Frist Plantings for Winter.

Hello,
First Update for May 2009, ill try not to make this long and boring and not to short, remember comments are welcome here or on the forums you found me link, i like seeing comments from people who enjoy reading my blogs.

I got a New Short Handled shovel i bought it with my Easter Money only $22.00 at Big W.


On Tuesday i got some Seedlings and seeds from Bunnings Warehouse.
The seeds i got from there are:
- HawkesBerry Wonder Beans (planted in to garden next to peas and some into a seed tray)
- Carrots (garden bed)
-Radish (garden bed)
- Broccoli (Seed trays)
- Cauliflower (seed trays).

Now for the seedlings
- Peas (planted in bed 6)
- Broccoli (only got 2 pots of these and they are in bed 5)
- Cauliflower (same as Broccoli)
- Silver beat (bed 1)
- Onions (bed 2)
- Brussels Sprouts (bed 5)
photo of seedlings before planting



Here are some photos of preparing the soil and the seedlings in there.


Onion Bed



Cauliflower broccoli Brussel Spourts.


Peas Close up




Rhubarb Garden Update.


Garden Gloves from gardening Australia i got a few months ago.



one of my new hampshires that i am preparing for this weekends show


Compost bin Half Filled.

Another New Plant.

we have a mulberry tree we where given in summer still sitting in it's pot and i said to dad i reckon we should plant it yesterday night when i showed him where our new Guava tree was so we worked it out where i have Just came inside from digging the hole and planting it our fruit tree numbers are going up :)



We now have 10 fruit trees, 2 of them are purple plums, one green plum , two mulberry trees, one fig tree , 1 mandrine tree, two guavas and two Persimion trees, i wouldn't mind adding an apple tree and another fig tree to it as well.

My compost pile out in the paddock is doing well as well i have been using it in my gardens and will put some around all the fruit trees.

dug into the pile so you could see a bit of it

Tomato Exp Update 1

Tomato Exp Update 1
Pepe and myself are doing a little tomato Experiment this winter, more info on this site http://tokyo3.org/forums/gardening/topics/964/
Well my self sown tomatoes are doing fine one of them has a few little flowers on them now, not sure if ill get any tomatoes but.

New Plants

Second post on my blog for April now, not much longer till may now.
Well i am going to get into this post right now it could be a bit longer then my normal ones but i hope you enjoy it and my blog. Here goes......Not much has happened in my garden been to wet havent even order my seeds yet i have them all sitting on my seed order account but haven't bought them yet so to speak hopefully i get that done soon.
We lost our Rhubarb Patch over summer it is before we lost it. We ended up just rebuilding it with slippers and add goat poo to it, ended up filling the bed up with some free rhubarb crowns i got.


Where i got the Rhubarb crowns from (our Neightbours up the road) i also got this Guava tree from its not like the one we have already our old one is a StrawBerry Guava and this on is yellow and looks like a pear.



Also will be getting a few Bannana trees from up there as well, the lady up there she is nice to me lets me pick up cow poo out of her paddocks, good place to swap some up there she lives by herself.

Frist Update For 2009!

Hello Guys,
This is my frist update for 2009, and hopefully i can blog at least twice a month, Alot of Changed in my gardens, and around our place, frist of all ill start with a few of my new pets, me and my dad have got 2 bee hives.

Also i have got 6 new chooks some of you already know they are New Hampshires, i still have the 4 cross breeds the 3 isa browns and there rooster, my new ones are 4 pullets and 2 cockerels i am hopefully showing the New Hampshires this year as well, so there my new pets. Now for some changed which have happened to me i have left school, i had apperentership but it wasn't working out at all for me so i left that that was plumbing i am still going to tafe for that till i find some more work. It's looking to me like i should do something in Ag or Horticultre.

My garden was alright over summer wasnt to crash hot, i grew alot of tomatoes they survied the heat and had two crops off them which was good i have 3 Pumkins patches going all survied the heat and are still growing good, i also grew sunflowers and corn, thats all i grew in summer as it was a hot one.

My garden is a bit bair at the moment got to order some seeds for winter. currently in my garden i have the 3 pumkin beds still and radishes in one, I also got some wormwood Cuttings, which are growing very well. We lost our Rhurbarb patch in the hot weather so we are rebuilding the rhurbarb patch rasing it up and adding heaps of compost and goat poo or which will be free. and already have some Plants Orangised to go into the new patch.

Thats your Blooming lot for the time being guys.

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. =)