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Topic: How Does Your Garden Grow?
irishlass's photo
Mon 04/16/07 07:51 PM
doc, with those potatoes, make sure the soil drains well or they will
rot. Cabbage take a long time to mature so it is generally havested in
the cooler weather.

Jess642's photo
Tue 04/17/07 01:09 AM
What a great topic,

I spent part of the day in the garden getting my hands dirty...just
turning the soil, adding mulch, preparing for when it cools down, as it
is too hot to plant still..

Crazy weather is still summer here in the middle of autumn...

We have silverbeet, and chives and some small- leaf italian basil,
chives, and some lemongrass as houseplants..

and will be planting more lettuces, and cherry tomatoes, over the next
two weeks, also houseplants, (they like to hide from the heat)...

When the seasons figure out what they might be doing, I will have the
usual kitchen garden, snow peas, beans, sugar snap peas, rhubarb, bok
choi, chinese cabbage, pumpkins, (queensland blues, and jap) sweet
potatoes in the old pile of lawn clippings from last year..and then
whatever else the kids choose to grow, always strawberries...is our fast
food outlet, the backyard...laugh

and of course always organic, we use neem oil, diluted in a spray
bottle, or garlic and chili spray, and that is it, fertiliser is old
chicken manure, and cow and horse manure..also from organically fed
animals..


I want to learn more about permaculture, is something I have been drawn
to for a while..

catchme_ifucan's photo
Tue 04/17/07 01:31 AM
flowerforyou That kewl Lee..

http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/ :wink: here!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

this is about a aussie guy


http://www.permacultureinternational.org/
the journal on it..

Jess642's photo
Tue 04/17/07 01:39 AM
Thanks Lisa...that is so great..


I have a friend, Robin Clayfeild, she brought permaculture here to
Australia, 20 ish years ago, it is just nailing her down for time to
pick her brain...

catchme_ifucan's photo
Tue 04/17/07 01:55 AM
there's only 500,000 things on it.

the aussie guy is Bill mullison

laugh I thought the barking frogs was kinda cute! laugh

We have alot of stuff that still grows at the ranch the guy that built
our house grew up there he's in his 80s there was his moms house that
burnt in 81 & behind it was the Grand father's that burnt in the 30s or
40s. around both places have all kinds of fruit trees & stuff that comes
up its so kewl
We call where the mothers house was "the secret garden" it even has a
tunnel that goes back in the hill.. her kitchen garden has all kinds of
herbs... flowerforyou

tantalizingtulip's photo
Tue 04/17/07 06:48 AM
awwwwwwww jess

dern wish I could plant a garden of veggies.


my hopes are high, perhaps one day....flowerforyou flowerforyou

GreenEyedHippieChick's photo
Tue 04/17/07 08:03 AM
we have to clear out a tree that broke in half with the last storm..
it's covering where we started the veggie garden.... I have to get the
other side of the fence done too so the horse won't have a buffet. Then
I'm going to plant some fruiting trees as well (apple, orange,
grapefruit,bananas,and pomegranets) I already have fig, peach, date,
pecan, lemon and mulberry, and a plum, but it hasn't started to fruit
yet.. then I'm going to get some grape vines going as well.. Get this
lil farm back on track.

slikylisa's photo
Tue 04/17/07 08:05 AM
well iam growing pot oops dont tell any bodylaugh

tantalizingtulip's photo
Tue 04/17/07 08:07 AM
huh what is that?

Droxfo's photo
Tue 04/17/07 08:07 AM
Need any tips?

slikylisa's photo
Tue 04/17/07 08:08 AM
need any water leaflaugh laugh

tantalizingtulip's photo
Tue 04/17/07 08:09 AM
Is this about mary?laugh frown

no photo
Tue 04/17/07 08:09 AM
Now thats a plant I can grow, it grows wild here in Nebraska

tantalizingtulip's photo
Tue 04/17/07 08:09 AM
oh lord I am a dum dum

slikylisa's photo
Tue 04/17/07 08:11 AM
a dum dum is a lolipop and that you are
a good lolipopflowerforyou

oldsage's photo
Tue 04/17/07 08:12 AM
Grows with lots of horse crap

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