Sero´s south american organic outdoors veggie garden fall/winter 2009

sero!

Member

• Jun 13, 2009

• #1

Hi people!



i´m new in this forum, so i´ll introduce myself: my name is sero, i´m 30 years old and been growin´ veggies outdoor for a few years now. I live in the south of south america (as i also grow weed and growin´ is still illegal here i prefer not to state from which country i am, but im in the south of the continent) in a small house with a great garden, where I can grow ornamentals and my food crops. Winter is almost here, so my garden isn´t in his best moment, been having some problems with birds eating the seedlings of spinachs and letucces I´d transplant a month ago, so by the moment it looks like this:



general view:

broccolis seedlings in the front, chicory in the back

broccolis

carrots

recently chopped chard

red cabbage

red peppers

red peppers

lettuce seedling

¨greenhouse effect¨

beet

some herbs: rosemary, thyme, chive

spinach seedlings

my seed starter

my compost pile

hope you´ve enjoyed it!




sero





pd: excuse me if my english is not very good, my first language is spanish

 

Last edited: Jun 17, 2009

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headfortrinity

• Jun 14, 2009

• #2

Your gardens looking good Sero, birds are a big problem here too and snails are the worst. They'll eat seedlings to the ground. My uncle lost a whole crop of eggplants to birds this year. Good luck with your cabinet grow too It looks very promising.

headfortrinity

 

Bon.G.Loder

Member

• Jun 14, 2009

• #3

Sweet Veggie garden Sero! I'm prepping my backyard little by little for a similar project. My soil here unfortunately is really sandy. One way or another I'll transform it or circumventit all.

Bon.G.Loder

 

blan-k-flor

Active member

Veteran

• Jun 14, 2009

• #4

Muy linda huerta amigo!!
Beautiful orchard friend!

 

sero!

Member

• Jun 18, 2009

• #5

headfortrinity: thank you! I´ve lost plenty of things due to those bastards, and still wonder what to do about it! do you have any idea? do you know if scarecrows work? thinking seriously about building one...

Bong: thank you! for some crops a sandy soil could be a blessing (unless is toooo sandy), carrots for example love it. add organic matter (compost, manures, etc) this helps a lot fixing the structure of the soil.

blan-k-flor: gracias blank!



for the time being i´ll only eat those veggies, wont grow anything else as by august theres must be nothing there so I can amend to prepare the soil for the spring grow. See you guys!

 

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headfortrinity

• Jun 18, 2009

• #6

headfortrinity: thank you! I´ve lost plenty of things due to those bastards, and still wonder what to do about it! do you have any idea? do you know if scarecrows work? thinking seriously about building one...

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A scarecrow might work, I just use a pellet gun.

 

sero!

Member

• Jul 9, 2009

• #7

hello people!



weather isgetting colder and colder here, and my broccolis are flowering!

the chard i chopped last time, ready fot the knife again:

and the next generation:

the young broccolis are looking great, an spinach there also:

and my young spinachs are rockin´!

hope you´ve enjoyed the pics, thanks for stopping by and take a look at my garden!

 

Graceweed

Member

• Jul 11, 2009

• #8

Hola Sero! great broccoli pics and fabulous winter veggies!

 

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ICMag Donor

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• Aug 7, 2009

• #9

i like the metal horn in the reflection.

 

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headfortrinity

• Aug 8, 2009

• #10

nice vegetables sero, i've never had success with broccoli where I live.

 

sero!

Member

• Aug 9, 2009

• #11

thank you for the nice words guys and girls!



yesterday I took some pics while i was working on the soil of the first raised bed, broccolis are getting bigger!

this one is in which i was working, added some compost and prepared the soil for this spring. Here i´ll be growing corn, pumpkins and beans, and there will be a new thread documenting this next season grow when the action begins...

 

sero!

Member

• Aug 9, 2009

• #12

headfortrinity said:

nice vegetables sero, i've never had success with broccoli where I live.

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what specific problems do you had with them? maybe we can help. broccolis are soooo tasty that it worth growin them!

 

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headfortrinity

• Aug 10, 2009

• #13

sero! said:

what specific problems do you had with them? maybe we can help. broccolis are soooo tasty that it worth growin them!

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It gets very hot here and the heat makes them stretch too much.

 

sero!

Member

• Aug 15, 2009

• #14

headfortrinity said:

It gets very hot here and the heat makes them stretch too much.

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those ones in the pictures were started at the end of the summer (march, here) and transplanted 40 days later, when autumn arrrived. Try this way next time, broccolis and the rest of the family (cauliflowers, cabbage) don´t like hot weather, in fact they love the cold, and presume they can even manage some snow, although it doesn´t here, this winter was very cold and some mornings all my garden was white and frosty like we like our buds , but the broccolis and cabbage were not hurt.

 

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headfortrinity

• Aug 16, 2009

• #15

sero! said:

those ones in the pictures were started at the end of the summer (march, here) and transplanted 40 days later, when autumn arrrived. Try this way next time, broccolis and the rest of the family (cauliflowers, cabbage) don´t like hot weather, in fact they love the cold, and presume they can even manage some snow, although it doesn´t here, this winter was very cold and some mornings all my garden was white and frosty like we like our buds , but the broccolis and cabbage were not hurt.

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That makes sense, I'll try planting some this fall.

 

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BigappleNugz

• Aug 16, 2009

• #16

looking good

 

sero!

Member

• Aug 27, 2009

• #17

today i harvested the carrots that were left, spring is near and I need to prepare an amend that bed for a massive eggplant grow that´s gonna take place there...