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Bush Ranger
25th September 2016, 04:49 PM
G`day all. Not sure if the subject belongs here, but I guess it`s part of food and cooking of the end product. I bought an unlabeled punnet of el cheapo squash / pumpkin a few years back and had this little number turn up. I thought it was hilarious, as I thought it was a butternut pumpkin to begin with.

Bush Ranger
28th September 2016, 06:52 PM
Here`s another home grown veg. The sweet potato weighed in at just under 5 kilos, it was one spud and joined at the skinny part on the left. Any one else out there grow their own veg?

NissanGQ4.2
28th September 2016, 07:15 PM
Yeh 2 gardens just salad stuff here for us and my pygmy dragon.

We have issues with possums and rats getting in :(


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jay see
29th September 2016, 12:47 AM
No pics unfortunately.

Used to have a patch. Best thing was to go out pick whatever was growing and that was veggie soup.
Also did pickled beets a few times from scratch, man they were the best, 5 jars and they wouldn't last more that a couple weeks.

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Dirtydog16
29th September 2016, 11:27 AM
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Maxhead
29th September 2016, 11:35 AM
Last seasons little veggie patch :)
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=69210&stc=1

Kimbo63
29th September 2016, 12:14 PM
Last seasons little veggie patch :)
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=69210&stc=1
Nice tomatos there mate lol

Bush Ranger
29th September 2016, 07:20 PM
I think if I had some thing like that growing, the veg punnets wouldn`t make it to be planted.
I`m not one for taking photos of veg, but I grew a couple el cheapo beetroot punnets, amonst others too and the gf ended up boiling them up, pickling them and jarring them up. A few years back when I grew a heap of beetroot, she was hesitant in trying them and now she takes over in doing the prep work for them. I think she enjoys doing it more than I and wonders what the hell am I going to do now just to surprise her.

mudski
29th September 2016, 08:12 PM
I wish i had a yard that got sun to grow my own veggies. We spend so much money on buying these when its easy to grow your own. But we dont get any sunshine at all in our backyard between late March and late October so we dont bother.
Hopefully in the next place.

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jay see
30th September 2016, 12:22 AM
I wish i had a yard that got sun to grow my own veggies. We spend so much money on buying these when its easy to grow your own. But we dont get any sunshine at all in our backyard between late March and late October so we dont bother.
Hopefully in the next place.

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But then there is the time.
I have the room at this place and the sun. but not the time to commit, the next place doesn't have the room, but will do it on a smaller scale. Planter boxes....

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NissanGQ4.2
30th September 2016, 04:30 PM
I wish i had a yard that got sun to grow my own veggies. We spend so much money on buying these when its easy to grow your own. But we dont get any sunshine at all in our backyard between late March and late October so we dont bother.
Hopefully in the next place.

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Hydroponics..... even paying for electricity running the lights probably still works out cheaper

threedogs
30th September 2016, 05:53 PM
How about comparing the taste of a home grown tomato to that of a dry floury supermarket job.

NissanGQ4.2
1st October 2016, 04:03 AM
How about comparing the taste of a home grown tomato to that of a dry floury supermarket job.

Same goes for eggs, we have chooks and the difference between fresh and store bought..... I hope I never have 2 buy again!

Bush Ranger
1st October 2016, 09:11 PM
Here`s one of many Zucchini that I grew a few years back and have started to grow again this year, even though it might be a bit late in the season. I picked 3.6 Kgs of Butter Beans to day, plus 1.4 Kg the other day and a few stalks of Celery to day as well. I spread some compost around in the garden a couple of months back and finding a few cucumber plants popping up, so I`ve put up wire trellises to train them up. Probably pickle these ones too like last year.

DX grunt
2nd October 2016, 10:39 AM
I've just started my first vegie garden since I was a kid.

Wife uses hose, I use a 9lt watering can and have to go back and forward to the rainwater tanks - but it's worth it.

No pics, sorry. White moths are an issue at the moment.

Kimbo63
2nd October 2016, 11:11 AM
I've just started my first vegie garden since I was a kid.

Wife uses hose, I use a 9lt watering can and have to go back and forward to the rainwater tanks - but it's worth it.

No pics, sorry. White moths are an issue at the moment.
Yes those cauliflower moths are nasty if you don't have netting you have to remove the eggs every day

Bush Ranger
2nd October 2016, 08:59 PM
Pulled up the Rosella plants yesterday and made jam with them. Dug in compost where they were, waiting for some thing else to take their place.

Bush Ranger
4th October 2016, 06:45 PM
Hydroponics..... even paying for electricity running the lights probably still works out cheaper

Saw a show called Garden Gurus on TV to day, which had an aquaponics set up and was running on 12 volt pump(s), which was hooked up to a 120 AH battery box. Lasts around 8 days.

Bush Ranger
4th October 2016, 06:49 PM
Picked 1.46 Kgs, just a tad over 3 pounds of Butter Beans to day. Another half shopping bag of beans that will be par cooked and frozen, if not given away.

Kimbo63
5th October 2016, 09:52 PM
My weeds I mean vegetables
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Bush Ranger
13th October 2016, 08:35 PM
Five Chokos to day. A fair size and 2.4 kilos worth.

Kimbo63
18th October 2016, 11:00 AM
NissanGQ4.2 good read for you here

http://www.greenlifesoil.com.au/organic-vegetables-herbs/growing-herbs-vegies-for-chickens

NissanGQ4.2
18th October 2016, 05:55 PM
NissanGQ4.2 good read for you here

http://www.greenlifesoil.com.au/organic-vegetables-herbs/growing-herbs-vegies-for-chickens

Thanks Kimbo for the link,

My chooks are well feed, they use 2 get free roam of the yard daily but they kept on digging up new plants and seedlings in the garden so have 2 keep them separate now, they still have a fairly large run and still get let out from time 2 time for a rummage around.

I sorta bred woodies ( Australian Wood Roach ) for my pet lizard and the chooks go nuts when I clean the tubs out, I also get Zophobas Morio ( Giant Meal Worms ) from a breeder up the road from me which the chooks also go crazy for.

Meal Worms

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And if your on FaceAche my woodies: https://www.facebook.com/Raptazor/videos/1230693950288618/

Woof
18th October 2016, 09:06 PM
Five Chokos to day. A fair size and 2.4 kilos worth.

Love Chokos, well done

Bush Ranger
20th October 2016, 01:11 PM
Doggy, here`s the last Choko I picked from the other day and weighs 450g.

Woof
20th October 2016, 01:45 PM
Doggy, here`s the last Choko I picked from the other day and weighs 450g.

What a ripper, going to see if I can find some at the shops

Bush Ranger
21st October 2016, 08:25 PM
What a ripper, going to see if I can find some at the shops

Fairly easy to grow, as you probably know. When they do grow, the vine takes up a heap of room on the trellis.

DX grunt
22nd October 2016, 12:21 PM
We've started growing vegies. Pics to follow, as soon as my new phone comes back from the repair shop! Spewing!!

Kimbo63
22nd October 2016, 06:56 PM
had a bug in my garden
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possible eyeing off my tomatoes
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LOL

Kimbo63
22nd October 2016, 07:06 PM
its a Vic bug drinking Qld beer with a Nsw jumper on im my garden in Wa

Woof
22nd October 2016, 07:15 PM
its a Vic bug drinking Qld beer with a Nsw jumper on im my garden in Wa

Get the pest control out Kimbo, got to watch those Mexicans mate

dom14
23rd October 2016, 12:20 AM
Last seasons little veggie patch :)
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=69210&stc=1

Looks like a legal "weed" farm. ;) :D

Bush Ranger
17th November 2016, 08:49 PM
Collected a 15 litre bucket of Chokos to day. Didn`t weigh them, but be easily 10 kilos in total.

Kimbo63
17th November 2016, 11:17 PM
Just started harvesting tomatoes yummy got a good crop of broccolini and coliflower this year all the summer crops are planted now the waiting game has begun

taslucas
18th November 2016, 06:36 AM
Just started harvesting tomatoes yummy got a good crop of broccolini and coliflower this year all the summer crops are planted now the waiting game has begun
Geez! My tomato seedlings are about 2cm tall....

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Kimbo63
18th November 2016, 09:40 AM
Geez! My tomato seedlings are about 2cm tall....

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Bit colder down your way mate lol will load up a snap shot later today

Cuppa
18th November 2016, 11:37 AM
Vegie garden at our previous house. We managed self sufficiency in vegies for around 7 months of the year for many years despite the short growing seasons, in addition to year round self sufficiency in meat, (lamb, beef pork & goat) eggs & cheese (goats).
Our current vegie garden is a pathetic disgrace.

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Kimbo63
18th November 2016, 11:39 AM
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/11/153.jpgmthere you go and one of my square foot garden just sowed on Sunday http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/11/154.jpg


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Bush Ranger
21st November 2016, 02:31 PM
Haven`t much in the veg patch at the moment. The old cabbage moth are thriving at the moment, so water melons, tomatoes, chokoes, pineapples, garlic, parsley and brown onions are the only things I have growing at the moment. Didn`t worry about corn this year, as I have a bundle in the freezer keeping my sweet potatoes company. Bought a big jar of gherkins a few weeks back and the cucumbers decided to swamp me. The spare patches of dirt I have, gives me a chance to prepare and rest them for the next crop of what ever for the next time I get a spurt on.

Bush Ranger
26th November 2016, 08:06 PM
I`ve planted another twelve cucumber plants this time. Six Burpless and half a dozen of Crystal Salad Cucumbers, so I`m going to be swamped even more now with cucumbers. Planted twelve fancy lettuces of various types as well, just to fill up the spare space that I had.

Avo
27th November 2016, 12:39 AM
Nearly but not quite . can't find em

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Bush Ranger
4th December 2016, 08:10 PM
8 Kilos of chokos waiting to be peeled and cooked.

taslucas
4th December 2016, 08:36 PM
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/12/36.jpg
Nothing too out there but just a few leeks I picked this afternoon

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MB
4th December 2016, 08:57 PM
Nothing too out there but just a few leeks I picked this afternoon >>>tappin from tassie
Gold Lucas! You're in the neighbourhood mate to grab some 'Ashgrove' butter (best in the country) and saute those leaks before adding potatoes & chicken stock for soup Royal mate :-)

Kimbo63
4th December 2016, 09:26 PM
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/12/75.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/12/76.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/12/77.jpg just went down and picked a couple off matos for later and took some snap shots enjoy
That is 4 weeks since sowing the seeds the garden bed that is not the tomatos


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Kimbo63
4th December 2016, 09:33 PM
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/12/36.jpg
Nothing too out there but just a few leeks I picked this afternoon

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Nice one mate my favourite vegetable

taslucas
4th December 2016, 09:36 PM
Gold Lucas! You're in the neighbourhood mate to grab some 'Ashgrove' butter (best in the country) and saute those leaks before adding potatoes & chicken stock for soup Royal mate :-)
Nope, Duck River butter for me 😊. Made just down the road, near Smithton. I have some chicken stock I made with a left over carcass last weekend 😊

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Kimbo63
4th December 2016, 09:40 PM
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/12/78.jpg
One of the tomatoes [emoji35]


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Avo
4th December 2016, 10:10 PM
i only got pics of bush tomato's

Bush Ranger
5th December 2016, 09:54 PM
Pumpkin bush from a few years back. Had a few off it and here`s one of them just to show how big the dog is.

Kimbo63
6th December 2016, 07:05 PM
From seed to thishttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/12/119.jpg in 4 weeks to thishttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/12/120.jpg in 30 sec


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DX grunt
6th December 2016, 07:54 PM
Not a fan of the old radish. But each to their own tastebuds. lol.

Not planting any more vegies until the shade cloth goes up. Even with watering twice a day, the fresh veggies are dying.

Kimbo63
6th December 2016, 08:08 PM
Not a fan of the old radish. But each to their own tastebuds. lol.

Not planting any more vegies until the shade cloth goes up. Even with watering twice a day, the fresh veggies are dying.
Lol I love them little suckers the hotter the better
You might want to add some coco coir to your soil to retain some moisture

DX grunt
6th December 2016, 08:18 PM
Lol I love them little suckers the hotter the better
You might want to add some coco coir to your soil to retain some moisture

We've tried everything. It's forecast 40 deg on Saturday, and it's hard to compete with that heat! lol

AB
6th December 2016, 08:24 PM
We've tried everything. It's forecast 40 deg on Saturday, and it's hard to compete with that heat! lol Does it get majority of sun all day spot Rossco?

Plasnart
6th December 2016, 08:25 PM
We've tried everything. It's forecast 40 deg on Saturday, and it's hard to compete with that heat! lol

Move back to Vic grunta and you'll grow vegies no worries!! You old mexican you!!

DX grunt
6th December 2016, 08:52 PM
Move back to Vic grunta and you'll grow vegies no worries!! You old mexican you!!
Haven't you got a yacht to sail? PML

DX grunt
6th December 2016, 08:54 PM
Does it get majority of sun all day spot Rossco?

After lunch it starts to warm up. By 4pm, it's unbearable. By 8-9pm, it's still low-mid 30's.

taslucas
7th December 2016, 06:28 AM
From seed to thishttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/12/119.jpg in 4 weeks to thishttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/12/120.jpg in 30 sec


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Yum! I love radishes too.
I had a go at pickling them last year. The taste is great but they smell like farts haha http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2016/12/126.jpg

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taslucas
7th December 2016, 06:30 AM
After lunch it starts to warm up. By 4pm, it's unbearable. By 8-9pm, it's still low-mid 30's.
That. Is. Horrible.
It's been shorts and shirt weather here for me for the last couple of weeks. There's probably only been a few days over 20 and nothing over 25. Ahhhhh gods country

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Bush Ranger
13th December 2016, 01:58 PM
First water melon for the season. Weighs 14 Kgs.

taslucas
13th December 2016, 02:50 PM
Yum, I'd love to be able to grow something like that

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Bush Ranger
13th December 2016, 07:08 PM
I was surprised by the out come and was wondering when to pick it, as I`m use to growing pumpkins and waiting for the stalks to dry on them. Tastes great though and a quarter of it has gone all ready and better than the water melon my gf bought the other day from down the road. Might keep a few seeds for next year, as the ones I have are use by March 2016.

taslucas
28th January 2017, 06:12 PM
Picked in the morning, pickled by lunchtime. YUM! http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2017/01/153.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2017/01/154.jpghttp://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2017/01/155.jpg

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Bush Ranger
2nd June 2017, 05:55 PM
I pickled some lime green capsicum, 4 Cayenne chilis, a tea spoon of peppercorns and let it sit for a couple of months.

Bush Ranger
8th June 2017, 07:28 PM
I planted a punnet of caulis, broccoli, wombok (chinese cabbage), bok choy, peas, snow peas and red onions a couple of weeks ago. Thought it best to plant now, while there`s a bit of warm weather around, to give them a head start before winter sets in.

taslucas
9th June 2017, 05:28 AM
The frosts are already here so no planting for me for a couple of months

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Avo
14th June 2017, 08:23 PM
2 summers ago...should do more of it..now days i just grow bacon n sausages

Bush Ranger
17th June 2017, 07:56 PM
Love eating the old Zucs, haven`t grown any for a few years.

Bush Ranger
19th June 2017, 07:05 PM
Dug out about half the dirt in a section of the raised vege patch to day and put in half a bale of sugar cane mulch with 10 x 20 litre buckets of compost on top with one bag of each of cow and sheep manure. The reasoning is that the compost over flows due to too much dirt and it has served its purpose for the last 8 years. Watered it in and ready for the punnet of Womboks , silver beet and two punnets of beetroot. Picked the first pine apple a few days back and waiting for the other three to show up with some thing. Smells nice and ripe at the moment.

Bush Ranger
11th July 2017, 05:41 PM
Only half the amount of Bok Choy that I picked to day, that have been washed and waiting to dry off enough before putting in to the fridge. Roughly two punnets worth, as a few had a double seedling in a cell. They`re good for as a filler when waiting for cabbage, cauli and broccoli to come on. Enough there to be a vegetarian for a couple of weeks.

Bush Ranger
31st July 2017, 01:20 PM
Here`s what the two vege patches look like at the moment. Broccoli, cauli, celery, red onions, leeks, womboks (chinese cabbage), 3 zucs, 3 purple skinned sweet spud, 24 beetroot plants, pine apple that were planted 2 year ago, a couple of cheap brand snow peas out of a pkt of 20 and planted recently some climbing beens of some sort, bugle p/kin seeds, a few water melon seeds, which the other stuff should have been harvested by the time the melons / p/kins have grown up.

taslucas
1st August 2017, 11:41 AM
Far out, we're still getting frosts here haha

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Winnie
1st August 2017, 01:27 PM
Far out, we're still getting frosts here haha

Sent from my E5823 using TapatalkWe have a full week of frosts forecasted =(

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Bush Ranger
1st August 2017, 04:49 PM
The `season` has come a month or two early for us in north Qld as I`ve heard. Further north have been getting a double crop of pine apples apparently. We`ve had rain here in Bundy that`s not usual for winter here apparently. Hoping the punnet of cauli flower that I planted a month or so after the other one makes it through to maturity.

Maxhead
1st August 2017, 05:43 PM
Melbourne Cup is our time to plant, don't really have any frosts after that







................on the road

taslucas
2nd August 2017, 04:14 PM
Frost this morning and the tap was frozen so I went around the back deck to get the watering can and came unstuck on the ice haha not veggie time yet

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Bush Ranger
2nd August 2017, 07:54 PM
I wish I had another vege patch, as I`d like to start growing the veg ready for spring and summer before it gets too hot.

Bush Ranger
21st August 2017, 07:27 PM
I wish the caulis hurry up and get a head, all ready picked the broccoli and left the stumps in to grow those broccolini / broccoli off shoots. Climbing beans of some sort have come up and the dwarf Borlotti beans have grown through and waiting for them to bush out.

MB
25th August 2018, 12:20 PM
Plutonium fertiliser!
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2018/08/285.jpg


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Clunk
25th August 2018, 02:05 PM
Plutonium fertiliser!
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2018/08/285.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkGot sucked in to the Coles minis collectables hey [emoji6]

MB
25th August 2018, 02:15 PM
Cool hey [emoji41]
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Clunk
25th August 2018, 04:43 PM
Cool hey [emoji41]
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Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkNope .......... [emoji6]

MB
25th August 2018, 04:49 PM
Spoil sport, my tomatoes have never looked so impressive [emoji23]


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MB
10th February 2019, 08:19 PM
LB’s first little greenhouse project gearing up for Autumn fast approaching here down south. No idea what we’re doing but hoping McGoogle got our seedlings choice correct today :-)
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2019/02/59.jpg
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Ghosts
11th February 2019, 04:19 PM
I see it`s one of those palletised hot house MB.

MB
11th February 2019, 04:42 PM
Ready for fast tractor relocation we were Ghosts mate in case Mrs MB canned the idea of it sitting on the back deck in ‘her’ spot :-)


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rusty_nail
11th February 2019, 04:44 PM
I wish i had a yard that got sun to grow my own veggies. We spend so much money on buying these when its easy to grow your own. But we dont get any sunshine at all in our backyard between late March and late October so we dont bother.
Hopefully in the next place.

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now you have that mate!

mudski
11th February 2019, 07:13 PM
now you have that mate!

Yeah looking forward to getting one started. Just so many other things on the to do list aswell. I need to build a fully enclosed vegie patch as the possums around he have a very healthy appetite.

Ghosts
12th February 2019, 08:46 PM
Ready for fast tractor relocation we were Ghosts mate in case Mrs MB canned the idea of it sitting on the back deck in ‘her’ spot :-)


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Good idea MB. I was thinking along the lines of pelletised fertilizer and palletised hot house connection sort of thing. You probably picked up on my dad joke.

Avo
13th February 2019, 09:48 PM
No fekkin way....i spend so long outdoors everyday i aint growing my own anymore....if i could get home deliveries i would

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MB
14th February 2019, 05:28 AM
You do work too hard Avo mate!
Be sure to take a break every now and then like a day out at the footy or something for R & R [emoji1649] [emoji41]

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MB
31st May 2022, 05:36 PM
Bananas are finally out of season down here in Sunny Mexico [emoji1166]

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BrazilianY60
18th November 2022, 12:53 AM
Jaboticaba, a local fruit.

A reference in English:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabuticaba

Flowering pictures from October 1st. Flowers usualy open all at once overnight, and you are welcomed in the morning with a delicious sweet parfum that takes over the house, as well as the constant hum of the bees that come to enjoy it.

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The same tree on November 5th. Usually fruits grow from the ground up to the branches, a very intense production per tree. This year I believe the flowers smell was too irresistible for the new house puppy to leave them alone.

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