Thanks for a great video with lots of info. I love that you have a Passive Solar Home. I live in a mudbrick home with some passive solar design. I live north of Ballarat on property and it gets very hot in summer and very cold in winter but our home is quiet comfortable if we manage it well. I loved all your recipes. As i don't really cook I am in awe of anyone that cooks from scratch. Think my favourite was the stew.
Just came across your channel. I’m in western Victoria - great to see more Victorians here on RU-vid. I also hope to share here on YT in the near future. Looking forward to seeing how your garden goes this spring/summer.
Thanks for being here and watching! It’s nice when you find a channel nearby. I started mine because there weren’t many out there that I could find. Will be great if you start a channel too, let me know when you do. 🌻
A video about the soil and how to start the no dig garden would be very helpful as l am knew to this concert and need to figure out how to keep the soil fertile! I use birdnetting for seedling at least until they are established!
Looks very cold and wet. I am looking forward to Spring to getting into the ornamental garden, You have so much work on your property. You do an amazing job. Nothing in our vege garden except for a couple of very hard trying Cauli. Thank you for great information and great video
Yes quite cold and wet with some lovely warm sunny days here and there. We usually have sunny winters, but the last few have been cloudy with all the rain we’ve had. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, appreciate it!
New sub here, g'day from Coffs Harbour NSW where my family of 5 including dog live semi off grid. Congrats on your first anniversary I look forward to checking out your older and future videos.
Seeing your asparagus crowns reminds me that I need to sort out my asparagus patch. It needs a little weeding. I've got 7 crowns which is enough for the 3 of us.
Happy weeding! Good to know that 7 crowns are enough for three of you. I think we will plant a whole row, maybe 15 crowns and that should feed us and family.
@@ThreeBarrowFarm We don't eat asparagus that often and our crowns are over 10 years old. I'm spoilt with the freshness of homegrown and can no longer buy store bought asparagus
Thanks so much for sharing your tips for growing celery! I'll definitely give this a try in our garden. Your advice is always so helpful, especially for those of us living off-grid here in Australia. Keep up the great work!
@@ThreeBarrowFarm Oh nice! I’m not on property yet but I always thought I’d get dorper. Same concept, no shearing, often dropping twins and hardy. How do you find their resistance re worms, etc?
Getting a breed that doesn’t need shearing is a good way of keeping external parasites down as their fleece isn’t as long. We usually move the sheep around often and this has helped keep the worm count down. Also natural ways such as apple cider vinegar. They stay super healthy when moved around. Dorpers don’t have as nice tasting meat as other meat sheep, so just keep that in mind. We’ve been told Wiltipoll is one of the best tasting. Hope this all helps.
How did you get the name for your farm, we are on a 1/4 acre block Mudbush I wonder why.I miss my Rayburn while still in my kitchen it is disconnected from the flue are supposed to be selling it then I can get another stove that would be fantastic. My husband has emphysema and is no longer able to tolerate the smoke or cutting the wood.whic is now very hard to source locally or expensive to buy. But I do miss it
Hello, we came up with the name Three Barrow Farm because we started with three wheel barrows and moved everything around the farm with them. We have since added another two wheel barrows and a tractor. But that’s where we started; with three wheel barrows and three kids helping us move them around. I love our wood stove, but it is a lot of work. We go out to the council domestic wood areas to collect the firewood ourselves and chop it up to use. It’s very expensive to buy now, so we are glad we have areas we can get it ourselves. Thank you for watching!
Would love to see a video on what u make with rhubarb. I have great memories of my grandmothers apple a rhubarb pie unfortunately she never followed a recipe and never wrote down her recipes she was the best cook.
Well my winter veggies went in at the right time but with this cold weather are not really growing well at all Dandenong ranges so glad when I found your channel another Victorian one hooray you end up with so many American sites that is for sure yes add your cooking and preserving and I love your jumpers do you have a knitting spinning channel as well.
@@elizabethstreeter2145 it’s been so cold! Only going to get colder too I guess. Poor veggies. I do have a knitting podcast: Muddy Boots Maker. I haven’t been on there for a bit as I haven’t been making much the past few months, but there’s plenty over there. 🌻
You have a nice range of things growing in your garden for winter. Mine is pretty bare as well are moving our raised beds at the moment. Once they are in the new spot we can bet plenty of spring plantings done.
Congratulations on your youtube birthday! I'm also in a cool climate here in Katoomba, Blue Mountains NSW so looking forward to more of your videos - when you have time! All the best.
Love your videos,love what you are doing. I just started to get into the no dig method,still need to learn how it works,l like it so far! True,autumn sowing is the hardest for me too,l end up sometimes buying seedlings 😒
Thank you Helen, I will do a video on how I make my garden beds using no dig soon. I’m going to be extending on of my patches. Glad I’m not the only one who struggles with the autumn planting 😉. We do what we can, sometimes we can’t do it all. Thanks for watching! 🌻
Thank you! The weeds are loving our sunny and wet winter days. Need to get on top of them before they completely take off in spring! Thanks for watching 🌻
That was wonderful, especially from an aussie gardener! A question about the winter garden, what do you grow in winter and how hard is your frost, maybe it sounds silly but we have almost no frost(Adelaide),just curious about ths difference!
Thank you for watching! We have quite heavy frosts, getting to around -3 degrees some nights. The animals water will have an inch of ice on top and sometimes 1.5inches. I usually have loads of brassicas in the garden by early autumn and have quite a harvest of veg, but I’m a bit behind this year. We shall see what happens, but I’m guessing I’ll be harvesting in spring instead of winter. I still have lots of herbs, spring onions, leek, spinach and lettuce to harvest at the moment. I can only plant all the cold season crops as the frost chills everything else. Hope that answers your question. 🌻
Oh so nice to see a video Amy.....wonderful harvest...we to did well and here in the citrus season....don't feel bad about the cucumbers this definly wasn't their year,,I think I got about 3...and no winter garden in yet here eithe😂 tfs..stay warm and happy gardening
Thank you! Oh I wish we could get our citrus up and running here; so hard with the frost. Sorry to hear you also had a bad cucumber year, must have been the weird weather we had. Enjoy your citrus! 🍊
Great video and lots of info for me as a novice 😁 If the birds leave us some apples next season i will delve into canning. This year i just stewed then froze.
Thank you so much, glad the video was helpful for you. Stewing and freezing is such a good and easy way to preserve fruit. Hoping the birds leave you some apples! 🤞
Could you make a video explain how you started this garden, did you do no dig? What type of soil do you have,how fo you fertilize. Maybe you already did one,if yes could you please sent me a link @@ThreeBarrowFarm
@@ThreeBarrowFarmCould you please explain how did you start the beds,do you no dig? How do you fertilize? If you already have a video about could you please sent it to me.
Jay, thank you for the video! I wish l had the masses of apples to preserve. I reused the rings too ,it seemed to work fine. The little jars are so adorable, didn't see them before!🍎😋
Thank you for watching! Aren’t the small jars cute! I imagine they’d be great for capers or sundried tomatoes and things like that, but also perfect for jams and jellies. Amy 🌻
would love to know some of the plant based recipes you do.. and also... how you prepare the beds for growing.. what products are you using please... and are they available around the states... ie; bunnings for eg/// thank you...
hello.. from northern nsw... do you do companion planting ... if so .. can you offer any advice on mixing flowers and vegetables and any help on this please....
Hello! I don't go out of my way to do companion planting, I rather focus on the soil instead. If the soil is well balanced and has enough calcium for the plants to grow healthy then companion planting doesn't really need to happen. I'll try to explain this more in a video. Thank you for watching!
Hi, I don’t plant brassicas in spring generally but when I do I make sure the calcium levels are high enough in the soil so the bugs don’t eat the plants. However, brassicas grow better as an autumn to winter crop in my area and there aren’t any cabbage moths and such around. Snail and slugs are probably the ones that might attack the plants, although as I said before, if calcium levels are good in your soil they shouldn’t attack your plants. Bugs don’t like calcium, so when you see them eating a plant it generally means that plant is low in calcium. Brassicas need a lot of calcium and strip a lot from the soil so you need to replenish the calcium levels after every growing season with lime and dolomite or gypsum. Hope that helps!
VERY EXCITED TO FIND YOUR VIDEO, AS SOON AS I HEARD THE MAGPIES SINGING MY EARS PRICKED UP. I LIVE IN NE VICTORIA AND ALSO GROW AS MUCH AS I CAN, THIS YEAR I PULLED OUT ALL MY VEGGIE GARDEN AND AM IN THE PROSSESS OF PUTTING IN ABOVE METAL BEDS AND A GABION WALL BUT AS I'VE HAD A CAR ACCIDENT YEARS AGO AND IT WRECKED MY BACK, IT'S ALL GOING VERY SLOWLY
Hello! Glad you’ve found my channel. Sounds like you’re very busy redoing your garden. It’s hard when you’ve had injuries as gardening works the body well. I hope you grow lots in your new beds! 🌻
Thank you, I’m looking forward to showing you what I’ve been making. The bushfires haven’t been close to us which is good and the small fires that have were put out quickly thank goodness! Thanks for watching! 🌻
Looks like you had a great crop of cylindra beets - I've always struggled with that variety and always go back to detroit or bulls blood - but now I'm tempted to try again after seeing your success.
Thank you, I always have great success with them, especially with the germination rate. Detroits are good too though. I hope you have success with them next time round. 🌿
Yay another Aussie youtuber and one that uses Fowlers , i cant seem to find many at all , anyway nice video and I have subscribed , I'm in Queensland :) I think it would be nice if you say what size jar your using , my favourite sizes are 20's , 27 and 31 not to mention the 28's :) I also love Sallys 2 books
Hello! I’m glad you found me, it’s hard to find Australian RU-vid channels and that’s why I started one. I shall mention the jar sizes in the future, thank you for that suggestion. I believe these ones are the 27’s, nice and tall to for more beetroot in! Thanks for watching!
I know what you mean, that’s why I decided to start a channel, so there’d be more Australian ones out there. I think I was listening to All the Dirt or Table Manners. I usually listen to a few different podcasts in one gardening session. Thank for watching! 🌻
I am in upstate NY in the USA, I like cooking the beet root tops, like greens. I thought is was crazy that you get ride of them in the garden and save the carrot top, I do the opposite . I freeze them and add them to soups . love your video
We do use the beetroot greens, they are so yummy. We like them best when the plants are young and harvest them while the beetroots are growing, then we use them in soups and such. I had so many beetroots and not enough time this day so I fed the tops to our sheep and chickens who ate it all up! Thank you for watching! 🌿
Roast potatoes are the best! They are keeping well in storage thanks to our cool summer we are having and our solar passive house staying a regular cool temp. We are going to build a proper storage space eventually though. I’d worry if there’s a slightly humid day or the temperatures are hot multiple days in a row.
Wonderful harvest Amy. I make a beetroot relish which is just a bit different and is lovely on sandwiches, crackers and a condiment to salads. Cheers Carol
@@ThreeBarrowFarm thank you. Capsicums are going well. Not big but plenty and they still taste great. Heat has got to my chilli plants last week or so so dropping all flowers but I have had a decent harvest already. So I’m lucky there. So far tomatoes are having mixed results they are getting so far then just dropping off when we get a few cool days followed by a real scorcher. But in total I’m doing well first year at the new house and all in pots. So that is a normal thing to have to work it all out and get used to the new area. Glad you have more ready and more to grow also. Enjoy. I also love Sally Wise books. I have a year on the farm. I had a year in the bottle but it got leant to someone by Hubby and I never got it back. I do borrow it quite often though. I had wanted to get to Tasmania and go to her cooking school however it has been closed since covid. 😭😭
A beautiful small garden with trees, vegetables, and fruits grown by yourself is the most wonderful thing. There's nothing more delicious than eating rice you've cooked or cooked from plants you've grown, right?
