Your skills of personal presentation are HUGE,I would suggest you write to ITV and BBC and ask for an interview with a view to promoting the love of your subject on the tele.Your natural way will draw people in and spread the message of how wonderful gardening is (just like Geoff Hamilton did for me and my family over 30 years ago)
Your videos always are a delight ! Thank you for showing us your work in progress ,and even your untidy areas . It's REAL , and gives me hope and courage in my own unfinished projects . You're wonderful!
Thanks for sharing your garden life. It really is a cheery treat to brighten the day. So keep making them. Especially in winter! It’s like having a conversation over a nice cup of tea.
Excellent tip about the coffee grounds as an acidic mulch for blueberries, thanks. Thoroughly enjoyed your tour, let’s hope March is kinder to us on our allotments than February. All the best, Martin.
That’s awesome about the coffee grounds, I’m in the state’s and just happen to live across from my local small coffee shop. They have offered me and any other gardeners in the area free grounds, but instead of packing them up they store them in 5 gallon buckets for disposal and you can just grab a bucket or two spread it wherever you want it and bring back the buckets as often as you would like. It really is an amazing invaluable resource.
Thank you for sharing your garden. We Australians are also obsessed with weather. In Melbourne we get 4 seasons in a day. We haven’t had a real summer this year and veggie gardens haven’t been as successful as usual. It is our first day of autumn today and it’s going to be a beautiful sunny day. I look forward to your next video.
Hello, I recently found your vlog and it really brightened up February. Thank you for sharing both the fun, the beautiful and the reality with mice and seeds that you have to redo.
Hi Katrina, well here in North Herefordshire today we started with heavy rain and gales blowing almost continuously, followed, a few hours of sunshine then more wind, hail, snow, rain, never ending winter madness, many in Herefordshire still flooded, but we dodged the floods in Weobley. I planted up two new raised beds with a selection of spring onions, carrots early nantes, spinach, peas, lettuce and a row of radishes. In the polytunnel in heated trays I seeded a few modules using Charles Dowding method, beetroot, early cabbage, spinach, more onions, peas for shoots, and my squash seedlings are racing ahead, which surprised me as they will have to be potted on this Sunday and protected for weeks before the end of April, peppers too growing fast. I also planted extra broad beans as the over wintering beans have struggled under a mulch and fleece, mainly very wet ground. My geese and duck shrug off all the bad weather, but my chickens have had to put up with patches of the paddock with water up to two inches deep in many places, the clay soil drains slowly. The garden and orchard are draining well and look lush with grass for the geese. My shallots and onions have survived well in their plot covered in woodchip, they are starting to grow some strong growth, I thought they were drowned but are ok. All my fruit trees and bushes are starting to wake up with a bud or two, and the pears looking to blossom soon, fingers crossed not too much air frost in March and April, hoping for "in like a Lion out like a Lamb" to be true in 2020.
Hi Katrina great video to watch on a windy day in Brooklyn,NY USA.You should make cages for the plants in the greenhouse.Use the chickenwire and small pieces of wood.Coffee grounds are not acidic.The acid in the coffee is water soluble.The grounds are close to PH neutral between 6.5 to 6.8 ph.Did you ever hear about Italian jalapeno.It is called Dieghito.Iam growing them this year.
It's been rough weather but don't be put off (I'm sure you're not), you're hitting 20K subscribers :-) that's beyond belief to me - fantastic - and you deserve it completely. Not trying to do updates every week but providing a bit of a 'professiona'l input every now and again is perfect, let the others graft...
I love your seed storage system! I'm highly considering using the same system for my own household gardening. First time viewer and so happy that I've come across your podcast. It's lovely :)
I use coffee grounds on my Acers, roses and blueberries 🫐 all which I have potted up and they work a treat 💕 I love your Caladiums they are so colourful 🥰 I saw Laura from Garden Answer use the plastic system for seeds and I think it’s a brilliant idea 💕 I adore Hellebores I’ve been collecting them in the sales as they’re so expensive due to how slow they grow 🥰 you have so many pretty flowers and the plot is looking beautiful 🥰 cannot wait to see what this year brings us 🌸💕🌸
it feels like it becoming more wintery now! its so cold now! you still have ooddles of flowers. i cant wait for it to warm up again. it haled yesterday! foarse spring, i cant wait for the the warmer weather!
I am in the northwestern part of Washington State in the US. I watch you because whatever bad weather you are having in January, you are not up to your knees in snow on top of frozen ground. I crave green and you have it wet or not. Thanks for the video. :)
That seed storage idea is brilliant! Spent a whole afternoon alphabetising the seeds I have (I have a seed problem 🤓) and it’s so easy to see what’s there and what I definitely don’t need to buy *cough* sweet peas *cough* 😬😅
Thank you for sharing this super informative vlog. I acquired a little allotment last year and have got a little braver and have started to grow from seed this year, although I think my tomato seedlings are looking a little leggy. Following your advice, I'll be sewing more in March, in hope of growing stronger plants. Beginners issues! Maybe I'll try to transplant some? Looking forward to your March Vlog. Happy 'allotmenting' :)
Enjoying views of your garden and spring flowers. I’m sitting here looking out into my backyard garden covered with a blanket of snow, it’s -8 today feeling like -16 with the wind. It’s to bad about your sweet peas, you have mice to content with and we have squirrels. Best of luck with all your future projects. Thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊
Hello I've only been subscribed to your channel for a few weeks but I've binged watched nearly all your videos, & I've really enjoyed them. I am on the waiting list for my own allotment & I will be using your videos as a help guide when I get my own, so please keep doing what you are doing. Looking forward to your March tour.
We New Englanders are also obsessed with the weather and in our climate, it's topical as a day can start like Spring give a blast of Summer warmth and end on a freeze! I always laugh when I hear speak of 'bad English weather' as to me, it is IDEAL. I try to get over each year to the UK. My favourite area being Kent and the Southeast (Canterbury to Sandwich area) and for me the Winter weather is HEAVEN. It is like our coastal New England Spring, but all Winter long. Though, this year here in coastal Massachusetts we've had the most MILD Winter. In fact, I've been saying most of the time it's rather like an English Winter (though really still not as warm, in my opinion). So glad to have found your channel.
We grow cannas perfectly right outside in our front garden. They are beautiful big plants. All my husband does is cut it down completely for winter cover it with layer of compost and it grows back again in the season to a massive foliage bush. Very nice feature plant. Low maintenance in fact. Do put it on a sunny spot tho and protect from slugs when new leaves are coming through as they seem to like it the young leaves.
You could put a dwarf water lily in your galvanised tank.. With some oxygenated floating plants would be good.. Water lily's like still water.. I have three water gardens as well as a wild life pond and they give so much pleasure as well as a great home for pond life 😊👍
Excellent vlog of homegrown garden allotment tour. Both storms Ciara and Dennis thankful didn't do much damage to your plot and I am the same because of being on the North East of Scotland the wind speed wasn't as fast as further south. We have had a lot of rain though and I am gradually getting work done on the allotment due to the weather improving.
Thanks for the coffee grounds on the blueberries tip. I'm thinking of planting blueberries this year. (Not sure.) And my brother found his way to the University of Nottingham post-graduate study. (We're from The States, so it was a bit random.)
Over here in the USA that are easy to grow. when they start growing I will take a picture and post it on here for you Love your videos . God loves you and so do I
I always love watching your monthly videos and it was no surprise to hear the weather has been so bad. I haven't been out in my garden to do any work for ages.
Canna- plant out after last frost, plenty of water & feed, full sun, protect from winds as it tears the leaves, and good luck from Leeds 👍 oh and watch out for those chipmunks! 😂
great update as usual, you must have some magic air up in nottingham because down here in the south east i have only managed to grow a muddy quagmire after the storms. Some more success with the hydroponic indoor garden though..some bell peppers have finally decided to show up ! all that nurturing and praying finally produced something. keep up the good work !
Sorry about your mouse problem, but I'm so impressed at how easy going you are about it. I need to learn to be more 'c'est la vie' with my own garden problems. :-)
Your videos are always enjoyable and informative. I knew you were tried of the green house plant destruction when you said "What the hell". My response was "Oh my she is angry" albeit in a very Britishly emotionaly controled manner. Good show, see you next time.
Fabulous, the storms trashed us down here is Somerset, started to to dry out a bit but all awash again now. Spring Equinox (March 21st) is the magic day when I get planting. EXCITING
Really love the seed box, might order myself one as I have no real system at the moment and always tuck packets away and don't find them again until it's too late!
Looking great so far...you have a lot of projects on the go..looking forward to seeing it all later. Sorry about your sweetpeas...I sow mine with a plastic cloche and a small stone on top so mice cant get in...same with broad beans..Good luck 👍🍀😁
For the mice problem get some coarse steel wool for removing away rust from any DIY shop and try to loosing it a bit and put it around the edges of your green tunnel this will work it will scare them hopefully I’ve tried it seems to be working 🙂good luck
It’s sunny and 75 F today in Texas - most springish day we have had so far... but we had a freeze to 29 F last week and I lost all the growth on two trees. Most of the garden stuff survived with minimal covering.
Hello wondering could you float the hellebores on the frog pond? You asked for thoughts on the rocky area what about medditareanan herbs or succulents? Love all your new plans looking forward to watching, in the mean time will look back at your other videos so I can catch up lol 🐝
Sorry about Ur sweet peas and I done abit of sowing did my tomatoes yesterday I know u said it abit early but I trying something with them both my 3m by 6m polytunnels went on a day trip on to a main road but thankfully a couple of other allotment holders saved them of to much damage few bars broken and cover rip but managed to put back together my blueberry are still in flower so excited about that all my potatoes are in their pots again something new for me this season but all quite on fangorn plot Thanks for the update on Ur plot
It’s so strange to me that your last frost is 2 weeks after ours yet you have things that grow all winter long! Here in the heartland of the USA the daffodils are only now sprouting up and it’s such a welcome sight . I watched the January tour and this one with envy and such nostalgia for the garden to return. Every thing here is brown. The weather just swings wildly back and forth like a pendulum each week. Earlier this week it snowed. Tomorrow will be 60 degrees Fahrenheit! The poor plants are so confused. I will start hardening off brassicas tomorrow and set them out next week. How heartbreaking for you to find the damage. Can you utilize cages inside the poly?
my name is art i live in W. Tennessee of USA. i love flowers and gardening. i am brand new to your channel but love your smile and enthusiasm . Its pre spring here but warming every day. im looking forward to warm days with sunny skies.thank you for helping my day be just a little brighter. I am at the end of a ten year endurance with kidney failure. i only have a few months left they tell me.. im told im too fragile for a kidney transplant...
Thank you for the shout out. it is 630am here and You have made my day!. I have but a few months left before i give in to kidney failure yet every day is still precious until then. You seem so kind and gentle. it refreshing to see such a young spirit full of love for flowers and life! your smile has planted a great feeling in my heart today. I set in a wheelchair as my life passes and long for the days of my middle 30s when i seemed to do everything. I still can stand but my illness has made it difficult to walk far. Life is like a passing view from a moving train. i simply try to look at things as they go by? Your kind words about your life and your daily adventures gives me hope..Thank you again.
best to start tomatoes on spring equinox > takes 2wks to sprout ; same w/peppers > might want to try growing some chilies in pots , a;ways found greater fruit yield than being in ground - seems if their 'feet' are bit bound , all growing energy goes there insted of roots . Found yr Winter episodes entertaining , informative - always looked forward to more ; Wintertime is the pause in Gardening , respite, interval betwixt planting & harvest love daffodils !!! mint oil is good repellant for rodents of all sorts , can spray it or soak cotton balls & place around - cat(s) would be ULTIMATE CURE
FWIW it’s ok to use coffee grounds in the garden, they won’t lower the soil pH. Used grounds have a pH of around 6.5 to 7.0, perfect for most plants. They also add nitrogen though it won’t be immediately available to plants. It may also keep slugs at bay. Using it in the compost pile is perfectly fine though. Just remember it’s considered a “green” addition so you may need more “browns” or carbon.
I really sympathize with you about the rodent raid in your poly tunnel. Last fall I tried to plant cool weather crops for the first time and they took everything :( What little they left I let the birds have for winter so they benefited anyway. Guess I'll try again this year. I do really enjoy the daffodils this time of year too. They give encouragement that planting time is just around the corner :)
Some great plans I look forward to seeing the changes developing. I like the wheelbarrow I have one with wildflowers in. Shame the hungry mice got into the tunnel. The blocks look good though when not devastated by mice.
Hi, I really enjoyed your Feb plot tour video. I sympathise with the rodent problems, I went up to the allotment yesterday and discovered something has bitten all the growing heads off my purple sprouting broccoli, it’s heavily netted so must be a rodent of some kind. Last year all my beetroot and strawberries got eaten too, it’s so frustrating.
Is it possible to spread a metal screen around the bottom of the poly? I would have been so upset to see what you saw - very well played! I think a bed full of medicinal flowering plants would be great in that new rock garden. And something that deters rodents. That was a lot of damage for a mouse, I bet it was something larger like squirrels.
Howdy doody katrina ,yep it's been very wet and windy in stoke to but on a brighter note the chillies are all doing very well indeed so thank you for the seed 😀 . I to have had a lot of coffee grounds so I have composted all mine to ....i got to pot my chillies on this wk end lol ...you didn't get in touch regarding the heirloom rosscof onions? ..anyway glad to see your videos again take care my friend !
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Your lupines are looking lovely! I only had a few sprout out from the seeds I sowed last year and they were scraggly with little in the way of greens and blooms. Hoping to come back stronger this year.
Hi there! I think the used coffee ground has a neutral - alkaline pH level, it's acidic when it's fresh, but after use, it gets mixed with tap water which has limescale and other minerals in it so it changes its pH level.
Only today, i saw a FB article on coffee grounds not being so good for the garden , earthworms or compost heap! I am so disappointed, because i had so much faith in it and have collected so much over the last few months. But, i am sure, as with everything in life, using it in moderation, will still benefit the soil and plants to a degree. Greetings from South Africa and happy gardening
Hey Katrina just came a cross you channel and found it very interesting, especially as I'm a gardener myself and have a project going on in my garden at the moment I'm turning my garden into a tropical garden and it's been on going for the last year. As I design gardens for a living, I love spending my time in gardens in general. Need any advice give me a shout out. I love your doing on your plot, keep up the good work. x
Your skills of personal presentation are HUGE,I would suggest you write to ITV and BBC and ask for an interview with a view to promoting the love of your subject on the tele.Your natural way will draw people in and spread the message of how wonderful gardening is (just like Geoff Hamilton did for me and my family over 30 years ago)
Even when nothing grows, Katrina still glows! :-)
Thank you for another every so sunny episode, even when some things don't go as planned!
Your videos always are a delight ! Thank you for showing us your work in progress ,and even your untidy areas . It's REAL , and gives me hope and courage in my own unfinished projects . You're wonderful!
Your updates are the things gardeners love! We know the score during the cold months, these just help us not feel so alone! Keep it up! Thank you.
No need to worry about this type of plastic use. The main issue is single use. That which will be used again and again is not the problem 🙂
I love your garden tours and little chats so much!
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Thanks for sharing your garden life. It really is a cheery treat to brighten the day. So keep making them. Especially in winter! It’s like having a conversation over a nice cup of tea.
Excellent tip about the coffee grounds as an acidic mulch for blueberries, thanks. Thoroughly enjoyed your tour, let’s hope March is kinder to us on our allotments than February. All the best, Martin.
That’s awesome about the coffee grounds, I’m in the state’s and just happen to live across from my local small coffee shop. They have offered me and any other gardeners in the area free grounds, but instead of packing them up they store them in 5 gallon buckets for disposal and you can just grab a bucket or two spread it wherever you want it and bring back the buckets as often as you would like. It really is an amazing invaluable resource.
Thank you for sharing your garden. We Australians are also obsessed with weather. In Melbourne we get 4 seasons in a day. We haven’t had a real summer this year and veggie gardens haven’t been as successful as usual. It is our first day of autumn today and it’s going to be a beautiful sunny day. I look forward to your next video.
Hello,
I recently found your vlog and it really brightened up February. Thank you for sharing both the fun, the beautiful and the reality with mice and seeds that you have to redo.
Hi Katrina, well here in North Herefordshire today we started with heavy rain and gales blowing almost continuously, followed, a few hours of sunshine then more wind, hail, snow, rain, never ending winter madness, many in Herefordshire still flooded, but we dodged the floods in Weobley.
I planted up two new raised beds with a selection of spring onions, carrots early nantes, spinach, peas, lettuce and a row of radishes.
In the polytunnel in heated trays I seeded a few modules using Charles Dowding method, beetroot, early cabbage, spinach, more onions, peas for shoots, and my squash seedlings are racing ahead, which surprised me as they will have to be potted on this Sunday and protected for weeks before the end of April, peppers too growing fast.
I also planted extra broad beans as the over wintering beans have struggled under a mulch and fleece, mainly very wet ground. My geese and duck shrug off all the bad weather, but my chickens have had to put up with patches of the paddock with water up to two inches deep in many places, the clay soil drains slowly.
The garden and orchard are draining well and look lush with grass for the geese.
My shallots and onions have survived well in their plot covered in woodchip, they are starting to grow some strong growth, I thought they were drowned but are ok.
All my fruit trees and bushes are starting to wake up with a bud or two, and the pears looking to blossom soon, fingers crossed not too much air frost in March and April, hoping for "in like a Lion out like a Lamb" to be true in 2020.
Hi Katrina great video to watch on a windy day in Brooklyn,NY USA.You should make cages for the plants in the greenhouse.Use the chickenwire and small pieces of wood.Coffee grounds are not acidic.The acid in the coffee is water soluble.The grounds are close to PH neutral between 6.5 to 6.8 ph.Did you ever hear about Italian jalapeno.It is called Dieghito.Iam growing them this year.
Kanna is super easy. I've started from one, now I have few varieties. I like those with dark leaves :)
It's been rough weather but don't be put off (I'm sure you're not), you're hitting 20K subscribers :-) that's beyond belief to me - fantastic - and you deserve it completely. Not trying to do updates every week but providing a bit of a 'professiona'l input every now and again is perfect, let the others graft...
I love your seed storage system! I'm highly considering using the same system for my own household gardening. First time viewer and so happy that I've come across your podcast. It's lovely :)
I use coffee grounds on my Acers, roses and blueberries 🫐 all which I have potted up and they work a treat 💕 I love your Caladiums they are so colourful 🥰 I saw Laura from Garden Answer use the plastic system for seeds and I think it’s a brilliant idea 💕 I adore Hellebores I’ve been collecting them in the sales as they’re so expensive due to how slow they grow 🥰 you have so many pretty flowers and the plot is looking beautiful 🥰 cannot wait to see what this year brings us 🌸💕🌸
it feels like it becoming more wintery now! its so cold now! you still have ooddles of flowers. i cant wait for it to warm up again. it haled yesterday!
foarse spring, i cant wait for the the warmer weather!
It does yes! Fingers crossed it warms up in March. No snow please.
I am in the northwestern part of Washington State in the US. I watch you because whatever bad weather you are having in January, you are not up to your knees in snow on top of frozen ground. I crave green and you have it wet or not. Thanks for the video. :)
That seed storage idea is brilliant! Spent a whole afternoon alphabetising the seeds I have (I have a seed problem 🤓) and it’s so easy to see what’s there and what I definitely don’t need to buy *cough* sweet peas *cough* 😬😅
love listening to you! Feels like I'd be in my garden
Thank you for sharing this super informative vlog. I acquired a little allotment last year and have got a little braver and have started to grow from seed this year, although I think my tomato seedlings are looking a little leggy. Following your advice, I'll be sewing more in March, in hope of growing stronger plants. Beginners issues! Maybe I'll try to transplant some? Looking forward to your March Vlog. Happy 'allotmenting' :)
Oh yay! Always look forward to your allotment and garden updates! You are one of my biggest inspirations x
Enjoying views of your garden and spring flowers. I’m sitting here looking out into my backyard garden covered with a blanket of snow, it’s -8 today feeling like -16 with the wind. It’s to bad about your sweet peas, you have mice to content with and we have squirrels. Best of luck with all your future projects. Thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊
Thanks for watching! Sending you lots of warmth and spring vibes 🌼
Hello
I've only been subscribed to your channel for a few weeks but I've binged watched nearly all your videos, & I've really enjoyed them. I am on the waiting list for my own allotment & I will be using your videos as a help guide when I get my own, so please keep doing what you are doing. Looking forward to your March tour.
We New Englanders are also obsessed with the weather and in our climate, it's topical as a day can start like Spring give a blast of Summer warmth and end on a freeze! I always laugh when I hear speak of 'bad English weather' as to me, it is IDEAL. I try to get over each year to the UK. My favourite area being Kent and the Southeast (Canterbury to Sandwich area) and for me the Winter weather is HEAVEN. It is like our coastal New England Spring, but all Winter long. Though, this year here in coastal Massachusetts we've had the most MILD Winter. In fact, I've been saying most of the time it's rather like an English Winter (though really still not as warm, in my opinion).
So glad to have found your channel.
Loved the way the mug of tea magically appeared at 02.15...
We grow cannas perfectly right outside in our front garden. They are beautiful big plants. All my husband does is cut it down completely for winter cover it with layer of compost and it grows back again in the season to a massive foliage bush. Very nice feature plant. Low maintenance in fact. Do put it on a sunny spot tho and protect from slugs when new leaves are coming through as they seem to like it the young leaves.
You could put a dwarf water lily in your galvanised tank.. With some oxygenated floating plants would be good.. Water lily's like still water.. I have three water gardens as well as a wild life pond and they give so much pleasure as well as a great home for pond life 😊👍
Thank,s for the tour, your allotment is looking good for Feb. Exciting times approach with March and remember the Mousetraps to protect what you sow.
Lovely garden and sweet chat
Excellent vlog of homegrown garden allotment tour. Both storms Ciara and Dennis thankful didn't do much damage to your plot and I am the same because of being on the North East of Scotland the wind speed wasn't as fast as further south. We have had a lot of rain though and I am gradually getting work done on the allotment due to the weather improving.
Wellll...How can we not watch is the question :-) Too smart, too lovely and great educator.
Thanks for the tour!😎 What a bummer in the poly tunnel.😒 Summer's coming!😎
Thanks for the coffee grounds on the blueberries tip.
I'm thinking of planting blueberries this year. (Not sure.)
And my brother found his way to the University of Nottingham post-graduate study. (We're from The States, so it was a bit random.)
Really attractive garden and i love it. Specially how you stored your seeds.Thank you for sharing.😊
I cannot wait to see your garden in spring. New subscriber here.
Over here in the USA that are easy to grow. when they start growing I will take a picture and post it on here for you
Love your videos . God loves you and so do I
Hi Katrina. I missed your January video and have been thinking that you were gone from YT. So happy to watch this today. I love your channel.
Thank you flower, you just took me outside, when I have to be inside. x
I always love watching your monthly videos and it was no surprise to hear the weather has been so bad. I haven't been out in my garden to do any work for ages.
Canna- plant out after last frost, plenty of water & feed, full sun, protect from winds as it tears the leaves, and good luck from Leeds 👍 oh and watch out for those chipmunks! 😂
great update as usual, you must have some magic air up in nottingham because down here in the south east i have only managed to grow a muddy quagmire after the storms. Some more success with the hydroponic indoor garden though..some bell peppers have finally decided to show up ! all that nurturing and praying finally produced something. keep up the good work !
Sorry about your mouse problem, but I'm so impressed at how easy going you are about it. I need to learn to be more 'c'est la vie' with my own garden problems. :-)
Your videos are always enjoyable and informative. I knew you were tried of the green house plant destruction when you said "What the hell". My response was "Oh my she is angry" albeit in a very Britishly emotionaly controled manner.
Good show, see you next time.
Fabulous, the storms trashed us down here is Somerset, started to to dry out a bit but all awash again now. Spring Equinox (March 21st) is the magic day when I get planting. EXCITING
I LOVE using coffee grounds. Its newly autumn here and time for heavy duty coffee grounds.
No flack for the plastic. It’s not that you are going to throw it out, you’ll have it forever. So, on that note, it’s all good 😉
Thank you for the video!
Thank you for the tour! Those hellebores are gorgeous!
Bad mouse!
Really love the seed box, might order myself one as I have no real system at the moment and always tuck packets away and don't find them again until it's too late!
Looking great so far...you have a lot of projects on the go..looking forward to seeing it all later. Sorry about your sweetpeas...I sow mine with a plastic cloche and a small stone on top so mice cant get in...same with broad beans..Good luck 👍🍀😁
For the mice problem get some coarse steel wool for removing away rust from any DIY shop and try to loosing it a bit and put it around the edges of your green tunnel this will work it will scare them hopefully I’ve tried it seems to be working 🙂good luck
It’s sunny and 75 F today in Texas - most springish day we have had so far... but we had a freeze to 29 F last week and I lost all the growth on two trees. Most of the garden stuff survived with minimal covering.
Lovely to see you. Will look up podcast. Awaiting for our snow to go👍🇨🇦💝
Take a clean garden my friend and Take care of you garden.
Wow! That pretty smile!
I love your little fern canisters
Love your sweet gardener spirit and wish you lived next door.
thanks for your help and lovely videos
Hello wondering could you float the hellebores on the frog pond? You asked for thoughts on the rocky area what about medditareanan herbs or succulents? Love all your new plans looking forward to watching, in the mean time will look back at your other videos so I can catch up lol 🐝
It is the same weather in Holland.Hopefully it will get better in March.
Nice videos to watch,great enthusiasm.
Sorry about Ur sweet peas and I done abit of sowing did my tomatoes yesterday I know u said it abit early but I trying something with them both my 3m by 6m polytunnels went on a day trip on to a main road but thankfully a couple of other allotment holders saved them of to much damage few bars broken and cover rip but managed to put back together my blueberry are still in flower so excited about that all my potatoes are in their pots again something new for me this season but all quite on fangorn plot
Thanks for the update on Ur plot
Thanks! These videos helps me to get through the cold Canadian winter!
Love your videos. Just stumbled across you today. Sooo tired of the rain over here too
Tropical plants like warm and humid, I grow my mango 🥭 tree next to heater in a container without holes 🕳 in the bottom to keep it moist
Great idea! If I ever find something like that at the thrift store, I will definitely get it for my seeds.
Thank you. I always enjoy your videos.
I am not far from you and I agree with you it’s grey and soggy and blah enjoy seeing your plot I try to get coffee grind but never can get hold of any
It’s so strange to me that your last frost is 2 weeks after ours yet you have things that grow all winter long! Here in the heartland of the USA the daffodils are only now sprouting up and it’s such a welcome sight . I watched the January tour and this one with envy and such nostalgia for the garden to return. Every thing here is brown. The weather just swings wildly back and forth like a pendulum each week. Earlier this week it snowed. Tomorrow will be 60 degrees Fahrenheit! The poor plants are so confused. I will start hardening off brassicas tomorrow and set them out next week. How heartbreaking for you to find the damage. Can you utilize cages inside the poly?
Yeah, leggy tomatos, I've had that problem. Sowed mine 3 days ago in egg box compartments.
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Finally. I almost had given up hope on hearing that cute English and million thoughts again 😁
A solar fountain is a quick easy way to get the sound of water into your new water feature.
best to start tomatoes on spring equinox > takes 2wks to sprout ; same w/peppers > might want to try growing some chilies in pots , a;ways found greater fruit yield than being in ground - seems if their 'feet' are bit bound , all growing energy goes there insted of roots .
Found yr Winter episodes entertaining , informative - always looked forward to more ; Wintertime is the pause in Gardening , respite, interval betwixt planting & harvest
love daffodils !!! mint oil is good repellant for rodents of all sorts , can spray it or soak cotton balls & place around - cat(s) would be ULTIMATE CURE
FWIW it’s ok to use coffee grounds in the garden, they won’t lower the soil pH. Used grounds have a pH of around 6.5 to 7.0, perfect for most plants. They also add nitrogen though it won’t be immediately available to plants. It may also keep slugs at bay. Using it in the compost pile is perfectly fine though. Just remember it’s considered a “green” addition so you may need more “browns” or carbon.
The raised hot area is great for rosemary and thyme :)
Just found your channel, awesome work! Makes me eager to get out to my plot! Hello from Green Bay, Wisconsin! - Andrew
I really sympathize with you about the rodent raid in your poly tunnel. Last fall I tried to plant cool weather crops for the first time and they took everything :( What little they left I let the birds have for winter so they benefited anyway. Guess I'll try again this year.
I do really enjoy the daffodils this time of year too. They give encouragement that planting time is just around the corner :)
You need a garden cat. ;) I feel you. A deer ate the bark off my blueberry bushes.
Some great plans I look forward to seeing the changes developing. I like the wheelbarrow I have one with wildflowers in. Shame the hungry mice got into the tunnel. The blocks look good though when not devastated by mice.
Hi, I really enjoyed your Feb plot tour video. I sympathise with the rodent problems, I went up to the allotment yesterday and discovered something has bitten all the growing heads off my purple sprouting broccoli, it’s heavily netted so must be a rodent of some kind. Last year all my beetroot and strawberries got eaten too, it’s so frustrating.
With the coffee, it's only acidic before the brewing, so used coffee grounds are actually ph-neutral :)
Ahh! Thank you for dispelling that! There’s a lot of garden myths that float around.
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Allll kinds of plans. I love hearing about it all. Bummer about the critter in the greenhouse.
Thanks for watching! 💚👋🏻
Options for a warm dry spot : iris, lavender, Rosemary, thyme, coriander, basil and garlic.
I have lots of canna in the yard. They are persistent. They keep coming back after I dig them out.
Is it possible to spread a metal screen around the bottom of the poly? I would have been so upset to see what you saw - very well played! I think a bed full of medicinal flowering plants would be great in that new rock garden. And something that deters rodents. That was a lot of damage for a mouse, I bet it was something larger like squirrels.
It was my own fault. There was a hole in the cover that I haven’t yet taped up 😣 Thanks for watching!
Howdy doody katrina ,yep it's been very wet and windy in stoke to but on a brighter note the chillies are all doing very well indeed so thank you for the seed 😀 . I to have had a lot of coffee grounds so I have composted all mine to ....i got to pot my chillies on this wk end lol ...you didn't get in touch regarding the heirloom rosscof onions? ..anyway glad to see your videos again take care my friend !
love you! amazing info
lovely update, heartbreaking regards the polytunnel, lets hope you find out how the little rodent got in and sort it look forward to the next one.
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In love with your awesome work.
We've had a good amount of snow this year but we had a big snowfall before the ground froze. So all winter there is no frost in the ground.
Your lupines are looking lovely! I only had a few sprout out from the seeds I sowed last year and they were scraggly with little in the way of greens and blooms. Hoping to come back stronger this year.
I have my fingers crossed for your lupins 🌱🌸
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Hi there! I think the used coffee ground has a neutral - alkaline pH level, it's acidic when it's fresh, but after use, it gets mixed with tap water which has limescale and other minerals in it so it changes its pH level.
Only today, i saw a FB article on coffee grounds not being so good for the garden , earthworms or compost heap! I am so disappointed, because i had so much faith in it and have collected so much over the last few months. But, i am sure, as with everything in life, using it in moderation, will still benefit the soil and plants to a degree. Greetings from South Africa and happy gardening
Hey Katrina just came a cross you channel and found it very interesting, especially as I'm a gardener myself and have a project going on in my garden at the moment I'm turning my garden into a tropical garden and it's been on going for the last year. As I design gardens for a living, I love spending my time in gardens in general. Need any advice give me a shout out. I love your doing on your plot, keep up the good work. x
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