What is growing in your garden at the moment?

[Theoldwoman]

Perth here ….

I love winter gardening… best time of year to spend hours out there!

At the moment, i have

Eggplant
Mini Cabbage
Pak Choi
Bok Choi
Lettuce
Kale
Celery
Radish
Beans
Peas
Asparagus
Silverbeet
Mustard greens
Beetroot
Passionfruit
Dragonfruit
Grapes

Parsley
Mint
Rocket
Basil
Nasturtium

Lemons
Limes
Manderins

Plenty of flowers: Pansies, Marigolds, Freesias, Sweetpeas, Lavender, Roses, Daisies, Cineraria, Foxgloves, Camellia, , Geraniums, Salvia, some others I can’t remember plus quite a few Natives!

Love my garden, it feeds my soul!

Oh wow your garden sounds lovely! When lockdown ended and life got busy again I gave up food gardening and planted low maintenance perennials, mostly native. Only herbs left now - my Vietnamese mint is going crazy, but something ate all my basil leaves.

I'm in Melbourne and my jasmine is ready to bloom - one flower already and it's loaded with more. Annoying really, as it's still too cold to be sitting outside, or having the back doors open to enjoy the gorgeous scent. My jade plants are flowering too.

Thanks!

I love Jasmine, but had no luck growing one years ago! Might have to try again in a different location.

I forgot my bulbs - tulips and Iris! Also plenty of carnations too.

im looking at getting a Subpod. Our shire reimburses upto $150 for a worm farm.

I am South Island, NZ and have:

Tunnelhouse
Passionfruit fairly recently transplanted from a pot where it did nothing, now doing nothing but also not dying 🤞🏻;
Brassicas incl mini red cabbage, being annihilated by slugs, which are definitely deep inside the cabbage;
One giant celery plant, which is also a slug hotel;
Lots of lovely flat-leaf parsley;
Chives being re-born

Main garden
Lemons, mandarins;
Beetroot, parsnips, onions (one carrot has come up in 3 sowings);
Peas going mildewy;
Lots and lots of broad beans (mainly sown for winter ground cover but would be nice to be able to eat them);
Brassicas in slightly better shape than tunnel house siblings;
Lettuce, spinach and silver beet taking their jolly time;
Parsley, marjoram, rosemary and what I hope is new coriander coming up.
The rest of the veg beds are being rested/hosting weeds.

Need to sow garlic. Have some lettuce, brassica and onion seedlings ready for planting out.

White camellia and hellabores in bloom.

Wow, that's amazing! I'm in Adelaide so should be able to have similar to you, but sadly don't!

My raised garden beds have netting protection from the chickens which has not stood up to their determined attacks, so I'm going to reconfigure the garden. I'll have less space to grow but it will chicken free, and the chickens will sadly have less space to roam.

But the cabbages have so far managed to escape and are growing nicely. Some chillies (hot ones, from my dads (who has since died) seed stash) grew too slowly for a crop last year so I'm hoping they'll survive transplanting to a new spot for next summer.

Mandarin tree has a prolific crop on it, but needs hacking down so next year will be tiny. Going to make some mandarin marmalade to use up some of the glut.

My passion fruit vine needs to be planted somewhere, it's tendrils are enormous! I'm waiting until I move the chickens to find the perfect spot.

My lemon tree had to be hacked down because of gall wasps. 3 lemons survived and are ripe now. The tree miraculously regrew quickly and I have another crop of tiny green lemons growing.

My comfrey kept getting dug up by the dog and chickens (when I let them roam wider) so I have just repotted into a plant pot and am hoping it survives.

I still have some Jerusalem artichokes in the ground and am planning to dig up and pickle them (to remove the flatulent properties).

I have a few prickly pears in the cactus at the front still but am hesitant to pick after the last effort had me in A&E getting my eye irrigated. They are incredibly tasty though and I did manage to get some into the freezer.

Your garden sounds amazing! I really want to start a little veggie patch this year!

Southern Tablelands.

The hellebores that I thought I had killed are not only alive but about to flower! I’m stunned.

I also have one last rose bud that seems to have survived the recent frosts. I’m not sure if it will actually bloom or not but I’m checking daily.

Other than that, things are looking a little neglected as I have a baby in the house that demands attention more vocally than my plants.

I clearly jinxed myself - the chickens managed to break into the cabbages and demolished them.... sigh....

Far North Queensland. Paw Paws, passion fruit, grapefruit, mangoes (not Bowens ☹️ but still a nice tree) mandarins and a pumpkin patch. None of these need tending at all, so while they are in the garden, I am not actually gardening.

What is growing in your garden at the moment?
Weeds 😂!!

Melbourne and close to the sea which means no frost.
Flowering plants are various orchids, black-eyed Susa, abutilon, bougainvillea, grevillea, aptena cordifolia, matchstick bromeliad and jade plant.

In the veggie beds: Swiss chard, land cress, broad beans, lettuce, mustard greens, rocket.

And weeds.

Is anyone interested in keeping an Aussie gardening chat going? It's seedling time and garden redesigning time for me.

Need to move things a because of my chickens breaking into all of my netted garden beds and devouring everything.

I’m interested!

But is less of a garden and more of a small courtyard/patio for me. Container gardening all the way! Although, I have some surplus roses I am contemplating putting in the front because they don’t really go with what I have in mind at the moment.

Awesome! Container growing can be so effective!

I have some raised garden beds and I need to move them around - absolute PITA. But I didn't anticipate just how determined the chickens would be in breaking into the netted beds!

I'm planning on sewing some seeds over the next few days to get some seedlings for less. Not sure what, but some Tomatoes are definitely top of the list.

What are you looking at growing?

i have roses and lavender in pots. And some other random stuff.

My plan is to prettify my rather ugly courtyard with white and purple/lavender flowers to go with the colour scheme indoors and make the whole place look a bit more spacious.

Have you sewn any seeds yet? DH is talking about veggies again. We didn’t have much luck last time - the birds got to them first. He is thinking capsicum and tomatoes. I’m thinking they aren’t purple 🤣

You can get purple tomatoes and capsicums! In fact you can get a lot of purple veg if you try hard enough. Could be fun!!!

Me! I love banging on about gardening. Today I planted seeds of two kinds of tomato, basil and coriander.

Last year all my tomatoes grew very slowly because of no spring, then didn't ripen because of very little summer, so with El Niño in the offing, maybe they'll do better.

I have planted 2 types of tomato seeds. I want to get some more seeds going in the next couple of weeks. Basil, some different lettuces, stevia, globe artichokes, butternut pumpkins, etc and hopefully replant my strawberries and passion fruit in their forever (or at least the next few years) bed - AWAY from the bloody chickens.

I don't know where everyone lives, but here in coastal Melbourne the spring is untimely early and while it makes for lovely afternoon walks with my dog, is a reminder that we may be in for a scorcher. So many wattles out all at the same time instead of the stately procession of the different kinds strung out along mid-winter to mid spring.

I have a possum. A fat possum. And had a visit from a brush turkey last week who did lots of digging.

I need to figure out how to net my raised beds before I plant again.

Ooh, possums are terrible for plants!! How clever are they at getting through netting?

I just got my diggers club seed catalogue and I am LOVING looking through it!

I love Diggers Club. I bought some netting stuff and need to figure out how best to deploy it. Fat bastard ate some thriving zucchini plants down to the soil.

With the netting, I used them on raised garden beds by putting black irrigation pipes up in an arch shape (3 per bed) with wooden stakes to anchor them at the edge and draped the netting over it. I used bulldog clips to anchor the netting down to the raised bed edge.

It was a pain though and the smallest gap and some of the chickens would get in, then get trapped and spend the day merrily munching away until I spotted them.

I think if I net anything else (won't need as much as I am fencing the chickens away, but will still need some to protect from other birds and bugs) I will set the arches slightly in and use heavy timber to hold the netting down along the edge of the bed so it leaves no gaps. Easier to access because you just lift the one timber length rather than removing several bulldog clips.

That sounds like a good plan. When things settle down here a bit, I will get to work on that.

Screaming at the possum doesn't work.

My lavender is blooming and I’ll be checking the long term weather forecast today to see if any more frosts are expected before pruning the rose bushes.

When is the best time to transplant roses in the SouthernHighlands? I think it is now so I better get my skates on and figure out where they are being transplanted to!

Yes, yes, yes please!

I’ve been harvesting lots lately - eggplant, lettuce, silver beet, book Choi, radishes, cabbage, kale, spring onions.

Lots of flowers opening every day, bulbs popping up. It really is a wonderful time in the garden.