26:05 A rule I learned a long time ago: The roots extend outward as far as the plant’s above ground branches. A potted plant constrains the roots. Put into the ground, the plant’s first priority is to push its roots outward in all directions. If the soil six inches from the plant’s center is packed like concrete, the roots first expand quickly into the loose soil added when planting. But when they hit the wall of packed concrete soil, growth stalls. It’s more work, believe me I know, but digging planting holes both deeper and wider than the size the plant pot requires and gardening books say is worth it in the long run. The glaciers eons ago did an excellent job of packing the soil of my property. Putting in any new plant is a multi-day project. Map out and clear new area. Dig up hummus rich soil; I don’t buy compost-nature has given me plenty. Dig sandy soil and some clay soil out of the planting area and high spots elsewhere on the property. Mix the soils. Continue to dig deeper and outward in the hole. Save the unused sandy soil for dikes around the finished planting. Plant only when hole is deep and wide enough. Yank root ball apart-delicately. Mound the bottom of the hole. Position plant an inch deeper than top of the pot’s soil. Place roots-place, don’t plop-spreading them out. Water. Add more soil. Water. Add soil to top. Shape dike of sandy, clayish soil in a circle around the plant. Water up to top of dike. Wait. Water the same way again. Pray, planting done. I only lose a plant if 1) I didn’t plant deep enough, 2) the hot house plant can’t make it in my planting zone despite what the folks at the nursery said and the number on the plant’s tag reads. Many new gardeners blame themselves for new plants found dead, but it just may be a greenhouse plant, coddled and cuddled there, just can’t make it in the real world.
@@AndyMac yeah I get what your saying I’d always tease out roots of plants where the roots are circling round the pot or you just get them doing the same once planted and trust me I’ve dug out plants that have done exactly that in clients gardens all because they just dug a whole and plonked them in. I can see the other side of tha argument where people think your damaging the roots etc but that’s not if your going at them at full force 👍🏻
Don't worry about that willowherb! I 'kept' a lovely looking purple flower climber into a pot for two weeks before I found out it was a nightshade! Would have acted just like bindweed, with the bonus of being dangerous lol!
When you plant anything, water it in. Rosemary is easy from cuttings. If you feed and support your peonies, they will get better year on year . As always, great content.
"And this twig is still alive.." classic😂. Did you know that lavenders do really well in patio tubs? I've just cleared a garden over a couple of years, and without any watering at all, there is a big lavender in a big tub that has thrived over the last 3 or 4 dry summers!
One house we built had a bed beside the house wall that was warm and sheltered from the climate issues and I planted new for several years. Despite doing all the right stuff nothing survived. The third year I decided the soil and drainage had to be at fault and started digging it up to add more compost etc. Not very deep down I found it was all rubble made up of plasterboard, broken bricks, plastic pipe pieces, all sorts of building debris. The builder had used the area as a dump then tossed some soil over it to make it look nice. Cost me a lot replacing those plants and the dirt too. I was so mad. Happy ending, my third planting survived but, live and learn. Dig deeper! 🤷😉
Couple of tips: 1. When you take any plant out of a pot then tease out the roots, don't worry if some of them break, it will stimulate new root growth. 2. In all honesty, watch Gardener's World. You will learn so much from Monty Don and the team. Rosemary hates wet claggy soil and loves drainage and full sun. My garden is the same orientation as yours, I would never put Lavender or Rosemary down that side, it would never survive the winter.
Cheers! I'm a huge fan of Monty - have most of his books. I think I've just got complacent over the years with rosemary & lavender. Grown it for years and never had any issues. Now I know it's not indestructible. 😂👍
Thanks for the update Andy, sketchy tree lopping has been exactly what I've been doing the last few weeks, I was going to say a polesaw would be a useful addition also worth getting a telescopic pruner - Wolfgarten do an excellent one with a tilting cutter but you are talking around £100 but well worth it (don't be tempted to save a few quid with the non-tilting version) ! To keep cats and birds off your seeded soil you could of course put down some mesh/net, but actually at this time of year when the soil is nice and damp and it's still pretty cold you can even pin down some clear polythene which also gives some heat ! Looks like that path between the raised beds is just waiting for your shredded prunings ! Yep, I was saying to the TV - Andy, that looks like willow herb to me, I too have spent a lot of time cultivating weeds over the years ! Would be worth also getting some horticultural grit to improve drainage but if you're a tight@rse like me you can put cheap as chips regular 10mm shingle through a 5mm riddle ( sieve ), about 20% is smaller stuff, which is also ideal, and you can use the remaining 80% for planting shrubs or topping up your paths !
Great tips - cheers! At the moment I don't even have a watering can never mind a sieve 😂. Well, I do have a watering can but it has a giant hole in it and it's held together with gaffer tape. Now that my bench is done I can treat myself to some new garden toys. 👍😁
Good time to start weeding. Certain weeds go to seed in early Spring so it pays to get ahead of them now and save yourself a ton of work in the heat of summer.
Dry shade under trees: pulmonaria, vinca major or minor, primroses, hardy geraniums, helebores, ferns. Lots do well flowering in spring before the canopy is in leaf and yes break up the top soil and add gravel to the whole bed. Most of my garden borders are tree shaded and are beautiful in winter, spring and autumn.
I highly recommend a Bahco Laplander folding pruning saw. They perfect for this type of work and despite the relatively small size they will still go through large diameter wood with ease when needed. Also if you don't want to get a telescopic pole saw you can firmly tape the Bahco saw to a long length of wood and you now have a high reach pruning saw. It is far safer than pruning off a ladder. Trust me spend the ~£20-£25 on the Bahco Lapander and it will soon become one of your must need tools.
A tip for ladder climbing: I have a 2 metre paracord clove-hitched to the top rung that I can quickly loop around a branch/trunk and tie off. It aids stability and can prevent sudden movement. I get nervous at 6 metres so this helps :) Having noted your chainsaw skills I need help with 30, 15 metre conifers if you're at a loose end. Haha!
Hi Andy, It is nice to get a head start in the garden, I know it's still chilly some times got to do these jobs when you can. as always a great and relaxing video to watch, Take care
Yes, although I’m not a gardener, I thoroughly enjoyed that. Your cat’s ‘present’ - I reached into the tumble dryer once, thinking I’d left a sock in there and, guess what I found? Keep up the good work, Andy and let’s be nice to each other 🌞
If the pigeons get your grass seed, next time put some damp compost and seed in a plastic bag, seal it & let it germinate inside. When green shoots are showing sprinkle it onto the lawn where you want it to grow. The green shoots you have put into pots are weeds.
Astilbe is sleeping. That shady bed would benefit a lot from a whole bulk bag or two of compost as mulch. The compost would feed the soil and the worms would drag it through the clay. Not the cheapest thing in the world, but it would really get it going.
Great stuff - cheers! Defo going to add more compost. Got a pile brewing at the moment but I'll not use that until the end of the year... so it's bags for now. Never enough compost! 😂
First comment 😂 Those small ash will keep leaning towards the greenhouse if the bigger ash is shading them out. You might want to chop all the ivy stems around the big tree too. It'll look much nicer and let more light through.
I’ve been tossing grass seed at my lawn all winter as bits have been looking less green 🤷♀️ also so many of my bulb plants will not produce flowers because they’ve been sending greenery out since November
Sometimes, but here there's already loads of hardcore down and I didn't have any to hand. I generally find weeds just grow on top of the weedmat over time. 👍
He's a lumberjack and he's OK He sleeps all night and works all day He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps. He puts on women's clothing And hangs around in bars
i got very hot i took off my jumper i got very nice t shirt i'm wearing jeans brown belt shoes grey t shirt all my life i just love doing digging with no t shirt see my hairy belly button and my nipples and my armpits and i just love moving my bum it's very soft now and i just love patting my tummy it's very soft now all my life i just love walking in the garden with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the sunshine with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i stared laughing it's so funny man i can't stop laughing all my life i just love walking in the woods with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the park with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the path with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the woods with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the grass with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the woods with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the park with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the path with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the woods with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the path with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking pass the train station and bus station with no t shirt with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking pass the pub with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love standing by the wall with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans and i just love standing my washing machine with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love standing by the train station with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love playing football score a goal take off my t shirt see my hairy belly button and my nipples and my armpits and my lovely bottom it's very soft now and i just love moving my bum it's very soft now and i just patting my tummy it's very soft now all my life i just love walking with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the countryside with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the woods with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans
26:05 A rule I learned a long time ago: The roots extend outward as far as the plant’s above ground branches. A potted plant constrains the roots. Put into the ground, the plant’s first priority is to push its roots outward in all directions. If the soil six inches from the plant’s center is packed like concrete, the roots first expand quickly into the loose soil added when planting. But when they hit the wall of packed concrete soil, growth stalls. It’s more work, believe me I know, but digging planting holes both deeper and wider than the size the plant pot requires and gardening books say is worth it in the long run. The glaciers eons ago did an excellent job of packing the soil of my property. Putting in any new plant is a multi-day project. Map out and clear new area. Dig up hummus rich soil; I don’t buy compost-nature has given me plenty. Dig sandy soil and some clay soil out of the planting area and high spots elsewhere on the property. Mix the soils. Continue to dig deeper and outward in the hole. Save the unused sandy soil for dikes around the finished planting. Plant only when hole is deep and wide enough. Yank root ball apart-delicately. Mound the bottom of the hole. Position plant an inch deeper than top of the pot’s soil. Place roots-place, don’t plop-spreading them out. Water. Add more soil. Water. Add soil to top. Shape dike of sandy, clayish soil in a circle around the plant. Water up to top of dike. Wait. Water the same way again. Pray, planting done. I only lose a plant if 1) I didn’t plant deep enough, 2) the hot house plant can’t make it in my planting zone despite what the folks at the nursery said and the number on the plant’s tag reads. Many new gardeners blame themselves for new plants found dead, but it just may be a greenhouse plant, coddled and cuddled there, just can’t make it in the real world.
Always tease out the roots on newly planted shrubs and perennials as it helps the roots get out and Into the soil 👍🏻
I've heard two schools of thought on that! Some gardeners say it causes more harm than good. I sometimes do it if I can be bothered. 👍😁
@@AndyMac yeah I get what your saying I’d always tease out roots of plants where the roots are circling round the pot or you just get them doing the same once planted and trust me I’ve dug out plants that have done exactly that in clients gardens all because they just dug a whole and plonked them in. I can see the other side of tha argument where people think your damaging the roots etc but that’s not if your going at them at full force 👍🏻
Got to enjoy doing the ‘sketchy’ jobs 😂 3:20
Too right! 😂
Don't worry about that willowherb! I 'kept' a lovely looking purple flower climber into a pot for two weeks before I found out it was a nightshade! Would have acted just like bindweed, with the bonus of being dangerous lol!
When you plant anything, water it in. Rosemary is easy from cuttings. If you feed and support your peonies, they will get better year on year . As always, great content.
Yeah, all watered in. I like the peonies - just wish the flowers would last longer! 😂
I don't know what it is but, It's always relaxing to watch somebody else working!😂 Thanks for the video.
Thank you! Love the garden. 😍
"And this twig is still alive.." classic😂. Did you know that lavenders do really well in patio tubs? I've just cleared a garden over a couple of years, and without any watering at all, there is a big lavender in a big tub that has thrived over the last 3 or 4 dry summers!
Yeah - got loads in tubs! Love lavender. 😍
One house we built had a bed beside the house wall that was warm and sheltered from the climate issues and I planted new for several years. Despite doing all the right stuff nothing survived. The third year I decided the soil and drainage had to be at fault and started digging it up to add more compost etc. Not very deep down I found it was all rubble made up of plasterboard, broken bricks, plastic pipe pieces, all sorts of building debris. The builder had used the area as a dump then tossed some soil over it to make it look nice. Cost me a lot replacing those plants and the dirt too. I was so mad. Happy ending, my third planting survived but, live and learn. Dig deeper! 🤷😉
Oh no! It's amazing what you find. I've found buried paving slabs, huge sheets of chipboard and all sorts! 😂
Couple of tips: 1. When you take any plant out of a pot then tease out the roots, don't worry if some of them break, it will stimulate new root growth.
2. In all honesty, watch Gardener's World. You will learn so much from Monty Don and the team.
Rosemary hates wet claggy soil and loves drainage and full sun. My garden is the same orientation as yours, I would never put Lavender or Rosemary down that side, it would never survive the winter.
Cheers! I'm a huge fan of Monty - have most of his books. I think I've just got complacent over the years with rosemary & lavender. Grown it for years and never had any issues. Now I know it's not indestructible. 😂👍
What a lovely garden :)
Thanks for the update Andy, sketchy tree lopping has been exactly what I've been doing the last few weeks, I was going to say a polesaw would be a useful addition also worth getting a telescopic pruner - Wolfgarten do an excellent one with a tilting cutter but you are talking around £100 but well worth it (don't be tempted to save a few quid with the non-tilting version) !
To keep cats and birds off your seeded soil you could of course put down some mesh/net, but actually at this time of year when the soil is nice and damp and it's still pretty cold you can even pin down some clear polythene which also gives some heat !
Looks like that path between the raised beds is just waiting for your shredded prunings !
Yep, I was saying to the TV - Andy, that looks like willow herb to me, I too have spent a lot of time cultivating weeds over the years !
Would be worth also getting some horticultural grit to improve drainage but if you're a tight@rse like me you can put cheap as chips regular 10mm shingle through a 5mm riddle ( sieve ), about 20% is smaller stuff, which is also ideal, and you can use the remaining 80% for planting shrubs or topping up your paths !
Great tips - cheers! At the moment I don't even have a watering can never mind a sieve 😂. Well, I do have a watering can but it has a giant hole in it and it's held together with gaffer tape. Now that my bench is done I can treat myself to some new garden toys. 👍😁
Good time to start weeding. Certain weeds go to seed in early Spring so it pays to get ahead of them now and save yourself a ton of work in the heat of summer.
Defo on the list!
Dry shade under trees: pulmonaria, vinca major or minor, primroses, hardy geraniums, helebores, ferns. Lots do well flowering in spring before the canopy is in leaf and yes break up the top soil and add gravel to the whole bed. Most of my garden borders are tree shaded and are beautiful in winter, spring and autumn.
Great tips!!
My sister and my husband have those saws-on-a-stick, and they both love them! Dead useful.
You'll see in the next vid but it worked amazingly well! Really impressed!
I highly recommend a Bahco Laplander folding pruning saw. They perfect for this type of work and despite the relatively small size they will still go through large diameter wood with ease when needed. Also if you don't want to get a telescopic pole saw you can firmly tape the Bahco saw to a long length of wood and you now have a high reach pruning saw. It is far safer than pruning off a ladder. Trust me spend the ~£20-£25 on the Bahco Lapander and it will soon become one of your must need tools.
Will check that out - cheers! Got the pole saw now and it worked amazingly well. Some of the branches were huge!
@@AndyMac Good to hear the pole saw has been helpful. Definitely get yourself the Bahco Laplander. Invaluable and pretty cheap.
A tip for ladder climbing: I have a 2 metre paracord clove-hitched to the top rung that I can quickly loop around a branch/trunk and tie off. It aids stability and can prevent sudden movement. I get nervous at 6 metres so this helps :) Having noted your chainsaw skills I need help with 30, 15 metre conifers if you're at a loose end. Haha!
Ha thank you! Good tip on the ladder loop. It doesn't look that high until you're up there! 😂😬
Hi Andy, It is nice to get a head start in the garden, I know it's still chilly some times got to do these jobs when you can. as always a great and relaxing video to watch, Take care
Cheers! I think things are about to get very busy in the garden. Not enough hours! 😂
Yes, although I’m not a gardener, I thoroughly enjoyed that. Your cat’s ‘present’ - I reached into the tumble dryer once, thinking I’d left a sock in there and, guess what I found? Keep up the good work, Andy and let’s be nice to each other 🌞
Oh no! Yes, the cats love leaving presents. If it's not that it dead mice. 😂😎
The reason your rosemary didn't survive is they don't like heavy clay soil nor shade they like sunshine and good draingae garden looks nice ❤
Yeah, gutted. Grown rosemary for many years and this is the first time it's died on me. Pushed it too hard! 😂
Hi Andy, i bought a small chainsaw on a pole and it is perfect for what you want to do, it is part of the "Parkside" tools and is battery operated.
I could really do with one. My arms will very sort after all the pruning by hand! (see next vid) 😂👍
Sat watching man chop trees, sat with beers, man happy ... 😁
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Starting to look good Andy!!!! Should i feel guilty watching you work whilst I drink tea????
No that's fine. I need the exercise! 😂
Hopefully you can remove that ivy from the tree. It is so rewarding to see things cleaned up in the spring and all the new growth.
I think if we chop it we'll just end up with a tree full of dead ivy. 😬😉
I have planted several Asda Rosemary plants, and none survived either 😂
I swear it was dodgy plants and not just my gardening skills. 😂
If you limbed up your lilac shrub, you could turn it into a small multi-trunk tree. Then, you could plant more things underneath.
It was cut back to a stump just 2 years ago! 👍😁
If the pigeons get your grass seed, next time put some damp compost and seed in a plastic bag, seal it & let it germinate inside. When green shoots are showing sprinkle it onto the lawn where you want it to grow. The green shoots you have put into pots are weeds.
you can also spread the seed on the ground then water and cover the patch with a clear plastic bag (mini greenhouse)
Good plan! Normally when it's slightly buried they just take the stuff on the surface. We shall see. 😅🤞
Make sure you water in new plants dude. Even if the soil is wet.
Defo! Did off camera. 👍
Astilbe is sleeping.
That shady bed would benefit a lot from a whole bulk bag or two of compost as mulch. The compost would feed the soil and the worms would drag it through the clay. Not the cheapest thing in the world, but it would really get it going.
Came to say the same thing 😊 Astilbe is right for the shadow, perhaps add heuchra and hostas? So many shapes and colors
Great stuff - cheers! Defo going to add more compost. Got a pile brewing at the moment but I'll not use that until the end of the year... so it's bags for now. Never enough compost! 😂
Yeah it's willowherb
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First comment 😂 Those small ash will keep leaning towards the greenhouse if the bigger ash is shading them out.
You might want to chop all the ivy stems around the big tree too. It'll look much nicer and let more light through.
Cheers! My only concern about chopping the ivy stems is that you then just end up with a tree covered in dead ivy. But you're probably right! 👍
I’ve been tossing grass seed at my lawn all winter as bits have been looking less green 🤷♀️ also so many of my bulb plants will not produce flowers because they’ve been sending greenery out since November
Oh no! Yeah, our daffodils have bloomed really early I think. Still frosty!
Just curious, don’t you guys use weedmat/landscape fabric under gravel?
Sometimes, but here there's already loads of hardcore down and I didn't have any to hand. I generally find weeds just grow on top of the weedmat over time. 👍
I would not ❤have put in gravel of that size. Pea size is the right one.
For the plants? It was that or nothing. 😂👍
He's a lumberjack and he's OK
He sleeps all night and works all day
He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps.
He puts on women's clothing
And hangs around in bars
There's always room for a monty python sketch!
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9:45 Rhododendrons are quite poisonous so hopefully most animals will have looked it up in their little encyclopaedias of edible plants and avoid it!
They seem to know more than me! 😂
i got very hot i took off my jumper i got very nice t shirt i'm wearing jeans brown belt shoes grey t shirt all my life i just love doing digging with no t shirt see my hairy belly button and my nipples and my armpits and i just love moving my bum it's very soft now and i just love patting my tummy it's very soft now all my life i just love walking in the garden with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the sunshine with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i stared laughing it's so funny man i can't stop laughing all my life i just love walking in the woods with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the park with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the path with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the woods with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the grass with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the woods with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the park with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the path with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the woods with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the path with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking on the bridge with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking pass the train station and bus station with no t shirt with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking pass the pub with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love standing by the wall with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans and i just love standing my washing machine with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love standing by the train station with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love playing football score a goal take off my t shirt see my hairy belly button and my nipples and my armpits and my lovely bottom it's very soft now and i just love moving my bum it's very soft now and i just patting my tummy it's very soft now all my life i just love walking with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the countryside with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans all my life i just love walking in the woods with no t shirt with my hands in my pockets in my jeans