Veggie Cleanup Time!

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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
  • The raised beds in the veggie garden have been largely neglected for a few months, it's now time to give them a good cleanup!
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  • @littlemogocreek
    @littlemogocreek Рік тому +1

    Welcome back John, glad all is well. Thank you as always for sharing your garden and experience.

  • @lynnnightingale633
    @lynnnightingale633 Рік тому +2

    Nice to see you again!

  • @rubygray7749
    @rubygray7749 Рік тому +2

    Lovely tour of your garden. I'm building a large, new no dig Dowding style garden this year, which has been very rewarding after a late start, but the wet, cold Tassie weather has slowed things down now. It was lots of work at the beginning, but it's brilliant to know that I can just walk out and start planting, come spring. I found a new area free from twitch, the bane of my life here for decades. Now I'm not afraid of being overwhelmed by rampant twitch growth in October. All that golden spring sunshine can be converted into food, not weeds this year.
    And my new free wooden pallet fence has proven to be goatproof! Bliss!

    • @homesteading
      @homesteading  Рік тому +1

      Thanks, yes twitch is terrible! Best wishes for your new no dig garden.

  • @dianeirvine1384
    @dianeirvine1384 Рік тому

    Thanks John doing the same here in Invercargill NZ. Always enjoy your videos. Today was covering paths with branches we chipped up in the orchard.

  • @DE2borknot2b
    @DE2borknot2b Рік тому +3

    Good to see you again. Elizabeth has been doing good videos. You two work amazingly hard & your raised beds (& plants/trees/flowers) are looking great. I plan on using burlap material for my raised beds in future. They will biodegrade but it takes about 10 years...of course planting masses of seeds plants/veggies can block the weeds too. Enjoyed the video. 😊

  • @gardeningfishingjimw9364
    @gardeningfishingjimw9364 Рік тому +3

    Great to see you back in the garden John and looking forward to your next garden adventure

  • @RadioJonesy
    @RadioJonesy Рік тому +2

    Nice to see you back and I enjoyed your garden bed tour

  • @MattMilla76
    @MattMilla76 Рік тому +3

    Great to see you back. Love the little epilogue indoors at the end of the video with a cuppa!!

  • @sofiamiliaressis5403
    @sofiamiliaressis5403 Рік тому +1

    Hi John, this lush veggie garden is testament to your green thumb! Absolutely gorgeous and absolute abundance! 👍

  • @Beaguins
    @Beaguins Рік тому +1

    Enjoyable video! It's nice to see that you can still get fresh food from the garden at the beginning of winter. Here in northern Michigan there's no chance of that! Your broccoli and silverbeet look delish.

  • @Alchemyforall
    @Alchemyforall Рік тому +1

    Thanks for the info re beetroots not going to grow bigger. I've been waiting for mine to get bigger, but it's getting colder now up here in SE Qld.

  • @turbyoulance
    @turbyoulance Рік тому +2

    Awesome to watch.

  • @leonsaquaponicsandhomegard6793
    @leonsaquaponicsandhomegard6793 23 дні тому

    Good stuff. Your got fantastic channel. Been watching your content for a few years.

  • @griffinwebb674
    @griffinwebb674 Рік тому +1

    Winter is the gardeners rest time!

  • @lollypop2413
    @lollypop2413 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for your videos. I really want to start but cockies always wreck my plants. Can you give some tips on keeping them away...and other pests like slugs and snails

    • @homesteading
      @homesteading  Рік тому +2

      Don't really have any tips for dealing with "cockies" other than netting, as we don't have the problem here. I would invest in a full metal netted garden (similar to my berry house ua-cam.com/video/wG5O1DYz8dM/v-deo.html) it would pay you back with plenty of veggies! As for slugs and snails - I recommend starting early with a baiting program using pet friendly snail bait (elemental iron based.)

  • @wildchook745
    @wildchook745 Рік тому

    Great video, John. I'm still tidying up my garden and planting some brassicas and onions.

  • @ktm8488
    @ktm8488 Рік тому

    hi John, what size Homi is it please? Thanks for the vids.

  • @emmaskilton7346
    @emmaskilton7346 Рік тому

    Great video. Good to see you. I was a bit worried you were unwell. I enjoyed your wife's videos though. A question: do you get a true zucchini from your seeds? Mine first time keeping seeds I got 4 lovely plants with mutant veggies. I usually buy new seeds each year now.

    • @homesteading
      @homesteading  Рік тому +1

      Thanks. To get good seed you need to only grow one species and it needs to not be a hybrid! If you have close neighbors growing something different that can also ruin things!

  • @kathleenmillhouse3206
    @kathleenmillhouse3206 Рік тому

    Hi John. Love your work. Keep the videos coming. Just a question - I have a large patch, much the size of your potato patch in this video. The area hasn't been used in some time, and like yourself I don't like disturbing the soil. However, this patch is quite grown over with grass and I am thinking on initially turning it over with a rotary hoe and covering with black plastic for warmth, as we are in Tunnack which is at a higher elevation and has very cold winters. This way I am hoping to increase soil life and aid decomposition (insitu compost). I am just wondering what you think about this approach and whether I should also add any amendments at this stage? e.g. manure or blood and bone. Or would I turn or deep fork over again in Spring and perhaps amend then? We are hoping to plant a crop of potatoes here as well as a few undecided crops. Any advice would be appreciated. All the best Kath.

    • @homesteading
      @homesteading  Рік тому +2

      Thanks. Your approach seems sound to me, I would add the fertilizer before rotary-hoeing - it will aid in the composting process.

    • @kathleenmillhouse3206
      @kathleenmillhouse3206 Рік тому

      @@homesteading. Great ! Thanks John, much appreciated. Bless.