Sunday, March 31, 2013

Decline: A good thing

I lobe the way rhat gardens force you to tie into the rhythm of life. And so to see my corn (that failed) ready to o go ti compost is just a part of the game.

Wrlcome to the game.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Overwintering a Pandan Plant

My friends from Singapore, Sri Lanka and Indonesia have lamented that they can't get fresh pandan leaves from a garden. So I'll have a go at getting this one through winter, under glass.

Monday, February 18, 2013

A "help me" regarding a phantom plant

This plant with (now) the orange fruit self seeded into a pot where I was growing succulents. It's clearly a Solanacae of some sort - the flowers looked like capsicum flowers and the foliage looks like capsicum, tomatoes and even (ugh) deadly nightshade.


So my obvious question - what is it? The plants range from poisonous to yummy (deadly nightshade to Chilli) and I'm wondering whether to pull it out or go with it.

We'll see if Malcolm Campbell has some ideas.

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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Anatomy of a graft

This graft took. Just a strait angle cut, match up both layers of the wood and tape it. Interesting to see how the scion wood has grown into the rootstock.

But now we have Nonno Guissepe's peach growing in our driveway, on the same (wild) rootstock where I have a funky espalier donut peach.

Cool

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Goji berries: rare fruit

Rare alright. I've had three plants in for about four years and had about ten of these tiny fruits. But they are available dried, really cheaply in Asian grocers so they must grow well somewhere.