Bobby. wrote on Apr 26
th, 2018 at 7:07pm:
Monk - you're not going to grow much in cold Tasmania.
It will likely snow most of the time between May & December.
Frost will kill any seedlings of any plant.
You'll wish you'd gone to somewhere warmer like the Gold Coast - you fool - trying to grow things when there is a proven mini ice age already here & getting worse every year with extreme cold events.
Actually ignoramus, I saw many fine gardens in the locality where I have my block and talked to some people. I can grow what I can grow in Adelaide, pretty much. Annuals might need to be started in a cold frame but I start my tomatoes here in July inside with a heating pad under the seedling tray. So, not much different.
My main interest is in growing apple, pear and cherry trees and they will do well there. All the trees need “normal chill” to set fruit so even as temperatures inch up over time I will be fine.
Plenty of winter veg: peas, broadbeans, kale, brussels sprouts etc. I can even have a cellar, I think, for not too much money so root crops like spuds, carrots, swedes can be stored there in the fall to provide some food for over winter, store late apples (apples that ripen early in the season, Dec–Jan, tend not to store well at all.) Summer veg—the nice beans I cannot get to fruit in Adelaide anymore, summers are too hot due AGW and UHI I can grow there with melons, corn etc. Between the back of the house and the row of perry pear and cherry trees I will have a flowering border, will help attract bees and look nice.
Be good!
No snow. Doubtless some good hard frosts, hence I can grow brussels sprouts and my kale will taste great—hard frosts improve the flavor. Be a few things I can grow in Tassie I can’t in Adelaide (besides pome fruit and cherries I mean.)
Been thinking about a greenhouse but doubt I will bother. A polytunnel maybe or a sunny window ledge to start seedlings etc.
I might reconsider planting a quince tree, a self fertile variety and even a fig. There will be a crabapple tree to make pectin jelly and a decorative one too. Helps pollinate the other apple trees.
https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/horticulture/pomesCold climate EVOO is wonderful. Gave my sister a bottle on returning here and she is rapt, so a few more bottles to bring back in Sep.