Depending on where you live and how much water you have, I would hold off getting the lemon tree. This wind is knocking ours around and so is the lack of water.
When you get one you might have to shift it once or twice as they can be temperamental. We had to shift our twice before it liked its spot.
i have beans up WOOT and i lost one of my baby tomato plants last night in the storm
im got heaps of slugs and snails at the moment but i got some snail bait and they seem to hate it ( suckers lol )
so so far i have..
beans,tomatoes broccili,peas,strawberries,caulifloew.chives,cabba ge,spinach,
im hopeing they dont get drowned though
so how are all you girls gardens going any tips on anything would be great
one thing i love is this vegi garden is really good for my 9 yr old too she loves it
Well we just got all our pumpkins out and are pulling out the plants tonight. It would probably still grow but Im worried about it wasting water just to get tiny pumpkins in the last minute of the season.
So we got 3 x 3kg pumpkins and probably 4 medium sized ones. Love em!
Still got about 3kg of tomatoes on the plants starting to go red. Once these are picked, we will pull out the plants there too.
Our zucchinis have finished, as have the cucumbers. But the spring onions, parsley, cauli, broccoli, eggplants and capsciums are still going well!
Can't wait to finally clear out that vege bed and get the chooks in there. Will be perfect for winter planting
Our strawberry tower is not doing so well..I'm not sure if it is getting too much hot sun, or if I am giving it too much water? Going to try to move it to a shadier position this arvo.
Capsicums are just starting to get some little buds on them...YAY.. We pulled the shadecloth off them all and the tomtoes are looking heaps better too. DH had plans to stake them this week, might get that done on the weekend.
We are just waiting till we get some more gardening time, or that should be time where DH isn't helping everyone else out, and will put in another bed..
ours is still going quite well - DH picking a bucket or more of tomatos each week
we won't be picking our pumpkins for another few weeks - i've read on numerous sites that you should wait til after the first frost (at least) as this helps to sweeten them up. last year we waited til we'd had a couple of frosts and the plant was dying off before we ripped it out. think it was late april or early may - maybe early may cos we were able to burn the plants when we ripped them out...
everything else still doing well i think - dunno - dh checked this week
briggy's girl - My Mum says to wait until the frosts to pick the pumpkins, you get more of them than I do here. Will ask her this weekend as we are visiting the farm.
Our tomatoes are nearly finished, the capsicums are starting to get another crop and the chillies will be ready soon so DH can make another batch of chilli sauce. The silverbeet is growing, can you kill that stuff, but I found a novel use for it the other day. We were having wraps for tea and found that the lettuce is not quite ready so cut up silverbeet really fine and used that instead. DD didn't even know and you could really taste it so will be using it again. As said the next lettuce crop will soon be ready and one of the old plants is just about ready to seed.
Not sure what we will put in for winter, any ideas?
My garden is going along quite well,or at least it would be if I stayed away...the other day I was digging up a few random spuds that had popped up and doing some general weeding when I dug up a quite thick long root about 6mm round. I pulled on it to see where it was coming from as I didn't think that anything near me was big enough to have such a large root. It lead to a cucumber plant that was about a meter away from me. Doh I tried to bury it back under the soil but the damage was done, over the next couple of days three cucumbers started to shrivel up. Hardy little plant that it is , it is trying to regain it's strength and looks like it might just come back from the brink of death.
Tomatoes coming out my ears still yum, I have planted some snow peas, carrots, brocoli, cauliflower and garlic recently. With the colder weather starting to close in I will soon see a big change in the types of veg. coming out of our garden.
We chose to leave our pumpkins till the first frost, we won't be getting a huge table load like we did last year though, we changed growing positions and had less variety of pumpkins this year so I'm not sure if it was the season or our changes that made the difference.
what do you guys use to tie your plants, when you need to stake something? We use to use stockings, but didn't have any when DH went to stake the tomtoes and a capsicum plant the other day, so we tore up a bedsheet into strips.. Going shopping either tomorrow or Thursday and am looking for some ideas
Nic - we use reusable plastic staking ties you can find in BigW and bunnings. initially we talked about using stockings, but given i don't wear them, there are none to recycle like that! we looked around for options that would be best given we have a couple of hundred roses as well as the vegies, and found these to be the best option. they do up kinda like electrical ties but they don't lock at one point so you can adjust and move them as the plant grows. the come in a couple of types - one is like a green chain and you just feed one end through a loop and twist so it locks in place, the other type is more like the electrical ties but easily undone. we managed to get them cheap (i think maybe $2 for about 20 of them) - have been able to reuse them heaps though. they're strong enough to hold up climbing roses, but haven't done any damage to the tomato plants at all!
if you need more info (that's a really woeful description) let me know - i know where to drag a packet of them out so might be able to get more info!
Thanks BG and D I might have to go to our pitiful little hardware and see if I can find something similiar to what you described BG. Then when we are near Bunnings next, I can go have a look then. I don't wear stockings either, so wasn't really looking forward to having to purchase some just for this purpose.
my spinach is thriving atm.
every thing else is slowly coming along(broc,cabbage,beans,cauli,lettuce)
hopefully well be eating the spinach in a couple of weeks omg im so proud first thing ive grown thats edible and i didnt kill it (spelling lol)..
i need to do some weeding when it finally stops raining
oh and yeh i forgot i put chives in at the same time as every thing else and gee there slow ..is this normal ?there all up thats for sure but just very slow growers ??
all my vegies are getting eaten by little greean grubs,i think the white butterflys are leaving them there ??i have hundreds of them and holes all on my plants im going to google and try and kill em...do you have any tips
Can't help out with any tips sorry Smithy? I have had a couple of caterpillars (or something similiar) on our lemon tree, but I just keep pulling the little buggers off and squash them!
Not much happening here, I have just about killed all the strawberries. Not sure what we did there. Have moved them out of the sun a bit and what is left looks ok.
Tomatoes are looking awesome, as are our capsicums. Still haven't been able to do another garden bed or two yet, DH is busy helping everyone else out!
smithy, pop down to bunnings or similar and grab some "derris dust". you just sprinkle it on every few days, cover all the leaves, and no more buggers, and no more holes!
smithy - it sounds like you may have cabbage moth larvae - so look for solutions to that in your googling - there may be natural alternatives - not sure though. i tend to find that companion planting works well - so find a herb that they like MORE than your normal plants (google will be your friend) and then plant that - they attack the herb (which will thrive anyway) and your vegies are left in peace!
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i have beans up WOOT and i lost one of my baby tomato plants last night in the storm
I might have to go to our pitiful little hardware and see if I can find something similiar to what you described BG. Then when we are near Bunnings next, I can go have a look then. I don't wear stockings either, so wasn't really looking forward to having to purchase some just for this purpose.
omg im so proud first thing ive grown thats edible and i didnt kill it (spelling lol)..
all my vegies are getting eaten by little greean grubs,i think the white butterflys are leaving them there ??i have hundreds of them and holes all on my plants
im going to google and try and kill em...do you have any tips
Not sure what we did there. Have moved them out of the sun a bit and what is left looks ok.
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