Essential tasks for your late summer garden | See what we're up to in our Urban Foodforest this week

[@heatherbarker7708]

Thank you so much , very informative. I’m off to start my winter seeds . Give Panda a cuddle for me he is cute.

[@MelbourneFoodforest]

Thanks so much Heather, glad you found it helpful! We'll give panda a big kiss and cuddle 😽💚

[@Denisescrafts1]

Another very informative video. Thanks so much for sharing. Roaming in your food forest must feel like heaven to Panda.

[@MelbourneFoodforest]

Thanks very much Denise 💚

[@ggamer8759]

Very informative! Where about are you in Melbourne?

[@MelbourneFoodforest]

Thank you! We are in the inner eastern suburbs 💚

[@johntaylor2856]

Love your garden. Do you do succession planting for kale, spinach, and broccoli?

[@MelbourneFoodforest]

Thanks John, yes that's exactly why we're sowing up seeds and seedlings before we have the bed space - succession planning in action. Although we're not necessarily succession sowing kale, spinach and broccoli - as we tend not to grow those things over summer. One autumn/winter sowing is enough to last us most of the year. We succession sow all sorts of vegetables to ensure we never have any empty bed space! 💚

[@lisathemessenger7973]

Do you have any problems with blackbirds? They scratch all my soil and rip out plants, peck tomatoes and make a general mess 🙄

[@MelbourneFoodforest]

Hi Lisa fortunately we don't anymore. In the early days we did and it was very frustrating - I feel your pain! I attended a workshop on how to encourage more small birds to your garden and deter the bigger birds, and the advice they gave that stuck with me was to plant densely. Larger birds like indian mynars and blackbirds like open spaces. Our foodforest is so densely planted now we don't have many open areas, and I have definitely noticed a reduction in the number of larger pest species of birds. In the meantime, it might help to net your garden beds - even using a mesh wire or mesh bin over the seedlings you're trying to protect might help 💚

[@hecateywicca]

Hi love your videos I was wondering advice on eggplant as I can never get them to grow bigger and then fruit is always so small

[@MelbourneFoodforest]

Hi Michael thank you, glad you enjoy our tutorials! I recommend you watch our Vegepod video. There I detail all our struggles with eggplant and how we have finally learnt how to grow eggplant properly :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/omPbo6V5nZqXo6M. Assuming you have the right variety of eggplants that do grow big, then yes we have lots of tips in that video for you 💚

[@Hhaahland4]

What variety of tomato is the small black and yellow pear shaped one Jian?

[@MelbourneFoodforest]

Hi Helen that's an Indigo Pear you can see it in our tomato tour video, and we have a few more tomato videos on the way including a review & recap of the season 💚

[@Hhaahland4]

@@MelbourneFoodforest Next question…. Where did you buy the seeds?

[@KLMN890]

I have to put the seeds still.

[@MelbourneFoodforest]

Lots of time left to get your winter seed in 💚

[@KLMN890]

@@MelbourneFoodforest true.