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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.
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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/...9257de.jpg?v=0
And in happier news, my snow peas have pods on them and my thyme seeds have sprouted! :D
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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.
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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
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Good idea, I was thinking of offering some to my parents or sneaking it into the gardens at the front of our apartment block!
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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?
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My nest for sitting quietly at the allotment... made from a smoother variety of sunchokes from VeganBikerBoy's garden : http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...e/BILD0243.jpg
Ninety five organic cos lettuce, now beaked to skeletons by the local pigeons, bless them :
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...e/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/r...espace/263.jpg
Strawberries [ these pictures were taken the weekend before last...] :
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...e/BILD0245.jpg
My mouldy gooseberries :
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...g?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.
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whalespace...I love your nest. I want a nest! I want a nest! Your garden is a happy one. Thanks for sharing pictures.
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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/r...g?t=1244653381
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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:
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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!
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Whalespace, I can't wait to see all the strawberries you get! I love your garden :)
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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/r...g?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!
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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.
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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/w...g?t=1244828368
Bumblebees are just so awesome! If they were any bigger I'd give them a big hug!
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fancy greens:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...g?t=1245044707
Lettuce, carrot, spinach, beetroot, and weeds standing in for the dill:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...g?t=1245045034
Nasturtiums in the butterfly bed; these will shade out heaps of weeds, and provide colourful edible flowers:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...g?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/r...g?t=1245045346
Most of the biggest strawberries were involved in an avian jam session:
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r...g?t=1245045603
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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/...c288ce.jpg?v=0
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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.
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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/r...g?t=1245227493
Someone broke into my nest, I didn't notice anything missing, but they made the door in the wrong place.:faint_smilie:
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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 :(
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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!
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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.
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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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I also tried with living pakchoi salad bought from sainsburys. I moved them from the pot to soil hoping they can grow bigger.
Didnt work out. They just grew old very quickly.
http://www.soyadirect.co.uk/Pakchoisainsburys.jpg
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I bought a mooli root once.
Are pak choi brassicas ?
Are those yellow flowers from the pak choi jadeoxon?
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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.
I'm looking forward to seeing your beauties Cedarblue.
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Yes it is the root part of mooli usually eaten. The leaves are nice though, stir fried, when they are young.
I like mooli root in soup.
Yes the yellow flowers come from Pak Choi. They didnt grow big as I hoped. Grew old instead.:o
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I don't think Pak Choi is brassicas. From what I read online, brassicas is cabbage, broccoli, swede stuff. Pak Choi is quite different from them I think.
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I'm growing basil, and have made a fair number of plates of spaghetti 'n' vegan pesto :thumbsup: (big handful of basil, olive oil as much as necessary to get the pesto the consistency you want, start with a couple of tbsp, 1 tbsp nutritional yeast, 1 tsp balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper, two or three walnuts. Blend it all it and YUM).
I'm also growing geraniums, but i don't think they count as food ;)
(Be kind, people - I only have a balcony! Although I want to start looking into growing some other veg here too, I know it's possible :))
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so my sweetcorn is 2 - 3ft high and growing nice and strong. sprouting from the base looks like extra shoots growing. i'm thinking these are like the side shoots that i pinch out of tomato plants - anyone know what i'm talking about and know what to do? i'm thinking i should take these side growths out but i'm not certain??
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As it was so sunny and lovely on Sunday, I spent some time in the garden getting rid of weeds, and then found some veggies were ready for eating. Emptied one of my potato bags, my first lot of the year, and some mange tout (second lot, if a tiny amount). Potatoes then became potato salad, and mange tout went into a veg biryani (which I forgot to take a photo of!). Tasty tasty.
Before...
http://www.veganforum.com/forums/pic...&pictureid=150
After...
http://www.veganforum.com/forums/pic...&pictureid=151
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Excellent, sh.
Our mange-tout is going crazy! Wonderful stuff.
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Whalespace - thanks and I love that photo of the strawbs and greens!
Cobweb - sorry, I have no idea!
SmallHelen - your potatoes and salad look great!
My broccoli and cauliflower are pretty dead so I will have to get rid of that soil and plant some of the other seeds I bought.
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Am attempting tomatoes, chilli's and 'erbs :)
I swear the tomatoes aren't being grown slyly in growbags on the shop downstairs roof :umm_ani:
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that potato salad look good smallhelen!
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We had a wonderful meal of steamed potatoes, mange tout and broad beans, with a Clive's pie and a few onions, lettuce leaves and radishes yesterday.
Apart from the pie, we are talking food metres!
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And yet, it would be such a long way for me to come over for tea :D
I've been collecting wild cherries the last week or so. Some of them are a little bitter, so will become schnapps, and some have already been eaten, or turned into compot. I've got a batch left to freeze too.
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Potatoes, Calabrese, French Beans, Spinach and Carrots. Straight from our allotment this afternoon. Just add Lentils and tea is done!!
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My boyfriend's growing chillis and habaneros at home and we tried one red chilli yesterday and it was unbelievably hot! O_O
We're going to grow some more veggies next year! : D
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How many Scovilles was it, do you think?
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I looked it up and it says that the chilli has a scoville between 1500 - 2500.
Not THAT hot, but I'm not used to it anymore..
Here's a pic of it: http://twitpic.com/bc17o
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The OH put some stuff into the local agricultural show on Saturday and won 8 prizes!
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OGXOzXNdBtI/Sm...02009%2001.jpg
The tray of four varieties of potato got third prize too (we lost the sign) but the dish of cooked spuds on the left is just there because it looks nice.
Everything is veganic (vegan organic).