Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?

[Kimmyh]

Lovely Robyn.

[Nikkit]

When I get those millipedes in the house, I sprinkle tomato dust at the doors. They don't like it and won't come into the house. They do however crawl up the walls outside if the lights are left on, and turn cream to black overnight. I just leave them as the smell if I try to get them off or sweep them up.

I Don't worry about them in the garden.

[cookie1]

The smell is horrible. Ghastly little, black squirmy monsters.
                         

[Itsnotartitsdinner]

I read some where that talcum powder also works. I hope they go away. But think they are attracted to the compost.

[astarra]

Millipedes do stink. 
And not only that - they make your hands stink too. Ugh!

Garden - picking zucchinis and tomatoes daily, lemons and spring onions as needed. Apples nearly ready to start picking, yay! A few cucumbers which will be ready to pick by the end of the week. Have no idea when to harvest the sweet potato - anyone grown it?

[Halex]

My veg patch is now dry crispy leaves. Most of my herbs are OK but the veg I have given up on.

[Nikkit]

Mine too Halex. This weather we've been having and us not having a lot of water (we have tanks, so catch ours) our vege patch is crispy too. Another day of 41 yesterday didn't help 

[Halex]

We are on tap, but theres really no point as the leaves are just crisp.

[cookie1]

Our tomatoes gave up. I noticed today that the parsley has been burnt. The other herbs are going well.

[Lucyluu]

 Astarra,  sweet potatoes are ready when the leaves start to turn yellow.
 If anyone is still having trouble with snails and slugs you can make a vegemite trap. Much like a beer trap only you use vegemite mixed with water place in an old jar and bury it so the top is level with the dirt. No need to waste good beer .Just empty it everyday. I dig a hole in an unused part of the garden an tip it in there.

[astarra]

Thanks,  Lucy. 

[shiverama]

Finding lots of awesome curly Zucchinis not sure what they are actually called but sowed from Diggers seeds last year and seed saved for this year. Cherry Tomatoes doing really well, but our corn got decimated by the cockatoos. figs are almost ready to harvested so fig jam coming up. Apples just about ready to be harvested. Jerusalem Artichokes (fartichokes) are plentiful, just not quite sure what to do with them- any suggestions.......as the 16th century gardener put it "Which way soever they be dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a filthy loathsome stinking wind within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented, and are a meat more fit for swine than men"

[achookwoman]

Artichokes,  best used as a wind break in veggie garden.    Causes wind everywhere else.  LOL

[djinni373]

Astarra,  sweet potatoes are ready when the leaves start to turn yellow.
 If anyone is still having trouble with snails and slugs you can make a vegemite trap. Much like a beer trap only you use vegemite mixed with water place in an old jar and bury it so the top is level with the dirt. No need to waste good beer .

Great tip Lucyluu. Thanks

Artichokes,  best used as a wind break in veggie garden.    Causes wind everywhere else.  LOL

ROFL

[achookwoman]

This is the cleaned up veggie garden.  The Woofers worked with me to get it ready for planting.  I have starters to plant up.  Went to a talk about wicking on Saturday.  The next raised bed will be a wicking one.