Healthy Living starts in the garden...

[Northside]

^ Good to know! I'm just beginning to learn gardening and I love it to death. I bought my first home this year and til now have grown only herbs and tomatoes in pots due to apartment living. It's always been a dream of mine to have gardens and so far it's even better than I hoped, it makes me feel awesome.

 

[jam uh weezy]

I dig yer romaine, mayne. Artichoke is a perennial, they look good too. Thinking of putting one out front.

 

[Nibiru]

Asparagus is awesome! I love clipping them when they're just little, skinny shoots. So tender and sweet. Just remember to keep clipping them just below the ground until mid summer, then let them grow as much as they like. I think (not sure though) that they're actually self-seeding annuals rather than proper perennials, so you need to let them go to seed.

Nah, they're perennial, with a big ol' deep and tuberous rootstock. You do have to let some of them grow though, since too much stress on the roots from cutting can kill the plant. It's best, if starting one from seed to not harvest anything for four to three years, but starting them from root cuttings is more common practice. Out here, the stuff grows wild EVERYWHERE!

In springtime, I can get huge sacks of it from dry, scrubby grassland areas. It grows prolifically, and after a rain it just goes crazy. They look beautiful in autumn, when they turn a really nice golden yellow.

 

[Dave]

Bumppity.

No photos, as I'm an airhead and forgot to bring my camera with me. But I did just spend an hour hilling around 80 potato plants, weeding in between the rows, and eating spinach and pea shoots straight out of the ground. Life is good.

 

[jam uh weezy]

Bumppity.

No photos

Asshole!

Good to hear, tho. I just harvest the corn, got about 20 solid large ears, and some that didn't make the cut. They are delicious!

 

[mariacallas]

Want..some...corn. omg.

*craving*

 

[Northside]

Want too!

 

[Dtergent]

Just planted some corn in! (no pics)

 

[Dtergent]

Guyabano/ soursop

The getting

 

[jam uh weezy]

Surely that fruit came from another world!



I would share corn with you guys, but we ate it all already.

 

[jam uh weezy]

please ignore the deformed looking jalapenos, which were not spicy at all...

i got melons the size of.....wait what.

Cactus propagation: The easiest thing in the world. The Gods are bountiful.

 

[mr_p]

sweeeeet ~ I LOVE those moon & stars watermelons

will post some piccy's this weekend



it'll be spring in Australia soon, which is always the beginnings a new wave of sowing seeds and planting out seedlings, fertilizing fruit trees and keeping up with the increasing weed jobs

 

[Dtergent]

Nice jam!!! Those tomatoes look huge, and please more melon pics! I can't grow those things.. they die on me.

Still waiting for rose petal jam pics.. foraged plant matter updates are welcome in this thread, when the world is your garden you just stealz from it

 

[LoveAlways]

dtergent-does that soursop have black seeds? if yes i think i've eaten it before...maybe not the skin looked different

I have pics of my garden at my house-can't wait to show you guys! We finally live in a house that has a big enough backyard to grow more than just tomatoes and herbs

 

[Dtergent]

Yep, it has black seeds! You may have, I'm sure they have it there.

Looking forward to your garden pics..

 

[Dave]

I've been meaning to take some proper pictures of my garden for a while, but kept forgetting to bring my camera. They're not the best quality, but here ya go:

It's mostly potatoes, with some tomatoes, lettuce, swiss chard, beets (more for the greens than the beets), carrots, zucchini, kohlrabi, kale, brussels sprouts and a couple of melons just for shits and giggles. I was able to pull out maybe 2 kilos each of new red and Yukon Gold potatoes today, and I barely made a dent in the potato patch.

Oh, and yes, those are poppies interspersed throughout the garden. My grandmother planted a couple one year ages ago for the birds (who love to eat the seeds in the fall), and ever since then she's been getting volunteers all over her yard. They make for a nice, um, ornamental touch I think.

 

[mr_p]

^ that's awesome ~ I'd be happy to live in a caravan if it meant having access to a garden area like that. a jungle of edible goodness

Here's some shots I took this morning from within 20 meters of where I live

Custard Apple

Cacao (Chocolate)

Lychee flowers - last years crop was delicious, they are just so much better when picked from the tree... one of my most favorite fruits on Earth

Young Jakfruit starting to form

Papua New Guinea red papaya - planted less than a year ago!

Lettuce, Spinach, Cherry Tomatoes

Cherry Toms companion planted with Marigolds

Yummy Tomato

Chinese Cabbage with green ants nesting inside, the ants are also edible and taste like lime

Lettuce flowering going to seed


Spring is soon upon us in Australia and so its time to get those seedlings growing ready to plant out after the frosts have passed.

yipeeeee

 

[jam uh weezy]

^ that's awesome ~ I'd be happy to live in a caravan if it meant having access to a garden area like that. a jungle of edible goodness

same here, looks like you have a mini farm goin dave, i like it.


killer shots mr p. you have a lot of exotic stuff. that tomato is crazy looking!


been eating lots of sunflower seeds lately. they're way better than store bought!

 

[Dave]

Heh, that's actually my grandmother's rig, and it's only used for vacations. The last time it was used was maybe 5 years ago, it's pretty well just rotting now.

Thanks guys. It's mostly potatoes, because my grandmother loves 'em, but it's pretty darn lush. Next year I'm going to lobby for a bit more variety in the crop.

mr p-- wow. Those look amazing. How cool would it be to be able to grow cacao?! I'm jealous.

 

[Dtergent]

Dave, very dense and nice!!! Wow guys..

mr p, that looks mighty lots like the stuff growing here, except that custard apple looks very strange. Where ya at?

I hope ya did eat the cacao fruit :D Beautiful shots