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| My son recently visited from interstate and built me some new beds in the front yard using rocks that were lying around the "garden" (it could hardly be called a garden actually, just a tree with overgrown shrubs). Anyhow, I finally have an area that will get more than 5 hours of sun per day!
This is my first ever flower garden out of smaller leftover rocks, new garden beds in the background. In my old shady garden bed I put a few tomato F2 plants from which I just want to see a few fruits. I need to check for fruit colour and type and decide if there's anything worth growing on. There's a few young lettuce plants and some herbs in front of them. Here's part of my back yard with planter bags placed to get a few hours of morning sun. You can see how close the forest of pine trees is at the fence line! The closer ones to the fence will be shaded by noon, and the ones at the front of the pic will be shaded by 2.30pm. Planter bags dancing cheek-to-cheek! Now it's time to watch everything grow and catch up with all the things I've neglected. Still need to plant out the peppers in the front garden bed nearer the house. I'm waiting for my chilli seedlings to grow - they are painfully slow and late! PP |
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| Send your son up this way, I could do with some work done :-) He did a good job, should look really good when grown. You've got a lot of work with those bags. Do you trouble with them falling over or collapsing? I used them for a while and had trouble with them leaning. Would using black bags be too hot for the roots? I thought it might have helped give them a boost until the weather warms up for you, then you could shade the bags if it got too hot for them? |
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| At last PP. A place in the sun. What's in the new beds? Yes, yes, chillies and tomatoes, I know, but which ones? |
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- Posted by Patrina_Pepperina S. Australia z9 (My Page) on Wed, Nov 16, 05 at 3:15
| Yes, at last! Just tomatoes and a Russian pomegranate in the beds at present. Tommies (in no particular order): Hugh's Except for Moldovan Green I was trying to put just one of the varieties out front to compare with the same varieties in bags out back in the shady areas, but I accidently potted both Ester Hess Yellow Cherries in the same bed, opposite ends :P I deliberately put both Moldovan Greens, a black, purple, yellow and orange one in the first row by the street in the hope that people walking by wouldn't be as tempted to steal them.... most people around here still think tomatoes should be red! Chillies - dunno as yet - some look sick and may not get planted. Looks like I'm not having a good chilli year this year. PP |
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- Posted by Patrina_Pepperina S. Australia z9 (My Page) on Wed, Nov 16, 05 at 5:29
| Goldhills, I didn't have any problems last year with the bags falling over or collapsing. I'm using a different potting mix this year, so I'll see how it goes. I definitely prefer the white bags to black pots. I found that black pots get very hot and need to be watered more frequently. But I don't start planting out as early as I used to, and so the warmth of the soil is less of an issue. I'm pretty happy with the bags so far - I'm using about 150 this season. PP |
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| Great going PP. Here's my backyard. Looks like I'm grow beefsteaks without the beef. Work in progress garden bed in foreground. Sorry about the chook. Clearly she doesn't like to be photographed. :) |
Here is a link that might be useful: Backyard
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| Up Ya Go Patrina. Looks amazing. Thank Heaven. They're gonna think you're Italian. Can't be a bad thing. Can't wait to see the plants pumped up with love. . Ya won't know yourself. |
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