Create Your Own Edible Garden: Organic, and Sustainable Gardening Tips | GARDEN | Great Home Ideas

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[Music] if you head to the supermarket these days you could be spending up to 12 bucks on one of these so I reckon that’s a pretty good reason to become self-sufficient and start your own edible [Music] Garden Joel oy who’s this little one ariela hello is this your house so tell me a bit about the house guys in the garden well we’ve been trying to grow veggies but they’ve always been out the back and we’ve had no success out there so we’ve going to try and get some veggies going out the front you’ve already started out the front here you’ve got things like Rosemary chilies stuff like that but then the weeds have taken over what happened they did well we had a baby 10 months ago that will do it yes yes that will do it yes and that really did put a bit of a h on things my plan for the front garden is to get rid of all the weeds and turn it into an edible front garden space so be really nice when you get home walk through the garden you the smell of the herbs and then when you’re out here hopefully it’ll bring in the community as well good job you got a front fence as well you want them in but you don’t want them stealing your veggies that sounds you happy for me to do that s great please go for it home maners we’ve got this fantastic old wash tub now these are all across Australia but if you’re not lucky enough to have one for yourself you can probably pick one up from a salvage yard they make fantastic Planters if you get the drainage right you can raise them up and the concrete heats up which is perfect for root growth [Music] to create a solid base for our trough I’ve just put down two papers and on top of those I’m going to lay a couple of Bessel blocks and the reason I’m doing this is just to bring our trough up a little bit higher that way it’s let’s back breaking work when you’re tending to your [Music] veggies four raised planter I’m just planting it up with mixed leafy greens we’ve got some spinach end dive and lettuce now it’s perfect to put them in a garden like this because it’s so much easier to work with them when you get home from work now all over the East Coast this is perfect to be planting now but you always want to check what’s in season to avoid [Music] disappointment I thought it’ be a really good idea to put a grow screen along this wall that way we’re going to save space and we can start putting some plants vertically and to do that I’m using H4 Pine posts which I’m going to concrete [Music] in and then I’m going to use a stainless steel wire across the top so we can have a variety of plants growing up this vertical feature having a simple wire between our posts means this grow screen is really quite versatile we could put some netting on there and grow sweet peas you could even do cucumbers or even some runner beans up here I’m actually going to be doing tomatoes and this system is called growing them like accordance and that means long and straight and that’s where our piece of string comes in you want to be supporting the growth up and removing any of the side shoots out that’s these ones it will grow long and thin and you’ll get lots and lots of fruit because there’s light on that [Music] fruit investing in your soil is the most important thing you can do in your garden especially if you’re growing herbs and veggies now I’m just using mushroom compost cuz acts like a sponge in the soil to hold on to moisture and nutrients which is perfect for things like leafy [Music] greens to add to the list of our edible plants I’m using some strawberries now strawberries are low growing so I want them to be at the front of the garden bed so they’re easily accessible and they’re a great way to get kids involved in the garden towards the back in the Sunny Spot I’ve planted some chilies just to fill in around that tomato that we’ve planted and then some zucchinis as well now zucchinis like quite a lot of water and quite a lot of space that’s why they’re going at the back of the bed to give them enough room to ramble [Music] around to add to our edible plants I’m putting in some ornamentals now this is a great way to add structure to your garden bed at the end of the Harvest when you remove things you don’t want to leave lots of gaps that’s why ornamentals are great and they’re also great for bringing in bees and insects now this is an ornamental you can eat it but really it’s not grown for its taste it’s grown because it looks so cool and this is parac carus have a look at these bright flowers that’s sure to bring in a smile every time you look at it the best part about all this planting though is you can all get it from [Music] Bunnings and over on this side of the garden to balance out the trough we’ve got a lemon scented metal now this can get quite big but by trimming it down you get all the lovely clippings that make a great cup of [Music] tea now we all know mulch is really important for your garden you want it to be about between 50 and 75 mm thick so the water can get down to your edible plants but in an area where you’re constantly changing your produce over the stuff that grows really quickly like your lettuce you want to use something that breaks down quickly so if it gets mixed back in the soil it’s not going to cause any problems I really like using sugar cane cuz it gives you that grow your own look [Music] when it comes to watering in your garden it’s really important that you have a fine Mist on there and spend some time getting it into the soil that way it’s not going to affect the delicate roots and you’ll get much better [Music] establishment hey Ollie it’s been a busy day but how do you think we did it has this is fantastic so it looks great now but it’s only going to get better with time and you’re get loads of produce to take inside it’s brilliant and I’m sure in the usth to come Ari is going to love coming and just grabbing a few things for the garden for us to cook with it’s going to taste better than your thumb huh [Music]