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Poppy issue
"Trish Brown" wrote in message
... 0tterbot wrote: snip consulting my planting chart, the answer is aug-dec for my area (cold) with the band moving forward a few months each for "warm" and "hot" (jan-june) zones. not sure if newcastle is warm or hot via digger's method. so i'm going to plant some punnets in august or september & see how that goes instead - you might want to wait until mid-spring in your area, and maybe another lot in summer to be ready for late autumn/winter if you are feeling adventurous (you can only learn by trying). if it's not too hot (they love water & will go all funny texture-wise without enough of it; also dryness will make them bolt) and there's no frost either, you should be set - they grow regardless of cold, unlike some things. also, avoid wallabies g - when i was plagued with them, i found the plants found it very hard to recover from having their growing points eaten out - everything survived, but it's all growing flat :-) what about celeriac too? planting etc is exactly the same apparently, i've never tried it though. as my gardening gets more adventurous so does my eating, but apparently i need to do it in that exact order. g kylie Thanks for that! Yeah, I'd like to try celeriac too! I've seen seeds advertised on ebay, but I'm a bit leery of starting things from seed just yet. I've never had any success at it and so I'm intending to do seedlings until I get my eye in. hmm! sometimes it can be difficult (parsley in punnets = waste of time, for e.g.). the main problem is moisture - they dry out very quickly & need watering 2-3 times a day mostly. it's a good idea to keep them covered so the moisture stays in, until germination or until they've got some size to them, e.g. in a mini-greenhouse or other clear plastic box, or just with plastic or glass over the top until they germinate. OR, use soil in a big foam box - that won't dry out so fast. but i don't have any spare soil worth digging up, so i use potting mix (ideally, mixed with a bit of dried horse poo, i reckon that is the best i've found so far). one excellent product (bunnings might have them! g! at any rate digger's does, & nurseries do) is a little watering head you screw onto an empty plastic drink bottle - it waters them very gently & is easy to give them all a squirt a few times a day that way without knocking them out. planting direct into the garden - they still need care 2x daily if it's hot (much easier in winter - less care) but there are some things you can't grow in punnets. recently i saw carrots in punnets for sale. this is criminal! anyway, good luck. For now, my rainbow silverbeet is hurtling along and soon I'll be able to make a Spinach and Feta Pie from it! Hooray!!! ;-D We don't get wallabies, thankfully, but our dog is a bull terrier (get that? 'Terrier'?) She likes to dig wherever she finds freshly turned earth and has already had a shot at the potting mix in my styrofoam tubs. Blasted dog! I've been squirting her with a spray bottle (set on 'jet') every time she does it and she's finally starting to leave off. She is a strange dog and really enjoys eating things like tomatoes and capsicums. I'll have to be vigilant once my garden really takes off! dogs like veggies! fortunately, staying out of the garden is one of the few things my dog does fairly well. weirdly, he will eat veg out of his bowl that he won't touch when he sees it in the garden(?!) kylie |
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