Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 81Feb 01, 2010 12:08 am Oh and for parents with school trolls... I mean kids, there is this programme available to schools Australia wide I'm pretty sure Get your school involved http://www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/index.shtml Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 83Feb 01, 2010 8:34 pm This is a quote from the following webpage http://www.soilfoodweb.com.au/ This explains your soil very well http://www.soilfoodweb.com.au/index.php ... &Itemid=55 soil food web.com.au The soil food web is a group of organisms ranging in size from bacteria, to fungi (the largest organisms on the planet), and including protozoa, nematodes, micro arthropods, worms and beetles. The food web improves soil structure by binding pieces of soil (clay, sand, silt, organic matter, roots) together and by building airways and passageways through the soil. Unrestrained movement of air and water are vital to maintain a healthy plant and the soil food web itself. While it seems contradictory, good soil structure allows water to drain from too wet soil and aids soil to hold water when it starts to dry out... The rest is a good read http://www.soilfoodweb.com.au/index.php ... &Itemid=55 Get this stuff right (and it isn't hard if you visit Homeone and check up on the Landscape posts) and your landscape will evolve into a garden that you get nothing but success with Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 84Feb 01, 2010 11:57 pm Fu Manchu Here is a good link http://www.greatgardens.info/video/grea ... videos.php click the top right link, the one says "growing veggies in perth" yeah your not in Perth you say but just watch it anyway, some good pointers click the play button and it plays on the screen and no need to open a file. Fu Manchu I love John's face at the end of that clip when he eats the chilli straight of the plant Gold Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 85Feb 02, 2010 12:01 am Fu Manchu This is excellent stuff. I know a bloke here in Perth that is right into this stuff. Edible street plantings and verges http://www.growingfree.com.au/ Ben specialises his landscapes in this area His not so monthly newsletter ( ) is based on growing your own food and developing verge gardens It is something is very hard to find both photos on and reliable qualified advice on. If you want more info I'm sure he would have old newsletters he can email you This is also a related thread to growing your own food Edible street plantings viewtopic.php?f=19&t=25773 Because this is on topic I'll post what Ben has written this month... Ben Mitchell This week is the introduction to my 12 part series on verge gardens and also a warm welcome for our new writer Peter Coppin, look forward to his article next week. Regards Ben. The Expanding Garden I haven’t met a gardener yet who doesn’t wish that they had more space to put that great new plant. It’s that irresistible urge you get when you’re at a plant sale and just have to buy that rare species you have to have followed by the justification “I’ve got the perfect spot for this”. Unfortunately as blocks get smaller and houses get bigger then what happens to us gardeners and our gardens? For many of us the answer is to expand outwards around the corner, down the street (in my case I live on a corner block) and onto that sacred part of the Aussie garden the verge. This newsletter is the start of an ongoing series about gardening on your verge, the tips, the tricks, the rules and a heap of feature articles about great verge gardens in Western Australia . Each garden featured has been chosen as a representation of what can be done to indulge your gardening passions. Some of the feature gardens include; Sue Hartley’s organic veggie verge patch. Sabrina Hahn’s native and edible verge garden as also featured on Gardening Australia. Theresa Rochii’s prize winning verge. Winner of Fremantle’s most sustainable garden. And of course my very own native verge garden. I will also be running a series of workshops as practical demonstrations on how to get your verge garden started. Email me growingfree@iinet.net.au if you would be interested in a verge garden workshop on your verge. I also welcome Peter Coppin as a new writer for The Antidote. Peter will be writing a monthly article starting next week. Peter has over 30 years of horticultural experience. This includes being part of the Pink Lady apple breeding program, setting up and running the home pest and garden advisory service for the agriculture department and now working as a consultant horticulturist. Have a great week in your garden Maybe I should have posted this earlier Feel free to get in touch with Ben as he is a leading authority in this area Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 87Feb 07, 2010 8:26 am An upadate on Tomatoes and a very topical one. viewtopic.php?p=406810#p406810 Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 88Feb 07, 2010 8:41 am This is a bit of a link to a sample from that book just mentioned. Gardening down under It has almost the full book. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NFdY04HS9oEC&dq=Gardening+Down-Under&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=rO5tS_68BMGHkQWcp9XUBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false and a 2nd sample from the CSRIO site http://www.publish.csiro.au/samples/GDU.pdf Opens a pdf Also this looks interesting for those in southern Queensland trying for organic gardens http://members.iinet.net.au/~msheaton/Organic%20Gardening%20Down%20Under/site%20index.htm Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 89Feb 15, 2010 10:27 pm For those in Melbourne have a look at this thread relating to a fruit and veggie exchange viewforum.php?f=19 Oh and in regard to the above post, Kevin Handrek wrote that book and is considered to be an exceptional authority on soils. He used to work for the CSIRO. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 90Mar 02, 2010 11:52 pm This link talks about using moo poo viewtopic.php?f=19&t=8580&hilit=sub+surface Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 91Mar 03, 2010 12:33 am Just to add... planting of root crops during the 2,3,4,5,6,7 of march NOW is too good a time to plant ... so chuck in some beetroots, carrots, ginger, garlic, spuds etc Oh if you have chooks turnip sweed etc have good tops that chooks love. just a sq mtr can be enough for fun Go for non hibrid and only traditional seeds. Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 93Mar 08, 2010 12:44 am This is a fantastic talk by someone who is a worldwide authority and champion on the very things I tell you folks about all the time like a broken record. 45mins but an excellent listen Soil Association Monty Don, our new President, delivered our lecture this year at Central Hall, Westminster on the role we should and can play towards safeguarding our food security and health, in response to the impact of climate change, including rising food prices, increasing energy costs and an economic downturn. http://92.52.112.178/web/sa/saweb.nsf/a ... enDocument Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 95Mar 16, 2010 11:04 am Folks have a browse or even a good read on this. The following is an excerpt from here... Discovery in Legumes Could Reduce Fertilizer Use, Aid Environment (legumes being peas and beans etc) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 091552.htm Quote: Excess nitrogen from fertilizer runoff into rivers and lakes causes algal blooms that create oxygen-depleted dead zones, such as the 6,000 to 7,000 square mile zone in the Gulf of Mexico, and nitrogen in the form of nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas. But new findings by Stanford researchers that reveal the inner workings of nitrogen-producing bacteria living inside legumes such as soybeans could enable researchers to blunt those negative effects and aid efforts to make agriculture more sustainable. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 96Mar 16, 2010 3:32 pm Hi, i'm just wondering what kind of products you have all used for your Vegie gardens? I have been thinking about using either Redgum sleepers or colourbond raised garden bed kits. The big green shed has second sleeprs on sale for $9.50 each so all up would be much cheaper than the colourbond ones. Not sure which one is the best option. I don't want to ise any treated timber. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 97Mar 16, 2010 9:57 pm Might be best to continue this in a new thread. Provide the link instead Here is one on the very topic right now viewtopic.php?f=19&t=31134 Lets go with that one Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 98Mar 17, 2010 9:29 pm Righto folks, I posted him a few pages back but the new series starts tomorrow night. Get watching and see how it's done Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ and view more about Costa at http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/costa/episo ... /Episodes/ He reminds me of the old cartoon character Captain Cave man Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Just love his ethos. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 99Mar 18, 2010 12:42 am Oh for those sandgropers among us have a look at attending this work shop through UWA. CREATING AN EDIBLE LANDSCAPE Josh Byrne, ABC Presenter Join ABC TV’s Gardening Australia presenter Josh Byrne as he demonstrates innovative ways to incorporate organic food production into your garden. This practical and highly informative course runs over two sessions, including a visit to Josh’s private garden to see his ideas in action. Josh will focus on seasonal activities for autumn and winter, including what veggies to sow, how to propagate your own herbs and how to prune fruit trees. He’ll also provide expert advice on soil building and organic fertilisers, organic pest control and irrigation. A comprehensive course handbook is provided. 10263173 Wednesday 5 May 7-9pm and Saturday 8 May 10-11am or 11-12noon $149 Full details are found with this pdf. http://www.extension.uwa.edu.au/downloa ... 10comp.pdf Phone: 6488 2433 for enrolling Ani and I would highly recommend it Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 100Apr 02, 2010 1:17 pm Planting according to the moon is something discussed here already in this thread so with that in mind... onc_artisan Today(2nd) and tomorrow plants spuds and garlic and any other 'root' crops and perennials. 20 & 21st for leafy veg... Help!! I’m meant to start building soon and have only really just learnt about orientation. Im reading so much that no grass will grow on the heavily shaded south… 0 1248 We already paid for somfy motors for the blinds. The quote above was purely for “pre-wiring” so the blinds company can install the motors and blinds. 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