growing your own...

[freediver]

...food that is. Is anyone else here a keen gardener? Here are some of the things I grow:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/gardening/sust ... ening.html

I haven't updated it lately. I've also got a mango and an avocado tree - no fruit yet. I've got a few yellow passionfruit vines that have been producing fruit for a while. I think passionfruit, banana and pawpaw are the easiest things to grow.

[Michael Corby's neighbour]

maaaaate, i got a good crop one year but bloody michael corby gave it to shappel

[JW Frogen]

Fuck Mary Jane (and I have), I want to know how to indentify magic mushrooms.

Apparently they are plentiful in WA.

Who can show me what they look like?

[skippy]

Fuck Mary Jane (and I have), I want to know how to indentify magic mushrooms.

Apparently they are plentiful in WA.

Who can show me what they look like?

Look for the mushies growing in cow pats, the're small and brownish and plentiful after rain.

[pakistani_dalek]

Fuck Mary Jane (and I have), I want to know how to indentify magic mushrooms.

Apparently they are plentiful in WA.

Who can show me what they look like?

Magic mushrooms are plentiful in the top end QLD..which may be no good to you anyway.
Never tried any never seen one.

My father used to grow Avocado etc. he once grew a particular cactus (among others) and waited patiently for it to flower..apparently he said over a period of years..it did and he photographed that rare occasion. It was beautiful.

He specialized in Australian natives..by that I mean finding them in the bush..and taking cuttings and propagating them at home. He grew a banana tree and put "weed" cuttings into special powder and grew them to see if he could..He was very sucessful. My mother was appalled.

He later died of a heart attack..I'm wondering if this had anything to do with it. Im hoping not.

[pakistani_dalek]

Fuck Mary Jane (and I have), I want to know how to indentify magic mushrooms.

Apparently they are plentiful in WA.

Who can show me what they look like?

Magic mushrooms are plentiful in the top end QLD..which may be no good to you anyway.
Never tried any never seen one.

My father used to grow Avocado etc. he once grew a particular cactus (among others) and waited patiently for it to flower..apparently he said over a period of years..it did and he photographed that rare occasion. It was beautiful.

He specialized in Australian natives..by that I mean finding them in the bush..and taking cuttings and propagating them at home. He grew a banana tree and put "weed" cuttings into special powder and grew them to see if he could..He was very sucessful. My mother was appalled.

He later died of a heart attack..I'm wondering if this had anything to do with it. Im hoping not.

http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgu ... %26hl%3Den

pic of magic mushrooms

[boxy]

Keep away from the 'shrooms unless you know what you're doing

[Rainbow Moonlight]

wouldn't use illegal drugs if you paid me to. I agree with boxy- if you can't be sure you know what you are trying Frogen, don't try it..

[freediver]

I tried getting into regular field mushrooms, but it got way too complicated. I'd find a local expert if I were you. Don't bother trying to teach yourself online - too dangerous.

[Jovial Monk]

Far fucking out, me back and hips are screaming with pain.

I created a pad of sand then put on 4 concrete blocks, more sand to embed them, moved a modular tank into position, now neighbor can plumb it to harvest his carport roof, nice bit of extra water.

I cleared, progressively over some weeks a 5x5m patch in front lawn and planted it with a green manure crop. Will grow about 50 tomato plants in there, for making sauce, salsa etc. right at the front of front lawn I placed peastraw and covered that with compost and cow manure, planted potatoes there.

Today been clearing kikuyu grass around the two front lawn patches, make room for flowers: marigolds, heartsease, gerberas and snapdragon. Will look nice when that lot is flowering.

In the meantime I have been reading up about preserves: preserves, fruit cheese, fruit butter, bottled fruit in syrup and in brandy, dried fruit and veg. I intend to take a stall at a couple local markets and see if I can make some money that way.