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Member since: Feb 11 | Last seen: Feb 13 | Years gardening: 21
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28 Nov 2011pototoes cranberry red , King Edward Seed Potatoes , Potatoes - sapphire , and Community garden plot - Bed ...
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Cloudy 32°C / 90°FOut at the allotment yesterday to catch up on some weeding, and again this morning. We’ve had a busy few weeks recently and I’m afraid the weeds have started to get away from me. Yesterday I only had time for a brief visit, to tidy up some of my recently weeded beds to keep the new...
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15 Oct 2011chicken ' buff wyandotte' aka 'Buffy' , chicken ' buff wyandotte' aka 'Buffy' , and fruit trees garden
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I think she must have heard my description of her as a being a poor layer – after a laying holiday of well over a year – or was it two years – she now starts laying regularly again – egg glutCloudy 17°C / 63°F -
12 Oct 2011
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Will the real 'heritage' rose please step forward
Rose 'Heritage' and Front rose bed gardenCloudy 22°C / 72°F
Ok, so a few months back when I was having fun adding my roses to myfolia, I discovered that at the front of the bed, I have two roses side by side and that i have confused with each other. I thought they were both heritage, a David Austen Rose, which I know I planted in this area, so one of the...
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29 Sep 2011
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asparagus bed, testing my perseverance
Community garden plot - Asparagus bed garden and Asparagus 'Mary Washington'Planted out this bed in mid July, full of optimism. I’d tracked down my crowns, dug over the bed (and harvested a few spuds at the same time), and mixed in some compost for good measure. It took a couple of months waiting until my first teeny spear made it’s appearance, and I was ver...Cloudy 17°C / 63°F -
23 Sep 2011
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Drip irrigation system finally completed
Vegie bed 2 garden , vegie bed 1 garden , apple tree 'opalescent' , vegie bed 7 garden , berry beds, back g...These lovely sunny days have served as a reminder to put the driplines in. Last year I had the vegies directly in the ground, as it was my first year with a proper ‘rip up the lawn’ vegie patch, and I wasn’t 100% sure how the layout would work. I had drip lines in for last sum...Cloudy 15°C / 59°F -
24 Aug 2011
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To bait, or not to bait, that is the question. European wasps arrive every spring/summer to put an end to all my dreams of outdoor dining and bbqs. Last year I found that you could purchase bait traps, similar to those used for flies, and tried that out, but apparently the time to use these is no...Rainy 22°C / 72°F -
12 Aug 2011Vegie bed 3 garden and Vegie bed 3 garden
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No luck with any of my beetroots, so time to replant, but firstly it needs to be converted over to a raised bed. The timber edging has been put in place, now just layering it up lasagna style, then adding some soil at the top. I think this bed will be my new tomato bed, so I will add a couple of...Cloudy 16°C / 61°F -
11 Aug 2011Kale 'Nero di toscana'
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It’s late winter here in Melbourne (zone 10) and last week we had some unseasonably sunny weather, needless to say most gardeners weren’t complaining! But I have just noticed that my tuscan kale seem to be going to seed. I’m guessing the warm weather has something to do with t...Cloudy 14°C / 57°F -
22 Jul 2011
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onions companion planting experiment
Onion 'belvedere' , pansy 'waterfall' , onion 'creamgold' , and Community garden plot - Bed 4 gardenExperimented today planting some pansy ‘waterfall’ in amongst a couple of short rows of onions. According to Jackie French (gardening author and guru), they’re a good companion plant – they insulate the soil and keep the weeds away. I had always thought that onions didn&#...12°C / 54°F -
15 Jul 2011Community garden plot - Asparagus bed garden and Asparagus 'Mary Washington'
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I finally managed to find some asparagus crowns at one of my local nurseries – nice weather today, so planting time. Firstly I had to pull up the few potato plants that were in this bed – so a nice harvest of potatoes as a bonus, and in doing this gave the bed a good digging over, ni...13°C / 55°F
