Flood or Famine, succession planting and storing

Succession Planting, avoiding the flood or famine


You don't need this many
 of the same veg unless your a commercial operator.

 Have you noticed you cant keep up with your veggie plot, its either a flood or a famine, all of a sudden you have beans coming out of your ears, your tomato crop could supply the whole street, if you eat any more spinach you will need to change your name to popeye, you get the drift.

The key can be staggering your plantings and succession planting, it can also be a matter of planting early and late maturing crops together, more great info on this can be found here.

Curl Grubs in the Compost

Be sure to check out the latest addition to Camden Community Garden when you’re visiting next time.  It’s the “first born” of our new compost bays.  Eventually we’ll have a few set up at various locations around the garden to make them easy for everyone to use.

Our composting workshop was what prompted our new “baby”.  Just like any new baby, our compost bays will require some TLC from all of our garden members. It will need to be turned every week from one bay to another, so perhaps a roster is in order.  The effort that you put into making the compost will be richly rewarded by bigger, stronger and healthier veggies when you use the final product.

During the workshop we learnt that the most efficient composting system was a HOT compost, which is large and is fueled by oxygen and water.  So if we want lots of compost for our garden beds then we need to have lots of materials to make it.  Layering different material when constructing the compost is essential for success. So save up your newspapers or shredded office paper so it can be mixed with lawn clippings and weeds from the site.  A good mix of wet/hot materials and dry materials works well.