Our veggie garden

[SMOKEU]

Ive got friends who grew some... you have to blend it with other strains to get something smokable.
Theirs was obviously VILE!
I watched as they attepted to inhale it as their faces turned purple and the viens on their forheads bulged and they erupted in phlem and snot spraying fits of coughing


Hillarious!

Add some weeds to it and it tastes way better.

I've found that it takes a few months to cure it properly, and it has to be cut up very finely otherwise it won't burn properly.

[puddytat]

Anyone got a fave tasty winter veggie they'd suggest?

Russian Red Kale,frost hardy & beautiful steamed & lovely & sweet raw in salads...
Miners lettuce....plant anywhere & forget,it'll self seed & come back every year & in late winter early spring youll have beautiful fleshy leaved salad material WAY before anything else
Carrots...'cause they keep best in the ground & only get woody in Spring.But you have to plant ahead for that to happen....Same with Beetroot. Both best grated RAW
Staggering your planting will spread the yield & some stuff will take several months because thereof.

[mashman]

Staggering your planting will spread the yield & some stuff will take several months because thereof.

Aye, that's the next step. Getting the garden setup to handle the volume of veggies, and potentially fruit trees/bushes, that I'm gonna need... then staggering for variety (albeit the potatoes will be a constant feature I hope) etc... I've only got a 7.1 X 1.2 planter at the moment, but have about 30 metres of fence line that's begging to be used . Tis gonna take time though .

[MisterD]

Waiting for the white moths to stop destroying the Broccoli everytime it gets leaves, but they're still growing.

Plant marigolds around them, the smell seems to keep a lot of insects away.

[mashman]

Plant marigolds around them, the smell seems to keep a lot of insects away.

I saw some dear old lady (on close-up i think), maintaining a convent plot, and she was explaining what to plant where and why to keep A away from B... can't for the life of me find it and am thinking about joining a convent to find out

[Ratti]

http://www.kings.co.nz/Growing+Guide...ing+Chart.html


god helps those who help themselves....but in this case, I will help you!

[Brian d marge]

Just watched a video on Square foot gardening, Makes a lot of sense

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_foot_gardening

Stephen

Now how to Maximize the vertical space

Stephen

[Ratti]

I use a variation on this method, but call mine '9 square'..cos I was a quilter in another life...

a 3x3 square of car tyres is very similar. each tyre is a unit and the centre is divided into 4 units. Works very well and makes for an interesting garden. even more so as I let one of eveything go to seed in eech box and just thin out what we dont need. masses of lettuce seeds make a great living mulch that you can eat as leaflings..or whatever it is you call small lettuce plants. Only get the odd weed around the edges really and its not a problem to whip the buggers out and feed them to the piggles or the chooks

[mashman]

My Tomatoes have blight according to t'internet. Which isn't a completely bad thing as they're just starting to ripen en masse. Not sure what's causing it as there seem to be multiple possible reasons. But I am trying a little experiment, and it certainly isn't getting worse at the moment.

I brought one of the smaller tomato plants inside about 2 weeks ago and have "planted" it in a plastic container filled with water and mixed with a bunnings general mixture hydroponic nutrient mix. It seems to have stemmed the blight. I'm yet to add a water pump, and potentially artificial light.

Do you reckon I should cut out the blighty bits?

[Ratti]

Depends...are intending to smoke the blighty bits of your tomatos?

How many leaves on each plant are affected. it may not be blight, its the time of the year when toms die off anyway. with the cold and shorter daylight hours, they are going to yellow and get splotchy looking.

[mashman]

Depends...are intending to smoke the blighty bits of your tomatos?

How many leaves on each plant are affected. it may not be blight, its the time of the year when toms die off anyway. with the cold and shorter daylight hours, they are going to yellow and get splotchy looking.

I high ly doubt it . No. It's a tomato plant.

Nearly all of the leaves have some form of blight (mainly on the edges), but it is lightening and dying at the moment. They're baby Tomatoes. But they are just starting to take colour (planeted late), although think it's time for them to come off and ripen in a bowl. Tis getting orrid out there. But that does seem to mean that the white moths have fooked off and my broccoli are starting to come back. Gotta get the potatoes in... and anything else I can think of at the time.