Tim’s Best Potting Mix Is Still The Best - Feb 27, 2025

Dear gardening friends
Just spent a fabulous day with Costa, and all his crew, filming a show for Gardening Australia. It will be on telly in the next couple of weeks. They filmed at the nursery, Mawson Park, and at my home garden.

I took Costa to Yasmin Bakery and got him The Tim's Special Manoush. Costa thought it tasted amazing and we ate it sitting in Mawson Park.

He bumped into many people as we walked down Queen street and he was so nice, he stopped to talk and get photos with everyone. He was so nice to my staff too.

The story is about planting trees, and Costa and I planted a tree together, so make sure you watch the show. I'll let you know when it's on. Hopefully is on in the next couple of weeks. I had a great day.

Week 3 of our Potting mix trial. These are Australian Standard Premium Potting Mixes, so you expect plants to grow in them. The results have been surprising.

Osmocote Premium Plus was the second best in our last trial, this time is performing poorly. Other mixes which were terrible last time, are performing well this time. A couple are just terrible.

It just shows how unreliable these mixes are, and it's a lottery whether plants grow or don't grow. The standard needs to be improved, if we are to have confidence, in buying them.

Follow our journey to see if any of these Lettuces reach their full potential. Will we get to eat them?

The Lettuce is just litmus test, we could have used other plants. If we used an indoor plant or a herb, we'd be getting similar results. Either plants grow, or they don't.

If you've bought these mixes recently, and your plants aren't performing, then now you know why. Maybe you should be asking for a refund.

Tim's Best Potting mix is performing beautifully. The lettuce are so healthy and huge. I'm so happy with the results. Come and see our experiment. The bags are on display in the nursery.

"Little Audrey" is a new Dwarf Crepe Myrtle that only grows one metre high. It has tiny leaves with coppery coloured new growth, and these beautiful pink flowers, right through summer and into autumn.

We found this fabulous new dwarf variety in a nursery in Melbourne. We've bought 50 plants because the last time we released a dwarf Crepe Myrtle, they sold like hot cakes.

We have just repotted them into bigger pots, using Tim's Best Potting mix. This will make them grow twice as fast. They have already started to flower. Plants cost $34.99.

I was reading this book, it's set in France, it's in the country, and they have just been occupied by Germany. Vianne is cooking Potato soup for dinner, I start to think about Potato soup, it becomes an obsession.

I've never cooked it before, but I have now, and it tasted delicious. I've made up the recipe, Vianne was only stirring it. I'm sure you've got a recipe too. Here's mine.

Cut six large potatoes into slices and lay them in a baking tray. Add a Clove of Garlic. One Onion cut in quarters. Sprinkle with Italian dry herbs then drizzle with Olive oil. Bake in oven for 35 minutes until golden brown.

Cut up 1x Leek finely and fry that down in Olive oil. Add the Onion which you baked, plus 3x Anchovies and 1x Table spoon of Capers. Add a dash of Worcestershire sauce. Fry this down for 15 mins or so until it's soft. Season with ground Pepper and Salt.

Now add the Potato from the Oven. Break up the Potatoes roughly, with a wooden spoon. Stir through the Onions and Leeks.

Now add Sour Cream and about the same amount of Milk. Turn the heat down a bit and keep stirring.

Now add a handful of Mozzarella cheese and keep stirring until the soup thickens.

This has all been cooked in under an hour. It feeds 6 people with fresh crusty bread. It tastes amazing, you won't taste fish, they are just stock cubes. I just remembered, I did add a stock cube too.

This seriously is a winner. It's one of my best and it's just been invented. Let me know what you think.

It's so cheap to make, it's Potatoes and a Leek!!!
Buy plants with the money you save.

Seriously this Potato Soup is amazing. You could even buy Hot chips, and make this soup. You'd turn chips for one, into dinner for 6 people.

Autumn has arrived that means it's time to garden again. Pull out your vegetables and turn the soil over with a shovel. Now dig Tim's Cow manure into your soil. Add a dressing of Garden Lime and Tim's FAST FOOD. Cover with Sugarcane, water well then let it rest for a week or two.

It's time to plant Cauliflower, Cabbage, Broccoli, Silverbeet, Lettuce, Peas, Sugar Snap peas, Celery, Onions, Leeks and Spring Onions. Autumn is the easiest time to grow vegetables. The cooler weather makes the plants grow so much better.

Yes you can grow vegetables in big pots using Tim's Best Potting mix. Come and see us.
Our nursery is looking fabulous.
Happy gardening
Tim