Success & Failure in the Veggie Garden...

[@derickbrown5249]

Love your garden John 👍.

[@theadventuresofzoomandbettie]

Love the update videos! Thanks for sharing!

[@simonstone3336]

Great gardens and green house.

[@SmallWonda]

Very helpful and honest review. It was hot here on Friday! Looking forward to seeing Elizabeth's blooms - my garden isn't a patch on hers, but it has been delightful this spring (the snails have been feasting on the clematis for one) - BUT, we've almost completed the electrification, so the reduction in marauding possums has made a splendid difference! Just wish my back wasn't so crook, so frustrating. Hope yours is doing better? Keep well & thanks for sharing all your tips & insight. 🦘🐾👍😎

[@sleepinglabradors]

Love your work John! This is very helpful, I moved to north west Tassie earlier this year and and hitting all the firsts seasons. I’m learning heaps from your videos as a very beginner want to be gardener 😋 (many many thanks) to set up my garden. There’s a lot of work to start with the cleanup of what the previous owners had, it’s very overgrown in ground beds, but I think I’ll have to wait until next year to really get the garden started. I want to do raised garden beds and plant fruit trees. I’m looking forward to hopefully have a summer with rare over 30s, versus Perth’s scouring 40 summer days 🥵

[@jesse-roseartufel3441]

Apparently the seed pods of your kale when green are delicious also.

[@deannamcnamara3393]

Enjoy your videos, love seeing your garden and how you show the good and the bad.... I have learnt a lot thank you

[@ktm8488]

Thanks for the information, I'd be interested in knowing what vegetables you plant in your shaded areas, thanks

[@GoldenLaneHomestead]

Love your videos! I’d love to see how you make those wood framed raised beds, they’re lovely 😍

[@tekoScott]

Always look forward to your videos. Keep up the good work. Always inspiring. Thank you for sharing!

[@homesteading]

Thanks for watching!

[@Dee.C]

I love your berry house . You have some very amazing gardens and green houses. I love all the tours.

[@mischa_29]

Great video and amazing garden! I've been learning a lot from your channel. My partner and I are due to move onto a block in eaglehawk neck in Tasmania's south in December and we hope to get stuck into growing some fruit and veg! Thanks for the informative content and keep up the good work :)

[@MrXbreakedgex]

I planted multiple varieties of superhot chillis (Reaper, Jolokia, Trinidad) which have all converted to Thai pepper variety. I got the seeds from different reliable sources so I don't believe I was duped. I'm of the thought that it was because I planted them close together and they reverted to their dominant genetics. Might be a similar situation for the Simpson and Australian Yellow varieties? I noticed the growth of the stems and leaves all started conforming even though the varities looked different to start with. This occurred before they threw flowers so cross-pollination isn't the obvious culprit.

[@malcolmryan-cowell3850]

Hi John. Thoroughly enjoying your videos and learning heaps along the way. I'm trying to keep up, but you set a very high standard. Thanks for all your hard work in producing the videos, which must be quite an impost on your gardening time. Cheers, Malcolm

[@MickyBellRoberts]

Greetings Mate, you do such a good job in your garden, I love it. You are very dedicated and it shows.👍🏻 You could have your own TV show.

[@kelsie9912]

Thanks for your video! It’s hard to find any advice specifically for Tassie!! What is the netting you used over the brassicas to protect? We have regular netting but I think the bag bugs would just fly through? I planted brocoli this year and it was absolutely smashed by caterpillars! It was a disaster. My tomatoes are also a disaster and keep dying (brown spots and dying leaves) and silverbeet is being all eaten by slugs and caterpillars. I’m not much of a green thumb as you can probably tell 😂

[@davidlillecrapp2960]

I haven’t had too many Caterpillars here in South Hobart this year. My patch is small enough for me to inspect each plant, when I find one, I just give it a vigorous massage between my thumb and forefinger (if you get my drift).

[@Bronnie336]

Thanks so much for the video, I really enjoyed seeing what you have got going on. Not sure if you know, but you can actually eat the seed pods of the Radish, although they might be slightly milder in flavour. Also have you ever tried growing Pepino? They taste similar to a Cantelope and are very easy to grow. I grow them here in Melbourne on the Mornington peninsula, so I'm pretty sure you would be able to grow them where you are. All the best. Bronnie

[@uppanadam74]

Can leeks grow in summer?? Always thought of them as a winter veg??

[@denisebrady6858]

John I loved this video as it was extremely informative- I hope some watermelons grow for your Children (just as a treat for them). Cheers Denise- Geebung Brisbane

[@chaumander1]

Thank you for the videos! I was inspired by your pumpkin sowing video to put my own in that same weekend and mine have just popped up too! Looking forward to your ornamental garden update!

[@Hhaahland4]

Hi John, We are are about to build some raised beds using timber and corrugated iron sheets. Your red trimmed raised beds caught my eye while researching a design for ours. What size timber and what type of timber did you use to support the metal sheeting? and Can you describe or do a video on how you made them? It looks like you just have the vertical timber ‘legs’ topped with a horizontal trim and metal sheet screwed to the inside and placed on top of the ground, is this right? My husband is worried that the corrugated sheet will bow out, once soil is added to a 2 x 1m x 45cm high bed (there will be a centre horizontal ‘leg’ piece on the 2m side), without a bottom and/or top horizontal timber between the ‘legs’. Is he over engineering? Your advice will be greatly appreciated Cheers Helen

[@homesteading]

Your assessment of how my beds are built is correct. The top piece of timber stops the bowing, which will otherwise occur as your husband says. The timber is 75x50 mm fence rail. The top timber also makes a nice edge and covers the iron making it safer. However for durability I recommend the all metal beds I have made in the greenhouse. Have you seen the video on them?

[@homesteading]

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[@Hhaahland4]

@@homesteading Thanks for the reply. Adelaide only seems to sell steel fence posts, as most of our fences are Colorbond not timber. We are going to use some recycled timber joists from our old deck for the legs (110x33), top frame yet to be decided. We want to add a 2m high timber frame to the top of each bed to use for netting, shade cloth, plastic, chicken tractor, trellis, tomato string support, etc. Not sure how we would do that with your all metal beds because I don’t want to bury treated timber uprights in the soil. I think metal fencing posts for the upper frame would be too hot for plants growing on it, in our summers. We will keep tweaking. Cheers Helen

[@RON-xx5vu]

Nice, now needs lots of water now

[@qlder2020]

hi great video do you use mulch at all that contains water and prevents water lose im in brisbane just starting to build my beds its autumn what should i get in the beds now temp is about 26 to 30c thanks

[@homesteading]

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[@tazwhitefeather]

Dont you hate the word "basically"

[@sentimentalbloke7586]

Hen house jeez mate you sounding like a toff it is a chook shed.

[@homesteading]

I would call it that....but some people don't know what a "chook" is!

[@sentimentalbloke7586]

@@homesteading ha ha thanks