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I’ve had a garden four years, but right now I’m turning my garden into a food forest , I’m growing up high , down low , everywhere.
G'day Everyone, thanks for your ongoing support and I hope you are getting into it! Cheers 👍
The horned cucumber is not only is easy to grow, but lifts food fights to the next level.
I like your idea of just using grow bags on top of a garden bed. I have been in a normal aging situation in which I cannot weed my garden beds for a few years now. My body just no longer can do the work. I do have grow bags and containers which are more manageable that I can place on top to grow food. Glad I caught your video today
I make the best anti-inflammatory drink with ginger and turmeric (1&1/2in grated piece each although I add a little extra ginger), half tsp cinnamon, rind of a lemon, 1/4 tsp ground black pepper and 1/8 tsp of cayenne pepper. Add a tbsp to a hot or cold cup of water with a drizzle of home made citrus cordial (50/50 juice and sugar melted on the pot). I’ve been having it for years and loooove it!
I planted a passionfruit and got a few fruit the first year. We then rented our house and moved away for 2 years. We came back last month and this thing is prolific! It's popping up all over and started spreading into my native garden! I got stuck into it and have given it a good hair cut! Boy, I had NO idea this thing would grow like this! It reminds me a bit of mint which will also take over if not in a pot!
Living in an apartment building in Iceland, very jealous of your harvest
Darn! I just bought 6 huge raised garden beds from Birdies and I didn’t know about ur promo code. No worries tho. I got a wonderful discount and I’m not complaining. 1st one assembled already. I’m going to order more. I love these beds.
For colder climates (like most of Europe) the easiest perennials are the hardy fruit trees (apple, pear, plum, cherry plum, walnut) and most berry brushes (hazelnut, blackberry, raspberry, red currant, cornelian cherry, etc). Generally home grown fruits are smaller than what you get at a supermarket, but also more flavorful.
I saw half a dozen stalks of rhubarb in the supermarket fruit and veg yesterday for $10! And I'm drowning in rhubarb at the moment from 3 plants in my backyard. It is delicious stewed on weetbix by the way.
We have only a small garden but this year we got bucketloads of passionfruit, lemons and limes. Also, basil, tomatoes, spring onions, chives, pak choi, blueberries and heaps of chillies! 🌶️ So satisfying and I love the savings plus the kids are learning how to grow and harvest their food too 😊
I'm growing Feijoa in my English garden more because you can't buy those fruit at all the UK except for stupid money, and I've started Goji berry plant seedlings this year. I soaked dried berries from the supermarket and squeezed the seeds out, got about a dozen seedlings from just a few berries. The British climate is changing, so I think some "exotic" fruit will become available to British home gardeners.
GROW ON THE BED IF YOU CAN'T GROW IN THE BED?!?!? Brilliant!! I am doing that in the bean bed TODAY!!!
I live in a resort and are not allowed gardens, but we have lemons, limes and oranges all thru the resort for everyone to share.
Where I live the expensive stuff is generally expensive exactly because it doesn’t grow here. I still love growing what I can though, even if it’s cheap!
As kids, we had a lot of the African Horned Cucumber, which my father called Gemsbok Komkommer - Oryx cucumber. Extremely delicious when peeled and ground with tomatoes, with salt and pepper added. I am from Windhoek, Namibia.
Grew those Horned Cucumbers for the first time this year in Adelaide, absolutely delicious. Didn't get many that ripened though, only just ripened in June as I finally got them growing late in the season, delayed start because some little bugger seemed to be nipping off the shoots as they emerged.
3:53 - 4:08 We found citrus trees start becoming decent/reliable producers after 5 years being in the ground, from a grafted plant, that is fed well with a good organic fertilizer, like an organic liquid seaweed and/or fish solution, that has also had its fruit taken off each year (so that the tree puts all of its energy into root, trunk, and branch development first to be able to HOLD ON TO THE FRUIT). As the saying goes... "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now". Imagine if EVERY property had 1 or 2 fruit trees, or even if everyone just grew ONE thing - there would be a lot less dependence on the big supermarkets!
6:39 I thought I'd dug up all last year's turmeric, and I had 2 lots pop up that are still going into a Sydney winter. 🤪
I'm just at the beginning of my gardening journey. After moving to our current place in suburban Melbourne (owned by my inlaws), and needing to recover and rehabilitate the entire garden space from about 10 years of neglect, i am making all of our south and most of our east facing fence area native eco friendly growth (hopefully with some bush tucker too). But i am keeping the north and west facing areas and whatever i feel like filling in the middle a productive container garden. Will definitely be a lot of trial and error to see what works best, but I'm excited to see what i can get going