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Just interested to see what others are doing veggie-wise.

The lower end of my gardens is made up of fruit trees, glasshouse, chooks and veggie gardens and I'm very tempted to convert more of the gardens across.

Winter crop went in a few weeks ago and things are starting to move. Crops are pretty mixed up with some herbs, perennials, flowers, etc. It’s all organic and fertiliser is 100% from compost and the chooks.

The overall beds with glasshouse in the background and chook house/run just out of site on the right:


Bed 1 - Beetroot, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Lettuce, Chives, a mix of permanent herbs and white Violas


Bed 2 - Silverbeet (for both me and the chooks), garlic (not up yet) and red Violas.


Bed 3 - Couple of types of Garlic, Leeks, Lettuces, Cabbage, Broad Beans, Globe Artichoke and blue Violas


My cleanup/fertiliser crew still looking a bit scruffy after some heavy moulting:


And a little shot inside the glasshouse, which is now a bit overgrown with Nepenthes:




Your turn.....

lovely what area are you

Geez that all looks great!

that's a fantastic setup

the whole point of this AP adventure for us is that it is bloody difficult to grow dirt garden veggies at our place. We have crap soil/rocks, termites, very seasonal rain and a steep block.
But, we are enjoying a nice crop of pumpkins (so are lots of our friends ), sweet spuds are on the way, spuds soon. We have banana trees, mulberry, custard apple and star apple trees. We also have chooks and ducks.

Cairns has GREAT soil

I KNOW that I've seen it sliding down into the hole you had for the ibc's

looks like you get a lot of shade int hat yard. Hows' every thing grow? What of everything doesn't do so well. I've always thought full sun for 6hrs is essential ... you might be rewriting my "how to" book...

Aaron, that looks really great. My dirt garden is too embarrassing to picture lol.

Thanks gang,
I do love my garden and it’s a constant source of distraction form my much more important studies!

FF,
I'm in Eltham.

Jamie,
Soil is not great at my place either, but my chooks and compost have made a very fast and easy remedy to that. So too did the initial 2 cubic meters of mushroom compost that the beds were filled with.

You see I’m jealous of your situation! Poor soil it may be but, you have tropical weather and tropical fruits!!!

l3nny
Not rewriting any books. Just careful crop selection, positioning and making sure all other factors are as optimal as can be.

Firstly, everything I’ve put in for the last 3 years has done very well. I cannot think of anything I would have said did not fair well. In fact with summer crops such as tomatoes, I’ve have over sizing issues! One tommy plant last year had to be kept propped up with the most ridiculous framing system. I’ll amid it put a full shopping back of fresh sheep manure under the seedling when planted.

Secondly, Those pics were taken early in the morning so the sun was very low anyway.

The main shot (facing the glasshouse) is north, so the bed closest the glasshouse gets the least direct sun. Maybe about 1-2 hours less than the closest bed. Right now it would be getting les than 6 hours (maybe 4-5), but it has not slowed anything as far as I am concerned.

However, it’s the changeover period where the days are getting shorter and the trees still have their leaves. The trees that are creating the shade are deciduous, so within a few weeks, they’ll be leafless and the sun will have a better angle into the veggies. The opposite is true in summer where those same tress give some sun protection for the veggies.

So that was my long answer....

In short, yes there are times when there is not to many hours of light hitting the veggies, but I just make sure plants with a tolerance for part shade are within the shady zone.

Noone else got any veggie gardens to show off?

Not After seeing that one

LOL F&F!

Great garden Aaron. Water restrictions here have pretty much made it impossible for me to continue my dirt garden for the last year. Eventhough I use little water when veggie gardenning - my methods are now banned. Need to get my tanks installed and then get some rain. In meantime, all I have planted for winter is garlic - which will require very little attention.

Nature sure is a cruel beast..... we've had over 150mm in the last 48 hours, from Newcastle down to Batemans Bay....

Yet hardly anything significant over the catchment areas 20-30km inland from the coastal strip

Still.... fingers crossed for all vege growers and farmers....

Thursday and Friday show GOOD signs of rain over most of NSW

This has been hanging around us for two days...

Hi where do you get that rain map and is it available in victoria