What Veggies can we plant this time of year ?

[JDarvall]

Spent all day filling these garden beds with soil from a mate out of town. Hand shovelling in and out of the trucks tray . so I'm stuffed.

So, whats next ? .....what can we plant. Can we plant spinach ok now ? ...the misses uses a lot of it in our cooking. Tomatos ok this time of year ?

I'll check a gardening site, but I always like to hear your guys thoughts.

Thanks.

[Grunt]

Do you still getting frosts this time of year?

[Geoff Dean]

Tomatoes are probably OK to go in now, make sure the ground is warm and no frosts on the horizon.

Zuccinni, onions, carrots, lettuce, capsicums, pumpkin, strawberries
should all be OK depending on where you are.

[watson]

G'day Jake,
Probably any of the spring planting stuff, if you're willing to cover the beds with clear poly on "those clear sky" nights.
Tomatoes probably best to plant on Melbourne cup Day.
Basil two weeks later
Spinach OK now but pick small.
Carrots oversowed with radish seed.
Vietnamese mint, Coriander for a quick crop before it bolts.
Jeez....I feel like Don Bloody Burke.

[JDarvall]

oh dear.....I really don't know what I'm doing.

Sounds like you've really got to be quite switched on with gardening.

Thankyou for the help. I'll relay the info to the wife.

Yep, frosts are definetly over. not looking forward to summer.

[Tex79]

I've had Roma and Cherry Tomato's in for three weeks now, they are growing really well. I kept them covered for the first week and a half until they were big enough to withstand the elements.
We've had no frosts for a while now.
Good luck Jake

[Grunt]

Tomatoes are just great. The crap you get at the supermarkets are not tomatoes.

I'd get a few different varieties from www.diggers.com.au. You need to join up but when you do get their how to Grow veggies book. It's really not that hard. You'll make some mistakes but that's part of the fun.

This is a really good year to grow as much as many veggies as you can because the price is going to skyrocket due to the drought.

I'd also grow snow peas, lettuce, corn, basil (good to grow with tomatoes) and potatoes.

You should be able to grow most things if you're not having frosts so I would grow the things you like.

Chris

[Tex79]

Tomatoes are just great. The crap you get at the supermarkets are not tomatoes

I couldn't agree more.

After trying your own home grown vegies and realising what they are actually supposed to taste like, you'll never want to go back to the garbage which is sold in supermarkets.

The biggest surprise for me was capsicum, they are so jucy and full of flavour when home grown.

Evan

[zenwood]

October long weekend is veggie planting time for me. Last weekend I put in:

Tomatoes (grosse lisse this year)
Corn
Zuccini (4 green ones and 4 yellow ones)
Silverbeet spinach
Beetroot
Climbing beans (purple king this year)
Pumpkin (Queensland blue this year)

Plant the corn in a big block so the stalks don't blow over in the wind. Put in the tomato stakes (2 m high), then plant a tomato for each stake. Do you have an active compost heap?

Even managed to combine with some woodworking to sharpen a couple of tomato stakes, and assemble a trellis for the climbing beans.

Mmmm . . . farmer zen is looking forward to harvest

Also put in some petunias for good measure.

PS: Order a few bails of pea-straw: makes a beautiful mulch. I get 12 bails to cover my entire veggie patch.

[Andy Mac]

I've had potatoes for a while, and now snow peas, rocket and zucchini are doing well. Just planted rock melon, cherry tomato and corn seedlings.
It seems to be very hot suddenly, only the first month of spring, so I'll be planting beans soon. Yesterday I installed a shade structure made from 2" polypipe and shade cloth over the whole bed, as its so hot already that seedlings are wilting.

Cheers,

[Mcblurter]

Try the Black Russian Tomatoes, bloody buuuuudiful. And as they don't go bright red don't seem to get as many bugs as the others. I'm just about to plant some tommies, capsicums, zucchini, cucumber, basil, sunflowers, spring onions, fennell, and some varieties of lettuce. Luckily my father in law has seeds or has started off the seedlings already so i can spend more time on my reno!!!!
Cheers
McBlurter

[Barry Hicks]

Nobody mentioned the old favourite - sweet corn. As long as your soil temp is above 14 degrees, whack in a crop! Simply follow the directions on the packet and stand back.

What the packet directions don't tell you - if you don't like grubs, spray weekly from when silk appears. Pick 21 days after silk appears.

Can you freeze it? You sure can - 10 minutes in boiling water and dunk in ICE water - almost as good as straight from the garden. Most sweet corn starts to break down as soon as you pick it so either eat it or freeze it.

What else do I know about vege gardening? SFA!

Barry Hicks

[Bluegum]

I put in Beef eater tomatoes, Asian lettuce, bit of bok choy as well as the usual corn and spring onoins. I might get some Lebanese cucmbers and capsicum in this week. I'm looking for a new Thai chilli plant at the moment plus basils and thyme and the like.

[echnidna]

I used to wait til the corn was up 3 or 4 feet then plant climbing peas & beans next to the corn, makes a good trellis

[Studley 2436]

Plane Shaving Jake Plane Shavings

Brilliant mulch breaks down fast enough to be good fertiliser

All you need to do is find a woodworker who is into that darkside stuff

If not chips from your Jointer thicnesser are are really good too

Studley