Our September Garden Is Going Crazy! 🌱 | Spring in Southeast Queensland

Spring has definitely arrived here in southeast Queensland and things are starting to get a little out of control. We've got tomatoes, chilies, beans, sweet peas, herbs and plenty more packed into these birdie planter boxes. The snow peas and beans have been going particularly well so today we're giving them a good clean out and seeing what we can harvest. So let's have a look around and see what's growing. G'day Green Thumbs, welcome to my channel Garden Tubers, I'm Larry. Today I'm going to take you around the garden, show you what's growing in Brisbane. September 5, 2026 in southeast Queensland. All right, let's get to it. So all our plants are in these larger style birdies. This one I've got butter beans, you can see they're quite yellow. This is the first time I've grown the butter beans and we've got some leeks in there which need thinning out. So there are six butter bean plants and I've got a whole heap of parsley we've planted out and in between these are also beans but these are the green ones. So I've grown these from seed from last year and I've just planted them straight in the birdie and we've got a couple of tomatoes growing here. I'm going to have to thin those out. I don't really want those in here so I'll move them or just keep one and here we've got an argy chilli. These are the yellow type of chilli, about 50 000 scoville heat units. They're really nice for cooking, not too hot and they have a great citrusy lemon flavour. So that survived last year, it's doing really well now. So it's just hit spring, we're already getting 30 degree days, we've got about three in a row so it's quite warm for spring that's for sure and in the second birdie we have chillies. This one is an orange habanero, there's also some bird's eye chillies in between, quite a few stalks that have just grown in there. They're all together, I didn't even know what they were when I moved them. This one is a trinidad scorpion. So what I'm doing different this year is I'm not cutting them back hard, they are a very slow growing chilli, about 1.2 million scoville heat units, so extremely hot and they've got a great flavour. So I want to see what's the difference of cutting them back really hard and low compared to leaving them high. I mean that's about probably three foot high, so yeah a bit of an experiment this year. These are from one of our local markets, they're a bit like a long cayenne but these are stunted now. They've been growing for about close to a year so I might rip those ones out and we've also got another trinidad scorpion and we've got some bird's eye there. Lots of tomatoes just popping up by themselves. This one I'm not sure what it's going to be, it's a chilli but I don't know what variety I've moved that one. We've got a few tomatoes here. These are leeks, they need to be thinned out but it's the wrong time to grow leeks now so we didn't know that when we bought it. I thought it was a good time to plant them out in July but it's July August I think it was so probably not the best time from what I've read now. More tomatoes. Over here we've got a heap of tomatoes. Look at these, they are growing wild guys. So we've got cherry tomatoes in here, there is a habanero orange growing in there. There were just so many tomatoes and I didn't thin them out, I just let them go. We have here spring onions, they are really big, huge bases and we have coriander, it's turning to seed. We also have rocket, that's turning to seed. So I collect all the seed and I plant them out each year. In this birdie we've got a heap more that so these are the oldest beans that I've planted. They're really quite big and you can see the difference. This is an area that gets quite a bit of sun whereas this area over here is not getting that much sun. The sun will soon pass. We have a lot of trees here that are causing some shading issues but as the sun gets higher in as we go towards summer this will be really a good bed for growing the beans. And this one is I think it's a pak choy or joe choy. There's actually some aphids on here. I've got to spray these with some water and dishwashing soap. I'm letting them turn to seed because this is the first season we've planted the choy family so it was really nice. They grow fast but it turned to seed too early. I think I put these out in July and I probably should have planted around April. So I'm going to collect the seeds, never going to need to buy those again. There's a lot of spring onions in here. These are massive. They're really... look at the size of that one. They're so thick they look like leeks. Absolutely massive. Here we have some green beans. They look really good guys. There's more than 20 on that plant. Look at the size of them. Going to make a stir fry with those in some oyster sauce. It's going to be fantastic. First crop of green beans. We're going to pick them. Look at the size of that. Nice beautiful beautiful beans. My wife's helping me pick some of the beans. It's a fun job. It's nothing more rewarding than harvesting your own crop. It's 3.24pm and there's another 10 on the plant. Awesome. Well we're going to have to eat a lot of beans. That's not bad. Nice little harvest there. Still a ton more to go and here we have our snow peas. Oh no sweet peas sorry. So you can see that they've got some powdery mildew. They won't last much longer. I'll probably pull them out in the next week or two. Let's try them. It's very sweet guys. Really nice. Excellent. This is the beauty when you've got your own plants. You can just harvest anytime. What I like is it's all organic so you know there's no chemicals. I don't use chemicals in this garden. I avoid them like the plague but you know you're going to get better crops I guess if you're spraying for all the pests but I just don't like it guys. I'm going to pull these out. It's time for them to go. The powdery mildew is spreading. I assume, can you see there? That looks like the same colour of the powdery mildew so it looks like it's spreading to the pods. I'll use some of these pods as seeds for next year but you can see there's a lot of sweet peas in there and still more to go so I'll pull them out. Some of these are quite high. They have to be I'd say 220 centimetres high. Maybe more. Maybe 230. That's really high guys. We had some really strong winds that came in and it bent this out of shape. It was quite secure but those winds really punished it and they went on forever. Yeah let's just get them all. Take them all down. There's more coriander here. That's starting to turn the seed now. These are long cayennes. They've survived from last year so I'll probably clear most of this stuff out and I'm going to put some new soil in here. We've got basil growing here. Tomatoes. More tomatoes. Some young coriander and this one I've changed all the soil. I had some warping on the birdie and I had to straighten that out so I've cleaned everything out. We've got new tomatoes in here. This one I've never grown before. This is a black cherry tomato so normally I just grow the little red ones so I'm quite interested to see do they actually have that colour? What do they taste like? Sounds like a nice variety. Hair loom variety so I'm looking forward to trying that out and we're going to find out later what variety these are. I've grown in here romas, beefsteak, cherry tomatoes, hair loom so I'm not too sure guys. It's a bit like a lucky dip. We'll find out soon enough. These are the hair loom I was talking about. They have such beautiful colours on them. Really nice with the stripes and there's all different colours that you'll notice once they start ripening. There's a ripe cherry tomato there. That's another habanero orange and there is a lot of rocket in here. We use that in stir fry with garlic and lots of chilli with rice and it's such a nice vegetarian dish. Not that I'm vegetarian but I actually do like it. It's probably one of the first vegetarian dishes I actually like so we love to cook that up in winter. This one's a mango. It started popping up in the garden. I buried a seed and it was quite deep but yet it came up so we've got our first mango trees in a little pot. I'll have to work out what to do with that. I can't plant it in the yard. It's just too big so maybe I'll get a larger pot and just have a mini mango tree in a pot. And this one is a habanero red. They have some beautiful pods. Very hot. Probably 200 000 scoville heat units but yeah they're very very nice guys. Nice smooth big red pods. So I'm looking forward to getting some off that. That's quite mature that one. It's been fed well and doing really well for the first well what's that 5th of September so it's doing really well. These are chives. I've been watering them. They probably just need some food. I did give it some dynamic lifter but they are looking a bit sad. Yes getting water. I'm not sure why they're looking so sad. And here we have some of the new seedlings that I've planted out. So these are all spring onions. I've got some okra. I grew okra for the first time last year and it was a massive plant. So I don't know what I'm going to do with this many. Maybe we'll put some in pots but we we do really enjoy eating okra. It's just that it literally you could probably put two okra plants in the birdie and that will just take over the whole birdie space. So yeah it's certainly hungry for for a bit of real estate that's for sure. And here we have some Hansel eggplants. I've grown them in pots. They do quite well in the pots. I've got some long cayenne chilies. They haven't come up yet. Turkish snake. Last year I planted them. They didn't come up either. They were green pods that I took the seeds out of and yeah they just didn't come up. So I'm hoping I've planted the last of the seeds. Hoping they will come up this year. They were bought pods and I took the seeds out but being green they may not come out. I've got some more argy yellows and there's just the one out of the nine serranos that I planted. Well that's just a quick garden update guys. I'll give you more updates soon. So thank you very much for watching. If you like the content please smash that like button. Consider subscribing and I hope to see you in the next one. Bye for now.