Self Sufficient Culture

(As an aside we went for a drive in rural western Sydney on Saturday. As I was driving past the USyd Vet Science thingee they have out at Cobbitty, I noticed the whole street is lined with kurrajongs, loaded to the max with dangling pods. My wife didn't let me stop to pick any, "You already have enough!" she said. Argh!)

2,369 grams of kurrajong pods yielded 380 grams of seeds, about 16% of the total weight.

Had a cold snap here last night. The early hours of this morning reached freezing point. I have 3 banana pups growing in a pot on my front veranda. Although they're babies only a few months old and not quite well established enough to still be fragile and susceptible to everything, they're not exactly small, and they're in a huge pot. Not enough time nor preparation to do anything else about it, I had no choice but to bring them inside for the night to keep them alive.

Being a huge pot, it's heavy, there's not quite enough space for me to leave it in the hallway by the front door, and my bedroom door is the closest to the front door, so into my bedroom went the huge pot of banana babies. Imagine my son's surprise when he came into my room to ask me a question - he was so stunned by the sight of these not so little bananas filling up most of the space in my room that he forgot what his question was and instead asked if my room was now a jungle. 😂 YEP! Ah the things we do to keep our plants alive.

Haha I can only imagine the surprise! But golly, they would've been heavy

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that's why my "little" banana experiment still balances in it's pot on the windowsill in the kitchen 🫣 plans are to take it to the garden soon and give it a massive pot there, but frankly albeit the frost saints beeing over none of us trusts the weather enough for them not to die at the moment... soooo we wait just a week or so longer

Hey guys, my grandfather in law has taken a turn for the worst and got hospitalised, so my presence might be a little spotty for a little bit. I'll do my best to keep everything up and running, but my replies might be rushed a little. I'll still be here to answer any Self Sufficient Culture related questions, and to moderate of course. Thank you for understanding

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New and extra long fishing video!

First day of the workweek, how are we all doing? I've got some new seedlings going

Hey Mandy, I finally added a Mint page to my herbs and spices article this morning. What herb do you want me to tackle next?

Oohlala. Oof, there's so many to pick. Perhaps rosemary?

one hint about rosemary we call it the hermit herb because most cannot choose correct plants to grow with it does pair well with lavender because it shares similar growing condition as companion plant grow with - sage - marjoram - thyme - oregano , DO NOT grow around basil - mint - tomatoes - pumpkins or cucumbers . ph 6.0 to 7.0 , well drained soil with plenty of sun most places will grow where it gets full sun all day but a minimum guideline no less then 6 hrs , make sure to feed it regular it is a heavy feeder liquid fertilizers seem to work best if grow in pot, let it dry out a bit between watering. if very wet weather they are susceptible to powdery mildew. some areas i visit overseas they plant them as close as 1 1/2 to 2 feet apart and use rosemary as a hedge

Interesting!

Have a wonderful day, Self Sufficient Cultivators!

You too!

Hello fellow gardeners! I'm excited and a bit overwhelmed tonight. I've had my name on the waiting lists of several fruit tree nurseries for 2 to 4 years (varies by nursery as I find them) for a very old and rarely grown anymore variety of fig tree (Blue Province), and tonight I finally got an email from one of the nurseries saying they had some available, so I ordered one... Finally! YAY! That's the exciting part. And not expecting to see one for a couple more years to come if I ever did see one at all, I haven't done anything about preparing the section of yard I want it to go in... which is going to take me the rest of the year to get sorted out. That's the overwhelming part. I guess it'll just have to live in a pot for a while. Meanwhile I'm expending all my energy this weekend digging out a tree stump that's located right next to a sewer main, which is ... interesting. How's everyone else's weekend been?

Haha oh my. Very exciting news, and I think the hard work will very well pay off. Thankfully a lot of plants don't mind being in a pot for a good while, until everything is ready

My weekend... oof... At the very least granddad got released from the hospital and is back home with us now, thankfully. But he's been finding it hard to adjust to his new situation. We'll get there though

Oh, and on garden news, another pot now has seedlings sprouting!