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Garden tour, end of winter 2013

I thought I'd post a tour of my garden as it currently stands at the end of winter, to act as the "before" pic in relation to the [spring planting](http://growstuff.org/posts/skud-20130823-planning-for-spring) we're planning. Like all "before" photos, there's likely to be a fair bit of "ugh"... ...

One day my sun will come

by malissa,

Slowly, slowly the sun line is moving down the fence. It shouldn't be too long before my garden gets some direct sunshine and springs into life. I picked up some seedlings from the Slow Food Market at Abbotsford Convent today: dwarf kale, bok choy, chervil and Tom Thumb lettuce, and planted t...

Planning for spring

by Skud,

We're about a week away from the official start of spring in Melbourne, but the weather for the last month has been what the indigenous people of this area consider ["pre-spring"](http://home.vicnet.net.au/~herring/seasons.htm): "warming, first flowers, birds begin nesting". It's definitely a di...

Small grape vine - any tips for transplanting?

by FedericoMenaQuintero,

The other day I got a small grape vine (about 40 cm tall) from a nursery. It seems to be four cuttings of about the same length. It's in the black plastic bag right now, and I want to transplant it to the garden. I'm a bit paranoid about the preciousness of grapes, so I want to be careful ab...

New features: redesigned homepage, API and RSS improvements

by Skud,

Hi everyone. You probably already noticed that we have a shiny new homepage. If not, [check it out](http://growstuff.org/). Heaps of work went into discussing what was important for us to show and tell on our homepage, laying those things out on the page, and then actually building the new pag...

the appropriation of poor skills

by geeksdoitbetter,

[OooOo will **this** be a real link?](http://meloukhia.net/2013/08/sparemeyourguilttrydoingsomething.html)

Tomatoes gone wild

by oakandsage,

So I have three volunteer tomatoes around where the Sunsugar was last year, and I didn't have much else there so I figured I'd just let them grow and see what happened. They've got small yellow fruit slightly larger than that of Sunsugar, but just barely - but it's sort of irregular. Not as irreg...

How do I know when carrots are ready?

by FedericoMenaQuintero,

Lacking X-ray vision, you know. Even if I dig a little with my finger and the top seems the normal diameter, it may be that the whole root is not ready yet. But how can I tell?

Basil is flowering - how do I save seeds?

by FedericoMenaQuintero,

All of our basil plants are flowering. How do I go about collecting / saving seeds from them? Are they like onions where you do the wrap-flower-in-plastic-bag trick?

Goji not a listed plant?

by abbz,

Just a thought:)

Chinotto Orange...what to do?

by abbz,

I have been growing a chinotto shrub in a large planter...i have never seen a fruit off a big tree so I have no idea how big or small they should be...anyone who has grown this? Also what do you do with the oranges?

Planting chilli peppers in Growstuff

by dasbero,

Hi everyone! I'm trying to enter all the plants I'm growing this year and I've run into a bit of trouble, because I don't know the name for what I would call chilli peppers ("Peperoni" in German). I looked for "chilli", "pepper", "capsicum" in the list, but now I'm out of ideas. Bero.