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missbettie
May 26th, 2009, 07:51 PM
i have a ton of tomatos and peppers on my plants!!! i've never felt more complished!!!
cobweb
May 26th, 2009, 10:55 PM
well done, missb!
Ms_Derious
May 27th, 2009, 08:48 AM
i have a ton of tomatos and peppers on my plants!!! i've never felt more complished!!!
Yay! All round to yours for salsa then? ;)
So far.... I have a loooooooot of Kale seedings, and that's about it. Everything else is just popping up, but not edible yet. I swear, the best thing about growing your own veg is eating the thinnings!
Kitteh
May 27th, 2009, 09:11 AM
do you have any books with 'troubleshooter' or 'pests & problems' in kitteh?
i wouldn't spray with the chemical that's for sure. sometimes a washing up liquid & water mix sprayed on can get rid of bugs, aphids etc - but then there's the whole, killing the bugs, argument.
i would investigate it first, then make a decision based on that.
I don't have any books but I will check out my local library and see what they have, in the meantime I bought some thyme and nasturtium seeds and planted those around the veggies. I also got some strawberry & calendula seedlings and a chilli plant at my local markets :)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3359/3564670702_ccc05a403a.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2455/3563853517_07da990b9c.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2123/3564670522_623b50a68c.jpg?v=0
cedarblue
May 27th, 2009, 08:39 PM
very cute!
calendula's are good companion plants - they discourage some bugs - and you can use their petals in lovely salads too!
Kitteh
Jun 3rd, 2009, 08:53 AM
very cute!
calendula's are good companion plants - they discourage some bugs - and you can use their petals in lovely salads too!
I hope they start discouraging NOW as the mite infestation is getting worse :( And yest'day I noticed a cute lil snail and a green caterpillar on the broccoli.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3397/3590560981_e4603cc334.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3405/3591365932_1ff8fdc350.jpg?v=0
Here's the snail and the c-pillar on a munched on leaf! You can also see how yellow and sick the broccoli looks
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3644/3590559107_8b7d9257de.jpg?v=0
And in happier news, my snow peas have pods on them and my thyme seeds have sprouted! :D
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3622/3590554431_8f7f1511d8.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3372/3591361876_a7f44d7c8b.jpg?v=0
thanks to the bokashi bucket, and the juice you get from it work wonders for the plants.
and kitteh your mini balcony garden is very cute.
Thanks, Sarah! And I have wanted a bokashi bin for ages but I wondered if it would be too much for my small garden.
XxsarahxX
Jun 3rd, 2009, 12:22 PM
i think you can get small ones or if you no someone with a bigger garden you could ask them if they would like some compost to make it awesome haha
Kitteh
Jun 9th, 2009, 02:44 AM
Good idea, I was thinking of offering some to my parents or sneaking it into the gardens at the front of our apartment block!
Fireweed
Jun 9th, 2009, 06:45 AM
Hi, Gardeners! I've just recently started my greenhouse (I live in the Sub-Arctic of Canada and if you blink you might miss our gardening season). I've got quite a few lovelies growing in there: cucumbers, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, lettuces, and tons of herbs. But we had to hold off putting in a garden this year because we have some, ahem, issues with a community of squirrels and gophers who love to eat anything we eat. We're going to lay fencing down under the dirt (about 12" down) and then up the sides of the garden, possibly over the top, too. It's going to take us longer than we expected so the garden will have to wait until next year. Everything here has to be fortified if we want to keep any goodies for ourselves. Hee. In fact, as I write my husband is cutting wire fencing to put around our new currant and gooseberry bushes so the critters don't get at them until they have some time to grow (the bushes that is and not the critters---they're big enough already with all the food they've been stealing from the greenhouse!....Yes, we've now fortified the greenhouse, too.)
Anyone a member of the Veganic Network?
whalespace
Jun 10th, 2009, 05:33 PM
My nest for sitting quietly at the allotment... made from a smoother variety of sunchokes from VeganBikerBoy's garden : http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/BILD0243.jpg
Ninety five organic cos lettuce, now beaked to skeletons by the local pigeons, bless them :
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/BILD0258.jpg
not sure if the seeds were sprayed actually. Not that bothered... possiibly because I haven't read the details.
Purpley beets :
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/263.jpg
Strawberries [ these pictures were taken the weekend before last...] :
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/BILD0245.jpg
My mouldy gooseberries :
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/BILD0255.jpg?t=1244651169
I was verry disappointed when I noticed this mould because I had weeded around my bush, and pruned out some crossing branches. The crop was looking bounteous.... then:eek: furry frustration!
On closer inspection, the mould rubs off like furry paper glue ..the skin remaining non penetrated. I have been picking them while still hard, and using them in stew [ the mould is not on the poisonous list]. I used some green windfall strawberries in my stew today as well. The strawberries get sweet before they turn red.
Fireweed
Jun 10th, 2009, 05:41 PM
whalespace...I love your nest. I want a nest! I want a nest! Your garden is a happy one. Thanks for sharing pictures.
whalespace
Jun 10th, 2009, 05:50 PM
Thanks Fireweed:)!
The nest is about eight feet wide, last couple of years I buried a three feet long log, upright to sit on, but one could lie down in dry weather. The sunchokes usually grow ten feet tall easily. One could weave around the outside with some string to strengthen things, but the stems are fairly robust as they are. I'll post another picture, when it is tall enough. I screen the 'doorway' with some other bushes, this year the door screen is a row of the knobly variety of sunchokes which I failed to dig out last year.
These were not comfrey, but the bees like them :
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/BILD0249-1.jpg?t=1244653381
Fireweed
Jun 10th, 2009, 06:03 PM
Beautiful! I can't wait to see more pictures later in the season, whale! ;)
I think I'm in love with everyone here (yes, I've been lacking vegan community), especially when I see pictures of people planting "nests" and read things like this:
At first I thought it was local birds pulling them up, until came home yesterday to see the neighbours kitty nomming on *my* growing food. I took the most serious action I could... I feel a bit bad about it now... I went over, picked the cat up, gave it a huge hug then put it on the top of my garden storage box, right in the one glimmer of sunshine.
He won't be doing that again ;)
How can it not be love? It's gotta be! It's just gotta be!
Kitteh
Jun 12th, 2009, 11:55 AM
Whalespace, I can't wait to see all the strawberries you get! I love your garden :)
toffo
Jun 12th, 2009, 12:35 PM
Thanks Fireweed:)!
The nest is about eight feet wide, last couple of years I buried a three feet long log, upright to sit on, but one could lie down in dry weather. The sunchokes usually grow ten feet tall easily. One could weave around the outside with some string to strengthen things, but the stems are fairly robust as they are. I'll post another picture, when it is tall enough. I screen the 'doorway' with some other bushes, this year the door screen is a row of the knobly variety of sunchokes which I failed to dig out last year.
These were not comfrey, but the bees like them :
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/BILD0249-1.jpg?t=1244653381
Hey, Whalespace how you doing?
Those flowers are foxgloves, dont eat them or make a stew out of them cause you will not feel well if you do!
whalespace
Jun 12th, 2009, 06:15 PM
More cardiac arrest than heartburn eh?
:eek:
I thought I had the comfrey... the leaves look so alike , and though the flowers are pretty, I would avoid having poisons knocking about in such a public place.
Very well thanks Toffo... despite getting banned from Dissident:D.
Lord Perennialist
Jun 12th, 2009, 06:34 PM
I am growing my own veggies, but unfortunately they haven't grown enough yet for me to take pictures of them. But here's a picture from last year. This was a bumblebee that absolutely loved my butterfly weed out front! (don't get any butterflies, but plenty of bumblebees). He visited that patch a lot, so I got to know him. Even gave him a name, Frederick. Unfortunately, like all bumblebees, he only lived for a year, so he has passed away :(. But his home is still here, in our front lawn. We always make sure to mow around it.
http://i713.photobucket.com/albums/ww132/rotoshave/n98700954_30179291_1299.jpg?t=1244828368
Bumblebees are just so awesome! If they were any bigger I'd give them a big hug!
whalespace
Jun 15th, 2009, 07:02 AM
fancy greens:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/BILD0291.jpg?t=1245044707
Lettuce, carrot, spinach, beetroot, and weeds standing in for the dill:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/BILD0309.jpg?t=1245045034
Nasturtiums in the butterfly bed; these will shade out heaps of weeds, and provide colourful edible flowers:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/BILD0312.jpg?t=1245045227
I planted six square metres of wheat last September... resulting in about six ears of wheat. I suggest you soak them in the kitchen to make sure they are viable before you plant them. I now have some idea of how a farmer feels when he only had monsanto beans:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/BILD0299.jpg?t=1245045346
Most of the biggest strawberries were involved in an avian jam session:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/BILD0296.jpg?t=1245045603
Kitteh
Jun 15th, 2009, 08:35 AM
You have such a big garden, WSpace :) I love the strawbs!
And Lord Perennialist, gorgeous photo of the bee!
My first roly poly carrot and 2 snow peas
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3631/3622055494_2c9dc288ce.jpg?v=0
whalespace
Jun 15th, 2009, 05:41 PM
Those are purdy cute vegetables Kitteh:heart:!
The allottment costs twenty eight pounds fifty per year. It is approximately six metres wide by twenty metres long, some are twice as big for the same price.
whalespace
Jun 17th, 2009, 09:38 AM
In my pillowcase this morning : elderflower, chardy types, lactuca, strawberries, marjoram, sage, and feverfew flowers .
Not a very sunny picture, so I'm baking this morning :).
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r274/whalespace/BILD0318.jpg?t=1245227493
Someone broke into my nest, I didn't notice anything missing, but they made the door in the wrong place.:faint_smilie:
emmadilemma
Jun 17th, 2009, 10:26 AM
Hey fireweed.......du ever get big scary animals like bears an stuff eatin ur veggies?? We dont have too many gophers over here in ireland but a badger ate all me beetroots grrrr :(
Fireweed
Jun 17th, 2009, 04:42 PM
Whalespace, love the pictures! And Lord P., what a beautiful photo of Frederick!
Emma D., we had a moose near our garden a couple weeks back but I scared him off when I opened the door. (Moose may not look all that scary but they are on of the most aggressive animals). There are bears around but they haven't come really close to our house...yet. Our dogs usually keep them far enough away by barking if they come onto the property, even though the dogs can't chase after them (they aren't roaming free when they are outside by themselves). But my garden is on the other side of the dog fences--so I know there is going to come a day when I find a bear in my garden! Hopefully, I won't be in it at the same time!
cedarblue
Jun 18th, 2009, 04:52 PM
those photos are wonderful, whalespace!
we are harvesting red & green salad bowl lettuce, ruby chard, cavelo nero, potatoes, herbs, baby carrots, pea shoots & spinach. trying hard not to eat all the underdeveloped pea pods as mange tout and let them grow up to be sweet peas to munch on.
i've got some photos, i must upload them! we are very pleased that our garden plot looks just like the pictures in some books.
cobweb
Jun 18th, 2009, 06:08 PM
that's sounds great, Cedar :).
It's rare to see a thriving garden round here, particularly a veg garden. You really need a walled in plot for shelter :undecided:.
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