Spring Garden Tour 2025 🌼 | Edible Garden, Orchard, Hydroponics, Vege Patch, Greenhouse & More!

It’s spring here and the garden is looking beautiful. As it’s been a while, I thought it a great time to take you on a full tour of our property’s growing areas this spring 2025 — including the edible garden, veggie patch, orchard, hydroponics setup, vertical planters, and greenhouse.

We love growing our own food, learning as we go, and making the most of our small homestead in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria. Whether you’re into self-sufficiency, backyard gardening, or just love seeing what’s growing across the seasons, we hope this gives you some inspiration for your own space.

🌱 What’s in this tour:

Our spring veggie patch and edible garden beds

The orchard and what’s fruiting now

A look at our hydroponic system and vertical planters

Inside the greenhouse and what’s new for this season

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It feels like it’s been a really long time since I’ve taken you for a big walk around and a big garden tour all the way around our garden here in the Dandong Rangers. So today, what I thought I’d do is take you for a full spring garden tour and show you a whole bunch of things that’s going on at the moment. So, as we’re walking around, what we’ll do is we’ll have a bit of a look at the orchard cuz I want to show you how everything’s been going since hubby did that really big hard prune. We’ll go down, have a bit of a look at the veggie patch areas. We’ll check out that spring planting that we did together. I will say some things have gone really well, but there are a few things that didn’t go too well. So, I do want to show you what’s happened there. Um, what else have I got to show you? We’ll go up and we’ll have a look at the hydroponics as well. I’ll show you how that’s tracking. Some things are really taking off up there. And also, we’ve done a bit of work on the vertical planters up there. Oh, and one thing I really am excited to show you is some planting that we did yesterday. It was like Christmas. I got this package. It’s like so special that this was sent to us. So, I am really excited to show you what we planted yesterday. Um, yeah, I think that’s most of the things that I want to go through with you today. But I will say that spring is just such a magnificent time in our garden. And I really hope you enjoy going for a bit of a wander around with me today. [Music] I thought we’d start off on the deck today cuz I think we normally finish here usually, but um I do want to show you how the hydroponics are going and also how all the vertical planters are going as well. Now, you’re probably noticing these are looking a little more sparse than normal. You know, normally there’s a lot more green on them, but we actually did a bit of work on all of these recently where we pulled them apart completely. We also pulled apart all the strawberries because they’d kind of sent runners and they’d become really compact in each of these little sections and we split them all so that there’s just one strawberry in each of these little sections. I do think that’s going to be good for them in the long run. And in fact, I can already see they’re starting to produce some strawberries for the season now. But yeah, it definitely doesn’t look as lush as they normally do when it’s like this. The hydroponics has really kicked off extremely well for the start of the season. There’s the things that we planted in here together. Things like the cabbages, as you can see, they are taking off. They’re looking really healthy. They’re growing really quickly. I’m really, really happy with that. things like the leafy greens, lettucees, buckchow, all of those sorts of things, spring onions, they are all growing really well so far. We did have over here that experiment leaving in the capsicums. These were the ones we overwintered. This one here, I reckon’s cactus. I I can’t see any signs of growth on that one at all. This one here, I’m a little unsure of. There is still signs of green. I’m going to leave it a little bit longer and give it a chance. But the one behind here does actually have signs of growth. So if I can zoom you right in. There we go. We have signs of life. So that one there we may actually get away with having overwintered outside here in the Dandong ranges. So I reckon that is pretty cool if that does actually grow. Um we do have some of the other summery veg starting to come through now as well. the tomatoes. And I did transplant in here one of our capsicums. I think that was one of the paprika ones. And yes, we have had a bug get to that. So, I have been squishing. And around here somewhere. Ah, here. And here. That’s the eggplant seedlings that we grew together. So, I am really hoping the eggplant grows in here even half as well as it did last year because they were absolutely incredible. I was going to show you the veggie pod, but uh Cooper’s waiting for his ball and I think he’s been playing in the sheep water. Just had to show you that. All right, so as for the veggie pod though, he’s so dirty. that is growing really really like really well. Um yeah, it is just so abundant at the moment with pretty much everything we put in here. That’s all the spring onions, the beetroot, spinach, there’s carrots, there’s lettuce. In fact, I’m already picking lettuce out of here. Parsley, and there’s also coriander in there as well. Oh, and in the front, I’ve got some radishes. And some of these are huge. Like check this out. [Music] How awesome is that? I’m going to take that one inside cuz I think we’re going to have a bit of salad with dinner. So, that will be beautiful. But really, really happy with how the veggie pods growing so far this season. A big part of it is really this cover. you know, having it so that you’re not getting all the little bugs getting in here and eating particularly the leafy greens. It just makes it such a awesome productive space. And I think it also gives it a little bit of protection from some of the winds as well cuz we have had some serious winds lately. My problem at the moment is needing to tuck all the vegetation back under so that I don’t get bugs landing on it and then getting in there. Now, the orchard over here is an area I definitely want to catch you guys up on because if you followed along for a while, you know that we absolutely cut this area right down. And when I say we, it was Russ hubby did it. And it’s been incredibly successful. As you can see here, the height of everything has come down quite a bit, but it still looks lush and very full and very abundant. And if we come in close, you can see there is a lot of fruit on these trees. Now, we’ve been really lucky so far. For some reason, the psums have left some of these fruit trees alone thus far. Although, I do have something growing in the garden that I’m going to show you that may be helping. I’m not quite sure, but I’ll I’ll give you a little peek at it. Um, but we are definitely having issues with psums. Hubby was out here the other day. It was like 15 psums he spotted that evening. And we’re getting this issue where they’re really targeting the lemon tree this year. Check that out. That’s what they’re doing. They’re going from lemon to lemon and they’re eating all the peel, but they’re actually leaving the lemon part. So, definitely not what I would be eating to my taste, but um yeah, they are getting really stuck into the lemons. So, um, thankfully they’re not stripping the apple trees quite yet, but but we are keeping an eye to that because we do know all of a sudden the ringtails in particular seem to get a bit of a taste for the blossoms and leaves and they will absolutely strip our fruit trees. Now, as you can see, there is lots of blossoms on the apples and we are just getting to the point where some of the apples are starting to take off. Definitely not having any issues with bees and pollination here. Thankfully, I think having our own bees on the property makes a big difference, but I have been hearing from people this year. They’re having a lot of issues with pollination and not seeing a lot of bees around. So, I don’t know if that’s something you’ve seen, too. But that’s really concerning to be hearing so many people mentioning that. Um, but yeah, in addition to seeing the bees buzzing around, you know, we’ve just been enjoying being out here looking at the blossoms. It is again just a beautiful time of the year to be out here. Um, nectarines. That one there is a nectarine that is growing quite well once again, but once again, we’re not getting a lot of fruit. Yeah, I’m really not sure about this nectarine tree. It never really seems to do much. Although, oh, hang on a second. Oh, maybe that’s the problem. Something’s getting in and eating the nectarines while they’re still little. Oh, that’s a bugger. Maybe that’s why I’m not seeing too too many on here. H. Anyway, that does mean that what I’m about to show you over here may or may not be helping too much with the psums. And that’s this new thing that’s clicking at me right now called an electronic scarecrow. Now, I am going to give you a full separate video on this thing, but it’s got lights and ultrasonics and all sorts of stuff that’s supposed to help keep away certain things from the garden, including the psums, which have been causing us grief year after year here. Um, whether it works or not, I’m not sure, but uh we are giving that a test out. So, look out for that separate video where I’ll go into a bit more detail on that thing there. Another one of our apple trees here. This one is beautiful. This is a pink lady one and it’s absolutely chockers with flowers at the moment. And the bees are loving this one as well. Now, as for veggies, this area here is probably the first of the areas where we planted up some veggies together. These ones here are our pumpkins. We also put in some seeds of beans. And as you can see, those seeds have now germinated. That is looking promising cuz I do really want them to grow up this year and grow over this trellis. As for the pumpkins, these ones aren’t doing too bad on this side, except that one there, which the bugs did get to over here. These are also not too bad as well. We haven’t had a lot of hot weather, so they’re definitely not going as well as I had hoped by now, but these ones, compared to the other ones I’m going to show you further down in the garden, I’m fairly happy with. They will take off once we get some warmer weather. Now, this area here we also planted out together. This one had a whole bunch of seeds. Excuse me, getting interrupted. So, the seedlings here are lettucees that have popped up. [Applause] Over here, we’ve got the dills that we put in. So, there was a couple of seedlings. Let me get that one off that. And then along here, I’ve put in some carrots. I actually did that after that planting video together. And you can see that they have started taking off now. That’s these little ones here. But the main thing we planted in here together was onions. And I’m just not having a lot of luck here with onions over recent years. I can barely see a single onion that’s popped up out of any of those packs of seeds. And there was all different ones that I used. But yeah, definitely not a lot of joy with those. The cosmos, however, they are growing really well. So that’s these three here. They were the seedlings that we planted together and they are taking off wonderfully. And another thing that has really sprung to life is our peies. So right throughout the garden, the peianies are all starting to butt up at the moment and that’s going to be really exciting soon when they flower cuz yeah, peies if you haven’t seen them, they are a really stunning flower. The one thing that is flowering at the moment and is adding a bit of beauty to the garden is the chundula. And this is a gorgeous color of chundula. Um I think it was called sunrise or sunset or something to do with the sun. But yeah, I’m really happy with that. That’s I think just one plant and it’s added a lot of color right throughout the winter. So, we planted that back in autumn as seed at the same time as we planted a whole bunch of other things in here. The carrots, the broccoli, you know, the carrots we are still picking. The broccoli has pretty much all just gone to flower at the moment. That’ll go to seed and I’ll harvest the seed off of that. Over here, we do have something that we’ll be picking soon and that is a whole bunch of broad beans. So, I absolutely love broad beans. Broad beans are one of those things that’s often really underrated, but if you pick them fresh and you eat them, they are really good just even grazing in the garden. But we like them as well. Like particularly with breakfast, frying them up, having them with a bit of butter fried in the fry pan, feta cheese over the top, squeeze of lemon juice, and that on toast is absolutely delicious. Compost area is probably looking a little bit lean at the moment. I am using some off the bottom here, probably a little prematurely because I just needed some. We exhausted it all when we prepared for the spring planting. And this area here, we’re now filling again. Ah, actually, I should show you over here. This is the spot where I got 8 kilos of sweet potato out of one old feed bag. I’m doing the same thing again this year in the same spot because that was so effective last year. I think I’d be crazy not to do it again. So that there is one of the sweet potatoes and that’s one of the ones that I put in water and we shot roots just off of a cutting from the plants. And yeah, so far that’s doing really well. Rhubarb also doing incredibly well. These potatoes, they were left in the ground over winter. They didn’t look too happy then, but they’re looking pretty happy now. And again, another feed bag. And this one here has got some potatoes that I have just very recently planted. Now, one thing we’re harvesting a lot of at the moment, which is why there’s probably some I’ve let go a little too far in the garden here. It’s asparagus. We have had so much incredible asparagus. We’ve got this bed here, this bed, and this one up here. We’ve been eating heaps of it fresh. We’ve been cooking it on the barbecue. We’ve been frying it in the fry pan. We’ve been roasting it. We’ve been putting it in the air fryer. We’ve pickled it. We’ve like eaten so much asparagus. It’s awesome to have the abundance at this time of the year. You know, we’ve even got some on the shelf that we’ve pickled so that we’ve got some when it’s out of season as well. But at this point, yes, I am letting some of it go to frond. And to be honest, it’s not a bad thing anyway because it just helps with the health of the plants. Now around here, that is our raspberry patch and that is just full as at the moment. A little earlier today when I went past it was also absolutely buzzing because the bees have been all over the flowers in here. In fact, as I get a little closer, you can see there’s heaps of bees in here now, too. So, we are definitely not going to have a shortage of raspberries this year. I will need to cover this really soon cuz as soon as one turns red, the birds will find them and they will be gone pretty much immediately. So, they will be covered. Um, but yeah, for the time being, I’m just enjoying the way this looks. It’s lush, green, and lots of promise of fruit to come. Over here, way more peies. So, again, just waiting for them to open. Up here, we’ve got some of our artichokes. Those ones there are definitely ready for the picking at the moment. But I don’t know, sometimes I just like letting them go to flower as well cuz they are beautiful, the big purple flowers in the garden. But in saying that, given I’ve got three there, the roasted artichokes, they are beautiful when they are in season. When it comes to our dalas, the ones that we left in the ground, like these ones here, they are really taking off. The ones that I planted, they are a little bit further behind, but it is really cool at the moment because we are seeing them starting to pop up. So, I’ll show you some of those a little bit further on in the garden. But for here, we’ve got the veggie bags. This is where we put in some cabbages. So, we’ve got the cabbages that we planted together in this one. And in this one here, we’ve got the sprouting broccoli. Now, I did a stupid thing. I didn’t close this one up completely. And if we have a bit of a look inside for the first time, I actually had some bugs get in and a bit of bug damage. So, you can see some of those leaves have been eaten. Um, I did put in some snail pellets, which h it it’s frustrating, but um yeah, there was too much munching starting to go on. I was going to lose my plants. And I really do want this to be a spot where there is no bugs in there. And if you close them up properly, you do get no bugs in there. So that’s definitely a learning for me just to make sure I make sure those zippers are closed properly cuz jeepers, I tell you what, those bugs got in really, really quick. Now, in here, we planted corn, and not one so far has popped up, which is probably not surprising cuz it hasn’t been particularly warm thus far. So, yeah, I’ve just got to keep watering and hope that they do actually pop up once we do get a day where it’s nice and warm. One thing we are picking a lot of in here, though, is snow peas. Our snow peas are still in abundance and that means we can pretty much come out here anytime at the moment when we’re needing greens and just come and do a bit of a pick. We’re eating them fresh in salads. We’re putting them in cooks, stir frying them, eating them just in the garden grazing. There has not been a shortage of snow peas this season. And this is just one of the couple of spots that we have them at the moment. I’ve got them a little further along in the garden as well. flowers in the stackis are starting to take off. That one over there with the violas has a little bit more color to it. So, that one’s probably a little prettier. Well, at the moment anyway. But this one here with the ntoriums, I’m sure that’ll look good once we start getting flowers. And then in this bed here, this is where we have the flowers in the middle. And again, it’s the peies that are really taking off at the moment. But we also have a few of the things that we planted together when we planted all the seedlings. Things like our zucchinis in each corner. There’s also some self-seeded lettuce in here. These are the beetroot seeds that we planted together, which are no longer seeds, and we now have seedlings, which is great. And over the other side here, we also have a whole bunch of seeds that have taken off. These ones here being all of our coriander. Now, moving over to this bed, this is where there’s a few things that are not going quite as well. The main one being our cucumbers. You can see our cucumbers are looking pretty sad. And that’s where cucumbers are even left in here at the moment. And part of the problem is you can see the stems have been very very stripped by little bugs. We had an issue with they’re like these little snails. They got to these and they also got to some of our pumpkins that I’ll show you in a moment. And it was the ones that we planted together where I even said to you when I planted them, we left them in the greenhouse too long. The stems were too long. They were soft. They were tender. And the bugs decided that was delicious. So, I’m actually not sure how these are going to go. So, I have put in a few more seeds. Some directly planted in here. And I’ve got some in the greenhouse as well. These are a shelling pee. And for the first time in a very long time this year, we did actually pick a whole bunch. And we’ve been shelling them and eating them in meals because normally I just plant enough for grazing in the garden cuz to be honest I can’t be bothered shelling peas. Normally what I grow them for is just being in the garden opening them up as we’re walking around and then just eating peas as a little bit of a garden snack. But we had so many that I didn’t want them to go to waste. And if you haven’t had fresh peas like from the garden compared to what you buy from the shops, it’s a completely different thing. So it was absolutely delicious. Quite a labor of love to pick them and then peel and pod them all. But um yeah, my eldest and I sat there and did that together and that was a nice little activity to do together. But yeah, it’s definitely not something I’d want to do too often. But absolutely incredibly enjoyed the fact that we did. And then we come to the garden, the retaining wall garden. And this is where I have more of those. Well, this time it’s the pumpkins, the ones that didn’t go so well. So, this is more plants where we had that issue with things being stripped. So, that one there’s not too bad, but you can definitely see it on this one here. See how they’ve just kind of gnawed at the outer part of the stem. And quite a few of the pumpkins we had in this area here, they just didn’t survive that at all. This area in front here, this is onions. Now, this spot here, I have actually got a few onions that have popped up. This is, I think, the only spot I’ve had some onions pop up, cuz we did plant them together further down as well, and I don’t think I’ve seen a single one really pop up down there. This here is some things that I’ve pulled out of our greenhouse recently to harden off. These are the watermelons that we started inside together by the fire. I have kept those in the greenhouse cuz they didn’t get too leggy or anything, but I definitely need to start hardening them off and plant them out outside soon. These ones here are those paprikas. Again, I’m just hardening them off before planting out in the garden. Same with some of those eggplants that we planted together, the yellow chili. And these are some of the cucumbers where, as I said, I’m having to do a bit of resoing. So, those ones there obviously way far behind where I would like, but yeah, I’m just not convinced that these ones over in the garden are going to go that well. Moving along, I’ve got again more things that I’ve pulled out of the greenhouse. These ones are pretty much all flowers, some cutings, and some things that we’ve raised from seeds. one of the areas of onions with not an onion to be seen. And these are some of the pumpkins that we planted together. These ones have done a little bit better. These ones a little further along. Ah, except this one. There we go again. Yeah, it’s pretty disappointing when they munch at the stems and they weaken. And it’s amazing how little of it being intact still keeps it alive. But yeah, it’s never going to be the healthiest plant really. But um I can be pretty ruthless when it comes to plants and ripping things out. Russ is a little bit better than me in that regard. He tends to like to give things a chance and some things have actually done incredibly well. In fact, we’re always talking about the story of this lemon tree up next to the house that does incredibly well now, but it got eaten by a sheep fairly early on. And I was like, “Pull it out. it’s never going to be great. He was like, hold on to it. And now it’s actually an incredible lemon tree. So, yeah, I’m going with the hubby approach with this one here, and I’m seeing if it’ll actually grow. But yeah, we’ll give it a chance. All right, let’s check out the greenhouse. So, this is probably a little bit different to the last time we looked at it together. We’ve got a whole bunch of different pots over here that I’ll explain to you in a second. We’ve pulled a lot of the big pots out of here now. Essentially, I’ve just got a whole bunch of sweet potatoes, some of which haven’t popped up yet, but I did do a little bit of a dig and check, and it does look like they are starting to shoot, so I’ve left them. Haven’t given up on them yet. These are the ones that we planted slips pretty much straight back into the bed. They’ve taken off once again. It’s going to be probably about a decade now that we’ve just continued that cycle going and there are some that are probably getting close to needing to go outside. That’s our ginger. It is just very excitingly starting to shoot. So, this will be year two for this ginger. I didn’t harvest anything this season. I probably could have for the first time, but I thought I’d just give it one more year and then we’ll harvest hopefully this upcoming winter. That there is our self-seeded tomatoes. And I did notice something really cool when I was down here earlier. Check out that. It is really, really early for us here in Victoria to be getting a tomato, but I have a tomato turning red already. Thank you for self-seing. I often find it’s the things that selfseed that tend to do the absolute best. Nature knows when things are ready to grow. These ones here are our Korean gotchu chili. They’re the ones we use when we do our kimchi. And we did cut those back quite a bit, but they are now starting to take off, which is great. Dragon fruit. Paul Urban Bounty. I do want to show you this. It’s not dead. I have managed to keep that alive by some absolute miracle. I didn’t think it was going to do well, but it has. These ones are hubbies carnivorous plants. So, the idea of having those in here was that they’d eat some of the bugs in the greenhouse. And then we’ve got the chilies and capsicums that we’ve overwintered. So, this is where again, some things have done well, some things haven’t. You know, we we really do struggle with the colder weather here in the Dandong ranges in the winter time. So, this is pretty much the only place I can get these types of things to overwinter. But even then, not everything always does. So, we can see things like the jalapenos have done quite well once again. In fact, I think this plant here might be going on about 8 years old. And because it has overwintered, you know, we’re still picking chilies, which is pretty cool. I’ve got this unknown chili variety. I’m trying to remember where I got that from. I think it was one of our swaps. And I think that was from a swap as well. Let’s see what’s going on here. Ants. Ants means aphford soon. So, I need to keep an eye on that. Um, sorry, getting distracted. Always got to watch for these things in the garden cuz uh yeah, you can see these little telltale signs and then you tend to often know what comes next. Um anyway, going getting back to what I was showing you. Not everything did make its way through the winter. This one here I think was one of our capsicums. This one at the back here, I think that capsicum was about 8 years old. Those two haven’t made it through. This here is how I struck that sweet potato that I showed you outside in that feed bag, the animal feed bag. Basically, all I did is I stuck some cutings in water and they rooted. Then what I did is the ones once they started getting some leaves, I popped it in a little pot like that. And then I’ve uppotted it to put that outside. This area here is where I mentioned at the start of this video that we got this really super exciting package. And this planting here is what’s come about from that. But rather than me pointing at different empty pots, I’m going to take you back to yesterday and share a little clip that I took yesterday, which explains exactly what this is all about. Over the years, Facebook communities has been a great way to connect with people with like-minded interests. And sometimes there’s even some incredible sharing beyond information that goes on in those groups. One of the groups I’m a part of is the Chili Growers of Queensland, which probably seems a little weird considering we’re down here in Victoria, but they invited me to join a couple of years ago. Thanks for that, Oliver. And ever since then, I’ve been seeing and participating in some pretty cool chats and things. And very recently, I put a question on about chili seeds and what people would grow if they could grow something a bit different and unusual. cuz we grow fairly standard sort of chili varieties here. And I got some really good suggestions. But I had one of the awesome members, Dave, reach out and say, “How about I’ll send you a whole bunch of different seeds.” And that’s what I’ve got here. He’s sent me an incredible array of seeds for our family to grow. I just want to run you through some of the varieties that was in this pack. Chalk Primali. And yes, I’m going to pronounce some of these wrong. Uh, seven pot yellow. There’s a dragon’s breath. Seven pot defcon gravedigger, the apocalypse, Jay’s giant peach, which is gone for a bit of a fly. Um, chalk reaper mods. There’s some red habanero. This was one quite a few people mentioned was a good one. Uh, Moragu crossreer. So, definitely excited to get a few of those going. purple ghost scorpion and this one here which I’m also really really keen to grow. This is the sugar rush stripey but I had been looking at sugar rush peach and that was just off the back of seeing on a homestead. There was Becky there who had been growing that and she does lots of the chili sauces mixing through peach with those ones and says it tastes great. This is a really cool striped variety. So definitely keen to get a bunch of those ones going in here. Jay’s Peach Ghost. And this one here, one of the hippie seed company ones, which I have grown some of those in the past. In fact, I think that’s where we got our Korean chili from. Um, that one there is a black scorpion tongue, though. So, I have an amazing array of chilies. And because I want to give all these incredible seeds the respect they deserve because we really do appreciate you Dave sending these through. You can see I’ve got super serious and a little more organized with my planting than I normally am. We’ve got good fairly consistent size pots. And yes, I actually pulled out a marker and I have actually labeled everything. So hopefully you’ll all get to see these grow really well and see how all these cool varieties turn out. Definitely keen to give some of these a bit of a try right through from some of the ones that are probably a little bit milder from the family through to some of these ones with some pretty wicked names on them that uh Dave did say will probably light Russ on fire. So definitely keen to give hubby something that is nice and spicy given his love of spicy food. And I think this just might do it. So, how cool was that? And again, Dave, thank you so much. Like, we incredibly appreciate you sending these through and we just hope that we grow them well and can do them the justice that they deserve. Okay, so heading back out again. Just want to show you the last bed down here and all of our tomatoes again. all those seedlings that we started by the fire together and they are doing really really well. Really happy with these. Again, it hasn’t been particularly hot yet, so they haven’t started to really take off, but I went to a nursery the other day and there was tomato seedlings for sale like this size and they were selling them for like $8.99 each. So, when I think about how many we started off together and how many we’ve got growing here, it’s definitely worthwhile doing it yourself from seed. Now, garlic. Yeah, this is where we’ve got a few ups and downs going on at the moment. So, if you followed along with us last year, you would have seen that we had issues with rust. And if you can see here, we again have issues with rust. Um, they seem to be growing okay, so I’m letting them continue to grow. They’re actually really good size. But yeah, it’s a bit disappointing to see that we’re having that issue again here. Oh, before we finish up here, I should show you these, too. I think I planted these after our seed planting video together. These are daicon. So given we do so much of the kimchi, I am looking forward to having some of our own daon this year. Or at least hopefully we will cuz this is the first time I’ve tried growing it. But so far these are looking really good. Ah, random thing in the garden. Can you see all these white little patches around of eggshells? I’m doing a little bit of an experiment this year. So, I was told that if you put eggshells in the garden that that can trick cabbage moths into thinking that there’s already cabbage moths in the garden and that maybe that’s a deterrent. Now, I don’t know if this works or not, but given we’ve got lots of eggshells at the moment, I’ve put a few in the garden, I’m going to give it a bit of a crack and yeah, we’ll see if it works. Now, this area through here is still a bit of a mess. I shared with you that we took down a very big tree in a video where I shared that the we just don’t get everything done all at once all the time. Things aren’t always perfect around here. And as you can see, we still have wood laying on the ground. We’ve moved some of it, but yeah, we will just keep chipping away at it. It’s just one of those jobs that we’ve just got to keep working on. So, this one here is one of our Daleers, one of the new ones. And this is where I was saying that the newer ones are taking a little bit longer to shoot and grow. But they’re starting to grow and that means that I’m hoping we’ll have a lot of good color in the garden over this year cuz I did get those 10 new varieties. So that’s going to be pretty cool if they do all take off. You probably see in amongst all the wood, we also have a whole bunch of pots with fruit trees in here. And this is something new as well that we’re going to give a go of because if you followed along for a little while, you probably know that we get incredibly hit hard by the wildlife in that orchard that I’ve showed you, also in the edible garden out the front. And it’s really hard to net and protect those areas. So, now that this big tree is down, what we’re going to do is actually put a row along here of pots with fruit trees in them in a line or put a bit of a structure up. so that we can put some net over the top. And I’m hoping that we’ll have some fruit trees here that we’ll be able to protect a little bit better. One of the reasons that I want to have them in the pots is I’m hoping that that kind of bonsai them a little bit. I want to keep them a bit smaller. And yeah, the idea was if we’ve got them in pots, maybe they will stay a bit smaller. Now, there’s a funny thing going on with these at the moment. If you have a bit of a look in the bottom, there’s a whole bunch of lettuce growing in these. And that wasn’t an intentional thing. That there came about because we used some of our compost and it hadn’t hot composted and we had lots of residual seed from the lettucees that I’d put in the compost area. Now, that’s actually turned out to be a bit of a blessing cuz in reality, it’s been like a little ongoing grazing salad bar where we’ve been able to come down, pick lots of lettucees out, and for some wonderful reason, the bugs haven’t found it. So yeah, happy surprise that. Now over here is the garlic that we grew way way away from that area in the ground. And I was hoping by having it in these containers with completely fresh soil, you know, that it was away from the area where we’d had the rust that maybe we wouldn’t get issues. And it feels like we didn’t get issues for a while, but just very recently. Again, if I zoom in again, we have rust. So, yeah, even that hasn’t really been a solution to do that. But again, they seem to be growing well. I’m wondering if it’s just something that now that we’ve had it here on the property that we’re just going to end up having issues with rust year on year. I don’t know if anyone’s got any advice on that, but um yeah, I have read lots of different things on rust. Um yeah, it’s a bit disappointing given we met many many years without having it here and then last year we had it and this year we’ve got it again. But yeah, that’s what’s going on with the garlic. Before I go up the stairs and show you the edible garden out the front, I do want to show you this tree here. Now, I think it’s got a few different names. I know it as a tree hydranger and at the moment it is just absolutely at its peak of flowers. Love this one. So I couldn’t walk past without showing you that one too. Now things are looking pretty good out here at the moment. I did very recently just take down the cover that we put up to protect our bananas. And this year, our bananas are looking better than they ever have. So, I’m hoping that frost protection that we put in place has done the trick. Still no signs of flowers. And to be honest, because we’ve never had flowers, I’m not sure when they’re supposed to flower, but uh at the very least, they do have beautiful greenery that they add to this front area. Now, speaking of beauty out here, if you have followed along with our shares for a while, you’re probably noticing a big transformation in this area here. So, this area, the edible garden, has had a lot of attention from Russ over this, well, winter and into spring. He spent a lot of time getting rid of weeds. Um, he’s covered up all the cardboard that we’ve been using for a lot of suppression of weeds in this area here. He’s put mulch down. He’s created a bit of a dry rivered through the area. Like it just it’s looking so wonderful when you look out the front windows and you’re looking out over this now. Yeah, it’s just a really lovely spot to be looking at. Still have a bit of work to do. So, this area here is kind of earmarked as a bit of a flower bed for me. So, I’ve got to get stuck in and do a bit of work there. But, as you can see in this zone here, all the fruit trees are looking wonderful. They’ve all filled out at the moment. Again, there’s lots of blossoms. There’s lots of signs of fruit to come. But the big transformation is really all of that mulching that he’s done. The dry rivered, he also brought in all of these rocks. So, the rocks are features along the dry rivered area. And yeah, he brought them all in by hand. So, he’s done an absolutely amazing job. Definitely appreciate the way this area looks now. And one of the last things I want to show you here is all of our mint. And I know that mint is one of those things that people grow. It’s like weeds, but we can’t ever have enough of it in this area here. If this filled right out, I would be absolutely happy as because we use this to make mint sauce. We use it in a lot of drinks. We use it in a lot of cooking. And I can never seem to have enough mint at this time. Well, at any time of the year, honestly. So, the fact that’s all just come back and it’s looking so beautiful and healthy is something I’m pretty happy about, too. So, I’m sure that ended up probably being a bit of a long one cuz there’s so much to show you guys at the moment in the garden. But hopefully you enjoyed following along. Hopefully, you also found the audio a little bit better today cuz as you may know, we have been trying to get the audio good with the microphones. I did manage to well, I hope I managed to get it going today. So, do let me know if this was a little bit better. Hopefully, you did enjoy going for a bit of a wander around the garden and seeing everything that’s going on in spring. As always, thanks a bunch for joining. Catch you later.