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Love of Dirt
Australia
Приєднався 6 бер 2018
Hi I am Nicki, I am on a mission to grow as much food as possible in our regular suburban block.
We live in the Subtropical climate in Australia (Just north of Brisbane) so our growing conditions are quite unique and often at times challenging.
Our growing style is a mix of many modalities- we have no dig beds, raised beds, pots and containers and aquaponics, but we are very much an organic micro farm.
In 2020 we started to curate a collection of subtropical friendly plants and now grow and supply our seeds to other growers in the Australian subtropics.
If you'd love more step by step growing help and support come join me inside my Dirt Lovers Membership.
We live in the Subtropical climate in Australia (Just north of Brisbane) so our growing conditions are quite unique and often at times challenging.
Our growing style is a mix of many modalities- we have no dig beds, raised beds, pots and containers and aquaponics, but we are very much an organic micro farm.
In 2020 we started to curate a collection of subtropical friendly plants and now grow and supply our seeds to other growers in the Australian subtropics.
If you'd love more step by step growing help and support come join me inside my Dirt Lovers Membership.
November Planting in Subtropical Australian Veggie Patch
We're scaling down for the hot wet months ahead here in Queensland Australia but we've still got a few things we can plant this month in our Organic Vegetable Garden.
Get my seed sowing chart here loveofdirt.com.au/pages/what-to-plant-now
Need help growing food join me inside Dirt Lovers - www.dirtlovers.com.au
The seeds I sow and most products featured can be found here - www.loveofdirt.com.au
Get my seed sowing chart here loveofdirt.com.au/pages/what-to-plant-now
Need help growing food join me inside Dirt Lovers - www.dirtlovers.com.au
The seeds I sow and most products featured can be found here - www.loveofdirt.com.au
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Simple Vegetable Garden Irrigation Setup
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I setup a simple irrigation system to save time watering my vegetable garden. In this video I share components I used and tips to setup a very basic irrigation system. Need help growing food join me inside Dirt Lovers - www.dirtlovers.com.au The seeds I sow and most products featured can be found here - www.loveofdirt.com.au
Mid Spring Planting Subtropical Australian Organic Garden
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I am a bit late planting this month due to the swooping birds but I've finally got out and planted our October organic vegetable garden. Fermented Ginger Beer we made using this guys method -ua-cam.com/video/LqPko6a3Wh4/v-deo.html Need help growing food join me inside Dirt Lovers - www.dirtlovers.com.au The seeds I sow and most products featured can be found here - www.loveofdirt.com.au
Late Spring (October) in our Australian Subtropical Vegetable Garden
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After a week away, a winged beast and a few fails this month we're back in the garden. Watch our latest video on what we're doing this month in our Australian Subtropical vegetable garden. Dirt Lovers - www.dirtlovers.com.au The seeds I sow can be found here - www.loveofdirt.com.au
Setting up our bath tub worm farm (again)
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One thing that didn't survive neglect was our worm farm, this week I decided to set it up again. Composting worms for backyard gardeners - loveofdirt.com.au/products/dirt-lovers-guide-to-composting-worms-ebook Dirt Lovers - www.dirtlovers.com.au The seeds I sow can be found here - www.loveofdirt.com.au Volcanic Rock Dust - loveofdirt.com.au/products/volcanic-rock-dust-minerals Not sponsored/aff...
What we're planting in Subtropical Australia this September
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Join me as I plant out my September Early Spring garden beds here in Subtropical Australia and prepare for the coming months. Get my planting plans here - www.dirtlovers.com.au The seeds I sow can be found here - www.loveofdirt.com.au Mycorrhizae Fungi- loveofdirt.com.au/products/mycogold-complete-mycorrhizal-fungi
September in our Australian Subtropical Garden
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We skipped spring and went straight to summer this week! Here's what's going on in our garden in Early Spring in Subtropical Australia. Fruit Fly Trap I am using - bugsforbugs.com.au Get my planting plans here - www.dirtlovers.com.au Get my seeds here - www.loveofdirt.com.au
Flowers I am planting around my vegetable garden
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Spring is nearly here in Australia. I went out and grabbed a bunch of flowers to help attract beneficial insects to my vegetable garden. Here's some of the flowers I chose. Fruit Fly Trap I am using - bugsforbugs.com.au Get my planting plans here - www.dirtlovers.com.au Get my seeds here - www.loveofdirt.com.au
Preparing for the onslaught of bugs in Subtropical Australia
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I bought some bugs for my garden! I am preparing for fruit fly season and getting on the front foot for the bug onslaught that happens after the rain and heat. In this video I share some fruit fly strategies, natural strategies that have helped to keep everything in balance, products I use when things become dire and also share my experience of buying bugs for my garden. None of the products sh...
What's growing in our Subtropical Australian Garden in August
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After our garden break things are finally starting to get growing again. Here's a tour of what we're growing and harvesting in late winter here in Subtropical South East Queensland. Get on the waitlist for garlic here - loveofdirt.com.au/products/glenlarge-garlic Get my planting plans here - www.dirtlovers.com.au The seeds I sow can be found here - www.loveofdirt.com.au
What we're planting in Subtropical Australia this August
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Join me as I plant out my August late Winter garden bed here in Subtropical Australia and prepare for the coming months. Get my planting plans here - www.dirtlovers.com.au The seeds I sow can be found here - www.loveofdirt.com.au
Things I regret doing in my vegetable garden
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Looking back over how I've set up some areas of my garden there are a few things that I regret doing in terms of layout. Got anything you wished you did differently? Leave a comment and let me know. Get my planting plans here - www.dirtlovers.com.au The seeds I sow can be found here - www.loveofdirt.com.au
Jobs for July - repotting the fruit trees and herbs in containers.
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Jobs for July - repotting the fruit trees and herbs in containers.
What we're planting in Subtropical Australia this July
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What we're planting in Subtropical Australia this July
Setting up a wicking bed ready for July planting
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Setting up a wicking bed ready for July planting
Mid Winter in our Australian Subtropical Garden
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Mid Winter in our Australian Subtropical Garden
What grows when you neglect your garden for 18 months
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What grows when you neglect your garden for 18 months
Mid Summer Australian Subtropical Garden Tour
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Mid Summer Australian Subtropical Garden Tour
Summer Harvests from Australian Subtropical Vegetable Garden
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Summer Harvests from Australian Subtropical Vegetable Garden
Early Summer in our Australian Subtropical Garden
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Early Summer in our Australian Subtropical Garden
Common summer pests in our Australian Subtropical Vegetable Patch
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Common summer pests in our Australian Subtropical Vegetable Patch
Late Spring in our Subtropical Veggie Patch
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Late Spring in our Subtropical Veggie Patch
What we're planting to survive summer in the subtropics
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What we're planting to survive summer in the subtropics
Our suburban rodent proof compost setup
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Our suburban rodent proof compost setup
Results from our potato experiment in Subtropical Australia
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Results from our potato experiment in Subtropical Australia
Mid Spring Australian Subtropical Garden Tour
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Mid Spring Australian Subtropical Garden Tour
Early Spring in our Australian Subtropical Vegetable Garden
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Early Spring in our Australian Subtropical Vegetable Garden
Oh those fruit flies! they are also attacking my Zucchini, I have pocket size mesh bags which I am covering them with and securing with a peg, then in the mornings I open them and try and pollinate the flowers which are open, it's a tough battle with them, they seem to be prolific this year
Yeah I am close to pulling them out! It’s so frustrating.
Cover the seeds with vermiculite,they hold the water better.
Great idea
Great 😃🎉
This is something I have experienced myself and believe me,it really worked for me. Whenever you're out in your Garden, ALWAYS be totally barefoot because our soles love and deserve that freedom. They love to feel various textures of soil between their toes. Apart from n it's very healthy to be barefoot outside. Take for example two plants, one grown inside a pot and tge other grown in Nature. However much you water and use fertilizer, it never looks as healthy as the latter. This is simply because the roots have a limited space to stread and the Nurishment too is the same. The soles of our feet are like the roots of a tree.When you're not barefoot that natural process is obstructed. Our soles are designs to absorb things which are essential to lead a healthy lifestyle. However, use of footwear deprives this process. Apaurt from that there are a large number of Sensors / Nerve endings on the soles of our feet, which connects from head to toe. When we walk on Sand, Gravel and Tiny Stones /Pebbles,our entire body gets stimulated through these sensors. Once again Footwear deprives this natural process. So, go barefoot always for good health and happy feet and soles.
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Great mix of veggies you planting out there. How does your garden handle the wet season when it comes around?
It’s a struggle, especially with tomatoes. I’ll wind back a bit from now until Feb.
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Got to harvest my first ears of sweet corn tonight. I presently have 4 successions of corn at various stages and it was beautiful. Also had some blue climbing beans and some carrots. I also recently added another two bee hives to bring me to 4 hives now. As always getting some great tips from your channel. Keep up the good work
ua-cam.com/video/1-Aeio67AYo/v-deo.htmlsi=NHL8mc9I2jJIMYMp. My garden and Apiary
You’ve done well, nothing better than home grown corn
@ it was delicious
Is it Fennel or is it Dill? The leaves are similar looking.
Definitely fennel but there is a tiny dill there too which I did plant.
When is the best time of the year to buy seeds from you for the next season (February). I am wanting to buy varieties suited to our Brisbane GC climate
I do restocks every month, sometimes I can’t get things on peak season though. Was there something specific you’re after? Garlic will be later this month.
Thank you
You’re welcome
Do you ever have problems with rats eating sweet potatoes?
No I haven’t, but I thought maybe one year one was eaten by a mouse so i guess it’s possible - they just didn’t take everything - which is unusual for rats 😂
Thank you look forward to your videos 🥰🙌🇦🇺 Karen from NSW PMQ 2444
Thank you
You’ve inspired me, I think we need to try and grow some corn. 🌽 🌽 and tomatoes 🍅
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Always so helpful with what to plant & what you're sowing. Thanks again for sharing your garden progress❤
Thank you for watching
Excellent 😃🎉 I subscribed to your channel 🙏
Thank you ☺️
@loveofdirt you're welcome 😁 Happy to be here 🙏🎉
When you plant out the bed are you aiming for each dripper or does the water sort of get spread out enough to plant anywhere?
I do use them as a guide as the holes are every 30cm which is perfect for most mid size crops, but it doesn’t have to be. They’ll find the water if you’re watering deeply.
Great video, good tips for my system extension I'm about to tackle. Irrigation companies point to needing a flushing valve and air release valve for these dripper systems, but it looks like you're getting by without those?
Good point, yeah I haven’t had any issues and it still works well, but I’ll look in into that thank you
Thanks for this video Nicki, makes irrigation seem far less intimidating than it did before 😅
The irrigation isle is incredibly overwhelming
Our ‘dwarf’ mulberry looked like yours before we moved house 😅 dwarf my ass Bunnings 😂
😂 my exact sentiment
i have been wanting to use this system in my garden but at the moment i am just using a weeper pose. How long do you find that the hose lasts before it ruptures and you need to replace it?
most of this pipe is around 4 years old (I’ve been moving beds around so this was repurposed) and I haven’t had a blowout yet. The same brand components become brittle though - the light beige ones, but the black ones have been fine.
Thanks so much for the video explanation. Funnily enough, I have all the components (just about). Im curious about how to do it for pots. My biggest bug bear is watering pots. 😆.
The little 4mm flexible pipe with a dripper on the end punched into the 19mm black pipe. You could go up into your pot drainage if you’re worried about it falling off.
@loveofdirt I've got a few of those too suprisingly. Good idea going up through the drainage holes!
Australia have attraction to move there.thanks.
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i mostly hand water combined with 2-3 homemade terracotta pot ollas per raised bed
I have these in places around the garden that I don’t have irrigation setup. They work well
Inspirational. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching
Great video, very helpful tips as we move into summer here in the subtropics! I've got a lot of these plants happening already, thankfully 😅
That’s great!
Beautiful garden, I love gardening because it helps relieve stress and relax. Thanks for sharing these wonderful photos with everyone.
Thanks for watching
My corn is 100% no germination and beans 50% fail. I think I have shit seeds. Try again.😂
Oh no! Both can rot really easily if they are too wet, did you do direct or in trays?
@@loveofdirt direct, and then I tried the paper towel in moist bag. The weather has been weird also about 3 weeks ago in Tewantin.we had some cool nights. I think my corn seeds were unviable.
That was good, thank you :)
You’re welcome
Hi Ali, I've just in the finishing stages of installing a dripper system into my raised bed as you pointed out last year I had terrible trouble with powdery mildew. One tip I can give you is that if you cut your pipes to length and lay them in the sun for a day or two it helps to get rid of the coils from when they were rolled up and straightens the lengths. Cheers
That’s a great tip, it’s hard to wrangle them straight from the roll
You can also get a 13mm attachment for your laundry hot tap, and run hot water through the whole length before stretching it out straight
I love the way you maximise your planting and that is what i do in my garden. Have a good day from South Australia.
Thank you
I’m actually dismantling all mine as we head into winter 🥶 but yes they are definitely a god send come high summer. Have a fab week, Ali ☔️☔️☔️🇨🇦
Gosh that would be annoying to do every year
@@loveofdirt as it can freeze here it would crack or split the hoses 😢
@@myrustygarden I suspected as much.
I have much the same set up as you down here on the south coast of NSW. I do run timers for my different 19mm hose runs and then 13mm for the beds. The fruit trees and my hot house run off separate lines but, with the fruit trees, each tree might have two or three drippers (on 4mm pipe) spread out around the drip line... My hot house gets misted twice a day for one minute each time and the rest of the gardens are worked out on an individual time depending on what is growing in the bed at a particular time.
One day I’ll get the timers. It would be helpful when we went away but we need people to look after the animals anyway
@@loveofdirt The timers certainly help. Especially when you water most of your gardens around 4am LOL ... The catch is the initial outlay for the set-up.... I'm retired these days and I had to buy one timer at a time until I had my drip lines set up. But, these days I can wander out into my gardens at around 5:30 am and know that the plants have had a deep watering which will serve them for a couple of days...
@@lesboucher542 That's a great idea. I think I need to wait until my taps and water tank setups are complete.
Well explained as always. Thank you 😃
You’re welcome ☺️
Great video. Thank you.
Thank you ☺️
I hope someday to reach your level of organization lolz
I don’t know if I am that organised 😂 just lots of trial and error
Hi Nikki love your videos. I am learning how to grow vegetables in SE Queensland. After living down south in Canberra it is definitely very different. I have a problem with my cucumbers. Heaps of flowers but no setting fruit. Is it like zucchini and have a male and female flower to be used to pollinate and set the fruit?I don’t seem to have many bees so I have started planting cosmos and other flowers to try and encourage more pollinaters. Thank you for any help
Yeah most varieties of cucumber need to be pollinated similar to zucchinis. I think there are a few self pollinating ones about. I also find if cucumber fly sting them before they get going that stunts them too.
Don't you find that the holes clog up?
Nope haven’t had that yet, I’ve had it going for at least 4 years now. I think the inline filter might help on that front.
thank you for the info. Cheers
Thanks for watching
Thank you for the video
You’re welcome
Bush beans have never grown well for me, but it's only been 1 year, I shall persevere! I'm looking forward to trying snake beans and winged beans this year!
Oh I haven’t tried winged beans before.
perfect timing , thanks
You're welcome
You should grow some cranberry hibiscus. The leaves are burgundy, and have a hint of lemon. They are great in salads.
We call them rosellas and yes I always grow them, have a video on it.
Thanks Nickie, I live in SE Qld and love love love your channel, I have been. Gardening for many years but have learn't so much from your channel...thankyou
Always something to learn! Thanks for watching :)
Thank you again :)
You're welcome!
Hi what kind of mulch do you use
Sugarcane
Great video Nicki. I noticed your seeds are in brown packets. Where did you buy them from?
These are mine, you can get them from my website.
Great to see a SE QLD gardener. I am in the East side of Brisbane. You have great information and you grow a lot more than I do! As I have had my husband with a knee replacement so I had to let the garden go till now! I do have heritage cherry tomatoes going rank, good turmeric and ginger harvest and replanting ginger now. oak leaf lettuce, cucumbers, beans, Gamma pumpkin. Flat leaf parsley going to seed other herbs doing ok! So not a total loss missing a season.
It’s going to get more challenging soon so probably not a bad time to take a break. Sounds like you’ve got lots going anyway.
looking forward to seeing how the sweet potato goes.
A long wait until March/April, but not much else grows here when it gets too hot.
Ill health, no gardening happening here. Love, love, love your inspirational garden. My treasured walking onions have all got seed pods and some have little bulbets ..I’m just going to plonk the seed pods back onto the soil and see if I get some babies..I’d hate to lose them. Any suggestions.
Walking onions are on my list to try, I haven't grown them before so sorry I can't give you any tips there.
your sunflower f1's are growing so fast my cockatiel is going to enjoy them. have you tried feeding the butcher bird there pretty smart
Butcher birds have stopped thankfully. Not keen on feeding them, but I give them bugs from the garden and supply them with water. I need to get my sunflowers in too! I still haven't, it's not summer without sunflowers