VEGE PATCH. What's growing in yours?

[silver]

My supposidly dwarf cavendish bananas are still alive

and the bowen mangoes are coming off today

cause that's a half eaten one up there

and another one down there
(Thanks a lot BATMAN.... :fire: oop: )

lets finish with a few orchids flowering :flowers:

well that's the best bits of it all

 

[Mackka]

Thats excellent Silver a great assortment of beautiful fresh produce. You have been busy.
I only have a tiny above ground garden with cucumbers which has done very well. At this point from two seedlings I have harvested over 30 and they are great to eat straight off the vines.
I look forward to your next show.
Mackka :clap: :clap: :clap:

 

[isolation]

Just an update on the Rhuem noble, the hot weather has forced a little new growth through so looking promising, also after a lot of searching finally found a north american pawpaw tree in Australia that happened to be within driving distance, it is not actually a paw paw at all. It is the only true temperate/cold climate member of the custard apple family, the latin name is asimina triloba. I think its the most tropical looking thing that can handle snow.https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10082/1544179810_20181207_210614.jpg Rhuem noble seedlings https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10082/1544179858_20181207_210703.jpg my new North American Pawpaw that has me overly excited https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10082/1544179941_images-2.jpg stock photo of mature one in the snow https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10082/1544180184_images-4.jpg stock photo of what the fruit it produces looks like.

Gonna have to get me a few of them
Thanks for posting them up :Y:

 

[silver]

Took off the mangoes

picked the pumpkin

cut the banana bunch

not even one single spud lol
live n learn hey !

got some red onions

most are small.... so I'll dry em and replant them in spring when they shoot

this will work well.for them

Bats will be screaming and fighting all night at our place lol

 

[silver]

Thats excellent Silver a great assortment of beautiful fresh produce. You have been busy.
I only have a tiny above ground garden with cucumbers which has done very well. At this point from two seedlings I have harvested over 30 and they are great to eat straight off the vines.
I look forward to your next show.
Mackka :clap: :clap: :clap:

I've never grown a cucumber Mackka.... I think I need some more growing spots to let things ramble over the mulch under the tree's..... seems to help with the micro climate as well then rather than just thick mulch by itself. Probably allows the micro wildlife to eat up higher into the mulch from the bottom too. Where that pumpkin vine rambled seemed to have mulch dissapear faster than other areas.

 

[Goldfreak]

Can you get a destruction permit for bats ? The cherry and apple growers around here ( adelaide hills ) worry about their future as a small colony that lived in the city botanical garden that they decided to " monitor " have multiplied rapidly and have now been spotted in the fruit growing areas of the hills.

 

[Rockhunter62]

Can you get a destruction permit for bats ? The cherry and apple growers around here ( adelaide hills ) worry about their future as a small colony that lived in the city botanical garden that they decided to " monitor " have multiplied rapidly and have now been spotted in the fruit growing areas of the hills.

I'm thinking that you would have to talk to your local council as bats are protected in Australia. They may allow you to use non threatening means to move them on somewhere else. Bats have been a big concern for many areas in the past, Mataranka NT, Charters Towers & North Eton in Queensland to name a couple.

Best of luck but I think that the bats and the greens will win. :N:

Cheers

Doug

 

[roy cobb]

Th e only thing we have now is dry dust as we are on tank water with little rain and now all thus hot weather the veggies we had left have not made it :awful:

 

[silver]

Sorry for your water loss Roy !
As for the bats.... it's a matter of being one step ahead and cutting off the banana flowers once the bunch is set.
apparently you can spray fish emulsion.... then the bats just fly on past.
Ain't no one eating that stuff hey.

 

[Goldfreak]

Sorry for your water loss Roy !
As for the bats.... it's a matter of being one step ahead and cutting off the banana flowers once the bunch is set.
apparently you can spray fish emulsion.... then the bats just fly on past.
Ain't no one eating that stuff hey.

Hope the fish emulsion will work on a large scale Silver. Farmers wanted them shot when there were only about 20 bats living there, most city folk wanted them protected. I thought a good compromise would have been to fly them up to Cairns first class with a slice of mango. Would have been alot cheaper in the long run, and besides "bats on a plane" could have given that snake movie a run for its money layful:

 

[Solid Luck]

Lots of cucumbers coming in now.

 

[Solid Luck]

Chillies will be a while.

 

[Solid Luck]

My most favourites. The tomatoes. Still waiting for them to ripen up.

 

[Solid Luck]

Beans in the background.

 

[Goldfreak]

Do you have a bar in your garden ? Beer garden layful: healthy looking beans :Y:

 

[Lesgold]

Hi Folks.

Just thought Id show you my worm farms. They are quite full at the moment so there will be a need to empty the castings out in a couple of weeks. Should be able to get about a trailer load of the good stuff for the veggie patch. The elevated bath tubs do a great job.

The worm leachate is caught in buckets and is used to fertilize both native plants and veggies. Have set up a system where the leachate is mixed with water to provide a weak tonic that most plants love. Just gave the worms a feed of coffee grounds this morning. They were getting headaches from caffeine withdrawal. Lol

Worms are harvested every three to four months and are sold to a worm farmer. Will post a few pics of the veggie garden in a few days time.

Cheers

Les

 

[Solid Luck]

Do you have a bar in your garden ? Beer garden layful: healthy looking beans :Y:

Slipped up with the pics. It is a nice bar though.

 

[Solid Luck]

Starting to get lots of produce now.

 

[silver]

Lookin like a Farmers Market Hard Luck !
:Y: :Y:

 

[Jaros]

Look at all that real FLAVOUR.... erfect: