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Member since: Aug 08 | Last seen: Nov 12 | Years gardening: 14 | Organic gardener
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02 Nov 2012Spinach 'Malabar' Showing True Leaves and Vegetable garden
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Seedlings of this plant have sprung up again and have formed a carpet at the base of the climbing frame. These have been great used in salads. The only thing is that their are way too many for the small area (1 m x .5 m). So i’ ll thin them out to allow the stronest ones to grown one and pr... -
11 Oct 2012Asparagus 'Mary Washington' Sprouting and Vegetable garden
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Well, just a couple of weeks ago I had placed some well rotted compost and organic life over these plants to help invigorate them for the growing season ahead. So far they are producing some good spears however, once the fertiliser settles I expect these to really kicks on and produce some great ... -
06 Jan 2012Vegetable garden and Tomato 'Grosse Lisse' Flowering
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Cloudy 27°C / 81°F
This plant has continued to produce plenty of flowers all the way up the main stems and has now continued to put energy into fruit production with a number of bunches of fruit now in exclusion bags.In the photo is an example of when I put a buch of fruit in an exclusion bag to keep the fruit fly ...
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06 Jan 2012Tomato 'Burnley Surecrop' Flowering and Vegetable garden
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Cloudy 27°C / 81°F
These plants have transplanted well, and have grown like the clappers since they have established, putting on plenty of leaves and new growth and are around 600mm high now, both plants have now started to produce a number of flower spikes.
Every now and again as they grow I tie them back to thei...
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06 Jan 2012Rhubarb 'Victoria' Seedlings and Driveway garden
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Cloudy 27°C / 81°F
These plants have produced a mass of large leaves which resemble elephant ears and are really responding from the new fertiliser I have applied back in november. Their are many thick stems ready for harvesting which I plan to freeze the excess for use in the cooler months.
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06 Jan 2012Rhubarb 'Victoria' and Driveway garden
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Cloudy 27°C / 81°F
These rhubarb plants have grown extremely well producing some very large leaves which sort of resemble elephant ears and are producing a heap of thick edible stems. The new fertiliser I have applied over the last couple of months has worked a treat.
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01 Jan 2012
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Avocado 'Wurtz' - No Fruit Again
Avocado 'Wurtz' and Avocado and Citrus gardenSunny 30°C / 86°F
This season we had a beautiful full flush of flowers over the entire canopy of this tree and a hightened interest with the sight of bees around when I’d inspect the tree of an afternoon. With all of this bee activity I really thought that we would at least see our first fruit developing but...
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31 Dec 2011Tomato 'Apollo Improved' and Front Side garden
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Sunny 32°C / 90°F
Here is an update of the developing fruit of this planting which have recently being bagged with a fruit fly exclusion bag to allow the fruit to develop without the worry that the fruit fly will attack and spoil the fruit.
I have been using these exclusion bags for a couple of years now and woul...
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31 Dec 2011Squash 'Yellow Bush Scallop' Flowering and Front Side garden
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Sunny 32°C / 90°F
After the initial harvest of a couple of fruit which tasted beautiful the plant had stopped producing the female flowers for a while, maybe due to the inclement cooler weather. I did notice just the other day that the plant has started to once again produce the female flowers which was soon after...
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31 Dec 2011Spring Onion Harvesting and Vegetable garden
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Sunny 32°C / 90°FThese are still growing really well despite the recent wet weather and we are harvesting plenty for the kitchen. These have required little attention during the growing period apart from some support to keep them upright with the placement of some bamboo stakes and fishing line strung between them.
