How is your vege garden going atm?

[Danni]

5kg of broccoli is awesome missy!! We have just planted our broccoli seedlings so I hope ours are as good as yours!

[nic]

Ok DAnni, Loaded the pic up for you. Am having trouble with accessing the gallery and finding the pics on my computer! Sorry it's not the best photo, but will hopefully give you an idea of what I was talking about
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Nic

[nic]

Woohoo.. DH managed to finally get some "garden mix" for our vegie garden. Capsicums and tomatoes are now in, along with some spring onion "seed tape" The tomatoes were in a container, in a half sunny position, but they are now sitting in a pretty full on sunny spot, and DH is worried lol! I told him to put the pot further out in the sun before he planted them, btu nooo he wouldn't listen to me! Anyway, will see how they go, might get some shadecloth for them?
DD picked up some baby carrot seedlings yesterday, so will get them happening too.

yay for finally getting some dirt for the garden.

[briggsy's girl]

our toms are in full sun and thriving. as long as they get sufficient water and maybe every couple of weeks some liquid fertiliser, they'll be fine hun!

[nic]

Thanks BG, I thought it might have been a bit of a shock for them going from a semi shaded spot to full sun? Hopefully they'll pick up in the next few days.
When our little worm army gives us some more worm juice, I'll water it down a little and give the tomatoes a drink. We've got 4 plants in the bed, and another 2 in a tomato tower, so we should get something lol!

[briggsy's girl]

we normally water at night, but on the really hot days we had late last month and this month, we were watering fairly heavily in the morning and only lightly at night. our tomatos have gone nuts now - took ages but they are insane. i think we'll be spending part of tomorrow cooking up tomatos into sauces of some sort!

[little_Miss_Chez]

i have 35 pumpkins that are watermelon size not sure what im going to do with those , i have year round lettuces , about 10 plants of sweet corn (yummy ) , peas , green and yellow beans , beetroot , strawberrys , balck berrys raspberrys , logan berrys .
3 Peach trees 2 Green Gage 1 Goldern drop plum , 4 nectrine , garlic , parsley , coriander , Green & Yellow zuchnini's , yellow , green & Red capsicums .
purple cabbages , onions , sring onions and red onions and new thing this year are baby watermelons ( orange size perfect for toddlers ! ) . Potatoes ( dutch cream ) are just about finished . and had huge sun flowers that the seeds are dying from now .

first year i have had a patch and use no sprays just pea straw , sea weed fertaliser and have had awsome results , just waiting to plant out my newly dug patch under a converted graden shed to green house

[Danni]

your patch sounds awesome cheryle! do you have pics?

can anyone tell me how corn works? I thought once the "hair" goes brown, then you pick the cob. Well I did that, and there were barely any yellow kernels on it??

[Kazbah]

the cob will actually go sideways, and that's the cue to pick. You can also "cheat" and peel back the husk to see how they are going. we have 2 punnetts of corn, and one of baby corn Can't wait to see what that's like!

Cheryle - your patch sounds amazing. I really want some fruit trees, might start with apples & pears.

[Danni]

So are the kernels still yet to grow?

[little_Miss_Chez]

corn takes between 12 to 15 weeks to germinate give or take i cheat and make a slit with my nail and peek in . i planted mine`last wk nov and its ready now . im in tassie with water though .

ill post some pics when i work out how lol , i was lucky i brought the house the tree's are about 30 years old n huge , would like to add citrus one day and an apple possiably .

[Danni]

Well we planted ours in the first week in November but as seeds. SO maybe mine aren't too far away?

Once you pull the cob off, will another one grow?

[Kazbah]

don't think so!

[Danni]

So one big tall corn plant only produces one cobb?

[nic]

we normally water at night, but on the really hot days we had late last month and this month, we were watering fairly heavily in the morning and only lightly at night. our tomatos have gone nuts now - took ages but they are insane. i think we'll be spending part of tomorrow cooking up tomatos into sauces of some sort!

thanks for the tip BG, mentioned it to DH and we are going to water both morning and late arvo. A couple of the tomatoes were looking so much better yesterday morning, and it got the better of DH, and he put some shadecloth over them as a temporary fix till he has days off to do something 'better'
The capsicum plants are looking really good this morning, so a big yay there.

DH re-potted the lotsa lemon tree, but is thinking we should put it in the ground when we sort out the backyard a bit better. He is also wanting to put our dwarf mulberry in the ground as well. Just have to make sure we keep them away from the underground lines..will have to do some research into this one. Anyone done a dial before you dig?

Nic

[briggsy's girl]

we did the Dial Before you Dig thing when we were getting our fence up - soooo simple! a phone call, then the mob you speak to liase with all the relevant departments to send you info

one thing to be aware of - they're not as accurate as you'd hope! our water pipes were out by a fair bit on the plans compared to where we know they are (considering we watch the plumber put them in only 2 years ago), but i'd say underground wires should be more clearly marked (and more accurately)

i would definitely be getting your fruit trees into the ground unless you have significantly large pots - half wine barrels are about the smallest i'd go for fruit trees... we've got all our citrus trees along the fence (hoping they'll grow enough to give us more privacy from psycho neighbour!) and then all the apples/pears/stone fruits further into the yard. so far they're doing really well - planted 16 fruit trees as well as the 3 we already had in, and even with the heats and the large spot fire in the backyard, they're all surviving...

[nic]

Ooh thanks for that (again) BG We actually have some plans for our place which show the water lines i think? we have the plans for our place plus the rest of the houses around us. We are pretty sure on where the phone lines are, but still wouldn't hurt to get as much info as possible.

[Danni]

Oooh i saw those lemon trees today at bunnings..maybe I should grab me one!

I noticed bunnings had barely anything left in the seedling department! I hope mine are still coming along though.

We are even getting another patch ready in the front yard to make it 3 patches all together. it sure is addictive!

I have my 3kg of tomatoes waiting for me in the freezer. I better cook thm up tomorrow