Geez can you believe that January is nearly over 😯 We've had some hot weather here in South Australia how did you garden cope? My pumpkins are not looking good, they are on life support at the moment!!😆The hot days really got to them & we were on holiday at the time..... I feel like I abandoned them 😂 On the bright side my cucumbers look sooo good at the moment and not a spot of powdery mildew in sight (I hope I haven't jinxed myself 😂) Let me know what's happening in your garden 🍅🍉🌽🌿🥬

🌿I've been a passionate gardener for around 30 years growing on balconies, small space backyard gardens and now (for the past 11 years) growing on our small acrage on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. My family and many others benefit from the huge array of beautiful organic fresh produce that we grow. 80% of the fresh fruit and veg that enters the kitchen comes direct from our the garden! 🍇🍓🌶️🌽🍆🍅🫑🥦🫐🥔🧄🧅🥕🫚🫛🫘🌻 🌿For me EVERYTHING I have learned has been through lived experience. Combining what I already knew about gardening or what I felt intuitively was missing or needed. Mostly my eventual successes came firstly through my failures! Just having a crack and seeing what happened 😂 🌿Failing is the greatest teacher. Being in the trenches having a go is the best training ground. 🌿I'm very loose with “guidelines” or "rule books" of gardening. I've learnt to make my own rules and I push them all the time to see what I can and can’t do. 🌿Even after all these years I still have fails, we all do and that's just part of being a gardener! 🌿My garden isn't "pinterest perfect" she is wild and unrooly at times, abundant, forgiving but most importantly she is part of me and teaches me all the time....we make a great team 😉 Am I an expert gardener? No. 🌿I sometimes won’t pronounce things correctly or use the right terminology or be able to give you the “rule book” version of all things gardening….but I guess if you wanted that you could always ask google or an AI chat machine 😉 🌿I’m far from perfect, nor is my garden, nor are my videos or posts. Perfection is not what I'm aiming for! 🌟In this community I want to share what I have learnt and INSPIRE you to get your hands in the dirt and know that you don't have to be an expert to have a thriving garden! 🌟I hope you can learn from my lived experience and practical knowledge. 🌈To witness and be part of mother nature and what she has to offer us. 🌱I’m still learning, I’m still asking questions and that's why I created this community!