My Christmas potatoes may be the same Steve, but the parsnips, carrots and sprouts should be lovely. Merry Christmas to you and your family. 🎅Happy gardening, Terry King.
I was a bit more miffed that the last 4 buckets of maincrops that were the same. Lesson learned Terry - tip 'em out earlier LOL Wishing you all the best for Christmas and the New Year mate 🎅
Now that's a Christmas sweater !! I guess the freeze thaw didn't do the spuds any favours. Nice sprouts, ours a buried under a foot and a half of snow, with a little freezing rain ontop lol !! Merry Christmas and Happy New Steve!! Cheers the Padawans ❄️🎅🇨🇦👍
Oh no! The sprouts should be well insulated from the cold now though (mine survived the minus 13 we had). I had a look at s summer cabbage as I was leaving the plot - they look like rotten sponges on sticks LOL Keep warm guys and here all the very best to you for Christmas and the year ahead 🎅
@@DigwellGreenfingers thanks for everything Steve, you potatoe/ aluminum Sulphate comment is one of the best we had all year!! Right behind the spatula 🤣🤣🤣
Hi Steve, Well no Christmas potatoes but plenty of sprouts well done, Take care my friend and all the VERY Best for Christmas and for 2023., from Susan and ME.
Well, if you're gonna do it - do it in style LOL I hear you're getting a bit nippy over there! Stay safe. Wishing you all the best for Christmas and the new year! 🎅
@Digwell Greenfingers dropping to 30°F tonight and tomorrow night, actually Saturday morning and Sunday morning. All the worms will be living in the house for a couple days 😱
@@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920 I was surprised that mine have survived our cold spell last week. I went to move the top layer of the tower to the compost bin, thinking the worms were dead - and there they were eating away!
The maincrop spuds were as bad. I put my hand in a bucket to just get a few for dinner yesterday - yucky! Like putting your hand into a jellyfish LOL Have a great one San 🎅
Thanks Mark👍 I wasn't expecting too much from those spuds - they never grow well for me the 2nd cropping ones 🙁 Have a great Christmas and Hogmanay buddy! 🎅
Merry Christmas..belated. I spent mine in sunny and warm Arizona. Now back in grey and cold Chicagoland but thankfully we’re in a warming trend at the moment.
@@DigwellGreenfingers Yes we did miss that subzero crazy weather. Biggest blessing was 3,600 miles of clear roads. Oklahoma had super high winds, but that’s doable with no snow and sunshine. There’s some rather desolate area’s between here and Arizona, you don’t have anything like it in the UK. The spinach and bunching onions survived in the cold frame.
Thanks, Bethan👍 Pretty pointless things, Christmas jumpers LOL Only wear them for a few days each year! I never do well with the late sown spuds but never had them freeze before!
I feel your pain on the Spuds Steve! Mine are the same! But you cant win them all! Im also cooking extra for Bubble! Its the food of the gods! Happy Christmas .Shaun.
Cheers Shaun! I might have been able to save a bucket or two but the greenhouse is full of other things. Oh well! I make a big bowl of B&S to take to our family get-together on Boxing Day - star of the show LOL 🎅🎅
That’s a nice sprout harvest! I would love to see your Bubble and Squeak recipe, we need a good one! I live in the Toronto area, I’m only going out because I have one more afternoon shift building cars before the Christmas shut down, it isn’t very nice out there! Merry Christmas! Klaus
Take care Klaus - I've been watching your (Canada's) weather on the news, not good! All I do for bubble n squeak is throw all of the "extras" from the meal: spuds, cabbage, carrots, sprouts, gravy, stuffing - everything except the meat - into a big bowl. Chop it, mash it, etc to a rough texture. I may add a few extras like sprouts if I think it needs it and then just fry it in a big frying pan/skillet like hash browns, leaving it to go brown on the bottom before turning. And I chop it about a bit so there is a load of well cooked bits on the inside (like stirring the skin into a baked rice pudding LOL) Stay safe over there and have a super Christmas! 🎅
@@DigwellGreenfingers thank you. I see bubble and squeak in my near future! The only thing is that we have a German tradition, from my Dad’s side of the family, of eating braised red cabbage with Christmas dinner, I think the braised cabbage should be left out of the bubble and squeak🤔!
Hi Steve That was a great harvest of sprouts, hope mine turn out as good. Shame about the spuds, I still got about 20 buckets to empty out but dreading it as like you I think they will be rotten. Happy Christmas to you and your family mate 🎄🎄🤶🤶🎅🎅
Cheers Rob. As I just said to Alan - I gotta wonder if it is really worth doing 2nd cropping spuds when I have loads of others stored anyway. Have a great Christmas guys!
Pity about the spuds mate but that's been the norm around the gardens this year, great Sprouts there's only me that eats em so i don't bother growing them. Have a cracking Christmas mate enjoy the day and i'll see you in 2023. Stay Safe Mate, Barry (Wirral)
Cheers Barry. I just tipped out a bucket of Sarpo Mira and over a third are edible - the ones in the centre of the compost. I guess they were better insulated form the cold there. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas mate!🎅
Same to you buddy. Gotta wonder if it is really worth doing 2nd cropping spuds when I have loads of others stored anyway. Have a very merry Christmassy weekend 🎅
Your accent offends me Steve hahahaha! Great little Welsh dad joke then! Spuds have been bad for many this winter. That ain't a bad little harvest though. Loving the jumper though 😂 Happy Christmas Mate. Danny 🎄
Do you actually find that sprouts keep growing this late Steve? I find they just blow and go to seed myself. I do like blown sprouts though so I don’t care : all the best - Steve
Usually the "normal sized" ones 1" diameter stop growing and do blow but the small ones carry on a bit. Well, I know Brodie do not sure on the Red Bull and DarkMar as this is my first time growing then, but they are both claimed to crop until February. By the way, the Crispus were excellent today - I think they tasted better than normal after the cold weather!
@@DigwellGreenfingers I’ve been eating them for about a month and they taste the same to me, but we had a frost back in October and again in early November. The red bull didn’t grow much for me after December, but I mainly grow them for the leaves, as the sprouts are always tiny : all the best - Steve
My Christmas potatoes may be the same Steve, but the parsnips, carrots and sprouts should be lovely. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
🎅Happy gardening, Terry King.
I was a bit more miffed that the last 4 buckets of maincrops that were the same. Lesson learned Terry - tip 'em out earlier LOL
Wishing you all the best for Christmas and the New Year mate 🎅
Now that's a Christmas sweater !! I guess the freeze thaw didn't do the spuds any favours.
Nice sprouts, ours a buried under a foot and a half of snow, with a little freezing rain ontop lol !!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Steve!!
Cheers the Padawans ❄️🎅🇨🇦👍
Oh no! The sprouts should be well insulated from the cold now though (mine survived the minus 13 we had). I had a look at s summer cabbage as I was leaving the plot - they look like rotten sponges on sticks LOL
Keep warm guys and here all the very best to you for Christmas and the year ahead 🎅
@@DigwellGreenfingers thanks for everything Steve, you potatoe/ aluminum Sulphate comment is one of the best we had all year!! Right behind the spatula 🤣🤣🤣
OMG - I still laugh at that!!!
Hi Steve, Well no Christmas potatoes but plenty of sprouts well done, Take care my friend and all the VERY Best for Christmas and for 2023., from Susan and ME.
Same to you Ron & Susan! Take care and have a super Christmas weekend Ho Ho Ho 🎅
Wow! That's one heck of a Christmas sweater! 🎅❤️🤶
Nice Brussels 👍
Merry Christmas to you and your family
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Well, if you're gonna do it - do it in style LOL
I hear you're getting a bit nippy over there! Stay safe.
Wishing you all the best for Christmas and the new year! 🎅
@Digwell Greenfingers dropping to 30°F tonight and tomorrow night, actually Saturday morning and Sunday morning. All the worms will be living in the house for a couple days 😱
@@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920 I was surprised that mine have survived our cold spell last week. I went to move the top layer of the tower to the compost bin, thinking the worms were dead - and there they were eating away!
You're looking very Christmassy Steve. Great sprout harvest pity about your potatoes. Have a great Christmas and New Year 🌲🌲🌲
The maincrop spuds were as bad. I put my hand in a bucket to just get a few for dinner yesterday - yucky! Like putting your hand into a jellyfish LOL
Have a great one San 🎅
Lol. Thanks Steve you too 👍
Lobing the Christmas jumper Steve!
Sprouts looked cracking, shame about the spuds though.
All the very best to you and yours🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Thanks Mark👍
I wasn't expecting too much from those spuds - they never grow well for me the 2nd cropping ones 🙁
Have a great Christmas and Hogmanay buddy! 🎅
Merry Christmas..belated. I spent mine in sunny and warm Arizona. Now back in grey and cold Chicagoland but thankfully we’re in a warming trend at the moment.
You missed the worst of that cold spell!
Have a happy new year Robin
@@DigwellGreenfingers Yes we did miss that subzero crazy weather. Biggest blessing was 3,600 miles of clear roads. Oklahoma had super high winds, but that’s doable with no snow and sunshine. There’s some rather desolate area’s between here and Arizona, you don’t have anything like it in the UK. The spinach and bunching onions survived in the cold frame.
Hi Steve, great sprouts! Have a lovely Christmas and take care 🙂
Thanks, Christine, you too!
Have a lovely Christmassy weekend 🎅
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a healthy happy New Year 🤶🤶
Thanks so much. 🙂
Hope you have a super day today and that all you wish for in 2023 comes to fruition! 🎅
So mashed potatoes 🥔 but hey sprouts look fantastic 👍 again wishing you and the family a very Merry Christmas 🤶 🎄❄️
I just tipped out a bucket of maincrop spuds and a third are okay - the ones in the very centre 🙂 Hope yet! Four to go.
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Great looking sprouts Steve, shame about the potatoes, I will be unearthing mine soon so I'm not expecting much! Love the Christmas jumper. 😊
Thanks, Bethan👍 Pretty pointless things, Christmas jumpers LOL Only wear them for a few days each year!
I never do well with the late sown spuds but never had them freeze before!
I feel your pain on the Spuds Steve! Mine are the same! But you cant win them all! Im also cooking extra for Bubble! Its the food of the gods! Happy Christmas .Shaun.
Cheers Shaun! I might have been able to save a bucket or two but the greenhouse is full of other things. Oh well!
I make a big bowl of B&S to take to our family get-together on Boxing Day - star of the show LOL 🎅🎅
@@DigwellGreenfingers Sounds fantastic!
Beautiful sprouts! Merry Christmas Steve 😀🤗
Thanks so much, Greta.
Have a Happy New Year 🙂
Sprouts look brilliant. Have a very merry Christmas and a wonderful new Year. Mags x
Thank you Mags, you too!
First Christmas in the new house for you guys - enjoy! 🎅
Hi Steve great video shame about the spuds but some lovley looking sprouts hope you and the family had a great Christmas stau safe mate
We had a great time, thanks Duncan! Hope you did too and you'll have a super New Year!
That’s a nice sprout harvest! I would love to see your Bubble and Squeak recipe, we need a good one! I live in the Toronto area, I’m only going out because I have one more afternoon shift building cars before the Christmas shut down, it isn’t very nice out there! Merry Christmas!
Klaus
Take care Klaus - I've been watching your (Canada's) weather on the news, not good!
All I do for bubble n squeak is throw all of the "extras" from the meal: spuds, cabbage, carrots, sprouts, gravy, stuffing - everything except the meat - into a big bowl. Chop it, mash it, etc to a rough texture. I may add a few extras like sprouts if I think it needs it and then just fry it in a big frying pan/skillet like hash browns, leaving it to go brown on the bottom before turning. And I chop it about a bit so there is a load of well cooked bits on the inside (like stirring the skin into a baked rice pudding LOL)
Stay safe over there and have a super Christmas! 🎅
@@DigwellGreenfingers thank you. I see bubble and squeak in my near future! The only thing is that we have a German tradition, from my Dad’s side of the family, of eating braised red cabbage with Christmas dinner, I think the braised cabbage should be left out of the bubble and squeak🤔!
@@WhatWeDoChannel Ha - yes, I don't normally have braised red cabbage but I have this year, believe it or not LOL I will leave it out!
Hi Steve
That was a great harvest of sprouts, hope mine turn out as good.
Shame about the spuds, I still got about 20 buckets to empty out but dreading it as like you I think they will be rotten.
Happy Christmas to you and your family mate 🎄🎄🤶🤶🎅🎅
Cheers Rob. As I just said to Alan - I gotta wonder if it is really worth doing 2nd cropping spuds when I have loads of others stored anyway.
Have a great Christmas guys!
Amazing friend
Thank you! Cheers!
Happy Christmas Steve!
Same to you mate. Have a cracking festive weekend 🍴🍗🎅
Merry Christmas digwell 🥳👍
Cheers buddy - and the same to you and yours 🎅
Looking great bro! Happy Christmas! Have a good one bro! Thank you so much for everything this year. 😊🌱💚🙏✨🔥🎄💯❄️
Don't even think about going outside? I wish! Chickens, Ducks, Geese, & Rabbits still need to be watered twice a day, and fed daily!!!
You know what I mean
Merry Chrismas Steve x
You too Anita - have a good 'un! 🎅
Pity about the spuds mate but that's been the norm around the gardens this year, great Sprouts there's only me that eats em so i don't bother growing them.
Have a cracking Christmas mate enjoy the day and i'll see you in 2023.
Stay Safe Mate,
Barry (Wirral)
Cheers Barry. I just tipped out a bucket of Sarpo Mira and over a third are edible - the ones in the centre of the compost. I guess they were better insulated form the cold there.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas mate!🎅
@@DigwellGreenfingers Cheers mate hope you and your family have a good un 👍
Same to you stevo. Ope you ave a girt un
Cheers buddy! Ho Ho Ho 🎅🎅🎅
Great sprouts mate shame about the Taters mate, Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year Alan
Same to you buddy. Gotta wonder if it is really worth doing 2nd cropping spuds when I have loads of others stored anyway.
Have a very merry Christmassy weekend 🎅
Shame about the potatoes but the sprouts look fab. Happy Christmas Emma 🎄
The next bucket (maincrop) weren't so bad with only 2/3 ruined LOL
Hope you have a great day Emma
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Your accent offends me Steve hahahaha! Great little Welsh dad joke then! Spuds have been bad for many this winter. That ain't a bad little harvest though. Loving the jumper though 😂 Happy Christmas Mate. Danny 🎄
It offended me too Danny LOL Worst I've ever done boyo.
Have a great Christmas buddy! 🎅🎄🍴
@DigwellGreenfingers always a chuckle with you mate. Great friend and support to me through the year. Much appreciated. Danny 🎄
@@TheGrowUpChannel As we used to say in the Navy, "You don't make fun of people you don't like!" - but I can make an exception!!
@@DigwellGreenfingers 😂😂😂
Merry Christmas
Same to you! 🎅🎅
Do you actually find that sprouts keep growing this late Steve? I find they just blow and go to seed myself. I do like blown sprouts though so I don’t care : all the best - Steve
Usually the "normal sized" ones 1" diameter stop growing and do blow but the small ones carry on a bit. Well, I know Brodie do not sure on the Red Bull and DarkMar as this is my first time growing then, but they are both claimed to crop until February.
By the way, the Crispus were excellent today - I think they tasted better than normal after the cold weather!
@@DigwellGreenfingers I’ve been eating them for about a month and they taste the same to me, but we had a frost back in October and again in early November. The red bull didn’t grow much for me after December, but I mainly grow them for the leaves, as the sprouts are always tiny : all the best - Steve
Merry Christmas diggy Diggy were you sas ? Usaf veteran across the pond Best wishes ✌🏻🙏🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
I have replied to this question several times on several videos now buddy