Vegetable Garden in March | Homestead Garden Tour

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[@LizZorab]

It's been so wet and rainy here that progress has been slow-going. How has your garden progress been this month?

[@melanieallen8980]

Autumn in Australia..my garden is overgrown..Hence why Im watching your videos to get back into it.😊❤

[@margaretsofocleous1999]

Hi Liz. Great to see your progress. Your fava beans look strong and healthy and your standard roses are going to look beautiful . Spring is such a wonderful time and we can look forward to the longer lighter and warmer days. You have so much going on .🎉 Margaret in Cyprus

[@MyGardenRetreat]

Beautiful garden! We're getting our vegetable garden going here in Missouri, USA, and making videos to share it all. Looking to connect with other gardeners to learn tips and share how it all turns out! :)

[@LizZorab]

Best of luck!

[@wineberryfarm6445]

Lovely video Liz, was able to use homemade compost for the first time this year and you’re right you can never have too much of it. Just received your garden journal book. Thank you for sharing. Can’t wait to use it.

[@LizZorab]

Thank you Drema. Last week I cut back the roses and tied them into the wire framework on the rose arch. New Dawn is doing very well and should look wonderful this year. I love that I think of you every time I walk past it. You know how sentimental I am and I love have plants that mean something or remind me of someone.

[@wineberryfarm6445]

Thanks!

[@LizZorab]

Thank you so much! 💚

[@rivoruss]

Thanks for the visit! I start my garden tomorrow! So your video is inspiring and motivational.

[@LizZorab]

So nice of you and I'm glad it was good timing!

[@irishcottagerenovation9900]

The root trainers do a brilliant job on broad beans. I bought a huge load of mushroom compost and cow manure which has matured and that mixed makes a huge amount of compost both for veg and flowers, just altering the balance for purpose. Compost bins look great thanks for sharing.

[@LizZorab]

Yes, root trainers are marvelous, I've used them over and over again. They will have runner beans in them next. Sounds like a fab mixture for your compost!

[@jpennturner]

My garden is too wet to do anything yet, so I'll have to watch your beautiful garden and wait for some sunshine, thank you for the video!

[@LizZorab]

Our garden is very wet too, but luckily it drains quickly to lower down in the garden and then to a little stream (more of a torrent in recent months). I did think that the raised beds would help prevent flooding, but I think they aren't deep enough yet to have any real impact. It'll be late spring and early summer before too long and hopefully we'll have a year with sufficient rain, but not as much as last year!

[@PlasBachGarden]

Love your metal raised beds!

[@uteberg4781]

Garden progress was extremely hard and muddy here in denmark! The whole winter my flower fields (organic flower farm) were so wet, that I couldn't enter them for most of the time. I was so glad, that we had planted the tulips and other bulbs no till, in some extra sand on top of our loamy soil (covered with additional sand and straw). That prevented us from loosing our tulips, daffodils etc. Being new to danish climate, I'm trying out all sorts and combinations of organic methods, but weather was really bad this winter. We had 2 stormfloods nearby, rain nearly every day, sun nearly never ... I'm feeling like a mole, albeit a well-washed one 😅 I wish you a sunny spring and wonderful gardentime!! 🤗🌻🌸

[@LizZorab]

It has been an incredibly wet few months, it feels like the rain started in July and hasn't really stopped much since then. This year I am hoping for a balance of warmth, sunshine and rain, so that we can all grow a good crop of food and flowers.

[@uteberg4781]

@@LizZorab Same here!! Its somehow and sometimes a bit frustrating, I have to confess. But for the rainy days I now got your book, that will help :)🌸🌼🌻

[@melanieallen8980]

my guinea pigs, chickens & budgies & chicken love when I pick the dandelion s for them

[@LizZorab]

Our ducks don't seem particularly interested in dandelions, it's a shame because they could have a feast!

[@melanieallen8980]

ooohhhh I love the root trainers!!

[@LizZorab]

They do such a great job, I think I needed to plant these out a little sooner, but the ground was just too saturated with water.

[@gardenonthemoors]

Looking lovely and tidy! All ready for spring 😁

[@LizZorab]

Thank you! 😊

[@stevendowden2579]

enjoyable video liz

[@LizZorab]

Thanks Steven, I hope you have a good Easter weekend.

[@emilybh6255]

You can make a delicious fennel and orange salad with a honey mustard tarragon vinaigrette dressing with the bulb. I'm trying to grow fennel bulbs just for that purpose.

[@tiffcat1100]

That sounds lovely! ❤

[@LizZorab]

Ooh that sounds delightful, I may even sprinkle some chopped fennel leaves over an orange salad today. You've inspired me!

[@emilybh6255]

@@tiffcat1100 I got the recipe for "Fennel and Orange Salad" on the "ThatDudeCanCook" YT channel.

[@emilybh6255]

@@LizZorab By the way, you didn't start your Fennel bulb indoors did you? I've heard the roots don't like to be disturbed but keeping them watered and giving them the right environment outside seems to be tricky . Perhaps I just need to be patient and give them time.

[@tiffcat1100]

@@emilybh6255 Thank you my lovely! 🥰

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

The easiest way to make more compost,I think, would be to dedicate part of the garden to green manures.

[@LizZorab]

I think in this garden any space left for too long with green manures would quickly become infested with couchgrass (like bermuda grass) and creeping buttercup. It's the one bid downside to growing in an agricultural field!

[@JeremiahMcCurry]

Easter is the traditional first day to start outdoor planting of frost sensitive plants here in Georgia. I regret I haven’t gotten very much done at all.

[@LizZorab]

There's no desperate rush with the garden, until that moment when we realise that we are about to miss out if we don't get on with it!

[@katheringardening7093]

Thanks for sharing

[@LizZorab]

Thanks for watching Katherin, I hope you enjoyed it.

[@ErnieCG]

Good video

[@LizZorab]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@traceyclark6650]

Thank you for sharing Liz your garden is coming on better than mine at the moment. Q . I'm moving plots will I be able to carefully move my garlic with me I was thinking this because I watched in your video you moved your spring onions .😊 I thought Maybe there is a chance.

[@MyFantasyHomestead]

Your video intro looks amazing! Did you make it? Your garden looks lovely and mine is slowly drying out after the amounts of water we have had the last couple of months 💚

[@LizZorab]

Yes I made the video, luckily a friend filmed for me so that I could hold peaches and plant while they filmed. My garden has also been flooded several times - so much rain!

[@evergreenangel]

What type of bunching onion is that!? They look so big a pretty! My best ones are half that size 😅

[@LizZorab]

They are Welsh onions, perennial and strong in flavour!

[@lindaellin559]

The opposite problem over on this side of the world - virtually no rain for the last two months but still a lovely harvest of pumpkins recently! Looking forward to seeing your garden come to life soon Liz as I grab a cuppa, sit by the fireplace and watch you garden 😊

[@LizZorab]

Being able to watch gardeners in other climates is wonderful. There are several Australian and NZ channels that I watch throughout the colder months here.

[@brigidaodonnell7053]

Are you from North Canterbury like me? We have had no proper rain in 6 months and the ground is so dry! But I have had amazing pumpkins

[@lindaellin559]

@@brigidaodonnell7053 I’m from South Gippsland Australia

[@christinebyrnes3164]

Hi Liz. Thanks for your video 😊 Just wondering, with your garden journal that you mentioned, is it Northern hemisphere specific with the planting guides? Or could someone in Australia still use the journal? ❤

[@funnybunny81]

Thanks Liz! What trees are inside the greenhouse? Happy Spring 😄

[@LizZorab]

They are peach trees.

[@funnybunny81]

@@LizZorab yumm! Very exciting thanks for sharing

[@TheFarmyardGarden]

It’s been a testing few months with the weather, both on the farm and the veg plot. Really enjoyed seeing things coming to life and what your plans for the beds are. I really need to make the most of my resources for composting here. I shouldn’t be buying any. 🫣 Here’s to a great season for us all 😊

[@LizZorab]

Fingers crossed!