VEGE PATCH. What's growing in yours?

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Was "weeding" out the corn patch yesterday. Started chucking amaranth about left right and center. Then I thought I better cook some more. Need our greens...ugh
Topped all the nice soft tops and cooked up another batch.

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Christmas break and a time for us to start putting our lives back together after Pop & Rigby passing plus other :poop: :poop: Needed to do some positive things that make us feel good and set us up for the New Year.

We look over the seriously neglected Vege patch from the Kitchen/Dining area, it's been a depressing sight for months, overgrown and unloved with the beds holding the propagated cuttings from Mum's garden. :(

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So time to strip out, recondition one bed and plant out all the cutting, two big trailer loads of green rubbish, then a trailer of compost and we're starting to see progress and feel better :)

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The only plant that has been producing for us is the Snake beans, been growing out of control so can pick a bunch for dinner every day and still more hanging on the vine, this plant is insane :eek: hasn't stopped producing for 18 months and still going strong, great beans as well. :inlove:

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The planting has started freeing up the beds for new stuff, found some edible Fuscia, flowers for salads plus berries looking like Blueberrys, rich in antioxidants they say, so thought we'd give them a go and see what happens. Still more cleaning out to do, but at least we now have spots for the begonias? which will free up the rest of the beds, just got to make sure the native bees see where they go, the little blue bums love the flowers!

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We also had a heap of those little Woolies promo pots hanging around, herbs, veges and some flowers, so got them started and a few days later things are happening :) Give them a little more time than plant out for some Autumn food :)

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Feeling good for 2020, but then again anything can be better than 2019!!
 
Had a hard time with my Zuchs this year, as appears in the photo mine too have succumbed to blossom end rot apart from the odd few, the weather is just outrageous and has been since mid Nov.

Not only the BER but pollination has been a real issue, between being too warm for the bees and the burning of flowers in the vege patch its been downright dissapointing.

Nice to see some blokes getting some harvest though :Y:
 
One pumpkin vine being nursed like a baby ,maybe a original jap pumpkin not the kent variety, the variety before the kent ,with real flavour.Who remembers getting a round jap,a bugal and a potkin pumpkin off the same vine, fingers crossed it is the real deal :D
 
Spaghetti squash isnt far away, got a couple zuchs, and the tommies have all come red at once. Everyone stopping by gets loaded up with the odd tommy right now.

Ill have to have a do over next year, change a few things around, polination for me has been poor but the Mrs flower garden went crazy and the old neighbour over the fence next to it hasnt missed a bloom :/

Been nice though, the squash has put a big smile on Mrs so for that alone its been worth it.
 
Still waiting for the tomatoes to ripen.
Lots of Cucumbers now..bleh
Let a few zucs get large so I can make fritters and pasta sauce. Sometimes I make "potato cakes" out of them. Cut the skin of, slice in circles and crumb them up and fry them.
I remember once I had just fried up a couple of platters and a friend visited with her 7 year old that would not go anywhere near a green veg. He saw them and asked if he could eat some of the "potato cakes". Scoffed em like no tomorrow. Everytime he came around after that he would always ask for them.
His mum was happy as she started making them at home. Poor kid. Wait till he finds out the truth :lol: :D

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Solanum family I recon Blocker.... maybe eggplant.
depends who grew what in it before you.
 
Blue corn..
Full sun position, prolonged high temps and wind =
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Red corn..
In buckets, half sun position and wind protected =
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Pollination problem with the blue as well, when the male flowers first grew only one shed pollen.
 

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