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the kid wrote:

mohawk miss wrote:
1- Cabbage is a winter veg, since you're in vic you should be planting out around march.
2- the heat will knock your matoe around, try watering early evening. They also seem to get a lot of viruses, Wilt is probably the most common. Not much you can do with that.

HTH
anything else?

That sucks , why on earth do they stock the seedling shelves with cabbage seedlings , bastards .

hoping that people with no knowledge of vegie gardening will buy them , sounds like it worked

Billy .... everybody knows these need to be grown indoors ......

Billy Grow some viagra it's cheaper than cement specially when ya need to harden up

Billy, every cubic metre of clean garden soil, mix in 50-60l of well rotted chicken, horse or duck shit, put yourself an irrigation system around the veggie patch, add a simple water metre and hey presto........ veggies and tomatoes
A good veggie patch needs full sun at least half the day, morning until early afternoon is good, try not to expose it to the hot afternoon sun, this is watering time
Just don't forget the high quantity of shit and when ya veggies and tomatoes are finished fire em into the compost along with any other greens waste you have from the kitchen.

Enjoy

if you're serious get Yates garden guide.

http://www.yates.com.au/products/books- ... den-guide/

dilligaf wrote:if you're serious get Yates garden guide.

http://www.yates.com.au/products/books- ... den-guide/

Had it for years , great guide .

Damo , I think I better sort the shit out better . Positioning is good , but probably the greatest fail is lack of water when I am away for work . Timer system needed .... as soon as The Shed is sorted .

I have an idea.... maybe use water when gorwing plants they like this lmao.

On a serious note. They soil cant handle year after year of the same plant, takes out nutrients from soil.
farmers move crops from field to field and never in the same spot 2 years running. Try blood and bone or chicken shit mate. Soil needs to be fed.

Like someone said, cabbage is for winter. For summer give sunflowers a go. Put them in last weekend in August and by this time of year they should all be blooming with flowers as big as your head.

Pics are maybe a week old, there's more flowers coming out daily now...

may look pretty but you cant really eat them unless your a cockatoo or can you

We have rampant tomato plants that just grew all over the place,also the same with strawberrie plants.Secret is dont give a shit and they will grow

I'm stunned Mal spelled tomato correctly!

Billy, you say you have a Yates Garden Guide, so read it! There will be a table in there, detailing what time of the year to plant what. If you started your tomatoes in Sept, they're probably on the end of their life pretty soon, that might be your issue. I also know that you have to continuously feed tomatoes, be it manure or Seasol or tomato food, so long as its something.

I don't know what kind of property you're on, but if you can spare the space for a small chook pen to house 2 chooks, do it. My Nan always put her own chook poo on her gardens and we had apricots the size of oranges, and you wouldn't believe the flavour. If you lay straw down in the chook pen for them to scratch in and top it up every month or so when it beds down, then you can dig it up and use it - but dilute it with other soil, or in water cause its pretty potent stuff.

I wish we had the space for a veggie patch here, I remember those magnificent flavours of home grown veggies, that's what makes it worth it more than the money.

Kazz , Im away from my place too much to have chooks , but we had them when I was a kid . Quite entertaining and great for pests .

Must admit , I like Mals way of gardening

Companion planting also assists with bug control and soil condition
Herb/Vegie combo's work well
http://www.permaculture.org.au/resource ... _Plant.pdf

Have fun

JetPilot wrote: On a serious note. They soil cant handle year after year of the same plant, takes out nutrients from soil.
farmers move crops from field to field and never in the same spot 2 years running. Try blood and bone or chicken shit mate. Soil needs to be fed.

Its actually more to do with soil bourne bugs & viruses, things like the dreaded nematodes and rust spores, but it is a good idea to rotate crops.
MULCH! and more MULCH! helps with the water loss.
I never buy vegie seedlings. I buy seeds from Diggers Club, lots of great unusual stuff like white tomatoes and purple fleshed potatoes. Try them.

the kid wrote:

mohawk miss wrote:
1- Cabbage is a winter veg, since you're in vic you should be planting out around march.
2- the heat will knock your matoe around, try watering early evening. They also seem to get a lot of viruses, Wilt is probably the most common. Not much you can do with that.

HTH
anything else?

That sucks , why on earth do they stock the seedling shelves with cabbage seedlings , bastards .

2 words Billy, Shareholders and Profit

The world is f*cked, everything is about the profit.