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Trying to prune my overgrown lemon tree after having a full knee replacement!
A mandarin tree with lots of tiny fruit but nothing worth eating.
Excess water rotting our frangipani trees
little green catarpillars that amost smell of mint because they’re eating it all..
My naughty chooks break out of their free range yard and tuck into my lettuces and basil then sit in my nasturtiums to cool their feathers. Naughty chooks!
A medium size Lemon tree in a big pot with many flowers this spring season but the leaves keep falling as like it has reached the end of its life. It was very healthy and had many fruits in last season.
The constant battle against slippery little critters that love our vegies as much as we do!
My friends and I do lots of swapping so I pop quite a few small plants and seeds into the garden, knowing??!!?! that I will come back and label them really soon..hmmm
My tomatos have a brown disease like thing growing on the leaves
don’t know what it is or how to get ride of it ?
My biggest problem is the pests – the feral bush turkeys in particular get into my protected area and scratch up the ground where my nicely laid seeds & seedlings are growing.
Not to mention the rats, mice & possums who like to have a little “snack” wherever possible.
THEN there are the bugs as well…
Waging a constant war against white cabbage butterfly. I need a lot more practice with the net.
My biggest problem is that I don’t have enough space to grow all the things I want to grow. Even though my small patch is chock-a-block with native and edible plants I’d still like to grow more, have all sort of fruit trees, grapevines in a pergola to eat under and enough veggies so as to be self sufficient; have chooks and create habitat for native fauna, there is a blue tongue lizard there somewhere, I’ve seen it but I am afraid for her when cats roam around. There is enough space for all that but I share the backyard and the neighbours want lawn, not a very sustainable option I am afraid.
My biggest problem is ants eating my strawberries and a grub eating my passionfruit leaves.
My biggest problem at present is that my tomatoes are doing so well they are shading out and badly impacting on my herb garden. I realise now it was a silly planting design!
Thanks and would love to see you at the festival.
Snails and slugs
Other unknown critters and bugs
– such ravenous thugs!
Leave nothing for me
in my veggie patch wee!
My herbs seeds sprout, grow a bit, then DIE!!
This is the third summer that I’ve grown tomatoes, they look lovely, however, I find that when I go to eat them, they are often rotten in the middle, it seems like such a waste. Not sure if it’s the soil or the watering pattern.
No Sun! As much as I love all of the beautiful trees in my garden, they soak up all my sunshine, making it quite tricky to grow veggies!
The possum that keeps taking away my chilli plants – roots and all! And I thought chillis were meant to be a possum deterrent…
I am really struggling with controlling bugs on my tomatoes.
This is my third year, and this year perhaps I can blame the weather, because whilst my salads and greens have never looked better, my tomatoes have never looked quite so sad
My most upsetting problem in the garden at the moment would have to be my avocado tree….
I have had this avocado tree, grown from seed, for at least 12 years and about 4/6 weeks ago it was very heavy in flower and started to set fruit for the first time. There was going to be tonnes of fruit.
Yipee, I’m finally going to eat my very own avocado! So I thought.
To help it along I thought I would make a wonderful natural, organic fertilizer using other plants from my garden (comfrey, dandelion, stinging nettles & a little bit of yarrow).
Well … The tree has never look healthier but it has dropped every single fruit and flower…. Now when I look at it I want to cry and I’m too frightened to use the ‘wonder fertilizer’ on my other fruit trees or veggies.
SNAILS eating my strawberries and eating my seedlings! The seeds are hard enough to germinate (with this cool spring we’ve had) without them getting eaten by snails too…
My chilli plant is full of lovely white flowers but they are dropping off before fruiting.
I have a “Secret Garden” ..a courtyard garden hidden behind a high wall from the street yet seen through our french doors from our kitchen/family room. It is enjoyed by my family and my visitors. The biggest challenge is to have flowers & interesting foliage at all times of the year so it looks inviting to all to come into the garden and share it’s beauty, wonders and joy. It’s my “Pocket of Joy”!
The biggest problem with my garden is it never sees enough of me.
Sometimes this is a good thing: I attracted a frog to a potted, rooftop garden on the edge of Sydney CBD this way…
But if I didn’t have to work, I could be there to protect it from extreme heat and wind exactly when it needs it; I could top up its water reservoirs before it fends for itself; I could fight off predators before they do damage and pick strawberries at the exact moment of perfect ripeness.
Retirement will be a very good thing. In 40 years.
My garden is only 1×1.5m- how do I organise my planting to make the most of this space?????
It has to be the lack of space in my garden, we lve in a tiny house with little garden space.
I have one problem with my veggie patch that occurs only a few times a year. My wife offered to look after a friends dog when they are on holidays! DIG – POOP- DIG – POOP- DIG- POOP – DIG – POOP- DIG – POOP
Insects! Just when I think my plants are thriving, a new pest appears. My iris leaves are gloriously full this year, but some of the flower stalks were coming up bent, and in that position they’re easily broken. When I took apart a broken stalk, I found these ugly gray aphids — pale gray and possibly a bit fuzzy, like a mold — being tended by ants. I had never seen these aphids before last fall, when they killed off a morning glory that was spindly from too much shade. Green, black, and red aphids I’m familiar with, and sometimes the black ones huddle in the folds of iris leaves, but they don’t mess up flower stalks just when I’ve spent a year building the fans to produce them. Maybe the pale gray ones carry a fungus disease or virus that infects the stalks? In which case I change my point of angst to plant viruses and fungi!
Sorry the competition was for last year.