This garden is defeating me.....at least I got to visit the Bloom Garden Festival in Dublin 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- The June Bank Holiday Weekend brings a visit to the Bloom Gardening Festival in Dublin and a chance of planting up the cottage garden area, but the soil conditions, the weather and midge attacks are testing my limits.
Also, as a bonus, harvesting the first ever fresh potato bucket for this year!
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Wow.. I’m watching you sat under a blanket with my heating on. I wouldn’t mind feeling a bit warm for a day or so at least… but not when I have any heavy work to do. 🫣😂
The show looked amazing, with lots of inspiration for your cottage garden.
Love the planting. The rose garden is going to magnificent when it’s all filled out.
Those red Duke of York are truly stunning potatoes. Seems five minutes since you planted them. Time flies!
I’m glad you downed tools and went for a rest. No point overdoing it.
As always, a lovely episode. Thank you for making such wonderful videos 😊
Thank you, Clare 🤗💚🌿 Very kind of you!
Highly recommend those potatoes, they were delicious and the harvest outcome of the red was better than the white version 😉
Thank you again for your kind comment and have a fantastic week! 😊💚🌿
Oh now I like the fact they are promoting creeping buttercup - maybe I'm ahead of my time :) Great haul of early potatoes there - we're still to peek in our buckets. The rose garden looks gorgeous- beautiful colour combinations. Well done!
😂😂 Thank you, Jane 🤗 I think we're all ahead of the trends with that one 😉 😂 one of the most annoying weeds in the garden these days...its like a race between that and the couch grass to see who can dominate an area quickest 🫣
The potatoes have been a welcoming threat, and planning to repeat it for next year, too 💚
I'm really delighted with the planting combinations so far 🙌 😍 saving up to do some more shopping 😊
Have a great week and best wishes, Maiju 💚🌿
Beautiful 😊Love your Gardens ❤
Thank you so much 😊💚🌿
Oh jeez, the chamomile is crazy in spreading!
😂 That is an annual variety and self-seeds easily. I have to be more ruthless this year to pull them up in autumn 😊💚🌿
What a lovely visit Posh! The weather looks glorious there now. Sometimes gardening isn't fun, sometimes it's taxing! That's okay to admit. I always drop tools & come back another day. All looking fab, but I'd expect nothing less from you x Danny 🌱
Thank you, Danny 😊💚🌿I'll power through for sure, and suffer the following day from exhaustion 😁 You have a huge team of volunteers to come and assist you when the going gets tough, they even feed and water you! 🤣🤣
Hi Maiju, lovely planting arrangements at the Bloom show. That looked very uncomfortable with those midges. Great harvest of red duke of York potatoes.
Thank you, Ady 😊💚🌿
The midges are a pain...😒 but seeing the new flowers settling into the actual ground and out of the pots, makes you forget the difficulties faced quite quickly 😊💚🌿
Looked like a lovely visit and so much to see 😮. We don’t really have garden shows like that here 😢. It has already started out as a crazy year here, slugs eating tomatoes beans rotting off and now 30+ heat and no rain. Your red potatoes look absolutely gorgeous they are all we eat really. Have a wonderful week Maiju stay smiling a garden should simply be an extension of joy in your life, Ali 🌞🥵🇨🇦
Thank you, Ali 😊💚🌿 That's a pity that you don't have garden shows near you, they are a lovely distraction from our own gardens 💚 That's crazy heat you're getting 😮 it is cool in here again....💚🌿
What a lovely place and the Roses amazing! The shows really inspire! Love the idea of having things in your growing space. Great Spud harvest! 😊🌱
Thanks so much, Amir 😊💚🌿
Haha when you were talking about there being no breeze I was like that's the point!!!🤣 Bloom festival looked great. Loved that pond/sunken garden one. I pretty much always find I don't get as much as done as I think I can, esp on the plot. Aw thank you for your shout out ❤ I might have to do potatoes in the greenhouse next year, if I can be organised enough 👀 - lovely harvest. The colour is stunning isn't it - matched your top! I react to insect bites too - got bites all around my neck at the moment. YES must sow more carrots. Lovely update as always Maiju. Can't wait to see the rose garden when all those salvias and the nepeta fill out the beds ❤
Thank you, Kerry 🤗💚🌿The cottage garden will be re-named to Midge, Bumblebee and Butterfly Garden 🤣 and they can all live happily and ever after there, I'll be visiting during the midge off-season 🤣🤣
For sure more plans for the rose garden to be added still, but the colors combined are stunning, loving it!
The extra early planting of the Dukes turned out perfect, I could have easily have left them to grow bigger, but the shaws were pretty much dead 💚🌿
I am prone to being bitten,if I go out in the evenings I put wicks on my neck, uncles etc…really helps
Thank you 😊💚🌿 With my luck, I'll probably forget that I put a cream on, because my hair tickled my neck...then touch it or rub it and next thing I have to adjust my classes or scratch my eye 🤣🤣
My whole body goes into a ''fight'' mode once I've been bitten by midges a few times, and any little touch on my skin makes me twitch and reach out for that spot 🤣🤣
O dear those midges, so sorry for you. I hope itll soon get better. Loved your three David Austin roses you showed us! Take care.
Thank you 😊💚🌿 Luckily the midges do ease off after mid June, or at least after July 😂
I do keep telling myself to be grateful that they are around to feed the swallows, but as we had a mild winter and wet spring, there is an excess of them... 😊💚🌿
Would you go for a few native flowers Maiju? Great to support local ecology. Some of my favourites are mullein, foxglove, marsh woundwort, angelica, viper bugloss, honeysuckle but also nettle for butterfly breeding and some (controlled!) bramble as the most popular general insect flower and fruit for humans and nature.
Thank you 😊💚🌿and thank you for pointing out all of those plants, it will be very handy for anyone reading the comments 😊💚🌿
I will have Mullein and Foxgloves in the new cottage garden and plenty more native foxgloves along the hedgerows 💚🌿 We are blessed to be surrounded by native hedgerows - white hawthorn, elder, brambles, holly, ivy and plenty of nettles.
because of this hedgerow, we also have so many midges 😊💚🌿
Your red potatoes werelovely. Don’t know what midges are but I spray myself with off to prevent critters from getting me. Also I garden mostly ar the time of day that suits we and of course that depends on the weather
Thank you very much 😊💚🌿The midges just love humid, calm and and shady environment, and because of this, I do try to garden when it is breezy or really sunny in the usually shadier spaces, but they do find me and attack without mercy 😂💚🌿
Hate midges....but thankfully we don't get in our suburban garden (one advantage!). I was in Bloom too but managed to completely miss the nursery section.....probably a good thing as I went by train also.
😊💚🌿Yes, the midges are mean in the countryside 😂 and nothing in the towns. I do see people with trolleys bringing the plants back on train, but I cannot go through the hassle 🤓 the travel time is too long 😊💚🌿
You will defeat it ! (I am sorry it was tricky for you on that day). Sometimes days are difficult in the garden. But you will get it done another day 🙂
Thank you for your lovely video. It was really nice to see the bloom festival. (I can understand why you did not want to take the plants from Dublin but I would have brought some down as those growers seem really good & I would not trust online). I hope your son enjoyed it too. I miss the chickens! 🙂
Thank you so, so much 😊💚🌿 Your kind comments always make my day!
I actually forgot to mention that we did get 1 plant to take home - my son did 😁 A Venus Fly Trap, now called Tommy😂 I will make sure there is an extra segment about the hens in the next video😉 😊💚🌿
Does bug repellent spray help? You looked like you are suffering. Love the red dukes! And your puppy.
Thank you so much 😊💚🌿 The spray doesn't seem to work for the midges, if I didn't have a TH-cam video to do, I would not had been out there 😂
The potatoes were fab! 😊💚🌿
Seaweed, we don't need to import as we have Maxicrop which I used many years when in the business full time as couldn't find anything better, but you can send me some here as I have to pay duty if I buy from England, so a phone number or website for your seaweed merchant would be nice.. Those spuds are further over than mine, but mine are outside. You won't like it here then as it been just shy of 90 all week untill yesterday when we had big thunderstorms. We have midges here, but not that bad only when you walk through the trees. July and August yet to come and it has been known to hit 100+ and the heatwave we had in 22 it reached 111 here and higher lower down in the middle of the country I think they reached 47 c or 119 f, so too hot. Hope we see another lke that too soon.
Thank you 😊💚🌿 The seaweed supplier is www.betterplants.ie, I'm sure there shouldn't be any problem with mainland of Europe delivery...
The midges are relentless at the moment 😒 and we're back to cool weather, but we just have to deal with it 😊💚🌿
I'm definitely not one for high heat, unless it is for summer holiday by the pool and no physical work involved 😂😂
@@spudsandroses Thanks you dear, but something wrong with the site as my computer froze up twice so will leave it a couple of days to let then sort it out then try again. Yes crazy weather here as well, heavy thunderstorms then 84, now only 68. At least the plants like it as when it's too hot they stop growing and start dying instead. So looking like a good fruit harvest this year in this cooler wetter weather. No complaints as 111 is far too bloody hot for me never mind the plants. Yes you see right or 44 c the other way, that what we hit in 22. even the midges weren't keen.
Bloom looked fab Maiju, one for the bucket list for sure!! So glad you enjoyed yourself with your son 🤗 It was certainly a hot weekend 🥵 and I can sympathise with the nettles 😆 keep going Maiju don't let the heat and the midgets knock your spirit, you're a fantastic gardener and before you know it your cottage garden will be transformed and you'll be sipping on a glass of wine overlooking the fruits of your labour enjoying it all ❤ xx
Aww, thank you, Laura 🤗💚You're a sweetheart!
The weather has been glorious for the last 3 years at Bloom, I don't make my plans until a bit closer to the time, as I do like the weather to be decent for the distance I do have to travel, but I can highly recommend it. A very well organised event! Have a great week! 😊💚🌿
Lovely first spud harvest Maiju….they looked fab! Great start on the rose and cottage garden! 💚Take care….keep away from those midges! Will x
Thank you, Will 🤗 Hope all is well with you and you'll get to potter in your home garden and allotment, still 😊 Miss seeing your updates on your growing spaces 🥰
Thank you for your kind comments as always! Best wishes, Maiju 😊💚🌿
I really, really felt for you! I know only too well what stoney, clay soil is like as mine is exactly the same. I can sometimes steel myself and attack it, but when it's warm and I'm tired, it's just exhausting and hard to keep going...and then the midges...uuugh! Yet you kept smiling! Hats off to you! 👏👏👏👏👏
😍 I'm exactly the same, on some days the shovel feels as light as a feather ( and it is specifically only used by me and has a small head because of the ''weak days'') and then I get a nightmare combination of slightly tired to start off with with sprinkling of warm weather and a ton of midges 🤣
Thank you for your kind comment 😊💚🌿I do try to mind myself and not push myself too far too often 😊💚🌿
Yes the minute you start disturbing soil or digging beds the midges will attack 😬
😂 They're so annoying! and because they're so tiny, cannot swat them either 😂
Well done for battling on against the midges. I too react badly to bites. I get one bite and then a whole line of bumps appear radiating from the i nitial bite. I find antisan helps a lot. I am going to try some natural insect repellent products this year to dee if they help. There is a large area, at the bottom of my garden that I just can not go in , in the summer months, and many of my roses and peonies live there- makes me really angry and sad that I am unable to sit by them on a lovely day. Love that Salvia you have chosen to go with your beautiful roses. It is going to look stunning! Happy gardening 🙂 x
Thank you 🤗 💚🌿 Anthisan cream is my saviour, too. Otherwise, I'd scratch myself to bits 😳
I'm trying to leave as much full sun to the garden spces as possible because of this very reason....the midges love shade, damp conditions, and no breeze. So I'm hoping the space doesn't harbour too many of them, but the hedges side with the best wind shelter is their territory at the moment 😅
Hey don't those potatoes lift your spirits. And tomorrow is another day!
🥰 Yes, they do 😊💚🌿 Thank you 🥰
my potato buckets are showing signs of brown spot :( wondering if you have any experience of this? or how to clean out the buckets after finding this?
I'm sorry to hear that you're getting brown spot. I have no other organic method that if it is on only a few leaves, move the leaves and bin them....leave as much space between each of the potato buckets as possible, ideally no plant touches another.....but really it is to do with the weather conditions.
If they're first early or second early, I wouldn't stress too much, but for the main crop it would be best to try to contain it.😊💚🌿
@@spudsandroses thanks! unfortunately its main crop and hard to know what to do think i will try giving them some food to hopefully fight it off
@@edlenny9944 Hi, I just spotted a typo in my first reply - remove the affected leaves, if there are only a few of them.....
apologies 💚
Otherwise yes, you can try a mild feed, but otherwise separate the plants if possible, to slow down the spread from plant to plant 💚🌿 Hopefully you'll still get another 2 months of growth out of them 🤞
Fab update Maiju. ❤
Looks like a wonerful event. Its fabulous to have inspiration and the motivation to grow something different especially flowers 🌻 🥀🪻🌷💐🌻 👍🤭😂
Hope you managed to cool off after, it looked so hot, bless you. Nice cool day afterwards for you to do some work 🤗
Great harvest Everything looking great in the garden especially the flowers 😍
Thank you, Linda 😊💚🌿We're back to cool weather again....you are the Queen of Sunflowers! 😉😆
It is lovely to mix the ornamentals with edibles 😊💚🌿
Greetings from County Laois, Your garden is beautiful and you have a great selection of new plants, They are the bees knees.
So nice of you, thank you very much 😊💚🌿