The last post for 2019. Happy New Year.

This is the last Three Minute Monday until next year.

Hope you had a great 2019 and an even greater 2020.

Want something quick and pretty easy to spice up your salads a little. Then growing some Micro-Green Radish should the trick and it so easy anyone should have a go.

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Three Minute Monday. Ep.18. I Need to Mulch my Sweet Corn.

It's hot, it's hot and bloody dry so I need to get some mulch around my corn to try and maintain a good moisture level so as to get the best from my corn this year.

Time to re-pot my Dwarf Mulberry Tree.

2nd last potting up for my dwarf mulberry.

The next will be into a 500mm pot and should be the last. So here goes. Mulberry pie anyone?

Planting Chillies/Peppers and no dig soil preparation. 🌶️🌶️🌶️

🌶️🌶️🌶️ Planting Chillies, Peppers.

🌶️ Hot Cayenne 🌶️ Jalapeno 🌶️ Habanero 🌶️ Anaheim 1st day of summer and still with no rainfall for the season but the chillies won't wait for mother nature to make up her mind so in the go. Another no-dig lasagna bed using layers of organic material.

The best weeding tool on the planet.

⛏️ This is all about the best tool for weeding your garden with, on this planet... ⛏️ Available online from Shougun Tools https://www.shoguntools.com/product-p...

Three Minute Monday Ep.14. All the Dirt Podcast.

An interesting podcast from the "All the Dirt", podcast team, on healthy soil and how to create and maintain a healthy microbiologically active soil.

🎤 All the Dirt Podcast Ep.98... https://www.allthedirt.com.au/podcast... 🎤 EarthWhile Australia... https://www.earthwhileaustralia.com/o... 🎤 In this week’s All The Dirt podcast Deryn talks to Ellen Walker from Earthwhile Australia about soil testing and soil life and how healthy soils, healthy food, and healthy people are all interrelated. "To save  the  planet, we must save the soil."   "A healthy soil is vital for a sustainable life. It impacts all society. Indeed if you eat, you should be involved." Major General The Honourable Michael Jeffery

Black Cherry Tomato Trial 2019. How much is too much?

Every year I seem to find a new way or approach to growing tomatoes that I’d like to trial.

This year is no different.
Well worth a listen.
Here is the link to the All The Dirt podcast where Steve Wood and Deryn Thorpe discuss what to do in the garden in spring including what veggies to plant and bulbs to buy for summer colour. https://www.allthedirt.com.au/podcast...

Three Minute Monday Ep.13. Planting no-dig Sweet Corn seeds.

A straight forward follow-up video from ep.12 of planting the sweet corm seeds.

🌽 Sweet corn likes a few things for a good result.

🌽 Sunshine and heaps of it.

🌽 Water and heaps of it.

🌽 Protection from strong winds

🌽 A rich, well prepared, no dig, organic soil.

Music to garden by.

I put together a collection of clips from videos from over the past few months and put them to music.

Hope you enjoy.

Let me know what you think? I'm keen to know!

Sweet Corn is Made of This.

🌽 Well, I missed the three-minute mark by quite a bit but there was a lot I wanted to cover on the no-dig approach. 🌽 Sweet corn likes a few things for a good result. 🌽 Sunshine and heaps of it. 🌽 Water and heaps of it. 🌽 Protection from strong winds 🌽 A rich, well prepared, no dig, organic soil.

WD-40 Specialist Lawn and Garden. Does it work?

🌺 I saw this product on display during a recent visit to Bunnings and had to give it a go.


🌺 Does it work?

🌺 Let's find out!

🌺 Wow, there's a whole range of WD-40 Specialist Lawn and Garden.

🌺 Cut through the built-up resin, dirt and grime to break down residue and give your tools a shiny new finish

http://www.wd40.com.au/products/wd-40-specialist-lawn-garden/

Gedye compost bins as far as the eye can see, almost.

Gedye compost bins as far as the eye can see, almost.

I got tired 😓 of moaning to myself about not being able to make enough compost for my needs.

Tumbleweed 400L Compost Bin https://products.tumbleweed.com.au/products/400l-compost-bin

Sowing Chilli seeds. From Mild to Wild. 🌶️🌶️🌶️

🌶️ Sowing chilli seeds

🌶️ Rain was forecast (13mm) so I got my act together and planted my chilli seeds.

🌶️ All things being equal they should be up in a few weeks.🌶️

🌶️ The Seed Collection: Online Seed Store for Australian Gardeners. https://www.theseedcollection.com.au/

Potting up a Fuchsia hanging Basket.

I took some fuchsia cuttings a few months in mid-winter and they have struck roots and since potting up have grown well. Now, though, it's time to put them to use and pot them up in a hanging basket so I can take full advantage of their flowering beauty.

Three Minute Monday Ep.10 Harvesting the Potato Bags.

Wow, ep.10 already.

To say I wasn't disappointed would be to tell a lie but they are super yummy potatoes even if the yield was a bit on the light side.

Not sure what I can do differently to improve things. Maybe more potting mix in the pot before I plant. 30cm rather than 15cm.

I might try a different variety next time, see if that makes a difference.

Three Minute Citrus

🍋 A three-minute Monday rundown on how my citrus has responded to the application of the Whoflungdung feeding mulch. #whoflungdung #citrus #myveggiegarden 🍋 How much water does my citrus need? https://youtu.be/83UNjPTZSR0 🍋 Caring for your citrus in Spring. https://youtu.be/w6Td4BgLpYk

How to grow Thai Basil and Thai Siam Queen from seed.

🌿 Thai Siam Queen🌿 🌿 Annual. 🌿 Large and bushy variety growing to 80cm with fragrant green leaves and purple stems producing small red/purple flowers. 🌿 Leaves have a strong flavour that is a mix between aniseed and basil and is very popular in Asian cuisine. Ideal for salads, noodle and rice dishes. 🌿 Can be grown in containers. Can be used in potpourri. Very attractive variety; is sometimes grown as an ornamental. 🌿 The plant is larger and produces bigger leaves than regular Thai Basil. #howtogrowbasil #thaisiamqueen #organicgardener 📷 Original Saigon Restaurant Instagram https://www.instagram.com/originalsai... and website Original Saigon Restaurant Instagram https://www.instagram.com/originalsai... and Website https://www.originalsaigon.com.au/ Wikipedia Thai Basil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_basil 📫 Like to sponsor my next video? Let me know here. ssjdmb@hotmail.com 📫 Got a question or suggestion? Let me know here. ssjdmb@hotmail.com

Episode 8 of three Minute Monday

Episode 8 of three Minute Monday is ready for your viewing. Today we're planting sunflower seeds.

Riveting, I know!

Who doesn't love a nice corner of sunflowers in Summer? Well, now's the time to get started and plant your seeds. Here's how.

C is for Carrots

Spring, a great time to plant carrots. And the only way to grow carrots is by planting seeds. Here are a few ideas to help you get off to a good start. #carrots #howtogrowcarrots #organicgardening 📫 Like to sponsor my next video? Let me know here. ssjdmb@hotmail.com 📫 Got a question or suggestion? Let me know here. ssjdmb@hotmail.com Below is a copy and paste from garden.passion_ig on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/garden.pass... A) Avoid transplanting . B) Sow seed directly in the soil . C) Provide a rock and clay free soil . D) Provide a soft light soil enriched with mineralised organic matter . E) Eliminate obstacles in the soil. Carrots are selfish, greedy and unsociable. They want the soil all to themselves and do not want competition or obstacles. They want to grow fast without hindrance. Any slight disturbance as they dig deeper into the topsoil makes them very very angry . F) Ensure the growing medium is very deep. Any stress or space restrictions experienced by the taproot as it grows vertically will cause immediate deformity . G) Avoid heavy or high-pressure watering until at least they’ve reached a strong seedling stage. Overzealous watering prior to germination is one good reason to displace the volatile seeds and cause them to grow very close to each other . H) Protect the growing medium from animals and birds digging or foraging in the soil. Carrot seeds are notoriously slow to germinate and often they end up displaced growing anywhere bar the position you had initially planned or intended for . I) Give it room to grow. If possible, isolate one seed. You can alternatively create trenches and sprinkle a sand-filled container containing the carrot seeds but you will still probably need to thin them out later as they grow . 💘 Follow @garden.passion_ig for more 😉

Three Minute Monday. How much water do I give my Mandarin Tree

🍊 We're in the midst of the worst drought ever here at My Veggie Garden, since the last worst drought ever so I need to work out how long it takes to hand water my Mandarin tree.

Three Minute Monday Ep.6. Planting no dig Lettuce.

🥗The easy part, planting.

🥗Plus a few tips for getting the best possible lettuce you can!

🥗Getting a small patch of garden bed ready for planting some no dig lettuce next week.

🥗I didn't know it would be so hard to make a video three minutes long or short for that matter. There's so much to get through some times.

Lisbon Lemon Tree in Spring

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🍋 Yates Soil Wetter. https://www.yates.com.au/product/wate... #citrus #lemontree #organic gardening 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 PLEASE:- LIKE, SHARE, LEAVE A COMMENT, AND SUBSCRIBE! 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 Subscribe here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9wf... We thank you for watching and invite you to stick around and watch a few more videos while you're here. You can also find My Veggie Garden at, 🍄Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/myvegiegarden 🍄Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/my_veggie_g...

Three Minute Monday Ep.5. No Dig Lettuce.

Getting a small patch of garden bed ready for planting some no dig lettuce next week.

I didn't know it would be so hard to make a video three minutes long or short for that matter. There's so much to get through some times.

More fuchsias cheaply!

Who doesn't love fuchsias?

Who wants more, cheaply?

Well here's a straight forward no-fuss way to propagate fuchsias.

And watch Jag (our cat) make a cameo towards the end.

Three Minute Monday. Growing Paris Market, Baby Carrots.

I overshot the three minute make a little but I hope you'll forgive me.

This is an update on the Paris Market carrots I planted 4 months ago and I'm fairly pleased with the results.

Although slow during winter the time to harvest in the warmer months should be greatly reduced.

Planting Paris Market seeds in a pot. https://youtu.be/qRgLO56dabM

#threeminutemonday #parismarket #organicgardening

Three Minute Monday. Topping up my potato bags.🥔 🥔 🥔

🥔 Episode three of Three Minute Monday. 🥔 Can a three-minute video be called an 'episode'? 🥔 My potato bags are powering along and I need to add the last layer of potting mix and compost blend and then sit back and wait for the magic to happen.🥔

Dad's Lavender, (Lavandula dentata)

I took cuttings from Dad's Lavender, (Lavandula dentata) about 10 or 11 weeks ago in Late autumn and all have struck roots well and now need to be potted on before they can go out into the garden.

Is WHOFLUNGDUNG 💩 a Super-Mulch?

💩I pinched the following blurb from the Neutrog, Whoflungdung web page. http://www.neutrog.com.au/product_range/whoflungdung/

💩Whoflungdung is a biologically activated, nutrient-rich, weed-free, absorbent, super mulch!

It has been composted, inoculated with eNcase and filled with nutrients so that when added to soil it introduces a wide diversity of beneficial bacteria. These beneficial bacteria readily proliferate through the soil, acting as a barrier/deterrent to pathogenic bacteria, providing a safe environment for healthy plant growth. Whoflungdung aids in restricting and reducing the growth of weeds, and many users also happily report that blackbirds don’t like it. 

Whoflungdung is absorbent, as it helps retain moisture and warmth in the garden, which improves nutrient uptake. It adds nutrients to the soil for both the beneficial bacteria and plants to feed on – significantly reducing, if not eliminating, the nitrogen draw-down issues that are associated with most other mulches.

Whoflungdung is available in compressed 20kg bales from good hardware and garden supply shops, and in bulk from select suppliers. Apply a uniform layer of Whoflungdung at 25mm to 100mm deep to cover soil, leaving 50mm to 100mm gap around the base of any plants, trees or shrubs. One compressed bale will cover between 4 – 8 m2.

💩Neutrog Website. http://www.neutrog.com.au/💩

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#whoflungdung #supermulch #organicgardening

Project Plants on Pink.

Just been having a little with some very bright pink paint.

🌸🌸 Part 3 and the final Project Plants on Pink video. 🌸🌸 Now you know the story maybe you could get your plants on pink photo featured. 🌸🌸 Wild Honey Photography. https://www.instagram.com/wildhoneyph... 🌸🌸 Plants on Pink insta https://www.instagram.com/plantsonpink/ 🌸🌸 Taubmans paint. https://www.taubmans.com.au/homeowners #plantsonpink #Projectplantsonpink #myveggiegarden

🐣 It was a fabulous Winters afternoon when I went to visit Steve and check out how he went about setting his bathtub worm farm.

A big thanks to Steve for accepting my invitation to visit his place and making this video.

Steve will continue to feed his worms using predominantly kitchen waste.

I’ll check back in on Steve’s worm progress and see how much the worm population has increased.

I also need to apologise for the audio in this video. Steve’s mic worked a treat as you can hear but I had the wrong adaptor on my mic and my audio was unusable so all I had to work with was what was picked up on Steve’s mic.

Also if you have any advice or suggestions for a couple of worm farm novices then, by all means, leave us a comment below.

A day out at the Queensland Garden Expo.

A day out at the Queensland Garden Expo. Check it out! Share this video and give it a like. YouTube likes that kind of thing and so do I.

After an early start, we arrived at Nambour to beautiful blue skies and a lovely, sunny, sub-tropical winters day. This is my fifth year attending the Queensland Garden Expo and I've never been disappointed once including this year. Looking forward to next year already.

Here are the results of planting tomatoes later than the accepted wisdom. Not all that pretty now that we are in the middle of winter but this is the most tomatoes I've managed to harvest here in quite some time. I will try two more trials this coming summer, planting seeds on the 1st of December and January.

How do you go with your tomatoes? Do you think planting later would help? Let me know in the comments.

Oh, and don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel. Every bit helps a poor dirt farmer. 😀

Great day to be out in the veggie garden.

Great day to be out in the veggie garden.

40kph winds, overcast with showers and drizzle.

Think I'll stay inside and do my online spring seed shopping.

But there's always compost kitchen scraps to empty into the compost bins.

What's happening in your veggie garden? Let me know in the comments, I've got all day to read them.🤭🤭🤭

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Compost is King and Organic Matter in the soil is Gold

How I keep frost off my Potatoes.

🥔🥔It's getting cold and there's a good chance of a frost overnight so I need to put my potatoes to bed for the night. 🥔🥔It's nothing elaborate, simply a large pot at each end of the row, suspend a bamboo cane across and cover with a nice fleecy blanket.

I've wanted to grow my own sugarcane for as long as I can remember and now I am, I hope.

What goes into making compost. Gedye Compost Bins.

🍄 What goes into my Gedye compost bins and how I make compost.
🍄 It can be a little complicated but once you know what to look for this is a great way to produce compost for your veggie garden. 🍄 Tumbleweed Gedye Compost Bin https://products.tumbleweed.com.au/co... 🍄 Tumbleweed is a privately owned Australian company with a global presence. Our vision is to make a significant contribution to our earth’s environmental sustainability by designing and manufacturing innovative products that encourage consumers of all ages to reduce, re-use and recycle organic waste.🍄🍄

How to Improving your soil with Leaves

🍄 Leaves, leaves and more leaves. You can never have enough or too many leaves when it comes to improving your soil, and you're always improving your soil. 🍄 I go out early each morning on the weekends and rake up as many leaves as I can and place them in a part of the yard that I have spare and just let them sit there to rot. 🍄 when they are ready I either add them to the compost or spread them around the garden as a sub mulch.

Giving your Cabbage some TLC.

🍄 Does your cabbage deserve some love? Then you've come to the right place.
🍄 This is all you need to do to get your cabbage across the finish line in the best possible condition.




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A quick and easy way to get your onion seedlings planted.

🍄 A quick and easy way to get your onion seedlings planted. 🍄 I don't bother with sowing onion seeds because one, in this case, a $4.00 punnet will supply me with up to 25 seedlings once divided. 🍄 It also cuts around 6 weeks off of the growing onions process.


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Paris Market Baby Carrots update

How to improve your garden soil, organically!

I'm hoping you'll find some useful information in this video for improving your garden soil.

Good soil is continually being worked on and maintained. And the more effort you put in the bigger and better will be your reward.



🍄 Step one. Add organic matter, in this case, Blood and Bone and Compost but aged animal manure is good too.

🍄 Plant radish seed into prepared soil, keep moist and harvest in around 28 days.

🍄 Step two. After you've harvested your radish, repeat step one.

🍄 Depending on the season plant with peas or beans.

🍄 When half grown side dress with either compost or aged manure.

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How to Plant and Grow Garlic. Pt. 4

After four weeks of preparation, the day has come. Today we plant the garlic.












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🍄 How to Plant and Grow Garlic.  Pt.1
https://youtu.be/_ija93L2RTg

🍄 How to Plant and Grow Garlic. Pt. 2 https://youtu.be/Rw62eBMyc1U

🍄 How to Plant and Grow Garlic.  Pt. 3
https://youtu.be/judgWxatV5A

🍄 How to Plant and Grow Garlic.  Pt. 4 https://youtu.be/Zm5YLku_ouA

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How to take Box cuttings.

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🍄Everything you need to know to successfully produce new Box plants from cuttings.

🍄Japanese Box (Buxus microphylla var japonica) is an evergreen hardy compact shrub with dark green oval leaves. Japanese Box or Buxus japonica is the best box hedge for warmer regions as it tolerates heat better than other Buxus plants. It is suitable for full sun to part shade position and requires little water once established. Plant 40 cm apart for hedging. 1m H x 70cm W in 3 years.


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Buxus plants are a traditional favourite, as they are perfect for formal evergreen hedges. Small glossy green leaves on a compact dense shrub, make them perfect for clipping or topiary. They are relatively slow growing, and shade tolerant.

Growing Garlic. Adding blood and bone. Part 3

🍅 Subscribe here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9wf... #growinggarlic #plantinggarlic #organicgardening 🍄I don't believe it. In the last video, I was out of focus and in this video, I lost sound. Hopefully, the last one goes off without a hitch. This week, the final step before planting, I'm adding blood and bone and racking it in. You will also find My Veggie Garden at, 🍄Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/myvegiegarden 🍄Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/my_veggie_g... 🍄Blog - https://stewarts-vg.blogspot.com/

Growing Garlic Part Two. Adding the Rooster Booster, pelletized chicken manure, to the garlic bed.

This week I'm adding the Rooster Booster, pelletized chicken manure to the garlic bed.

Getting the garden bed prepared ready for planting garlic.

🍄Garlic by Penny Woodward. https://www.booktopia.com.au/garlic-penny-woodward/prod9781864471199.html?source=pla&gclid=CjwKCAjw7MzkBRAGEiwAkOXexCn13_QS0u5e482EzrMDJv31BAy88B6cMXp99qxjhi4AXQEhKnJuehoC3_QQAvD_BwE

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Bananas about bananas.

I was stunned, so much about bananas, I didn't even think possible.

Well worth 14 minutes of your time.

Potting up my Dwarf Mulberry cuttings.

🍄 Should have done this a few weeks ago but today I'm 'potting up' the dwarf mulberry cuttings that have well and truly struck a good and healthy root system.
🍄I'm using 150mm pots to give the plants plenty of room to get established. 🍄 Fairly straight forward job, I just need to give them a watering and then some half-strength liquid fertiliser tomorrow. 🍅 What do you think of the intro? I learnt it from Peter McKinnon's latest video. https://youtu.be/x4ubUxPeXGs

What to plant in April?

What to plant in April?

Gardenate's got you covered. April in the garden.

I pinched this one from the Organic Gardener website.

Comfrey and it's uses.

Wow, just wow.

I received an email from the Mudbrick Cottage Herb Farm last night and it was all about Comfrey.

Covering topics of, Harvest, preserving and using your harvest, drying comfrey for storage, comfrey infused oil and comfrey ointment.

I found it an excellent and informative read so I'll leave a link here for you and hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Mudbrick Cottage Herb Farm Comfrey article.

Lisbon lemon sucker removal

🍄 I had to remove this sucker from my Lisbon Lemon tree before it became too vigorous and took over from the Lisbon lemon graft.
🍄 A simple job but one you'd need to do as a part of your regular garden maintenance. 🍄 Suckering on grafted plants is something you need to be aware of and to be vigilant of. #citrus #libsonlemon #productivegarden