So what plants are people going to try this year.

dufflight · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:32 pm

I find winter to be a slow gardening time. But it does give me some time to think about what I can try once the weather warms up. This summer I'm going to give Brandywine Tomatoes a try after watching a few clips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IStH2lLlxWw

And chocolate vine, once the seeds have been in the fridge for another month or so.

Jaymie · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 6:18 pm

it's funny, winter is our peak growing season

dufflight · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:00 pm

Getting me into the garden in the cold weather might play a part in it. :sick:

The strawberries in the front room are going well. Plants have up to 10 flowers each. And 'Joy' is a nice tasting variety.

Simo · **Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:15 pm

I've planted out 5 tamarillo trees that I grew from seed, while they were in pots they seemed to wilt vey quickly on hot days if you didn't keep the water up to them, so it will be intersting to see how they handle the hot dry Perth summer. I triedto put them in the more moist sheltered part of my garden and would like to nurse at least one of thm through the summer so they can get their tap root down.

veggie boy · **Posted:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:43 pm

This year I'm thinking of concentrating on the things that I have found to work well in the past. While this sounds like a no brainer approach - my desire to try new things and my stuborness to keep trying things that have not worked well in the past often takes me away from such simple approaches.

The challenge now is to remember the things that have actually worked well :lol:

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gnash · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:22 pm

Getting more gardens ready for spring/summer, after the corn disaster last season (over 200 corn plants decimated by cockys) I'm going to grow corn in the yard and hopefully Grot will keep them away.
Lets just hope the corn survives the dog.
Also going to do water and rock melons in the yard as they went to crap last year as well.

Does anyone know if planting the melons with the corn is a good/bad thing?

Simo · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:56 pm

I reckon that the melon plants spreading over the ground would provide good sun protection/mulch for the corn, I know people plant pumpkin with corn for this reason.

gnash · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:30 pm

cool.....but you shouldn't plant pumpkin and melons close apparently :dunno:

Minti · **Posted:** Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:16 pm

I am planting purple this year, purple capsicum,purple beans, purple potatoes,yellow tomatoes cause it goes well with purple. Nothing like a colour co-ordinated vege patch. :thunbs:

Burnsy · **Posted:** Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:59 pm

I got purple spouting broccolli seeds and am trying to grow that. Not much luck so far :bash:

, might just spread the rest around the two new AP beds at school, everything seems to grow like a weed in that system.

Burnsy · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:36 pm

I have two purple sprouting broccoli up as seedings, about three weeks old now and not doing alot, will try some more direct into the new growbeds at school.

Planted Black Russian, Brandy Wine, Green Zebra and Beefsteak seeds today trying to get a jump on my tomatoes this season. Put them in one of those little clear plastic covered seedling trays you get from Bunnings. Not had a lot of success with raising seedlings from seed in the past and have always reverted to buying seedlings or direct sowing. If anyone has any tips I would be thankful.

Snags · **Joined:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 10:52 pm **Posts:** 234

I planted exotic Turkish eggplants
forgot I had and then weeded out some belladonna which I later realised was my exotic Turkish eggplants

big worm · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:49 pm

i am planting huge even for my standards, anything that grows into or thru winter. i fear hard times, and would rather have than not....sell if excess, but if stuff does go south......winter garden.
bw

Daffy · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:16 pm

I've done so much planting and mulching lately to get the jump on the weeds that have sprung up because of all the hot wet weather.
I am going to have to lighten my home mixed seed raising mix because my bean seeds started to rot before they had a chance to germinate.
It definitely needs more sand to allow the water to drain away faster.

I had brought fresh ginger from the supermarket but it sat in my onion keeper until it looked a bit wrinkled. I planted it in a pot without much hope anything would happen and promptly forgot about it. It's sprouted some very healthy shoots and so it has been planted out in the garden proper today.
I'm hoping my sudden attention doesn't kill it.

I've had a rash of feral birds eye chili's and cherry tomatoes come up in my garden beds.
Talk about unexpected gifts.
These plants are as tough as old boots, flower and fruit their heads off with very little water or even attention from myself and have survived the last wet season with all our excessive rain without faltering production and with none of the usual fungal infections or root rot.
It's become part of my morning routine to snack on these cherry tomatoes as I'm watering my various garden beds.
I'll be freezing the birds eye chili's until I can accumulate enough to make sweet chili sauce.

Another great surviver of our wet was the slim asian eggplants.
I brought these as a 4 pack from Bunnings 2.5 years ago and I have 2 left that are still going crazy with the fruiting.
These plants survived being utterly neglected and buried under 6 foot high elephant grass with no water until I rekindled my interest in growing food again.
These two plants still produce more egg plant than I can eat and I normally harvest what I need and trim the tired looking ones off and tuck them under the mulch to rot down and feed the parent plant.
I really don't stress about the bugs eating the leaves of the egg plant, after all I don't eat the leaves and the bugs seem to leave the fruit alone.
Everyones happy and much better off without the chemicals.

Any way...that's what is happening in my garden at the moment.

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