vegie help. seasonal guide

Having dug out most of my back lawn ive had some good success growning vegie over the last 10 years,  i am no where near an expert!

  Does ayone have any Perth sites that are helpful for monthly planting/seeding advise, or is anyone able to give a quick breakdown of what to plant each month of the year.?

love to grow  beans-dwarf and climbing (had a great crop of snake beans last year), broccoli, chilli, capsicum, herbs, beetroot,spinich, letuce.used to grow awesome tomatoes but now have problems with nematoads..  get a few growing ok but mostly when they get big they die of and go crispy brown.  Basically just want help what to plant each month..

i have 2 compost bins a worm farm and regulary fertalize with various manure goodness.

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Can't help you mate but good

Mon, 2013-05-06 18:33

Can't help you mate but good luck. Having a fresh veggie supply in your back yard is the goods! 

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App and website called gardenate

Mon, 2013-05-06 18:38

 Check it out

it has month,y calendars that describe what is best to plant and when, how long from planting to harvest, what conditions it likes ect.

you can also put in exactly when you planted the seeds and when they are due to pick and it will remind you.

i too have a lot of love for the veggie gagarden just planted the following

carrotts

brocoli

garlic

lettuce

Cauliflower

patato

Cauliflower

patatoe

if your tomatoes keep dying you may have either blossom end rott or some type of green caterpillar looking things (cant remember their exact name but they are common on tomatoes)

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+1 www.gardenate.com

Tue, 2013-05-07 09:44
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scano has pretty much got it

Mon, 2013-05-06 18:44

scano has pretty much got it covered in regards to what to plant at this time of the year but if your getting nematodes with your tomatoes, try companion planting...that means planting stuff like marigolds amongst your tommies as they tend to help repel nematodes. Also don't plant tomatoes in the same spot every year, otherwise there is a build up with nematodes.

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Anyone doing aquaponics on

Mon, 2013-05-06 18:57

Anyone doing aquaponics on here??

 

I got a fair bit going, but got a bit slack lately, and its showing in the grow beds a little lol..

 

About 13 silver perch, harvested a heap of lettuce and chillis over summer

 

Nothing beats fresh produce.. be it fish, meat or veges!

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Here is a tip if you wanna get old school and tight arse

Mon, 2013-05-06 18:59

 Save the seeds from your best fruit and dry them out

 

then plant those seeds the following year and they should produce better fruit each time. It's a bit like if brad and Angelina just kept producing good stock, it can only be good.

 

i grew about 50x Roma tomato plants a few years ago and made my own home made Italian tomato sauce. Normally people just throw the skins and seeds away afterwards. I read that wine grape growers use the skins as fertilise to save o n waste. So I threw the tomato skins and seeds on the soil as compost. Next thing I know I have about 300 tomato plants the following year.

 

 

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Always been interested in the aquaponics

Mon, 2013-05-06 19:08

 But you do need alot of room in the backyard in order to do so.

 

speaking of saving room, I have put my seedlings on the garden shed roof. Normally just a wasted space and it gets plenty of warmth and sunlight at this time of year. At least that lets me utilise the space whilst getting the seeds started. I plant them into those polystyrene coli boxes with some holes for drainage and good seedling soil

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Nope no need for a lot of

Mon, 2013-05-06 19:16

Nope no need for a lot of room really, mine covers approx 1.5x1.5m, and that allows a bit of room to move around the beds

 

Good fun watching fish grow and the veggies thrive.

 

Good idea on the shed roof, always wondered why people dont grow on their roofs , all that wasted space soaking up all the wasted sun!!

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cheers

Tue, 2013-05-07 08:53

 

Thanks everyone.

 scano - ur onto it.. that website is what i was after. got it saved in my favourites.

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In Regards to Tomato's, if

Tue, 2013-05-07 10:52

In Regards to Tomato's, if they are going brown and dieing from the bottom up, this is usually due to too much humidity at the base of the plant. Caused by a couple of things. Plants are too close together and overhead watering. Tomato's dont really like overhead watering it creates too much humidity and moisture around the leaves. Although not impossible to grow tomato's with overhead watering as many people do, you seem to get better results with ground watering.

 

Winter time is a good time for vegies, i too like to grow plenty...If i can keep the dog out of the garden.

Time to plant potatoes, Garlic, onions, broad beans, snow peas and soon to be cauliflour and broccoli.

Carrots can be all year round and the cleaner the soil the better the carrots (You can actually grow carrots in yellow sand as long as you use liquid fertilizer).

 

An interesting fact i found out the other day, which many may know, but Garlic actually deters Aphids on fruit trees and roses. So plenting Garlic plants under fruit trees and Roses keeps the trees much healthier!.

 

I also only found out that wineries plent a Rose tree at the end of each Vine run as Aphids prefer Roses over Grapes so it keeps them off the grapes!....just an interesting fact to know!

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Also with Potato's, easiest

Tue, 2013-05-07 10:58

Also with Potato's, easiest way I've found for growing is go pick up some of the type of potato's you want to grow from coles, or whever ever, put them in the bottom of the pantry and wait for them to start to shoot. You can then plant them, and can even cut them in half if a big potato. Key to potato's is water them once when you plent them and pretty much dont water again until they germinate.