What are you growing? Show us your non-canna garden

[Postman pat]

Are they just a bug deterrent? I’m bloody smashed with bugs at the minute after all this rain went a checked on a couple me outdoor lil foot high plants in they just crawling with all sorts of things

 

 

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[Carbcon]

Yes Pat.

 

I don't have any big problems I need to address.

 

Have 2 maybe sparsely planted beds both hurt by wind but averaged 5-7kg a square m so happy with that.

 

Summer coming so I planted in French and Mexican marigolds, a mix of clovers and a heap of peas and beans, buckwheat. Sunflowers, borage, radish etc.

If I get a few peas and beans then great.

 

These beds will sit for 6 months now maybe. Feed the soil, feed the beneficiaries and please my eyes. All the biomass will go back in prior to next planting.

 

I'm getting a bit better on the preventative IPM I feel and have suffered less on the bug front at least with the potatoes.

 

Easy fix if they in veg I reckon for yours Pat.

 

It probably starts with the soil, a healthy plant is more resistant full stop.

Neem in every soil mix.

Neem oil spray is good.

Silica\fulvic also good for IPM spray

Any compost tea probably the best as a drench or spray

 

That king hit eucalyptus is an excellent product as a knock down with big populations

Edited October 27, 2019 by Carbcon

[Tunkers]

Trying to collect brocc seeds for first time. Is this still too early to pull the plant? Looks like I'll have a few seeds..

 

[Sugar]

Very helpful tips there Carbcon, thanks!

 

Had a couple of Pleated Inkcap Mushrooms (Little Japanese Umbrella) pop up with my chilli plant the other day

 

[Carbcon]

Fine bush there tunkers

 

Never did cauliflower even though I bought a blast of seed recently.

 

Never did chilis, not a huge fan and don't like hot stuff.

 

You should all try spuds.

 

50kg from 8-9 M2 in 91 days

[itchybromusic]

you blokes heard of the dirty dozen , no not the movie , the dirty dozen foods 

maybe this selection of crops might be worth producing yourself 

 

Australia's version of the 'Dirty Dozen' would look something like this

Apples, cabbage, strawberries, capsicum, tomatoes, celery,

lettuce, mushrooms, nectarines, grapes, cucumber and oranges. 

All of these foods showed varying levels of pesticide residue.

 

https://cultivatingwellness.com.au/debunking-the-clean-fifteen-and-the-dirty-dozen/

 

​we in oz don't have the data the Americans have on there produce so our lists could be a little sketchy  

[Veritas629]

This is the start of gardening for me. Just moved house, don't even have my medicinal tent set up. The little fella in the middle was found growing in my previous house's roof gutter. The gutter wasn't in good condition for the purpose of drainage and collected leaves which turned to compost. And he somehow grew in that. He became a discrete way to say 420. As in "wanna visit the cactus?" So I brought him with me. He is now living in leftover organic soil from the medicine garden. House mascot and a symbol of overcoming rough circumstances [emoji106]

 

[Sugar]

This is the start of gardening for me. Just moved house, don't even have my medicinal tent set up. The little fella in the middle was found growing in my previous house's roof gutter. The gutter wasn't in good condition for the purpose of drainage and collected leaves which turned to compost. And he somehow grew in that. He became a discrete way to say 420. As in "wanna visit the cactus?" So I brought him with me. He is now living in leftover organic soil from the medicine garden. House mascot and a symbol of overcoming rough circumstances [emoji106]

 

 

 

I love your succulent garden of hope and new beginnings

[Tunkers]

Gutter trash succulent. That's cool

[Veritas629]

Gutter trash succulent. That's cool

 

Who knows how long he grew there, but it must have been a long time.  Hard to see at 3m up, but once you noticed him, impossible to not smile.  Although he's only the size of big man's fist, his roots stretched about 50cm each direction in a perfect gutter shape!  No other succulents in the yard, so no idea where he came from.  Aliens, stoned pranksters, bird poo, the mystery will keep stoned yard goers entertained for years to come.....