Re: Growing your own Veggies?
Last year I installed a couple of raised beds and grew runner beans/leeks/purple sprouting and lettuce.Re: Growing your own Veggies?
Re: Growing your own Veggies?
I buy seeds from a catalogue here in Australia, Eden Seeds. They are open pollinated varieties, so you can save your own seeds when possible. I grow herbs successfully, but the sub tropics can be hard on vegetables - silverbeet grows best (Swiss Chard). Currently I have some good cucumbers coming up.Re: Growing your own Veggies?
What a fascinating lot of fruits you have, Joan! Pics would be nice when the growing season starts ... isn't it just turning to Winter now in the Southern Hemisphere? My mom grew veggies in a Victory garden during the war; would have had chickens if allowed in the City.Re: Growing your own Veggies?
It was our midsummer's day two days ago, but you wouldn't know it. The rain and winds have cooled things down. We are supposed to be flopping around like stranded whales in the heat and humidity at this time of year, but we are wearing socks to keep our feet warm, and wellies in the garden!!Re: Growing your own Veggies?
Too right, Joan! The Depression mantra when I was growing up was "Use it up. wear it out, make it do or do without". and that is now recycling! And very fashionable now. I agree, growing up without fast food (junk) was probably one reason most of us are in quite good health, considering. You mentioned "elderberry tree"; here in the States elderberries are a shrub, grow wild and make marvellous jelly; used to help my grandma pick them by the railroad tracks when I was a child.Re: Growing your own Veggies?
I guess an Elderberry is a large bush/shrub or a small tree!!Re: Growing your own Veggies?
As I recall it was jelly, not jam, but may be mistaken, that was back in the 30s - 40s so the recollection isn't that clear after all this time. I remember standing in the kitchen watching grandma stirring the mixture in a very large pot ... marvellous aroma!. She never tackled wine, though. When I bought this house there was a large fig tree that bore heavily ... forget the variety name but they were green when mature. Unfortunately it succumbed in one of the very bitter harsh Winters in the 70s. I'd love to try a pomegranate, not sure if it would survive the weather, though.
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