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SeaFury 🦜🍉A gorgeous warm day after yesterday’s lows. I am sitting on the deck and can smell spring flowers in Autumn. The climate is topsy turvy 👀😳 Here are my sweetpeas going crazy <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GardeningAu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardeningAu</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateChange</a>

Comrade WeezBanksia ericifolia dwarf hybrid cultivar flowering prolifically in the front garden. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gardeningau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardeningau</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bloomscrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bloomscrolling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bluemountains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bluemountains</a>

ghost_shit 🪣The last of the blood plums. I'm not sure exactly how much plum I have to deal with, because my scales max out at 5kg.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/GardeningAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardeningAU</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GrowYourOwn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrowYourOwn</a>

FrankThe herbs and vegetables that give me the most food in winter<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-02/the-winter-herbs-vegetables-plants-that-give-me-the-most-food/105212660" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-02/the-winter-herbs-vegetables-plants-that-give-me-the-most-food/105212660</a><a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gardening</a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/gardeningAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardeningAU</a>

Yvonne Perkins"Since February 2024, Adelaide has only received around 300 millimetres of rain — the driest it's been since the city's weather records began in 1839.During the same period, Sydney has been drenched by more than 2,000mm, nearly 500mm above average, and is facing possibly another 50mm during the coming week."The cause of this? Uncharacteristically, Tasmania has had a lot of high pressure systems sitting over the state causing easterly winds over the south of mainland Australia bring rain to the east coast and stopping the westerly winds that typically bring rain to South Australia and much of Victoria.Not good for gardening! <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Melbourne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Melbourne</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Adelaide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Adelaide</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Sydney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sydney</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GardeningAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardeningAU</a> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-30/weather-australia-east-coast-drenched-drought-sa-and-vic/105230430" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-30/weather-australia-east-coast-drenched-drought-sa-and-vic/105230430</a>

Keira (She/Her)The garden looks terrible right now, full of dying vines and barely standing seedlings. But I'm still harvesting the last bits of summer fruit, which is great. Chillies, capsicums, and tla couple of figs that the birds and bats missed. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garden</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/gardeningAu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardeningAu</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GardeningAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardeningAustralia</a>

FeralFoodShirt now quarantined outside till whatever decided to crawl in and bite the shit out of my shoulder decides to bugger off.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/gardeningau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardeningau</a>

Melbourne BitterI finally tore out my tomato plants this week and I'm using the last few green tomatoes and some homegrown chillies to make a lactofermented salsa. Everything from the garden is diced along with some onion, garlic and some vine leaves I liberated from a neighbours garden. I'll let it bubble away for two or three weeks and see how they go.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/lactofermentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lactofermentation</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fermenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fermenting</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/homemade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homemade</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/gardeningau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardeningau</a>

ghost_shit 🪣An embarrassment of plums, part one.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/GardeningAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardeningAU</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GrowYourOwn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrowYourOwn</a>

WildWoilaThis tomato plant is still cranking! <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/Tomatoes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tomatoes</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/VegetableGardening?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VegetableGardening</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/Gardening?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gardening</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/GardeningAu?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardeningAu</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/Hobart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hobart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.au/discover/tags/Tasmania?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tasmania</a>

FrankSee, my poppies are going off!<a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gardening</a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/gardeningAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardeningAU</a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Bloomscrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bloomscrolling</a>

ghost_shit 🪣Worst grapes ever!Some of the doomsday prepping I undertook in 2020 appears to have come good: here's our first harvest of olives. I would have liked to leave them on the tree longer, but the king parrots had other ideas.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/GardeningAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardeningAU</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GrowYourOwn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrowYourOwn</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fermenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fermenting</a>

BecA day of being near plants. First stop, the community garden for produce swap day, where I took peppermint cuttings and swapped for a cute little posey (posy?) in an old Vegemite jar. Also took two figs and some silverbeet, the latter of which I will add to the pea soup I'm making tomorrow. I got to chat to a friend and meet some new people, and we tentatively discussed meeting up again socially soon (outside of the scheduled garden catch-ups).Then dropped Dad home via Bunnings, where he bought some pots and other odds and ends, and I bought two punnets of English spinach seedlings and one of bok choy. So this afternoon has been pulling up all the weeds (I mean, not ALL the weeds, of course – I have to leave some for another day or I'd be bored, right? Right) and planting out the seedlings in pots. Ideally I'd have them in raised beds but that's not possible just yet. We'll see what I can salvage/create as the year progresses. I figure if I can keep up the nutrients to them in these small pots they're going to be OK<a href="https://aus.social/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/gardeningAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardeningAU</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GrowYourOwn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrowYourOwn</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/bloomscrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bloomscrolling</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/saturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#saturday</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plants</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ThingsILove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThingsILove</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CommunityGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommunityGarden</a>

FrankDug out more dead tomato and corn plants, refilled the pots and stuck in poppy, kale and pea seeds. Still some tomato plants are going strong, with fruit on them. The broad beans a friend came me are starting to grow as well.<a href="https://masto.nu/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/gardeningAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardeningAU</a>

FeralFoodCompost pile is actually legit warm with all this rain! Thats a first for us.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/gardeningau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardeningau</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/compost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#compost</a>

Yvonne Perkins<a href="https://regenerate.social/@mk30" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mk30</a> I have a very small garden in inner urban Melbourne. Our average annual rainfall is 648mm and we don't get frosts. Our block has probably been lived on in a dense urban environment for nearly 150 years. When we moved in 3 years ago there was an old over-grown bougainvillea with a very thick trunk for a bougainvillea and well-established heavily fruiting lemon tree and a younger lime tree.We had our soil tested when we first moved in and the tester noted how little organic matter it had in it. It is very light. I have tipped a lot of rich mature manure on it and mulch. Our cat is also doing her bit to add manure :-)The soil is still quite light but the fruit trees are fruiting very well so it mustn't be that bad. I hope to get it tested again some time - when I get around to it. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GardeningAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardeningAU</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Melbourne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Melbourne</a>

GarethPicked some more apples. Different tree to my other. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/apples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#apples</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GardeningAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardeningAustralia</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/gardeningau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardeningau</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fruit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fruit</a>

Yvonne PerkinsFloral Friday at the Melbourne Flower and Garden Show is a fun floral fashion day for visitors. I noticed women on the weekend making an effort to wear florals too. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GardeningAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardeningAU</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/apr/01/in-full-bloom-fashionable-fun-at-melbourne-international-flower-and-garden-show" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/apr/01/in-full-bloom-fashionable-fun-at-melbourne-international-flower-and-garden-show</a>

Yvonne PerkinsI have had a lazy Sunday, but I did repot some of the plants I bought at the Melbourne Flower and Garden Festival yesterday. Pictured are a couple of brachyscome plants and a pig face as well as some succulents I divided from one of Mum's succulents.I also repotted a cyclamen that was crowded out of the pot stand pictured. As you can see, one cyclamen has grown exceptionally well. The others self-seeded. I have left 2 others in the stand as they can see light and have a bit of room for growth.The seeds planted by our group on our potting morning a couple of weeks ago have sprouted. We planted coriander, thyme and basil. The oregano seeds have not sprouted yet. Today I moved them into a sunnier position for their next stage of growth. It is great to be over the searing heat and dryness of summer. While we still need a lot of rain to catch up, I have been finding the cooler temperatures have meant less evaporation and therefore less watering. We have also benefited from being in precisely the right place to catch rain from small, passing storms - pure luck <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GardeningAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardeningAU</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Melbourne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Melbourne</a>

Yvonne PerkinsThis morning we went to the Melbourne Flower and Garden Show with my mother. A grandchild pushed her around the Carlton Gardens in a wheelchair. I carried all the plants she bought - more than 10. When we got back to her place, grandchild and I repotted quite a few plants and bulbs. We concentrated on just what Mum wanted to see. I will be going back in the next hour to see what I want to see. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GardeningAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GardeningAU</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Melbourne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Melbourne</a> <a href="https://melbflowershow.com.au/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://melbflowershow.com.au/</a>

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