Feed your belly and your soul | Becoming self-sufficient | Gardening Australia
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- Over 70 varieties of fruit, vegies, flowers, chickens and a worm farm have all helped transform Jian's suburban backyard into a highly productive garden.
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It took Jian Liu just two years to transform her suburban backyard into a beautiful food forest, to feed her family's tummies, and their well-being too.
To maximize production, Jian has used lots of smart ideas, such as using a large but unproductive fig tree for other purposes: it shade her chook run, supports a swing for her young children, and is also a climbing frame for a huge fig-leafed gourd that can produce 60-100 fruit each year.
Her partner Julian Merkenich is the family chef so often puts in an ‘order’ for what he’d like her to grow.
Jian considers herself a beginner but was determined to grow organic food for her children and did a lot of research into how to get the most out of small gardens.
The couple bought the house from her parents and cleared the ‘traditional’ backyard to put in raised garden beds, arches, a berry patch and other produce.
She recently bought two jujube trees, which remind her of her grandmother’s small courtyard garden in Beijing, where Jian lived until she was 5. She wanted to have access to green space and fresh food and be able to pick flowers.
It’s hard work while juggling a full-time job and young children “but if you have the passion just go for it,” she says.
Featured plants:
Fig-leaf gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia)
Tromboncino (Cucurbita moschata cv.)
Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba)
Location: Boon Wurrung & Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in Melbourne, Vic
Climate Zone: Cool temperate
Garden established: 2019
Style: productive, sustainable
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So loving nature,So nature loving. Thank You Beautiful Family.
Our pleasure!
This is one of your best videos. I thoroughly enjoy watching it. It's inspiring.
Thank you so much Mary 💚💚💚
This lady is super inspiring and love how her passions shines through as she speaks about her wonderful sustainable garden. :)
Thank you so much Libby 💚💚💚
Wish they had shown the garden more rather then just talking about it ! Would have loved to see what was growing there and how she did it !
@@MelbourneFoodforest thank you for replying to Preeti because I wanted to know more too, as I was inspired by your garden food forest, and I will be checking out your UA-cam channel now. Could you possibly create a video showing us the companion planting you have going on, which flowers you've chosen to intersperse throughout and some of your fruit and veg planting design?
@@AussieMaskedOwl Hi Hannah we're so glad you found us! We have lots of exciting videos, plant profiles and garden tour videos coming up. Let us know if there's anything in particular you'd like to know more about :)
@@MelbourneFoodforest Awesome, I cant wait to see it all. Your garden looks so beautiful and inspirational. I just bought a house on the south coast and am planning on turning the front lawn into a beautiful productive garden.
@@LisaRedwoodmoose Thanks Lisa! That's very exciting - getting rid of our lawn was the best thing we did, you will never look back.
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Your garden is a slice of happiness, nutrition and positivity. 😁🍇🍎🍅🌶🫑🫒🥒🥬🥦🍆🍒🍋🍊🍉🍐🍑🫐🍍🍓🥕🥦🧅🍄🧄🌽🍠
Thanks so much Carrie 💚💚
Wow, this is a gem of a short film, inspiring and heart-warming. I resonate so much with Jian's sentiments. Much love to Australia and to this beautiful garden :)
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Simply brilliant. Congratulations for creating a wonderful healthy paradise for you and your family. This is the way to go.
Thank you so much Anthony 💚💚
I am so amazed and inspired of what this family has created...they should be so proud. Such wonderful abundance!
Thank you so much Angii 💚💚💚
What a beautiful space. Great inspiration for a small bountiful garden.
Thanks so much Wanie 💚💚
Absolutely brilliant!!!, looks incredible and I loved the kids eating the strawberries, that’s the best way to get the next generation interested in gardening….. Well done!
I would love to see more of what she's got growing and if it's in pots or in the ground etc. So inspiring, I love this garden.
Thank you Mon! Glad you enjoyed it, we have lots of video tours on our UA-cam channel and you can see what we have growing in pots vs the ground 💚💚
What a wonderful idea to trellis the vines up the inedible fig tree! Another idea would be if you’re up for it, try your hand at grafting! There are some really delicious fig varieties you can find scions for relatively affordable online. Hope this inspires you! Happy gardening!
This is sooo awesome! 🌱🐞🐝
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From Thailand. ลูกลูกของคุณมีความสุขมาก,กับการเก็บมะเขือเทศ,ได้ทานสตอร์เบอรี่,สวัสดีค่ะฉันมีความสุขมากที่ได้ดูคริปนี้ของคุณสวนผักคุณสวยงาม.
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Thank you for showing from South Africa
Thank you, glad you enjoyed our garden 💚💚
The children are enjoying their nature backyard
So educational for them
Thank you, it is nature's classroom 💚💚💚
@@MelbourneFoodforest indeed
My boys like loves being on the garden
Yes one can do anything with passion with doing things the rightway
Very true, thank you 💚💚
A most amazing garden in such a short time, you have amazing talent and drive.👍
Thank you so much Patrick, lots of blood sweat and tears too :) 💚💚💚
You are 100% doing just the right Thing - thumbs up
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Your garden is so well design, so beautiful and full of life
Looks o relaxing as well
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謝謝妳的家人分享這個視頻，非常棒。
谢谢 💚💚
Beautiful expression and story, brilliant!
Thank you Dean 💚💚
One of best garden I have seen, beautiful and fruitful.
Thank you Andrew 💚💚
Very inspirational! Would be great to have step by step tutorials on how you did this (on top of your 9-5 job and family) so others can follow your example! :-)
Wow!!! Incredible use of every nook and cranny of her yard.
Thank you so much Lan 💚💚💚
Beautiful garden and children. Very inspiring.
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Great video Thankyou :) I have built a food forest from scratch in Melbourne backyard!! Best thing I ever did!!!! X
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Such a sweet family!
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Hermoso lugar su jardín 😍❤🌳🌼🌿👦👧 bendiciones
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Wow, what an inspiration.💚
Thank you! 💚
Such beautiful garden.
Thank you so much Bea 💚💚💚
so cool !!
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How inspiring!
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Beautiful!!
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Fantastic! Blessed
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Bellisimo! Hermosos tus niños saboreando las frutillas!
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It's so beautiful.
Thank you May 💚💚💚
Well done, an amazing & abundant garden, you guys should be really proud
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Good on you guys 👍🏴
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So inspiring... 👍👍👍
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very nice!!!
Thank you Melanie 💚
Love your garden
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Great 👍
Awesome and beautiful video
BIG LIKE
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Really beautiful inspiring ❤️
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Wonderful
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Very inspiring...wonderful video. Thanks Gardening Australia!
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Great show Les 👍👍👀👀
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Hermoso huerto-jardin!!! Muy inspirador, me encantaría si pudieran subtitular sl Español!!! Muchas gracias por compartir!!!
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So inspiring. I wonder how big the space is.
Thank you, our backyard is around 200 square meters 💚💚
i love that sis
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Wow keren 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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it is all very well, however, whenever i try the rats get to the produce before I HAVE A CHANCE. No toms, no pommiegranates so what is the point???? Even with baits, one gets rid of one lot than anothor one moves in when the second lot of produce is ready to harvest.
The rats are very frustrating, they get most of our passionfruit every year. It's definitely an ongoing battle and no single technique works 💚
You 💘 💘 great 👍 👌
Thanks Jamshid 💚💚
How big is the backyard?
Our backyard is around 250 square meters, with 200 square meters of growing area
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Thanks so much Cherry 💚