GARDEN TOUR: Winter Vegetables, Cellar & Cook-Up | Urban Homestead

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No need to peek over the fence! I’m taking you on a garden tour of my 1/4 acre homestead in the suburbs of Melbourne, where we grow 90% of our vegetables in our backyard. Ours may not be an 'Instagram perfect’ garden, but it’s a functional garden producing over 300 kilograms of food for us in the last 4 months.
In this episode, I’ll show you our backyard setup of 22 no-dig beds, our cellar, beehive and more. It’s winter, but we’re still growing, harvesting and of course…eating! Homegrown meals are the ultimate incentive to grow food not lawns. Stay tuned until the end to see what we cook up with delicious produce we’ve picked on our garden tour.
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00:00 Garden Tour Overview
00:50 Main Area | No Dig Vegetable Beds
01:20 Winter Harvesting - Eggplants & Herbs
01:42 Capsicum Patch & Tips
02:24 Growing Brassicas - Broccoli, Cauliflower & Cabbage
03:16 Cos Lettuce Harvesting
03:58 Volunteer Plants & Fennel Harvesting
04:53 Potato Harvesting
05:25 DIY Greenhouse - Design & Build
06:10 Bee Hive
07:01 Chicken Free Ranging
07:28 Established Fruit Trees
08:23 Chicken Run & Coop
08:33 Cellar - Passata, Pumpkins & Pickles
09:40 Cooking with Our Harvest - Winter Cook-up
10:20 Homegrown Dinner - Chicken Stew, Potato Salad & Lettuce
11:34 Garden Tour Outro

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28 июн 2024

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@ben.strong 12 дней назад

Thanks for watching! This is a brand new channel so if you enjoyed this vid I’d love it if you gave it a like and subscribed! ❤

@elizabethcox7739 5 дней назад

we are similar... loved your channel... @west coast Grandma

@glow1815 6 дней назад

Every thing FRESH from your own garden can't beat that. Yummie!!!

@ben.strong 6 дней назад

I agree!

@kelliqh2721 9 дней назад

Hi from the Grampians.... Fantastic garden, I'm so jealous that you have a cellar. Thank you soooo much for not Americanizing, whilst I love watching some of their content, I hate the way some Aussies use names and measurements not used here. Your brassica's are lovely and leafy, you can actually cook the leaves - they cook up really well with some vinegar in the water. 💜💜💜

@ben.strong 9 дней назад

Hi! Thanks so much! Very happy to keep it true blue here 😂. Thanks for the tip re cooking the leaves :)

@brookeayton1332 8 дней назад

Impressed by how much you’ve got going in June!

@ben.strong 8 дней назад

Hey thanks!

@suzannemcfarlane1561 10 дней назад

Yay ... I look for Melbourne gardeners. I'm around the Frankston area, and still have my garden L-Plates on. I'm impressed with your garden and your videos. Well done, I will keep watching to see your garden journey 😀

@SteveR100AU 10 дней назад

I am in Frankston as well, would you like some cute lil Possums?

@ben.strong 10 дней назад

Nice! Thanks for watching and glad you've enjoyed the vids so far!

@suzannemcfarlane1561 10 дней назад

Ummm, no thanks, I have enough of my own 😂 They are teaming up with their rodent friends as well 😠

@jessicahumphrey3266 9 дней назад

Fav so far! Love a fruit tree ❤

@ben.strong 8 дней назад

Thanks Jess!

@SteveR100AU 10 дней назад

I did try to start a productive veg garden here in Frankston, however, it turned into a Possum Cafe. Those little furry vacuum cleaners from hell ate everything I planted!! Oh, they don't appear to like cherry tomatoes, LOL

@ben.strong 10 дней назад

I have seen possums around here but for some reason I've never had any issues with them eating my produce! Ironically I think foxes may keep them at bay, as I recently found a dead possum in our backyard that had been buried, and it wasn't our dog Gino that did that!

@kirrageorgeson5473 9 дней назад

I’m 23 living in a small town called Burringbar (near Byron Bay). I usually hate watching Aussie gardeners because for what ever reason they annoy me 😂. Glad to say you are the least annoying Aussie you-tuber I’ve come across! Happy Gardening from a Flower farmer and avid vegetable gardener! Kirra

@ben.strong 9 дней назад

Thanks Kirra, I’ll take that as a compliment! I’m originally from the Sunshine Coast hinterland, Burringbar sounds like a similar town to where I grew up :)

@rachelbonner 8 дней назад

So excited to have found your channel! I love seeing beautiful, productive gardens - and yours is definitely one 😍 What an amazing lunch!! I’m from the USA, so this might not help you with your brassicas, but I found varieties specifically tailored to my area, and that made a big difference in the amount of success I had. I also covered them with insect netting and interplanted with dill. I noticed a lot of predatory wasps keeping caterpillars at bay. Good luck!! 🥦

@ben.strong 8 дней назад

Thanks Rachel for the kind words! thanks for the brassica tips, I do net them when they're young and the cabbage moths are still around, but interplanting with dill is one I hadn't heard before! I also agree regarding varieties, I have actually found that here , some of the hybrid brassica varieties do better than the open pollinated/ heirloom varieties.

@siobhancapell 12 дней назад

So jealous of your established fruit trees! I'm attempting to put an orchard in, but the soil in that area is very waterlogged, so I'm going to have to go up. It's a bit of an overwhelming task now that I have to raise everything off the ground, but I'm attempting to get myself ready to tackle it. Your veg gardens are looking great, even mid-winter. Kudos. Another great vid. TY!

@ben.strong 11 дней назад

Thanks Siobahn! I know we're very lucky to have these big fruit trees. That sounds like a big project, all the best!

@suepears2010 8 дней назад

Just discovered your channel. It's great to have more Aussie gardening content. I live in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains NSW which is a cool climate. Looking forward to catching up with your other videos. All the best.

@ben.strong 8 дней назад

Thanks for tuning in!

@boldpicturesgardeners 10 дней назад

The gadern is full of vegetable and fruit trees.this is incredible beautiful. Im a new subbie

@ben.strong 10 дней назад

thank you so much and thanks for subscribing!

@itslowtide4690 8 дней назад

Nice garden and food looks really delicious!

@ben.strong 8 дней назад

Thank you!

@teresaluker1728 8 дней назад

sharing recipes from the harvest would be lovely! like cooking videos. an architects spin on designing the layout for the garden and the greenhouse too 😊

@ben.strong 8 дней назад

All great ideas thanks for the suggestions Teresa!

@JonasKemper 12 дней назад

I love your videos! BIG inspiration! - I want to be able to set something similar up hopefully in the future! 👍

@ben.strong 11 дней назад

That's very cool Jonas! having a food garden is well worth the effort in my opinion :)

@RockMan-go3ni 11 дней назад

Loving the content Ben. Authentic, great pacing, relaxing vibe and fun mixed in. Just need to get my head around the fact that June is winter. Cheers!

@ben.strong 11 дней назад

Thank you! really appreciate the feedback :)

@tblckvids 9 дней назад

Hello, been looking for a good local RU-vid gardener and loving the content so far. Looks like a great yard, those fruit trees are ridiculous! Our wee patch is in Geelong.

@ben.strong 9 дней назад

Nice! I know we’re very spoilt with these trees. I hope the vids continue to please :) happy gardening

@MosaicHomestead 12 дней назад

You produce a lot of food, that's great, every homestead should have fruit trees, fruit trees produce every year, your veggie garden is very nice, that's where I'm lacking, I can't grow veggies because of my animals, I also have jungle fowl that fly like birds, I'm planning a roof top garden for veggies.

@ben.strong 12 дней назад

Yeah I feel very lucky to have the big fruit trees. A roof top veggie garden sounds cool!

@MosaicHomestead 12 дней назад

@ben.strong once my chicken bunker is finished with all the property line walls done, the roof top garden is my next big project.

@lyaca886 6 дней назад

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@ben.strong 5 дней назад

Thank you!

@nicknamemichael8614 12 дней назад

It looks great over there! We just recently discovered your channel and are excited to see how it progresses! It's reassuring to know that I'm not the only 30-year-old who enjoys gardening! 😊 👍🏻 Best regards from springtime, feel free to drop by if you happen to be in the area! 🇨🇭😉

@ben.strong 12 дней назад

Hey thanks very much! Yes I am also reassured to know I’m not the only one too haha! We are wise beyond our years 😉

@terrymalone9432 8 дней назад

Great videos thank you. Would love to see how you set up watering system. Passata looks amazing. How do Gino and the chooks get on. Thanks again

@ben.strong 8 дней назад

Thanks Terry! Can look at doing a video about our irrigation for sure. Gino and the chooks do not get on very well to be honest haha. But neither are a threat to one another so its fine, and each stay on their side of the fence (for the most part!)

@marisaphoenix1893 8 дней назад

Hi from Eastern Victoria 👋 Are you experimenting with any perennial veg?

@ben.strong 8 дней назад

Hi! Not that much in the way of perennial veg other than rhubarb. Not a big asparagus eater so have never grown that. Any others you’d recommend?

@marisaphoenix1893 8 дней назад

@@ben.strong there’s too many to list once you go down that path 😊 Well worth it though if you’re aiming to be mostly self sufficient. A few favorites (greens: Okinawa Spinach, Kang Kong, Tree Kale), (tubers: Jerusalem Artichoke, Arrowroot, Yacon), (other: Egyptian walking onions, perennial leeks, Choko) etc etc there are so many. Plant once, never need to replant.

@ben.strong 8 дней назад

@@marisaphoenix1893 yeah nice, I think because I’ve never eaten any of those I haven’t had the enthusiasm to grow them, but I’m becoming more interested in perennials as I’m looking for ways to save time.