Remember not to let your seedlings dry out in these warm months.
Just lost most of my Chili seedlings because I was sure they could survive ‘until the morning’ without a a water. (‘Until the morning’ turned out to be three days later! )
Water when you can 🙂
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Hot weather
Hot weather
The temp tomorrow us predicted at 40 before rain.
That means that the temp on my west facing stairs might top out at 55!
Ive given everything a good water and now I cross my fingers.
Its mmeant to be very hot over xmas and new years- dont know if I can head away 😦
Wear a hat!
I was ambitious enough to try to plant a few things down at the plot early this afternoon.
While it was only 25 degrees my face was sunburned in less than half an hour!
Don’t forget your hat!
Size dosen’t matter
😉
No steroids here! Home Grown!
Okay.. so they look a bit different to store bought
White Carrots!
They are awesome! It seems that my Yellow Carrots grow the best in my foam boxes but the white ones are worth a mention cos they look awesome!
Blueberries Galore
I’m so stoked! Robbie bought me a blueberry (tree) for xmas last year.
I didnt think it would do any good here – so just planted it in an old bucket and crossed my fingers.
Ate the first first 4 berries off the (tree? bush?) last week and noticed today that there is at least a dozen more ready to be picked!
mmmmm
pics to follow
East side
looks nice at sunrise
Sunflower sprouts
Tuesday: there are now 3 times as many seeds that have propogated
Sunflower at sunrise
Don’t ask why I was up at Sunrise on Monday!
(Carly didnt want to join me for a McDonalds breakfast lol)
The first Abutilon sprout
So tiny! i think its a ‘Mauve’ one
Sunflower Strip
Nearly a dozen have sprouted already!
Yum
Just muched on a big plate of my home grown veg again!
Loving steamed Beets-Â any suggestions on other ways i can prepare them?
Diggers Club
These guys are a great resource.
I just bought a membership – I’ll let you know if i think its value for money
What to plant… now!
Here is a link to a Planting Calendar.
Do you know of a better one? Please let me know
Souraya’s Tomatoes… Clones!!
we grew these by trimming off the laterals of established plants!
Here is the Gardening Australia Fact Sheet
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s3857258.htm
They are now flowering!!
Red Abutilon (Chinese lantern)
I found an awesome Red Chinese Lantern Tree growing in roadside garden
Mum struggles to propagate the Red ones so im hoping these will take off so we can share
Here they are all planted out. Used my own propagation mix, mostly cow poo and compost.
hope they work out.
Mum makes awesome ‘twisted plants’ she takes 3 or 4 different colours of these and plaits them into a standard… like this one https://www.jparkers.co.uk/plant-0001292/abutilon-tricolour-p12/
I’m determined to beat her, and create a 5 colour variety!
The kit
Garden Pics
East side fence replacement
East side fence replacement
East side fence replacement
tied to the rose bush 🙂
evening sun maybe?
propagation inside
down the stairs
up the stairs
next to fags and beer for comparison – im such a health nut 🙂
Last year – carrots and beets
Big-ass Sunflowers
my only Blueberries from last year.
Begining the sunflower strip
sunflowers in carpark garden
awesome sunflowers
all home grown
Here is a gallery of my random garden pics! Pleas click on the link to see the whole gallery
Brunswick Gardener 