Australian Urban Garden planning
Tips, Tricks
With spring in full swing in the northern hemisphere, Alexander in the Australian Urban Garden is headed into winter and is planning his spring garden and is looking to our amazing community for tips and tricks to get the most out of his next growing season. Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlbertaUrbanGarden/ Donate to the Alberta Fires Appeal All individual donations are being matched by the Government of Canada. https://donate.redcross.ca/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1951&ea.campaign.id=50610
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I use growveg planner. It has a way to put containers in. What I love about it is it copies the plan to next year and helps plan rotations so you can keep similar families apart to help keep down disease.
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Thanks for filling in this week. Do you know if Steven is okay?
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Since you are busy a lot, have you thought about drip irrigation on a timer? These are quite inexpensive if you use the solenoid valve from a washer. This works well in hot dry climates and especially in containers which dry out quickly and it's very customizable.
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Good video!
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Nice clip Alexander, I think you have the family garden bug :-)
I my self have done a lot of gardening with my plastic Rubbermaid containers and also cloth Root Pouches. I like the Root Pouches for being portable when moving them into sunny locations or the right sun shade mix when I need. They work as designed giving me a great root structure and happy plants. They do require more watering, but again I am going to try to make trays to see if I can get wicking from bottom to help watering requirements.
I have made up two containers from plastic totes that have vented sides and bottoms. I just added shade cloth to make them act the same way as the root pouch design. You will see these this year in my garden updates.
Another project this year has been my wicking beds made from different size of Rubbermaid storage containers. They work as designed and I am hoping to conserve water through the beds design to disburse water from the bottom watering. Rob Bob and Australian gardener on YouTube has some great videos on the subject.
I have two raised beds similar to Stephen, and have tried a little square foot gardening to help maximize the plants in the beds.
I hope all is well. I enjoy your photography.
Cheers from Ontario, Canada
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oh no, is Steven affected by the fires?!
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I have a similar sized courtyard garden to you and deal with the same challenges of shade and angles. I have some small beds but if I had my time over again I might just use containers as big nearby trees are finding their ways into the beds and sucking up the good stuff. It has been a bit disheartening. It's a bit colder in Canberra than Melbourne but overall the climate is similar. My blog is at tinyurl.com/actgarden. Other thing you'll need to remember is that big stores like Bunnings and even some nurseries will sell you anything including things which will never grow or flourish in your region, so it pays to do some research. Grafted citris for example gets you say, lemons and limes or lemons and oranges from the one dwarf tree. Another good example is the blueberry I got has a very low chill requirement so it flowers way too early in our cold winters.
Also the ozgrow forums are a great place to get advice. I am growing a lot even over winter but can't wait until August when I will be starting the warm season seedlings again.
Good luck!
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