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Another nursery to check out is the Digger's Club. They have seeds and tubestock of rare and unusual plants and trees. In their Winter catalogue, they have, for example, Silver poplar, Cape Chestnut, Ombu (South American Bottle tree), Chinese Tallow Wood, Himalayan Birch, Cork Oak, Stone Pine, Persian Witch Hazel and many more. You don't have to be a member to buy from them, but it's cheaper and you get catalogues 4 times a year. I'm just waiting on some seeds of brown tomatoes and furry tomatoes. From them, I've grown purple potatoes, purple broccoli, tomatoes in a range of colours. They were the first in Australia to have coloured silverbeet. Watermelon 'Moon and Stars" has fruit with one big yellow spot and many small yellow spots - even the leaves are spotted!
Unfortunately, I don't get any kick-back for promoting these nurseries (bugger). I just think they are worth investigating. www. diggers.com.au. I forgot Daley's, it's http://www.daleysfruit.com.au
Penny.

mudlarkpottery wrote:Another nursery to check out is the Digger's Club. They have seeds and tubestock of rare and unusual plants and trees. In their Winter catalogue, they have, for example, Silver poplar, Cape Chestnut, Ombu (South American Bottle tree), Chinese Tallow Wood, Himalayan Birch, Cork Oak, Stone Pine, Persian Witch Hazel and many more. You don't have to be a member to buy from them, but it's cheaper and you get catalogues 4 times a year. I'm just waiting on some seeds of brown tomatoes and furry tomatoes. From them, I've grown purple potatoes, purple broccoli, tomatoes in a range of colours. They were the first in Australia to have coloured silverbeet. Watermelon 'Moon and Stars" has fruit with one big yellow spot and many small yellow spots - even the leaves are spotted!
Unfortunately, I don't get any kick-back for promoting these nurseries (bugger). I just think they are worth investigating. www. diggers.com.au. I forgot Daley's, it's http://www.daleysfruit.com.au
Penny.

You a veggie garden nut as well as a Bonsai nut Penny........me too. Ive been growing veggies for the past 6 months. I havent had to use any chemicals whatsoever as yet and they are all growing fabulously. ll post a pic for ya....luv me veggie garden.

Great! I'd love to see it. There is another specialist "nursery" - The Fruitsalad Tree Company. They produce multi-grafted fruit trees. I have a peach/nectarine/2 plums tree. I ate my first peach today! I also have a 3-way Nashi, 2 x 6-way citrus in pots (citrus don' like clay). Again, these people, Kerry and James West are lovely people. Their nursery is at Emmaville, near Tamworth. Nothing is too much trouble for them.
Penny.

The Mods may want to shift this one as it really isnt anything to do with Bonsai, the closest thing this area has to with Bonsai is it was going to be my Bonsai ground growing area.

Anyway, this is my veggie patch Penny. I have never grown fruit trees or vegitables before so dont laugh, this is my first crack at it! I have Kiwi fruit, passion fruit, orange, lemon, advocado, mandarin, banana and paw paw. I have tomotoes, and peas and beans and brocoli, lettuce, strawberries, pumpkins, water melons, capsicum, betroot, and other stuff to probably that escapes me at the minute. The concrete tubs you see in the pics I have seedlings groing in them and beside that there is a blue drum, that has my home made fertilizer in it.....mmmmmm. Havent tried it yet but wil soon, it is made from worm pee (the worm farm is beside the blue drum) and i have put a bag in there containing worm castings, cow manure, horse manure and i think that was all. It should be ready to use by now....I think. I do enjoy it but so far we havent really profited from it, i think it has cost me far more then we get from it! I guess its all a bit of fun, and it keeps me out of the house.
Peter

Fantastic Peter. That space could be filled with tropical apples (Daley's), avocados, fruitsalad trees and multi-coloured tomatoes underneath.
Penny.

mudlarkpottery wrote:Fantastic Peter. That space could be filled with tropical apples (Daley's), avocados, fruitsalad trees and multi-coloured tomatoes underneath.
Penny.

I have got to get out more! That sounds like so much fun!
Peter

You get out less and less. Your time is taken up with looking after the plants but it's so enjoyable and satisfying. Growing your own is often more expensive (fertilizing and watering) than buying from the supermarkets and when yours is ready for picking, everything in the shops is as well and so cheap. BUT you know yours doesn't (shouldn't) have chemical pesticides and other nasties.
Penny.