High winds in the garden this week, but I got out there to prepare beds, move plants and multiply more edible plants on my urban backyard homestead. I’m always surprised at how much is growing even after you think you have harvested as much as you can from an area.
It’s Winter here but all systems go putting in beds, caring for the soil and maximizing on what has generously grown. Every day doing a little that adds up to a lot.
I hope your homesteads and gardens are providing food, colour or joy. Or all of the above.
Blessings Kayleen
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heat heat [Music] heat heat heat heat heat heat heat heat heat hey hey hey with you [Music] [Music] thanks for joining me in the garden today my name is Kayen and I live in Victoria Australia and this is my garden bed i call it number two and I’m clearing it ready for spring i am taking all the plants out and then we’ll pot them up we will divide them make more plants and get them all sorted i won’t leave them out for a second longer than I have to and we’ll take them over to the potting bench and get some plants in pots in soil or in the ground some of the rhubarb stalks fell off as I was lifting the plants so I put them in my basket to take inside and cut the leaves off into the garden so any extra vegetation in the garden is a little bit of chop and drop the next big plant I had to get out was the black currant now the black currants have massive roots system on them once they get going they really stretch out in fact as I was pulling up some of those roots for went for probably almost a meter maybe 70 cm long so it kind of stretched into the garden bed probably about halfway some of them so it was later on I went about digging some of those out because I would imagine little pieces like this would probably grow and I would have more currents so we’ll trim the roots up later before we plant it but it’s very difficult to get currents when they’re dormant to move them they don’t mind me being moved at other times but you’ll see it’s got sprouts on it already they don’t go to sticks really before they start moving again so I got a lot of chives out of that garden they probably need to be divided up but I’m going to pot them in groups and deal with it later the main thing is to get the garden clear and then get everything potted in a way that I can leave it for a while and not put that straight into a garden cuz I’m not quite ready to do that uh all in one day or I did do some weeding the second day this time has tried to dye me several times and excuse the pun and it keeps on coming back so it was green the other day and then it turned brown again so I’ve dug it up anyhow it’s a peppermint time and I’ve only got that one plant so I’m going to put it in a pot and just see if it comes back and it’s happier in a pot instead of being crowded out in the garden because I’m likely to put this in the garden the rhubarb I decided to put it in a great big tub and just heal it in and by healing it in I mean pretty much you plant them in soil but you don’t put a lot of soil underneath it’s just so it’s covered and it grow they can think they’re growing in there uh but it just protects them keeps them moist you keep them watered until you’re ready to move them later so the soil that I’m using is on the other side of the property so I was back and forth with soil uh collecting it for the pots but we got it done and later when I went to get so to pot up the current I decided to just plant it close to where the soil was and get it in the ground so I put it in the front garden uh so I’m taking all the pots uh all the plants and putting them up on my potting bench and systematically potting them up unfortunately my camera is a bit skew if so we kind of got it in the shade here it’s a little bit tricky to see so I’ve edited out a lot of it and fast forward quite a bit of it so you can see roughly what I was doing these are the spring onions out of the garden that we took out of there but I also had picked up some spring onions in amongst some chicken feed or chicken produce I’d picked up on a roadside stall they’d given it to me from the chickens and I don’t give them the onion so I they looked fine so I grabbed them and cut them back and put them in a mug and left it in the kitchen for a while so I brought them out also to pot up while I was potting all of this up trying to chip away at all the jobs my kitchen is often hosting some cutings or things that I am sprouting in water so it’s not uncommon to see things like this in the kitchen [Music] hey [Music] hey hey [Music] [Music] there we go [Music] heat up here [Music] heat heat [Music] heat heat n [Music] which is probably a better idea it’s very easy to propagate from current so I have a black current a white current and a red currently and oh I’ve done it again with the puns currently and they are very easy to strike and to take cutings so I could have done that at the time but I had enough on my plate so I’ve just settled from getting this plant in the ground but when you’re doing this or moving a larger plant you could always take some cutings to ensure that if you lose the large large plant maybe you might be doing it in a hotter climate um you’ve got some backups with some cutings just start curling around i will take off That’s pretty good and look at these take these out that is the oxalus so I went to the other side of the property to get soil to put the black current in a pot and decided I’ll just put it straight into the garden and I was going to go to the other side of the property to get the camera so there you go probably a bit close to the rose than I intended in my rush i planted it probably a foot 12 in too far over there but that’s where we’re leaving it today so I returned to the garden the next day and I found some more corn salad so I’ve planted them very close to the perpetual spinach which I left in there i don’t know if that’s going to do much that spinach but we’ll give it a go uh otherwise I will let it go to seed i think I collected some seeds from it but I don’t know if I marked them that’s the problem when you don’t mark them and things look very similar to each other but I did weed this bed i left as much vegetation in it as I possible to rot down but I did have problem grasses in there in the oxalus so I kind of had to go over it with a little hand tool and the banana that was at the back of it I was going to move out and I kind of grabbed it and it was a bit loose so I just pulled it up so that is going in a pot too and that’s a bit of alysum hiding amongst a tiny little fig that I had just propped inside the bed it looks dead but it’s actually not dead they’re deciduous right now now the soil was better than I thought i actually thought the soil would be horrible but when I pulled all of that up I found that the soil was pretty good so I will add amendments uh to it as I build it up because the soil I’m putting in it I’m not sure how good that is but I will leave this base layer alone it’s pretty good as I was working it or not working it but as I was wetting it the top layer of mulch that was remaining kind of went into the soil too so the worms will have a little bit more food before I put the cardboard layer on and the mulch that goes on top that’s another job done and every time I go into the garden that’s what I try and do i try to have a job in mind commit to that job and at least do that thing and try not to put too many things on my list because I mean I’m already quite puffed from doing all of that i mean I do it as quickly as I can because I’m beating the battery you know got all my gear that ends up losing battery so to share it with you I’ve got to go pretty fast but and there’s a bit of back and forth across the property um to do it but we got there so thanks for joining me um if you enjoyed this and um or if you want to see anything else or you know I’m I’m open to input um if it’s constructive and yeah how how are you all doing with your garden right now And are you in your winter or your summer And um how’s that going for you And I see some kicking gardens out there and I’ll repeat that because I said it really fast kicking gardens meaning fantastic gardens out there and uh but no matter where what stage your garden’s at it’s all good we’re all doing a good thing okay see you next time bye for now [Music]
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Kayen, your dedication really shines through, my friend 🌿 Even with the high winds and winter chill, you’re out there doing the work — prepping beds, multiplying edibles, and making the most of what the garden gives back. That line about being surprised by how much is still growing really hit home… nature always has more to offer when we slow down and look closely.
I love your mindset too — “every day doing a little that adds up to a lot.” That’s the heart of a true homesteader. Keep sharing your journey — it’s inspiring and a real reminder that even in the quieter seasons, there’s so much happening below the surface 💚