If you're like me, and you're passionate about gardening, why not jump in and share with us the type of plants you're into and/or are growing in your garden.

We're always discussing relationships on this forum so it only makes sense that we discuss our relationship with our own outdoor home environment.

I live with impoverished soils-- living on the coast means ( most of the time) that soils are very acidic-- I can grow very little, but my dad could grow literally anything.. thinking of going hydroponic. ! Soils that  have to have heap's of money spent on them to make them fertile kind of defeats the purpose.

Yup, I have an “orchard” of a dozen fruit trees and vege patches front and back (front faces south so gets lovely early morning sun.

I grow tomatoes, enough that with 20Kg bought tomatoes (at Farmers Markets) I can make enough passata for a batch of pasta for nearly every week of the year—I have a small tomato machine good for like 10Kg a pop. Cut a couple up, run through the machine, into sauce pot over high heat, two more, then run the skins through and on to the next 2 tomatoes. Capital mistake to cut the whole lot of tomatoes up—you will get watery sauce.

Chilies, rockmelons, eggplant, cucumbers, zuchini, sweetcorn and beans:


That photo was taken not that long ago, the sweetcorn has doubled in size! The power of pig errrr manure! About 2" of pig poo got spread between the rows 

Almost forgot my latest tree:


Not bad for Adelaide! It is right by the back verandah, faces north so no frost and plenty of sun. Had one big bunch last year, two this year.

When you grow stuff you end up with a glorious glut and jam making, drying, preserves and jams, pickles is the order of the day. I love it!

Oh yeah, I got a tree full of plums—see Fermentations to see what I have in mind for them.

Is that a pic of your actual garden Mr George?

Hey Bobby, great to see you around 

We've got 19 tomato plants growing beautifully at the moment in a full sun/low wind area of the garden with Italian basil herbs growing btwn them. All tomatoes are still green. We have 1 other tomato plant located well away from these and it's presently producing red tomatoes. It's a cherry tomato plant which grew of its own accord after I buried some vege scraps (following a family bbq). Can't wait to harvest our tomatoes this year. Will post a pic when we do.

St George of the Garden wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2015 at 2:54pm:

  George ?    

Aussie has seen plenty of my gardening photos is what I meant.

Aussie wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2015 at 2:58pm:


Ohhh that sounds awful. Next time, we're all crashing out at George's place. I'm sure he won't mind lol.

We just need to remember to pack a few shovels and spades so that we can help him out during our stay on his farm