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Spring has sprung, and I am back doing what I love.

Welcome to Missy's Garden, a one woman show producing a range of beautiful heirloom varieties of veg as well as some cottage garden ornamentals.

11/04/2026

Hi everyone. This isn't a post I am happy to write, but it needs to be done.

It's no secret that I have had health issues over the last three years. Recently the challenges have increased.

So I have decided that rather than keeping everyone unsure of when or if I will be able to supply seedlings, I will close entirely. It's not what I wanted, but life changes unfortunately.

To everyone of you who has supported me, been patient with me and shared the love of gardening with me, thank you.

It has been wonderful. I've met so many interesting, kind, genuine people throughout this adventure.

Thank you so much, for everything. Keep growing, and keep enjoying your gardening adventures.

💚 Naomi.

04/03/2026

And just like that, Autumn arrived.
I am very glad to see the end of summer, although days are still quite warm.
We had some absolutely wonderful rain in the last couple of weeks which has made all the difference here. The garden was barely hanging on despite watering.

Last year's total rainfall was a measly 340mm, and in the last couple of weeks we have had nearly 90mm in our gauge here. With the heat comes humidity, and a whole new set of challenges in the garden, with the pumpkins and melons developing fungal infections at an alarming rate. I am fine with that though, it's worth the loss of some of those to replenish the soil moisture and hopefully give some relief to people living on tank and dam water.

Unfortunately the topsy-turvy weather has wreaked havoc on attempts at growing autumn seedlings, with poor germination, bolting, and now damping off in the ones I started in February. I will be trying again next week in the hopes of having seedlings out for sale in late March and will update as I go. Peas and broadbeans seem to have a decent germination rate and strong growth, but not much else is happy.
I am considering giving up and buying my seedlings from the big green shed. 😒

Here are pics of a couple of things that are happy here. Not shown is the lawn which needs mowing every couple of days at the moment.

Have a wonderful day. 🙂

06/02/2026

Hi everyone. I've been missing in action for quite a while and think it's past time I updated you all.

This season has definitely been a hard one for the garden here, and the gardeners that I know personally are finding the same. Extreme heat, only half of the annual rainfall (for me) and inconsistent temps are stressing plants and making it close to impossible to start the seedlings for autumn. Depending on your location, you will be battling the same, along with damage from fires or that horrible nervous watchfulness every time there's a warning about a new fire. It has been an awful summer for so many people here in Victoria, and others in other states as well.

I have started some trial punnets of seedlings and bought more seeds for winter veg too. Whether I am successful and have enough to sell come March will depend on conditions and temps. Freshly germinated bubs are not happy with blasts of strong wind in 35°C temps, even when protected in a shade house.

In December five of my hens decided to go broody, and in the first heatwave the eggs started to hatch. It has been madness keeping multiple hatches of new chicks cool, but the bubs are adorable and probably worth the hourly checks, topping up ice blocks and cold water, and shifting misters to cool pens. Here are some pics of them when they were little and fluffy. There are a couple of pics from the garden as well.

30/11/2025

The stand is fully stocked this morning. For the first time this season there is a second bench out further along the fence as well.

Out today:

Tubestock of tomatoes, including
Black Cherry
Black Russian
Cherokee Purple
Rouge de Marmande
College Challenger
Pineapple (these are the only ones of this variety that I am growing this year)
Giant Syrian
Romano Burghanese
Barossa Festival (dwarf plants to 1.2m tall)
Mallee Rose (dwarf plants to 1m tall)
$3 each.

Tubestock of pumpkins, varieties:
Tromboncino
Long Island Cheese
Red Warty Thing
Musquee de Provence
Butternut
J*p
Golden Nugget
Triamble. $2 each

Punnets
Sweetcorn
Blue Lake climbing bean
Cherokee Wax butter bean, bush type
Royal Burgundy bush bean.
$3 each.

Advanced tomatoes
Yellow Pear (cherry type)
Giant Syrian
College Challenger
Cherokee Purple
$8 each.

Advanced eggplants
Ping Tung long (one only)
Thai round green (three only)
$8 each.

Valerian officinalis (two only) $12 each.

Monstera deliciosa (two only) $15 each.

Yellow flowering Phlomis (two only) $10 each.

Ajuga ground cover (one only) $8.

Payment by cash in the tin, or by bank transfer (details are on the price list on the stand).

Thank you for your continued support, despite a difficult season and reduced varieties. 🙂

26/11/2025

This batch of pumpkins and zucchinis is coming along nicely and is outside hardening off and growing true leaves, in time to go out next week. I have some advanced tomatoes ready as well, some of them are even starting to set fruit. 😁

If you were one of the unlucky gardeners that got hit by the late frost and want to replant, the stand will be stocked on Monday next week. There will also be sweetcorn, climbing and bush beans, sunflowers and hopefully punnets of mixed zinnias out there. 🙂

22/11/2025

Good morning! I've been distracted by my own messy jungle of a garden, but I have also been doing a little sowing and potting up of plants for sale. The pumpkins and zucchinis are germinating well, cucumbers and melons are a bit slower but are in and should pop up any day now. There are punnets of beans and sweetcorn almost ready to go, and a new batch of advanced tomatoes that will go out to harden off in a couple of days.

This season has been quite challenging for many people, I know a few that lost quite a lot of plants in the frosts two weeks back, and the temps jumping between 30 and 15 are not helping with consistent growth.

It's fascinating to see how each individual garden responds, depending on its microclimate. My sister is only up the street, but has picked zucchinis already; her pumpkins and spaghetti squash have advanced fruit on. My pumpkins have barely started vining. Her cucumbers aren't doing anything, but mine have started fruiting. My tomatoes have more fruit but her capsicums are doing better. In my own garden, the epiphlyllum flowered a month later than usual, but other plants are very early.

Anyway, that's what's happening here. How is it where you are?

14/11/2025

Yippee! Baby fruit on the Tommy Toe, no ID (seed from mum's neighbours) Black Rusian and starting to set on the Green Zebra. The dwarf Metallica are flowering well, and I couldn't resist, so I planted a couple of the Sneaky Sauce and one of the Barossa Festival dwarf variety two weeks ago. Then... well, it's me, so this morning one each of Kookaburra Cackle, Boronia, Mallee Rose and Confetti went in. The garden smells of tomato leaves, orange blossom, and straw mulch. Cicadas , bees, ravens, blackbirds, wattle birds and wrens are providing the soundtrack. Heaven!

Because the season is weird, and many people lost tomatoes and other plants to the frost last week, I am extending the sales of tomatoes, capsicums, eggplants, some pumpkins, melons, squash and zucchini. I'll be busy sowing and transplanting over the weekend and will have plants ready in two weeks. Some, predominantly eggplants and capsicums, will be the advanced size so that they still provide a good harvest.

I'm off to plant out more sweetcorn, have a wonderful day. 😁

11/11/2025

Good morning all. This morning is a good reminder of why I don't have a definite answer about frost dates. Some years they're done in September, but other years it can be November or even December, depending on your particular garden.

We had a sneaky late frost here this morning. I have fruit on tomatoes, chillies, cucumbers and I think there was a baby zucchini starting as well. Plus potato and sweet potatoes and a few other frost sensitive plants around the place. I'll see if there's any damage once the sun hits the ones not growing under nets. How did everyone else go?

07/11/2025

Good morning all. It's a lovely day here, much cooler than yesterday.

I have just restocked out front with some advanced tomatoes, capsicums, chillies and eggplants.

The advanced tomatoes are a bargain at $8, some have baby fruit and others are flowering. To get them to new homes asap, I have a special on them for this weekend. They'll be 3 for $20 until Monday. I will pop a sign there with them so that there's no confusion.
Varieties are
Black Cherry,
Yellow Pear,
Tommy Toe,
Rouge de Marmande,
Cherokee Purple,
Giant Syrian.
Numbers are limited, once these are sold there won't be more until early December.

The advanced eggplants, capsicums and chillies are $8 each, or 3 for $20 as well.

Yes, you can mix and match from the advanced tomatoes, chillies, capsicums and eggplants.

There are tubes of dwarf tomatoes, capsicums, and chillies there too, usual prices apply unless you grab 3 for $8. Mix and match applies to those as well.

I'll pop some bargain punnets for the weekend as well, as I don't want to waste them. Those will be $2 each instead of the usual $3.

I hope that all made sense. 🤣

Thanks for the ongoing support, I hope you enjoy your weekend.

02/11/2025

Why I don't spray these little buggers...

01/11/2025

'Tis the season. This beautiful little red belly resident popped up by the verandah today and slowly made its way through the garden, across the lawn and into the vegie garden. Healthy gardens will attract lots of wildlife, including snakes. It's part of the deal with living near a river with open paddocks close to the house as well.

I have had two removed by local snake catchers a few years ago, but I don't bother anymore. I tell them I won't bite them if they don't bite me, and I watch my hands and feet in the garden. So far, so good. The browns do a good job of regulating the rodent population too.

It was lovely to watch but I gave up the idea of weeding the part of the vegie garden it headed into. 😉

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Peechelba, VIC
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