I liked your comment about how gardening is about hope, and looking to the future. It's so true - that, combined with the physical exercise and fresh air is so good for the soul. Keep up the good work!
You are freaking hilarious 😂 absolutely love watching your videos 💖 Going to have a binge watch this evening! Much love to you and Kate 🌸 happy growing 🌿🦚🌿🦚🌿🦚🌿🦚
Thanks so much for replying. Re flatmates: I think the wedding references and pix could be a clue. I've become a UK Allotment TH-camrs addict, and have been bingeing on your channel. I particularly liked the seed viability testing. And I absolutely love the term "sitooterie". I'm spreading it throughout my friends and relations. I've learnt to appreciate so many regional accents and words, "firtling"and "mithering" being among my faves. Have a groovy one, Kerry.
Ha ha ha sItooterie is a brilliant word 😃😃😃😃😃😃 If you haven't seen it, there a thread in the community tab with people's suggestions for TH-cam channels.... Some awesome ideas there for binge watching
I was so jealous while watching your video. You were wearing a hoodie, and today we have 39.44 C outside, and as the days pass, it’ll only get worse. Sunscreen cloth from Amazon is in the mail (no local places had the kind with grommets), so I had to temporarily hang two bed sheets on the perimeter of the gazebo to keep the tomato and cucumber plants from being baked by the sun. Love the front shot of the house, by the way, and the garden area out front.
With regards to the pallet vertical garden, we found that lining the wee boxes with water retaining gel strips over the weed suppressant fabric that we stapled into them, and then added the compost and that seemed to slow down the egress of the water. Those plants on the top tiers are going to be getting so much sun and they're thirsty babies! The garden looks great, and now that we can visit again I hope we can come see you both soon! :)
Nice wee update. It's been a strange old season, I lost quite a few perenials to the deep frosts in winter, and even more to the secondary later -5 frosts, that caught plants out that had already sprung into life. I even lost a Blackberry bush. Regarding the Strawberries in small planters, the amount of times I see dried out dead strawberry plants in hanging baskets, or wee planters. They should come with a dislaimer saying, you'll need to water these all time time :D
The same thing has happened to all my hydrangeas- they spent all last year recovering from frost and again this year despite them being paniculata varieties. I live in North Yorkshire. I’m growing some in pots now and I’m going to move them into the greenhouse in spring when they are growing away to protect from frost next year.
Evening Eli, do you think you could put the clematis on the shed wall where the fox gloves where last year? Skimmia are male and female I think I have one with berries and one without they are under a blue spruce and are huge we have to actually prune them. The hydrangea is a very forgiving plant and it should come back hopefully and so easy to propagate from cuttings. I plant chives near my apple tree it apparently is a great companion . Tomatoes look fantastic peppers look great I just call them peppers because we don’t eat chillies. My courgette plants are outside but it’s been quite warm here. As always thank you for sharing ✌️🇨🇦🐝 safe ladies
My beautiful hydrangea has bearly grown this year. It is grown just above the soil and looking pathetic. My husband says that the way it is. I swore buckets; cried and was tempted to go to GP as I totally flipped over my pathetic attempts at gardening. Lost all my seeds etc etc. Husband has amazing veggie garden last year. First year gardening. Second year and only managed raddish a few broad beans and my sweet peas all died. So I think you are so inspiring and feel your pain 💐
gotta just take it as part of gardening - we don't control nature so some years are amazing some pants and some in between but ever year we learn more :D So it's never wasted
If there is any way to get a load of super soil or compost you can spread it on top of the grass and spread it kind of thin. It will help establish longer roots in the grass. I had to do the same
Just started watching gardening videos for the first time this year and found your vlogs and am absolutely loving them. You are so entertaining and so informative, I've learnt so much from you, so thank you so much. I also found your starter sourdough video/making sourdough bread and have dutifully followed your instructions .... my first attempt didn't look as wonderful as yours and it was a bit too over done and dense 😕 plus my ovens a bit rubbish and I didn't have your magic Dutch oven (which I have now purchased on line 😉) but I'm hoping, with practise, I will improve my technique and get better results. So thank you so much for that too. Looking forward to more great vlogs. Hope you're having a lovely spring bank holiday ❤ By the way, I've called my starter 'Eli' I hope you don't mind ☺️
ha ha ha how could I possibly mind - named after me :D It takes a bit of practice with sourdough... I was terrified at first. Not sure if it will help, but pop over to our blog, there's quite. few posts about my experiments in getting the hang of bread :D thekitchengardenwitheliandkate.com/
Lol, thanks so much, I did try to attempt it again tonight so I can bake it for breakfast and sadly....its now in the bin....it was far too sticky 😤 it may mean a quick trip to the shops for a loaf instead in the morning and I'll try again tomorrow night, after I've look at your blog. Thanks again 🤗
Not at the moment no. They were put up a bit late and they are a wee bit more exposed than birds like. They are earmarked for possible relocation for next year to somewhere more secluded 😀
Hi there, have been jealous of a lot of your plants, especially as am in Kent and most of my plants are behind yours, so I am so pleased that my Meteor peas I planted in pots on my doorstep last November are doing better than yours! I have just picked the first for dinner today. Best wishes for the rest of the gardening year.
Another enjoyable watch Just planted my tomatoes in my greenhouse yesterday so very jealous of your monster plants. Just curious would your plants finish earlier as they started earlier? Or will you get a much longer season? As I love tropical plants I’m seriously considering putting electricity in my greenhouse which would mean a possible earlier start for other plants too assuming I don’t fill it with overwintering tropicals 😁
The earlier start should mean I get a longer season. I'm using the greenhouse to change my season, it doesn't change how the plants grow. In a warmer climate tomato plants would keep going, but they don't survive our cold so hence our season for growing them can only start when it's warm enough and finishes when it's too cold for them
Your garden looks great having the same problem with the pineberry I think it may be more to with the strain rather than the weather, they always get poor reviews on every website that sells them . I"m also growing strawberry in small planters what type of fertilizer do you what when there not flowering and what frequency do you feed them?
I use fish blood and bone as my standard fertiliser. I wouldn't normally feed them as they would normally be in a bed and the soil have everything they need. But for this year I'll have to add some in a few weeks once they've used up what's available in the soil.
2021 so far , frost , warm , frost , cold, warm now aphids :( this march has been coldest most frosty in about 70 years, lost a few plants this year. 3 apricot trees, fig trees, dont try to plant anything really exotic in scotland haha. probably best plant that did well this year was honey berry, its immune to frost it did nothing to the flowers in full bloom, now its growing like a weed with lots of fruit on it.
Hi Ellie I noticed on one of your videos that you have some attachment for using water pipe, so as to make hoop covers for your raised beds. Would it be possible for you to let me know where you got them from. I once got hold of a set of four corners, but that was years ago, and can I heck remember where they came from. I would be eternally grateful if you have any information on them. Kindest regards Geoff Maddison
Ahhh guessing you are a new subscriber Geoffrey :D Ta dah! They are from Quickcrop UK and if you are quick, the the ten percent discount code should still be active. (We did a competition with them a few months ago and they gave us a discount code to share :D ) 10% discount at www.quickcrop.co.uk using the code ELIANDKATE th-cam.com/video/bkg0USAf_5g/w-d-xo.html
if you pop over to the gear page linked in the description - we put all the info there. The individual links for each item go to amazon but it'll give you all the specs if you want to then do a bit of a search for yourself
Sorry Rachel, not sure what ones you mean. At a guess I’m thinking you are maybe talking about the front garden, so the flowering shrub is probably one of the families. Can’t remember which one might have been there last year that I was talking about photographing. Do you have a time stamp for it?
ahhh ok it took a bit of investigation to work out what you meant :D OK so along the fence out back. The plant I photograph a lot is an astrantia, I'm thinking the shrubs you mentioned might be the schimmia (skimmia japonica)?
Hi Eli and Kate, I have just come across your channel via Niall Gardens and your comparison of hot composters. This may sound/be a bit weird, but it's nice for me to spend time with some gay women again. I lived in a gay household in Sydney, Australia in the late '80s, and it was a great consciousness-raising experience. Anyway, I love your channel, though, I'm gardening in Tasmania, Australia, so you have to deal with such cold temperatures, which we don't so much. I'm in my early sixties, so have to do a lot of hands-and-knees gardening. Just be careful and don't overdo it - you'll pay for it when you get old! Cheers, Kerry.
Is this where I do the whole shocked expression and claim Kate is my flat mate?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Lovely to have you with us. Oh don't worry... We both went mad when we got this house and we are now suffering greatly so gardening has very much been scaled down to suit. Arthritis, back issues, knee and hip issues... The works 😀
I liked your comment about how gardening is about hope, and looking to the future. It's so true - that, combined with the physical exercise and fresh air is so good for the soul. Keep up the good work!
Well said!
You are freaking hilarious 😂 absolutely love watching your videos 💖 Going to have a binge watch this evening!
Much love to you and Kate 🌸 happy growing 🌿🦚🌿🦚🌿🦚🌿🦚
Ha ha ha glad you enjoyed 😀
The birds appearing during filming was awesome another great video 😻
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@eliandkate Your garden is gorgeous I certainly did enjoy it
Thanks so much for replying. Re flatmates: I think the wedding references and pix could be a clue. I've become a UK Allotment TH-camrs addict, and have been bingeing on your channel. I particularly liked the seed viability testing. And I absolutely love the term "sitooterie". I'm spreading it throughout my friends and relations. I've learnt to appreciate so many regional accents and words, "firtling"and "mithering" being among my faves. Have a groovy one, Kerry.
Ha ha ha sItooterie is a brilliant word 😃😃😃😃😃😃
If you haven't seen it, there a thread in the community tab with people's suggestions for TH-cam channels.... Some awesome ideas there for binge watching
Great video. This time last year the rose at the bottom of the garden was in full bloom this year buds are just appearing
A few weeks hopefully... And we'll all catch up
I was so jealous while watching your video. You were wearing a hoodie, and today we have 39.44 C outside, and as the days pass, it’ll only get worse. Sunscreen cloth from Amazon is in the mail (no local places had the kind with grommets), so I had to temporarily hang two bed sheets on the perimeter of the gazebo to keep the tomato and cucumber plants from being baked by the sun.
Love the front shot of the house, by the way, and the garden area out front.
God I'm not sure I could cope with those temps ... I'd melt!
@@eliandkate, Eli, tomorrow and the day after, we’ll have 42C. Looks like I’ll be watering twice a day🥵.
We've had fog all day :(
With regards to the pallet vertical garden, we found that lining the wee boxes with water retaining gel strips over the weed suppressant fabric that we stapled into them, and then added the compost and that seemed to slow down the egress of the water. Those plants on the top tiers are going to be getting so much sun and they're thirsty babies! The garden looks great, and now that we can visit again I hope we can come see you both soon! :)
yeah we were chatting about the water retaining crystals the other day and how we should have added some
Nice wee update. It's been a strange old season, I lost quite a few perenials to the deep frosts in winter, and even more to the secondary later -5 frosts, that caught plants out that had already sprung into life. I even lost a Blackberry bush.
Regarding the Strawberries in small planters, the amount of times I see dried out dead strawberry plants in hanging baskets, or wee planters. They should come with a dislaimer saying, you'll need to water these all time time :D
And a line after saying... And then some 🤣😂🤣😂
The same thing has happened to all my hydrangeas- they spent all last year recovering from frost and again this year despite them being paniculata varieties. I live in North Yorkshire. I’m growing some in pots now and I’m going to move them into the greenhouse in spring when they are growing away to protect from frost next year.
:D yeah that one had been taken into the greenhouse - long story - if you are bored there are a few videos covering the sorry tale :D
Fab update, I'm the same, i've been constantly looking at last year to see how behind we are. everything looks great though! :) Jen
Hopefully the next few weeks will see everything burst to life 😀
Evening Eli, do you think you could put the clematis on the shed wall where the fox gloves where last year? Skimmia are male and female I think I have one with berries and one without they are under a blue spruce and are huge we have to actually prune them. The hydrangea is a very forgiving plant and it should come back hopefully and so easy to propagate from cuttings. I plant chives near my apple tree it apparently is a great companion . Tomatoes look fantastic peppers look great I just call them peppers because we don’t eat chillies. My courgette plants are outside but it’s been quite warm here. As always thank you for sharing ✌️🇨🇦🐝 safe ladies
My beautiful hydrangea has bearly grown this year. It is grown just above the soil and looking pathetic. My husband says that the way it is. I swore buckets; cried and was tempted to go to GP as I totally flipped over my pathetic attempts at gardening. Lost all my seeds etc etc. Husband has amazing veggie garden last year. First year gardening. Second year and only managed raddish a few broad beans and my sweet peas all died. So I think you are so inspiring and feel your pain 💐
gotta just take it as part of gardening - we don't control nature so some years are amazing some pants and some in between but ever year we learn more :D So it's never wasted
Hi Eli and Kate, Am I glad I don't have a garden to worry over YESSSSS I am, Yours looks really well, Take care.
Ha ha ha you grow soooooo much though. Gosh if you had a garden you'd be in business supplying garden centres 😃
@@eliandkate I doubt that very much, It's hard enough growing for Susan and myself.
Great looking elder plant!
Really excited that it might flower this year... Fingers crossed
If there is any way to get a load of super soil or compost you can spread it on top of the grass and spread it kind of thin. It will help establish longer roots in the grass. I had to do the same
"Contenders ready.....3,2,1" 😂
🤣🤣🤣 I couldn't resist
Great video many thanks really enjoyed it 😉
😀😀😀
Just started watching gardening videos for the first time this year and found your vlogs and am absolutely loving them. You are so entertaining and so informative, I've learnt so much from you, so thank you so much. I also found your starter sourdough video/making sourdough bread and have dutifully followed your instructions .... my first attempt didn't look as wonderful as yours and it was a bit too over done and dense 😕 plus my ovens a bit rubbish and I didn't have your magic Dutch oven (which I have now purchased on line 😉) but I'm hoping, with practise, I will improve my technique and get better results. So thank you so much for that too. Looking forward to more great vlogs. Hope you're having a lovely spring bank holiday ❤
By the way, I've called my starter 'Eli' I hope you don't mind ☺️
ha ha ha how could I possibly mind - named after me :D
It takes a bit of practice with sourdough... I was terrified at first.
Not sure if it will help, but pop over to our blog, there's quite. few posts about my experiments in getting the hang of bread :D
thekitchengardenwitheliandkate.com/
Lol, thanks so much, I did try to attempt it again tonight so I can bake it for breakfast and sadly....its now in the bin....it was far too sticky 😤 it may mean a quick trip to the shops for a loaf instead in the morning and I'll try again tomorrow night, after I've look at your blog. Thanks again 🤗
I pinch off the larger basil leaves for pesto and bugs don’t seem t be interested in smaller growing leaves.
Fab update 😃 thanks for sharing your knowledge xx
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for another lovely video.
Is there anything nesting in the box behind the cherry tree?
Not at the moment no. They were put up a bit late and they are a wee bit more exposed than birds like. They are earmarked for possible relocation for next year to somewhere more secluded 😀
Greae
Hi there, have been jealous of a lot of your plants, especially as am in Kent and most of my plants are behind yours, so I am so pleased that my Meteor peas I planted in pots on my doorstep last November are doing better than yours! I have just picked the first for dinner today. Best wishes for the rest of the gardening year.
Oh sounds awesome. I'm a few weeks off I think. Got the first pods but not peas yet
Another enjoyable watch Just planted my tomatoes in my greenhouse yesterday so very jealous of your monster plants. Just curious would your plants finish earlier as they started earlier? Or will you get a much longer season? As I love tropical plants I’m seriously considering putting electricity in my greenhouse which would mean a possible earlier start for other plants too assuming I don’t fill it with overwintering tropicals 😁
The earlier start should mean I get a longer season. I'm using the greenhouse to change my season, it doesn't change how the plants grow. In a warmer climate tomato plants would keep going, but they don't survive our cold so hence our season for growing them can only start when it's warm enough and finishes when it's too cold for them
Your garden looks great having the same problem with the pineberry I think it may be more to with the strain rather than the weather, they always get poor reviews on every website that sells them
. I"m also growing strawberry in small planters what type of fertilizer do you what when there not flowering and what frequency do you feed them?
I use fish blood and bone as my standard fertiliser. I wouldn't normally feed them as they would normally be in a bed and the soil have everything they need. But for this year I'll have to add some in a few weeks once they've used up what's available in the soil.
@@eliandkate Thanks so much for your reply, I've been searching all week for answer to that question.
Glad I could help you out 😀
My peas haven't done a thing either, I'll give them another fortnight...
Our first pea pod today 😀
The last spring garden update - unless I'm quick... but wow, a big difference....
2021 so far , frost , warm , frost , cold, warm now aphids :( this march has been coldest most frosty in about 70 years, lost a few plants this year.
3 apricot trees, fig trees, dont try to plant anything really exotic in scotland haha.
probably best plant that did well this year was honey berry, its immune to frost it did nothing to the flowers in full bloom, now its growing like a weed with lots of fruit on it.
sucky year
😂😂😂I got it and it made me lol a lot! 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
Hi Ellie
I noticed on one of your videos that you have some attachment for using water pipe, so as to make hoop covers for your raised beds. Would it be possible for you to let me know where you got them from. I once got hold of a set of four corners, but that was years ago, and can I heck remember where they came from. I would be eternally grateful if you have any information on them. Kindest regards Geoff Maddison
Ahhh guessing you are a new subscriber Geoffrey :D
Ta dah! They are from Quickcrop UK and if you are quick, the the ten percent discount code should still be active. (We did a competition with them a few months ago and they gave us a discount code to share :D )
10% discount at www.quickcrop.co.uk using the code ELIANDKATE
th-cam.com/video/bkg0USAf_5g/w-d-xo.html
First time growing pepper here (sweet red pointed and bell peppers) do you pinch the growing tip off after so long? 🤷♀️
I did this year. Once they had about 6 to 8 leaves. It's definitely made them bushier
@@eliandkate Thankyou, seen lots of videos on it but the thought just makes me nervous! 😬🙈
What grow light did you buy? My tomatoes are so small, 😔
if you pop over to the gear page linked in the description - we put all the info there.
The individual links for each item go to amazon but it'll give you all the specs if you want to then do a bit of a search for yourself
Greetings,
What were the 2 main shrubs in the garden wall? Both flower and one you like to photograph.
Cheers
Sorry Rachel, not sure what ones you mean. At a guess I’m thinking you are maybe talking about the front garden, so the flowering shrub is probably one of the families. Can’t remember which one might have been there last year that I was talking about photographing. Do you have a time stamp for it?
ahhh ok it took a bit of investigation to work out what you meant :D
OK so along the fence out back. The plant I photograph a lot is an astrantia, I'm thinking the shrubs you mentioned might be the schimmia (skimmia japonica)?
I got it 🤣.
Yay!!!!!!😃
I loved program. It was on Saturday night wasn't it?
I think so
At what time of the evening do you turn on your greenhouse heating?
It's not about time Martina, more temperature.
If you catch up on the What's wrong with my tomatoes videos I talk about temperatures :D
Hi Eli and Kate, I have just come across your channel via Niall Gardens and your comparison of hot composters. This may sound/be a bit weird, but it's nice for me to spend time with some gay women again. I lived in a gay household in Sydney, Australia in the late '80s, and it was a great consciousness-raising experience. Anyway, I love your channel, though, I'm gardening in Tasmania, Australia, so you have to deal with such cold temperatures, which we don't so much. I'm in my early sixties, so have to do a lot of hands-and-knees gardening. Just be careful and don't overdo it - you'll pay for it when you get old! Cheers, Kerry.
Is this where I do the whole shocked expression and claim Kate is my flat mate?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lovely to have you with us.
Oh don't worry... We both went mad when we got this house and we are now suffering greatly so gardening has very much been scaled down to suit. Arthritis, back issues, knee and hip issues... The works 😀
My garden looks like it’s April not June.
I can't believe it's almost June - come so quickly