Overall the garden seems to be doing well after that wild weather. Your poor rhubarb though . Maybe it can still repair itself. Mine is looking sad , losing leaves , I think it's hungry so I've fed it worm wee . I'll see how it goes. Rhubarb is something that I've never had success with . I planted out my horrid looking Summer veg today. I think they'll be better off in the bed than in pots for me. Thanks for the tour lovely ❤❤

Hi Amy. Lovely sunshine and your garden is looking good for the time of year and the severe winter you have had. Does your drip system run from a dam? Does it ever clog up? I haven't installed one but would love to, just worried about this happening and being an issue.

Down in Latrobe we had three days of "Hurricane". Trees down EVERYWHERE ! It was terrible. Your garden is looking great.

That’s so clever, having a compost bin on each row. Stealing that !!

I have a question I have planted sweet corn a week or a week and a half ago I’m in avoca Victoria central west Victoria that is have I planted them to early or will they still grow please let me know this is my first year trying to get a head start on them please I don’t know what growing zone I’m in ever

I really enjoyed this as we’re in the same area and the information is good for my own garden thank you

Hello 👋 from South West Victoria, I've only started watching a few of your videos👍 and going through the comments section😅 thanks for sharing

Central North Island, New Zealand, still getting to nearly 0 some nights. I have tomatoes in pots but resisting the urge to plant out. Traditionally it is Labour Weekend to plant the vegetable garden (last weekend in October) but we often wait until early November. A frost this month killed 3 of my 15 tomatoes, all off the ground and under cover. Not sure why 3 frosted and the rest were fine. We can get frosts here any month of the year so will have to bitecthe bullet sometime.

Hi Amy. Thanks for sharing your experience. I am in Pakenham VIC. My tomato babies are inside and about 6 weeks old. Still getting nice and strong. I had always followed the idea to plant out cup weekend but I felt last year that was just too late and my harvest seemed to be super delayed. I have been wondering if I could chance them out a little earlier seeing as our nights have been quite warm already compared to previous years, other than a couple of drops here and there. I like the idea of getting a few out and seeing how they go so I might do a staggered planting. Especially seeing as i always start way too many and never have the heart to dump them. Thanks for the idea! Loving your content xx

You call that cool??? Here in Tasmania I generally have my last frost after Xmas, and my first frost often hits in January, usually misses February, but March frosts are a certainty. Then it starts getting cold.

Don't waste the effort starting early, unless you have a greenhouse. What is the variety? Psuedomonas fluorescence is the required bacteria to reduce the frost forming bacteria

Hi ,I’m near Warragul, I put tomatoes out a couple weeks ago,most are fine,a couple are a little frost burnt,they are against a fence,so some protection.

It's been a cracker of a day today! We planted out first seeds for the season in the past couple of days. So excited to see them start! Our first season starting out with our poly tunnel, so hopefully will help us kick start!

I am following Charles Dowding's sowing advice. Just pricked out my seedlings today. Adelaide, top of the Fleurieu Pennisula. I over wintered a cherry tomato in my glasshouse. It has ripe fruit on it. Harvested 12kgs of cherry tomatoes last season

Hi Amy. I'm in Rushworth, Victoria, and thought it would be okay to plant out my single tomato plant. But it was just before that frost the other night, and I forgot to cover her ... she is not looking very happy. 😢 Thank goodness I left the younger seedlings in the greenhouse!

Hi there, I'm Melbourne SE Suburbs on a windy community gardens plot next to the Dandenong Ranges. Weather has been all over the place, but no frost here for ages. I'm thinking I'll put my cherry tomatoes out under some covers this weekend, despite all the old timers telling me we have to wait until Cup Day 😁. If they look okay after a week, I'll put some of my others out when I've got space for them. Thanks for the video 👍

I have not even sown tomato seeds yet, but I'm doing that in October, planting on cup day, which is the traditional way for Central Vic. I am terrible at growing tomatoes though.

In Wollondilly NSW . Still getting some frost but plan to plant tomatoes this weekend . ❤

Your tomato plants look amazing 🤩 I have a brown thumb when it comes to anything in pots . I've been forcing myself to only grow from seed for the last few years ,other than occasionally gifts of seedlings from MIL or last minute desperation when the season is running out and I still have no capsicum sprouting, for instance. We are in SEQLD on 5 acres with a north facing slope , on paper our place ticks all the boxes but in reality our annual rainfall is very low and the ground is pretty awful. We were completely spoiled on our last homestead . It is improving but it's taking a huge volume of inputs , if I started here again, I would order a truck load of compost and another of cow poo ,and then attempt to garden. Chicken tractors have been an amazing tool though. I can see exactly where they've improved over the last 4 yrs. My seedlings , really they're no more than sprouts are looking terrible. I may have to just direct sow again ,as I have slightly better success with that way . Thank you for the video to enjoy with my lunch. ❤❤

Hi all, I’m bayside Victoria, I’ve jutted potted up my tomatoes..the weather is just so up and down, my brassicas don’t know whether to go to seed or not😂.. my garlic seems to be suffering, maybe it will perk up once the days are more consistent. Have a great weekend all🍅

I was just wondering if l should plant my tomatoe seedlings out or not, the nights are still quite cold ,some around 5 degrees in adelaide, that was very helpful. Some of my seedlings got powdery mildew and l don't know if I shall chuck them out or still plant,what would you recommend? Yes those metal pegs,l use them the same way!😊😊

Thank you for the lovely informative videos - I live in Adelaide and I still haven't planted any of my summer veg out yet - it is way too cold (especially at night) to even consider it - I like to plant them out when the overnight temps get above 10 degrees. I was late sowing my tomato seeds so they are still very small, I am going to repot them and then leave them to grow a bit until I plant them out (gives me more time to really work on the beds more!!) - so everything is still in the greenhouse. Where did you get your frost cloth from? I have been looking for some but can never find it! Have a wonderful long weekend!!

Thank you for the videos :) they’re lovely easy watching :). I live in Vic and for my pathways I use wood chips, free from arborists. Maybe that might be good for you? I’m sure there’s an arborist in your area and they normally need somewhere to put their wood chips and drop them for free. I just keep a pile out of site and use it on my paths in my veg patch and never have a weed problem. I have used wool carpet until some parts, but thick wood chips work so well :)

I made the mistake the other week planting 4 of my tomato plants as it was several days of beautiful sunshine. That night we had a massive frost and woke up the next morning to all 4 plants gone. So I'm holding off, not sure when but don't want to loose anymore.

The best thing about potatoes in pots is no digging to harvest them - just tip them over on a tarp. From my unscientific experiments I have found that my potatoes in pots prefer blood & bone to fish emulsion and the only thing I've found that doesn't like seaweed extract is liliums. I saw in one of your comments that you wanted to add lime for the calcium - can't remember at the moment what the difference is, but remember that there is garden lime and then there is dolomite when you do your research. For the time being maybe just add some crushed egg shells from your chooks until you have time for that. Couldn't help but notice that you were more smiley and relaxed after a little gardening and sunshine so wishing you some Peace until you have more opportunity to enjoy both of these good things.

Yeah, when you till/dig the soil you break up the soil network and then it takes time to recover. I'm only a Melbourne suburban gardener but try to minimise any soil disruption. (Once I've got some decent organic matter in there) I probably spend as much time trying to produce compost and worm castings as I do growing veg. Nice video, 👍

Hi, I’ve just discovered your channel and hope to watch more! Can I ask about your no dig watering methods? I see you have drippers….in the past, I’ve used newspaper and straw, but have found the straw to be so thirsty. I can literally water for an hour (overhead) but the soil underneath remains bone dry. How does everything break down when straw can be so difficult… Looking forward to learning more!

Is it good for plants or not

My sister decided Mother Nature is going through menopause and doesn’t know what to do,I was able to pick up a dehydrator at the op shop the other day much to my delight haven’t ever seen one at the op shops before

Very informative video.

Sorry about your hail, gut wrenching. I always thought you weren’t supposed to lime potatoes.

What type of cabbage do you grow ,it looks really nice ever they are nearly finished for the season in

Im sorry about your plants. Thats hard. I hope your sunshine was enough to get the appliances working for you . We're sick here so im literally doing just the minimum to keep the family and animals fed , i can hardly do anything in the garden yet. Yesterday i transplanted 3 small rosemary and thats it , today i did one perennial onion but managed to move greywater hoses and water 3 small trees. Not a single seed or plant is in the garden for Spring despite the goid weather, if dry. The seeds i planted in the rollerboxes have had less than half germinate then some are looking rough from the temp fluctuations and my chaotic care because of sickness. I guess im trying to say that we all have challenges whether at the beginning of this season, middle or harvest end. I know that we'll both grow some things and harvest good food at the end. Chin up lovely 😊 Thank you for sharing the real ,sometimes hard but always worthwhile side of gardening life. I hope your potatoes thrive for you too. ❤❤

Keep up the great work and I love your videos and seeing what you can grow down there as I’m on the mid north coast of NSW and we don’t get frost or really cold winters here Your videos are amazing and very informative,shame about the storm but that’s the life we live with growing our own 🩷💕🥕🥕🥕

The weather has been more like winter and winter weather was like spring.

Im in Central Vic, near Maryborough, difficult place to grow stuff, cold frosty winters, hot and dry summers.

Capeweed is a great pioneer plant. It is an indicator of crap ground. Let it grow until it the next level of pioneer plants/weeds proliforate

We had this storm a few weeks ago ripped into the rhubarb and the potatoes they are gone lots of other stuff looks like garbage we had the hail again this week but not as bad the other week we had ice on the garden for two days,and unfortunately I don’t think it will be the end of it

Amy, that was one mighty storm. Oh the joys of gardening sometimes...it certainly tests our resilience. As you said, grateful for not planting out seedlings, so keep looking forward to what is about to be planted for a wonderful summer garden. Take care and thanks for vlogging this.

That was a lot of ice! Hopefully that's your bad luck for the season done and dusted. Had to smile at your oregano - re-affirms my suspicion that oregano likes abuse.

Oh my 😱

Such a shame when Mother Nature hits and the destruction it can cause in just a couple of minutes. I saw some photos of Castlemaine streets and it looked like a winter wonderland with the huge amount of hail. We only got a little rain and distant thunder down my way.

Your poor garden. I hope most things recover for you . We had the worst storm i remember in my life about 8 years ago now. It was terrifying. Have you checked your roof and gutters for damage? I am really glad that those kind of storms don't happen regularly too. Stay safe and warm lovely, thank you for sharing ❤❤

I know how you feel my garden got hit by hail 2yrs ago and it was when it was at its peek 😔 it was devastating but i was great full that i had harvested a lot from the garden already 🙂 but to look at the destruction was horrible and 2 yrs on some of my fruit trees still have major scaring from the hail but i have made some improvements that will hopefully help next time 🤞🙏 I hope everything recovers for you .

Tish, mate. So much copped it. A lot will come back (probably the weed, GROAN) but it's heartbreaking to see the damage. Replant your carrot, you can always thin it out later. Our Frankston region is in for a crappy week so I'm holding off on planting out.

I'm so sorry about your garden but it'll bounce back for you. 💚

It missed us, but Castlemaine 15 minutes away looked like snow and a torrential downpour. I was in Castlemaine after lunch and it was beautiful sunny weather, then I got home and the thunder and lightning started, but we only had a little rain. My son came home later and told us about the torrential hail in town and we started seeing video online. We were oblivious!

Oh dear!

I love the no dig way of gardening and use it in the beds raised and on the ground. Rethinking the way we garden is an important step and at my age of 65, the less work the better for my old back. 👒🧤🧣

I used an old plastic tent floor to smother the cape weed. Worked well. I removed the tent floor once it started to break down. Hadn't started to pull apart but it had changed colour so removed that and away we went. Horribe stuff cape weed