Vegetable Gardening Australia – Cool Region, Victoria – Homesteading

Hello folks, this week I take you through a typical winter day pottering around the garden. I’m taking the days slowly and enjoying the restful time before things get busy again growing our summer/autumn crop.
I hope you have a beautiful weekend,
Amy

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[Music] oh [Music] heat [Music] the nights have been frosty and the days cold but sunny with a good splash of rain as well i’ve been starting my days slower with my normal routine but not having to rush instead having time as I wait for the frost to melt [Music] [Laughter] hey [Music] it’s 2 years since I started this channel and it was a slow start at the beginning i wasn’t able to post every week like I am now but now each week I look forward to bringing you at least one video i’m so very grateful for all of you here for all your beautiful comments for your encouragement and for the community we’re building here i started this channel because I don’t have a lot of people around me that are likeminded and doing the same things that we’re doing here and I knew I would find you all here and I’m very grateful that I did i’m harvesting some tiny spinach leaves today some of the leaves got a little bit soggy with all the rain that we have had so I’m harvesting as much as I can because we’re expecting another lot of rain to come Monday and Tuesday that’s where it’s forecast but it could move um from there it looks like we’re going to have a sunny Saturday which will be lovely we’ve had glimpses of the sun this morning and I wish it will come out because our off-grid system is really struggling the solar really needs a good boost from the sun we’ve been working on some projects behind the scenes and planning what we’re doing for the second half of this year there’s always a long list of to-dos on a farm and we’re trying to prioritize things and also detocking our animals because of the dry summers we’re going to be receiving for quite a few summers to come so we’re focusing our attention on maintenance on maintaining things and also trying to get a few of those projects that have been on the list for a while done [Music] look at this bundle of lettuce here it’s just absolutely suffocating this brassica that that is um in between all of these plants so I’m just going to pull out some of these lettucees and save the lettuce leaves to eat but by pulling out the entire plant of course cuz it’s all wet the soil’s sticking to the roots a bit yeah by pulling these out and the grass as well there’s a little bit of grass growing there’s also a lot of chickweed growing as well which I use and eat and I will be doing a video on the chickweed very soon because it’s at its best through winter and then into the start of spring but because I’ve got a lot of it growing and I just like to keep on top of the chickweed and make sure it doesn’t take over my patches completely I’m not really pulling out this grass very well but yeah I I will be doing a video on it soon and what I do with it this um cabbage plant here is very small and it’s gotten a bit leggy because of all of the greens growing around it so I’m not sure how well it will do but this will definitely help look what I found after I tell you I don’t get slugs in my garden we get these black slugs occasionally and we mostly get them in the front garden but yeah my chickens will be delighted to eat this wait ch another lovely blue egg we’re getting at least one egg a day at the moment and most of them are these blue ones sometimes we get two blue ones which is nice [Music] all of this lettuce came from seed that one of my lettucees dropped i shook it all about in this section so it’s very very congested there’s a couple of different lettucees actually that’s a different one there it’s no wonder a slug has come into this section of my garden with all of the leaves being so tight together it’s the perfect hideyhole for a slug look at all this gorgeous chickweed and it’s growing right next to these coal rabbies that I sewed myself and they’re growing up quite well i’m really looking forward to eating these [Music] my dogs keep digging up this compost bin so I’ve got two bones out of the freezer hopefully this will distract them from digging in my garden are you going to take it [Music] there’s quite a lot of weeding to do so I must get on to that because with the next lot of rain that’s coming it makes it harder so I have to try and beat the rain my youngest daughter wanted to get one of these mushroom kits and we grew some mushrooms from it it was lots of fun but it failed to produce a second lot of mushrooms which I was quite disappointed about but it’s also inspired me to delve into growing mushrooms so I’m definitely going to be giving that a go at some point but what I thought I’d do it sort of says to put this down in your garden as mulch and I’m wondering if I spread this into parts of my garden and with the rain that’s coming and the moisture that’s in my garden at the moment hopefully we will get some mushrooms growing directly in the garden i want to choose a part of my garden where there’s other things growing so that it has a bit of shade there’s a lot of weeds in this section so I’m just going to weed the area and then pop this down as mulch and see what happens oh look there’s a worm [Music] that’s the issue with weeding after it’s rained [Music] i couldn’t wait any longer i just needed to harvest one of the heads off my sprouting broccoli as you can see I’ve also taken another one that was coming up as well there are plenty coming up on that plant and this will mean that the plant will give all the energy to those other heads coming up now that I’ve taken this off the top well I have quite a collection of food here and I’m going to go inside and make myself a warm quinoa salad I think with all of these goodies all of these greens and I’m probably going to boil some eggs as well we’ve got some older green eggs that I’m excited to boil up well I hope you enjoyed that little meander in my garden and me getting a few things done i hope you have a gorgeous weekend and you get to have some time in the garden i’m really looking forward to our sunny Saturday and getting quite a bit of weeding done out here before the next lot of rain we’re looking at getting a maximum of 20 ms coming over 2 days so that’s quite a lot of rain and the tank is still filling up it got quite low during that dry summer that we had and our dams are also filling up which is delightful to see i’m hoping we get enough water to see us through another dry summer see you next time friends [Music]