Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

To Janet and Bina, Thanks for your lovely email but we have not got as
far as planting anything yet as we are still building the house.

We have to design our veggie garden which will all be on a sandstone slope
facing the west and our orchard will be on the 1/4 acre we own beside the
river at the bottom of the land. See photo of our block from the other
side of the river and photo of last veggie garden in Victoria, surrounded by
hedge. At the moment yes we are in Winter, the temp is 23 C degree today.
We are sub tropical.
My neighbour grows mandarins, pineapples and macadamia nuts plus everyone
grows mangoes. We have lemons of course and tomatoes. We are in a sugar
cane high yield area with many farmers cutting 2 or 3 times a year. Banana
farms too. My husband has just starting fishing from our new jetty but has
a long way to go before being successful as the trawlers that dock on the
other side of the river.

You could look this area up on your browser - called the Clarence Valley
River Tourism area and we get most of our seeds from the Diggers Club in
Dromana, Victoria branch. They have non genetically modified seeds.
Look them up www.diggers.com.au At the moment we are just planting a
few native plants to set some edging to an area. Bottlebrushes, grevilleas
and banksias. We have wallabies on the block and koalas in the area so we
also planted tallowwoods and grey gums for future generations.

I am trying to remember the best build up of the veggie beds for when we
start. I think it was 10 layers of newspaper first then compost then
mushroom mulch then chicken manure then sugar cane mulch or lucerne hay then
another layer of everything again from the newspaper upwards. Leave for 4
weeks or so untill all new mushrooms come up and dig in will and then plant
and cover with more sugar cane or hay.

The first year we did this was when we lived in Victoria, much colder,
mediterranean climate, and the cauliflowers were great. But we didn't feed
the beds again as we thought they would be OK for a few years and we never
got another cauliflower. We know this time not to wait and see. We
shall feed every year with seaweed solution or fish emulsion. Looking
forward to the future crops when we get started later this year.
Regards to everyone. Claire in NSW



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From: Janet Schultz
Date: 08/11/13 01:59:31
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Organic_Gardening] Re: Newbie

I am so jealous, you live in permaculture central. Oh just search
permaculture.org and you'll get there. There are always courses to become
acquainted with the concepts of really closing the loops within our world.
I live next to a lake in central Alberta Canada. High summer still here
while you are depths of winter. So a question if you don't mind. ..... if
you could have planted something in mid summer to harvest in mid winter what
would it have been??? I get minus forty degrees in the winter on a regular
basis, so please don't tell me oranges, I am so jealous of your climate,
where you are what ?tropical, ?subtropical and I am boreal forest, sometimes
called the taiga, or the snow forest on the cusp of prairies. So my options
are sometimes much narrower than others with more frost free days.
I am told by permaculturists, that I am a permaculturist what ever that may
be. All I know is this. I eat local first, I want to support my local
community, the benefit is that my neighbors make a little extra cash, I have
been invited to some great farms where animals are treated well, plants are
grown responsibly with an appreciation for the land. I live on a 50x150
foot small city lot and so I grow organic, but I would not say that I am
totally organic only because of urban exposure. I once about five years ago
arrived home to find the neighbor doing me a favor and apply dandelion
killer to my front yard....
I try to know my farmers. I make darn sure I know where my seed comes from
and I save most. I an trying to live lighter and lighter as I get along
this path through the gardens that is my life. I am constantly refining,
changing and have on occasion moved entire gardens so that they got more
light and now....so looking back on your autumn. What would you have planted
one more time during your late January to harvest in June.
cheers
Bina




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From: "ashley.online@yahoo.com.au" <ashley.online@yahoo.com.au>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 7:59:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Organic_Gardening] Re: Newbie





Hi there Bina at the lake - I am Ashby Ridge on the Clarence and I love
your info but would like to know where in the world are you ? I am in the
Northern Rivers area of NSW in Australia. We are prensently building a new
home and intend setting up our organic veggie garden and fruit orchard as we
did when we lived on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. Would you like
to correspond ?
I hope to grow raspberries, gooseberries and bananas as well as pineapples.
We will be stocking the freezer with excess next year or the year after as
we still have to set up the areas.
Do you have a lot of knowledge and experience with growing organics?
Regards

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From: binaatthelake
Date: 09-August-2013 00:31:20
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Re: Newbie

Hi hey and welcome, in from picking, weeding watering and the never ending
cycle that is summer. Bundles of herbs drying and baskets of saskatoon
berries to freeze, yellow raspberries to throw into the fridge need just
one more pick tomorrow to make wine, raspberries need to be dumped in bags
and I have bananas awaiting a mashing for saskanana bread. Doing a triple
batch and freezing a whack of it.

I love summer, love garden season but there's no time to socialize when
there is weeding to do...
Love to all, will talk in the autumn when production slows down, and I still
have all these workshops for herbalism and permaculture to attend and
present at.

so I apologize for the lack of participation, hope all gardens are
flourishing and a big Hi to all the new comers. Must dash and finish up my
fireweed jelly, and as I said must deal with the berries.
cheers all
Bina

PS Hi to all the unknown government guys who have to read all this, hope
your gardens are growing well too. You realize that the act of growing your
own food makes us revolutionaries so yes you need to watch and listen to us
very carefully as we discuss things like manure and comfrey tea...seditious
I know

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> Thanks so much. Glad to join. I'm really interested in getting my health
better and the best way to do this is to keep away from GMO's. Enough said.
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