A veggie garden thread
Nice Goofy...hows this
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-01-08/giant-russian-elephant-garl...
udo wrote:Nice Goofy...hows this
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-01-08/giant-russian-elephant-garl...
Monsters! Stoked!
stunet wrote:and a few types of chillis - including Carolina Reapers.
How are the Reapers going? flowering yet? they are maybe the hardest chili to grow in my experience but love the heat of mid north west summers or some phenotypes like more autumn weather to fruit.
What is everyone throwing in the ground at the moment? Just pulled out all of the remnants of the summer crop.
I'll be turning over the beds, adding compost and letting them sit for a couple of weeks before throwing the autumn/winter crop in.
Been as dry as a dead dingoes donger down in Vicco till last weekend, however still managed a great summer of food - cherry toms, various chillies, cucumbers, tromboncinos (google em, great plant) and silverbeet.
Not in the ground yet, but I've got a big season of leafy greens planned.
Like you, I turned the beds about six weeks back, been burying compost and leaf matter, and will probably get seeds in the ground later this month.
The summer growing season started out with a lot of promise but fell apart. Got a few zucchs, tomatoes, eggplants, jalapenos, and even a rosella crop.
Pretty hard going here over summer with the heat and humidity but I did manage, for once, to have some insane success with tomatoes.
Planted 3 varieties of tomato and one, a black cherry (medium size cherry tomato) , produced masses and masses of fruit over weeks and weeks.
It's still going strong now, although I think this upcoming rain event will probably kill it.
Otherwise, a sub-tropical leafy green - Okinawan spinach- did well.
Rocket randomly growing from seed from old plants also kept a bit of a harvest to go with fresh tailor fillets for a quick lunch.
Cos lettuce all bolted incredibly quickly, all the curcubits turned up and died on the hot, humid days.
Herbs did well- basil, oregano, sage, and I kept parsley alive.
Also a really good crop of long, red chillies about a 5/10 heat.
Cherry toms are amazing - volumes and volumes of the stuff.
Herbs did great too - basil, sage, thyme, oregano, mint and Vietnamese mint.
Anyone had success with getting more fruit from a lemon tree - got a pretty healthy looking tree which gets great growth in foliage but doesn't seem to produce many lemons. It does get a bit of curly leaf and has some gall wasps, which I suspect aren't helping. Anyone had luck slicing the galls open rather than removing them completely? If I was to cut them all out I'd lose a fair bit of the tree....
Does it flower and set fruit?
Seabiscuit wrote:Cherry toms are amazing - volumes and volumes of the stuff.
Herbs did great too - basil, sage, thyme, oregano, mint and Vietnamese mint.
Anyone had success with getting more fruit from a lemon tree - got a pretty healthy looking tree which gets great growth in foliage but doesn't seem to produce many lemons. It does get a bit of curly leaf and has some gall wasps, which I suspect aren't helping. Anyone had luck slicing the galls open rather than removing them completely? If I was to cut them all out I'd lose a fair bit of the tree....
Seabiscuit. Hi mate. One of the failings with all citrus is poor yield, especially when you see the tiny fruits when they are 5-10mm in length, you get excited, look the next day and they’ve fallen off the plant.
This is a clear sign of magnesium deficiency. This chemical element is easily lost from the soil or media profile.
Easily corrected with Epsom Salts ( magnesium sulphate) applied as a foliar spray or as a general fertiliser.
Before you know it your yields will have increased. AW
Hey seabiscuit
I’d cut the gallwasps out, the tree will bounce back.
Re the fruiting try feeding with Potash and try to avoid feeding with anything with too much nitrogen in it. This will encourage leaf growth at the expense of fruit.
Lots of helpful articles on the net and YouTube videos too
Sulphate of potash has always worked for me, as well as Epsom salts.
never bothered treating gall wasp - around here it's stink bugs (bronze orange bug) which will lead to fruit drop or borers, which kill the tree.
My finger lime tree dropped all its fruit early this time. It's produced good fruit up until this season, I don't think it was a magnesium issue in my case, I supplement that regularly. In my case, I'm guessing it was the severe underwatering it had through a hot summer, mostly because I wasn't around enough to give the garden the attention it needed.
It's a bummer cos I love those things with seafood.
Did the same as most on the turning of beds etc, think I'll just wait to spring to start anything again, having a busy year. I'll put some effort into recharging everything properly in the meantime.
Best thing about winter coming for me is the Sir Walter pretty much goes dormant, and the mower gets to gather a few cobwebs.
Appreciate the feedback all - will get onto the epsom salts and potash to boost the lemon yields.
And yep Freeride76, it flower reasonably well, doesn’t seem to set fruit as much though.
Is there a gardening thread? I haven't seen one but I've seen lots of posts about people's veggie growing tips. How about we help each other out?
Planted first garden in about ten years today.
Lettuce, broccoli, swedes, kale, thyme, parsley. Raised bed under straw. Peas and carrots go in tonorrow.