veggie garden in Rockhampton (forum)

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growing veggies in Gracemere .... comments welcome
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Time: 6th January 2011 4:19pm

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paul ynot says...
Well I got a post here so I guess I need to write something .Rain here has been a lot of grief the photo is mainly of pumpkins , some mellons and squash as well . Now after all the rain the vines are long and green but veryfew pumpkins as the bees have been very shy .
when the rain does stop I intend to mulch all the garden beds ( bed size is 30 sq meters in total ) The beds are average 1 m wide with treated pine edging
A chook pen is at the back of the garden also a working wishing well . ie. one that has a bucket that goes up and down . Very unique
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Time: 6th January 2011 4:30pm

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paul ynot says...
see my facebook page there are a few more garden pic's there.
the chooks are laying just so many eggs
I tried growing purpil carrots but they were very stumpy.
Cucumbers and squash etc including sweet potatoes are growing well

Time: 6th January 2011 4:39pm

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Charles cant spell says...
A few comments purely based on my experiences in Perth and reading etc so it might still be wrong :P.

Firstly very lush looking nice work !!

Excess leafs on your Cucurbitaceae might be excess nitrogen in the beds, excess leaves tends to exacerbate mould due to less air flow so best not to let it get to thick.

All of these Cucurbitaceae should be easy enough to hand polinate if its just a lack of bees. If its a lack of male/female flowers thought it wont help.

Are they Wicking beds, I think I see shadecloth hamock sides as one would make their wicking bed in the tropics/excess rain. If so that might be the cause of the stumpy carrots. In my wicking beds the only carrots that have done well are the short stumpy ones by design i.e. Royal Chantenay

Time: 7th January 2011 1:17am

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