Lovely seeing so much poised to burst into life. You seem to have a very challenging plot with bindweed and red ants, it’s a credit to your tenacity that you grow so many plants.
Lovely video. Love the sunflower overalls. Still in snow and had ice this morning but I have trays of peppers started. Fingers crossed our weather changes soon💝🇨🇦
G’day Kat Thanks for another inspiring video. Great to see everything sprouting and flowering. I’ve always loved daffs and primroses - such a great feeling when they appear. Our clocks have just gone back here in South Australia so the nights are darker now and we had our first rain of the year - so everything will be growing away again. Builders started on my house so I’ll be actually able to live in my garden soon. Thank goodness. Looking forward to seeing your 100th video. All the best. Mike
Enjoyed your video! I love your sunflower bib pants, I have a granddaughter who would love them. So nice to see spring, it's been a very cold March and April so far, snowing today. So most of my spring flowers are just trying to peak out. Northern Michigan, USA.
Love it, the blue sunny skies, new tree growth, blossoms, primulas, new perennial growth, and your smiles who could ask for anything more. Thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊
I just found your channel about two weeks ago and have been binging all the videos since. I enjoy your enthusiasm for the plants and how you show their beauty in all its detail. Liebe Grüße from Germany!
Lovely as always Katrina. I haven't sown much yet, only a few broad beans and some onions. Been suffering from the ongoing effects of covid so a bit exhausted. Now its turned cold so I dont feel so bad. I cant wait to get started properly. Your plot looks gorgeous!
Your garden is fantastic! Thank you for sharing it with us. I also garden and make garden videos. It’s a lot of work. I appreciate the tips, tricks and inspiration your videos provide. I hope that we can not learn from each other as we grow!
Hey y'all, everything looks so nine there with your spring starting we are still 2-3 weeks behind. I love to hear all of you plants that have come through the winter. It sure is so nice to see you so excited today. Congratulations for the first 99! will see you for number 100! Take care bye for now
I love your enthusiasm Katrina. Glad to see you have Munstead Wood, it has such a wonderful fragrance. Gertrude Jekyll is wonderful too. Happy growing for the new season. 🌷🫐
Perfect time to get down and dirty yanking out some weeds. I had to get out of my winter slumber and take advantage of the soft soil. I enjoyed hanging out with you Katrina! Take Care
Beautiful! As always. Zone 4 here so things are only just starting up by me. I recently learned about willow tea as well, apparently its best use the new tips as they have the most hormone. Trying on rose cuttings this year. Thanks and cheers ⚘⚘⚘
Sensitive and hardworking like a bee! I recommend to use cow manure, at least one year old, in autumn. You can try also with green culture like buckwheat. Kisses
Got all excited when I saw a new video. I’ve been rewatching previous videos over and over 😅 Visited my dad a few weeks ago, got him hooked on your channel, and now all he watches is the news and you 😆
Hi Katrina, saying hello from southern California. Love your garden ,and please never apologize for talking about your plants. We do need to enjoy and savor the fruits of our labor. I also wanted to say that I sort of quit vegetable gardening for a little while. Got busy last year and lost a lot of my plants I started from seed, in turn losing inspiration. Thanks to you and your wonderful tours I am inspired again and now have tomatoes, peppers, carrots, peas,my herbs and artichoke plants I've had for years and am starting more seeds. So thank you and happy gardening!🌻🦠🌷🍃
It looks so tidy and your spinach looks nice and crisp, I have just had the Munstead Wood and I have my first bloom and it’s stunning 💕 it was also the home of Gertrude Jekyll another stunning rose by David Austin that you might love it’s so vibrant 🌸💕🌸
You're right about the weather. It was glorious last week but we've got snow settling as I type! Lovely to see all the spring blooms and everything beginning to wake up. I don't think we can every get sick of hellebores :)
hi Katrina is nice to see you and your video your outfit suits you with the flowers and with all your flowers when thay flower your outfit will blend in very well
Glad you mentioned that white stuff, I have it all over the edges of a wood pile, I thought it was something bad and threw it across the grass. I see you've topped 80K subscribers, that's great, I hope we can push that to 100K over summer. Look forward to what's in store for the next video. Have a nice rest of the week and weekend.
It's cool watching you get excited for spring but I get sad because it means I'm going into winter over here!! But it's going to be great watching you harvest all your tomatoes, peppers and everything later on when I'm in the middle of winter!
Hi Katrina, cannot believe the change in the weather hear in Nottingham, Monday I was in the Allotments with a t shirt on. And today I've got a coat on😢. The last couple of years we have had a frost mid May🌬️❄️. Anyway keep up the hard work,and take care😉🤞🙏
Oh Bindweed! Ugh! I get plenty of exercise every year. No matter how much I dig and pull up, it comes back - in from the neighbor's place. For the ants - Orange spray, lemon water or Diatomaceous Earth. I am not necessarily able to kill them all, but I make it uncomfortable enough for them to move along. No, I'm not falling for the weather thing either. We're looking forward to snow this weekend, according to the Weather Guessers. Keep up the good work!
Everything is jumping to life, gorgeous spring blossoms everywhere. Well done on scoring cow manure. Bet your fruit trees, bushes and hellebores are well content with their share of muck. I'm in Midwest USA and am planning to sow seeds this weekend. We are still a bit chilly yet so trying to be patient, ha! Your plot is amazing, videos too. See you for your 100th. Congratulations! 🎉🎊🎈🌱🌿🌸🌺🌼🌷🫐🍓🍎
We may get some snow April the 1st... Well here in Paris 1st April it is snowing, the first time this winter!!! And it is -1C. Thank God my greenhouse has only the frost tolerant seedlings in. I fell in love with hellebore thanks to you. I went hunting for it in my garden centre, they only had the white ones and apparently I missed my chance as they sell the bulbs in the autumn... :-(
Yes Katrina, the hawthorn IS edible. Many years ago when I was a lad in Gloucestershire, we used to roam the hedgerows eating "bread and cheese", as we used to call it! 😁
Your second fig tree is so perfect for espalier if you want to try it. I have a friend who espaliered her plum tree on her fence and it's so much fun to see and pick the fruits. I repotted my 2 5year old figs and decided to try it. Always good to see your garden!
You are off to a great start. Well done! You are a few weeks ahead of us here in this mountain valley. Winter has finally made way for early spring weather. Now that the snow is finally gone from my garden I'm beginning that early spring work too. Ants do well here in my yard and garden as they do in your plot. Cultivation has reduced ant populations over the decades. I started off here, about thirty-five years ago, adopting my local title as 'Anthillfarmer'. Bears, they should be emerging out of their winter dens now, often show up here to rustle around the property, turning over large rocks and old dead wood in their search for ants. April is a big month for seeding here too. Usually I plant my first crop of peas on April 1st but this year the garden soil is a bit too wet still to work so I'll wait a week or so. It's exciting to realize, and visualize, another growing season ahead of us. I'm seeing crocus, snowdrops and wild violets blooming here now. Soon there will be daffodils and paper white narcissus blooming in the warmer weeks ahead. Your early blooms are so nice and your plot looks so nice at this time of year. Enjoy the season. Cheers!
Beautiful allotment as always, and the spring flowers are so uplifting. I have been watching your channel for a couple of years and especially enjoy your spring videos since you are a couple of weeks ahead of where I am in Canada; we won't have plants and leaves out like that for another 3 weeks or so. A couple of times I have gotten some spring planting inspiration from you, so it's convenient you are a bit ahead of me!
Hello Katrina, Lovely to see you preparing the site. Have you any tips for growing Erigeron? I tried growing from seed last year, two packages of seed, less than a 25% sprouted. Those that sprouted didn't get taller than an inch b4 keeling over. I tried different cells with more water, less, covered longer - but nope. Not a one. Thinking of getting a raised bed for carrots. Poor Katrina - those ants can be awful things. Good luck with them. Hope you enjoy that patch of green this year with a cold beveridge or lovely cuppa - free from ants. Lovely bouquet to brighten up the home!
Another fantastic video Katrina. Well done job on the preparation of the ground and it's good to be cautious of weather conditions before sowing seeds. I am waiting until the second week in April before sowing seeds outside at the earliest. Keep safe, well and happy gardening.
Hi Katrina. Another gardening season so exciting. I just love your plot even when things are just getting started beautiful still. You've created quite the habitat for the woodland creatures just magical.I wonder how it looks at night. Had you ever consider any solar lighting? That was my add on to my garden last year and I'm wondering why I hadn't done it sooner it's so pretty at night.
I'm surprised the ants can even see you in your garden camo overalls. lol You might try spreading spent coffee grounds around where you don't want the ants to be. I use them to keep ants off my fig and in other places. Obviously you couldn't spread coffee grounds over your entire garden but in select areas I've had quite good results. I think it messes with their use of scent trails they use for navigation so they just move elsewhere. An added benefit is it's rich in nitrogen for the plants.
Have you heard about creating "Ant Wars"? You take a scoop of ants from one part of the garden and place it in a different part of the garden. Take another scoop from the receiving area and put it in where you got the original scoop. This method creates "Ant Wars". They fight the intruders to the death, this will eliminate both ant infestations. I have tried it and it does work. I first saw this recommended on "Roots and Refuge" homesteading channel. Maybe you should give it a try. The other method we use is sprinkle cornmeal over the ants. Good Luck!
@@homegrowngarden That is too bad. I feel bad that you have to deal with those pesky critters. They have a mean bite! I have also used baby powder. I am out of suggestions.. Soldier on and Happy Gardening!
Your lemon would benefit from some citrus fertilizer to prevent the leaves yellowing. I have 2 lemon trees I grew from seed and a lemon, lime and orange I bought as grafted pot trees. They live in a cool room in winter and outside for summer. We had a really cold winter but they seem to be doing ok. I had to blanket their window nightly for a month or so. What we plant Moms do for our babies.
I’ve only just discovered your videos and I am enjoying them very much. Every time I do watch, I’m reminded of Charles Dowding, the no dig gardener. Your speech cadence & calmness always makes me think of his style. Are you related by any chance?
Heard you mention the water is not on yet… can you add gutters to your shed and collect water off the roof? Then you’d have rainwater when you need it! Not sure the rules there on the allotment. Love your videos!
I don't know if the weather that's here will move to your region too ... but today we actually have snow! After many weeks of warm, dry, sunny weather. (here in the Netherlands)
Lovely video. I need to do my spuds it’s so tempting to start but has you pointed out a cold snap can happen and is today is very chilly and set to freeze tonight brrr. Your hellebores are really pretty.
Try flooding it, partially targeted, or in its entirety, in order to deal with the red ants, if you can sorround it and make it safe always, and if you have good layered soil, the flooding simulation would make the ants change location, you could probably scoop them up in a bag. In many parts of the world the flooding simulation is actually a watering method, depending on the size of the land, or the type of farm.
Beautiful plants! Thanks for sharing your garden. I think I need to plant daffodils for next year, hope I remember to get some bulbs in time. My anemones have started to emerge on the hillside down from my greenhouse. I want to plant dahlias there as well and was wondering how soon I can start. My outside wicking beds look bare except for a row of garlic that seem to have survived the winter. I also planted some carrots but don’t see any signs of them. I was planning on adding a layer of composted mulch to the beds today, but it’s raining! My rain catchment tanks are full from the last snow we had a few weeks ago. I have opened the clean out plug so the water spills out onto the hillside where my cherry trees are planted. Your blueberries look ahead of mine, which are just now showing signs of budding. Inside my greenhouse, I’ve set up some flooding trays with grow bags (10 gallon) into which I have planted potatoes. In the space around the bags which is filled with expanded clay pellets, I have planted with strawberries which overwintered in the greenhouse and multiplied. I have harvested a only a few, but they continue to put on flowers and a bunch of green berries. The alliums do very well in the greenhouse all winter with a few onions showing signs of bulbs. Been using a few of their leaves in cooking. The leeks and chives have been growing all winter and a few are ready for harvest or thinning and might spread them outside. I’ve had to repot into bigger pots a few squash which I started too early. Planning on planting them outside in the wicking beds but our average last frost is not until mid April. For the moment all my seedlings are doing well in the greenhouse and have all put on their true leaves. Got peppers, tomatoes, and squash (summer & winter) young plants ready for April to arrive. I may take a trip down to Albuquerque to visit the nursery. I’d like to get some more fruit trees, (figs, apple, pomegranate, grapevines, ???) Still have to plan and build all where these will go. See what inspires. Thanks! Will look forward to the 100th video!
As you know it would have been better to get that manure on earlier in the winter for it to break down a little. I'd try and incorporate it into the soil as soon as you can or it will get as dry as weetabix and 10 times as hard. As always, a pleasure to watch. 🙂
We’ve got rain and some frosts on the forecast so I’m hopeful it may loosen a bit 😆 Otherwise I’ll be mixing it like I’m baking a crumble haha. My compost has just arrived now too so I may use a bit of that too.
Never ever stop telling us about the hellebores! I love hearing about them.
I just love you & your videos! I’m learning a lot from you!!!
Lovely seeing so much poised to burst into life. You seem to have a very challenging plot with bindweed and red ants, it’s a credit to your tenacity that you grow so many plants.
Lovely video. Love the sunflower overalls. Still in snow and had ice this morning but I have trays of peppers started. Fingers crossed our weather changes soon💝🇨🇦
I put the cow muck into my compost bins. It breaks everything down lovely, then I use the contents of my bins as a mulch. 👍🙂
G’day Kat
Thanks for another inspiring video.
Great to see everything sprouting and flowering. I’ve always loved daffs and primroses - such a great feeling when they appear.
Our clocks have just gone back here in South Australia so the nights are darker now and we had our first rain of the year - so everything will be growing away again.
Builders started on my house so I’ll be actually able to live in my garden soon. Thank goodness.
Looking forward to seeing your 100th video.
All the best. Mike
Enjoyed your video! I love your sunflower bib pants, I have a granddaughter who would love them. So nice to see spring, it's been a very cold March and April so far, snowing today. So most of my spring flowers are just trying to peak out. Northern Michigan, USA.
Love it, the blue sunny skies, new tree growth, blossoms, primulas, new perennial growth, and your smiles who could ask for anything more.
Thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊
Now we see the sunflower overalls in all their glory! Lovely!
I just found your channel about two weeks ago and have been binging all the videos since. I enjoy your enthusiasm for the plants and how you show their beauty in all its detail. Liebe Grüße from Germany!
I'm so happy that I found your channel!!! THANK YOU!!!
Lovely as always Katrina. I haven't sown much yet, only a few broad beans and some onions. Been suffering from the ongoing effects of covid so a bit exhausted. Now its turned cold so I dont feel so bad. I cant wait to get started properly. Your plot looks gorgeous!
Very nice place where you plant your vegetables...😍
Your garden is fantastic! Thank you for sharing it with us. I also garden and make garden videos. It’s a lot of work. I appreciate the tips, tricks and inspiration your videos provide. I hope that we can not learn from each other as we grow!
Hey y'all, everything looks so nine there with your spring starting we are still 2-3 weeks behind. I love to hear all of you plants that have come through the winter. It sure is so nice to see you so excited today. Congratulations for the first 99! will see you for number 100! Take care bye for now
Wow 💯 ! Congratulations 🥳😊
allotment lookiing great nice tour
Nice to see you again, you do so much work to keep your plants healthy which is the most important motivation for every Gardener...Thanks.
Your garden beginn to take on color wth the arrival of spring, it's nice ! Cute first bouquet !
I love your enthusiasm Katrina.
Glad to see you have Munstead Wood, it has such a wonderful fragrance. Gertrude Jekyll is wonderful too.
Happy growing for the new season. 🌷🫐
Perfect time to get down and dirty yanking out some weeds. I had to get out of my winter slumber and take advantage of the soft soil. I enjoyed hanging out with you Katrina! Take Care
See you then..as ever great informative vlog.. Well presented
Beautiful! As always. Zone 4 here so things are only just starting up by me. I recently learned about willow tea as well, apparently its best use the new tips as they have the most hormone. Trying on rose cuttings this year. Thanks and cheers ⚘⚘⚘
Love seeing all your different flowers and plants starting to bud. Yes weeds are a big pain-always growing. Thanks for sharing!
Sensitive and hardworking like a bee! I recommend to use cow manure, at least one year old, in autumn. You can try also with green culture like buckwheat. Kisses
Got all excited when I saw a new video. I’ve been rewatching previous videos over and over 😅 Visited my dad a few weeks ago, got him hooked on your channel, and now all he watches is the news and you 😆
Ahhhh this is so lovely! Thanks for watching and sharing 🥰
Everything is looking so pretty looking in this video!!💐
And in Australia we having autumn and I am planting autumn and winter flowers.
Love the overalls might have to make myself some like that.
Garden is really amazing.🪴🪴🪴
Love seeing how the allotment wakes up! So much beauty! Thanks for sharing Katrina 💚
Hi Katrina, saying hello from southern California. Love your garden ,and please never apologize for talking about your plants. We do need to enjoy and savor the fruits of our labor. I also wanted to say that I sort of quit vegetable gardening for a little while. Got busy last year and lost a lot of my plants I started from seed, in turn losing inspiration. Thanks to you and your wonderful tours I am inspired again and now have tomatoes, peppers, carrots, peas,my herbs and artichoke plants I've had for years and am starting more seeds. So thank you and happy gardening!🌻🦠🌷🍃
That’s so lovely to hear! I hope you have a lovely year in the garden 🪴
It looks so tidy and your spinach looks nice and crisp, I have just had the Munstead Wood and I have my first bloom and it’s stunning 💕 it was also the home of Gertrude Jekyll another stunning rose by David Austin that you might love it’s so vibrant 🌸💕🌸
Will never be sick of hellebores!
Beautiful garden 🪴 just what expected in spring . Let’s see what surprises you have on your 100th episode .
Thanks for the lovely break, watching you in your allotment Katrina.
You're right about the weather. It was glorious last week but we've got snow settling as I type! Lovely to see all the spring blooms and everything beginning to wake up. I don't think we can every get sick of hellebores :)
It was freezing today! 🥶 Hope we don’t get snow over night.
You should open your plot for open days 😍
hi Katrina is nice to see you and your video your outfit suits you with the flowers and with all your flowers when thay flower your outfit will blend in very well
Munstead wood is my favourite rose…it is absolutely gorgeous, smells divine and flowers well…rich and deep and velvety!
Glad you mentioned that white stuff, I have it all over the edges of a wood pile, I thought it was something bad and threw it across the grass. I see you've topped 80K subscribers, that's great, I hope we can push that to 100K over summer. Look forward to what's in store for the next video. Have a nice rest of the week and weekend.
Lovely to see you have a new video 😍👍 I'll be watching later 🌹🌻🏵️🌷
May the Lord bless you.
It's cool watching you get excited for spring but I get sad because it means I'm going into winter over here!! But it's going to be great watching you harvest all your tomatoes, peppers and everything later on when I'm in the middle of winter!
Hi Katrina, cannot believe the change in the weather hear in Nottingham, Monday I was in the Allotments with a t shirt on. And today I've got a coat on😢. The last couple of years we have had a frost mid May🌬️❄️. Anyway keep up the hard work,and take care😉🤞🙏
It’s awfully cold now isn’t it? Really hope we don’t get any snow overnight!
Oh Bindweed! Ugh! I get plenty of exercise every year. No matter how much I dig and pull up, it comes back - in from the neighbor's place.
For the ants - Orange spray, lemon water or Diatomaceous Earth. I am not necessarily able to kill them all, but I make it uncomfortable enough for them to move along.
No, I'm not falling for the weather thing either. We're looking forward to snow this weekend, according to the Weather Guessers.
Keep up the good work!
Hi 👋 I am just down the road at Loughborough.. lovely to see your spring blooms .. looking forward to seeing more 💖✨👏💟
Just started watching your videos! I'm in the PNW so similar climates. Learning so much! Thank you!
Looking forward to growing melon this year. Or trying.
What a beautiful bouquet.
Everything is jumping to life, gorgeous spring blossoms everywhere. Well done on scoring cow manure. Bet your fruit trees, bushes and hellebores are well content with their share of muck. I'm in Midwest USA and am planning to sow seeds this weekend. We are still a bit chilly yet so trying to be patient, ha! Your plot is amazing, videos too. See you for your 100th. Congratulations! 🎉🎊🎈🌱🌿🌸🌺🌼🌷🫐🍓🍎
I posted to soon, now seeing all your perennial hellebores, love them all. Interesting to hear about the powers of the willows. Fantastic to see 👍❤️😊
Thank you very match .
Ahmed.
Always luv ur vids.! AWESOME coveralls👍🌻🌻
Wow, just lovely. Everything starting to grow🌱💕🌷
It's such an exciting time of year!
We may get some snow April the 1st... Well here in Paris 1st April it is snowing, the first time this winter!!! And it is -1C. Thank God my greenhouse has only the frost tolerant seedlings in. I fell in love with hellebore thanks to you. I went hunting for it in my garden centre, they only had the white ones and apparently I missed my chance as they sell the bulbs in the autumn... :-(
Greetings from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state! Happy Spring! Your garden looks great! 💛🌻💛🌻💛
Yes Katrina, the hawthorn IS edible. Many years ago when I was a lad in Gloucestershire, we used to roam the hedgerows eating "bread and cheese", as we used to call it! 😁
Your second fig tree is so perfect for espalier if you want to try it. I have a friend who espaliered her plum tree on her fence and it's so much fun to see and pick the fruits. I repotted my 2 5year old figs and decided to try it. Always good to see your garden!
Allotment is looking well. Love the dungarees. 👍
You are off to a great start. Well done! You are a few weeks ahead of us here in this mountain valley. Winter has finally made way for early spring weather. Now that the snow is finally gone from my garden I'm beginning that early spring work too. Ants do well here in my yard and garden as they do in your plot. Cultivation has reduced ant populations over the decades. I started off here, about thirty-five years ago, adopting my local title as 'Anthillfarmer'. Bears, they should be emerging out of their winter dens now, often show up here to rustle around the property, turning over large rocks and old dead wood in their search for ants. April is a big month for seeding here too. Usually I plant my first crop of peas on April 1st but this year the garden soil is a bit too wet still to work so I'll wait a week or so. It's exciting to realize, and visualize, another growing season ahead of us. I'm seeing crocus, snowdrops and wild violets blooming here now. Soon there will be daffodils and paper white narcissus blooming in the warmer weeks ahead. Your early blooms are so nice and your plot looks so nice at this time of year. Enjoy the season. Cheers!
Beautiful allotment as always, and the spring flowers are so uplifting. I have been watching your channel for a couple of years and especially enjoy your spring videos since you are a couple of weeks ahead of where I am in Canada; we won't have plants and leaves out like that for another 3 weeks or so. A couple of times I have gotten some spring planting inspiration from you, so it's convenient you are a bit ahead of me!
Lovely work, Re the red ants try sprinkling Diatomaceous earth , it’s a natural product and works wonders
I really enjoyed watching your spring garden tour. The hellebores are so beautiful and you helped me to make a decision where to put my willow 😉
Hello Katrina,
Lovely to see you preparing the site.
Have you any tips for growing Erigeron?
I tried growing from seed last year, two packages of seed, less than a 25% sprouted. Those that sprouted didn't get taller than an inch b4 keeling over. I tried different cells with more water, less, covered longer - but nope. Not a one.
Thinking of getting a raised bed for carrots.
Poor Katrina - those ants can be awful things. Good luck with them. Hope you enjoy that patch of green this year with a cold beveridge or lovely cuppa - free from ants.
Lovely bouquet to brighten up the home!
The allotment looks amazing 💖
Great as always Some time I'd like you to see my wee allotment. Cheers and take care ☺️
Another lovely video Katrina, good job on getting the cow dung down. Looking forward to your 100th!
A green thumb - and - pretty eyes.
So beautiful! I really like your garden!
Very lovely Katrina, thank you for sharing 💐
Nope you can keep talking about hellebore :) Also wow so many plants, that's awesome
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Lovely, looking great ☺️
nice look
well done you. I hope BF has dinner ready when you go home.😀 I will be here for your 100 video vlog Champers on ice xx🥳🥳🍾🍾🥂🥂😂🤣
Another fantastic video Katrina. Well done job on the preparation of the ground and it's good to be cautious of weather conditions before sowing seeds. I am waiting until the second week in April before sowing seeds outside at the earliest. Keep safe, well and happy gardening.
It's pretty cold now so I'm glad to have not got much in. Snow might happen. Next week better. Like your sunflower dungarees though : }
Nice
Hi Katrina. Another gardening season so exciting. I just love your plot even when things are just getting started beautiful still. You've created quite the habitat for the woodland creatures just magical.I wonder how it looks at night. Had you ever consider any solar lighting? That was my add on to my garden last year and I'm wondering why I hadn't done it sooner it's so pretty at night.
I'm surprised the ants can even see you in your garden camo overalls. lol
You might try spreading spent coffee grounds around where you don't want the ants to be. I use them to keep ants off my fig and in other places. Obviously you couldn't spread coffee grounds over your entire garden but in select areas I've had quite good results. I think it messes with their use of scent trails they use for navigation so they just move elsewhere. An added benefit is it's rich in nitrogen for the plants.
😄👍That a funny comment (first part) I liked it!
It's fun to make sugar frosted primroses - look up sugar frosted flowers
Oh the nostalgia! My mum and grandma use to make those to decorate cakes 🧁
Love your videos 🐸💚🐸
Have you heard about creating "Ant Wars"? You take a scoop of ants from one part of the garden and place it in a different part of the garden. Take another scoop from the receiving area and put it in where you got the original scoop. This method creates "Ant Wars". They fight the intruders to the death, this will eliminate both ant infestations. I have tried it and it does work. I first saw this recommended on "Roots and Refuge" homesteading channel. Maybe you should give it a try. The other method we use is sprinkle cornmeal over the ants. Good Luck!
I tried it before but I think they’re all one colony in multiple nests as they’re not bothered by each other!
@@homegrowngarden That is too bad. I feel bad that you have to deal with those pesky critters. They have a mean bite! I have also used baby powder. I am out of suggestions.. Soldier on and Happy Gardening!
Your lemon would benefit from some citrus fertilizer to prevent the leaves yellowing. I have 2 lemon trees I grew from seed and a lemon, lime and orange I bought as grafted pot trees. They live in a cool room in winter and outside for summer. We had a really cold winter but they seem to be doing ok. I had to blanket their window nightly for a month or so. What we plant Moms do for our babies.
I know 🙈 i have both the summer and winter feed but I haven’t done it for a while 😅
I’ve only just discovered your videos and I am enjoying them very much. Every time I do watch, I’m reminded of Charles Dowding, the no dig gardener. Your speech cadence & calmness always makes me think of his style. Are you related by any chance?
No we aren’t (to my knowledge!) but thank you 😊
Heard you mention the water is not on yet… can you add gutters to your shed and collect water off the roof? Then you’d have rainwater when you need it! Not sure the rules there on the allotment. Love your videos!
I do collect water from both my shed and polytunnel 🙂 It was running low though as we haven’t had much rain lately!
Nice! I just purchased a brunnera for my shade garden bc they look like forget me nots!
There is movement called #savesoil going for our kids future and farmers.....
Where did you buy your garden overalls? The sunflowers are lovely!
I love them too, and found a company called Run and Fly who do an amazing variety of prints, including those!
These are from Lucy and Yak!
You need an echidna to control all those ants 🤦😄
Can't wait to see more videos, especially the 💯th one 😄Greetings, Judit 🙋
Am I way too late to plant out some hard neck garlic I had forgotten about - loving your hellebores btw ;)
hi watch out it going to snow ok from Caroline
I don't know if the weather that's here will move to your region too ... but today we actually have snow! After many weeks of warm, dry, sunny weather. (here in the Netherlands)
Yep we did too! Only a light dusting but it’s bitterly cold 🥶
Lovely video. I need to do my spuds it’s so tempting to start but has you pointed out a cold snap can happen and is today is very chilly and set to freeze tonight brrr. Your hellebores are really pretty.
Try flooding it, partially targeted, or in its entirety, in order to deal with the red ants, if you can sorround it and make it safe always, and if you have good layered soil, the flooding simulation would make the ants change location, you could probably scoop them up in a bag. In many parts of the world the flooding simulation is actually a watering method, depending on the size of the land, or the type of farm.
Beautiful💐
Beautiful plants! Thanks for sharing your garden.
I think I need to plant daffodils for next year, hope I remember to get some bulbs in time. My anemones have started to emerge on the hillside down from my greenhouse. I want to plant dahlias there as well and was wondering how soon I can start. My outside wicking beds look bare except for a row of garlic that seem to have survived the winter. I also planted some carrots but don’t see any signs of them. I was planning on adding a layer of composted mulch to the beds today, but it’s raining!
My rain catchment tanks are full from the last snow we had a few weeks ago. I have opened the clean out plug so the water spills out onto the hillside where my cherry trees are planted. Your blueberries look ahead of mine, which are just now showing signs of budding.
Inside my greenhouse, I’ve set up some flooding trays with grow bags (10 gallon) into which I have planted potatoes. In the space around the bags which is filled with expanded clay pellets, I have planted with strawberries which overwintered in the greenhouse and multiplied. I have harvested a only a few, but they continue to put on flowers and a bunch of green berries. The alliums do very well in the greenhouse all winter with a few onions showing signs of bulbs. Been using a few of their leaves in cooking. The leeks and chives have been growing all winter and a few are ready for harvest or thinning and might spread them outside.
I’ve had to repot into bigger pots a few squash which I started too early. Planning on planting them outside in the wicking beds but our average last frost is not until mid April. For the moment all my seedlings are doing well in the greenhouse and have all put on their true leaves. Got peppers, tomatoes, and squash (summer & winter) young plants ready for April to arrive.
I may take a trip down to Albuquerque to visit the nursery. I’d like to get some more fruit trees, (figs, apple, pomegranate, grapevines, ???)
Still have to plan and build all where these will go. See what inspires.
Thanks! Will look forward to the 100th video!
As you know it would have been better to get that manure on earlier in the winter for it to break down a little.
I'd try and incorporate it into the soil as soon as you can or it will get as dry as weetabix and 10 times as hard.
As always, a pleasure to watch. 🙂
We’ve got rain and some frosts on the forecast so I’m hopeful it may loosen a bit 😆 Otherwise I’ll be mixing it like I’m baking a crumble haha. My compost has just arrived now too so I may use a bit of that too.
Love you