Now, more than ever: OUR GARDEN NEEDS YOU!
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I raise lots of seeds and cutting inside, some on a heat mat… but when its time to go outside, the all ‘harden off’ in the Kiddy Corner:
I really wanted to use some of the Castings and Compost i acquired in yesterdays plunder in the propagation mix i was going to use to strikes the cuttings i plundered.
Amongst yesterdays booty was a bucket of propagating sand, so i was able to make a mixture that contained: Continue reading Potting up the Booty 🙂
Sometimes i struggle to find enough little pots to use when i need to pot up seedlings or propagate cuttings.
Some people love ‘Jiffy Pots’ or ‘Pellets’ but i find that they don’t break down quick enough and are not tall enough to accommodate a good tap root system.
Ive read a few tips and heard from an elderly neighbour that using toilet rolls as transitional pots works really well. Continue reading Reuse and Recycle: Toliet roll pots
Today my friends Dad donated more to gardening efforts than a kick starter project could ever hope to achieve.
Chris and Trish are moving out of their awesome home and today I was let loose on the garden…
Chris filled my car with buckets of nutrients, compost and castings plus a foam box of about 10000 worms!
His garden was so awesome I was a bit overwhelmed. …
I took some cuttings of many different Hebes, and a white hibiscus (I think I messed this up- I took ‘softwood’ but think I should have taken a ‘heel’ in the cutting.
Chris has amazing Helebores! So many patches that are flowering like crazy- beautiful greens and rust colored varieties.
I was so overwhelmed I forgot to dig up couple of clumps. … hopefully i might be able to go back in the he next few days and take some clumps.
They move out this week so I may have missed my only opportunity 😦
Helebores or not, Chris’s contributions will give me enough cuttings and supplies to help create a new patch here at the flats and help make more people smile:-)
Thanks again Reardon Family
Pics tomorrow of worms and cuttings being planted out. ..
The Ork is a single tine gardening fork- and is probably the most useful garden tool ive seen since the ‘bottle top water’
Dont bother trying to find an Ork on the shelf at Bunnings…. my mates dad buys a normal 3 prong fork and cuts off the F he doesn’t need.
I had the pleasure of using the Ork while raiding Chris’s garden today.
In the pic above, the Ork is sitting on a bucket full off worm castings acquired in the raid 🙂
Thisis probably the most handy garden ‘tool’ I have purchased. Great for my seedlings!!
www.diggers.com.au/shop/product/HBOTW3/BOTTLE%20TOP%20WATERER%20(x3).aspx
I had a spare space by my front door…. exactly where my boots should go 😉 Continue reading These boots were made for…?
This week is ‘pick your own’ week at the flats. Continue reading The Offerings
I have a real love of easy to grow flowers.
When I was really little, I remember that every time my Grandmother came over she would dig daisies out of our lawn!
I thought it was a hoot to see my old Nan digging bits out of our lawn and sticking them in a plastic bag in her hand bag (she always had a plastic bag tucked inside her hand bag…. I actually think she probably always traveled with a pair of seceteurs too!). Continue reading Bellis Perennis
Honeycomb
Yellow
I think these are my favorite flowers. .. Hope my ‘Red’ cuttings make it this time 🙂
The Orange and Pink ones both have buds- hopefully flower soon and bring some bees to the east side!
A few pics to show how well the East Side strip is progressing!
Gonna hunt me some Fraggles!
(If you were born later than 1985, feel free to Google ‘Fraggle’ lol)
I dont love radishes but they are fun to grow.
My fave little Lebanese housewife tells me that they are great pickled. Im gonna give that a shot if I get a decent crop
Bought some snail traps from diggers
http:// http://www.diggers.com.au/shop/product/HSNT/SNAIL%20TRAP.aspx
No snails caught in traps…. but no snail damage on plants.
Does that mean that they work?
Count them.. 1,2,3,4,31 😉
Yep…. over thirty cuttings from the plant in front of doctors office.
Once again, I only took cuttings to prevent storm damage hahaha
Grow!
I knocked before I trimmed!
This is the deepest red Chinese lantern that ive ever seen.
It was planted in the front garden of a doctor’s office on Moreland Rd.
Unfortunately, we have had massive storms in Melbourne over the last few days, and more are predicted tonight.
I thought it was prudent to trim this abutilon before the storm hit.
Ive planted over 30 soft wood cuttings from the trim.
Surely one will grow!
I find it so weird that neither Mum or I can keep a red one alive. We both grow other colors with ease!
Probably the best most useful garden tool i have purchased!
I do a lot of propagation and this device is perfect for gentle watering
Got this awesome ‘Native Bee House’ from Diggers -going to install it near the vegetable patch 🙂
It was about $25 dollars
On account of the Melbourne heat waves last month my abutilon cuttings are no more 😦
Guess it will take a bit longer to build my 5 colour twisted standard lol
Brunswick Gardener 