I haven’t been this excited about my Australian veggie garden in ages – I’ve been busy busy busy planting out my summer veggies here in Melbourne, Victoria (temperate climate) – my tomatoes are going gangbusters, my capsicums are starting to flower and there’s so much NEW that’s growing in our Melbourne backyard!
Come with me for a NOVEMBER full tour of our Spring vegetable garden here in Victoria, Australia – so you can compare to what you’re growing anywhere else in Australia with a similar temperate climate! South Australian’s / those from Adelaide – that means you too! (I was born in Adelaide so I’m a bit biased there.)
I’ll also show you which herb and vegetable seedlings you can be planting right now if you live in Victoria, or anywhere else in Australia, with a similar temperate climate.
Topics covered
– What I’m planting in November in Australia
– How everything in my Victorian Vegetable garden is growing
– What to plant in Spring
– Tips for planting out a summer garden in Melbourne
– Staking tomato seedlings
– Vertical gardening for Zucchinis
Veggies I’ve currently got growing include: Tomatoes, Capsicums, Chillies, Zucchini, yellow zucchini, cucumbers, corn, beans, snow peas, coriander, beetroot, lettuce, fennel, dill, garlic, raspberries, boysenberries, blueberries, strawberries, potatoes and SO MUCH MORE!
LINKS I MENTIONED:
Daisy’s Garden Supplies (Melb & Geelong) : https://daisysgarden.com.au
FoodCube wicking garden beds: https://foodcube.com.au/CHRISTIECOOPER
My new green house: https://amzn.to/3T2WO82
QP Seedlings: https://www.qpseedlings.com.au/
Tomato Planter Boxes: https://amzn.to/3NR0MOe
Easy assembly wooden garden beds: https://amzn.to/48y8hmx
Gathera Heirloom Planter: https://gathera.com (use the code CHRISTIESYOUTUBE for a discount)
OTHER PRODUCTS I LOVE
My favourite gardening tools on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4dY6HMe
Merry People Gumboots: https://merry-people-au.pxf.io/jrbP0a
I’m an Amazon Associate and have tracking links with some of the above businesses, I can earn commission if purchases are made using any of the Amazon, Merry People or FoodCube links above – but I promise to only ever recommend products I use and genuinely love! (I’ve turned down several offers to promote products I don’t believe in.)
VIDEOS I MENTIONED:
How to use coffee grounds in the garden: https://youtu.be/55QghZUQV4E
Ash’s Backyard Garden Tour: https://youtu.be/Pifb7qPbP4U?si=OMKztRFnVWgZ2F8e
My Garden Tours Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdQXFPmBiCeEx_bAyFdf-egJj8ZN3dsxy&si=WktPrgj0cLmJtyn-
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Thanks for all your support! Aussie vegetable growers are the best.
20 Comments
Oh you have flowers and fruit already on your tomatoes! I love Black Russians, they’re my favourite tomatoes and I can’t wait for mine to grow. Lucy is so cute 🥰
Sorry to tell you but your daisies from your neighbour look like gazanias which are considered an environmental weed in Victoria 😢
You can make carrot top pesto
1:00 Well done Lucy! I hope you’re sleeping through the night if you’re reneging on your daytime naps! 😉
7:00 re birds eating fruit, I used the onion bags that come from the supermarket, tied with a little string & they worked well last year.
They look like Harlequin beetles- we’ve got them everywhere & they appear every spring. They suck the juice from fruit & are very hard to beat. Gardening Australia had a story about using soap suds as they have a hard outer shell & are impossible to spray. 🤷♀️
I’m in Melbournes East as well. We have a Mulberry tree (which is covered in fruit), Raspberries and Blueberries. Hoping for lots of fruit this year, our trees are looking good so far.
Glad to hear Broccoli will still grow now. We planted it too late and are still waiting for it to form.
My carrots came out just like yours! Never had good luck with them as I feed my soil too well 😅 I've cleared them out now to make way for summer veg! 🍅🌽
Plant corn or maize in the parts of the garden where you think you have too much nitrogen they are heavy nitrogen feeders and will pull out nitrogen out of your and into the plant and you grow other plants around the base or cut the corn down before it fruits and plant something else
Great tour Christie. Your tomatoes are way further on than mine, you lucky thing.
I'm growing 4 zucchini plants vertically this year too. Cucumbers work well that way so I'm sure zucchini will.
Those carrots do look like too much Nitrogen, although I'm no carrot expert. If you have beets in similar conditions and they are not fattening up – yep too much N.
Lovely to see your littlies smiling in the video. I have 3 grand nieces and nephews and it's "Uncle Gerry what's this one? Can we eat it now?" Awesome stuff.😊
Tip on thornless blackberry bush. I live in Ballarat. The blackberry grow like crazy on wire trellis and I can’t completely rid of the ‘babies’ that keeps popping up even after 2 plus years of having to get rid of the parent plant as it was blocking sunlight on my lemon tree. Just make sure you plant it away from other plants.
By the way, love your garden
“Definitely my latest impulse purchase… no plan for the blueberries” 😂 I love it!
Get some tulle bags or stockings onto those Berries or the birds will eat them. I’ve grown Blackberries for years and it’s always a battle. Best thing in your garden is that precious baby, so adorable. Great tour. I really enjoy watching a fellow Victorian from same time zone and climate. We call the bugs Harlequin bugs.
Every garden and every gardener is different. I enjoy watching your garden exploration and discoveries.
CDs, mirrors and such never worked for me in discouraging birds from berries. Berries are so irresistible to birds, they will always find a way. Careful netting is the only thing that has worked for me; careful as in make sure there are NO holes or gaps.
Good luck.
PS Add a little vermiculite to your potting mix, or to the top of your seed pots to help to keep them moist.
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Your garden is looking so good Christie! 😍🙌💚🍓
"Hello everyone, let’s greet each other warmly!
With the potatoes let the tops die back, and stop watering them to let the soil dry out, dig out your spuds and put them in a dark, cool place to harden the skin. Then you can store them like normal. If you nick the skin, use the potato straight away. Well done lovely.
I love the "anyone can" garden!!! 💚💚
Well, your garden is absolutely beautiful. It looks like it’s just getting started even though it’s November. So interesting how weather and different locations around the world can affect our gardens. I’m so happy for you. You live in a little paradise a little slice of heaven. 💙💚💛💜❤️💜 Liz from California
The potatoes in pots look like they are an indeterminate variety given how tall they are growing. Spuds are generally harvested when the plant flowers/ when the tops start to die back. Bit of Lattitude with harvesting.