Winter garden beds and containers

[mellie]

Oh ok, so root veg.


I get you when you say it's not worth it, especially when fruit shacks/barns sell them so cheap.
Why bother?
Why I wanted a chocco vine is because availability and the price they charge for the humble old chocco is an absolute disgrace.

Anyway, I checked in on and watered Chokie this morning, interestingly enough, she seems ok up top, and dead down the bottom.

More water perhaps?

Fertiliser?

I mean they grew everywhere without much care when I was a child.

Perhaps we loved her too much lol

[BigP]

Oh ok, so root veg.


I get you when you say it's not worth it, especially when fruit shacks/barns sell them so cheap.
Why bother?
Why I wanted a chocco vine is because availability and the price they charge for the humble old chocco is an absolute disgrace.

Anyway, I checked in on and watered Chokie this morning, interestingly enough, she seems ok up top, and dead down the bottom.

More water perhaps?

Fertiliser?

I mean they grew everywhere without much care when I was a child.


Perhaps we loved her too much lol

Chokos are great and usually grow like weeds, I have put in an orchard around half an acre in size, apples , pears , plums , walnuts , feijoas, and a variety of citrus, and its still easier to buy them at the fruit and veg shop lol

[mellie]

http://tinypic.com/r/r280sn/9

Poor Chokie. Just think it might be too cold here for her.

[BigP]

http://tinypic.com/r/r280sn/9

Poor Chokie. Just think it might be too cold here for her.

Thats looking a little tragic, have you grown them before in that spot? Looked a little shady

[mellie]

My mother planted it there, its her fault.





I'll redeem myself with pics of my garden, now, however admittedly, I'm a little concerned about central highlands frosts, apparently last winter when we moved here was a warm winter.

[mellie]

http://tinypic.com/r/16hlnia/9

http://tinypic.com/r/wt6anc/9

http://i68.tinypic.com/16hlnia.jpg


http://tinypic.com/r/153puyt/9

http://tinypic.com/r/25f6kqo/9


And out the back I'm growing herbs and more succulents which are in colourful pots, is my daughter's sensory garden.

Look it's not fantastic, but we haven't been here long and really only started working on the garden which was completely bare when we arrived btw in early spring for fear of frosts killing small tiny plants. Ill show u what it looked like in the beginning. I had some lovely Livingston daisies which our resident pet Polly the ring tail possum munched on. Was during the heat of summer so I guess she was thirsty. She devoured them entirely within 3-night's.

[Black Orchid]

Nice pics Mellie. I have some garden solar lights like yours but they all fogged up with the rain we have had for the past few days and I am most disappointed about it.

[mellie]

My friend bought me these as a gift when we first moved here... she has them too.
But I didn't put them in until I created the garden, about October.. . Late October.

I'm wondering if they'll work the same without much sun here in the winter.

Are yours multicolored too?

[mellie]

This pic was taken about a week after establishing garden, as u can see, we didn't have Polly then. Lol


http://tinypic.com/r/rwi821/9

[mellie]

We appear to be having most luck with daisies, Africans, I'd like to try growing Echinacea because it grows really well at the local botanical gardens.

Succulents too.

Portulaccas seems to have gone into sleep mode out the back, so not all succulents tolerate this temperature zone.

Excuse my atrocious botanical spelling errors. Lol

I'm on L -plates, gardening wise.

For this zone anyway.

In Sydney, it was simple, throw a few seeds on the ground and they'd practically plant themselves. All I had to worry about was afternoon sun burning them and keeping the water up during water restrictions lol