Spring vegetable garden update

This is late september garden update to show you where my spring garden is at. I have finally planted out the last of my spring seedlings and i am moving on my cool season plants to make room for succession plantings in october. The garden is going to start growing pretty fast once the weather really warms up

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0:00 main garden bed front section
6:09 main garden back section
10:59 avacado, lemon and mango tree update
13:14 north facing beds
15:53 fig, mandarin and Persimmon tree update
17:48 October plans for my garden

Hi, I’m Anthony from Sydney Backyard Veggies. We’re in the end of September and it’s time for me to give you a spring garden update. Been busy over the last few videos busy planting out all my spring seedlings and finishing off harvesting the rest of my uh winter crops. And just going to walk you through this afternoon, just show you where my patch is at and what my plans are over the next month. over at my main bed. And over the last 2 months or so, I’ve been progressively increasing the size of my garden. And I converted this front part here into a another bed 2 m deep, close to about 10 m long. So, another 2 m of growing area. And at the front here, I’ve grown planted first of this season’s sweet corn. Got myself eight rows of five plants, 40 plants in total. Uh the variety here I planted is Sentinel. I planted these about 2 weeks ago. Finally got the irrigation onto them and they’re doing okay. They’ve just started settling in. Uh they will need a little bit of fertilizer next week or so. They they’ve settled in quite well. Just I started these off as seedlings about 4 and 1/2 weeks ago, four or five weeks ago. And I’m expecting to harvest these in about uh early November. Moving along from the sweet corn and I’m over at my last planting of broccoli. I reckon this is one of the nicest plantings I’ve had all season. Uh mostly because of the amount of sun these are getting amount of fertilizer. But I’ve got 20 broccoli plants here waiting for them to start producing. And I’m I’m expecting them to produce pretty soon. You can just see the heads just starting to form. Hoping that these will be finished in about 2 weeks time. I’m expecting to start harvesting these in about 2 weeks. And I’m going to clear this bed and I’m actually going to start planting I’m not sure what I plant in here. Probably more cucumbers, maybe even more corn. I’ll just continue the corn planting across the bed. I won’t be planting any more broccoli to from now till February. I’ll start my seedlings just after a um after New Year’s Day and I’ll start planting them out just after Australia Day. And with that, just adjacent to the broccoli, I’ve got this last planting of uh celery. Now, this is not doing that great. It’s been struggling a bit. Now, I started these off from seeds, and I’ve got 15 plants here. As you can just see, it’s got the irrigation on them. I’ve been getting some sort of disease. I’m assuming it’s some sort of uh fungus. Just a lot of rain that we had earlier on. Really damaged these up. But it’s it appears to be trying to outrow it, which is great. So, I’m gonna have to come through and just prune off a lot of those um damaged leaves. Probably another round of fertilizer on these. And I’m hoping, look, I’m hoping to get these harvested by November as well. November, December. But we’ll see how they go. Moving to the back of the sweet corn. And here is this season’s broad beans. Now I have harvested the first batch of these and there still a few more beans that are growing. These are small ones but these will be all cleared out by next week. Been a relatively productive day uh productive season for broad beans. I I really struggled because of the sun comes from the north which is that direction. All the plants tend to lean towards the sun. So I’ve had to put in a lot of these struts to support them. and they’ve done somewhat pretty well. But the plants are actually really tall. You can just see how tall they are. I think that becomes a problem. I do plant these quite early. Uh the earlier you plant, uh I find the taller the plants get. I planted these out in March. I’m I’ve actually earmarked this for u some sweet corn, but also my cherry tomato seedlings, which I’m growing at the moment. I’ll just plant them along the front edge of the bed here. And adjacent to the broad beans, I’ve got the last of this season’s uh cauliflower. Really happy. Again, late season cauliflower, early in plant these out in July. And I’m expecting these to be ready to harvest in about four four weeks time. 20 plants in this location. The variety is called Serenity. And a really good performer. Nice big white heads. adjacent to them. I’ve got my uh silverbe. Now, I expected these silver beat to bolt. I always find that when you plant silverbe in autumn, by the time you come to September, October, it bolts. This hasn’t. And I just gave them a big harvest a couple days ago. It look beautiful. Like, I’m really This is a real staple in my garden. Try to grow as much as I can of it. Yeah. Family and friends all take a lot of it. When I harvest my silverbeat, always add a lot of fertilizer afterwards, whether it’s liquid fertilizer or chicken manure pellets. Really encouraging it to produce more and more new leaves. And adjacent to those uh silver beats is this season’s tomatoes. These were planted. Now, this is week four, so it’s been about a month in. You can just see how beautiful the growth is. This variety is thunder. Got 12 plants, I believe, in this location. in two rows, 12 plants in total, and they’re going to fill up this whole spot in no time. I’ve got these rows at 80 cm spacings and 60 cm spacings with the rows. They are due for a steak, and I’m just running out of time at the moment to stake them. And they need um some u fertilizer. Really, really happy with how they’re progressing at the moment. As long as the rain holds off, um they shouldn’t get too much more damage. As you can see, just that earlier damage from the rains that we had in late August really shook them up. And next to those tomatoes is the first of two plantings of cucumbers. Here I planted the green dragon, which is the burpless variety of cucumbers. And adjacent to them, I planted uh Maguay, which is the slicing variety. Um, again, nine two rows of nine plants. I’m expecting these to germinate in about 5 6 days time. Over at the back part of the main bed. And over here I’ve got this season’s eggplants planted out. Six in the bed. And I planted about about 4 weeks ago as well. Variety is called Monasa. It’s the big Italian black Italian variety of eggplants that you see generally at the shops. Yeah. Look, no complaints so far. Seem to be on a fair bit of size. They do also do need staking and fertilizing soon, so I’ll probably do that next week as well. And next to them, I’ve got this season’s capsicans. Eight plants here in total. This variety is called uh Harley. And I planted these quite early. I planted these the last week of August. And I just started to put on a bit size slowly slowly as the as the weather’s warming up. But again, like the tomatoes at the front, uh, these got impacted by the rains that we had in early September. Uh, interplanted with them. Here’s my radishes and they’re almost ready to harvest. As you can just see right there, the radishes are scarlet globe. Great producer. Trying to actually see how late I can plant these before it gets too hot. But so far, they’re looking pretty good. They’re still producing now. I’m going to be planting a few more interplanted uh radishes between these longer season plants. Moving across and this is another planting of cucumbers. This time this is the Lebanese style cucumbers. The variety is called Craig. Planted 10 plants in total and again this was planted couple of days before the other planting. So, I’m expecting these to germinate in another 3 or 4 days and hopefully I’ll have but a lot of cucumbers coming through the garden at the moment. And next to the remnant cabbages I’ve got left over, these will be harvested in the next few days. Got my yellow capsicans on the right. Got my jalapenos on the left and some bush beans. These capsic these jalapenos, the variety is called Jedi. One I plant every year. Um, again, these are doing great at the moment. They do need fertilizer. Likewise, the Agustinini, which is the yellow blocky type uh capsic. Uh, I’ve only got four there. And yeah, also putting on a bit of size as well. This is one of my plantings of Jade bush beans. This is a green stringless bean variety. And I’ve been trying to plant a lot more of this in my garden. These were planted out as seeds, seedlings about 2 and 1/2 weeks ago. And the idea is I’m going to be pulling out these broad beans and continuing the plantings, but I will be direct seeding the rows as opposed to growing uh seedlings and plant them out. Moving on to the back part of the bed. And this is my other plant of tomatoes. Again, another 10 planting 10 seedlings here. These were planted in the last week of August. The variety is dankia and like the thunders are starting to grow pretty fast. They need staking very soon. And these were planted a week before the thunder, so they need staking and fertilizer. I’ve also got interplanted uh more interplanted uh radishes, same varieties, crimson globe. And I’ve got three rows here, and they will be ready to harvest in about 3 and 1 half 4 weeks time. And adjacent to those tomatoes, I got my bush bean patch, seven rows. And I planted these as seedlings. The first four rows, four and a half rows are Italian Romano, which is a flat bean, continental bean, which needs to be stewed when you eat it. Another two rows here is more jade bush beans, uh, stringless bush beans. Yeah, they’re just, yeah, shooting away. You can start seeing a little bit of flowers just showing up there. But overall, this is just every week you just seem to see these just grow bigger and bigger, and they’re looking looking amazing. really really happy with the crop how it looks so far and I may just give them one more application of nitrogen. I had given them application of nitrogen fertilizer about two weeks ago. They do need another feed now and that will be it in terms of fertilization. Harvesting these I reckon midocctober mid to just late October would be the latest I’ll be harvest starting to harvest the first flush of beans off these plants. And over in this corner I got my second last planting of broccoli. This broccoli was planted earlier than the broccoli at the front, but you can just see from the size the fact that I don’t get much sun in this spot for a while. They took a lot longer to grow. But good news is a lot more sun now is coming as the days are getting longer. And I was just checking on the four and I’m starting to get broccoli. So, I’ll be harvesting broccoli from this bed in about a week and a half’s time. And I’ll be clearing this bed as well soon enough to plant beans and beans. And uh I’ll be looking at planting basil on my fruit tree front avocado is absolutely covered in in flowers. And you can just see uh it’s just all these flowers are opening and I’m just hoping this year is the year that I actually going to get some fruit off this. I’ve had this tree for 8 years and it flowers like this every year and every year I don’t get a single fruit. I’m going to give it one more go this year. Uh taking a lot of advice from all you viewers. I should keep the tree, give it a go another year. But I’m really tempted to if it doesn’t produce this year, I’m just going to cut it and make up this space because it is it is shadowing the garden throughout the winter time. It’s just killing the space. Uh if it produces this year, I may give it a bit of a uh reprieve and uh let it last. But yes, you can see it’s just it’s amazing how much it’s covered. absolutely covered in flowers, but I just can’t get it to produce. And then over my lemon tree, gave it a big prune this year. Now it’s just starting to get bigger again and added the fertilizer and stuff off. Then it’s full of flowers. Still got to take some of that old fruit off it. But it’s looking really really looking amazing. It’s just putting a lot of height again. I need to be aware be aware of the fact that you’re going to start getting citrus uh bugs, the stink bugs. They’ll be starting to suck on these tender growth soon enough. And I will be treating it with a few sprays, especially pyramid and another systemic spray to make sure I keep those at bay because once they sting your lemons and you harvest them later, they do have that black mark inside and it just makes it useless. Mango tree is in full flower now. Hoping that um every year it’s been a reliable u producer. I did um I did tip prune this earlier on. Hoping it’s going to produce. It’s got the irrigation on it. Hopefully it does hold. I’m just worried about any chocolate spot or anything like that that comes through the plants. But um it’s looking okay. I gave it a real big prune just to clear it out from the inside. It was quite getting quite congested inside the plant. But I’ll keep you posted. Starting to get too tall again. So, I might have to tip prune the tops to make sure the plant stays down. I don’t want to be having to climb ladders to harvest those fruit. Over at my west facing beds, and I’ve still got my the last of my broad beans over here. This is done. We had a first pick last week. Parents will come through and clear out the rest of rest of them. Still a few beans left over, but this will be cleared. And I’m actually looking at potentially extending the um the chicken pen out to give them a little bit more space, bit more roaming space around here in this bed. It’s actually quite a difficult bed to grow in. It’s quite hot and the soil is not that great. So that’s that’s the plan for this space. Moving along from there. And this is my late season planting of coriander. And this needs to be harvested. Uh starting to get too long now. And you can see if you if you grow you can grow coriander, right? And it won’t bolt. So you need to grow it fast. Give it a lot of water and make sure it grows quickly and a lot of fertilizer. And I’m going to harvest this hole. U so it hasn’t got a time chance to bolt. And I’ll be clearing this bed. And I’m actually going to be trying to plant um moleia, which is a Lebanese fruit. It’s called Egyptian spinach, I believe it’s called in English. And I’ll be planting this whole bed out with Egyptian spinach. This season’s uh passing patch is in full swing. It’s beautiful. I need to give its first cut. Dad’s going to come sort that out for me on the weekend. But I’m really happy to talk it. It It struggled a bit in the rains as well that we had early in the season u in August. Most of it died off, but thankfully it’s all bounced back and it’s looking absolutely amazing. Over next to them, late season leaks. And I’m going to run the risk now of these bolting. And so I’m going to start harvesting them. I’m looking at harvesting them at this size. I don’t need them to get any thicker than that, especially for a late season planting. Just enough that we can use them in the meal. And I’ll be progressive half nesting these because once they go once they bolt, they the they get really fibrous and you can’t use them. And then here I have my overwintered jalapenos and they’re producing. already getting jalapenos. I just saw one here just before. If I could show you. There it is. Just a nice little jalapeno there. Full of flowers. And it seems that they’ve done pretty well. I think I might have lost one or two of the plants, but they’re looking beautiful. This is my volunteer tomato, and I got to prune it. It’s taking it’s it’s eaten up the whole space, but it’s looking beautiful. It’s got heaps of beautiful flowers. I actually don’t know what variety it is, but we’ll see how it goes. I might just leave it here just to see what I can harvest off it, but it does need to be properly staked. Over at my southern beds, and it’s pretty much all trees at the moment here. I haven’t started planting these beds yet, but I’ve got my fig tree. It’s just come to life. It’s got the early crop coming through, which is great. You can just see that. And a couple of other ones over here. So, I’m really happy with that. Got to keep the spray on it. I was getting a lot of thrips earlier on the season. So, just got to keep sure I stay at the sprays just to keep knocking out those thris because they can really cause a lot of havoc. And also the scale. I had to clear a lot of scale off this plant earlier in the season. And just making sure if you’ve got a fig tree, just check out for those two things. Make sure there’s not much thrips, no thris showing and no scale. An imperial marin tree just keeps getting better and better. This tree, it’s a full of flowers this year. Beautiful. Absolute beautiful tree. And it’s it produces big fruit. I’m actually thinking it may have too many flowers here. I’m just anxious that it may start producing slight slightly smaller fruit this time around. I’ve harvested the last of the fruit. There’s still a few left over from my late season flush. But um yeah, really happy how it looks. I’ve still got the frame in because I find that as the tree gets loaded with fruit, they tend to break. So just put a little bit of structure in there just to support the branches so that when they get loaded, they don’t break. And then finally, I’m over at my pimement tree. Just again, you can just see it’s just starting to show the the flowers. And PCmans grow their flowers on new growth. So, you can just see all the the tips growing. Heaps of flowers. Hopefully, I’m trying to get a lot more fruit off this tree. I need to prune. There’s a lot of dead dead wood just down here in the lower levels, which I’m going to be removing progressively just over here. and clean it all up. Hoping for a big season in per Simmons. And again, making sure the fruit flies. I had a lot of problems with fruit flies last year. So, I’m going to net it as well to make sure I keep on top of the fruit flies. So, my garden plans for the next month. Now, I’ve already planted a lot of my long season plants, my eggplants, my tomatoes, uh my capsicans. I’ve also started planting first of many succession plantings of corn, of cucumbers, stuff like that. What I am looking at doing is starting to plant more beans. I need to get more bush beans and I want to get my Botti beans in the ground. So, I’m looking at starting to plant those out on my southern beds. And I’ll probably do that in about 2 weeks time when I’m 100% sure that the soil is warm enough for them to germinate. And I’m going to be planting out starting up another late season round of tomatoes. It’s still a bit early. Probably in about 3 weeks time start my late season tomatoes. And I’ve decided this year I want to start some late season capsicans as well. and I want to get them done at started at that end of October for planting out by the end of November. I need to also start planting out my watermelons and my pumpkins. I’ve already started some seedlings and I’ll get them planted out. Uh I’m actually leaving them a bit late. I would like to have had them in the ground by now. Zucchinis need to be planted out as well. I haven’t got any zucchinis in the ground. So, that’s another thing I’ll be planting out in the next 2 weeks. Besides that, it’s more now just staying on top of the watering, staying on top of the pests, making sure I’m adding fertilizer to my plants, and just really enjoying the the push through spring and all the spring weather that we’ve been having. So, I’m really excited. Can’t wait to start showing everyone the progress in my tomatoes and my cucumbers over the next few weeks and months. Look, thank you very much everyone for joining me this video. I really appreciate all the support. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me on a comment in this video. or via message on Tik Tok or Instagram.