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We live in Central Victoria, Australia, on an off-grid property where we grow our food, raise animals and live lightly on this earth.
A little video on when I plant my tomatoes in our cool region of Australia.
I hope you have a lovely weekend in your garden.
Thanks for watching!
Amy
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22 Comments
I have not even sown tomato seeds yet, but I'm doing that in October, planting on cup day, which is the traditional way for Central Vic. I am terrible at growing tomatoes though.
Hi there, I'm Melbourne SE Suburbs on a windy community gardens plot next to the Dandenong Ranges. Weather has been all over the place, but no frost here for ages. I'm thinking I'll put my cherry tomatoes out under some covers this weekend, despite all the old timers telling me we have to wait until Cup Day 😁. If they look okay after a week, I'll put some of my others out when I've got space for them. Thanks for the video 👍
Hi Amy. I'm in Rushworth, Victoria, and thought it would be okay to plant out my single tomato plant. But it was just before that frost the other night, and I forgot to cover her … she is not looking very happy. 😢 Thank goodness I left the younger seedlings in the greenhouse!
I am following Charles Dowding's sowing advice. Just pricked out my seedlings today. Adelaide, top of the Fleurieu Pennisula. I over wintered a cherry tomato in my glasshouse. It has ripe fruit on it. Harvested 12kgs of cherry tomatoes last season
It's been a cracker of a day today! We planted out first seeds for the season in the past couple of days. So excited to see them start! Our first season starting out with our poly tunnel, so hopefully will help us kick start!
Hi ,I’m near Warragul, I put tomatoes out a couple weeks ago,most are fine,a couple are a little frost burnt,they are against a fence,so some protection.
Don't waste the effort starting early, unless you have a greenhouse.
What is the variety?
Psuedomonas fluorescence is the required bacteria to reduce the frost forming bacteria
You call that cool???
Here in Tasmania I generally have my last frost after Xmas, and my first frost often hits in January, usually misses February, but March frosts are a certainty.
Then it starts getting cold.
Hi Amy. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I am in Pakenham VIC. My tomato babies are inside and about 6 weeks old. Still getting nice and strong. I had always followed the idea to plant out cup weekend but I felt last year that was just too late and my harvest seemed to be super delayed. I have been wondering if I could chance them out a little earlier seeing as our nights have been quite warm already compared to previous years, other than a couple of drops here and there. I like the idea of getting a few out and seeing how they go so I might do a staggered planting. Especially seeing as i always start way too many and never have the heart to dump them. Thanks for the idea! Loving your content xx
Central North Island, New Zealand, still getting to nearly 0 some nights. I have tomatoes in pots but resisting the urge to plant out. Traditionally it is Labour Weekend to plant the vegetable garden (last weekend in October) but we often wait until early November. A frost this month killed 3 of my 15 tomatoes, all off the ground and under cover. Not sure why 3 frosted and the rest were fine. We can get frosts here any month of the year so will have to bitecthe bullet sometime.
Hello 👋 from South West Victoria, I've only started watching a few of your videos👍 and going through the comments section😅 thanks for sharing
I’m in Newcastle NSW, seedling are up but not big enough to transplant yet into the garden. They seem to take a very long time to germinate this year.
Please excuse me for going off topic, but did you knit your own sweater? ❤ Is the pattern called "Into The Wild" by Tania Barley? My knitter's heart is squeeing with glee!
I'm in Shepp and am completely new to growing food. I planted my tomatoes last week but wish I'd seen your video first I might have made a few mistakes. We'll see how they fair.
My father in the 1960s in Melbourne metro used to plant tomatoes which he had ready on Cup Day. He didn’t cover them but planted them in a sheltered position facing north. Makes me wonder if the weather was warmer perhaps different 60 years ago. It is good to have found your videos for Victoria. So many are Northern Hemisphere. I have planted out 5 varieties in the sheltered position facing north like my dad. Some already have flowers. Many more varieties to try but I always save seeds.
Hello! I'm in Central Vic too at 600m above sea level. I grow my tomatoes from seed inside by the fire in late July and plant them out in the garden around 2nd week of Nov. It usually works out fine re frosts by then. I don't get tomatoes until mid-late Feb/early March though. And I don't have a greenhouse. Love your videos!
I’m in SE Melbourne near the bay. I’ve seen my tomato seeds in a mini greenhouse for germinating. First time growing from seed. Fingers crossed some sprout.
Dandenong ranges here. Planted 11 rams horn toms on the weekend just past along with 30 other spring veg. Time to start another 30 assorted spring veg! Succession planting square foot gardening is what works best I have found.
all the older wiser folk say to plant your seedlings out on Melbourne cup day
Im brand new to your channel
Where in central vic are you?
Good morning, we are Homesteading off grid near Castlemaine also! 😎 pretty rough winter with all those -6s this year! As stated a few times in the comments, Melbourne cup was my Grandfather’s marker for frost tender seedlings, but have had a few lite frosts in Dec! A future solar passive greenhouse will be a game changer! Happy growing 😎😎🐶
I'm in Canberra, and we're going to plant this weekend