19:15 look into drying flowers. I don't know much, but I remember something about preserving flowers in glycerin saving the color. Or is it some crystals? I don't know, but what I remember was that it was certainly do able. (Freeze drying too, but freeze dryers are expensive.) 💕🌞🌵😷
I've been saving some ... statis, honesty and straw flower, for example. I think Serena at You Can't Eat The Grass used maybe the glycerin method to save zinnia. Will have to give it a go!
Thank you for sharing your work! I love your channel! Also I didn't know you could overwinter Cosmos :O I might be trying that with my own. Grew them from seeds for the first time this year and they've been amazing. Again, thank you for your content!
I'm a great one for pottering and experiments as well - it's all serving you well. I tried some out of date chard seeds in my greenhouse and am now overrun with red ruby ones acting like salad leaves!
Hey Geoff. This was really interesting for us, as ot's so far removed from anything we do. Decent weather (open to interpretation) for lambing and a good hay or silage crop and we are happy. We had a good lambing time but only taken one cut of silage, we'll be fine with that. A fab vid Geoff. Thanks. 🤓🐶🧔
I haven't grown lettuces in Northern Ireland...yet, but I think if the green lettuces are easy to grow, grow them closer to the pigs so the green lettuces can be turned into bacon bits!
Hi. I'm in Auckland NZ. Lettuce is tricky to grow here, as we have so little time with cool weather and enough daylight hours. Come late August, which is still winter, lettuce bolts here. I like Drunken Woman lettuce, because it holds well and it doesn't turn bitter, so you can remove the centre and keep harvesting. In our climate I grow perpetual spinach all year for salads, but we are a home garden.🥦🥬🫒
Here's one way to look at growing weeds... More ingredients for the compost pile! 💕🌞🌵😷
Very true!
19:15 look into drying flowers. I don't know much, but I remember something about preserving flowers in glycerin saving the color. Or is it some crystals? I don't know, but what I remember was that it was certainly do able. (Freeze drying too, but freeze dryers are expensive.) 💕🌞🌵😷
I've been saving some ... statis, honesty and straw flower, for example. I think Serena at You Can't Eat The Grass used maybe the glycerin method to save zinnia. Will have to give it a go!
@@BrimwoodFarm , ask her, but I think you can use the glycerin over and over again. It's not one and done... So it's cost effective.
Thank you for sharing your work! I love your channel! Also I didn't know you could overwinter Cosmos :O I might be trying that with my own. Grew them from seeds for the first time this year and they've been amazing. Again, thank you for your content!
Hey, thanks for the comment. And ... don't count that cosmos yet. Totally experimenting!!
I'm a great one for pottering and experiments as well - it's all serving you well. I tried some out of date chard seeds in my greenhouse and am now overrun with red ruby ones acting like salad leaves!
Fab salad growing!
Hey Geoff. This was really interesting for us, as ot's so far removed from anything we do.
Decent weather (open to interpretation) for lambing and a good hay or silage crop and we are happy.
We had a good lambing time but only taken one cut of silage, we'll be fine with that.
A fab vid Geoff. Thanks. 🤓🐶🧔
Thanks Johnny. Almost tupping time again! Where does the time go?!
@@BrimwoodFarm A pleasure Geoff. Yes, soon be tupping time, we will be later than you of course. It's turning quite autumnal here. 🤓🐶🧔
my cucumbers have been terrible this year too. I blame the weather!
Me too!
It looks like you're doing great work! And you've overcome a lot amidst it all.
Thanks!
It's been a strange summer, all started late and died back early, glad you've had a good harvest.
I know ... too wet and no sun to start, and then no rain!
Great vid as always, any chance of an Avery Bird tour? Do you still have your Owls, Budgies ect?
Hey, yes, I need to do that! Still have owls and pheasants. Sadly no budgies as rats! But now have a rat-proof aviary so looking at getting some again
I can't wait till the next video❤
Thanks
Love the dahlias will have to try them from seed next year. Your cucumbers have done better than mine 😂
Your poor cucumbers!
The weather has not helped . You're doing well. it's a good idea with Cosmos x
Thanks Jackie!
I haven't grown lettuces in Northern Ireland...yet, but I think if the green lettuces are easy to grow, grow them closer to the pigs so the green lettuces can be turned into bacon bits!
Very true, but I'm not sure how much nutritional value they have for the pigs.
Why not try a different variety of lettuce to get green leaves to partner the red. Little Gem is prett reliable if you want small crispy leaves.
Thanks for the recommendation! I may give it a go as would be interesting to see if it also, being green, gets the rust spots on my site.
Put sheep wool around the veg it stops weeds and slugs
It is great stuff. Swear by it when transplanting out.
I had a bad growing year here in the north east USA for squash and zucchini. It is frustrating!
Super frustrating. Especially when you start with loads of lovely healthy plants and then they amount to nothing!
Hi. I'm in Auckland NZ. Lettuce is tricky to grow here, as we have so little time with cool weather and enough daylight hours. Come late August, which is still winter, lettuce bolts here. I like Drunken Woman lettuce, because it holds well and it doesn't turn bitter, so you can remove the centre and keep harvesting. In our climate I grow perpetual spinach all year for salads, but we are a home garden.🥦🥬🫒
Perpetual spinach is great! I'm trying to grow more of it.