12 Low-Maintenance Tweaks for the Lazy Gardener
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- 12 Changes That Will Make Your Garden Take Less Time And Effort To Look After, And Make It Easier To Still Grow Lots Of Veggies.
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Bonus tip: grow lots and lots and lots of native flowers. Everlasting daisys and native straw flowers are some pretty great ones. They're low maintenance and the bugs love them.
I had to cut the segment where I talked about them tip because of bad audio 😭 (Making TH-cam videos is hard)
A succession planting calendar for the southern hemisphere would be FANTASTIC. I currently have 6 foot trestle tables sitting over the top of some little seedlings trying to give them some emergency shade because we had some 38 degree days here in Brisbane (because I didnt get my timing quite right) and everything was roasting. The sun is next level brutal here.
Hey, in VIC, we have to put up with the 35-40s and massive drop to low 20s and back again. The plants don't know what to do with that. I don't know what to do with that. Choppy changy weather is dire to work with.
I miss QLD, here in VIC now and the heat has killed everything ☘️🌱🪴
@ This has been my worst growing season ever (NC VIC). The sweet corn is the only thing doing well.
@@StrawberryFieldsNIR I shouldn't complain - my sons work on a cattle station in 42 degrees on horseback all day. I feel a bit wimpy whinging about 35 degrees and then I go running back into the safety of my air con!!
@@jilliansharp1127 I bet you dont miss our humidity!
70y old gardening in many climates, would never use all the fussy plastic irrigation stuff, hand watering keeps you in touch with your plants.
I would be super interested in the simplified but still structured succession planting guide! I really struggle with that as a beginner gardener. I was hoping to grow alongside you with the follow along raised garden bed series but I understand why you didn't continue it. You always have awesome info that's readily digestible. Thank you!
I’m really struggling to find a good Australian veggie patch book. I want it to include nice big pictures with easy to read straight to the point instructions as well as a veggie index and also a planting calendar for Australia with some differences per Australian state. I’m sick of having to read American or British books that are not specific to Australia. I promise that if you were to come out with a book like that I would be one of your first customers!!!
The definitive easy to follow Aussie veggie garden book is definitely on my list of stuff I want to achieve. But realistically it's probably at least 2 years away.
The tomato frame will be perfect for snow and sugar-snap peas in the colder months and maybe some early beans before the tomatoes are ready to go in. Chokos also grow well on a frame and will fruit later than many cucumbers and zucchinis, giving you useful filler-veg into late Autumn and early Winter. They also make great pickles or spicy hot chutney, which are brilliant through the cooler seasons and of course, make awesome, inexpensive gifts.
My chokos are trained to the top of the frame (1.7m) above the spaghetti squash, which need to rest their fruit on cardboard boxes down lower, while keeping the leaves in full sun (0.5m).
Try growing Armenian cucumbers they are so productive and grow a lot longer than most cucumber plants. They also love super hot weather!
My big mistake is not planting flowers. Lesson learned but stuggling through my first summer gardening.
Yeah I had another change in the video I had to cut because of bad audio. But just growing way more native flowers, so low maintenance, so pretty, and the bugs love them 🌺
Remember, there's no rule against planting 'useful flowers'; flowers that have more than one use, rather than just plants for the sake of flowers.
For example; growing feijoa, passionfruit, banana passionfruit, field peas, ginger, nasturtiums, rocket, mountain pepper, hibiscus or edible marigolds will provide edible fruit, vegetable or flowers (or both) which will also attract pollinators, while increasing the functional output of your garden.
Where I live, there's plenty of space, but water is limited (especially this year). I don't plant _anything_ that doesn't have more than one use. I just can't afford to count 'pretty' asd a use.
I have so many similar issues and problems as you being a first year gardener,
I made the same mistake with my cucumbers.
I’m planning to cut down a IBC into a couple of wicking beds so I don’t have to constantly walk and water constantly. Also the furthest veggie from the tap.
(Great advice from TH-camr, Self sufficient me)
I’m also in Melbourne and enjoying the same ideas as yours 👍
Re: Poly tunnel, greenhouse.
I've seen videos of people building a timber frame that fits over a raised bed, attach the tubing to the inside of the frame then use hinges to attach the frame to the bed. Netting or shade cloth or builders plastic can be attached with clips as you've done already so it can be removed when you don't need the covering. But for filming and general gardening and harvesting simply open the lid.
Re: Rocks as mulch in the future herb garden area. Birdie's brand has a raised garden bed but it's on stilts, so to speak. I think it's called a raised planter. Just looking at your space it looks like it might fit there. Or make one yourself.
I’ve seen the hinged covers also. I would love to try one.
Get a splitter for the hose so you can have a dedicated line that you can plug into closer to the back while also letting the other hose stay there for the closer. Get ball valves to keep the hose somewhat pressurized. Get some brass quick connect hose ends to ease your time further.
Yeah I'm going to do an overhaul of the garden plumbing in the next few weeks. Add in an extra tap and stuff
In the off season of you tomato trellis. You can tie a net to it and use it for vines/beans etc
I like garden at Australia. This here is good garden
Snow peas along your trellis would be beautiful
Tomato trellis looks good. Although I'd suggest a second row as it allows you to lower and lean them in a loop to give them more space once they get near the top.
Thank you for sharing your great idea and tips.
It is good to hear about the mistakes and regrets, makes it real. Too many YT channels are full of sunshine and roses all the time (not realistic).
I seriously don't have my act together on succession planning, or much planning at all really. Bad me.
With gardening, it seems that every year is a learning curve.
You beat one thing one year, next year it is something else. The lesson seems to be, don't get too cocky in the garden.
Hey, but my "giant grass" (aka sweet corn) is trucking along without problems. Just waiting for the silks to show to fertilise.
Tomatoes and capsicum this year, so problematic and slow to take off (never had this before). Weather has been unreasonable though.
The other great thing about the dwarf been is that they are really easy to collect seeds from. Just let one of two plants of bean pods to dry off a bit and they are done. They don't have to dry out completely to sprout in the ground or in grow bags. I use them heaps for in between crops as they add nutrients for the soil and they are just so quick to fruit. Examples, after potatoes, carrots and lettuce. It costs you nothing, just put your own seeds in the ground and they are on their way. In summer, I throw a piece of shade cloth over them until the come up.
Hope you’re feeling better
Buy a solar irrigation system with a timer and feed it into a bucket for those cukes. Super affordable and easy
Great tips! Thank you! 💚
I've arrived at the same idea. We're growing more tomatoes, zucchini, capsicum, potatoes, carrots, pumpkins, onions, beans, silverbeet, garlic, herbs, etc, all of which I can easily preserve. We also grow lettuce, cucumber, spring onions, etc, so we've always got a salad. We've also got two greenhouses, a shadhouse, and a netted house for brassicas.
Yeah I have nowhere good in my yard to put a greenhouse. I'm thinking of moving around some beds to fit a 4x6 greenhouse in
Why not grow beans off season on the tomato trellises? That’s what I do and it also reintroduces some nitrogen back into the soil.
sugar snap in winter on the tomato trellis? Awesome garden!
Hi could you address how you deal with Passionvine hoppers and tomato/potato psyllids please. Love your content, so relatable.
Are you going to plant tomatoes in the same bed year after year, crops need to be rotated or they become diseased. I only plant tomatoes in the same bed on a 3 year rotation.l love your videos especially the ones on soil health
Thirsty cucumbers.... experience has taught me that starting cucumbers and zucchini at the back of a warm, sunny spot with a frame behind, with quick crops like radishes and lettuce in the middle and front while the gourds get going gives reliable results.
Once the hotter months begin, I replace the quick crops with ginger (cheap from the Asian market), basil, coriander and Vietnamese mint in the middle and lemongrass at the front, along with cantaloupe and honey-dew melons in the corners. The lemongrass, ginger leaves & other herbs shade the roots of the gourds, helping retain water, while the flowers bring in loads of insects and pollinating birds ..... and smell divine. And they all love water.
PSA: Hops plants and dogs (maybe cats?) do not mix at all. Super toxic
Yeah my pets don't chew on any of my plants at all or else I'd build some fencing around the garden beds.
They love to wee on them though haha
Not sure where you live, sir, but seems like you need a rock rake which would make quick work of gatherng the rocks so you could scoop them up and away.
I've never heard of a rock rake, I'll look into it! They're about 25cm deep so shovels don't work
@@CulinaryGarden1 25cm deep is rather insane! No one does those white rocks that deep.
@@CulinaryGarden1 in that case, it seems you need to dig an edge down to the dirt level and scoop by shovel keeping the hole clear to the dirt so you can scoop underneath the layer of rocks.
I know it makes it harder if there is lots of dirt mixed in with the rocks. Have fun. It is certainly a process.
how do you fill your large raised beds ty john
The first 30-50% is all logs, sticks, leaves. Then the rest is a veggie bed mix from a local landscape supply that delivered it to my front yard. If you can't get a veggie bed mix, just compost should be fine.
Another great vid keep it up.what brand is the mower?
Are you doing onions from sets or seeds? I'm in the same region and I have huge struggles with onions in general :(
snow peas after your tomatoes
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🫑 would love to see succession planting list of it happens. mental space to plan is hard to find with little kiddies :) very cool that you're in melb
The thumbnail 😂 "thow"
Oh god, how did I not notice this ☠️
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