There's not a lot happening in the veggie garden at the moment I have photos from the last season and will get through those and put them up over the next few weeks, been working on the house so finding time is not so easy at the moment.  I have also taken footage of my backyard as I've had a few emails from people wondering what the rest of the yard looks like, so I'll put them on a new page all about the plants I have or at least the ones that I know the names of :-).

Again I'm still to finish the big job redoing the veggie garden and will have video footage of the whole lot so you can see what's gone into it all. I haven't planted anything for the cooler month so I can get some work done around the place but will have some special things to show for the next summer crop.

Till then happy planting.

I've been lucky enough to get a new job (have had for the past 6 months) at Australia's leading wholesale nursery "Floriana" and I'm loving the job, but it has taken a lot of my time up so this year I'm doing a Floriana veggie garden that helps me as I don't have to worry about seeding my own veggies this year as I get them from work saving me time, I will have my own section for this and it's also going to put my work to the test on just what you can expected from the Floriana vegetable selection but at this stage they are doing great I'll have to photos for you to look at from the front page so just click on Floriana veggies to look, will be up in the next day.

I've also harvested the potatoes and will put those photos up for you as well but I can tell you that I've tried 3 types so far and they are great.

Please email me if you have any problems so I can get it all sorted out so everyone can watch the clips.

Anyway back to the Potato crop I'll be putting in, in the next few days, I'm very excited about them, I have six different varieties going in, I really cant wait.  The varieties are Bison, Desiree, Toolangi Delight, Pontiac, Ruby Lou and Nicola, I got them all from The Diggers Club here in Australia (I'm lucky enough to live just 2km away from them) for anyone interested in the diggers club here is the link to there website http://www.diggers.com.au/ I've been a member for the past 2 years and have just paid up for another 2, I've found it great.

If you remember a few months back I was telling you all that I want to put up some videos for everyone to see things done in the garden and that I was looking at making the video a bit better in quality, well all my problems are over and after months and months I've got a new computer just for video editing and it does some really great things so it's all on the move so look out for lots of video clips coming your way.

Well I'll leave it there and give you all an update in about a week (to catch up on my monthly diary) to let u know how the planting went.

I have heaps of veggies in the garden and can't keep up with them at the moment but will be freezing them very soon before it's to late and that would be a shame.  I will then be digging it all over and getting ready for next summer and because I'm doing so much to it before then I won't be planting a winter crop as it will just get in the way while doing the work, I will be planting some broad beans though in one spot from the beans I grew last year for green manure.  And yes I'm still working on the updates I've been saying for ages now :-).  Till next time happy gardening.

On the site I'm still finishing the updates and they will be up as soon as I've done them, you would have seen that I've done quite an update on the companion planting, the Herb section is just waiting for some of the herbs that I've grown to be big enough to take photos and the Canning section will be coming soon I'm just trying to get all the right info on everything so I don't have to worry about it once it's up.  I'm going to have to do a course I think on websites as I'm having troubles getting this site up to a standard that I'd like it to be (a whole new look) but I still have a play to see if I can come up with something and have just got another program to see if that makes it easier.

On a good note I have been eating some very nice Broccoli and my puppies are almost not puppies at all click if you wish 1,2,3,4,5 the black one went through a bit of a hard time as he broke a bone in his shoulder but after a lot of money :-) and some time he is back to 100%.  I've also been trying to save some time with the weeds by putting down some black weed mat and also some black plastic next to each other so I can see which one does the better job, I think it will be the weed mat as it still lets the water through but time will tell.

I've put in my glasshouse/hothouse and I've got lots of plants in there for the backyard (not veggies) and I'll put a little section up for that. I haven't done much else other than that but I think once I get photos up you will see it was worth it.

I've cut all the peppers off and ended up with a nice little crop and I'm looking forward to next years crop as I've picked up some more plants from my friend.  Also don't forget that you are better off keeping pepper plants in for the second year as you get a much better crop and an earlier crops as well they are perennials not Annuals and will last 3-4 years if you keep the frost away from them, just before coming back into season prune back and watch them do 3 times better than the year before, this is a good idea for cooler areas as the growing season for peppers isn't very long and many of you may have found in the past that once the plant was getting to a good size winter would set in and you didn't get much fruit off them.

The veggie garden ended up doing ok in the end with Tomatoes everywhere, I've been able to pick about 40kg in the end and make lots of sauce that I'm sure will taste just great and I'll be freezing lots to make some nice home made Tomato soup for the upcoming cooler months, I've also been able to pick lots of nice Peppers, all different kinds too.  I ended up with 3 very large Pumpkins that will be nice to try.  The Zucchini and  Beans both did well but I was unable to get enough time this year to make the most of them and  will be using most of the Beans as seed for next years crop.

One of my puppies has had an injury that needed surgery on his shoulder but he should make a full recovery and this has taken up a lot of my time and money :-), but I'm just happy that he will be running around again soon.  I'm still to take more photos and put up the ones that I've been planning to put up for the past few months but all will happen and thank God I've got 3 weeks off very soon.

I've started the Winter patch already with Brussels sprouts, Chinese Cabbage, Broccoli and Spinach.  I'll be adding lots of Peas/Snow Peas and Broad beans as well.

I'm sorry that update in this meant to be weekly dairy have been more fortnightly but sleep is very hard to come by at the moment with the new pups that need to be worn out before I get a chance to sleep and of course sleeping when your not tired doesn't help, then when you are they aren't :-).  Still getting around to resizing the photos that will be on there way, something for you to look forward to..

Please don't ask me what the common name is for that variety is as I have no idea and have just copied what it says on the packet, which happens to be from the Diggers club.  I became a member there not to long ago and can tell you that I'm very happy with them indeed.  If you live in Australia it's well worth looking into be coming a member as they have free seeds all the time and some that you would never pick up from your local store, it can be fun just trying out all the different veggies.

I also told you about the orange tree that I transplanted not long ago, well that's doing great at the moment and I will have photos very soon showing you the back from the dead tree that looks like it will be giving me some very nice juicy oranges before to long.  I'll also be putting up the photos of the veggie from this year, now that my hours at work are becoming normal again.

On the work note, I'll be back to normal hours as from next week starting 20th so I'll be working hard on getting all the updates that I've been saying will happen up and running, this won't include the small videos as yet, as I am still deciding which camera will be best for what I need.

The garden has been doing well and I'll put some photos up very soon to show you all but the weather is still wet and cold even coming into January but doesn't seem to be stopping anything from growing at this stage, what it is doing though is causing the weeds to grow very quickly, so quickly that I'm finding it hard to keep up with them with all this work that I'm doing.  I haven't planted anything else at this stage but will be looking at doing that maybe this weekend.

Things that I've planted so far are 4 types of Pumpkins, 6 types of Tomatoes, 2 types of Zucchini's, 3 types of beans and some Hot Peppers of different kinds, I'll be taking photos of these and how everything's going as well as planting much more very soon and with some luck we will be getting some better weather so I can get things on the move.