Food Gardening

[Ducatiboy stu]

Bloody tyhpo's

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

MANTICLE! MODS! Stu's launching personal attacks again!

..so...

 

[manticle]

Here I am, pointing fingers.
Stu -start spelling better.
Everyone else- plant good, piss on your trees if you feel like it, **** on them if you don't.
Grow food. Make beer. Drink and eat and laugh at the plebs who pay top dollar get someone else to do it half as well.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Everyone else- plant good, piss on your tress if you feel like it, **** on them if you don't.

Spelink

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Best place for piss is on the compost.

 

[manticle]

Spelink

Damn

 

[Spohaw]

Here's a couple of my citrus , they need a feed but they aren't to bad

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Here is my grapefruit tree, had to cut it back because I have tatties coming up underneath it and I didn't want the grapefruit dropping on to the young plants.
Just behind the fence is my compost, I haven't added any piss to the compost for a while now because of the chemo drugs in my system, and I cant get my wife to hoist herself up and squat over it, but then again female piss isn't any good anyway.

 

[Spohaw]

Ruby red ?

Nice shape

How long ago did you plant that ?

 

[wide eyed and legless]

No not ruby red, probably grew well because of the compost directly behind it, iron filings under the tree only.

 

[Spohaw]

Big fan of citrus but not too keen on the white grape fruits only like the sweet ruby red

Have you got any oranges ? They are my favourite citrus ...... cara cara and pineapple orange are my favourite out of what I have

Washington navel is the best producer but

 

[goomboogo]

WEAL, do you use all the grapefruit or give some away? It looks like it produces plenty of fruit.
Spohaw, is there a reason you've chosen pots instead of planting in the ground? I'm probably moving house and pots may be a better option at the new house.

 

[Spohaw]

I rent and want to keep my plants

Could put them in the ground and dig them up but prefer just to have them in pots

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Goomboogo, yes we give away plenty of grapefruit, I take it to the Coles supermarket the same day that some charity comes around to Coles to pick up food. I cant eat it, grapefruit is the only citrus that can cancel out medication that anyone is on.
I have Honey Murcott mandarin, a Valencia orange tree, normal lime and a lemon the lemon and orange both have leaf miner I sprayed them last weekend

 

[seamad]

The honey murcott's are great, super sweet when ripe but heaps of seeds and hard to peel, I make the kids eat em on the grass. Mine gets a massive crop every second season, the cockatoo's love them too, and my previous bully used to roll them out with her nose and eat all the flesh leaving just the skin. Lime tree fruits most of the year, and the grapefruit (was supposed to be a ruby but it's not ) gets fruit fly sometimes but heaps of fruit. Love marmalade so use some for that.
With respect to the drug interactions, grapefruit suppresses the absorption of some drugs, but also effects an enzyme in the SI that breaks some other drugs down, thereby causing a higher/longer concentration in the blood stream of some drugs too. @ 100 drugs are effected by grapefruit.
My son and I piss on the citrus when the missus aint around.

 

[Spohaw]

Did you get your grapefruit from bunnings Seamad ?

I got two from bunnings that were ment to be ruby but turned out white ..... Wasn't impressed

 

[seamad]

no mate, got them from a local nursery, including a blood orange which isn't very bloody. I recall reading somewhere that some nutrients ?? can help with the red colour. I get the same with the red pawpaws grown from seed, they are long like the red ones but that's about it, although I think you have to live up north in the tropics to get the redness.

 

[Spohaw]

Warm days and cold night to develop the red , if your in a tropical area the red colour won't develop very well

That's what I've read but could be wrong

My cara cara goes nice a dark pink down on the south coast of WA

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Anyone got any advice for snake beans, my wife has bought a packet and wants me to grow some, tried once before without success.

 

[seamad]

+35C iirc for snake beans