Have soil...now what

The new vegy beds are in.....new compost soil filled in and finished about half an hour ago....

WHAT THE HELL DO I PLANT??????

one little bed has all our herbs in it..eg chives, parsely, rosemary, thyme around our little lemon tree.

Ive planted a passoinfruit.

now ive got these beds and I need to plant.

HELP!!!!

what do you eat/buy most of?

Have a look at the kitchenfarmer website, they have a planting guide. I have broccolini, cauliflower & carrots planted at the moment, along with beans, parsnips, beetroot and celery.

Just go to your local garden shop (a proper one, not bunnings!) and ask for advice :) Or check out Peter Cundall's website ;)

We just finished ours too :dance:

Have a look at gardenate site..they help you with what to sow now for harvesting for June-July.
We planted what we eat most...broccoli, cauliflour, rocket, chives, carrots.

has anyone used the 'carrot tape' before?

Yeah, think ahead to what's in season in 2-3 months time...at this time of year we plant winter veg like cabbages, brocolli, cauli, carrots, beetroot, silverbeet/spinach etc. Now is also when you can plant garlic and potatoes (fantastic crop esp if you plant gourmet varieties) but the potatoes need room, so that'll depend on how big your patch is.

Peter Cundal's suggestions are here.

ETA yes I have used carrot tapes but my soil wasn't very good that year & I neglected the patch so can't really comment on their success. I have some beetroot tape in the shed and am going to plant it this year. I'm usually lazy though and just buy seedlings. Costs a bit more but saves time.

thanks guys

Lu hon your so right..and Kaz sounds like what I need to plat

List of vegie plants/seeds to buy

brocolli
cauliflower
carrots
beans
butternut
corn
pea's

oh im gonna be having me some fun :dance:

ETA - carrot tape..Ive seen that Lu..will get some I think
Marydean - dont have alot of room sadly...just small narrow beds so potatoes are out but garlic :think: now there's a goer

I'm planting garlic for the first time this year too...Apparently if you harvest them early you get those big single-bulb ones that don't need peeling because they're soft!

BTW - do you get frost where you are? If you do, it's too late to plant butternut. The pumpkin vines will start dying as soon as the frost hits them. Corn is usually planted in spring or early summer for a summer crop too.

yes do get frost...bugger lol. will have to wait then until spring with the corn.

off to the nursery soon.:D

Head to the newsagents and pick up one of those monthly garden magazines, they can be so valuable when it comes to plants/zones/times to plant etc.

If you have a local op shop pick through the mags to find some old cheap ones as well. Heaps of awesome tips.

Also grab a punnet or two of little flowers to plop amongst the vegie seedlings. It always looks a little bare when the vegies are small and it add some colour xoxoxo

Also look at companion planting, to help with pests etc.

and Maz Buttenut pumpkins take up a heap of room they just grow like mad- we've got heaps and they're nearly ready to pick.

Try sugar snap peas - we have them growing at the moment and they do really well. we also have carrots, broccoli and cauliflower- we picked one lot of broccoli just recently and it had a gazillion catterpilla's in it and a REDBACK spider! arghghh.

I've got my year 8's planting and looking after vege garden beds, I can email you the assignment they are doing which goes though how to look after the soil, when and how to plant the seeds/seedlings and set up the garden beds. They then rate how well they did at the end of the term and suggest improvements for next time.

I can even mark it if you like ;)

DONE!!!

Nurseries were closed :rolleyes: typical country town....went to bunnings for a look and there were bugger all seedlings and what there was was half dead...so I went to Big W and got

dwarf yellow and purple beans
carrots
spring onions
mini cauliflow
normal cauliflower
brocoli
coloured silverbeat
australian purple garlic
some pansies to plant inbetween (thanks Lulu ;) )

I wanted to get some normal beans but they didnt have any..dwarf it is then :)

planting them in the morning...then will be putting some shade cloth over so the dame stray mitten from up the road dont come and poop in there again.

thanks so much lovelies.

OK here is the only thing I know about gardening.

If it grows well it's a weed.
If it dies it was something good.

Maz - next you'll need chooks to get lots of eggs and chicken manure. In any case, keep all your eggshells and when you bake, pop a metal bowl of eggshells in the oven after you turn it off, the cooling heat will be enough to kill any nasties. Crush the eggshells with a masher or rolling pin, and sprinkle around the base of your seedlings - specially the broccoli, cauliflower & mini cauli - it will keep snails & slugs away (they don't like going over the broken shells).

If you drink the odd VB stubby, leave the dregs in the bottle and rest it on its side half-buried so snails & slugs can slither in - they die happy ...

:ROFL: Alan..:think: maybe I could get some of that funky weed stuff happening and bake cookies from it :LOL: nahhhhhh

Kaz - started collecting egg shell's already :dance: I dont have room for chickens or Id have them...maybe I can take over the kids cubby house hehehheheehhe

LOL how this thread started about veggies and has descended to happy weed and booze. :rofl: