[quote="Mr Potato Head"]Alright, I'm intrigued Dahlis... how would you describe the climate? What do sort of things grow around there?
It does seem odd calling someone "Mr. Potato Head", it's like a throwback to the school playground insults
Where I am now in the Southern Highlands, the climate is quite different to that when I was in Sydney. I don't know whether this zoning is international, but the Highlands is classed as:
Heat Zone 4 and Cold Zone 9a/9b according to where I get my mail order seeds from.
Usually our winters go to about -5c with heavy frosts and usually at least one snowfall to summers which have been getting hotter with some days around the 38 - 40c. We can have late frosts right to the end of October and cool changes in the middle of heatwaves. Summers are not as humid as in Sydney, which is a blessing.
I can grow so much more here than I could in Sydney - the flowering bulbs grow superbly, lilacs, daphne, all the plants that thrive in Britain and never did well at all or were impossible to grow in Sydney. As well of course most of the native Australian plants and tree ferns.
The vegtables - the brassicas grow well here because of the frosts.
However, being the mad person that I am, I have planted a mango tree and 2 banana trees (carefully umbrella'd over winter to protect from frosts and they have survived. I also have avacado trees sprouted and some kiwi fruit vines, as well as passionfruit.
I have been receiving my mail order seeds the last few days to begin to get ready for spring planting.
Just about all the usual vegetables also rock melons and of course pumpkins. We also have many fruit trees and all the herbs and of course the greatest excitement now I am in this climate is that I can grow berries!!! Yay! My first raspberries last year and this year I will have crops of blackcurrants, redcurrants, white currants, and blue berries.
So despite being upside down here, we are not too dissimilar in kitchen gardening perhaps:?:
. I couldn't find a good one based here and as I follow a lot of U.K garden books etc. for even though our seasons are at opposite ends of the earth just about, we still plant and grow the same vegetables, herbs etc.
, but i like a chat!
