Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Don’t overthink it too much, you’d be surprised what you can still grow in suboptimal conditions. I experiment all the time with different plants in different locations to see how well they grow, sometimes bad sometimes good.
Every year I would do many trips to buy bags of compost slowly, I decided this year just to buy it from a landscaping place and get it delivered. It’s a bit more expensive but I can get 1000L at once instead of 40L bags. I still can’t create enough compost myself for the whole garden.
In the peak winter months, the beds unfortunately get no direct sunlight throughout the day :(
But definitely promising what you say :) Hopefully we’ll get a bit of a harvest going along this year through spring and summer :)
Leafy stuff still does fine with indirect light, it may grow a bit slower and smaller but it’ll still grow. If you’re in Auckland or above there’s barely a winter anyway :) In fact my outdoors sweet pepper plant is still alive here in Hamilton!
Oh really!? That’s actually really good to hear haha. Might need to get started on getting the garden ready a bit faster then :)
Do you have a few peppers? What do you do to them during the winter? I heard they will stay dormant, but not too sure if that would be the case with no sun?
To be honest this is the first time I’ve left one in all winter, it didn’t seem to be suffering so I decided to see how long it would survive. It had a few peppers growing slowly on it still, but I removed them a few weeks ago so it can just concentrate on surviving the winter. I usually would start new chilli and pepper seeds each season. I’ve heard of people giving them a hard prune back and digging them up and storing indoors over winter, but that’s usually in places with really cold winters where the ground freezes.
Just give it a go and see what happens! Worst case is you have to buy a new seedling from the garden centre 🤷♂️
Sounds good :)
I do recall someone mentioning a hard prune back to me sometime ago. Hopefully the Auckland temps mean they won’t have any problems :)