Food Gardening

[wide eyed and legless]

Roof stayed on, never doubted it B) , spot on Camo a piece of poly-pipe 25mm but covering some saddles made from gas tight gas pipe from Bunnings the split 25mm pipe would not hold the ends of the roof.
Stu I did design the shade/green house but as with most designs there are things I would have done differently after the finished build is scrutinised. Position of door, the overlap at the end of the roof,and if I built it again I would use wiggle wire to tension the roof.
On the English web sites I have seen 3 men sitting on the finished roof, I wouldn't be confident to do that even on my own, I wouldn't be surprised if the quality of the plastic was different over there after following Paul Hollywood's advice and using cling film for blind baking, doesn't melt, yeah right.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Build finished and stocking the green/shade house, surprising how hot it gets in there considering the top half of the sides is mesh, found the build challenging and very therapeutic, amazing the accuracy achieved without a dumpy level and just using a tape and a couple of spirit levels, only 3mm out across the diagonals.
Before and after pics.
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[shaunous]

Looks good WEAL

 

[Dave70]

My green house is almost redundant where I am, but it does save the the plants from the scorching HEAT of May.. So far not a day under 20 deg this month and **** all rain to boot.
Its ********.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/IDCJDW2119.latest.shtml

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Our weather in Victoria has been pretty similar dry and warm I held back planting the garlic until we had a good dump of rain a week or so ago, I thought we would be getting more, but we haven't been out watering every couple of days, can't believe it is less than 2 weeks before winter.

 

[manticle]

We've taken all the rain down here.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

We've taken all the tain down here.

You making mirrors down there...?

tain. (teɪn) n. (Metallurgy) tinfoil used in backing mirrors. [from French, from étain tin, from Old French estain, from Latin stagnum alloy of silver and lead; see stannum]

 

[manticle]

Evidently I've taken my fat fingers.

 

[Bribie G]

Our weather in Victoria has been pretty similar dry and warm I held back planting the garlic until we had a good dump of rain a week or so ago, I thought we would be getting more, but we haven't been out watering every couple of days, can't believe it is less than 2 weeks before winter.

I planted a kilo (30 pieces) of giant Russian Garlic at the end of March, it's only just started to pop up since the nights have dropped to below 15. Bloody weird.

Hey with sweet potatoes / kumara, do you only get one group of tubers with each plant?
I planted just one - a pot from Bunnings, not a slip from a bought tuber, and it's spread right over an 8 x 3 metre patch. I've had some nice tubers out of the central "crown". Do the vines put down roots to develop new crowns at various points with new collections of tubers, or does the sap just go back to feed the central plant?
Are they perennial or do they die back like Chokos over the winter?

I'm in the subtropical area of Northern NSW.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

shaunous is the man to answer that one Bribie, my success with Sweet Potato is limited, you will get tubers forming under the spreading foliage, and eat the leaves also.
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2664/2

 

[wynnum1]

Sweet potatoes best to plant out in raised mounds with many plants when the one plant covers the 8 x 3 metre patch you end up with a lot of small Sweet potatoes as the new roots take energy from the original plant .Plant out in rows over the 8 x 3 metre patch and will get Sweet potatoes from each slip planted.
Look up Mittleider gardening method where planted in sand and sawdust raised beds and apply weekly fertiliser and water daily.

 

[Bribie G]

Giant Russian Garlic, planted last week of March then nothing. Since the cold weather coming in a few weeks ago and five inches of rain in the old money: popping up like triffids.

Hello, welcome little plants, so nice to see you, and where the **** have you been? B) bloody millennials, think the world owes them a living.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Got back from holiday to find my garlic doing well as is the leeks and the first lot of beetroot, ready for pickling, trying the broad beans again this year they are showing, they are a Pommie hybrid to be eaten as runner beans (if picked young).

 

[Bribie G]

Immature broad beans in cheese sauce was a favourite when I lived in the Old Dart.

Might give them a go as well, would they grow in half sun?

 

[manticle]

My garlic and russian both happy.
Planted the russian in spring from memory (just cos), normal garlic in sensibly cooler weather.

 

[wynnum1]

Immature broad beans in cheese sauce was a favourite when I lived in the Old Dart.

Might give them a go as well, would they grow in half sun?

Grew in half sun and they did produce some beans but had problems with disease .Where are you going to get seed from as i got small packet and contained very few seeds and looking on internet they are selling kilogram for $10 kilogram but i think when grown succesfully could save seed .Do you think organic seeds could be planted.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Immature broad beans in cheese sauce was a favourite when I lived in the Old Dart.

Might give them a go as well, would they grow in half sun?

My Broad beans are not in full sun Bribie almost all shade, growing, but albeit rather slowly.

 

[manticle]

Been neglecting my patch a bit due to weather and other factors.

Got in today, planted more carrots and beetroot, pulled out a **** ton of weeds, gave it all some water.

Feels good.

 

[shaunous]

Harvested about 5kg or raw peanuts. Now roasted and taste amazing. Amungst all my other plantings these were my highlight.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Harvested about 5kg or raw peanuts. Now roasted and taste amazing. Amungst all my other plantings these were my highlight.

I am guessing your still at the same address