Gardening Thread

[FRUMPY]

Decided to grow creepers up the side fence so created a diamond shaped pattern along the fence with wire. Got 4 creepers in and now the waiting game. Should make the view from the kitchen/living better than just a fence.

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[the_interloper]

Finally planted the tomatoes and chillies last week, great weather to get them going to be honest with the warm and wet conditions.

 

[FRUMPY]

Finally planted the tomatoes and chillies last week, great weather to get them going to be honest with the warm and wet conditions.

Yeah i planted some tomatoes 2 weeks ago and have gone gangbuster, chilli hasnt done much, thats in with the herb garden which has been on steroids all spring with all this rain and sun, cutting it back every week i reckon.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Yeah i planted some tomatoes 2 weeks ago and have gone gangbuster, chilli hasnt done much, thats in with the herb garden which has been on steroids all spring with all this rain and sun, cutting it back every week i reckon.

I cleared a garden bed of cherry tomatoes last year to plant some other stuff but they have grown back like weeds. I'm not complaining. I've got some lettuce, coriander and cucumber in there so hopefully they'll all be friends.

 

[FRUMPY]

I cleared a garden bed of cherry tomatoes last year to plant some other stuff but they have grown back like weeds. I'm not complaining. I've got some lettuce, coriander and cucumber in there so hopefully they'll all be friends.

place around the corner from us used to have a veggie patch in their front garden and they are now selling their house so they ripped it up and put down lawn........its now covered in new strawberry growth everywhere, makes me laugh.

 

[raskolnikov]

I've planted some lilly pillies to make a hedge. I've planted them 75cm apart. Some are absolutely thriving while some are dying or dead. I can't see any rational reason why this is the case.

 

[eagleskickass]

Moved into New build a year ago and have been working hard to set up vegetable gardens (in the front yard, making use of otherwise dead space!)

Tonight's achievement was a stir fry with all vegetables from the garden. Got it going nicely!

(For those playing at home, onion, beans, snow peas, capsicum)

 

[the_interloper]

I've planted some lilly pillies to make a hedge. I've planted them 75cm apart. Some are absolutely thriving while some are dying or dead. I can't see any rational reason why this is the case.

If I bought them from the nursery I'd have to find them myself, not sure I could actually ask someone "do you have any lilly pillies"

 

[rocker_oz33]

I messaged a guy I'm going to pick up some plants from .

I thought it was the old guy from the other side of town .

But I messaged the wrong guy .

LoL..

Got Thier names mixed up .

 

[Frank Bunn]

Moved into New build a year ago and have been working hard to set up vegetable gardens (in the front yard, making use of otherwise dead space!)

Tonight's achievement was a stir fry with all vegetables from the garden. Got it going nicely!

(For those playing at home, onion, beans, snow peas, capsicum)

What beans did you grow? I tried to grow soy beans as I love salted edamame but they didn't do much.

My onions went weird. They didn't develop into the bulb shape and looked more like leeks. But the base of the stem had a very strong onion flavour.

 

[eagleskickass]

What beans did you grow? I tried to grow soy beans as I love salted edamame but they didn't do much.

My onions went weird. They didn't develop into the bulb shape and looked more like leeks. But the base of the stem had a very strong onion flavour.

Just plain green beans!

I hadn't grown onions before but these ones are incredible, really big, juicy and sweet. Very happy!

 

[Engimal v3]

Bought one of those Ozito battery powered mowers today. Was pretty skeptical, but it works well enough. Wouldn't want to drop anything too big with it, but my backyard isn't huge.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Bought one of those Ozito battery powered mowers today. Was pretty skeptical, but it works well enough. Wouldn't want to drop anything too big with it, but my backyard isn't huge.

Ryobi battery whipper shippers are the bomb .

Once the mower shites it self I'll get a battery one if they have a side thrower.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Anyone else into or like catus .

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Asparagus fern - how do you get rid of it?

 

[rocker_oz33]

Today.
Rocker goes to the nursery.

 

[PunyHumans!!!]

Asparagus fern - how do you get rid of it?

How big is the infestation?

As a landscaper, I've only ever had one site that had asparagus fern but by the time I took over it, it was too far advanced to ever effectively deal with. Digging it out was pointless as you have to get everything out of the ground (maybe not so if its only a small infestation but even then...). It laughed in the face of my glyphosate applications as well (assuming here someone had tried previously and was now resistant to it)

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

How big is the infestation?

As a landscaper, I've only ever had one site that had asparagus fern but by the time I took over it, it was too far advanced to ever effectively deal with. Digging it out was pointless as you have to get everything out of the ground (maybe not so if its only a small infestation but even then...). It laughed in the face of my glyphosate applications as well (assuming here someone had tried previously and was now resistant to it)

Small clumps, fortunately. Got most of it, bloody prickly . But very hard to get all the roots out. I'll just have to monitor it regularly.

 

[FRUMPY]

Dug and laid about 15m of agi pipe on Saturday, just need to hook it up to the stormwater now. Draining well into the ditch I left open at the end ATM [emoji108]

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[raskolnikov]

Planted a flame tree in my backyard this afternoon.

 

[Frank Bunn]

I've learnt some things with edibles to maximise the chances of success.

Seeds are cheap or can be free, so sow a lot of them. Some of them won't grow or be flimsy but you only need a few or even one to flourish and you're in business. Out of all the Thai basil seeds I sowed only one grew, but it's looking very healthy and should grow into a bush that I can pick from when I need. Ginger from seed was a bit of a Hail Mary. I've tried to grow it from shop ginger root will no success. Then I planted seeds and one has grown into a decent plant. Pretty much every seed from a supermarket capsicum grew into a seedling. I pricked out the best ones to plant out.

The other thing I've been doing is plant the same thing in different places. I've got three garden beds with different soil quality, sunlight and rain exposure. It can be hard to predict which will do well, so where possible I plant a few in each spot. Last year the cucumber went nuts in one bed but is doing better in another now. I split some Lemongrass into a pot and a bed. Both are doing well but the bed one is much bigger.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Planted a flame tree in my backyard this afternoon.

Have you some .

Khe Sanh and bow river trees aswell ....

 

[Engimal v3]

Anyone have this, and could I feed a 5cm diameter branch through it?

 

[ioppolo]

Anyone have this, and could I feed a 5cm diameter branch through it?

I got one on the cheap, I wouldn't try 5cm personally...3cm at absolute max and that's pushing it.

 

[footyfan1978]

Picked up small bits of branches and twigs in backyard earlier today.
Later in day as walk from front end of house to lounge room to see what happening in cricket I notice in corner of my eye towards sunroom way that seems to be some big branches on ground in backyard.
Turns out some massive branch collapsed from biggest tree in backyard in same spot I was in hours before.
FMD, I was lucky it did not fall earlier or I am dead now.
Crazy luck. I do not think there much wind today so it must have been the storms from a few days ago and was already ready to fall.
It looks like it fallen at least 10 metres so doubt I would survive it landing on me.