Gardening in a small space isn’t necessarily a barrier to growing lots of your own food. This couple in urban Sydney have an abundance of crops that head straight to their kitchen.
Owners: Matthew and Lucinda McManus
Location: Lilyfield
Climate Zone: Warm temperate
Garden established:
Style: Inner-city chic with a focus on vegies
Key Features:
The two main vegie patches in the front garden are raised beds edged with weathered steel, chosen because it takes up less space than timber, as well as for its aesthetics. They have added automatic watering to keep irrigation consistent.
Lucinda says she tries to practice crop rotation but also likes to cram things into the bed, which makes it more complicated. Strawberries are growing next to kale, pumpkins, tomatoes, herbs, brassicas, salad greens and onions.
Two feature trees in the front garden are also growing in raised steel beds, and underplanted with herbs such as olive herb (Santolina rosmarinifolia) and creeping thyme (Thymus serpyllum cv.).
In the rear garden there are pots of herbs and succulents, walls covered in Boston ivy (Parthenocissus quinquefolia), a small patch of lawn and paved areas. Built on a slight slope, there are three more steel planters that serve as a retaining wall to the highest point in the garden, where Matthew has a collection of different barbecues. It includes a wood-fired oven, where Matthew cooks up a leg of lamb and some root vegetables, and a Japanese yakitori grill, where he cooks prawns, leeks, asparagus and sweetcorn. He calls the area the barbecorium and it sits under the shade of a huge jacaranda tree (Jacaranda sp.) around which the decking has been built.
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This is my dream paradise ❤️
Not even a slightly small space
It’s nice, but that house would be about $3million
I am so inspired by your beautiful home garden, loved it😍😍👌👌
Really nice edible garden 😍
Someone couse use a beard trimming!
What garden i just saw the most beautiful cocker spaniel! Reminds me of my childhood dog 🙂 Sparky.
It was the the cat that got the perfect place to chill
nice place for living and refreshing
The little fella looks like a dwarf from lord of the rings or maybe he's the garden gnome come to life. Hahaha. Probably a really fun guy though. Nice video, great little garden
Wowwww lov ths episode
The only problem with Corten steel, is that it is pretty expensive, and will ruin your clothes if you brush against it. It's a nice, compact setup though.
so cool
It would be helpful if you showed how to grow veggies in what is truly a small space garden.
Love it,what a beautiful relaxing spot😍
Here is a great coriander trick which I use for quick and abundant harvest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAQhtvyl80s
Start simple, it shouldn't cost an arm and a leg and you should have enough plants to hand out to your friends by Christmas time.
Lovely garden
hahah this bloke is such a tool
Wow that garden, especially the backyard with the ivy is absolutely gorgeous!
Sooo very AMAZING❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love it
Veggies!
Yes their garden and house are both beautiful!!!👏👏👏👏 you need money to do all that no question about that!
Lucky cat too ❤️
beautiful!!
What are Vegies?
So beautiful and tidy
Gorgeous – have never heard of olive herb. Will have to chase it down. 👍🏻
Kitty soft paw! 😍😍😍
oh dear, not a natural garden at all. Obviously been worked on before the camera arrived !
even new white gravel ! and how kind of them to make sure they have left overs for the neighbours !!
typical sydney yuppies
Rich people living in a cottage isn't exactly small space gardening, but it's a beautiful home in a great looking area.
its ( YOU-ZU ) not how he was saying it spelling is ( YUZU)