tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67558133330883622502024-03-19T03:20:49.780-07:00The Night GardenerNot affiliated with the award-winning crime novel about a serial killer who doesn't do much gardening, if any.Camhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03262385809957732007noreply@blogger.comBlogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755813333088362250.post-19202608258322369072014-08-29T08:03:00.001-07:002014-09-05T05:49:43.341-07:00 More tulips yeeeees?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Camhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03262385809957732007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755813333088362250.post-78290795251875212142014-07-28T09:23:00.001-07:002014-08-21T08:55:50.732-07:00Species Tulips - 'The First'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I told people that I wanted to grow some wheat a lot of them said, what? For a variety of sensible reasons, wheat is not really grown domestically. It's got a poor square meter to loaf ratio, you've got to de-hull it and thrash it and mill it etc, and it's also of no real value as a green manure. On top of, or perhaps because of all this it's quite difficult to buy. You won't find it in the seed section at Bunnings or even on the funkier new age organic seed websites. I didn't much feel like driving to the Mallee to buy a 20kg sack of grain and was about to give up when I found a website selling 1kg bags of wheat seeds for wheat grass juice. Even more than that, if you were a high powered business executive you could order your wheat pre-germinated and delivered in ready turf format. So for $10 I acquired my grain and it was sown. i wanted to grow wheat because a lot of my recent reading has been about the history of agriculture and all its recent nasty developments. I wanted to grow something that we eat (most of us) everyday but we never see. Possible sequels include sugar cane, cotton, soy beans and canola, climate permitting of course. It's been a bit of a let down I must say. The wheat certainly hasn't reached elephants eyeball height and waiving in the wind has only resulted in it getting mashed into the ground. I am looking forward to watching it change colour as it dies off and then deciding whether to make flour with it or feed it to the lawn mower.<br />
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When plums are being delivered by stick it doesn't take too long for the word to get around. Nibbles, featured in the previous post, has returned with a lady friend named Jiggles, for an evening of high-wire plum munching acrobatics. I think there might be something going on between these two as Nibbles is clearly showing off with his unusual inverted plum eating style and unnecessarily prominent man possum bits. Nibbles' gluttony gets the better of him though as he goes all rodentey and Jiggles leaves him to it.<br />
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<br />Camhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03262385809957732007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755813333088362250.post-53338897254706411632014-01-15T22:26:00.003-08:002014-08-21T08:53:59.485-07:00The Night Nibbler<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_v04Pneb11cPyePGK7U-fwoTw8TS1-F1cgvCpt8zkgaKzZz6Q-AeRVOjIVwgECK7yO80hlHzVFpsdnSpMYRApkiXz5Xog4L11WcUJfxoyK3760V9NAkK4so8csfllRI8KHgUCK8SKig/s1600/Ringtail+Possum+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_v04Pneb11cPyePGK7U-fwoTw8TS1-F1cgvCpt8zkgaKzZz6Q-AeRVOjIVwgECK7yO80hlHzVFpsdnSpMYRApkiXz5Xog4L11WcUJfxoyK3760V9NAkK4so8csfllRI8KHgUCK8SKig/s1600/Ringtail+Possum+002.jpg" height="320" width="205" /></a> As a night gardener you often cross paths with other travelers of the night. This was my third encounter with a very tame ring-tail possum that frequents our roof via the power line. On our first encounter, my first reaction was to poke him with a stick. Finding him (or her) unphased by this simple but effective form of communication we proceeded to play a game of tug-of-war to settle the battle of hand vs tail. On our second encounter I extended the olive branch of peace, or as it happens, bamboo garden stake with plum attached. On this occasion the offering was rebuffed, trust it seems was slow in coming. Last night however things were different. After a second day of +40 degree temperatures a cold plum was well received. With two hands on the wire and two on the job, the offering was soon reduced to a pit and a second plum was hoisted up to replace it. Despite the damage caused to my trees it's hard to dislike these little guys. Perhaps it's the lack of connection to the animal world you feel in suburbia, or just the charm exuded by any creature with fur and a wet nose. If he touches my apples I might feel differently but until that day a visit on the wire will be rewarded by a plum on a stick.<br />
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Uni is over for the year, Summer is grudgingly arriving and the Night Gardener awakes! Well, the Night Gardener is always awake at night, but at this time of year his horticultural productivity rises dramatically. The winter kale crop has reached it's zenith as you can see. Our kale seeds were gifted to us by Peter Cundall and bare the name to prove it. While they were very slow getting started and ended up being consolidated to only a quarter of the large raised bed, they have exploded under the influence of a little dynamic lifter. Do I like eating kale? This is a question yet to be answered. An ancestral relative of the cabbage, sharing its distinctive aroma, I am curious to see if it can be substituted into cabbage based dishes. One in particular combines cabbage with bacon, butter and parsley to startling effect. Not sure if that's fair though, pretty much anything goes with that particular culinary trinity. Perhaps its a taste I'll have to acquire. It worked with cider. <br />
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Kale is not without it's ravenous enemies. Just this afternoon I noticed a plague of green caterpillars with near perfect camouflage! I'm fairly certain what I have here is the formative vessels of the White Cabbage Butterfly. Once you spot one of them all of a sudden they are everywhere. So far I have tried spraying with Spinosad and jumping up and down a bit. If that doesn't work, my next plan will involve bacon, butter and parsley, taking care to wash the spray off the little buggers first.</div>
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For the second year running I have experienced the querky phenomenon of autumn apple blossom and fruit.While this is far less of a problem than coddling moth or the icy massacre of a hail storm, autumn bud break (as I call it) has the potential to reduce the following year's yield not to mention confuse the bees. If I wanted to be irritating, I would name it "bi-anneal bearing" which is both a per-existing apple tree condition and a confusing measurement of time if you think hard enough about it. The activity occurs at the tips of the new growth with clusters of flowers followed by bunches of abnormal, elongated, Chernobyl-style fruit. The fruit never gets past acorn size and hangs on the tree until you pull them off and hock them at something. Why does it happen? No definitive answer so far with the internet being, as always, useless. As everyone knows, true gardening wisdom is only contained in mouldy old books that nobody owns. My strongest suspicion is climate, to be specific an unusually long 'Indian Summer' we had this year. Perhaps as Summer rolls on and on the trees decide to skip winter and get on with spring. The other suspects are rainfall and fertilizer. The last few years have produced excessive autumn rainfall and I may well have provided excess late Summer feeding. The only one of these factors that I can influence is fertilizing so next year there will be a test. I will feed some of the apples in late Summer and skip others and then we'll see. At the moment it's nothing more than a botanical oddity as the growth that blooms prematurely is almost always pruned back. However when the trees are properly established it may occur on the delicately nurtured fruiting spurs wasting the following years potential crop. I will continue searching for answers.<br />
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Camhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03262385809957732007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755813333088362250.post-55876491890718667922013-03-27T06:11:00.001-07:002014-08-21T09:02:43.211-07:00The Best Apple I've Ever Tasted<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This single apple has indisputably wiped the floor with every other apple grown this year and delivered on all the hype and media buzz surrounding the famed Bramley's Seedling. This lone apple survived coddling moth, sunburn, pigeons and wierd alien fungus to mature into a plump, spotty and asymmetrical example of this legendary cooking apple. I vowed to myself that my first successfully grown Bramley would be stewed and served (still warm) over ice-cream. I kept my vow. As a result of this whole experience, my second Bramley tree, currently on the front nature strip, will be relocated to the orchard next to it's older sibling. Community gardening just got less communal.<br />
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While I was dicing away at this moster I took the opportunity to judge the Bramley as an eating apple. It was a truly exceptional apple to eat raw. The flavour is difficult to describe, the sensation is acid to begin with but there is an underlying sweetness. The texture was crisp with a high water content. This apple makes the Granny Smith taste like a fake plastic apple! The stewing process was a bit of guess work. I had about 200g of fruit to which I added 2 teaspoons of caster sugar and 6 teaspoons of water.</div>
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Camhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03262385809957732007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755813333088362250.post-50984482427089277942012-12-07T06:28:00.003-08:002012-12-07T06:28:39.050-08:00General Spring Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is just a small selection of the things of Spring. Our first ever potato crop appears to be harvest ready and has been a definite success. I now understand the oft recollected pleasure of sifting through the earth to find these starchy nuggets! It's got to be the most exciting harvesting experience as you turn over the soil and they all tumble out. These are Kipflers grown from sprouting store bought spuds. They don't exhibit the Kipflers distinctive turd-like shape but I've seen ones that look like this before. High hopes for the taste test which is imminent.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Has someone been fondling your street apples? Sigh. Unfortunately anything beyond the fenceline gets fondled sooner or later. How do I know this? It's the distinctive sheen they've developed. Apples are normally dusty and even a bit hairy when they're growing whereas these have a somewhat polished appearance. With successive croppings I'll probably calm down.</div>
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Camhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03262385809957732007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755813333088362250.post-40470055650873669362012-12-06T18:20:00.002-08:002014-08-21T09:04:45.987-07:00Malteser SyndromeI have to say I'm almost numb now to the countless mysterious horrors presented to me when I walk through the apple orchard at the moment. This one however was just horrific enough to stir me. I think I'll call it the Malteser syndrome, firstly because I've got no idea so far as to what it really is and secondly for wholly obvious reasons. The damage is limited to the Summer Strawberry which continues to accept the brunt of natures boot this year and is limited to only five or six of the fruit. My sole suspicion so far is that its got something to do with the vicious 40 degree day we had about a week ago. Leaves were burnt and feelings hurt in the wake of that stinker and the sun-facing feature of these big brown spots is a dead giveaway. From the cross-section, the damage appears to be superficial but I can't see an apple recovering from this.<br />
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<br />Camhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03262385809957732007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755813333088362250.post-61330929633716476332012-11-29T17:31:00.003-08:002014-08-21T09:05:14.506-07:00R.I.P. Bramulator<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nature can be cruel, very cruel. And survival of the fittest is often replaced by the random lottery of disease and death. Such was the fate of my most promising Bramley apple, the Bramulator. After a day of record temperatures for November, apparently, I was watering in the evening only to find that the Bramulator had had its ass handed to it by a strange and disfiguring wound developing on its side. My heart sank, I had become very attached to this little guy and was looking forward to pulverising him in a blender and making apple sauce. As of yet I haven't identified the condition however it looks quite distinctive and I went to the effort of documenting it scientifically before I laid the Bramulator to rest. In years to come there will be so many apples (I hope) that this level of individual coveting will be impractical. But for now I will continue to honor this apple that gave its life to further the cause of apple disease research. Your death will not have been in vain, you would have been delicious.<br />
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Camhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03262385809957732007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755813333088362250.post-21061794655842335502012-11-26T08:35:00.002-08:002014-08-21T09:05:34.388-07:00Codling Larvae Sighted.Careful probing of one of the Summer Strawberry apples today confirmed my suspicions and dampened my spirits about getting a good crop this year. This is the Codling Moth larvae, alive and well and starting is journey to the center of the apple. This sighting was enough to send me to Bunnings, as if i needed an excuse, to seek protecting for the remaining unmolested fruit. I went with Yates Dipel which is a less toxic bacteria based insecticide. It may be too little too late but at least I can say I tried damn it!<br />
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Camhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03262385809957732007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755813333088362250.post-69168850844659920442012-11-25T06:27:00.001-08:002014-08-21T09:05:49.797-07:00What Now!?!?!?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As far as graden maladies go I've been fairly blessed really, but this season has delivered some unique first-time challenges. Just as I'm reeling from the recent outbreak of the Apple Mosaic Virus, today I've discovered something just as unsightly and potentially much more destructive. My best guess so far is that I'm dealing with the Codling Moth. So far the only activity is on the Summer Strawberry which is bad enough but I am dreading the appearance of these onomous wounds on my other trees, particularly my coveted Bramley. As with the Mosaic virus I'm trying to be philosophical about the whole thing. An early crop lost means supsequent, larger crops will be better protected. I'm also finding that changes in weather from season to season seem to be influential in which pests are active. Last year was constantly wet and swarming with aphids, this year is substantially drier and who knows what horrors will come next. Anyway, let the power of macro photography take you into the perverted world of the Codling Moth.<br />
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The first sign is this wierd saw dust stuff or 'frass' that activates disappointment.</div>
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Once cleared away there is a shallow crater with a tiny hole.</div>
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Sectioning this apple revealled a similarly shallow cavern. I couldn't find any kind of grub after poking around suggesting these might be Codling Moth 'stings'. That's where the grub starts eating and then stops for some reason and hopefully dies.</div>
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When I first set up this air layering experiment, basically ring-barking the chosen stem of the rose, I was unsure how on earth the stem was going to stay alive without its 'Cambium' growth layer. I'd always though that all the action, particularly water transport, took part there. Shows what I knew! Not only is the stem alive and healthy but flourishing with new growth like mad.It seems the inner structure of the stem is quite capable of carrying water and nutrients on its own. I assume this is only the case with the young, green, canes and will not start carelessly ring-barking roses with the whipper snipper when clearing weeds.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This is the Bramley. Only a couple of fruits this year, maybe just one. A very characteristic shape, kind of looks like a naval mine. These emerge from huge<span style="font-size: x-small;">, bold flowers<span style="font-size: x-small;">, quite late in spring.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">First fruiting year for the Calville Blanc. Like the Bramley it is a triploid so at least two other varieties are necessary for pollination. I have oodles. Really measly little flowers<span style="font-size: x-small;"> which appear late like the Bramley.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">First fruit from the Corryong Pippin. No surprise as this is the infamous 'mop-graft' with its body builders root system. The fruit are a perfect bright green and will ripen to deep yellow with a slight red blush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Snow Apple has some nice clusters of fruit this year, even if it does have an apple STD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Summer Strawberry way the star performer last year and the only tree to produce respectable, edible fruit. This year is shaping up to be even better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Crofton is the earliest apple I've got. It has the first blossom and its fruit is already almost twenty cent piece size.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Sturmer is another late bloomer but a respectable first crop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This is the Bonza graft growing like mad on the Sturmer. Amazingly it hast two fruit that I can't bring myself to remove. Their weight may become a problem for the integrity of the graft so I'm cooking up a way to support them, probably something excessive.</span></div>
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