Yeah, I saw that and was like wtf. I kept that link because it links to Food Connect which also has info on food resources/community gardens and was fairly simple.

The Ceres one was a bit more involved, having all of the planting guides by month and seemingly aimed at people with larger/more established gardens. https://ceres.org.au/nursery/seasonal-gardening-advice/

Maybe I can get it to grow mushrooms, double the yield

The paper cup my growing rosemary sprig is in looks mouldy… oops. I might have to repot that at some point

Oh man I didn’t even look beyond the article. It was a quick google

Edit: Also why has the vegies page randomly broken for me now? :/

Anyway I left my Paris Market carrots to themselves after a few thinnings and only now are they really starting to get larger, way behind schedule. It’s because I’ve been busy with other things and not applying Powerfeed. Next time I’ll use slow release granules. Also I would probably need a much wider/larger container, because while there’s been zero issues with the depth of a windowbox they do need room to expand and after thinning you really don’t get many.

Seeing as it’s getting colder I might sow some silverbeet or spinach in the boxes, or as they’re an heirloom variety I could just let the carrots go to seed.

Right now the only plants I’m really keeping an eye on are my cat’s continuous sow pots of cat grass, and the rosemary cuttings growing into bushes in some paper cups. I think one died but the other is having new growth and might want a bigger pot.

From the parts showing above ground some of my Parisian carrots are growing fat bottoms, and seem ready sooner than the other ones. They seem to look a bit woody though. I think I left them too long maybe. Also they probably will have those hairlike roots because they’ve probably got a bit dry

The rosemary cuttings seem to have survived. Despite initially growing mouldy in the glass of water, losing two thirds of their length through a trim at each end and being planted in recycled potting mix in paper cups… they’re still alive on my windowsill. Waiting to see if there’s new growth or deterioration

There was a big fat snail approaching my pots. Mystery of the carrot tops solved. I picked him up and gently but firmly yeeted him over the fence

Nice, they’re all growing wildly

Imagine a temporary amnesty on squatting for all properties vacant for over a certain time limit. That would get them moving.

There is the risk of property damage and antisocial behaviour if people aren’t supported but it’s shameful that it’s got to this point.

I was letting stuff dry out a bit because the self watering pots with reservoirs got flooded during the rains and caused damping off

The thinned carrots I transplanted still look a little sad. And they had tiny hair roots on them from letting them dry out a bit much (trying to combat damping off).

Come on cat grass…

Just a few herb and vegetable seedlings in little pots, spinach/parsley/Paris Market carrots and such. The yields are barely going to be anything, it’s just an enrichment activity.

I’d love to have a proper vegie patch but it’s not likely I’d be able to maintain it.

I’d imagine a greenhouse would help avoid things drying out but it would get very hot and humid in there. Perhaps some people have tropical fruit in their future as the weather warms

Fingers crossed. I have them on the windowsill so I remember to water and hopefully they turn to the sun to correct the slight bend.

Maybe pinching the tips off or a light prune might bush it out? I’ve never had prostrate rosemary

The seedlings are still alive but looking a bit sad.

The spinnos seem to have dried up enough to stop damping off but the survivors are looking a bit twisted and stunted. A less fungi resistant heirloom variety, self watering pots with a water reservoir (ie not enough drainage) and not thinking to constantly drain their flooding through the rainy season were a really bad combination. I probably won’t plant more spinach as summer heat is approaching and they don’t seem to get enough light inside (which had been my original plan).

Something nipped the tops off a couple of carrots. They were so crowded and bunched that it was probably affecting their thickening so I thinned and replanted the pulled ones into the empty spots of the spinach pot. More went into the empty areas of the same pot to space them a bit more evenly. Probably not great and might affect their growth but I didn’t want to just rip them out. If they grow it’s a second chance.

Some of them were thickening into tiny carrots though. I’ll probably need to thin it again as they grow properly round.

Large deep seedling trays could have been a really efficient choice for these shallow round varieties, but the only ones I have are solid bottom and being used as larger accessible litter trays.

The rosemary sprigs have been planted. There was no potting mix left so I salvaged some from a few old dried pots, trimmed off the mouldy bottoms and the bent tops, and watered them in.

The parsley however is looking very happy and healthy. When it was first planted it did wilt dramatically for a second and I had to pull off some yellow leaves a few weeks ago but that has basically hit the ground running.

The new cat grass seeds don’t seem to be sprouting but the existing growth is slowly coming along.

My arms sting a little. It comes to me that I wandered out there and did a few things with no sunscreen on. That was silly.

With being busy and a dive in my health I’ve been neglecting the seedlings a bit. Some spinnos battle bravely on. The carrots are clustered inefficiently… that will be even fewer after thinning than if they’d been sown more evenly. Oh well. Call that practice. The cat grass is kind of inching up.

A few rosemary cuttings in a glass of water have gone mouldy but sprouted roots above the water line… ok? Maybe they can be salvaged if I cut the affected bits off and cut off the curving tops. Two thirds of them will be gone.

I had a tiny bit of potting mix left so planted some more wild grass for Melbcat while she isn’t here to doordash, and I hope these ones don’t die. Hopefully the rain settles them in well so they’ll soon be strong enough to come in and get munched.

The parsley is a bit leggy, a few leaves are yellowing and something has nipped off some top leaves. Visiting intruder cat? Possum?

The spinnos are battling. Some still strong and some succumbing. The carrots look good but it’s so discouraging to know after thinning I’ll only have a few. Needed a much bigger pot.

The cat grass is still being so slow.

I saw it said ladybugs can eat the caterpillars… you can buy those online

Beat me to it. They’re everywhere

The carrots are taller and bushing up but haven’t started thickening too much yet. A couple of tiny ones looked damped off?

No 😨

I’m just going to let them do their thing with periodic waters and they should be fine. But I’m going to have to thin them a lot so with the small container I won’t get many

Edit: What I’ve done different this time is used self watering pots with bottom reservoirs (in rainy weather), and also used heirloom seeds instead of F1 hybrids. Both of those could be contributing to suddenly having fungal issues this time around