I do the same with my little carrots that I thinned out, they are delicous and shouldn't be wasted. You have so much growing in your garden, it's lovely to see how it's all going. Thankyou for sharing with us.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that saves the tiny carrots when thinning them! Hahaha, they are so tasty. Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and to comment. We really appreciate it :)
It's an effort too keep and maintain your garden to do harvests ALL year round!! I don't think some ppl realise that when it comes to gardens!! Cheers!!
Absolutely!! It's hard work but so rewarding. We cannot wait until we can be on the farm most days and making the most of the harvests 😃 Thank you so much for watching and for your comment, we really appreciate it!
Thanks so much @rentedspace7462! We’re still having strange weather here with a very dry and not so cold winter. We’re hoping to do a winter tour of the garden this weekend 😃
Brilliant to have a nursery garden. You can do so much more if you keep a nursery garden. Do you plant from seed? I find planting tree/shrub seeds to be very rewarding. Two suggestions: Get a good sharp lightweight pruner that you can carry in a holster on your belt. Then you can do minor tree & shrub pruning as you walk about. It is not to early to begin some corrective pruning with your trees and shrubs. Much more efficient than trying to remember. Second are two organic treatments for insects and disease. Looks like you had/have some aphid type infestations. Castile soap diluted with water will kill aphids. I saw something that appeared to be black spot (fungus disease) on some leaves. Dilute hydrogen peroxide in a pump spray will stop the spread of fungal disease. There are good RUclipss on both organic treatments. Happy Gardening! 😊
Steven Johnstonbaugh, you have given us so many amazing tips!! Great job on spotting the blackspot! It's a serious issue here. Nearly every tree is infected on the whole 5 acres 😳 We're working on the treatment but, geez, it's a massive job. We'll get there, though. Thank you so much for your comment, I'll reply properly soon! Kat :)
@@5acrefarm You've made a wonderful reply! Not to worry-don't want to make another job for you. I'm just an old fella trying to share what I've learned in a lifetime while I can. Sharing with like minded people around the world is a blessing for me 😊 Here's a RUclips about fungal disease and hydrogen peroxide. ruclips.net/video/LZgcFKfXJ-0/видео.html This fellow has created many videos concerning organic fungal and insecticidal control in your garden. Hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, castile soap with peppermint oil - all very inexpensive commodities. I hope you find his channel helpful Cheers!
I love all the fruit trees , youll be rewarded later with so much variety. Young cockrels first crowing make me laugh too . A lemon verbena hedge sounds dreamy. Thank you for sharing lovely ❤
The fruit trees look great. I think the trees are definitely confused. Ours are the same, still lots of leaves. The veggie patch looks so good. You’ve got so much going on.
The fruit trees seem so confused! I never thought we'd have fruit trees fruiting or growing new leaves weeks before winter starts?! We're excited to see the progress of your veggie patch over the next few years 😃
How good are volunteers!?! I love them! Thanks so much for being a part of our journey, watching our videos and commenting :) It's so appreciated! Kat :)
Great tour. Love the orchard you're working on. Will be wonderful to have. You are so busy and year round! So much to do. Here i have 7 months off 😅😂. Hope all is grand
Thank you so much Back to Nature! Isn't Chippie such a handsome young rooster!?! He's still cracking us up with his crows and hope that it stays that way 😂
Thanks for another great tour of your property. Luv the amazing tree cover you have. Have to say your pumpkin looks better than mine and bigger ha ha. Our pear trees bloomed late and pears are trying to grow but the increased frost will put an end to that. You have so many projects on the go, I envy your energy 😁🤩
Unknown citrus looks like my lime? Being citrus with shallow roots you may find lots of competition from kikuyu. Your fruit trees are looking great. Apples will lose leaves in winterand go dormant, though my young one is confused, its dropped leaves AND flowered 😂
Ooooo, I wonder if it's a lime! I'm so excited to learn what kind of citrus it is! The kikuyu has been such a pain! It ruined our first veggie patch and I'm forever pulling it away from the trees in the orchard. Oh-well, we'll get there :) Fruit trees seem so confused at the moment. I never thought I'd see an apple tree dropping leaves then growing new leaves and flowering weeks before winter 😂 It will be interesting to see how they go over the next few years.
Hi Kat, great tour around the garden 😀 We have our sweet potatoes in the greenhouse, where we have grown them for many years. But I was super interested to see you have yours in the ground outside. How do you go with them surviving outside in Vic winter?
This is the first year that we've had sweet potatoes growing! I'll need to cover them from frosts but I'm so keen to see how they go. I'll be getting some slips to pop in the green house to make sure they can keep growing when it warms up xx
Orchard loojs good Kat. Dumb question did you plant them in any permaculture method other then utilizing swales? Garden winding down but looks like you had tons of success!! Cheers J&C 🌱👍
Haha, I don't think there's any dumb questions when it comes to gardening! Some things work for some and won't work for others! The orchard is not planted on contour, we just thought we'd put the trees in spots we thought would look good and help create a nice sitting area when they've grown bigger. We've done the swales, planted our veggie patches on contour, use chop and drop when we can, tried to improve the soil and probably a few other things I can't think of at the moment, but we've also done things that don't really follow the permaculture method. We're still very much in the "experimenting" phase (which will probably last many more years 😂).
Thank you so much for your kind comment, Herb Hill Farm! It's so incredibly easy to do too much!! I'm a massive fan of resting when I feel that I need to 😊 Sometimes you just need a night or weekend of not doing too much and having quick, simple meals 😌
I do the same with my little carrots that I thinned out, they are delicous and shouldn't be wasted. You have so much growing in your garden, it's lovely to see how it's all going. Thankyou for sharing with us.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that saves the tiny carrots when thinning them! Hahaha, they are so tasty.
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and to comment. We really appreciate it :)
Very nice peppers and tour
Thanks so much!! I always love doing tours! 😁
G'day guys.
Like I said in chat, you have so much going on and it's all looking great. Good on you.
All the best.
Daz.
Thanks so much Daz!!
We’re so glad that you could make it!
Rest up and take it easy ☺️
It's an effort too keep and maintain your garden to do harvests ALL year round!! I don't think some ppl realise that when it comes to gardens!! Cheers!!
Absolutely!! It's hard work but so rewarding. We cannot wait until we can be on the farm most days and making the most of the harvests 😃
Thank you so much for watching and for your comment, we really appreciate it!
He is gorgeous
Isn’t he!?! So lucky 😁
Your asparagus is still pretty green!
It really is! It’s almost a fluorescent green! I love the way it blows in the breeze 😁
@@5acrefarm it looks lovely in the breeze. Mine is almost totally yellow now in Gippsland. Thankyou for your tour today, much appreciated here!
Amazing that it can be so different in the same State!
Thanks so much for watching 😁 we really appreciate it!!
What a great tour.
We had some weird weather this year. Things were almost back to front for us.
Thanks so much @rentedspace7462!
We’re still having strange weather here with a very dry and not so cold winter. We’re hoping to do a winter tour of the garden this weekend 😃
Brilliant to have a nursery garden. You can do so much more if you keep a nursery garden. Do you plant from seed? I find planting tree/shrub seeds to be very rewarding. Two suggestions: Get a good sharp lightweight pruner that you can carry in a holster on your belt. Then you can do minor tree & shrub pruning as you walk about. It is not to early to begin some corrective pruning with your trees and shrubs. Much more efficient than trying to remember. Second are two organic treatments for insects and disease. Looks like you had/have some aphid type infestations. Castile soap diluted with water will kill aphids. I saw something that appeared to be black spot (fungus disease) on some leaves. Dilute hydrogen peroxide in a pump spray will stop the spread of fungal disease. There are good RUclipss on both organic treatments. Happy Gardening! 😊
Steven Johnstonbaugh, you have given us so many amazing tips!! Great job on spotting the blackspot! It's a serious issue here. Nearly every tree is infected on the whole 5 acres 😳 We're working on the treatment but, geez, it's a massive job. We'll get there, though.
Thank you so much for your comment, I'll reply properly soon! Kat :)
@@5acrefarm You've made a wonderful reply! Not to worry-don't want to make another job for you. I'm just an old fella trying to share what I've learned in a lifetime while I can. Sharing with like minded people around the world is a blessing for me 😊 Here's a RUclips about fungal disease and hydrogen peroxide. ruclips.net/video/LZgcFKfXJ-0/видео.html This fellow has created many videos concerning organic fungal and insecticidal control in your garden. Hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, castile soap with peppermint oil - all very inexpensive commodities. I hope you find his channel helpful Cheers!
I love all the fruit trees , youll be rewarded later with so much variety. Young cockrels first crowing make me laugh too . A lemon verbena hedge sounds dreamy. Thank you for sharing lovely ❤
Thanks so much!! How cute is Chippie's crows. It cracks me up!
Lemon verbena is such a favourite of mine. A hedge would be divine! xx
The fruit trees look great. I think the trees are definitely confused. Ours are the same, still lots of leaves.
The veggie patch looks so good.
You’ve got so much going on.
The fruit trees seem so confused! I never thought we'd have fruit trees fruiting or growing new leaves weeks before winter starts?!
We're excited to see the progress of your veggie patch over the next few years 😃
Looks great! I love the volunteer seedlings everywhere, saves you sowing more haha
How good are volunteers!?! I love them!
Thanks so much for being a part of our journey, watching our videos and commenting :) It's so appreciated!
Kat :)
Great tour. Love the orchard you're working on. Will be wonderful to have. You are so busy and year round! So much to do. Here i have 7 months off 😅😂. Hope all is grand
Thanks so much! We’re lucky that there’s never really a “downtime” here. It’s never too cold for things to stop growing! 😁
Very nice farm, thanks for sharing. So awesome to have fruit trees growing 😀
Awesome tour 👌💚🌱💚,,nice looking 🐓 😍😍😍
Thank you so much Back to Nature! Isn't Chippie such a handsome young rooster!?! He's still cracking us up with his crows and hope that it stays that way 😂
@@5acrefarm i love his feathers 🪶 😍 ❤️ 🐓❤️
Thanks for another great tour of your property. Luv the amazing tree cover you have. Have to say your pumpkin looks better than mine and bigger ha ha. Our pear trees bloomed late and pears are trying to grow but the increased frost will put an end to that. You have so many projects on the go, I envy your energy 😁🤩
Unknown citrus looks like my lime? Being citrus with shallow roots you may find lots of competition from kikuyu. Your fruit trees are looking great. Apples will lose leaves in winterand go dormant, though my young one is confused, its dropped leaves AND flowered 😂
Ooooo, I wonder if it's a lime! I'm so excited to learn what kind of citrus it is!
The kikuyu has been such a pain! It ruined our first veggie patch and I'm forever pulling it away from the trees in the orchard. Oh-well, we'll get there :)
Fruit trees seem so confused at the moment. I never thought I'd see an apple tree dropping leaves then growing new leaves and flowering weeks before winter 😂 It will be interesting to see how they go over the next few years.
Hi Kat, great tour around the garden 😀
We have our sweet potatoes in the greenhouse, where we have grown them for many years. But I was super interested to see you have yours in the ground outside. How do you go with them surviving outside in Vic winter?
This is the first year that we've had sweet potatoes growing! I'll need to cover them from frosts but I'm so keen to see how they go. I'll be getting some slips to pop in the green house to make sure they can keep growing when it warms up xx
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Orchard loojs good Kat. Dumb question did you plant them in any permaculture method other then utilizing swales?
Garden winding down but looks like you had tons of success!!
Cheers J&C 🌱👍
Haha, I don't think there's any dumb questions when it comes to gardening! Some things work for some and won't work for others!
The orchard is not planted on contour, we just thought we'd put the trees in spots we thought would look good and help create a nice sitting area when they've grown bigger.
We've done the swales, planted our veggie patches on contour, use chop and drop when we can, tried to improve the soil and probably a few other things I can't think of at the moment, but we've also done things that don't really follow the permaculture method. We're still very much in the "experimenting" phase (which will probably last many more years 😂).
@@5acrefarm ok cool !! Thanks Kat !!
Rockpile
Sorry to say, but as I'm old man and try out almost all... Don't do too much. 🤗
Thank you so much for your kind comment, Herb Hill Farm! It's so incredibly easy to do too much!! I'm a massive fan of resting when I feel that I need to 😊 Sometimes you just need a night or weekend of not doing too much and having quick, simple meals 😌