Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 162Nov 06, 2010 1:18 am What!? Are they out the front or something? Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 163Nov 06, 2010 12:41 pm Huggy_B Well someone liked my tomoatoes (or more likely the half wine barrel pots they were in) more than I did. ah well, back to the nursery this weekend I guess..... That's awful Our veggie bed thread: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=38476 Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 165Nov 06, 2010 12:56 pm ITS A BUGGER THOUGH Makes you think it was someone close by,those barrels are not light. In afew weeks time go to the people living around you & ask if they have any spare toms Tell them what happened,they may have seen something & not realized what was happening. At least if you find out,you will know who is the "THEIF" IS Block bought 1st RBC X! 2nd Ventrua,Keeper! Pstart 18/7/11 Ethwks jan 2012 Slab Bricks- finished 7/6 Roof Trusses 15/6-cbond 21/7 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=41185 Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 166Nov 06, 2010 2:03 pm Huggy_B Fu Manchu What!? Are they out the front or something? yeah they were, on my front porch. ah well, innocence lost and lesson learnt.... OMG that is sooooooo rude '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 167Nov 14, 2010 10:47 am Here is a little caterpillar i found in a cauliflower. Yep his blue,i also found more. Anyhoo,i am wondering why they are blue ,is it because of some sprays used I was going to cut it up & blanch( spell) it,ended up throwing it out Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Anyone know??????????? Block bought 1st RBC X! 2nd Ventrua,Keeper! Pstart 18/7/11 Ethwks jan 2012 Slab Bricks- finished 7/6 Roof Trusses 15/6-cbond 21/7 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=41185 Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 168Nov 15, 2010 10:17 pm A tough call as to what he is. It may very well be some wonderful native moth or butterfly Only an Entomologist will be likely to identify him. You can easily control such buggers with "Yates Success" which is harmless to the rest of the food chain and you can even eat the veggies hours later (just give the bugs time to crawl away to die or you get some extra protein) Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 169Dec 27, 2010 11:07 pm OK folks here is a good veggie link thanks to Ben Mitchell from Growing Free. How to make a raised wicking veggie bed http://milkwood.net/2010/05/11/how_to_m ... cking_bed/ and don't forget the similar Homeone thread on the same topic Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 170Dec 29, 2010 11:53 am Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 171Jan 07, 2011 5:37 pm Now that's a micro garden If that can be done no one has an excuse not to grow their own veggies! Some enthusiastic gardeners even grow veggies on their apartment balcony although I do think perhaps a little more space would be better. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 172Jan 10, 2011 3:05 pm That's a pretty good idea. Our space is about 1.8m x 8m long and we've found that we have to give away half the produce because we just can't use it all. Don't use any chemicals and everything tastes great. Still learning though. I think the soil was a bit hard or something as our carrots were very short and quite malformed, still tasty though. Strawberries are all really small, anything that gets decent size like 50c coin gets eaten. And the beer in a cutout milk container works well to get rid of snails. Tomatos are going gangbusters at the moment. What time of the year do tahitian limes grow? Our lemon and mandarin have plenty of flowers (we've been picking 95% of them once they start to grow fruit to help the tree get stronger as the plants are only 6mths old) but haven't seen anything on the lime yet, just new leaf growth which is good i guess? Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 173Jan 22, 2011 12:30 am If the carrots were short and deformed I'd lay money you grew them from seedlings rather than seed. You can also grow carrots from the carrot tops especially if there is still some leaf. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 174Jan 22, 2011 12:34 am Yeah a while to go for the T limes. Ours is in fruit now but where you are not yet. Just keep plugging away at the soil. Orgainc composts, straw for mulch, molasses, worm wee, compost teas you can make yourself It will get better and better. I'd add zeolite and spongolite, perlite also. Because veggies do get a fair bit of water those amendments will help reduce nutrient leaching. The perlite and spongolite will help fluff up clay soils too. You'll be crankin' veggies in no time Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 175Jan 23, 2011 8:32 am Fu Manchu If the carrots were short and deformed I'd lay money you grew them from seedlings rather than seed. We did indeed, we have a new crop in there now from seed so we'll see how that goes. Will start doing more things from seeds as the first crop was just to get things going. There have been 2 mandarins on the tree about 1.5" big maybe and not grown any more in over a month or changed from deep green colour. Not sure when they are due. The 3 citrus are in good sized pots with proper potting mix. The missus has put in that osmocotte(sp?) citrus stuff just before summer but she's got a combination of other items that go on various crops so not sure what else they've been fed (worm "juice", blood & bone, manure of some kind and fish spray). Think she might have been watching that Gardening Australia show when they suggested different things for different crops? Fu Manchu I'd add zeolite and spongolite, perlite also. LOL great, another bunch of items for her to add to the array! Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 176Jan 23, 2011 10:02 am Dave if you have read any of my stuff on citrus, there is a bit around, All you need is a thick layer of straw as a mulch (100mm thick at least) and molasses diluted in water Then some additions of composts throughout the year at first if you want. Of course some well rotted poos as well. However what you'll be doing is getting the soil into a pattern of constant improvement and that will lead to a far more productive tree Of course that method works on anything growing in soil Special fertiliser for this and that isn't really a way forward. The chemical fertilisers we feel we have to use really should only be used occasional to correct very occasional nutrient problems which may only happen once every two years or so once the soil becomes better. Feed the soil, never feed the plant as we have always done You'll get success that has been forever out of reach. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 178Jan 23, 2011 10:36 am Using straw and molasses is cheap compared to fertiliser prices and the return on investment on them. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 179Jan 23, 2011 10:38 am Fu Manchu Using straw and molasses is cheap compared to fertiliser prices and the return on investment on them. 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