What's your climate like, Dahlis, where you live? I don't know enough about Oz, but I think you have rather warm winters compared with ours. Or is it somewhat cooler in the highlands? Do the varieties of veg we grow here sound familiar, or do Australians have a completely different set to choose from? What about the type of soil where you are, and do you get enough rainfall? Sorry to bombard you with questions, but I think many people here on the forum may be interested. thanks for helping me get pickies up; now I know what to do, I'll have to restrain myself or this site will be full of them.
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mike
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I suppose you could say that just take everything you do over there and do it in the opposite here, seasonwise.
In reading over this forum I so often find unknown (to me) varieties and that intrigues me. Are they the same varieties under different names or do you have varieties over there that we are missing out on over here. Havne't worked it out yet.
My Highland climate goes to about -5c in winter and can have days around the 40c in summer. Much better rainfall than Sydney, being the Highlands. My husband finds the HIghland landscape very similar to North Wales and parts of England.
I can grow all the cold climate vegies here, which is such a treat. This year I am really going at it with the berries and currants and have harvested broccoli and cauliflower which was a real thrill. No hope of that in Sydney. But I also have a mango tree planted and have found avacodo trees have sprouted from the composting, so have 4 of them growing now.
I am sprouting my tomato seeds in the glass porch, waiting for all danger of frosts to be over, then they can go outside and play.
In reading over this forum I so often find unknown (to me) varieties and that intrigues me. Are they the same varieties under different names or do you have varieties over there that we are missing out on over here. Havne't worked it out yet.
My Highland climate goes to about -5c in winter and can have days around the 40c in summer. Much better rainfall than Sydney, being the Highlands. My husband finds the HIghland landscape very similar to North Wales and parts of England.
I can grow all the cold climate vegies here, which is such a treat. This year I am really going at it with the berries and currants and have harvested broccoli and cauliflower which was a real thrill. No hope of that in Sydney. But I also have a mango tree planted and have found avacodo trees have sprouted from the composting, so have 4 of them growing now.
I am sprouting my tomato seeds in the glass porch, waiting for all danger of frosts to be over, then they can go outside and play.
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What a wonderful variety, Dahlis. You do seem to have 2 climates for the price of one. All I get in terms of spontaneous growth of veg is tomatoes in compost used as mulch - and that doesn't get time to produce any fruit to mention. You make me look forward even more to retirement - I might even have time to try to coax something exotic over here.
It's an "Indian summer" here at present and
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It's an "Indian summer" here at present and
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Mike Vogel wrote: I might even have time to try to coax something exotic over here.
It's an "Indian summer" here at present
mike
Well there you go then. An Indian summer's pretty exotic for England isn't it??
