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You like our screen door lid? 😂 it works well

I’d say so, they don’t hang around if the conditions aren’t right and the garden is right there

Yeah they churn through it when you do. Less risk of soldier flies finding it. They can have my compost bin but I don’t want them heating up the worm farm.

I’ll check it out, thanks! This one worked really well, I just didn’t feed them for over 18 months. Be good to have it up and running again.

@@loveofdirt yeah I enjoy looking in the worm farm every couple of weeks, it’s amazing how much work they do. Pick up my first fully established bee hive tomorrow. Very excited

She's good

@@aussieallrounder6018 definitely. I get mesmerised watching her tend to the worm bins. 👍🏼

I am sure it will, I usually net the entire bed with cherry tomatoes.

Yeah I am happy I chucked some seeds in July for my zucchini but having said that the August one is catching up in growth. I’ll have them coming out of my ears soon enough.

@loveofdirt the first year I grew them, years ago back in the UK. I had no idea how prolific they were, I supplied all my neighbours, and my poor son still won't eat them anymore and he's 30 now haha.

@@rho1360 hahaha zucchini trauma

Whoa! That’s a lot of tomatoes, are you planning on canning?

Thanks for watching 😊 glad you’re finding them helpful

Glad you find them helpful!

I was waiting for this comment, surprised it didn’t come up earlier TBH. It’s glenlarge subtropical variety it takes 6 months to grow unlike your other standard varieties that take around 8-9. Plant March harvest September. We’re in SEQLD, it’s the only variety we’ve successfully grown here and if you leave it any longer the cloves break off.

Definitely handy when you get them for free.

Thank you ☺️

Yeah it’s Melbourne cup day for you guys isn’t it?

I’ve personally not grown them but I’ve seen them about. They do attract fruit fly though

Yeah I always have them popping up! And yeah I plant very densely to optimise space, that bed actually isn’t as full as others I do 😂 but the lettuce will be done before the corn gets going and the beans will hang over the edge.

Check out my video on preparing the onslaught of bugs - it has my fruit fly tips.

@loveofdirt very informative thanks. Annoying they banned the thing that works, I'll persevere though.

Yep!

Yeah I think they are the better option.

Nice!

@@loveofdirt I originally worked in raised beds but I wasn’t very successful. This time I’m digging swales and filling with wood chips for my pathways. I’ve been amazed at how many mushrooms pop up as a result. I am also using low dig. I compost everything, have a bathtub worm farm and I’m in the process of getting both native and European bee hives. I buy most of my seeds from Happy Valley seeds, I’m still working out the best way to get the best germination and have had some success and some failures. I’m planting as many flowers as I can. So far Cornflowers, Zinnias, Cosmos, snapdragons and sunflowers have been my most successful. I’ve had Chickens before and intend on getting them again when I can afford to build a decent coop.

That’s awesome you’ve had luck with swales! We have tree roots getting into everything so it’s raised beds/wicking beds and aquaponics for us. I’d love to get bees but our block is too small for council regulations. We will be getting native bees hopefully this year, just waiting for a fence to be built. And our coop is falling down so we need to redo that.

@@loveofdirt yeah native bees are awesome, I’ll be putting a couple of hive in the garden. As for the European bees I have to build a small fence at the bottom corner of my property to keep my inquisitive boxers out so they don’t get stung. It’s been good watching your channel as you are following a similar path as me in the same climate, only a little further along the journey. Keep up the good work

@@loveofdirt by the look of the size of your yard you should be able to keep at least one bee hive. Any block over 600m2 you can keep bees. Both Brisbane and Moreton shires are pretty much the same from what I can see.

Glenlarge

Ok I’ll do a video :) a few people have asked the same question now.

I feel like I am always trying to decide where to put stuff!

Thank you ☺️

Have you tried wicking beds? I think they do well in dry hot and I find them more hands off. Setup is a pain though. I don’t normally do tomatoes over summer too, usually one cherry and that’s it.

@@loveofdirt I have done them on a small scale in the past. Unfortunately too much effort for me to manage these days.

Yeah fair enough, their setup is full on.

I am sure I’ll get to that point on the trimming front 😂 shame they haven’t been ripening. I hear that a lot from people in colder climates.

@@loveofdirt strangely enough it’s been high 2’s to low 30’s c here for months we are in a mass drought with maybe 2 days of rain June July and Aug and now Sept but it could also do too dry and hot for them, who’d have thought that was a thing 🤦‍♀️ (Langley BC 🇨🇦)

Thanks!

It certainly has! I think I even saw some pumpkin beetles today, don’t normally see those until a little later in the year.

That’s similar to me but I add a bit of coco coir, and at the moment my worm farm is out of action. Time to get it up and going again I think 🪱

😂 story of my life but I don’t think they sell the tomahooks and trellis clips, I had to get mine from active vista in Tassie

Awesome, what did you plant and when? I kinda wish I did that with my capsicums. Having said that my bed isn’t ready for them yet anyway.

@@loveofdirt capsicum was the most necessary. I also planted pumpkins, zucchini, cucumbers and golden midget watermelon. Planted them in the first week of August. As soon as they were 50% up, I transferred them to under a grow light of it was cold and overcast or morning sun if it was shining. I will certainly be doing it again. Cheers.

Yeah it’s a good plan, might do the same next year 🪴

We're in SEQ. After last year v mild "Winter", we rolled the dice and sowed honeybees, tigerella, black cherry and roma seeds in April on heated pad under led grow light in the garage. After transplanting in July, they've survived well and are producing heavily now. It was another warm winter! (quite wet too). My thinking now is to consider it as the "coolest spring"😁 In July sowed sungold and more romas. The plan is to have succession romas and constant supply of cherry toms🤩 Time to start the chillies now... The overwintered jalopenos, serranos and anaheims all have blooms on them now😎

Yeah I normally do my big heirloom tomatoes over winter, less disease/pests. It’s more starting the new batch of capsicums.

Thank you!

I’ve not heard of that mulch before. I usually use sugar cane on beds and wood chip on paths around fruit trees. If mulching I usually go straight in unless I am waiting for seeds. I always add a bit of organic xtra (slow release fertiliser) and water in with seaweed extract. We’ll bring that shade cloth out for sure later in the season. As for irrigation someone else asked about this, I have in-depth instructions of how I do it inside dirt lovers but I might do a quick video on the setup, it’s pretty simple.

I don’t know why I am still holding onto some, I really do need to clear them out.

Oh no! What did you plant at the wrong time?

@@loveofdirt Almost everything , hahaha I am still learning what month to plant what , lol Mostly cabbage and things like that

Cabbage might be ok but you'll be battling with bugs :)

@@loveofdirt I have them in a cage , I was told it was too late because of the heat.. not the case? I'm in brissy

I find cabbage aren’t too bad, they do take forever though, if you can keep the water/nutrients up to them they should be fine.

32c there would feel like 40c here that’s crazy!

Yep glenlarge it’s the only one we’ve had success with here, not our best but better than the past few years.

Oh that’s disappointing. I did notice a lot of my rocket was starting to bolt this afternoon too.

I think they jump on it from the roof, it’s like the direct path from their nest to our roof.

I feel like I have but gave up as we didn’t use it, I might be thinking of QLD arrowroot though.

Oh great, let us know if it works for you!

Maybe the wetter winters threw the pineapples off? We haven’t committed to a lot of trees yet as we’re moving stuff around all the time, can’t wait to increase the citrus trees. Thanks for watching.

@@loveofdirt Thank you too 😊

I was in chermside bananas never did well now I am palm beach on a hill they grow absolutely crazy same as paw paw and pineapples

I haven’t had issues with bananas, we got two big ones during winter. Pawpaw I’ve struggled with, I think it is the location though

@@loveofdirt Location for me too, I think. My nanies get a lot of arvo shade so I'm going to replant the suckers into a more full sun position. I usually get volunteer pawpaw but they've been quiet as well. Just got to keep trying, I guess lol

I am not sure what the varieties are specifically, I have 2 types though. One is standard orange, the other is purple skin, white flesh. They do require ‘maintenance’ so they don’t take over, lots of relocating when they surface in the wrong spots. I’ve found these little raised beds are good for keeping them in control, I usually cut any bits off that try to escape.

I've had great success with purple skin/white flesh here in Brisbane. I think that's the best for our conditions. Plus it tastes really good

Last year was the first time growing it, we’ve always had success with the yellow ones and I agree it’s nicer tasting. I’ll have to test out which performs better this year .

@@loveofdirt did u get many please

I didn't weigh them, but I filled 2 x 65L pots. I did weight them when we did a 1x1 lasagne bed and we got about 13kgs from that.

Update is coming today ☺️ Yes you could do this in September (right up to January) - just ditch the row of carrots.

You know I totally forgot about it borage! I need to get some in. So glad to hear that re the seeds :)

It needs another clean up now!

Thank you!

I’d be planting all the blue things 😂

Thank you ☺️