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Monthly Gardening Discussion Thread - December ‘24 (aussie.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by melbaboutown@aussie.zone to c/gardeningaustralia@aussie.zone

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It’s coming into Summer, getting hot and sunny. I better get my cherry tomatoes and pumpkins going if it’s not already too late. And keep watering the zucchini.

In the hotter weather what do you have planned for your landscape, pots, patch, window box - or even the lone houseplant/cactus in your apartment?

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[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yesterday I roughed up the abandoned patch with a garden fork and sowed some of the seeds. …Not many alyssum. I don’t think that was 300 seeds. The nasturtium seeds are big.

I’ll sow more in trays in case those don’t take. I’m already going to have to do it for sunflowers.

I would have liked to do more, like chip away the shallow weeds, pick out the broken glass, and dig it over with manure or compost. But that’s not really feasible. What I’m trying to do is simply start pulling good bugs and pollinators into the area with what I have available right now.

I sprayed the zucchini down with a weak solution of dish soap for thrips in the meantime.

I’m doing one more coat of yellow paint then will put the cardboard in plastic bags for waterproofing and smear Vaseline and dish soap on the outside.

[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Im out of the loop, whats getting yellow paint and why? Water proofing with cardboard in plastic bags? Vaseline and dish soap on the outside of what ? Why? I need context random stranger.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, my zucchini plants have a pest called whiteflies.

They’re attracted to yellow so people make sticky traps by mixing Vaseline and dish soap and smearing it on yellow cardboard. The idea is they go get stuck and the soap kills them.

However rain and watering would make the cardboard soggy so I thought to put the cardboard part inside a plastic bag for protection.

I’ve since managed to go get an organic pest pray which might work better

[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Well there you go, learn something new everyday.