Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 61Jan 16, 2010 11:48 pm That is just awesome to hear Hey try growing some of the uglier looking Heirloom tomatoes. They are the varieties grown hundreds of years ago. They look ugly but will be the most flavoursome tomatoes you've ever had Available through the diggers club Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 62Jan 16, 2010 11:50 pm Fu Manchu hey folks for Sydney siders there are some excellent free organic gardening courses available to you at the Kimbriki recycling centre. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The bloke doing them is considered to be Australia's leading experts on worms and is more than qualified in the area of organic gardening. A really nice chap too learn a bit about worms and the roles they play in our gardens and house hold waste reduction. From: http://www.kimbriki.com.au/peterrutherford.htm Quote: Peter Rutherford - Kimbriki's Own Expert Eco Gardener Sponsored by Kimbriki, Peter Rutherford is the EcoGardener at Kimbriki. Peter is a social ecologist, horticulturalist and teacher. He has co-designed and presented EPA Earthworks and Waste Boards Healthy Gardens courses. Peter has appeared on various gardening and lifestyle television programs promoting the benefits of composting. Book in for one of Peter's Organic Gardening Workshops starting again in January! Peter can give you advice on composting, wormfarming, mulching, water re-use etc. while the garden is closed please email kimbriki@kimbriki.com or write to Peter Rutherford, Eco Gardener, Locked Bag 6 Terrey Hills 2084. Please consult our expert! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The pdf of session times and themes http://www.kimbriki.com.au/pdf/Jan%20wo ... 0sheet.pdf I highly recommend these because he will really inspire you and you'll see just easy it all is to change your gardening and that we actually generally do things the hard way He was also on Costa's Garden Odyssey The fact sheet about worms http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/costa/tab-l ... -Worms-101 Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 63Jan 17, 2010 12:00 am The best part about our vegie garden is the interest my six year old has taken in it. She's fascinated by the growing process and was so proud to pick "her" tomatoes. I've nothing against ugly looking fruit. My grandparents were orchardists and I grew up eating fruit that wasn't good enough for market because it wasn't perfect. To me lopsided, marked or pitted fruit is normal - the perfectly round, perfectly coloured stuff in the supermarket isn't! Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 64Jan 17, 2010 11:35 pm ^^ Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 65Jan 18, 2010 12:00 am Filled an icecream container full of nectarines from one tiny little tree no more than a foot or two high and wide. No fertilisers and many of the fruit had been grazed on by grubs but they hadn't gone inside the fruit. We just sliced off those bits (and put into the worm farm) and they were some of the finest tasting nectarines I've had in years and years imperfections, if we'd worried about those we wouldn't have enjoyed the amazing taste of them Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 66Jan 18, 2010 12:06 am So true Fu. Some of the strawberries I grow are a bit mis-shapened(SP?) but they seem to be the fullest of flavour Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 67Jan 21, 2010 12:02 am This is an excellent way to grow your own veggies and I'm pretty sure I have met Faye at the Dowerin Show last year All about aquaponics with Faye and an excerpt of her ABC interview: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/western_pla ... index.html This is the forum dedicated to aquaponics http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/ As she mentions, this is the most water efficient method of growing veggies in the backyard. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 68Jan 21, 2010 12:05 am You legend Fu I have a moon phases guide I would like to give away. Who wants it? You have to tell me why you need one Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 69Jan 21, 2010 11:38 am onc_artisan You legend Fu I have a moon phases guide I would like to give away. Who wants it? You have to tell me why you need one Me me me!! Because I am about to start getting my vegie garden beds ready and would love to start off the right way! 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 70Jan 21, 2010 11:23 pm I have a winner then eh? Ok so I will post it to homeone and they can pass it on... But I need to run it passed Jason. Jason if I post you and moon planting guide can you post it to Lisanne? Please Thannks Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 71Jan 22, 2010 10:59 am onc_artisan I have a winner then eh? Ok so I will post it to homeone and they can pass it on... But I need to run it passed Jason. Jason if I post you and moon planting guide can you post it to Lisanne? Please Thannks Sweeet! you know, you could just post it to me 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 72Jan 23, 2010 10:30 pm What to plant as of now and incorporate this advice with Onc's moon planting guide and you are on a winner From the wonderful mob at the ABC's Gardening Australia http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/video/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 74Jan 28, 2010 11:11 am Worm farms (I'll be adding the links as I find them or if anyone else searches and finds worm info threads, can they PM the link to me so I can add it here ) also if anyone finds old veggie threads, PM me the link so I can add it or feel free to post the link in this thread so others can share the wealth of info we have here at Homeone viewtopic.php?f=19&t=28764&p=399551#p399551 and how wormcastings can help with controlling pests http://www.soilfoodweb.com.au/index.php ... Itemid=143 Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 75Jan 28, 2010 11:26 am Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ http://www.goodbugs.org.au/index.html This is something I strongly urge everyone to have a look at. Before you reach for the pesticide to kill those annoying aphids, white fly what ever, think about approaching their control in a whole different way You will see more and more of this in years to come and it will become more mainstream before long. Get into it now Not only can pesticides be bad for you, they take time, you have to mix it all up and they smell and give some people headaches. What could be easier than just getting the natural predators in the mail, release them, and let them do all the work for you Pesticide free and with far superior results No mixing, no smells and it is the easiest way This is some of them and what they look like so you can ID what is in your garden http://www.goodbugs.org.au/Good%20bugs% ... ilabl.html Have a read of what goes on with chemicals you might be advised to use on your garden by less environmentally aware people. http://www.goodbugs.org.au/chemicals.html Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 76Jan 28, 2010 11:33 am Oh and this also has a fantastic resource for excellent soil information. The importance of good soil is just so vital, very underestimated by most. Have a read and hopefully you pick up on a few things that will give you some excellent results in your garden and help you build a better, more sustainable landscape http://www.soilfoodweb.com/ http://www.soilfoodweb.com.au/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 77Jan 28, 2010 11:38 am Also something for those who have about 15mins, last night on the 7.30 report, they did an excellent story on the Australian environments ability to handle how we live. Soils feature as being vital in this so if you can learn now, how to get better soils with the info shown in this thread and in my posts containing many links to helpful free info, you will be ensuring you are in better step to handle what the next decade holds and just how much our way of life will change. It's on the ABC's "i-view" it expires in 10 days from this post. http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/504198 Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 78Jan 28, 2010 11:54 am I get this newsletter every now and then and it's all about organic gardening. Gayle and Phil put it together, and along with Bens newsletter, is an excellent source of organic gardening info. It's free as everything I post for you guys is Everything that is discussed in relation to your veggie gardens can be applied in the exact same way in your regular garden and as a result your garden becomes far more sustainable http://content.enewslettersonline.com/1 ... 54.html#A4 and you can subscribe to it at the bottom of the page Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 79Jan 31, 2010 11:14 pm I can't believe I left this guy out Vasili!... and his garden Episodes to watch and again, so refreshing not having products shoved down your throat http://www.vasilisgarden.com/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 80Jan 31, 2010 11:33 pm Thsi is a garden I just found that has an edible verge. Well it is planted with veggies etc on the verge http://www.gardenjot.com/garden/view/95 ... Gold-Coast 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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