These gardening jobs are the hardest! Combining them for greater benefit and the best results
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- There are a couple of gardening jobs that pretty much are terrifying to me and send my anxiety through the roof. Mostly because they require a lot of time and energy. Neither of which we have in abundance. Also it all comes down to weather and timing.
But I also have a couple of other topics in todays video - a new flower in the rose garden, trouble with cucumbers in the greenhouse and harvesting potatoes.
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Do you have any gardening jobs that ideally you would get someone else to do them? 😅💚
Building structures and strimming! But yeh hedge trimming too. I usually rope my mum into helping with that 😁
@dogontheplot 😃 oh yes, strimming....poor mum 😅..
I've never done that as Billy always takes care of it 🥰 but totally agree it's a tough physical job that needs doing often 💚🌿
The potatoes looked good and Blossom was cute! Good luck with the cucumbers!
Thanks a million! 😊💚🌿
Nice. Very beautiful my friend ❤❤❤
Thank you very much, very kind of you 😊💚🌿
Your life is peaceful, you work hard. Wishing you good health.❤
Thank you so much 🥰 Very kind of you 💚🌿
@@spudsandroses Happy to connect with you.❤️
Thank you for sharing your gardening moments with us it’s very much appreciated and that foxglove well I instantly took a screenshot of the seed packet it’s so pretty and will be making an appearance in my flower borders next year 🎉🎉🎉 thank you 🐓🌻😀
Thanks a million for your kind comment 😊💚🌿
The foxglove is beautiful 😍 as it is a hybrid, it is sterile and you wont be able to get a seed of it. But you can buy them as plants from a garden centre 😊💚🌿
Healthy looking compost heaps Maiju 👍😁
Love the perennial foxgloves 😍
Have a great week ❤️ x
Thank you, Linda 🤗🥰
The foxgloves are a lovely addition 😍 Have a great week, too 🤗💚🌿
Lovely spuds Maiju, those Red ones had such a vibrant colour and the Charlottes in the 10litre pots looked good too. I think by cutting off the leaves that will help a lot with the powdery mildew. Lovely non foxglove, your garden looks lovely. I agree, turning the compost is a rubbish job. Take care
Hi Bethan and thank you 💚 😊 The Red Duke of York were delicious 😋
I'm starting to get the powdery mildew outside now, too 🫣.... there's always something 😂💚🌿
What a lovely foxglove. I left my garlic a bit too long last year and some split - hope you catch yours at the peak moment. Id love a chipper! One day ...
Thanks for the heads-up about the garlic. I'll try to get mine out of ground shortly...
We have found the chipper very useful, very noisy 🤭, but very useful for getting through all of the heaps of prunings 💚
Great video, beautiful garden, greetings from Croatia.👋👌
Hello 👋 and all the best wishes to beautiful Croatia! Thank you for your support 😊💚🌿
As always love a tour around your garden and learning about your approach, so inspiring! I'm just harvesting my first earlies now (planted very late and a bit neglected on the watering front). Not much of a harvest otherwise, everything so slow to grow outside, in the wind and the cold around here. Keep bringing lovely videos of your gorgeous garden and animals!
Thank you so much for your encouraging words 😊💚🌿 The growing season has been really challenging, and just when you think you've perfected a way of growing something, the plant or the weather throws you another curve ball 🙃 But lets stay optimistic and hope we'll get a beautiful end of summer/ autumn 🥰💚🌿
Yes, it's powdery mildew. I get it every year without fail.
Airflow is the most important thing.
Milk does ok, peroxide does ok, but I like cold pressed neem oil and castile soap best. Healthy plants can muscle through it.
Thank you, Robin 🤗💚🌿I'll string the cucumbers up to help with the airflow and keep feeding it 🌿
What a lovely video, Maiju.
I keep seeing the Red Duke of York harvests and am certain I want to grow them next year now! What a lovely harvest from both buckets:
The fox glove hybrid is stunning and the cottage garden is looking amazing. Have I missed what you intend to do with the central circle?
Everywhere looks so amazing and you compost production is fantastic.. albeit a laborious job
See you next time ❤
Thank you, Clare 🤗 💚
The Red DY are brilliant with great flavour. Do try them next year ☺️
No, you didn't miss a thing with the central circle-it's just mulched with woodchip at the moment, I haven't had time to worry about it 😀
It will have to wait until the autumn 💚🌿 Have a great weekend 🥰
@@spudsandroses ha!! Sounds like an autumn job. I was thinking you wouldn’t turf it, as you have enough lawn to be dealing with. Woodchip works anyway.
It’s beautiful, almost secret space. I love it
Great video. I’d guess powdery mildew on the cucumbers.
Thank you very much 😊 I was afraid that's what it probably is....💚🌿
Oh Doll I feel for you!!! Sometimes feels like one woman against the world.
Keep going. Karen xxxxxx
@karenreynolds7153 Thank you so much, Karen 🤗🥰 it will look good once it's all done, and the pressure will shift to something else, but at the moment, I'm dreading the job ahead, looking at those hedges 😅💚🌿
A dilute milk spray works to prevent powdery mildew, but does not stop it after the infection starts and is visible.
Thanks a million for that advice 😊💚🌿
Would you think the bicarbonate of soda mix works better? That has been another recommendation so far 😀
@@spudsandroses I have no experience with bicarbonate of soda. I suggest using the milk spray (top and bottom of leaves) as a preventative against further mildew and certainly use it on plants as early as possible next year..
I have powdery mildew on my outside cucumbers and patty pan as well. Looks like yours, only it's been more spread out on several leaves for me. Probably due to rain. From other videos I've seen, the milk spray works better if sprayed early/before the mildew. As I never have milk, I haven't tried it. I've cut off all affected leaves, but it's also on the stem, so I'm just hoping some of the cucumbers will grow to a harvestable size, then I will cut down the plants completely. My cucumber plant in the plastic greenhouse is doing great, I'm watering from below on a tray with some pebbles and then a slice of a capillary mat goes into the pot.
I don't have a garden yet, only containers on my balcony but I'm taking notes from your tips. Thanks for the video!
Thank you so much for your advice 🥰 I really appreciate it! Great idea about the mat in the pot plus tray underneath as cucumbers love the water! I'll have the cucumber strung up and removed the leaves 💚🌿
About the cucumber plants: is there some adaptogenic foliar spray you could make...? Or maybe aspirin? Cocoa? Ginseng? Stuff that will kickstart the immune system. You could try 3 different ones on 3 different plants maybe
Hi, thank you for your advice and support 💚🌿 and for always coming up with such original ideas🥰💚🌿
@@spudsandroses thanks for saying "you're crazy" in a friendly way ; ) 🤠 just kidding, my pleasure smexy lady 🍻 have written you a few times on insta btw, would be easier to do a back and forth on there if you want it! Oh, and I have tons of pics and vids from my own chaos garden to share
Please can I ask what make your chipper/mulcher is? It looks like a good one!
Hi, our chipper is a great helper. It doesn't have a "brand" as such because it is directly sourced by their retailer Hartnett products in Co.Cork, Ireland. It has a self-feeding feature and plenty of power 😊💚🌿
That foxglove is class! I have a Chinese foxglove myself. As well as a whole bunch of the normal ones. 😊
The foxglove is so simple, yet so classy 😍 I have so many self-sown of native and Alba popping up in the Rose garden planters, will have to do a full sweep in there, but the bees love them 😊💚🌿
Hey 👋
The rose garden looks gorgeous Maiju! The foxglove looks really pretty and goes well with that rose.
You have some beautiful growing spaces there but i can imagine that it is a lot of work to maintain it. It is great that you have good mix of green and brown, especially with the chicken poop.
We want to build a new compost bin from pallets as our plastic darlek always gets too full. I have been currently cramming our old chimney with tomato and courgette cuttings as i want to plant a miniature rose that i got for mothers day many years ago in there.
We are slowly cleaning up the garden and a lot of the "stuff" has been centrally now piled up on our broken iron/wooden bench that i want to restore but want to build the composter behind it or move the darlek there and build it where the darlek currently is. We probably would have done it by now but the weather has not been great in the spring.
With the cucumbers, if the white stuff on the leaves comes off, then it's powdery mildew. When the bottom leaves start looking a bit tired and bit big and it's about 2ft/60cm, i take them off and knock off any cucumbers about a foot/30cm from the soil level. It gives the plant a chance to grow and allows air flow. I would mulch it too as i find it has less splash back from the soil. As the plant grows you can then remove any leaves from the bottom that look a bit crispy at the ends. I do the same with courgettes and remove any big leaves before the first fruits. I basically rinse and repeat this a long the vine as i harvest the fruits. You can also choose if you want to single stem the cucumbers or allow it to create off shoots but it would depend on the size of the pot and if you are able to support the vines. They generally aren't as load bearing as squash or courgettes, so jute string it ok and like you said it allows more airflow if they are lifted up a bit more.
I would also recommend getting some ethanol/ alcohol spirit and putting it in a spray bottle to clean your snips in between plants to avoid cross contamination from the leaf to the main vine.
Those potatoes look fab! We couldn't get hold of Red Duke of York or Charlotte this year and we don't have the space to grow that many for the seed potatoes you buy. I bought Orla once from Suttons and it was a big fail and get better results from ones you buy from the supermarket.
We just harvested some of our first potatoes for dinner today. About a lb/ 454g of Maris Pipers (Thanks Tesco potatoes!) About 2 weeks early but it was a fancy dinner as football is on tomorrow, so no roast, just left over day. Also had some carrots with rosemary and kale. We did a big harvest of veg on Thursday for a fish paella. So nice to get some from garden to plate!
We have 4 more containers of a mix of last years desiree that i planted and Maris Pipers and then going to plant Maris peers, Melody and another mystery white potato from Tesco that just said UK written on it! lol Hopefully next year i will be on the ball and on the look out for varieties that we like. We don't have the space to be self sufficient but i like to have some homegrown for fancy roast dinners, like birthdays, Christmas or great offers on meats.
Blossom can have a holiday break at ours. Plenty of slugs and snails to be had here! lol
Anyway, have a great weekend and take care!
Thank you you so, so much for your great update! 🥰💚🌿
I agree with you about getting those homegrown harvests, even if only for special occasion. It is still better to eat homegrown and learn along the way 😊
we found the Charlottes totally tasteless from the last harvest 🤭 as the Red Duke of York was delicious.
Our garden can get overwhelming at times indeed, and a lot of it has to do with the amount of rain we get. I do like to garden on dry days so if we get a long spell of rain, I do fall behind with the jobs.
Thanks a million for the great advice on the cucumber, really appreciate it! 💚🌿
Have a great Sunday and a new week ahead! Best wishes, Maiju 🌿
@@spudsandroses Yes i miss the times when we had rain at night and sunny not so hot days and our seasons were more stable.
We only have a standard size garden and are behind on so many improvement projects in the garden this year due to the weather and health. Only 10 years here and still learning this garden. From high flat balconies as a kid to ground shared gardens or basement patios, you never stop learning to how to garden, and where you garden. I think that is what i love and can dread sometimes but that is when the passion for gardening kicks in. x
The doggie wants you throw the ball 😂
😂😂 pruning the tomatoes 🍅 I start out with good intentions but 🤷♀️. Gerald does all the pruning of hedges etc. What you need are a few more compost bays you can fill and just leave alone. But love the chipper we want one of those too. The perennial fox glove is lovely. Yes looks like mildew just cut off the leaves it’s ugly but not detrimental to the fruits. You can also spray with milky water. All looking lovely Maiju hope the suns sticking around, Ali 🥵🌞🇨🇦
@myrustygarden Hi Ali 🤗 would Gerald like a trip to Ireland? 😂😂
The chipper is great for getting through all of the prunings, we have a small electrical one as well and that would have used up 3 hrs of electricity for the same amount of work done, that the chipper gets through in 15 min, plus the electrical one gets clogged all the time by the soft young branches....
Thank you for the cucumber 🥒 advice 😊 it's good to know it won't affect the fruit 🙌
Have a great week ahead 😀 Maiju 💚🌿
For powdery mildew make a soap spray with bicarbonate soda to make the leaf/stem surfaces more alkaline. Milk doesn't work.
Thank you so much for your advice, outdoor courgettes are starting to show signs of the mildew now, too 🤦♀️ the joys of it 😅💚🌿
Hi Maiju, great harvest as always on the potatoes.
Interested to see how the hybrid foxglove over winters, I have looked at them before but it's sterile and has trouble over wintering in the uk climates you may need to fleece them.
Hi, Ady 😊💚🌿 Thank you so much! Plenty of potatoes to test out yet! How are you finding the flavours so far? Charlotte has been really tasteless against the R.Duke of Y 🤔 but had always been our favourite so far... we'll wait and see how the rest of the buckets will go..
Lets hope the foxgloves will be ok during the winter, I don't mind them being sterile as the rest of the planters are heaving with baby seedlings from last years foxgloves that I still need to feed out 🤭🤭
Digging in really hard soil/ground. To be honest, usually my husband does it for me.
Oh the digging is really hard work, indeed .... I have had less of it as trying to keep it as minimal as possible, and no dig ideally.... but digging is a tough job 💚🌿
There's always that job or 2 that I hate, but just getting them ticked off feels great.
@@RobinGardens oh indeed, feels so good once done 😃💚🌿
garden looks lovely!
Thank you very much 😊💚🌿