Anyone else have a veggie patch?

[bushies.girl]

and what are you planting this year?

[karliandjacko]

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@bushies.girl wrote:

Must agree re chokos Jean, totally bland n nondescript to me    .... What are you going to plant? Too early here for planting 😞

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Blerk to chokos too.  tasteless, feral, super invaders, worthy of inclusion in a horror movie.

We're going to grow strawberries, peas, beans, carrots and tomotoes I think.

[bushies.girl]

I planted my strawberries, last week, some have flowers on them already, so hoping they all do well

[karliandjacko]

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@bushies.girl wrote:
I planted my strawberries, last week, some have flowers on them already, so hoping they all do well

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Yum. I can't see ours making it far past the garden.  They'll get eaten on the way to the house unless we end up with lots  😄

[bushies.girl]

Don't blame you, I love fresh strawberries, I find the supermarket ones have no taste

[debra9275]

we don't really have a vegie patch, for the past couple of years we've been trying to grow tomatoes in big pots. We fed them, covered the soil in straw mulch and I religiously watered them evry day. We only got one tomato from 3 plants, and a possum took it before we could. So I must be doing something wrong.

[bushies.girl]

Maybe the soil they were growing in, not enough nutrients?

[debra9275]

we ued an expensive potting mix bushies, maybe it dried out oo much despite all the watering, will try planting in the ground next time

[bushies.girl]

Debra, I havent had as much success with container growing as I have had with planting them in the ground .... Perhaps try one in a pot and a cpl in the ground and see what happens .... There are so many tomato varities around these days, perhaps try a different varity

[kopenhagen5]

Hi deb, try from small seedlings rather than seeds if you haven't.

Sounds like the soil in the pots doesn't have enough nutrients even though you feed.

Or if you have fed too much, the new young roots will burn and the plants won't develop.

I would empty the pots out and mix current soil with some new and put a few dynamic lifter pellets on the top to let the rain or watering slowly dissolve them down into the soil but not near the young plants. This will also mean the roots will sniff out the nutrients and reach for the sides of the pot where the pellets have seeped in.

I do tomatoes in pots as well, but there I use tiny tomatoes or cherry tomatoes.

Always get soooo many that I need to watch out for acid reflux. Too easy to eat. 

[icyfroth]

No but I wish I did.

On The WSFM Reaction Line this morning:

City planners say it's time for Sydney to go up, instead of out.
A report calls for the construction of 100 new high rise apartment buildings every year for the next 50 years, and a culture shift to help us get over the dream of owning a house with a big backyard because there is no longer enough room.

https://www.facebook.com/#!/101.7WSFM

In other words seperate ppl from their land and make them totally dependant on buying food..