Your humor is very good for breaking up what can be an overload of awesome information and things you inspire me to do!! I am putting most of what you teach this spring!
Hello, I loved this episode and love your channel. You have inspired and guided me so much. I have no idea what I’m doing but loving every minute of gardening and growing my own fruit and veg. I simply can’t wait for your next video. Bog love Rob.
Hi Eli and Kate, Thank you for another shout out and it was nice to see you do really have carrots, small ones I'll admit but carrots, in fact, I had some in fro last August that didn't look much bigger, I do not like the look of that pot of carrots you showed in your outside raised bed, I think there is something wrong there, anyway that shout I will take as a near birthday pressy that is coming up quite soon, Take care.
Thanks for a previous vid on hot composting and making up own soil. This week (were in lanarkshire) emptied 3/4 of compost bit, dried out in sun, sieved and mixed with the coco and perlite, never have I been so excited to make my own soil. (First time) lots of plants got potted this week and look happy 😃 save a right few quid too 👍🏼 thanks 🤩
Its been lovely down here for weeks, dare I say a little too warm for me to work in during the day. But good to see everything is coming along nicely for you. I got an allotment three weeks ago and juggling the jobs I need to do in the garden with going the allotment and digging that over! (made a good start, got 5 raised beds and 3 beds dug in the ground ready to go).
I have strawberries here in Sweden and they'll do just fine in winter. We get down to -20°c where I am. They always come back and produce with force during summer. But I plan to replace my plants every 4th or 5th year, for production purposes. They're actually in very poor soil, all I do is water, weed, and clean the dead leaves in spring. No fertilizer, no winter covers. They're incredibly easy.
Love the rockery out the front! Also love the doctor who t-shirt, I went to the doctor who tour in Cardiff years ago before it closed down, even got to go in the TARDIS!
So cool! We went to one in glasgow which I think was a smaller version. Kate went to stuff in Cardiff a few years ago when she was wokring there and brought me back lots of goodies :D I've been a bit of a whovian since I was young enough to find it scary. I'm the `tom Baker generation :D Jelly babies?????
Incredible update Eli! Jam packed! Everything looks so amazing, I look forward to the arrival of my marigolds thanks 😂 Agree with you on redcurrants and blackcurrants, foul unless you make them into a jam or something. Cannot believe the size of your Courgettes, mine have only just germinated! And you have carrots! I wish I'd started some in the greenhouse at the same time as you. Really cool seeing how the power has allowed you to surge ahead this year, be interesting to see your "thoughts" video later on 💭🤔
We're still waiting on our first electric bill so lets see how enthusiastic I am when that comes in :D You know I'll regret the courgettes when I'm struggling for somewhere to keep them next month when they are enormous
Could you perhaps nip off the ends so the tree is not trying so hard to save those bits. I really like the insert to show the garden it puts it all into perspective. Thanks for the tour and as always 🐝 safe 🇨🇦✌️💐🥕🥬🧑🌾
Great getting to see everything that's going on and how it's all progressing! So much of your stuff is way ahead of what I've got here - you'll be cropping stuff in no time!! 😃
It's my first year planting bulbs, we found some crocosmia on the allotment and I went mad and bought ALL of the bulbs. Thank you! I had no idea I had to dead head the daffs xxx
😂😂😂 all of them?????? Technically you don't have to deadhead them, just if you want them to spend their time focussing on the bulb for next year rather than making new ones :D
A Canadian here. I remember as a kid in Ontario in the spring finding wild strawberries blooming through the snow. No leaves, but flowers. And if memory serves, we were picking the fruit in late June.
@@eliandkate Well, where I live now, on Vancouver Island, those blackberries your mollycoddling are an invacious species. (BTW you're correct, those little branches off the main stem are berry producers. Don't cut them off. The plant is inherently a messy soul.) Not a problem finding as many blackberries as you can fit into the freezer here, but, you really have to be ready and stoic enough to wade into a sea of sharp thorns that is often over your head to get them. Having said that, the thorns don't seem to be an issue for the locals - you learn to wade into the mess in shorts and a t-shirt. You get used to it. The scratches are usually gone in 5 or 6 days. :-) It is after all free and delicious food.
Yeah it's the same here, blackberries and raspberry grow in every piece of uncultivated land, every hedgerow. I suspect if you guys class them as invasive, it was emigrating Evots who brought them 😀 we do love our brambles. Luckily mine are a thornless cultivar but theyd done so well since that spring video. We had loads if fruit this year and in Sept they were all pruned and tied in along the fence. Can't wait to see how they do next year.
Interesting how our temps differ. We've had 10C / 11C every day for weeks. It's been a sunny Spring, though the air from the north is cool. I'm on the Dingle Peninsula in Kerry.
we are much more up and down some 7C days and some 18C days but the nights are still quite cold and lots of frost. It's one of the reasons I started blogging and youtubing, because lots of folks didn't realise that gardening was very individual to your garden and just because a TV presenter or someone online says they are doing something or "you" should do something - doesn't mean it's the right time for you personally 😀😀😀
@@eliandkate Yes, I totally agree. I've become a complete weather nerd. If there's any sign of a cold night on goes the greenhouse heater. I've just put out most of my plants into the garden. Strawberries are a disaster......my soil in pots was too rich, manure, and I overwatered. I'm starting again, outdoors now.
Thank you. I am loving your videos. By accident I have GS And GD tomatoes ( part of a 6 variety pack) so looking forward to comparing. My greenhouse only works till the ash tree comes into leaf, so the poor darlings are being hardened off already to go outside. I can just about get the quadgrow in and out so long as I don't fill them too full.....as soon as the mulch caps and canes arrive I'm going to have to deploy fleece, I think. :-)
Don't compare too much, it's never healthy for us and we convince ourselves of all sorts of terrible things 😀 Not sure where you are in the world but be careful with the notion of hardening off tomatoes. Tomatoes are a hot climate crop and can't be "hardened off". It's either the right temperature for them or it isn't. Although being in cooler temperatures may not kill them off (within reason), they will suffer if they are consistently below 10c (the plants stops absorbing nutrients) and ideally need to be above 15C to develop and set fruit. So just be extra careful with your plant babies - after all, you've put all this effort into growing them 😀
You are of course correct. I have really noticed how fast they have been growing indoors compared with what I expect outdoors (in proper summer, in Hampshire uk which is a bit more balmy than Edinburgh). The masterplan is to get a proper greenhouse. ... .but not this year sadly. Having a greenhouse is proper grown-up!!!
You should do a video just showing off all the tulips and giving us the variety's names, they are gorgeous. I am doing my front garden so I had to dig mine and put them in pots and they are just coming into bloom and the ones I thought were dead are colour cracking, so that's good. I really love your rockery! Perhaps in the future you could share your process of making it and share any tips and favourite well performing plants in our rainy weather and some that didn't work for you. I am going to do one along my driveway and I'm so confused on how to start haha. Your garden is looking amazing. Hopefully this cold nights will end soon for us all.
@@eliandkate Seems like an eternity :'D By the way, I bought a sungold seedling from dobbies to grow along with you, I haven't really tried it, so I'm looking forwards to it. Hopefully you can put up a taste test when the time comes and share how the taste and texture compares to the varieties you normally grow. Picked up a globe artichoke as well, thinking it'll look nice in the front garden amongst the flowers.
Great video and so nice to see the front gardens. I’ll be planting carrots in the greenhouse next year!!! Check out your video...did you call the Roma plant indeterminate? Btw Sun Gold were my favorite cherry last year!!
Downside of my being dyslexic is I'll mix up or forget words, 3sp3cially if I'm feeling under thencosh, like filming. Luckily you guys all know me well enough 😃
Hello. Love watching your videos on TH-cam... quick question. At exactly 20:34 you are beside your raised bed. The blue tubing is going into a bracket of some sort. Do you know what the bracket is called? Or where I can buy it in the UK? Or did it come as part of a kit? I've loads of the blue tubing and I would like to make something similar. Thank you.
Hey Robert those are kits I bought from www.quickcrop.co.uk/ (you get 10% off on their website with the code ELIANDKATE) I did a video about the kits a few years ago that might be useful: th-cam.com/video/bkg0USAf_5g/w-d-xo.html
Hi, you probably know this but with strawberries, the middle of the flower will go black if the frost has killed the oncoming fruit. Can I ask what you fertilise you blueberry with please
Frost is going to be a pain for lots of folk this time of year. I don't use specific feeds, instead, I try to use generally balanced fertilisers if I feel the soil needs it.
I know, he got a shout out from one of the big TH-cam gardening channels who asked their followers to go check out his channel 😃 It's awesome, he's a really good guy so it was brilliant to see that happen.
Great update, can I suggest putting some lemon juice in the watering can for your blueberry plants and left over lemon skins can also be used as a mulch too. I have done this a fews weeks ago and my blueberries have fruit growing already 🙂 I got this advice on an Allorment Facebook group I joined. Good luck with your blueberries 🙂
I have been so excited to show you all the colour this month - April is fab!
I love your property! Everything is jam packed with comfy reading spots, very restful and beautiful plants. You should be extremely proud! 🥰
We are... We love our lol Little home
Love the way you present things and the funny comments. ‘An a feel a little bit guilty …’ lol. New subscriber 🎉from the Scottish Borders. ❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it Beverly
I have good news… this is actually an old video so you have lots more to catch up with us 😍😍😍
Your humor is very good for breaking up what can be an overload of awesome information and things you inspire me to do!! I am putting most of what you teach this spring!
Hello,
I loved this episode and love your channel. You have inspired and guided me so much. I have no idea what I’m doing but loving every minute of gardening and growing my own fruit and veg.
I simply can’t wait for your next video.
Bog love Rob.
Awww thank you so much Rob. I'm so glad you're enjoying the videos and finding them useful.
Hi Eli and Kate, Thank you for another shout out and it was nice to see you do really have carrots, small ones I'll admit but carrots, in fact, I had some in fro last August that didn't look much bigger, I do not like the look of that pot of carrots you showed in your outside raised bed, I think there is something wrong there, anyway that shout I will take as a near birthday pressy that is coming up quite soon, Take care.
Wooohooooo birthday fun!!!!
Plans?
@@eliandkate No plans other than to keep breathing and at 74 enjoying my growing area, Cheers, Take care.
😃😃😃
I want in the greenhouse!
I don’t want to wait!
yes I know how you do it.
I love your garden😻
ha ha ha!
I get the same thing about the raised beds or flowers or specific plants etc. We all have our little things that are our favourite :D
Thanks for a previous vid on hot composting and making up own soil. This week (were in lanarkshire) emptied 3/4 of compost bit, dried out in sun, sieved and mixed with the coco and perlite, never have I been so excited to make my own soil. (First time) lots of plants got potted this week and look happy 😃 save a right few quid too 👍🏼 thanks 🤩
Fantastic! It is proper exciting the first time you do it and it makes your compost go way further which has been a blessing this last year or so.
Its been lovely down here for weeks, dare I say a little too warm for me to work in during the day. But good to see everything is coming along nicely for you.
I got an allotment three weeks ago and juggling the jobs I need to do in the garden with going the allotment and digging that over! (made a good start, got 5 raised beds and 3 beds dug in the ground ready to go).
That's heaps, well done you!!!
What a delightful channel!! You are a delightful host! Your garden is amazing! Cheers form KY, USA!!! 🌿🪴💚
Thank you so much!
Glad you have joined us :D
I have strawberries here in Sweden and they'll do just fine in winter. We get down to -20°c where I am. They always come back and produce with force during summer. But I plan to replace my plants every 4th or 5th year, for production purposes. They're actually in very poor soil, all I do is water, weed, and clean the dead leaves in spring. No fertilizer, no winter covers. They're incredibly easy.
awesome
Great update can hardly wait until May 🤩
Me neither! May is usually just soooooo colourful
What a great update thanks Eli
Awwww glad you enjoyed it
Great video, as always, looking forward to your update re the neem cake meal 😃
me too..... I hope it works cause it's much more pleasant.
Love the rockery out the front! Also love the doctor who t-shirt, I went to the doctor who tour in Cardiff years ago before it closed down, even got to go in the TARDIS!
So cool!
We went to one in glasgow which I think was a smaller version. Kate went to stuff in Cardiff a few years ago when she was wokring there and brought me back lots of goodies :D
I've been a bit of a whovian since I was young enough to find it scary. I'm the `tom Baker generation :D
Jelly babies?????
Incredible update Eli! Jam packed! Everything looks so amazing, I look forward to the arrival of my marigolds thanks 😂 Agree with you on redcurrants and blackcurrants, foul unless you make them into a jam or something. Cannot believe the size of your Courgettes, mine have only just germinated! And you have carrots! I wish I'd started some in the greenhouse at the same time as you. Really cool seeing how the power has allowed you to surge ahead this year, be interesting to see your "thoughts" video later on 💭🤔
We're still waiting on our first electric bill so lets see how enthusiastic I am when that comes in :D
You know I'll regret the courgettes when I'm struggling for somewhere to keep them next month when they are enormous
Could you perhaps nip off the ends so the tree is not trying so hard to save those bits. I really like the insert to show the garden it puts it all into perspective. Thanks for the tour and as always 🐝 safe 🇨🇦✌️💐🥕🥬🧑🌾
I have no idea if that will help. We tried that last year but the tree still lost all its leaves
Great getting to see everything that's going on and how it's all progressing! So much of your stuff is way ahead of what I've got here - you'll be cropping stuff in no time!! 😃
Don't worry about other people's plants, just focus on what you're up to.
It might look like I'm way ahead but can I keep everything happy? 😊😊😊
What an incredible garden, lovely 🙂🙂👌👌
Thanks for visiting 😀
“Short Meadow”. I love it. Looking forward to the new season with you guys. 👏🏴👏🏴
bring it on
Great video! I look forward to your next video.
glad you enjoyed it!
I always am inspired after I watch your videos!! I missed Kate!
She’s in todays video
Actually properly in the whole video 😁
She didn’t use to appear in these older videos
It's my first year planting bulbs, we found some crocosmia on the allotment and I went mad and bought ALL of the bulbs. Thank you! I had no idea I had to dead head the daffs xxx
😂😂😂 all of them??????
Technically you don't have to deadhead them, just if you want them to spend their time focussing on the bulb for next year rather than making new ones :D
@@eliandkate if the other half asks, no it definitely wasn't all of them 😂. Thanks so much xxx
A Canadian here. I remember as a kid in Ontario in the spring finding wild strawberries blooming through the snow. No leaves, but flowers. And if memory serves, we were picking the fruit in late June.
Oh that would have been pretty exciting as a kid, bit more exciting than the raspberry or brambles we usually stumbled on as kids. 😀
@@eliandkate Well, where I live now, on Vancouver Island, those blackberries your mollycoddling are an invacious species. (BTW you're correct, those little branches off the main stem are berry producers. Don't cut them off. The plant is inherently a messy soul.) Not a problem finding as many blackberries as you can fit into the freezer here, but, you really have to be ready and stoic enough to wade into a sea of sharp thorns that is often over your head to get them. Having said that, the thorns don't seem to be an issue for the locals - you learn to wade into the mess in shorts and a t-shirt. You get used to it. The scratches are usually gone in 5 or 6 days. :-) It is after all free and delicious food.
Yeah it's the same here, blackberries and raspberry grow in every piece of uncultivated land, every hedgerow. I suspect if you guys class them as invasive, it was emigrating Evots who brought them 😀 we do love our brambles. Luckily mine are a thornless cultivar but theyd done so well since that spring video. We had loads if fruit this year and in Sept they were all pruned and tied in along the fence. Can't wait to see how they do next year.
hello Eli and Kate, Thanks for sharing your lovely garden tour with us and I look forward to Kate telling us the story about the Acer.
Glad you enjoyed it
Another brilliant informative video thanks Eli
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
Wow, a super update, thanks! Lots of great tips. :)
Glad it was helpful!
@@eliandkate Always! BTW, have you ever tried to take a pallet apart?
yup had to in order to make the strawberry planter. Some was ok and some bits a total nightmare
@@antonia5682 Yes, I took one apart to build a shoe rack in the shed and suffered with a really bad back for a month afterwards, never again.
eek!!!
Thank youuu !
I'd say thanks but I haven't done anything
Looks great.
Thanks! 😀
Interesting how our temps differ. We've had 10C / 11C every day for weeks. It's been a sunny Spring, though the air from the north is cool. I'm on the Dingle Peninsula in Kerry.
we are much more up and down some 7C days and some 18C days but the nights are still quite cold and lots of frost.
It's one of the reasons I started blogging and youtubing, because lots of folks didn't realise that gardening was very individual to your garden and just because a TV presenter or someone online says they are doing something or "you" should do something - doesn't mean it's the right time for you personally 😀😀😀
@@eliandkate Yes, I totally agree. I've become a complete weather nerd. If there's any sign of a cold night on goes the greenhouse heater.
I've just put out most of my plants into the garden. Strawberries are a disaster......my soil in pots was too rich, manure, and I overwatered. I'm starting again, outdoors now.
Thank you. I am loving your videos. By accident I have GS And GD tomatoes ( part of a 6 variety pack) so looking forward to comparing. My greenhouse only works till the ash tree comes into leaf, so the poor darlings are being hardened off already to go outside. I can just about get the quadgrow in and out so long as I don't fill them too full.....as soon as the mulch caps and canes arrive I'm going to have to deploy fleece, I think. :-)
Don't compare too much, it's never healthy for us and we convince ourselves of all sorts of terrible things 😀
Not sure where you are in the world but be careful with the notion of hardening off tomatoes. Tomatoes are a hot climate crop and can't be "hardened off". It's either the right temperature for them or it isn't.
Although being in cooler temperatures may not kill them off (within reason), they will suffer if they are consistently below 10c (the plants stops absorbing nutrients) and ideally need to be above 15C to develop and set fruit. So just be extra careful with your plant babies - after all, you've put all this effort into growing them 😀
You are of course correct. I have really noticed how fast they have been growing indoors compared with what I expect outdoors (in proper summer, in Hampshire uk which is a bit more balmy than Edinburgh).
The masterplan is to get a proper greenhouse. ... .but not this year sadly. Having a greenhouse is proper grown-up!!!
Oh if I remember rightly, Hampshire is glorious in summer... proper green gardens stuff :D
You should do a video just showing off all the tulips and giving us the variety's names, they are gorgeous. I am doing my front garden so I had to dig mine and put them in pots and they are just coming into bloom and the ones I thought were dead are colour cracking, so that's good. I really love your rockery! Perhaps in the future you could share your process of making it and share any tips and favourite well performing plants in our rainy weather and some that didn't work for you. I am going to do one along my driveway and I'm so confused on how to start haha. Your garden is looking amazing. Hopefully this cold nights will end soon for us all.
I'm counting down - our last frost date is 18th May so not long :D
@@eliandkate Seems like an eternity :'D
By the way, I bought a sungold seedling from dobbies to grow along with you, I haven't really tried it, so I'm looking forwards to it. Hopefully you can put up a taste test when the time comes and share how the taste and texture compares to the varieties you normally grow. Picked up a globe artichoke as well, thinking it'll look nice in the front garden amongst the flowers.
Wow, that's cool to wrap your garden for more heat. I have lots of that.
I must confess this is an old video so I've no idea what you're talking about :D
The plastic film/wrap around the hoop house to add more heat
Ha ha ha now I know why I was confused
That was from a whole different year… not the video it’s saying you commented on 😂😂😂
TH-cam is quirky
I love all your video’s. ❤
🥰😍🥰😍
Great video and so nice to see the front gardens. I’ll be planting carrots in the greenhouse next year!!! Check out your video...did you call the Roma plant indeterminate? Btw Sun Gold were my favorite cherry last year!!
Oh I hope I didn't, it's a determinate
@@eliandkate Ha ha yes you did, it confused me a bit too 😂
Downside of my being dyslexic is I'll mix up or forget words, 3sp3cially if I'm feeling under thencosh, like filming. Luckily you guys all know me well enough 😃
😊 Tarragon looks good!
It did. :D
Awww so mean taking the mick out of jbs marigolds hehe!!! I just watched his vid earlier!
Hee hee hee I know. JB and I are friends so he saw the clip before it went live, don't worry.
🙈🙈🙈
Hello. Love watching your videos on TH-cam... quick question. At exactly 20:34 you are beside your raised bed. The blue tubing is going into a bracket of some sort. Do you know what the bracket is called? Or where I can buy it in the UK? Or did it come as part of a kit? I've loads of the blue tubing and I would like to make something similar. Thank you.
Hey Robert
those are kits I bought from www.quickcrop.co.uk/ (you get 10% off on their website with the code ELIANDKATE)
I did a video about the kits a few years ago that might be useful: th-cam.com/video/bkg0USAf_5g/w-d-xo.html
@@eliandkate thank you. I'll just order the kit probably easier. Thanks again.
Make sure you get your discount then 😃
Hi, you probably know this but with strawberries, the middle of the flower will go black if the frost has killed the oncoming fruit. Can I ask what you fertilise you blueberry with please
Frost is going to be a pain for lots of folk this time of year.
I don't use specific feeds, instead, I try to use generally balanced fertilisers if I feel the soil needs it.
Trying growing the corguette up a trellis on the wall I’m trying that this year ✌️ (he has jumped to over 2k subs)
I know, he got a shout out from one of the big TH-cam gardening channels who asked their followers to go check out his channel 😃
It's awesome, he's a really good guy so it was brilliant to see that happen.
Why Not Chickens? I’m looking to raise more poultry and which may be best. Thank as always great vid!! NJ
I'm not a fan
Great update, can I suggest putting some lemon juice in the watering can for your blueberry plants and left over lemon skins can also be used as a mulch too. I have done this a fews weeks ago and my blueberries have fruit growing already 🙂 I got this advice on an Allorment Facebook group I joined. Good luck with your blueberries 🙂
Hello from arizona usa ! What part of Scotland are you at ?
We are in East Lothian 😀
What variety is the acer in the front?
It's aN acern palmatum bloodgood 😃