Gardening

[Lisa]

Carnations and roses have always been my favourites. Roses probably have been cos they remind me of my grandma. Gloxinia's are my all time indoor fav's.

[Raven]

I didn't know you could put gloxinia's inside. I want to get those pretty indoor begonia's.

Carnations are what I plant to remind me of my grandad (his favourites), and I have a Daphne bush cause my nana was Daphne. She grew the best peas for xmas - mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

[Lisa]

My Grandfather and I would sit among his peas and eat while we talked when I was a wee kid one or 3 years ago.

[♦ snoopy ♥]

arent peas grand!!!!!!

thats exactly why I grow em.  They are not to be eaten cooked at all...  almost compulsory to lie amoung the rows and eat at our place!!!!!!

[Raven]

  I was really naughty one year cause I went down to the garden and was just pigging out on the raw peas, not realising just how much I was eating, until my nana went to collect some.....oops, sorry nana. 

[♦ snoopy ♥]

as a kid I remember our neighbour growing a crop of maize in a paddock and had sown the outside? or somewhere in the paddock with peas....  spent ages eating in there.....

[Lisa]

seems like peas have good memories for ua all.    I used to love spending time with my grandfather in his pea patch. Just me and him.

[Raven]

as a kid I remember our neighbour growing a crop of maize in a paddock and had sown the outside? or somewhere in the paddock with peas....  spent ages eating in there.....

least it was PEAS they grew with the maize, not the OTHER crop....

[Raven]

I have just been planting some seeds in home-made mini-greenhouses  , fingers crossed big-time that they work..

I got egg cartons, seed-raising mix, large plastic bags and a variety of seeds. Mostly veg but a couple of flowers have snuck in 

oh, to have half of my nana's green thumbs 
my great-grandad had a commercial orchard in Hamilton many moons ago, I believe where the Melville shops are now - AND its in the archives that he won some prize for growing veg in the (like) A&P show way way back!

so in theory I should have inherited a green thumb or two.....

[♦ snoopy ♥]

had been spraying ragwort this morning and decided to grab some more tyres from up the hill for my potatoes..   Just been and placed them on top of the first tyres and OMG!!!!
 
Loads of my plants are water deprived/heat exhausted!!!!!!

So have just set up my sprinkler and am providing 'first aid water relief'    Stuff the sun.... will accept a few burnt leaves, rather than dead plants by tonight!!!!!

[♦ snoopy ♥]

and for the record.....  its 28 Deg C here...

frig, I knew I was hot spraying ragwort, sweat dripping off my nose material...  but didnt realise it was that hot!!!!
Okey spent most of the time sitting in troughs!!!!!

[bintyonekenobi]

    I'm surprised you weren't sitting in there with him!!

I have a mass profusion of flowers everywhere, a riot of colours but the weeds!!!  my poor vege garden and my poor pot plants! argh what a few short days will do!!

[♦ snoopy ♥]

my flower garden would have a mass profusion of flowers if I actaully managed to look after it.....

Why is it that weeds are soooo sneaky and quite often take on the 'look' of the vege growing right next to it......  

[homey]

my gardens (vegies) are finally looking good!  They get watered twice a day, have no room to plant anything else but at least 3 potatoes will be coming out in a week or 2!

[Raven]

I'm mostly growing things in pots, so that might be an idea homey if you are short of garden 

[homey]

a bit short of pots too 

Did just read in the local rag that old Wally whats his name the gardening freak plants a lot in pots etc and those polestyrine trays, might try to find some of them and do the smaller things like carrots, spring onions etc in them to save the room outside for the potatoes and pumpkins etc...

[zilees]

help please planted a packet off mixed seeds and these have come up,not sure if plant or weed 

[Lisa]

don't know zis.   Doesn't look familiar to me.

[♦ snoopy ♥]

was it mixed 'flower' seeds?????

[Lisa]

wasn't marijauna seeds anyway 

[♦ snoopy ♥]

 

[zilees]

yeah was flower seeds

no not marijauna seeds lisa  i now what they look like

[Lisa]

   my brand new little wee carnation that I planted yonks ago is opening up. Purple flowers    I'm taking it when I move.

[Raven]

Looks like a weed, Zis 

[homey]

I dug up 2 potato plants the other day, had to we'd run out LOL.  A couple of weeks early so they're still a bit puny, but seeing the price of taties in the shop now I think I'll be digging up more when we run out too!

On a plus side I now have 4 tomato plants planted in where they came out!   

[Lisa]

   I don't have a veggie garden at my new place. It's impossible to grow everything in pots. I will have 4 tomatoe plants in pots though.

[ftroop]

sooooo, nearly a year later. Got more veges  growing or attempting to grow. Just couldn't let the thread fall off the bottom of the page.......