Great to have you back with an update on your 2024 garden 😊 I hope you will keep us posted as you progress through the summer. Good luck with your weeding 👍
Hehe, thank you so much!! It's been a while but I'm really hoping to be a bit more regular with videos. I have a few videos in the works so they should be out soon :) The weeds are never ending but we are lucky to have some veg growing well, too, so it's not all bad. Thanks so much for your support, it's so appreciated!! Kat
@@5acrefarm I was joking with you about pulling weeds Kat. I hate pulling weeds 😉 In fact, I have been known to weed with a lawn mower (or strimmer)😂 A word about the cabbage moth caterpillars - ask you partner to pull the plants that are infested and burn them. You don't want to leave them standing in the garden because they are covering your chips and soil with eggs. Once the plants are pulled and burned, cover the area with black plastic and let the sun cook the earth (solarizing). That's your best bet to reduce the dormant population because you don't have freezing temperatures to kill them off in winter. Hope that is useful 😊
Great to see you back Kat! Missed seeing your smiling face on YT😁. I’m so envious of your capsicum and eggplants. I try every year including this year and I’m lucky if they germinate. But I’ve never had any produce off them. Thanks so much for a tour of your Victorian Summer garden 😁
Hello lovely people!! I got your text yesterday and will get around to replying very soon!! I cannot wait to see if we get a great harvest from the capsicums and eggplants. It's looking promising, but we just never know what the weather is going to do 😂 Lovely to hear from you, I hope your garden is smashing it this year xxx
Hello darling , I was so glad to see a notification from you ❤ Great diversity in your patch . Look at all the pretty flowers , including the eggplant flowers . Very pretty. Pea asparagus? I'd better Google that. Our Mary Washington and sweet purple that I planted from seed and tried to die too many times , is finally growing. Still spindly but looking like it is happy now. I think I put those seeds in pots 3+ yrs ago , definitely going to appreciate them when we finally harvest. Lol. We are super mild chilli people here except my 2 adult sons love to add their assortment of liquid fire sauces to lots of meals 😅 haha. It's been such an unpredictable 2?🤷♀️ Yrs for weather. We never know what's going to do well or refuse to live here either. I think those weeds are burrs , dogs fur gets covered in them . Not nice at all. Great job turning them into a solution with weed tea. So lovely to see you. I hope you get baskets of beautiful eggplant, capsicum and tomatoes. Thank you for sharing, Naomi ❤❤
Oh Naomi, you are just such a sweet person! Thank you so much :) it's great to be back filming and I'm planning on being a bit more regular but we'll see what the year has in store. The Sweet Purple Asparagus will be stunning when you have a harvest. Do you know if they change colour when you cook them? I think it's the Purple Cauli that changes to white when you cook it, I wonder if the Pruple Asparagus is the same?? YES! Burrs, that's what they're called! Arrrgh, they're awful. It seems like a bit of a never-ending battle with them at the moment. We used the mulch all over the veggie patch and in the sitting garden 😖 Lovely to hear from you Naomi! We hope you and the fam are all well xxxx
Oh yay Kat! Great to see you back on and wander around the garden virtually with you. Plenty going on there... and it's been an interesting growing season. Im still awaiting zucchini too. Your chillis are looking fab. Did you end up growing the korean chilli? So strange your cosmos are behind in flowering compared to ours, given we are growing with your seed too. I would have bet yours would be ahead with the warmer weather there. But they are looking so lush there. I bet they will go off soon and be stunning.
Hehe, thanks Rach!! We’ve managed to harvest 2 tiny zucchini’s (because I was impatient) and 2 medium zucchini’s in the last few days! I’ve really missed them. We found it tough to find time to plant seeds so the Korean Chillies that we got from you will be started in the greenhouse in the next few months. The cosmos are all just from seed from last year that dropped, I think it wasn’t warm enough or wet enough for them but they’re slowly kicking off. It’s nice to be back filming 🥰 Big love and hugs to you 4 xxxx
Oh sooo lovely to see you. Such odd weather you have been having. No shortage of rain. The white butterfly sure love your garden. Irrational fears must be genetic. No seeming reason for them and very hard to explain away. Xoxoxo
We really have had some strange weather! November was incredibly dry and everything was so brown and struggling. Then, we've had some consistent rain which made everything super green, filled our water tanks and the garden has flourished. Haha, irrational fears are the worst! I know it's ridiculous but I can't help it. It's definitely not an ideal irrational fear for someone who loves gardening or someone who works with kids. The children I work with often bring me bugs and caterpillars to look at 😳 Much love xxx
Hi Kat, love your garden. This summer has been harsh, we have a grasshopper problem up here. You may have to pollinate the Eggplant by hand as they are hard to get going. Be careful as the flowers are very prickly, I rub my finger over the male and female part, I have had more success this way. Try and pull out those new Raspberry plants as soon as possible. I grow my raspberries in garbage bins and they do well. Those seeds in your mulch are Bindi seeds and they explode and have lots of tiny seeds inside. Take the plant into your Garden center as there is a Bindi spray that just kills these Bindis.
You're wearing a jumper and we're sweltering in the heat and humidity. It's pouring down around us but not in Hervey Bay. Brisbane is flooding. Our garden has some plants that are booming and others that have up and died. I've pulled out a lot and deep mulched the beds and will rest them. Our best growing time is Autumn and Spring. I will get my seeds in by mid Feb to be planted out around Anzac Day.
thanks for another great video... anything with 'berry' in it scares me. I am constantly fighting with blackberry that the birds share with me. Looking forward to watching your homestead in 2024
The rain and humidity has been a challenge! I’m racing around spraying milk on all the squash plants for mildew now and they have only started fruiting. The curled leaves on the tomatoes may be too much humidity or water too. Your cornflowers are a beautiful colour. What a pain with your mulch tho! 🤦♀️
Great to have you back with an update on your 2024 garden 😊
I hope you will keep us posted as you progress through the summer.
Good luck with your weeding 👍
Hehe, thank you so much!! It's been a while but I'm really hoping to be a bit more regular with videos. I have a few videos in the works so they should be out soon :)
The weeds are never ending but we are lucky to have some veg growing well, too, so it's not all bad.
Thanks so much for your support, it's so appreciated!!
Kat
@@5acrefarm I was joking with you about pulling weeds Kat. I hate pulling weeds 😉 In fact, I have been known to weed with a lawn mower (or strimmer)😂
A word about the cabbage moth caterpillars - ask you partner to pull the plants that are infested and burn them. You don't want to leave them standing in the garden because they are covering your chips and soil with eggs. Once the plants are pulled and burned, cover the area with black plastic and let the sun cook the earth (solarizing). That's your best bet to reduce the dormant population because you don't have freezing temperatures to kill them off in winter. Hope that is useful 😊
Between the cabbage moths and the humidity, this summer has been bamboozling! Lovely to see you and your garden again. ❤
Thank you @chezelleconroy2951! The cabbage moths and the humidity have both been absolutely mental!
Thanks so much for dropping in and saying Hi :)
Great to see you back and to get an update on the property.
Thanks so much Matthew! The veggie patch has taken off this year which is so exciting!
I hope you and the fam are well,
Kat :)
Great to see you back Kat! Missed seeing your smiling face on YT😁.
I’m so envious of your capsicum and eggplants. I try every year including this year and I’m lucky if they germinate. But I’ve never had any produce off them.
Thanks so much for a tour of your Victorian Summer garden 😁
Hello lovely people!! I got your text yesterday and will get around to replying very soon!!
I cannot wait to see if we get a great harvest from the capsicums and eggplants. It's looking promising, but we just never know what the weather is going to do 😂
Lovely to hear from you, I hope your garden is smashing it this year xxx
Hello darling , I was so glad to see a notification from you ❤ Great diversity in your patch . Look at all the pretty flowers , including the eggplant flowers . Very pretty. Pea asparagus? I'd better Google that. Our Mary Washington and sweet purple that I planted from seed and tried to die too many times , is finally growing. Still spindly but looking like it is happy now. I think I put those seeds in pots 3+ yrs ago , definitely going to appreciate them when we finally harvest. Lol.
We are super mild chilli people here except my 2 adult sons love to add their assortment of liquid fire sauces to lots of meals 😅 haha. It's been such an unpredictable 2?🤷♀️ Yrs for weather. We never know what's going to do well or refuse to live here either. I think those weeds are burrs , dogs fur gets covered in them . Not nice at all. Great job turning them into a solution with weed tea. So lovely to see you. I hope you get baskets of beautiful eggplant, capsicum and tomatoes. Thank you for sharing, Naomi ❤❤
Oh Naomi, you are just such a sweet person! Thank you so much :) it's great to be back filming and I'm planning on being a bit more regular but we'll see what the year has in store. The Sweet Purple Asparagus will be stunning when you have a harvest. Do you know if they change colour when you cook them? I think it's the Purple Cauli that changes to white when you cook it, I wonder if the Pruple Asparagus is the same??
YES! Burrs, that's what they're called! Arrrgh, they're awful. It seems like a bit of a never-ending battle with them at the moment. We used the mulch all over the veggie patch and in the sitting garden 😖
Lovely to hear from you Naomi! We hope you and the fam are all well xxxx
Oh yay Kat! Great to see you back on and wander around the garden virtually with you. Plenty going on there... and it's been an interesting growing season. Im still awaiting zucchini too. Your chillis are looking fab. Did you end up growing the korean chilli?
So strange your cosmos are behind in flowering compared to ours, given we are growing with your seed too. I would have bet yours would be ahead with the warmer weather there. But they are looking so lush there. I bet they will go off soon and be stunning.
Hehe, thanks Rach!! We’ve managed to harvest 2 tiny zucchini’s (because I was impatient) and 2 medium zucchini’s in the last few days! I’ve really missed them.
We found it tough to find time to plant seeds so the Korean Chillies that we got from you will be started in the greenhouse in the next few months.
The cosmos are all just from seed from last year that dropped, I think it wasn’t warm enough or wet enough for them but they’re slowly kicking off.
It’s nice to be back filming 🥰
Big love and hugs to you 4 xxxx
@@5acrefarm ahhhh... that explains it. We jump started your cosmos in the greenhouse 😉
Ahhhh, that makes total sense! I cannot wait to have our greenhouse set up to get things going a bit before they would normally grow!
Oh sooo lovely to see you. Such odd weather you have been having. No shortage of rain. The white butterfly sure love your garden. Irrational fears must be genetic. No seeming reason for them and very hard to explain away. Xoxoxo
We really have had some strange weather! November was incredibly dry and everything was so brown and struggling. Then, we've had some consistent rain which made everything super green, filled our water tanks and the garden has flourished.
Haha, irrational fears are the worst! I know it's ridiculous but I can't help it. It's definitely not an ideal irrational fear for someone who loves gardening or someone who works with kids. The children I work with often bring me bugs and caterpillars to look at 😳
Much love xxx
Lovely to see your greenery. I have snow 😅. You have a wide variety of vegetables on the go. Take care
Huge garden!
Hi Kat, love your garden. This summer has been harsh, we have a grasshopper problem up here.
You may have to pollinate the Eggplant by hand as they are hard to get going.
Be careful as the flowers are very prickly, I rub my finger over the male and female part, I have had more success this way.
Try and pull out those new Raspberry plants as soon as possible. I grow my raspberries in garbage bins and they do well.
Those seeds in your mulch are Bindi seeds and they explode and have lots of tiny seeds inside. Take the plant into your Garden center as there is a Bindi spray that just kills these Bindis.
Looks fantastic 😊😊😊
You're wearing a jumper and we're sweltering in the heat and humidity. It's pouring down around us but not in Hervey Bay. Brisbane is flooding. Our garden has some plants that are booming and others that have up and died. I've pulled out a lot and deep mulched the beds and will rest them. Our best growing time is Autumn and Spring. I will get my seeds in by mid Feb to be planted out around Anzac Day.
thanks for another great video... anything with 'berry' in it scares me. I am constantly fighting with blackberry that the birds share with me. Looking forward to watching your homestead in 2024
good to see how its going , the burr in your mulch is a clover or medic they can be great green manure as they are legumes
The rain and humidity has been a challenge! I’m racing around spraying milk on all the squash plants for mildew now and they have only started fruiting. The curled leaves on the tomatoes may be too much humidity or water too. Your cornflowers are a beautiful colour. What a pain with your mulch tho! 🤦♀️