Climbing beans. To pinch or not to pinch.

 What do you do when your climbing beans reach the top of your teepee?

Pinch the tip or just let 'em go?

Let me know. So far I have two votes for letting 'em go.

Planting Drunken Woman Lettuce I bought from the local farmers markets.

Planting 'Drunken Woman' Lettuce from the local farmers' market. A great all-round all year, lettuce. With well-prepared soil and regular applications of organic liquid fertiliser, you'll be richly rewarded with an abundance of lettuce leaves for your salads. You can find The Veg Table here:- https://www.facebook.com/vegtablehampton/ and The Toowoomba Farmers Markets here:- https://www.facebook.com/toowoombafarmersmarket/ 🍎 Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9wfr8kaj_QauCNS5TeHEqw?sub_confirmation=1

The Kiss Principal.

I tripped and fell awkwardly at work and with a combination of a painful knee, a less than happy shoulder and a few other little niggles I wasn't in the mood for gardening.

But I'm on the mend and ready to get back into it.

Today I've planted 5 salad veggies that you can get quickly get started two different ways.

Planting first as micro-greens and at the same time direct sowing ensuring a long harvest period.

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. 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

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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.

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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.

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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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Growing Garlic. Adding blood and bone. Part 3

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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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