Kerri if you like edibles with good flavour try growing lemon verbena. It is a Mediterranean plant, so needs to be in the greenhouse over winter, but the lemon flavour is so close to the real thing it's great for making tisanes. Corsican mint is another, it's a very strong true mint, tiny, but again very flavourful. It may require a very separate planter because it's so tiny, and may benefit from the greenhouse too.
So jealous of your rainstorms. It's been super hot here in the east coast (USA) and with temperatures reaching 37-38 degrees, my garden is suffering. 🥵😭
Aw - our weather has turned too now. Been hot (for us! 28 degrees today) so popping to the plot late in the evening to water. Can't get much done in the day but it does look like the wkend will be a bit cooler - in fact, it could be PERFECT gardening weather....!!
Hello Kerry! The whole video is lovely...the footage of Gardener's World made me emotional...really...all so beautiful and cheerful. Thank you...and, so many new plants...such fun. Enjoy them all 💚🌱
Aw bless you Michelle. We did have a really lovely day. I need to get these plants planted!! Been so hot this week - but wkend is cooling off so perhaps a big plant out day coming up!
Thats what you get for living ina heathen county ... In gods country (North Warwickshire) its been really good ...My roses are the best for years and my Hosta's for that matter 🤣
Yes, roses are doing well actually. Hostas mostly getting eaten but they are starting to flower now. I bought a new one the other day - my neighbour who has a little plant stand on her front had a white feather hosta for sale. Grabbed it!
Lovely episode, some great videography and loved the coverage on GWL! Can tell you’re a teacher with the polite telling off of Dory 😂😂😂 then you swore and I spat my coffee out 😂😂😂😂
Lovely update, Kerry! I appreciated the reminder to update in a video on the things I've started and then not re-addressed. How great to see GWL! We don't have things like that here that I'm aware of, even at the state level. I guess we have county and state fairs but they're not gardening shows. That penstemon is beautiful!
We’ve all been in some kind of extreme weather. We just had tornadoes, hail and 6” of rain in 4 days and more in 2 more days in northern Midwest US. The dew points, heat and mosquitoes are making some days totally unbearable to be outside. We had severe drought last year with its own problems, but this year I think we will deal with fungus. I’m actually thankful for sandy soil now. Many states around us are having major floods and a dam got plugged and it broke through the side in Minnesota. So things could be worse. Next 2 days are to be lower humidity and cooler 🎉. It was unbearable at 5 am. So I’m catching up on what everyone else is doing today. Thanks for being here. 😊. Love the penstemon it’s my new favorite! You are all so lucky to have all those garden activities near you.
Gosh - that is extreme! Yes, got to make the most of the bearable days and just accept that some days you just can't get out there. Yes, we are lucky in the UK to have so many gardening shows and gardens to visit. I'd love time to visit more of the country estate gardens. The penstemon is striking isn't it - I need to get it in the ground! But still, you do have to overwinter them here so maybe a nice big pot instead...
Lovely catch up! I would have ripped the roots of the beans too, it is amazing how roots do regenerate. They look so healthy! Wow, all that rain! We have had hot weather and sunshine! We have been watering every day! Garden is looking so good. Love to hear the birds singing in the background! Interesting results with the compost! Garlic looks amazing! Dahlias are looking fantastic! Great idea using sandwich bags! It was wonderful to meet you at Gardener’s World Live! Love the penstamon you bought! If I am successful at growing the currant tomatoes I bought there, I will send you some seeds if you want! The allotment will catch up with the sun, don’t worry! 😘💕🌸
I have to say those beans really did take me by surprise! One of my jobs for this week is to plant out all these dahlias - who knows where they are going though!!! Lovely to see you again too - good luck with the little tomatoes, I will watch this space with anticipation!! Oh and have fun growing the tromboncinos next year - they're a mad plant! I've still get three stored upstairs - I must check on them and get eating!! 😊💕
Hi Kerry, brilliant vlog, and so glad you enjoyed GWl. A couple of weeks ago we came across the mocha rose and you’re right it is beautiful!!! My husband brought it for me, I cannot believe the amount of blooms there are on it, so yes you must get it if you can 🌹. Looking forward to seeing you and Dory 🐶 again soon xx
Hi Kerry 👋❤ It's great to update viewers on the progress of our plants and I've enjoyed your updates. Shame about your pongo beans. I managed to grow a few and Danny gave me some but they've not survived very well . I'm looking after them though so fingers crossed they'll be ok What a lovely purple pea, nice flowers too. 💜 Great update, have a lovely week 🌻 🌻 🌻
Two comments from you on this week's video Linda - be careful you'll be vying for number one fan against Bev!! 🤣 Nik is sending me some more pongo beans to try but I really need to get the rest of these beans out asap. They're starting to climb up into the tree!
Fab updates Kerry, so nice to look back and see how things have progressed since your last few videos. ❤ The Gardener's World Love event looked fabulous. I'm so pleased you had so many bargains and that electric blue penstemon looks wonderful - I want one 😂 I can well imagine your car on the way home with all those plants 😂 Happy planting! 🤭😁❤️
Really interesting to see you can grow begonia corms in a bag. I took your advice and over Wintered my small begonias and it worked, some didn't make it but a lot did, they are now in my window boxes and growing on brilliantly, so thanks for the advice.
Ah brilliant!! You did better than me. I think the year before I did them in the lean to which is slightly warmer than the greenhouse - lesson learnt! Glad yours worked. I picked up some new ones from my neighbour who was growing them so shall try again next year!
In November last year when we had really heavy winds (in Whitby) a trellis blew over and landed on a new patio apple tree - it snapped in half so I reattached it and held it together with 2 clothes pegs - it's still surviving 7 months later I don't think I'll see fruit this year but maybe next year 🍎🍎🍎 it's beautiful here now thank goodness the sunshine has arrived at last 🌻🌼🌿 I planted 5 bare root hybrid tea roses in January they are all about 2-3 ft tall now and some have roses bigger than my hands they must be 7" in diameter - this is the year of the roses for me 🌹🥀🌹🥀🌹 my 4 year old grandson Noah has picked and eaten my first strawberries 🍓🍓🍓 he thinks they're his plants now 🙄 he woke me up at 6.30am yesterday and asked if there were any more strawberries red yet 🥴🍓😆🥰
It's amazing isn't it - some plants you look at and they keel over and die, others you snap in half and stick a peg on and off they romp!! Haha bless him - strawberries are definitely a great plant for getting kids interested in the garden!! I'm pretty new to roses but they seem to be doing well here too this year. Thanks for commenting Helena. Have a lovely week.
Thank you so much for the shout out! We definitely need to try to catch up at one of these shows before too long! That thunderstorm you filmed happened when we were hiding in the floral marquee! It was crazy weather! ⛈️⛈️⛈️ Definitely going to try to tape damaged plants now and see if they heal too 👍🏻 such a great idea! Another brilliant video 👏🏻👏🏻💚💚🪴🪴
@@dogontheplot yes, you could barely move in there 😂😂 ooh yes, definitely need to try to get tickets for Malvern! Might make a weekend of it! Is it suitable for kids there as well as big kids at heart? 😂🌸
@@SundaysInTheGarden yes and kids are free entry 👍 there's animals and things at the autumn show and giant veg - so fun stuff for kids - but they have a few kid's activities too
@@SundaysInTheGarden ah brilliant! Oh it's on a whole other scale!! No show gardens but big marquees, loads of veg and exhibition stuff. It's like a huge horticultural show.
Hello Kerry, So much activity everything is looking so nice. I like that a lot of the videos have update to things done in other videos. Too bad for your pongo beans but then I have no idea what they are anyway. I do love the field trips so kool to see places I may never see. Jessie plot 37 takes us on field trip kinda regular. Now when she mentions a particular flower show I often know what it is and where it is. The places like Malvern will show up on so many youTube channels as they all go to certain ones. Maybe I will make it to the UK and visit some allotment plots to walk around and see for myself. ***Yes the dahlia in the zip lock bag was Absolutely Brilliant. I put 15 of mine in the bags the day I watched to video and it worked 100%*** Best tip of all so far in 2014 take a bow. Prayers for a beautiful safe summer, take care, Steven
A busy week! 😊💚🌿 GWL, allotment, home garden and sneaking off to wild orchards to eat raspberries 😂😂..... I feel for your loss(es), the pests seem to be getting more of the fruits of our labour than us these days! The weather has been glorious though and at least that helps.... Love the carnivorous plants you have, we picked up a Venus Fly trap up at the Bloom show in Dublin, gets fed like a pet by us now in the kitchen😂 Have a great week! 😊💚🌿
It was quite a week. Yes, enjoying the better weather and the slugs seem to have backed off a bit now that the rain has stopped. So so so much still to do, but trying to maintain some perspective! 🤣
Great update, I'm happy to see you probably have enough pumpkins now. One of my patty pans has its first female flower that I've pollinated as it's in the plastic greenhouse. The one outside is still struggling with hail damage and cold and rainy weather but the forecast is good, so I expect good growth ahead. Perhaps even some tomatoes will ripen. Snacking on strawberries, sugar snap peas - also purple - and cucumbers. Life is good.
Haha Trude - just enough I think! Oh yes, I must go check on my one purple pea and see how it is faring! The strawberries are actually great in the front garden - picked loads yesterday - and the tayberries, loganberries, raspberries are all ripening up now. Froze a tray of those yesterday. Life is a bit challenging for me at the minute - but it's good to be reminded of the bright spots 💕
I put a wire basket over my baby plants. They are purchased from Dollar Tree for $1.25 each. Also I get mesh laundry bags there to use when the plants get to big. I'm in the USA but thought you might have a discount store . The slugs and snails haven't been able to get in yet! I so enjoy your vlogs and look forward to them.
Oh I love that idea of the mesh bags - I've done that before with little ones on strawberries but never even thought to scale it up! I mean they could still potentially get to the stem, but it could make a huge difference... Ooh you've got me thinking now, esp for the dahlias. I'm going to have a Google!!! Thank you ❤️
That taped sunflower is so interesting. Will watch the progress. My badger flame are not doing as well as yours...maybe because the squirrels dug them up twice LOL Garleeks look fab. Lovely plant acquisitions from the show! WOW Clare really blessed you with pumpkins. I can't grow them due to the squash vine borer and space.
Agh - first rabbits, now squirrels! I'm so glad we don't have your squash pests over here - I wonder how long until they turn up though with the climate shifting too...?? I really want to get the pumpkins out but I'm still scared of the slugs. It's been warmer this week but one shower of rain and you know they'll be back out in force!
Oh wow.. I loved this episode Kerry. I love them all but this is definitely up there with the best. What a week and what a lot of updates! In spite of being demoralised with the slug damage you actually have lots of successes going on in the garden and at the plot. The warmer weather is certainly making things pick up. Fascinating to see the sunflower healing. Love it. That purple geranium is going to look perfect there too. I can’t believe how much that’s grown since last Sunday too! Really hope some of the pumpkins survive for you. Hoping that as some are a bit bigger they’ll manage the onslaught of slugs better 🙏🏻🙏🏻 How good is that community orchard? I really love that. ❤ Thank you for the lovely mentions and it was fab to meet you with you again and to meet your family. Aunty Barb is savagely hilarious! Just so funny! Was a brilliant end to the day for me and Jo to spend that time with you all 😊
It was such fun wasn't it and I'm so pleased we all got to chill out and chat afterwards. It's a good job I'm used to my family isn't it!! 🤣 Pumpkins are still hanging in there - hoping to get them in the ground this weekend. Moved the two cucumbers to the greenhouse and will pot those on today. Thank you so much again 💕
My friend had the same pest on her tree... I'm sure she will be happy if they do not hurt the apples! I have so many raspberries spreading from other poeple plots
My one pongo survivor is in a pot protected on a table. WOW impressive storm not that I want one here but we could use a wee bit of rain. All in all though with all the challenges everything is going quite well and you have some fab things to look forward to harvesting. Have a fab week I assume you will have some great weeks ahead with summer holidays from school, Ali 🌞🇨🇦
Aw thank you Ali. I think it is sometimes hard to see the good when so much seems to be suffering with weather, slugs, mice etc!! But yes, there is still lots of the season left and stuff in the wings. Got a couple of weeks off coming up and really looking forward to simplifying life a bit and just focus on the garden!
Great update. The peas look a great colour and the beans look great too. Shame about the pongo beans. I think the turnips are doing ok because of the woodchip around the edge. Slugs don’t seem to like it
I'm not so sure... my garden ones don't seem to mind it. I'm interested in seeing how the potatoes grown in woodchip come out - I just keep thinking I made the slugs a perfect habitat full of food!!
Haha - I might already have that reputation after Mr Singh two plots down made me do vodka shots with him! Luckily the elderflower kombucha is alcohol free 🤣
all my okras got eaten and some beans look like sticks atm hahaha its all fun and games isnt it , chasing earli blight , two of my chillies i over watered and i havent produced any radishs ecept one big one that was like wood , and now the woodlice are out in full force , thats only the bad there is plenty of good but i felt like a share haha,,, hope your well kerry
Definitely fun and games!!! Thank you for sharing - I think it helps to know other people are having a hard time this year too. We're all in it together!
Squash look amazing! I hope that they do not get eaten by mice or snails you have had such bad luck! Mine are just not growing at all this year... I'm not going to sow them as early next year... famous last words lol 😮
Thanks Kerry, great update video. The gardeners world gardens looked very nice. Lots going on now for sure. What percentage alcohol would you say your kombucha is lol? 😂
I loved this one. (I love them all 😂🤦) Clare and you need to visit each other gardens; can’t believe you’ve made a 51 minute vlog, and, I started it with my innuendo counter. Why!??? You failed on that one, sweetheart 😉🤦❤️❤️👍😂
Yes, we plan to do some visits later in the summer and have a little collab. Watch out in next week's episode for mention of 'pulling jim's weeds'... 😉
Anything I missed? And how are your crops faring so far?
Sweetheart, my crops are your crops. If you fail, I fail too.😉👍😂❤️
@@jimmyconnolly3461 love ❤️❤️❤️
It appears that MARK failed with the greenhouse 😉❤️
@@jimmyconnolly3461 🤣🤣
Kerri if you like edibles with good flavour try growing lemon verbena. It is a Mediterranean plant, so needs to be in the greenhouse over winter, but the lemon flavour is so close to the real thing it's great for making tisanes.
Corsican mint is another, it's a very strong true mint, tiny, but again very flavourful. It may require a very separate planter because it's so tiny, and may benefit from the greenhouse too.
So jealous of your rainstorms. It's been super hot here in the east coast (USA) and with temperatures reaching 37-38 degrees, my garden is suffering. 🥵😭
Aw - our weather has turned too now. Been hot (for us! 28 degrees today) so popping to the plot late in the evening to water. Can't get much done in the day but it does look like the wkend will be a bit cooler - in fact, it could be PERFECT gardening weather....!!
Hello Kerry! The whole video is lovely...the footage of Gardener's World made me emotional...really...all so beautiful and cheerful. Thank you...and, so many new plants...such fun. Enjoy them all 💚🌱
Aw bless you Michelle. We did have a really lovely day. I need to get these plants planted!! Been so hot this week - but wkend is cooling off so perhaps a big plant out day coming up!
Lovely video. Thanks for keeping it real and sharing updates on projects, whether failed or successful. X
Ah bless you. More keeping it real coming next week!!
Thats what you get for living ina heathen county ... In gods country (North Warwickshire) its been really good ...My roses are the best for years and my Hosta's for that matter 🤣
Yep I agree my roses are coming on really well aswel as other plants ( im in North Warwickshire too)
Yes, roses are doing well actually. Hostas mostly getting eaten but they are starting to flower now. I bought a new one the other day - my neighbour who has a little plant stand on her front had a white feather hosta for sale. Grabbed it!
Hi Kerry. I love all of your videos.thank you for sharing them with us
Aw thank you Linda. You just made me smile when I was feeling a bit sad 💜 bless you
Lovely episode, some great videography and loved the coverage on GWL! Can tell you’re a teacher with the polite telling off of Dory 😂😂😂 then you swore and I spat my coffee out 😂😂😂😂
Haha - keeping it real Pammie 🤣
Lovely update, Kerry! I appreciated the reminder to update in a video on the things I've started and then not re-addressed. How great to see GWL! We don't have things like that here that I'm aware of, even at the state level. I guess we have county and state fairs but they're not gardening shows. That penstemon is beautiful!
I find it so surprising that there aren't gardening shows in the US. That's really a gaping hole in the market! Someone should capitalise on that 🤣
Great catch up Kerry. Lots of jobs done and still, lots to do ☺️💚🌱
Thank you Rach 💕🌱
Lovely video. Enjoyable moments to watch. Dark leaf geraniums??? A new one for he. You ladies had so much fun!
Haha - we really did. It was a blast. Perfect weather and so much to see. Already looking forward to next year!
We’ve all been in some kind of extreme weather. We just had tornadoes, hail and 6” of rain in 4 days and more in 2 more days in northern Midwest US. The dew points, heat and mosquitoes are making some days totally unbearable to be outside. We had severe drought last year with its own problems, but this year I think we will deal with fungus. I’m actually thankful for sandy soil now. Many states around us are having major floods and a dam got plugged and it broke through the side in Minnesota. So things could be worse.
Next 2 days are to be lower humidity and cooler 🎉. It was unbearable at 5 am. So I’m catching up on what everyone else is doing today. Thanks for being here. 😊.
Love the penstemon it’s my new favorite! You are all so lucky to have all those garden activities near you.
Gosh - that is extreme! Yes, got to make the most of the bearable days and just accept that some days you just can't get out there. Yes, we are lucky in the UK to have so many gardening shows and gardens to visit. I'd love time to visit more of the country estate gardens. The penstemon is striking isn't it - I need to get it in the ground! But still, you do have to overwinter them here so maybe a nice big pot instead...
The water went to the overflow and eroded the ground out from under a house that fell into the river and broke up
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Love your videos, look forward to theeach week. X
Oh bless you - thank you so much for saying that, made my day!
Lovely update Kerry! The Rhubarb and Custard Dahlia at GWL 😍
On the list for next year!!
Lovely catch up! I would have ripped the roots of the beans too, it is amazing how roots do regenerate. They look so healthy! Wow, all that rain! We have had hot weather and sunshine! We have been watering every day! Garden is looking so good. Love to hear the birds singing in the background! Interesting results with the compost! Garlic looks amazing! Dahlias are looking fantastic! Great idea using sandwich bags! It was wonderful to meet you at Gardener’s World Live! Love the penstamon you bought! If I am successful at growing the currant tomatoes I bought there, I will send you some seeds if you want! The allotment will catch up with the sun, don’t worry! 😘💕🌸
I have to say those beans really did take me by surprise! One of my jobs for this week is to plant out all these dahlias - who knows where they are going though!!! Lovely to see you again too - good luck with the little tomatoes, I will watch this space with anticipation!! Oh and have fun growing the tromboncinos next year - they're a mad plant! I've still get three stored upstairs - I must check on them and get eating!! 😊💕
Hi Kerry, brilliant vlog, and so glad you enjoyed GWl. A couple of weeks ago we came across the mocha rose and you’re right it is beautiful!!! My husband brought it for me, I cannot believe the amount of blooms there are on it, so yes you must get it if you can 🌹. Looking forward to seeing you and Dory 🐶 again soon xx
Oh you lucky thing! I just love that dusky coffee colour. I'm adding it to the list! (No idea where it would actually go! 🤣)
Hi Kerry 👋❤
It's great to update viewers on the progress of our plants and I've enjoyed your updates.
Shame about your pongo beans. I managed to grow a few and Danny gave me some but they've not survived very well . I'm looking after them though so fingers crossed they'll be ok
What a lovely purple pea, nice flowers too. 💜
Great update, have a lovely week 🌻 🌻 🌻
Two comments from you on this week's video Linda - be careful you'll be vying for number one fan against Bev!! 🤣 Nik is sending me some more pongo beans to try but I really need to get the rest of these beans out asap. They're starting to climb up into the tree!
Fab updates Kerry, so nice to look back and see how things have progressed since your last few videos. ❤
The Gardener's World Love event looked fabulous. I'm so pleased you had so many bargains and that electric blue penstemon looks wonderful - I want one 😂
I can well imagine your car on the way home with all those plants 😂
Happy planting! 🤭😁❤️
I really should have took some footage of the car all filled up lol. Yes, I need to get that penstemon planted up! Thanks for watching Linda.
Thanks for sharing those beautiful garden,i learned a lot from this episode.. New friend here from Growing My Own.
Welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the episode 🤗
Really interesting to see you can grow begonia corms in a bag. I took your advice and over Wintered my small begonias and it worked, some didn't make it but a lot did, they are now in my window boxes and growing on brilliantly, so thanks for the advice.
Ah brilliant!! You did better than me. I think the year before I did them in the lean to which is slightly warmer than the greenhouse - lesson learnt! Glad yours worked. I picked up some new ones from my neighbour who was growing them so shall try again next year!
In November last year when we had really heavy winds (in Whitby) a trellis blew over and landed on a new patio apple tree - it snapped in half so I reattached it and held it together with 2 clothes pegs - it's still surviving 7 months later I don't think I'll see fruit this year but maybe next year 🍎🍎🍎 it's beautiful here now thank goodness the sunshine has arrived at last 🌻🌼🌿 I planted 5 bare root hybrid tea roses in January they are all about 2-3 ft tall now and some have roses bigger than my hands they must be 7" in diameter - this is the year of the roses for me 🌹🥀🌹🥀🌹 my 4 year old grandson Noah has picked and eaten my first strawberries 🍓🍓🍓 he thinks they're his plants now 🙄 he woke me up at 6.30am yesterday and asked if there were any more strawberries red yet 🥴🍓😆🥰
It's amazing isn't it - some plants you look at and they keel over and die, others you snap in half and stick a peg on and off they romp!! Haha bless him - strawberries are definitely a great plant for getting kids interested in the garden!! I'm pretty new to roses but they seem to be doing well here too this year. Thanks for commenting Helena. Have a lovely week.
Kerry.Try a line of Garden Lime around the plants you want to protect and you will find they will not cross it.
Thank you John! I have a ton of garden lime left from the last plot tenant! I'll try it 💕 (I'll try anything 🤣)
Thank you so much for the shout out! We definitely need to try to catch up at one of these shows before too long! That thunderstorm you filmed happened when we were hiding in the floral marquee! It was crazy weather! ⛈️⛈️⛈️
Definitely going to try to tape damaged plants now and see if they heal too 👍🏻 such a great idea! Another brilliant video 👏🏻👏🏻💚💚🪴🪴
Aw thank you Sarah. Oh gosh I bet the marquee was packed!! Yes, definitely - will be at Malvern on the Sunday for the Autumn show 👍
@@dogontheplot yes, you could barely move in there 😂😂 ooh yes, definitely need to try to get tickets for Malvern! Might make a weekend of it! Is it suitable for kids there as well as big kids at heart? 😂🌸
@@SundaysInTheGarden yes and kids are free entry 👍 there's animals and things at the autumn show and giant veg - so fun stuff for kids - but they have a few kid's activities too
@@dogontheplot amazing! I’ve just booked tickets for the Sunday! Excited already! How does it compare to gardener’s world live?
@@SundaysInTheGarden ah brilliant! Oh it's on a whole other scale!! No show gardens but big marquees, loads of veg and exhibition stuff. It's like a huge horticultural show.
🐝thanks for the great video🌻 close the tape back up, it will be fine 🤣 . WE NEED A PICTURE OF the full car and people 🤪 Nice update amazing plants!!
Ah, I totally missed a trick not getting a shot of the car 🤣 Thanks for watching Sanda.
Hello Kerry, So much activity everything is looking so nice. I like that a lot of the videos have update to things done in other videos. Too bad for your pongo beans but then I have no idea what they are anyway. I do love the field trips so kool to see places I may never see. Jessie plot 37 takes us on field trip kinda regular. Now when she mentions a particular flower show I often know what it is and where it is. The places like Malvern will show up on so many youTube channels as they all go to certain ones.
Maybe I will make it to the UK and visit some allotment plots to walk around and see for myself. ***Yes the dahlia in the zip lock bag was Absolutely Brilliant. I put 15 of mine in the bags the day I watched to video and it worked 100%*** Best tip of all so far in 2014 take a bow. Prayers for a beautiful safe summer, take care, Steven
Ah, that's brilliant Steven - I will TAKE IT! I will definitely be doing dahlias in bags again next year - and now begonias too! You take care too.
A busy week! 😊💚🌿
GWL, allotment, home garden and sneaking off to wild orchards to eat raspberries 😂😂..... I feel for your loss(es), the pests seem to be getting more of the fruits of our labour than us these days! The weather has been glorious though and at least that helps....
Love the carnivorous plants you have, we picked up a Venus Fly trap up at the Bloom show in Dublin, gets fed like a pet by us now in the kitchen😂
Have a great week! 😊💚🌿
It was quite a week. Yes, enjoying the better weather and the slugs seem to have backed off a bit now that the rain has stopped. So so so much still to do, but trying to maintain some perspective! 🤣
Great update, I'm happy to see you probably have enough pumpkins now. One of my patty pans has its first female flower that I've pollinated as it's in the plastic greenhouse. The one outside is still struggling with hail damage and cold and rainy weather but the forecast is good, so I expect good growth ahead. Perhaps even some tomatoes will ripen. Snacking on strawberries, sugar snap peas - also purple - and cucumbers. Life is good.
Haha Trude - just enough I think! Oh yes, I must go check on my one purple pea and see how it is faring! The strawberries are actually great in the front garden - picked loads yesterday - and the tayberries, loganberries, raspberries are all ripening up now. Froze a tray of those yesterday. Life is a bit challenging for me at the minute - but it's good to be reminded of the bright spots 💕
I put a wire basket over my baby plants. They are purchased from Dollar Tree for $1.25 each. Also I get mesh laundry bags there to use when the plants get to big. I'm in the USA but thought you might have a discount store . The slugs and snails haven't been able to get in yet! I so enjoy your vlogs and look forward to them.
Oh I love that idea of the mesh bags - I've done that before with little ones on strawberries but never even thought to scale it up! I mean they could still potentially get to the stem, but it could make a huge difference... Ooh you've got me thinking now, esp for the dahlias. I'm going to have a Google!!! Thank you ❤️
That taped sunflower is so interesting. Will watch the progress.
My badger flame are not doing as well as yours...maybe because the squirrels dug them up twice LOL
Garleeks look fab.
Lovely plant acquisitions from the show!
WOW Clare really blessed you with pumpkins. I can't grow them due to the squash vine borer and space.
Agh - first rabbits, now squirrels! I'm so glad we don't have your squash pests over here - I wonder how long until they turn up though with the climate shifting too...?? I really want to get the pumpkins out but I'm still scared of the slugs. It's been warmer this week but one shower of rain and you know they'll be back out in force!
@@dogontheplot LOL not sure if SV borers or slugs are worse enemies.
Oh wow.. I loved this episode Kerry. I love them all but this is definitely up there with the best.
What a week and what a lot of updates! In spite of being demoralised with the slug damage you actually have lots of successes going on in the garden and at the plot.
The warmer weather is certainly making things pick up.
Fascinating to see the sunflower healing. Love it. That purple geranium is going to look perfect there too. I can’t believe how much that’s grown since last Sunday too!
Really hope some of the pumpkins survive for you. Hoping that as some are a bit bigger they’ll manage the onslaught of slugs better 🙏🏻🙏🏻
How good is that community orchard? I really love that. ❤
Thank you for the lovely mentions and it was fab to meet you with you again and to meet your family. Aunty Barb is savagely hilarious! Just so funny! Was a brilliant end to the day for me and Jo to spend that time with you all 😊
Aunty Barb sounds hilarious. 😉😂❤️
It was such fun wasn't it and I'm so pleased we all got to chill out and chat afterwards. It's a good job I'm used to my family isn't it!! 🤣 Pumpkins are still hanging in there - hoping to get them in the ground this weekend. Moved the two cucumbers to the greenhouse and will pot those on today. Thank you so much again 💕
My friend had the same pest on her tree... I'm sure she will be happy if they do not hurt the apples! I have so many raspberries spreading from other poeple plots
I think if they were really bad they could defoliage the tree and then you'd be in trouble - but my trees are looking ok now - 🤞🤞
My one pongo survivor is in a pot protected on a table. WOW impressive storm not that I want one here but we could use a wee bit of rain. All in all though with all the challenges everything is going quite well and you have some fab things to look forward to harvesting. Have a fab week I assume you will have some great weeks ahead with summer holidays from school, Ali 🌞🇨🇦
Aw thank you Ali. I think it is sometimes hard to see the good when so much seems to be suffering with weather, slugs, mice etc!! But yes, there is still lots of the season left and stuff in the wings. Got a couple of weeks off coming up and really looking forward to simplifying life a bit and just focus on the garden!
Great update. The peas look a great colour and the beans look great too. Shame about the pongo beans. I think the turnips are doing ok because of the woodchip around the edge. Slugs don’t seem to like it
I'm not so sure... my garden ones don't seem to mind it. I'm interested in seeing how the potatoes grown in woodchip come out - I just keep thinking I made the slugs a perfect habitat full of food!!
Be carefull with the drink , or you ll be called , 'drunkontheplot'!!!!
Haha - I might already have that reputation after Mr Singh two plots down made me do vodka shots with him! Luckily the elderflower kombucha is alcohol free 🤣
@@dogontheplot Good job Mr Singh is'n't one plot down !!!
all my okras got eaten and some beans look like sticks atm hahaha its all fun and games isnt it , chasing earli blight , two of my chillies i over watered and i havent produced any radishs ecept one big one that was like wood , and now the woodlice are out in full force , thats only the bad there is plenty of good but i felt like a share haha,,, hope your well kerry
Definitely fun and games!!! Thank you for sharing - I think it helps to know other people are having a hard time this year too. We're all in it together!
Squash look amazing! I hope that they do not get eaten by mice or snails you have had such bad luck!
Mine are just not growing at all this year... I'm not going to sow them as early next year... famous last words lol 😮
I've been thinking a lot about not sowing stuff so early...
@@dogontheplot Yh lol it's the learning curve... I learn it one year and ignore it the next
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Thanks Kerry, great update video. The gardeners world gardens looked very nice. Lots going on now for sure. What percentage alcohol would you say your kombucha is lol? 😂
Haha - the elderflower will be fine but my regular stuff - I do brew it strong!!
Would have loved a picture of the car packed up with plants and your passengers!
I know - I totally missed a trick there! It was the end of a long day haha
I loved this one. (I love them all 😂🤦) Clare and you need to visit each other gardens; can’t believe you’ve made a 51 minute vlog, and, I started it with my innuendo counter. Why!??? You failed on that one, sweetheart 😉🤦❤️❤️👍😂
Yes, we plan to do some visits later in the summer and have a little collab. Watch out in next week's episode for mention of 'pulling jim's weeds'... 😉
@@dogontheplot 😂😂😂👍❤️
Snuggling in under a blanket to watch your updates 🤩
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