Hi and Welcome to another episode of The Messed Up Gardener. Winter gardening presents unique challenges and opportunities, leading gardeners to seek advice on how to navigate the colder months successfully. In this episode I cover a number of gardening secrets that once revealed will totally help your wither garden thrive.   I hope you enjoy today's episode. Don’t forget to grab one of my gardening freebees.    As always Gardening can be done in any space, in any place and on any budget.   Freebies DM me for: Nasturtium Pesto recipe. If you are ready to grab a freebie, ema ..read more

Hi and Welcome to another episode of The Messed Up Gardener. Maintaining indoor plants during the winter months can be a challenging task due to the lower levels of light, drier air, and cooler temperatures. However, with a few strategic moves, you can keep your green friends thriving even during the coldest season. Remember, each plant has its unique needs, so it's important to consider the specific requirements of your indoor garden inhabitants. I hope you enjoy today's episode. Don’t forget to grab one of my gardening freebees.    As always Gardening can be done in any space, in a ..read more

Hi and Welcome to another episode of The Messed Up Gardener. Every year I tell myself I am not going to plant beef steak tomatoes and every year I end up planting them and creating an amazing mess for myself because the fruit are so big and the plants get too big and I end up putting supports in place too late in the season so my fruit sit on the ground and rot or the plants themselves get diseased. This year however I was a little bit more onto it and as such I have had so many yummy tomatoes. This episode goes through reasons why structures are so good for plant growth and also maintenance t ..read more

Hi and Welcome to another episode of The Messed Up Gardener. With the change in seasons gardens can get very tired looking. This episode looks at some simple ways to revive a tired old garden,   I hope you enjoy today's episode. Don’t forget to grab one of my gardening freebees.    As always Gardening can be done in any space, in any place and on any budget.   Freebies DM me for: Nasturtium Pesto recipe. If you are ready to grab a freebie, email me at the themessedupgardener@gmail.com or flick me a DM and I will send it through to you. If you are looking for some help plann ..read more

Hi and Welcome to another episode of The Messed Up Gardener. With the jostle of todays pressures to get a million things done in a day - the garden is often the last thing that is managed. Especially in my household with a preteen, a partner that runs several business and my own endeavors. This episode looks at a number of ways to passively garden and still have it looking amazing and productive for the least amount of work. I hope you enjoy today's episode. Don’t forget to grab one of my gardening freebees.  As always Gardening can be done in any space, in any place and on any budget ..read more

Hi and Welcome to another episode of The Messed Up Gardener. I had an interesting discussion this week around using recycled materials in the garden and especially because I use a lot of recycled beehive boxes after the bees have finished with them. It prompted me to have a chat about some of the items that I use in our garden that saves me heap of money and in some cases highly benefit the environment. In this episode I go over a few different uses of how I do use the honey beehive boxes and I cover a number of other recyclables that benefit the garden and of course your wallet. I hope you en ..read more

Hi and Welcome to another episode of The Messed Up Gardener. Over the last few years I regularly get asked about growing herbs and making home remedies is something I just grew up with as a day-to-day regular event - little did I know that it wasn't the norm. So in this episode I cover 10 common herbs to grow in your garden especially for home remedy utilization and I also cover quite in-depthly how to utilize sage as a home purifier. I guess if it's not something you grew up with then it may be a little woo woo in parts. I hope you enjoy today's episode. Don’t forget to grab one of my gardeni ..read more

Hi and Welcome to another episode of The Messed Up Gardener. In today's episode I go into a little bit of depth around the type of questions you would be asking yourself if you are looking at growing subtropical plants in your gardens - now surprisingly subtropical plants are more popular then you think, I also cover a few very basic subtropical fruits you can grow in your garden with very little extra time or care required and you'll probably find you already have one of these 5 growing in your garden.  I hope you enjoy today's episode. Don’t forget to grab one of my gardening freebees ..read more

Hi and Welcome to another episode of The Messed Up Gardener. As our population grows so does the housing density around our homes. What used to be a quaint small 2 bedroom home next door with the sweetest older couple has been rebuilt and is now a massive 3 bedroom home that looks straight into our section and lounge with new tenants that have filled every room. It has removed all of our and their privacy. It took my partner and I on a whole new gardening mission this week making it the perfect topic for this weeks episode.     I hope you enjoy today's episode. Don’t forget to g ..read more

Hi and Welcome to another episode of The Messed Up Gardener. How many of our parks & gardens have their big majestic trees managed with the use of herbicides to suppress the weeds at the base of the trees which at the end of the day is mostly only completed / treated for aesthetics.  We already know that there are several effective alternative methods for managing weeds around the base of a tree without resorting to using herbicides and this episode looks at some of these alternative methods of weed suppression. Let me know your thoughts if I have missed a method.  I hope you enj ..read more