Depths of winter in Oz, have some raised vege beds. Currently growing (with minimal time and effort of late): Garlic, Spinach, Brocolli (most went to cabbage moths), a stack of rocket (spread the seeds from a few plants I let go to see last season). Strawberry’s, asparagus too.
Have 2 x IBC’s set aside for wicking beds - hoping to sort these by spring in a month or so’s time.
Have a row of stone fruit trees too (cherry, nectarine, peach, apricot, two plums (shared hole - companion plants), and a pineapple guava.
I think those really giant ones are a special strain, because I hit these with a moderate spray and there was definitely some wilting. Didn’t straight up burn the leaves, but they wilted big time for a couple days. I know that potassium is a big factor for their growth because each serving of pumpkin puree has about 880 mg. of it.
All of my neighbors tomatoes & stuff are going like gangbusters.
Those ones above have actually gotten visibly bigger in the last 2 days, and there are more new ones forming by the day.
I’m going to treat the yard and redo a couple of things next year. They got stunted by bugs at least a little, and I’ll do some research into soil conditions and fertilization.
Current status of garden below. All the plants except for the Chaya were planted late July. Fertilized all plants today with Garden-Tone
Chaya was planted from a single cutting end of May
Hasn’t taken over yet but I can see it’s on its way. I might try and train it up my oak tree nearby (traditionally the Seminole people used to grow these on trees here).
Anything that blooms and makes a fruit needs direct sunlight. Things you just eat the leaves can be in partial shade. If they don’t start blooming you may need to move them.
They really produced in the past couple weeks. We might do like a real thing with those next year because they’re really sweet and tasty right off the vine.
