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mummy_becks 
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Posted: 13 February 2010 at 10:11pm |
Are you out there???
As one of my positives of moving back to Palmy is getting my garden back!!! So I have just spent the past hour looking at garden websites to see what I can plant when I get down there and get the garden sorted as I am sure it hasn't been taken care of since we left (almost 2 years ago now).
So I have worked out I can plant the following:
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cauliflower
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carrots
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brocolli
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cabbage
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beetroot
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lettuce
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radish
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spinish
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garlic
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onion
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silverbeet
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brussel sprouts
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snow peas
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broad beans
has anyone else got any other idea of what else I can grow and also any hits on growing them over winter.
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MummyFreckle
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Posted: 13 February 2010 at 10:43pm |
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My only advise about planting brassicas (broc, cauli, cabbages, brussel sprouts) is that they need a lot of room. They grow quite large and like to be able to spread out.
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Posted: 14 February 2010 at 7:57am |
Garlic usually gets planted around the shortest day of the year
You can plant celery as well and spinach 
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Posted: 14 February 2010 at 2:18pm |
Find a cheap garden centre that sells the plants in 6 packs and plant away. Beware of the white butterfly on your brasica's- mine have been devoured! I just plant anything and see if it grows, if it doesnt I just don't plant it again. Make sure you have good soil with lots of compost and fertilise everything regularly.
You can also grow pumpkin and zuchinni and tomoatos- but best to wait till next season. Also any sort of climbing beans. A really good magazine is the NZ Gardener- it has lots of great tips and ideas. Good luck
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Posted: 14 February 2010 at 5:52pm |
Gosh that's quite a list of veges! My only advice is don't plant too much of each thing at a time. It will take up too much space and you'll have have miles of veges becoming mature all at the same time. eg successive sowings.
All the best!
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mummy_becks
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Posted: 14 February 2010 at 6:30pm |
Cheers all, I have a huge area for my vege garden (some on here have seen it, and it will be bigger when we get down there) so I am not too worried about space. Going to successive sow - always have done.
I am really looking forward to September when I can plant everything, the only thing I have not been able to grow is watermelon and brussel sprouts but I know why the sprouts haven't grown as I planted them at the wrong time of theyear. So bring on September when I will be planting up a storm in my garden.
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Posted: 14 February 2010 at 8:24pm |
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I just lost a huge crop of brussel sprouts - the bugs got them,they were full of earwigs but they grew huge anyway so wasnt too worried!
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