Starting a vegetable garden.

None of my habanero seeds germinated, does anyone know where I can get habanero seedlings near and around Cape Town. Would love to have a few.
 
kory said:
Does anyone know this plant ? It just started growing in my garden and seems to be doing better than my veggies. View attachment 595486
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Yes, looks like squash or pumpkin. Keep a look out, some (or maybe all?) get both male and female flowers. Mine were fertilised by bees but you might want to intervene by fertilising one or two manually just for fun.

Also if they're pumpkin you should read up on supporting them as they grow and how to keep them from rotting if they're lying on the ground.

Domestic used to cook and eat the young leaves. Flowers can also be eaten.
 
kory said:
None of my habanero seeds germinated, does anyone know where I can get habanero seedlings near and around Cape Town. Would love to have a few.
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Hi. If you still interested, I have plenty of seeds available at R5 each. I am in Johannesburg but can courier it to you.
 
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Does anyone know this plant ? It just started growing in my garden and seems to be doing better than my veggies. View attachment 595486
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Not sure at all, but possibly it's butternut. We eat butternut quite often and the seeds would go in our worm bins, and 6 months later they would be untouched by the worms (unlike avo and mango pips) and would go into the garden wherever we were putting the compost, and every single one of them would develop into a plant that sprawled all over everywhere, and only once produced a midget butternut. So now all butternut pips go straight into the rubbish bin.
 
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I tried once.

Then i discovered Woolworths.
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:ROFL: you have a point! I tend to stick to things that are best eaten properly ripened and straight from the garden. Notably cherry tomatoes in summer and mange tout in winter, with some other odds in between. I have two coffin-sized (as per my family...) vege containers and feed them from compost our earthworm bins provide.
 
I get this , but I do not know the name.
 

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Anybody see watercress seeds for sale anymore? I haven't seen any in a physical store in a while; would like to try grow some but the seeds that I do have are not viable.
 
Looks like Seeds for Africa has them, R14 for 100 seeds, but unless you are in Cape Town and order R150 worth of seeds to get free delivery to Milnerton area, you would need to add another R74 for courier. Works out a bit pricey... I see watercress is in the nasturtium family - the leaves do have a similar taste.
 
Built these this weekend. Still need to cut some wood to edge the corners (don’t want to cut myself on any sharp metal).

Then for the top of the metal running around the bed I’m going to use black pvc pipe as edging so as to not cut myself.
 

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Seeing Jsheed's containers reminded me: has anyone used the 'hugelkultur' method, where you pack the bottom half of your container with wood (medium sized logs & sticks, not twigs) and then put the soil on top? The logic is that the wood absorbs water, which is then released slowly so the soil doesn't try out so quickly in summer. I tried it with my containers when I prepped them for summer planting last spring, and by and large it's been quite successful. Except in one container, where I used branches that had been recently cut down, and that was a mistake as they sprouted, so I have just hauled those logs out before I plant peas for winter.
 
Marsie27 said:
Seeing Jsheed's containers reminded me: has anyone used the 'hugelkultur' method, where you pack the bottom half of your container with wood (medium sized logs & sticks, not twigs) and then put the soil on top? The logic is that the wood absorbs water, which is then released slowly so the soil doesn't try out so quickly in summer. I tried it with my containers when I prepped them for summer planting last spring, and by and large it's been quite successful. Except in one container, where I used branches that had been recently cut down, and that was a mistake as they sprouted, so I have just hauled those logs out before I plant peas for winter.
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Started one this year, had a tree cut down that destroyed our boundary wall, I never used it in a raised bed, just dug a massive hole and buried some of the smaller logs, have some tomatoes and peppers growing over that space, for now they seem to be growing well, but apparently the results from the hugelkultur method will be seen in 1-2 years
 
UserZ said:
Anybody see watercress seeds for sale anymore? I haven't seen any in a physical store in a while; would like to try grow some but the seeds that I do have are not viable.
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Abit late, but i found some at a MICA store
 
peanutbunny said:
Started one this year, had a tree cut down that destroyed our boundary wall, I never used it in a raised bed, just dug a massive hole and buried some of the smaller logs, have some tomatoes and peppers growing over that space, for now they seem to be growing well, but apparently the results from the hugelkultur method will be seen in 1-2 years
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I've continued to see good results in terms of moisture retention, and so far no more sprouting from the logs. I've just put my next batch of cherry tomato seedlings in. I didn't dig down deep enough to see if the logs were decomposing, just added more compost and worm castings in the top 1/4 of the container, ground up eggshells etc.
 
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