fark the heat and dy has rooted my corn this year only ended up with about 20% reaching proper size and the rest about 50%....couldn't pump enough water to the crop......but we ended up with 180 cobs so that's better than nothing

My 8 year old chilli plant died :(

I wasn't convinced that that it was entirely dead, but my Dad redid our herb garden and pulled it out.

Edited by eastern glory: 1/2/2014 10:12:51 PM

yeah heat has ripped the arse out of our garden in the past 3-4 months....we have only had 12mm of rain in the past 4 months......even our citrus trees are looking sick...and no amount of water pumped from our dam works as well as rain does............

Moving house soon, so was facing the prospect of needing to rip out the vegetables anyway, thanks for doing my work for me heat!

Above is planted on Jan 14.

Below is progress as of Feb 5.

nice work, good when you see progress...its rewarding....

RAIN GLORIOUS RAIN....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 58MM so far, saved my watermelons and pumpkins......and now there is some green shoots our peacock is not eating the young pumpkins

more rain please...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just bought some raised veggie gardens from bunnings for myself and the fiance. What to plant is my next issue. Stay tuned

couple of good seed sites like http://www.edenseeds.com.au/content/default.asp

http://diggers.com.au/ http://www.greenpatchseeds.com.au/

they have good info and seeds and heirloom varieties

you have to watch bunnings sometimes as the seedling they stock might not have time to mature and produce anything but they still stock them and people buy....so watch for that trick of theirs.................

Dino - plant some basil. We've been using ours like crazy, and it grows so quickly!

i grow all my on vegies and i compost which goes straight back into where it was grown from. Oh and i smell my own farts

Was waiting for this.

I drive a Prius, because I like to take care of the environment. We're just a little bit more environmentally conscious here.

Edited by u4486662: 21/2/2014 05:45:27 PM

who doesn't like the smell of their own farts?????

Got a compost bin and have been chucking all my produce scraps in it.

bump de bump

We have two 150 hectare centre point pivots on our property growing spuds...does that count?

is that 150 metre pivots??

150 hactare is 375 acres? that's a serious pivot???

oh yeah....we have been digging up our spuds for dinner each day and are so yummy straight out of the ground and onto the dinner plate that evening

They are monsters, the Mallee is the biggest producer of spuds in Australia with our sandy soil and underground water supply.

Gentlemen

I have a ~6m long by ~1m wide area on my property that I am fully going to make a veggie garden.

On one side along it, is a ~500mm drop to the ground. On the other side along it, a 8ft high wooden fence.

Help me plan my veggie garden.

I want good, healthy & hearty fruit&veggies. I'm happy to water them every day or two, but am hoping for something minimal fuss.

Happy to install spikes/etc to help things grow up or down.

Hoping to not be pulling plants fully out and replanting all the freaking time if I can help it.

Help a brother out, help design my veggie garden.

Note: I already have a herb garden.

Edited by pv4: 22/3/2016 12:25:47 PM

wheres Murdoch Rags, id like to see his stone carved mobile phone

Do you have any idea how much damage you can casue to our environment removing precious rocks ?

That's my job mate. Exposing some rocks is worse than acid mine drainage but don't tell the Greens :lol:

Are you buying trees? You don't have to replant trees.

Count me in if you need some green thumb assistance.

buy some premade vegetable planter boxes /tubs ... 3 or 4 should do it
.. the ones made from corrugate iron are easy, wooden sleepers one normally need assembly , and you need to line it with plastic on the inside
sit the planter box on some pavers, concrete etc so its nice and flat
then start at the bottom, put down a layer of newspaper, then twigs ( or small brannches) then some hay or straw and then top it with good soil and potting mix... when you first water it, the soil level will drop , just top it up again and then plant

use drippers and a timer, makes watering easy

learn to propagate your herbs.. I do this with my basil , parsley, rosermary , oregano

place vegetables which like a lot of sun in one planter box , then as you move to the next planter, the plants will require less sun etc etc
e.g mine get the northern sun, so first tub has chilli and tomato
second has basil , garlic
third has cucumbers , zucchini , broccoli

also use the space
get a gutter a few metres in length 2 -4,
fill the end caps
drill some holes every 20-30cm in for drainage
hang somewhere
fill with soil
plant spinach and green leafy vegetables in it.

Im in my mid 30s and have never owned a car. We live in a 3 person household with no car.

Anyone here had laying hens before?

Been a long-term goal of mine to get some. The Mrs has always said I can have them after our yard is in order - which is getting closer.

Do's/don'ts for chickens? And for their coops?

Looking likely I'll have the space for 4-6 chickens.

will the Neighbors be ok with the noise??