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Terrible at logging every year, lets see if I have better consistency this time!   I have a new son, born in January this year. So I only had time to grow one pepper bought from my local bunnings - a habenero. It's been in the pot about 2 weeks now.    This pot is now in it's 4th consecutive...

Who here makes their own compost? I just inspected the product of last years efforts and wow- blown away by the quality of this compost, far exceeds anything you can get in the stores. And all made on a small balcony! Even this small space netted me 10 litres of high quality compost.   This...

One mistake that nearly every beginner makes is that they don't leave the peppers alone enough. I see thread after thread here with people over-complicating thing massively, from what mix to use, what fertiliser to use, how to prune etc etc it is endless!   In my catnip pot the other day I found...

Howdy everyone, it's that time again where it's coming out of the middle of winter here in Adelaide My previous glogs are famous for not being updated! Hopefully this time I'll keep posting the progress.   Things got a whole lot more exciting this year with the sale of my apartment. We're...

Hi Everyone, What's the best method to line a plastic bin with aluminium foil? It's a DIY grow box

If you pinch and bend the plant, it does the same thing that topping it does but the plant recovers very quickly. Topping usually takes around 10 days for the plant to recover

Hi everyone, I know how to prune an established fruit free, but have no idea how to get it to that point. Hoping that someone knows of some good blogs or information with some pictures of what each "stage" should look like   It's a persimmon tree, but all fruit trees are pretty much the same. At...

I put 500 red wigglers into my chilli plant container. Its a 20 or 25 liter container I believe and it's BLACK I checked them today and they are still in there, as wriggly as ever   I honestly thought they'd died and I'll tell you why   In december we had 5 days in a row over 35 celsius, one of...

I'd like to make a single thread here where we can all discuss organic growing, its advantages and disadvantages, methodologies and so on. I will use this first post as a placeholder for an index, linking to popular and informative information so it can be used like an index   I turned to...

Hello, I am back after haitus from the internet as everything was really very busy!   I have made the move to 100% organic gardening in this time and do not dig, till or otherwise disturb the soil   Here is my pepper plant, a jalapeno. It is 6 weeks from seedling and absolutely covered with...

Does anyone have any experience / ideas about this?   Powdering dried mushrooms, for example shiitake, then adding them into the soil at the start of the mix or as a top dress. Mushrooms could be beneficial to the soil, have plenty of proteins (supplying nitrogen), carbohydrates and also chitin...

There are some people smoking cannabis in the video for some reason - So be aware that this may be considered not safe for work   https://livestream.com/accounts/11524690/events/6070654/videos/132023292/player?autoPlay=false   Take away points: Compost teas are only really useful if you do not...

The other day I posted a thread about an article by Jeff Lowenfels A few questions were raised about the applicability to contains and mediums that are not soil   So, I asked the author for his opinion   Alex Powell <***@***.com> May 22 (1 day ago) to Gardenerjeff    Hi Jeff, hope you're well  ...

Soil Biology and pH by Jeff Lowenfels   The success of the AeroGarden, the first plug-and-grow aeroponic kitchen appliance, is testament to the fact that ordinary people do not understand the concept of pH and don't want to deal with it in their growing situations. Make it so you can practice...

In a few different threads the topic of mulching to provide a soil with everything it requires was brought up.  When I first joined this forum there were a lot of posts discussing how to provide nutrition to a plant. There was a lot of conflicting information on the best growing media, nutrient...

As topic says I don't want to kill all the beneficial microbes in my soil with chloraminated water   My usage is about 10-20L of water a week

Has anyone in Australia managed to find a fertiliser that is complete and preferably in a 3-1-2 ratio or there abouts Everything I'm looking at it missing something important.   Thrive is missing Calcium Osmocote appears to lack nitrogen Powerfeed has phosphorus fairly low   I've been using...

Hi, Next year I really want to grow plants that I can make use of. So I'm going to grow:   Jalapenos Cayennes Birds Eye Habanero Aji   However there are LOADS of different types of Aji. I'm not big on the spice as I can simply add more birds eye to get a disk hotter! I'd like the best tasting!  ...

Hi All, I have a little chilli plant that is about 30cm tall and 20cm wide. I want to put it on my desk at work as it's an ornamental variety (ebony fire) and I have some bolivian rainbows that I'd like to put on there as well when I have one all grown up.   I can't post a picture of my work...

Hi All, Thought I may as well start a grow log and show you my peppers and introduce myself a bit   I'm 26, live in Adelaide, South Australia and immigrated here from England in 2001. I work for a major IT corporation as a Subject Matter Expert for a major Australian bank. My day to day...