VEGE PATCH. What's growing in yours?

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[Goldfreak]

Don't spoil your plants too much. Some times they need a little rough love before they can survive on there own.

 

[20x]

Slowly raising the ph for Romanesco using dolomite lime.
Started at 5.5, got .5 to go..

This gadget is awesome particularly for knowing moisture levels

 

[20x]

Red mustard progress, I wonder how long and what the flowers will look like...
Need for seed?

Interesting Colours and textures..

 

[Jaros]

Nice and healthy.

 

[onegram]

Because getting lights put me 1 month behind I'm not sure if it's to late to germinate cherry tomatoes?
Anyone advice pls?

When is your main growing season 20x. Being about 1000k nth of Melb I don't see why it would be too late. I've only sown a few handful of tomato seeds so far. Will sow out the most in the next few weeks.

Hi Hard Luck,
Another (but expensive) option is to buy some seedlings from your local nursery. The least expensive option is to buy them in punnets which contain about 10 small seedlings which you can transplant into your garden. Otherwise you can buy well-advanced individual plants. Here in Melbourne I tend to put the individual plants into the ground during September. Some of my fellow tomato growers say this too early but it seems to work well enough for me. I tend to choose the "heirloom" varieties such as Apollo, Grosse Lisse, Rouge de Marmande and Tommy Toe. The last one is a delicious cherry tomato which, strangely enough, is not much bothered by blackbirds.
cheers,

onegram

 

[user 5263]

Still growing Lemons! I wish I knew what I have done because if I could bottle it I think I would make a fortune.

Another record,

 

[Jaros]

It's probably Lotox layful:

 

[user 5263]

And as we all know (particularly on this site) All that glitters is not gold!! Somewhat of a thick skin.

Interestingly there was only 1 seed. It delivered 3/4 cup of juice with very little pulp left over.

 

[Mackka]

I knew i was a lemon as i also have Thick Skin!
Well Done mate.
Mackka

 

[Solid Luck]

Because getting lights put me 1 month behind I'm not sure if it's to late to germinate cherry tomatoes?
Anyone advice pls?

When is your main growing season 20x. Being about 1000k nth of Melb I don't see why it would be too late. I've only sown a few handful of tomato seeds so far. Will sow out the most in the next few weeks.

Hi Hard Luck,
Another (but expensive) option is to buy some seedlings from your local nursery. The least expensive option is to buy them in punnets which contain about 10 small seedlings which you can transplant into your garden. Otherwise you can buy well-advanced individual plants. Here in Melbourne I tend to put the individual plants into the ground during September. Some of my fellow tomato growers say this too early but it seems to work well enough for me. I tend to choose the "heirloom" varieties such as Apollo, Grosse Lisse, Rouge de Marmande and Tommy Toe. The last one is a delicious cherry tomato which, strangely enough, is not much bothered by blackbirds.
cheers,

onegram

Hi onegram,
Depending on time I will buy the punnet seedlings. But only cucumber and eggplant and sometimes corn.
I have my own heirloom tomato seed bank and only grow from that.
I have my favourites which I grow every season then I grow some older ones for fresh seed. Tomato seed can be viable up to 10 years.
I just use one of those 60 buck mini hot houses.

 

[Goldfreak]

Spring is here. Advocado tree survived anouther winter and should be big enough to take care of itself now. Tulips are up. Red Tower Echiums will be interesting this summer, will post photo when they flower.

 

[Hampy]

I have had my veggies in raised beds with what was supposed to be great soil mix purchased from Bega but veggies havent done a thing, am going to get soil tested

 

[goody2shoes]

I like the chooks

 

[Goldfreak]

I like the chooks

they follow me around all day. So much so I often trip over them and when I swing a pick they are always sticking there heads in the way to get the worms.

 

[EVIE/BEE]

Used to make my own fertilizer when i was on the farm.

A third fill a 200 litre drum with cow dung and fill it with water, let it stand for 3 weeks to ferment.

You could grow a dry stick in that crap.

Keep it well covered to keep out the blowies and a fair distance from the back door. {)

 

[Goldtarget]

Used to make my own fertilizer when i was on the farm.

A third fill a 200 litre drum with cow dung and fill it with water, let it stand for 3 weeks to ferment.

You could grow a dry stick in that crap.

Keep it well covered to keep out the blowies and a fair distance from the back door. {)

Pretty much the same thing I do but stinging nettles, be a close race which one smells worse though....

 

[user 5263]

I have had my veggies in raised beds with what was supposed to be great soil mix purchased from Bega but veggies havent done a thing, am going to get soil tested

Had a similar experience, I purchased a trailer load of what was described premium garden soil from a landscape/nursery firm to top up some beds however it turned out to be mostly poor organic material and very little soil. When I complained they said they sourced it from ANL Australian Native Lanscapes and it was one of their best products. I ran it through my classifiers and showed them what it was made up of. They apologised and offered to replace it but by then most of it was spread throughout the garden, the rest I used as cat litter. Should I ever need to buy soil again, it will be straight sandy loam to which I will then add my choice of organic material.

 

[Goldfreak]

Often the bought "soil" contains too much material that has not broken down enough and ends up locking up nutrients for a while like wood chips.

 

[user 5263]

Goldfreak, exactly, more or less the case!!. Mine even had what looked like what I would describe as "blue metal fines" and suspiciously like stuff from a sewerage treatment plant. Gardners around here used to be able to buy what was called "Maitland Sandy Loam" it was the basic building block of great garden soil or top dressing for the lawn.