Excellent mate! Hope the slugs stayed off yours. Some of my heads got a lot of baby slugs in them so I will need to pick up my game next planting and control the slugs

Hope they would out for you 👍

Thanks Brian. Hoping to get the content out faster so that you can keep up with what I am doing in my patch in real time

Thanks for watching Brian 👍

I’m glad it helps and thanks for watching 👍

😂 I’m happy to harvest both.

I have grown celery in the past and it grew quite slow and was really stringy and strong flavoured and didn’t grow them again. I might try them out again next year. Plant them out in March would be my recommendation and add a lot of water and fertilisier

Thanks matt 👍

Thanks yeah they take time and patience but once they are on they are great eating

@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 Mine always seems to get attacked by something!!

If it was planted in March look at Addison a fortnightly feed of liquid nitrogen fertiliser and make sure it is well watered

Thanks. The key with caulies is that you need to try to plant them early in the season so that they still can take advantage of the warmth in the soils. In Sydney the soil can stay pretty warm up to late May but cools fast once June comes past. If you plant early enough the plants would put enough size so that they can mature in the cold weather

@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 thanks for your reply Anthony. I planted seedlings in early August but we have had a hot autumn in Perth, so maybe they will kickstart now as we’ve finally cooled down

Thanks mate yeah trick the old man taught me. He has been doing it for years

Another good one is Roots and Refuge if you haven't heard of it.

@@michellenorris211 I do, Jess is great 👍 But this is similar climate to me in Australia, so Anthony's advice is really useful 👍

@@ImGlyn I do agree, Aussie here too😀

Thanks Glyn for the kind comments. Really glad that you are getting something out of my videos. Thanks for the support. Trying not to be too repetitive but it’s hard when I spend all winter growing caulies and broccoli 😀

Hi Craig I will take the heads in and give them a rinse and then let the water dry. I will then wrap in a loose paper towel and put in a plastic bag in the fridge. They will last up to 2 weeks in the fridge though ideally I would try to use them in the first 7 days to get the most out of then

These ones I planted they took 3 months. Mum came back and told me that the plants were too large and that she wants them picked smaller so I will look at turning over the second planting in 8 weeks. It comes down to how warm the soils are. Now we are in the middle of winter the garden really slows but generally 8 weeks

Yeah some plants are impacted more than others. My old man keeps telling me that parsley planted in late spring will only bolt once we move to September. Likewise parsley planted in March April will bolt at the same time. With my rocket I find it’s the same case if I plant a late round now they will bolt straight away. As you have said different varieties and plants have different tolerant to daylight changes

Thanks Glenn appreciate your support and glad you are enjoying it

I hope it works for you 👍

Yeah my local cafe roasts their own beans and I have gotten husks in the past. Might have to give this a go 👍

Chickens are great. I generally keep them locked up so they don’t dirty the yard but I get a lot of compost material from them and they eat all my garden waste. Win win

Chickens are great. I generally keep them locked up so they don’t dirty the yard but I get a lot of compost material from them and they eat all my garden waste. Win win

Thank you for watching 👍

With eggplant I won’t but I’m tossing up whether I will with the capsicums. I will pull out the first planting in December and I’m thinking I might plant a second round in December also and see if I can get a late season harvest which is fruit fly free

Yeah I saw that forecast. I haven’t had to water the garden in the last month. Don’t mind the rain as long as it isn’t pelting rain over a short period it floods the patch. Need to learn how to grow flowers it is not my strong point. It would look amazing once they all bloom in spring

@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 Yes looks fantastic. I use mostly the same principles with flowers as with vegies. A little more phosphorous and a little less nitrogen. Marigold seed sown in spring and planted in the vegie garden especially around tomatoes and capsicum help deter fruit fly as they don't like the smell and brighten the garden up. Cheers

Yep it was a little warm in Sydney this week but looking at the forecast we are back to 14 degree day time temp. Once we get over the shortest day for me it feels like spring is coming

Best of luck with it. Hope it works out

A lot of nitrogen fertilisier especially earlier in their growth and full sun position

I’m grateful to have a good sized block that hasn’t been converted into a duplex site yet. Great way to spend an afternoon .

My neighbour is an avid gardener but still likes to have some lawn so hers is a little smaller. But she tells me I spend a lot of time in the patch 😀

Yeah with brissy I would go a month earlier than me you have very mild winters so you could do well to plant your spring veggies in start August.

Best of luck with them. Lots of nitrogen early is the key 😀

Thanks Anthony for the tip I will certainly do that.

Thanks Anthony for the tip, I will certainly do that.

Yeah in Melbourne I would wait at least a month after what I do in Sydney it stayed pretty cold really late last year. Can you share where you got your heat mat from? The ones I see are really expensive. And always looking for new seed companies too. Found a good one for commercial cucumber seeds that I will share in my next video

Best of luck with your garden 👍

Thanks mate. Hope you do well with your seedlings. The seeds I used I bought last year so I hope they germinate alright

Thanks for watching👍 I’m trying to be conscious that people are following along with my garden so I will try to share what I am doing in advance so you can follow and grow with me

We don’t really get frosts here. Last year I got a real mild frost one day but the mango and avacado did ok. Might have has some slight leaf burn not much else. They do ok here as they are in a fairly sheltered spot in the patch.

I find in my house because it is heated that the seeds generally germinate without heat mats. If you have one use it but I haven’t spent the money on one yet

Thanks for watching. I plant on adding fertilisier to my mango this month. I’m still trialing different fertilisier mixes and rates but looking at adding a handful of potash a little dolomite lime a good heap of chicken manure pellets and then mulch with half bag of cow manure. I will be doing it this weekend before it starts to flower

@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 I don't suppose you have any successful apricots? I have several apricots but none of them have done very well at all... :)

Thanks for watching. I’m hoping to share enough content quickly so everyone can keep up with where I am in my patch in real time. My videos at this stage are a couple days delayed but will let people know what I am doing in advance

Thanks glyn. Glad you are enjoying the content 👍

Yep small town Sydney 😀 it feels too cold to start working on the spring garden but keen to get an early start

@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 You gotta start thinking about those sweet potatoes and tomatoes mate!! LOL!!

Hi the soil in my main patch was essentially lawn that the previous owner had put down weed mat and spread a lot of top soil and then laid grass. When I started the patch I removed the grass and the weed mat and then added 2 tonnes of mushroom compost to the bed to add organic material to the top soil. I have been planting in this bed over the last 6 years and before every planting I have added a couple bags of cow manure to the soil and over time it slowly builds up. Over the past year I have been looking at saving money in my patch so I have been collecting free horse manure and composting it will garden waste and my chicken run waste. I will put close to 2 cubic metres of compost over my bed a year so it is doing well. I also strategically fertilise my plants throughout the season and I am trying to fine tune that. With the rain it’s been a struggle eapecially with the slugs. I am starting to see some powdery mildew on my broccoli which I have never seen before. The cold and wet does make your plants struggle especially the winter greens but you need to make sure you have planted your winter crops in March April so they have time to grow big before the cold sets