Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 223Jun 05, 2011 8:26 pm '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 224Jul 15, 2011 11:18 pm I'm loving the readers tips on Gardening Australia - one that I saw was that if you put egg shells around your Brassica's then the white cabbage moth think's it's other moths and doesn't come down and munch away! I've been saving mine all week and will put them out tomorrow so I can let you know how that goes '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 225Jul 19, 2011 4:05 pm Baby Romatherapy Tomatos... In woolies they sell devine tasting baby roma tomatoes called Romatherapy Tomatos. They charge about $4 for 200grms of them so pretty pricey. I have not been able to buy seeds for this tomato variety. Do you think I will be successful, I have cracked open one, spread the seeds onto paper towel and dried them out. I have now cut the paper towel into strips, like a seed tape and have put into raising mix. How much success do you think I will get? I have managed to have tomatos in the past pop up in the vegie garden by themselves. We are currently building so living at the inlaws atm so trying to raise in planter trays and then put into tubs... how do you think I will go? Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 226Jul 19, 2011 4:28 pm You might not be able to buy seeds using that name because they might be copyrighted to the green W...but check these out on eBay.com.au #380304571860 The reason I say this is because I found the same with mini cabbages some years ago and like you, couldn't find seeds anywhere, so contacted an old school friend who's husband grew cabbages and caulies in his commercial garden and was told some of the big chains will have a fruit/veg developed to their standards and register the name. Just recently I've found mini cabbage seeds but not using the original supermarket description. Forgot to ask if the ones you mentioned are red or yellow? As you will find eBay sellers have both colours as well as regular and mini sized fruit. Hope this helps? Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 228Nov 02, 2011 8:48 pm Aphids are terrible this year in Melbourne '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 229Nov 02, 2011 8:58 pm Haven't seen one here yet! Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 230Nov 02, 2011 9:01 pm Deemaree Haven't seen one here yet! Be thankful! '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 231Nov 02, 2011 9:20 pm Oh I am! It's probably been too wet here! Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 232Nov 09, 2011 1:19 am lisanne I'm loving the readers tips on Gardening Australia - one that I saw was that if you put egg shells around your Brassica's then the white cabbage moth think's it's other moths and doesn't come down and munch away! I've been saving mine all week and will put them out tomorrow so I can let you know how that goes Also use white lids nailed onto stakes. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 233Nov 09, 2011 8:01 pm I'll have to try that one Fu! A lot of the fodder grown for the cattle around here is brassica and means that we have a plethora of white cabbage moth in late Summer. Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 234Dec 09, 2011 1:18 pm [quote="lisanne"]Aphids are terrible this year in Melbourne /quote] You could always pop over to my house and collect some of the many ladybirds I've seen on a few of my plants, they feast on aphids when they are mating. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 235Dec 10, 2011 2:30 pm Yep and the larvae of the lady beetles also predate the aphids. The larvae look really different, like a little black bug with some small stripes sometimes. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 236Dec 10, 2011 6:30 pm MiLK_MaN lisanne Aphids are terrible this year in Melbourne /quote] You could always pop over to my house and collect some of the many ladybirds I've seen on a few of my plants, they feast on aphids when they are mating. I've got a heap of lady birds now - it was a bit late though for when I really needed them but good moving forward '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 237Dec 11, 2011 8:04 pm Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 238Aug 05, 2012 7:13 pm Im wanting to plant citrus trees etc in some sandy soil.... Smallish area so would like to use dwarf trees. Ive heard that the pipsqueak variety is good... http://www.theplantshop.com.au/products ... l-mandarin Any advice?? Also a tamarillo shrub.... I love Tamarillo's Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 239Aug 17, 2012 5:46 pm My advice is to buy a plane variety grown by someone who is a part of the Citrus Improvement programme which aims to stamp out growers selling unproductive citrus trees. There are a few groups that support this: http://www.auscitrus.com.au/docs/organisations.asp Too many people are getting sucked into buying fancy varieties sold at premium prices when regular varities will do just fine. We don't need to be growing a "dwarf" citrus specifically in pots or small gardens. Experienced gardeners and retailers will know they take the same care, pruning etc and all you end up doing is pay more than you need to. Any citrus can be kept to any shape or size regardless of what the tag says it grows to. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 240Jan 04, 2013 12:10 pm I planted a fig tree a year ago, this summer it started to fruit. got around 10 full grown sweet ones. but suddenly, they are dropping off prematurely. i have watered them, added seasol....wat can i do to save them also my citrus, all new leaves are getting shrunk. in a day or two after they appear? Help!! I’m meant to start building soon and have only really just learnt about orientation. 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