Our Garden and Produce Red Tomatoes 20th December

Look at our wonderful produce all from our greensmart pots in our real live garden in Eltham

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www.herbs2home.com.au: Our Tomato, basil, and herb treat order now: "Specials December 2010-2Originally uploaded by wideanglephotoOrder now on line www.hersb2home.com.au"

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www.herbs2home.com.au: Full to the brim for Christmas

www.herbs2home.com.au: Full to the brim for Christmas: "Specials December 2010-4Originally uploaded by wideanglephotoOrder now what a bargin $100.00 delivered in Melb Metro. www.herbs2home.com.au ..."

Well done FORP

Quote from one of our customers who bought pots from FORP Ballarat

"I bought pots for my daughters in Melbourne  and I am sending you  this note to say how delighted they are    They grand children are helping and they keep telling me how well things are growing    I have seen the results so far and I am very pleased I saw your fundraiser.    I hope you did well also.  Thanks very much for letting us into this new way of gardening  Ragards from  Cecilly Jones"

Grow Great Tomatoes

Grow great tomatoes in our pots get some hints from the clever crew at Bullen Art and Garden

M2 Garden x 2 Mt Eliza

M2 Garden x 2 Mt Eliza
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Want one of this installed ? Just ask we can do it... Well the M2 Garden that self waters itself.... not the pool

M2 Garden x 2 Mt Eliza

M2 Garden x 2 Mt Eliza
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Want one of this installed ? Just ask we can do it... Well the M2 Garden that self waters itself.... not the pool

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FROM ONE OF OUR FANTASTIC CUSTOMERS - NOEL

PLEASE STAY IN THE POT BUSINESS. OF AN EVENING I STROLL OUT TO MY BINS, OVERLOOKING THE YARRA AND THANK GOD I FOUND YOU. MY FIRST TOMATO IS 2 MM IN DIA. NIGHTS OUT OF 7, 5 ARE LETTUCE FOR MY SALADS.
I AM ATTEMPTING TO ATTRACT MORE FRIENDS TO YOUR HARVEST.

LOVE NOEL
PS HOW OFTEN SHOULD I DOSE THE FLOWERING TOMS. WITH DOLOMITE ??

Great Day in Ballarat at Spring-Fest

Cold and rainy was the order of the day. We meet lots of nice people that came out to support us today. Our pots looked great and did the trick. Need to pop them back into my garden Monday morning and let them get back to growing. If anyone has any questions or needs a hand just drop us a line and we will be more than happy to respond. Thanks Andre and Susan

Transformed our old raised beds

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4 years struggling with raised beds, waisted money on dripper systems, wasted time weeding, wasted a lot of water. All problems went away in Jan 2010 when we bought our first pot. Now we have close to 40 in our wonderful garden. Come and visit us and see for yourself. You will walk away amazed and probably with some pots, soil and seedlings, Please ring to make an appointment as this is our private garden at home. We now take EFTPOS

Capsicums Last Summer

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Lasted for 7 Months, 6 per large pot

Great Weekend Market at Edendale Farm

Meet lots of interesting people many passionate gardeners. We sold out of Large Pots, and sold a few herb pots with tomatoes also. very interesting to meet people that think a hand made wicking bed would work better than our pots.... Come and visit our wonderful garden and see for yourself, we have transformed it starting in Jan 2010. We are currently even growing blueberries and blackberries in our pots. The Tomatoes are already about 4 ft high ready to go out into the garden in 3 weeks. Make an appointment and come and visit. We now take Eftpos also. Or take a virtual tour by clicking on the right hand side of the page to view our photos link.

Come and visit us at Edendale Farm this Sunday 10 to 5pm

Look for us at our www.herbs2home.com.au stall. seedlings, pots and taking orders for herbs2home.com.au amazing living herb pots. Check us out at www.herbs2home.com.au

Tomatoes are growing

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come and see how easy they are to grow in our pots

Baby Spinach and Rocket

Baby Spinach and Rocket
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Look at that growth so yummy

Brushcetta Surprise - XMAS

Brushcetta Surprise - XMAS
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Order yours today on special if ordered before end of October visit www.herbs2home.com.au for more details

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Water Cress is amazing grows so well

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Garden 18 April-101
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Last Summers Crops are you ready now for this season. We planted 12 plants today all from Peter at Scotsburn who grew them specially for us. they are wonderful, Photos of the new ones will be here soon

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Herbs to Home Pots ready and waiting..

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Tomatoes ordered...

Well we have ordered our tomatoes from Peter at Scotsburn. Planting begins first week October. Well we do have one pot with 2 planted in our green house to see how they go while we are away.
See you all after the 26th September.

Start Preparing Soil and Order Seedlings

Well the warm weather is about to start. We are planting our first tomatoes on the 10th September, we are getting a delivery from Peter at Scotsburn this week and we will pop them into our pots. We will then plant our second lot in the first week of October.

Remember if you need more pots contact us and we will help you out..

Cold days but more sun coming 7 August

We spent today down at Geelong at the Wombat Gully Plant Farm and I had a great time talking to some families. Vanessa and Scott and their son who knew all the answers about why vegetables die in the garden. Vanessa and Scott bought a large pot for their son to use as his own garden. Planting up Brocoli and Savoy Cabbage will be great this time of year but watch out for those little grubs and eggs on the undersides of the leaves.

Sunday Susan the kids and I are going to plant blueberries, rasberries and thornless blackberries in the pots. 3 per pot. We will also use a magical mixture of black strap molasses and we will let you know how it goes.

Get your garden ready now for spring, get your soil and cow manure ready and think about what you want to plant.

We are pre ordering our tomatoes for planting out of 200mm pots so let us know if you would like some... Happy Growing and enjoy your wonderful produce

4th July - Tomatoes Shifted to Glass House

Well Alexander and I moved the Tomatoes out of the garden today (our 4 pots) into a new glasshouse we had built. I think that we will still get fruit for another few weeks. Today we planted more garlic, we divided the bok choy into another few pots.

We also planted out the 5 "black Diggers Club" pots which we need to do photos of for them in early August. Great day in the garden, getting ready for Spring.

Greensmart Pots Eltham: Winter afternoons in Andre's Garden

Greensmart Pots Eltham: Winter afternoons in Andre's Garden

Winter afternoons in Andre's Garden

Hi everyone, well winter is a nice wet time in Melbourne. We are picking the following:

1. Brassica Rapa - Bok Choy for our stir fries with amazing fresh coriandrum sativum - Coriander
2. Fresh and lovely Brassica Oleracea Italica they are nice and long stems just like Brocolini
3. Tomatoes did not make it up into the new glass house as our handy man has been sick so we are delayed but we think next year we will have red tomatoes all the way till probably Mid July. Ours are still out in the open and still giving us red fruit that tastes amazing. The red parrots came down and ate a heap the other day little or rather big buggers.
4. Susan's little 6 pot herb garden is still giving us rocket, baby spinach, parsley and amazing feast of peppery tasting Nasturtium Officinale - Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum Water Cress.

NEW NEWS Sushi Wushi in ELTHAM is now using our Herbs2Home Service. Stuart is picking fresh parsley, Coriander and soon he will have a wonderful watercress pot all being used in his wonderful asian trendy eatery in ELTHAM.

Sunday jobs are check my garlic pots for moisture and maybe need to add some perlite to aerate. Check seedlings in shed, check herb pots that are growing on the drive way area.

Still have Red Tomatoes in our Garden on 14th June

Hi Everyone, well this weekend being a long weekend was great in the garden. Planted more garlic but we used some perlite in the base of the pot above a fine layer of soil above the wicking tray.

Picking Broccoli, Spinach, Capsicum, Lettuce, our Coriander is fantastic, and yes still have red tomatoes.

Red Tomatoes on Sunday Morning

Red Tomatoes on Sunday Morning
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Look Closely just above my right hand "Red Fruit" Amazing in Winter in Eltham. Go and buy your pots from Dennis and the guys and gals at Bullen Art and Garden. Tell them we sent you..

Bullen Art and Garden have a Large Quantity of Stock

Hi Everyone, things are going and growing well on the First day of Winter. Would you believe me when I say we have red tomatoes. Yes we do.. and they are big. Our Brassicas are doing well, peas and broad beans growing nicely, and I just pulled out our Basil that had done us for 6 months. I have not had to buy Basil for 6 months. What a Bargin. Come and see our Red Tomatoes.. Happy growing

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finished pots 2010-23
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Adding 10 Lt of water to each pot

Adding 10 Lt of water to each pot
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Andre and Susan - First 20 Pots

Andre and Susan - First 20 Pots
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Kids working hard in the business

Kids working hard in the business
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The Start of Herbs to Home Coming Soon

The Start of Herbs to Home Coming Soon
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Coming Soon Herbs2Home.com.au These are the first 3 pots full to the brim of herbs. Supplied by Scotsburn or favorite plant provider.

Chilles 6 huge bushes in each pot

Huge Chillies 6 in each pot
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Nice and hot

Huge Chillies again

huge Chillies again
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As Bozz Scaggs says what can I say..

Yum Yum Yum

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Grew these from seeds in this pot planted on 23 Feb (today is 10 April) used a wet towel over the top of the seeds and sand until they came up then we thinned them out after about 8 weeks. Andre does not even eat them but he eats the leaves. I love these.. Susan

Eltham Village Customers

To everyone that has bought pots from us this week, or is interested or wants tips please email us or use the blog to ask questions and come and see us on Saturday as this will be our last day at the village.

Planting this weekend - ideas

Broccoli and Cauliflowers need to go in now. Pea seeds, broad beans, lettuce and herbs various types. My tomatoes are looking great need to build that cover for them as soon as possible. Check out the videos of our garden and using our pots when you can. have a great growing weekend

Learn about Planting Leeks from Peter

http://www.scotsburn.biz

Attaching the visual water indicator 2min 39 secoonds

Attaching the visual water indicator 2min 39 secoonds
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This shows you how we set up the visual water indicator

Filling the water holding area

Filling the water holding area
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Have fun..

Checking that there are no water leaks

Checking that there are no water leaks
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Very important lesson

Potting Mix and Additives

Potting Mix and Additives
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Filling the Wicks and Soil to the Pots

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Filling the Wicks 51 Seconds
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Important that you compress the organic mix into the wicks for best water transpiration

Happy in my Garden 10th April Finished our Transformation

Setting up our Pots - Coming Very Soon

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Part 2 of our garden transformation vide series all in Full HD

A Depressed Gardener 23 Jan 2010 Part one

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The Start of our Journey on our amazing new garden.

Pot full of Capsicums

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6 Capsicums full of wonderful fruit, we planted this in the pot on the 10th Jan after pulling it out of the garden. It is so lovely. The fruit taste so nice.

Silkie Garden Roses - Sustainable and Natural

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Can you believe how great this looks. We went up to Silkie Gardens Nursery and Cafe up at Kilmore where we get all our Roses form Diana and Graham and they have started selling pots for us. They came up with the idea to pot roses. They look great and Graham says hey will work really well in the self watering pots. Go and get fantastic roses from Kilmore. See Diana and Graham they are the experts.

Full to the Brim Herbs for Mothers Day

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We potted these up this afternoon ready for this week. A mixture of herbs in various configurations. That Rainbow Chard looks great in those cream pots.

Water Cress herb Pot - 18 April

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Buy a Pot Full to the Brim of herbs for mothers day. When Susan asked me to pot this up I thought she was crazy. I said what are we going to do with that. Well it is so yummy, and looks fantastic. Email us for details on how you can order a Pot full to the bring of Herbs

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Garden 18 April-101
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Amazing Tomatoes are they not.... April 19th going under cover of plastic soon for winter

Weekly Update for Mark & Carolyn and everyone else :)

This week pea seeds and broad beans are good to plant. If you can get corriander it will grow really well. Cauliflower and Broccoli together in one large pot make a great mix together, remember to fill the pot and use the planting guide. Also Betroot x 15 in each large pot would be great. Today we planted 3 roses on one large pot with some tyhme and some pansies also looks great check out the new photo coming soon on the main page. We will also set up a new set in the flicker page. Remember if you plant broccoli and Cauliflowers to go and check for the eggs the white butterflies lay and squash them otherwise you will find your seedlings gone. Happy Growing with us.

Vasili's Garden

What a great day (andre here) I meet TV Legend at Buxton today at the sustainability expo. He is a great guy and his family are so nice. We chatted about gardens and when he did his story it was the same as the way I was brought up. Dad's with huge gardens, pigs on the spit in the back yard. I guess we are about the same age also. Got some good shots of him with the locals doing a Zorba and some flip video of him answering questions. Will post into the flicker site on the blog soon.

Sunday we are going up to Kilmore to visit Diana and Graham at the wonderful Silkie Gardens Rose Nursery. We will be making some FLip HD videos with them on rose care and such so they can use them on their website. Garden well and smell the roses and basil..

Official Launch of Greensmart Pots Eltham Sunday 11 April

Hi Everyone, today we open our business. We have been very busy today cooking and getting everything organised for our Sunday afternoon garden party. The garden looks wonderful, we had several people come by today to collect pots and a lovely man Dennis, from Bullen Art and Garden came over with his wife Lorraine to inspect what we had done to see if the Nursery would be interested in working with us on a display in their retail outlet. He must have been impressed as he asked to buy one then and there and take it home to have a play. Andre made some more videos today for the finished garden transformation which came out great.

We have ordered 50 Strawberry plants to go into another area of the garden when we rip out a heap of lavender (non productive stuff it is) and probably another 2 pots of different sorts of garlic, We will need to also plant another 2 pots of beetroot as all the seeds Andre planted are now thinned out and will be ready to transplant in a week or two.

Andre has been using the wonderful ECO 360 degree spray bottle from Organic Crop Potectorants which is great as he can mix up 1 Lt of Eco-Oil, Amino-Gro, Eco Weed, and Eco Neem and feed the plants and kill the bad bugs all in one hit with a fully organic set of products all australian made. The best thing is you can eat the produce straight away after as it is all organic.

Happy growing..Andre and Susan

Fine Nurseries coming on board

We had a wonderful time talking with the amazing staff at Rivers of Yarrambat today. (See URL in our partners section on the right hand side of the page)

They are so passionate about gardening. We made our first delivery there today and we will be working very closely with them over the next few weeks to ensure they are very successful with the Greensmart Pots.

Everything we planted last weekend is growing so well. This next 4 days we will be pulling out the Rubharb and potting that up, and installing another 6 large pots. Likely plantings include 2 more colorful mix of lettuce pots with 15 in each in such a small area. 3 small pots full to the brim of herbs from Scotsburn Nursey (thanks Peter) Single Pots full of Bok Choy, Chives, Corriander, and Andre will start some seed trays of cauliflower and Italian Broccoli in our potting shed.

Lastly we will thin the carrots we planed about 8 weeks ago direct in the Large Pots, and also thin and make a another large and some small pots of Beetroot.

Have a great Easter, Look out for new photos to be posted on the Flickr space over the weekend

Susan and Andre

Cabbage Patch Day

Hi everyone well what a weekend, Andre spent all day Saturday at the MIGFS helping on the Greensmart Stand and they sold out.
Today after his long run he was into the garden with the kids and I. Planting pansies and Snap Dragons and too many annuals to get the garden ready for the open day on the 11th April. He planted up more lettuce, Spinach, herbs and cabbages. The garden is looking fantastic.

Saturday 27th March

Wow, what a day.. Today Andre spent 5 hours meeting a lot of wonderful people at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden show helping out on the Greensmart Stand. Sunday he is planting another 10 pots with pansies, other annuals and more vegetables of course, Cabbage, lettuce, Silver beet, and more beans. Thank you to all of you that we had the pleasure of meeting and we welcome you to our wonderful garden. With free seedlings to anyone that buys pots..

Happy Planting Susan

Rivers Nursey in Yarrambat are about to build a display garden

We had great news today that Rivers Nursery have decided to build a display in the nursery and will be stocking our wonderful greensmart pots very soon. Rivers is a very special nursery in Yarrambat outside of Eltham and they have a wonderful cafe, spa and home ware store also. We look forward to supplying our pots to Rivers and working together with them.

Photos from Frank and Lynette in Humevale (Victoria)

Frank bouth 6 pots from us about 4 weeks ago and they are already eating from the herbs. Great work guys.

Early March Update - Carrots and Betroot are sprouting

Well what an exciting time of the year, our Tomatoes in the original old garden beds are just about finished, so they will be coming out this weekend when Andre gets home from India. We have all the cow menure and compost ready to add to the circular bed in the middle of the garden as I want to have a display of sweat peas and flowers to attract bees to the garden. This will be the only spot that we don't use the greensmart pots as I want to do this a little different. But when the last semi circular bed is emptied we will place another 4 greensmar pots there. Andre planted chanteny carrot seeds and betroot about 10 days ago and placed a damp towel over the top to ensure the seeds would germinate and not dry out. After 4 days the seeds had started to come thru the soil and they are growing nicely how exciting.

On the weekend Andre cooked us a wonderful chicken curry with fresh basil, chilli, parsley and corriander all from my kitchen herb garden off the back deck.

Another great week of growing .... enjoy and please comment on our blog.

Susan

Picking Fresh Basil, Coriander, Parsley and Cucumbers flowering like crazy

Hi everyone, well you should see the garden, The cucumbers are flowering so well and we gave them a light feed of Sulphate or Potash on the weekend to help with the fruiting and we are seeing small fruits starting to appear. The capsicums are going red and we ate some last week they are so nice. Coriander is doing so well the constant watering from below really works well.

News Flash - Greensmart Pots Eltham

We are launching our business on the week of the 22nd March 2010. We are the exclusive distributor of the amazing self watering pot system invented here in australia. We have transformed our old vegetable garden into a greensmart garden.

Busy Sunday

Well this weekend we started the transformation of the old garden beds. I worked on the area at the back deck near the kitchen and built a 5 pot herb garden, We cleared out the old bark, leaves and mess, I placed 350 x 350 cement blocks down, important to make them level. Then placed 14-20mm sharps small rocks around before placing the pots. We transplanted, spinach (2 pots) parsley afro and italian (1 pot each) and rocket in one pot. Down in the main garden we did another 8 pots. 4 with GL tomatoes 3 per pot. Then we transplanted the lettuces from the old garden into a pot, 2 pots with beetroot seeds and one pot with beans.

The Gardening Before

Home Vegetable and Herb Gardening Transformation