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Holy moly @Oaktree! you've become a veggie pro so fast! It's unbelievable! Your patch sounds just amazing.

I think the world is conspiring to get me into veggies. Ive had your update, a tour of dad's patch yesterday, and a mate sent me a video of hers! So I went and bought some seedlings. Just lettuce and herbs, I'm still wary after the possums ate my entire veggie patch last time haha! But I'm very excited about them. Thanks for the inspiration! I think I must have a lemon tree now too...

Just WOW @Oaktree It sounds wonderful.

My tag did not work either, but I eventually looked for you. I saw your photos on Sophias thread. An inspiration. My vegies are doing alright, but small potatoes ...lol

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Hi guys, good to see you all passing through here. Long time no see. I have been checking the forums daily but haven't posted much recently. Did you get into any gardening @LeChuck ?

@Appleblossom I would love to see some pictures of your garden. I don't know what happened @TAB but this post went up prematurely. I only noticed because I was having trouble adding my pictures.

I have been busy in the garden. It makes me happy. This week I picked some young beetroot and enjoyed them roasted. They were yummy and I know that they were chemical free. The only imputs were manure, compost and water.

At the beginning of Spring I put in 4 new raised garden beds in my front yard. I planted

1) turnips and beetroot

2) lettuce and strawberries

3) tomatoes(planted too closely together), capsicums and eggplants

4) corn

Let's see if I can add the photos now? Nope it's saying the pics are too big. Oh well I guess no pictures.

Anyway I also have a huge cherry tomato plant growing that came up all by itself with like a million baby tomatoes on it. I have already picked half a dozen off it. I have several rhubarb plants which are doing well, some asparagus which is in its infancy and can't be picked for another couple of years. The pumpkins and melons out the back are doing well and have flowers on them. I noticed the first little baby pumpkin on my Queensland Blue today. I dragged hubby out to look at it as I was very proud lol. I also have 13 volunteer tomato plants that came up in very poor sandy soil so I dug them up and put them in pots in compost. Yesterday I dug in some manure and compost into the bed they came from so I will replace them back there in about a week. I am going to plant some beans once my corn is bigger because I will use the corn canes as a trellis, I am also planning to plant a couple of zucchini plants and some more lettuce. All my lettuce is getting big and is now ready to eat so I need to plant a succession crop. Sorry I couldn't post they pictures folks, you will have to use your imaginations instead. Overall I am really enjoying my garden, it's my happy place. I am also enjoying volunteering at the children's hospital even though my psychiatrist advised me not to. It just goes to show that although they mean well they don't know everything. Well I would love to hear back from you all. Please drop me a note. Hoping that you are getting well @tonys

Meggle

I've been thinking about how you are going @Oaktree . Hope you are okay. I remember you posting at one stage that your hubby went to work so you were a bit lonely.

Hi @tyme

Please go back up and read my full post. It posted prematurely,

Yes I have been a bit lonely whilst hubby is at work. I am not used to being by myself and I don't know what to do to pass the time. I guess I could always clean, the house is always a mess but understandably that idea is not that attractive. I do have things on during the week and I do feel quite busy but I guess I just need to get used to my own company.

Thanks for leaving me a note. It's lovely to hear from you.

Meggle

@Oaktree 💚

there are tricks re photos @Oaktree if email them to yourself from phone can choose size of file eg. or can use snipping tool on windows etc just saying.

I have still done Nothing in way of gardening. ok i have a hose, a spray nozzle , but got then 5 months ago, got sprinklers recently and tiny trowel and fork also secateurs . threw so much out moving then moving again need basics again, digging fork, spade, rake, leaf rake, even thinking about hiring rotary hoe, ground looks like rock

@Oaktree hey Meggle, so nice to hear from you. Your garden sounds so amazing. So successful, full of life and carrying so much.hope. It's really exciting. So great to know you have such a happy place !!

@TAB

Maybe this year you should just plan your garden. Then in winter when the ground is softer you could dig the ground over and prepare the beds for spring. Gardening is not a very cheap exercise. I spent almost $30 on 6 bags of cow manure yesterday. Luckily some friends gave me their coupons for free compost from the council so I used 12 bags of that yesterday. I think the soil in South Australia will be better than the sand we have here but you may have to contend with clay? Not really sure. If you have clay you need to dig in plenty of organic matter so this year start a compost pile. You can compost anything that was once living including paper and cardboard. Good luck with your planning. That will be something that you can spend time thinking about.

Meggle

Soil can be anything in SA will know more when got under surface. Looks very hard and red/orange .used to some sort of brown. @Oaktree not in a rush maybe planters first