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Post by quambie on Feb 22, 2010 12:55:09 GMT 8
Today I got started on the veggie patch again, This time I have to change the whole operation.I need to get the winter veggies going and keep the wind at bay. The idea is instead of sprinklers I will use 19 mill pipe and drill wholes in the top half this should keep the water well down under the side wall of the garden, and out of the wind. I hope to get the water where I need it not where the wind blows it for me. Then I will put in a soft wall of hessian sheeting to act as a wind break, in theory this should work and hopefully I will get a load of fresh veggies years round. and no repeat of last year. "Wow that Hurt" Trev
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Post by didgieridge on Feb 22, 2010 13:47:17 GMT 8
Good onya Trev. ;D I just ripped out all my cucumbers, as they were taking over everything, and I've run out of jars, got about 30 in the pantry of Cue Relish, Bread and Butter Cues and did a whole lot of Dill Pickles and Gherkins. Should keep us going til next season. Been giving heaps away too. Think the zucchini's will be next to get pulled out, they are starting to wander too. This year I did away with the sprinklers also and bought the 19mm poly and stabbed holes with a cake skewer and layed it on top of the ground, then covered it with my compost and heaps of chook, cow and sheep poo, bit of blood and bone and lime and things just cranked. Once the seeds were up, mulched everything with hay, and it stayed wet all summer. Got to plant some more 5 coloured spinach, the chooks just love it and the yolks are nice and orange instead of bland looking yellow. Merrilyn ;D
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Post by quambie on Feb 22, 2010 14:24:25 GMT 8
What are cucumbers and the list of other stuff you seem to grow with ease !!!!!! ;D ;D good on you I think that the polly pipe way is the way to go and the cake skewer is a great idea not to large Trev
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Post by didgieridge on Feb 22, 2010 16:23:54 GMT 8
This year I put in "National Pickling Gherkin" "Armenian Cucumber" "Sweet Striped Cucumber". Far to many, I wont do that again. Tomatoes... "Tigerella" "Tommy Toe" "Roma" "Beams Yellow Pear" "Principe Borghese" "Red Pear"...Cows ate most of them, but have shifted cattle now and I might get enough to make some chutney, relish and spag sauce etc. Melons: "Kearo's Special" "Honey Dew" "Moon and Stars". Pumpkins: "Jack Be Little" "Waltham Butternut". Beetroot: "Early Wonder" "Chioggia" "Bulls Blood", plus all my herbs like Rocket, Basil, chervil, sage, thyme, chives etc. heaps of cos, iceberg lettuce, capsicums and chillies, spring onions. I get most of my seeds from Eden seeds, and have lots I saved from when I was in Diggers club. Eden seeds are the best, they will send you a free catalogue and you can order on-line. Most seeds are $3.00 pkt. www.edenseeds.com.au .....worth checking out!
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Post by shea on Feb 22, 2010 20:28:05 GMT 8
I got the catalogue from Eden Seeds but haven;t yet ordered any. Hubby is making me a glass house to get things going through the colder months. I am picking tomatoes every couple of days and am making sauce. Its get straight over pasta with parmesam, cannelonni and the other day i poured it over our first ever rooster and baked it in the oven mmmm. Our cucumbers grew quickly and curled up. I think they were lebanese but they were really quite bitter and couldn't be eaten. I've just got some herb seedlings and need to get them going as I can't stand not being able to pick fresh when I'm cooking. And good onya Trev for giving it another go, you will master those conditions.
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Post by mikemurphy on Feb 22, 2010 22:29:36 GMT 8
Had good beans, silver beet, spinach, peas, corn, zuchini, cucumber, beetroot this season. White moths got the broccoli and cabbages. Bottled peaches and plums and had a couple of great cape gooseberry pies and some rhubarb. Nectarines were lovely but didn't keep and most ended up going to the chooks. Still it all comes round when I dig out the chook pens and put that soil in with the compost and back onto the vegie beds. Have some late pumkins and tomatoes ripening at the moment. Haven't started on the winter crops. This year I'm going to work on the pear trees and get a decent crop off them instead of the hard little honky nuts they've been growing. Aint growing your own great?
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Post by annieyokie on Feb 23, 2010 13:59:06 GMT 8
You guys are doing so well .I going to do some more planting when I get home . I do have a few things doing well but I get excited and madly plant then kind of forget .
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Post by didgieridge on Feb 24, 2010 10:19:27 GMT 8
Mike, have you tried making chutney with your over-ripe nectarines. Ohhh sooo yum...especially on pork. Wow you have done sooo well. And Shea, you lucky spoilt girl...A Glass House... I'm so envious. I have a couple of old shower screens that bulk rubbish wouldn't take and was thinking I could make a mini glass house/cold frame out of them...but you know what it's like, another "Gunna" job, that get's put on the back burner...MMMMM..... one day
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Post by linda29 on Feb 24, 2010 16:41:26 GMT 8
Hi Everyone Veggie patches hmm my other favourite subject other than chickens of course. Ours is 25 metre long and has a lot of everything. We had a bumper crop of squash some were the size a tea cup saucer, the silverbeet, spinach, rhubarb, beetroot, chillies, garlic, leeks, peas, potatoes and our leb cucumbers went really well. Sadly our corn was unsuccessful and we had a stab at growing ginger until the beagle dug it up The pumpkins are stating to multiply and I have found cutting back the excess vine has produced more crop. Our asparagus is into its 2nd year and hopfully a few nice spears will develop. Our veggie patch is ground level with a fence around it to make it beagle and chicken proof and we have had a go with 3 medium raised tank style garden beds and these have been excellent and we have ordered 3 more and have decided to grow vine type of veggies on the ground and the rest in the raised tanks. I think I will need to give up work to look after the veggies It is as addictive as chickens. I will try to get some pics inbetween keeping the #^** birds of my friut trees. Cheers Linda
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Post by quambie on Feb 26, 2010 13:32:25 GMT 8
Wow looking at what you guys grew this year puts me to shame As I have posted before, I have about 300 m2 of garden all the seeds I go from the two main seed companies last year all went belly up on me. We grew the wrong veggies we put in Broccoli and up came Kale, red cabbage went in, and up came caulie flowers green ones at that. we put in LEB cucumbers and got Mellons, All that kind of stuff I did contact one of them about it but I did not get a reply I thought it was just me but an older gardener and one that knows what he is about had the same problem. I add there Organic seeds so this year we do not know what we are going to do. I think we will just purchase plants when we can get hold of them Trev
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Post by ikbokchook on Feb 26, 2010 13:40:51 GMT 8
Awwww - you guys all make me jealous! Every year I start a new lot of veggies, but even being a small patch I mangae to kill everything except tomatoes! Oh, to have a green thumb!
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Post by linda29 on Feb 26, 2010 17:17:09 GMT 8
Hi Trev There is a place that sells organic seeds. You can order them online. www.SelectOrganic.com.au It wont hurt to check out their website. Hop this helps. Cheers Linda
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Post by Duck Diva on Feb 27, 2010 9:14:12 GMT 8
I have my caulis and broccolis going already. They are starting to get a second set of leaves. I also have the four varieties of winter tomatoes from the Burkes backyard magazine and some winter lettuce on the go. I have a major overhaul to do on my patch, including some wind protection as it gets the full brunt of a westerly wind in winter. I hope it all works out for your winter plot Trev! Cheers, Wendy
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Post by quambie on Feb 27, 2010 9:21:50 GMT 8
HI Linda thanks for that site I will have a look at it anyway Roll on the end to the heat Trev
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Post by lakelands on Feb 27, 2010 11:42:48 GMT 8
I have just started to revamp my Veggie patches. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to palnt anything in spring so the whole lot are over grown with weeds and couch grass. My OH is going to build the beds up to waist height using a combinatin of Sleepers and some of the colourbond sheeting that we had left over from the chook pens....I can't wait. I love the idea of waist height beds...no more bending ahhhhh
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