No dramas.

I would much rather rip them all up, but would feel guilty. The previous owner still visits from her retirement village the next suburb over to visit her neighbours, pick up mail that hasn't redirected yet and look at her old rose garden.

how do the roses look????

Heather said time is now to August to prune, prune 2/3 off the tree's and fertilise heavily now, say a litre of dynamic lifter per rose bush and in spring you will awesome roses.....

if they are very old roses they will be worth the effort and nice for your dinner table

They look pretty old and woody to me, I mainly want to get them back away from the driveway.

Will go do some snipping and report back.

Heather reckons you can run amok and they will rebound

I'm a gardener myself. On Sunday I will be planting beetroot, red onion, leek, mixture of types of heirloom carrots, peas, kale and parsnip. I will also put my first lot of compost in the garden from my new compost tumbler I bought from bunnings. I will post a photo of my garden on Sunday

What's it like growing things down south in the cooler climates?

Do you get longer growing/picking periods out of fruiting plants/herbs?

-PB

Kale chips ftw.

So jelly of people in cooler environments being able to grow shit that won't die in the sunlight haha.

-PB

Speaking of which, buying my Dad a new axe for his birthday soon.

-PB

This is my dad's first garden i helped him build.

The passionsfruit vine growing on the chicken wire is going amazing only just planted it about 6 months ago and has roughly 30 fruits growing on it.

Edited by vincenzogold: 16/5/2014 01:13:15 PM

YIPPEE......we love the heirloom stuff as well the carrots are great as they come in white , purple,orange,green, yellow and look gr8 on the plate.....also do heaps of heirloom pumpkins

well we are Sydney so 45 in summer to 0 in winter so no real difference i guess....where are you

fuck that i have a petrol driven hydraulic wood splitter, we split about 5 to 7 tonnes a year

good start, the passionfruits love being wee'd on;)

I forgot to mention garlic i will planting lots and lots of garlic. I have grown purple carrots before that was funky, Im a member of the diggers club so i get all my seeds from them.

Townsville lol

-PB

lol well for a personal fireplace that'd be overkill.

Getting him one of those new Finnish axes.

-PB

yeah diggers are ok........took my wife to heronswood years ago, was very nice........there are plenty of heirloom seed companies on the net now......

we collect a lot of our own seeds.....we grew heaps of garlic last year and same this year have just started planting last weekend....

Yeh i also save seeds. Its good knowing the seeds you have are quality and are the seeds from some of your best crop.

I havent been down to Melbourne to see there gardens yet but i would love too.

you in sandy loam up there, problem with drying out could be more to do with lack of mulch and humus in the soil....

We had a passionfruit vine when I was a kid. We used to piss on it because how it grew hit us from the house and the plant would thrive. Anyway after a while mum worked out what was going on and banned us from doing it. The plant never bore fruit again :lol:

This http://i.imgur.com/eiDyrVn.jpg is what a lot of the plants looked like - on the verge of death and widespread disease.


Have pruned them all right back, fertilised, soaked and mulched.

Edited by notorganic: 16/5/2014 04:16:35 PM

planted 160 garlic, heaps of caulies, cabbage, chinese cabbage, brussels sprout and broccolini so my back is shagged and i need another weekend to recoup.......

The best gardening / cricket book ever. http://www.bookshops.com.au/book_search_details.php?seller_id=3116&sku=0215496

Not that there are many hybrid books of this type. (Gardening advice segueing into cricket anecdotes.)

Hilarious, off the wall / weird humour in this book. (Thommo being a landscape gardener and all.)

I used to be a real green thumb until I was about 15... Lost interest in my later teens up until now.
This thread is making me keen to get do my old herb and veggie garden.

DO IT...!!!!! nothing more rewarding than growing harvesting and eating your own produce.....and it tastes heaps better not to mention the health benefits.......also save money ;)