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Tim's Top Garden Tips
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2021
Sharing the things we have learned in the gardens, allotments, and nursery while we can still remember them! Hints and tips and tricks for gardening success, helping you to grow the biggest blooms, tastiest veggies, and easy to look after beds, borders, and shrubberies. We like to have fun while we work, and hope these off-the-cuff videos will help brighten your day and your garden.
A keen gardener since he was knee-high to a grasshopper, Tim has made lots of mistakes, and killed lots of plants in his time, but hopefully the last couple of decades working in a nursery and garden centre have taught some valuable lessons that we can share here. Hope you enjoy the channel :)
A keen gardener since he was knee-high to a grasshopper, Tim has made lots of mistakes, and killed lots of plants in his time, but hopefully the last couple of decades working in a nursery and garden centre have taught some valuable lessons that we can share here. Hope you enjoy the channel :)
How To Stop Slugs Eating Your Plants!
With so many options available, what is the best and environmentally sound method to save your plants from their munching?
Watch to find out :)
Watch to find out :)
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And the Winner is......
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29th June 2023, the results of our friendly local garden poem competition are in, and the winner is this one that brought us a warm tear of happy memories ❤️
Just for Fun - Which Tomato Will Be First Over The Line in 2023?
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When you spend 6 hours a day watering you need something to keep your mind alert. Sometimes we imagine our tomatoes 🍅 as horses 🐎 in a race....... Just for fun :)
How to Get FREE Lavender Plants for Life!!
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Lavender is a real old-fashioned favourite, and is always popular with bees and pollinators too. In this video we show you how to take perfect cuttings from your lavender so that you always have plenty of fresh plants on hand, you'll never have to buy another Lavender plant!
How to Make a Good Flowering Planter into a GREAT one with a Simple Trick!
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How to Make a Good Flowering Planter into a GREAT one with a Simple Trick!
How to Make a Luxury Hanging Basket at Home - Step by Step Walkthrough
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Last year we made a video explaining how we make our beautiful hanging baskets on the nursery. You can see that here:- th-cam.com/video/MLvDfpl_nck/w-d-xo.html Thank you for all the lovely comments on that, we are glad it was useful. This time we take products and plants from the shelf of the garden centre and make a luxury basket with them, showing every step of the process. At the end of the ...
Russells Wildflower Meadow - Wildlife Update July 2022
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Mixed views and wild animals from the wildflower meadow, July 2022. Found a reliable way to get the Kingfishers on the trail camera too :)
These Are The Hanging Baskets We Made On The Nursery
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As a follow up to our video called "How we make hanging baskets on the nursery," this short clip shows you how the baskets look after a few weeks in the greenhouse, and is followed by a sequence of photos taken over the last 15 years or so of our baskets in situ at home. Some of the basket photos were taken as late as October, showing their longevity and value. Thanks for watching, and sorry th...
How We Make Hanging Baskets On The Nursery
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Here we make a hanging basket from scratch, showing each stage, with a little explanation about some of the plants and why we choose them. These baskets flower from mid-May until the first frost of the year, around the end of October in the UK. The "secret" to getting and keeping them large and healthy is lots of water and lots of food. We use an automated watering system on a timer to make sur...
The Rainbow of Islastones - This May Bring Tears to Your Eyes
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This Rainbow was created for the 2020 Big Charity Rock Hunt in Baginton, England. It is a family treasure hunt event raising money for The Islastones Foundation. Thanks to Covid the event was delayed until April 17th 2022 The stones bear the names of children who have suffered from childhood cancer. Devastatingly, only a handful of the children whose names are on the stones are still with us to...
Peat Vs Peat Free Composts - Part 2 - The key to success?
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The second part of our little trial of peat-free composts compared to traditional peat uses tomato plants and their growth, or lack of it, as a general indicator of compost performance. The composts we have used in this are: Clover Herbaceous Mix 100% Peat, Sinclair Peat Free with West , Melcourt Silvamix Peat Free, Dalefoot Peat Free Wool Compost, and Westland New Horizon. See the very real di...
Peat Vs Peat Free Composts - A Simple Side by Side Comparison - Part 1
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The long-awaited move to peat-free composts will soon be upon the gardening industry. Although commercial growers will have more time to adapt than home gardeners, we have been trialing peat-free composts against traditional peat for about 15 years now, just simple trials each year to see how things are developing. In this video we demonstrate out of the bag performance of 3 products, Westland'...
How We Take Clematis Cuttings On The Nursery...
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We were asked to make a little video about taking cuttings from Clematis. There are a few approaches that do well, in this video we show the way we do them, fairly early cuttings from tunnel grown plants that should root up nicely and get potted on into 9cm pots in a few weeks and then into their final 3 litre deep pot in the autumn, ready for sale next season.
Seed Sowing Basics - Growing Tomatoes From Seed - Part 2
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Part 2 of our step-by-step basic guide to growing great tomatoes from seed. In this video we go from the first leaves to transplanting the seedlings into a larger pot. It has been a challenging April for sure, and the cold, dull weather made sure things have been slow, but we got there in the end! Subscribe for part 3 when these potted babies will move into their final home.
Seed Sowing Basics - Growing Tomatoes From Seed - Part 1
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Seed Sowing Basics - Growing Tomatoes From Seed - Part 1
How to Plant a Tree - Step by Step in Real-Time
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How to Plant a Tree - Step by Step in Real-Time
Top Tips No.3 - Is it Worth Growing Shrubs From Seed?
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Top Tips No.3 - Is it Worth Growing Shrubs From Seed?
Are My Plants Dead? How Can I Tell If They Will Come Back?
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Are My Plants Dead? How Can I Tell If They Will Come Back?
Hi, please could you tell me where you buy your 16 inch EMPTY hanging baskets?
Pls can you tell me what size the basket is?!
Way too much waffling ,ffs get on with it man
@rogerdandridge5016 we have an easy conversational approach to our work and colleagues. Feel free to watch shorter, straight to the point videos, we won't be altering our approach to appease anyone, especially not those who choose to complain about free educational videos with rude comments. 🤷♂️
what is the name of that plant?
Great quality video, i've subscribed. I've also sent an email to you about a completly new type of slug barrier i've invented myself which works fantastic for potted plants, hopefully hear from you, Thanks!
Hi, I’m in Melbourne Australia, I have successfully grone Petunias from seed and are coming on well in hanging baskets now, my question is when should I start feeling them, before they flower or after they start flowering.
@@noelsmith2529 it is hard to overfeed petunias, start when the first buds form :)
Alriiiiight
Is there a list of all products /plants available?
@stephaniehenderson974 hiya. The video is just a guide to the method, you will get great results by experimenting with your choices, using the principles outlined, so don't get too bothered about copying it exactly :)
Absolutely loved this please name the plants xx
Can you do video on peony deviding/cuttings?
Brilliant video! 😂 you’ve made my day. Sooo funny and helpful. You have perfectly answered my question.
Very very informative. Thank you for the video
Fantastic Video, Can I have a list of all the plants you used please.
Very good Tim. Well done. I will continue to buy hanging baskets as usual from you , which are amazing.They are filling my garden with great look. I will leave it you do for me. Thank you. Vish
Summer's almost done and all 8 baskets are still giving! Thanks once again Tim!🙏
Really great looking colors and combination!
I would like to see move of the plant
Can I use these around my hostas that are planted in the ground, would it still work?
@susanlindadalton1287 yes, make a good thick ring around them, right up to the stems.
Great instructions, wish I had seen this before planting up my neighbours baskets. Will know for next year. Thank you.
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I do this but can't keep it alive!
My baskets get loads of water, loads, at the moment, 4 times a day on the drippers for 20 minutes!
Tim, you succeeded in getting me to have a go from scratch without any gardening skills. I’m looking after my 91 year old mum and thought I’d brighten up the place for her. Thanks to your how-to video I’ve only gone and made not 1, not 2, but count ‘em 8 14 inch hanging baskets! 6 weeks in now and I’m frankly astonished at the results they just keep on giving more and more. I modified the traditional method you use here because the sphagnum moss around here wouldn’t hold together very well and was expensive for the modest pack so I used my conifer hedge clippings instead (free) together with half of a wool/moss basket liner (cheaper). Could only find lobelia plant plugs (clearance £1 tray of 6, so snapped up 6 trays of mixed lobelia) and used them in the second layer together with standard garden centre 4cm pots, 6 or 7 per basket. First basket took me 6 hours learning the ropes, the rest under 2 hours each. Once again many thanks for the ‘you can do it’ inspiration.
Fantastic! Would love to see a pic top.tips.tim@gmail.com
@@timstopgardentips9634 Wow thanks for asking! Have sent a pic of each as they are now over a month old.
I really enjoyed your video. Thank for sharing your experience with us 👍👍👌👌❤️❤️❤️❤️
Too bad i didn't see the finished project! No blooms
I learned so very much from this. I've never seen a basket done that way and can not wait to try it myself next season if I can find that type of basket. Thank you for such a thorough demonstration. Your selling price is unbelievably low. I would expect to pay twice that here in the USA.
That was just way too long, so I skipped to the end. I have found compost to be truly awful with the worst rubbish being miracle grow. I planted up my bedding using garden soil mixed with my own garden compost and some grit for drainage, with a dusting of blood fish and bone. It did the job but I would prefer to buy it. Research such yours is invaluable (even if protracted!)
Since making this video, composts, methods, and knowledge about results have been dramatically improved. At some point we will make another video when the top suppliers settle on a formula. We'll be sure to include an abbreviated ADD version for those that don't like all the details ;) In the meantime, Clover peat based compost is still available, still brilliant, and according to research, the most environmentally sound option at the present time.
How fun! Great experiment? Thanks for the laughter. It truly is a good medicine! Best not to give up your day job…😂
Lovely!! Thank you, for taking the time to patiently teach and to share your expertise.
I plant my own baskets up have no problems water at night and again early morning soak well 🌹🇬🇧
I really found this very informative and helpful. Loved the beautiful display if the baskets after. Thank-you very much Tim.
Did you just waste my time? Yes, you did.
Sheer splendour of nature on display!
Too slow not bothering to view
TL:DR
You know you have the ability to skip around right?
Makes me proud to be British
the way I gasped every time you cut any of the plants though!!!! can't wait to make my own next year ❤
Great video. I learned a lot of things that I can use in my own baskets right away. Never thought of cutting away the flowers, but that really makes sense. The style and colors however, thats personal i guess. I might be the only one here who dislikes 95 percent of them. In my opinion there are so many types and colors of plants that all try to steel the show that in the end its just one huge mess of color. I use 1, 2 or max 3 types of plants in coordinated colors. Or one type in several matching colors. So I would only choose purple and pink with white perhaps. Purple, pink and blue. Blue and white. Red, Oranje and yellow. Or even a purple and yellow combination. But in the thumbnail I see purple, pink, red, yellow, orange, all even in different shades and different types oh my. To me it looks like something ate several flower gardens and threw them all up in one basket haha. Sorry, tastes differ. I guess I'm too Dutch. More like the Proven Winner container recepies. But they sure look very healthy. Thanks for your thoroughly explanation.
You can't be TOO Dutch 😊 The basketbmadenin the video is on the conventional (boring?) lines that you mention, purples, whites and blues. For my own baskets I like a mix of colour that represents my creative personality, and don't feel the desire to be shackled to any given colour scheme, quite the opposite 😄 The beauty of plants is that there is something for everyone 👌
What a fantastic video! Thank you so much all the way from Buckingham County Virginia. I'm going to try to make 2 matching ones
Absolutely gorgeous
Thanks for this Tim.. I love my hedgehogs but I also love my plants, this is really useful to know. And I didn't realise that slugs have 'little noses' 😂🤭
These are amazing, wish I lived nearby, do you ship? Best wishes and thanks for uploading 🙌👏
tl;dr ... peat wins. Personally I use a combination of well-rotted horse manure, peat moss compost, and fertiliser. I've tried various eco-friendly products over the years, and they just don't work. If I'm going to be spending a lot of time, money and effort on my garden, I need it to work. Simple.
You better stock up then, a ban on peat is coming, like it or not 🤷♂️
@@timstopgardentips9634 I've now researched this a bit more, and I've come to the conclusion that peat may not in fact be the best compost, despite it giving good results without much effort, in many cases. I've been trialling peat vs coconut coir, with and without amendments, and the results I've seen are actually quite a bit better for suitably amended coir. They both share many characteristics, but the differences are that peat has better water retention, whereas coir has better drainage, and also peat is acidic whereas coir is neutral. And yes coir contains no nutrients, so has to be fertilised. I found that my indoor plants really don't like water retention at all. If I lived in a much warmer and drier climate, it might be different, but up here in Scotland it's a real battle to stop plants from drowning. The endless rain also killed a newly planted common walnut and magnolia stellata, despite me ensuring the rootballs were fully rinsed off before planting, and they were both planted into nice big holes filled with peat and suitable fertilisers. From the looks of them, I'd guess their roots were just rotted away by the rain, as there's no signs of pests or fungus. The indoor plants I repotted into coir have thrived this year, whereas those I repotted into peat range from very lacklustre to actually dead. The problem with peat or any standard compost is that once you water it there's no way to remove any excess water, without basically just repotting. With coir, any excess water is gone within 24 hours. So for me I think coir is a better solution, regardless of any environmental considerations. It doesn't drown my plants, and it's the perfect blank canvas that I can amend to suit any plant.
@HomerSlated I use a fair amount of coir in some mixes, for the reasons you state, drainage mainly. Straight peat and straight coir have no nutritional value whatsoever, so both need supplements, the difference is that with peat the nutrients, particularly nitrogen, are more bio-available. We had the same issue with wetness over the last couple of seasons, but we can get our peat blends mixed with grit and perlite to allow extra drainage. The most succesful peat alternatives remain the woodfibre based options, like Melcourt, but they have a shelf life. Lots of options and methods are available though, so trial and error for a particular type of plant, location, and availability works well. Happy gardening :)
So, one could cut up old woollen blankets that are past their useful life and cut out mats to go round the base of pot plants and plants in the ground. Slug Gone is expensive.
Hmmm, you could...... but it would look messy, and any wool blends with artificial fibres could leach microplastics maybe, and the materials would not rot down the same. Everything is relative, if a 10 Litre pot of Slug Gone treats 20 plants, that's less than a pound a plant for guaranteed protection. Plant prices are quite high this year as a knock on effect from fuel prices and Brexit, so an extra quid per plant might be a sound investment? 🤷♂️
Someone boiled it 😂😂
Talvez esa palabras de carinos ''Chiqui'' son para despistar a la investigacion lo que estaba por suceder , porque estan grabadas y se quedan en el celular .
Brilliant! Thank you!
Top tip! Thank you.
Beautiful baskets❤ Thank you for taking the time to show us how to make them! From Illinois
New subscriber here! I'm just wondering what "tidy up the heel" means. Did you want part of where that stem attached? Or do you make a fresh cut below the node? What part is "safe" to tidy up?
Hi, just make a clean cut through the end of the node where it separates from the stem. This reduces the likelihood of rot setting in.
Best hour spent watching you create the wonderful basket! Thank you for teaching me!