03 December 2007
Food for Thought
20 lm fertalizer to 4 litres of water. A couple of days early, but this upcoming weekend it has to be done on Saturday.
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Vegetable Growing in Dunedin, New Zealand
5 comments:
Hi Andrew, you're getting yields so early!! I can't believe you had a cauliflower in November.. so it must be ok to plant these in teh winter hey? We planted intensly around the last frosts.. Here's my update.
You're doing better than me on some fronts. Your spinach is way better than mine, but I think my tomatoes are doing better than yours (but mine are in the house).
Bok Choy should grow well. I've never had any problems, but it doesn't look like the ones in the shops.
Brussel sprouts like it cold. If you grow them in full sun then the buds will open up, if you grow them in colder areas with less sun then they will remain closed. I've been successful once, all the other times resulted in open buds and no sprouts.
Oh darn! Didn't know that about the sprouts.. :( My Bok Choy does look like teh shop variety though... dunno what goes there. I think that's good advice about growing Ts inside. You're house must be full of that lovely aroma they put out. So there's little truth to the flowers needing pollinating before fruit?
The modern tomato can self-polinate so you don't need more than one plant. What I read suggests you need to shake the flowers for 5 seconds a day to ensure they do, indeed, self-polinate (if grown inside). This seems to have worked because there are some fruit on the vines.
I just added a blog entry on the tomatoes. We don't have any fruit yet, but as you'll see the vines are doing well. Indeed there is a fanstastic smell in that room.
Also, Bok Choy and Brussel Sprouts are both brassica (cabbage / cauliflower / broccoli) so they are prone to the grey brassica aphid. Sprouts can get them bad and Bok Choy get them a little (and a little later in the season).
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