Hahaha yeah those chickens show no consideration to my filming. Still chicken noise is better than the barking dog or the neighbours mowing the lawn next door while I’m filming 😀
Hi Anthony. Those Sugar snaps are fantastic, I love them. Love using them in my garden salad. I blanch them in boiling water for 20secs, then straight into cold ice water, to keep the vibrant green color. Love the chickens, nothing better than the freshest eggs. As a chef I appreciate all the amazing work and care you put into your fruit and veg. Nothing better than home grown. All the best, thanks for the great gardening advice it’s really appreciated. 😃 My Cucumbers, tomatoes and bush beans are all doing well. Herbs are doing well also.
Thanks for watching mate. Yeah the biggest driver for me is to have the fresh veggies and eggs. At the moment I have an absolute glut of pak choi, broccoli, silverbeet and lettuce. Thankfully a lot of the family and friends take up a lot of my harvests. Thanks for the tip on the sugar snaps my daughter has been eating them fresh at the moment but they have that real green taste if you know what I mean
Great peas Anthony - It's always difficult making that decision to take the plants out before they're quite finished, but we all got battered by the wind, so no choice really. Thanks for taking the time to video everything you're doing 👍
I'm loving this warmer weather! Great to see your garden doing so well. I direct-sowed beans about 10 days ago (a few weeks earlier than usual for me) in the hope the warmer weather had warmed up the soil enough, and I was pleasantly surprised they all germinated within 7 days. I've even had volunteer tomatoes and marigolds pop up randomly in the garden already, so it seems the soil is warming up quickly. This year I'm trying a new crop - an Indian Rockmelon called "Kajari". I'm hoping they will be quicker to mature than regular rockmelon. You made a comment about Charles Dowding and no-dig. I switched to no-dig in all my beds about 5 years ago. The results have generally been really good, however in our Sydney context there were a few downsides: Charles uses compost as a mulch, however I found my beds still dried out really badly given the greater UV intensity here compared to the UK. I have to mulch the beds (generally I use sugar cane mulch) to prevent this. Charles doesn't get many weeds. I found if I didn't much heavily I would get loads of weeds - similar to what you experience without no-dig. Mulching fixed both of these problems, but created a new problem: More slugs (they were a problem before, with the mulch they became worse). I'm not a big fan of using pellets to control them, but it's been the only way I can control their numbers. For some crops (like Wombok and Pak Choy) I use an area without mulch and I scatter some pellets around as they problematic no matter what I do.
Hey mate really appreciate your comments and insight. You have a similar methodology and thought process to what I have. I mulch in the sense I use manures in the top layer and this keeps the weeds at bay. Closer plantings also works well and in the end if I have weeds they become green feed for the chooks. I’m excited by your comment on your beans germinating direct seeded. I have cleared the 5th planting of broccoli and was looking at starting more bean seedlings but I think I’m going to direct seed them now yours have germinated well
i've just planted out my tomatoes: farah, napoli, swift (bush), and a couple of cherry ones. i've applied trichoderma drench (powder is a bit overdue) as last year had root knot nematodes in tomatoes and eggplants. it's actually a bit early for summer planting here. we had some early warmth, then a week of wild winds and cold, and now just warming up again. when i grow broccoli that has real thick stems, wife taught me to not cut too high, as you peel the stem and also use it in soups etc. the crazy weather made chinese cabbage bolt very early, but still picked it up and is now in a raw shredded cabbage salad. the sand i've added to soil is helping it a bit be more loose. best of luck and good weather wishes for your summer crops.
Thanks mate good to see you are planting Farah. They seem to be doing well so far in my garden I will post an update. The other tomato varieties are they commercial one? Can you let me know where you got the seeds from? Yeah with broccoli always keep the stems the kids eat them raw once I peel them. I had Chinese cabbage planted pretty late as well but I found you needed to hit them with a lot of nitrogen fertiliser to make them grow fast if you were going to harvest them this late in the season. I will stick to planting them out in March
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 : the other two tomatoes are nothing special, just trying them out. my go to for bush tomato is normally Rebel F1, but trying this Swift variety this year. Not planting too many tomatoes. Just enough for daily use in summer and maybe a handful of jars preserve, if things go right. Dont want tonnes of jars. Always look forward to home grown tomatoes, which are far nicer than supermarket, as all supermarket tomatoes are picked green.
I tried one year about 5 years ago but it was a bit hard for me so I removed them. Hoping to upload a garden update soon a lot of the spring plantings are now in the ground
My snow peas grew 10 feet tall, 2 feet above my trellis and that wind destroyed them. However they bounced back and have picked over $100 worth of snow peas. They are still growing strong. Very happy with snow peas this year.
Hey Anthony, first of all your garden looks great mate. I have a question, how to you stop the cabbage white butterfly from getting on your brassicas. That’s all. Thanks again
Hi mate thanks for watching. As the weather cools down the caterpillars go away but now coming to spring I do use either homemade white oil or pyrethrum to control them. I spray when I see signs of damage it works well to stop the grubs
Unfortunately the cabbage moths are already starting to get active here in Sydney. I saw a few in the garden on the weekend. I guess the unusually warm weather has woken them up
Hi. Not quite half way through your video. & love the look of your food garden so new subscriber ❤ It seems your familiar with " Greendreams " TH-cam channel as you plant very close together as does Jim ( who Pete visits & films in the garden ). & it looks Fantastic there. Have you watched any of another TH-cam channel called " Charles dowding "? He's a no till gardener, produce seller & author & a bloody nice fella who says, & I've found it to be quite true, The more we till the soil, the more weeds we get. I'm inland nsw.
I'm in Sydney North-West and fruit fly are a huge headache here too. I use eco traps (which target the males) as a way to identify when they're active, but not to control them (you need different baits to target the females, which I also use). As soon as they're active I bag the fruit (in the case of tomatoes and mangoes). In the case of chillis/capsicums I use insect mesh over the entire area of the bed.
Beans are beautiful to plant. I’ve had lots of success with them in previous years. I will be planting a whole variety tomorrow. Happy gardening 🧑🌾
Best of luck with your bean planting. Will be planting plenty more this weekend. More French beans and also stewing/continental beans
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 I’ll look forward to the videos. I’ve just planted French and dwarf beans.
Beautiful garden as usual mate. Your garden is an inspiration to me to get out into the garden.
Thanks mate get out there it’s a perfect time to do so
Hi Anthony, those beans look real good. I think the chickens are complaining about the way you plant your tomatoes. Cheers
Hahaha yeah those chickens show no consideration to my filming. Still chicken noise is better than the barking dog or the neighbours mowing the lawn next door while I’m filming 😀
Nice work
Hi Anthony. Those Sugar snaps are fantastic, I love them. Love using them in my garden salad. I blanch them in boiling water for 20secs, then straight into cold ice water, to keep the vibrant green color. Love the chickens, nothing better than the freshest eggs. As a chef I appreciate all the amazing work and care you put into your fruit and veg. Nothing better than home grown. All the best, thanks for the great gardening advice it’s really appreciated. 😃 My Cucumbers, tomatoes and bush beans are all doing well. Herbs are doing well also.
Thanks for watching mate. Yeah the biggest driver for me is to have the fresh veggies and eggs. At the moment I have an absolute glut of pak choi, broccoli, silverbeet and lettuce. Thankfully a lot of the family and friends take up a lot of my harvests. Thanks for the tip on the sugar snaps my daughter has been eating them fresh at the moment but they have that real green taste if you know what I mean
Great peas Anthony - It's always difficult making that decision to take the plants out before they're quite finished, but we all got battered by the wind, so no choice really. Thanks for taking the time to video everything you're doing 👍
Thanks glyn. Sometime you just need to move plants on and start the next crop. All good though needed to get those tomato seedlings in the grounf
I'm loving this warmer weather! Great to see your garden doing so well.
I direct-sowed beans about 10 days ago (a few weeks earlier than usual for me) in the hope the warmer weather had warmed up the soil enough, and I was pleasantly surprised they all germinated within 7 days. I've even had volunteer tomatoes and marigolds pop up randomly in the garden already, so it seems the soil is warming up quickly.
This year I'm trying a new crop - an Indian Rockmelon called "Kajari". I'm hoping they will be quicker to mature than regular rockmelon.
You made a comment about Charles Dowding and no-dig. I switched to no-dig in all my beds about 5 years ago. The results have generally been really good, however in our Sydney context there were a few downsides:
Charles uses compost as a mulch, however I found my beds still dried out really badly given the greater UV intensity here compared to the UK. I have to mulch the beds (generally I use sugar cane mulch) to prevent this.
Charles doesn't get many weeds. I found if I didn't much heavily I would get loads of weeds - similar to what you experience without no-dig.
Mulching fixed both of these problems, but created a new problem: More slugs (they were a problem before, with the mulch they became worse). I'm not a big fan of using pellets to control them, but it's been the only way I can control their numbers.
For some crops (like Wombok and Pak Choy) I use an area without mulch and I scatter some pellets around as they problematic no matter what I do.
Hey mate really appreciate your comments and insight. You have a similar methodology and thought process to what I have. I mulch in the sense I use manures in the top layer and this keeps the weeds at bay. Closer plantings also works well and in the end if I have weeds they become green feed for the chooks. I’m excited by your comment on your beans germinating direct seeded. I have cleared the 5th planting of broccoli and was looking at starting more bean seedlings but I think I’m going to direct seed them now yours have germinated well
Those late August winds were pretty terrible. Beautiful broccoli btw.
Thank you! Yeah with this wind I’m worried that all my avacado flowers will be blown off
I've just had some Capsicum and some Climbing Beans pop through in my garden!! Should be interesting!!
Would be keen to see how they go 👍
i've just planted out my tomatoes: farah, napoli, swift (bush), and a couple of cherry ones. i've applied trichoderma drench (powder is a bit overdue) as last year had root knot nematodes in tomatoes and eggplants. it's actually a bit early for summer planting here. we had some early warmth, then a week of wild winds and cold, and now just warming up again.
when i grow broccoli that has real thick stems, wife taught me to not cut too high, as you peel the stem and also use it in soups etc.
the crazy weather made chinese cabbage bolt very early, but still picked it up and is now in a raw shredded cabbage salad.
the sand i've added to soil is helping it a bit be more loose.
best of luck and good weather wishes for your summer crops.
Thanks mate good to see you are planting Farah. They seem to be doing well so far in my garden I will post an update. The other tomato varieties are they commercial one? Can you let me know where you got the seeds from?
Yeah with broccoli always keep the stems the kids eat them raw once I peel them. I had Chinese cabbage planted pretty late as well but I found you needed to hit them with a lot of nitrogen fertiliser to make them grow fast if you were going to harvest them this late in the season. I will stick to planting them out in March
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 : the other two tomatoes are nothing special, just trying them out. my go to for bush tomato is normally Rebel F1, but trying this Swift variety this year.
Not planting too many tomatoes. Just enough for daily use in summer and maybe a handful of jars preserve, if things go right. Dont want tonnes of jars. Always look forward to home grown tomatoes, which are far nicer than supermarket, as all supermarket tomatoes are picked green.
any blueberries in your garden .....looking forward to the video update now the weather is getting warmer
I tried one year about 5 years ago but it was a bit hard for me so I removed them. Hoping to upload a garden update soon a lot of the spring plantings are now in the ground
My snow peas grew 10 feet tall, 2 feet above my trellis and that wind destroyed them. However they bounced back and have picked over $100 worth of snow peas. They are still growing strong. Very happy with snow peas this year.
You did well with yours well done. Yeah if they grow well they produce heaps. I am going to try to start mine off earlier next year
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 "fingers crossed"
im jealous, still got 1-3 degree nights in melbourme
Wow hope it starts to warm up soon so you can get tomato season started
Hey Anthony, first of all your garden looks great mate. I have a question, how to you stop the cabbage white butterfly from getting on your brassicas.
That’s all. Thanks again
Hi mate thanks for watching. As the weather cools down the caterpillars go away but now coming to spring I do use either homemade white oil or pyrethrum to control them. I spray when I see signs of damage it works well to stop the grubs
Unfortunately the cabbage moths are already starting to get active here in Sydney. I saw a few in the garden on the weekend. I guess the unusually warm weather has woken them up
hi Anthony great gardening harvesting and planting. the peas did well thanks for the vid mate
Thanks for watching appreciate the support
Your gardens looking great Anthony! Thanks for another video! 🙂
Appreciate the support 👍
Your garden looks beautiful
Great videos very informative
Thanks for watching 👍
Hi.
Not quite half way through your video.
& love the look of your food garden so new subscriber ❤
It seems your familiar with " Greendreams " TH-cam channel as you plant very close together as does Jim ( who Pete visits & films in the garden ).
& it looks Fantastic there.
Have you watched any of another TH-cam channel called " Charles dowding "?
He's a no till gardener, produce seller & author & a bloody nice fella who says, & I've found it to be quite true, The more we till the soil, the more weeds we get.
I'm inland nsw.
Hi thanks for watching and subscribing. I watch a lot of Charles Dowling and potentially looking at a no dig for some of my beds
The season is starting on your side of the 🌏 Here we're harvesting a lot and preparing for autumn 🍂
I have been watching some great gardens on the other side of the world finally it’s coming up to our time to grow our summer gardens 😀
Hi, are you going to plant any cucumbers?
Yep will be over the next 2 weeks. At the moment the seedlings are just starting to grow their first true leaf. Waiting for them to get a bit bigger
I’m having no luck with my sugar snap peas. I’ve harvested about 15 from 9 plants. The plants keep dying. Very small. No idea where I’m going wrong
I find planting peas in March as the weather starts to slowly cool is the best time for them to produce well
Are your crops affected by fruit fly in Sydney?
Yes they do. I plant my tomatoes and capsicums early so I can harvest before the fruit flies turn up
I'm in Sydney North-West and fruit fly are a huge headache here too. I use eco traps (which target the males) as a way to identify when they're active, but not to control them (you need different baits to target the females, which I also use).
As soon as they're active I bag the fruit (in the case of tomatoes and mangoes). In the case of chillis/capsicums I use insect mesh over the entire area of the bed.
Why do you plant in trenches don’t thy get root rot.
No tomatoes produce more roots along their stem when it’s in contact in the soil I will hill the plants later and I will make a video on this
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 thanks