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DOC wrote:

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:Pink trumpet vine which is a #@&@*@& weed
How do you kill this bastard?
Pops up every where. Seems to love roundup and other chemicals.
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Like Date palms(also a pain), they would survive a nuclear blast...

Fertilise, water and make it a feature.

I kill everything that way.

We have a bird of paradise at the front.
It would have had 100l of round-up and all sorts, then it bloomed like never before... [emoji848][emoji848] so it earnt its right to stay

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Still have plenty of tomatoes. Mighty Reds very tasty.

Cucumbers bad and Butternut pumpkin has very few female flowers as well.

Watermelons are gaining 2-3 inches in circumference daily. Three days ago 2 were golf balls, now they're bigger than a softball.

That also happens on honeymoons.

DOC wrote:Still have plenty of tomatoes. Mighty Reds very tasty.

Cucumbers bad and Butternut pumpkin has very few female flowers as well.

My tomatoes got ruined in the big storms we had in Novemberish, the main stems snapped, I yielded alright for a few weeks but wasn't sustained.

I planted more but lost interest, cueys are doing OK, chilli's very well.

Tomatoes in, this year include Mighty Red, Roma and a variety from seed that I kept that is cricket ball size and round (looks like the "Truss" variety as sold now everywhere)

Also have a variety of cherry toms in, Sweet Bite, Red and Yellow Cherry, Juliets (baby roma's) and Principe Borghese.

First Beans (Beanette, Hawkesbury Wonder and Butter) are up as is the sweetcorn. Cucumbers still in pots hardening off and the usual smattering of lettuce, rocket, and spring onions are underway.

Basil, Capsicum and Chilies very slow to emerge.

I am also trialing some late planted sugar snap peas to see how they cope with the warmer weather.

Tomatoes very slow to set fruit this year. Cooler and late start to higher temps. Normally gauge who they are going by having the first tomato ripe enough to pick by Christmas day. Will not achieve that this year.

Cucumbers about a week away from picking and will eat the first picked beans tonight.

Rocket has been very good (great flavor) and have just planted out a second lot of spring onions.

Will have two little helpers tomorrow so everything will get a water, especially the paths and the fences.

Mine are flowering like mad and the mighty's have got 3 or 4 that are just going from green to light / red, agreed, won't be ready by Xmas.

Booney wrote:Mine are flowering like mad and the mighty's have got 3 or 4 that are just going from green to light / red, agreed, won't be ready by Xmas.

Mine are going boonta, did plant them in September though, just got one plant that have some shit that makes quite a few of them look a dead in some parts, haven't had the time to research what the problem might be, gonna rip him up.

Been in my house for over 20 years and my grass has never looked better or greener.

Tried a new line of products, Lawn Porn. Liquid gold.

Anyone got roses? Mine are struggling this year, Im putting it down to the weather., just not enough heat for them?

Dutchy wrote:Anyone got roses? Mine are struggling this year, Im putting it down to the weather., just not enough heat for them?

Mine aren't going well at all. The standards I planted about 8 years ago aren't doing much at all, the established ones ( apparently two have been there for about 50 years ) are going ok, but nothing to brag about.

Dutchy wrote:Anyone got roses? Mine are struggling this year, Im putting it down to the weather., just not enough heat for them?

We’ve got standard roses in the front yard.
Ours are looking good but the missus does spend plenty of time pruning and feeding them.

Yeah when we get our next burst of hot weather Im going to prune them right back, like i do every winter

Dutchy wrote:Anyone got roses? Mine are struggling this year, Im putting it down to the weather., just not enough heat for them?

Mine are doing well, plenty of Sudden Impact for Roses and they have bloomed well.

Dutchy wrote:Yeah when we get our next burst of hot weather Im going to prune them right back, like i do every winter

Prune in June.

Dutchy wrote:Yeah when we get our next burst of hot weather Im going to prune them right back, like i do every winter

Are you in America?

Last year we had self-seeded tomato bushes spring up all over the back yard, presumably blown in from the neighbour's plantings.
This year none so far...

Tomatoes can self seed profusely (where the fruit rots and it can and does survive the digestive process!).

Self seeding was one of the reasons that many market gardeners around Virginia and Two Wells often experimented with the fruitless tomato in their greenhouses late 70's into the 80's.

DOC wrote:Tomatoes can self seed profusely (where the fruit rots and it can and does survive the digestive process!).

Self seeding was one of the reasons that many market gardeners around Virginia and Two Wells often experimented with the fruitless tomato in their greenhouses late 70's into the 80's.