Time to start cooking up some squirrel stew! 😮 That ginger cat is enjoying soaking up the sunshine. It should get busy chasing squirrels out of the garden between cat naps.
I love watching your videos as i learn so much. Shame about the Oak….bloody squirrels. Thank goodness we have shops to buy what crops that have failed. I think prices will rise due to the damage. Thanks for sharing Paul.
You surprised me, eating that delicious ripe red strawberry 🍓. I didn't get a one this year. No gooseberries to speak of really either, but I did move my plant in early spring. But my thornless blackberries were delicious, and fall raspberries are starting to come in. Summer squash and tomatoes are still trickling in. Surprisingly, Aunt Ruby's German Green Tomatoes are doing the best of my tomatoes this year. Not the huge harvest to share with neighbors that I expected or enjoy. Yes, it's been dismal overall... similar to your experience and others except for greens and herbs like I mentioned previously. Maybe you could try Japanese root/winter vegetables if you think your winter is appropriate or something for fall you usually don't grow. Shake things up and just have fun.
Teasel is still used by some of the finest traditional hat makers for raising the nap on felt hats etc as well as the traditional use for carding/teasing wool. I always loved the old wives tale when I was a child about mullein that witches used to use the down like covering on the leaves to make wicks for their candles
I feel your pain. I'm in Canada and am disappointed with my garden this year. My tomatoes are just barely starting to ripen. The slugs are eating my beans. Things just aren't as I'd like them. Let's hope for a better 2025 garden.
It's been a hard year for gardeners. No gluts for you. You can't freeze lettuce unless you have a recipe for slime. Yuck. A hard year for squirrels as well, if they're going for things they normally wouldn't touch. Well done for the squirrel who went for the sunflower seeds instead of your veg. It's probably too late to pop that tree root into some water and hope it develops more roots and a few leaves. Later Lad. ~ Jon in rural BC, Canada
Have to say Paul I've done with this year for veg. My only success was my potatoes! My runner beans are poor, all the leaves are dry through the constant wind here, and squashes are rotting due to the constant rain (rained all over the Bank Holiday weekend here too in Scotland.) I have no courgettes, no pollinators at all. No cobra beans. Just a nightmare this year.
So frustrating to have so much damage and strange plant behviour. Here in Tasmania its been quite a warm winter, my rocket is seeding but new ones growing. Brassicas and lettuce are going to seed too! We are in for a cool change this week back to winter. Wind is major issues here in the Roaring Forties is normal. Broad beans flowering beautifully but I am hoping my supports will be strong enough. Sad about the Oak. So glad to see your beets looking rreally good and tomatoes. So glad your strawberry was yummy.
Jesus Paul, I feel your pain! Your frustration was palpable on the video! It has been a very strange growing year indeed. Let's look to next year with fingers crossed 🤞
It is definitely a strange year. I came out to feed the birds and when i turned round I discovered that two of my wooden windows had been gnawed many times all round the frame and along the sill. I was shocked. I can only think it is the squirrels. I give them some feed so they dont destroy the bird feeders. I am now spending time learning to sand, fill and repaint window frames. and pray they dont get the others.
Paul, I feel your pain. Our last summer was terrible too. Cooler than normal, more overcast and less sun. As for rain! We only had 12mm of rain in the first 6 months of the year. Even this winter has been warmer than normal with only half the normal rain fall as normal. Our rain water tanks are usually overflowing by the middle of June but are only half full now. If we don't get more rain I don't know how we are going to water the garden next summer.
The folklore on squirrels that I am aware of is if they grow a big thick tail, there will be a cold harsh winter. And if their tails are thinner/smaller, a milder year.
Hello Paul, Such a shame for your lovely oak and the damage that the slugs are doing to everyone's gardens this year. They are eating better than the gardeners. I have a friend that's garden is being ravaged by squirrels. The bad part is doesn't mind sharing but they seem to be taking nibbles out of everything a couple of bites out of every tomato. Lovely ginger friend you have there sunning on the shed roof. Fingers crossed that the squirrels won't see the tomatoes now that they are staked up and easier to find. Much Love from across the Pond 💞. PS.. just got Agatha Christie And Then There Were None in from the library loved it years ago and wanted to read it again.
A glut? Definitely not this year! All of my brassicas that I grew to a good size, every single one of them has been slugged! Beyond fed up! Being organic is becoming much more difficult now and I was just taking to a chap from our Lottie who has said he’s been gardening for 40 years and he’s never known a year like this one and he’s considering giving it all up now. It’s so sad isn’t it 😢
Hiya Paul Thankyou for the visit. Bet that was a delicious strawberry but if only one. Take see you later.southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
Cat on a hot roof, what a friend you have 😂😂😂 love your videos and look forward to them!
Time to start cooking up some squirrel stew! 😮 That ginger cat is enjoying soaking up the sunshine. It should get busy chasing squirrels out of the garden between cat naps.
Good video
I love watching your videos as i learn so much. Shame about the Oak….bloody squirrels. Thank goodness we have shops to buy what crops that have failed. I think prices will rise due to the damage. Thanks for sharing Paul.
I love watching, I learn, God Bless
The oak smelled of acorn! Perhaps it even still had the squirrel’s scent on it from him burying it for safe keeping. Hey Ho.
Lovely to see your harvest x
You surprised me, eating that delicious ripe red strawberry 🍓. I didn't get a one this year. No gooseberries to speak of really either, but I did move my plant in early spring. But my thornless blackberries were delicious, and fall raspberries are starting to come in. Summer squash and tomatoes are still trickling in. Surprisingly, Aunt Ruby's German Green Tomatoes are doing the best of my tomatoes this year. Not the huge harvest to share with neighbors that I expected or enjoy. Yes, it's been dismal overall... similar to your experience and others except for greens and herbs like I mentioned previously. Maybe you could try Japanese root/winter vegetables if you think your winter is appropriate or something for fall you usually don't grow. Shake things up and just have fun.
Teasel is still used by some of the finest traditional hat makers for raising the nap on felt hats etc as well as the traditional use for carding/teasing wool.
I always loved the old wives tale when I was a child about mullein that witches used to use the down like covering on the leaves to make wicks for their candles
I feel your pain. I'm in Canada and am disappointed with my garden this year. My tomatoes are just barely starting to ripen. The slugs are eating my beans. Things just aren't as I'd like them. Let's hope for a better 2025 garden.
It's been a hard year for gardeners. No gluts for you. You can't freeze lettuce unless you have a recipe for slime. Yuck.
A hard year for squirrels as well, if they're going for things they normally wouldn't touch. Well done for the squirrel who went for the sunflower seeds instead of your veg.
It's probably too late to pop that tree root into some water and hope it develops more roots and a few leaves.
Later Lad.
~ Jon in rural BC, Canada
Have to say Paul I've done with this year for veg. My only success was my potatoes! My runner beans are poor, all the leaves are dry through the constant wind here, and squashes are rotting due to the constant rain (rained all over the Bank Holiday weekend here too in Scotland.) I have no courgettes, no pollinators at all. No cobra beans. Just a nightmare this year.
So frustrating to have so much damage and strange plant behviour. Here in Tasmania its been quite a warm winter, my rocket is seeding but new ones growing. Brassicas and lettuce are going to seed too! We are in for a cool change this week back to winter. Wind is major issues here in the Roaring Forties is normal. Broad beans flowering beautifully but I am hoping my supports will be strong enough. Sad about the Oak. So glad to see your beets looking rreally good and tomatoes. So glad your strawberry was yummy.
Jesus Paul, I feel your pain! Your frustration was palpable on the video! It has been a very strange growing year indeed. Let's look to next year with fingers crossed 🤞
It is definitely a strange year. I came out to feed the birds and when i turned round I discovered that two of my wooden windows had been gnawed many times all round the frame and along the sill. I was shocked. I can only think it is the squirrels. I give them some feed so they dont destroy the bird feeders. I am now spending time learning to sand, fill and repaint window frames. and pray they dont get the others.
Netted my strawberries, and they chewed through it!
Paul, I feel your pain. Our last summer was terrible too. Cooler than normal, more overcast and less sun. As for rain! We only had 12mm of rain in the first 6 months of the year. Even this winter has been warmer than normal with only half the normal rain fall as normal. Our rain water tanks are usually overflowing by the middle of June but are only half full now. If we don't get more rain I don't know how we are going to water the garden next summer.
I think you need a pint to go with that lettuce!
Could the squirrels be forecasting a brutal winter to come? Or a sad nut harvest this year?
I wondered the same. Has their regular food supply failed? Poor wee beasts. Which results in poor wee gardeners.
The folklore on squirrels that I am aware of is if they grow a big thick tail, there will be a cold harsh winter. And if their tails are thinner/smaller, a milder year.
Hello Paul, Such a shame for your lovely oak and the damage that the slugs are doing to everyone's gardens this year. They are eating better than the gardeners. I have a friend that's garden is being ravaged by squirrels. The bad part is doesn't mind sharing but they seem to be taking nibbles out of everything a couple of bites out of every tomato. Lovely ginger friend you have there sunning on the shed roof. Fingers crossed that the squirrels won't see the tomatoes now that they are staked up and easier to find. Much Love from across the Pond 💞. PS.. just got Agatha Christie And Then There Were None in from the library loved it years ago and wanted to read it again.
A glut? Definitely not this year!
All of my brassicas that I grew to a good size, every single one of them has been slugged! Beyond fed up! Being organic is becoming much more difficult now and I was just taking to a chap from our Lottie who has said he’s been gardening for 40 years and he’s never known a year like this one and he’s considering giving it all up now. It’s so sad isn’t it 😢
The squirrels must have a financial crisis because now they have limited stores, and they are ravaging our gardens.