Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 201Feb 18, 2011 6:32 pm Thanks F M,I used about 20 years like you said first crop was excellant.after that nothing grew soil was barren for a least 5 years gave up.Have decided to have a no dig vegie garden thought M C may have improved,obviously not.What would recommend for no dig layers,thanks Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 202Feb 22, 2011 12:41 am Geeze have a squiz on the Gardening Australia website because there is a really good guide there for making one. I find they don't perform as well as ones in the ground. I'd get back into that area. Add perlite,spongolite, zeolite, fresh bagged compost that doesn't have a strong odour. There are a few you can get over east. There are a few rotted composted sugar cane composts, the naked farmer I mention as well. Many garden centres do them. Farm shops sell the soil amendments which will be permanent once in the soil. Add straw and dig it through to give the wormies some goodies to get started on Add Olsens Green Bio or Bactivate. Use the molasses! Mulch heavily with straw. I bet it works this time ...oh here's the guide Done by Melissa King Wooo! http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s867068.htm Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 203Feb 22, 2011 12:43 am Oh, for those interested in the workings of the garden I posted with the jarrah worm farm, Get the latest issue of Spice Magazine (in WA) for more Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 205Mar 08, 2011 11:05 pm OK the latest addition to this thread is something I really hope makes you think about how you may wish to design a garden or landscape that will radically alter the experience of living in your new home or newly renovated home. It is a lifestyle or at least something that will improve your lifestyle and health Any way blah blah blah here it is ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4AcmaGb ... re=related Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 206Mar 08, 2011 11:13 pm Now this really gave me goose bumps at times. The Welcome To Country is emotional for him. I get what he is trying to describe and its intense. It's good to see that my love of gardening with no shoes on is one shared by many That contact with the soil, the feel of the land is a nice thing. (*of course when I use sharp tools I wear steel capped safety boots ) Costa's Arnhem Land Oddessey From his SBS website http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/costa/listi ... d-Odyssey/ This is the episode and I'm sure you will love every minute of it http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/costa/episo ... 2/season/3 Grow Your Own Food Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 207Mar 12, 2011 2:53 pm any tips to getting passionfruit to fruit?! Ive only just started to see two today, but have seen countless flowers not turn into anything over the past few months ive just spread it out a bit more today and gave it a new 3m long section of lattice to run against. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ i think maybe it was getting too crouded? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ first one! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ no problems growing corn but almost lost the wife in there last night! The tallest ones at the front are level height with the 6ft fence. there are about 32 individual corn plants here, all grown from one pack of $3.99 seeds! This is my perienial vegie patch area that i have grown stuff in for 3 years now. The soil is unbelieveable compared to the rest of the lawn. All old vegie plants are turned into it after season. these Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ have also now turned into these 6ft tall monsters! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ TOUGHEN UP PRINCESS Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 208Mar 21, 2011 3:48 pm It looks like you are growing the rootstock rather than the grafted/fruiting variety of passionfruit. Sorry to say this buy it won't give you nice fruit and will sucker all over the place! The rootstock is more vigorous and often takes over so you don't even notice that the original variety has disappeared. I've seen passionfruit plants for sale in nurseries that looked healthy, but infact it was just rootstock taking over! If it was me, I'd dig it up carefully and plant a non-grafted variety. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 209Mar 21, 2011 5:06 pm im moving in about 3-4 months, so i will just leave that there. It was originally grown from a single small pot plant from a nursery with the tag Nelly Kelly. Ive noticed about 5 fruit now. Maybe it is/was just creeping and not fruiting due to not being allowed to climb (it had nothing to climb up previously). Would a rootstock plant have flowers (as this plant has an abundance of flowers, just none have really turned into fruit). What variety will creep well, but also more importantly give ample fruit? I plan on planting it all along my new back fence, 18m long, and want it to creep about 8ft high. TOUGHEN UP PRINCESS Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 210Mar 27, 2011 4:27 pm We have almost finished our vegie garden bed number 1.... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ and here is what we will be transplanting into it.....my seeds have just popped up over the last few days, I am about to go and thin them out!!! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We have cauli, brocolli, sugar snap peas, wombok, bok choy, carrots, beetroot.....yummm!!! Cant wait to get started and garden while we watch the progress on our build! Rebecca Custom Build with Kersbrook Constructions - SA https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37762 Current Status: Handover on Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 211Mar 27, 2011 5:39 pm Waaaaay to go Rebecca! Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 212Apr 06, 2011 12:37 am I just cried with Joy at your circumstance All that amazing wonderful space You will surely be able to live off that Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 213Apr 07, 2011 6:13 pm I'm going to plant some seeds in some seed raising mix over the next few days and I was wondering if I should be putting these in my little greenhouse or not? I know that winter vegies prefer the cooler weather but is it ok to get them started in the greenhouse? Even if i don't zip it up properly as it will help to stop the birds/bugs getting to the seedlings '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 215Apr 08, 2011 10:07 am Fu Manchu Its fine Ok thanks Fu! I've never grown anything from seed before!! '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 216Apr 08, 2011 11:58 am Helpful tip for stopping snails and slugs - I stuck a strip of copper "sticky tape" (from the big green shed, gardening section) around the lip of my raised garden bed and haven't had a slug or snail since. Apparently it gives the little blighters a little "zap" as they attempt to enter the bed and they fall off. Works a treat. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 217Apr 08, 2011 5:23 pm Yes that's correct There are also some copper spray for it too. A mate of mine grows advanced veggies in bags (instant veggie gardens). He uses that so he doesn't have to spray chemicals. Iron based snail pellets are also a very good option. Good for soil, safe on kids and pets, doesn't harm skinks and lizards that eat sick snails Woo Hoo, Happy days By the way, have a look at those bags this weekend at WA's Garden Week at Perry Lakes. The instant veggie gardens are used as part of StockTech's display Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 219Apr 21, 2011 12:20 am beckandbubs It looks like you are growing the rootstock rather than the grafted/fruiting variety of passionfruit. Sorry to say this buy it won't give you nice fruit and will sucker all over the place! The rootstock is more vigorous and often takes over so you don't even notice that the original variety has disappeared. I've seen passionfruit plants for sale in nurseries that looked healthy, but infact it was just rootstock taking over! If it was me, I'd dig it up carefully and plant a non-grafted variety. Absolutely agree I know that one particular commonly recommended passion fruit is rarely used here in WA for that reason. People are sick of it happening and commercial growers grew tired of that 10 years ago. Not much beats a wonderful non grafted passionfruit ... well as far as passionfruit go anyway Here in WA try get a Sunshine Special 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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