Ive only just found your channel and I love you both. So practical and and your gardening advice is easy to understand, all round lovely people. I'm so envious of your glass house.
Loved this, was good to hear your answers to some really good questions. Eli, there will never be a greenhouse big enough for us! My husband said that if we moved house the size of the garden would be my priority Kate, my husband is the same, he doesn't have the patience to wait for the seeds to grow or even the plants to ripen but loves the end product. Thank you for all the work you do to bring us these vlogs.
👏👏 round of applause Kate and Eli, thank you for letting go us all share snippets of your personnel journey. Loved the video. Great idea too moving the greenhouse to where the shed is, sorry Kate! You must admit though it’s not a bad idea, I’ve been gardening in my 8x6 green house for 17 years. After watching Your channel on the rhino greenhouse we purchased one December 2021 we have a 8 x 12 In silver sage, and wow! So pleased with it, it’s hard to believe know how I was able to grow flowers and veg in such a small space. Go for it girls if you can do it do it! Loved the Intro gardening for me helps me lose myself from stress and anxious thoughts, it’s my happy place💐 where I love to be! 🤔 the car clip was great too, did you aim to just go for a drive, or garden centre visit😃👩🌾 Bye for know see you next week Great work!! 👏
😂😀😂. car clip was genuine, we had to pop out for some bits and pieces - plus was nice to break things up a bit We did a video before with a car journey so we knew it would be ok to film on the safer bits of road
A garden is an extension of ourselves, so it is no wonder your gardens are full of life, fun and love. Thank you for this. I know it must have been loads of work, but the resulting video is an absolute antidote to current world events, which threaten to drag me into an abyss of sorrow. Much love to you both!
What an absolutely brilliant video guys, nice to see and hear more of Kate, I too have the "burny fire" thing which is ace, and it saves my knees too, keep up the good work 😀
Wow!!!! I came across you two on TH-cam and I am so glad I did. I live in Scotland too. I love your Scottish accent and humour. I love watching you and thank you for your advice on gardening. I have also started my garden last year but everything died over winter. I am so sad that I have to start all over again. I don't have a greenhouse yet. Keep doing your videos
Hey Maria Don’t be disheartened What will survive winter and what won’t for us was something that we took a few years to learn… and it costs a small fortune. Have you heard of the hardiness ratings for the UK? This might help Can it survive your garden? th-cam.com/video/pbdndfT19YE/w-d-xo.html
Oh where do I start? Peter and I met online and first met each other in person at Glasgow Central Station 😁 There just be something special about train stations, eh?? Thanks for taking my question 😊 I absolutely *loved* this video. Kate, I have to paint our fence, too but ours is a lot smaller than yours and shorter, too (otherwise, Peter would have to paint it because I'm short, too 😂). I also know what Kate means about cutting the lawn, because I enjoy it myself. We split it here because Peter helps, as well. I really enjoyed seeing you both to-ing and fro-ing - that was classic! Thanks to both of you for a great bit of fun today! 😁
@@eliandkate If you know where the Starbucks is now, it wasn't there then and that's where we first met. It was the first time I saw him in person and I knew when I laid eyes on him there, I was head over heels. Been the same way now for 15 years. 💗😊
I empathise with wanting more features and more space, but you are right, you do have a lovely garden. You won’t get that character anywhere else. I think the paint is genius.
Love the Kate crew top 👌🏽😂. This vid was really well put together. Thanks for taking the time to make such a long video, was really funny & enjoyable. Also sounds like Kate is ready with her bat for an invasion, I'll join you when it happens! 😜🤣🤗
I think you are a lovely couple. To answer personal questions too. I can understand why you are a bit anti social, I am too and enjoy my own company. Good luck to you both. X x
You two are such a great couple. My heart melted when you said you'd been together 14 years. Bless y'all's hearts ❤️ I can't imagine someone putting up with me for that long! 🤣
Really enjoyed the video, you both work well together and hope you make more vids of the two of you! I'm with Kate on the Hellebores, got a thing for them and bought 5 last week. That soup and pizza looked amazing! Take care guys!
I feel like this during the Winter, mainly because all my hard work is undone every year by the garden being underwater... frustrating... Luckily like most Gardeners I have other hobbies so focus on something else... this week the fence blew down so waited for a sunny day and fixed it..... and started back clearing the garden ... roll on Spring!! At least you have Kate to help you! You are properly well matched! Totally agree with the lawn...... I was brought up with a back yard and yearned for a lawn....
Oh you won’t be Marie Loads of folk will have started their gardens this year. We’ve had ours ten years but it was my first ever garden so I still feel like a newbie
Loved this, the two of you are quickly becoming one of my most favorite channels, I learn a great deal, although we are in very different climates and environments. But mostly I just love the joy, that you purposefully bring to your garden.
We the audience really appreciate your videos, and thank you both for the work you put in bring them to us. It really helps me when I hear you getting on with your garden. I started watching because I was so tired of seeing videos from like, Florida where they can grow all sorts I never could in my garden in Ireland. I love seeing you deal with more similar weather conditions to what I'm used to! And it makes me happy to see you both loving your garden space and it reunites my enthusiasm for MY garden. Happy soon to be 7th anniversary btw!
Also, I LIKE your lawns. Many of us living in ordinary bog standard homes have to have some lawn for reasons like, that's where the kid's swings are or whatever. Lots of people have to have a varied garden with the more mundane type of garden mixed in!
Hehe also I have a "burny fire" thing too. When it rains THIS much, putting weedkiller on things just washes off and by using the blow torch that's less poisons in the garden full stop. I think it's a GOOD call! My husband gets a manically happy look on his face when using it though which can be a little disturbing...
The different scenes was a clever addition. Thanks for answering my question. I knew you'd say a bigger greenhouse 😂😂 lovely to see Kate really active in the videos.🥰
I'm very new to your TH-cam ..... Watching you lovely ladies puts me in mind of me and my late hubby ... the raport and banter ..... He was the veggie gardener and I would tend the kettle and make buttys , sadly those days are gone and at the moment I don't even have a window box ,but who knows things might change ........Thank you both for sharing your garden with us all ....... and making me laugh .... Health and happiness to you both xx
Awww I’m so glad you enjoyed our daft wee video, and who knows what the future holds… a window box of two or maybe even a wee patch somewhere to grow some flowers 😍
Fab and fun, really enjoyed this video. thanks for all what you do for us. I also grow food in my back garden but I totally get that you need a garden to be multi functional. I have different spaces that have their different uses, a patio for sitting, having breakfast or entertaining. A shady corner that's nice to sit in to read a book on really hot days. Ornamental plant and bird feeding area with a bird bath that is purely for striking plants, and flowers to enjoy the local nature, a lawn, shed and greenhouse which is my happy place all year round. This year I'm planning for a BBQ / Cooking bar area. My garden is my therapy. Apart from when the weather is bad I'm always in the garden.
Lovely getting to know you both! You should both make more videos like this. Can tell you been together a long time because your both comfortable around each other which is a good thing. Me and my partner been together over 17 years so can relate. The last question was the best haha and the pizza looked yummy!
Great video. Loved the interaction between you two. You obviously share a good sense of humour. A couple of bits to mention from it, - I got my patio fruit trees from Marshalls Garden and they've been great so far in big tubs. - I'd love an episode where you talk about your flower beds and how you plan them out for both flower types, heights and such-like, along with the way you use them to attract pollinators. - I bet there's a solar-powered water feature you could sit in the middle of the lawn if you really wanted. Can't wait to see how life blooms in the garden and how it compares to my efforts. As always, I'm winging it except when it comes to my peppers and tomatoes. About to order a veg trug for some produce outside of the greenhouse. Oh, and this year I'm growing San Marzano tomatoes for my pizza sauce. I wasn't impressed with the flavour of the Roma I grew last year. I'm a massive fan of cherry tomatoes though too.
Hi we both found this video very interesting and informative, I liked it when you said there know right or wrong way to grow for us it's the joy we get out of the Allotment as we don't have any outdoor space as have a flat , so our Allotment is our play space and watching you two we got the same feeling that your happy pottering around your garden together bless you both. Keep safe Bill and val
Awww that’s awesome guys, glad the joy of a wee afternoon pottering came across We are very much of the mind that you do what suits you and not what you are told (by various means). Gotta enjoy 😉
Blimey, talk about parallel lives! My fiance and I also met online 14 years ago end of this year, moved in together 7 years ago (ok, slight difference but commitment all the same). And we get married in Autumn this year. Oh and I also grew up in a flat without a garden, in Edinburgh although now in Wales. Brilliant video as always. Thanks both x
Lovely to get to know you both better. Needed a fun video with the state of the world at the moment. Thanks for answering my question, I also met my partner online. For our first date he picked me up on his motorbike! We have hazel hurdle fencing which doesn’t need painting, yay! But does need replacing about every 6 years… Looking forward to my first year in my new greenhouse, wish me luck!
Can’t wait to see how you get on. I love seeing updates from you guys. You can always add the hashtag so we see them 😀. #thekitchengardenwitheliandkate
Ahhhh, I thoroughly enjoyed learning more about you both, thank you so much for this wonderful video. You two are so made for each other and clearly make one another very happy 💖 That pizza looks amazing, by the way, wish I lived around the corner, cos I'd have been there like a shot to help you both polish it off 😋 Thanks again 😉
Love this little chat. I relate to you both Absolutely in different ways! I'm about instant gratification, too. So, since I garden alone, I have to toggle back and forth between tasks. I also used my paint sprayer when did my cedar fence. But I have a sealant & colored stain product. It's thinner.. it's not thick like paint. I did it all in a few hours. Plan to redo it this fall. Still have some left! Love to you both!
Love you two! Kate needs to star in more videos, love hearing her speak and Head Honcho should be seen. Highlands if you want a big garden, mine is Victorian with trees, shrubs and apple, plum and cherry. Weather can be a tad dreich though. Next time I'm in Edinburgh I need an invite for pizza and gin, slainté 🍕🍸
Thanks for the share Eli! Loved watching this and getting to know you both! Again love the editing on this and both of your energy. Oh yes i remember when we decided to plant broccoli and cauliflower many years ago, when we set up our first bed and it was like, oh boy, this sure does take up a lot of space for one single plant, you are fighting with the bugs and birds for this tiny little head! lol We still do sprouts though. I agree with having space not just for growing food and flowers, etc. It's nice to have an outdoor living room in the better weather days. Never mind the US, you should come down south in the summer! Plenty warm down here in London. Met office said we were going to have a colder winter than normal but it has been very mild again and wet. Our "snow" these days, if we are lucky is an "icing sugar" dusting not like the 2-3ft of snow we used to get as kids, where 25c was a heatwave! (And this was when i used to live further into London than we do now.) I would love a greenhouse in our garden but i think the high humidity where we are would cause problems. Anyway, all the best and take care.
:D glad you had one with this one Now we're actually going to be growing something this year as a test, sprouting broccoli but smaller :D - keep an eye out for that one very soon!!!!!! You know, we have crazy humidity here, much much higher than London (in the 90%s most of the year) and it's not an issue for a greenhouse so don't let it put you off :D :D I used to live in London, many moons ago - I was an East End girl for many years. I used to love it for the weather - spent almost all year in short sleeves... people thought I was barking :D
Grass has feelings too and is very important for the ecosystem, so many little critters live or hide in the grass. You can even let dandelions grow in your lawn and harvest those for soups, salads and more ❤😊
This made me smile a lot! The key point being grow what brings you joy (be it food, lawn, flowers or a combination!). It reminds me of one time I was chatting with my neighbour and going on about all my vegetables, she seemed to feel pressured to grow more veg but plainly stated she gets more joy in flowers. So I took the opportunity to say she should plant what brings her the most pleasure because I didn’t want my enthusiasm to be the cause of additional stress for someone else! I totally get the whole neighbours are good but maybe more space in between. Generally we get on with our neighbours but I do dream of having a bit more space in between. Although it’s nice right now cause my hubby works away a lot. We have a long skinny property and at the moment it can be a bit more peaceful in the backyard. 🥂
I agree with many of things you have both said in this video. Mowing the grass is very therapeutic and brings me joy as well. Same with trimming the junipers and tending to my garden and trees. My kids will never have to mow the grass because I won't even let them! lol I tried to to grow Brussel sprouts this year and they took up an entire raised bed and the return wasn't worth the space given up. I also just bought a 10x20x8' greenhouse that I am excited about getting set up this spring. I wish I could have gotten a bigger one, but there just wasn't enough space. It will really extend the growing season being in a 4b zone and I look forward to having an extra month or so for my tomatoes. I just found your channel this winter and thoroughly enjoy your videos. Thank you both!
About the fruits, I have three columnar apple trees and recommend them warmly. The apples are tasty and the trees only take up a square foot or so. I have Bolero, President and Redcats. I believe columnar pears and plums are wider, but these apple trees really are as skinny as they look.
oh sooo much 😀 It's awesome in chicken dishes, fish, brilliant in creamy sauces for pasta or even on steak 😀 it's got a much more subtle flavour than the Russian stuff
You two are brilliant I v got to say on the subject of trees I put an apple tree plum and pear in my garden last September so looking forward to see what happens this year with them I think pruning is the key to growing trees witch i v no idea how to prune them to keep them in check and keep them to a manageable size I agree on the cabbage and cauliflower long time takes up to much space I think I ll put Chinese cabbage in they smaller and come to a point and I ll give sprouting broccoli a go I v still got cauliflowers in from last august but the snail s have had a field day with them so this year it’s time to look at what I am going to be more successful with
Love that you chose New England! Love my seasons and you're right, we get the best of all seasons, and luckily they only last about 3 months each then time marches on to the next. Greetings from Stamford, CT!
Love this! And great to hear Kate's answers as well - greetings from one 'Oook' to another! :) As far as soft fruit trees go, it is tricky. I've donated the sunniest spot in the greenhouse to a small lemon tree, and am amazed and delighted that it's actually producing fruit in the unheated greenhouse. I got a bit carried away last week and ordered a mandarin as well. As for water features, you could have a very small one, in a bowl, with a solar pump, maybe? It would still give that moving water effect.... The pizza and soup looks amazing. And a huge yes to the garden being a space that is beautiful and productive but also doesn't have to be perfect, and as long as it's making you happy and helping your mental health, that's the most important thing (same for sharing on social media - it has to be on your terms, not anyone else's). Thank you for sharing all of this, I really enjoyed it!
Ook to you too! We did try a lemon tree once, but it didn't do too well, the one lemon it produced was all rind and no fruit - not even good enough for putting in a G&T, lol. K.
I'm so glad that I learned of you guys through Gardener Scott. Ya''ll are so cute together. I'm 25% Scottish and my dream was to travel there, but health issues are preventing that now. I will continue to watch your videos. Cherish each other and God Bless.
Raab leaves are delicious. Stems, too, if peeled. Whole plant edible! Last year I tried Chinese broccoli (white flowered kailaan), same idea - small plants, quick growing. Highly recommend! Sweet, broccoli flavor whereas raab is more turnip flavored.
Hi.Was nice to see Kate What a lovely couple you are. We like pizza in this house to. Shane you can’t already swap the greenhouse and the shed over but I imaging that would be a very big job and a lot of hassle. I also only grow in my garden and have grown brassica but not worth waiting all that time for just a meals worth. But I do grow sprouts always worth it for Christmas Day. This was a great video thank you for sharing.
What a brilliant video👍 I can 💯 relate to this. Things are crazy at work at the moment, especially with the tensions in the former Eastern Bloc and I can seldom get a moment to myself. However, the allotment is my happy place 😋 I can go there and shut out the world for a few hours, pottering about doing various jobs. I get frustrated sometime that I can’t get certain jobs done as I don’t get as much time as I would like but whilst I’m there everything is right with the world 🌎
Great video guys, growing pizza 😂, you can grow the sauce you need to grow olives, for olive oil, oregano but you need to dry it out, and san marzanos tomato’s but needs to be ripe and grown with a lot of sun 😂, anyways great video
Not sure if I've mentioned this before on your video comments, but my ,then, partner a few years ago used a burny thing to kill a dandelion under a conifer tree. 10 mns later, we had a burned out stalk where the tree had been, a part melted hosepipe and a shamefaced partner. Luckily because the conifer had to be removed, I had space for other, nicer things..like the base for my greenhouse. Happy days. Oh...and we're married now so he was only in the doghouse for a wee while 😀😂😉
Blueberries ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. On cereal, in salads, in pies, in mouth…. Well, I guess not everyone could like everything or the world would be a dull old place. Carry on!
A newbe here, just subscribed after watching a few videos with great interest and amusement, a good mix. I have copied your watering Seedlings using capillary mats and upside down seed trays and thank you for that, has been a godsend. Question: I think I see a waterbut on the side near the back of your greenhouse and I'm wondering " do you have it connected somehow to supply water to your greenhouse" I have one but not in situ at mo as still figuring it all out so I'm still running up the garden to outside tap, I probably complete 10, 000 steps extra over a week doing this so looking for ideas. Tia Ann in Staffordshire
Wine wine and Zinfandel 😂😂. But really I don’t know how you do it all work, home, garden and us lot. It must be hard to balance but I think you manage very well with the support of each other 🥰. It is one of the reasons I don’t TH-cam myself I’m crap at thinking of what to video because I flitter in the garden doing this then get distracted and do that 😂😂. Thank you for sharing your time your garden and I for one appreciate your videos. 🇨🇦🐝 safe 🙏🇺🇦❤️🩹
Hmmmm. We’re getting a lot of mentions of the columnar trees or patio trees I think I called them but as we mentioned the problem is that we don’t actually have anywhere to grow them. Fruit trees need sun and all our spaces which actually get sun are in use. We have a huge patio but unfortunately it’s in shade for the majority of the time 😢😢😢
Mmm, that does make it more tricky. They say pears and plums don't mind partial shade. I have two columnar pears in pots in partial shade - but no fruit yet, so can't recommend it, though my columnar apple tree also in partial shade had its first fruit last year. Unfortunately our daily visitors, a muntjak deer and its fawn, didn't give us the chance to see how sweet it got.
I love the vast difference between myself and Kate growing up in a gardening family. My folks had what they called an arboretum (🙄) THAT THEY WOULDNT LET ME TOUCH. Instead I got to mow the lawn in the front yard once a week. Looking back, I should be offended, no? Edit: Kate, I grow food in hanging baskets. Don’t let her bully you! 😂 Peas and cucamelons work great in baskets, just saying.
Hello, I have a question, If my soil in my blueberry pots is 5 PH and I only water with rainwater which is also 5 PH, will the soil remain 5 PH over the years?
Hey Adrian There will eventually be a shift as there’s never perfectly neutral water and other factors will be at play, but it will be a very long time 😍
Love the vids but have a question. I am up North in Newcastle and am looking to grow leeks with only access to an unheated small greenhouse/cold frame. When can I plant the seeds in your opinion and should I start on a windowsill or in tthe coldframe ?
You guys must live near me (I'm in Musselburgh), so quick question for you, what are your go-to garden centres in the area? Any local champions I should be checking out?
We are massive fans of pentland plants If we’re desperate occasionally we’ll go to Dobbies but would always chose Pentland Plants first Our hanging baskets look pants so it’s a trip to the garden centre th-cam.com/video/n331qAOkfKc/w-d-xo.html
@@eliandkate Nice, I've never been to Pentland Plants, I'll need to take a visit. If it's not Dobbies, we like going to The Redhouse, or sometimes Merryhatton (they have the best paninis ;P)
Congrats on 14 years! It's wonderful to see couples staying together for so long nowadays.
Ive only just found your channel and I love you both. So practical and and your gardening advice is easy to understand, all round lovely people. I'm so envious of your glass house.
Glad you found us Nicole and can’t wait to share our gardening fun with you
Lovely to see more of Kate both in the garden and in front of the camera.
Brilliant to get to see Kate a bit more, love your videos
Glad you like them!
Loved this, was good to hear your answers to some really good questions. Eli, there will never be a greenhouse big enough for us! My husband said that if we moved house the size of the garden would be my priority
Kate, my husband is the same, he doesn't have the patience to wait for the seeds to grow or even the plants to ripen but loves the end product. Thank you for all the work you do to bring us these vlogs.
Awwww glad you enjoyed it 😍😍😍😍
Lovely video. Nice to learn more about the ladies who have taught me to garden!! Thanks Kate and Eli. 🙂
You are entirely welcome 🤗
You're my favorite gardening couple. 😊
Awwwwwwwww
Haha! That's how I am too. Everything that can be composted, I compost. Sometimes I'll look at stuff and be like "can I compost that?" LOL
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👏👏 round of applause Kate and Eli, thank you for letting go us all share snippets of your personnel journey. Loved the video. Great idea too moving the greenhouse to where the shed is, sorry Kate! You must admit though it’s not a bad idea, I’ve been gardening in my 8x6 green house for 17 years.
After watching Your channel on the rhino greenhouse we purchased one December 2021 we have a 8 x 12
In silver sage, and wow! So pleased with it, it’s hard to believe know how I was able to grow flowers and veg in such a small space. Go for it girls if you can do it do it!
Loved the Intro gardening for me helps me lose myself from stress and anxious thoughts, it’s my happy place💐 where I love to be!
🤔 the car clip was great too, did you aim to just go for a drive, or garden centre visit😃👩🌾
Bye for know see you next week
Great work!! 👏
😂😀😂. car clip was genuine, we had to pop out for some bits and pieces - plus was nice to break things up a bit
We did a video before with a car journey so we knew it would be ok to film on the safer bits of road
You are the most gorgeous couple! Lovely to see and hear Kate. And hear your story. Met my hubby on the t'internet.
It’s the new normal 😀😀😀
A garden is an extension of ourselves, so it is no wonder your gardens are full of life, fun and love. Thank you for this. I know it must have been loads of work, but the resulting video is an absolute antidote to current world events, which threaten to drag me into an abyss of sorrow. Much love to you both!
Awww I’m so glad you got some happy from the video Lyndsey
What an absolutely brilliant video guys, nice to see and hear more of Kate, I too have the "burny fire" thing which is ace, and it saves my knees too, keep up the good work 😀
Knees aren’t what they used to be here either 😂😂😂
Hahahaha love watching you both together like this, Mould and Batman..... great descriptions (Poor Kate)!! Great fun today Ladies! xx
Kate you are very meticulous with those tomatoes. I don’t think you missed a seed. Loved getting to know you two better.
Blessings!
😂😂😂 glad you enjoyed it
Wow!!!! I came across you two on TH-cam and I am so glad I did. I live in Scotland too. I love your Scottish accent and humour. I love watching you and thank you for your advice on gardening. I have also started my garden last year but everything died over winter. I am so sad that I have to start all over again. I don't have a greenhouse yet. Keep doing your videos
Hey Maria
Don’t be disheartened
What will survive winter and what won’t for us was something that we took a few years to learn… and it costs a small fortune.
Have you heard of the hardiness ratings for the UK? This might help
Can it survive your garden?
th-cam.com/video/pbdndfT19YE/w-d-xo.html
Aww bless ya both - great couple!
Oh where do I start? Peter and I met online and first met each other in person at Glasgow Central Station 😁 There just be something special about train stations, eh?? Thanks for taking my question 😊 I absolutely *loved* this video. Kate, I have to paint our fence, too but ours is a lot smaller than yours and shorter, too (otherwise, Peter would have to paint it because I'm short, too 😂). I also know what Kate means about cutting the lawn, because I enjoy it myself. We split it here because Peter helps, as well. I really enjoyed seeing you both to-ing and fro-ing - that was classic! Thanks to both of you for a great bit of fun today! 😁
ahhh but Glasgow central IS a romantic station. Did you meet under the clock or at the bomb? 😀
@@eliandkate If you know where the Starbucks is now, it wasn't there then and that's where we first met. It was the first time I saw him in person and I knew when I laid eyes on him there, I was head over heels. Been the same way now for 15 years. 💗😊
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I empathise with wanting more features and more space, but you are right, you do have a lovely garden. You won’t get that character anywhere else. I think the paint is genius.
😂😂😂😂. I’m looking forward to seeing what colour we end up with next
That was a fun video with some interesting thoughts, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
Love the Kate crew top 👌🏽😂. This vid was really well put together. Thanks for taking the time to make such a long video, was really funny & enjoyable. Also sounds like Kate is ready with her bat for an invasion, I'll join you when it happens! 😜🤣🤗
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As long as you remember… don’t drink and zombie!!
Love this! Neat to hear your stories and learn more about you both 💚
Awwww thank you that’s awesome
We always think you guys aren’t interested in our boringness
@@eliandkate you're "boringness" is spot on! 😘💚
@@eliandkate Other peoples 'boringness' is never boring. As a species we are individually born quite nosey.
Ha ha ha that’s very true
Lovely video Takes your mind off the world's troubles..Nice to get to know you a bit more. What a smashing pair you are!!
Glad you enjoyed
Ha ha ha you guys are fab together.. love it 🤣🤣
I love Hellebores too and fresh basil! Great video ladies - thank you x x
Not long before we’ll have basil growing again
I think you are a lovely couple. To answer personal questions too. I can understand why you are a bit anti social, I am too and enjoy my own company. Good luck to you both. X x
Someone commented earlier… not anti social just prefer the company of close friends 😂😂😂😂
Oh I'm just plain boring and anti social😂😂
This made me so happy. Thank you for sharing this part of your lives with us. I needed this today :)
Awwwww glad it gave you some smiles and made your day better 😍😍😍😍
You two are such a great couple. My heart melted when you said you'd been together 14 years. Bless y'all's hearts ❤️ I can't imagine someone putting up with me for that long! 🤣
Ha ha ha she deserves a medal for putting up with me 😍😍😍
That was really funny. Thanks for this little pleasure to watch you answering this way. 😊
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Really enjoyed the video, you both work well together and hope you make more vids of the two of you! I'm with Kate on the Hellebores, got a thing for them and bought 5 last week. That soup and pizza looked amazing! Take care guys!
Yum yum yum
I feel like this during the Winter, mainly because all my hard work is undone every year by the garden being underwater... frustrating... Luckily like most Gardeners I have other hobbies so focus on something else... this week the fence blew down so waited for a sunny day and fixed it..... and started back clearing the garden ... roll on Spring!! At least you have Kate to help you! You are properly well matched! Totally agree with the lawn...... I was brought up with a back yard and yearned for a lawn....
Sounds like you’re getting things sorted 😀 not long till spring
Oh I love this! I just started a garden this year! Im not the only one! You both are adorbs!
Oh you won’t be Marie
Loads of folk will have started their gardens this year.
We’ve had ours ten years but it was my first ever garden so I still feel like a newbie
Loved this, the two of you are quickly becoming one of my most favorite channels, I learn a great deal, although we are in very different climates and environments. But mostly I just love the joy, that you purposefully bring to your garden.
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@@eliandkate in my defense I only found you about a month ago and have been binge-ing since 🤣🤣🤷❤
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Love this video! Really fun and informative and very cute! 🙏🙂
😁 it was a fun one to make
We the audience really appreciate your videos, and thank you both for the work you put in bring them to us. It really helps me when I hear you getting on with your garden. I started watching because I was so tired of seeing videos from like, Florida where they can grow all sorts I never could in my garden in Ireland. I love seeing you deal with more similar weather conditions to what I'm used to! And it makes me happy to see you both loving your garden space and it reunites my enthusiasm for MY garden. Happy soon to be 7th anniversary btw!
Glad we’ve helped with your enthusiasm 😀😀😀😀😀😀
Also, I LIKE your lawns. Many of us living in ordinary bog standard homes have to have some lawn for reasons like, that's where the kid's swings are or whatever. Lots of people have to have a varied garden with the more mundane type of garden mixed in!
A garden for everyone 😀
Hehe also I have a "burny fire" thing too. When it rains THIS much, putting weedkiller on things just washes off and by using the blow torch that's less poisons in the garden full stop. I think it's a GOOD call! My husband gets a manically happy look on his face when using it though which can be a little disturbing...
The different scenes was a clever addition. Thanks for answering my question. I knew you'd say a bigger greenhouse 😂😂 lovely to see Kate really active in the videos.🥰
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@@eliandkate haha! I think you 100% need another. You could just buy the same one and add it onto yours. ♡
Great video, Thanks to you both for being awesome! :D
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That was so fun! That must have taken a lot of work to put together so thanks for that and it was great to see more of Kate!
It was a complicated one but so worth it 😀😀😀
I have a brook, pond, country setting home with all the grass/trees, but would love to live at the beach. Thank you for sharing your stories! 😄
We live near the beach yet never go 😀
This was great fun! Nice to 'get to know you' with a Q&A. You are both so relaxed in front of the camera 😊👍
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I'm very new to your TH-cam ..... Watching you lovely ladies puts me in mind of me and my late hubby ... the raport and banter ..... He was the veggie gardener and I would tend the kettle and make buttys , sadly those days are gone and at the moment I don't even have a window box ,but who knows things might change ........Thank you both for sharing your garden with us all ....... and making me laugh .... Health and happiness to you both xx
Awww I’m so glad you enjoyed our daft wee video, and who knows what the future holds… a window box of two or maybe even a wee patch somewhere to grow some flowers 😍
Fab and fun, really enjoyed this video. thanks for all what you do for us. I also grow food in my back garden but I totally get that you need a garden to be multi functional. I have different spaces that have their different uses, a patio for sitting, having breakfast or entertaining. A shady corner that's nice to sit in to read a book on really hot days. Ornamental plant and bird feeding area with a bird bath that is purely for striking plants, and flowers to enjoy the local nature, a lawn, shed and greenhouse which is my happy place all year round. This year I'm planning for a BBQ / Cooking bar area. My garden is my therapy. Apart from when the weather is bad I'm always in the garden.
That sounds like an amazing garden 😻😻😻
Lovely getting to know you both! You should both make more videos like this. Can tell you been together a long time because your both comfortable around each other which is a good thing. Me and my partner been together over 17 years so can relate. The last question was the best haha and the pizza looked yummy!
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Loved watching you both together! Thank you so very much for sharing!!
Hey Eli & Kate! I loved today’s video! It was a great change of pace. ❤️
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Great video. It’s fun getting to know you both more!!
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Glad you enjoyed it
@@eliandkate if I ever make it to Scotland I want some of your homemade pizza!!
Great video. Loved the interaction between you two. You obviously share a good sense of humour. A couple of bits to mention from it,
- I got my patio fruit trees from Marshalls Garden and they've been great so far in big tubs.
- I'd love an episode where you talk about your flower beds and how you plan them out for both flower types, heights and such-like, along with the way you use them to attract pollinators.
- I bet there's a solar-powered water feature you could sit in the middle of the lawn if you really wanted.
Can't wait to see how life blooms in the garden and how it compares to my efforts. As always, I'm winging it except when it comes to my peppers and tomatoes. About to order a veg trug for some produce outside of the greenhouse.
Oh, and this year I'm growing San Marzano tomatoes for my pizza sauce. I wasn't impressed with the flavour of the Roma I grew last year. I'm a massive fan of cherry tomatoes though too.
Hi we both found this video very interesting and informative, I liked it when you said there know right or wrong way to grow for us it's the joy we get out of the Allotment as we don't have any outdoor space as have a flat , so our Allotment is our play space and watching you two we got the same feeling that your happy pottering around your garden together bless you both. Keep safe Bill and val
Awww that’s awesome guys, glad the joy of a wee afternoon pottering came across
We are very much of the mind that you do what suits you and not what you are told (by various means). Gotta enjoy 😉
Blimey, talk about parallel lives! My fiance and I also met online 14 years ago end of this year, moved in together 7 years ago (ok, slight difference but commitment all the same). And we get married in Autumn this year. Oh and I also grew up in a flat without a garden, in Edinburgh although now in Wales.
Brilliant video as always. Thanks both x
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Thanks Ladies , very enjoyable x
Glad you enjoyed it Jim 😀
This made me laugh so much, especially Kate being mould great video.
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Lovely to get to know you both better. Needed a fun video with the state of the world at the moment. Thanks for answering my question, I also met my partner online. For our first date he picked me up on his motorbike! We have hazel hurdle fencing which doesn’t need painting, yay! But does need replacing about every 6 years… Looking forward to my first year in my new greenhouse, wish me luck!
Can’t wait to see how you get on. I love seeing updates from you guys. You can always add the hashtag so we see them 😀. #thekitchengardenwitheliandkate
Really enjoyed you video, you both come across as a happy couple with a nice life. Keep up the good work. X
We thank you Pauline
Good video. I only garden spring to early fall. By late August, I'm done. Then by January I'm excited again to start all over 🌱
Not long till spring 😀😀😀
I have my first round of seeds started 😁
Yay 😀
Love your videos. Understand tired too. Getting older and bodies not as strength as used to be. Showing reality is refreshing
Ahhhh, I thoroughly enjoyed learning more about you both, thank you so much for this wonderful video. You two are so made for each other and clearly make one another very happy 💖
That pizza looks amazing, by the way, wish I lived around the corner, cos I'd have been there like a shot to help you both polish it off 😋 Thanks again 😉
awww thank you Alison
Pizza is a Friday night staple in this house :D
Absolutely love this vlog could listen to you Ladies all day, if Kate's Batman dies that make Eli Robbin 😁 have a fab week laddies 🥰
Ha ha ha I’m Wonder Woman!!!
Love this little chat. I relate to you both Absolutely in different ways! I'm about instant gratification, too. So, since I garden alone, I have to toggle back and forth between tasks. I also used my paint sprayer when did my cedar fence. But I have a sealant & colored stain product. It's thinner.. it's not thick like paint. I did it all in a few hours. Plan to redo it this fall. Still have some left! Love to you both!
😀😀😀😀 oh well done, that’s a massive job to do on your own,
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Love you two! Kate needs to star in more videos, love hearing her speak and Head Honcho should be seen.
Highlands if you want a big garden, mine is Victorian with trees, shrubs and apple, plum and cherry. Weather can be a tad dreich though.
Next time I'm in Edinburgh I need an invite for pizza and gin, slainté 🍕🍸
She is indeed the head honcho 😀
She will appear occasionally
Love it love it love it!! 😀
Glad you enjoyed it 😀😀😀
Thanks for the share Eli! Loved watching this and getting to know you both! Again love the editing on this and both of your energy.
Oh yes i remember when we decided to plant broccoli and cauliflower many years ago, when we set up our first bed and it was like, oh boy, this sure does take up a lot of space for one single plant, you are fighting with the bugs and birds for this tiny little head! lol
We still do sprouts though. I agree with having space not just for growing food and flowers, etc. It's nice to have an outdoor living room in the better weather days.
Never mind the US, you should come down south in the summer! Plenty warm down here in London. Met office said we were going to have a colder winter than normal but it has been very mild again and wet. Our "snow" these days, if we are lucky is an "icing sugar" dusting not like the 2-3ft of snow we used to get as kids, where 25c was a heatwave! (And this was when i used to live further into London than we do now.)
I would love a greenhouse in our garden but i think the high humidity where we are would cause problems.
Anyway, all the best and take care.
:D glad you had one with this one
Now we're actually going to be growing something this year as a test, sprouting broccoli but smaller :D - keep an eye out for that one very soon!!!!!!
You know, we have crazy humidity here, much much higher than London (in the 90%s most of the year) and it's not an issue for a greenhouse so don't let it put you off :D
:D I used to live in London, many moons ago - I was an East End girl for many years. I used to love it for the weather - spent almost all year in short sleeves... people thought I was barking :D
Grass has feelings too and is very important for the ecosystem, so many little critters live or hide in the grass. You can even let dandelions grow in your lawn and harvest those for soups, salads and more ❤😊
Em…. No
No dandelions, daisies etc for us
We like neat, we’ll kept gardens and lawns 😂
Try using a gloss roller painting the fence, makes it so much easier xxxx
Someone else mentioned this…. Defo worth a try
😄Enjoyed that!
This made me smile a lot!
The key point being grow what brings you joy (be it food, lawn, flowers or a combination!). It reminds me of one time I was chatting with my neighbour and going on about all my vegetables, she seemed to feel pressured to grow more veg but plainly stated she gets more joy in flowers. So I took the opportunity to say she should plant what brings her the most pleasure because I didn’t want my enthusiasm to be the cause of additional stress for someone else!
I totally get the whole neighbours are good but maybe more space in between. Generally we get on with our neighbours but I do dream of having a bit more space in between. Although it’s nice right now cause my hubby works away a lot. We have a long skinny property and at the moment it can be a bit more peaceful in the backyard. 🥂
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I have a thing I say a lot… don’t copy me, you do you 😀😀😀
I bought a meyer lemon.. small bush growing, likes cactus mix or a clay pot, has to have good drainage. I will grow indoors under a light.
Oh I used to have a lemon tree many years ago 😀
You're a lovely and fun couple. 😊
Awww thanks
I agree with many of things you have both said in this video.
Mowing the grass is very therapeutic and brings me joy as well. Same with trimming the junipers and tending to my garden and trees. My kids will never have to mow the grass because I won't even let them! lol
I tried to to grow Brussel sprouts this year and they took up an entire raised bed and the return wasn't worth the space given up.
I also just bought a 10x20x8' greenhouse that I am excited about getting set up this spring. I wish I could have gotten a bigger one, but there just wasn't enough space. It will really extend the growing season being in a 4b zone and I look forward to having an extra month or so for my tomatoes.
I just found your channel this winter and thoroughly enjoy your videos. Thank you both!
Glad you found us and very happy to have join our community 👍👍👍
About the fruits, I have three columnar apple trees and recommend them warmly. The apples are tasty and the trees only take up a square foot or so. I have Bolero, President and Redcats. I believe columnar pears and plums are wider, but these apple trees really are as skinny as they look.
Oh good to know 😀😀😀😀
Such fun to see your humorous interactions. Glad I found you through Gardener Scott. What in the world do you do with French Tarragon?
oh sooo much 😀
It's awesome in chicken dishes, fish, brilliant in creamy sauces for pasta or even on steak 😀
it's got a much more subtle flavour than the Russian stuff
@@eliandkate thank you
You two are brilliant I v got to say on the subject of trees I put an apple tree plum and pear in my garden last September so looking forward to see what happens this year with them I think pruning is the key to growing trees witch i v no idea how to prune them to keep them in check and keep them to a manageable size I agree on the cabbage and cauliflower long time takes up to much space I think I ll put Chinese cabbage in they smaller and come to a point and I ll give sprouting broccoli a go I v still got cauliflowers in from last august but the snail s have had a field day with them so this year it’s time to look at what I am going to be more successful with
We are very tempted to go with some little patio trees….
On my lunch break and catching up on this video - makes me want to be at home in the garden!! Another fab video!
I want to be at home in the garden too 😪
Love that you chose New England! Love my seasons and you're right, we get the best of all seasons, and luckily they only last about 3 months each then time marches on to the next. Greetings from Stamford, CT!
It is gorgeous 😻😻😻😻
And I’d get to wear my woolly jumpers and scarfs and hats more
@@eliandkate indeed! (We call them sweaters, though) and shoveling isn’t fun but oh the spring! If you two ever want to visit, let me know!
I totally loved this video!
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Love this! And great to hear Kate's answers as well - greetings from one 'Oook' to another! :) As far as soft fruit trees go, it is tricky. I've donated the sunniest spot in the greenhouse to a small lemon tree, and am amazed and delighted that it's actually producing fruit in the unheated greenhouse. I got a bit carried away last week and ordered a mandarin as well. As for water features, you could have a very small one, in a bowl, with a solar pump, maybe? It would still give that moving water effect.... The pizza and soup looks amazing. And a huge yes to the garden being a space that is beautiful and productive but also doesn't have to be perfect, and as long as it's making you happy and helping your mental health, that's the most important thing (same for sharing on social media - it has to be on your terms, not anyone else's). Thank you for sharing all of this, I really enjoyed it!
Ook to you too! We did try a lemon tree once, but it didn't do too well, the one lemon it produced was all rind and no fruit - not even good enough for putting in a G&T, lol. K.
@@eliandkate Oh no! I've got three promising looking lemons on the tree but have not yet dared to pick them!
Loved this video, you're both so lovely and funny 💖
Glad you enjoyed it Sengas1! It's a rare treat to get Kate in front of a camera 😂
I'm so glad that I learned of you guys through Gardener Scott. Ya''ll are so cute together. I'm 25% Scottish and my dream was to travel there, but health issues are preventing that now. I will continue to watch your videos. Cherish each other and God Bless.
awwww glad to have you with us Debby
Greatly amusing video. Thanks!
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Thanks for sharing...it was fun!
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Raab leaves are delicious. Stems, too, if peeled. Whole plant edible!
Last year I tried Chinese broccoli (white flowered kailaan), same idea - small plants, quick growing.
Highly recommend! Sweet, broccoli flavor whereas raab is more turnip flavored.
Oh nice suggestion 😂😂😂😂
Will look into broccolini and weed burner for the knee saving. I've used apple cider vinegar on weeds to good effect. Have to keep at it tho.
Great video. My garden is only 30 x 10 feet so no chance of surviving an apocalypse but I’ll keep trying 😆
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Yay 😀 so glad
Eli, we're not short, we're concentrated 😘
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Hi.Was nice to see Kate What a lovely couple you are. We like pizza in this house to. Shane you can’t already swap the greenhouse and the shed over but I imaging that would be a very big job and a lot of hassle. I also only grow in my garden and have grown brassica but not worth waiting all that time for just a meals worth. But I do grow sprouts always worth it for Christmas Day. This was a great video thank you for sharing.
Yeah moving things would be a bit of a pain. It’s nice yo have a wee dream though 😀
What a brilliant video👍
I can 💯 relate to this. Things are crazy at work at the moment, especially with the tensions in the former Eastern Bloc and I can seldom get a moment to myself. However, the allotment is my happy place 😋
I can go there and shut out the world for a few hours, pottering about doing various jobs. I get frustrated sometime that I can’t get certain jobs done as I don’t get as much time as I would like but whilst I’m there everything is right with the world 🌎
Hurrah for our outdoor spaces. We are sooo lucky to have them😀😀
Aww you guys, loved the vid. And Kate should definitely feature in videos more in future.
She may pop up from time to time😀 she’s not a fan of being on video 😍😍😍
Great video guys, growing pizza 😂, you can grow the sauce you need to grow olives, for olive oil, oregano but you need to dry it out, and san marzanos tomato’s but needs to be ripe and grown with a lot of sun 😂, anyways great video
Not sure if I've mentioned this before on your video comments, but my ,then, partner a few years ago used a burny thing to kill a dandelion under a conifer tree. 10 mns later, we had a burned out stalk where the tree had been, a part melted hosepipe and a shamefaced partner. Luckily because the conifer had to be removed, I had space for other, nicer things..like the base for my greenhouse. Happy days. Oh...and we're married now so he was only in the doghouse for a wee while 😀😂😉
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Blueberries ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. On cereal, in salads, in pies, in mouth…. Well, I guess not everyone could like everything or the world would be a dull old place. Carry on!
It was more the red currant and black currants we were meaning 😀😀😀
A newbe here, just subscribed after watching a few videos with great interest and amusement, a good mix.
I have copied your watering Seedlings using capillary mats and upside down seed trays and thank you for that, has been a godsend.
Question:
I think I see a waterbut on the side near the back of your greenhouse and I'm wondering " do you have it connected somehow to supply water to your greenhouse" I have one but not in situ at mo as still figuring it all out so I'm still running up the garden to outside tap, I probably complete 10, 000 steps extra over a week doing this so looking for ideas. Tia Ann in Staffordshire
No it’s not soused for in the greenhouse, that’s just for watering outdoors
Wine wine and Zinfandel 😂😂. But really I don’t know how you do it all work, home, garden and us lot. It must be hard to balance but I think you manage very well with the support of each other 🥰. It is one of the reasons I don’t TH-cam myself I’m crap at thinking of what to video because I flitter in the garden doing this then get distracted and do that 😂😂. Thank you for sharing your time your garden and I for one appreciate your videos. 🇨🇦🐝 safe 🙏🇺🇦❤️🩹
I’m sure you’d be awesome 😀. But yeah it’s one to think about before jumping in. There’s an awful lot to it 😀
Great video, what package do you use to edit your videos. I am struggling with mine at the moment 🤦🏻♀️🤔🤷🏻♀️
I use premiere pro for the editing, rode mics for recording and usually a canon 90d for filming
@@eliandkate thanks for that much appreciated 👍😊
Yes, Eli! Come be my New England neighbor!! lol
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Great video
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
How about hellebores in the hanging baskets? And an archway of minarette columnar fruit trees?
Hmmmm. We’re getting a lot of mentions of the columnar trees or patio trees I think I called them but as we mentioned the problem is that we don’t actually have anywhere to grow them. Fruit trees need sun and all our spaces which actually get sun are in use. We have a huge patio but unfortunately it’s in shade for the majority of the time 😢😢😢
Mmm, that does make it more tricky. They say pears and plums don't mind partial shade. I have two columnar pears in pots in partial shade - but no fruit yet, so can't recommend it, though my columnar apple tree also in partial shade had its first fruit last year. Unfortunately our daily visitors, a muntjak deer and its fawn, didn't give us the chance to see how sweet it got.
I love the vast difference between myself and Kate growing up in a gardening family. My folks had what they called an arboretum (🙄) THAT THEY WOULDNT LET ME TOUCH. Instead I got to mow the lawn in the front yard once a week. Looking back, I should be offended, no?
Edit: Kate, I grow food in hanging baskets. Don’t let her bully you! 😂 Peas and cucamelons work great in baskets, just saying.
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Hello, I have a question, If my soil in my blueberry pots is 5 PH and I only water with rainwater which is also 5 PH, will the soil remain 5 PH over the years?
Hey Adrian
There will eventually be a shift as there’s never perfectly neutral water and other factors will be at play, but it will be a very long time 😍
@@eliandkate Thanks for the reply
Could you grow espalier fruit trees against the fence ?
Who knows…. We’re having a think 🤔
@@eliandkate I have seen some really small ones like on Jonny’s Kitchen Garden
Love the vids but have a question. I am up North in Newcastle and am looking to grow leeks with only access to an unheated small greenhouse/cold frame.
When can I plant the seeds in your opinion and should I start on a windowsill or in tthe coldframe ?
I don’t grow leeks myself but it seems that most uk folks sow them direct around the beginning of April
You guys must live near me (I'm in Musselburgh), so quick question for you, what are your go-to garden centres in the area? Any local champions I should be checking out?
We are massive fans of pentland plants
If we’re desperate occasionally we’ll go to Dobbies but would always chose Pentland Plants first
Our hanging baskets look pants so it’s a trip to the garden centre
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@@eliandkate Nice, I've never been to Pentland Plants, I'll need to take a visit. If it's not Dobbies, we like going to The Redhouse, or sometimes Merryhatton (they have the best paninis ;P)
You’ll be impressed at pentland… blows them out the water (supplies merryhatton)
looking well mate need to get you on the field lol xx take care speak soon xxxx im here if you need me
Ok I’m gonna risk asking…. On the field?
I only know that as a footie term?