Your garden allotment is looking great for January 2025. The sunshine looks very welcoming. It has been so cold where I live. One day we will have sunshine and the next day cloudy grey skies. I am so looking forward to spring and more sunshine. I enjoyed watching your video today. Have a great week. Take care. ❤
I am not a professional physicist or ice scientist (glaciologist) , but I do know ice stalagmites can form on a cloche if freezing temperatures cause water vapor from damp soil or the air to condense and freeze on cold spots, slowly building up layer by layer. Small formations may appear within a few hours, while larger ones can take days if freezing conditions and moisture remain consistent.
My little treat on a Tuesday evening watching what you’re up to. Far too cold this week to have been to my allotment apart from taking some veggie scraps for the compost. Really love the vlog Jessie x
Has your new neighbours been down working on their allotment? Why did you not bubble wrap the greenhouse this year? Lots of good bad and ugly but hey that’s gardening. Have a fab week hope it’s warmer, Ali 🥶🥶🌞🇨🇦
Your Mum has such a lovely smile. My Brussels look the same, pea sized and slugged but upwards and onwards, it’ll soon be spring. 🎉I cant sow my aubergine/ peppers till Feb but sowing the finger ones which hopefully mature a bit faster, fingers crossed
14°F [-10C] here in Michigan USA. Wind chill feels like -1°F [-18°C]. I was excited to see your post & quickly turned it on. Then out tge door to remove 4" of fresh fallen snow. Wishing we had your growing season! Take care.
Hi Jessie and your mum, aww, lovely Lil ❤ and the chickens too ❤ we have rhe same icy cold weather too, -4C overnight & 0C through the day 🥶 today it's 7C and feels like spring. Another great video. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
I'm sooooo ready for sunshine and warmer days . Not a fan of gray gloom and cold. I need to be starting seeds like you soon! ❤ 🍻 😊 your girlies are so pretty 😍
Last winter on the top of 2 buckets i had ice that formed i the shape of a sun dial . They were about 4-5 inches long and about 4 inches tall at the end of the raised point. No answers there !!! The angle defied any reasoning to me
Points for calling those ice formations stalagmites not stalagtites. I’m amazed at how mild your winters are in England. Here in southern Wisconsin, there’s nothing to do but shovel snow & try things indoors. So I put kale seeds in wet paper towel & some sprouted, so I’ve potted them up! They’ll go out on May Day. So grateful for your videos to tide me over.
🎉I grew eggplants last year for the first time-Casper and a patio sized purple that was mini, but prolific. There is a bit of a learning curve to trying new veg if you don’t know what to do with it. I seen those narrow ones also and think I have some seed. Need to try more recipes.
Okay, ice spikes form when water freezes in a confined space and leaves open areas where the water freezes underneath pushing freezing ice through the gap by the shear expansion or pressure. Not a science nerd but too curious to let it go so Googled it. Still having same freezing clear nights here in Texas. My potted garden plants enjoy freezing and thawing repeatedly all week. I also thought from watching you and the Potty Mouth gang that I would “stick” with the tried and true varieties but ended up buying fresh seeds after throwing out old seeds in stash. So, seed sowing will have to wait till later this week. Definitely will sow peppers and Asian eggplants (aubergines).😊
It's the same here with the ice. Also I have to watch some of my plants because the cold weather pushes them out of the ground. Maybe something to to with expanding and retracting as the temps fluctuate.
@patdelaney191 That is exactly what happens to plants in the cold. Freezing temperatures make the soil heave......take it from someone who has proper winter in Zone 3. LOL
Water does a weird thing as it freezes. Cooling down it contracts untill it gets to barely above freezing when it starts expanding. Its very cool in a nerdy science kind of way as not much else on earth does that. Those stalagmites are due to the ice freezing around the edge and the water in the middle cooling to freezing point begins to expand in the only direction it can...up! The ice on the top center is thinner than the ice around the edge. It comes out in all kinds of shapes. We got them in Arkansas many winters, they look so cool! Google images of ICE SPIKES and to really have your mind blown look at images of NEEDLE ICE which is water expanding from inside plants in the same way but with drastically different results! I think it is truly amazing! 😮😮😮
Here in France, my aubergines were spectacular last year so I had to preserve a lot to avoid wasting them. I found a method of freezing them and they are dee-lish fried from frozen....🍆😊🍆
The plot looks so lovely with the frost on it. Cold it has been but very pretty 🤩 Brussels tops were my mum’s favourite in winter. Our local greengrocer used to sell them and it was our staple alongside roast lamb. I didn’t get any brussels in this year so don’t have that joy to look forward too this time. But my kalette tops might be a decent substitute. 😊
😂😂Found your answer on TH-cam about stalagmites 🎉🎉. Hoohoohoblin explained ice spikes. The outer edges froze first and pushed the water up as it froze. These temps around the world have been crazy. I heard UK is a bit chilly around 15F/-9C. We are going to have breakneck changes in upper Midwest US. We’ve been below zero windchills and single digits at night with teens/day. Come Friday we will hit 41F/5C and by Sunday -3F/-19C and colder Tuesday-windchills -25F/-31C. This is so hard on the animals-pneumonia weather. Then…all our snow is well down south?!?! So abnormal. January is always expected to be very cold and past years it’s been short lived. The brutal one I remember was below zero for over a month 🥶🥶. THAT gets old! Guess not many happy overwintered returns this year. Ran out of straw and had to scrape more leaves together as I expected some snow before this severe cold. The previous few winters were mostly similar to yours. I didn’t like it at first, but was getting use to it when I discovered all the plants that wintered over (snapdragons)and now this 😏. I want the warm winter back now especially if don’t get snow. BUT…the snow will arrive JUST when we want spring and that’s what makes winter sowing so difficult here. Yes, I would so love to have your winter weather. No slug summer though 😂. I would have the most expensive garden if we had slugs with everything lined in copper or whatever to get rid of them. We are opposite in summer weather as it’s generally pretty hot/humid/dry except for monsoon downpours last summer-then drought by fall and it appears a winter drought as well. Ohhhh to grow what you can grow over there and without much protection! I have to dig out and bring in things like rosemary. Well, I guess we can be thankful to not have wildfires like the West and we haven’t had to shovel. You probably know this, but if you whack off the Brussels tops the sprouts will fill out. 😂yes, your cabbage wasn’t the 20lb State Fair award, but I like smaller cabbages. These cold days are for armchair traveling 😂-Got my bags packed😂
Thanks for tips on what we can use aubergine for! I have wanted to grow them, but I have never used them for other things than having them in moussaka. Now i definitely want to grow the thin ones and use them in wok or stew or something like that 😁😁
My cucumber jumped up just like yours did even the ones that failed last year! Here's to a better garden year for all!
Your garden allotment is looking great for January 2025. The sunshine looks very welcoming. It has been so cold where I live. One day we will have sunshine and the next day cloudy grey skies. I am so looking forward to spring and more sunshine. I enjoyed watching your video today. Have a great week. Take care. ❤
Stay warm , pretty lady.
Hello ladies,
65 days til spring!
Had some dreadful winds and lost the greenhouse and everything in it 😫
Thank the gods for wine!
Cheers,
Upstate NY
Love seeing the chickens hop over the fence following your mother 😊
If you get a cooler and store the water and gas can in it, in the shed they will not freeze as much 👍👍
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Happy New Year Jessie. Great to hear you're back on the game. Have a banging year.
*Insert Kenneth Williams gif.
I am not a professional physicist or ice scientist (glaciologist) , but I do know ice stalagmites can form on a cloche if freezing temperatures cause water vapor from damp soil or the air to condense and freeze on cold spots, slowly building up layer by layer. Small formations may appear within a few hours, while larger ones can take days if freezing conditions and moisture remain consistent.
That’s interesting thank you.
I tune in every week as I love your content, presentation and animals ❤️❤️❤️
If you hold that cabbage they way men hold their fish, it would look great 😂
Staligtights, your Awakening is beginning!.. 😮😂
The winter nights are nearly over, some bulbs are showing already 🙂
My little treat on a Tuesday evening watching what you’re up to. Far too cold this week to have been to my allotment apart from taking some veggie scraps for the compost. Really love the vlog Jessie x
Has your new neighbours been down working on their allotment? Why did you not bubble wrap the greenhouse this year? Lots of good bad and ugly but hey that’s gardening. Have a fab week hope it’s warmer, Ali 🥶🥶🌞🇨🇦
I don't know why I watch as I don't garden. I love the whirly girlie's and Lilly and your talking to them. 😂
Wow next week 250 ❤.
Your Mum has such a lovely smile. My Brussels look the same, pea sized and slugged but upwards and onwards, it’ll soon be spring. 🎉I cant sow my aubergine/ peppers till Feb but sowing the finger ones which hopefully mature a bit faster, fingers crossed
14°F [-10C] here in Michigan USA. Wind chill feels like -1°F [-18°C]. I was excited to see your post & quickly turned it on. Then out tge door to remove 4" of fresh fallen snow. Wishing we had your growing season! Take care.
Was anyone else waiting for her to spill her drink? 😅
Hi Jessie and your mum, aww, lovely Lil ❤ and the chickens too ❤ we have rhe same icy cold weather too, -4C overnight & 0C through the day 🥶 today it's 7C and feels like spring. Another great video. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
"Back on the game !" 😂😂😂
I'm sooooo ready for sunshine and warmer days . Not a fan of gray gloom and cold. I need to be starting seeds like you soon! ❤ 🍻 😊 your girlies are so pretty 😍
Last winter on the top of 2 buckets i had ice that formed i the shape of a sun dial . They were about 4-5 inches long and about 4 inches tall at the end of the raised point. No answers there !!! The angle defied any reasoning to me
I have a plant id app. And your “weed” is id’d as corn salad aka lambs lettuce so enjoy! ✌️❤️
Cold, cold, cold, but good for the soil I think. Freezing it gives it a good reset. Thank you for another lovely episode.
that is the most peculiar thing ive not seen ice do that before , boggled me
another great video jessie roll on next week
Jessie I love you & learn so much from you!! 😘🥰❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🫶🏻🦋🇺🇸🇺🇸
Points for calling those ice formations stalagmites not stalagtites. I’m amazed at how mild your winters are in England. Here in southern Wisconsin, there’s nothing to do but shovel snow & try things indoors. So I put kale seeds in wet paper towel & some sprouted, so I’ve potted them up! They’ll go out on May Day. So grateful for your videos to tide me over.
It's interesting HOW lamb's lettuce goes to seed! How can anyone not like vegetables...roasted candy? Such well trained chickens! LOL
🎉I grew eggplants last year for the first time-Casper and a patio sized purple that was mini, but prolific. There is a bit of a learning curve to trying new veg if you don’t know what to do with it. I seen those narrow ones also and think I have some seed. Need to try more recipes.
Hi Jess just found a book called.Drink your own garden.😊l thought you enjoy.
aubergines where my favorite flowers last year id never seen them before and they are so soft like velour just fantastic
Thanks for the video!
Love your blog Jessie, been cold for all of us. The saps rising, in gardeners & plants ! Well done, keep going ❤
Your sprouts are ok, here in Holland we always have small sprouts
Your ice is from cold liquid water being trapped in the ice then pushing out through a small hole and freezing
Okay, ice spikes form when water freezes in a confined space and leaves open areas where the water freezes underneath pushing freezing ice through the gap by the shear expansion or pressure. Not a science nerd but too curious to let it go so Googled it. Still having same freezing clear nights here in Texas. My potted garden plants enjoy freezing and thawing repeatedly all week. I also thought from watching you and the Potty Mouth gang that I would “stick” with the tried and true varieties but ended up buying fresh seeds after throwing out old seeds in stash. So, seed sowing will have to wait till later this week. Definitely will sow peppers and Asian eggplants (aubergines).😊
It's the same here with the ice. Also I have to watch some of my plants because the cold weather pushes them out of the ground. Maybe something to to with expanding and retracting as the temps fluctuate.
@patdelaney191 That is exactly what happens to plants in the cold. Freezing temperatures make the soil heave......take it from someone who has proper winter in Zone 3. LOL
Maybe the growing ice somehow pushed out the water from underneath? Don't know.
Water does a weird thing as it freezes. Cooling down it contracts untill it gets to barely above freezing when it starts expanding. Its very cool in a nerdy science kind of way as not much else on earth does that.
Those stalagmites are due to the ice freezing around the edge and the water in the middle cooling to freezing point begins to expand in the only direction it can...up! The ice on the top center is thinner than the ice around the edge. It comes out in all kinds of shapes.
We got them in Arkansas many winters, they look so cool! Google images of ICE SPIKES and to really have your mind blown look at images of NEEDLE ICE which is water expanding from inside plants in the same way but with drastically different results!
I think it is truly amazing! 😮😮😮
Cheers with the red Gatorade! 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
An Ice Mystery solved. Cool explanation, thanks.
Be careful not to let them install 'smart' meters because they catch fire.
mine didn't, in 5 years now. Needed it for solar and I get paid a little
@CLFL14256 research what else they're being used for
Yummy broccoli ,mines not quite ready yet,but lots of cavolo Nero kale and leeks .🌿☺️💚
Where do you buy your nipper leek seeds from please. 🙂
Ice peak theory: birds breaking the ice to get at the water?
Flipping rats destroyed my brussel and brocoli plants this week 😢 Brussel tops are delicious 😋
Here in France, my aubergines were spectacular last year so I had to preserve a lot to avoid wasting them. I found a method of freezing them and they are dee-lish fried from frozen....🍆😊🍆
❤❤❤❤good morning ❤❤❤
The app is called Picture this, photographs the plant and tells me what it is. Its my faveourite app.✌️❤️
The plot looks so lovely with the frost on it. Cold it has been but very pretty 🤩 Brussels tops were my mum’s favourite in winter. Our local greengrocer used to sell them and it was our staple alongside roast lamb. I didn’t get any brussels in this year so don’t have that joy to look forward too this time. But my kalette tops might be a decent substitute. 😊
Brilliant Jess, you really do make my Monday's (karen)❤❤❤
It's -10°F today and my girlies are not thrilled. I am putting giant jugs of warm water in their house at night.
I've started putting wicking fabric in the bottom of all my cell trays stops me overwatering and gives all the cells what they need
Jessie, why did you not put the bubble wrap up again this year..
😂😂Found your answer on TH-cam about stalagmites 🎉🎉. Hoohoohoblin explained ice spikes. The outer edges froze first and pushed the water up as it froze.
These temps around the world have been crazy. I heard UK is a bit chilly around 15F/-9C. We are going to have breakneck changes in upper Midwest US. We’ve been below zero windchills and single digits at night with teens/day. Come Friday we will hit 41F/5C and by Sunday -3F/-19C and colder Tuesday-windchills -25F/-31C. This is so hard on the animals-pneumonia weather. Then…all our snow is well down south?!?! So abnormal. January is always expected to be very cold and past years it’s been short lived. The brutal one I remember was below zero for over a month 🥶🥶. THAT gets old!
Guess not many happy overwintered returns this year. Ran out of straw and had to scrape more leaves together as I expected some snow before this severe cold. The previous few winters were mostly similar to yours. I didn’t like it at first, but was getting use to it when I discovered all the plants that wintered over (snapdragons)and now this 😏. I want the warm winter back now especially if don’t get snow. BUT…the snow will arrive JUST when we want spring and that’s what makes winter sowing so difficult here. Yes, I would so love to have your winter weather. No slug summer though 😂. I would have the most expensive garden if we had slugs with everything lined in copper or whatever to get rid of them.
We are opposite in summer weather as it’s generally pretty hot/humid/dry except for monsoon downpours last summer-then drought by fall and it appears a winter drought as well. Ohhhh to grow what you can grow over there and without much protection! I have to dig out and bring in things like rosemary. Well, I guess we can be thankful to not have wildfires like the West and we haven’t had to shovel.
You probably know this, but if you whack off the Brussels tops the sprouts will fill out. 😂yes, your cabbage wasn’t the 20lb State Fair award, but I like smaller cabbages.
These cold days are for armchair traveling 😂-Got my bags packed😂
Frost kills off the slugs and their eggs, though?
Mic drop @43:ish?
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You misspelled Aubergine in your thumbnail.
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Thanks for tips on what we can use aubergine for! I have wanted to grow them, but I have never used them for other things than having them in moussaka. Now i definitely want to grow the thin ones and use them in wok or stew or something like that 😁😁
Fantastisch Good work jessie you moeder the oogsten the moostuin uien sla zaailing the House thans the video Top weekend grootjes 👍🧤🌤☕️🌡🧅🧣🧢🦺🌱🍆🥦☘️🌸
I can't believe you have a partner that doesn't eat veg - my hubby is the same. It's maddening isn't it?
I posted an ice spike only yesterday in my insta! Looks like a lot had them lol
Sorry, but l agree with your other half, l dont like vegetables, yuck, l have an allotment and just grow vegetables for my husband and my sister 😅