Gardening anyone?

pfrsantos · **Reply #390 on:** May 06, 2022, 05:19:47 PM

Quote from: Aloha on May 06, 2022, 04:37:54 PM

Here is my "greenhouse".

Aloha · **Reply #391 on:** May 06, 2022, 05:28:33 PM

Aloha · **Reply #392 on:** May 18, 2022, 06:24:32 PM

More flowers from my poppy.

Kev D · **Reply #393 on:** May 27, 2022, 09:45:06 PM

This years veggies are slowly coming on

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Kev D · **Reply #394 on:** May 27, 2022, 09:46:08 PM

And a flower pot my mum did is doing great

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MadPlumbarian · **Reply #395 on:** May 27, 2022, 10:20:16 PM

Quote from: Aloha on May 18, 2022, 06:24:32 PM

More flowers from my poppy.

Those are beautiful, I like the cacti behind them,

The mrs wants to try her hand at gardening, so we’ll, well I’ll be making a 5gal bucket garden soon,
JR

Aloha · **Reply #396 on:** May 28, 2022, 03:51:17 AM

Kev the garden is looking good as are mums flowers.

Aloha · **Reply #397 on:** May 28, 2022, 03:52:36 AM

Thanks MadP. The cacti are really nice since they also produce a huge flower. They are all from cuttings too which is nice. I should have a flower soon I hope.

I really like the idea of your bucket garden. Have fun and happy gardening.

MadPlumbarian · **Reply #398 on:** May 28, 2022, 04:06:42 AM

Quote from: Aloha on May 28, 2022, 03:52:36 AM

Thanks MadP. The cacti are really nice since they also produce a huge flower. They are all from cuttings too which is nice. I should have a flower soon I hope.

I really like the idea of your bucket garden. Have fun and happy gardening.

I love cacti, especially the saguaro, and some of the flowers cacti produce are amazing, you’d think they wouldn’t produce a flower but they do, I also love how the saguaro has a skeletal structure, I bought a piece of one and made it into a hiking stick,,
JR

Aloha · **Reply #399 on:** May 28, 2022, 04:09:52 AM

Nice.

I'm guessing I'll have flowers fairly soon. I've posted them before and once they bloom I'll post again.

MadPlumbarian · **Reply #400 on:** May 28, 2022, 04:12:22 AM

Cool I didn’t know this subject existed,
JR

Vidar · **Reply #401 on:** May 28, 2022, 04:12:42 AM

Just about every other year I do salads and or berries. I've tried a few times before but here are some nemesis that keep fighting me:

Turns out hares really like salads, and elk will happily eat certain berries. Ok - put up physical barriers against those.
Then there was mice on the berries. Tighter physical barriers, and tried make it attractive for stoats to live nearby. Stoats are fun as a bonus!
So far so good - then snails showed up. This one has me at a loss, but at least they seem to be somewhat selective of what they prefer. Maybe mice eat snails, and less mice means more snails? This is getting complicated!
And last year some swarm of big ugly black flies showed up and ruined the berries. Never seen that kind before or since. Really weird.

I'm starting to consider a greenhouse. Too much nature out in nature

gregozedobe · **Reply #402 on:** May 28, 2022, 08:54:58 AM

It's coming on to winter here, so not much plant-based gardening happening. However, our new doberman puppy seems to quite enthusiastic about excavating, so some landscaping is happening here and there (she digs a hole, we fill it in, she digs the hole out again, we fill it in, rinse, repeat etc etc).

The only solution I've had any success dealing with snails & slugs is to regularly go out at night after rain and catch & despatch all the "slimies" I see (can't use snail baits as they are very toxic for but quite attractive to dogs). A good bright torch/flashlight helps a lot. We do have a resident lizard (blue tongue skink) that is supposed to eat snails, but all I can say is it doesn't seem have a good enough appetite to make meaningful inroads into our population of "slimies".

Kev D · **Reply #403 on:** May 28, 2022, 05:38:51 PM

I use those beer traps, they love it and go in and drown.

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gregozedobe · **Reply #404 on:** May 28, 2022, 06:48:33 PM

Quote from: Kev D on May 28, 2022, 05:38:51 PM

I use those beer traps, they love it and go in and drown.

I suspect I would end up with empty traps and two drunken dogs staggering around

Aloha · **Reply #405 on:** May 28, 2022, 07:04:49 PM

Why I can totally see this Greg

Vidar · **Reply #406 on:** May 28, 2022, 08:14:05 PM

So snails like beer? Hm. Might be worth a shot.

I can imagine some of the local birds having a go at beer as they seem to have a go at anything. Hopefully they wont fly into any windows..

Syncop8r · **Reply #407 on:** May 28, 2022, 10:20:27 PM

Looking good Kev!

I need to tidy up my vege garden and see if there's anything I can grow over winter.

Syncop8r · **Reply #408 on:** May 28, 2022, 10:21:25 PM

Apparently putting crushed eggshell around plants may keep slugs and snails away.

Echotech · **Reply #409 on:** May 29, 2022, 04:22:41 AM

The patch behind the bin was waist deep in climbing weeds, been so wet in Sydney it went crazy over summer, took a couple of hours but very happy with the result

There’s so much of it I’ve used it to smother another area of weeds, the bin just has some branch trimmings