Comments on: In the Garden

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:57:00 +0000

Last summer we planted capsicums, snow peas, strawberries, tomatoes and butternut pumpkins which were actually qld blues! Must have got the seeds mixed up from dad! LOL! I prefer butternut but will use the other too.Even our boys really enjoyed watching the plants flower, then fruit, and picking etc and I am still using some of the capsicums which are smaller but tastier than shop ones! We had an overabundance of tomatoes but we got lots of joy from giving many away as well as using them up, freezing them as puree etc and even mum made chutney for us! Delicious. Beware that cherry tomato plants can give thousands of fruit but also lots of joy and fun too.
We have planted a couple of silver beet and cabbage seedlings this winter, due to lack of time and motivation right now!
Not sure if we will be able to grow more in summer because of the new tighter water restrictions coming in. What a pain!
Great to hear you are enjoying eating your lettuce though. It makes ones day hey?

By: lightening

lightening — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:24:00 +0000

Hey Madly Saving - that is quite interesting how similar our lives seem to be running at the moment. I’ve not grown any oranges on my tree so you’re doing better than me! I’ve seen some stuff about companion planting but haven’t really tried it (or gotten my head around it). Wasn’t really wanting to take up too much space in my vegie patch but then again - if I’m not growing any vegies cos the bugs keep eating them, it’s probably worth sacrificing some space.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:58:00 +0000

Sorry, forgot to mention above post was posted by Madly Saving from SS! (must be my bed time)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:57:00 +0000

Hey, now you are beginning to scare me - maybe you are my secret twin!? We are starting our sfg method vegie patch (this weekend hopefully). We have cleared the area but have been saving up to buy sleepers, compost, etc AND we have one straggly-trying-to-survive orange tree which we found in the corner of our yard when we chopped down our big old pine tree! It has 3 pale oranges on it though! I have heard that bugs are the biggest problem when trying to grow own vegies - have you looked into companion planting at all? Don’t know if it would make any difference… Hope you have some success despite them though!