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Ive just found your channel and I have to say it brings me exactly the same amount of joy & peace that gardens world does! Only a couple videos in & I have already learnt so much 🥰
I just picked up a bag of seed starting medium. It's February here in south western BC Canada. It keeps getting warm and then cools down just as I start thinking about digging a bit of manure into the garden.
Hello Niall,, loved the fun ending ,, yes I’m utilising my greenhouse and poly over the winter months ,, into the tubs where my tomatoes grew,, I refresh the compost with some blood fish and bone meal and grow module sown spring onions ,, planted out as a clump, they don’t do much in my unheated greenhouse in Dec + Jan but really put on some good growth in spring,, and just about harvested when the tomatoes need to go back end of April,, in my poly I’ve got all year round cauli and had a disaster with senshui wintering onions grown from seed last Sept,, looks like slugs have had them ,, I’m going to make a hotbed using fresh horse dung in an old wheelie bin to go in the poly as a trial,, I’ll start some sweet peppers off on the top which will hopefully generate enough heat and keep it frost free ,, best wishes, Lisa
Great video Niall, and thanks for the reminder that I can sow my sweet peas now as well as my spring onions. I bet those old salad seeds germinate better than your new seeds. Btw, you need ANOTHER MODULE TRAY.
Hi Naill. Was hoping to be planting like you now in the end of winter very early spring as both of us are starting new gardens. You have the added bonus of a poly tunnel and i have one of those cheap green ones. BUT following an accident NYD a dislocated ankle and a fractured fibula 🦴 that now is sporting a plate with screws. Im confined to bed for at least another week and then possibly allowed to weight bare at the end of next week or the following. Depending on the healing when they take the next X Ray. So im feeling anxious to start but cant. Im just taking comfort from Charles Dowding who says do not start before feb. So i watch utube with envy and read charle’s book which was a Christmas present. And look forward to when i can join in. Nicola. Cornwall
Oh my word, I’m so sorry! First off, I hope you getting in ok... that sounds like a very nasty break. If you lived closer, I’d raise seedlings for you to save you having to do it! But Charles Dowding is right - there’s no hurry and February will be great. Take care of yourself and treat yourself to lots of gardening books and magazines to enjoy while your leg heals 🤗
Thats so kind of you niall. I was give charles Dowding book no dig gardening course one to look at. Not so easy to get gardening magazines. I like it when they have lots of seeds attached lol. I look at it as buying seeds and getting mag for free lol. Then i can justify the £6/7 per month when budget doesnt excite for such luxuries. Hopefully by April i can get going as im in brighton recouping and garden 6 hr drive away and my car in cornwall lol.
Hi Niall. Great video. Like you I’ve already started my heirloom mixed sweat peas. I’ve also sown musselbrough leeks, Bedfordshire champion onions and bunching onions. Other than that I’m behaving myself!
Hahaha behaving yourself! The temptation to sow seeds is so strong at the minute isn't it! Saying that, it sounds like you've got a nice selection going
Haha, the 7 takes at the end 😆 Fabulous episode, thank you for so much content, sorry for the long comment here! This year (2022), I grew salad leaves in August and they worked very well until the very hard frost killed them. I've been growing Red and Green Salad Bowl for a few years and they work very well. An excellent lettuce is Crisp Mint which is nice and crunchy and the plant seems quite hardy too. Also, don't forget the nice crinkled leaf varieties such as Bijou. I also planted spring onions around August and they've so far survived the cold frost. Perpetual spinach has worked very well for me, I've been far more successful with it than with ordinary spinach. They become a bit like a mini-chard in appearance and have a bit of a bitter taste compared to the lettuces. Have made many attempts at growing herbs and been very unsuccessful! Perhaps I'll finally learn what to do in 2023. I bought the Charles Dowding 60 capacity modules this year and they are great. Smaller than the ones you used there but they are solid. You can stand on them and drop them without them breaking and they are thin with a big hole underneath so you can really poke out the thing growing in them. Just be sure to really compact the compost when planting so they don't fall apart later. And I've seen the pea shoots trick with both Liz Zorab and a couple of other TH-camrs and would like to try that.
Thanks Lorraine! If you enjoyed this, you should check out my other seed sowing videos because they'll give you even more ideas for things to sow! th-cam.com/video/huGhepD9-Eo/w-d-xo.html
Niall, Might I suggest you use fleece over you salad crops inside the polytunnel for the really cold nights,,, if you use hoops over your crops it's a very simple job to pull the fleece over the crop overnight and roll it back in the morning when all risk of frost has passed,, I live in County Mayo, at the same altitude as Knock Airport, so my last frost dates are mid May!
Afternoon Niall I have done some onions and they are doing great but for some reason I never have any luck with chives. I am getting away from beds in my poly tunnel and moving to pots. I don’t have a proper propagator so I tend not to do too many seeds. I did a few brassicas and spinach to start successional sowing but the one thing I have leaned this past 2020 is what the heck just go for it. Worst case I wasted a few dollars worth of seeds. As always stay safe and stay gardening 🧑🌾🇨🇦🥬🥕💐✌️🌶👍
Thanks Ali! Hope you’re well too! That’s cool that you’re growing onions... it’s not something I’ve tried before and we don’t eat many so I I’m trying shallots from sets this year. Will be interesting to see!
You might want to check the special variety of beetroot which are grown only for the salad. They topically don't create a round root but continue to produce leafs..
Just came upon this and flowers to start in Jan. Sounds like we have similar growing frost date. I'm in Pacific NW. I appreciate the what to plant by the months.tutoriak. Have you tried winter sowing? That's how I'm going to try this year. Tried with good success veggies last year want to try flowers too this year. Thanks.
I sure did! If you go to this playlist (th-cam.com/play/PLGtseDMcwgoa59eb7hvzLErpoCSj08gqx.html) it's got a veg garden tour, and a couple of poly tunnel tours so you can see all of the things fully grown!
I'm not growing anything right now (unfortunately). Gotta get my indoor grow station set up - it's been back ordered. Ideally I'll get some chard, kale, and beetroot going within the next week or so.
I like miner's lettuce as a winter salad. It naturally grows like crazy in winter here in northern California, so I have to imagine that it would grow well in a polytunnel in Ireland in winter.
Planning a garden now which is editable and medicinal but planning is really hard for me !!! Lol how do you choose when you don't have much room and live n the city? ..... Designing layout is key and once i figure that out i will share photos!!! thanks
Which root trainer did you use please? I did buy some but they weren't very sturdy and you have said yours is very sturdy and can be re-used. Thank you :-)
So many seeds! so cool, looking forward to follow their growth. Oh and I was trying to figure out Ireland USDA 9A zone. Didn't that categorisation of the temperature area.... :) Only visited Dublin actually so out of that don't know anything about Ireland. and the takes ahahaha, didn't think you had so many takes to get it right :)
Haha! It doesn’t normally take that many attempts, but it just started getting more and more difficult and silly! 😂 So I thought I’d add it in at the end to prove that I don’t just get it right first time!
Ohhh great list! I'm glad to mentioned begonias. I just got some seeds in the mail, and it says 6-8 weeks before last frost. It's so frustrating when they just put generic instructions.
So excited for you niall - does the polytunnel stay frost free? Laughed a lot when you said you didn't even have a veg bed yet - I'm sure you'll be fine 😁
I thought that'd get a few laughs! It gives me a deadline to stick to so that I get the veg garden made! Yeah I've got a bluetooth thermometer in the polytunnel to track the temperature and it generally stays frost free here in Ireland. Saying that, I'd be wary if we had a super cold snap where temps really nosedived into -5 or -6oC...
Hi, this was featured in your news letter today so maybe you'll still read comments. First, it is important to look up stats for your particular area, not just hardiness zones. I'm on the warmer side of 8a/8b, in Atlanta Georgia, about 6 hours from the coast. Unlike Ireland, we can have hard freezes, but also, hot summers. It went all the way to 11f last week, which possible but very rare. It will be in the mid 90f's in July. On the other hand, the average for the next two weeks will roughly be 60f days and 40f nights with no freezes. Our last frost is technically the first week in April but, practically, mid to late March. I was wondering how much you know about regulating poly tunnel temperatures. I guess I don't have a poly tunnel as much as a poly cold frame constructed with PVC pipe and plastic sheeting. It is about three by six feet against a sunny south facing stone wall. I primarily use it to start seeds, although I've considered growing winter crops. It's small enough to easily keep warm with a thermostat controlled mini electric heater on cold nights. The problem is that I have trouble with it over-heating on even moderately warm days. I'm constantly struggling with opening to air out, or closing it to keep the air in. That is especially difficult on days when I need to be away from home. Do you think it would be less prone to getting too hot if it were larger? Or would that just make it more difficult to keep it warm at night?
Re: pea shoots. I don’t know why this year is so different but I’ve been accidentally growing pea shoots for ALL of the neighborhood wildlife. I even tried to use netting but they find their way in. I’m not even mad about it, they need to eat too.
Well the sunflowers I think showed back in October or November are dying off from cold 🥶 😅🤣 I've no space to start sowing anything right now. I've got cuttings I'm trying to get rooted though. More yew, some cedar, spruce, willow and Chinese Holly.
@@niallgardens yes I will. I've mountains of seeds and we'll probably get some that self seeded again in the same place. I just need to actually do research to find out when to plant them as opposed to chucking every seed in sight into a tray 🙃 😅
Niall I'm having really hard time trying to get seeds nobody in England will send due to 'Brexit' even Amazon say they can't send to me in Belfast do you know any stockists who'll supply?!
@@niallgardens Thanx very much Niall excellent news you've restored my faith in Humanity as i kept getting "cannot send","cannot send" onwards to Happy Gardening again.💚🌞
I personally find Ryobi tools very good and the vast majority of my power tools are Ryobi. If you google search or amazon search for Ryobi Shredder you'll see their latest shredder/chipper that's available. I'd say you won't go wrong with that. Hope this helps Angela!
If you enjoyed this video, found it useful (or both!) please share it on social media to let other people know about it and my channel! Thanks everyone! ❤
Love these ‘what to sow’ now videos they are so useful 🤗. Thank you 🙏
Ah I’m delighted! Thank you!
I love the ending 🤣
Ha! Thanks.... I might keep putting those bits at the end!
Haha me too 😂
Christmas is over and I'm so excited for growing, so I knew you'd have ideas for what to sow in Jan! ..Thanks Niall! ..Happy gardening x
What a lovely comment, thank you!
I love coming back to this video each year ❤
Ive just found your channel and I have to say it brings me exactly the same amount of joy & peace that gardens world does! Only a couple videos in & I have already learnt so much 🥰
*gardeners
I'm resisting early sowing this year and i'm waiting until Feb for my earliest sowings
I’m sowing sweet pea for the first time this year, I’m excited
Wonderful! I bet you'll have great success with them
Thank you, will definitely try the peas and beets for salad leaves 👍 God Bless 🙏🏻❤️
I just picked up a bag of seed starting medium. It's February here in south western BC Canada. It keeps getting warm and then cools down just as I start thinking about digging a bit of manure into the garden.
Time to get a jump on it! 🤙 -Josh
Niall, you are a star in the making x
Hi Cindy! What a sweet thing to say - thank you! 😃
Hello Niall,, loved the fun ending ,, yes I’m utilising my greenhouse and poly over the winter months ,, into the tubs where my tomatoes grew,, I refresh the compost with some blood fish and bone meal and grow module sown spring onions ,, planted out as a clump, they don’t do much in my unheated greenhouse in Dec + Jan but really put on some good growth in spring,, and just about harvested when the tomatoes need to go back end of April,, in my poly I’ve got all year round cauli and had a disaster with senshui wintering onions grown from seed last Sept,, looks like slugs have had them ,, I’m going to make a hotbed using fresh horse dung in an old wheelie bin to go in the poly as a trial,, I’ll start some sweet peppers off on the top which will hopefully generate enough heat and keep it frost free ,, best wishes, Lisa
Very interesting. I could listen to you all day!
Wow, thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Here in New Zealand I don’t grow spring onions in winter. Don’t use heater just glass house. But grow them every other month of the year.
Great video, Niall. A great bit of hope to get going in year 😁. Great ending too! Love the blank face and silence to finish after all those takes! 😂
Cheers Tom! 😀 Yeah I thought it’d be a bit of fun to throw in what it’s like when you just can’t get yourself together in front of the camera! 😂😂
@@niallgardens Nice to see you're not always the polished presenter we see and are in fact a human being 😂
Sowing some onions and probably some peppers here.
Great video Niall, and thanks for the reminder that I can sow my sweet peas now as well as my spring onions. I bet those old salad seeds germinate better than your new seeds.
Btw, you need ANOTHER MODULE TRAY.
Thanks Andrew! Yeah it's gonna be interesting to see what does well and what doesn't. lol you wanna see how many module trays were just out-of-shot! 😂
Cleaning up the greenhouse and possible sowing some onion seeds!
Ah cool! I’ve never grown onions from seed before
Hi Naill. Was hoping to be planting like you now in the end of winter very early spring as both of us are starting new gardens. You have the added bonus of a poly tunnel and i have one of those cheap green ones. BUT following an accident NYD a dislocated ankle and a fractured fibula 🦴 that now is sporting a plate with screws. Im confined to bed for at least another week and then possibly allowed to weight bare at the end of next week or the following. Depending on the healing when they take the next X Ray. So im feeling anxious to start but cant. Im just taking comfort from Charles Dowding who says do not start before feb. So i watch utube with envy and read charle’s book which was a Christmas present. And look forward to when i can join in. Nicola. Cornwall
Oh my word, I’m so sorry! First off, I hope you getting in ok... that sounds like a very nasty break. If you lived closer, I’d raise seedlings for you to save you having to do it! But Charles Dowding is right - there’s no hurry and February will be great. Take care of yourself and treat yourself to lots of gardening books and magazines to enjoy while your leg heals 🤗
Thats so kind of you niall. I was give charles Dowding book no dig gardening course one to look at. Not so easy to get gardening magazines. I like it when they have lots of seeds attached lol. I look at it as buying seeds and getting mag for free lol. Then i can justify the £6/7 per month when budget doesnt excite for such luxuries. Hopefully by April i can get going as im in brighton recouping and garden 6 hr drive away and my car in cornwall lol.
Hi Niall. Great video. Like you I’ve already started my heirloom mixed sweat peas. I’ve also sown musselbrough leeks, Bedfordshire champion onions and bunching onions. Other than that I’m behaving myself!
Hahaha behaving yourself! The temptation to sow seeds is so strong at the minute isn't it! Saying that, it sounds like you've got a nice selection going
Haha, the 7 takes at the end 😆
Fabulous episode, thank you for so much content, sorry for the long comment here!
This year (2022), I grew salad leaves in August and they worked very well until the very hard frost killed them. I've been growing Red and Green Salad Bowl for a few years and they work very well. An excellent lettuce is Crisp Mint which is nice and crunchy and the plant seems quite hardy too. Also, don't forget the nice crinkled leaf varieties such as Bijou. I also planted spring onions around August and they've so far survived the cold frost.
Perpetual spinach has worked very well for me, I've been far more successful with it than with ordinary spinach. They become a bit like a mini-chard in appearance and have a bit of a bitter taste compared to the lettuces.
Have made many attempts at growing herbs and been very unsuccessful! Perhaps I'll finally learn what to do in 2023.
I bought the Charles Dowding 60 capacity modules this year and they are great. Smaller than the ones you used there but they are solid. You can stand on them and drop them without them breaking and they are thin with a big hole underneath so you can really poke out the thing growing in them. Just be sure to really compact the compost when planting so they don't fall apart later.
And I've seen the pea shoots trick with both Liz Zorab and a couple of other TH-camrs and would like to try that.
Great ideas - thinking already how I’ll miss all the fresh stuff from my garden in winter!
Thanks Lorraine! If you enjoyed this, you should check out my other seed sowing videos because they'll give you even more ideas for things to sow! th-cam.com/video/huGhepD9-Eo/w-d-xo.html
Lots and lots of seeds :D
I’m only starting off peppers and tomatoes early this year but getting excited to join your seed starting adventures :D
Yeah I’ve got a fair few sown! 😃 I’ll be starting into my peppers and tomatoes next month for fear of running out of growing space at the min! 😂
Niall,
Might I suggest you use fleece over you salad crops inside the polytunnel for the really cold nights,,, if you use hoops over your crops it's a very simple job to pull the fleece over the crop overnight and roll it back in the morning when all risk of frost has passed,,
I live in County Mayo, at the same altitude as Knock Airport, so my last frost dates are mid May!
Very good points and useful info - thanks Philip 👍This will definitely be applicable to a lot of people
Afternoon Niall I have done some onions and they are doing great but for some reason I never have any luck with chives. I am getting away from beds in my poly tunnel and moving to pots. I don’t have a proper propagator so I tend not to do too many seeds. I did a few brassicas and spinach to start successional sowing but the one thing I have leaned this past 2020 is what the heck just go for it. Worst case I wasted a few dollars worth of seeds. As always stay safe and stay gardening 🧑🌾🇨🇦🥬🥕💐✌️🌶👍
Thanks Ali! Hope you’re well too! That’s cool that you’re growing onions... it’s not something I’ve tried before and we don’t eat many so I I’m trying shallots from sets this year. Will be interesting to see!
peas and beetroot the now love picking peas and eating there and then.
It’s like being a child again isn’t it - picking fresh pea pods!
Hi Niall, we're starting chillies and peppers as well as sweet peas. In my kitchen on the cill as my GH is not heated. Its exciting to get started!!
It is exciting! I’m starting my chilli peppers in a week or two, plus some early showings of tomatoes
You might want to check the special variety of beetroot which are grown only for the salad. They topically don't create a round root but continue to produce leafs..
Ah yeah I also grow a specific variety called 'Bulls Blood' for those lovely dark purple leaves 😃
Just came upon this and flowers to start in Jan. Sounds like we have similar growing frost date. I'm in Pacific NW. I appreciate the what to plant by the months.tutoriak. Have you tried winter sowing? That's how I'm going to try this year. Tried with good success veggies last year want to try flowers too this year. Thanks.
Good video
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video! Did you make a follow-up video on what you were able to harvest?
I sure did! If you go to this playlist (th-cam.com/play/PLGtseDMcwgoa59eb7hvzLErpoCSj08gqx.html) it's got a veg garden tour, and a couple of poly tunnel tours so you can see all of the things fully grown!
I'm not growing anything right now (unfortunately). Gotta get my indoor grow station set up - it's been back ordered. Ideally I'll get some chard, kale, and beetroot going within the next week or so.
That'll be super when that growing station arrives and you get lots of lovely things started. Good luck!
I like miner's lettuce as a winter salad. It naturally grows like crazy in winter here in northern California, so I have to imagine that it would grow well in a polytunnel in Ireland in winter.
Oh I don't know Miner's Lettuce so I'll check it out - could be really fun to give it a go here!
Planning a garden now which is editable and medicinal but planning is really hard for me !!! Lol how do you choose when you don't have much room and live n the city? ..... Designing layout is key and once i figure that out i will share photos!!! thanks
Which root trainer did you use please? I did buy some but they weren't very sturdy and you have said yours is very sturdy and can be re-used. Thank you :-)
Great video mate 👍
Thanks very much! 👍
So many seeds! so cool, looking forward to follow their growth. Oh and I was trying to figure out Ireland USDA 9A zone. Didn't that categorisation of the temperature area.... :) Only visited Dublin actually so out of that don't know anything about Ireland.
and the takes ahahaha, didn't think you had so many takes to get it right :)
Haha! It doesn’t normally take that many attempts, but it just started getting more and more difficult and silly! 😂 So I thought I’d add it in at the end to prove that I don’t just get it right first time!
Ohhh great list! I'm glad to mentioned begonias. I just got some seeds in the mail, and it says 6-8 weeks before last frost. It's so frustrating when they just put generic instructions.
Thanks! Yeah I know exactly what you mean about the generic instructions - useful in some ways, useless in others!!
@@niallgardens yes thank you!!!!
So excited for you niall - does the polytunnel stay frost free? Laughed a lot when you said you didn't even have a veg bed yet - I'm sure you'll be fine 😁
I thought that'd get a few laughs! It gives me a deadline to stick to so that I get the veg garden made! Yeah I've got a bluetooth thermometer in the polytunnel to track the temperature and it generally stays frost free here in Ireland. Saying that, I'd be wary if we had a super cold snap where temps really nosedived into -5 or -6oC...
Hi Niall, where can you purchase the multi pack seeds in Ireland?
Oh, the multi-packs were just in my local garden centre...
Hi, this was featured in your news letter today so maybe you'll still read comments. First, it is important to look up stats for your particular area, not just hardiness zones. I'm on the warmer side of 8a/8b, in Atlanta Georgia, about 6 hours from the coast. Unlike Ireland, we can have hard freezes, but also, hot summers. It went all the way to 11f last week, which possible but very rare. It will be in the mid 90f's in July. On the other hand, the average for the next two weeks will roughly be 60f days and 40f nights with no freezes. Our last frost is technically the first week in April but, practically, mid to late March.
I was wondering how much you know about regulating poly tunnel temperatures. I guess I don't have a poly tunnel as much as a poly cold frame constructed with PVC pipe and plastic sheeting. It is about three by six feet against a sunny south facing stone wall. I primarily use it to start seeds, although I've considered growing winter crops. It's small enough to easily keep warm with a thermostat controlled mini electric heater on cold nights. The problem is that I have trouble with it over-heating on even moderately warm days. I'm constantly struggling with opening to air out, or closing it to keep the air in. That is especially difficult on days when I need to be away from home. Do you think it would be less prone to getting too hot if it were larger? Or would that just make it more difficult to keep it warm at night?
Re: pea shoots. I don’t know why this year is so different but I’ve been accidentally growing pea shoots for ALL of the neighborhood wildlife. I even tried to use netting but they find their way in. I’m not even mad about it, they need to eat too.
Hahahaha! That's always the way isn't it... a little bit for us, a little bit for them... sometimes a lot for them!!
Since two years have passed, I'd love to hear how those sowings went after trying in January. Did they work out well?
Well funny you mention that... here's what happened that year! th-cam.com/video/RsQPDxRPjG4/w-d-xo.html
I L ❤️ VE perpetual spinach, it lasts forever! Great video, good luck with your germination 🌱 x
Cool to hear from someone who's tried it and likes it - it's a new one for me so I'm looking forward to giving it a go!
Well the sunflowers I think showed back in October or November are dying off from cold 🥶 😅🤣
I've no space to start sowing anything right now. I've got cuttings I'm trying to get rooted though. More yew, some cedar, spruce, willow and Chinese Holly.
Will you be growing more sunflowers again this year? That’s great that you’ve got some cuttings going as well!
@@niallgardens yes I will. I've mountains of seeds and we'll probably get some that self seeded again in the same place.
I just need to actually do research to find out when to plant them as opposed to chucking every seed in sight into a tray 🙃 😅
Niall I'm having really hard time trying to get seeds nobody in England will send due to 'Brexit' even Amazon say they can't send to me in Belfast do you know any stockists who'll supply?!
There’s a great Irish company called seedaholic who will also send to NI - I use them for most of my seeds so they should be able to fix you up! 👍
@@niallgardens Thanx very much Niall excellent news you've restored my faith in Humanity as i kept getting "cannot send","cannot send" onwards to Happy Gardening again.💚🌞
Niall which is the best chipper shredder to buy in ireland? Please help.
I personally find Ryobi tools very good and the vast majority of my power tools are Ryobi. If you google search or amazon search for Ryobi Shredder you'll see their latest shredder/chipper that's available. I'd say you won't go wrong with that. Hope this helps Angela!