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Continuing from Phlegmata's 'Petrol' topic, I was wondering how many out there grow and utilize a Veggie Garden??
Since moving over here, I've pretty much got into becoming more 'self-sufficient' - never really had the space (or the improved weather) back in the UK - and have kinda surprised myself at how much I enjoy the whole gardening deal.
Anyone got any tips on what, when and how to plant specifics? I started a herb garden last year - fantastic stuff!!

Yeah, I quite enjoy gardening! I'm currently doing an organic gardening course... I'm just about ready to dig a small vege garden for this season... and I'll make it bigger over time! Got some fruit trees on order, which we should get sometime in July! Then I'll have to pull down the old garage, cos that's where they're gonna go!

Basic tips would be - make your own compost and put heaps in the garden and try not to underwater or overwater...

I intend to move somewhere warmer than Dunedin sometime... get a place with a half acre or more and get really into it! And get some chickens... for eggs, I don't eat chickens!

I've played with the idea of going right up north where you can grow just about everything... most of the stuff I want to grow won't grow in freezing old Dunners...

Hey Mike - surely you can do brussel sprouts down there in Dunners? They thrieve on frosts!!

Yeah, brussels should grow okay... likewise with broccoli, cabbages, beans spuds etc... Have spent the last couple of days preparing a vege garden, digging shit etc... I'm gonna plant spuds, beans, silverbeet, broccoli, savoy cabbage and carrots first off... I'll see what rooms left for something else after that...

I've only just recently got back online... my old computer fucked out... got me another one now, that a friend made up for me out of old bits and pieces! Don't have any sound though... hopefully get that sorted soon...

Dunno how much space you have in the garden Mike, but a mate of mine in Auckland with a smallish garden grows potatoes in plastic bags. Any old bag will do - New World, Woolworths whatever. The spuds don't get quite so big it seems, but if it means you have more room for other goodies - then no worries!! He's got these bags lined up around his place where there is space! I'm trying myself this year - should be interesting!!

Plastic bags is a different idea... I wonder how well that works? Another method (that I haven't tried, but may do sometime) is to use car tyres... start with one, and as the plants grow you add more tyres (up to about three is good, I think)... this makes more layers of spuds grow... apparrently you can get up to about 10kg of spuds from each plant... and the tyres keep the soil warm which helps the spuds to grow too...

Gonna try tomatoes in bags too!! The Waikato Times printed the details and it seems pretty easy.

Plastic bags ya?? I could try that in my apartment

Yeah, I wanna grow tomatoes, but they don't tend to grow too well in Dunedin, unless you have a glasshouse, which I'm gonna build with some old windows and stuff... Until I get that done, I've got a couple plants growing in the kitchen, next to a window! We'll see what happens... they seem to be doing okay so far...

Gonna give it a go soon now that we've go the ok from the landlord to dig up some of the lawn for one

Good news Tim!! Keep us posted on any handy hints you may get - always on the look out for new ideas!!

Will do mate. My flatmates a bit of a green thumb so I'll be learning off him as I go.

Hopefully the weather down here will warm up soon, so things will actually grow! My garden's been a bit slow so far, but it's looking like things are starting to happen now...