Hi maiju. I use wool that my clients give me from their dog food packaging. I've also used it for the top of covering our compost the other week on top of grass clippings! Wow. The heat went from 14c to 44! Fab 💪🏽
@@spudsandroses we've used it a while now and never find them underneath, they are always on top but I think it really slows them down and they kind of secrete more slime so we just pick them off and pop in compost bin 👍🏽
Love this update. It's interesting to see what others use especially as we are still learning, fresh ideas are always good to jot down 🌱😃 have a fab weekend Rach 💚😊🌼
Ahhh! Looks great with the fresh woodchips 🥰 Love seeing the clips of your chickens too! They are so sweet 🐔🐤 Good luck with the beans! I hope you can get the Greek beans to germinate - I'm really interested to see how those get on 😍💖
Thank you, Seren 🤗 The fresh woodchip does brighten and clean up the look indeed 😊 I'm so sorry for all the backbreaking work you have to go through to get to actually use your plot 😔 ....its sad what other people have done to it... The girls are fab, love them to bits 🥰....except for one 🐔, that one I tolerate 😆she's a bully, and I don't like bullies... The beans 🫘 update is coming soon 😀 Happy gardening 🤗💚🌿
Beside the goosebwrru bed, you could also plant broad beans. Even the largest ones would probably do fine of planted deeply and closely. Their smell deter pests, they break up the soil and might even form a little wind barrier in front of the gooseberries 👍the year after you could put large stones with soil between them - maybe like 30cm i between rocks - and plant low growing raspberries there. Or grape that you let cling in the spaces between the boards. The rocks would collect heat and protect in the winters and might bring in snakes that could take care of mice/gophers. Or skip the stones 🤠 a pond could be birthing place for drogs that could become food for snakes and/or take care of slugs 👍
Thank you for your great suggestions and recommendations 😊💚🌿 I do indeed want to add planting to the front of the gooseberry bed, and while I figure out what I might grow there, I've covered it up with the plastic, to keep the grass at bay. The poor Chamomile bed is sitting in the middle of the plastic like a little island 😂, but this is also where I saw the first ladybird in, so it is staying as a sacred Ladybird Island at the moment . Thank you for your kind comment and have a great weekend! 💚🌿
I want argue against the Lady bird island LOL 🔥♥️ If you want to go wild with ideas for in front of the gooseberries then maybe you could put like a low rebar "net" there, or on both sides, and plant vines that both like sun and shade. Of course grapes would be amazing but that would require more space - would have to extend upwards or sidewards. But things like schisandra would be badass.
Chipping away at the jobs 🤭🤭. But it always looks so much tidier doesn’t it. It is sunny here but absolutely freezing 🥶 in the mornings. I had to actually fleece my potatoes 🥔. Looking lovely Maiju I hope the beans work second time round 🙏. Have a wonderful weekend, Ali 🥶🌞🇨🇦
A shovel full at the time, Ali 😂 It does make it all uniform and tidy indeed😊 We haven't had any more frosts now, but I agree, it is still very chilly 💚🌿 I've still been holding off planting seedlings out, but I think this weekend as running out of counter space 😁 Have a great weekend, too. Best wishes, Maiju 💚🌿
Thank you 😊 I keep adding a lot of organic material and compost, too 💚 Just takes a while. I'd say cover crops for the winter season could be a game changer for the heavy soils, too, but every part of the garden is looking for attention 🤓 💚🌿
Maiju,watched this while cooking dinner, so only commenting now,hit the like straight away. I live mulching, i saw someine ekse said same re,after a few years digging it up,i do this with my paths in my plot,Terry King recommended. Your place looks so so beautiful. We get it for free from the allotment. The place looks fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Hi, Lorraine 😊 Thank you so much🤗 Terry is a pro in recycling and followed his progress when he was digging up composted mulch off the fruit cage floor 💚🌿 I love wood mulch in the garden, it is so natural, and you're so lucky getting it brought to the allotment💚🌿
@spudsandroses isnt he unreal re recycling everything. Glad you enjoy him too. Now fingers crossed we have the beautiful weather are supposed to have for the weekend
I agree with other comments about being on top of making sure the paper stays damp. I tired this method for the first time this year on two types of mint, rosemary and lavender seeds as I was having huge trouble with them germinating in soil. It worked for all of them but then one of the pots I had them in dried out completely and I lost all the little seedlings I’d been seeing pop up 😢. The other one stayed damp (even though I didn’t treat them any differently) and those seedlings are now in soil and starting to come up lovely. So I guess the moral of the story is watch them like a hawk and keep the moisture level up high enough 😊
🤓 I'll be keeping my eye on those indeed, I haven't needed to look for other solutions so far, as seeds into the soil on the windowsill has always worked....but not this time.... Very sorry to hear about your seedlings, very disheartening to see them fail after a little mishap 💚🌿
Wow... you always come up with such interesting topics for your videos. I do not know why but mulching is also in my mind at the moment. I am also trying to find the best mulch for my garden. To try to surpress & eliminate those pesky weeds! (I really like your analysis & comparison between the different materials.) I have tried bark mulch but maybe i am not putting a thick enough layer or something as the weeds find their way through. Yes as forecasted the weather is much milder & nicer. A few showers too but that is just to keep us on our toes! 🙂 Good option with your germination experiment....lets see what happens with it! Thank you for your wonderful video.
Thank you , 🥰 very kind of you 💚🌿 I have added about 2-3 inches of woodchip mulch to the established walk paths and maybe about 2 inches of bark mulch on the beds themselves, but at least 4-6 to the new walk paths where I'm trying to eliminate perennial weeds underneath. The beans are going to be my challenge this spring 😁🤞💚🌿
I germinate loads of things in moist not soggy paper towel, inside a ziplock baggie or plastic lidded container like you are using. I have forced air heat so I've used the vents as heat mat substitutes. If I want heat but less intense I raise it up with another plastic container. It works for me. It's finding that damp but not too damp happy spot in the container. Greek Gigantes are not available in the US, but Will The Flying Gardener sent me some. I'll be sowing those in May. Once the long term forecast looks good. We're meant to have a warmer summer than average. For now frosty night temps possible this weekend.
Hi, Robin 🤗 The quality of seeds is so important. Whenever I've saved my own beans and peas (which are the easiest of seeds every to collect 😃) they've germinated within days....and then you'd get ones stores, that make you doubt yourself 😂 Danny has also offered me some of his Greek Giganteas, but I'll wait and see how my germination test gets on... Have a great weekend! 💚🌿
Hi Maiju, I use a similar method for my peas and beans in a plastic zip lock bag rather than a container but I've not placed them on heat I just stick them in a dark place and forget about them usually for too long. For the courgettes I used a container and on a super seven so low heat but you do need to give them a shake every one to two days so that the condensation can drop back onto the tissue or the tissue will dry up. Also I double up the kitchen roll so two layers. I hope they all germinate for you.
Thanks, Ady 😊 You had fine sprouts on your seeds 😁 I've just checked the Soy beans, and they're a goner. It is definitely the seeds. I only ever had the 2 packs, and they have never germinated for me....the ones in the box are all covered in heavy mould and are slimy. I separated the Greek Gigantes and Soy beans to separate boxes and there might be life in the Greek ones yet, but too early to tell as they're so much bigger of a seed... I might need to get myself a heated propagator, I've managed all the years before without one. But this spring has really given us no proper sunshine and I've depended on sun to heat the soil....💚🌿
@@spudsandroses I'm looking at the spyder mat a lot more versatile with what size pots to put on it, I do not use heat that often but would be nice to put any size container on the heat mat. Hopefully over summer when less demand they may be cheaper. Ooh well deserved on the views.
Nice overview of woodchips. Aw Spud! Ive had no germination on the snake beans so I think I'm going to do the kitchen paper method for the rest of those seeds. I've got greek gigante but haven't sown yet. I'm holding off on beans for now - I feel inundated with what's already growing 🙈😂 Squash time soon too!!! Lovely update Maiju 💕
Thanks, Kerry 🤗🤗I think Spuds loves the woodchip as much as us 😂 I could not get him out of the way in the greenhouse to spread the chip around 🥰 I'm planning to be planting out anything of brassicas and beets this weekend, I cant hold off any longer. My tomato seedlings are suffering because I don't have them pricked out (I did 2 varieties 2 weeks ago, and they're flying) But I'm also out of small pots to prick the plants into 😂😂 I've never had this problem before 🤣 Yes, I might be holding off on squash until early May... the weather is cooling down again in the next weeks' forecast 🙃💚🌿
Hello to Kildare😊 Have you got the same variety and the same supplier? 😂😂😂I've checked the box this morning, and they're a no go. Totally covered in mould and slime. The Greek Gigantes looked better and I separated the 2 varieties into separate containers, so just a waiting game now 💚🌿
@@spudsandroses It was Un Winns. Although, to be fair, the seed package did say to sow before 12/2023. Never had such a tight cut-off for sowing before. Esp if NONE of the seeds germinated.
I'm all caught up now on your most recent videos. Watched then newest to oldest - ending with this one, should have done it the other way around :) I'm really curious to see how you get on with the soybeans!
Your chickens were living the good life there in that video. However I’ll say this. I’ve had very bad luck with seedlings this year Also. Terrible luck in fact & normally I’m very good with seedlings
Thank you, Eilish 😊 The girls are happy out indeed, once they stay outside of the kitchen garden area 😆 The seedlings 🌱 have been a mixed bag this spring. The weather - the lack of sunshine and really windy weather - and the seed quality is what put the problems down to 💚🌿 Don't be disheartened, try again, sow again 🥰💚🌿
Forgot to ask, when you originally set out the kitchen garden, did you put a layer of plastic under the walkways or just apply the wood chip mulch directly?
I have weed supress membrane under 1 strip of the wood, where it joins the stone mulch with woodchip, but the rest was directly onto the soil. I really wouldn't have wanted to use any plastic, but resorted to this because of maintenance 💚🌿
Keeping the hens off our veggies? Not easy 😂 Have to watch them like a hawk, but they do follow us, so distraction in a different area of the garden is the key 💚🌿
What are your preferred mulches?🤓 For footpaths or for the beds? 💚🌿
for footpaths, woodchip, for beds its the three C's for me - compost compost compost!
@PetalsonthePavingSlabs 😊 nothing nicer than a vegetable bed covered with a fresh compost 💚💚👌
Hi maiju. I use wool that my clients give me from their dog food packaging. I've also used it for the top of covering our compost the other week on top of grass clippings! Wow. The heat went from 14c to 44! Fab 💪🏽
@@ericandrachallotmenteers How are you finding the wool and slugs? Would they be hiding underneath of it at all? 🤔💚🌿
@@spudsandroses we've used it a while now and never find them underneath, they are always on top but I think it really slows them down and they kind of secrete more slime so we just pick them off and pop in compost bin 👍🏽
Love this update. It's interesting to see what others use especially as we are still learning, fresh ideas are always good to jot down 🌱😃 have a fab weekend
Rach 💚😊🌼
Ahhh! Looks great with the fresh woodchips 🥰 Love seeing the clips of your chickens too! They are so sweet 🐔🐤 Good luck with the beans! I hope you can get the Greek beans to germinate - I'm really interested to see how those get on 😍💖
Thank you, Seren 🤗
The fresh woodchip does brighten and clean up the look indeed 😊
I'm so sorry for all the backbreaking work you have to go through to get to actually use your plot 😔 ....its sad what other people have done to it...
The girls are fab, love them to bits 🥰....except for one 🐔, that one I tolerate 😆she's a bully, and I don't like bullies...
The beans 🫘 update is coming soon 😀
Happy gardening 🤗💚🌿
Beside the goosebwrru bed, you could also plant broad beans. Even the largest ones would probably do fine of planted deeply and closely. Their smell deter pests, they break up the soil and might even form a little wind barrier in front of the gooseberries 👍the year after you could put large stones with soil between them - maybe like 30cm i between rocks - and
plant low growing raspberries there. Or grape that you let cling in the spaces between the boards. The rocks would collect heat and protect in the winters and might bring in snakes that could take care of mice/gophers. Or skip the stones 🤠 a pond could be birthing place for drogs that could become food for snakes and/or take care of slugs 👍
Thank you for your great suggestions and recommendations 😊💚🌿
I do indeed want to add planting to the front of the gooseberry bed, and while I figure out what I might grow there, I've covered it up with the plastic, to keep the grass at bay. The poor Chamomile bed is sitting in the middle of the plastic like a little island 😂, but this is also where I saw the first ladybird in, so it is staying as a sacred Ladybird Island at the moment .
Thank you for your kind comment and have a great weekend! 💚🌿
I want argue against the Lady bird island LOL 🔥♥️
If you want to go wild with ideas for in front of the gooseberries then maybe you could put like a low rebar "net" there, or on both sides, and plant vines that both like sun and shade. Of course grapes would be amazing but that would require more space - would have to extend upwards or sidewards. But things like schisandra would be badass.
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Btw: broad beans could even be planted through holes in the cardboard!
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Chipping away at the jobs 🤭🤭. But it always looks so much tidier doesn’t it. It is sunny here but absolutely freezing 🥶 in the mornings. I had to actually fleece my potatoes 🥔. Looking lovely Maiju I hope the beans work second time round 🙏. Have a wonderful weekend, Ali 🥶🌞🇨🇦
A shovel full at the time, Ali 😂
It does make it all uniform and tidy indeed😊
We haven't had any more frosts now, but I agree, it is still very chilly 💚🌿
I've still been holding off planting seedlings out, but I think this weekend as running out of counter space 😁
Have a great weekend, too. Best wishes, Maiju 💚🌿
Mix some perlite or vermicilite or grit into your seed potting mix to open it up, to improve drainage
Thank you 😊
I keep adding a lot of organic material and compost, too 💚
Just takes a while. I'd say cover crops for the winter season could be a game changer for the heavy soils, too, but every part of the garden is looking for attention 🤓 💚🌿
Maiju,watched this while cooking dinner, so only commenting now,hit the like straight away. I live mulching, i saw someine ekse said same re,after a few years digging it up,i do this with my paths in my plot,Terry King recommended. Your place looks so so beautiful. We get it for free from the allotment. The place looks fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Hi, Lorraine 😊 Thank you so much🤗
Terry is a pro in recycling and followed his progress when he was digging up composted mulch off the fruit cage floor 💚🌿 I love wood mulch in the garden, it is so natural, and you're so lucky getting it brought to the allotment💚🌿
@spudsandroses isnt he unreal re recycling everything. Glad you enjoy him too. Now fingers crossed we have the beautiful weather are supposed to have for the weekend
I agree with other comments about being on top of making sure the paper stays damp. I tired this method for the first time this year on two types of mint, rosemary and lavender seeds as I was having huge trouble with them germinating in soil. It worked for all of them but then one of the pots I had them in dried out completely and I lost all the little seedlings I’d been seeing pop up 😢. The other one stayed damp (even though I didn’t treat them any differently) and those seedlings are now in soil and starting to come up lovely. So I guess the moral of the story is watch them like a hawk and keep the moisture level up high enough 😊
🤓 I'll be keeping my eye on those indeed, I haven't needed to look for other solutions so far, as seeds into the soil on the windowsill has always worked....but not this time....
Very sorry to hear about your seedlings, very disheartening to see them fail after a little mishap 💚🌿
Wow... you always come up with such interesting topics for your videos. I do not know why but mulching is also in my mind at the moment. I am also trying to find the best mulch for my garden. To try to surpress & eliminate those pesky weeds! (I really like your analysis & comparison between the different materials.) I have tried bark mulch but maybe i am not putting a thick enough layer or something as the weeds find their way through. Yes as forecasted the weather is much milder & nicer. A few showers too but that is just to keep us on our toes! 🙂 Good option with your germination experiment....lets see what happens with it! Thank you for your wonderful video.
Thank you , 🥰 very kind of you 💚🌿
I have added about 2-3 inches of woodchip mulch to the established walk paths and maybe about 2 inches of bark mulch on the beds themselves, but at least 4-6 to the new walk paths where I'm trying to eliminate perennial weeds underneath.
The beans are going to be my challenge this spring 😁🤞💚🌿
I germinate loads of things in moist not soggy paper towel, inside a ziplock baggie or plastic lidded container like you are using. I have forced air heat so I've used the vents as heat mat substitutes. If I want heat but less intense I raise it up with another plastic container. It works for me. It's finding that damp but not too damp happy spot in the container. Greek Gigantes are not available in the US, but Will The Flying Gardener sent me some. I'll be sowing those in May. Once the long term forecast looks good. We're meant to have a warmer summer than average. For now frosty night temps possible this weekend.
Hi, Robin 🤗 The quality of seeds is so important. Whenever I've saved my own beans and peas (which are the easiest of seeds every to collect 😃) they've germinated within days....and then you'd get ones stores, that make you doubt yourself 😂 Danny has also offered me some of his Greek Giganteas, but I'll wait and see how my germination test gets on...
Have a great weekend! 💚🌿
🐝Thanks for the great video🌻 chipping away at the woodchips :P
😂 Thank you 💚 One chip at the time.... 💚🌿
Hi Maiju, I use a similar method for my peas and beans in a plastic zip lock bag rather than a container but I've not placed them on heat I just stick them in a dark place and forget about them usually for too long. For the courgettes I used a container and on a super seven so low heat but you do need to give them a shake every one to two days so that the condensation can drop back onto the tissue or the tissue will dry up. Also I double up the kitchen roll so two layers. I hope they all germinate for you.
Thanks, Ady 😊 You had fine sprouts on your seeds 😁
I've just checked the Soy beans, and they're a goner. It is definitely the seeds. I only ever had the 2 packs, and they have never germinated for me....the ones in the box are all covered in heavy mould and are slimy.
I separated the Greek Gigantes and Soy beans to separate boxes and there might be life in the Greek ones yet, but too early to tell as they're so much bigger of a seed...
I might need to get myself a heated propagator, I've managed all the years before without one. But this spring has really given us no proper sunshine and I've depended on sun to heat the soil....💚🌿
@@spudsandroses I'm looking at the spyder mat a lot more versatile with what size pots to put on it, I do not use heat that often but would be nice to put any size container on the heat mat. Hopefully over summer when less demand they may be cheaper. Ooh well deserved on the views.
Nice overview of woodchips. Aw Spud! Ive had no germination on the snake beans so I think I'm going to do the kitchen paper method for the rest of those seeds. I've got greek gigante but haven't sown yet. I'm holding off on beans for now - I feel inundated with what's already growing 🙈😂 Squash time soon too!!! Lovely update Maiju 💕
Thanks, Kerry 🤗🤗I think Spuds loves the woodchip as much as us 😂 I could not get him out of the way in the greenhouse to spread the chip around 🥰
I'm planning to be planting out anything of brassicas and beets this weekend, I cant hold off any longer. My tomato seedlings are suffering because I don't have them pricked out (I did 2 varieties 2 weeks ago, and they're flying) But I'm also out of small pots to prick the plants into 😂😂 I've never had this problem before 🤣 Yes, I might be holding off on squash until early May... the weather is cooling down again in the next weeks' forecast 🙃💚🌿
From Kildare, and I am intrigued that we have the same problems. My French beans are grand but all 24 soya bean seeds just rotted.
Hello to Kildare😊 Have you got the same variety and the same supplier? 😂😂😂I've checked the box this morning, and they're a no go. Totally covered in mould and slime.
The Greek Gigantes looked better and I separated the 2 varieties into separate containers, so just a waiting game now 💚🌿
@@spudsandroses It was Un Winns. Although, to be fair, the seed package did say to sow before 12/2023. Never had such a tight cut-off for sowing before. Esp if NONE of the seeds germinated.
@TheCoypu55 at least it was a different supplier....and my packets were in date, but same, out of so many tries, none worked 🙃💚
I'm all caught up now on your most recent videos. Watched then newest to oldest - ending with this one, should have done it the other way around :) I'm really curious to see how you get on with the soybeans!
😂😂 Well done and thank you 😊💚🌿
The soybeans update is coming this week...you'll see the condition of them 🤭🤭
Your chickens were living the good life there in that video. However I’ll say this. I’ve had very bad luck with seedlings this year Also. Terrible luck in fact & normally I’m very good with seedlings
Thank you, Eilish 😊
The girls are happy out indeed, once they stay outside of the kitchen garden area 😆
The seedlings 🌱 have been a mixed bag this spring. The weather - the lack of sunshine and really windy weather - and the seed quality is what put the problems down to 💚🌿
Don't be disheartened, try again, sow again 🥰💚🌿
Forgot to ask, when you originally set out the kitchen garden, did you put a layer of plastic under the walkways or just apply the wood chip mulch directly?
I have weed supress membrane under 1 strip of the wood, where it joins the stone mulch with woodchip, but the rest was directly onto the soil. I really wouldn't have wanted to use any plastic, but resorted to this because of maintenance 💚🌿
How do you feel the girls from eating your crops?
Keeping the hens off our veggies? Not easy 😂 Have to watch them like a hawk, but they do follow us, so distraction in a different area of the garden is the key 💚🌿
@@spudsandroses I wondered how you did it! But that's awesome!