Vegies & Water in Brisbane

There's heaps of camping around up here more like 2-3 hours away

It has been raining for the past 3 days and I think you will be fine to get a little patch going

The fruit flies pick there own fruit and carry them away up here . If you can get to the bananas before the fruit bats , possums then you are better than me . Snails and slugs are a foot thick here . Other than that you should be ok .

I gave up on my veggie patch a couple of years ago. Watering it was just too hard. I now have a tank so I'm growing again. In the summer you need plenty of water up here. If the place you get doesn't have a tank they're not too expensive to put in, and Capt Bligh gives you a few bucks towards it too.

Brisbane dams just today have gone over 40% which will ease restrictions slightly. I'm not sure of the details but should make a vegie patch more viable.

And yes, plenty of secluded camping within 4 hrs of Brisbane. Even 2 hrs will get you to quite a few good spots. Do a search on the forum - you'll find a few good threads.

For Camping, Fraser Island, Moreton Island, Stradbroke Islands, Areas around Kelilworth, Around Sundown National Park, The varous 4wd Parks and around Woodenbong in northern NSW.

Generally weather is better for camping and the flys are not as bad in summer. But when it rains it is much much heavier than in Victoria so you need gear that can handle it.

Unfortunately, IMHO there are no 4wd destinations (Except for the islands) that are as good as the Victorian High Country anywhere near Brisbane.

You could purchase the book "Dirty Weekends in SE QLand". Definately not secluded camping spots but could be a starting point.

Cheers

Howard

http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/parks_and_forests/find_a_park_or_forest/

Hi Howdy Doody,

I do not think its quite as bad as some of the replies suggest. We have a nice garden and orchard with 28 fruit tress quite easily with just tank water. (bananas, paw paws, avocadoes, custard apple, tropical peach, peachcot, brazilian cherry, lychee, orange, mandarin, limes, lemon etc etc. ) . With different varieties you can almost get fruit all the year round with some – eg we have 5 varieties of avocadoes fruiting over 10 months of year. Fruit fly is a problem but there are organic ways to deal with it – try Wild May Essential Oils – attract and kill males. Also a bag over banana bunches will protect. With a little effort you can produce beautiful fruit and veges provided you have good soils. Water restrictions will ease next week as the dams are now at 40%.
What part of Brisbane are you looking at- are you considering inner city areas or outer areas with larger blocks of land.
We have a beautilful 3000M2 block of vacant land for sale on Northside of Brisbane. Very fertile red soil in our area.
Cheers,
GPM

$20 redirection connection for our water pipe into a wheel barrow, and that's just for the duck.

We find we can keep our 3" x 5" garden bed going by, if needed, cold water drained from hot water taps before it gets hot, the kids' bath water, even the washing grey water rinse washes when there's no rain at all for weeks (using something marked as good for gardens) - even with our front loader, still get buckets of grey water.

We do have a tank but not getting it connected and in place until the deck goes up.

Howdy doody; What kind of vegies are you planning on growing? First you ask for a secluded camping spot & then how about growing vegies. Am I being overly suss or are you planning on growing those spikey leaf tomatoes???

The drought is not as bad as you might expect in terms of basic gardening. From time to time the lawns go brown but mostly are adequately rain watered to look okay.

growing veggies might be a little challenging depending on what your growing and what sort of area you need to water. if you have a water tank and just want a few veggies you should be okay. If you are expecting to water half an acre though you will be disappointed. I just have a regular house block and the weeds are doing very well indeed thank you!!

You will love Brisbane and I hope everyone will make you feel welcome.

cheers

brisbane,or more to the point,south east queensland has many places that would suit your liking,the difficult bit is choosing just one lol.wherever you finish up enjoy your stay but the temp here even in winter is warmer than you may expect..happy trails..Rod