Vegie garden do you have one or

[latina4621]

are you starting one?

i am going to put in some tomato seeds and baby spinach , plus globe ( round zucchini's tomorrow.

we already have lots of other vegies growing.

[latina4621]

we didn't have many here earlier this year, our choko vine didn't get hardly any fruit on it.

it  is hard to say with our fruit trees yet , as there have been a few bees around although not many.

thanks love today must remember that next time i stuff a chook.

[kennedia_nigricans]

i have tons of basil seeds which i harvested myself. the seeds i grew the plants from are just normal basil seeds.

would you want them?

[latina4621]

we don't use pesticides in our garden either.

[kennedia_nigricans]

i spray minimally, usually only natives which i don't eat.

i just had to spray my kaffir lime cos otherwise something would have killed it.

can't use the leaves for months aarrrggghhh but still better than having to buy a new tree.

[freshwater-2]

Martini, I may be mixing you up with another poster....but didn't you post about your compost bin some years ago.

Anyway, I just bought some of those colourbond raised garden beds.

I have just bought another house lakefront with a beach.....sandy soil....I need to import the soil and I thought those raised beds would be ideal.  But I have heaps of compost....been giving it to my neighbours.

Looking forward to my fresh veges and herbs....if the possums and bandicoots don't get there first. (I don't really mind, I love the critters)

[love*today]

I love bees, the thought of them becoming extinct terrifies me!

People are so dumbed down these days they don't realise that without bees most of our food will no longer be.
Our comfy shortcut lives will be the end of us, we need to get back to simpler times.

[jean2579]

kennedia, Are you in Australia, I do not know why but from some of your posts I had the impression that you were in another country. If you are overseas, please don't send seeds through the post the quarantine people will have a fit. When you took the basil seeds, did you leave them in the sun to dry, or just put them in an envelope or packet green?

[latina4621]

it is a scary thought in re to the bees, i must say though this is the first year that the bees have not really been around much.

[jean2579]

I agree, it is really sad as the entire neighbourhood has always had mangos from this tree right up to Christmas. Now we will have to buy imported ones which probably will taste aweful. These ones were huge and used to drip all over your face and hands.   We live in a banana plantation region, I wonder if the bananas are affected too.

[freshwater-2]

I love the bees being around too....just watching them and knowing what they contribute to the natural world.

Is it true that one hive only collects one type of pollen?

Some of the native gum  trees around me are in bloom and they are all busy

I am on the NSW mid north coast..