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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 9/15/2009 4:59:06 PM
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Slugs and snails also like porridge oats (dry). They eat it and it swells in the digestive system.
The other thing you can do is to go out in the evening/night and put some salt on any slugs and snails you find. You don't need a lot and try not to get too much on the plants themselves.
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Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 9/15/2009 5:02:30 PM
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ORIGINAL: agapetos
Slugs and snails also like porridge oats (dry). They eat it and it swells in the digestive system.
Cool! I didn't know that.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 9/15/2009 11:57:10 PM
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They started appearing all over the place as they sent out runners everywhere.
That's what pumpkins do. They are a vine...it's also why they need lots of space.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 9/16/2009 12:13:24 AM
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I didn't know that pumpkins did that. I'm a complete gardening novice. Oh well, it's out of the garden now.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 9/19/2009 1:17:07 PM
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Still have only 2 tomatoes. I put some tomato dust on it, to try and keep the plants safe. Get rid of the bugs and germs. Hopefully we'll have more tomatoes soon. Had to pinch off some more of the branches as they would have been too heavy and crowded.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 9/26/2009 1:13:56 PM
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Still only got 2 tomatoes, but they're getting a lot bigger! Put some more tomato powder on them today to get rid of any bugs. Gave them some water with fish emulsion in it. Hope they liked that more than I do. The silverbeet and carrot are doing well.
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Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 9/26/2009 2:34:42 PM
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Slugs and snails also like porridge oats (dry). They eat it and it swells in the digestive system.
I tried it and it works great. I found out the hard not to put the oats on the porch.......... where I don't want the snails/slugs to be. There don't seem to be as many as there were before though.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 9/27/2009 12:11:18 AM
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I've got to be careful that whatever I use doesn't blow onto the ground. Bailey is liable to eat it.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 9/27/2009 10:52:44 AM
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The first of my silverbeet got eaten today, by humans! 
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 9/30/2009 11:28:54 PM
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YAY!! My tomatoes are starting to redden!]
We had some sunshine around the other day, and hopefully some bees around the vegie patch. I'm hoping that we'll start to get more tomatoes soon.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 10/6/2009 4:21:03 PM
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Ya mean like this?
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 10/6/2009 4:30:14 PM
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Do you have any other ideas?
Strangely enough, I've just pulled the last peppers and chillies off my plants ~ they seemed to take forever to grow...
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 10/8/2009 12:37:42 AM
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Some of our plants are growing at the wrong times of the year too, but it's mainly our fruit trees and bulbs.
I've never heard of plants/seeds being from the other hemisphere. I just assumed the northern hemisphere would have plants for the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere would have plants for the southern hemisphere.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 10/8/2009 9:41:04 AM
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WOOHOO! Tomato number 3 has just appeared! Still tiny right now, but it'll grow!
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 10/8/2009 10:27:07 AM
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I've never heard of plants/seeds being from the other hemisphere. I said that as a joke, Trish. I watered and fed those pepper plants all summer long. They're supposed to be hot weather plants, but they didn't begin to produce until your spring, my autumn. Not normal.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 10/8/2009 12:30:26 PM
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See what I mean about me being a complete novice with all this stuff? 
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 10/10/2009 10:06:48 PM
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Tomato number 4 made its appearance yesterday.
One of the plants is doing really well. It's got 3 tomatoes on it. The other plant is stunted in height and only has 1 tomato on it. Somehow it's been ring barked. The leaves on the plants don't look healthy. They are yellowing off and have some black spots on them. John seems to think that I've been overwatering them, so I'm cutting the watering down to just twice a week. My brain has been so foggy that I can never seem to remember when I've watered the plants. This way I will remember. I'll make the days the same as when we are allowed to use sprinklers in the summer. I can remember those. It will also stop me from overwatering plants.
John's been saying about increasing the space we have for gardening. Before we started putting plants into soil, we both bought seeds. He bought beans and corn and I bought capsicums/bell peppers. He already has his corn in the ground and they are sprouting. He was thinking of putting his beans in. I suggested getting more tomato plants, just in case the ones I planted don't make it. Tomatoes never go astray in our household. John was thinking that it makes more sense to grow more tomatoes than beans, but I still want John to his beans.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 10/11/2009 3:32:29 PM
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Trish ~ I've read that you can plant climbing beans so they grow up the stalks of a corn plant. Never done it myself though.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 10/11/2009 3:53:38 PM
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In one technique known as companion planting, the three crops are planted close together. Flat-topped mounds of soil are built for each cluster of crops. Each mound is about 30 cm (1 ft) high and 50 cm (20 in) wide, and several maize seeds are planted close together in the center of each mound. In parts of the Atlantic Northeast, rotten fish or eel are buried in the mound with the maize seeds, to act as additional fertilizer where the soil is poor.[1][2] When the maize is 15 cm (6 inches) tall, beans and squash are planted around the maize, alternating between beans and squash. Milpas are farms or gardens that employ companion planting on a larger scale
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 10/13/2009 12:42:05 PM
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Never heard of that. Thanks. I'll have to pass it on to John.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 10/15/2009 11:36:03 AM
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Thanks for that link. John found it really interesting!
I've been a little bit down as there hasn't been much growth in terms of the tomatoes. When I looked yesterday, I could see 5 tomatoes. One of the plants, (the ringbarked one), only has 1 tomato on it. I had a close look at it and found that there are only a couple of buds on the plant. The flowers have obviously been eaten by something. The stalks are there, but no flowers. I've been watching for growth on both plants every day. If I'm out there more than once in the day, I look every time I go out there, as something might magically appear since the last time I looked. Silly, I know.
Today I had a good look and got a really big surprise. I could see the original 5 that I'd seen yesterday, but there were new ones starting too! I'm up to about 11 tomatoes now! WOOHOO! That's more like what I was hoping for! I'll still keep watching the ringbarked plant and hope that there gets to be more than 1 tomato come from it. At least now I don't feel like a TOTAL failure.
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RE: Low maintainance veggie growing for complete novices - 10/15/2009 11:52:33 AM
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Trish, hope the linked gave you and John some ideas of how to combine having different veggies so you can all have things you love to eat.
Are you feeding your tomato plants (the ones with tomatoes) with food now?
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The thing is when I'm not there when they are there. Thanks for all the suggestions. We've got some tomato dust on the tomatoes. It's supposed to stop insects and all sorts of diseases. Will need to reapply as it's been raining a lot lately. 
