Glad the tomatoes are finally ripening. Carrots and purple queen harvest looked good 👍 Crazy weather and things still flowering / growing even though it’s October now. Have a great week and weekend.
I think ours is coming to a quick end as it hit 4c last night and it’s actually (world according to Ali) freezing cold outside 😂. I don’t do heat or cold well but at least cold I can put on a coat and hat. I am slowly demolishing beds and manuring them for the winter. I’m hopeful that it gets cold enough to kill off critters and bad bugs, Have a super week Art keep warm 🥶🌞🇨🇦
Thank you Greta I think us Canadians know it won’t last 🤣 it was 5c last night and the grass isn’t even drying out from the morning dew. But it was a good year and I’m looking forward to next season and new challenges. Have a great day stay warm 🥰
Hi Ali, Thanks for walking us out and about your garden. We did another clean-up day on Sunday. Leaves and small branches are still showering to the ground. More Elm leaves for my worms 🪱 Take care, Ali ❤Peggy❤
Oh we are devastated by the pictures in the news and how much it will take to get these poor people if ever back to normal. But I am glad you are both ok and it wasn’t as bad as it could have been 🥰🥰
Oh my giddy aunt it was 4c this morning Cherie 🥶🥶. It’s sunny but super cold too cold for me I may have to resort to drastic measures and wear a coat and hat 🤣🤣. Have a fab week and stay safe, hugs to you both 🥰🥰
Nice one Ali. I'm sure you gave that slug the good bath off camera. It's good to see that you are still getting some crops. The carrots looked good. Take care and have a great week.
Thanks John he is nice and bubbly clean now 🤭🤭. It is now cold but it is Oct tomorrow 🥶 so more inside jobs and less harvests 😢. Have an awesome week say hi to Dahlila 🥶🌞
My pleasure 😊 I love sharing seed around the world 🌎, I think it’s a magical thing about gardeners and more people should garden and be nicer to others 🥰🥰
Hi cous i love your goose step spiderweb walk😂😂😂 i hope you're seedlings germinate and the caterpillars don't find them, you could get bt spray its organic.👍👌😁
Ahh yes I have BT and I kept saying oh I should make some up and spray 🤔 never put off till tomorrow ones to mind 🤣🤣🤣. I sent you some giant (by our standards) seed for onion grow off with Pete 👍👍
I have Michealmas daisies on the patio that just flowered this week 🤷♀️ what a crazy year. But hey Romano’s over and we can relax (well not you) for the winter. Glad your feeling a bit better and hopefully the rest of family is well 👍
Nice update . all its done here where I am is rain every day , think I need to sow some seeds but cant be bothered, the weather is crap and can't do naff all. take is easy Ali
I am seeing a trend across TH-cam of people winding down for the season and really after all the rain over there I can’t say I blame them. It has as of yesterday turned super cold here well 4c in the night and early morning. So a bit more outside work and then I too will be doing more indoor jobs. Have a great week and keep doing what makes you happy 👍👍
Hey Ali...What a super nice tomato harvest and method of ripening them. Darn caterpillars...disgusting. Great choices of onions and radishes, exciting times. Enjoy your day.
Thanks so much Ms Ursula I was just saying to someone my caterpillar 🐛 issue is nothing compared to what some poor people are going through in the US and UK well all over the world really, it’s either floods or fires 🥲. Not as many beans or tomatoes this year but we are happy with the results. Have a fab week and hope it’s calmer 🙏
Ah thanks Rach always so nice to hear from you and Eric especially now as your so busy. It’s very iffy weather wise here with super cold mornings and night. We too are due rain but hey it’s Oct 🤷♀️
You have a great variety of tomatoes 🍅 👍 Bean cathedral sounds amazing. This year we could harvest so many beans my husband was really happy. I wipe my hands on my clothes all the time. So when I arrive in the garden I normally change my clothes so that it doesn't matter when they get dirty. The bees 🐝 sleep on the flowers 🌻sometimes until the sun ☀️ comes out again in the morning. Have a great week as well Ali. Greetings Heidi 👩🌾🌻
The colours of various tomatoes just fascinates me but some definitely let you down. So far these have all been ok except those roisennette pocketbook they were blah. My beans were a bit of a let down not by flavour we just didn’t seem to harvest as many this year so I ha ha have a plan to grow a lot more next season spread around a bit. Tomatoes I’m going to do less but plants and try a few dwarf varieties I can do in the poly. Bees were fantastic as always to just watch 🐝🐝. Have a spectacular week Heidi and happy gardening 🧑🌾
Don’t we all Mike 🤣 it dropped to 4c last night and a whomping 6c in the morning it the sun is out so I’ll maybe put on a coat and shovel manure on a bed 😉 or not 🤣
@@myrustygarden its true. Same here.my tomatoes are been cut back already. Difinitely cannot tolerate a little cold.by dahlias are still standing.and just been planting fall crops myself. Trying to get some more produce before winter sits.
Thank you Dipak as you know I love sending seed all over so,if you ever want to try anything please let me know. I have some Kelsae onion seed I’m sending a few people for Pete’s grow challenge too, let me know if you want to try them. Apparently they can grow up to 15lb 🤣🤣 the onions not the seed
Let me know if you want to join in you’ll just have to send me your address on instagram 👍. Tomatoes are doing amazing as once they start ripening I can just leave them in the open on the table 🍅🍅
Hi Ali lovely to see the 🐝 resting before start of there day Lia has sedum in her garden which gets covered in 🐝 they love it , Hope you don't have the rat back again this winter , hearing you mention broad beans reminds me I need to get on and sow mine .
I love the sedum and I would have a field of it 😜 if I could. It’s turned right fall like now and raining. We actually 😱 turned on the furnace yesterday but only to take off the chill in the house. I’ve had to pinch out my broad beans twice now so hopefully they will do well this winter. Hope you are both well and staying positive ❤️ have a lovely week
Funny enough I did all three methods and it seems to be better or worse depending on if they are actually a wee bit blush already. I like the oh heck just leave them on the counter method best 🤣🤣
What a crazy year hey Stell, tomatoes that don’t ripen in loads of sun, peppers that think Sept is July 🤦♀️ but all good as it’s fun to keep at it. Have a fab week stay safe 🥰
I tell you i am going to enjoy next year’s growing season so much more as i won’t have study commitments hopefully the weather will celebrate by being fantastic 😄
Thanks so much 😊 it’s a “hey do you want some tomatoes” kind of day as I head to visit my daughter. But she loves it. Hope it’s warm there in your video looks like we have similar weather clear but super cold 🥶
I am going to order more tape but I think a thicker one this year. I did use some last year but it was so narrow. I’m torn between pulling them all up out of the pots or leaving in pots and taking inside. Only concern is last year even in the poly tunnel it dropped to minus 14c 🥶🥶🥶
Is this September or June? Crazy gardening year all over it seems. All we can do is adapt and grow. Looks like autumn has well and truly set in here. Keep on sowing. ✊🌱🌤️🌧️🌬️🏴
Oh 🥶🥶 it dropped to 4c last night Andy and I don’t like it 🤣 but then other than a polar bear 🐻❄️ who does. Hoping to get lots of jobs like manuring the beds etc done before it gets too wet though as it will. Have a super week ahead and keep warm and dry 🥶🌞
Hey Ali, you still have loads of greenery, we are basically nearly finished and nearly at the end of the season. I can send you some Ailsae seeds Ali if you want some. You still have plenty of tomatoes on the go. 🥰
Much appreciated Jimmy Mark (Ganggang) is sending me some and I have sent some seed for Kalsae to a few 😉😉 over the pond growers. Have an amazing day and hope itsss warm one ❤️
I’m quite happy with the flowers although I will need to tidy soon so I can get my bulbs in 😂. It is supposed to rain tomorrow but today is sunny and 18c 🤦♀️ it’s up and down like a yo-yo 🪀. Have a fab weekend and hope it’s a good one 👍
Hi Ali. Caterpillars are master of disguise. I'd resow again. You're ahead of me with Kelsae lol. Still nice and warm there at 25 degrees. I had to laugh about you wiping your hands on your clothes. I know that from somewhere lol. At least it rained for you. Could it be you were wafting your hands for cobwebs lol. I'm taking part with Petes grow-off too. Heavy morning dew here. Suns out 15 degrees Thu 3.10. Rat BNB lol. Great carrots 🥕 Elaine 🍁🐿🍂🌱🌸🌼
Oh lord I couldn’t believe how small they start out 🤦🏼♀️ no wonder we miss so many. It’s ranging from 4c mornings to 18c afternoon but rains tomorrow. The onion grow off should be fun 🤩 I’m doing a kalsae vs ailsa pond crossing version 😂. Carrot rescue complete and I’ll do some in buckets 👍👍. Have a great day Elaine and happy growing
Nice carrot harvest! I am getting impatient with the root crops, but here in my Michigan USDA Zone 6A garden they usually are best harvested after they're covered with a light snow and the soil is starting to freeze.
I’m glad I could get to the carrots 🥕 before too much damage was done. But yes root veg were not as good this year and I had terrible leaf miner issues. I am hoping a cold winter will help kill off some 🤞. I’m assuming Michigan will be getting cold soon, we are getting a little cooler but ok so far. Have a great week ahead 🙏
@@myrustygarden September & October are always a gamble hear. Some years we get all the way to November before a hard freeze. Other years we get snow flurries around the end of September. This year, the first half of October at least is expected to be warmer than usual, although we know better than to bet on it LOL
I bought them all from marketplace on FB and although not cheap much less than new. I have a bad back so they work better than the in ground beds. Hope you have a safe week I hear a “hurricane” is heading to the UK 😱😱
Hi ali finally catching up ❤ Every year i try to improve on the labels 🏷 and fail miserably. My method is the bananna for ripening. 11:42 im the same for dirty clothes 😂 i have a pink hoody and ots manky with me wiping my hands etc 😂 Your dhalias are beautiful 😍 I grew some from seed and mine flowered im leaving the tubers in the ground some day dig up but il see how they go.
Oh those bloody labels I was so careful to make sure I put one near every plant and 90% of them faded. So on Steve’s (Digwell) advice I paid a bit for the permanent markers he uses. All the tomatoes are now ripe and processed which is sad because it means no more big fresh sliced and grilled on toast. The dahlias I keep dead heading and they are still flowering but I think I’ll move the pots to covered patio for winter and pray 😂 they all survive. I hope you and Carl are well and the rains have let up for camping 🏕️
That’s the gardeners attitude Jason we deal with what we do and simply make new plans 👍👍 I love that about gardening. It has gone cold here so more indoor sorting and saving etc. Hope you had a fab time at Malvern and look forward to seeing everyone’s videos 🥶🌞
What type are they Ali? 😁 Aah, thought the eggs might have come in on something 😬 Our pepper is still growing in the polytunnel but we'll be getting frost in the next few weeks. Good selection of seeds there. We had a dead rat on the doorstep yesterday, I suspect the cat 🤔 Cheers 😊😊🌵🌵
The ones I can send you for onions are a variety called Kalsae and can apparently grow up to 15 lbs. just let me know if you’re interested 👍👍. Our cat used to bring me snakes into the house and sit proudly displaying them on the fireplace 🤦♀️
@@myrustygarden Aww, that's lovely of you to offer Ali, we already have some Kelsae seeds though. I plant them on Boxing Day here. I organised an onion growing competition on our gardening forum some years ago. We've since started our own gardening forum (with the help of a few others) might be an idea to start one up on that too 🙂
Yes it does! It’s a barn wind driven vent. We bought it at a second hand store years ago 👍. It’s rain ☔️ and cold 🥶 here for a few days so I am catching up on videos 🤣
Hey Ali 👋 👋 👋 That yellow thing you took out of the tomato bag, I hate them, I don't even like saying their name, I call them " yellow bendy things" 😂😂😂 It's like bloody winter here now, I hope you still get lots of sunshine...🐄🐄🐄
🤣🤣 Gerald has a yellow bendy thing every day (wink wink 😜 no not that one) because he takes high blood pressure medication and it depletes his potassium. It’s cold and raining here 😱😱 we actually put the furnace on yesterday to warm up the house 😢 summer is well and truly over
Great update Ali, I haven't been on TH-cam much so I'm sorry if I am asking things that you have covered in recent vlogs but when did you get some vegepods? Did you get them to combat the slugs? I am most envious, I would love a vegepod. I will just live vicariously through you 😂 Similarly why did you get rid of the beds in the brassica cage? I remember your rat hotel from last year, fingers crossed it doesn't move back in this year. Have a great weekend 😁
All good Bethan I totally understand and only worry if people fall off the face of the earth 🌍. Ask away 👍. I bought one for “lettuce” as my old wooden cedar beds were in need of some tlc. While looking I found one on marketplace almost brand new (sadly owner passed always after one seasons use and his daughter didn’t garden). So she just wanted a good home for it at a reasonable price. Well then the hunt was in to find more 🤭🤭 my addiction knows no bounds luckily only for garden things. So now I have 4 medium size and 1 large size and I am hoping to combat a lot of stuff that likes to eat my food. Plus they are a godsend to my back. There are going to be 2 pods in the cage because the drainage in that corner was awful it attracted slugs and moss like swampville, I’m again 🤞🤞 hoping to keep el ratto 🐀 out of my winter veg. Anyway great to see you again I hope you are all well and enjoying some sunshine 🌞
@@myrustygarden Sunshine? What's that? Raining pouring here, tomorrow is meant to be good though 😊 Blimey, that was a good find, they do look like very good pieces of kit, I hope they work well for you 😊
Garden is still producing for you. were going down to 40's at night later this week, so I will be doing a huge tom harvest. Peppers will need to come out as well. I want to leave the red swan beans on the plants now to form seed. Do you think I have enough time?
It has now tanked at night 4c last night 🥶🥶 so yep I think the season is done. I think as long as the weather isn’t too wet they should be fine but hey I can always send you some 🥰. I’m manuring beds and tucking up things now too but seed sorting and plans are still in the go 👍👍
@@myrustygarden We are starting with toms today. Pulled 2 and totally hacked 2 back, trying to get 4 more days of ripening. One problem is the Dr. Wychee's and Lucid Gem are really for fresh eating. They aren't cooker's. So I guess it's important to have a mix of toms. I'm dehydrating peppers but not sure it's a solution for the rest as they take eons to dry out.
I have gardening clothes and ordinary clothes because I know I will get mucky in the garden, in fact I thought everyone did that 😅. Such great tomatoes Ali , they are really pretty! Today I plan to plant garlic and set up another leaf collecting bag if the rain holds off 🤞. I hope you have a good week and lovely autumnal weather😊
I never used to wear “garden clothes” but I catch myself on fencing or wire and wipe my dirty hands on my clothes so Gerald said I need to stop wearing my good clothes 🤣🤣. It’s is super cold this week in fact for the first the furnace was put on 🥶. I’m waiting for the 🍂 to fall for my mould bin too. Have a fab day stay safe and be careful out there 🥰
I've followed you and put my toms in bags with bananas. Mine are all cherry types. We have also had an incredible amount of rain floods in many areas and rivers all on red warnings they're so high. Fortunately we're on high ground. Love the snoozing bees. Hope the caterpillars keep off the seedlings for you. 🌧️
Excellent Tracey I hope they do well, all mine are done now and processed or on the counter for fresh eating. It has rained a bit but no flooding 🙏. I was just saying to Gerald so sad around the world things are either burning or flooding and causing huge damage 🥲. Bees are so cool I could watch them all day. Caterpillars dispatched 👍
Lovely video Ali! I hope all of your tomatoes will ripen there. Good selection too. Think i might grow Alice's dream next year as everyone has been talking about how nice it is. I bet it feels nice to clear the garden for autumn? I still think its a great idea having the panels red as you will appreciate the colour in autumn/winter. Such a smart move! I have ordered some manure and compost so should arrive in the next week or two. Hubby will be pleased as they are in 50l bags so half the size we normally get. Last year we bought half a ton in a big dumpy bag to include filling the new sandpit bed and hubby had to wheel barrow it in through the house to the garden. I keep explaining to him that it is cheaper to buy in bulk and saves us going to B&Q. I got these new bags from amazon so hopefully it is ok and as they are smaller i can help lift them. I sowed and resowed cabbages, kohlrabi and purple sprouting broccoli. I baked the soil this time in case it is fungus gnats and not the seeds. My main issue has been with the sugar snap peas. Nik said i should contact the company and see what they say. I have resown them so will see if anything comes up now before contacting them. Good selection of autumn crops there. I love the varieties you have of different stuff. I know some people wear fancy clothes for YT but i normally just go out in T-shirt and jogging trousers, or a long dress in summer. Talking of fancy clothes, i saw you all dolled up on Danny's live! Check you out! Did you have a perm or is your hair naturally curly? I found it funny as you had the same clock my Dad has and i knew the era as my step mum used to wear those dresses! Do you remember what the occasion was? I knew it was you straight away. How did he get hold of that picture? I have got so fed up with slugs and snails this year i went out in the pouring rain as i forgot to bring in some punnet of raspberries and saw a bunch of them. Kerry would probably killed me but i stepped on them instead of putting them in the salt bath. We have a toad somewhere in the garden so some easy meals for them. They were all gone the next day. Saves putting even more in the composter or the salty spa. When we went to get carrots last Christmas i think, we pulled what we thought would be big carrots, only to find stubs. There were grubs or caterpillars hiding in the soil feasting on them from underneath! Feel really bad for the Florida people and also people in Nepal, etc that are experiencing floods and hurricanes! Can't imagine what they are going through atm. Anyway, take care Ali hope you have a lovely week! All the best! x
Hi Tracy I hope you are doing well this week. It has done a big 360 here and gone quite cold 🥶 it was 4c this morning. I have manured 1 and a half of my beds but 🤦♀️ still waiting for the asparagus to die back so I can do that long one. Oh yikes I can’t imagine having to wheelbarrow it all especially through the house. Hopefully he’s happier with the bags. I heard that heating up the soil in the oven does work for gnats so 🤞 you can get ahead of them. One of the sugar snap varieties did really well and the other is leggy so I don’t know what is wrong with things 🤣. Yes when I think of the garden I have to remember how blessed we are that things like hurricanes are not here. I don’t know how these poor people stay so positive I think I’d crawl into a ball and just cry. Have a marvellous week Tracy hope it’s sunny 🌞 and not too cold 🥶
@@myrustygarden When we took out the old kitchen and reinstalled the new one just before we had our child, we setup the old kitchen in the workshop for temp DIY stuff but we saved some cupboard side panels for ramps into the house and into the garden through the utility area. Downstairs, apart from the living room is titled as we do a shoes off at door thing plus we also still had our fur daughter at the time. We now have racks in the workshop now and the old fridge freezer they left behind. Also have a small camping freezer my Dad no longer wanted. We are trying to clear out baby stuff and we are now at the stage of things to be sold. The workshop could probably do with a clear out too but i have a lot of DIY and gardening tools. We have a mini plastic shed outside too for the mower etc. Yes baking is the key. I normally do 130c fan for 30 mins. This year i tried a YTer method of using boiling water. They normally live in a very dry location, which is why i am no longer using that method again. This is why i think it is important to know the area's climate as well as zones. If you have compost outside and you get a deep freeze, then you should be ok but again warm, wet soil will have a party of beasts growing over winter. I should be ok lifting 40/50l bags if it's not wet. I use to lift more before camel broke it's back or whatever the saying is about straw! lol What with my curved spine, illnesses over the years, c section and the cin3 treatment of surgeons playing lucky dip inside of me, has spent me even with pilates. Chiropractors helped but expensive as not on NHS. Yes only two of this new pack of sugar snaps peas has germinated outside and inside! I bought Delikett again as they did well before. Me too with hurricanes! I remember the Oct '87 on here in London and seeing all big old oak trees going down in the road along the heath and blocking the "main road". I could have still walked to school but was cool to have some time off as the teachers couldn't get in. I think the worst flood along the Thames was in '54 or something near the time of the "big freeze". I think that is another reason to clear things out and be more organised and prepared. I only have a couple of my Mum's things to remember her by but would be heartbroken if i were to lose them. Some below par temps and rain this week but i just want autumn now. I haven't been out in a day or two and the tomatoes seem ok. I think i am just mentally checking out early on this years summer crops now and focusing on trying to get the autumn ones to perk up and do something. We are still harvesting raspberries and i'm checking the one full sized red kuri squash. It is still orange with strips and not gone the full deep orange yet. Mystery supermarket potato pots are thriving and going wild still. Not much of a show from Melody's. I sowed some spring onions in the tubs, so not completely vacant. Hope you get some fresh air to blow away the fogs, etc x
@@AnyKeyLady it’s cold here as of this week, well starts out cold and then warms up to a balmy 14 to 17c ☺️, rain is in the forecast for a few on and off days too but that’s ok. Our flood was 2021 super heavy rains caused rivers to burst their dikes and landslides to wipe out roads. First time in my lifetime that the freeway was closed cutting us off from the rest of the country for weeks, it was under several feet of water. But Mother Nature does what she does and we can mainly just learn to work around it. Hope you have a fab week ahead and seeds germinated ok 🤞🤞
Lovely tomatoes. I know what you mean about the labels. I had the same machine and they have just wiped off. I’m trying wooden spoons next year with permanent marker as labels I made out of wood with marker I can still make it out. I wipe my hands on my clothes too 😂
Thanks Ems the tomatoes took a while but so far only one really went mushy and I put it in a container of water to save seed 😂, silver lining moment. Yes I will use the nimbot for inside seedlings but back to permanent marker for outside. Drives Gerald crazy when I do it but hey at least I don’t wipe my hands on his clothes 🤣🤣🤣
Hi Ali, Caterpillars and Slugs i hate em they just ruin all the good work we do as for the Caterpillars just squish em and give to the Birds or do it without the squish, as for the Slugs just pour a little Salt on them wait a couple of hours then scrape up and give to the Birds, it works for me. Weather here has just been crap Rain Rain and more Rain, i'll be growing web feet at this rate, jokes aside we are not as bad as down South as some homes are flooded and businesses as well, where i live there has been Road closures and even the Trains have been stopped with a Bus replacement service put on for the day, the reason was that the tracks are flooded oh well makes a change from leaves on the tracks, who knew that leaves could stop a Train (yes that did happen) TC. Barry (UK)
We work so hard about the garden and there is so many other things they could eat 🤦♀️. Birds food ✅. It has gone quite cold here and we have had to put the furnace on but barely any rain. It is October so we should start seeing more rain ☔️ in the coming days. Yes we have been watching the news on the floods and damage it is quite sad to see people lose so much so my whinging about a few caterpillars 🐛 seems petty. Our raised transit system shuts down at least twice a winter for snow 🤦♀️ on the tracks so I can believe leaves do it. Have a super week stay safe and dry 🥰
Glad the tomatoes are finally ripening. Carrots and purple queen harvest looked good 👍 Crazy weather and things still flowering / growing even though it’s October now. Have a great week and weekend.
All the veg except sprouts and d seed spinach are pretty much done but that’s ok because the rains are coming and I have manure to spread 👍👍.
Everything looking good Ali and still lots of greenery. Our growing season is virtually over.
I think ours is coming to a quick end as it hit 4c last night and it’s actually (world according to Ali) freezing cold outside 😂. I don’t do heat or cold well but at least cold I can put on a coat and hat. I am slowly demolishing beds and manuring them for the winter. I’m hopeful that it gets cold enough to kill off critters and bad bugs,
Have a super week Art keep warm 🥶🌞🇨🇦
Hi Ali, lovely tomatoes, and great to see so many bees. Happy gardening.
Thank you Isabel it has gone very cold here 4c so hopefully the bees are getting full and are happy 🥰🥰
Wow amazing sharing my friend....
Thank you for your support and kindness 🙏
Your plants are looking so green and healthy Ali. Nice to get the tomatoes ripening. Your weather looks quite beautiful
Thank you Greta I think us Canadians know it won’t last 🤣 it was 5c last night and the grass isn’t even drying out from the morning dew. But it was a good year and I’m looking forward to next season and new challenges. Have a great day stay warm 🥰
Hi there Ali
Everything is still looking good. Your tomatoes are coming along nicely. Have a wonderful day 😊
Thank you Ms Renee keep smiling ☺️ and have an amazing week 🥰
Hi Ali,
Thanks for walking us out and about your garden.
We did another clean-up day on Sunday. Leaves and small branches are still showering to the ground. More Elm leaves for my worms 🪱
Take care, Ali
❤Peggy❤
Oh we are devastated by the pictures in the news and how much it will take to get these poor people if ever back to normal. But I am glad you are both ok and it wasn’t as bad as it could have been 🥰🥰
@myrustygarden We share your feeling 😪
Mornin' Ali. It's definitely autumn now and mountains of tomatoes keep appearing from my garden. Lovely to see a video from you on my feed. ❤❤🍅
Oh my giddy aunt it was 4c this morning Cherie 🥶🥶. It’s sunny but super cold too cold for me I may have to resort to drastic measures and wear a coat and hat 🤣🤣. Have a fab week and stay safe, hugs to you both 🥰🥰
Nice one Ali. I'm sure you gave that slug the good bath off camera. It's good to see that you are still getting some crops. The carrots looked good. Take care and have a great week.
Thanks John he is nice and bubbly clean now 🤭🤭. It is now cold but it is Oct tomorrow 🥶 so more inside jobs and less harvests 😢. Have an awesome week say hi to Dahlila 🥶🌞
Love your garden Thankyou for our seeds you sent ❤xx
My pleasure 😊 I love sharing seed around the world 🌎, I think it’s a magical thing about gardeners and more people should garden and be nicer to others 🥰🥰
@@myrustygarden The world needs more Ali,s good to be kind 💖🌍xx
Hi cous i love your goose step spiderweb walk😂😂😂 i hope you're seedlings germinate and the caterpillars don't find them, you could get bt spray its organic.👍👌😁
Ahh yes I have BT and I kept saying oh I should make some up and spray 🤔 never put off till tomorrow ones to mind 🤣🤣🤣. I sent you some giant (by our standards) seed for onion grow off with Pete 👍👍
Hey Ali! The tomatoes looks amazing. Your garden is looking great! Nice variety of radishes. Happy gardening💖
Thank you so much 😊 Stacey stay safe over there 🙏
@@myrustygarden you’re welcome ☺️ I will
Marigolds fashionably late to the party , Sunny down south today 🇬🇧✅ Feeling a little better today 😷
I have Michealmas daisies on the patio that just flowered this week 🤷♀️ what a crazy year. But hey Romano’s over and we can relax (well not you) for the winter. Glad your feeling a bit better and hopefully the rest of family is well 👍
Nice update . all its done here where I am is rain every day , think I need to sow some seeds but cant be bothered, the weather is crap and can't do naff all. take is easy Ali
I am seeing a trend across TH-cam of people winding down for the season and really after all the rain over there I can’t say I blame them. It has as of yesterday turned super cold here well 4c in the night and early morning. So a bit more outside work and then I too will be doing more indoor jobs. Have a great week and keep doing what makes you happy 👍👍
Hey Ali...What a super nice tomato harvest and method of ripening them. Darn caterpillars...disgusting. Great choices of onions and radishes, exciting times. Enjoy your day.
Thanks so much Ms Ursula I was just saying to someone my caterpillar 🐛 issue is nothing compared to what some poor people are going through in the US and UK well all over the world really, it’s either floods or fires 🥲.
Not as many beans or tomatoes this year but we are happy with the results. Have a fab week and hope it’s calmer 🙏
I just love your garden!!
Fab update Ali. Warm here today but rain set for days come next week.
Stay warm 😊 🙌🏽
Rach 💚
Ah thanks Rach always so nice to hear from you and Eric especially now as your so busy. It’s very iffy weather wise here with super cold mornings and night. We too are due rain but hey it’s Oct 🤷♀️
@@myrustygarden yep! Everything's damp for the foreseeable 🤪
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You have a great variety of tomatoes 🍅 👍 Bean cathedral sounds amazing. This year we could harvest so many beans my husband was really happy. I wipe my hands on my clothes all the time. So when I arrive in the garden I normally change my clothes so that it doesn't matter when they get dirty. The bees 🐝 sleep on the flowers 🌻sometimes until the sun ☀️ comes out again in the morning. Have a great week as well Ali. Greetings Heidi 👩🌾🌻
The colours of various tomatoes just fascinates me but some definitely let you down. So far these have all been ok except those roisennette pocketbook they were blah. My beans were a bit of a let down not by flavour we just didn’t seem to harvest as many this year so I ha ha have a plan to grow a lot more next season spread around a bit. Tomatoes I’m going to do less but plants and try a few dwarf varieties I can do in the poly. Bees were fantastic as always to just watch 🐝🐝. Have a spectacular week Heidi and happy gardening 🧑🌾
Those Peppers need more summer. Sedum is great for the late feeding the Bees and the garden is looking good in this season i
Don’t we all Mike 🤣 it dropped to 4c last night and a whomping 6c in the morning it the sun is out so I’ll maybe put on a coat and shovel manure on a bed 😉 or not 🤣
Those tomatoes are gorgeous. Sunflower is besutiful. Your garden still looks awesome.
Thank you so much 😊 Faye it has gotten cold now so definitely need to get ready for winter 🥶
@@myrustygarden its true. Same here.my tomatoes are been cut back already. Difinitely cannot tolerate a little cold.by dahlias are still standing.and just been planting fall crops myself. Trying to get some more produce before winter sits.
Tomatoes are doing wonderfully well 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you Dipak as you know I love sending seed all over so,if you ever want to try anything please let me know. I have some Kelsae onion seed I’m sending a few people for Pete’s grow challenge too, let me know if you want to try them. Apparently they can grow up to 15lb 🤣🤣 the onions not the seed
Hi Ali, good luck with the giant onion growing, the storing toms in newspaper has worked well.
Let me know if you want to join in you’ll just have to send me your address on instagram 👍. Tomatoes are doing amazing as once they start ripening I can just leave them in the open on the table 🍅🍅
Hi Ali lovely to see the 🐝 resting before start of there day
Lia has sedum in her garden which gets covered in 🐝 they love it ,
Hope you don't have the rat back again this winter , hearing you mention broad beans reminds me I need to get on and sow mine .
I love the sedum and I would have a field of it 😜 if I could. It’s turned right fall like now and raining. We actually 😱 turned on the furnace yesterday but only to take off the chill in the house. I’ve had to pinch out my broad beans twice now so hopefully they will do well this winter.
Hope you are both well and staying positive ❤️ have a lovely week
Hi Ali those tomatoes are ripping up nicely and a really good selection of seeds to, have a great week Tracy 😊
I am quite happy Tracy they ripened and only 1 went mushy so I put it in water to save seed 😂😂, now if I could only say for sure what kind it is.
@@myrustygarden I tried paper labels on my red pots in the pollytunnel , most were unreadable too
@@gardentothekitchenwithtracy 🤦♀️ always something isn’t it 😂
Your garden is like a mini garden centre!! I ripen tomatoes just by leaving them in the kitchen and they seem to do ok 😉
Funny enough I did all three methods and it seems to be better or worse depending on if they are actually a wee bit blush already. I like the oh heck just leave them on the counter method best 🤣🤣
59lk nice video sharing 👌 👍
Thank you so much 😊 always appreciated 👍
Good morning Ali I'm sat supping coffee with your update entertaining me before i have to get ready for work ❤. my peppers are flowering as well 😅
What a crazy year hey Stell, tomatoes that don’t ripen in loads of sun, peppers that think Sept is July 🤦♀️ but all good as it’s fun to keep at it. Have a fab week stay safe 🥰
I tell you i am going to enjoy next year’s growing season so much more as i won’t have study commitments hopefully the weather will celebrate by being fantastic 😄
Loving the sedum as do the bees. Looks like you have loads of toms to go in the freezer. Things are looking lovely Ali. All the best. Mags
Thanks so much 😊 it’s a “hey do you want some tomatoes” kind of day as I head to visit my daughter. But she loves it. Hope it’s warm there in your video looks like we have similar weather clear but super cold 🥶
Hi Ali, I put copper tape around my dahlias this year and it really worked for me! I mean around the pots not the actual plants, ha, ha.
I am going to order more tape but I think a thicker one this year. I did use some last year but it was so narrow. I’m torn between pulling them all up out of the pots or leaving in pots and taking inside. Only concern is last year even in the poly tunnel it dropped to minus 14c 🥶🥶🥶
Nice garden
Thank you for stopping by Lina 👍
Just love it Ali stay good you 2 🤣🤣🤣❤❤❤
Thank you Michael and Merrill it is cold this week 4c so catching up on comments and videos sound a plan 🤭
Is this September or June? Crazy gardening year all over it seems. All we can do is adapt and grow. Looks like autumn has well and truly set in here. Keep on sowing.
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Oh 🥶🥶 it dropped to 4c last night Andy and I don’t like it 🤣 but then other than a polar bear 🐻❄️ who does. Hoping to get lots of jobs like manuring the beds etc done before it gets too wet though as it will.
Have a super week ahead and keep warm and dry 🥶🌞
@@myrustygarden oh no 🥶 Monthly outlook here is for cold and wet October. Time for a bit of replanning 😆
hey maam im new here what nice garden have a great day
Thanks for coming 🙏
Hey Ali, you still have loads of greenery, we are basically nearly finished and nearly at the end of the season. I can send you some Ailsae seeds Ali if you want some. You still have plenty of tomatoes on the go. 🥰
Much appreciated Jimmy Mark (Ganggang) is sending me some and I have sent some seed for Kalsae to a few 😉😉 over the pond growers. Have an amazing day and hope itsss warm one ❤️
@@myrustygarden Ali we havent ha d a warm day in the last week but we have had plenty of rain. If you feel you need more Ailsae seed let me know 🥰
Your flowers are all looking gorgeous over there. The temperature fluctuations are crazy this time of year aren’t they.
Have a lovely week Ali ❤
I’m quite happy with the flowers although I will need to tidy soon so I can get my bulbs in 😂. It is supposed to rain tomorrow but today is sunny and 18c 🤦♀️ it’s up and down like a yo-yo 🪀. Have a fab weekend and hope it’s a good one 👍
Hi Ali. Caterpillars are master of disguise. I'd resow again. You're ahead of me with Kelsae lol. Still nice and warm there at 25 degrees. I had to laugh about you wiping your hands on your clothes. I know that from somewhere lol. At least it rained for you. Could it be you were wafting your hands for cobwebs lol. I'm taking part with Petes grow-off too. Heavy morning dew here. Suns out 15 degrees Thu 3.10. Rat BNB lol. Great carrots 🥕 Elaine 🍁🐿🍂🌱🌸🌼
Oh lord I couldn’t believe how small they start out 🤦🏼♀️ no wonder we miss so many. It’s ranging from 4c mornings to 18c afternoon but rains tomorrow. The onion grow off should be fun 🤩 I’m doing a kalsae vs ailsa pond crossing version 😂. Carrot rescue complete and I’ll do some in buckets 👍👍. Have a great day Elaine and happy growing
Nice carrot harvest! I am getting impatient with the root crops, but here in my Michigan USDA Zone 6A garden they usually are best harvested after they're covered with a light snow and the soil is starting to freeze.
I’m glad I could get to the carrots 🥕 before too much damage was done. But yes root veg were not as good this year and I had terrible leaf miner issues. I am hoping a cold winter will help kill off some 🤞. I’m assuming Michigan will be getting cold soon, we are getting a little cooler but ok so far. Have a great week ahead 🙏
@@myrustygarden September & October are always a gamble hear. Some years we get all the way to November before a hard freeze. Other years we get snow flurries around the end of September. This year, the first half of October at least is expected to be warmer than usual, although we know better than to bet on it LOL
Ha ha I do exactly the same Ali rub my hands on my cloths always stinking dirty coming home from the allotment 😂😂
Bad habit but hey we’re gardeners not hygienists 🤣. I was just saying to Emma at least I don’t wipe them on Gerald’s clothes 😱
looks cold there alison, look forward to seeing how you do with the onions its going to be a fun comp
Sent you some 15lb variety of onion seed 🤞🤞🤞
The onions get to 15 lb not the seeds 🤣🤣🤣
@@myrustygarden no way thank you so much Alison I need to start sending you bits back
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I’m totally ok Duncan but I will definitely let you know if there’s something I can’t get here 👍👍
I love how many Vegepods you have! I've only got one but would love to get more when finances allow.
I bought them all from marketplace on FB and although not cheap much less than new. I have a bad back so they work better than the in ground beds.
Hope you have a safe week I hear a “hurricane” is heading to the UK 😱😱
@@myrustygarden a hurricane! Eeeek!! I better go check the weather app and see what's going on. Thanks for the heads up.
Hi ali finally catching up ❤
Every year i try to improve on the labels 🏷 and fail miserably.
My method is the bananna for ripening.
11:42 im the same for dirty clothes 😂 i have a pink hoody and ots manky with me wiping my hands etc 😂
Your dhalias are beautiful 😍
I grew some from seed and mine flowered im leaving the tubers in the ground some day dig up but il see how they go.
Oh those bloody labels I was so careful to make sure I put one near every plant and 90% of them faded. So on Steve’s (Digwell) advice I paid a bit for the permanent markers he uses. All the tomatoes are now ripe and processed which is sad because it means no more big fresh sliced and grilled on toast. The dahlias I keep dead heading and they are still flowering but I think I’ll move the pots to covered patio for winter and pray 😂 they all survive.
I hope you and Carl are well and the rains have let up for camping 🏕️
Still plenty goiing on. The year has been a totally weird one this year, some things good, some bad. oh well, onwards and upwards!
That’s the gardeners attitude Jason we deal with what we do and simply make new plans 👍👍 I love that about gardening. It has gone cold here so more indoor sorting and saving etc. Hope you had a fab time at Malvern and look forward to seeing everyone’s videos 🥶🌞
@myrustygarden I took the opportunity to not film at Malvern and just enjoy it. Didn't really buy much either, just lots of garlic and some seeds.
What type are they Ali? 😁 Aah, thought the eggs might have come in on something 😬 Our pepper is still growing in the polytunnel but we'll be getting frost in the next few weeks. Good selection of seeds there. We had a dead rat on the doorstep yesterday, I suspect the cat 🤔 Cheers 😊😊🌵🌵
The ones I can send you for onions are a variety called Kalsae and can apparently grow up to 15 lbs. just let me know if you’re interested 👍👍.
Our cat used to bring me snakes into the house and sit proudly displaying them on the fireplace 🤦♀️
@@myrustygarden Aww, that's lovely of you to offer Ali, we already have some Kelsae seeds though. I plant them on Boxing Day here. I organised an onion growing competition on our gardening forum some years ago. We've since started our own gardening forum (with the help of a few others) might be an idea to start one up on that too 🙂
Ali that's a interesting looking vent on the front of your polytunnel, does it work? never seen them here in the UK 🌱🌱🙏🙏
Yes it does! It’s a barn wind driven vent. We bought it at a second hand store years ago 👍. It’s rain ☔️ and cold 🥶 here for a few days so I am catching up on videos 🤣
Hi Ali great video 🎉
Thank you 🙏 Carl
I love it! ‘The labels are all fake’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤦♀️ I have on Steve Digwell advice bought some permanent markers, I’ll use the label maker for something else 😂😂
Hi, new to your channel! Great video, thanks for sharing 😊
Oh welcome 🙏 I hope you always enjoy 😊.
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That yellow thing you took out of the tomato bag, I hate them, I don't even like saying their name, I call them " yellow bendy things" 😂😂😂
It's like bloody winter here now, I hope you still get lots of sunshine...🐄🐄🐄
🤣🤣 Gerald has a yellow bendy thing every day (wink wink 😜 no not that one) because he takes high blood pressure medication and it depletes his potassium.
It’s cold and raining here 😱😱 we actually put the furnace on yesterday to warm up the house 😢 summer is well and truly over
Great update Ali, I haven't been on TH-cam much so I'm sorry if I am asking things that you have covered in recent vlogs but when did you get some vegepods? Did you get them to combat the slugs? I am most envious, I would love a vegepod. I will just live vicariously through you 😂
Similarly why did you get rid of the beds in the brassica cage? I remember your rat hotel from last year, fingers crossed it doesn't move back in this year.
Have a great weekend 😁
All good Bethan I totally understand and only worry if people fall off the face of the earth 🌍.
Ask away 👍. I bought one for “lettuce” as my old wooden cedar beds were in need of some tlc. While looking I found one on marketplace almost brand new (sadly owner passed always after one seasons use and his daughter didn’t garden). So she just wanted a good home for it at a reasonable price. Well then the hunt was in to find more 🤭🤭 my addiction knows no bounds luckily only for garden things. So now I have 4 medium size and 1 large size and I am hoping to combat a lot of stuff that likes to eat my food. Plus they are a godsend to my back. There are going to be 2 pods in the cage because the drainage in that corner was awful it attracted slugs and moss like swampville, I’m again 🤞🤞 hoping to keep el ratto 🐀 out of my winter veg.
Anyway great to see you again I hope you are all well and enjoying some sunshine 🌞
@@myrustygarden Sunshine? What's that? Raining pouring here, tomorrow is meant to be good though 😊
Blimey, that was a good find, they do look like very good pieces of kit, I hope they work well for you 😊
Yhea just so mant flowers are late this year. But well they give some sparks of happy
It does look nice to see flowers at this time and the bees are happy 🥰
Garden is still producing for you. were going down to 40's at night later this week, so I will be doing a huge tom harvest.
Peppers will need to come out as well.
I want to leave the red swan beans on the plants now to form seed. Do you think I have enough time?
It has now tanked at night 4c last night 🥶🥶 so yep I think the season is done. I think as long as the weather isn’t too wet they should be fine but hey I can always send you some 🥰. I’m manuring beds and tucking up things now too but seed sorting and plans are still in the go 👍👍
@@myrustygarden We are starting with toms today. Pulled 2 and totally hacked 2 back, trying to get 4 more days of ripening. One problem is the Dr. Wychee's and Lucid Gem are really for fresh eating. They aren't cooker's. So I guess it's important to have a mix of toms.
I'm dehydrating peppers but not sure it's a solution for the rest as they take eons to dry out.
I have gardening clothes and ordinary clothes because I know I will get mucky in the garden, in fact I thought everyone did that 😅. Such great tomatoes Ali , they are really pretty! Today I plan to plant garlic and set up another leaf collecting bag if the rain holds off 🤞. I hope you have a good week and lovely autumnal weather😊
I never used to wear “garden clothes” but I catch myself on fencing or wire and wipe my dirty hands on my clothes so Gerald said I need to stop wearing my good clothes 🤣🤣. It’s is super cold this week in fact for the first the furnace was put on 🥶. I’m waiting for the 🍂 to fall for my mould bin too. Have a fab day stay safe and be careful out there 🥰
I've followed you and put my toms in bags with bananas. Mine are all cherry types. We have also had an incredible amount of rain floods in many areas and rivers all on red warnings they're so high. Fortunately we're on high ground. Love the snoozing bees. Hope the caterpillars keep off the seedlings for you. 🌧️
Excellent Tracey I hope they do well, all mine are done now and processed or on the counter for fresh eating. It has rained a bit but no flooding 🙏. I was just saying to Gerald so sad around the world things are either burning or flooding and causing huge damage 🥲. Bees are so cool I could watch them all day. Caterpillars dispatched 👍
Lovely video Ali! I hope all of your tomatoes will ripen there. Good selection too. Think i might grow Alice's dream next year as everyone has been talking about how nice it is.
I bet it feels nice to clear the garden for autumn? I still think its a great idea having the panels red as you will appreciate the colour in autumn/winter. Such a smart move!
I have ordered some manure and compost so should arrive in the next week or two. Hubby will be pleased as they are in 50l bags so half the size we normally get. Last year we bought half a ton in a big dumpy bag to include filling the new sandpit bed and hubby had to wheel barrow it in through the house to the garden. I keep explaining to him that it is cheaper to buy in bulk and saves us going to B&Q. I got these new bags from amazon so hopefully it is ok and as they are smaller i can help lift them.
I sowed and resowed cabbages, kohlrabi and purple sprouting broccoli. I baked the soil this time in case it is fungus gnats and not the seeds. My main issue has been with the sugar snap peas. Nik said i should contact the company and see what they say. I have resown them so will see if anything comes up now before contacting them.
Good selection of autumn crops there. I love the varieties you have of different stuff.
I know some people wear fancy clothes for YT but i normally just go out in T-shirt and jogging trousers, or a long dress in summer.
Talking of fancy clothes, i saw you all dolled up on Danny's live! Check you out! Did you have a perm or is your hair naturally curly? I found it funny as you had the same clock my Dad has and i knew the era as my step mum used to wear those dresses! Do you remember what the occasion was? I knew it was you straight away. How did he get hold of that picture?
I have got so fed up with slugs and snails this year i went out in the pouring rain as i forgot to bring in some punnet of raspberries and saw a bunch of them. Kerry would probably killed me but i stepped on them instead of putting them in the salt bath. We have a toad somewhere in the garden so some easy meals for them. They were all gone the next day. Saves putting even more in the composter or the salty spa.
When we went to get carrots last Christmas i think, we pulled what we thought would be big carrots, only to find stubs. There were grubs or caterpillars hiding in the soil feasting on them from underneath!
Feel really bad for the Florida people and also people in Nepal, etc that are experiencing floods and hurricanes! Can't imagine what they are going through atm.
Anyway, take care Ali hope you have a lovely week! All the best! x
Hi Tracy I hope you are doing well this week. It has done a big 360 here and gone quite cold 🥶 it was 4c this morning. I have manured 1 and a half of my beds but 🤦♀️ still waiting for the asparagus to die back so I can do that long one. Oh yikes I can’t imagine having to wheelbarrow it all especially through the house. Hopefully he’s happier with the bags. I heard that heating up the soil in the oven does work for gnats so 🤞 you can get ahead of them. One of the sugar snap varieties did really well and the other is leggy so I don’t know what is wrong with things 🤣.
Yes when I think of the garden I have to remember how blessed we are that things like hurricanes are not here. I don’t know how these poor people stay so positive I think I’d crawl into a ball and just cry.
Have a marvellous week Tracy hope it’s sunny 🌞 and not too cold 🥶
@@myrustygarden When we took out the old kitchen and reinstalled the new one just before we had our child, we setup the old kitchen in the workshop for temp DIY stuff but we saved some cupboard side panels for ramps into the house and into the garden through the utility area. Downstairs, apart from the living room is titled as we do a shoes off at door thing plus we also still had our fur daughter at the time.
We now have racks in the workshop now and the old fridge freezer they left behind. Also have a small camping freezer my Dad no longer wanted. We are trying to clear out baby stuff and we are now at the stage of things to be sold. The workshop could probably do with a clear out too but i have a lot of DIY and gardening tools. We have a mini plastic shed outside too for the mower etc.
Yes baking is the key. I normally do 130c fan for 30 mins. This year i tried a YTer method of using boiling water. They normally live in a very dry location, which is why i am no longer using that method again. This is why i think it is important to know the area's climate as well as zones. If you have compost outside and you get a deep freeze, then you should be ok but again warm, wet soil will have a party of beasts growing over winter.
I should be ok lifting 40/50l bags if it's not wet. I use to lift more before camel broke it's back or whatever the saying is about straw! lol What with my curved spine, illnesses over the years, c section and the cin3 treatment of surgeons playing lucky dip inside of me, has spent me even with pilates. Chiropractors helped but expensive as not on NHS.
Yes only two of this new pack of sugar snaps peas has germinated outside and inside! I bought Delikett again as they did well before.
Me too with hurricanes! I remember the Oct '87 on here in London and seeing all big old oak trees going down in the road along the heath and blocking the "main road". I could have still walked to school but was cool to have some time off as the teachers couldn't get in. I think the worst flood along the Thames was in '54 or something near the time of the "big freeze". I think that is another reason to clear things out and be more organised and prepared.
I only have a couple of my Mum's things to remember her by but would be heartbroken if i were to lose them.
Some below par temps and rain this week but i just want autumn now. I haven't been out in a day or two and the tomatoes seem ok. I think i am just mentally checking out early on this years summer crops now and focusing on trying to get the autumn ones to perk up and do something.
We are still harvesting raspberries and i'm checking the one full sized red kuri squash. It is still orange with strips and not gone the full deep orange yet.
Mystery supermarket potato pots are thriving and going wild still. Not much of a show from Melody's. I sowed some spring onions in the tubs, so not completely vacant.
Hope you get some fresh air to blow away the fogs, etc x
@@AnyKeyLady it’s cold here as of this week, well starts out cold and then warms up to a balmy 14 to 17c ☺️, rain is in the forecast for a few on and off days too but that’s ok. Our flood was 2021 super heavy rains caused rivers to burst their dikes and landslides to wipe out roads. First time in my lifetime that the freeway was closed cutting us off from the rest of the country for weeks, it was under several feet of water.
But Mother Nature does what she does and we can mainly just learn to work around it.
Hope you have a fab week ahead and seeds germinated ok 🤞🤞
Lovely tomatoes. I know what you mean about the labels. I had the same machine and they have just wiped off. I’m trying wooden spoons next year with permanent marker as labels I made out of wood with marker I can still make it out. I wipe my hands on my clothes too 😂
Thanks Ems the tomatoes took a while but so far only one really went mushy and I put it in a container of water to save seed 😂, silver lining moment. Yes I will use the nimbot for inside seedlings but back to permanent marker for outside. Drives Gerald crazy when I do it but hey at least I don’t wipe my hands on his clothes 🤣🤣🤣
Hi Ali, Caterpillars and Slugs i hate em they just ruin all the good work we do as for the Caterpillars just squish em and give to the Birds or do it without the squish, as for the Slugs just pour a little Salt on them wait a couple of hours then scrape up and give to the Birds, it works for me.
Weather here has just been crap Rain Rain and more Rain, i'll be growing web feet at this rate, jokes aside we are not as bad as down South as some homes are flooded and businesses as well, where i live there has been Road closures and even the Trains have been stopped with a Bus replacement service put on for the day, the reason was that the tracks are flooded oh well makes a change from leaves on the tracks, who knew that leaves could stop a Train (yes that did happen) TC.
Barry (UK)
We work so hard about the garden and there is so many other things they could eat 🤦♀️. Birds food ✅. It has gone quite cold here and we have had to put the furnace on but barely any rain. It is October so we should start seeing more rain ☔️ in the coming days. Yes we have been watching the news on the floods and damage it is quite sad to see people lose so much so my whinging about a few caterpillars 🐛 seems petty. Our raised transit system shuts down at least twice a winter for snow 🤦♀️ on the tracks so I can believe leaves do it.
Have a super week stay safe and dry 🥰
Man all my radishes were eaten this year!
I’m giving them a try again 🤣 they may not get too big bit so far so good 👍👍
Thanks Laura 🥶🌞🇨🇦