What is growing in your garden at the moment?

[Theoldwoman]

Perth here ….

I love winter gardening… best time of year to spend hours out there!

At the moment, i have

Eggplant
Mini Cabbage
Pak Choi
Bok Choi
Lettuce
Kale
Celery
Radish
Beans
Peas
Asparagus
Silverbeet
Mustard greens
Beetroot
Passionfruit
Dragonfruit
Grapes

Parsley
Mint
Rocket
Basil
Nasturtium

Lemons
Limes
Manderins

Plenty of flowers: Pansies, Marigolds, Freesias, Sweetpeas, Lavender, Roses, Daisies, Cineraria, Foxgloves, Camellia, , Geraniums, Salvia, some others I can’t remember plus quite a few Natives!

Love my garden, it feeds my soul!

Are we prepping for El Niño? I'm measuring the garden for mulch - no lawn here as it was so badly affected by dog pee - as it has worn down, needs replacing and will require a lorryload.

I've been quietly bemoaning my neighbours' rampant trees, now casting shadow over my veggie plot, though may come to bless it this summer. We'll see. Long term I'll have to grub up the beds and re-position them, replacing them with those corrugated steel raised beds that are quite high.

The veggie patch is going well, lots of chard, lettuce, broad beans. I've put some climbing beans and one trellis is full of sweet peas, yet to flower. Freesias are out and native orchids have been splendid.

I have removed the raised garden beds and am setting up a more free flowing garden area. I found. The raised beds actually reduced the amount of growing space.

Instead I'm using them elsewhere (side of house for herbs that don't need much sun.

About to do some serious planting in the next few weeks!!!

I ordered two of these https://vegepod.com.au/collections/starter-packs and cannot wait to get them!

Clivia blooms are huge this year, though not so many as the beds are very overcrowded.

The not very good Melbourne summer has resulted in tons of green tomatoes - 8 kilos, so I'm on a green tomato chutney mission.
Cucumbers running riot and basil has been very good due to lack of scorching sun.
Sadly my water lilies haven't flowered as they need six hours of sunshine, which simply hasn't happened this year.

So happy to see this thread resurrected.

The garden surprise is the very cheap rose bushes I bought in the spring from BigW. A friend had told me not to bother with them for two reasons. First, in her experience they weren’t good varietals and second, any rose bush under $10 is only fit for the compost heap.

How wrong could she be? They have flowered beautifully. And repeatedly. I now have a bonefide rose garden!

Stunning deep coloured clivia echt! Our garden has been a huge work in progress from nothing over the past couple of years. I’ve managed tomatoes from seed for the first time, and we also had our first home made pesto yesterday (plus some grass our 8yo threw in 😑) the zucchini seem to have blossom end rot so fed them lime on the weekend and everything crossed, the citrus need some urgent tlc and possum proofing, and I’ve tried transplanting baby hellebore for the first time. I’m not sure if they are succeeding or just dying very slowly.

I'm doing the autumn clearing here in Melbourne. Yesterday I dug out a well-established plectranthus ecklonii in the front garden which, while lovely in bloom, is overshadowing a grevillea "Peaches and Cream" which flowers all year round so is better value. Also dug out tons of Boston fern - as tough as old boots but a bit of a thug.

Sedum "Autumn Joy" has spread in the back garden, so I've dug some up and put it in a pot for DD's garden.

My roses are still blooming and I have some very impressive dandelions in the front yard that will be removed today. I hope.

And the big surprise is….I need to learn how to harvest olives. My olive tree has grown spectacularly well and even produced a few olives. Only enough for a single martini but that is still more than I expected. It needs cross pollination and I didn’t think there was another tree around here. Having asked the gardener down the road, turns out I was wrong about that.

@echt I’m googling your plants. The only thing you have mentioned that I would recognize is Boston fern.

Has anyone in Melbourne or Adelaide successfully grown tomatoes over autumn in a plastic greenhouse?

I've had some tomato seedling come through (from fallen tomatoes) and I wonder whether it would be worthwhile potting them up and putting them in one of the greenhouses? Or are we too close for winter for it to be worth it? They seedlings are around 20 cm tall.

I haven't @OrderOfTheKookaburra , but give it a go and get back to us.