Thanks Bill! We will head back up for Christmas so in the next video I’ll try and convince her to be on camera. She has done such an amazing job! Thank you for watching and the lovely comment ☺️
Finally a homestead in my kind of climate! I live in India and mostly get to watch videos of American homesteads. I follow a couple of Australian growers but your mom's property is the closest to what I've got. Including snakes, rodents and a dog who hates these intruders! Subscribed and looking forward to seeing more of how you're working on this land. Lajo ❤
Thanks so much - I’m so glad to find fellow homesteaders from all over the world. I’ll be sure to keep filming and sharing the journey! 😊 let me know if there is anything in particular you’d like to see in the next video 😀
Thanks! We definitely have lots of fun working on the homestead together when I get to visit! Looking forward to heading back up to see her for Christmas 🎄
Great to see a garden in SE qld where I live, makes a lot more sense and she is certainly growing every possible fruit tree! Love to know how she handles the QLD Fruit Fly? She works so hard, thanks for doing the video for her!
She said this “Fruit flies are terrible! the nectarines have become chook food. I tried netting last year but the tree didn’t like that. The fruit flies are fine with citrus but not good with nectarines and peaches. They leave my plums alone.” 🤷🏼♀️
12:35. That looks like a Star Apple or Caimito tree. Gorgeous golden colour underneath the leaves. Beautiful place and love your mum's comments behind the camera.
Jaboticaba trees are one of my favourites! They are just beautiful small trees, at about 3M, and I love their bark and small leaves. The black shiny fruit, which tastes like woody grapes grow in their hundreds, all over the trunk and branches, close together, in clumps, and taste divine….. I can’t stop eating them when I start. I also love picking the fruit off the branches. I read somewhere that trees that produce fruit on their trunks and branches are very ancient trees! I don’t know if this applies to Jaboticabas. That mango tree needs to be moved! - They’re beautiful massive trees. This one is growing between an orange tree and another fruit tree, so there just isn’t any room for it where it is, even at the size it is now. The younger it is when it’s moved, the better. There’s nothing like home grown mangos! I also live in SEQ, and it’s been my dream to live like this, though 1 acre would be enough for me. - I’m older than your mother. And without the snakes! lol. Thankyou for this guided tour. You packed a lot into it. Loved hearing your Mum off camera. This is obviously been a labour of love for her, and it shows. Just stunning!
Thanks so much for the great info about the Jaboticaba trees! I’ve let mum know because she inherited the tree and wasn’t too sure about it. Also great advice re the mango tree!! 🥭
@@kiajadeurbangardener - You’re more than welcome. My parents had one in their yard and unfortunately we had to sell the house. I miss the house, and that tree. Your Mum is very lucky to have a jaboticaba. I don’t know how well mango trees transplant, but it would be good to give it a chance. I think eventually it would kill the fruit trees either side, as it gets bigger, by starvation, because it’s such a majestic tree. It depends what plants you prefer in that area.
So nice to see a bush block in Queensland, with a very different climate to mine here in Victoria. I'd love to grow some of those fruit trees but our winters are freezing here and we get heavy frosts. Your mum's property looks amazing! Just came in from a solid day of raking, in preparation for our bushfire season ❤
It definitely gets cold in Victoria - Such a different climate to Queensland, but good on you for getting ready for the bushfire season! Thanks for watching 🥰
Love your Mum's set up!! I'm 50 years old now...but wish I knew what it was all about 30 years ago!! I would have been set up by now!! Cheers from Adelaide - South Australia!!
That was a radish,I live in south Burnett S E Q ,tell mum wood chips on top of mulch create the forest floor and you can’t go wrong. When it comes to fruit on the tree pest exclusion bags on eBay
Hello to your mum I Love her garden, don't worry I have been bitten by 2 brown snakes so far and although I was very, very sick I didn't go to the doctors, now my thyroid is playing up but I'm working on that too, I now have a huge brown snake hanging around, so I have to keep my eyes out for it, I live in NE Vic
Wow two brown snakes?!?! And you were ok? You didn’t go to the doctors? Did you wrap the bite! Definitely hope you manage to keep far away from the one that’s hanging around at the moment.
@@kiajadeurbangardener No I stayed really still for at least 3 days and got very very ill until I could barely breath, it goes through your lympthatic system not your blood stream, it took me a good 2 years to recover from the first one before the second one got me, I had different symptoms with the 2nd blinding headaches and nausia, my thyroid jammed off and they said it would never recover but I studied about it and took magnesium as the venom blocks your magnesium working, it now has come good and is jammed on so I have been working on it and have managed to get the swelling of the thyroid down and the heart pulpitations are ok, stay safe
I’m in south east Queensland as well. Can get some harsh weather here that for sure. The growing climate can be very challenging. I’m actually sinking water to help in between rain events.
Thanks for the lovely comment! It’s so satisfying to see it all come together, even if it’s a long journey to get there. Very excited that you’re on the same journey!
Love your mum's property!! A fellow gardener here on acreage and we only rely on rain water too. It's no easy feat but it's so worth the work! She's doing an amazing job 🥰 We're in NE VIC near Tallangatta ☺️
Thanks for watching and so great to hear you live on acreage too! It’s such a peaceful way of life and i love going to visit mum because you instantly feel more relaxed! Worth the work & time indeed!
@@kiajadeurbangardener it really is a lovely way to live ♥️ We moved here from the outskirts of Sydney almost 6 years ago with our 3 kids in tow and haven't looked back. I hope they feel the same way you do when they come back to visit after flying the nest. We've started from scratch with our gardens as it was all old cow paddocks, so it's been a lot of work but so rewarding! Not to mention having to renovate the old cottage as it was not liveable lol Looking forward to seeing more of your videos visiting your mum 🥰 her commentary in the background was hilarious lol. Have a great weekend! Xx
@@natwilkinson2410 wow Nat you should start a RUclips channel documenting your journey transforming and renovating the cottage and old cow paddocks! Sounds incredible and definitely a lot of hard work (but so worth it). Thanks again for the lovely and inspiring comment 🥰
The garden is fantastic, but so too are your skills in presenting it! Great vid, thanks for sharing (also very brave of you to wear open shoes in October with brown snakes about 😧).
Your mother's garden looks really beautiful. It also seems that she enjoys watering with a hose, but it takes a lot of time and the amounts of water are not equal. Have you considered making an automatic irrigation system for the vegetable garden and plants that need frequent watering? And in general for all the plants according to the needs of each group? This seems to me to be a very good investment for the future. I would appreciate a response from you. 🙏 Like your mother, I also live in a very hot area and we grow many plants imported from Australia. All our gardens, including public gardens, are watered by an automatic system adapted to the needs of the various plants.
Thank you! Yes she has actually purchased an irrigation system and I believe is planning on setting it up shortly because you’re right, it can take her hours to water the garden so I think she is looking forward to having it automated! Where do you live because it sounds like a very similar climate? ☺️
I’m in SEQ also and do a very similar thing on every level. If she was in my location ( between Miriam Vale and Agnes Water) I’m sure we could swap a few plants etc. I grow lots of fruit trees, that’s my big thing atm.
Oh wow! that's amazing you're doing very similar things in your garden. Mum is further south which is a shame - You guys would have lots to chat about :)
@ I’m actually doing a 5-6 acre food forest. Growing pretty well everything myself from seed or cuttings. Doing it on an extremely low budget to show it can be done. Grow extra of many plants and swap if possible. I’ve almost completed 2 acres. Also got the 3rd and 4th acre under way.
@@chessman483wow that’s incredible!! Doing it all from seed and cuttings is such a huge achievement. You should start a RUclips channel documenting it all ❤
@ don’t really have the drive for it. Love sharing information, but sometimes I just wouldn’t be committed. I held a free ( how to create a food forest event) Saturday week ago. It went well. But now I feel like cruising to next year.
That’s a great question! I actually don’t think she has a lot of fruit fly, although when she lived closer to the coast she did! They are a pain that’s for sure!
Can you explain to me something about the dam , you said the water was gravity feed UP to the house , can you explain to me how this system works, please
Soooo I got that bit wrong. She said she gravity feeds her rain water tanks to her veggie garden but the dam uses a fuel pump!! ⛽️ she just called me to tell me that 😆
Yess!! If you do it correctly it stops the venom traveling in your bloodstream to your heart!! Apparently if you wrap a snake bite correctly you’re more likely to die from a vending machine falling on you then a snake bite (apparently haha)
@@kiajadeurbangardener A few things. Call 911, keep at heart level, restrict movement. There used to be snake bite kits with a little device to suck the venom out they used to sell but I haven’t seen those in years so I assume they’ve found that to be unhelpful. (Just looking it up…) yes, apparently it is actually worse to do that. I live in rural Oklahoma, plenty of pit vipers here but not much in the way of education.
@@kiajadeurbangardener I’m going to have to look up the wrapping technique. I did learn that hospital policy for snake bites has changed a lot since I was a kid when last year someone on Facebook complained about our local hospital not giving them anti venom. Apparently best practice now is not to give anti-venom for all Cotton Mouth bites (our most common viper) unless symptoms are severe. They keep track of the swelling and other symptoms to gauge if it’s needed.
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Your mum has done a wonderfull job and it looks very well planned 🙂
Thanks so much! 😊 I’ll let her know you said such lovely things - means a lot to her 🥰
Great video. Love you mum's block. I come from Bundaberg and have squashed everything I can into my small garden.
Ah squashing gardens is fun haha makes you think creatively haha. I know, coming from my balcony garden to mums 6 acres feels like going to Disneyland
Loved this video. So much compressed in 20 mins. Great work by mum. Would have been nice to have her on video showing off her achievements.
Thanks Bill! We will head back up for Christmas so in the next video I’ll try and convince her to be on camera. She has done such an amazing job! Thank you for watching and the lovely comment ☺️
The Jaboticaba fruit make a great jelly and cordial. The cordial does set like a jam after a few days, just shake vigorously before pouring.
Wooooow this is so cool!! We will definitely try this next time I’m at mums if she has some fruit! What do they taste like just as a fruit?
Finally a homestead in my kind of climate! I live in India and mostly get to watch videos of American homesteads. I follow a couple of Australian growers but your mom's property is the closest to what I've got. Including snakes, rodents and a dog who hates these intruders! Subscribed and looking forward to seeing more of how you're working on this land. Lajo ❤
Thanks so much - I’m so glad to find fellow homesteaders from all over the world. I’ll be sure to keep filming and sharing the journey! 😊 let me know if there is anything in particular you’d like to see in the next video 😀
Beautiful to see mother and daughter spending quality time together on the farm.
Looks like Radish.
Thanks! We definitely have lots of fun working on the homestead together when I get to visit! Looking forward to heading back up to see her for Christmas 🎄
This is paradise!❤
I think so too 🥰
❤😅yr mum is cool! Love the garden! 😁 I love the commentating in the background.
☺️ thank you she is very cool!! Can’t wait to make an updated video for Christmas when we go back to visit!
@kiajadeurbangardener oh yes, I look forward to the video & also subscribed 😀
What a beautiful homestead!
Thank you! I think so too 😊
Great to see a garden in SE qld where I live, makes a lot more sense and she is certainly growing every possible fruit tree! Love to know how she handles the QLD Fruit Fly? She works so hard, thanks for doing the video for her!
She said this “Fruit flies are terrible! the nectarines have become chook food. I tried netting last year but the tree didn’t like that.
The fruit flies are fine with citrus but not good with nectarines and peaches.
They leave my plums alone.” 🤷🏼♀️
Its even relaxing to just watch your video of the gardens and the animals. Thanks.
That’s so nice to hear! I’m glad you enjoyed it ☺️
Loved it!
@@katewright1588 thanks so much Kate 🥰🥰 means a lot!
❤Very, very beautiful video❤ your mom works a lot every day for sure❤
Thank you! She does, she’s such a hard worker but very inspiring!
Awesome set up ,well done mum
Thank you! My mum worked so hard to make it a place she loves 🥰
12:35. That looks like a Star Apple or Caimito tree. Gorgeous golden colour underneath the leaves.
Beautiful place and love your mum's comments behind the camera.
Thank you! Ah that’s interesting I’ve just looked up a star apple tree! Will tell mum!
So good to see some Queensland content in this space
So glad you enjoyed it! I’ll be filming more over December when I go back to visit ☺️
Jaboticaba trees are one of my favourites! They are just beautiful small trees, at about 3M, and I love their bark and small leaves. The black shiny fruit, which tastes like woody grapes grow in their hundreds, all over the trunk and branches, close together, in clumps, and taste divine….. I can’t stop eating them when I start. I also love picking the fruit off the branches. I read somewhere that trees that produce fruit on their trunks and branches are very ancient trees! I don’t know if this applies to Jaboticabas.
That mango tree needs to be moved! - They’re beautiful massive trees. This one is growing between an orange tree and another fruit tree, so there just isn’t any room for it where it is, even at the size it is now. The younger it is when it’s moved, the better. There’s nothing like home grown mangos!
I also live in SEQ, and it’s been my dream to live like this, though 1 acre would be enough for me. - I’m older than your mother. And without the snakes! lol. Thankyou for this guided tour. You packed a lot into it. Loved hearing your Mum off camera. This is obviously been a labour of love for her, and it shows. Just stunning!
Thanks so much for the great info about the Jaboticaba trees! I’ve let mum know because she inherited the tree and wasn’t too sure about it. Also great advice re the mango tree!! 🥭
@@kiajadeurbangardener - You’re more than welcome. My parents had one in their yard and unfortunately we had to sell the house. I miss the house, and that tree. Your Mum is very lucky to have a jaboticaba.
I don’t know how well mango trees transplant, but it would be good to give it a chance. I think eventually it would kill the fruit trees either side, as it gets bigger, by starvation, because it’s such a majestic tree. It depends what plants you prefer in that area.
You mother is a natural born gardener
She really is!! Her mother was too (my grandmother) so it definitely runs in the family 🥰
Wow so nice❤❤❤
Thank you so much! It truly is a special place! 🥰
So nice to see a bush block in Queensland, with a very different climate to mine here in Victoria. I'd love to grow some of those fruit trees but our winters are freezing here and we get heavy frosts. Your mum's property looks amazing! Just came in from a solid day of raking, in preparation for our bushfire season ❤
It definitely gets cold in Victoria - Such a different climate to Queensland, but good on you for getting ready for the bushfire season! Thanks for watching 🥰
@kiajadeurbangardener thank you! 🤗
The way the video cut just as the pup ran up to the rolling hay bale! 😂
😂 No pups were harmed in the making of this video (but close call haha)
@@kiajadeurbangardener I seriously bust out laughing, just perfect timing. Glad the pup was ok!😄
Love your Mum's set up!! I'm 50 years old now...but wish I knew what it was all about 30 years ago!! I would have been set up by now!! Cheers from Adelaide - South Australia!!
Thanks! I'll tell her you said so. I think it's never too late! P.s I love Adelaide - South Australia (such a gorgeous part of Australia)
@@kiajadeurbangardener Thankyou!! It was a small city once upon a time!! But it is getting over-crowded now!!
That was a radish,I live in south Burnett S E Q ,tell mum wood chips on top of mulch create the forest floor and you can’t go wrong.
When it comes to fruit on the tree pest exclusion bags on eBay
Thank you so much for the helpful tips, I'll let mum know!
Hello to your mum I Love her garden, don't worry I have been bitten by 2 brown snakes so far and although I was very, very sick I didn't go to the doctors, now my thyroid is playing up but I'm working on that too, I now have a huge brown snake hanging around, so I have to keep my eyes out for it, I live in NE Vic
Wow two brown snakes?!?! And you were ok? You didn’t go to the doctors? Did you wrap the bite! Definitely hope you manage to keep far away from the one that’s hanging around at the moment.
@@kiajadeurbangardener No I stayed really still for at least 3 days and got very very ill until I could barely breath, it goes through your lympthatic system not your blood stream, it took me a good 2 years to recover from the first one before the second one got me, I had different symptoms with the 2nd blinding headaches and nausia, my thyroid jammed off and they said it would never recover but I studied about it and took magnesium as the venom blocks your magnesium working, it now has come good and is jammed on so I have been working on it and have managed to get the swelling of the thyroid down and the heart pulpitations are ok, stay safe
Not sure if you know, but you can cut off a section off the top of the paw paw tree & it will continue to fruit well & easier to reach the ftuit❤
That’s a great tip and I will definitely let mum know!! Thanks so much for your lovely comment 🥰
Fun video thank you
Glad you enjoyed it ☺️ thanks for watching!
I’m in south east Queensland as well. Can get some harsh weather here that for sure. The growing climate can be very challenging. I’m actually sinking water to help in between rain events.
Ah yes when it hasn’t rained for a long time it’s stressful!! Or the storms can also be a challenge! Did you get a big storm recently?
@ yes last week we did. We got about 200ml in just over a week. So all my swales and ponds are now full 😊
@@leonsaquaponicsandhomegard6793woohoo!!! 🌧️
Love this video, Would like to see more if you go back ! :)
Thank you!! We will be back up for Christmas so will do an update video of all her veggie garden and flower garden 🪴
The red flower Mum forget the name of is a canna lily and the one labeled gladiolus is actually a hippeastrum.
Oh yes thank you!! 😊
All the way from Portugal, lovelly
Wow I love Portugal! Thank you for watching 🥰
Great overview - and fantastic farm - working on something similar but a long way to go compared to this - great work !
Thanks for the lovely comment! It’s so satisfying to see it all come together, even if it’s a long journey to get there. Very excited that you’re on the same journey!
That's a solid job I'm overwhelmed settiup 3 AC in western australia.keeps you busy that's for sure
Suuuch a big job but totally worth it. 3 Acres would be lovely!
Love you and mum 💗
Nice video
Thank you for your lovely comment! I make sure to show mum ☺️
Love your mum's property!! A fellow gardener here on acreage and we only rely on rain water too. It's no easy feat but it's so worth the work!
She's doing an amazing job 🥰
We're in NE VIC near Tallangatta ☺️
Thanks for watching and so great to hear you live on acreage too! It’s such a peaceful way of life and i love going to visit mum because you instantly feel more relaxed! Worth the work & time indeed!
@@kiajadeurbangardener it really is a lovely way to live ♥️
We moved here from the outskirts of Sydney almost 6 years ago with our 3 kids in tow and haven't looked back.
I hope they feel the same way you do when they come back to visit after flying the nest.
We've started from scratch with our gardens as it was all old cow paddocks, so it's been a lot of work but so rewarding! Not to mention having to renovate the old cottage as it was not liveable lol
Looking forward to seeing more of your videos visiting your mum 🥰 her commentary in the background was hilarious lol.
Have a great weekend! Xx
@@natwilkinson2410 wow Nat you should start a RUclips channel documenting your journey transforming and renovating the cottage and old cow paddocks! Sounds incredible and definitely a lot of hard work (but so worth it). Thanks again for the lovely and inspiring comment 🥰
Well done looks epic
Thank you!! Appreciate the lovely comment ☺️
The garden is fantastic, but so too are your skills in presenting it! Great vid, thanks for sharing (also very brave of you to wear open shoes in October with brown snakes about 😧).
Thank you! I always look down to avoid stepping on anything scary! 🐍 😂
Your mother's garden looks really beautiful. It also seems that she enjoys watering with a hose, but it takes a lot of time and the amounts of water are not equal. Have you considered making an automatic irrigation system for the vegetable garden and plants that need frequent watering? And in general for all the plants according to the needs of each group? This seems to me to be a very good investment for the future. I would appreciate a response from you. 🙏 Like your mother, I also live in a very hot area and we grow many plants imported from Australia. All our gardens, including public gardens, are watered by an automatic system adapted to the needs of the various plants.
Thank you! Yes she has actually purchased an irrigation system and I believe is planning on setting it up shortly because you’re right, it can take her hours to water the garden so I think she is looking forward to having it automated! Where do you live because it sounds like a very similar climate? ☺️
@@kiajadeurbangardener
I live in Israel.vere long samer and shurt wenter
I’m in SEQ also and do a very similar thing on every level. If she was in my location ( between Miriam Vale and Agnes Water) I’m sure we could swap a few plants etc. I grow lots of fruit trees, that’s my big thing atm.
Oh wow! that's amazing you're doing very similar things in your garden. Mum is further south which is a shame - You guys would have lots to chat about :)
@ I’m actually doing a 5-6 acre food forest. Growing pretty well everything myself from seed or cuttings. Doing it on an extremely low budget to show it can be done. Grow extra of many plants and swap if possible. I’ve almost completed 2 acres. Also got the 3rd and 4th acre under way.
@@chessman483wow that’s incredible!! Doing it all from seed and cuttings is such a huge achievement. You should start a RUclips channel documenting it all ❤
@ don’t really have the drive for it. Love sharing information, but sometimes I just wouldn’t be committed. I held a free ( how to create a food forest event) Saturday week ago. It went well. But now I feel like cruising to next year.
Would love to move back to Queensland and do this
Me too!! I really miss it each time we leave and head back down to Melbourne
Fantastic work 😊😊😊
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it ☺️
I know this land ❤❤
Que legal sua mãe tem muitas frutas do Brasil,por exemplo a jabuticaba
En Australia existe una lista de plantas ilegales que están prohibidas, pero Jaboticaba no es ilegal.
you are so pretty, nice garden too, love it, my parents have a place in the sunshine coast, what area of QLD is this?
p.s. what software do you use to edit your videos?
Thank you for the lovely comment :) She is based in SE Queensland - Inland. I use Premier Pro for my editing!
Nice
Glad you liked it! 😊
Have the fruit on the ground how to u go with fruit fly cause in nsw fruit fly is a pain
That’s a great question! I actually don’t think she has a lot of fruit fly, although when she lived closer to the coast she did! They are a pain that’s for sure!
🔥🥰🔥👌
Can you explain to me something about the dam , you said the water was gravity feed UP to the house , can you explain to me how this system works, please
Soooo I got that bit wrong. She said she gravity feeds her rain water tanks to her veggie garden but the dam uses a fuel pump!! ⛽️ she just called me to tell me that 😆
Does your mum want visitors to come and help with some work.?
Wait? You WRAP a snake bite? They don’t teach that in the US! I need to know more!
Yess!! If you do it correctly it stops the venom traveling in your bloodstream to your heart!! Apparently if you wrap a snake bite correctly you’re more likely to die from a vending machine falling on you then a snake bite (apparently haha)
What do you get told to do if you get bitten by a snake in the US?
@@kiajadeurbangardener A few things. Call 911, keep at heart level, restrict movement. There used to be snake bite kits with a little device to suck the venom out they used to sell but I haven’t seen those in years so I assume they’ve found that to be unhelpful. (Just looking it up…) yes, apparently it is actually worse to do that. I live in rural Oklahoma, plenty of pit vipers here but not much in the way of education.
@@kiajadeurbangardener I’m going to have to look up the wrapping technique. I did learn that hospital policy for snake bites has changed a lot since I was a kid when last year someone on Facebook complained about our local hospital not giving them anti venom. Apparently best practice now is not to give anti-venom for all Cotton Mouth bites (our most common viper) unless symptoms are severe. They keep track of the swelling and other symptoms to gauge if it’s needed.
Lol chook pen 😂
🐓 🐓
Does she get goannas or quolls?
She gets goannas but I’ve never heard her mention a quoll! To be honest I have never heard of a quoll until just googling them then - they’re so cute!
@@kiajadeurbangardener they’re cute until they rip off the heads of your chooks lol Great video! Very inspirational.
@@Trinni88 wow that’s crazy! I can’t believe I’ve never heard of them before!
Jar-bot-ick-ar-bah = Jaboticaba
Ahhh I was close 🤣 thank you for clarifying!
Turnip
Ahh you think? It did look like a turnip actually
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That's a lot of work for your mum. Has she got a man to help her?
Or another woman.
@@juliaforsyth8332lemon licker🍋