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.

[kennedia_nigricans]

i am in SA.

i collected the seed swhen the stems and the seeds had dried up (brown). nothing stays green here in the sun for long....

[latina4621]

queensland blue pumpkin.

i love the jap pumpkin for roasting.

[jean2579]

Every Sunday we drive out of town and buy all of our veges and eggs from the wooden boxes the farmers leave at their front gates. It is a great system you take what you want and leave the cash in the tin in the box.

[latina4621]

we try to grow enough veg to keep us going for 12 months of the year every year , with things like celery, capsicum carrots, tomatoes.

i freeze as i use a lot for cooking.

and plus what we don't use fresh

also try to give some to neighbours too we do swaps. so it works out great.

[latina4621]

we also have chooks so don't need to buy eggs. added bonus.

[love*today]

You are so lucky!

Not 100% sure on feeding habits but it makes sense that what ever is around is what they'd feed on..

Something to look into and make a "bee happy" thread!

[kennedia_nigricans]

i let that yellow oxalis stuff grow that everyone else kills with zero.

my garden is full of it and there are hundreds of bees. they really like it.

when i walk through the garden i have to look down permanently not to step on a bee that is visiting an oxalis flower.

there are so many you can hear the buzzing.

[cherples]

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@*countessa* wrote:

yum mangoes

that is a shame.

we have a banana palm in our yard, last year it actualy fruited  but the fruit didn't grow  they do have a gorgeous flower though

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They're not palms, they're herbaceous and they only grow one bunch of bananas then die.

To get good fruit you need to remove all except one or two of the suckers, feed and water well. After it flowers /fruits cut it down and let the sucker grow up to take its place.  They take about 18months to grow fruit down south and don't like frost or too cold.

[freshwater-2]

This is a great thread.....I am picking up so many hints from it.

[latina4621]

i went to a market today, no vegie plants to buy, but i did buy a gold  colour bearded iris and a geranium plant

which the flower looks like a cluster of rose buds.