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I bought them as seedlings from bunnings, also what do you mean by cultivated? We freshly made up the soil in the garden bed with lots of different soils and fertilizers added before planting. Is there something else I should have done? The garden bed is quite deep.
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Cultivated means preparing the soul deeply. It may. It have been that. But I know we had problems like that when the roots didn't go deep enough.
The seedling trays from bunnings need to be separated over a fair amount of space. Can't recall off hand how far apart but I know I was surprised when I read it!
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thats probably more the problem then i think, the spacing. i bout them in you know the little black tray that has 6 mini compartments. when i planted them i just put them out in 6 places thining i had seperated them but maybe i should have gone further and seperated each plant in the 6 mini compartments. (does that make sense). Bum!! now none of my carrots are going to grow properly! :-(
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We were told carrots are best sown straight in ground and thin out. Coz their roots seek water to grow. So if it isn't deep enuf they go sideways. If that make sense.
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Double post.
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the old man next door says the same - sew the carrot seeds strait into the ground and thin out
Question dose any one know a "natural" way to try and minamise fruit fly? up here in NE VIC we have them - so we cant prevent them - but i dont fancy spending $80 on a small bottle of spray that may not even give me 80% of a crop KWIM?
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We are on the new house and my avail garden space for a veggie patch is bigger than I remember! Yay! As soon as the house is sorted I hope to get out and get planting! Dd wants snowpeas and tomatoes.
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your DD is gonna be an easy kid to grow things for! tomatos and snow peas are almost fail proof!!
Here is a pic of the garden bed that we have on the go at the moment. DD is sick, so it's slowing progress a bit, but it's now at the point we can line the fence with tin (yay or friends in the right job - costing nothing) to stop damage to the timber, and put in the no dig garden bed - just gonna take a bit of work to coordinate borrowing a trailer, collecting hay, and getting the soil in - the hay we can do any time (sil's brother is giving it to us) but the rest is difficult to do on the weekend cos they have limited opening hours... i know how much the soil is from one place, but we have to pick it up ourselves - might ring around other places and see if we can get it delivered
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new garden bed is in and lots of planting done. a heap of cardboard for base layer, a bail of hay, 3 trailer loads of fine grade mulch, a metre of good top soil after we started, it's done!
friday last week we borrowed a trailer and went hard - got it all in, then planted it all on saturday. we put pavers through the bed so that we can walk through it without having fear of stepping on plants - and have one section, probably about 2.5 sq metres, that hasn't been planted with anything yet - DH said he will likely fill it with pea and carrot seeds - who knows - we're still in discussions about what we need!!
so now we have in, over the two gardens:
corn (about 2 dozen plants)
tomato (34 plants)
lettuce (16 iceberg)
beetroot (about 2 dozen from memory)
beans - dwarf (10)
beans - climbing (8 - 8 more to be grabbed today to go in)
beans - bonaparte (2 dozen)
snow peas (20 from memory)
peas (about 2 dozen)
capsicum (17 plants)
carrot (no idea how many seeds are in!)
zucchini (5 plants)
cucumber (9 plants)
cabbage (6)
brocolli (6)
cauliflower (6)
garlic (about a dozen almost ready to harvest, maybe more - 30+ to go in today)
chilli (one plant and a bunch of seeds - but not seeing much life from the seeds!)
coriander (one punnet)
basil
mint
chives (2 varieties, plus seeds)
parsley (3 varieties)
oregano (i think that's the other herb!)
mandarin
lime
lemon
two orange trees
blood orange
two apples (dwarf pink lady and granny smith)
nashi or pear (DH can't remember which one we brought from the old place - and it needs some more time to develop in the pot before it will fruit)
dwarf nectarine
dwarf peach
strawberries (lots!)
we've half built the next garden bed as well - the one that runs between the two vegie patches and will have the sunflowers and other "pretties" - hippeastrums, maybe some clivias, and the flowers mum got for DD that probably need to go in the garden rather than the pots they are in - we may move the bearded irises soon too - not sure. it took a hell of a lot of work yesterday to get this garden bed cleared - had to move all the rose pots and fruit trees off the fence line, onto the other fence - and then, being that i like symmetry and organisation, we had to move all the other pots around too. although that bit me on the backside cos DH had me dragging the trolley around with the pots on it, and he was moving the bricks they sit on - i definitely got the harder work!!
very sore today, but the other bit of the garden needs to be finished today so we can work out how much more mulch/soil we need to back fill it - then probably borrow the trailer again on wednesday and get it all done. was hoping to be finished by now so i can actually rest for part of my leave - but it's not looking possible at this stage! wish my bros ute was available during the week, cos we only need a ute load but we can't get that during the week - why did our ute die a month before we could afford for it to die??
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holy dooley, sounds like your setting up a farmers market at your place!! :-)
i'm a bit excited, i have a bright orange zuccini flower today, three ripe strawberries and some flowers on my snow peas!! ended up getting rid of all the carrots. try them again next year i think!
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Not a farmers market but definitely a family market. We grow extra stuff knowing my parents and aunt as well as a couple of friends, will take stuff. And buy seeds/seedlings to replace them
I forgot to add the passion fruit and kiwi fruit plants too! Have out in two passion fruit to intertwine along one corner fence line, and a "mr and Mrs kiwi" in the opposite garden. Was better value to buy the male and female plant on one grafted (and reasonably established) plant than to buy two seperate plants. We have potted them so we can take them if we move out. The seasonal stuff we can leave but the plants that will keep producing year after year we want to be able to take. Even if they need a big haircut to move them lol. The passionfruit were bargains ao we will leave them in the ground. If we move we may dig them up. If they don't survive so be it.
I don't have plans to move in a hurry so we don't need to think too much about it
Eta: yay for flowers and fruit on your plants!
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added more carrots, peas and beans (seeds directly sewn into the garden bed) and planted about 45 garlic cloves (they take 7-9 months to mature so we should have a whole lot of them next year lol
planted capsicum, corn and lettuce seeds in seedling trays and put them in the greenhouse for the time being - they should be ready to plant in a couple of weeks - we'll also add more peas and beans around then as well, so we always have fresh ones coming in - not that they don't re-shoot, but given my (i mean DD's) penchant for stealing from the plant and just snacking all the time, it's a safe bet that we'll need extra plants!! not to mention mum does the same thing! can't wait to have fresh beans to snack on - mmmm snow peas and fresh beans for work snacks. nom nom nom
my grandad used to think his bean plants (in particular) were dodgy every summer while school holidays were on - we'd be at their place every couple of days and raid the plants every single time. poor grandad never got to see them when they hit maturity lol
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hehe, thats cute. poor ol grandad! :-)
we used to pinch carrots out of the neighbours garden, he wasnt too happy about that! whoopsy!
whats the deal with garlic? does it grow under the ground? i wouldnt mind trying that.
i must say i am enjoing picking cos lettuce leaves for my sandwhiches etc as i need them. :-)
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yup garlic just grows under ground - well, you put the clove in that has started to grow (if you have some) and let it go - it grows up about a foot, maybe a bit higher, with green leaves - you leave it a good 7-9 months (just keep an eye on it and when it forms the normal bulbs, did it up and let it dry out
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The caulis are getting heads!!!
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Yay!!!
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Woot ausgirl!
BG we have hippeastrums too! Inherited with the house. Is it you that has the strawberry bath? Cos we're doing bathroom renos right now, and our strawberries are growing brilliantly, plus we now have an unused bath! Might borrow that idea.
No news in our garden. Got a teeny bit of rain today, first time in 11 weeks or something crazy. Barely 2mm, but enough to freshen things up.
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yes, we have strawberries in a bath! it makes it "E safe" - we put a mesh stuff over the top, anchored at all points, so she can't thieve them before they are ready - we have the hope that one day some will make it inside, although generally they make it to the tap for a quick rinse, and straight into her mouth. we have some old pickets we are going to make a frame with (one day) just so it doesn't look like a dirty old bath in the backyard lol DH has only ever grown berries in a bath or old laundry trough so when we moved, the bath was always coming with us
yay for rain! we're celebrating sun the way you're celebrating rain lol
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