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- Where do you live and garden?
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- How long have you been growing food?
- 4-10 years
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- Southern Indian Curries, Global Vegetable Dishes. Foods for Health. Raw Foods
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There always seems to be something to do when you have a kitchen garden..
I am reading about torrential rain in Northern Queensland and looking at snow on American gardeners sites.
River cottage has just appeared on the tele.
I have eggplants and zucchinis to make into chutneys, lemons to make 3 dog lemonade beer and dried herbs to bottle.
We had a delicious meal of garli… Continue
Posted on January 24, 2010 at 6:50am — 6 Comments
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- At 7:52am on February 9, 2010,
Glenn Fletcher said…
- Hi Maggie
I hope you are well. The weather here is still very dull, damp misty and foggy. Just as you see it in old films. I had to get away last week to recharge my batteries. We spent a week in Spain, where the weather was glorious and spring like, with trees and flowers in blossom.
I think February for me is a month of preparation for the coming season. Mainly cleaning and tidying the winter mess. I spent Sunday cleaning out the greenhouse. Removing all the things that the frost had killed. I must make more effort next year to remove the tender items to a frost free place.
I usually start to sow tomatoes at the beginning of March. Any earlier and a cold spell will set them back, and they never seem to fully recover. I will probably sow some onions at the weekend. I have a lot of saved ornamental onion seed. These get a large purple ball on them. I am hoping to get sufficient plants to produce a large drift, which i think should look really nice.
- At 1:10pm on February 8, 2010,
Tamra said…
- Only weeds are growing in my garden, right now. We are having a cold winter. We had a huge snow storm last week. More snow than is common for this area. I do have a few radishes that sprouted in a cold frame, and I started my first flat of seedlings last week.
I imaging you are in that time where your garden is overflowing with tomatoes, cucumber, beans, etc...
- At 9:52pm on February 7, 2010,
Kathryn said…
- Hi Maggie, it is locally grown. So it is the typical winter veggies with a few zuchinnis and eggplants coming in from Antalya. The larger supermarkets have things like pineapples and avocados that are grown in hotter areas. I like to stick with what is in season for the area, we are eating alot of oranges and mandarines the grapefruit here are lovely and are mainly the pink ones. Carrots are very cheap at the moment 3 kilos for 75 au cents. Cauliflower seems abundant as well. Fish here come in winter so we are eating a fair amount of fish as well. Hamsi, which are larger anchovies 3aud a kilo. Looking forward to all the stone fruits that will come in a couple of months.
- At 7:05pm on February 5, 2010,
Margaret Flett said… - Hi Maggie
Things are "singing"" here after a week of nice and much needed rain. Here in Western Sydney it has been just lovely, not too heavy but lots of good showers and so far a rainfall of 62mm which has soaked in and not flooded the gardens. . The tomatoes are finished but they were planted very late so at least we had a few to eat. This year is going to be very different and already the beet root, carrots and onions are looking just great. The potato bin has arrived and tomorrow will be put together and planted with Gem Squash seeds to see how they go, then come May I will buy seed potatoes and put them in - I was very spoilt and go too used to having tasty new potatoes at Christmas most of my life - I am afraid that the tinned ones just don't taste the same !!
I have to apologise for delays in communication but I work full time and after 8 hours a day in front of a computer I don't look at this one until Saturday.
- At 6:21pm on January 31, 2010,
Gillian said… - H Maggie,
no, I dont like all that rain, and then there was a tree snake at work that just would not go away, so all in all the last two weeks have not been my favourite time of the year! Walking on the grasss meant sinking ankle deep in mud! BUT... things are looking up - the sun is out, the ground is drying out and my personal solar panels are charging (in my head - I believe the sun impregnates happiness into me!). I am just busy posting two blog posts, one about the dripping moisture and then another about all the stuff I am harvesting :) I will re-post that one on my blog here either today or tommorow. So things are definitly looking up :) How are things going down in Adelaide?
- At 5:37pm on January 30, 2010,
Margaret Flett said…
- Hi Maggie
Thank you for making me feel welcome. I am to too sure what to say about my poor garden apart from thanks to the heat it is very unhappy again. I guess my biggest problem is I keep trying to grow the english type garden - coming from the deep south of NZ it is what I remember as a child and as a result feel I should still be able to grow the bulbs etc here. Another problem I have this year is no bugs of any sort, good or bad. I have even purchased good bug attractant to no avail. I even had to hand pollinate the tomatoes to get anything. Just recently I have seen 5 only lovely native bees but certainly no honey bees. I think maybe my husband and I will be buying some native bee hives from the western sydney uni later in Feb. Has anyone else in western sydney had this bug problem - the garden is chemical free which makes it even more puzzling.
- At 7:24pm on January 28, 2010,
Joel LeGrand said… - thanks Maggie
- At 8:35pm on January 25, 2010,
Maggie said…
- Hi Joel,
here on the Adelaide plains we can veggie garden all year.
We have winter rain and very mild winters, no frost at all.
So we grow all the green things we can, we never have much luck with carrots but might try next winter.
We have a small garden compared to a lot of other gardeners but it is plenty for the 2 of us.
We actually pull out our summer garden and plant up our winter garden, but i am thinking maybe we should
rest the soil for a few week or grow a green crop, but we shall probably just add our compost and worm casting tea and plant up again.
I hope the weather warms up soon for you.
- At 7:58pm on January 25, 2010,
Joel LeGrand said…
- Hi Maggie,
It is cold here, we just had a 2 week cold snap o f 20F-14F (-12c to -18c). We have cold lower then 14F but it last a day or two, not 14 days!! I lost some of my turnips,most of my mustard,but my spinach is fine.
I lost my small cabbage, but the large heads are fine. I planted my winter garden late this year, we live, we learn.The collards are fine, I picked some for a friend today. How are your winters( I understand you are in summer now)? Do you
grow winter garden plants? Enjoy the summer warmth for me.
- At 9:39pm on January 24, 2010,
Gillian said…
- Hi Maggie,
we were lucky that it just fizzled out as it approached us. amazing! Now we are hoping for some dry weather - the ground is sodden! I have been trying to prune things back and open up the garden a bit to keep the bug population down. Let some light and air in! harvesting lots of passionfruit and pawpaw, not much else. I have just about had enough of this wet season now! happy Australia Day!
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