WOODSTOCK PEACE GARDEN

SandyB · December 20, 2009, 05:22:59 PM

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SandyB · December 20, 2009, 05:28:07 PM

forgot last item ... a few mielie plants as well ....

Diana Rudd (Boehme) · December 20, 2009, 05:42:48 PM

About time Sandy....looking realy good.

toonfandangl · December 22, 2009, 02:08:20 PM

Nice veggie patch Sandy !! our patch is looking pretty sick at the moment we needed the spring rain it never came.............we are getting rain today and tomorrow so hopefully it will look better by the end of the week.

SandyB · December 22, 2009, 07:59:17 PM

Nice thing Frank is the walks up in the morning and evening .. excesise for us and the dogs ,, and yes while busy watering and tending they go crazy hunting field mice etc ... and now having chews on all the herbs the sorrel is in full swing the rocket now also being harvested.. Thai basil and perenial now at point for also being harvested ... spring onions and red onions also just about there .. a few patty pans and courgettes are now about ready a day or two .. ... the artichokes .. well thats a long wait , but the all plants are thriving excepting some caterpillar attacks ...

toonfandangl · December 23, 2009, 02:32:46 PM

Sandy since it stated to rain a few days ago (75mm) the garden has taken on a completely different look to what it was this time last week. There is this weird green stuff growing out of the ground, 'grass' Margaret said!.........so out came the mower I actually got the mower bogged a few times.

As you said its nice to walk through the garden and if the veggie patch is in full flower its very healthy and tastier than the supermarket stuff, the veggie patch took a hammering this year, very little water over our winter months. As our water is metered and council charge like wounded bulls for the stuff, you would think it is not going to rain again, (climate change) 'ah' that's another story.

A few years ago I was growing Bok Choy and Chinese lettuce among other things, and as soon as they started to look good enough to eat, the caterpillar's and other bugs had the same idea I was left with the bare stalks. A friend told me of a concoction that did not use chemicals you crushed garlic and chillies in a bag with about 4 liters of water let it stand for a few days, you then add to it a table spoon of paraffin and a squirt of washing up liquid........... I suppose there is a bit of chemical you have to use.

Then remove the bag with the crushed up garlic and chillies (they can be used again) pore the contents through a sieve then you can diluted the concoction again then go get the little buggers..................................it worked, I was giving the veggies away in the end, it also worked on fruit trees.......aphids and any other sap sucking pests, try it Sandy you can experiment with the amounts................................Frank

SandyB · December 23, 2009, 08:13:06 PM

not bad first plantlings... late october early / mid november ... the sorrel thriving ... rocket going inleaps and bounds .. the beans now spurting and staring to get ready to climb frame ... got today 3 nice courgettes and one very healthy and nice sized patty pan ... and many more in sprout this is the start .. we been feeding worm tea from our worm farm .. and growth is thriving ... rule of peace garden is .. ORGANIC .. and yes healthy plants can shrug off creepy crawly attacks ... Tomorrow we harvest red onion and spring onions ... after christmas I'm going to make a chilled sorrel soup ... theres so much of it ...

georg ruf jr. · December 23, 2009, 09:11:29 PM

Woodstock peace garden. Now show me where the

grows.

SandyB · December 23, 2009, 09:44:48 PM

Sorry Georg ... no

... dont wanna get bust by the police ...

toonfandangl · December 24, 2009, 10:24:41 AM

Sandy! George! you two got some kind of code going here wanna and schow I know the significance of that icon

and its not maple syrup..........

.

georg ruf jr. · December 24, 2009, 11:45:03 AM

lol to both of you...
I just thought Woodstock and the

go together.

toonfandangl · December 25, 2009, 01:19:34 AM

Merry Xmas

georg ruf jr. · December 26, 2009, 11:23:07 AM

Sory Frank. Just used the German version vor "sh" which is "sch".

toonfandangl · December 26, 2009, 02:03:54 PM

Its all good George!! like the new images more please

SandyB · December 26, 2009, 02:27:46 PM

Frank did the walk up to the plot with the dogs this morning to get rid of the fuzzy head ... all looking good .. flourishing ... more courgettes and spring onions harvested ,, that apart from me feasting each day on some rocket and blood sorrel ... the beans taking off now that they being fed worm tea ... have about 10 litres of worm tea stored .. ( good natural fertilizer ) tomorrow morning watering time and all will get more worm tea ... and cut out some brussels leaves with scale ... ( bastard pests .)