At 12 Acres Farm, we are on our journey to self-sufficiency. We love to learn new skills, grow and preserve as much food as we can and encourage everyone we meet to do the same. Join us as we get back to basics and live life the simple way.
Hi. I bought the greenhouse from a website called Factory Buys. I think the brand is called Green Acres? It is a cheap branded greenhouse that you can find on Kogan, Amazon, or other bargain websites. 😊 I really loved growing in the greenhouse this winter, but in some of our greenhouses, we had a really bad aphid infestation, which got out of control due to my lack of checking on it. I ended up losing the plants unfortunately. But in another one of our greenhouses, we had capsicums growing all winter long. It was fantastic. 😄
Hi. 😀 Comfrey is awesome. I didn't have enough of it in my garden to use in the tea though unfortunately. That's a great idea to use invasive weeds. I have a lot of those around here. 😆
Hi Carol. Thank you so much for your lovely comment. 😊 I am in NSW. It's fantastic that you are getting into gardening. I hope my videos will help you a lot. Feel free to ask any questions. 😊 Kelly
Wow! That is so cheap in the US. Yes, it is really expensive here, unfortunately. If it were as cheap as you guys, I'd have cattle panels all over my garden. 😅
Hi. Thanks so much. 😊 You can take cuttings anytime, however if you want them to keep growing over the winter you will need to keep them in pots and keep them out of the frost, as that will kill them off. Plant them out at the start of Spring and they will be ready to harvest by the end of Autumn. 😊
Koreans used this technique for thousands of years. Not only it feeds plants, it also makes soil softer - often used as soil conditioner before planting.
Hi, thanks for watching. 😀 I would use the tea pretty soon after it's finished. The longer it sits, the more potent it will become and you will need to dilute it. 😊
Thanks so much. 😊 The frame I got from Mitre 10 as a greenhouse. It is 4 x 2 and came with the plastic cover too. Although you will be able to find similar ones online too. 😊
@@12acresfarm Self Sufficient Me (on RU-vid) just released a video about sugar cane. It’s quick and will give you the basics. You’ll just have to pick the right spot for it due to region difference (I think you’re cool temperature). You also need a mulcher if you want it to be light and fluffy ☺️
Yes very pretty. They almost look like a watermelon. 🍉 That's fantastic about your self growing gourds. I love self growing plants! It makes gardening so much fun. 😀
Great Video thanks 👏👌 Hi from Brissy, subtropical growing here & enjoying winter plantings. Summer strains/kills my garden motivation with pests & extreme temps +.weeds
Thanks so much. 😀 Yes, I bet it would be very humid up there in summer, too. It gets really hot here too in the middle of Summer. Last year the garden really suffered, and we had to put up a lot of shade cloth, which thankfully helped a fair bit. I hope you're enjoying the cooler weather of winter. 🌻
Last year I let my broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage last produce go to flower for the bees, this early winter had thousands of seedlings, I left them for sacrificial for the slugs to munch on and didn’t attack my garden so much
Thanks so much. 🌻 Yes, broccoli was a surprise for me, too. The first time I grew it, I let it go to seed by mistake! Home grown broccoli is the best. 🥦
@@12acresfarm and in most cases the ‘fresh’ produce is wilted, bruised, old and basically unsuitable for consumption. So glad we made the choice to start growing our own years ago.
I’m loving your channel. So glad I found you. I’m right into growing perennial vegetables. I’m not sure if I missed whether you mentioned it on the video, but Fig Leaf Gourd is a perennial. It dies back in Winter and re-grows from the same roots in Spring (as long as you protect the roots from frost (with mulch for example) 😊
Thanks so much! 😀 It is great to have you here. 🌻 Oh wow! That's so awesome! I thought it was only a perennial in warmer climates. That is fantastic to know. I will make sure I keep the root area covered. 😀
The small ones are very teisty, like cukini. You can make soup or some other kind of vegy dish but you can also perserve them in a jar for the winter time.
I love your Videos, thanks. I'm curious which region of Australia you live in? I'm looking at moving tinto the Yarra Valley (Victoria) and you mention in a previous video growing Summer crops in Winter. Your chanel is no nonsense down to earth chanel and I'm certain within a year your channel will really be growing. Thanks again.
Hi. Thank you so much for the lovely comment. You are so kind. 😊 I live in Central West NSW. Our winters can be cold, with some frosts, but in a fully closed up greenhouse, it stays nice and warm on chilly days. The nights are cool in the greenhouse, but last winter it went well. The Yarra Valley would be very cold I'm guessing? I have been getting into pressure canning and dehydrating. That is a great way to preserve the harvest for winter, and save money too.😀
@@12acresfarm Ahh I saw some salt bush in one of your videos. Yes the Yarra Valley gets very cold (great for stone fruits), I will give growing cool region Avocados in a polly tunnel a go. I'm looking at Freeze Drying (with Solar and Batteries (to make it affordable) and dehydrating. How do you get on with water? I will be relying on water tanks (dry summer, wet winters).
@jumper123910 That's a great idea for the stone fruit trees. We have some stone fruit here, but we get fruit fly very bad. We need to net our trees if we want any fruit. What variety of avocado are you thinking for the cold? I have heard that they can withstand frost once they are established. We have some young trees here that we need to cover from the frost. I hope they will eventually acclimate. What a fantastic idea for dehydrating and freeze drying. We would love to set up more solar systems. We have a well here but plan on getting some tanks too. You can never be too prepared. 😊
Yeah, you have to be careful with those IBC's if you want to grow in them. Even those listed as "food grade" while HDPE is a food grade plastic you need to know exactly what was in them. I was lucky enough to get a couple from a food manufacturing company in the past. Sadly we moved and they stayed at the old place. I'm just using timber-based beds like yours and trying to grow in the ground (dead clay soil, adding lots of organics) Cheers!
Yea definitely. Its sad that some people can be deceiving just so they can get rid of the IBC's. The food grade ones are hard to come by. We recently grew sweet potato in IBCs and they they grew amazingly. However, after we harvested them, we decided not to eat the sweet potatoes and to get rid of the IBCs. We just didn't want to risk it. It's a shame you had to leave yours at your old property. We have been slowly amending our soil here too. Buying in soil is expensive!
