video - white house veggie garden

While doing my daily blog visits on Skippy's Vegetable Garden i just found this video its a good video and sure is worth the watch its about the white house should have a veggie garden.
http://www.carletongarden.blogspot.com/



The site they talk about at the end is http://www.eattheview.org/

October Egg Count

In October my 3 Isa brown hens laid 64 eggs between all 3 of them and back in January they laid 72 so i wounder how many they will lay in November and December.

Quick Update

i haven't been blogging that much been busy with school work now have my senior first aid course done and my green card done that today.

Some photos of my garden while i haven't been on.

Red Plums

Rain

Rain.
this time last year at Newcastle you remember how that big ship got stuck at nobbies beach it has been one year this June long weekend.
it has rained here for 4 days so since the start of June we have had 47mm and today (Wednesday the 4th of June) we have had 44mms. where our creek is flowing. is alot of water.
the weather radar map.

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/radar.jsp?lt=radarz&lc=004&ane=1&anf=1&and=1&ana=7&anb=333&anc=3&lya=1&lyk=1&lye=1

Todays Harvest

Today i harvested 5 big carrots and 2 eggs

How I make my seed raising mix.

How I make my seed raising mix.

Items needed:

1x Coir Peat Brick (I used 2)

For 1 brick you use 4.5L of rain water since I used 2 bricks I used 9L.

Some sulfate of Potash and some potting mix.

Stuff i used.

Instructions:

-Put the Coir Peat brick(s) in a wheel barrow then add 4.5L of good water (if using two bricks use 9L)

-Leave it there for 10-15 minutes

-then add some sulfate of potash and

some potting mix or dry sand.

-Mix it all together.

Then it is ready to use. I store the stuff I

don’t use all at once in my potting mix containers.

Coir peat brick when it doubled it size.

finished Product. =)

Garden Update: Bed 1,3,4,5,6 and 7

Bed 1

Over summer i have been growing Pumkins in this bed. i am leaving them and letting the plants break down in there, on sunday i moved a bit of them over so i could plant Garlic. This is my frist year for planting garlic.

Bed 3:

bed 3 has broccil, brussel spourt and soon to be a cauilflower plant. The brussel spourt seedlings are from bunning warehouse and the broccil and cauilflowers are the ones i grew my self. I sown the broccil seeds straight out into the garden but have had the cauilflower seeds growing in my greenhouse.

Brussel spourts right at the back near the Rhurbarb and Broccil at the front the broccil seed germinated one the 16th of apirl.

Bed 4:

bed 4 has carrots 1st sowing, 2nd sowing and radish and beetroot.



Before





After.





Bed 5:

Bed 5 is my onion bed, the types of onions it has in is gladalan white, Cream gold,Purplette,leeks (from bunnings) and spring Onions (from bunnings)





Spring Onions Up Close.




Bed 6:

bed 6 has peas and beans





Bed 7:

Bed 7 has in it lettuce, silver beet and spinach.
No Photos of this bed sorry.



Seedlings:

tomatoes all different types capsuicm eggplant wormwood , parsely (thanks yeehah for seeds) and cork tree seeds.

Tree Lurence seeds

Wormwood seedlings

Haverset

Today in the garden i haverseted 2 big carrots and 4 nice sized passion fruits. Tomorrow i have a lot of work to do in my gardens from weeding to planting seedlings and sowing some veggie seeds. ill keep u updated as well ill take a photo of each area before i begin and a photo of each area after i finsh.

New Forums

There is a new forums which our friend cosmic (http://cosmicgardening.blogspot.com/)
the new forum can be found at http://cosmicconnection.forumc.biz/index.htm

ill try and update my blog twice a week or more.

March Weather

highest this month 30.4°C on the 13th.
lowest this month 7.7°Con the 31st.

Rain:
45.6mm

total for 2008:

413.0mm

autistic child in Australia

This website was mentioned on the Today show this morning:http://www.1000hours.com.au
They are petitioning the government to provide funding for every autistic child in Australia to get 1000 of early intervention per year for two years. Very easy to sign the petition so why not :)

Egg Count

Egg count for March was 49 eggs so mean the total for the year is know up to 148 at the end of march.i keep track of this is a Mircosoft excel sheet (if you want to have a look at it please just email me and ill be happy to send you a copy).

Crop Rotation for 2008/2009

Here it is crop rotation for 08 and 09

Autumn/ Winter

Bed 1:
Carrots
Beetroot
Radish

Bed 2:
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Kale

Bed 3:
Peas

Bed 4:
Onions (4 types)

Bed 5:
Silver beet
Spinach
Lettuce

Bed 6:
Lebanese cumber (it says all year round)


Spring/summer:

Bed 1:
Tomatoes
Eggplant
Capsicum
sunflowers

Bed 2:
Radish
Carrots

Bed 3:
Lettuce


Bed 4:
Cumber

Bed 5:
Pumpkins

Bed 6:
Think ill let bed 6 have a little rest this year
May be a green manure crop

Thanks Yeehah

Thank you alot yeehah for seeding me some seeds down in the mail i cant say thank you engouh =]

I am still alive

I am still alive just been busy with school and in my garden ill try and find some time to make a proper post. =)