vegie garden pics....show us yours!

[Stardust]

i love seeing photos of peoples' vegie gardens.
Here are mine. All you can see are the spring onions, parsley, chives. But we've also got baby beans, marigolds, a bay leaf tree. oregano, thyme, cabbages and brussel sprouts, curry plant, three types of mint, rosemary, chilli plants, potatos, asparagus, leeks. I also have a passionfruit vine and two grape vines waiting to go in.
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g253/mollymum/spring/Picture2163.jpg

And the crazily out of control apple trees
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g253/mollymum/spring/Picture2165.jpg
Apple blossoms
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g253/mollymum/spring/Picture2166.jpg

[SeaStar]

lovely! We have only just started in our new house so I will wait until it gets a chance to grow a little.

[emd]

Will have to take photos of ours. Which might be the inspiration needed to do some work in it first :)

[Rinelle]

Mine is pretty much dry and deadish at the moment. I'll see if I can find some pics...

http://tirtairngire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dry-orchard-500x333.jpg

The orchard is surviving because it's irrigated, though we are losing a few trees on the fringes.

http://tirtairngire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/garden1-500x333.jpg

This picture is actually from a month or more ago now. I made three new beds in the front, but still haven't planted anything in them because it's just too dry! All that green stuff in the background is pretty much dead, though it is quite red now from lots of tomatoes ripening without their leafy cover!

As soon as it rains, and keeps raining for more than 5 minutes, I'll be out there planting. And I am going to try some wicking beds too, which should be easier to water, and thus stay greener.

[mama_bel]

I don't have any recent ones, but here's some of our gardens...

The first one is how I grow my vegies - it's like a jungle! The second is a harvest for a stir-fry tea and the third is our first greenhouse just as it was being built. I have more pics, but have no idea where I filed them! There's lots of pics on my garden blog (http://belindamoore.blogspot.com) too.

[Phoenix]

Oh they are beautiful! I am vege patch envious! I have wanted a vege garden for so long but as we rent I have been reluctant to plant anything and then have to move.

[mama_bel]

Phoenix, styrofoam boxes and large pots make excellent vegie gardens. Or perhaps you could nestle a food plant or two into existing gardens? Don't wait! :)

[Phoenix]

I haven't seen styrofoam boxes around, do you have any idea where I can get them from. My PIL have a lovely vege garden and their lettuce is delicious.
BTW Thanks, I might just do that.

[mama_bel]

You can get styrofoam boxes from fruit and vegie shops and some supermarkets, especially smaller independent supermarkets. They're used to carry produce from the farm to the market to the shops.

[Phoenix]

Thank you so much for that mama-bel

[Lee]

Oh cool thread!! I will have to take some pictures of mine when I am out there working today. It's planting day!! Wooo!!

[Hailstorm]

Oh guess what? I totally have a vegie garden woot!! Whilst i was at work the other day the kids and Veg got digging, it's so cute and small!!! I have no batts in my camera ATM but I will get get some tomorrow and post some pics!!!

[indigomumma]

ah - we are just heading out for 'harvest' as bubby has just woken from midday nap, but will post some pics soon. took a few yesterday of the luscious garden before we harvest it all. SO much produce we are having to pass it around, I love that about growing your own food, the energy of giving. It's great!

On a side note, my posts will now read posts:2 under bel's posts:454 and hails posts:409... oh bless :( Will have to get my butt back in here and converse some more! :) Also our little backyard veggie patch may feel a bit embarrassed when I post him with pics of bels 53 odd acres of luscious farmland! Bel, I loved your recent blog post with everything you grow on the farm! very inspiring. It exhausted me just reading through it, let alone tending to it! :)

[Natenimiri]

Hey Rinelle, what's wicking beds??
nat :-)

[Lee]

Just a reminder to Kyls.... post some piccies of your cute little garden!!

What's that you say? I ALSO have not posted pictures? Um, well, yes... good point.

I'll show you mine if you show me yours. You first. :D

[Hailstorm]

oooooh you're on Lee!! but I still don't have batts in my camera.... We have a few teeny tiny itti bitti green sprouts craking through the dirt!!! So cute....

[Nyree]

what's wicking beds??

Something we're going to try, too

http://outbackharvest.blogspot.com/2008/09/wicking-worm-beds.html
http://www.maireid.com/wickingbeds.html
http://www.wickingbed.com/

[Savannah]

We don't have any recent ones either, but here are a couple from a few months ago.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff95/Dragonfly_Emi/plum1.jpg

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff95/Dragonfly_Emi/gard1.jpg

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff95/Dragonfly_Emi/greens-1.jpg
The vegies are now spread throughout all the gardens and this patch has become the chicken coup.

We are doing a style of gardening called Forest Gardening, where everything is all mixed in the beds.

[Stardust]

Wow Savannah. Beautiful!

[Phoenix]

This is my partners parents vegie garden. They have only had it this yr and it is going really well. Fairly jealous and I am sharing it because it is a great way to have your own backyard vegie patch.

[Phoenix]

This is their herb garden.

[mama_bel]

bels 53 odd acres of luscious farmland! :)

Only 42 acres, Elke! And half of it is rainforest, and most of the other half is pasture. We only grow food in the 3 acre house paddock, and even there there's the house, sheds, yards for animals (the house cow and calf)... I think 3 acres is barely manageable in this climate, I can't imagine actually farming the rest!

I need to take pics of my gardens soon. I have guinea pigs in my greenhouse #2. It's all raised beds, and they live around the beds on the floor. They eat the naughty weeds and grass which grow there, and they have salad growing in the beds which is harvested for them twice a day. They have their little houses in there too, and just love living in such a big 'cage'! It's kinda like safe free ranging. ;)

[Rinelle]

Ohh, what a great idea Bel! Sounds like heaven for guinea pigs. I might have to steal that idea some time, LOL.

[Stardust]

Awesome Bel. Your home sounds like paradise!

[Phoenix]

Time for an updated IP Garden tour. :)

[milkymumma]

Posting to subscribe so I remember to come back with photos :)

[Phoenix]

Can't wait to see your budding garden MM!

[boy wrangler]

I'll show our progress over the past few months. We moved here in August and got straight to work in the garden. The first pic is from standing on the back stairs before we did anything, the second is Matt and his brother ploughing up the herb garden, the third is standing on the back stairs again, herb garden on the left, me and E working in the rotational veg garden starting to plant.

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I'll stand on the back stairs tomorrow and take a pic again of the whole thing. The herb garden has gone crazy, but the veg garden isn't going so well. :(

[elflyn]

I share a plot at our local Community Garden. I would love to share some pics, we have grown some awesome veggies this year, although everything has drowned atm. Hopefully once the rain clears we can get back and re-plant.
My own backyard is a work in progress, I am trying to document it in pics for my blog but so far all we have is a lot of mud.
Loving this thread everyone is so dedicated.

[Savannah]

We don't have any recent ones either, but here are a couple from a few months ago.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff95/Dragonfly_Emi/gard1.jpg


I was looking through these pics and amazed at this one. I have built garden beds around the trees now and underplanted with herbs and veg. Here is a more recent one that I have on PB. I will have to take some new ones.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff95/Dragonfly_Emi/071.jpg

[jodiemiller]

I haven't taken any garden pics for a~ages but I will do so and share here ASAP.

I did take some pics of the chicks the other day, so that's a start.

[Phoenix]

Pics, can someone share pictures? Please? I am in NEED of a garden drool. :)

[milkymumma]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5208/5259576267_5b1014ab7c_m.jpg
Our vegie patches

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5206/5259576265_10b93a13d3_m.jpg
Propagation box made from an old doona packaging case and some bricks

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5083/5259576261_ea8ecd4547_m.jpg
When the seedlings are too big for their punnets, they get promoted to pots on the front porch

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5003/5259576221_154d361bd1_m.jpg
DS exploring around the side of the house. This is where I want to put chooks, eventually. It's the only part of the yard that isn't in full sun all day.

[Phoenix]

Looking great MM! I love your seedling bags!

[milkymumma]

Thanks Phoenix! They are really effective.

[jodiemiller]

Hey, I have heaps of those doona bags and was wondering what I could use them for. Thanks MM!

I'm off to take some pics of what the recent rains have done to our garden. It's so overgrown that I think I'll have to sacrifice some plants to make some room!

[Savannah]

I got excited when I saw you had posted here Jodie - I thought you might be posting pics!

[milkymumma]

feel free to be excited about my pics, Sav ;):2lol

[boy wrangler]

:2lol or mine! Mine are super exciting!

[Phoenix]

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here is the old pics (http://www.intuitiveparenting.com.au/showthread.php?1879-Growing-food-in-Central-Queensland/page2&highlight=gardening+central+qld)
This is my garden now!

[jodiemiller]

Well, I'd better not disappoint! I got my feet all muddy taking pictures for y'all and I'll have them uploaded ASAP.

[jodiemiller]

Ooh, Emma! The bath tubs look like they work a treat for you. Don't you love it when the seedlings erupt like that? Shame to have to thin them.

[boy wrangler]

Looks great! Our patch is looking absolutely pitiful at the moment. :(

[Phoenix]

The baths are awesome! Everything I plant there thrives! Well if little hands don't get to them. I have beetroots that have been touched a bit too much so not sure if they will grow.

Woot, I don't think I saw your vegie patch when I came over Jodie!

It will get there BW. My front garden is awful, I need to do some serious work to get it productive.

[Savannah]

Of course I am excited about your gardens too ladies! I love gardens of all shapes, sizes and styles. I came to gardening recently in my life, but Im so pleased I did. I like that we share pictures and ideas here, because it helps us to expand our knowledge and resources.

[jodiemiller]

OK, I'm ready to share. Will just start with one or two and see what happens.

For orientation, we have several mature mango trees, custard apples, guavas and stone fruit (recently pruned back hard) as well as pecans and macadamia nuts (also recently pruned). There are also a few varieties of mulberries, some tropical apples and grapes. Our block of land is a long, thin rectangle oriented north-south and our house sits at the front running east-west.

This is the view to the south-east:

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This is the view to the south-west:

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And this arrived just as I was finishing up with the photos:

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[jodiemiller]

I tried over and over to make the images bigger but this is what they end up like. OK, that's the macro view. Now for the micro-view.

This is the view from our back steps towards the chicken coop. Banana circle in the foreground, a row of custard apples in the mid-ground (right) and guavas (left):

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The same view just a bit further down the slope shows the evolving vegie garden (very overgrown after being away during all this rain!):

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The chook shed from the other side (tadaaa! Another shed!) with qld arrowroot going feral from the run-off. The lychee tree just visible to the right.

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The understorey of the lychee tree gets mowed about twice a season to make mulch:

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Lychees fattening up for harvest in about a month's time (what we can save from the birds anyway):

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[boy wrangler]

Looks lovely Jodie!

[jodiemiller]

This is the herb garden between our two houses. We mostly eat from here.

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Forgive the clutter. We arrived home to storms. I didn't even bother to stand the ladder upright.

Here's the herb garden from the other side:

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This is Number Nine. Yes, we name all our vehicles and computers. Number Nine came to us on 09-09-09. Thus the name.

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Behind the tractor is the original aviary, now too delapitated to protect chickens. Here is the view from the other side, looking up-hill. Qld arrowroot (again) goes feral in the foreground, with the mulch pile and the wood pile visible in front of the trailor, which will hopefully become a future duck house. Guava trees are visible in the background and thru the mesh you can just see the newest banana circle - not yet very established.

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We ate our first figs last summer but there were only a few. I'm really looking forward to eating these! We have two trees.

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[jodiemiller]

Our chookens:

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This garden has slowly developed thanks to my brother-in-law. A nice place to contemplate:

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Rehabilitation of some of the original vines that were here in the orchard:

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The dam, and behind it, some of the rainforest timbers we've planted:

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Some weed I haven't identified. Is it lucerne, millet? Whatever it is I think I'll save the seed heads to plant out the old peach trees area with chook fodder. Let me know if you can identify it.

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[jodiemiller]

There, all done. :)

[milkymumma]

Wow, I am so impressed Jodie!!
Everything looks so lush and green.

[jodiemiller]

That would be the unrelenting rain we've had of late, MM. The garden is usually green. Now it's so boggy we can't mow and you need gumboots to walk around the orchard.

[Phoenix]

Gorgeous garden Jodie! I have fig and guava envy. YUM!! I love your wooden bench chair, it does look like a whole lot of thinking can go on there.

I haven't been able to find any mini mangoes on our tree yet.

[Savannah]

Wow, what a lovely spot you live in Jodie!

[jodiemiller]

Emma, there are no mangos on the trees this season. It must have rained at flowering time. Besides, mangos tend to have a bumper crop only every second year, which was last year, so you've got plenty to look forward to next year. :)

Thanks for looking. I do feel very lucky to live here.

[Phoenix]

Ah, that makes sense. One of the ladies at the markets yesterday said something about it raining at the wrong time, but I wasn't sure that would mean my tree would be effected. We did see a couple of tiny green mango pods about 3 months ago but I can't see any now.

[boy wrangler]

All the mangoes that we're buying now are coming from the NT or FNQ. Such a bummer cause this time last year we could buy local mangoes for less than $10 a tray and now they are expensive! No dried mango this season! :(

[Rinelle]

Hmm, there are stacks of mangoes around here on the side of the road for $10 a tray. Haven't stopped to buy any though, so not sure how local they are.

[jodiemiller]

They're all NT mangoes, if they're the trays we observed on our drive to and from Mackay recently.

[Savannah]

All of our mangoes have to come a long way to get here. I've planted a tree in our yard in a sheltered, warm, north facing spot and we'll see how it goes but I am not sure if we'll ever get fruit.

[boy wrangler]

And the tray is really small, not a 'tray' sized tray, but you get maybe 5 or 6 mangoes.

Even if you don't get fruit Sav you'll get a good climbing tree! :)

[Savannah]

Yeah. And shade for the chickens in Summer. And it fills a gap. So useful none the less.

[Phoenix]

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Ha! I thought this is funny as! I obviously haven't weeded for such a long time that this pumpkin can grow up the tree!

[Savannah]

It looks like my place Em! lol. Jackie French recommends growing pumpkins and melons up trees, in one of her books. It keeps them off the ground and away from pests.

[Phoenix]

LOL! I wish my garden could look like your place! It was from my compost, I don't even remember eating a butternut.

[jodiemiller]

Love it! It happens here too now and then. We get feral passionfruit here all the time. We rarely eat passionfruit. I reckon the birds bring the seeds in sometimes.