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.

[freshwater-2]

Yes, Martini, you were the one I meant.  It was yonks ago.

You were having problems with the pretend compost bin.

You were concerned about white slug things in the bin.

I was wonder how you were going with them.  The bins not the white things.

If you want, you can bring a wheelbarrow to my place.  I finally worked out the process

My earthworms are like pythons.

[*elizabeths-mum*]

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@jean2579 wrote:

It is only the beginning of Spring and already the grass is starting to go brown and dry. I absolutely refuse to put good drinking water on grass, but does anyone know if it is ok to use the water from washing up, laundry and bath on grass?

We used our grey water for years but over time found our clothes got a bit dingy without all the stuff they use to brighten them and the water drains very slowly from the bath leaving the bath grotty. We stopped when we had a very wet season and are just setting up to do it again.

I've started making my own washing powder from this recipe from the cheapskates site:

Ingredients:
1 bar soap, grated
1 cup washing soda (Lectric Soda)
1/2 cup borax
Mix together and store in a sealed
container.
Use 3 scant teaspoons per load for a
top-loader and 1 scant teaspoon per
load for a front loader.
You can use up the small slivers of
toilet soap you collect if you like, ordinary
bath soap or laundry soap. This recipe
is ideal for using up all the leftovers
you collect in the family bathroom.
This detergent won’t produce masses of suds, but it will get your clothes clean.
Optional:
Give the washing powder an extra boost if you wash really dirty or greasy clothes by
adding one small box of bi-carb soda to the mix.
© Cheapskates Club 2000 - 2008 www.cheapskates.com.au

Somewhere else I read that if that if you are going to recycle your water use bicarb instead of borax and I do use more than they say to. 

[ashjoma]

I have mint growing like crazy. I have had lettuce and tomatoes previously.
I would love chooks but hubby gets angry when I want to buy some and set them up at home.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@jean2579 wrote:

It is only the beginning of Spring and already the grass is starting to go brown and dry. I absolutely refuse to put good drinking water on grass, but does anyone know if it is ok to use the water from washing up, laundry and bath on grass?

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Apparently not if your read the net. Detergents meant to be bad for the grass and all that.

But I have been doing it for years and my grass is fine. My washing machine waste hose drains into a big bucket and that water gets sloshed onto the lawn outside my laundry every weekend. My lawn looks pretty happy.

[mainecoon1]

We have problems with possums and bush rats eating our plants so we have started to sprinkle the plants with tabasco sauce.  It is a bit expensive but it is a natural way to stop them eating the plants and it does not harm them

[freshwater-2]

That was an interesting comment Mainecoon.  I have possums and native bush rats (a protected species) around me.

I hang moth balls in a plastic thing in my car engine to keep the nbrats out o the engine during the winter.

Neither possums or nbrates like the smell.  That is enough to keep them away.

May try it around my raised vege gardens. A very cheap solution.

[kennedia_nigricans]

love today, i don't mind if you are scared to give your adress to a stranger.

if you don't want the seeds (heirloom tomato budia and heirloom rainbow chard plus non-heirloom basil, parsley and other stuff) i am happy  to send them to almost anyone here.

[just_me_karen]

My favourite seed seller is no longer registered on eBay so I'm a bit lost and have been buying direct from suppliers. I bought tomato seeds from that eBay seller and they're mutants! About 50 little tomatoes a day during their first year, and i ate so many I started hating tomatoes...so I stopped watering them.

The mutant tomatoes kept shooting out new branches and producing, even in the middle of winter.... and they're still going strong a year later.

I've just ordered two raised beds and getting a quote for a big one out the back. My lawn man sprayed my herb garden to kill the "weeds" and now only weeds will grow there, so I'll use one of the new beds for herbs until his unknown chemicals lose their potency.

I love my veggie gardens! I grow them out the front instead of flowers...all over the garden are little plots.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

have you saved any of the seeds from your mutant tomatoes JMK?

[**tay**]

Everytime I try the vegie garden thing, I fail. So I just go and raid my mothers vegie garden instead.