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).