Vege Gardens

Who has one??

What have you planted??

Are you doing anything special to it ie feeding it with liquid plant food??

We have dug it over and need to rotary hoe before we can plant but we have a wee dilema with rabbits ... we have seen the odd one jump across our front lawn lol! My dad informs me they hate vineger you dip cotton buds in vineger and place them around the edge of the garden , hmmm not sure!

We have twp free range rabbits so we just put a fence around it, I don't think the vineger thing will work nictoddie because our rabbits like salt and vineger chips!

We have decided to try to grow everything from seeds this year so DH has made a mini glass house. In the garden so far we have celery, cabbage, raddishes(for colsaw) silverbeet(for the rabbits) and beans. But in our glasshouse we have lettace, cherry tomatoes, money maker tomatoes and I also going to grow a watermelon for the girls to watch and some sunflowers for them too. I've got stawberries in pots and mushrooms growing in a bucket by the water cyclinder.

I think I have lots in mine.

From seed we have: Carrots, Peas, Beans, Spring Onions, Sweet Corn, Leeks, Beetroot, Radishes, Green Zuccini, Capsicum, Brocolli, Cabbage, Lettuce, Cauli, Potatoes.

Plants I have brought: Tomatoes (the normal big ones), Yellow Zuccini, Silverbeet, Chilli, Strawberries from years ago.

I still want to plant: Spinich, Herbs, Cherry Tomatoes. But i'm running out of room and waiting on DH to dig a new garden for me.

That's impressive! We need to chop part of a tree out of our garden so that our vege garden isn't soo shaded. The tree covers 1/3 of the vege garden so that part is basically unusable cause nothing wants to grow there

Well I badgered Hubby to do one this year as I really hate buying supermarket crap.
So far we have in the ground:
Peas
Broccoli
Cabbage
Lettuce
Carrots
Beans
We have seeds in trays waiting to germinate:
Cucumber
Leeks
And I have a tray of beefsteak tomatoes and some basil that are flourishing at my kitchen window and waiting till Labour weekend before they go in the ground.
Hubby is also talking about doing a potato mound and I think I might go get some parsley if we have room.
For some good things to use to fertilize your vege garden, my friend gave me a good recipe:
Seaweed. Put some in a bucket and fill to the top with no sea water. You can scoop the water out when it gets all manky and icky brown and use that. You can also use the weed as well to make the ground more fertile.

speaking of gardens, palmy ladies we have a ton of grapefruit should anyone want some. lots of lemons too. I'm making marmelade for the boys to give as gifts fro xmas

to grapefruit - and we've got plenty of lemons. Its cause of our neighbours grapefruit we've got tangelos instead of mandarins.

Best get digging. Doesn't help when we look over the back fence at our neighbours perfectly terraced and landscaped back garden. Sometimes I feel like we're in the worst house in the best street.

Wow there are some great veges going to be grown around the country!!
Fleury when starting the caps off you can put them in a really light potting mix & keep them moist and warm then you should be right, I have found them really easy to start them but it still gets cool down here then when we get fruit 'little fingers' think they are really pretty so thats the end of that!
We have in out garden at the moment silverbeet, sugar snp peas, peas, onions, potatoes, cauli, broccoli, rhubarb, raspberries, leaks, lettuce, mint, basil, parsley, pear tree, couple of peach trees, blackboy peach, apricot (havn't seen much blossom this year) grapefruit, bought a new apple tree, fejoa, berry canes, blue berry plant. Yet to put in garden beetroot corn, going to try watermelon, pumpkin, zucchini, cucumber, tomato, parsnip, garlic & whatever other seeds I come across, I love having fresh stuff from the garden!!

ETA: DH went & got horse poop for the garden a few months back & we grow our pumpkins & zucchini in the compost heap, also have a sack of (fresh ) cow patties hanging in a large container of rain water, also threw some lime & blood n bone over the garden before digging in poop

Edited by kezplanet

We don't normally feed with anything extra but have fed/prepared the ground before with blood & bone & compost.
Dont panic too much half the fun of it all is doing things your way & learning together.
We havn't grown either melons before but I want to try water melon this year ..... not sure how it will go as we are just out of Christchurh (not exactly tropical) but I thought if I put it with other plants in the garden if would be a bit protected from any cold