Your garden is absolutely gorgeous. Loved all the tips but most of all loved the thought of Kate deadheading with a gin and tonic in her hand. She sounds like me lol. Fab video ladies xx
Worth the wait! This was an especially enjoyable video. LOVED the pot you're growing your apple trees in. Very appropriate and pretty. Kate's suggestion of taking things bit by bit is just what I've started to do. (Not so young as I used to be.) No more hard labor in the noon day sun, something I accomplished readily only a couple of years ago.... Best wishes as our seasons progress. Yours in the UK, and mine in the Pacific Northwest of the US. Similar climates!
Great Video ❤. My sister (randomly) bought me a Brown Turkey fig this year, and I have no idea what to do with it, other than put it in a pot in a sunny spot. So I’m going to grow along with Newton 😂. Think I’ll call mine Olivia ……
Lovely vid and great advice for new gardeners, I have been in my garden for 32 years and it is always evolving, Much as at time I would love to make massive changes but little and often is better, especially as I realise I don't have the energy I did 30 years ago! And gardening should be enjoyable and we learn from putting plants int he wrong place ( annoying as it is when they die or don't thrive) there is joy to be had when you do find the right spot for something, like your seating area and it just works! I am on my first greenhouse - its 3 years old now - and two things I learned ... I should have bought a bigger one, I had the space and the budget but my husband was being a bit precious over the lawn and about building the footings so get as big a one as you can afford and have space for people. The second thing is I should have put a bed in there. Growing in pots only is quite labour intensive and I am working on how to cut down on the constant watering. Autopots system this has helped, and have bought some quad grows as well.
Oh I loved this fun video with you both, one of my favourites so far ever! And how lovely to see a picture of your wedding. Now Kate, let Eli move the greenhouse! Your garden is just beautiful and you know me, I love neat tidy gardens. Much love to you both ❤
Yeah! I’m so glad you’re using the greenstalk! I have SEVERAL and love them! I grow herbs, lettuce, strawberries, and sunflowers/flowers. Thank you for the tour! 😊
You really have made your surroundings beautiful ❤ i do the same, 10/15 mins here and there during the day 😁 i still work at home myself, but still struggle to keep up and keep my garden as perfect as yours. Thank you for all your tips.
Thanks for sharing guys, love it. Best advice to my younger self - take inspiration from as many different places as you can, TH-cam is an amazing resource for that. Keep an open mind to try new things and new varieties, try at least 1 new plant every season. Finally, you will kill plants along the way, don't worry about it, just compost them and plant something else. Much love xx
I have a garden check every day, too. I'm checking on growth, whether things are flowering, if any fruits are coming out and this helps me find any pests or bad leaves. I find it helps me connect to my garden and I think it makes the plants want to grow better for me. That's my story and I'm sticking to it 😂
We have to remember gardening is supposed to be a fun and rewarding thing to do. A little every year, not all at once, is more enjoyable! You have done a spectacular job on your whole garden! I absolutely love it and so many types of plants and veggies!! Wow! Well done!
You're so right about the value of walking and LOOKING around your garden at some point every day, even just for ten minutes. It makes a huge difference. As far as secrets in your garden go, I would *love* to see inside your shed. How about a 'before and after' tidying the shed video for a change? Even I have to tidy my shed up every couple of years, and I'm FAR less of a neat and tidy gardener than you guys
And some compost to your front soil. Just take a wheelbarrow full and sprinkle it on top of your lawn. You will see a difference. I also have sand in my yard. I live close to the coast.
Yes! MAHOOSIVEly delightful visit! Your house and gardens are so beautiful! May I suggest you knight your fig after it produces? He can be then be 'Sir Isaac'....you know....Newton
Well we had a fun night of tornado warnings and destructive hail. So my garden isn't looking as good as yours. Anything in pots we relocated to the garage so at least those look nice. I don't know why I decided to move everything under cover, the radar kept showing the storm staying North of us, but I'm glad I did. Some things will bounce back. I'm trying a fancy method of using a bandaid or four to fix a couple tomatoes that broke, but not completely, and that still had leaves. We'll see...
Wonderful, thoughtful video. Thank you. I recently began spending 10 minutes in the garden in the morning and another 10 minutes in the afternoon after work -the reason was because I put five bantam chickens out there so I could toss them the weeds. It has been a game changer, because no matter how busy I am. I have to take at least a few minutes twice a day to make sure they have food and water and gather their eggs, but I am now having a blast weeding the garden because they get all the weeds! What used to be a terrible chore that felt overwhelming is now a quick and fun few moments of my day and you are right Kate as I’m in the garden doing one thing my mind is also on. Oh, those vegetables need to be harvested or oh that plant doesn’t seem to be doing so well maybe I need to investigate further. Anyway, I adore your channel. Thank you for sharing.
Well guys that was enjoyable, sat and chilled out to watch and learnt a few bits, I this year got a fig tree-dwarf type and a turkey one like yours…. I also got an apple pear and plum, all off a lady who was giving up her allotment. Anyways I had no idea how to look after the little stick and I see why it was a stick as it was only 1year old when she sold it…. Hadn’t fruited yet. I just put it in the tub and left it too it. It’s got 2 massive leaves on it now. Looking good. As for apples yes we getting lots of drop from the main apple tree in the garden but as it’s huge and put in before I moved here and many years I would say, I can’t climb up to sort it out. My neighbour is gonna help after all the fruit is finished and trim it right back into a manageable shape and size I hope same with the pear tree that’s right next to it and competing for everything. If we don’t get any pears this year- last year they were poor-may be too old a tree now- if it is then it be coming out to give the apple more room. As you say it’s always changing and moulding itself a new….. this year we have done some big jobs tho as it wasn’t working for me safety wise so have had a digger and stuff in to sort it a bit. But again like you say we feel like we been working on it since may1st and every day we been doing something and it’s been manic and still so much to do. But there’s so much we have achieved too and that’s important to acknowledge. Well done guys for helping us all open up about what we been doing and what our plans are and so forth, I know it’s not face to face but sometimes it’s the only social side of me anyone sees now with my autism and mental health issues but you have shown me it’s ok to be open and talk about stuff. And I appreciate that. I think without the garden I would be in a worse place then I am. And I’m so grateful that I am where I am. Slowly going in the right direction. Catch up soon and can’t wait to hear what Kate has in mind….. 😮
@@eliandkate most definitely. Not coping with going out lol but will get over it eventually. Yea the trees are huge-must be more then 15ft high hence why I’m saying I think they need trimming to a more manageable height even if it means less harvest for a few years it will be better for us and the tree overall I think. Who knows lol Next time I will have a cuppa-it was ribena raspberry this time lol
@@eliandkate most definitely. Not coping with going out lol but will get over it eventually. Yea the trees are huge-must be more then 15ft high hence why I’m saying I think they need trimming to a more manageable height even if it means less harvest for a few years it will be better for us and the tree overall I think. Who knows lol Next time I will have a cuppa-it was ribena raspberry this time lol
Great video as always. I'm finished binge watching tonight. Lol The plant tower is a great addition I've seen on a couple of USA channels. Looks lovely as does your garden.
Loved the Q&A about your garden, some of your followers ask brilliant questions 😉, very interesting to learn about Newton the fig. Thank you for mentioning the time and effort it takes to make your gardens so lovely. Mine looks more like chaos on steroids but I am okay with that. I want to sincerely say thank you for mentioning the mental health benefits of gardening. With everything going on in people’s lives and the world around us, the benefits of spending time with plants outside cannot be understated. It has provide me a great escape and provides the opportunity to focus on the beauty found in my own backyard. I will have to try Kate’s weeding with one hand while holding a beverage in another 😊.
Oh! Exciting Kate what are you plans A greenhouse each as you have completion now Eli! 😅 I still think swap the greenhouse to the shed side that way you will get more sun to help those plants come on 🤔👌👍
Your garden is incredible .... simply amazing .... I love the different levels colours & arrangement of your plants ... stunningly neat & so tidy .... A garden of dreams and you both make gardening such good fun 😊😊❤🌻🌻🌷🌷🌷🪻🪻💕💕
Love your channel, wondered if you’ve considered sprinkling compost on your lawn, maybe in early spring and autumn? Just a thought. Love, love your yard, and I’m green with envy over your greenhouse. 😊!
Do you guys ever get away for a holiday? I'm on Mull for 2weeks at the moment and it's taken alot of planning organising waterers for my home veg garden and allotment. Plus it's been the hottest 2 weeks I've known on Mull so goodness knows what we will go back to.
Okay, that was a lot of fun. Esp the wedding pics! Thanks for posting the overhead views of your front and back yards/gardens with Kate's edging efforts beautifully show-cased. Living in our house/yard for 40 years I've lived some of the learning so I fully appreciated your "evolution of a garden" thoughts and secrets. You've left us cliff-hanging about what Kate's cunning plan will reveal.
I’m intrigued - what are these plans of which Kate speaks?! Great to see how your garden has changed over the years - I love that you had your wedding there 😊❤️
I check every day, especially the green house. It is a great pleasure and starts off the pleasure part of the evening. I also have an Astrantia. I bought one for a friends birthday but hers is still not flowering.Any tipps?
when things flower has a lot to do with the environment ( how much sun etc) and how well watered or fed they are. We see big delays between flowers in our front garden and back garden even though there is only a few meters apart....
I'm thinking that Scott Head has fig trees in his garden. If so, I'm sure you can get some tips for Newton from him. Really enjoyed seeing your gardens' hidden gems. Thanks for sharing.
Haha, loved the banter and the cliff-hanger. The apple trees are looking lovely, I need to get me a few of those! thanks for the inspiration and the tour.
Loved todays video girls, the questions coming in were really interesting we haven’t heard a lot of todays questions before. What job does Kate do, she’s good at explaining as well as you Eli of course! Well done both just live your videos each week, I always look forward to seeing what’s coming next 😀 Lovely garden’s do take time, you never stop learning, it’s what we all love about gardening
Glad you enjoyed it Carole. Yup both the shirts Kate wore are in our shop Check the menu tabs at the top of the screen or the description under the video For links
This has to be one of my fav videos that you have done. I loved the tour and explaining bits and bobs etc. I'd love a greenhouse; but like you suggested; I want to take my time to figure where would be best in my garden and which direction it faces.Thank you for taking what must have been hours and hours to make it. Ta!
Lol This might have been one of the longest videos to make that we’ve ever done… but I wanted to be able to show you guys all the little progress things from over the years 😍
@@eliandkate It was an awesome video and I love watching you two, you're both so comical.I thoroughly enjoyed the full tour of your garden and what you grow and hearing the successes and challenges you face with each one. The grass bit was particularly helpful because we have the same issue with our lawn in the back that gets full on sun. I'd love it if you did this kinda video quarterly. Asking too much? lol
I hear you Eli so I’ll try to be patient while I learn where the trees are shading out areas, which way the wind blows most often and so on. But I must grow something so I’ll just stick to pots for now, and maybe do some planning on paper and some research before I invest in long term structures. I managed for 3 or 4 years with just a little plastic growhouse so maybe just another wee one for this year. Meantime, need to work out the best places for my hotbin, wormery and dalek. Looks like I’m going to have lots of grass clippings to feed them on. And also what seems like miles of hedge clippings too.
I will say we have found hedge clippings are great for the compost bin as they are both brow and green, same as when we trimmed the shrubs and trees as they go in the mulcher and come out a good mix of brown and green. Good luck A wormary-I have one and I got it the week before Christmas so it’s always been in my lounge. But they are loving it. Been doing well and loads of new babies when I checked and fed them 3days ago, happy chaps
OK. I made my first comment about 2 thirds of the way through this video, so now I have other things to say. Where you live, are there some rules/regulations that affect how you use your front south-facing garden? I ask because in the UK [in England, at least] we tend to not use our front gardens for anything other than lawns/formal/'pretty' when IMO they could often be put to better use. I watch a lot of US gardening channels and it seems to me that they have vast expanses of grass out front...and you do, too! If I had a front garden like yours I like to think I'd use it for way more than a lawn and a few shrubs etc. Moving a greenhouse is a big job, but I would definitely do it if I realised mine was in utterly the wrong place. I've got a Rhino greenhouse like yours, and know after 5 years they are eminently moveable, because they're so sturdily built. However, moving YOUR greenhouse would need the shed re-siting too and that's a whole other massive job, so. I can see why Kate is resisting.
For us there are some rules about our front garden set by our local residents association but generally in Scotland there isn’t set rules for the whole country. I think the reason it’s so often lawns and flowers etc is for the same reason as us. It’s looks nice in the street, makes it an attractive, neat and tidy place to live and adds value to the property. We love this style of front garden (or we wouldn’t have done it obvs) and it’s definitely improved our street 😁
LOVE YOU BOTH! ❤ I just made tea bags from dehydrated herbs rom my garden while I watched this video. I wold love to know how you’re using the plants in your garden, but also what do you harvest early or late to allow for next succession of sowing. 😊
Great video, thank you both 😁. I’m relatively new to gardening and initially only found videos from American or English gardeners. Tried some of the things they did last year but not very successfully (probably more to do with my skill, or lack there of, but climate too). Thankfully I found you from Gardener Scott, your so informative for us beginners and know what works for our climate (I’m up in Argyll) so hopefully will be a bit more successful this year. One of the big problems we have, as you mentioned, is getting rid of the blackberries that are sprouting everywhere
Oir astrantia has been split twice and needs done again. Our crocosmia just took over. Pulled them 2 years ago when I was planning my border and they are still popping up
please adopt me, I'm 60 this dec, newly out, literally straight was a phase. Happy to sleep on a zed bed in the greenhouse and shall bring three mexicans, fankies
Great video as usual, love the tour around the garden. Speaking about shading the greenhouse, I used to use "cool shade" with great results, which was painted on, a bit like a whitewash, and washed off easily later, on your front glass?, you've killed two birds with one stone with your apple trees , but it's just a thought. Oh and a quick question, I have quite a lot of leachate from my hot bin composter, but what's the best dilution rate? thank Q, Happy Gardening
Hiya you two, nice to see all of the garden. And how grand it looks. Interesting story about the fig. Great name❣ I got a little fig at the farmer market last month. Same kind. So I am looking forward to your fig stories. My appletree ( also a colum form) has been in a pot for almost 8 years, it got almost 3 m high. Since Aug. 2020 its in the ground, its grown some more 😁 all my trees are colum form, even my blackberry is or better was, since its in the ground its gone bananas and is growing over an arch. Your garden is very much nicer than what you started with. It looks so good. 👍
there's a few things that can be an issue. Most common obviously is maybe they weren't pollinated, but also things like frost can cause the blossom to drop, so if you got a later frost once the blossom was developing or out that can ruin things. Also lack of watering, poor nutrition, bad pruning or even age. Might be something you need to investigate and take notes on to discover.
I'm actually I'm the middle of looking at buying pillar apple trees but not quite sure what size pots to put them in. What size did u suggest and what type of soil and compost. Also are blueberry bushes the same as in the way u cut them back . Mine are new this year and are in pots I wonder around my garden in the evening after work but it usually takes me an hour or so ( it's a small garden ) my husband and 3 grown up children say the difference in me when I finish. Even when I see mistakes I've made it still gives me that happy feeling.
I do t do any particular fancy compost or anything, I just use b and q own brand Pots, start with about 40 litres and increase every year for 3 years Then go as big as you can
Has Kate tried vietnamese coriander? It has a subtle corriander flavour but apparently people who can't eat normal coriander can taste it just fine. I lost my two plants to the heat, unfortunately, or I'd give you a first hand account.
Now I know who to blame for those blackberries overgrowing everywhere here, it Scotland! Those are so prolific, with those nasty thorns, people are frequently going to the pharmacy for bandages after trying, desperately, to cut them away. The advice is right, be aware of the solar angles, the wind, and especially what soil is in place. Looking forward to seeing what nefarious plans Kate come up with. Sorry, but I blamed Scotland, with a partial blame pointing back, ancestry is partly Scottish myself. 🇨🇦
This is the second video I have ever seen of you guys and I have to say I absolutely love you two!!!
Awwww glad to have you with us 😀
Ahh the central belt of Scotland where two weeks of no rain and temp over 20c counts as a heat wave ❤
We’ve been a bit luckier than you then, we’ve had 24 and sun last week, but the haar has rolled in and it’s been foggy the last two days
Your garden is absolutely gorgeous. Loved all the tips but most of all loved the thought of Kate deadheading with a gin and tonic in her hand. She sounds like me lol. Fab video ladies xx
That’s the best way to do it 😍
Not me listening to Eli & Kate while doing my daily 30min plant care. I just love your energy and I can watch you for hours.
😂😂😂 glad it’s giving you some fun
Worth the wait! This was an especially enjoyable video.
LOVED the pot you're growing your apple trees in. Very appropriate and pretty.
Kate's suggestion of taking things bit by bit is just what I've started to do. (Not so young as I used to be.) No more hard labor in the noon day sun, something I accomplished readily only a couple of years ago....
Best wishes as our seasons progress. Yours in the UK, and mine in the Pacific Northwest of the US.
Similar climates!
Yay!!! We’ll rock it… slowly and gently!!!!!
My horses mow all my lawns. They don’t look nearly as beautiful as Kate’s, but I have happy, fat horses.
It's hard to find the garland tidy tray in the USA, so I guess we're even. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great Video ❤. My sister (randomly) bought me a Brown Turkey fig this year, and I have no idea what to do with it, other than put it in a pot in a sunny spot. So I’m going to grow along with Newton 😂. Think I’ll call mine Olivia ……
Olivia … good name
Lovely vid and great advice for new gardeners, I have been in my garden for 32 years and it is always evolving, Much as at time I would love to make massive changes but little and often is better, especially as I realise I don't have the energy I did 30 years ago! And gardening should be enjoyable and we learn from putting plants int he wrong place ( annoying as it is when they die or don't thrive) there is joy to be had when you do find the right spot for something, like your seating area and it just works!
I am on my first greenhouse - its 3 years old now - and two things I learned ... I should have bought a bigger one, I had the space and the budget but my husband was being a bit precious over the lawn and about building the footings so get as big a one as you can afford and have space for people. The second thing is I should have put a bed in there. Growing in pots only is quite labour intensive and I am working on how to cut down on the constant watering. Autopots system this has helped, and have bought some quad grows as well.
you are in the very same situation as me... fighting with the other half over stealing lawns space for a greenhouse🤣
Oh I loved this fun video with you both, one of my favourites so far ever! And how lovely to see a picture of your wedding. Now Kate, let Eli move the greenhouse! Your garden is just beautiful and you know me, I love neat tidy gardens. Much love to you both ❤
Loving the planter fence behind you when sitting. It looks lovely
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Yeah! I’m so glad you’re using the greenstalk! I have SEVERAL and love them! I grow herbs, lettuce, strawberries, and sunflowers/flowers. Thank you for the tour! 😊
sunflowers?
Wow!
Nice to meet newton! 😁 amazed that if never spotted him before!😂
There’s not really much to him so he’s quite unobtrusive and sat at the front corner of the greenhouse for the last couple of years
@@eliandkate years!! Lol oh if there was an award for being unobservant I’d win 😂
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Kate, let Eli get a second greenhouse and put it where your shed is! 😂
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Thanks Guys. More knowledge to take on board. Love the banter and natural presentation ……. again!
Mark - South Wales
Glad you had as much fun as us Mark 😁
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You really have made your surroundings beautiful ❤ i do the same, 10/15 mins here and there during the day 😁 i still work at home myself, but still struggle to keep up and keep my garden as perfect as yours. Thank you for all your tips.
People don’t realise how much work keeping a garden can be. There’s a lot of boring maintenance jobs go into it 😁
Thanks for sharing guys, love it. Best advice to my younger self - take inspiration from as many different places as you can, TH-cam is an amazing resource for that. Keep an open mind to try new things and new varieties, try at least 1 new plant every season. Finally, you will kill plants along the way, don't worry about it, just compost them and plant something else. Much love xx
Absolutely
Kate mentioned the plants become compost that feeds the new plants… but she waffled a bit so I might have cut that 😂😂😂😂
I have a garden check every day, too. I'm checking on growth, whether things are flowering, if any fruits are coming out and this helps me find any pests or bad leaves. I find it helps me connect to my garden and I think it makes the plants want to grow better for me. That's my story and I'm sticking to it 😂
Love the garden tour! And you pack in so much good information. Great video!
😃 did you realise we had so many beds?
@@eliandkate I didn't. Looks like lots of video opportunities ahead.
Been a keen vegetable gardener here in new Zealand love your videos and tips,from new Zealand
Wow New Zealand? North or South?
It's fun that you've given the different parts of your gardens names.
😂😂😂 have you seen the tours where I take you through all of them with the garden map?
We have to remember gardening is supposed to be a fun and rewarding thing to do. A little every year, not all at once, is more enjoyable! You have done a spectacular job on your whole garden! I absolutely love it and so many types of plants and veggies!!
Wow! Well done!
100% with you
It’s all for fun!!!!!
You're so right about the value of walking and LOOKING around your garden at some point every day, even just for ten minutes. It makes a huge difference.
As far as secrets in your garden go, I would *love* to see inside your shed. How about a 'before and after' tidying the shed video for a change? Even I have to tidy my shed up every couple of years, and I'm FAR less of a neat and tidy gardener than you guys
A wee wonder around is a good thing
And some compost to your front soil. Just take a wheelbarrow full and sprinkle it on top of your lawn. You will see a difference. I also have sand in my yard. I live close to the coast.
oh we did, that's what I was talking about how we're building up the soil
@@eliandkate that's awesome
Yes! MAHOOSIVEly delightful visit! Your house and gardens are so beautiful!
May I suggest you knight your fig after it produces? He can be then be 'Sir Isaac'....you know....Newton
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Oh that’s good
Well we had a fun night of tornado warnings and destructive hail. So my garden isn't looking as good as yours. Anything in pots we relocated to the garage so at least those look nice. I don't know why I decided to move everything under cover, the radar kept showing the storm staying North of us, but I'm glad I did.
Some things will bounce back. I'm trying a fancy method of using a bandaid or four to fix a couple tomatoes that broke, but not completely, and that still had leaves. We'll see...
That was some good instincts that told you to move things
The joy of pots!!!!
Wonderful, thoughtful video. Thank you. I recently began spending 10 minutes in the garden in the morning and another 10 minutes in the afternoon after work -the reason was because I put five bantam chickens out there so I could toss them the weeds. It has been a game changer, because no matter how busy I am. I have to take at least a few minutes twice a day to make sure they have food and water and gather their eggs, but I am now having a blast weeding the garden because they get all the weeds! What used to be a terrible chore that felt overwhelming is now a quick and fun few moments of my day and you are right Kate as I’m in the garden doing one thing my mind is also on. Oh, those vegetables need to be harvested or oh that plant doesn’t seem to be doing so well maybe I need to investigate further. Anyway, I adore your channel. Thank you for sharing.
Oh that sounds like the perfect use of your time 😃
I usually have my garden epiphanies in the middle of the night!!! 😂 Fab video and cutest wedding pic ❤ Thanks for sharing 🥰
Glad you enjoyed it 😁
Look up the Hartley greenhouse. OMG we can dream.
My dream greenhouse is a larger version of my current one.
It’s an amazing greenhouse, just smaller than I’d like
Well guys that was enjoyable, sat and chilled out to watch and learnt a few bits, I this year got a fig tree-dwarf type and a turkey one like yours…. I also got an apple pear and plum, all off a lady who was giving up her allotment.
Anyways I had no idea how to look after the little stick and I see why it was a stick as it was only 1year old when she sold it…. Hadn’t fruited yet. I just put it in the tub and left it too it. It’s got 2 massive leaves on it now. Looking good.
As for apples yes we getting lots of drop from the main apple tree in the garden but as it’s huge and put in before I moved here and many years I would say, I can’t climb up to sort it out. My neighbour is gonna help after all the fruit is finished and trim it right back into a manageable shape and size I hope same with the pear tree that’s right next to it and competing for everything. If we don’t get any pears this year- last year they were poor-may be too old a tree now- if it is then it be coming out to give the apple more room.
As you say it’s always changing and moulding itself a new….. this year we have done some big jobs tho as it wasn’t working for me safety wise so have had a digger and stuff in to sort it a bit. But again like you say we feel like we been working on it since may1st and every day we been doing something and it’s been manic and still so much to do.
But there’s so much we have achieved too and that’s important to acknowledge.
Well done guys for helping us all open up about what we been doing and what our plans are and so forth, I know it’s not face to face but sometimes it’s the only social side of me anyone sees now with my autism and mental health issues but you have shown me it’s ok to be open and talk about stuff. And I appreciate that. I think without the garden I would be in a worse place then I am. And I’m so grateful that I am where I am. Slowly going in the right direction.
Catch up soon and can’t wait to hear what Kate has in mind….. 😮
Oh I’m jealous of your huge trees!!!!!
We’ll if we are your social treat then we need to have a lot more cups of tea in the garden 😍😍😍😍
@@eliandkate most definitely.
Not coping with going out lol but will get over it eventually.
Yea the trees are huge-must be more then 15ft high hence why I’m saying I think they need trimming to a more manageable height even if it means less harvest for a few years it will be better for us and the tree overall I think. Who knows lol
Next time I will have a cuppa-it was ribena raspberry this time lol
@@eliandkate most definitely.
Not coping with going out lol but will get over it eventually.
Yea the trees are huge-must be more then 15ft high hence why I’m saying I think they need trimming to a more manageable height even if it means less harvest for a few years it will be better for us and the tree overall I think. Who knows lol
Next time I will have a cuppa-it was ribena raspberry this time lol
Fantastic video you two!😁 really enjoyed and had a good giggle along
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video as always. I'm finished binge watching tonight. Lol
The plant tower is a great addition I've seen on a couple of USA channels. Looks lovely as does your garden.
You finished binge watching? Please tell me you haven’t been watching all 291 videos?
@@eliandkate😂 I've just scratched the surface. 😅
@GardenMyselfHappy 😂😂😂😂
Loved the Q&A about your garden, some of your followers ask brilliant questions 😉, very interesting to learn about Newton the fig. Thank you for mentioning the time and effort it takes to make your gardens so lovely. Mine looks more like chaos on steroids but I am okay with that. I want to sincerely say thank you for mentioning the mental health benefits of gardening. With everything going on in people’s lives and the world around us, the benefits of spending time with plants outside cannot be understated. It has provide me a great escape and provides the opportunity to focus on the beauty found in my own backyard. I will have to try Kate’s weeding with one hand while holding a beverage in another 😊.
The mental health aspect is so important and something we’re both very aware of….. yes…. Kate’s weeding technique is recommended 😍
I'm here! I'm all dressed up with some stuff to grow!!
Ha ha ha
You’re meant to pick me up at 8pm
Is that not how it goes??? 😂😂😂
Oh! Exciting Kate what are you plans
A greenhouse each as you have completion now Eli! 😅
I still think swap the greenhouse to the shed side that way you will get more sun to help those plants come on 🤔👌👍
Ha ha ha I wish!!!!!!
Beautiful! Enjoyed the tour.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Eli and Kate, have you considered adding compost to your lawn a couple times a year? Love, love the show.
We do indeed, we too dress it every year. You’d be surprised how little difference it makes 😂😂😂😂
Your garden is incredible .... simply amazing ....
I love the different levels colours & arrangement of your plants ... stunningly neat & so tidy .... A garden of dreams and you both make gardening such good fun 😊😊❤🌻🌻🌷🌷🌷🪻🪻💕💕
Awwwww so glad you got a kick out of it!
And it’s not finished 😉
@In the Garden with Eli and Kate And 1 very important thing I've learnt is ... as you said ... it takes alot of time & patience 😘😘😘
And a sense of humour 👌
Oh defo!
Love your channel, wondered if you’ve considered sprinkling compost on your lawn, maybe in early spring and autumn? Just a thought. Love, love your yard, and I’m green with envy over your greenhouse. 😊!
yup we top dress every year amongst all the other lawn care bits and pieces we do :D
Heatwave in Australia is 40+ degrees. 20 degrees is a freezing cold day in winter for us.
Ha ha ha so very different
I do at least a walk through at lunch and again after dinner I usually water.
Good plan
What a lovely video recommendation! So glad y'all showed up on my feed. I already feel so at home in your garden~
Instant sub from me! ♥
Awwww and we love having you come join us in the garden.
Grab a seat in the chillooterie, I’m just making our morning coffees… be right there 😍
According to my experience figs are ripe when they change colour, hang down and are soft to the touch.
The hang down but I don’t get 🤣🤣🤣
Fabulous! The only thing you did wrong with the blackberry was to baby it. :D
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Wow. You guys have an absolutely beautiful place💕💕💕
Awwww thank you Colleen
Do you guys ever get away for a holiday? I'm on Mull for 2weeks at the moment and it's taken alot of planning organising waterers for my home veg garden and allotment. Plus it's been the hottest 2 weeks I've known on Mull so goodness knows what we will go back to.
Hope you have a lovely time and your plants are still doing well when you get home. Take care
We don’t go away much, mostly cause we just like hanging in our garden
Okay, that was a lot of fun. Esp the wedding pics! Thanks for posting the overhead views of your front and back yards/gardens with Kate's edging efforts beautifully show-cased. Living in our house/yard for 40 years I've lived some of the learning so I fully appreciated your "evolution of a garden" thoughts and secrets. You've left us cliff-hanging about what Kate's cunning plan will reveal.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Kate’s cunning plan has six stages….
Promise we’ll reveal the first but soon.
I’m intrigued - what are these plans of which Kate speaks?! Great to see how your garden has changed over the years - I love that you had your wedding there 😊❤️
There are lots of exciting plans… but don’t worry
We’ll make sure to share
Love your energy your garden is amazing xxx
Love your wedding pic ❤
Was a fab day 😁
Truly inspiring how much you fit into a small space. Love Newton the fig. Fingers crossed for the apples and blackberries
And toes!!!!!
I check every day, especially the green house. It is a great pleasure and starts off the pleasure part of the evening.
I also have an Astrantia. I bought one for a friends birthday but hers is still not flowering.Any tipps?
when things flower has a lot to do with the environment ( how much sun etc) and how well watered or fed they are.
We see big delays between flowers in our front garden and back garden even though there is only a few meters apart....
@@eliandkate I guess feeding might help...
Not necessarily feeding but just knowing the soil is goid
I'm thinking that Scott Head has fig trees in his garden. If so, I'm sure you can get some tips for Newton from him. Really enjoyed seeing your gardens' hidden gems. Thanks for sharing.
Oh that’s a point, hmm I wonder if it’s the same type 😍😍😍😍
Haha, loved the banter and the cliff-hanger. The apple trees are looking lovely, I need to get me a few of those! thanks for the inspiration and the tour.
Loved todays video girls, the questions coming in were really interesting we haven’t heard a lot of todays questions before.
What job does Kate do, she’s good at explaining as well as you Eli of course!
Well done both just live your videos each week, I always look forward to seeing what’s coming next 😀
Lovely garden’s do take time, you never stop learning, it’s what we all love about gardening
Kate is a librarian, she was a children’s librarian for a bit so I suspect that’s where a lot of her people skills and teaching skills come from 😃
What a awesome video. I could watch it over and over again. Love Kates shirt. Do you sell them? Thanks for all your great information.
Glad you enjoyed it Carole.
Yup both the shirts Kate wore are in our shop
Check the menu tabs at the top of the screen or the description under the video
For links
This has to be one of my fav videos that you have done. I loved the tour and explaining bits and bobs etc. I'd love a greenhouse; but like you suggested; I want to take my time to figure where would be best in my garden and which direction it faces.Thank you for taking what must have been hours and hours to make it. Ta!
Lol
This might have been one of the longest videos to make that we’ve ever done… but I wanted to be able to show you guys all the little progress things from over the years 😍
@@eliandkate It was an awesome video and I love watching you two, you're both so comical.I thoroughly enjoyed the full tour of your garden and what you grow and hearing the successes and challenges you face with each one. The grass bit was particularly helpful because we have the same issue with our lawn in the back that gets full on sun. I'd love it if you did this kinda video quarterly. Asking too much? lol
😃 I’ll see what I can do
Loved this video, got lots of tips. Thanks Eli.
Yay! That makes me happy 😍😍😍
You're fun and I always learn something when I watch your vids.:-) BTW, your space is lovely.
Awwwwwwwww thank you Angelavan😍😍😍
Great advice and information. Love the channel
Hope it’s useful Maria
I hear you Eli so I’ll try to be patient while I learn where the trees are shading out areas, which way the wind blows most often and so on. But I must grow something so I’ll just stick to pots for now, and maybe do some planning on paper and some research before I invest in long term structures. I managed for 3 or 4 years with just a little plastic growhouse so maybe just another wee one for this year. Meantime, need to work out the best places for my hotbin, wormery and dalek. Looks like I’m going to have lots of grass clippings to feed them on. And also what seems like miles of hedge clippings too.
There’s a lot more coming for you 😍😍😍😍
Thanks I’ll look forward to hearing more
I will say we have found hedge clippings are great for the compost bin as they are both brow and green, same as when we trimmed the shrubs and trees as they go in the mulcher and come out a good mix of brown and green. Good luck
A wormary-I have one and I got it the week before Christmas so it’s always been in my lounge. But they are loving it. Been doing well and loads of new babies when I checked and fed them 3days ago, happy chaps
OK. I made my first comment about 2 thirds of the way through this video, so now I have other things to say.
Where you live, are there some rules/regulations that affect how you use your front south-facing garden?
I ask because in the UK [in England, at least] we tend to not use our front gardens for anything other than lawns/formal/'pretty' when IMO they could often be put to better use. I watch a lot of US gardening channels and it seems to me that they have vast expanses of grass out front...and you do, too! If I had a front garden like yours I like to think I'd use it for way more than a lawn and a few shrubs etc.
Moving a greenhouse is a big job, but I would definitely do it if I realised mine was in utterly the wrong place. I've got a Rhino greenhouse like yours, and know after 5 years they are eminently moveable, because they're so sturdily built. However, moving YOUR greenhouse would need the shed re-siting too and that's a whole other massive job, so. I can see why Kate is resisting.
For us there are some rules about our front garden set by our local residents association but generally in Scotland there isn’t set rules for the whole country.
I think the reason it’s so often lawns and flowers etc is for the same reason as us. It’s looks nice in the street, makes it an attractive, neat and tidy place to live and adds value to the property.
We love this style of front garden (or we wouldn’t have done it obvs) and it’s definitely improved our street 😁
LOVE YOU BOTH! ❤ I just made tea bags from dehydrated herbs rom my garden while I watched this video. I wold love to know how you’re using the plants in your garden, but also what do you harvest early or late to allow for next succession of sowing. 😊
Oh I’ll have to think about that
Great video, thank you both 😁. I’m relatively new to gardening and initially only found videos from American or English gardeners. Tried some of the things they did last year but not very successfully (probably more to do with my skill, or lack there of, but climate too). Thankfully I found you from Gardener Scott, your so informative for us beginners and know what works for our climate (I’m up in Argyll) so hopefully will be a bit more successful this year. One of the big problems we have, as you mentioned, is getting rid of the blackberries that are sprouting everywhere
Not guilty M’Lud. Mine are in pots, always
Oir astrantia has been split twice and needs done again. Our crocosmia just took over. Pulled them 2 years ago when I was planning my border and they are still popping up
I love my crocosmia soooo much
please adopt me, I'm 60 this dec, newly out, literally straight was a phase. Happy to sleep on a zed bed in the greenhouse and shall bring three mexicans, fankies
Great video as usual, love the tour around the garden. Speaking about shading the greenhouse, I used to use "cool shade" with great results, which was painted on, a bit like a whitewash, and washed off easily later, on your front glass?, you've killed two birds with one stone with your apple trees , but it's just a thought. Oh and a quick question, I have quite a lot of leachate from my hot bin composter, but what's the best dilution rate? thank Q, Happy Gardening
The recommended dilution is 1:10 😃
What is Kate’s fav plant called again please? It’s amazing ❤
Could it be her Astrantia?
The one in the fence bed?
@@eliandkateyes that’s the one. Thanks a million ❤
Hiya you two, nice to see all of the garden. And how grand it looks. Interesting story about the fig. Great name❣ I got a little fig at the farmer market last month. Same kind. So I am looking forward to your fig stories. My appletree ( also a colum form) has been in a pot for almost 8 years, it got almost 3 m high. Since Aug. 2020 its in the ground, its grown some more 😁 all my trees are colum form, even my blackberry is or better was, since its in the ground its gone bananas and is growing over an arch. Your garden is very much nicer than what you started with. It looks so good. 👍
Yeah it wasn’t very exciting when we started….
Is there a cunning plan video?
Em…. I do t remember what the cunning plan was so maybe not
Birds love figs....
Hi x my apple tree fruited last year for its first time x this year it flowered but the fruits haven't set so no apples this year! Any idea why? x
there's a few things that can be an issue.
Most common obviously is maybe they weren't pollinated, but also things like frost can cause the blossom to drop, so if you got a later frost once the blossom was developing or out that can ruin things. Also lack of watering, poor nutrition, bad pruning or even age.
Might be something you need to investigate and take notes on to discover.
I'm actually I'm the middle of looking at buying pillar apple trees but not quite sure what size pots to put them in. What size did u suggest and what type of soil and compost. Also are blueberry bushes the same as in the way u cut them back . Mine are new this year and are in pots
I wonder around my garden in the evening after work but it usually takes me an hour or so ( it's a small garden ) my husband and 3 grown up children say the difference in me when I finish. Even when I see mistakes I've made it still gives me that happy feeling.
I do t do any particular fancy compost or anything, I just use b and q own brand
Pots, start with about 40 litres and increase every year for 3 years
Then go as big as you can
Has Kate tried vietnamese coriander? It has a subtle corriander flavour but apparently people who can't eat normal coriander can taste it just fine. I lost my two plants to the heat, unfortunately, or I'd give you a first hand account.
I doubt I’d be able to convince her to try 😢
Thanks for the June update. Great video as always!
Glad to entertain 😍
Now I know who to blame for those blackberries overgrowing everywhere here, it Scotland!
Those are so prolific, with those nasty thorns, people are frequently going to the pharmacy for bandages after trying, desperately, to cut them away.
The advice is right, be aware of the solar angles, the wind, and especially what soil is in place.
Looking forward to seeing what nefarious plans Kate come up with.
Sorry, but I blamed Scotland, with a partial blame pointing back, ancestry is partly Scottish myself.
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Let’s be honest… it’s probably true
Bet folk took stuff with them 😂😂😂
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I'm first 🥰
Yes you are!
Newton….😂
I know 😂😂😂😂😂