Hi, I love your videos. I have followed some of your tips and this year was my best broccoli ever. Thank you, now I'm looking forward to great tomatoes 😊
Thanks mate. Try giving them a bit more fertilisier. Mine where planted in a larger cell and I find that if you give them a little more space they grow faster
Thanks mate hope to release videos more often so people can keep up with what I’m planting I will try to tell you what I am planting and doing in the garden in the following week
Thanks for the tip mate. When you say offset the plants you mean the plants in the row offset from the plant in the other row? I have spaced the rows at 80cm spacings but I think doing it your way might help with sharing the sunlight between the plants. Will need to try this
Lots of work put into your garden, you should be proud! I am also dealing with slug damage they will gobble up all my seedlings and cabbages, have been testing a cayenne pepper and garlic mix spray.
I’m going to give this a try. I’m trying to find a way to deal with slugs once they get into the cabbage head they hide between the leaves. I was thinking of using a diluted vinegar solution but might try your recipe
Yay! Such a great feeling to have the warmth back! This week has been amazing. Ill be looking to plant out tomatoes this weekend, and my second attempt at capsicums are finally starting to germinate, the slow pokes. How long do you wait before planting out your plugs of corn? Ive pre sprouted before, but never started them in trays. Thanks for another exciting garden update!
Hi my corn is ready to plant out now they germinated fairly quickly. Though the spot I’m looking at planting out my first round of corn is south facing and the fence is still casting a shadow over the patch so I might give them another week before planting out. I’ll call it on the weekend if I am going to go and plant them
Hi Anthony, could you please do a video on how you irrigate your garden? I can't quite tell if you have a sandy or clay loam, but would love to know how you tackle hot temperatures.
Yeah I will do that over my next videos it’s a simple system using weepy hoses connected to a timer. It’s not the most ideal system as it waters across the whole line and you have no control to stop the water when the beds are empty but I set this up about 4 years ago when I went on holidays and it’s been there ever since
Nice Pak Choy harvest!! Few days of warmth - such a turn-around from early August cold. I thought I might get some of my 60-day cauliflower and 70-day broccoli half done by now. But the turn-around in weather has meant a quick shift in overnight temps from 7-8 degrees to 14-15 degrees C. But tomatoes are racing. I'm a few weeks behind you!
Thanks Matt. You will find that your caulies and broccoli will be turbocharged now and will produce faster with the warmth. I have a lot of brassicas still in my garden as well so hoping they will be harvested shortly as I have a lot of spring seedlings coming through
It's great to find another Australian gardening channel. Subbed. I have sowed some tomato seeds in punnets (about 3 weeks ago) but they are still hiding underground. I think it may still be a bit cool in my area (Albury/Wodonga). Day time temps are still in the teens on average and we haven't had a consistent number of warm sunny days yet. Keep up the good work. All the best.
Thanks mate will check your channel out. Yeah it would still be a bit cooler in your area but it’s warming up fast. I would say you would be about a month behind me with the temperatures
Nice looking seedlings. Looking forward to seeing them grow and make juicy tomatoes. The tomatoes you have planted, are they good for making sauce ? Cheers mate and thanks for another great video!
Thanks mate the tomatoes are the slicing variety not officially for sauces but I always make my own passata for the year from these tomatoes. They are more watery than the Roma varieties so the sauce needs to be simmered down for a longer period to get rid of the liquid. I had 50 jars made last year and looking to make another 50 jars this year minimum as well
Oh boy oh boy, look at the smile on your face now its tomato time. I potted mine up during the week as I don't have the space yet. I'm growing 5 varieties this year which include red cherry, black cherry, crimson crush, san marzino & roma. I got about 6 of each variety but wil probably only need to 2 or 3 as there is only two of us now. For my second crop I going to use the pruning's in about November and clone plants as I did last year. This worked really well. I wish you good luck for the season. Cheers
Thanks mate I’m pretty excited though I am just getting a bit ahead of myself all these seedlings and no where to plant them😀 I will look at your technique I might propagate my second planting this way as well
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 It's fairly easy. Take your side shoot pruning's and place them in a jar of water. In about 2 weeks they start to develop roots. Once the roots are developed, then you can pot them up and then plant them out about 3 weeks later. Cheers
Another quality post that all of your subscribers truly appreciate. A lot of slug and snail damage for me too (in Maroubra), but I'm using your sowing and transplanting dates as my calendar...Very much looking forward to the next instalment!! Cheers.
Thanks mate. Explosion of really small slugs everywhere at the moment. I thought i had my slug problem under control but the rains got them all going again. It’s a pain to lose seedlings especially capsicums when they take so long to germinate
I got sick of slugs knocking off basil and capsicum seedlings in the greenhouse. I bring them into the house in the evening now. The warmth overnight helps with growth.
Yeah it’s especially annoying as capsicum seeds take so long to grow as well and they are quite expensive seeds. I have these indoors overnight but I have them out in the day and the slugs must hide in the trays. I have added snail pellets to the bottom of the tray to stop the slugs
I’ve been filling an upturned lid filled with about 2cm of beer to protect my broad Beans the slugs flock to it there like drunks at happy hour. I come out the next day and can be 20 of em stone cold dead. Broad beans thriving cabbage and cauliflower done well very little to no damage. Seems to work. 👍🇦🇺
i am following your planting but i started my tomatoes 1 july so i am a bit ahead of yours about 1 foot high now, thanks for all your great info , watched all your vids
If you are located in Sydney get them planted out now. If they are that long I would plant them fairly deep they will will do fine. You can remove the lower leaves and cover them up to just below the growing tip.
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 hi no i am located in qld ,put them in a trench like you about 4 weeks ago ,just about to give them first prune and tie them to stakes by the leaves also stems are thick as my finger looking real good thanks to your tips
I planted mine in seedling trays a couple of weeks ago. I've kept them in a mini-greenhouse in the sun all day and bring them out at night. They germinated on Sunday and one of them is getting its first true leaves.
Hey mate I will be starting cucumber seedlings this weekend. Space has opened up in my patch and want to get the cucumbers planted out by mid September. Soils still a bit cold for direct seeding cucumbers so I will raise them in punnets indoors
yes, perfect size for planting out, as they pick up growing within a week after transplanting. they take much longer to establish when planted out as bigger seedlings, when people step them up first to individual pots or buy those 30cm seedlings from hardware store. no need for that. i dont bother digging a trench for tomatoes or hilling, just a quick hole for each plant. if they're growing well and need more nutrients, the roots grow bigger. i have driptape, so impractical anyway. my packet of trichodermas might be a bit on the late side, but going to use it anyway at transplant time in a few weeks, as last year had root node nematodes infestation. i've set up a permanent structure and use the tomahooks for all indeterminate tomatoes. easier with a single leader up a single string. i used to do stakes for support and that was always a mess. i also do a few low bush type (Rebel F1,) which needs no support. luckily in melbourne no fruit fly, so tomato plants can actually go whole season, with any luck. still have a few weeks to go for spring planting of tomatoes etc, waiting for a whole row of broad beans to put out fruit, as they're still flowering. hurry up broad beans.
I was looking for a more permanent structure to string up my tomatoes. Every year I think about installing a steel frame to run the sting lines too to trellis the tomatoes but never get around to it. Would be keen to see your layout
I need to do a video on my chooks. I have 10 at the moment. Most of them are spent layers I have had over the years but haven’t had the heart to move them on. They are a part of my composting system when I collect all my garden and kitchen waste in their run and they break it down for me then I compost it in a big pile. I save everything from the garden now and it all gets used in the chook pen
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 I’d love to see a video on your chookies. It looked like you had quite a few and I wondered if you let them forage in your garden or if they stayed in the chook cage as they can be quite destructive. Ours used to dig their way to China and rotary hoe the garden. Hubby not happy with that so I had to do a Pied Piper walk with them to the lane way next door so they could have a scratch around. 😊
Yeah I used to let them out a lot when the garden was smaller but they will rip through the patch if I let them out. I do bring a lot of greens to them to eat during the day and when the beds nearest to the pen are empty I will let them out into a caged area to roam through those beds. The run is quite big and so they have most of what they need in there
im insanly jealous you can plant out your tomatos already. im on the vic/nsw border and frosts are too unpredicable still for another month or so.. enjoy the head start
Thanks mate. Yeah the weather down south is too unpredictable it can get cold down there pretty quickly. I am hoping to get ahead of the fruit flies and get my harvest off before they destroy my crop
The jalapeno plants are so vulnerable to slugs, aren't they? I left one to overwinter here on the Central Coast and the little creatures ate the chillis and all of the leaves! They left the surrounding lettuce, spinach, and parsley alone. Go figure!
Great video thank you
Thanks for watching 👍
Well done mate. Another great clip. You really are a calm and knowledgeable guy.
Many thanks for sharing.
Appreciate the comment mate and thanks for the support 👍
thank you, I hope you keep this site going
Thanks mate. I’m hoping to get more content out as we move into daylight savings and I can get into the garden after work
Thanks Anthony for this video and seeing what you're doing. I love your expertise and also the way you're willing to try new things.
Thanks mate appreciate the comment 👍
Hi, I love your videos. I have followed some of your tips and this year was my best broccoli ever. Thank you, now I'm looking forward to great tomatoes 😊
That’s great to hear well done! I’ll try to post content regularly so you can keep up with what I am doing
Thanks so much for the tips on growing tomatoes! You’ve inspired me to get some seeds in the soil!
Thanks. Plenty of time to get them into the ground 👍
Hi from Mid North Coast. Just found your channel and love it. Thanks for the information ❤
Thanks for watching 👍
Those seedlings look amazing. I planted some at the same time and they're not that advanced. Awesome job
Thanks mate. Try giving them a bit more fertilisier. Mine where planted in a larger cell and I find that if you give them a little more space they grow faster
Glad i found ya channel mate! Im up here in hunter valley so your teaching me what to put in when ! 👍
Thanks mate hope to release videos more often so people can keep up with what I’m planting I will try to tell you what I am planting and doing in the garden in the following week
Well done.. Not being picky just how I plant.
I offset the plants in the rows.. Think it gives the roots less competition..
Thanks for the tip mate. When you say offset the plants you mean the plants in the row offset from the plant in the other row? I have spaced the rows at 80cm spacings but I think doing it your way might help with sharing the sunlight between the plants. Will need to try this
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 Yes.. that is also part of the plan. May the sun and rain be on welcome times.
Lots of work put into your garden, you should be proud! I am also dealing with slug damage they will gobble up all my seedlings and cabbages, have been testing a cayenne pepper and garlic mix spray.
I’m going to give this a try. I’m trying to find a way to deal with slugs once they get into the cabbage head they hide between the leaves. I was thinking of using a diluted vinegar solution but might try your recipe
Yay! Such a great feeling to have the warmth back! This week has been amazing. Ill be looking to plant out tomatoes this weekend, and my second attempt at capsicums are finally starting to germinate, the slow pokes.
How long do you wait before planting out your plugs of corn? Ive pre sprouted before, but never started them in trays. Thanks for another exciting garden update!
Hi my corn is ready to plant out now they germinated fairly quickly. Though the spot I’m looking at planting out my first round of corn is south facing and the fence is still casting a shadow over the patch so I might give them another week before planting out. I’ll call it on the weekend if I am going to go and plant them
Hi Anthony, could you please do a video on how you irrigate your garden? I can't quite tell if you have a sandy or clay loam, but would love to know how you tackle hot temperatures.
Yeah I will do that over my next videos it’s a simple system using weepy hoses connected to a timer. It’s not the most ideal system as it waters across the whole line and you have no control to stop the water when the beds are empty but I set this up about 4 years ago when I went on holidays and it’s been there ever since
Nice Pak Choy harvest!! Few days of warmth - such a turn-around from early August cold. I thought I might get some of my 60-day cauliflower and 70-day broccoli half done by now. But the turn-around in weather has meant a quick shift in overnight temps from 7-8 degrees to 14-15 degrees C. But tomatoes are racing. I'm a few weeks behind you!
Thanks Matt. You will find that your caulies and broccoli will be turbocharged now and will produce faster with the warmth. I have a lot of brassicas still in my garden as well so hoping they will be harvested shortly as I have a lot of spring seedlings coming through
Now, THAT'S the way to do tomatoes! Impressive. I'm happily following along. Cheers!
😀 thanks for watching 👍
It's great to find another Australian gardening channel. Subbed. I have sowed some tomato seeds in punnets (about 3 weeks ago) but they are still hiding underground. I think it may still be a bit cool in my area (Albury/Wodonga). Day time temps are still in the teens on average and we haven't had a consistent number of warm sunny days yet. Keep up the good work. All the best.
Thanks mate will check your channel out. Yeah it would still be a bit cooler in your area but it’s warming up fast. I would say you would be about a month behind me with the temperatures
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 I just want to clarify, my channel isn't about gardening although maybe I could do something. 🖕
Good work!
Thanks for watching 👍
Nice looking seedlings. Looking forward to seeing them grow and make juicy tomatoes. The tomatoes you have planted, are they good for making sauce ?
Cheers mate and thanks for another great video!
Thanks mate the tomatoes are the slicing variety not officially for sauces but I always make my own passata for the year from these tomatoes. They are more watery than the Roma varieties so the sauce needs to be simmered down for a longer period to get rid of the liquid. I had 50 jars made last year and looking to make another 50 jars this year minimum as well
Ur the Garden 🐐 Anthony 😀
Thanks for that mate 😀👍
Awesome mate thanks for the video 🙏🏽
Thanks for watching 👍
Oh boy oh boy, look at the smile on your face now its tomato time. I potted mine up during the week as I don't have the space yet. I'm growing 5 varieties this year which include red cherry, black cherry, crimson crush, san marzino & roma. I got about 6 of each variety but wil probably only need to 2 or 3 as there is only two of us now. For my second crop I going to use the pruning's in about November and clone plants as I did last year. This worked really well. I wish you good luck for the season. Cheers
Thanks mate I’m pretty excited though I am just getting a bit ahead of myself all these seedlings and no where to plant them😀 I will look at your technique I might propagate my second planting this way as well
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 It's fairly easy. Take your side shoot pruning's and place them in a jar of water. In about 2 weeks they start to develop roots. Once the roots are developed, then you can pot them up and then plant them out about 3 weeks later. Cheers
Another quality post that all of your subscribers truly appreciate. A lot of slug and snail damage for me too (in Maroubra), but I'm using your sowing and transplanting dates as my calendar...Very much looking forward to the next instalment!! Cheers.
Thanks mate. Explosion of really small slugs everywhere at the moment. I thought i had my slug problem under control but the rains got them all going again. It’s a pain to lose seedlings especially capsicums when they take so long to germinate
I got sick of slugs knocking off basil and capsicum seedlings in the greenhouse. I bring them into the house in the evening now. The warmth overnight helps with growth.
Yeah it’s especially annoying as capsicum seeds take so long to grow as well and they are quite expensive seeds. I have these indoors overnight but I have them out in the day and the slugs must hide in the trays. I have added snail pellets to the bottom of the tray to stop the slugs
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612oh wow. Slugs getting into the house. Makes you want to start all your seedlings under grow lights in the house
I’ve been filling an upturned lid filled with about 2cm of beer to protect my broad Beans the slugs flock to it there like drunks at happy hour. I come out the next day and can be 20 of em stone cold dead. Broad beans thriving cabbage and cauliflower done well very little to no damage. Seems to work. 👍🇦🇺
I have been meaning to try this technique I will need to do it this year
hi great to see ya toms on the go mate
Thanks mate was trying to get them out a week earlier wanted to see how early I can start the season here in Sydney
i am following your planting but i started my tomatoes 1 july so i am a bit ahead of yours about 1 foot high now, thanks for all your great info , watched all your vids
If you are located in Sydney get them planted out now. If they are that long I would plant them fairly deep they will will do fine. You can remove the lower leaves and cover them up to just below the growing tip.
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 hi no i am located in qld ,put them in a trench like you about 4 weeks ago ,just about to give them first prune and tie them to stakes by the leaves also stems are thick as my finger looking real good thanks to your tips
Thanks mate. Great video. When do you begin to sow cucumber seeds in trays? About now? Mid Aug?
I planted mine in seedling trays a couple of weeks ago. I've kept them in a mini-greenhouse in the sun all day and bring them out at night. They germinated on Sunday and one of them is getting its first true leaves.
Hey mate I will be starting cucumber seedlings this weekend. Space has opened up in my patch and want to get the cucumbers planted out by mid September. Soils still a bit cold for direct seeding cucumbers so I will raise them in punnets indoors
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 thanks for replying mate. Appreciate your knowledge and time
Hey from Perth WA, an urban homesteader and fellow TH-camr. Just subscribed to your channel and look forward to following your journey
Thanks for watching I’ll be watching your channel 👍
Yay! Tomato season! 🍅❤
Can’t wait for the first harvest. I’m over buying tomatoes from the store
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 I've kinda stopped buying toms from the shops...just don't taste right 😂
for slugs try spraying with diluted whey
Thanks for the tip. Will this kill the slug that’s hiding in the plant or is this a spray more to keep them away?
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 it can help with both in varied amounts. the slugs dont like the acidity of the whey
yes, perfect size for planting out, as they pick up growing within a week after transplanting. they take much longer to establish when planted out as bigger seedlings, when people step them up first to individual pots or buy those 30cm seedlings from hardware store. no need for that. i dont bother digging a trench for tomatoes or hilling, just a quick hole for each plant. if they're growing well and need more nutrients, the roots grow bigger. i have driptape, so impractical anyway. my packet of trichodermas might be a bit on the late side, but going to use it anyway at transplant time in a few weeks, as last year had root node nematodes infestation.
i've set up a permanent structure and use the tomahooks for all indeterminate tomatoes. easier with a single leader up a single string. i used to do stakes for support and that was always a mess. i also do a few low bush type (Rebel F1,) which needs no support. luckily in melbourne no fruit fly, so tomato plants can actually go whole season, with any luck.
still have a few weeks to go for spring planting of tomatoes etc, waiting for a whole row of broad beans to put out fruit, as they're still flowering. hurry up broad beans.
I was looking for a more permanent structure to string up my tomatoes. Every year I think about installing a steel frame to run the sting lines too to trellis the tomatoes but never get around to it. Would be keen to see your layout
How many chooks do you have?
I need to do a video on my chooks. I have 10 at the moment. Most of them are spent layers I have had over the years but haven’t had the heart to move them on. They are a part of my composting system when I collect all my garden and kitchen waste in their run and they break it down for me then I compost it in a big pile. I save everything from the garden now and it all gets used in the chook pen
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612
I’d love to see a video on your chookies. It looked like you had quite a few and I wondered if you let them forage in your garden or if they stayed in the chook cage as they can be quite destructive. Ours used to dig their way to China and rotary hoe the garden. Hubby not happy with that so I had to do a Pied Piper walk with them to the lane way next door so they could have a scratch around. 😊
Yeah I used to let them out a lot when the garden was smaller but they will rip through the patch if I let them out. I do bring a lot of greens to them to eat during the day and when the beds nearest to the pen are empty I will let them out into a caged area to roam through those beds. The run is quite big and so they have most of what they need in there
Great video 🇳🇿👍
im insanly jealous you can plant out your tomatos already. im on the vic/nsw border and frosts are too unpredicable still for another month or so.. enjoy the head start
Thanks mate. Yeah the weather down south is too unpredictable it can get cold down there pretty quickly. I am hoping to get ahead of the fruit flies and get my harvest off before they destroy my crop
The jalapeno plants are so vulnerable to slugs, aren't they? I left one to overwinter here on the Central Coast and the little creatures ate the chillis and all of the leaves! They left the surrounding lettuce, spinach, and parsley alone. Go figure!
Yeah slugs go for the most expensive seedlings first! Lost a few capsicum and eggplants over the last few weeks
Rats eat my toms! Buggers
I have a yard cat that keeps the rats in check. Try harvesting the tomatoes as they start to colour to stop the rats getting to them