tales in the forum and wished for a garden like the one that Grub has.Just so nice to go out there and pick something for tea and know that I grew it myself.
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| Just brought back a few bags of sheep manure (and a bag of pigeon ) from thr b-in-l's farm to rejuvenate the veggie garden. Planning to put in brocc, spinach, broadies and quite a few varieties of onions over winter. Have to be careful not to lock up the area with crops and have nowhere for the tommies later on. |
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Day all
I will give the old gard a rest this winter. The last few months have been very dry and a cold winter is expected, as in -10 mornings. The task now is to make up some frost covers for the trees as in citrus and olives and hope for the best. Our first frost should be on Anzac day and then I will pick the pumpkins so keep a look out on http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hobbfarm/my_photos
for the pics. I will stick my chest out with some. |
RE: What are you planting next?
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Nothing - unless we get a BIG down-pour in April. The ground is as hard as a rock, the dam is getting low and the sky is stuck at "wonderful one day, perfect the next". A tourist's delight but a gardener's idea of hell...
Rose-Marie |
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| Hi Pepino leeks, beetroot, onions, shallots and potato onions. I still have tomatoes. I would like my Purple calabash to ripen so I can get some more seed. May have to pick the fruit and bring inside to ripen.. I will be putting in some broad beans and garlic...Do you know what maltese garlic is....one of the ladies at my seed swapping club is getting some...I hope to get a clove or two... |
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| I have climbing and dwarf green beans flowering and broad beans and silver beet shooting. Cherokee Purple and Akers West Virginia are showing new life in the greenhouse with lots of green toms. Aussie outside in a pot has new growth with two toms on. Lots of cherries still going. Capsicums of all sorts, orange, black, hot, not hot, red and long and slender. Will follow up with more plantings of broad beans, luv em. |
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| I think I'll be resting the garden , getting ready for Spring. Like WAttle, our winters are -10 or so, so good for preparation, and not much else. I may try to build a greenhouse, so put in garlic, onions etc. |
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| I have finally sown kohlrabi, leeks, parsnips, florence fennel, celeriac, red cos, snow peas, corn salad, strawberry spinach, purple mustard, scorzonera, shungiku. Still more seeds to go in, but need to prepare the beds first. |
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| I've been having a good clean-up in the garden and have planted celery, leeks, brown onions, white onions, broccoli, cauli, red and savoy cabbage, silver beet and Bok Choy in the last week. I've pulled out the tomatoes already - we had tons this year - the freezer is full of 'em. I still have the beans to pull out but I want some to dry up for the next crop. I've never seen as many white cabbage butterflies as I have this year. They can't get my plants because Tony made wire cages for everything. :-) |
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