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Jay O'Val
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Where do you live and garden?
Sydney
How long have you been growing food?
forever!
Dream garden travel destination:
This planet
Favorite foods:
mushrooms

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At 7:22pm on December 29, 2009, Anna Bryony said…
Thank you for leaving that Scrumping link on my guerrilla gardening group page - i'm going to try and add an apple tree to it :]
At 5:57pm on August 26, 2009, Maggie said…
Thanks Jay,
Our garden is looking great after all the lovely rain we have had.
The weather in Australia is pretty unpredictable at the moment.
Floods, snow, high winds, high heat and bush fires.
Have a great day.
At 6:50pm on August 22, 2009, Maggie said…
Hi Jay,
Welcome to KGI, what do you like to grow?

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Anna Bryony left a comment for Jay O'Val
December 29, 2009
Kathryn commented on Jay O'Val's photo 'plum2'
It.looks.like.a.little.plum.dont.know.what.variety.though.There.are.little.ones.here.that.look.like.that.slightly.sour.they.eat.them.green.Could.be.one.of.those.dont.know.the.name.though.
December 12, 2009
Jay O'Val commented on Maggie's group 'Gardening in Australia'
I've posted a couple of pics of an unidentified plum on my page, there's a description with the pics. They aren't usually harvested - the area is filthy with fruit fly - but I'd love to know what it is. Many years ago the street trees were these, an…
December 11, 2009
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December 11, 2009
Jay O'Val added a blog post
I'm back at my place, still on holidays for a few days. I'm trying to do something in the garden every day. My daughter delivered a bag of horse manure - she goes to horse rescue mob once a month - so I've spread it under my trees and around my veg.…
December 1, 2009
Jay O'Val commented on Anna Bryony's group 'Guerrilla gardeners'
Scrumpers Delight map Add wild food in your area.
December 1, 2009
No gardening, on holidays, ripe bananas in the yard here, bats are enjoying them!
November 27, 2009
So much for the lady bugs, I think the birds ate them! And I'm planting more peas and beans today. Nuff for now
November 13, 2009
Gillian commented on Jay O'Val's blog post 'Update'
Gosh, you guys are getting very hot weather! we have been having lovely rain lately, and everything is turning green :) Of course the humidity is getting up there as well! Jay, we grow snow peas here as a winter crop, that might be why they didnt co…
November 9, 2009
Maggie commented on Jay O'Val's blog post 'Update'
Hi Jay, It is good to hear all about your garden. This heat is severe and as you have said everything wilts. Here in South Australia we are going to have a very hot week ahead, 37c and 39c every day. We have not planted out our tomatoes, basil etc b…
November 8, 2009
Jay O'Val commented on Anna Bryony's group 'Guerrilla gardeners'
Are any of you from Australia? Did you see the Guerrilla Gardeners program on Channel 10? It was a lot of fun but it isn't running any more. They didn't let it run through all the episodes. It actually has a Wikipedia entry! I was reminded of the pr…
November 7, 2009
Jay O'Val added a blog post
The rocket, bok choi and potatoes are all doing wonderfully. The potatoes came up high enough to be mulched so they are settled and the bok choi had it's first thinning which gave enough greens to fill one hand. I didn't mention at the time but I pu…
November 7, 2009
Jay O'Val added a blog post
I have managed to do some more work in my garden - I've planted rocket and bok choy and potatoes last weekend. They haven't come up yet, but they are in! I'm still eating snow peas and when it's cool enough to cook there's plenty of kale. Some of th…
October 10, 2009
Maggie commented on Jay O'Val's blog post 'Tired and hot.'
Hi Jay and Gillian, Wow 37 degrees c is hot for Sydney in September! I also have a passionfruit vine I sit under in summer. We also string up shade cloth over our whole yard. Last year our vine produced about 200 passionfruit, YUM! I have photos of…
September 14, 2009
Gillian commented on Jay O'Val's blog post 'Tired and hot.'
Can you grow passionfruit there? - you could put up a support and have a natural living edible shade cover. It grows very fast. I have an arch going over my herb spiral and it looks lovely climbing over that, and does a good job of providing shade.…
September 14, 2009
Jay O'Val commented on John Lyons's photo 'Purple Kale CA Poppies'
I have some of that kale!
September 14, 2009

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Jay O'Val

Gardening on my hols.

I'm back at my place, still on holidays for a few days. I'm trying to do something in the garden every day. My daughter delivered a bag of horse manure - she goes to horse rescue mob once a month - so I've spread it under my trees and around my veg. The rain we had was lovely, and I feel that some of that goodness has now got down into the ground. We got a bale of straw so the apple trees, the blood orange and the tyres with the veg are all mulched.

The bok choy failed altogether, have no idea… Continue

Posted on December 1, 2009 at 4:43pm —

Jay O'Val

Update

The rocket, bok choi and potatoes are all doing wonderfully. The potatoes came up high enough to be mulched so they are settled and the bok choi had it's first thinning which gave enough greens to fill one hand. I didn't mention at the time but I put in purple beans and snow peas as well but they never came up. I think the purple beans were probably too old, the larger seeds don't last a long time, but I don't know about the snow peas. One of the great mysteries of gardening I suppose. I'm plann… Continue

Posted on November 7, 2009 at 3:42pm — 2 Comments

Jay O'Val

Back again.

I have managed to do some more work in my garden - I've planted rocket and bok choy and potatoes last weekend. They haven't come up yet, but they are in! I'm still eating snow peas and when it's cool enough to cook there's plenty of kale. Some of the kale is going to seed but the new plants are up. Not as many as I planted, but they are up and doing very well. I've set up shade cloth for the really hot days and the plantings from last weekend are up behind the trees in anticipation of the heat w… Continue

Posted on October 10, 2009 at 4:33am —

Jay O'Val

Tired and hot.

I'm so tired tonight. Working too hard at work, worrying too much, not getting quite enough sleep. If I was tired because I'd been gardening I'd be happier, but being tired from office work is just boring. My garden isn't being developed the way it should. There just isn't time! It isn't all bad news, my seedling kale is doing just fine, even if our brief foray into summer meant I had to give them extra water and put shade cloth over them. That brief bit of summer reminded me that I need to come… Continue

Posted on September 14, 2009 at 5:09am — 2 Comments

Jay O'Val

Not much gardening

I only had one day off this past weekend and I'm not very well so I haven't done much in the garden. I weeded part of the mondo driveway and I've planted a few more kale seeds because so few came up from the first round. I've harvested snow peas and enjoyed crunching them up! They don't even make it to a meal! One of the cavolo nero is starting to flower so I'll have to harvest that whole plant. I've chosen the rocket to save seed from. The last good sized one flowering. That's about it.

This m… Continue

Posted on August 30, 2009 at 4:07pm —

 
 

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