Local Food Growers club

[sprintcyclist]

I joined the local 'Food Growers' association.

It has already been good.
My thoughts on our garden is changing a lot. For different reasons than I might have thought.

Any thoughts on home grown food ?

[Black Orchid]

What do you do there Sprint? Sell to the public or share and barter amongst yourselves?

[Neferti]

Perhaps it is like the English community garden plot thing because they don't have a large enough block to grow their own flowers and veges?

[Neferti]

My Mother grew lots of vegetables (and flowers) and mostly she had to give it away ... I have never felt the need to grow my own vegetables but I used to have pots of herbs and I love flowers so my garden is mostly flowers and shrubs (and weeds).

[sprintcyclist]

What do you do there Sprint? Sell to the public or share and barter amongst yourselves?

they share why they grow and share ideas.
it is a not-for-profit association

[The Mechanic]

I've just put in some flowers and carrot seeds in to my raised bed..

I hope they come up!!

I have had trouble in the passed with carrots after buying them in punnets ....

all bent up and not growing properly... so im hoping by using seeds that they'll grow straight down and come out nice..

[sprintcyclist]

I heard with carrots the soil has to be friable up to about 300 mm deep.

So as deep as you want the carrot long

[Black Orchid]

Twisty carrots are usually a result of overcrowding.

[Neferti]

I remember, way back, while still married and living in St Ives (Upper North Shore in Sydney) and I asked hubby to make a vegetable garden ready for planting. Hoping that veges would make him interested in "gardening". Didn't work.

He dug and dug (great soil) and made a whole patch of "vege garden beds". Then, when done, came inside and said "Well, that's done ... now YOU can plant what you want". Grrr. I sent him off to Bunnings (or whatever it was back then) and he came home with TURNIPS, CARROTS and CORN. Turnips? The carrots were pulled up before mature ... first by Daddy then the child ... the corn got watered and produced a few cobs ... the turnips grew wild and I ended up giving them away to the local lady who had billy goats ... that lot will eat anything, including chokos.

[The Mechanic]

I have put a reminder in my phone to when to check the Carrots.. and NOT before...

12 weeks...