Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?

[achookwoman]

Looking good Astarra. What are they?
I couldn't resist buying a tomato plant, knew I shouldn't. Poor thing looks sick even though I have it inside.

[judydawn]

Lots of planting out to do soon astarra.

[cookie1]

They look great Astarra. Our garden stays pretty much the same. I bought a Margarite(?) Daisy at Aldi on Wednesday and planted it by the roses. It has copped wind galore so I hope it survives.

[K Atie]

We have two raised vegetable garden beds , which I weeded the other weekend . So today we shovelled sheep manure from under the shed , bagged it up and ready to go in the vegetable bed . Really would love to make a huge vegetable garden . 

[cookie1]

I remember getting manure from under the shearing shed K Atie. We used to use a small shovel, crawl under and fill a bag, then drag it out.

[Cuilidh]

I would love to get my hands on some good, clean, sheep or horse manure, but these days you just can't be sure when the animals were last wormed or, worse, given antibiotics "as a matter of course" the effects of both would ruin the garden.

Speaking of which, Chookie, do you know if the mushroom compost people are likely to be at Woodend market this weekend?

[achookwoman]

Marina, don't know about the mushroom girls and Woodend. They no longer go to the Creswick market.  I can send you their phone number if you are interested.
Can't wait for the Asparagus to pop it heads through.
 Sheep manure is just great for the veggies. The horse manure I only put on the flowers as I'm not sure if the horses have been medicated. Mostly I use chook litter mixed with compost and worm juice on the seedlings.

[K Atie]

It is hard work but large shovel and DS under shed with a cut down large flat plastic tray helps , recycled seed bags ! Too windy yesterday to do much outside .

[astarra]

Looking good Astarra. What are they?.

There are:
beans (3 color mix + stringless pioneer)
zucchini (blackjack and a striped variety which I can't remember the name of)
cucumber (sweet and striped)
snow peas
oregano + chives
lettuce
pansy, marigold and nasturtiums
tomatoes (salad mix, valentino, tigerella, cheery ripe)
capsicum (7 color mix and mini sweet mix)
jalapenos
watermelon (sugarbaby)
pumpkin (Kent [which apparently don't grow in Tas so we'll see]and buttercup)
and lady in the snow apple seeds .... which have yet to come up

My goodness your seeds germinated quickly Astarra.

I'll say they did - by day 5 they were already up I couldn't believe it!!!

[achookwoman]

Thanks Astarra. Very good mix there.

[Cuilidh]

Marina, don't know about the mushroom girls and Woodend. They no longer go to the Creswick market.  I can send you their phone number if you are interested.

Thanks, Chookie, but I think I'll let it go for now.  It's not that important really, as I probably wouldn't have time to do anything about it anyway ... it was just a thought!

[obbie]

plenty of horse manure here.

[Cuilidh]

Topped up my raised bed with mushroom compost, sheep manure, bio char and lucerne.  Will try to plant something out in a week or so and hope that I don' t kill it.  I found one self sown lettuce seedling which I have rescued and re-planted.

[achookwoman]

Marina that sounds like a good mix. Don’t you just love those self sown seedlings.
We apparently get quite a lot of late frosts in Ballarat so looks like the end of November for the tomatoes.
Our lovely gardener is coming once a week at the moment. She is doing the heavy weeding. She says she loves it, amazing.

[mab19]

There has been an odd seedling growing in the potting mix in with my potatoes, so yesterday I put in it's own pot to see what grows.  I hope it isn't a cucumber, I don't like them and they don't like me.