How to get the most success from your spring gardening | Gardening 101 | Gardening Australia
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Millie sets up the garden for a successful and productive spring, taking us through her best tips to get a head start. Subscribe 🔔 ab.co/GA-subscribe
Spring is such an exciting time in the garden, particularly if you live in a cool or temperate climate. It’s a great time to set up for the growing season ahead, and Millie has the following tips to offer.
Despite seedlings being available in the shops, it doesn’t mean the soil is warm enough yet for them to grow. Millie uses a soil thermometer to check.
Millie grows her pumpkins ‘in a pile of goodness’ - straw, chicken manure and compost. By piling it up now it will rot down in time for planting in a few months. Stone pavers on top of the mount will absorb the suns heat and radiate it back out for the seedlings.
Heat is invaluable for starting seedlings, and a sunny windowsill is the classic. Millie has made a heatbox out of a reptile tank heater sunk into some sand. She gets an even 20 degrees, which is the perfect temperature to raise seeds and strike cuttings. At night it’s covered in plastic to stay warm. An old window also makes a good cold frame.
Decomposing compost also generates heat. Turning and adding nitrogen will boost this process. Placing cuttings on top of the pile will give them some extra heat.
Millie’s final tip is to prepare to fail, as you’re likely to come up with gaps as crops fail. She recommends sowing surplus lettuce and spring onions as back up plans that can go in any time.
Millie’s final tip is to plant some flowers to attract beneficial predators and pollinators.
Filmed on Taungurung Country | Central Victoria
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I've always lived in a temperate climate and loved the new beginning of spring. Moved to Queensland two years ago and still figuring out the climate here. Don't quite get the same feeling.
Always grown in Queensland here ❤ Spring can be hard. The biggest suggestion i can give is build your soil in winter and MULCH everything to about 7cms helps with the random hot spells and makes that rain a lil more worth wild 😊 Good Luck!
QLD spring very different
Spring here starts in April these days!
I would like to meet millie some day , it would be great if she come to the states !😀
Miss millie needs to have her own channel 😀
Thanks Millie great advice😀
Awesome so simple and amazing tips. Thank you for sharing love it!!
Thanks for watching!
Great video - need one for the tropics
Yes. What about the top half?
Thanks for watching and for the feedback Mark :)
Great show people g/a 👀👀👌👌
Very nice videos. Your given tips are very useful. We resides in a tropical climatic locations. In case of our garden, we often prepare Organic composed by various kitchen waste, old plant leafs and some other, as it is available, without considering temperature.
But, your video is very clear that, what is actually needed. Thanks for sharing your videos.
I liked your videos and Subscribed to your channel to be connected.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2022.
Amazing.. 👍👍🌷🌷
Thank you so much
Thank you so much.. I going to try with an old electric blanket as well
I love electric blankets they are so cozy :D
Thanks for watching and let us know how you go!
We're super excited about spring! Thanks for the great tips!
Us too! Thanks for watching :)
35 to 47 degree heat where i live hard going with water Wicking Beds would be the way to go at my place not done that yet
Great 👍
Whoops planted my seedlings a little to early 😢 first year of having a veggie patch so still a lot of learning to do. Thanks for the great tips, question can you plant the flowers in the veggie patch? Or best to keep them seperate??
I plant my flowers with my veggies - just be sure to make sure you know how tall they grow, and how big their root system will be so you don't crowd anybody out. :-)
Wife: What's with all the flowers planted in the vegie garden?
Husband: To all the girls I've loved before...
(Who traveled in and out my door
I'm glad they came along
I dedicate these flowers
To all the girls I've loved before
To all the girls I once caressed
And may I say, I've held the best
For helping me to grow, I owe a lot, I know
To all the girls I've loved before.
The winds of change are always blowing
And every time I tried to stay
The winds of change continued blowing
And they just carried me away)
I have seen those thermometres before, but not in the shops. Where can I buy one?
Look on EBay.
I'm no cook, but I think they are used for cooking to .
Hi I am in Canberra, which vegetable seeds I can sow now .? Someone pls help. I grow vegetables in pots and garden bed made with Woden pallets.thank you
Starting doing tomatoes and eggplants now inside!
Also the Gardenate app is good for getting an idea for your location.
@@mikaeladonges9102 thank you soo much
@@jasjeetsinghpannu2664 no worries, there’s sooo many more things you can start growing now. That app will tell you. Good luck!
Cucumber, beans, peas, squash, spinach & beets
That’s not how temperature works.