Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?

[astarra]

Yum ... berries!  Your berry garden sounds great, keiramax! 

[Halex]

Yesterday we planted fennel, spring onions,, zuchini, capsicum, chilli, dutch carrots, corriander.

My corriander always dies, this time I have planted in the shade, see how it goes.

 

[courton]

Would love to know from the experts here if there is a way to grow coriander without it going straggly and dying?

[Halex]

So would I. See how it goes in the shade

[obbie]

We grow our herbs on the deck near the kitchen.

vege garden got replanted yesterday, yeah.
DH just went to get sprinkler hose for veges now, and more sprinklers for my lemon tree.

Just picked another big bunch of bananas from our trees.

[Cornish Cream]

We grow our herbs on the deck near the kitchen.

vege garden got replanted yesterday, yeah.
DH just went to get sprinkler hose for veges now, and more sprinklers for my lemon tree.

Just picked another big bunch of bananas from our trees.

It sounds as though you live in paradise Obbie...picking bananas..... I'm green with envy!!!

[Jude59]

We grow our herbs on the deck near the kitchen.

vege garden got replanted yesterday, yeah.
DH just went to get sprinkler hose for veges now, and more sprinklers for my lemon tree.

Just picked another big bunch of bananas from our trees.

It sounds as though you live in paradise Obbie...picking bananas..... I'm green with envy!!!

I was thinking exactly the same!

[obbie]

Yeah its Paradise to me.
No noise, pollution, not many neighbors, no street lights, amazing views across the paddock, and lake.

We got given small banana  sucklers and planted them.

[Jude59]

We went to Tonga once (DH had work to do there) and our accommodation had a lovely little yard area with its on banana and pawpaw tree. In the mornings when we sat out there for breakfast some staff would come and pick the fruit for us right there..... Was wonderful. Should go back again. Beautiful place.

[obbie]

How  are all the vege gardens going..

[Aussie Brenda]

Got home from a month's holiday to find the veggie garden covered in chick weed and looks like the rabbits were having a nice time eating the broccoli, will get it sorted to start planting my spring veggies. The citrus trees have a bumper crop, Will have to put some grapefruit out the front for the neighbours.

[obbie]

Its always feast or famon here with veges and fruit, too much or not enough.

[keiramax]

Obbie would love to be able to grow bananas. 

Well DD was lucky enough to win the father's day raffle at playgroup and got a new spade and a blueberry plant.  Will have to plant it with the rest we planted last week.  She didn't quiet understand what was happening but was very exciting to give it to DH last night, couldn't wait until Sunday.

Last week planted seeds in punnets and I'm using our new heater punnet tray thingy.  Have to report, some seeds germinated in 3 days.  Even the tomatoes are germinating quickly, last year I think I waited about 3-4 weeks before they came up.  So will be planting out soon (fingers crossed), I always get fooled in the Melbourne weather I think the worst of the frost is over, plant out and then bam a big frost. 

I hope to pot up the tomatoes and keep them under cover until about the middle of Oct.  They should be a good size by then.

[obbie]

I am so keen for my seeds to come up, hopefully in a couple of weeks.

[Jude59]

I have been watching my seeds come up over the past four weeks or so too. Mostly inside at the moment.  Just transferred my tomatoes to bigger pots and am going to keep them in sheltered spots for as long as possible. Capsicums and chillis look like repotting soon too. Yesterday popped some seeds for zuchinni and pumpkin and salad plants into old egg cartons. I have read that you can just pop them straight into the ground when they are ready and the carton just breaks down naturally. Have a stack of egg cartons so hoping that works. Off th Diggers at Dromana Saturday for lunch and inspiration. Love that place.