Comments on: In the Garden

By: lightening

lightening — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:57:00 +0000

Hi Emma,
Glad your strawberries are going well. I’ve planted some in our front garden. First lot the chooks got to. Something is chewing this 2nd lot now. Hoping it’s the 3 snails I found yesterday morning. Today they’re looking no worse so fingers crossed the chewing will stop. I’d really like to have HEAPS of strawberries but not willing to outlay too much cash until I can actually grow a few successfully. Unfortunately I’m not very patient. LOL.

I would love to have stuff just come up but our chooks eat all our scraps at the moment. Can’t complain about the eggs they give us in return though can I?

By: emma

emma — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:25:00 +0000

Lettuces look great! You could try strawberries, ours are still alive - no fruit yet. Also you could try my method of planting yukky veg and vegie scraps. I’ve done this with mine and grown capsicum, potatoes, onion, garlic. Not sure what to do with the garlic, have just been chopping the tops of the onion plants and using them, had a few capsicums and some very small potatoes.

By: lightening

lightening — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:40:00 +0000

Never thought of building raised beds for fruit trees. Will have to discuss it with DH and see what he thinks is better/easier

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:57:00 +0000

I thought I read somewhere you were doing it that way! I was reading a site the other day recommended by another SSer and they grew their fruit trees in raised beds also - didn’t seem to bother to make them any deeper and they were really closely planted too - can’t imagine how they would go!? It must be very disappointing with something attacking your vegies all the time!!
MS

By: lightening

lightening — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:32:00 +0000

Thanks Madly Saving. The raised bed idea is basically what we are doing. I have one bed like that but need DH to get a trailer load of soil/mulch to fill in the other garden bed. So just waiting for that to happen so I can plant a few more things. The biggest problem is planting fruit trees as it will require deeper digging to get the clay out and add whatever we need to add (DH knows what needs to be done - just needs time to do it). I’m keen to get on with planting fruit trees as they take a while to produce.

Went out into the garden this afternoon and another bug is attacking my plants. This time from underneath - ie within the soil. So I’m a tad frustrated with it all at the moment. BUT, did pick some lettuce to go with BBQ tea tonight so that’s something at least. LOL.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:20:00 +0000

Lightening - have you looked into raised bed gardening? That way, you don’t have to worry about your soil. I recommend you look up the Square Foot Gardening website for information on how it works. It is what we are going to do. Good luck with the vegie growing!
Madly Saving

By: lightening

lightening — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:12:00 +0000

I so agree Kez - about retailers seeming to put prices up regardless. For a democratic society I can’t help but feel like consumers have no rights or voice when it comes to these issues. It’s very frustrating!!!

By: Kez

Kez — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:37:00 +0000

Hey good looking lettuce - they look much healthier than mine!

I think predictions like that just cause the price to go up regardless because the retailers think “oh the public already think there’ll be a price rise so they won’t object when we do it”