#1 05-08-14 04:11:18

Monotreme

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By request from Devochka, a new thread.

I'll start. Cucumbers on the trellis at left, beans in front middle and dill behind them, and more beans off-camera to the right.

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Oh wow, is that the same patch as what you posted a photo of in May? That dill looks wispy and beautiful, I would plant that for decorative purposes, which is what I do mostly.

I'm growing vegetables but I don't know anything about them. Actually I can't remember what I planted, except lots of broccoli because my mum said you can start broccoli in the winter. Also broccoli is the king of vegetables. My cat keeps digging everything up so I believe I'm doomed to failure however I will bust out my camera on the weekend and post some photos.

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Everything's growing so well! It looks so big and healthy. The dill reminds me of the fennel that grows wild next to train tracks around Melbourne. I have some parsley growing at home but it doesn't look as good as your plants, since it's winter and we cut some off it every now and then. One day I would like to grow fruit and veggies as sexy as these

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Hilarious post, Ms. Devochka!   It would be rather difficult to take a bite from them, I think.

(By the way, in Russian devocka is pronounced 'DE-vochka (first syllable stressed), and the word means "girl" of course. )

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Sorry I haven't been on here for so long! I've been unusually busy . I finally took some photos of my garden (hooray) and just worked out how to post them (double hooray - I'm so bad at technology). Monotreme, I think just one of your plots is the same size as my entire garden bed!! I have serious veggie patch envy. The beans look like they are loving life, I love it when they start climbing all over everything.

This is my whole veggie patch. We have broccoli and cauliflower at the front, purple kale, red cabbages which you can't really see and then savoy cabbages. My bangin' silver beet is hanging out at the back near Peggy, the flamingo. I'm not the most experienced gardener, but I try really hard! I also don't get to spend that much time tending to it during winter because by the time I finish work it's pitch black outside

The other side of the purple kale, you can see the red cabbages here

My rather sad looking pot plants...these are all summer crops which is why they are looking a bit tired. In the bottom left hand corner you can see my tiny pine tree I drag inside every christmas, then we have about 3 strawberry plants, some parsley and a couple of dead looking chillies I'm hoping make it through until it warms up again. I really like snipping off the beautifully coloured, red and orange strawberry leaves and using twine to tie them onto gifts wrapped in plain brown paper, it looks really pretty.

I took these a few days ago, I gave everything a really big fertilize over the weekend and we had a bit of a cold snap, so all the cabbages and kale have had a bit of a growth spurt since then and are looking a lot healthier. I think this winter has been really mild and the cold weather crop isn't developing as quickly as it should be. I also feel compelled to apologize for having such an over grown lawn (you can see it sprouting up in corners and around the pots), but I know everyone here appreciates  a full bush so I'm not going to bother! I have a few more areas where I'm growing bits and pieces so I will take some more shots this weekend

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That's a beautiful garden, Elsa. One minor correction: in idiomatic English, what you have there are "potted plants". The phrase "pot plants" means something different, but you got me staring intently at the pictures anyway.

I don't think I showed off this part of the garden before, Aven. When I moved to this place in 2011, I got maybe a tenth of a hectare of vacant lot that had gone native, and not in a good way. The previous owner had grown junipers (pfitzers) and buckthorns and anything else invasive and nasty, and I had to clear all that out. Between IFM in the winter and digging in the summer, I was able to sublimate my sexual frustrations into growing things.

I'm looking forward to more photos from everyone. Keep them coming ;-)

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One minor correction: in idiomatic English, what you have there are "potted plants". The phrase "pot plants" means something different, but you got me staring intently at the pictures anyway.

I'm not going to bother fixing that mistake (although I will note it for the future), because I think it's quite funny and want to see how many people I can trick

It sounds like it was a mammoth effort to get everything looking how it is now, I'm impressed! You did so well. The mix of pride and satisfaction and gratefulness  you get when you can stroll through the garden and gather your home grown delights to use in dinner is one of my favourite feelings, it makes all the digging and occasional  frustration totally worth it.

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Wow Elsa, your veggies are so beautiful! Whenever I've grown fruit/herbs, I feel kind of bad eating them because I know how much time and effort it took the plant to grow them. Do you feel like that or do you just enjoy them and plant more? Do they taste really good?

According to Collins English Dictionary, pot plant is correct here, though it also has another meaning. Maybe someone will share photos of their pot plants too. I think saying "pot plant" instead of "potted plant" is an Australian/British thing.

Hilarious post, Ms. Devochka!   It would be rather difficult to take a bite from them, I think.

(By the way, in Russian devocka is pronounced 'DE-vochka (first syllable stressed), and the word means "girl" of course. )

They would be hard to eat, though I think I would like to lick the peaches... mmm so fuzzy. I actually submitted my name as Devotchka, a corruption of the Russian word used by Anthony Burgess as part of the Nadsat language in a Clockwork Orange. But someone at Feck changed the spelling because they were way too uncool to get my awesome cool reference just like everyone else in the world GOSH . I guess I should watch the film again to see how they pronounce it, I think I have a better chance of being able to pronounce it like that than the correct Russian pronunciation.

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Elsa, is that coriander? How the hell do you keep that shit alive? It's my favourite herb so I've tried like 10 times and it always ends in sadness. Lovely garden by the way!

Devochka, that carrot! SMH, as the kids say.

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That carrot has a provocative pose and great taste in shoes. It's embarrassing but it took me too long to work out that SMH didn't mean Sydney Morning Herald hahaha...

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It's embarrassing but it took me too long to work out that SMH didn't mean Sydney Morning Herald hahaha...

Oh um, me too. I only know because I follow too many NBA players on twitter. They're always S their H's.

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Oh man, I wish it was coriander! I only ever manage to grow enough to top one bowl of tom yum and it just goes to seed. It drives me nuts. I've basically accepted that coriander is the asshole of the herb world, always playing hard to get and can never commit to a garden bed long enough anything to flourish. What is in my pot is  just your regular old, underrated nice guy, parsley.

Someone tell me, what does SMH mean? So much hussle? So much hula? So much hair? Not that I fancy the idea of a hairy carrot. I will probably work it out right before I fall asleep tonight

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It means "so much hula", for times when you just see hula girls everywhere. Hehe it really means "shaking my head".

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shaking my head!

I like that, parsley, 'the underated nice guy'. I have a lot of parsley in my garden.

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Psst Elsa, for when you're an old confused lady like me trying to use the internet by throwing cats at it, and someone says an acronym or something that looks like english but somehow just isn't, you can always throw your cats over to google and type "[strange new word here] urbandictionary" and then press enter and VOILA! among a pile of terms for sexual acts that make you go, "what, seriously?", you shall find your answer!

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Wow Elsa, your veggies are so beautiful! Whenever I've grown fruit/herbs, I feel kind of bad eating them because I know how much time and effort it took the plant to grow them. Do you feel like that or do you just enjoy them and plant more? Do they taste really good?

I forgot to answer you, Devochka! I sometimes feel sad when I harvest the last of something like a cabbage or broccoli, because you really only get one head  ( ) off a plant, whereas stuff like silver beet just keeps on coming ( ). Sometimes you get tiny off shoots of broccoli once you harvest the main head though, which is quite nice. But I think it's a really lovely feeling to grow and pick and eat your own food. It helps me feel more connected to nature and the seasons, eating what we should be eating when mother nature intended us to eat it. And it definitely tastes better, especially tomatoes!! Seriously, once you eat a freshly picked, homegrown tomato in the peak of the season, there's no going back to supermarket ones. I pretty much don't eat tomatoes for most of winter, which is kind of depressing because they are one of my favourites.

Viva, thanks for the tips, it turns out I've been using the internet wrong all these years by throwing dogs at it. I'll never feel like an out of touch old lady again!

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Home grown tomatoes are the best! I grew cherry tomatoes when I was growing up in Darwin. They're completely different to supermarket ones, better in every way. I miss all the delicious fresh food from the tropics, most of all mangos. It's hard to express just how much of a surplus of mangos Darwin has in season, pretty much everywhere you look there is a delicious mango. I took this last time I was there:

and here are some photos from ISM that sum up how I feel about mangos

This folio is great, it's worth buying a subscription just to see it http://ishotmyself.com/public/view_gall … rangefruit

Darwin friend:

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The Squash Pit, looking west-northwest towards the abandoned building next door. I'll continue clockwise.

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We've had unusually cool and wet weather this summer, which has not made my corn happy. It's so sad I haven't even bothered weeding this bed.

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Leeks, beans, cucumbers, and a pollinator garden to the left in the raised boxes. Carrots and beets are done for now, but they were in the raised boxes too.

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Sunflowers are not flowers yet, but they're tall enough.

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Tomatoes: 12 plants, about a half-dozen varieties. I'll be pretty busy canning in September.

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Peppers in front, herbs in back.

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Behind the peppers is another level of bed with herbs (in back) and another pollinator garden (in front).

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Strawberry bed.