Planted seedlings today after not much luck with seeds, from what was left at the local nursery : Coriander & Green Feast peas.
Seedlings to the rescue
31 Saturday May 2025
Category Archives: Planting
Planted Freesia & Jonquil bulbs
14 Wednesday May 2025
Status of seeds experiment
25 Friday Apr 2025
Not much luck with seeds this winter. Even with a second try, next year we will stick to seedlings (if we repeat this year’s cover of sugar cane mulch).
We tried Beetroot (okay), Carrots (not bad), Dwarf beans (3 plants, 1 died after being trampled), Sugar & Snap peas (4 plants).
Winter planting
30 Sunday Mar 2025
We were on holidays, so our crops have been neglected. Also, #fruitfly has affected the entire Veg Out garden. Some of our tomatoes (mostly, the larger ones) definitely had wee worms when we returned. Unsure if it’ll happen again in the 2025/26 season, but we are going back to self-seeding our own tomatoes next year.
All that said, we’ve now got #oxalis in a big way sad face. No idea where from…
Six hours of trying to pick out every single bloody #oxalis bulb later, plus 3 hours of separating the worms from the castings, plus four hours of digging the castings and straw through the patch, plus 3 hours of planting seedings and seeds, we now have out winter crops planted phew.
Planting Summer seedlings & seeds
27 Sunday Oct 2024
Say hello to our little friends
07 Sunday Apr 2013
It’s officially Autumn. Cool nights and brisk days have arrived. There is excitement around the Patch, with pretty much everyone planting new crops – walking around the crates is a guessing game of what-do-you-think-is-that-seedling?
On our list this season:
Snap sugar peas (handy to have our tomato trellis already installed)
Snow peas (Lisa likes them loads)
Lettuce (Cos)
Carrots (yes, we’re trying them again)
Chives
Baby spinach
Mystery interloper:
Kale – two plants have mysteriously arrived in our patch. Unknown source. We think we’ll eat them anyhow.
The Big Lesson #1 – Don’t plant too much stuff
The mystery plant, Kale (in front of Craig, not where he is pointing)
New plants on the block
Beans meanz heinz
15 Monday Oct 2012
Posted in Planting, Propagating, Seeds
Two weeks after planting the seeds, it became clear that the half-toilet rolls weren’t going to hold the rapidly growing beans for much longer. It was time to transfer them to our garden.
Carefully packed into a left over case of beer box, the beans got on a 67 tram to the city, amidst some curious peak hour onlookers.
We planted the beans in rows around the corn – the two types of plants grow well together – something to do with potassium, although I’m unsure which plant has it, and which needs it.
Bean seeds planted: fourteen.
Bean plants transferred to the garden: twelve.
We’re definitely counting that as success 🙂
Day of the Triffids
13 Saturday Oct 2012
So the time had come to pick our patch, and after a tiny bit of wandering around the car park, we settled on this one.
It had some very nice things going for it –
1. A view of the river.
2. A ledge for leaning on over Friday afternoon beers.
3. Close proximity to conveniently placed bench seats and umbrellas.
Having no real idea of what to plant where, thankfully (and to be honest, one of the very best reasons to sign up to the project) Matt from the Little Veggie Patch was on hand to help, telling us all the useful stuff such as:
– which of our chosen plants would benefit from the full sun (tomatoes and capsicum);
– which plants are the socialisers who like to grow in a group (corn);
– which plants are likely to get a bromance on (corn and beans); and
– which ones are likely to grow a little nuts and cover the carpark concrete under our feet (pumpkin).
Before we knew it, we had planted our vegetable garden.
Grow little garden, grow!
From Little Seeds Big Things Grow 