As I live in Sydney your information is very helpful especially on when and what to start from seed, pest management and also the specific fertilisers for each crop THANK YOU
Hi Anthony, looks like you got the same problem as me. The garden is not big enough. 🤣🤣 Funny that you mention that cause I'm thinking of adding an extra bed as well. Your doing a great job mate. Cheers
Anthony your capsicums and jalapenos are looking amazing. You corn is looking good, nice thick stalks so hopefully the wind won't do any more damage. Jacqui
Looking awesome Anthony. FYI I saw my first fruit fly in my traps here in the north west, so they're starting to get active. Definitely keep those nets on. Those bags that you mentioned were too small for the tomatoes might be a good idea for the mangoes. I find my mangoes get hit hard by fruit fly.
Thanks for the heads up. I have harvested a lot of tomatoes no signs of fruit fly damage yet though I have seen them flying around. I will look at bagging the mangoes and the persimmon tree to keep them safe
What a great garden, very productive! We have snow on the ground in my part of Canada but we only got a couple of inches. My mother-in-law lives by Lake Huron, a couple of hours away from us, she has two feet ❄️ on the ground now and it’s still snowing! I feel a little jealous of your climate!
Wow! Enjoy your break from the garden. Thankfully here in Sydney Australia we can plant all year round so I don’t get a chance to leave the garden for a couple weeks 😀
Your garden is looking amazing Anthony!! So much abundance! I’m so jealous of your fig tree! They are one of my favourite fruits and my tree has done nothing in 3 years. I think I planted it in the wrong spot!
Oiiiiii we just had our first 40 degree day here in Adelaide!! Still waiting on the cool change as I type!! But interesting to note I have finally got some flower heads budding on my Capsicum plants!! Should be interesting to see if I get any or not!! LOL!!
Hi thank you for sharing your gardening tasks. Can you share the Pyrethrum (I think this is what you mentioned in the video) and Sulphur you use and how you apply it?
Hi the brand names arnt an issue as long as it is wettable sulfur, copper oxichloride and pyrethrum. I have a video where I showed the products I used and they are all available at Bunnings I will put a link in this commeny
Thank you for sharing!! It’s good to see people close to my area to see where they are at! Last year I tryed to grow capsicum and had very little luck as they got eaten before we did. I covered them with a net this year and we already have a couple of fruits! Any more tips to grow beautiful big capsicum like urs? Thank u!
I find you need to use the right varieties to get big capsicums. I grow commercial varieties and I like Harley which I grew last year got some really big capsicums. You need to also start early start the seedlings in mid July in a heat mat and have them planted out in early September. Once you plant them give them a lot of nitrogen fertilisier early on to get them to size but then switch to potash with a little chicken manure pellets
Love your videos and content Anthony. Ive applied a few of your tips in my small patch. Question.. What are the ties made of that you use on your plants when staking? The tomatoes specifically?
I literally use any old cotton sheets or shirts and rip strips and use them at the moment I’m using old cotton bed sheets. They are perfect for the job
I find that fresh chicken manure is way too hot to put on veggies so I use chicken manure pellets as a concentrated fertilisier to add that extra nitrogen at specific times. I also will compost all the chicken run material to add it to you garden bed before every planting
Hey Anthony, what pyrethrum spray do you use for your tomatoes? I got about 40 tomato plants planted and majority of my tomatoes have caterpillar damage.
Hi Robert with pyrethrum it doesn’t really matter on the brand rather that the active ingredient is pyrethrum. You can get it from Bunnings or a local nursery but in my context I bought a brand called ambush which is a 1L bottle that market gardeners use. It has a higher concentration so you get more out of it. If you are in Sydney I bought it from condell park produce.
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 thank you so much! do you spray your other plants (cucumbers, eggplants, beans, capsicum, fig tree and chilli) with the same product?
Yeah essentially it’s my go to spray for general pests. It’s a contact spray so it’s safe to use. I just used it on my citrus trees to control the stink bugs
Hi Anthony, you mentioned you treated your fig tree from thrips, may I ask what you used? I have a fig tree and live near your area, and have new growth that is always curling, drying up or dying and I'm just trying to figure out the cause and solution.
Hey mate that sounds like thrip damage. I did use weekly applications of pyrethrum to clear up the thrips early on once they damage the leaves it’s too late though the new leaves won’t be damaged. If your infestation is heavy go and see if you can find this product Searles conguard garden spray. It’s a systemic spray that controls sap sucking insects. I prefer to use this as a last resort though use pyrethrum first as it is a contact spray
Yep I do. I compost all my garden waste and chook run and add it to the beds before planting. I find that chicken manure pellets are good to use when you want to add that additional fertilisier to the garden. Using chicken poo directly is too hot and burns the plants it needs to be composted first
Hi Anthony, Thanks for sharing your garden knowledge. I have learnt so much. I was wondering how you keep your gardening records. Do you have a journal or app you use to keep track of everything you plant? Thanks again. Miranda
Hi Miranda indont have an app as such I’m mostly just work through the garden and I am always planning 4-6 weeks in advance. I do take a lot of photos and videos for TH-cam so these act as a refactoring journal for me
Are you Italian Anthony? Would you happen to have a recipe for the flat green beans stewed in tomatoes? A friend of mine's Italian mother used to make this and I would just devour it but can't find the secret formula for it! Good luck with the blasted disease that is looming in your patch !
I check to see as soon as they start colouring i will harvest the tomatoes. I do it to lighten the load on the tomato plants themselves and to make sure that the tomatoes do not get damaged by birds or rats as they ripen
i used washed sand to cover seeds for latest cell tray. still mixing in vermiculite into Mikskaar mix. Maybe i shouldnt be doing that much vermiculite? maybe it sucks the water out of the peat in the cell trays? If i get tomatoes by christmas--and they are loading up--i'll be happy. it's been same here with wet weather followed by hot and soil drying. i made cages for eggplants, which are still far behind yours. see how the cages go. when i kept chickens, after a good cleanup i used to limewash their housing to prevent scale mites. it also prevents a little bit the sourness (smells) of chicken coop. black genoa is by far most favorite fig in our household. for fresh eating or salads.
Hey mate thanks for the tip on the chicken pen bill definitely do that. Do I just mix line with water? For the seed raising mix check on what sand you are using if it’s brickies sand it might have some clay in it that’s causing the problem. Good to hear the eggplant going ok please keep us updated on how the cages worknout
@ : hydrated lime + water + large old brush. dont get into eyes. dont know ratios, but needs to definitely lrave a full lime mark when dried. About 8 cups of hydrated lime to 4 litres water. Use hydrated lime, not garden lime. it's cheap in shop.
Thanks for watching mate. In my context happy to use contact sprays like pyrethrum to control insects. If that doesn’t suit your context then you can make homemade white oil using vegetable oil and dishwashing detergent that works the same way. With the use of sulfur and copper sprays again they are safe to use but happy to look at alternatives if you have anything you can suggest as soon as it get humid here the spider mites explode in my patch 👍
I don’t think he ever says that he is practicing organic gardening 🫣. Take the tips that you like and just tune out the practice that does not align with the way you garden 😉.
Oh my goodness. I think you should make some serious changes to the way you garden, mate. Please stop spraying everything because you and your family eat that too. That spray leeches into your soil which kills the microbes in the soil, making diseases easier to spread.The spray also kills all the insects which in turn makes birds sick if they eat the insects. Please cover the soil with pulled up weeds as it helps protect the soil and your plants' roots from the harsh UV rays. If that is not doable, then add 4 layers of paper, overlapping each spot, to keep the soil cool. It will reduce plant stress, soil evaporation, and will keep the soil so much more cooler and prevent sterilization of the soil caused by UV penetration of the soil. Where are the pollinators? There should be birds, especially House Sparrows, Magpies and other insect eaters in your garden. There should be bees and wasps too, all over the place. Please do not spray the silverbeet. House sparrows eat it as a food source in summer. Just grow more than you need and share with the sparrows. Sparrows alone can eat all your catepillars and 99% of the insects in your garden. Silverbeet grows for 2 years before going to seed, so don't rip them out. Leave them for the sparrows to eat. It is far better to have birds eating from your garden because they will eat all the pests for free. Birds need to eat too. I know this sounds like I'm trying to tell you what to do but its not like that, really. As a gardener myself, I have to deal with all these things but specifically no rain for 99.99% of the year and the neighbour's pets using the garden as a toilet or a bed to sleep on. I go barefoot when gardening, so sometimes I need to put shoes on as the soil burns my feet as it soars over 60 degrees C at the surface this time of year. Paper is far better than cardboard, as it has an instant cooling effect on the soil underneath it. Without paper I'd have a lot of dead plants, or a lot of diseased plants. Fortunately, I've never had disease plants in my garden, as they never survived the burning hot soil before I learnt about using paper to cool the soil down. And yes, you can use junkmail as a source of paper. The best thing we can do is cover that exposed soil and make it cool to encourage microbes and insects and even worms and fungi to breed in it. You really have to ask yourself, do you want healthy plants that nature can take care of by itself? (Plants will naturally release chemical signals to attract predators that specifically target the specific pest that is attacking themselves.) Or, do you want plants that rely entirely upon chemicals to control diseases and insect outbreaks that suppresses their own ability to defend themselves against such attacks? Answering this question honestly will determine how successful your garden is, especially the fruiting crops. But your garden is a monoculture, and nothing good ever comes from monoculture gardens. But nature will show you what is wrong, if only you have an ear to listen.
I think he knows what he is doing by the look of his garden the sprays he uses are organic he has helpful information and tips so iam not sure what your rant was about maybe you should start your own TH-cam channel on how you garden and leave your criticism to yourself.
There's enough room in the world for everyone to garden the way that suits them. I'm fully permaculture/polyculture, but Anthony always has something new to teach me. Maybe stop being so judgemental.
For 15 years I mulched my garden and would continually have diseases now I don't mulch anything and only have a quarter of the problem, I would never leave weeds on my garden I don't even compost them. If you look at Anthony's garden you can clearly see that it is planted very densely so there is very little chance of UV penetration and as for the microbes you don't get plants that healthy without good soil.
Thanks for watching appreciate the comment. I’ve the years in my context I have been trying a few different things and I have come to a point in my gardening where I am willing to treat for pests as needed using contact sprays like white oil or pyrethrum. I also use fungicides as needed to control diseases and again find it works well in my patch with my objectives. Always open to learning new methods and ways to grow with less inputs from my end. 👍
@@grod-1976 My "criticism" is actually helpful advice not criticism. I am concerned that Anthony spraying his veggies so frequently will make him and his family sick. In fact, I do have a channel with videos on how I garden, amongst other things. I live in rural NSW, and even though the climate is completely different to that of Sydney, we still share similiar things like insects, worms, bats, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Every garden should have at least some of these critters in them else pest predation will run rampant.
Your eggplants look perfect. It’s lovely you give some to your mum to make baba ganoush. Thank you for your weekly updates, they’re so helpful.
Thanks Michele appreciate the support and kind words 👍
As I live in Sydney your information is very helpful especially on when and what to start from seed, pest management and also the specific fertilisers for each crop THANK YOU
Hi thanks for watching and appreciate the support 👍
Those eggplants look stunning! Loved this tour! 😍🙌💚
Thanks Jackie! Yeah the eggplants are doing well in spite of the spider mites. Hope to keep them going a little longer
Bloody good gardening myfriend
Thanks mate
Hi Anthony, looks like you got the same problem as me. The garden is not big enough. 🤣🤣 Funny that you mention that cause I'm thinking of adding an extra bed as well. Your doing a great job mate. Cheers
Thanks champ. Haven’t told the family yet though but you can never have enough growing space 🤣
Anthony your capsicums and jalapenos are looking amazing. You corn is looking good, nice thick stalks so hopefully the wind won't do any more damage. Jacqui
Yeah I was having a look at the corn this morning they are looking pretty well supported and they are growing fast in this humidity at the moment
A nice bountiful harvest mate👍
Love you videos mate.
Appreciate the kind words, thanks for watching! 👍
Fingers crossed for your new corn seeds. Always been pleased with HVS 👍 Great update again Anthony, thank you 😂
Thanks for watching glyn. Looking forward to the moment you start your own TH-cam channel. Your garden is pumping!😀
Looking awesome Anthony. FYI I saw my first fruit fly in my traps here in the north west, so they're starting to get active. Definitely keep those nets on.
Those bags that you mentioned were too small for the tomatoes might be a good idea for the mangoes. I find my mangoes get hit hard by fruit fly.
Thanks for the heads up. I have harvested a lot of tomatoes no signs of fruit fly damage yet though I have seen them flying around. I will look at bagging the mangoes and the persimmon tree to keep them safe
What a great garden, very productive! We have snow on the ground in my part of Canada but we only got a couple of inches. My mother-in-law lives by Lake Huron, a couple of hours away from us, she has two feet ❄️ on the ground now and it’s still snowing! I feel a little jealous of your climate!
Wow! Enjoy your break from the garden. Thankfully here in Sydney Australia we can plant all year round so I don’t get a chance to leave the garden for a couple weeks 😀
Your garden is looking amazing Anthony!! So much abundance! I’m so jealous of your fig tree! They are one of my favourite fruits and my tree has done nothing in 3 years. I think I planted it in the wrong spot!
I find with figs give them minimal fertiliser and less water they like to be neglected
Looking great mate.
Appreciate it! It's been a good week in the garden
North qlder once said 2 flowerings on mangoes means a big wet season coming.
It hasn’t stoped raining here in Sydney for a week now! Hot humid and wet
Oiiiiii we just had our first 40 degree day here in Adelaide!! Still waiting on the cool change as I type!! But interesting to note I have finally got some flower heads budding on my Capsicum plants!! Should be interesting to see if I get any or not!! LOL!!
Summer is finally arrived! Hopefully it stays warm enough for them to produce
lovely 🍅🍆🌽🫑🥒🌶
Thank you!
Hi thank you for sharing your gardening tasks. Can you share the Pyrethrum (I think this is what you mentioned in the video) and Sulphur you use and how you apply it?
Hi the brand names arnt an issue as long as it is wettable sulfur, copper oxichloride and pyrethrum. I have a video where I showed the products I used and they are all available at Bunnings I will put a link in this commeny
th-cam.com/video/_WCICD2tvhc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XcCP2UhjKyiGaY2w
Go to the 8 minute mark I talk about my sprays
hi Anthony following from nz
Welcome! Glad to have you around 👍
Thank you for sharing!! It’s good to see people close to my area to see where they are at!
Last year I tryed to grow capsicum and had very little luck as they got eaten before we did. I covered them with a net this year and we already have a couple of fruits! Any more tips to grow beautiful big capsicum like urs?
Thank u!
I find you need to use the right varieties to get big capsicums. I grow commercial varieties and I like Harley which I grew last year got some really big capsicums. You need to also start early start the seedlings in mid July in a heat mat and have them planted out in early September. Once you plant them give them a lot of nitrogen fertilisier early on to get them to size but then switch to potash with a little chicken manure pellets
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 thank you so much!!!
Love your videos and content Anthony. Ive applied a few of your tips in my small patch.
Question.. What are the ties made of that you use on your plants when staking? The tomatoes specifically?
I literally use any old cotton sheets or shirts and rip strips and use them at the moment I’m using old cotton bed sheets. They are perfect for the job
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 Thanks for the quick reply Anthony. Much appreciated.
Do you have a composting system? Why do you need to use dynamic lifter (I actually use Rooster Booster) if you have all that chicken poo available?
Did you watch the video?
I find that fresh chicken manure is way too hot to put on veggies so I use chicken manure pellets as a concentrated fertilisier to add that extra nitrogen at specific times. I also will compost all the chicken run material to add it to you garden bed before every planting
Hey Anthony, what pyrethrum spray do you use for your tomatoes? I got about 40 tomato plants planted and majority of my tomatoes have caterpillar damage.
Hi Robert with pyrethrum it doesn’t really matter on the brand rather that the active ingredient is pyrethrum. You can get it from Bunnings or a local nursery but in my context I bought a brand called ambush which is a 1L bottle that market gardeners use. It has a higher concentration so you get more out of it. If you are in Sydney I bought it from condell park produce.
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 thank you so much! do you spray your other plants (cucumbers, eggplants, beans, capsicum, fig tree and chilli) with the same product?
Yeah essentially it’s my go to spray for general pests. It’s a contact spray so it’s safe to use. I just used it on my citrus trees to control the stink bugs
Hi Anthony, you mentioned you treated your fig tree from thrips, may I ask what you used? I have a fig tree and live near your area, and have new growth that is always curling, drying up or dying and I'm just trying to figure out the cause and solution.
Hey mate that sounds like thrip damage. I did use weekly applications of pyrethrum to clear up the thrips early on once they damage the leaves it’s too late though the new leaves won’t be damaged. If your infestation is heavy go and see if you can find this product Searles conguard garden spray. It’s a systemic spray that controls sap sucking insects. I prefer to use this as a last resort though use pyrethrum first as it is a contact spray
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 Thanks for the suggestions, will try them out! Enjoying your content, keep it up!
Do you ever rest your beds? You always replant as soon as one crop finishes (even though you dig and refertilise)
Thx
Yep I do. I compost all my garden waste and chook run and add it to the beds before planting. I find that chicken manure pellets are good to use when you want to add that additional fertilisier to the garden. Using chicken poo directly is too hot and burns the plants it needs to be composted first
Hi Anthony, Thanks for sharing your garden knowledge. I have learnt so much. I was wondering how you keep your gardening records. Do you have a journal or app you use to keep track of everything you plant? Thanks again. Miranda
Hi Miranda indont have an app as such I’m mostly just work through the garden and I am always planning 4-6 weeks in advance. I do take a lot of photos and videos for TH-cam so these act as a refactoring journal for me
Are you Italian Anthony? Would you happen to have a recipe for the flat green beans stewed in tomatoes? A friend of mine's Italian mother used to make this and I would just devour it but can't find the secret formula for it! Good luck with the blasted disease that is looming in your patch !
Lebanese background but yes we do have a very similar dish. Do you know it it was made with lamb as well or was it just beans tomato and olive oil?
@ It was just the beans and tomatoes - served as a side dish at picnics. It was absolutely delicious - maybe just lots of garlic and olive oil!
I will try to do a video on the bean stew you are referring to once I harvest my crop
@ Oh wow - thanks Anthony. In my cool zone Victorian location, I've still got time to grow some. Thank you!
Why do you pick the tomatoes while they are still green?
I check to see as soon as they start colouring i will harvest the tomatoes. I do it to lighten the load on the tomato plants themselves and to make sure that the tomatoes do not get damaged by birds or rats as they ripen
@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 thank for that. And they ripen up OK once picked?
Yep but they need to have started to colour first
Thank you for all the effort you put into showing us your methods type of planting and produce greatly appreciated from port Macquarie 🦘🐨🇦🇺🌱
Thanks for joining inland hope you take a few pointers you can use in your patch 👍
i used washed sand to cover seeds for latest cell tray. still mixing in vermiculite into Mikskaar mix. Maybe i shouldnt be doing that much vermiculite? maybe it sucks the water out of the peat in the cell trays? If i get tomatoes by christmas--and they are loading up--i'll be happy. it's been same here with wet weather followed by hot and soil drying.
i made cages for eggplants, which are still far behind yours. see how the cages go.
when i kept chickens, after a good cleanup i used to limewash their housing to prevent scale mites. it also prevents a little bit the sourness (smells) of chicken coop.
black genoa is by far most favorite fig in our household. for fresh eating or salads.
Hey mate thanks for the tip on the chicken pen bill definitely do that. Do I just mix line with water? For the seed raising mix check on what sand you are using if it’s brickies sand it might have some clay in it that’s causing the problem. Good to hear the eggplant going ok please keep us updated on how the cages worknout
@ : hydrated lime + water + large old brush. dont get into eyes.
dont know ratios, but needs to definitely lrave a full lime mark when dried. About 8 cups of hydrated lime to 4 litres water. Use hydrated lime, not garden lime. it's cheap in shop.
Awsome garden but not organic pesticides and fungicides is cheating 🙄
Thanks for watching mate. In my context happy to use contact sprays like pyrethrum to control insects. If that doesn’t suit your context then you can make homemade white oil using vegetable oil and dishwashing detergent that works the same way. With the use of sulfur and copper sprays again they are safe to use but happy to look at alternatives if you have anything you can suggest as soon as it get humid here the spider mites explode in my patch 👍
I don’t think he ever says that he is practicing organic gardening 🫣. Take the tips that you like and just tune out the practice that does not align with the way you garden 😉.
Pyrethrum, copper and sulphur spray are all classified as orgasmic.
Oh my goodness. I think you should make some serious changes to the way you garden, mate. Please stop spraying everything because you and your family eat that too. That spray leeches into your soil which kills the microbes in the soil, making diseases easier to spread.The spray also kills all the insects which in turn makes birds sick if they eat the insects. Please cover the soil with pulled up weeds as it helps protect the soil and your plants' roots from the harsh UV rays. If that is not doable, then add 4 layers of paper, overlapping each spot, to keep the soil cool. It will reduce plant stress, soil evaporation, and will keep the soil so much more cooler and prevent sterilization of the soil caused by UV penetration of the soil. Where are the pollinators? There should be birds, especially House Sparrows, Magpies and other insect eaters in your garden. There should be bees and wasps too, all over the place. Please do not spray the silverbeet. House sparrows eat it as a food source in summer. Just grow more than you need and share with the sparrows. Sparrows alone can eat all your catepillars and 99% of the insects in your garden. Silverbeet grows for 2 years before going to seed, so don't rip them out. Leave them for the sparrows to eat. It is far better to have birds eating from your garden because they will eat all the pests for free. Birds need to eat too.
I know this sounds like I'm trying to tell you what to do but its not like that, really. As a gardener myself, I have to deal with all these things but specifically no rain for 99.99% of the year and the neighbour's pets using the garden as a toilet or a bed to sleep on. I go barefoot when gardening, so sometimes I need to put shoes on as the soil burns my feet as it soars over 60 degrees C at the surface this time of year. Paper is far better than cardboard, as it has an instant cooling effect on the soil underneath it. Without paper I'd have a lot of dead plants, or a lot of diseased plants. Fortunately, I've never had disease plants in my garden, as they never survived the burning hot soil before I learnt about using paper to cool the soil down. And yes, you can use junkmail as a source of paper. The best thing we can do is cover that exposed soil and make it cool to encourage microbes and insects and even worms and fungi to breed in it.
You really have to ask yourself, do you want healthy plants that nature can take care of by itself? (Plants will naturally release chemical signals to attract predators that specifically target the specific pest that is attacking themselves.) Or, do you want plants that rely entirely upon chemicals to control diseases and insect outbreaks that suppresses their own ability to defend themselves against such attacks? Answering this question honestly will determine how successful your garden is, especially the fruiting crops. But your garden is a monoculture, and nothing good ever comes from monoculture gardens. But nature will show you what is wrong, if only you have an ear to listen.
I think he knows what he is doing by the look of his garden the sprays he uses are organic he has helpful information and tips so iam not sure what your rant was about maybe you should start your own TH-cam channel on how you garden and leave your criticism to yourself.
There's enough room in the world for everyone to garden the way that suits them. I'm fully permaculture/polyculture, but Anthony always has something new to teach me. Maybe stop being so judgemental.
For 15 years I mulched my garden and would continually have diseases now I don't mulch anything and only have a quarter of the problem, I would never leave weeds on my garden I don't even compost them. If you look at Anthony's garden you can clearly see that it is planted very densely so there is very little chance of UV penetration and as for the microbes you don't get plants that healthy without good soil.
Thanks for watching appreciate the comment. I’ve the years in my context I have been trying a few different things and I have come to a point in my gardening where I am willing to treat for pests as needed using contact sprays like white oil or pyrethrum. I also use fungicides as needed to control diseases and again find it works well in my patch with my objectives. Always open to learning new methods and ways to grow with less inputs from my end. 👍
@@grod-1976 My "criticism" is actually helpful advice not criticism. I am concerned that Anthony spraying his veggies so frequently will make him and his family sick. In fact, I do have a channel with videos on how I garden, amongst other things. I live in rural NSW, and even though the climate is completely different to that of Sydney, we still share similiar things like insects, worms, bats, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Every garden should have at least some of these critters in them else pest predation will run rampant.