First time viewer here :) Got a fairly sizeable garden in the Manningham area (the non-forest-like area). Only been gardening since the lockdowns, but damn i've been loving it thus far. Gotten the hang of creating an environment that's required very little of my time or energy, with massive harvests of various types of foods, such as; - Corn (sweet) - Tomatoes (various types, Truss, Roma, Cherry, etc) - Snow peas - Carrots - Brocolli - Capsicums (various types including Bell, Mad hatter, etc) - Chilli (various types including Cayeene, Carolina Reaper, Sherwoods Cabonero, etc) - Cucumbers - Strawberries (various types) - Rock melon - Beetroots - Spring Onions - Spinach - Rosemary - Thyme - Basil (various types) - Parsley (various types) - Mint and much more... The moment i discovered companion planting, that was it, i went full throttle with it and just let the garden maintain itself once i realised what plants required help from other plants. Learning about how bugs, plants, and even the dirt communicate with each other is insanely fascinating. Alot of my plants have been able to survive well beyond the usual fruiting and just general survival periods, which i've also found to be an interesting look into what i read online about how food gardens usually function. I originally had tons of pests to deal with, but once the compainion plants established enough, they kinda just all left and stopped coming back after the first year and haven't been back since. Giving lettuce a go for the first time this season, so we'll see how that pans out... they're still rather small, and the weather has been pretty wet, so i guess we'll just have to wait and see. No pests yet, so i'm excited to watch them grow. Additional info: Alot of my beds aren't super raised and are pretty much straight into the ground for the most part so they can take full advantage of the additional Phosphorus that Australian soil naturally provides more than most other Countries in the world, which is a huge benefit for home food growers :) I also utilize the Hugleculture method at the bottom of all my beds so the soil never has to work overtime. Having said all of that, i'm defintely subbing to you so i can check out the journey along the way :) Never thought i'd love watching gardens grow as much as i do now.
Thank you, always delighted and prefer to watch an Aussie grower. UA-cam put you on my home page. I have an extensive permaculture garden I’ve been working on for about 10 years. I look forward to seeing your journey.
Love seeing local growers. I was devastated this morning to see a huge flock of cockatoos in my patch. They have decimated my brassicas and chard and kale. They just break it off at the base and then eat the centre out of the root ball. My chooks will enjoy the half grown plants..I might need to put in some protection like you have.
Yeah a few years ago I walked out one morning to find I had no tomatos left, super deviating! I might make a video on how I build these bird nets, because they're super cheap and seem to be better quality than the purpose built bed net covers
I am so pleased to have had Google suggest this video. As a fellow Victorian gardener, I really appreciate seeing information about growing in Australia, particularly in Victoria. Thanks for making videos and sharing your ideas and knowledge.
This is the first of your videos I’ve seen so the ending saying only my subscribers would watch this made me laugh. 😂 Glad to see some gardening content from an Australian. ❤
@@FoxDenStitches I put so much effort into all of my videos (roughly 20 hours of plan/film/edit). Except this one I spent like 2 hours on and it's done really well haha
I thought your white cat was just some bunched up insect netting in the far end of the raised bed until you introduced her. Love how your garden looks no matter the size. It has everything. Watching from the USA.
I’m here in Australia in Maroubra (eastern suburbs beaches) of NSW. You’re totally inspiring me to start my own you tube channel with garden video’s and cooking videos too! Your passion is totally infectious it gets me into the garden every single morning even when I’m not in the mood for it watching you puts me in the mood for it! All your tips are great 👍🏾 and I love the use of the indigenous calendar that’s super amazing and super smart advice! Thank you & God bless you!
Yay, you tube just sent you to me, am now binge watching, ( and subbed) so good to have someone local ( I’m south east Melbourne) great info, thank you. ❤
As most of the other comments have said, it’s lovely to see Aussie content! I’m also in Melbourne. I’m hoping other viewers might be able to help me please. I’d love to start some preserving. Does anyone know where to buy the following in Australia? - freeze dryers - pressure canners (an electric one would be phenomenal) -canning supplies Also, any suggestions for an Aussie equivalent to Azure Standard please? Thanks 😊🪴👩🌾
Oh hey fellow Aussie garden UA-camr! I’ve seen your videos on tiktok too. Love what you’re doing. Will subscribe over here as well. Love a winter garden tour. My cabbages are all gunna be ready at the same time haha. 😊🌱
@@chezelleconroy2951 I'm really glad the YT algo has finally started showing my videos to locals 🙏🏼🌱 I started the channel because 1. I wanted to talk about my garden and 2. I couldn't find any content in our conditions. And over the years I've worked out a lot about what we can grow here from random books and blogs and farmers. A lot of it doesn't match the info bigger gardening UA-camrs put out. I.e. we can actually grow heaps of stuff over winter. So trying to save others a lot of trouble 🌱🥕🥬
Yeah an Aussie gardener, building up things to start my own one day, planning on moving within a year, so didn't want to set up now, but not stopping me getting things so once I move I can start right away. Live in Qld Brissy. Subbing to see more.
Yay another Aussie UA-camr. We are in Perth WA and in the process of turning our typical urban backyard into our dream urban homestead and I am documenting our journey to self sufficiency on my UA-cam channel. New subscriber here
Love what you’re doing bro. Need more local VIC gardeners on UA-cam. Garden looks great. I’m a fellow melbournian that loves winter gardening. I have no idea why people feel like they need to put the veggie patch into hibernation mode over winter
Yet another happy to have found you! We're in central Vic. About to start my summer seedlings because we are a bit colder than Melbourne so they need as much of a head start as they can. Love the bed set-up too!
Hey 1st time viewer from nz so glad to find a gardening channel that is not from the other hemisphere and actually applies to the season I'm in. 😊 thanks for the video. Had no idea I should have pruned my cherry tree when I planted it.
You could let the rare coloured veggies go to seed , collect the seeds and plant them. And you can buy non hybrid, open pollinated seeds from Eden seeds, 4:57
So, I am listening to you talk about your half barrel space and looking at your flowering rosemary. Asking myself, I wonder if you can eat rosemary flowers as mine is also about to flower. Thank you for reading my mind and answering. Perfect timing 😊
Some pests come out at night like slugs and rollie bugs which i have had big trouble with and they destroy everything the best way to control them is cut a potato in 1/2 and place it cut side down come out at night and remove all the pill bugs do that each night untill you get the numbers down.
it's up to you of course but i've ditched the whole raised garden bed aesthetic, which is more trouble than it's worth. simple in ground rows that you can adjust as you see fit and easily setup drip irrigation for, is the way to go in our dry climate, i think. if you have clay like i did, lots of hydrated lime and coarse sand (concreting sand will do) will improve the soil on a more permanent basis than buying lots of organic matter that mostly ends up as atmospheric CO2. i used to make loads of compost etc...all a waste of time and effort. your soil will warm up faster in spring if not covered by mulch. btw dont worry about hydrated lime raising soil ph, as it unlocks the soil and ph will go down again. i've used it around established plants including acidic soil loving plants, and they didnt mind it at all. i've learnt over time that all this infatuation with dead organic matter is not that productive. over time i've done a grape arbour with sitting area, extensive borders, dwarf fruit trees, avocado, etc....reclaiming most of the backyard and front yard from grass. i still have some walking area with grass but probably only 10% of original grassed area. wish you well for our warmer season, which seems to be early. btw unless you have a leaf-curl resistant cultivar of peach...you'll be fighting that blighted peach leaf curl...usually from 2nd year onwards.
Yeah I really like in ground beds and think they're criminally underrated in Aus. But I would find it too hard to keep my cats and dog off an in-ground bed.
I've always wondered wether those galvanised & whatever other type of material garden beds are made of, are safe,& if any nasties leach into the soil as even galvanised ones corrode over time.
@@crankiemanx8423 : raised garden beds are a very expensive way to garden. most of the benefits are overblown, and there are many drawbacks: boxed into row layout and tripping hazard, moisture problems and harder to setup irrigation, cant use full length tools or walk on the beds, and doesnt keep pets out..get a fence. after having had raised beds for 10+ years, i'm much happier since i went to standard rows. many of the garden channels have associations with raised bed sellers. i never knew about standard in ground rows until watching some other channels, because of the raised bed hype. better spend the money on commercial grade cell trays, heat matts and proper grow lights, which makes a big difference to productivity. raised beds do not improve productivity, unless you're on concrete and dont have dirt. you can do raised rows for winter and flat ground for summer when you dont have raised beds. when you have raised beds, you're locked into that. sure, it looked the part, but wasnt worth it, in my opinion.
@Chris-op7yt thanks for your reply.i was thinking about going the garden bed route,mostly because I want to plant a few more fruit trees & be able to garden close to the base of the tree & not have any competing for the soil.as I have an apple tree & noticed a lot of the roots very close to the surface.& also because I want to protect the beds from cats,& the major suburban possum situation here.
@@crankiemanx8423 : raised beds dont really solve the problem of close-by trees, which will keep sucking nutrients and water from a raised bed that's too close. you also have the tree in the way of tending the bed and throwing shade. if you need shade, use a shadecloth, as you dont want to be pruning a fruit tree according to shade thrown onto garden bed. this kind of illogical thinking i just illustrated is what the organic etc channels teach. it seems logical but is actually all backwards, combining things together as if they would help each other, but reality is different. watch some Hoss Tools or other channels that do more of the straight farming/gardening, rather than trying to build up gardening myths/hacks together. many of the organic channels talks straight out of their behind, but they do it confidently, and we think we're learning how to put a complicated puzzle together. keep things simple and separate, and they work. i know i talked myself into spending all that money and effort for raised beds. these are mostly false post-hoc made up reasons that dont stand up to scrutiny. spend your money on full length tools, irrigation system, etc....dont fall for the raised garden bed aesthetic. they're more trouble and ongoing expense than all the pseudo-benefits. site your garden patch in the right place and put a fence around it. raised beds dont keep possums out, lol.
That's why I installed the bird netting on the beds. It keeps them out :) I'll eventually make a video on it but I just use irrigation poly tube from Bunnings (about $25 for 30m) cut to size for the loops. Put them over bamboo stakes to hold them in place, then bird netting over the top.
Im in Mt Waverley Victoria, is your site rural or ??? I have always been an ornamental gardener, was not quite sure what you can grow, food wise in winter. Partly because I am Canadian, and you don't...
The algorithm randomly brought me here, but I’m excited to see some Aussie gardening and not US or UK gardens.
Likewise 😊
ditto mate
Same!
Same, commenting for the algorithm
Me too 🥳
Finally the YT algorithms are giving me Aussie gardening channels! Subscribed.
UA-cam just recommended you today. I'm in Melbourne, so it's good to see someone with similar gardening conditions.
Ditto!!! So happy I found this channel. I new subscriber!!!
Hi from South Australia, so glad to see an Australian gardening channel. I have subscribed, thanks for your video 👍
Yes,me too.
I came here to say finally a Aussie gardener for a change (Sydneysider here) but looks like everyone's saying the same!
Finally a Aussie Gardner
First time viewer here :) Got a fairly sizeable garden in the Manningham area (the non-forest-like area). Only been gardening since the lockdowns, but damn i've been loving it thus far. Gotten the hang of creating an environment that's required very little of my time or energy, with massive harvests of various types of foods, such as;
- Corn (sweet)
- Tomatoes (various types, Truss, Roma, Cherry, etc)
- Snow peas
- Carrots
- Brocolli
- Capsicums (various types including Bell, Mad hatter, etc)
- Chilli (various types including Cayeene, Carolina Reaper, Sherwoods Cabonero, etc)
- Cucumbers
- Strawberries (various types)
- Rock melon
- Beetroots
- Spring Onions
- Spinach
- Rosemary
- Thyme
- Basil (various types)
- Parsley (various types)
- Mint
and much more...
The moment i discovered companion planting, that was it, i went full throttle with it and just let the garden maintain itself once i realised what plants required help from other plants. Learning about how bugs, plants, and even the dirt communicate with each other is insanely fascinating. Alot of my plants have been able to survive well beyond the usual fruiting and just general survival periods, which i've also found to be an interesting look into what i read online about how food gardens usually function. I originally had tons of pests to deal with, but once the compainion plants established enough, they kinda just all left and stopped coming back after the first year and haven't been back since.
Giving lettuce a go for the first time this season, so we'll see how that pans out... they're still rather small, and the weather has been pretty wet, so i guess we'll just have to wait and see. No pests yet, so i'm excited to watch them grow.
Additional info:
Alot of my beds aren't super raised and are pretty much straight into the ground for the most part so they can take full advantage of the additional Phosphorus that Australian soil naturally provides more than most other Countries in the world, which is a huge benefit for home food growers :) I also utilize the Hugleculture method at the bottom of all my beds so the soil never has to work overtime.
Having said all of that, i'm defintely subbing to you so i can check out the journey along the way :) Never thought i'd love watching gardens grow as much as i do now.
As a fellow Victorian I was excited to see this. If this is a boring video I’m excited to see your regular ones!
Thank you, always delighted and prefer to watch an Aussie grower. UA-cam put you on my home page. I have an extensive permaculture garden I’ve been working on for about 10 years. I look forward to seeing your journey.
I’m in NZ but also pleased to see a Southern hemisphere garden. Keep it up!
Love seeing local growers. I was devastated this morning to see a huge flock of cockatoos in my patch. They have decimated my brassicas and chard and kale. They just break it off at the base and then eat the centre out of the root ball. My chooks will enjoy the half grown plants..I might need to put in some protection like you have.
Yeah a few years ago I walked out one morning to find I had no tomatos left, super deviating!
I might make a video on how I build these bird nets, because they're super cheap and seem to be better quality than the purpose built bed net covers
You randomly popped on my suggestions. I'ts nice watching other Aussies garden
Hi from Perth!
I am so pleased to have had Google suggest this video. As a fellow Victorian gardener, I really appreciate seeing information about growing in Australia, particularly in Victoria.
Thanks for making videos and sharing your ideas and knowledge.
This is the first of your videos I’ve seen so the ending saying only my subscribers would watch this made me laugh. 😂 Glad to see some gardening content from an Australian. ❤
@@FoxDenStitches I put so much effort into all of my videos (roughly 20 hours of plan/film/edit). Except this one I spent like 2 hours on and it's done really well haha
I thought your white cat was just some bunched up insect netting in the far end of the raised bed until you introduced her.
Love how your garden looks no matter the size. It has everything. Watching from the USA.
Hi from the Macedon Ranges Vic. The previous owner of our house put in veggie beds, but I don't have a clue about gardening, so I'm excited to follow.
Great another Australian Gardener. Love it.
I’m here in Australia in Maroubra (eastern suburbs beaches) of NSW. You’re totally inspiring me to start my own you tube channel with garden video’s and cooking videos too! Your passion is totally infectious it gets me into the garden every single morning even when I’m not in the mood for it watching you puts me in the mood for it! All your tips are great 👍🏾 and I love the use of the indigenous calendar that’s super amazing and super smart advice! Thank you & God bless you!
Yay, you tube just sent you to me, am now binge watching, ( and subbed) so good to have someone local ( I’m south east Melbourne) great info, thank you. ❤
As most of the other comments have said, it’s lovely to see Aussie content!
I’m also in Melbourne.
I’m hoping other viewers might be able to help me please. I’d love to start some preserving. Does anyone know where to buy the following in Australia?
- freeze dryers
- pressure canners (an electric one would be phenomenal)
-canning supplies
Also, any suggestions for an Aussie equivalent to Azure Standard please?
Thanks 😊🪴👩🌾
Wow. Finally another Aussie gardener. I’m from Sunshine Coast. Great videos mate, I’m learning a lot.
Great garden! Well done!
Oh hey fellow Aussie garden UA-camr! I’ve seen your videos on tiktok too. Love what you’re doing. Will subscribe over here as well. Love a winter garden tour. My cabbages are all gunna be ready at the same time haha. 😊🌱
Beetroot leaves are edible... I sometimes just pick the leaves off, while the root is growing 🙂
Great to come across an Aussie channel!
Thankyou.🤓
Will be binge watching from Healesville. 😎
Watching from Jamaica 🇯🇲. Enjoyed the video.
Oh an Aussie gardener tops🙌🐨🦘 thank you 😉 I’ve subscribed 🌱👒🇦🇺from PMQ mid north coast of Oz
Hi from Western Australi so happy to see an auusi garden show keep on plugging, we will watch you for sure.
Hi, from Western Australia. Great video! I love Aussie gardening inspiration! I'm looking forward to seeing more. Cheers!
So happy I’ve found you! Melbourne gardener- fantastic. We’re in West Gippsland with very similar growing conditions.
@@chezelleconroy2951 I'm really glad the YT algo has finally started showing my videos to locals 🙏🏼🌱
I started the channel because 1. I wanted to talk about my garden and 2. I couldn't find any content in our conditions. And over the years I've worked out a lot about what we can grow here from random books and blogs and farmers. A lot of it doesn't match the info bigger gardening UA-camrs put out. I.e. we can actually grow heaps of stuff over winter. So trying to save others a lot of trouble 🌱🥕🥬
@@CulinaryGarden1 It seems like that's truly happening now!
Hi from the South West of Western Australia! Great to see more Aussie gardening content!
Just seen this show thanks 👍👍👍 Les from Perth
I landed here by accident. I'll hang around mate. 👍
PS: I'm a permaculture/ hort person too (in Melbourne) so this stuff is always interesting to me.
Yeah an Aussie gardener, building up things to start my own one day, planning on moving within a year, so didn't want to set up now, but not stopping me getting things so once I move I can start right away. Live in Qld Brissy. Subbing to see more.
Amazing show. Love you!
Yay another Aussie UA-camr. We are in Perth WA and in the process of turning our typical urban backyard into our dream urban homestead and I am documenting our journey to self sufficiency on my UA-cam channel. New subscriber here
Love what you’re doing bro. Need more local VIC gardeners on UA-cam. Garden looks great.
I’m a fellow melbournian that loves winter gardening. I have no idea why people feel like they need to put the veggie patch into hibernation mode over winter
Hello, new subscriber from the south coast of Western Australia 🏡
Yay an Aussie!
Yet another happy to have found you! We're in central Vic. About to start my summer seedlings because we are a bit colder than Melbourne so they need as much of a head start as they can. Love the bed set-up too!
Nice garden! Sometimes wish we had your Victoria weather over in Perth, would help keep things alive.
How wonderful to fond another Victorian food gardener! I’m in the Yarra Valley in food forest organic style. Kayleen
Hey 1st time viewer from nz so glad to find a gardening channel that is not from the other hemisphere and actually applies to the season I'm in. 😊 thanks for the video. Had no idea I should have pruned my cherry tree when I planted it.
@@rebeccaburns2520 now is still a great time to prune it!
Awesome Aussie garden video, thanks!🎉
You could let the rare coloured veggies go to seed , collect the seeds and plant them. And you can buy non hybrid, open pollinated seeds from Eden seeds,
4:57
Another ozzy Gardner ill be watching with interest.
So, I am listening to you talk about your half barrel space and looking at your flowering rosemary. Asking myself, I wonder if you can eat rosemary flowers as mine is also about to flower. Thank you for reading my mind and answering. Perfect timing 😊
Yes you can eat them And they are delicious 😀❤️😀
Love garden I too have container garden think you should grow more of each plant and succession planting would be good
Some pests come out at night like slugs and rollie bugs which i have had big trouble with and they destroy everything the best way to control them is cut a potato in 1/2 and place it cut side down come out at night and remove all the pill bugs do that each night untill you get the numbers down.
Hello from Perth 👋 thanks algorithm 😅
Hi there! What great videos! I’m new to vege growing. How do you make your netting frame and what netting do you use please?
What sleepers did you use for the garden beds? Not H4 treated ones I take it?
Peas don't like to have their roots disturbed and often won't grow further when transplanted so take any growth as a win.
I had some ginger and Basil. They all died during the -1 and 0°C nights
it's up to you of course but i've ditched the whole raised garden bed aesthetic, which is more trouble than it's worth. simple in ground rows that you can adjust as you see fit and easily setup drip irrigation for, is the way to go in our dry climate, i think. if you have clay like i did, lots of hydrated lime and coarse sand (concreting sand will do) will improve the soil on a more permanent basis than buying lots of organic matter that mostly ends up as atmospheric CO2. i used to make loads of compost etc...all a waste of time and effort. your soil will warm up faster in spring if not covered by mulch. btw dont worry about hydrated lime raising soil ph, as it unlocks the soil and ph will go down again. i've used it around established plants including acidic soil loving plants, and they didnt mind it at all. i've learnt over time that all this infatuation with dead organic matter is not that productive.
over time i've done a grape arbour with sitting area, extensive borders, dwarf fruit trees, avocado, etc....reclaiming most of the backyard and front yard from grass. i still have some walking area with grass but probably only 10% of original grassed area.
wish you well for our warmer season, which seems to be early.
btw unless you have a leaf-curl resistant cultivar of peach...you'll be fighting that blighted peach leaf curl...usually from 2nd year onwards.
Yeah I really like in ground beds and think they're criminally underrated in Aus. But I would find it too hard to keep my cats and dog off an in-ground bed.
I've always wondered wether those galvanised & whatever other type of material garden beds are made of, are safe,& if any nasties leach into the soil as even galvanised ones corrode over time.
@@crankiemanx8423 : raised garden beds are a very expensive way to garden. most of the benefits are overblown, and there are many drawbacks: boxed into row layout and tripping hazard, moisture problems and harder to setup irrigation, cant use full length tools or walk on the beds, and doesnt keep pets out..get a fence. after having had raised beds for 10+ years, i'm much happier since i went to standard rows. many of the garden channels have associations with raised bed sellers. i never knew about standard in ground rows until watching some other channels, because of the raised bed hype. better spend the money on commercial grade cell trays, heat matts and proper grow lights, which makes a big difference to productivity. raised beds do not improve productivity, unless you're on concrete and dont have dirt. you can do raised rows for winter and flat ground for summer when you dont have raised beds. when you have raised beds, you're locked into that. sure, it looked the part, but wasnt worth it, in my opinion.
@Chris-op7yt thanks for your reply.i was thinking about going the garden bed route,mostly because I want to plant a few more fruit trees & be able to garden close to the base of the tree & not have any competing for the soil.as I have an apple tree & noticed a lot of the roots very close to the surface.& also because I want to protect the beds from cats,& the major suburban possum situation here.
@@crankiemanx8423 : raised beds dont really solve the problem of close-by trees, which will keep sucking nutrients and water from a raised bed that's too close. you also have the tree in the way of tending the bed and throwing shade. if you need shade, use a shadecloth, as you dont want to be pruning a fruit tree according to shade thrown onto garden bed. this kind of illogical thinking i just illustrated is what the organic etc channels teach. it seems logical but is actually all backwards, combining things together as if they would help each other, but reality is different. watch some Hoss Tools or other channels that do more of the straight farming/gardening, rather than trying to build up gardening myths/hacks together. many of the organic channels talks straight out of their behind, but they do it confidently, and we think we're learning how to put a complicated puzzle together. keep things simple and separate, and they work. i know i talked myself into spending all that money and effort for raised beds. these are mostly false post-hoc made up reasons that dont stand up to scrutiny. spend your money on full length tools, irrigation system, etc....dont fall for the raised garden bed aesthetic. they're more trouble and ongoing expense than all the pseudo-benefits. site your garden patch in the right place and put a fence around it. raised beds dont keep possums out, lol.
How do you stop your cat digging in your garden. My kitten thinks its a giant litter box too
That's why I installed the bird netting on the beds. It keeps them out :)
I'll eventually make a video on it but I just use irrigation poly tube from Bunnings (about $25 for 30m) cut to size for the loops. Put them over bamboo stakes to hold them in place, then bird netting over the top.
Algorithm threw this one to me, thanks for the walkthrough
Im in Mt Waverley Victoria, is your site rural or ???
I have always been an ornamental gardener, was not quite sure what you can grow, food wise in winter. Partly because I am Canadian, and you don't...
The fruit trees are too close to the fence and each other
Thats tatsoi, not bok choy, fyi
Sounds like your pest is a possum they eat everything