Oh my goodness, Liz, love the Polycrub so much :) I have zero doubt that our plants will be looking very similar in size soon too -- it's been a cool start to the year but will be heating up soon!
@@Lovelygreens in recent years we too have learned to appreciate wasps. I was interested to hear that wasps tend to not build a new nest near where an old one already exists. Looking back over the years, that does indeed seem to be a pattern - I can't recall ever seeing a new active nest close to an old one. I'll be sure to leave both old and current wasp nests alone when I find them near the places we walk through most often. I'd prefer not to disturb them, but I would also prefer they set up their homes a little more off our most used paths in future. There are still lots of other suitable places on our place for wasps to build nests, where we won't bother them and they can be safe and do their important work.
It seems to be the year for wasps. I have a nest in both of my sheds. They guarded the nests to start with but now don't mind me getting tools out of them. I wonder if they have got to know who I am and realise I'm no danger to them. I'd like to see how your bees are doing. It's something I've contemplated keeping.
Such great information about wasps! Everything looks so healthy! LOL - Mahem Maggie! Yes, I would love to learn more about the bee's. I saw a backyard video recently, where the gardener filmed the bee's coming back to the hive with pollen on their legs. It was awesome to watch. Thank you!
Thoroughly enjoyed hanging with you Tanya. That wasp nest is pretty scary being in such a vulnerable spot. But I totally agree they are champions at ridding pests from the garden. The progress of the gardens are consistent and impressive. Loving Maggie!! Thanks for sharing.
I visited your channel when you moved into your new property and now so much has changed 👍 You've achieved a lot 👏 The aubergines look so beautiful 🤗 Last year we wanted to build a new greenhouse but when we started digging we realized that there was a bumblebee nest so we stopped the project. Like wasps they don't use the same nest again. We decided to be patient.
It’s interesting to follow how you plan and gradually build up your garden. 👍🏻 I would love to see videos of your bees. My grandfather was a beekeeper, I love the smell of beeswax and the taste of fresh honey 🍯🐝
Love to see the progress you have been making in your new garden! Everyone you put out a new video, there is more going on and things are starting to take off! I have spent today in my garden, extending the depth of my raised beds so that I can continue to mulch and improve my soil! Looking forward to seeing more to come! Please do keep sharing your progress with us!
Would love to know more about your bees: I have bought a hive, found a breeder that I want to get my bees from (focus is on them being peaceful), in the process of following a VERY thorough online course, and on the side I have an experienced beekeeper that can come to my rescue, if needed. Now I just need to muster the courage to actually get started
You're well on your way! One thing that I'd recommend is visiting a hive for an in-person experience, with your beekeeper pal. Nothing quite prepares you for honeybees than practical experience...or gets you more excited :)
I've swayed back and forth over removing it or keeping it. In the end, I'm just keen to see if we can co-exist for this year and watching them has been really interesting!
It's lucky in a way that the wasps have made their nest on the polycrub rather than another structure, such as the shed or house- you can see the fascinating internal structure of the nest through the translucent plastic. I hope they continue to be peaceful neighbours to you!
Isn't that something? It's incredible to think that it's all a kind of paper that they make from wood! I hope they remain peaceful too -- I'm going to start using the back entrance for most of my access though just to play it safe.
I allow the wasps’ nests to stay in my garden. They built their nests in my patio umbrella. This year I had to throw the umbrella away because the wood pole broke. I am overrun with pests this year! The last three years were great with wasps being here.
Isn't that interesting! Right now I have the nest I the polycrub and another alongside the house. Hoping they help keep the garden ecosystem in balance :)
Hello Tanya Lovely Greens. The raised beds are looking fantastically lush . I am so envious of how you make things look so easy when i know fine well its all due to hard work knowledge and skill. Well done .
You're too kind :) I'm pleased with how the beds are doing and the plants inside too! It's all about building them well, filling them with the right materials, and keeping the mix moist and fed. Compost is amazing for many of those aspects!
Our son nearly died through wasps stings, he accidentally disturbed a wasps nest whilst clearing a building site with an open sided digger. One stung him and the rest then attacked him, his only escape was to run the length of the building site and get into his van, the wasps followed him attacking him as he ran, also attacked his van. End result he finished up in hospital was then transferred to another hospital with multiple wasp stings upon wasp stings all over his body and head. He had an extremely bad reaction and it was only the quick thinking medical staff who first saw him, which prevented him going into Anaphylactic shock. So be very careful that you don’t accidentally disturb the nest.
Starting to look like a real veg patch, I think it's looked real for several videos now 😊 The polycrub is very cool, the stem on those earlier tomatoes are incredible. Nothing like cats in the garden.
Thanks, Wende 😊 And yes, those tomatoes are zooming away! This morning I've discovered quite a few more green tomatoes forming...it's going to be an epic tomato harvest this year!
@@Lovelygreens ....do you ever weigh them as you harvest, just to see how much over summer you have. I'm always amazed at all of the amounts of veg Charles Dowding harvests.
Hi Tanya! You are right about the wasps. They are beneficial. You will be safe as long as you are not in their flight way, kind of runaway for airplanes. 😀I would suggest you use the other door to get in and out, and leave this door to them. Cheers!
Good idea! I started doing that today since the "traffic" seems to be increasing through the front door. Fingers crossed they stay happy and me unstung 😂
I don't know that I've ever commented, bit this video just makes me incredibly happy, seeing you with this property and living your best life. For the green stock planter, last I checked it's not available in Canada, only the US. Early this year a rep told me maybe by spring 2023.
Thanks for commenting! Lovely to hear from you :) I was in touch with GreenStalk this week asking about where they ship to these days. You'll be pleased to know that they definitely ship to Canada now :) I just checked on their website too and it works! I don't think Canadian orders qualify for free postage but there is a UPS option: lddy.no/7mml
Your gardens are looking so great! I look forward to your weekly videos and am inspired to do more in my gardens. Thank you for all your great content! I would love to see your bees 🐝
Another awesome gardening tour video Tanya. Maggie ( she is so cute) is inspecting it and giving it her seal of approval. Love 🥰 the video and love 💕❤️ Tanya, Josh & Maggie.
Josh will want to go on vacation soon, you have been working him so hard😂, but the results look to have been worth it. Also, I would enjoy a bee update thank-you-very-much! 😊
They're such good planters! I've been asking GreenStalk for years if they were going to offer them across the pond. At one time they were considering it but it sounds like they're slammed with North American orders at the moment. There are some knockoffs around but they're not as well designed as the original.
@@Lovelygreens I did look at the alternatives, but as you say, they're not as well made so I'm waiting in anticipation and hope that Greenstalk change their minds haha
Everything is looking wonderful, you've managed so much in a short amount of time! I didn't realise you were supposed to leave elephant garlic for two years, I always plant mine in October with the garlic and harvest it in July, it's always split into cloves though not one giant bulb. Having the same issue with catnip, between my 3 and the neighbours 2 they've trashed 4 plants this year! Normally it can keep up with their chomping but they found it just as it was coming out of dormancy so the poor things never had chance ;)
It's the length of the growing season that can help those cloves split the first year. Mine never seem to want to divide up so I leave them in for a second...works a treat :) Catnip...I think the only way you could grow it unprotected is if you had a cat-disliking dog! Even then, I'm sure it would get rolled around in at night 😹
You're so brave.😂 I am so scared of wasps. Your veggies look great. I'm trying a sweet potato on my balcony this year. No idea if it'll work in the English weather. I put a chicken wire and bamboo cane cloche I made over a cat mint plant once as a cat we didnt own appeared and would sit on the plant daily. 😂.
I can picture that cat CLEARLY 😹 The sweet potatoes I'm growing are *supposed* to be better for the British climate but we'll see. It's fun to try new things though, isn't it? Hoping both of our plants are fruitful!
We had a hornet's nest in a bird box last year. First they built inside and then added outside. The nest was huge at the end, but the hornets were totally peaceful. You could get pretty close to watch.
👋🏻 from Idaho! Your gardens are looking great. We are just not having much of a season here. Much of the country is having heat waves and drought but we are having a cold, rainy season. Some things are doing nicely, like my new asparagus bed, the rhubarb, my comfrey. I think this is going to be the year I’m going to try a fall garden with root veg and brassicas. Blessings, TeresaSue
I keep hearing about the drought and heat that those of you in the western USA are dealing with. So sorry for you and your garden and for all of the wild animals suffering in the heat too. Are you setting water out for the birds? And a fall garden sounds like it may be a great idea for this year :)
Where I am in north Idaho we don’t have the drought and heat this year , it’s been extra rainy and cold. At 10:18 am Monday morning we are 49 degrees and raining. Supposedly 🤞in a few days we are supposed to be getting warmer weather. But yes, I set out water for the wildlife when it’s hot and dry and am planning some new options this year. I have hopes to get in my project list tall herb garden with the pond at the bottom that you have shown us how to make. Have a fabulous week, TeresaSue.
It all looks so great! One question-- should you backfill with soil against the retaining wall, or maybe gravel? And then should holes be drilled through the wall in a few olaces to let water drain and take any pressure off the wall?
Are those mushrooms an edible variety? If you are getting them free from a trusted source of compost, it might be worth letting them grow in an unused corner.
Your video is brilliant. Our ‘gardening area is very small. At the front of our house there are containers filled with flowers. At the back there are lots containers again filled with flower but I will not be putting flowers in but veg will replace. All my containers are filled with compost from the garden centre. Once I’ve removed the all flowers and the roots, is it ok to use the old compost.
Yes, but it's likely depleted of nutrients. You can use it as a mulch or mixed into your garden soil. Also, container gardens are a great way to grow in small spaces 👍 :)
That's a beautiful wasp nest, unfortunately it wouldn't be able to stay at my garden. My husband is highly allergic to them, and he requires hospitalization for stings, even with an Epi-pen.
Your polycrub is looking just great. I have longed for a polycrub for some time now and finally it’s happening and the build has started. I watched your earlier video on the construction of your raised beds with great interest as this will be my next project. Can I ask what width your beds are? I plan to have a similar layout of a bed down each side and maybe a slightly wider centre bed. Not as long in length as I have a 6m p opycrub. Did you leave path width for a wheelbarrow?Your plants are looking very happy and healthy in their new home. Please be very careful of that wasp nest near the end of the summer as they become very irritable when close to dying. I know from bitter experience when they set up next to my beehives.
They are enemies of honeybees and will do anything for sweet sugar (and honey!) at the end of summer. I may be gardening in beekeeping gear in August around then! As for the beds, I go through the build and how I filled mine in this video: th-cam.com/video/iXAI5IE6RlA/w-d-xo.html Congratulations on your new Polycrub!
Tanya it was great to catch up with what your doing in the garden and how its coming along! I have two questions for you, first is what company is your brimmed hat from you had on in this? I need a garden hat and this looks like what I'd wear. Second, I saw what I think was a bed of huge cabbages but you had no butterfly net over them, how are you deal8ng with them? Thank you!
Hi Mary 👋I have a few clothing items that I wear listed here: www.amazon.com/shop/lovelygreens/list/Q200GK133FN3 The hat is available in the UK though too: amzn.to/3HK3Wj2 (
Of course! Love my bokashi bins :) I have four actually but they fill up so quickly that I have a system now. Fruity bits and leaves go in the wormery, cooked food scraps and citrus/onions go in the bokashi, and larger pieces of uncooked veg go in the orange bucket. In mid-autumn I'll go back to just the bokashi though :)
Oh honey that is a mean aggressive honest wasp. As it gets bigger they get more aggressive please be very careful. Half that hive will swarm anything they find as a threat.
Median wasps are the second largest wasps in Britain now. I'm assuming they'll become more frantic/aggressive in late summer but hopefully we can coexist this year. Fingers crossed it goes well and I don't need to get help with them 🤞🤞🤞
If you mean the raised beds in the polycrub, I go through that here: th-cam.com/video/iXAI5IE6RlA/w-d-xo.html Full details on building the no-dig beds is over here: th-cam.com/video/ZsJ9A8jDMis/w-d-xo.html
@@Lovelygreens perhaps chillies are just as tomatoes self pollinating? Perhaps they only need the wind? It also could be that other insects are pollinating them. Flies are pollinators 2 but honey bees are the best.
I had it on the top level last year, and it worked a treat. I'm not sure I'm going to continue using GreenStalk, though... I'm still thinking about it, but it's just not a very attractive planter 🙈
I would have removed that nest before it got that big. Wasps can be very dangerous and the slightest thing will set them off. As their food sources dwindle they will start to eat on your fruit and they will become more aggressive.
I'm not impressed with green stock, I wish they would make the containers a bit bigger. Right now their containers are too small to grow anything meaningful. I love your gardens. Congrats!
Certain caterpillars, and if that means fewer white cabbage butterflies then I'm okay with that :) They also predate on hornworms, a bane of many a North American tomato grower. But in the end their predation is part of a natural system that they belong to. We humans shouldn't interfere with that too much.
but i don't know why you in America you build a wood wall !? why not a concrete one forever, and it'll be stronger. also your raised bed.. just tell me why you prefer wood !?
Wow, the veg patch is looking fantastic. What a joy the polycrub is - your plants are so far ahead of ours :-) Lovely video Tanya!
Oh my goodness, Liz, love the Polycrub so much :) I have zero doubt that our plants will be looking very similar in size soon too -- it's been a cool start to the year but will be heating up soon!
Hi Liz 👋 what a fantastic place 😀
Wasps are great pollinators. Everything looks verdant and happy. I love your new wall. It’s beautiful!
They are SUCH an important player in the garden/ecosystem. We just need to understand them a bit more...and make space for them when/if we can.
@@Lovelygreens in recent years we too have learned to appreciate wasps. I was interested to hear that wasps tend to not build a new nest near where an old one already exists. Looking back over the years, that does indeed seem to be a pattern - I can't recall ever seeing a new active nest close to an old one.
I'll be sure to leave both old and current wasp nests alone when I find them near the places we walk through most often. I'd prefer not to disturb them, but I would also prefer they set up their homes a little more off our most used paths in future. There are still lots of other suitable places on our place for wasps to build nests, where we won't bother them and they can be safe and do their important work.
It seems to be the year for wasps. I have a nest in both of my sheds. They guarded the nests to start with but now don't mind me getting tools out of them. I wonder if they have got to know who I am and realise I'm no danger to them.
I'd like to see how your bees are doing. It's something I've contemplated keeping.
Thanks for giving those wasps a chance 🧡
Such great information about wasps! Everything looks so healthy! LOL - Mahem Maggie! Yes, I would love to learn more about the bee's. I saw a backyard video recently, where the gardener filmed the bee's coming back to the hive with pollen on their legs. It was awesome to watch. Thank you!
You are just so wonderful and inspiring! Thank you!! Love to you and Magy from south of Portugal, ShalOm ❤️🕊️🙏
all looking great tanya well done
Amazing how muchyou have Done, you are so lucky to have this… remember to use the bench and enjoy 👩🌾
It's a lovely bench and deserves to be used :) We'll need to level out an area for it or dig it in though first!
Hi Tanya, I really enjoy watching your home garden progress. Everything looks amazing. Thank you for sharing 😃.
Thanks Mariam, and it's coming along :) Appreciate the comment 💚
Yes please to the 🐝
Lovely veg patch, I harvested all my garlic this week, wish I had known regarding the elephant garlic, I will try again next year 😀
Thoroughly enjoyed hanging with you Tanya. That wasp nest is pretty scary being in such a vulnerable spot. But I totally agree they are champions at ridding pests from the garden. The progress of the gardens are consistent and impressive. Loving Maggie!! Thanks for sharing.
I visited your channel when you moved into your new property and now so much has changed 👍 You've achieved a lot 👏 The aubergines look so beautiful 🤗 Last year we wanted to build a new greenhouse but when we started digging we realized that there was a bumblebee nest so we stopped the project. Like wasps they don't use the same nest again. We decided to be patient.
How kind of you to wait for the bees to move on 🙂💚
It’s interesting to follow how you plan and gradually build up your garden. 👍🏻
I would love to see videos of your bees. My grandfather was a beekeeper, I love the smell of beeswax and the taste of fresh honey 🍯🐝
I'll definitely show how Primrose and Bluebell are doing then :) And you're right..the scent is incredible!
Love to see the progress you have been making in your new garden! Everyone you put out a new video, there is more going on and things are starting to take off! I have spent today in my garden, extending the depth of my raised beds so that I can continue to mulch and improve my soil!
Looking forward to seeing more to come! Please do keep sharing your progress with us!
Thanks Julie and will do! Your beds sound like they're coming on :)
Really love your polycrub, such a great space for year round crops, love your videos they get better and better, keep them coming Tanya
Always enjoying your work and garden. Very nice 👌
Thank you :)
Would love to see the bees! Terrific progress in the garden - you and Josh are a great team.
Hi. Great video. Would like to see more of the bees. Considering a hive myself.
Would love to know more about your bees: I have bought a hive, found a breeder that I want to get my bees from (focus is on them being peaceful), in the process of following a VERY thorough online course, and on the side I have an experienced beekeeper that can come to my rescue, if needed. Now I just need to muster the courage to actually get started
You're well on your way! One thing that I'd recommend is visiting a hive for an in-person experience, with your beekeeper pal. Nothing quite prepares you for honeybees than practical experience...or gets you more excited :)
Maggie is quite the garden assistant 😊. She is very cute! Your gardens look amazing 🌱☀️
Super cute, that little cat :) Thanks so much, Barbara!
I guess you're brave, they wouldn't stay in my greenhouse!
I've swayed back and forth over removing it or keeping it. In the end, I'm just keen to see if we can co-exist for this year and watching them has been really interesting!
It's lucky in a way that the wasps have made their nest on the polycrub rather than another structure, such as the shed or house- you can see the fascinating internal structure of the nest through the translucent plastic. I hope they continue to be peaceful neighbours to you!
Isn't that something? It's incredible to think that it's all a kind of paper that they make from wood! I hope they remain peaceful too -- I'm going to start using the back entrance for most of my access though just to play it safe.
I love watching your videos and learning lots of things from them! Please show us the bees!
The sleeper wall came out beautifully!
I allow the wasps’ nests to stay in my garden. They built their nests in my patio umbrella. This year I had to throw the umbrella away because the wood pole broke. I am overrun with pests this year! The last three years were great with wasps being here.
Isn't that interesting! Right now I have the nest I the polycrub and another alongside the house. Hoping they help keep the garden ecosystem in balance :)
Hello Tanya Lovely Greens. The raised beds are looking fantastically lush . I am so envious of how you make things look so easy when i know fine well its all due to hard work knowledge and skill. Well done .
You're too kind :) I'm pleased with how the beds are doing and the plants inside too! It's all about building them well, filling them with the right materials, and keeping the mix moist and fed. Compost is amazing for many of those aspects!
Our son nearly died through wasps stings, he accidentally disturbed a wasps nest whilst clearing a building site with an open sided digger. One stung him and the rest then attacked him, his only escape was to run the length of the building site and get into his van, the wasps followed him attacking him as he ran, also attacked his van. End result he finished up in hospital was then transferred to another hospital with multiple wasp stings upon wasp stings all over his body and head. He had an extremely bad reaction and it was only the quick thinking medical staff who first saw him, which prevented him going into Anaphylactic shock. So be very careful that you don’t accidentally disturb the nest.
Ohhhh I’d love to see more on the bees, like how did you start it, get the bees from and how do they keep in the winter.
Starting to look like a real veg patch, I think it's looked real for several videos now 😊 The polycrub is very cool, the stem on those earlier tomatoes are incredible. Nothing like cats in the garden.
Thanks, Wende 😊 And yes, those tomatoes are zooming away! This morning I've discovered quite a few more green tomatoes forming...it's going to be an epic tomato harvest this year!
@@Lovelygreens ....do you ever weigh them as you harvest, just to see how much over summer you have. I'm always amazed at all of the amounts of veg Charles Dowding harvests.
Thank you for sharing your garden with us! I would love to see the 🐝🐝!!
Bees-yes, please!
Hi Tanya! You are right about the wasps. They are beneficial. You will be safe as long as you are not in their flight way, kind of runaway for airplanes. 😀I would suggest you use the other door to get in and out, and leave this door to them. Cheers!
Good idea! I started doing that today since the "traffic" seems to be increasing through the front door. Fingers crossed they stay happy and me unstung 😂
Bees! Yes please!
I don't know that I've ever commented, bit this video just makes me incredibly happy, seeing you with this property and living your best life.
For the green stock planter, last I checked it's not available in Canada, only the US. Early this year a rep told me maybe by spring 2023.
Thanks for commenting! Lovely to hear from you :)
I was in touch with GreenStalk this week asking about where they ship to these days. You'll be pleased to know that they definitely ship to Canada now :) I just checked on their website too and it works! I don't think Canadian orders qualify for free postage but there is a UPS option: lddy.no/7mml
Your gardens are looking so great! I look forward to your weekly videos and am inspired to do more in my gardens. Thank you for all your great content! I would love to see your bees 🐝
Aww, thanks so much Debbie :) Pleased to help inspire you to spend more time in your gardens 💚😊 Bees coming right up!
Another awesome gardening tour video Tanya. Maggie ( she is so cute) is inspecting it and giving it her seal of approval. Love 🥰 the video and love 💕❤️ Tanya, Josh & Maggie.
Thanks, David :) Maggie is such a silly little cutie and I'm so glad that she has the garden to play in!
The garden looks great and i love maggixx
Cucumbers should be producing by now. Impressive greenhouse, I assume you got planning permission
So much progress. Well done! Would love to learn about and see your bees.
Josh will want to go on vacation soon, you have been working him so hard😂, but the results look to have been worth it. Also, I would enjoy a bee update thank-you-very-much! 😊
Hahaha! You're probably not wrong 😂
Oh I'd love a Greenstalk planter, very jealous.
Your garden is really coming on beautifully
They're such good planters! I've been asking GreenStalk for years if they were going to offer them across the pond. At one time they were considering it but it sounds like they're slammed with North American orders at the moment. There are some knockoffs around but they're not as well designed as the original.
@@Lovelygreens I did look at the alternatives, but as you say, they're not as well made so I'm waiting in anticipation and hope that Greenstalk change their minds haha
Everything is looking wonderful, you've managed so much in a short amount of time! I didn't realise you were supposed to leave elephant garlic for two years, I always plant mine in October with the garlic and harvest it in July, it's always split into cloves though not one giant bulb. Having the same issue with catnip, between my 3 and the neighbours 2 they've trashed 4 plants this year! Normally it can keep up with their chomping but they found it just as it was coming out of dormancy so the poor things never had chance ;)
It's the length of the growing season that can help those cloves split the first year. Mine never seem to want to divide up so I leave them in for a second...works a treat :) Catnip...I think the only way you could grow it unprotected is if you had a cat-disliking dog! Even then, I'm sure it would get rolled around in at night 😹
Enjoyed the video very much. Susie
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You're so brave.😂 I am so scared of wasps. Your veggies look great. I'm trying a sweet potato on my balcony this year. No idea if it'll work in the English weather. I put a chicken wire and bamboo cane cloche I made over a cat mint plant once as a cat we didnt own appeared and would sit on the plant daily. 😂.
I can picture that cat CLEARLY 😹 The sweet potatoes I'm growing are *supposed* to be better for the British climate but we'll see. It's fun to try new things though, isn't it? Hoping both of our plants are fruitful!
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We had a hornet's nest in a bird box last year. First they built inside and then added outside. The nest was huge at the end, but the hornets were totally peaceful. You could get pretty close to watch.
👋🏻 from Idaho! Your gardens are looking great. We are just not having much of a season here. Much of the country is having heat waves and drought but we are having a cold, rainy season. Some things are doing nicely, like my new asparagus bed, the rhubarb, my comfrey. I think this is going to be the year I’m going to try a fall garden with root veg and brassicas. Blessings, TeresaSue
I keep hearing about the drought and heat that those of you in the western USA are dealing with. So sorry for you and your garden and for all of the wild animals suffering in the heat too. Are you setting water out for the birds? And a fall garden sounds like it may be a great idea for this year :)
Where I am in north Idaho we don’t have the drought and heat this year , it’s been extra rainy and cold. At 10:18 am Monday morning we are 49 degrees and raining. Supposedly 🤞in a few days we are supposed to be getting warmer weather. But yes, I set out water for the wildlife when it’s hot and dry and am planning some new options this year. I have hopes to get in my project list tall herb garden with the pond at the bottom that you have shown us how to make. Have a fabulous week, TeresaSue.
Tomatoes are self-pollinating but some movement of the plant helps with pollination
Usually it's wind that helps with pollination but bumblebees are ace at helping too 🍅🐝
Yes please to the bees! 😁
It all looks so great! One question-- should you backfill with soil against the retaining wall, or maybe gravel? And then should holes be drilled through the wall in a few olaces to let water drain and take any pressure off the wall?
There won't be too much pressure from the bank we don't think but we will be filling the gap with loose soil though :)
Maggie yeahhhhh how long before she gets those tubs lol wasps were amazing love nature
You've worked so hard well done loved the glasses too
Are those mushrooms an edible variety? If you are getting them free from a trusted source of compost, it might be worth letting them grow in an unused corner.
I hope you're keeping an epipen handy because as fall approaches they will become increasingly aggressive and your life could be in danger.
Your video is brilliant. Our ‘gardening area is very small. At the front of our house there are containers filled with flowers. At the back there are lots containers again filled with flower but I will not be putting flowers in but veg will replace. All my containers are filled with compost from the garden centre. Once I’ve removed the all flowers and the roots, is it ok to use the old compost.
Yes, but it's likely depleted of nutrients. You can use it as a mulch or mixed into your garden soil. Also, container gardens are a great way to grow in small spaces 👍 :)
That's a beautiful wasp nest, unfortunately it wouldn't be able to stay at my garden. My husband is highly allergic to them, and he requires hospitalization for stings, even with an Epi-pen.
Your polycrub is looking just great. I have longed for a polycrub for some time now and finally it’s happening and the build has started. I watched your earlier video on the construction of your raised beds with great interest as this will be my next project. Can I ask what width your beds are? I plan to have a similar layout of a bed down each side and maybe a slightly wider centre bed. Not as long in length as I have a 6m p opycrub. Did you leave path width for a wheelbarrow?Your plants are looking very happy and healthy in their new home. Please be very careful of that wasp nest near the end of the summer as they become very irritable when close to dying. I know from bitter experience when they set up next to my beehives.
They are enemies of honeybees and will do anything for sweet sugar (and honey!) at the end of summer. I may be gardening in beekeeping gear in August around then! As for the beds, I go through the build and how I filled mine in this video: th-cam.com/video/iXAI5IE6RlA/w-d-xo.html Congratulations on your new Polycrub!
I realize this is 10 months old but greenstalk is available online in the UK now.
Only through one 3rd party site. GreenStalk have told me directly that they have no intention of selling directly to the UK.
Tanya it was great to catch up with what your doing in the garden and how its coming along! I have two questions for you, first is what company is your brimmed hat from you had on in this? I need a garden hat and this looks like what I'd wear. Second, I saw what I think was a bed of huge cabbages but you had no butterfly net over them, how are you deal8ng with them? Thank you!
Hi Mary 👋I have a few clothing items that I wear listed here: www.amazon.com/shop/lovelygreens/list/Q200GK133FN3
The hat is available in the UK though too: amzn.to/3HK3Wj2 (
This is totally unfair. Maggie looks so innocent 😇😂
Innocent?! 😹 She's a baddie! I tell her every day with a snuggle 😹
Loved this video! I thought it was so fun and entertaining, especially with Maggie making mayhem in the garden. 😅
P.s. Super cute glasses!
P.ss. yes for the bees videos please 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I swear that she has a sixth sense for when the camera is rolling 😹
It looks great ! What a happy place to be in! Do you still use the bokashi as well? I bought one because I saw your video.....😊
Of course! Love my bokashi bins :) I have four actually but they fill up so quickly that I have a system now. Fruity bits and leaves go in the wormery, cooked food scraps and citrus/onions go in the bokashi, and larger pieces of uncooked veg go in the orange bucket. In mid-autumn I'll go back to just the bokashi though :)
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Oh honey that is a mean aggressive honest wasp. As it gets bigger they get more aggressive please be very careful. Half that hive will swarm anything they find as a threat.
Median wasps are the second largest wasps in Britain now. I'm assuming they'll become more frantic/aggressive in late summer but hopefully we can coexist this year. Fingers crossed it goes well and I don't need to get help with them 🤞🤞🤞
I was wondering which dry root shrubs you used for your fence?
Bare root shrubs :) You can learn more about the hedgerow here: th-cam.com/video/vEO27lwzlrg/w-d-xo.html
You better get rid of those bald faced hornets!
Hi , I’m Curious to know what type of soil
I you used to fill the beds.
If you mean the raised beds in the polycrub, I go through that here: th-cam.com/video/iXAI5IE6RlA/w-d-xo.html
Full details on building the no-dig beds is over here: th-cam.com/video/ZsJ9A8jDMis/w-d-xo.html
Wasps attack bees, so I'm wondering if you get bees coming in to pollinate your plants?
Its been on my mind too. I've seen a few bumblebees inside and other insects. No honeybees though yet. The chilis are growing and that's a good sign
@@Lovelygreens perhaps chillies are just as tomatoes self pollinating? Perhaps they only need the wind? It also could be that other insects are pollinating them. Flies are pollinators 2 but honey bees are the best.
Maggie is hilarious. I'm sure she thinks she is your bodyguard 😂
Hahaha!
I know you won’t see this but why not plant Maggie’s catnip on lowest level of Greenstalk? She can enjoy without causing mayhem.
I had it on the top level last year, and it worked a treat. I'm not sure I'm going to continue using GreenStalk, though... I'm still thinking about it, but it's just not a very attractive planter 🙈
I would have removed that nest before it got that big. Wasps can be very dangerous and the slightest thing will set them off. As their food sources dwindle they will start to eat on your fruit and they will become more aggressive.
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lets see the bees
I'm not impressed with green stock, I wish they would make the containers a bit bigger. Right now their containers are too small to grow anything meaningful. I love your gardens. Congrats!
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that's not wasp, that's hornets.
They're called Median wasps -- I had an ID from a wildlife expert
They eat caterpillars too. So you won’t have any butterflies in your garden.
Certain caterpillars, and if that means fewer white cabbage butterflies then I'm okay with that :) They also predate on hornworms, a bane of many a North American tomato grower. But in the end their predation is part of a natural system that they belong to. We humans shouldn't interfere with that too much.
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We leave all our wasps alone. They go about their business and co exist. The Earth needs all the pollinators it can get.
but i don't know why you in America you build a wood wall !? why not a concrete one forever, and it'll be stronger. also your raised bed.. just tell me why you prefer wood !?