Trev’s Garden
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane
Episode: Best of Garden Gurus
Now to Trevor’s garden and it is a major work in progress at the moment, he has been developing it up bit by bit and has reached the point where him and the landscaping team have started to put infrastructure in little pockets of garden.
Trevor, and his wife, Shiori are real fresh food lovers, so they have created a kitchen garden where there are the salad vegetables, and herbs right next to the kitchen, so they can pick them fresh, and put it right into the food. As well as a veggie patch with some fruit and a whole heap of vegetables. Although it is a work in progress at the moment, it is really starting to come together.
One of the easiest ways to establish vegetables is to grow them from punnet seedlings. You can get all sorts this time of year, including the leafy vegetables. These include the Silver beat and the Rainbow beat, which is highly ornamental as well as functional also things like Spinach, which is extremely nutritious. Then there is the flowering Brassica’s like Broccoli, Cauliflower and also Cabbage they are brilliant in stir fry’s, and if you plant them in the garden now, you can enjoy then right up to Christmas.
Dwarf beans are fantastic, particularly in pots, but a large garden like Trevor’s garden, runner beans are a favourite. Trevor has got some bamboo from a clump down by his creek and tied them together at the top, like a skeletal tepee. In 8 weeks, the beans will grow right up to the top of the stakes ready to pick. They are really easy to grow, just grab the seeds and place them in the soil, approximately twice the depth, of the length of the seed. Place two or three seeds around the base of each stake. This will produce an extremely lush full effect. You won’t know what to do with all the beans.
The kitchen garden has 60 edible herbs growing, and a heap of spices, including thirty different chillies.
One of the crops you should be putting in right now is tomatoes, and if you are planting you will be getting fresh produce from October onwards, there is nothing better then the fresh taste of home grown tomatoes.
It has been found that a lot of tomatoes do not have that gorgeous taste. This encouraged Neville and Trevor to go out and find some amazing new and different varieties of tomatoes took them to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden show and put it to the public to taste and decide on the best. There were 5 sensational tomato varieties that stood out. You will find these varieties and Garden Guru tomatoes at all good garden centres and local Mitre 10 Stores.
Creating a kitchen garden is achievable for every one, no matter how big or small your garden is. If you have got a small garden you can always grow them in pots. It is the very best way to deliver flavoursome and nutritious food to the kitchen table, and your family will love you for it.
Episode: Best of Garden Gurus
Now to Trevor’s garden and it is a major work in progress at the moment, he has been developing it up bit by bit and has reached the point where him and the landscaping team have started to put infrastructure in little pockets of garden.
Trevor, and his wife, Shiori are real fresh food lovers, so they have created a kitchen garden where there are the salad vegetables, and herbs right next to the kitchen, so they can pick them fresh, and put it right into the food. As well as a veggie patch with some fruit and a whole heap of vegetables. Although it is a work in progress at the moment, it is really starting to come together.
One of the easiest ways to establish vegetables is to grow them from punnet seedlings. You can get all sorts this time of year, including the leafy vegetables. These include the Silver beat and the Rainbow beat, which is highly ornamental as well as functional also things like Spinach, which is extremely nutritious. Then there is the flowering Brassica’s like Broccoli, Cauliflower and also Cabbage they are brilliant in stir fry’s, and if you plant them in the garden now, you can enjoy then right up to Christmas.
Dwarf beans are fantastic, particularly in pots, but a large garden like Trevor’s garden, runner beans are a favourite. Trevor has got some bamboo from a clump down by his creek and tied them together at the top, like a skeletal tepee. In 8 weeks, the beans will grow right up to the top of the stakes ready to pick. They are really easy to grow, just grab the seeds and place them in the soil, approximately twice the depth, of the length of the seed. Place two or three seeds around the base of each stake. This will produce an extremely lush full effect. You won’t know what to do with all the beans.
The kitchen garden has 60 edible herbs growing, and a heap of spices, including thirty different chillies.
One of the crops you should be putting in right now is tomatoes, and if you are planting you will be getting fresh produce from October onwards, there is nothing better then the fresh taste of home grown tomatoes.
It has been found that a lot of tomatoes do not have that gorgeous taste. This encouraged Neville and Trevor to go out and find some amazing new and different varieties of tomatoes took them to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden show and put it to the public to taste and decide on the best. There were 5 sensational tomato varieties that stood out. You will find these varieties and Garden Guru tomatoes at all good garden centres and local Mitre 10 Stores.
Creating a kitchen garden is achievable for every one, no matter how big or small your garden is. If you have got a small garden you can always grow them in pots. It is the very best way to deliver flavoursome and nutritious food to the kitchen table, and your family will love you for it.
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