Back to the veg patch.

[Tunkers]

Yeah fuck I must be blind......

 

[Slash]

My roof top tomato plants are cranking along with the full day winter sun. They are all in pots between 15-18L. Just starting to get first fruit.

 

[Mellow oldfark]

 

[Goonie Goat]

Check out these tomato plants. Got them around the end of August as seedlings and they growing like mad.

Bunnings sell the plastic planters, which are pretty expensive at $32 but they work insanely well.



They drain out through the legs, they reckon fill the legs up with scoria or other gravel for added weight and better drainage. I filled the bottoms with pine bark and branches/twigs upto the runoff point like a hugelkulture setup, and I made my own potting mix with leftover Coco rootballs from last grow and pine compost, mixed up with plenty of cow shit and worm castings and added Neutrog Seamungus and Gyganic and high phosphate guano.

Guesstimated around 400-500 fruit so far, normally they get that rusty shit and die around about now .

Also there's morons on the Bunnings website that say you must drill extra drainage holes at the bottom, don't listen to them as these are SIP style planters, drilling holes will fuck em and you'll need to water twice a day. Others complain about root rot but the reality of it is they put tiny plants in and then drown them to death because they don't know what they are doing lol.

 

[HomeBound_Hound]

Check out these tomato plants. Got them around the end of August as seedlings and they growing like mad.

Bunnings sell the plastic planters, which are pretty expensive at $32 but they work insanely well.

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They drain out through the legs, they reckon fill the legs up with scoria or other gravel for added weight and better drainage. I filled the bottoms with pine bark and branches/twigs upto the runoff point like a hugelkulture setup, and I made my own potting mix with leftover Coco rootballs from last grow and pine compost, mixed up with plenty of cow shit and worm castings and added Neutrog Seamungus and Gyganic and high phosphate guano.

Guesstimated around 400-500 fruit so far, normally they get that rusty shit and die around about now .

Also there's morons on the Bunnings website that say you must drill extra drainage holes at the bottom, don't listen to them as these are SIP style planters, drilling holes will fuck em and you'll need to water twice a day. Others complain about root rot but the reality of it is they put tiny plants in and then drown them to death because they don't know what they are doing lol.

Chutney and sauces for dayz

 

[Goonie Goat]

Chutney and sauces for dayz

Pretty sure I'm allergic to nightshades but fuck it. I'll give em a go on a sanga, give most away I reckon

Got the pressure cooker I use for mushroom bags so might make some sauces too

 

[benn0]

If you string them up and manage them they'll grow all season and produce bucket loads of tomatys, bit of a defol at the bottom where you've picked your fruit to encourage more growth up top helps but you'll soon run into the problem of needing to string em up

 

[Goonie Goat]

If you string them up and manage them they'll grow all season and produce bucket loads of tomatys, bit of a defol at the bottom where you've picked your fruit to encourage more growth up top helps but you'll soon run into the problem of needing to string em up

Got the lanky ones staked up with bamboo, the shorter ones are intertwined in the chicken wire, did a defoliation 2 days ago to get some more air and Sun to the bottoms. Don't want them to get diseases like the last few times I tried

 

[Goonie Goat]

Mein Erdbeer Pflanzen.

 

[benn0]

Mein Erdbeer Pflanzen.

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lovely strawberry pots youve got there, you may have too many little ones sucking energy from the bigger ones and the bigger ones getting to their full potential, in the off season focus on getting them heads big and fat and keeping the runners in check

edit: crowns not heads :\

 

[Goonie Goat]

lovely strawberry pots youve got there, you may have too many little ones sucking energy from the bigger ones and the bigger ones getting to their full potential, in the off season focus on getting them heads big and fat and keeping the runners in check

I've taken a few runners and jammed them into spare pots, in a few more weeks I'll get the snips and cut them off by then they should have rooted.

I think you're right about the smaller strawberries. Might need to give them a good hit of the special t or potash to help them along.

Best strawberries I've grown yet though, called Red Gauntlets. got 50 runners for $25. They're a Scottish variety that can deal with colder climates apparently and they are also a commercial variety so should yield well

 

[Goonie Goat]