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doc, with those potatoes, make sure the soil drains well or they will
rot. Cabbage take a long time to mature so it is generally havested in the cooler weather. |
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What a great topic,
I spent part of the day in the garden getting my hands dirty...just turning the soil, adding mulch, preparing for when it cools down, as it is too hot to plant still.. Crazy weather is still summer here in the middle of autumn... We have silverbeet, and chives and some small- leaf italian basil, chives, and some lemongrass as houseplants.. and will be planting more lettuces, and cherry tomatoes, over the next two weeks, also houseplants, (they like to hide from the heat)... When the seasons figure out what they might be doing, I will have the usual kitchen garden, snow peas, beans, sugar snap peas, rhubarb, bok choi, chinese cabbage, pumpkins, (queensland blues, and jap) sweet potatoes in the old pile of lawn clippings from last year..and then whatever else the kids choose to grow, always strawberries...is our fast food outlet, the backyard... ![]() and of course always organic, we use neem oil, diluted in a spray bottle, or garlic and chili spray, and that is it, fertiliser is old chicken manure, and cow and horse manure..also from organically fed animals.. I want to learn more about permaculture, is something I have been drawn to for a while.. |
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![]() http://www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/ ![]() http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture this is about a aussie guy http://www.permacultureinternational.org/ the journal on it.. |
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Thanks Lisa...that is so great..
I have a friend, Robin Clayfeild, she brought permaculture here to Australia, 20 ish years ago, it is just nailing her down for time to pick her brain... |
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there's only 500,000 things on it.
the aussie guy is Bill mullison ![]() ![]() We have alot of stuff that still grows at the ranch the guy that built our house grew up there he's in his 80s there was his moms house that burnt in 81 & behind it was the Grand father's that burnt in the 30s or 40s. around both places have all kinds of fruit trees & stuff that comes up its so kewl We call where the mothers house was "the secret garden" it even has a tunnel that goes back in the hill.. her kitchen garden has all kinds of herbs... ![]() |
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awwwwwwww jess
dern wish I could plant a garden of veggies. my hopes are high, perhaps one day.... ![]() ![]() |
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we have to clear out a tree that broke in half with the last storm..
it's covering where we started the veggie garden.... I have to get the other side of the fence done too so the horse won't have a buffet. Then I'm going to plant some fruiting trees as well (apple, orange, grapefruit,bananas,and pomegranets) I already have fig, peach, date, pecan, lemon and mulberry, and a plum, but it hasn't started to fruit yet.. then I'm going to get some grape vines going as well.. Get this lil farm back on track. |
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well iam growing pot oops dont tell any body
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Need any tips?
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need any water leaf
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Is this about mary?
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Now thats a plant I can grow, it grows wild here in Nebraska
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oh lord I am a dum dum
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a dum dum is a lolipop and that you are
a good lolipop ![]() |
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Grows with lots of horse crap
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