Hunters and growers

[greyghost]

I'm finally getting off my ass and building a few garden beds for some veg.

We've obviously got a few hunters here anyone a grower too?

Can get my meat, if I can grown my veg I'll just about never have to go to friggin Safeway again

[AlanK]

Tried, failed, gave up

[AusC]

I've actually got a pretty solid veg patch going from just chucking veg left overs onto the lawn which seeded.

I must be great at gardening

[inspector]

I've gotta bring home the bacon, the misses takes care of the veg

[Blackened]

When you can start hunting vegetables, I'll stop buying them

[tucked]

We have six 2m square beds at our place which does about half our weekly food. Saves us $30- $40 a week or something I guess.

[samf]

We've got a pretty solid herb patch going.

One bit of advice, buy some proper soil for it. It's $45 a cubic metre or something, peanuts really....

Planting in crap earth is an uphill battle to get anything to grow.

Some good soil and all our stuff grew at a berserk rate.

[Warrigul]

When you can start hunting vegetables, I'll stop buying them

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What the hell are those things?

[Warrigul]

What the hell are those things?

They can walk, they are over six foot tall, their tongue lashes out up to six meters and stings their prey with a neurotoxin that cause paralysis or death within seconds(up to and including animals the size of humans), the plant moves over to the prey and feeds on the rotting corpse and then moves on to its next victim.

A bit like a 32 year old spinster at a disco really...................

[feedr]

A bit like a 32 year old spinster at a disco really

LMFAO!

[greyghost]

They can walk, they are over six foot tall, their tongue lashes out up to six meters and stings their prey with a neurotoxin that cause paralysis or death within seconds(up to and including animals the size of humans), the plant moves over to the prey and feeds on the rotting corpse and then moves on to its next victim.

So where do I not go on holidays to avoid these crazy things?

[Hucka]

If you can get a patch going they're great.

With a bit of shade, sun and water they pretty much take care of themselves. We get 1-2 meals a week out of ours without taking care of it basically.

Getting them established is the trick.

[Kaine]

So where do I not go on holidays to avoid these crazy things?

You can easily avoid them by maintaining a strong grip on reality.
If that is difficult, then smear yourself in guano and sing an Italian opera.

[ebr love]

You can easily avoid them by maintaining a strong grip on reality.

That's asking a lot

[Noisydad]

What the hell are those things?

They can walk, they are over six foot tall, their tongue lashes out up to six meters and stings their prey with a neurotoxin that cause paralysis or death within seconds(up to and including animals the size of humans), the plant moves over to the prey and feeds on the rotting corpse and then moves on to its next victim.

A bit like a 32 year old spinster at a disco really...................

I go to bars like that too...AWESOME!

[Aster]

I go to bars like that too...AWESOME!

Awe... some?

[Klem]

We have six 2m square beds at our place which does about half our weekly food. Saves us $30- $40 a week or something I guess.

$40 to spend on ammo

[greyghost]

I'm well into this now

Have had a few beds on the go for a couple of months now and it's just about covering the veg intake for free.

Did some picking last night and got a few kg of tomato, pumpkin, eggplant and a bunch of stuff.

Cookin' night tonight

[D9er72]

A friend in town grew a summer garden when he got his water bill he reconed he barely broke even on his veggie other that it tasted better !

[Noisydad]

Have been into growing my own veg for years. So far this Feb and March I've made 28 jars of tomato chutney, 16 bottles of tomato sauce (and more on the stove right now) and 15 jars of sweet zucchini relish (and more to come). Using old and tried recipes that make a delicious brew! Getting a bit sick of the sight of zucchini now though - it grows while you're standing there watering them!

[Vati]

A friend in town grew a summer garden when he got his water bill he reconed he barely broke even on his veggie other that it tasted better !

Works for me still

Too much supermarket veg tastes like nothing...

[Herdsman]

A friend in town grew a summer garden when he got his water bill he reconed he barely broke even on his veggie other that it tasted better!

I think the trick is using what you get efficiently.

Gotta get into preserves and chutneys and long term storage stuff like Noisy.

In my limited experience I find a lot of it comes in at once and you don't want to live for a week on the same veg so end up chucking half of it.

Or composting it or whatever.