I worked for a while at an indoor plant store. They recommended using a clean dry chopstick to test for dryness. They said it’s like testing a cake. Comes out dirty, cake’s not ready, don’t water yet, comes out clean, cake is done, time to water.
I kill more plants than I grow. Laughed so hard I nearly spat out my coffee. I’m going to use this as my motto so I can be more ruthless in picking out the best seedlings and not try to save them all. Fellow country Victorian.
It also helps you garden more stress free & be willing to experiment. If they die, they die. There's some old garden joke that's like "the key to good gardening is replacing your dead plants before anyone notices" 😂
After watching American gardening UA-camrs for years, I'm very glad I was recommended your channel (being a fellow Victorian, albeit from Melbourne). Great to have local advice. And your video production is right up there. Can't wait to watch you grow :)
I really have to thank the algorithm in suggesting you. I also live in Victoria and I have been trying to grow some veggies for the past 2 years, and this year I started the seed in a separate tray and it's really great to have your suggestions especially the spacing between the plants. Last year I followed the spacing recommended on the packet and I had a sparse garden and not a great harvest. Also the soil I used was just basic potting and garden soil mix, it did impact the germination of seeds and the ones that germinated later faced doom. Really thanks for all the advice, could you also share some details on companion plants that grow well.
I’m in Werribee and finding a gardening UA-cam channel that I don’t have to convert Fahrenheit into Celsius, ounces into grams, northern hemisphere season into real time and most importantly, somebody I can actually relate to. Appreciate your videos.
Here in the mountains of Wyoming vegetable gardening can be a challenge. Short summers, sandy alkaline soil (8.5 ph), little rain, and lots of deer. I learned some of your tips through experience. First, test the ph. I planted lots of acid-loving berry bushes and then couldn't understand why they were doing so poorly. Raised beds are now filled with heavily amended soil. More composted manure added spring and late fall. Plenty of mulch to retain soil moisture (I use chopped dried grass clippings and leaves). Fertilizing geared to specific plants, heavy feeders especially. And this fall I finally got around to adding wire cages over all my raised beds, except the asparagus and rhubarb, which the deer won't touch. I moved here from lowland Virginia, where we got 36 inches of rain a year and everything grew. It's been an education. Subscribed.
With all honesty, my first mistake was listening to someone who thinks they're a gardener but doesn't have success in it. As soon as I realized my mistake I reassessed and started reading old and new literature on gardening. Ever since then I have been having such great success. This was before discovering your UA-cam channel.
At first I thought this was a dig at me, till I got to the end of the comment haha. One of the things I've quickly learnt from doing this channel (and researching & fact checking videos), is a lot of gardening "conventional wisdom" has been disproven by science studies. In doing research for the next video I found out something I thought for years was a fact (and is often stated as fact online) is actually just a gardening myth.
I still make a lot of mistakes, mostly because i over plant for the time and energy I have. Trying to grow food for a year and hoping to find a hppy medium and get ground so it doesnt take as much work. Started my gradens on virgin ground and trying to establish no till with little resources. Have more resources now and using leaf mulch plus straw from prevous years. It sure is a process. 69 yrs old and learn new things every year. Move from zon 7 to zone 5 and that has been a very hard veriable to over come.
I've been gardening for 40+ years & you just taught me something. You don't have to fill every available inch of soil when starting out. I am still guilty of overambition in the garden & probably won't change now. Pull the horns in a bit is a good thought to keep in the back of the mind though. I've found it takes around 5 years of working the soil every season with organic matter & such to get it to a nice loamy state. Good to see younger people, particularly men, taking an interest in gardening. Glad I found your channel.👍🌱
My biggest early mistake was stressing about every bug, every brown spot appearing on each leaf, every little imperfection. 4 years on I don't stress, I appreciate the ENTIRE ecosystem in my garden, I don't wage war with nature and I just let things do what they do. It is a MUCH more enjoyable way to grow and it's far more successful.
I have been cultivating the vegetable garden for 10 years. I think your advice is the best ever because it is simple, clear and logical. I put them into practice here in Northern Italy and they work wonderfully. Thank you.
I have learnt that I need to plant 3 to 4 times the amounts that I actually need. Simply, if I plant more the pests can snack, and I still have about what I need left. I normally don't kill off seedlings if I can help it, I pass on the excess to others if I don't plant them. If I discover by chance the pest didn't do a number on them, and I am over planted in a section, I start harvesting things like salad greens earlier so I thin them that way. my biggest mistake, was thinking chickens and veggies can co exist in the same space.
Made same mistake w/chickens. They destroyed nearly all my plants, closer to the house. The deer took care of the garden area few hundred feet from house! Took out all my squash type plants! I had about 30’+ of pumpkin, and not one made it. Off a 20’ cantaloupe, I got ONE (1) the entire year! Now, I have a new critter (marmot(?) taking out my carrots, beets, and kale. Plants it doesn’t like, it digs up & leaves.
I've had a fairly good amount of garden space and have had various results, some good some bad. I've had bad soil, critters munching down plants, assorted bugs and too much wind or too much harsh sun and not who th rain. Every year it's something else. The past two years weren't productive at all. My neighbor's cats always hung out with me in the garden and really made it fun. Then they were killed by a fox or coyote. It made it too depressing to go into the garden without them. Then last year my mom had a stroke and had to move here with us. That really changed the time I had available. This year I thought I would get it all cleaned up and start over. Then I fell in February and broke my shoulder. I couldn't get to the garden until mid june. Anyway the late start impacted the results. But at least I got something out of it and can look ahead to next year now that I've made a start of it. 🍅
In my 18 year project I’ve grown around a thousand tomato seedlings so far and I discovered a new result just a few years ago when starting tomato seeds. Since I am now only growing around 20 plants per season instead of over 100, I decided to put one seed in each punnet hole instead of 4, so that’s 8 seeds per punnet instead of 32 seeds per punnet (eg my punnets have 8 holes). To my surprise the seedlings were ready to be potted up to the next size (tubes) a week earlier than usual and they continued faster growth in the tubes as well. I’ve now tested this for 4 seasons in a row with the same result! However, I grow from my own saved seeds which are kept in the fridge and I know exactly how old they are. I’m not recommending this to new gardeners or people not yet experienced in growing tomatoes from seeds. It definitely takes a few seasons to understand how to sow seeds correctly and look after them through the early weeks until they are ready to plant in the garden.
I’m in Ballarat so your advice to this amateur gardener makes a heap of sense for me. I think it was your words in this vid that really made me realise my biggest problem. I don’t like to surrender my seedling babies and have until recently only planted single seeds in each portion of my seed trays. Time to bite the bullet and understand that I am not sacrificing individual plants per se but bringing their life back into the garden in other ways. I love what you offer, and am better off knowing I have someone here in Victoria dealing with my issues. Thank you 🍅 🌿 🥕 🍏
In regards to losing seedlings. Something i have switched to also being in Vic. Is i now raise my seedlings early in Sep in my shed under a $30 100w 6500k warehouse LED and a small fan. I don’t plant them out until mid-late October. This year all were robust enough to deal with slugs, slaters and snails. I have had 100% success rate so I’m stoked.
Have never thought about the planting space as recommended on seed packages before, just follered their advice. But when I got it "wrong," ie closer, the veges and flowers still grew just as strongly and just where I wanted. Valuable advice: One size does not fit all. Thank you.
🌲 overcaring was killing most of my plants. Too much water, replanting, moving around, fretting. 😅😂 I hyperfocus on new hobbies or especially treating things well because I was so „irresponsible“ groing up but I learned to let my forgetfulness take over and relax some about my plants through my husband. He would say: „if it can’t make it in our household with our schedule it’s not a „real (*insert last name)“ 😂😂😂 And actually ignoring some of my plants has helped me become a better gardener. Great vid! Thank you❤
I've recently discovered your fantastic channel and I'm really enjoying your content, tips, and really helpful advice borne from your own experience. You're like watching Gardening Australia! Who knows, in the future you could be one of their presenters! 🍅🍅🍅🍅
Love your work & I get the prettiness of sugar being stardust… but really, it’s so bad for us Sugar from the plants we eat is definitely sunshines gift though
BIG thanks to you for. making me feel so much better about only having a small garden space to grow plants. Ours is the smallest garden, compared to the much larger neighbours' gardens near us.
I eventually worked out to dig a shallow hole, tehn put the the compost in it and turn every week, then move it every 6months. Where the compost heap was, is where you garden. This restricts the space you are using and makes the soil good. Essentially it is a type of rotational cropping, but to begin a garden.
I live in sub tropical Queensland. I tended to overwater pot plants in a very humid climate. I had to learn the difference between heat stressed plants and thirsty plants. I learned I needed to grow some plants that we are usually told to grow in full sun in part shade the hard way. My next biggest error was trying to grow tradtional vegetables that cannot handle temperatures above 25 degrees without wilting or bolting. This season I am only growing vegetables that love hot temperatures and things are looking good so far. IMO really need to learn more about hot humid climate vegetables in a country like Australia.
Sounds like you're off to a great start ! I'm just here to say that even in ( probably) much cooler places like west-central Wisconsin, USA, we typically have to plant things like lettuce, radishes, and definitely spinach and peas, early enough in spring to be able to enjoy them long, get much of a harvest, or any at all. One thing that's been encouraging for me to learn is that it isn't the one to 3 day heat wave we may get at any point in spring which will make them bolt, but longer periods of higher temps. And yes, it really helps to learn which plants don't need as much direct sunlight after all, if it's really hot. Typically, you're more heat-sensitive plants that do need some decent hours of sunlight, should get maximum morning sunshine and be more in shade for the afternoon. Planting them on the shadier side of a corn patch or trellis of pole beans can sometimes provide that.
biggest mistake i made when starting was listening to all the raised garden proponents. raised beds are expensive initially and on-going, whilst providing no benefit, and making things harder, including being an OH&S nightmare. for the price of unnecessary raised beds you can get things that truly make a big difference, like driptape irrigation system with fertilizer injector, commercial grade cell trays and commercial starting mix, proper propagation lights, good hoses and dramm watering wands, and some full length soil working tools, which are very difficult to use in raised beds. plant spacings are correct on seed packets, mostly 30cm to grow full size lettuce. you cant make up for the lost space of those bloomin raised beds. growing five lettuces to harvest in one go for camera is no big feat. you want a lettuce or two every second week or so, for entire year, if the veggie growing is more than an expensive way of still buying all veggies in supermarket all year. biggest noob mistake is not having a proper seed starting setup and trying to grow from seed straight in the ground, or worse, going cheap on seed starting setup having spent humdreds of dollars on useless raised beds and talking to microbial life you dont actually see.
Thank you for your informative videos. I have learned over the years in Tasmania that the location with max s😮nshine is so important. Having a few trays of spare seedlings or some for next season keeps the beds stocked. Home made compost with wood ash and blood and bone is indispensable.
My chickens destroyed nearly all my plants, closer to the house. The deer took care of the garden area, few hundred feet from house! Took out all my squash type plants! I had about 30’+ of pumpkin, and not one made it. Off a 20’ cantaloupe, I got ONE (1) the entire year, because I covered it w/a bowl. Now, I have a new critter (marmot(?) taking out my carrots, beets, and kale. Plants it doesn’t like, it digs up & leaves.
You have been a wealth of information, thank you so much. I'm starting my own veggie garden this year and I'm doing everything in pots that I can move around until I can work out the best position. I definitely needed to hear that about killing the seedlings. I think I tend to forget they will grow into full size plants. I need to kill more seedlings🤣
I used two bags of soil improver in a 2mx1m bed, and regularly used seasol when watering. Then each pay cycle I've picked up various soil treatments. I'm not after a big harvest this time round. This time is actually about getting ANYTHING to grow so it can be chopped and dropped later on. During this time period, I'm also starting my compost so next season I can truly enrich this patch, and start the same process on the next one.
So many little practical pearls of wisdom here. Most I knew, but a nice reminder of the basics...which I will be going back to as I learn to garden in a totally different environment after moving from the damp and temperate Pacific Northwest of Canada to the dry, hot interior. I just subscribed, so looking forward to more fantastic info. Thanks!
Thank you Great video. I live in NSW with temps. of 42 in summer and -7 in winter. I learned and still learning from my mistakes like you said.....know yor plants needs. And now have a better success with even using my own seeds for planting. And knowing your soil condition is definitely a must and the watering. As I am a Recycler I keep all plastic meat trays, wash them thoroughly and put my seed pots in them where they will get water from the bottom. And yes I have subscribed to your channel.. tfs 😊
I grew-up on a farm with a large vegetable garden,in central New Jersey, and am now transplanted to the western Ozarks of East Central Oklahoma. A couple of book recommendations, "Gardening When It Counts", by Steve Solomon. Soil building, plant selection, seed starting, and low water techniques (bed spacing, mounded beds vs enclosed raised beds). Enclosed raised beds drain and evaporate water more quickly, especially in windy/breezy environments than mounded beds, and while closely spaced beds result in a more compact garden, wider spacing allows them to draw more water from a larger area of surrounding soil. "Square Foot Gardening", Mel Bartholomew. The original book goes into detail about composting, soil types, and soil improvement. The second, "All New Square Foot Gardening", kinda punts/shortcuts soil building in favor of filling your raised beds with a mixture of commercial bagged soil and compost, along with agricultural vermiculite. It does go into making your own compost to maintain them. I recommend reading/having both (along with "Gardening When It Counts") for covering different aspects. Of course, these are by no means the "be all, end all, sum total" of gardening knowledge, but in my experience, a good starting point. Also, I would recommend having more beds than you need (if you have the space) so some can be left fallow with soil building cover crops (deep rooted grasses to break up/aeriate compacted soil, whil bringing mineral nutrients to the growing zone, and nitrogen fixing legumes like clovers and vetches). I like your common sense and straightforward presentation, and have subscribed to your channel.
Just found your channel as a fellow Australian the information about southern hemisphere sunlight was so helpful! Everything is normally about the northern hemisphere. I already am quite good at making sure veg and fruit plants are compact, I blast aphids with my hose, and pick off caterpillars on my brassicas, and have tons of companion plants nearby but I still have issues with aphid infestations on my alliums (spring onion and garlic) and green beans, and a million caterpillars. I’ve tried using eco-oil but that’s it. Please help a lady out. What am I doing wrong?
I love this! Great that you come from the same part of the world as me. I've listened to two of your episodes and have to admit, I'm a real beginner!! I often thought the instructions on seed packets were a bit 'off'! Have you got any advice on 'companion' planting or is it better to just plant lots of variety that fits in the garden bed? 😊
hello from northern NSW.. just found your channel .. have been searching for Australian gardeners that have common sense and offer great advice ... thank you .. i have a huge problem with white cabbage b/fly... they are attacking everything this season that they should not be.... my small yard faces a forest and little sun with huge trees blocking most sun... .. covering beds caused mould and aphid buildup.. i try to plant out borage in each bed and lots of nasturtium plants around for bees . just pulled out all my broccoli plants after 6 months, they were 2 mts tall no heads all leaves and massively attacked by caterpillars. this year to stop fruit fly i bought cheap fruit bags on line and tying up all my tomatoes eggplants and capcicums as they grow ... the past 2 years lost all vegies to fruit fly attack. use worm castings seaweed extracts, blood / bone/ calcium, etc etc on beds built up soils with compost etc.. but vegies are just not prolific .. in producing... but i keep trying .. thank you again for straight forward content
Oh, my goodness!! I honestly love your videos!! But I do wish you had more advice for the poor souls living in the sand and heat in Perth!! I guess only a Perthian who has built up his soul from birth can grow veggies really well here! God bless you, your channel and each beautiful plant with fruitfulness and joy!!
I am going to try overplanting to make a living mulch. Your lettuce looked ridiculously overcrowded till you explained your method. I am thinking i could plant them every 15cm instead of 30cm and see how that goes.
Just found your channel. This is perfect for me, novice using a small raised bed. I have a fence line which has pretty much zero sun. Any ideas what I can get to grow along there. I would prefer something I can eat but would love any suggestions. Thanks for doing this channel. My new go to.
Sun paths are really important. I feel you didn't quite explain it properly because that sun path changes depending on the season too and can be used to your advantage if you're smart about it as you mentioned. Using the East and West fence lines isn't bad per se and can be used to your advantage in Summer.. Plants will either get afternoon sun and no morning sun, or morning sun and no afternoon sun in Summer - allowing them to have a break from the blistering sun.. I've had precisely zero issues growing any kind of plant along either East or West fence lines here in VIC.
You are absolutely 100% right 🎯👏🏾👏🏾and on point about using the East and West zones around the yard to plant. I started observing every season where the sun is present the longest or shortest and it may vary. The southern side my house has full sun in the summer months, but the Fall I get partial sun exposure for a few hours. So it’s important for anyone gardening to observe their own property to determine how long each area gets the most sunlight, # of hours and also when the seasons change too. 👍🏽
Yikes that was a lot of plant-murder talk! I did not think I needed 'help' with murdering plants, have done quite nicely on my own! More seriously, thanks for the tips, particularly the 'recommended plant spacings' and mixed planting. In the past, due to small space, I have planted closer than recommended, and it worked out okay, now I can go there with a lot more confidence. You are also that rare breed, the Victorian grower. Most of the other aussies are up in QLD, half that stuff will struggle down here.
what a wonderful video! thank you! my issue is i am elderly and disabled. and i have no help. i want to start a garden, i moved here 6 years ago now. i have collected some old dead freezers i plan to make super-raised beds in hugelkultur method. i would like to just start SOMETHING for spring tho! i was thinking of laying cardboard, then sawdust, both of which i have lots of access to, and maybe paying a neighbor trucker to bring in a load of topsoil for me. i have almost pure clay soil, and certainly couldnt till it anyway....i am in northern Minnesota, about an hour from Canada, in zone 3b i think. possibly 2b. not sure. what do you suggest?
Big problem with soil is sometimes garden centres sell tainted veggie bed mix. Literally knocked out 4 out of my 5 veggie beds. I ripped up the beds and switched to 90L pots then mixed 50/50 good quality potting mix from Bunnings with tainted soil now veggies are actually growing but still not as good as 100% quality mix.
I find it easier to start my seeds if I sock them in water before I plant them. Most of the time, the seed sprout before I plant them in the potin mix.
My big mistake was not testing the pH of the soil before planting. Turns out my front yard is very acidic and I lost a lot of plants before discovering why. I was convinced I was jinxed.
hi, do you have any tips from protecting your plants from the wind? I use my deck as my growing space as it gets the most sunlight through the day, and although my planters look sheltered behind the glass railing, they still seem to get a lot of wind. I also struggle with soil and mulch being blown out of the planters. any tips would be super appreciated!
Place tree fern fronds over the planters. You can nestle the plants between the fronds to anchor the fronds in place. You can also use a brick etc to anchor the fronds. I use this to keep mulch in place and stop the blackbirds digging up my beds.
Wind isn't entirely bad for plants, it strengthens the stems. Obviously there are many degrees of wind, but a breeze passing through is not a bad thing. If it is lifting your mulch and soil, then maybe cardboard cut outs (or bricks/pavers) to cover the mulch might be a thing, as long as it isn't too much hassle to lift up when you need to water.
New subscriber & fellow Victorian here. Also part of the team at Charlton Community Garden in the North West. Interestingly we already do a lot of what you do in the small amount of your videos I've watched today. The one biggest bugbear we have up here is earwigs, they are a real menace to cope with. We lay down diatomaceous earth (which gets expensive) to kill them, & put short lengths of 12 mm garden hose (about 300 - 400 mm) in the beds to collect them so we can then shake them into a bucket of water. But they are still a big problem. Any other ideas you have in dealing with them would be greatly appreciated.
My raised bed veggie garden sold my last house. I used raised bed garden beds and bought 6 yards of organic compost. Had it dumped on my driveway. Yes neighbors were horrified. Hired to kids to carry dirt to the back and fill my beds. Suburban houses in the US are backfilled with fill dirt and it's horrible. Anyone that tries to grow something in garbage fill dirt will fail. Much easier to do raised beds. Oh I knew the best spot for tomatoes based on the 6-foot high thistle forest in my back yard, when I bought the house. Tore out stupid landscaping bushes, I couldn't eat those. The spot where I had 6-foot high thistles was perfect for tomatoes and herbs.
Hello there I have 2 x food cubes I filled them with the best quality potting mix last year everything grew pretty well …this year I dug through horse manure ..dynamic lifter and blood and bone along with a little bit of lime …I wasn’t sure how much to use …I let it sit for a few weeks ..I did a PH solo colour test test and it’s Definately coming up purple alkaline what can I do please?
Beginner mistake - not understanding that plants need the soil to be warm, not just sun light. A heat mat has significantly increased my germination rates. Question - tips for watering when going away for a week. I'm guessing automated watering systems and wicking beds but do you have any inexpensive tips please?
Can I suggest growing you vegetables by the moon phase, different moon phases for different vegetables & legumes. I've been growing vegetables for over 30 years now & only just discovered this moon phase seeding thing 4 months ago, with a 95% germination success rate. & YES inter planting & succession planting is a must too. My vegetables are NO TILL & make 1 cubic meter of compost a month in a 3 bay pallet bay system. I also have 5 worm farms, & 8 chooks now. All in a 670 sqm block. BUT the biggest mistake I made in a vegetable garden was letting my garden beds dry out too much & not mulching. Rocket 🚀 🥦 🍅
I used to grow by the moon religiously this year I got a little sick and had to plant outside the moon phase and these are probably my best plants yet 🤷🏻♂ I grew some by the moon the following month but they’re not as strong…I’ll report back at the end of the season with my yields but so far I’m thinking it doesn’t really matter..
And I totally agree on mulching your garden beds and not letting them dry out this is so important and not many people stay on top of this, good advice.l
@HardCandy-d9q yeah, I've only recently had a bad run of some vegetables not sprouting, like corn & kale. I asked Charles dowding this question & he plants by the moon, when time allows. He is a vegetables guru on UA-cam & practices no dig too. You should check him out too, if not already.
My first mistake was to plant seeds from different source onto the same pot since the plants are totally different and easily distinguishable. I didn't buy any seed cells but now I use a 30ml cup to germinate and transfer to double cup. The red okra seeds I bought contained eggs of flies, the entire soil was full of maggots, it was a horror to dig up the other plants in the same pot. Only the okra didn't germinate and the other pots that had the same seeds also had maggots. I planted that okra seed again in a 30ml cup, close it in a food container and it was also full of maggots after 1 week. That's 2 bags' worth of soil thrown away because of a maggot infestation.
Hi. Love this channel. My silver beet looks great but the new growth is thick, rubbery, and the stalks are brown. This happens time and time again. What am I doing wrong? Also, I can't seem to get spring bunching onions to germinate. I have bought new seeds and still nothing. Amongst 10 clumps of 10 seeds each, I had one single onion germinate. I have tried this five times now. Please help.
My first lot of seedlings I planted a few months ago. And I separated and reported them and they were so stunted that the others I planted over took them. I have now started cutting seedlings at the moment lettuce and spinach. When do you cull seedlings to 1 plant?
@@Jondantic yeah I've been thinking about it, here's a short list in the mean time Lettuce Kale Radishes Peas and beans (check details on the specific variety though) Parsley Silverbeet/Swiss chard. Baby beetroot And citrus trees don't mind semi shade too much
@@CulinaryGarden1 Thanks for the reply. I’ve usually planted lettuce in full sun so I’ll try growing them in the less sunny areas. Just put in some coriander and dill on the southern side of a wall as I’ve heard that it’s less likely to bolt if exposed to less sun. Loving the learning process
🍓🍉🍑🥭🍌🥝🍄🟫🍇 thank you for your great advise. I thought I knew everything about gardening. You are teaching me a new thing or two. Busy binge watching the rest of your videos.
The light from the sun is just the energy to mix the ingredients for sugar, so it's not so much that it's made of star dust as much as that it's made from air fused by nuclear fusion. I'm not sure if that is more or less cool
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🌶🫑 Chilies and sweet peppers are my favourite to grow. I just don't like to eat them, so I give them away. 😁
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🌸🌺🌷🌿🍁 Cottage gardens are my favourite. Aussie who loves exotics more than natives.They burn too easily, having evolved to do so.
I worked for a while at an indoor plant store. They recommended using a clean dry chopstick to test for dryness. They said it’s like testing a cake. Comes out dirty, cake’s not ready, don’t water yet, comes out clean, cake is done, time to water.
As a baker looking into gardening tips, I appreciate the tip. Thank you
Thanks!
I kill more plants than I grow. Laughed so hard I nearly spat out my coffee. I’m going to use this as my motto so I can be more ruthless in picking out the best seedlings and not try to save them all. Fellow country Victorian.
It also helps you garden more stress free & be willing to experiment. If they die, they die.
There's some old garden joke that's like "the key to good gardening is replacing your dead plants before anyone notices" 😂
@@CulinaryGarden1 that's so funny 😂
After watching American gardening UA-camrs for years, I'm very glad I was recommended your channel (being a fellow Victorian, albeit from Melbourne). Great to have local advice. And your video production is right up there. Can't wait to watch you grow :)
‘Seed packets lie”. Love it
I really have to thank the algorithm in suggesting you.
I also live in Victoria and I have been trying to grow some veggies for the past 2 years, and this year I started the seed in a separate tray and it's really great to have your suggestions especially the spacing between the plants. Last year I followed the spacing recommended on the packet and I had a sparse garden and not a great harvest.
Also the soil I used was just basic potting and garden soil mix, it did impact the germination of seeds and the ones that germinated later faced doom.
Really thanks for all the advice, could you also share some details on companion plants that grow well.
I’m in Werribee and finding a gardening UA-cam channel that I don’t have to convert Fahrenheit into Celsius, ounces into grams, northern hemisphere season into real time and most importantly, somebody I can actually relate to.
Appreciate your videos.
same, just have to adjust for the heat and vicious sun in Perth
Here in the mountains of Wyoming vegetable gardening can be a challenge. Short summers, sandy alkaline soil (8.5 ph), little rain, and lots of deer. I learned some of your tips through experience. First, test the ph. I planted lots of acid-loving berry bushes and then couldn't understand why they were doing so poorly. Raised beds are now filled with heavily amended soil. More composted manure added spring and late fall. Plenty of mulch to retain soil moisture (I use chopped dried grass clippings and leaves). Fertilizing geared to specific plants, heavy feeders especially. And this fall I finally got around to adding wire cages over all my raised beds, except the asparagus and rhubarb, which the deer won't touch. I moved here from lowland Virginia, where we got 36 inches of rain a year and everything grew. It's been an education.
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I've come to the conclusion that I can't plant successfully, but if I just chuck it at the ground and let nature do it's thing, great success.
Plant twice what you need and accept you will get half.
This has worked out pretty well for me.
Plus ya get loads of mulch and compost.
With all honesty, my first mistake was listening to someone who thinks they're a gardener but doesn't have success in it.
As soon as I realized my mistake I reassessed and started reading old and new literature on gardening.
Ever since then I have been having such great success.
This was before discovering your UA-cam channel.
At first I thought this was a dig at me, till I got to the end of the comment haha.
One of the things I've quickly learnt from doing this channel (and researching & fact checking videos), is a lot of gardening "conventional wisdom" has been disproven by science studies.
In doing research for the next video I found out something I thought for years was a fact (and is often stated as fact online) is actually just a gardening myth.
@@CulinaryGarden1 I'm looking forward to it. 👍
I still make a lot of mistakes, mostly because i over plant for the time and energy I have. Trying to grow food for a year and hoping to find a hppy medium and get ground so it doesnt take as much work. Started my gradens on virgin ground and trying to establish no till with little resources. Have more resources now and using leaf mulch plus straw from prevous years. It sure is a process. 69 yrs old and learn new things every year. Move from zon 7 to zone 5 and that has been a very hard veriable to over come.
Living mulch is so useful, keeps the soil insulated and helps squeeze out the weeds.
I've been gardening for 40+ years & you just taught me something. You don't have to fill every available inch of soil when starting out. I am still guilty of overambition in the garden & probably won't change now. Pull the horns in a bit is a good thought to keep in the back of the mind though. I've found it takes around 5 years of working the soil every season with organic matter & such to get it to a nice loamy state. Good to see younger people, particularly men, taking an interest in gardening. Glad I found your channel.👍🌱
My biggest early mistake was stressing about every bug, every brown spot appearing on each leaf, every little imperfection. 4 years on I don't stress, I appreciate the ENTIRE ecosystem in my garden, I don't wage war with nature and I just let things do what they do. It is a MUCH more enjoyable way to grow and it's far more successful.
Yes exactly!
I agree with this. Although when I was pruning regularly and spraying the plants looked a lot healthier lol. But I’m still getting good yields.
I have been cultivating the vegetable garden for 10 years. I think your advice is the best ever because it is simple, clear and logical. I put them into practice here in Northern Italy and they work wonderfully. Thank you.
I have learnt that I need to plant 3 to 4 times the amounts that I actually need. Simply, if I plant more the pests can snack, and I still have about what I need left. I normally don't kill off seedlings if I can help it, I pass on the excess to others if I don't plant them. If I discover by chance the pest didn't do a number on them, and I am over planted in a section, I start harvesting things like salad greens earlier so I thin them that way. my biggest mistake, was thinking chickens and veggies can co exist in the same space.
Made same mistake w/chickens. They destroyed nearly all my plants, closer to the house. The deer took care of the garden area few hundred feet from house! Took out all my squash type plants! I had about 30’+ of pumpkin, and not one made it. Off a 20’ cantaloupe, I got ONE (1) the entire year! Now, I have a new critter (marmot(?) taking out my carrots, beets, and kale. Plants it doesn’t like, it digs up & leaves.
I've had a fairly good amount of garden space and have had various results, some good some bad. I've had bad soil, critters munching down plants, assorted bugs and too much wind or too much harsh sun and not who th rain. Every year it's something else. The past two years weren't productive at all. My neighbor's cats always hung out with me in the garden and really made it fun. Then they were killed by a fox or coyote. It made it too depressing to go into the garden without them. Then last year my mom had a stroke and had to move here with us. That really changed the time I had available. This year I thought I would get it all cleaned up and start over. Then I fell in February and broke my shoulder. I couldn't get to the garden until mid june. Anyway the late start impacted the results. But at least I got something out of it and can look ahead to next year now that I've made a start of it. 🍅
Prayers for your healing well, and getting back to your veggiepatch!
Great to find an Australian garden channel, love the content and have been watching all your old videos,thank you.🌱🥦🥒🌽🥕
In my 18 year project I’ve grown around a thousand tomato seedlings so far and I discovered a new result just a few years ago when starting tomato seeds. Since I am now only growing around 20 plants per season instead of over 100, I decided to put one seed in each punnet hole instead of 4, so that’s 8 seeds per punnet instead of 32 seeds per punnet (eg my punnets have 8 holes). To my surprise the seedlings were ready to be potted up to the next size (tubes) a week earlier than usual and they continued faster growth in the tubes as well. I’ve now tested this for 4 seasons in a row with the same result! However, I grow from my own saved seeds which are kept in the fridge and I know exactly how old they are. I’m not recommending this to new gardeners or people not yet experienced in growing tomatoes from seeds. It definitely takes a few seasons to understand how to sow seeds correctly and look after them through the early weeks until they are ready to plant in the garden.
I’m in Ballarat so your advice to this amateur gardener makes a heap of sense for me. I think it was your words in this vid that really made me realise my biggest problem. I don’t like to surrender my seedling babies and have until recently only planted single seeds in each portion of my seed trays. Time to bite the bullet and understand that I am not sacrificing individual plants per se but bringing their life back into the garden in other ways. I love what you offer, and am better off knowing I have someone here in Victoria dealing with my issues. Thank you 🍅 🌿 🥕 🍏
Hey, neighbour!
In regards to losing seedlings. Something i have switched to also being in Vic. Is i now raise my seedlings early in Sep in my shed under a $30 100w 6500k warehouse LED and a small fan. I don’t plant them out until mid-late October. This year all were robust enough to deal with slugs, slaters and snails. I have had 100% success rate so I’m stoked.
I love your teaching style. Many thanks.
You just changed my life with the spacing mistake! Fire video, absolute banger. 🎉
Have never thought about the planting space as recommended on seed packages before, just follered their advice. But when I got it "wrong," ie closer, the veges and flowers still grew just as strongly and just where I wanted. Valuable advice: One size does not fit all. Thank you.
🌲 overcaring was killing most of my plants. Too much water, replanting, moving around, fretting. 😅😂
I hyperfocus on new hobbies or especially treating things well because I was so „irresponsible“ groing up but I learned to let my forgetfulness take over and relax some about my plants through my husband. He would say: „if it can’t make it in our household with our schedule it’s not a „real (*insert last name)“ 😂😂😂
And actually ignoring some of my plants has helped me become a better gardener.
Great vid! Thank you❤
I've recently discovered your fantastic channel and I'm really enjoying your content, tips, and really helpful advice borne from your own experience. You're like watching Gardening Australia! Who knows, in the future you could be one of their presenters! 🍅🍅🍅🍅
Love your work & I get the prettiness of sugar being stardust… but really, it’s so bad for us
Sugar from the plants we eat is definitely sunshines gift though
BIG thanks to you for. making me feel so much better about only having a small garden space to grow plants. Ours is the smallest garden, compared to the much larger neighbours' gardens near us.
I eventually worked out to dig a shallow hole, tehn put the the compost in it and turn every week, then move it every 6months. Where the compost heap was, is where you garden. This restricts the space you are using and makes the soil good.
Essentially it is a type of rotational cropping, but to begin a garden.
I live in sub tropical Queensland.
I tended to overwater pot plants in a very humid climate. I had to learn the difference between heat stressed plants and thirsty plants. I learned I needed to grow some plants that we are usually told to grow in full sun in part shade the hard way.
My next biggest error was trying to grow tradtional vegetables that cannot handle temperatures above 25 degrees without wilting or bolting. This season I am only growing vegetables that love hot temperatures and things are looking good so far.
IMO really need to learn more about hot humid climate vegetables in a country like Australia.
Sounds like you're off to a great start ! I'm just here to say that even in ( probably) much cooler places like west-central Wisconsin, USA, we typically have to plant things like lettuce, radishes, and definitely spinach and peas, early enough in spring to be able to enjoy them long, get much of a harvest, or any at all. One thing that's been encouraging for me to learn is that it isn't the one to 3 day heat wave we may get at any point in spring which will make them bolt, but longer periods of higher temps. And yes, it really helps to learn which plants don't need as much direct sunlight after all, if it's really hot. Typically, you're more heat-sensitive plants that do need some decent hours of sunlight, should get maximum morning sunshine and be more in shade for the afternoon. Planting them on the shadier side of a corn patch or trellis of pole beans can sometimes provide that.
biggest mistake i made when starting was listening to all the raised garden proponents. raised beds are expensive initially and on-going, whilst providing no benefit, and making things harder, including being an OH&S nightmare.
for the price of unnecessary raised beds you can get things that truly make a big difference, like driptape irrigation system with fertilizer injector, commercial grade cell trays and commercial starting mix, proper propagation lights, good hoses and dramm watering wands, and some full length soil working tools, which are very difficult to use in raised beds.
plant spacings are correct on seed packets, mostly 30cm to grow full size lettuce. you cant make up for the lost space of those bloomin raised beds.
growing five lettuces to harvest in one go for camera is no big feat. you want a lettuce or two every second week or so, for entire year, if the veggie growing is more than an expensive way of still buying all veggies in supermarket all year.
biggest noob mistake is not having a proper seed starting setup and trying to grow from seed straight in the ground, or worse, going cheap on seed starting setup having spent humdreds of dollars on useless raised beds and talking to microbial life you dont actually see.
Thank you for your informative videos. I have learned over the years in Tasmania that the location with max s😮nshine is so important. Having a few trays of spare seedlings or some for next season keeps the beds stocked. Home made compost with wood ash and blood and bone is indispensable.
My chickens destroyed nearly all my plants, closer to the house. The deer took care of the garden area, few hundred feet from house! Took out all my squash type plants! I had about 30’+ of pumpkin, and not one made it. Off a 20’ cantaloupe, I got ONE (1) the entire year, because I covered it w/a bowl.
Now, I have a new critter (marmot(?) taking out my carrots, beets, and kale. Plants it doesn’t like, it digs up & leaves.
Absolutely love your UA-cam channel. Just built some garden boxes and I’ve got no idea what to do. I can learn so much from you. Thank you
You have been a wealth of information, thank you so much. I'm starting my own veggie garden this year and I'm doing everything in pots that I can move around until I can work out the best position. I definitely needed to hear that about killing the seedlings. I think I tend to forget they will grow into full size plants. I need to kill more seedlings🤣
I used two bags of soil improver in a 2mx1m bed, and regularly used seasol when watering. Then each pay cycle I've picked up various soil treatments. I'm not after a big harvest this time round. This time is actually about getting ANYTHING to grow so it can be chopped and dropped later on. During this time period, I'm also starting my compost so next season I can truly enrich this patch, and start the same process on the next one.
I’m so glad I discovered this channel. I’m about to start my first patch and these tips are so helpful
So many little practical pearls of wisdom here. Most I knew, but a nice reminder of the basics...which I will be going back to as I learn to garden in a totally different environment after moving from the damp and temperate Pacific Northwest of Canada to the dry, hot interior. I just subscribed, so looking forward to more fantastic info. Thanks!
Thank you Great video. I live in NSW with temps. of 42 in summer and -7 in winter. I learned and still learning from my mistakes like you said.....know yor plants needs. And now have a better success with even using my own seeds for planting. And knowing your soil condition is
definitely a must and the watering. As I am a Recycler I keep all plastic meat trays, wash them thoroughly and put my seed pots in them where they will get water from the bottom. And yes I have subscribed to your channel.. tfs 😊
Reusing meat trays for this purpose is such a great tip! Thank you for sharing!
I grew-up on a farm with a large vegetable garden,in central New Jersey, and am now transplanted to the western Ozarks of East Central Oklahoma.
A couple of book recommendations,
"Gardening When It Counts", by Steve Solomon. Soil building, plant selection, seed starting, and low water techniques (bed spacing, mounded beds vs enclosed raised beds). Enclosed raised beds drain and evaporate water more quickly, especially in windy/breezy environments than mounded beds, and while closely spaced beds result in a more compact garden, wider spacing allows them to draw more water from a larger area of surrounding soil.
"Square Foot Gardening", Mel Bartholomew. The original book goes into detail about composting, soil types, and soil improvement. The second, "All New Square Foot Gardening", kinda punts/shortcuts soil building in favor of filling your raised beds with a mixture of commercial bagged soil and compost, along with agricultural vermiculite. It does go into making your own compost to maintain them. I recommend reading/having both (along with "Gardening When It Counts") for covering different aspects.
Of course, these are by no means the "be all, end all, sum total" of gardening knowledge, but in my experience, a good starting point.
Also, I would recommend having more beds than you need (if you have the space) so some can be left fallow with soil building cover crops (deep rooted grasses to break up/aeriate compacted soil, whil bringing mineral nutrients to the growing zone, and nitrogen fixing legumes like clovers and vetches).
I like your common sense and straightforward presentation, and have subscribed to your channel.
To all new gardeners I like to say start small and learn as you grow.
🌽 thanks for sharing your time and knowledge with us.
Just found your channel as a fellow Australian the information about southern hemisphere sunlight was so helpful! Everything is normally about the northern hemisphere.
I already am quite good at making sure veg and fruit plants are compact, I blast aphids with my hose, and pick off caterpillars on my brassicas, and have tons of companion plants nearby but I still have issues with aphid infestations on my alliums (spring onion and garlic) and green beans, and a million caterpillars.
I’ve tried using eco-oil but that’s it.
Please help a lady out. What am I doing wrong?
I live by the coast so my soil is ugh. I’m going to attack it 1 square metre at a time.
Thanks for another great video CG 😊
I love this! Great that you come from the same part of the world as me. I've listened to two of your episodes and have to admit, I'm a real beginner!! I often thought the instructions on seed packets were a bit 'off'! Have you got any advice on 'companion' planting or is it better to just plant lots of variety that fits in the garden bed? 😊
Fantastic video. Thank you ❤
Loving your videos dude! Southern hemisphere here too in the Adelaide Hills 👋🤙🌱
hello from northern NSW.. just found your channel .. have been searching for Australian gardeners that have common sense and offer great advice ... thank you .. i have a huge problem with white cabbage b/fly... they are attacking everything this season that they should not be.... my small yard faces a forest and little sun with huge trees blocking most sun... .. covering beds caused mould and aphid buildup.. i try to plant out borage in each bed and lots of nasturtium plants around for bees . just pulled out all my broccoli plants after 6 months, they were 2 mts tall no heads all leaves and massively attacked by caterpillars. this year to stop fruit fly i bought cheap fruit bags on line and tying up all my tomatoes eggplants and capcicums as they grow ... the past 2 years lost all vegies to fruit fly attack. use worm castings seaweed extracts, blood / bone/ calcium, etc etc on beds built up soils with compost etc.. but vegies are just not prolific .. in producing... but i keep trying .. thank you again for straight forward content
For the algorithm: 🌻
Handy tips indeed my guy. Lessons I've also learned the hard way.
Awesome channel mate, your a bloody legend 👌🇦🇺
Great video simple and easy to understand will be refining my garden methods
Oh, my goodness!! I honestly love your videos!! But I do wish you had more advice for the poor souls living in the sand and heat in Perth!! I guess only a Perthian who has built up his soul from birth can grow veggies really well here! God bless you, your channel and each beautiful plant with fruitfulness and joy!!
I am going to try overplanting to make a living mulch. Your lettuce looked ridiculously overcrowded till you explained your method. I am thinking i could plant them every 15cm instead of 30cm and see how that goes.
One of the great things about over planting is you just eat them as you thin them out. Salads galore 🥗
Thank you for this video
New subscriber! Just found you today and love your videos! Thanks for the great information!
Just found your channel. This is perfect for me, novice using a small raised bed.
I have a fence line which has pretty much zero sun. Any ideas what I can get to grow along there. I would prefer something I can eat but would love any suggestions.
Thanks for doing this channel. My new go to.
You can grow salad greens, leafy greens, root vegetables, brassicas and herbs in the shade.
Thanks. I will give it a go.
Super helpful. Im guilty of over watering for sure. This fall I’m doing my best to hold back 🙂↔️
Very helpful. Thank you
This video was very interesting. Crowd those plants! I shoulda watched this bf i put my plants down in one of my beds. I coulda put more in.
Helpful, thank you.
Sun paths are really important. I feel you didn't quite explain it properly because that sun path changes depending on the season too and can be used to your advantage if you're smart about it as you mentioned.
Using the East and West fence lines isn't bad per se and can be used to your advantage in Summer.. Plants will either get afternoon sun and no morning sun, or morning sun and no afternoon sun in Summer - allowing them to have a break from the blistering sun.. I've had precisely zero issues growing any kind of plant along either East or West fence lines here in VIC.
You are absolutely 100% right 🎯👏🏾👏🏾and on point about using the East and West zones around the yard to plant. I started observing every season where the sun is present the longest or shortest and it may vary. The southern side my house has full sun in the summer months, but the Fall I get partial sun exposure for a few hours. So it’s important for anyone gardening to observe their own property to determine how long each area gets the most sunlight, # of hours and also when the seasons change too. 👍🏽
Great video! Thanks! Had never considered the weight of my seed trays before, will give that method a go 👌
Yikes that was a lot of plant-murder talk! I did not think I needed 'help' with murdering plants, have done quite nicely on my own!
More seriously, thanks for the tips, particularly the 'recommended plant spacings' and mixed planting. In the past, due to small space, I have planted closer than recommended, and it worked out okay, now I can go there with a lot more confidence.
You are also that rare breed, the Victorian grower. Most of the other aussies are up in QLD, half that stuff will struggle down here.
what a wonderful video! thank you! my issue is i am elderly and disabled. and i have no help. i want to start a garden, i moved here 6 years ago now. i have collected some old dead freezers i plan to make super-raised beds in hugelkultur method. i would like to just start SOMETHING for spring tho! i was thinking of laying cardboard, then sawdust, both of which i have lots of access to, and maybe paying a neighbor trucker to bring in a load of topsoil for me. i have almost pure clay soil, and certainly couldnt till it anyway....i am in northern Minnesota, about an hour from Canada, in zone 3b i think. possibly 2b. not sure. what do you suggest?
Great video, thanks from NZ 😊
thanks i needed to hear your advice
Big problem with soil is sometimes garden centres sell tainted veggie bed mix. Literally knocked out 4 out of my 5 veggie beds. I ripped up the beds and switched to 90L pots then mixed 50/50 good quality potting mix from Bunnings with tainted soil now veggies are actually growing but still not as good as 100% quality mix.
I find it easier to start my seeds if I sock them in water before I plant them. Most of the time, the seed sprout before I plant them in the potin mix.
My big mistake was not testing the pH of the soil before planting. Turns out my front yard is very acidic and I lost a lot of plants before discovering why. I was convinced I was jinxed.
Thank you so much. I am guilty of every single one of these mistakes 😂
Criminally undersubscribed
thanks for the info
hi, do you have any tips from protecting your plants from the wind? I use my deck as my growing space as it gets the most sunlight through the day, and although my planters look sheltered behind the glass railing, they still seem to get a lot of wind. I also struggle with soil and mulch being blown out of the planters. any tips would be super appreciated!
Place tree fern fronds over the planters. You can nestle the plants between the fronds to anchor the fronds in place. You can also use a brick etc to anchor the fronds. I use this to keep mulch in place and stop the blackbirds digging up my beds.
Wind isn't entirely bad for plants, it strengthens the stems. Obviously there are many degrees of wind, but a breeze passing through is not a bad thing. If it is lifting your mulch and soil, then maybe cardboard cut outs (or bricks/pavers) to cover the mulch might be a thing, as long as it isn't too much hassle to lift up when you need to water.
You could use some hardy leafy pot plants on either side to create a kind of windbreak.
So happy to find a Victorian garden channel. So sad to discover I have made every mistake. 🤣🤣
In the Southwest US you have to provide some shade during the middle part of the day or the sun will burn your plants.
New subscriber & fellow Victorian here. Also part of the team at Charlton Community Garden in the North West. Interestingly we already do a lot of what you do in the small amount of your videos I've watched today. The one biggest bugbear we have up here is earwigs, they are a real menace to cope with. We lay down diatomaceous earth (which gets expensive) to kill them, & put short lengths of 12 mm garden hose (about 300 - 400 mm) in the beds to collect them so we can then shake them into a bucket of water. But they are still a big problem. Any other ideas you have in dealing with them would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah the ear wigs here this year have been shocking. So many!
My raised bed veggie garden sold my last house. I used raised bed garden beds and bought 6 yards of organic compost. Had it dumped on my driveway. Yes neighbors were horrified. Hired to kids to carry dirt to the back and fill my beds. Suburban houses in the US are backfilled with fill dirt and it's horrible. Anyone that tries to grow something in garbage fill dirt will fail. Much easier to do raised beds.
Oh I knew the best spot for tomatoes based on the 6-foot high thistle forest in my back yard, when I bought the house. Tore out stupid landscaping bushes, I couldn't eat those. The spot where I had 6-foot high thistles was perfect for tomatoes and herbs.
Amazing 🤯
When I first started I put all my blueberries southern high bush in the same bed lol big mistake
I wish I found this video 10 years ago! Instead learnt all these things too but verryy slowly over the years 😅
Hello there I have 2 x food cubes I filled them with the best quality potting mix last year everything grew pretty well …this year I dug through horse manure ..dynamic lifter and blood and bone along with a little bit of lime …I wasn’t sure how much to use …I let it sit for a few weeks ..I did a PH solo colour test test and it’s Definately coming up purple alkaline what can I do please?
Definitely over or under watering. My nemesis.
Where do you water? At the roots or with watering hose over everything?
If you live in the desert would a shaded area work? We had a week of 120 degrees this year.
thank you
Beginner mistake - not understanding that plants need the soil to be warm, not just sun light. A heat mat has significantly increased my germination rates.
Question - tips for watering when going away for a week. I'm guessing automated watering systems and wicking beds but do you have any inexpensive tips please?
I planted what the seed packet clearly said cabbage. After months of growing it decided that it was a cauliflower!
Can I suggest growing you vegetables by the moon phase, different moon phases for different vegetables & legumes.
I've been growing vegetables for over 30 years now & only just discovered this moon phase seeding thing 4 months ago, with a 95% germination success rate.
& YES inter planting & succession planting is a must too. My vegetables are NO TILL & make 1 cubic meter of compost a month in a 3 bay pallet bay system. I also have 5 worm farms, & 8 chooks now. All in a 670 sqm block.
BUT the biggest mistake I made in a vegetable garden was letting my garden beds dry out too much & not mulching. Rocket 🚀 🥦 🍅
I used to grow by the moon religiously this year I got a little sick and had to plant outside the moon phase and these are probably my best plants yet 🤷🏻♂ I grew some by the moon the following month but they’re not as strong…I’ll report back at the end of the season with my yields but so far I’m thinking it doesn’t really matter..
And I totally agree on mulching your garden beds and not letting them dry out this is so important and not many people stay on top of this, good advice.l
Following the moon greatly boosted my gardening. Last full moon I sowed some beetroot seeds...they sprouted in 4 days.
@@gramsmith1366 Could be other factors at play though.
@HardCandy-d9q yeah, I've only recently had a bad run of some vegetables not sprouting, like corn & kale. I asked Charles dowding this question & he plants by the moon, when time allows. He is a vegetables guru on UA-cam & practices no dig too. You should check him out too, if not already.
My first mistake was to plant seeds from different source onto the same pot since the plants are totally different and easily distinguishable. I didn't buy any seed cells but now I use a 30ml cup to germinate and transfer to double cup. The red okra seeds I bought contained eggs of flies, the entire soil was full of maggots, it was a horror to dig up the other plants in the same pot. Only the okra didn't germinate and the other pots that had the same seeds also had maggots. I planted that okra seed again in a 30ml cup, close it in a food container and it was also full of maggots after 1 week. That's 2 bags' worth of soil thrown away because of a maggot infestation.
Hi. Love this channel. My silver beet looks great but the new growth is thick, rubbery, and the stalks are brown. This happens time and time again. What am I doing wrong? Also, I can't seem to get spring bunching onions to germinate. I have bought new seeds and still nothing. Amongst 10 clumps of 10 seeds each, I had one single onion germinate. I have tried this five times now. Please help.
excellent
My first lot of seedlings I planted a few months ago. And I separated and reported them and they were so stunted that the others I planted over took them. I have now started cutting seedlings at the moment lettuce and spinach. When do you cull seedlings to 1 plant?
Strawberry 🍓 😍
Any chance you could do a video about edible plants that do well in a shaded or semi shady environment? Love the info and honesty
@@Jondantic yeah I've been thinking about it, here's a short list in the mean time
Lettuce
Kale
Radishes
Peas and beans (check details on the specific variety though)
Parsley
Silverbeet/Swiss chard.
Baby beetroot
And citrus trees don't mind semi shade too much
@@CulinaryGarden1 Thanks for the reply. I’ve usually planted lettuce in full sun so I’ll try growing them in the less sunny areas. Just put in some coriander and dill on the southern side of a wall as I’ve heard that it’s less likely to bolt if exposed to less sun. Loving the learning process
🍓🍉🍑🥭🍌🥝🍄🟫🍇 thank you for your great advise. I thought I knew everything about gardening. You are teaching me a new thing or two. Busy binge watching the rest of your videos.
But i fell so bad about killing the seedlings!!
🥒 summer is nearly here - time to grow cucumbers 🥒🥒🥒
The light from the sun is just the energy to mix the ingredients for sugar, so it's not so much that it's made of star dust as much as that it's made from air fused by nuclear fusion. I'm not sure if that is more or less cool
The spacing is based on dry farming techniques
Where is that video on the soil Mr Gippsland?