Growing vegies in style in a small space garden
Growing vegies in style in a small space garden
Gardening in a small space isn’t necessarily a barrier to growing lots of your own food. This couple in urban Sydney have an abundance of crops that head straight to their kitchen.
Owners: Matthew and Lucinda McManus
Location: Lilyfield
Climate Zone: Warm temperate
Garden established:
Style: Inner-city chic with a focus on vegies
Key Features:
The two main vegie patches in the front garden are raised beds edged with weathered steel, chosen because it takes up less space than timber, as well as for its aesthetics. They have added automatic watering to keep irrigation consistent.
Lucinda says she tries to practice crop rotation but also likes to cram things into the bed, which makes it more complicated. Strawberries are growing next to kale, pumpkins, tomatoes, herbs, brassicas, salad greens and onions.
Two feature trees in the front garden are also growing in raised steel beds, and underplanted with herbs such as olive herb (Santolina rosmarinifolia) and creeping thyme (Thymus serpyllum cv.).
In the rear garden there are pots of herbs and succulents, walls covered in Boston ivy (Parthenocissus quinquefolia), a small patch of lawn and paved areas. Built on a slight slope, there are three more steel planters that serve as a retaining wall to the highest point in the garden, where Matthew has a collection of different barbecues. It includes a wood-fired oven, where Matthew cooks up a leg of lamb and some root vegetables, and a Japanese yakitori grill, where he cooks prawns, leeks, asparagus and sweetcorn. He calls the area the barbecorium and it sits under the shade of a huge jacaranda tree (Jacaranda sp.) around which the decking has been built.
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Inspiring! Love your small space garden.
I love it 💝 thank you so much for sharing , watching and greetings from Belgium
So inspiring 😍
Rich man can do anything.
Look, absolutely, Costa.
Everything is great except your distracting beard😁
he looks like peter stormare
Beautiful garden, awesome
My dream garden.
Nice
All I saw were a few herbs, pumpkin, cucumber and some tomato, not impressed. I had a proper small garden veggie patch in my frontyard. We sold the house just before Christmas and are now building on an acre block in Wonthaggi.😉💚🙃
Jacaranda nuestro árbol nativo de Argentina 😘😍🙋
Amazing idea in urban veggie gardening, very inspiring.
beautiful garden… calm
What a very relaxing frontyard 😍😍
LOOOOOOOOVEEEEE THIS GARDEN love these two as well, so chill 😂🍁✌🏻
Lovely video. What kind of area are we looking at here, when we say small space kitchen garden?
What about snakes…plz reply…bcz I want to make such a beautiful garden..but scar for snake
Video Title: Growing Vegies
Growing Veggies 2 Minutes
BBQ Meat 4 Minutes
Beautiful stuff!!!
Lovely garden.
So much $$$ though
absolutely love this, its amazing!
Hi, may I ask where did you get your weathered steel garden edge from and what size?
The host is like a homeless living on the the couple’s garden.
All of that goodness…until an animal is served…please leave them alone. Please stop hurting them.
What’s mazuna ?
anyone else bothered by the cat with no bell?
Wonderful ❣️
Not a small garden
Wooooooow I love your garden. .. .. I also have. small one . Good luck
Aum mane padme hum l
May I also ask what camera and video equipment did you use for the video? Thanks.
He’s got the perfect bbq set up. Down to the Japanese konro
Guy’s this is not a small garden..😀come to my house I’ll show you small.. your garden is wonderful ..Blessings be safe everyone 🌱
Fantastic garden!! SO healthy!! BTW…What is it with the modern Australian preoccupation starting every sentence with the word “Look, ……”. Drives me nuts 😂.
🐕🐈 🌲 🥗..garden, jst lovely. 😍 Tfs
Love this lifestyle video. Very inspiring 💕🌸🌸🌸
Great garden & great couple!
I wish my partner has same love for gardening as I have
Respect to the green thumb owners. Unnecessary use of first name for kosta though! Kosta is a good bloke.
I am looking for information on the steel raised bed garden containers. Were they custom made locally or are they available for purchase?
Everything that I’ve always dreamed of… 😍
😍
Kitty in the end he best👌
That ivy wall 😍
Beautiful thank you Anna
That is a gorgeous property
Прекрасное видио , но нет русского перевода !
Lovely couple! By the way, gorgeous garden!
The beard on that man though.
Looks untidy and can barely see his mouth while talking.