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Member since: Oct 10 | Last seen: Jan 11 | Years gardening: 0 | Organic gardener
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12 Jan 2011
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Overcast 25°C / 77°Flife seems to be getting busier, I still have time to ‘garden’ but not on folia. I’ve procured a couple of plants (no idea what they are) but they look nice. 2x bushes of flowers 2x redish/yellow leaves 1 dessert like plant in a nice big pot.
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13 Dec 2010Cucumber , squash button , and Chili pepper 'Jalapeno'
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21°C / 70°FWell now taht we harvested a couple cukes and squashes the plants are all withering and dying. So now I’m thinking of planting some kind of flower but not sure what is good for this season and for pots! Any suggestions here? Peppers are at least very hardy
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22 Nov 2010squash button , Chili pepper 'Jalapeno' , and Cucumber
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The wind has basically uprooted the squash buttons and knocked down 2 out of 8 of our pepper plants. Not too happy about that, but what can we do. the squash plants were doing so well but now I’m not sure if they will actually fully mature, even though they’re quite big already…...23°C / 73°F -
14 Nov 2010Chili pepper 'Jalapeno' , Cucumber , and squash button
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Rainy 19°C / 66°FWell this is a fine surprise. I’ve been worried about my minor aphid infestation on our chili plants and actually posted here a while back looking for ladybugs :D http://myfolia.com/groups/329-welcome-australian-and-new-zealand-gardeners/topics/3812/posts Well whattaya know, one showed up t...
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04 Nov 2010squash button Budding
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Overcast 16°C / 61°FThings seem to be flourishing. Very surprised at how quick and easy squash buttons are growing! x2 catepillar found their safe haven on our carrot plants. Can’t wait to harvest these squashes!
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28 Oct 2010Cucumber Planting Out, squash button Planting Out, baby beets , and Basil
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Cloudy 20°C / 68°FThis gardening business is so much fun. Today my cucumber vine found a stick to hang on to…I wonder what’s next?! Squash plants have these little things budding underneath( flower? Leaves? I have no idea but it looks cool. beets are going strong and basil showing true leaves!!
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17 Oct 2010Cucumber Moved, Chili pepper 'Jalapeno' Moved, squash button Moved, and Common raspberry Transplanted
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21°C / 70°FAdded more pots to add cucumber to it’s own pot, raspberry plant to it’s own and bunched up chili in it’s own giving more room to them. Still not ideally big enough but we’re taking a chance on the sizes of these pots :)
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14 Oct 2010Chili pepper 'Jalapeno'
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22°C / 72°FI don’t know much about gardening, but what I do know is aphids kill plants, and today just saw a cluster of them on my jalapeno plant!! ugh, washed them off and hoping to google up ways to get rid of them organically ..garlic water? will continue the searc…
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10 Oct 2010
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When will my carrots be ready for harvesting
Dutch Carrots Showing True Leaves19°C / 66°FThe timeline here shows estimated harvest only for plants sown and not transplanted? Either way, the little card on carrot says 8-10 weeks to maturity from transplanting seedling I assume. So that will be about 2 months from transplanting – making it nov 19. We’ll see
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08 Oct 2010Basil Sown
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planted basil today as we moved the cucumbers and chilis into their own seperate pots.Overcast 18°C / 64°F
