Greetings Niall, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 ❤️ I'm chuckling because after 50 years of gardening I am still wondering "what was I thinking there?" I hope to be learning until I garden my last garden! Great show 👏 I hope Spring is beautiful in your garden, My Friend 🌿💚🌿
And thank you about the 3 sisters warning. THIS is why I am watching an Irish gardening channel! Everything I get in my feed from the states is either "Hi! This is "Gardening in Florida!" Today, growing chillies in December outside!" or "Hi! This is "Gardening for the Zombie Apocalypse!" Today: The high calorie nutritional benefits of growing tonnes of turnips and pickling them in your 3 year food store!"
@@alwayspropagating9146 You know those video because they start out with "Bless you and good morning!" or something. So long as they don't grow turnips. God can't be responsible for turnips. They've GOT to come from the other side...
🌽 I tried two-sisters last year! This was additionally my first ever attempt at growing both Sweetcorn and Squash. So like yourself I went fairly well in without much an idea what would happen. But I *did* get both some Corn and a good handful of large (Crown Prince) Squash. The huge mistake I made was not realising just how fast the Squash plants grow 😱 Basically the Squash won the ground war, and the battle for air supremacy from the Corn was hence substantially compromised. This year I’ll be letting my 🌽 get much, much more established before introducing the Squash plants. I’ll also be interplanting Leeks into my other Corn bed, I think, as they’ll sit happily below the tall Corn plants.
You might have better luck using a bush variety of squash, you'll get the shade on the roots without pulling the corn down. The beans usually aren't a problem.
Hi! Sorry for such a late reply. That's interesting to hear how you had success with a two sisters setup and I can well imagine how the squashes just took over the small corn plants! I like the idea of using leeks 👍
You could also use a bush bean as a living mulch for the sweetcorn. I would personally forgo the squash, as mentioned its to rampant and blocks out too much light as air in the UK
Ah, ah, ah! Oh Niall, here i am laughing aloud listening to your mistakes and thinking 'yep, did those silly things too'. It is funny how sometimes we forget, or choose to ignore, the climate conditions some plants need! Honestly we always learn as never 2 years are the same...
Glad you enjoyed it and that it gave you a few laughs! Just like you say, it's when we ignore the climate etc and try to push on ahead when things go awry!
Greetings from Germany! Thanks for the honesty, Niall😊. I was just thinking about growing more veggies this year. Found your channel last month and just enjoying it!
They did Three Sisters in the American Northeast, which isn't *that* different from where you are. It probably helps to use the same kinds of plants used in that area, and to build the mounds like you're supposed to. What you're describing about letting the corn dry out, that's how you do field corn just in general, from what I've been reading.
I'm retired and have been gardening since I was 5 and I still amaze myself on the mistakes I still make. There's a joke here in the USA that the best car mechanic has the worst running car because he knows how to fix it. Not that different in gardening. But allas, it's spring and all things can be made right and are possible again.
I always have weeds, but this past winter, I listened to Huw and put my beds to sleep with a tarp I had laying around. Let me tell you that while it’s semi unsightly, it made a world of a difference so far.
Another fun video albeit at your expense! I have often heard the the 3 sister planting method didn’t work very successfully this side of the pond. Ooh, I winced when you told us about interplanting the asparagus. I just knew what was coming!
A bed of radical honesty!! love that!!😀You must love asparagus..😀I have just planted mine for the first time.Im sooo excited!!Yes!! I did the same thing with my baby corn!
My biggest lesson from last year's veg patch is to only grow things i really love to eat. Its way too much effort otherwise lol. So far, my Kale is the shining star. So easy and it just keeps giving. How nice is it to not have to buy salad from the store, especially at prices these days! I have 3 asparagus that have shoots, yay! I adore asparagus, yummy.
Hi Kelley - so sorry for the late reply... I'm playing catch up! I think you're 100% right about only planting things you truly want to eat. That's so good that your asparagus plants are shooting - fingers crossed for you!
Thank you so much for sharing - laughing out loud at those strangling beans! Lol I am happy to serve as a very hardworking, enthusiastic gardener who makes all my gardening friends feel better! And your few confessions gave me a big smile and encouragement. Love mistakes.
Hahaha thank you for showing us the weeds it makes me feel less bad from fails in the past to do proper weeding. Sometimes, seeing these really perfect gardens can be just too intimidating. I have never tried asparagus, and I am not sure what I will grow next year (this year I am growing a minimal amount of stuff). Maybe! Why though the blackberries they're all over Ireland growing down every country road?
You're more than welcome Charlotte! The big advantage of growing your own blackberries is that you get to harvest them all for yourself before someone else gets to them first! hahahaha!
If I see you digging up all those weeds in the next video it will encourage me to get out into the garden and do the same, I have so many weeds, brambles etc. all over the garden, I'm a terrible gardener, I have lots of failures, and I normally just grow a few salad veggies as that is what we eat most and it saves money. Good to see that others have failures too.
Well the bad news is you won't get to see me doing all that weeding, but maybe some of it!!! I've been working away in the background getting on top of it all!
Morning Niall the raspberry bush will actually go under the bed edges and take over the lawn 😱 I finally gave up and put them in HUGE pots. I gave my asparagus a large bed of its own so fingers crossed 🤞. 3 sisters do great in a large area 😂😂 so I do 2 sisters instead. Luckily I don’t like those baby corn so all good there. I still think 😂😂 a pea gravel bed around it all would look lovely with flag patio in the middle. Gardening is nothing if not a big experiment so what we learn is always a good thing. Thank you for sharing 🐝 safe 🙏☮️🇺🇦🌻
Hiya Ali! Sorry for the late reply - I'm in catchup mode but I always want to answer every single comment. Oh the raspberries... I love them, but they can be annoying too can't they in how far they run! Funny, someone else mentioned 2 sisters and I think that sounds like a strong idea.
😊 I guess this is why gardening is all about growing! Every year I grow and learn from mistakes. Especially with weeds (I may have thought weeds sleep in the winter too🤫) I love that you are planting MORE asparagus. Thanks for another great video!
Well said! I'm the same as you, learning every year (even the times when the lesson comes tough!). The asparagus is now in, so I now have two lovely dedicated beds!
I've struggled again with my butternut Squash this year, i'm hoping it's just because I planted them late. I'll probably try one more time next year before giving up and plating something more fruitful!
I read somewhere that potatoes can be grown with corn so last year I decided to be different and do that. 🤦🤦 My potatoes had a good head start on the corn and so they were HUGE! plants by the time the corn could go in and they kept shading out the corn lol this year I am planting way more corn(that was another issue) and I am doing the 3 sisters...corn..pole beans...(they worked well with the corn last year once they got up and away from the potato plants) and squash...pumpkins...possibly a couple melons. It should be ok since they are in direct sun all day! 🤞🤞 I'll let you know how it turns out as I am in a cold short season climate...but corn does grow here...Zone 4B Sudbury On Canada ❤️
Last year the sun wasn't directly infront, it was east to west so other than high noon the corn wasn't able to get the sun passed the potatoes, I was tying off the potato plants to the side to save my corn 🤣🤣
Oh boy, getting nervous.. three sistering here in California, 9b. I’m using branching sunflowers instead of corn- I don’t have the patience/space for a crop with only ONE fruit, Seychelles pole beans and various squashes and pumpkins. Fingers crossed that since I actually live where the Indians used to thrive, I may have luck. Thanks for your entertaining video!!
Thanks for sharing your mistakes! 👍💚🌱 That's good advice. I just asked the german TH-camr Selfbio what experiences he made with the MILPA method of mixing beans, corn an squash. He used normal corn and lives in a mild climate in the midwest of Germany. He had a less productivity of beans and squash. So it seems not really to work in our area. 😉 P.S. Gardener Scott just had good advice about asparagus on his weekly live talk.
I'm wanting to try Three Sisters in a raised bed (square foot gardening method) and watched your initial planting video as part of my research. SO sorry your harvest did not work out for you! But as you said, experimenting is always fun :) I'm still going to give it a go though (I'm in the States)! Thanks for sharing your experience. And I make way more than three mistakes every season LOL
Hello Asparagus Niall haha! Oooh can I be just a wee bit chuffed that you sometimes get it wrong??? Haha. I often wondered about your three sisters bed. It's so good of you to share this Niall and thank you for your honesty..many a gardener wouldn't admit to mistakes! I spent most of yesterday in my garden weeding so hopefully i'll keep on top of them more this year. Thank you again Niall for another fab video! x
Hiya Geraldine! Sorry for the late reply to your comment - I try to answer every single one! You can absolutely be chuffed that I sometimes get it wrong! I like sharing the rubbish stuff as well as the good stuff. Hopefully by now your garden is all lovely and weed free!
I am very jealous of your asparagus. Last year we had the first shoots and I resisted. So looking forward to this year. But, no shoots. When I have checked, rat runs . The rodents appear to have eaten the asparagus. So very, very disappointed. And now I have to deal with the rats. I hate the thought of dealing with them, but I have subsequently found more runs and they have to go. So Niall please enjoy your asparagus.
@@niallgardens thanks for your support. I had to resort to pest control as I am finding more and more tunnels in my garden. I have sewn parsnip seed and potted on some lettuce. Let's see if they leave them alone.
Making mistakes is in my opinion the best way to learn. New Mantra for you that has served me well over the decades. 'Hoe every day with Y in it's and never suffer from weed infestations on your beds again. Its all looking very green there Niall !...Steve...🙂
I totally agree, and sharing them on a platform like this is really good also to give everyone the confidence to laugh and learn from mistakes and slip-ups. I like the phrase but I can see that I might not quite be able to match its intent! hahaha!
Loved this Niall! I'm on the other side of the pond from you, on the east coast of Nova Scotia. We have a very cold icy winter with many freeze thaw cycles, followed by a wet rainy spring / summer and not nearly as warm as your location. My big failure was the winter sowing technique -- tried that twice in jugs -- the very poor germination was followed by complete rot! LOL -- not the climate for that process -- at least, not in my hands! Thanks for all you share and laughing through the failures! Awesome!
Thanks Niall at least that’s a couple of mistakes I can avoid, last autumn I planted garlic where I grow my climbing beans then found that was wrong so I had to dig it up again, fortunately it’s still growing well in pots.
It's nice to share our mistakes and failures because sometimes if we don't, they end up seeming way worse than they actually are - when really they should just be a fun learning moment!
Great video Niall we’re all human and do make mistakes more often than not, ha ha I do a lot too with my own allotment plot But I do learn from them 😜honestly. Last year I decided I that I wanted to grow flowers to sell ,that didn’t happen , for starters I didn’t have enough ,the weather ruined a lot of them So did the birds and some thing ate all my primroses every single one . But I will keep trying 😃
That's interesting - though I'm sure as well as learning from it, you also grew way more flowers than the average person and had loads to enjoy for yourself!
Great video Niall very refreshing honest and funny 😄. Keep up the good work. I love your videos as I live in kilkenny so I'd it works for you it'll work for me😉
Another great video! I did the same thing. I got distracted last fall and didn't plant a fall crop and, even worse, never got any cardboard put down. Now I'm hacking my way through a jungle. Is it cold enough there for your parsnips to go dormant in the winter? I'm afraid that if I leave them out they will keep growing past their prime. Could you run a squash vine around your asparagus just to get some extended use out of the bed? Or maybe an upright trelis on the north side with beans or peas on it?
Thanks Bruce and sorry for the late reply to your comment. It does seem to get cold enough that they sit quite happily in the soil so I harvest them as and when I want them. I think I'm just going to indulge my asparagus plants from now on, and let them have their own dedicated beds.... lucky plants! haha!
Nice video Niall, honest gardening. We live and learn, it how i really learn. The three sisters i did, was near each other, rather than in same bed,it worked, now did it work individually anyway, who knows. Those thornless blackberries do like to ramble don't they, i have them at home. Fairplay growing asparagus, i like it, but never grew it. Raspberries do like to multiply, so a good idea. Good to laugh, let live,and learn. Enjoy the journey, and remember you have had a very busy year, re weeds, you will have a goid few theraputic days transforming those beds, i'm in the process of that,i did mulch, cardboard and all, weeds still come,we are guests among the weeds, healthy to have some i say ha ha. Have a super day, you did a super job with those beds, and only one season. Constantly making mistakes, and problems for myself here ha ha.
very funny video! thanks for the honesty - think thats why your channel is so popular! will remember about the corn although had read planting beetroot around is supposed to be a good one to work together and radishes? i am just growing 3 asparagus from seed but on a windowsill at the moment before deciding where to plant them but very concerned about the squirrels and rabbits that may dig them up so a form of chicken wire may need to go over the top to stop that digging from happening may hopefully help!
We all make mistakes, that's how we learn as well as our successes. Would dwarf french beans and sweetcorn in your opinion have a chance of success? Sowing the dwarf french beans after the sweet corn has established to avoid some competition for light.
I think that pairing would work. In fact the bit that I didn't mention in the video is that in one of the beds, I planted dwarf beans, but sadly they all got eaten during one night!!
I'm still learning from mistakes after half a century of gardening!
I think if we didn't learn from it, and everything went swimmingly all the time, we'd get bored so quickly wouldn't we?!
Greetings Niall, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 ❤️
I'm chuckling because after 50 years of gardening I am still wondering "what was I thinking there?" I hope to be learning until I garden my last garden!
Great show 👏
I hope Spring is beautiful in your garden, My Friend 🌿💚🌿
Thanks Peggy! And sorry for such a late reply! Spring here is lovely at the minute - I hope it's the same with you!
If you don't make mistakes, you don't learn. Appreciate your honesty. 👍
Thanks! I'll always try and be honest here
And thank you about the 3 sisters warning. THIS is why I am watching an Irish gardening channel! Everything I get in my feed from the states is either "Hi! This is "Gardening in Florida!" Today, growing chillies in December outside!" or "Hi! This is "Gardening for the Zombie Apocalypse!" Today: The high calorie nutritional benefits of growing tonnes of turnips and pickling them in your 3 year food store!"
This is so true! 😂 and don't forget "welcome to my worship garden. Today: how to build a garden for jesus"
@@alwayspropagating9146 You know those video because they start out with "Bless you and good morning!" or something. So long as they don't grow turnips. God can't be responsible for turnips. They've GOT to come from the other side...
@@alwayspropagating9146 Also, they smile way too much!
Hahahahaha! Very glad that the style of my videos are more your kind of thing!
🌽 I tried two-sisters last year! This was additionally my first ever attempt at growing both Sweetcorn and Squash. So like yourself I went fairly well in without much an idea what would happen. But I *did* get both some Corn and a good handful of large (Crown Prince) Squash. The huge mistake I made was not realising just how fast the Squash plants grow 😱 Basically the Squash won the ground war, and the battle for air supremacy from the Corn was hence substantially compromised. This year I’ll be letting my 🌽 get much, much more established before introducing the Squash plants. I’ll also be interplanting Leeks into my other Corn bed, I think, as they’ll sit happily below the tall Corn plants.
You might have better luck using a bush variety of squash, you'll get the shade on the roots without pulling the corn down. The beans usually aren't a problem.
Hi! Sorry for such a late reply. That's interesting to hear how you had success with a two sisters setup and I can well imagine how the squashes just took over the small corn plants! I like the idea of using leeks 👍
That's a cool point Jeffrey - opting for a bush variety of squash 👍
You could also use a bush bean as a living mulch for the sweetcorn. I would personally forgo the squash, as mentioned its to rampant and blocks out too much light as air in the UK
5:06 😂😂😂
That excitement is identical to what my husband sees when I get a new plant or pot (especially free or bargain).
Little kid in a candy store.
Yeah I was more than a little excited at that bit! lol
Ah, ah, ah! Oh Niall, here i am laughing aloud listening to your mistakes and thinking 'yep, did those silly things too'. It is funny how sometimes we forget, or choose to ignore, the climate conditions some plants need! Honestly we always learn as never 2 years are the same...
Glad you enjoyed it and that it gave you a few laughs! Just like you say, it's when we ignore the climate etc and try to push on ahead when things go awry!
Greetings from Germany! Thanks for the honesty, Niall😊. I was just thinking about growing more veggies this year. Found your channel last month and just enjoying it!
Hi Evita! Sorry for the late reply - glad you've found the channel and welcome! I always love hearing from everyone and getting comments!
@@niallgardens No problem, Niall. 😊.l follow your channel so I know you're really busy. Keep up the good work! Happy Easter!🐦☘
Thank you for posting this! I bought all the seeds for three sisters, and now I'll put them in separate beds instead.
Glad I got the info to you in time!
They did Three Sisters in the American Northeast, which isn't *that* different from where you are. It probably helps to use the same kinds of plants used in that area, and to build the mounds like you're supposed to.
What you're describing about letting the corn dry out, that's how you do field corn just in general, from what I've been reading.
You’re absolutely right Miles 😃 This was a definite series of beginners errors on my part for the three sisters planting! 😂
I'm retired and have been gardening since I was 5 and I still amaze myself on the mistakes I still make. There's a joke here in the USA that the best car mechanic has the worst running car because he knows how to fix it. Not that different in gardening. But allas, it's spring and all things can be made right and are possible again.
Hi Jeffrey - sorry for such a late reply to your comment. I like the analogy and it's very very true!! hahhaha
I always have weeds, but this past winter, I listened to Huw and put my beds to sleep with a tarp I had laying around. Let me tell you that while it’s semi unsightly, it made a world of a difference so far.
That's my usual routine because it certainly does work (a bad case of the laziness crept in this winter!)
Another fun video albeit at your expense! I have often heard the the 3 sister planting method didn’t work very successfully this side of the pond. Ooh, I winced when you told us about interplanting the asparagus. I just knew what was coming!
Sure you'll be getting used to me on this channel now laughing at myself! Either that, or I'd be crying!
A bed of radical honesty!! love that!!😀You must love asparagus..😀I have just planted mine for the first time.Im sooo excited!!Yes!! I did the same thing with my baby corn!
I really do love asparagus! Can't beat some radical honesty in social media!
My biggest lesson from last year's veg patch is to only grow things i really love to eat. Its way too much effort otherwise lol. So far, my Kale is the shining star. So easy and it just keeps giving. How nice is it to not have to buy salad from the store, especially at prices these days! I have 3 asparagus that have shoots, yay! I adore asparagus, yummy.
Hi Kelley - so sorry for the late reply... I'm playing catch up! I think you're 100% right about only planting things you truly want to eat. That's so good that your asparagus plants are shooting - fingers crossed for you!
Hi Niall
We learn as we go along with gardening, love your videos.
Carol from the UK.
So nice of you, thank you! We really do!
Thank you so much for sharing - laughing out loud at those strangling beans! Lol I am happy to serve as a very hardworking, enthusiastic gardener who makes all my gardening friends feel better! And your few confessions gave me a big smile and encouragement. Love mistakes.
Hello! Sorry for such a late reply - yeah the strangling beans were a pain in the neck! Glad that the video gave you some smiles and laughs!
Hahaha thank you for showing us the weeds it makes me feel less bad from fails in the past to do proper weeding. Sometimes, seeing these really perfect gardens can be just too intimidating. I have never tried asparagus, and I am not sure what I will grow next year (this year I am growing a minimal amount of stuff). Maybe! Why though the blackberries they're all over Ireland growing down every country road?
You're more than welcome Charlotte! The big advantage of growing your own blackberries is that you get to harvest them all for yourself before someone else gets to them first! hahahaha!
If I see you digging up all those weeds in the next video it will encourage me to get out into the garden and do the same, I have so many weeds, brambles etc. all over the garden, I'm a terrible gardener, I have lots of failures, and I normally just grow a few salad veggies as that is what we eat most and it saves money. Good to see that others have failures too.
Well the bad news is you won't get to see me doing all that weeding, but maybe some of it!!! I've been working away in the background getting on top of it all!
@@niallgardens Naw, you've got elves weeding for you!! 😀
Morning Niall the raspberry bush will actually go under the bed edges and take over the lawn 😱 I finally gave up and put them in HUGE pots. I gave my asparagus a large bed of its own so fingers crossed 🤞. 3 sisters do great in a large area 😂😂 so I do 2 sisters instead. Luckily I don’t like those baby corn so all good there. I still think 😂😂 a pea gravel bed around it all would look lovely with flag patio in the middle. Gardening is nothing if not a big experiment so what we learn is always a good thing. Thank you for sharing 🐝 safe 🙏☮️🇺🇦🌻
Hiya Ali! Sorry for the late reply - I'm in catchup mode but I always want to answer every single comment. Oh the raspberries... I love them, but they can be annoying too can't they in how far they run! Funny, someone else mentioned 2 sisters and I think that sounds like a strong idea.
😊 I guess this is why gardening is all about growing! Every year I grow and learn from mistakes. Especially with weeds (I may have thought weeds sleep in the winter too🤫) I love that you are planting MORE asparagus. Thanks for another great video!
Well said! I'm the same as you, learning every year (even the times when the lesson comes tough!). The asparagus is now in, so I now have two lovely dedicated beds!
@@niallgardens wonderful!
I've struggled again with my butternut Squash this year, i'm hoping it's just because I planted them late. I'll probably try one more time next year before giving up and plating something more fruitful!
I hear ya on that! 😂 I’m the same!
I read somewhere that potatoes can be grown with corn so last year I decided to be different and do that. 🤦🤦 My potatoes had a good head start on the corn and so they were HUGE! plants by the time the corn could go in and they kept shading out the corn lol this year I am planting way more corn(that was another issue) and I am doing the 3 sisters...corn..pole beans...(they worked well with the corn last year once they got up and away from the potato plants) and squash...pumpkins...possibly a couple melons. It should be ok since they are in direct sun all day! 🤞🤞 I'll let you know how it turns out as I am in a cold short season climate...but corn does grow here...Zone 4B Sudbury On Canada ❤️
Last year the sun wasn't directly infront, it was east to west so other than high noon the corn wasn't able to get the sun passed the potatoes, I was tying off the potato plants to the side to save my corn 🤣🤣
This makes me feel much better that it's not only me who has the occasional slip up!!
Oh boy, getting nervous.. three sistering here in California, 9b. I’m using branching sunflowers instead of corn- I don’t have the patience/space for a crop with only ONE fruit, Seychelles pole beans and various squashes and pumpkins. Fingers crossed that since I actually live where the Indians used to thrive, I may have luck. Thanks for your entertaining video!!
I think you're perfectly located for it all to work well - good luck!
10mins exactly, nice
Couldn't have done it if I'd tried! 😂
Ha I did the 3 sisters too few year ago on my allotment, agree with you - it doesn’t work!
Yeah I'm afraid it just doesn't really work for me
Thanks for sharing your mistakes! 👍💚🌱 That's good advice.
I just asked the german TH-camr Selfbio what experiences he made with the MILPA method of mixing beans, corn an squash. He used normal corn and lives in a mild climate in the midwest of Germany. He had a less productivity of beans and squash. So it seems not really to work in our area. 😉
P.S. Gardener Scott just had good advice about asparagus on his weekly live talk.
Thanks Christiane and apologies for the late reply to your comment. That's interesting to hear Selfbio's experiences also
@@niallgardens you're wellcome 😉
I'm wanting to try Three Sisters in a raised bed (square foot gardening method) and watched your initial planting video as part of my research. SO sorry your harvest did not work out for you! But as you said, experimenting is always fun :) I'm still going to give it a go though (I'm in the States)! Thanks for sharing your experience. And I make way more than three mistakes every season LOL
Hello Asparagus Niall haha! Oooh can I be just a wee bit chuffed that you sometimes get it wrong??? Haha. I often wondered about your three sisters bed. It's so good of you to share this Niall and thank you for your honesty..many a gardener wouldn't admit to mistakes! I spent most of yesterday in my garden weeding so hopefully i'll keep on top of them more this year. Thank you again Niall for another fab video! x
Hiya Geraldine! Sorry for the late reply to your comment - I try to answer every single one! You can absolutely be chuffed that I sometimes get it wrong! I like sharing the rubbish stuff as well as the good stuff. Hopefully by now your garden is all lovely and weed free!
@@niallgardens Erm...nearly Weed free! 😂😂😂
I am very jealous of your asparagus. Last year we had the first shoots and I resisted. So looking forward to this year. But, no shoots. When I have checked, rat runs . The rodents appear to have eaten the asparagus. So very, very disappointed. And now I have to deal with the rats. I hate the thought of dealing with them, but I have subsequently found more runs and they have to go. So Niall please enjoy your asparagus.
Oh no! I hope you get the rat issue sorted - let me know how you get on! I'm patiently watching to see how many of my plants come back this year!
@@niallgardens thanks for your support. I had to resort to pest control as I am finding more and more tunnels in my garden. I have sewn parsnip seed and potted on some lettuce. Let's see if they leave them alone.
Making mistakes is in my opinion the best way to learn. New Mantra for you that has served me well over the decades. 'Hoe every day with Y in it's and never suffer from weed infestations on your beds again. Its all looking very green there Niall !...Steve...🙂
I totally agree, and sharing them on a platform like this is really good also to give everyone the confidence to laugh and learn from mistakes and slip-ups. I like the phrase but I can see that I might not quite be able to match its intent! hahaha!
Loved this Niall! I'm on the other side of the pond from you, on the east coast of Nova Scotia. We have a very cold icy winter with many freeze thaw cycles, followed by a wet rainy spring / summer and not nearly as warm as your location. My big failure was the winter sowing technique -- tried that twice in jugs -- the very poor germination was followed by complete rot! LOL -- not the climate for that process -- at least, not in my hands! Thanks for all you share and laughing through the failures! Awesome!
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video. I can well imagine how cold it gets for you in the winter - very challenging!
Thanks Niall at least that’s a couple of mistakes I can avoid, last autumn I planted garlic where I grow my climbing beans then found that was wrong so I had to dig it up again, fortunately it’s still growing well in pots.
It's nice to share our mistakes and failures because sometimes if we don't, they end up seeming way worse than they actually are - when really they should just be a fun learning moment!
Great video Niall we’re all human and do make mistakes more often than not, ha ha I do a lot too with my own allotment plot
But I do learn from them 😜honestly.
Last year I decided I that I wanted to grow flowers to sell ,that didn’t happen , for starters I didn’t have enough ,the weather ruined a lot of them
So did the birds and some thing ate all my primroses every single one .
But I will keep trying 😃
That's interesting - though I'm sure as well as learning from it, you also grew way more flowers than the average person and had loads to enjoy for yourself!
Thank you Niall. Such a great video.
Glad you enjoyed it, you're welcome! And sorry for this being such a late reply!
Thanks very much Niall, some great points.
You're welcome!
Try fava beans and a bigger sturdier kind of corn. Or else sunflowers. it does work !!! You just need to adapt.
Thanks Rashmi... I'll definitely give that some consideration!
Great video Niall very refreshing honest and funny 😄. Keep up the good work. I love your videos as I live in kilkenny so I'd it works for you it'll work for me😉
Oh brilliant - that's really cool that it's local gardening advice and inspiration for you!
I’ve made these same mistakes… glad to hear I’m not the only one! Thanks!
You're definitely not the only one! I've got your back! lol
Great video. Very entertaining 😀
Thanks Eilish, and apologies for only replying to your comment so late!
Another great video! I did the same thing. I got distracted last fall and didn't plant a fall crop and, even worse, never got any cardboard put down. Now I'm hacking my way through a jungle. Is it cold enough there for your parsnips to go dormant in the winter? I'm afraid that if I leave them out they will keep growing past their prime.
Could you run a squash vine around your asparagus just to get some extended use out of the bed? Or maybe an upright trelis on the north side with beans or peas on it?
Thanks Bruce and sorry for the late reply to your comment. It does seem to get cold enough that they sit quite happily in the soil so I harvest them as and when I want them. I think I'm just going to indulge my asparagus plants from now on, and let them have their own dedicated beds.... lucky plants! haha!
Nice video Niall, honest gardening. We live and learn, it how i really learn. The three sisters i did, was near each other, rather than in same bed,it worked, now did it work individually anyway, who knows. Those thornless blackberries do like to ramble don't they, i have them at home. Fairplay growing asparagus, i like it, but never grew it. Raspberries do like to multiply, so a good idea. Good to laugh, let live,and learn. Enjoy the journey, and remember you have had a very busy year, re weeds, you will have a goid few theraputic days transforming those beds, i'm in the process of that,i did mulch, cardboard and all, weeds still come,we are guests among the weeds, healthy to have some i say ha ha. Have a super day, you did a super job with those beds, and only one season. Constantly making mistakes, and problems for myself here ha ha.
Thanks so much Lorraine!
very funny video! thanks for the honesty - think thats why your channel is so popular! will remember about the corn although had read planting beetroot around is supposed to be a good one to work together and radishes?
i am just growing 3 asparagus from seed but on a windowsill at the moment before deciding where to plant them but very concerned about the squirrels and rabbits that may dig them up so a form of chicken wire may need to go over the top to stop that digging from happening may hopefully help!
You're welcome Lisa! Glad you enjoyed it!
You can plant calendula with asparagus….
I plant strawberries and parsley with my asparagus
Nice, thanks for the recommendations because I could be tempted!
If I was to just grow French beans up the sweetcorn would that work? I was planning on a late sowing of some seeds
Yeah I think it could - it would be a 2 sisters bed!
We all make mistakes, that's how we learn as well as our successes. Would dwarf french beans and sweetcorn in your opinion have a chance of success? Sowing the dwarf french beans after the sweet corn has established to avoid some competition for light.
I think that pairing would work. In fact the bit that I didn't mention in the video is that in one of the beds, I planted dwarf beans, but sadly they all got eaten during one night!!
@@niallgardens Thanks, I might give that a go for some fun
I've found out this year its really pointless sowing indoor early for most veg. They become leggier than a supermodel in no time.
100% - some things work well, but it's a battle against the leggy seedlings isn't it!
I'd never grow baby corn again......
Me neither! 😂😂
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I've heard nothing but bad things about 3 sisters method.
I can 100% confirm that I won't be saying good things about it for this part of the world!
They are not weeds. They are "unplanned biodiversity"
I'm keeping and reusing that phrase - fantastic!! hahahaha!