How do you do this with seeds like cucumber which are really small and soft? I know corn would be easy, just a few kernels... pumpkin is easy enough too.
How do you get carrots? and zucchini?...oohsam is confuzled.
Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 21Oct 15, 2010 11:33 am How do you do this with seeds like cucumber which are really small and soft? I know corn would be easy, just a few kernels... pumpkin is easy enough too. How do you get carrots? and zucchini?...oohsam is confuzled. Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 22Oct 15, 2010 11:42 am Carrots will flower from the greenery at the top-which then turn into seeds and when they are dry you can shake them into a paperbag. Zucchini are easy-just let one turn into a massive thing and then you get the seeds from the centre the same as a pumpkin.....cucumbers just scrape out the seeded bit and treat the same as tomatoes to get the seed ....... Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 24Oct 15, 2010 1:30 pm Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 25Oct 15, 2010 3:58 pm Oh and carrots can be regrown from just the tops Chop the end off with the green on it and replant Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 26Oct 15, 2010 4:11 pm oohsam, I love what you've done here and you've just given me some really good ideas on what I can do at my joint when I settle in... Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 27Oct 15, 2010 7:36 pm All I ask folks is that everyone has a go You really won't regret growing some food. the only pit fall is getting told you need a tonne of special this and that in the way of products. you don't and don't fluff around with them. Just get good soil. Soils for soils and potting mix for pots. Mulch with uncomposted things like straw or tree lopper waste/mulch. Yes it is excellent in vegetable gardens too Molasses, Seasol, Powerfeed, Seamungus blood and bone, worm wee, are all options you can use. you can use all of them if you wish On a budget, molasses will be the king of choice. Use milk to take care of many fungal diseases or certified organic fungicides. Use soap flakes dissolved in water for taking care of common pests. or use Yates Success for taking out the caterpillars. Harmless to the rest of the food chain Use recycled materials where ever possible from the local tip jumble sale. Use garden stakes that are really tall so they can be reused again and again for a range of crops allow some sort of temporary structure to shelter fruit from the midday sun Just means something to throw some light (white) shade cloth over. Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 28Oct 16, 2010 2:18 am So I been doing lots of reading, and it looks like I'm going to be building some tomato cages and cucumber cages so they can grow into them. Maybe something for my peas too! I think i'll make them from concrete reo Will post some pics I hear that tomatoes are very hungry plants and need lots of food. Should I be feeding these. I constantly do the mollases and seasol, but should i be giving it anything else. I normally make a tea out of my worm wee from my worm farm (1 part wee 9 parts water), and some casual blood and bone, potash and lime...anything else? Do i need to mix in some chicken poo? Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 29Oct 16, 2010 11:28 am Tomatoes will not need all the things you read about. Feed the soil and the soil will provide for your tomatoes Don't get sucked in. You are feeding them, indirectly Keep the straw up to them or even raw tree mulch from tree loppers or even both Keep the molasses going, seasol, Seamungus That will be your focus. Be like in one of those cheesy 1980's superhero cartoons, "Must..... resist..... chemical.... fertiliser...................... temptation....." Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 30Oct 16, 2010 8:21 pm Fu Manchu Oh and carrots can be regrown from just the tops Chop the end off with the green on it and replant Really? Oooooo...will have to have a go at this one! Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 31Oct 17, 2010 6:50 pm Well it doesn't always work but it does most of the time Oldies taught me as a kid to do it Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 32Oct 17, 2010 9:03 pm Access into the back of the bed may be a problem. Also I wonder about having the bed directly against the brickwork - you'll basically be watering the bricks. Personally I'd rebuild the bed to get it away from the house. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 33Oct 17, 2010 9:45 pm Pretty easy to do a bit later All good lessons learnt Will look good with a narrow path between the house and the veggie bed. It will work because it will have a practical purpose and so aesthetics won't apply. Use gravel or sawdust as a path surface I think for the reasons outlined so far this thread of Oohsams is going be great for many to read and follow We can watch it evolve Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 34Oct 19, 2010 10:02 am Cabinfever Access into the back of the bed may be a problem. Also I wonder about having the bed directly against the brickwork - you'll basically be watering the bricks. Personally I'd rebuild the bed to get it away from the house. Hey Cabinfever. The garden bed is not up against brickwork. The top level of the soil, is the bottom level of the last brick. The only brickwork is the side where you can see the door however that has been protected with drainage and scorrier rock so no water will ever get stuck up against the wall. There is no issue at all when building a wall against bricks. the key is to keep the water away. There are 2 things you can use here. 1. is what I did, and some scorrier rock with some AG under it guiding the water away from the wall, or 2. you can use these - they are called Atlantis drainage systems. it goes between the bricks and soil, and works fine to keep wet soil off the bricks so you don't get damp walls. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ My land is sloping, so I only needed to protect one wall...here are some "before/during" pics. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 'Fu Manchu I think for the reasons outlined so far this thread of Oohsams is going be great for many to read and follow We can watch it evolve Thanks Fu! Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 36Oct 20, 2010 7:57 am @oohsam Ah ! Thanks for the clarification. Great construction shots. I wish I was more meticulous - I usually finish a project and then remember I never took any before shots. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: My veggie garden (with pics) 37Oct 20, 2010 11:12 am Does anyone know where to get those drainage mats from? I'm building a raised veg garden down the side of my house, but its up against one of my walls, so this looks perfect for me. Point Cook, Victoria - Being hounded by the fascists!! 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