WHAT'S GROWING | Planting Banana Trees & SUMMER Gardening Jobs To Do SMALL BACKYARD VEGETABLE GARDEN

WHAT'S GROWING | Planting Banana Trees & SUMMER Gardening Jobs To Do SMALL BACKYARD VEGETABLE GARDEN
Hi and Welcome to Utility Jane.
My name is Tanya, Thanks for stopping by!
It's the 6th of February, I purchased 2 cold tolerant banana trees about 2 weeks ago from Bunnings, my daughter has been asking me to grow bananas since she was 2 and I'm finally giving that dream a go after finding these dwarf cold tolerant bananas trees, it will be an experiment and hopefully I'll have my secondhand glasshouse up in time for any frosts that may turn up, I'm potting them up into a very large terracotta pot and hopefully they will have enough time to settle in before winter, I also have a list of other maintenance jobs that need ticking off that will help me keep my small backyard vegetable garden running smoothly.
So come join me and let's see what's growing in my small backyard vegetable garden here in Central Victoria Australia.
I am very happy with how the new raised beds are settling into the space, and like all gardeners I keep extending the growing space, well until I get the next 2 beds and glasshouse in place!
At the start of October I invested in 4 large raised steel garden beds for my 55th birthday, to replace an area of lawn that the previous year I had laid cardboard, mulched and started growing in a couple months later, I had mixed feelings about how the extended vegetable garden had gone but thought I would continue with it again this season until I started thinking about raised beds.
There is never a good time to change over to raised beds when they need to go where your cropping winter garden is so I just went for it, ordered my raised beds which were custom made so I had some time to either eat the veg I had been growing or move it.
After a few doubts along the way I am so glad I didn't wait any longer, the first vegetables I've planted in them are thriving, the down side of it was that it has taken a lot of dirt, compost, straw and mushroom compost to fill them, they are just over 3m long and 1.2m wide and .60m high and extremely heavy to move around and position.
But apart from topping up the beds with compost before planting each season until all the organic matter inside them has broken down and compacted I think they will be low maintenance.
In total the 4 beds I purchased will equal the same amount of space I had been planting into and with the addition of a secondhand glasshouse I found on Facebook market place 2 years ago I will be able to extend our growing season for tomatoes, cucumbers and raise lots of seeds.
In addition I have changed what used to be my whole veg garden into a perennial vegetable garden bed that has a new asparagus patch, dwarf apple trees, rhubarb, dwarf lemon tree and an area for herbs.
It isn't a big area but looking to the future I hope to challenge my growing area and just see ow much food I can grow in the small footprint and hopefully I will grow enough for us and some of our neighbours.
With the cost of living crisis everywhere pairing back pantry items so multiple recipes can be cooked with the same basic items is a necessity, along with growing a garden that is any size, big or just a pot with your favourite herbs or leafy greens, after all they can be the most expensive items in the fruit and veg section at the supermarket and usually the things that never get used up and are thrown out.
Cooking from scratch can feel overwhelming but with a few prepped ingredients from my freezer, a pantry and our fridge stocked with simple staples, scratch made meals flow from our kitchen.
I cook with gluten free ingredients and a budget friendly mind set always.
I would really love you to join me cooking budget friendly gluten free meals in my tiny kitchen and appreciate you spending your time with me, please consider subscribing so you don't miss my next upload.
Have a great day and I hope to see you in my next video.
Bye for now...
PS….I post on my community tab in real time, things I am cooking in my kitchen, vegetable garden updates and thrifting finds, often after filming it can take me a couple weeks to edit and voice over my videos so it gives you a sneak peak at what’s coming up.
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