Wow. You have a very impressive garden. It is great to see everyone’s spring gardens starting to flourish, while our, now winter gardens quieten down, with mostly brassicas, broadbeans, parsnips and carrots and winter greens in the garden and onions and shallots waiting for me to prick them out...
I find this very interesting, shame copper wire is soooo expensive here to buy. Already people are stealing power cables to strip the power lines to reclaim and copper and on sell it.
We use wood ash around our fruit trees and in the vegetable garden and in the compost will no ill effects. I think the Potash from it helps the fruiting of the fruit trees. I also use coffee grounds when I can get them in the compost and lightly sprinkled on the vegetable garden. Little and...
If you are positive the root with green growth attached has come from the parent tree and the parent tree wasn’t grafted then you should have a clone of it. However, if the tree was grafted onto rootstock, then probably not.
Hi Elsa. Welcome. I’m a new member too and so far this group are really friendly and helpful. What country are you from? I’m from New Zealand, at the “bottom” of the world. Cheers, Lyndie
Welcome. Like Mandy, who is in Aus, here in NZ we are heading into winter after a wet ”summer”. Still warm during the day, mid teens, but cooler at night, which is nice for sleeping. Gardens are gearing up for winter production. Cheers
Hi Luna, your garden looks amazing. From what I understand from way earlier posts, you are in Germany and have an allotment? Great idea for people living in apartments etc and don’t have the area to garden at home. You can grow Rhubarb from seed if you can get your hands on some. Plant it in...
The seed of store bought vegetables with seed in will grow. Pumpkins, zucchini, tomatoes, watermelon, capsicums, chillies etc. Nothing better than proving nay sayers wrong. How are your seedlings growing now?
Hi I’m Lyndie and I’m a little addicted to gardening. Not only do I have lots of gardens at home, including a tunnel house, “paddock” garden, house gardens, an orchard and chickens, I also work “out the back” at a Garden centre near where I live, sowing seed, propagating, planting, weeding etc...