My Garden

[GardenManiac]

I am in NZ, so while it is bitter and cold over in America, Canada, and Europe, it is hot as here. Currently, my garden bed is thriving. This is the thread where all my garden information goes.

Today, I pulled out a whole lot of my flowering rocket lettuce, because there was too much. I left some in, so I can collect seeds however.
My dwarf (bush) beans are doing very well; I got some massive ones off them recently.
My capsicums (peppers) are still very small, but are flowering very well! Should have capsicums soon, which excites me. I love capsicums.
My Tom Thumb lettuce is gone. Not successful with them. The rocket rocketed around them and swamped them, so they all died
My sunflowers are doing very well! One of them has 10-12 buds on it; they'll be flowering this month.

I think that's it. I'll update here asmuch as I can.

 

[flowerbug]

always nice to hear from people down south who are in the thick of it when i'm seeing snow.

what are your hottest temperatures like? do you have troubles with getting enough rains or do you have irrigation or a well to tide you over the dry spells?

 

[GardenManiac]

always nice to hear from people down south who are in the thick of it when I'm seeing snow.

what are your hottest temperatures like? do you have troubles with getting enough rains or do you have irrigation or a well to tide you over the dry spells?

We don't get super hot where I am; it gets hotter the further north you go, and colder the further south. I'm in Taranaki, so we are in the hot part, but it usually gets to 25 Celcius on hot days. We get a lot of rain here in Taranaki, you go to Hawkes Bay and see all the brown hills, and come back, and the difference is startling; we are one of the greenest provinces in NZ. We don't need to do irrigation - actually it's getting to the hottest part of the season and I haven't watered my bed in a few weeks.

 

[Dahlia]

I am in NZ, so while it is bitter and cold over in America, Canada, and Europe, it is hot as here. Currently, my garden bed is thriving. This is the thread where all my garden information goes.

Today, I pulled out a whole lot of my flowering rocket lettuce, because there was too much. I left some in, so I can collect seeds however.
My dwarf (bush) beans are doing very well; I got some massive ones off them recently.
My capsicums (peppers) are still very small, but are flowering very well! Should have capsicums soon, which excites me. I love capsicums.
My Tom Thumb lettuce is gone. Not successful with them. The rocket rocketed around them and swamped them, so they all died
My sunflowers are doing very well! One of them has 10-12 buds on it; they'll be flowering this month.

I think that's it. I'll update here asmuch as I can.

Welcome to the forum from the Pacific Northwest!

 

[Marie2020]

Hello

You seem to be a kean gardener . I could do with you in my garden for several months

 

[GardenManiac]

Hello

You seem to be a kean gardener . I could do with you in my garden for several months

I'm more of a person who enjoys prepping and planting a bed. After that, I lose enthusiasm fast because it is much harder weeding around plants than in an empty bed. I enjoy hoeing, raking, digging in manure, digging a bed, but my rocket and dwarf beans are being climbed byConvolvulus, which is a real pain. Let the garden get overgrown last year so it got established.

 

[flowerbug]

yes, keeping a garden clear is much easier when it is empty. my own trouble seems to be that i don't like leaving much room between rows so they get kinda grown over and more effort to weed. i use a large knife a lot of the time when i need to get around and in between the plants (mostly beans). if i left more room in the rows it would be easier...

 

[GardenManiac]

I have the same problem. I was only allowed one bed, and I filled it up a lot. That's why my tom thumbs are dead.

 

[GardenManiac]

Two of my sunflowers are flowering! They are F1 Moulin Rouges, they are nearly as tall as me!