#gardeningaus — Public Fediverse posts

This week I showed mercy to my cold and dying tomato plants and pulled them up. I picked about 6kg of unripe tomatoes from the vines.

The nicest tomatoes I have ripening on the kitchen table and the iffy looking ones I turned into a Green Tomato Chutney.

I let fortune guide my hand with the spice proportions and I'm very pleased to announce that the chutney came out very tasty. I put it into small jars so I can share it with other people and not have to eat it all myself.

A fine end to a good tomato season

#GardeningAustralia #gardeningAus #cooking #homepreserving

Went to check on my worm farm since it's a hot, muggy day (temps around 33C according to the app). Some of the worms had moved to the lower (empty tray), possibly to escape the heat (according to my googling). So i put them back and added a large ice block to 1 corner of the tray which i hope will help.

#worms #wormfarm #gardening #gardeningAus #GardeningAustralia

It’s my birthday week so I spoiled myself with plants. They got potted up today.

My mum and a friend are coming to visit this weekend and I can’t wait to show them all my plants.

The newbies are:

- Echeveria Doublette
- Echeveria Calico Cream
- Echeveria Zanadoo
- Echeveria unknown bumpy (the mother plant was stunning)
- Echeveria Flying Cloud
- Echeveria Hakuhou (if anyone knows how to pronounce that I’d appreciate the help)
- Echeveria Lotus Lantern?
- Echeveria Black Rose hybrid?
- Echeveria Blue Peacock
- Echeveria Winter Jasmine
- Conophytum Bilobum

#echeveria #conophytum #succulents #SucculentsOfMastodon #SucculentsOfTheFediverse #plants #gardening #GardeningAU #GardeningAus #GardeningAustralia #BirthdayWeek #BirthdayTreats

My Echeveria Benimusume on 6 June 2022 and then after repotting today, for the second time, into a larger pot. Paddle pop stick for scale.

I don’t think I’ve ever managed to properly centre a plant in a pot!

#Echeveria #Succulent #Plant #SucculentSaturday #SucculentsOfTheFediverse #SucculentsOfMastodon #Gardening #GardeningAustralia #GardeningAus #GardeningAustralia

I got the #PlantMail from this week potted up earlier this week. Hoping to keep the time inside in the warmth to a minimum so there’s not so much shock at being sent out into the freezing cold, especially as a couple came from the Gold Coast. I’m also pretty sure I’m coming down with something and didn’t want to risk not being up to it later in the week. These babies are too important.

- Myrtillocactus Gometrizans Fukurokuryuzinboku (Boobie Cactus): I’ve wanted one for ages and scored it from a seller’s closing down sale at a bargain price

- Echinocereus Rigidissimus (Rainbow Cactus): another one I’ve wanted for ages but others were higher on the wish list

- Echeveria Superbowl: I got at a discount, presumably because it’s not a perfect specimen, but it’s perfect to me

- Echeveria Cante x Laui: was just too petty to pass up

- Aloe Vera: I mentioned to a friend that I’d never actually seen it for sale so she dropped me off a piece

- Tacitus Bellus: has also been on my list for a while (the flowers are so beautiful) but had never come up in a sale when there was something else I wanted

- Echeveria Moulin Rouge: I just couldn’t pass up. She’s going to eventually get bumps and if you’ve followed me for a while you’ll know bumpies are my absolute favourite plants

#Succulents #SucculentsOfTheFediverse #SucculentsOfMastodon #Echeveria #Tacitus #Aloe #Echinocereus #Myrtillocactus #Boobies #BoobieCactus #Rainbow #RainbowCactus #Gardening #GardeningAustralia #GardeningAus

Last week’s plant mail finally potted up, including a purchase from the local show on Friday.

It’s taken me all weekend to recover from my outing to the show on Friday. I woke up feeling extra rubbish this morning and I think I might have picked up a bug from one of the group of young school kids that decided to sit practically on top of us (at the direction of their teachers) while watching the wood chopping.

- Echeveria Chantilly Mutation
- Echeveria Unknown Bumpy
- Echeveria Longissima Bumps
- Echeveria Raindrops
- Echeveria Blue Lagoon
- Echeveria Rococo
- Monkey’s Tail Cactus (Hildewintera Colademononsis)

#succulents #SucculentsOfMastodon #SucculentsOfTheFediverse #echeveria #Hildewintera #Gardening #GardeningAU #GardeningAus #GardeningAustralia #Plants #PlantMail

This week’s #PlantMail potted up. It’s been a tough week with the #LongCovid fatigue hitting me particularly hard so they didn’t get potted up until yesterday afternoon despite having all arrived by Thursday.

- Echeveria Dream Fantasia
- Echeveria Pagoda
- Pachyphytum Bubblegum
- Cotelydon Choco Line
- Echeveria Purple Delight Variegata (cutting)
- Echeveria Purple Delight Reverse Variegata (They are a whole lot lighter in person than the sales pictures and may not survive due to lack of colour through which to photosynthesise. Usually you’d leave practically albino ones like this on the mother plant)
- Echeveria Morning Light

#succulents #echeveria #Cotelydon #pachyphytum #SucculentsOfTheFediverse #SucculentsOfMastodon #SucculentSunday #Gardening #GardeningAU #gardeningAus #GardeningAustralia

This week’s #PlantMail has been potted, and handily it was just four plants this week so it was relatively quick and easy. I did, though, have to mix up another batch of soil mix because I was two trowels short on being able to fill the last pot. Super frustrating when that happens.

Echeveria Love Raindrops
Echeveria Thunder Tumour
Cotelydon Pendens (which gets the most beautiful flowers in spring)
Echeveria Pure Love

#echeveria #Cotelydon #succulents #SucculentsOfMastodon #SucculentsOfTheFediverse #Gardening #GardeningAU #GardeningAus Gardening Australia

Last week’s #PlantMail finally potted up. Some exciting ones for me this week, not that I’m not always excited by new plants.

Echeveria Osmanthis
Echeveria Nebula
Echeveria Blue Spur
Echeveria Shaviana Bumps
Echeveria Thriller Pearl (a brand new import)
Echeveria Elegans (an oldie but a goodie)
Echeveria Hybrid

#echeveria #Succulents #SucculentsOfTheFediverse #SucculentsOfMastodon #GardeningAU #GardeningAus #GardeningAustralia

Last week’s (and a few from the week before that only arrived last week) #PlantMail. Potting was a major effort and I don’t plant on doing that many at once ever again!

Echeveria Dracula
Echeveria Unknown Bumpy (2)
Echeveria Bluette
Echeveria Calico Cream
Echeveria Velvet Rose
Echeveria Etna
Echeveria Cleopatra
Echeveria Mexican Tears
Echeveria Boton
Echeveria Yamato Haru
Echeveria Seori Yeon
Echeveria Deresina
Echeveria Moon Fairy
Anacampseros Rufrescens Variegata (Sunrise)
Echeveria Bella Rouge
Conophytum Luiseae
Echeveria Prunella

#succulents #Echeveria #Conophytum #Anacampseros #GardeningAU #GardeningAus #GardeningAustralia #PlantsOfMastodon #SucculentsOfMastodon #SucculentsOfTheFediverse #IThinkIHaveASucculentProblem

Excited to share this week’s #PlantMail. With more shelves on the way I’ve finally started buying something other than just frillies and bumpies again. I’m not so worried that I’ll run out of space for them before I get all the ones I really want (although the list is endless).

Andromischus Festivus
Echeveria Peony
Echeveria Heartthrob (will eventually get seasonal bumps)
Echeveria unknown bumpy (possibly Baccarus)
Echeveria unknown bumpy (mother plant is spectacular)
Echeveria Hybrid (will get bumps in maturity)
Echeveria Rosales (well get bumps in maturity)
Echeveria Little Fairy

#andromischus #echeveria #succulents #GardeningMastodon #PlantsOfTheFediverse #GardeningAU #GardeningAus #GardeningAustralia

This week’s #PlantMail potted up plus a bonus pic of my Echeveria Beyonce that I thought was a goner and didn’t think would make it so I bought another, only to find new roots on the original one and that it’s perking up again in the middle.

There’s also a special one that I bought to honour my older adoptive brother who has passed.

Echeveria Beyonce x 2
Echeveria unknown bumpy x 2
Echeveria Lilac Mist
Echeveria Love Drops (for my brother)

#echeveria #succulents #GardeningAU #GardeningAus #GardeningAustralia #frillies #bumpies #carunculations

This week’s #PlantMail potted up. Actually done on Wednesday but life has got in the way this week.

Echeveria Ref Dragon
Echeveria Pulidonis Christmas
Echeveria Shaviana hybrid

The last two were free gifts.

I also bought a couple of bags of maifan stone for top dressing that I’ll break out when I’m feeling a little more on top of things. It’ll be nice to not have to worry about sifting it out when repotting plants like I currently have to with the crushed pebble I was using for a while.

#succulents #echeveria #GardeningAU #GardeningAus #GardeningAustralia

Just realised I hadn’t posted my potted up plant mail from last week. It was a big splurge week that won’t be repeated in a hurry.

Echeveria Blue Light

Echeveria Guerlain - it’d been on my wish list for almost a year.

Echeveria Coralina - a new Mal Morgan release that I almost missed out on but my favourite seller came through for me

Echeveria Subsellis (Morning Beauty) Variegata - an “I can’t justify the postage for just one plant” purchase

Aeonium Greenovia Egg Rose - an “it’s cute, cheap and I might as well as it to my order” purchase

Echeveria Shallot Rose - a generous gift from a seller

Echeveria Thousand Paper Cranes - also been on my wishlist for almost a year and only the second time I’ve seen it for sale. I fell in love both for the look and the name. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes was one of my favourite books as a kid.

Aeonium Greenovia Pandora

Echeveria Virginia Lee

Echeveria unknown bumpy - at least it will be when it matures

Echeveria Red Sails - in case the first one dies plus I couldn’t leave it at Bunnings to be overwatered to death

Random frilly that got repotted at the same time and I forgot to check the name

#succulents #SucculentsOfTheFediverse #SucculentsOfMastodon #echeveria #aeoniums #AeoniumGreenovia #Greenovia #GardeningAustralia #gardeningAus #GardeningAU

#PlantMail all potted up. Some exciting newbies to the collection.

Echeveria Hybrid
Echeveria Red Sails
Echeveria New Heights
Echeveria Delusion
Sedum Alice Evans (gift)
Aeonium Medusa (gift)
Cotelydon Orbiculata Oophylla Variegata (the unicorn plant)

#Succulents #GardeningAU #GardeningAus #GardeningAustralia #Echeverias #Sedum #Cotelydon #UnicornPlant

Two newbies this week so far via #PlantMail. More to come tomorrow or Thursday so there will be at least two nights of potting this week. A couple of my existing plants need some attention after the recent storm so they’ll be looked after at the same time.

Echeveria Hybrid and Echeveria New Heights.

#Succulents #SucculentsOfTheFediverse #GardeningAU #GardeningAustralia #GardeningAus

This week’s #PlantMail potted up. More #Echeverias this week. #Frillies and a #Bumpy

Echeveria Barbillion
Echeveria Party Dress
Echeveria Can Can (with slight variegation)

#Succulents #GardeningAU #gardeningAus