i burn alot of wood for ther camp oven and to clean up the scrub. and it has always fasinated me why the soild turns to a black or red crumble when you uncover the soil fro the ashes. i use the ashes in the garden and picket up two wheel barrow fullls. :idunno
the internet tells me to harvest sunflowers when the seed has a white line on it and the backs are brown.
well the backs are brown but no white stripe and the seed easily fall out
i might just but a breathable bag over the head of the flower
i have 4 chilli plants going and got heaps of produce of them and about 5 litres of chilli sauce of em.
thinking of doing one more pick but i am wondering how long they will grow into autum.
i live in a temperate climate and frost are on the way
thanks
i have three orage and one madarin trees.
the orange one one being grafted of another plant is growing the grafted plant on the tree although the grafted plant is growing next to the trunk seperatly. is this normal. i have to cut these long pricky stems balck frequently
all of the organge...
i have a large established vine and it is kinda over growing. it is mid autum now and wondering if i should prune it when the frost are coming
can i prune the edges to stop the growing ends from growing and prune the lower hal of the vine to the air flow or should i leave it till spring. fruit...
1. i hav got about 20 roses all healthy at the moment. all but one is looking a bit sad and is about as old as the rest. it isnt watered much which will chang and was fertilized recently
any thing else that can influence that
2. yellow leafs and spots
good or bad
3. recent rain has made my...
got young two month old silver beet and getting most of the leafs covered in black grayish spots that dont look good
grown silver beet before and this is my first problem
i grow this crop well in my area and get left over ones that i dont have room for
i cut it up an give it to my chooks as a part of their diet and all of what is left is green rings the next day
they love it :weee :ya :frow
if u have had a strange season like i have
check every now and then if the top of the onion has gone soft where the green stem starts
normally the onions fall over but on quarter of mine did
although some of the stems stayed green and did not fall over so i thought they had not matured
i...
i have good tomato plants this year and it has been a strange season
the tomato fruit has got marks on them on the top half when you look at it
the whole crop does not have the marks and mainly affected where the fruit is on the outside of the cluster of plants
the marks colour is dull white...
does dirty water influence the quality of the fruit of health or tree/ plant? is it safe if i use dirty old dog water on trees that bear fruit? does algea water applied to plants affect them? is it safe or not?
we have working dogs and i bulk feed them at every week end so their is enogh food for them. a flood cam and was only high enough to fill the containers with water and making the food a slush. can i put this on my compost? would it be bad?
got a seasol liquid fertilizer hose attachment works ok but could be bettter. does any one have a set up that controls the amount of liquid fertilizer in the flow of a tap water. dispensiong it evenly. if posssible i'll make a stationary rig that gets water pumped through fertilized and sent...
my snow peas got hit by frost heavily, re-germinated then hit by another frost and this cycle continued for the whole of winter. it is starting to warm up so i'm hoping for it to be frost free for another year. one plant is healthy but the others look like they have seen the good days and only...