We found that our dog (may she rest in peace) would always eat a pill if it was stuffed inside the natural hollow of a strawberry. We tried the cheese wrap technique -- half the slice of processed cheese with pill followed by the other half without like you did) and sometimes she'd eat the cheese and spit out the pill. But the strawberry was absolutely foolproof. Gosh, I miss that dog.
We tried the ham wrap technique and our labby just spat it out. He doesn't like cheese. The thing that sorta worked is using webbox (other wet dog food logs are available) and stuffing it into one of the chunks. He does still occasionally spit it out but it mostly works
As a good PR move on the part of the brewery, they should send you a case of beers to make up for the exploding cans. Definitely worth letting them know, in case it's something amiss with their canning process.
When you were wondering about the bumblebees and why they seemed to prefer the same kind of flower, it dawned on me why I enjoy your videos so much (well, one of the many reasons). It's the way you are able to find something of interest in things both little and big. The curiousity with which you observe the world. It's something I find myself doing a lot in my everyday life, as well. I really enjoy watching the natural world, just sitting there and observing, and suddenly seeing a pattern that makes me go "Oh, that's interesting! I wonder why that happens?" and then trying to figure it out for myself, until I eventually look it up. It's such a satisfying way of learning new things, too, at leisure, with no pressure.
I vaguely remember seeing a beekeeper or a bee biologist saying that some bees in a hive will find a good patch of flowers of a random acceptable type, and perhaps if they are particularly good bee dancers, they will have the whole hive passing other acceptable plants in favor of that particular one.
I just want to say that these and the cooking challenge videos are my favorite. They’re like hanging out with a friend who’s just like, “Look at all the cool things I’m doing. Want to learn some random facts about plants?” And I’m like, “Heck yeah, I do! Tell me about retroreflective flowers!” These random vlogs make my day every time. ❤
You and me both. A lot of videos 1hr+ even from my favourite creators can sit for weeks in my "Watch Later" but I actively MAKE the time to watch these as soon as possible!
Thing is, nowadays it's just not necessary. For photo editing you have Gimp. For video production you have Da Vinci Resolve. Flash is caput (and HTML5 replaced it anyhow). Adobe products just aren't needed anymore.
The old west country name for Foxgloves was Floppadocks, which I rather like. If you're an old map nerd like me, occasionally you'll find it as a placename, which is pleasingly evocative of grizzled country folk navigating the land using seasonal flowers as landmarks.
@@Sara-xc9xo Since I discovered the Floppadock name, I've told everyone at every opportunity in the hope of bringing it back. So I am delighted to see that it's starting to take,
During Prohibition certain relatives resorted to home brewing. Among them was a young bride who had married into a Catholic family and was eager to make a good impression on the local priest at her first dinner party. Alas, before dessert was served her guests were startled by the sound of objects banging into the dining room floor from below. The priest gently remarked, "It's the corks, dear. We're having the same problem in our cellar at home."
when my father was making home brew beer about 20 or more years ago, he'd sometimes put in too much sugar for the yeast when bottling which resulted in excess gas build up. i woke up to the sound of exploding beer bottles during the night more than once. he never quite got the hang of it. fortunately, he kept them in the garage which was a separate building to the house.
At uni we would sometimes buy "brew bags", a home brew kit that just needed water adding. A housemate foolishly hung his from a coat hook on his door. As the fermentation progressed the bag swelled and ripped the hook out, with the pressurized bag falling five foot onto the floor. Boom!
Back in the day (1980s) when I was home-brewing I had an old book that advised storing the bottles in a wooden crate with a piece of heavy blanket or carpet over the top. My mum has a story from when she was a kid of her dad making cider in stoneware bottles and having one go off and embed a chunk in the kitchen wall not a foot from her head. Knowing my gran I can imagine the walloping he got!
I have noticed the retro-reflectivity in (native) orchids. Especially ophrys holoserica has a surface that gives the impression of being strewn with diamond dust. About the weird potentilla: An anecdote from my time in school (which is farther back than I care to admit): We were learning about drawing flower diagrams, and were tasked with picking a species and diagram their flower. One of the students brought in a diagram of ranunculus acer (buttercup) with six-fold symmetry. They were scolded for their sloppy work. Next they they brought in the plant. All the flowers had six-fold symmetry...
About the retroreflective courgette flowers: Assuming that this is common to all curcubits, there may be an explanation for this (though I also can't find any literature mention of this phenomenon, I'm just speculating here). Wild curcubits are pollinated by 2 genus's of bees, Peponapis and Xenoglossus, together known as squash bees. These bees are matutinal in nature, meaning that they are most active during the twilit predawn hours. I can easily see how a retroreflective flower could be more easily seen during those times, especially as the shadow of a bee would be much less disruptive to the reflection than a larger human shadow.
You made me think about bee vision. I once heard some(?) bees also see in the ultraviolet making the flowers look wildly different to what they look for us. Revealing hidden structures and patterns.
@@oetgaolif you have a UV light, take it out at night and shine it on the flowers. Some react brightly, probably those which bees and co are attracted to. Others, nothing. I've seen faint patterns which you don't see in normal daylight, but nothing as patterned as I was hoping.
Blue sunflowers do exist but much like the great Nile river of China they can only be seen from space . Interestingly they are also mammals and not as most people think , fish .
Use before date aside, that beer situation was simply unacceptable. No reasonable person should be expected to be concerned about cans of beer exploding days after their sell before date. That box was litterly sitting inchches from your laptop. Imagine what would have happened if you had removed them from the box before setting them there? This all seems very wrong to me.
In retrospect, it probably wasn't a great idea to put them near electronics but then again, no customer is really thinking 'what if this can of drink explodes here' when they put it down
I would email the brewery just to let them know that their expiry dates might not be as long as they think. I defo think you are right about them adding a flavoured syrup which re-started fermentation, as i've been doing wine for a couple of years and thats a thing to avoid doing. Also as a bonus they might send you a voucher to buy a new pack or send a pack to your house.
@@Jennyandersonjenny What would he do with a second ticking time bomb? jokes aside, it's probably a good idea to inform the brewery. this seems like an avoidable mistake for anyone in that industry if it actually was caused by those added surgars
Something makes me think, that if food manufacturers ever found a way to have packaged food spoil exactly at the 'best before' date, they would totally do it, though 😏
Hearing you talk about Slow TV and how you don’t care about the performance is truly an inspiration to me. In a world where everyone wants to sell me something and mass produce as much swill as possible, it’s lovely to be on your channel. Random other question regarding kitchenware: I’ve noticed your knives seem always quite sharp. Do you have a sharpening system/jig/routine? Your butchers block of course helps maintain an edge, but I’m excited to hear how you keep smooth cuts. I’ve got a Ruixin sharpener that’s fairly decent, but i suspect that it isn’t sturdy enough to keep things from deflecting (and thusly giving me a less sharp edge than otherwise possible)
I have an autoimmune disorder that kicks my butt often so I end up in bed, watching a lot of UA-cam and I got into flower channels. Three years ago we moved to a home with a lot of garden space and full sun as well as a sprinkler system with drip tubing in the flower beds. I started some seeds indoors under grow lights and had some minor success with a probably 20 plants so I stuck them in the garden. Over the summer, I found I checked on them almost. every day, giving them a pep talk and watching them grow.. I found I loved watching the bees and luckily, I had planted things that bees love. The first time I planted zinnias- mostly those in the Queen Lime w/Blotch and Benery's giant helm. t thought they weren't supposed to be all that popular with bees due to the pollen being difficult to get to but I found the bees loved them. That lead to putting in a cutting garden two years ago with loose plans to get rid of most of the 3 acres of grass by putting in pollinator-friendly plans. In America we have had 3 years of abundant milkweed growth. It's coming up everywhere and like most people, I left it where it popped up. One of my beds has over 20 plants this year and the Bees are besides themselves. I also have a form of catmint in that garden that bees love. I've seen a Monarch on the milkweed but I can't wait for more to come and hopefully I'll get some cocoons. Pollinators are so fun to watch. I've never been scared of bees, even after tripping into a hive as a child, but I never took the time to really enjoy the them. After watching some honeybee farmers for a few years, I really find bees fascinating and I love when they are around.
If you are insulating the ceiling of your kitchen, you should check there's ventilation above. Hard to see from the video, but there'd be a high risk of interstitial condensation
I absolutely love the eclectic mix on your channel, Mr Shrimp. From Scam-baiting to foraging to random science. Your brain must be a wonderful place to live :)
As a Scot who's been living in Spain for 10 years I have to say that I love seeing your lush garden, it's so dry here. The sounds of the birds too transport me back to my youth. There are few bird songs where I have been living and it's just made me realise that Spain is actively anti-bird. I look out into other peoples gardens here and they have so many anti bird measures, whereas in the UK you'd see bird feeders, I wouldn't be able to tell where to find bird feeders here. My sister in Scotland is complaining that all her strawberries have been eaten by the local birds and yet mine here are fine despite the neighbourhood magpie eyeing them up. Anyway, love the video, it's always my favourite part of Saturday morning!
We've got a heavily mutated foxglove growing in our garden at the moment which is a single plant that has about a dozen flower stems growing from it, all staggered up the stem like a display spindle. It's rather lovely.
I left a can of 'pop' in my centre console during the last hot spell. It totally evacuated itself with the top completely parting company with the body of the can. Lesson learned.
Yes, exploding can may be from over- carbonation due to unintended fermentation in the can, which is a big issue for the brewery. Not only is it poor form to have your product exploding in the customers hand, but as they are taxed on alcohol content, they are open to legal issues if the government wanted to give them the stick. Consolation prize, you get an higher ABV then expected beer.
Re Bees: At a physics conference I heard a talk by Dr. Daniel Robert from the University of Bristol. He studies how flowers use electric fields to signal to bees that they are ready to be harvested and that bees can distinguish between different fields. Maybe worth shooting off an email and asking if he has any insights. He was a great speaker and very enthusiastic about it!
It takes several years to get to know the characteristics of a new house and garden. You are really making great progress . Lovely to see. Maybe flowers taste different to bees like vegetables appeal to some of us and not others
That's almost the same trick I use to get meds into my dogs. However, I've always given them 2 or 3 unadulterated treats before the medication impregnated ones, followed by another 2 or 3 afterward. It seems I've been giving them far more treats than I need to. I'm definitely going to try it your way next time. On a related topic, I also coat tablets in warmed up gummy candy to help kids learn to swallow them. Obviously, I make sure they are well aware that their medicine is inside. Lol, I wouldn't want them chewing straight Tylenol or something.🤢 They do seem to learn to swallow pills much more quickly with that method. It prevents them from tasting the medication and avoid the dry chalky texture that can cause pills to get stuck on the way down and/or make the child gag. The trick is to get the gummy candies very warm so they can be stretched into a very thin coating.
The best part of this kind of video is the randomness, I highly appreciate that. And I like the friendlyness and the in-passing-education. Plus you don't try to sell something, no "hauls" or "testing of products you just got sent" (for a "honest" review). This is the most wholesome channel I know 😍
you forgot to cover the oven light for once! Would like to see more cooking with the courgette flowers, here in Italy we eat them filled with ricotta, battered and fried - delicious!
Seconding the stuffed courgette flowers. They’re mostly why I grow courgettes in the first place. My favourite recipe: stick of feta cheese, leaf of basil, lemon zest. Tempura batter. I could eat that every day.
@@mgratk 😋 It is! So easy to make, and in season right now. Talk to veg sellers at your producers market. If they grow courgettes, they have no use for male flowers. They’ll be happy to help.
My mum has a rockspray cotoneaster and every year there always tons of bees in it, when my Shar Pei was alive she use to do her toilet right below the shrub it amazed us that she never got stung onces within her 12years she was alive, the Bee section just brought a memories back about her and the Bees. Thanks for bring back memories of her Shrimp ❤ I guess the Bee saw no threat in her and she saw they was no threat in them amazing how two different species work.
I'd take a closer look at those "bees". Are they collecting nectar or are they just alighting? I had a flowering bush once (forsythia, I think) that attracted thousands of what looked like bees but were really flies with markings of wasps and bees.
@likebot. they just flying about like there a nest in there we get them every year there I'm not sure what there doing the be honest they aren't bothering me they didn't bother Shar Pei when she was about I leave them be to do there bee stuff
51:25 That momentary pause before deciding on “interfere” 😂. Yeah, dogs can be… interesting animals. Right on cue my dog is trying to get a bird 10 foot up in a tree lol.
The exploding can thing happened to me once! I was driving home from a friends house, and he had given me some craft beers for my birthday. I heard a huge bang, and when I arrived home I found that the entire top of one of the cans had burst off!
I have never heard of that happening before today. I wonder if it has something to do with government regulations in different countries. Where I live, beer must be fully pasturized prior to bottling or canning, especially if any residual sugars or carbohydrates remain in solution at the time of bottling. Unless I'm mistaken, stabalizing agents such as potassium sorbate are also mandatory. As far as I'm aware, natural carbonation via fermentation is not permitted here, though I may well be wrong about that. I recall a rash of injuries from exploding 2 and 3 liter glass soda bottles being reported on the national news in the late 1970s. There was at least one high-profile celebrity injured quite seriously. Shortly afterward, glass bottles were outlawed for carbonated beverages over a certain volume. The thickness and quality of the glass used in single serving bottles were also substantially increased at that time.
I'm one of the viewers who enjoys your Slow TV series. It's a nice video to unwind with after a long day. In fact, a lot of your videos are great to unwind to after a long day. I just enjoy picking up something new to know about.
That omelette had no right to sound so good. Never had the kind of peas/beans you put, neither sage, and specially courgette flowers...they reminded me of my mom. Today would had been my mother's 75 birthday, and she would always talk about fried courgette and pumpkin flowers...she ate once like, in the 70s, and never got a hand on flowers ever again. So seeing it reminded me of her, as silly as it sounds. Thanks ❤
Lovely stuff as always. Can’t wait to see the new kitchen. Re blue flowers - I’ve grown Nigella ‘love in a mist’ from seed for the first time this year. Really impressive, intricate delicate little flowers.
the bee thing is called flower constancy, it's so interesting and a really nice catch. it's amazing what tiny details nature holds that we rarely ever notice.
I can't wait to see the new kitchen. I'm sure it gets old "roughing it" while it's under construction but hopefully it'll be great to have a new space to be creative designed to your own specifications soon.
I really liked the edit at the end. It looked like an animated art piece. I can't wait for the bee watching video! I watch the few bees that come to my place and really enjoy passing the time like that.😊😊
Those omelets look delicious, better then any restaurant food!! Thank you so much for the videos, they have helped me through my long recovery from spinal fusion surgery. Your garden is awesome, I did as best I could in planting mine, but the flower bed is on its own this year. Eva is such a nice dog, my dog,rip,could find a pill even after he already swallowed it, I would toss little bites in the air and he would not notice the pill. I hope your kitchen redo goes by fast, my roommate and I just went two weeks without a refrigerator during a heat wave in Ohio, it was difficult. I have borrowed some of your garden ideas, thank you for the inspiration to keep trying!
ikr, just have a tidy beer _and_ an actual roast dinner whether it's crummy product that 'needs' disguising or worse good product marred by poor tinkering - then no. sure sometimes there are good products enhanced by a flavour but also crap products with crap flavourings added, so that's a pretty poor possibilty space for potential outcomes
Can explosion: I once had this issue with UHT milk, well before expiration date. I had to store it in my room in a shared flat because we had too little space in the kitchen. The packaging was intact until too much pressure build up and it spread rotten milk all over the place. Luckily I didn't have carpets but it took a while to clean everything up...
I love foxgloves! One of my favourites. I enjoyed seeing the kitchen clock flickering mwahahaha even though it's sad to say goodbye to it... actually this whole video was full of delights from the bulging oddly satisfying explosive cans, to your foraging basket, the lush bluey green broad bean leaves and the cheeky wall pennywort, and Eva's expectant face 😍 The ongoing saga of the blue not blue sunflowers always makes me chuckle. With the flowers phenomena can you stick some different lights on flowers to see if they have UV reactive lines or patterns that we can't see in normal daylight? My favourite light phenomenon is pinhole camera I guess it is? I can squish my index fingers and thumbs together to make a tiny hole that acts like a lens. It brings things into focus if I'm not wearing my glasses for short sight, although I wouldn't use it while driving ha ha. I'd love to see a video about blue in nature. I found a jay feather the other day, I think the blue on them is made by refraction from the structure of the feather rather than pigment?
Foxgloves used to be called ‘folksgloves’ because people though they looked like gloves that the fairy folk of woodland would wear. Over time, people stopped talking about the folk of the forest and so the name was misunderstood and thought to be about foxes since they have dainty little feet.
I just found tiny buds in the center of my courgette plant (zucchini to us in the US) and am thrilled! I now know the difference between the male and female flowers, thanks to you, AS. Thank you for your garden update! Very well timed.
I’ve heard a tip that works for some dogs is to be eating something yourself, drop the pill on the ground and then say “oh, no- no (dog name)!” And then they rush to eat it before they can be stopped
Yeah, I could see that working with Eva - she is there like a shot if anything falls and the more you try to stop her, the faster she wolfs it down - she ate a piece of banana one time just because I was trying to stop her (she hates banana normally)
A different knot that would make your cane-tying a bit easier and more effective: first put the string around the plant (with the plant in the middle. Hold both ends together and wrap around the pole twice, going down the pole, then go up to the top and around, and lock it off by tucking both ends under the last loop (around the top), finishing with the ends coming out just above where the plant side string comes off. This will give you a friction hitch, which won't slide down the cane, and doesn't need you to tie the three knots you're currently tying.
I learned a new word ... Foxgloves ❤... So fitting! In German we call them Fingerhut... I.e. after the thing you put over your finger when stiching or similar...
The Finnish word for foxglove is "sormustinkukka" which literally means "thimble flower". I wonder if the Finnish word is originally.a direct translation from German, since foxgloves aren't native to Finland, and they're mostly found in gardens or sites of old houses or manors. After some research I found out that the Swedish word for foxglove is "fingerborgsblomma" which also means literally "thimble flower". It's a more likely source for the word, since Finland used to be a part of Sweden, and Swedish is still spoken in parts of Finland. (Language nerd here, lol.)
The botanical name for the plant - Digitalis also refers to fingers. Seems like humans have been tempted to put their fingers in the blooms pretty much forever. There is a folk myth here that if you can manage to insert all five fingers of one hand into the flowers, without breaking the flowers off the plant, the faerie folk will appear and grant a wish.
I hope you get your money back from that beer. Thank goodness it didn't explode all over your car seats or while sitting on top of important documents. Heaven forbid it somehow managed to leak on valuable electronics like a phone, camera, or hard drive.
I’m so excited to see the reveal of your kitchen renovation! It’s going to be an amazing place for you to cook! Congratulations! 🎉I love how you use lots of good things from your garden. You inspire me! I love to grow fruit, berries, herbs & edible flowers for the tea house where I work.
57:27 I really enjoy listening to you talk about the kind of behind-the-scenes stuff like this, and the earlier part about how you made that animation. Your enthusiasm and the pleasure you find in making things is clear and infectious. It’s also a nice reminder that videos don’t just come out of nowhere- which I knew of course, but I can appreciate the details much more on a repeat watch. :)
hello mr. atomic shrimp! i wanna say that your videos make me really happy, its very stressful times for me atm, living in the us and other unrelated stressors. i hope youre doing well. thank you for providing content in stressful times!!
I don't have a greenhouse at the moment so I'm having to grow my toms outside. But when I did I would tie one end of string to the roof and bury the other end under the tomato and cucumber plants. That way all you have to do is to twist the vine and string together as it grows and no faffing about with ties.
Cape gooseberries! How did I miss you planting those! You're gonna have fun with them. I tossed one or two from the grocery store in the compost 5 or 6 years ago. Cant get rid of the things. 😂 There seem to be more seeds in one berry than you could ever count. But I always keep a couple plants growing in the greenhouse, and harvest a bowl or two a year. A couple of tips ... keep them in the greenhouse. Outside I had hardly any fruit. (For reference, I'm down south in Germany). They need big pots! They can grow up to 2m. They need a lot of water! Once a day or they wilt (but recover quickly). You can cut them back radically, but they grow back strong. Mine are constantly losing leaves, but seems no problem. And ... You can keep the same plants growing year after year. Mine must be 5 years old now. The leaves are pretty fuzzy; but smell them after rubbing them. They're almost citrony smelling.
the 'blown up' cans is what we call in the industry "Secondary Fermentation", and yes it's exactly as it sounds - the product has indeed started fermenting again after packing. we had a lot of this happen when the alcoholic Kombucha fad 1st hit our stores (liqour stores/bottle shops) we had to remove and dispose of quite a lot of stock as it was happening quite often early on (soooo much cleaning up of fridge shelves and cold-room floors :(
I love, love, love your channel. It’s interesting, full of beauty, informative, relaxing and I learn something every time I watch it. Thank you so much for all your hard work in putting it together. I guess a lot of people might consider you a bit of an anorak. I love anorak people, because they know so much lol. Vegetables are one of my favourite things on the planet. I’ve just moved house and for the first time in my adult life I have a garden. Once the interior is sorted I am going to sort out the garden and grow produce for the very first time. I can’t wait. I’m disabled, so it’s not going to be easy but I am determined. Your videos have ignited the desire and passion for it all. I’m living in the country now too, so want to start foraging too. I get really excited when I get my notification you’ve posted a video. All things nature are good to me. Thank you for making my day. Btw, fab shirt for your reflective piece. I loved it. xxx
My favorite videos of yours is showing us areas of England. Many Americans of all walks of life have British Isles heritage, but most like me have never been to the UK or Ireland and may never have a chance to visit.
Lovely video as always. Kitchen progress exciting to see. I thought it would be funny if you kept the flickery clock and framed it, to hang on the new kitchen wall, requiring you to still cover it with the infamous warning :)
We have a similar kitchen just slightly wider and shorter. We just had it completely redone and it has made me incredibly happy! I hope your new kitchen will do the same😊
Simple but great tip for the dog pill! Tip I learnt to tie plants to canes, wrap string around cane twice, one end over the other before you then tie loosely around the plant above a branch (the string can't fall down because of the branch and the weight of the plant will keep it in place.
Hey Shrimp, I have a handy tip for your tomatoes. I cut mosquito netting to size for the bottoms of my square pots before adding soil. Cut the netting into squares, then make a cut at each corner so they bend and hug the pot walls, covering the drainage holes. Honestly, any kind of netting works. Sometimes I even use those net bags that grocery store vegetables like avocados and onions come in. I've primarily done this in a flood and drain hydro system with coco coir, but I imagine it would work well with soil too. I also add a thin bottom layer of clay pebbles. This keeps the roots aerated and ensures good drainage without leaving a mess. Give it a try next time!
BEES , Hi Mr Shrimp, the thing you have noticed with the Bees is they are in search of nectar from the flowers, it's the flowers that take it in turn to produce nectar during the day ensuring they are completely pollenated . Also bees have smelly feet and leave a stink on a visited flower so the next bee does not waste it's time visiting and moves on to a fresh flower. Interesting stuff for sure? Also I have a terrible lack of insects about the garden this year of all types especially bees.
I had a can explode in my car’s trunk (boot on your side of the pond?) while I was driving home. Needless to say it scared the crap out of me. Even weirder, it happened a few weeks after a friend had told me that a can exploded on her while driving, and I had mentioned that I’d never heard such a thing occurring.
I really enjoy the glimpse into cottage life. It looks so comfortable and calm- kitchen renovation aside, maybe. You’ll enjoy cooking even more once it’s finished, though. Thanks for sharing it all- I always learn something new!
I have been watching Your videos for many years. I get great joy from them. You project a calming vibe that I appreciate in this chaotic world we live in these days. Thank You.
You should be able to tie stings to the poles without them slipping if you use appropriate knots. Constrictor or prussik knots should hold well unless the pole is extremely slippery
Having recently rewatched Jurassic Park for the millionth time, "Moving Parts" was a segment that brought me great childlike joy, finally experiencing after so many years the words "its vision is based on movement" from the T-Rex's point of view.
rare footage of the oven clock flickering in its natural habitat!
I noticed that too! Rather surprised that he did not say anything about it.
@@phileo_ssAlso, last opportunity to see it, haha
Was just coming into the comments to say the same thing!
At last, a solution to the much-debated ring pull / can opener question: self-opening beer.
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I have never seen a best before date that was meant as a threat. Poor Eva!
😂 I know.. poor baby!
I had this idea about a practical joke where Jenny would secretly water the sunflowers with blue food colouring.
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I hope Mike manipulates the video to make the flowers look blue when he shows them for the first time :D.
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A little trolling never hurt anyone 😅
@@GolosinasArgentinas That is right on brand for him so it is very likely :D
You are an evil genius!
We found that our dog (may she rest in peace) would always eat a pill if it was stuffed inside the natural hollow of a strawberry. We tried the cheese wrap technique -- half the slice of processed cheese with pill followed by the other half without like you did) and sometimes she'd eat the cheese and spit out the pill. But the strawberry was absolutely foolproof. Gosh, I miss that dog.
Yeah, lots of dogs are onto that cheese trick.
We tried the ham wrap technique and our labby just spat it out. He doesn't like cheese. The thing that sorta worked is using webbox (other wet dog food logs are available) and stuffing it into one of the chunks. He does still occasionally spit it out but it mostly works
As a good PR move on the part of the brewery, they should send you a case of beers to make up for the exploding cans. Definitely worth letting them know, in case it's something amiss with their canning process.
This happened on Clarkson's farm and he had to recall them all
When you were wondering about the bumblebees and why they seemed to prefer the same kind of flower, it dawned on me why I enjoy your videos so much (well, one of the many reasons). It's the way you are able to find something of interest in things both little and big. The curiousity with which you observe the world. It's something I find myself doing a lot in my everyday life, as well. I really enjoy watching the natural world, just sitting there and observing, and suddenly seeing a pattern that makes me go "Oh, that's interesting! I wonder why that happens?" and then trying to figure it out for myself, until I eventually look it up. It's such a satisfying way of learning new things, too, at leisure, with no pressure.
I vaguely remember seeing a beekeeper or a bee biologist saying that some bees in a hive will find a good patch of flowers of a random acceptable type, and perhaps if they are particularly good bee dancers, they will have the whole hive passing other acceptable plants in favor of that particular one.
I just want to say that these and the cooking challenge videos are my favorite. They’re like hanging out with a friend who’s just like, “Look at all the cool things I’m doing. Want to learn some random facts about plants?” And I’m like, “Heck yeah, I do! Tell me about retroreflective flowers!” These random vlogs make my day every time. ❤
You and me both. A lot of videos 1hr+ even from my favourite creators can sit for weeks in my "Watch Later" but I actively MAKE the time to watch these as soon as possible!
Yeah same. It's like spending time with a world-class, world-wise uncle!
"I don't want to give any money to Adobe." Oh boy, I do resonate with that statement.
Thing is, nowadays it's just not necessary. For photo editing you have Gimp. For video production you have Da Vinci Resolve. Flash is caput (and HTML5 replaced it anyhow). Adobe products just aren't needed anymore.
The old west country name for Foxgloves was Floppadocks, which I rather like. If you're an old map nerd like me, occasionally you'll find it as a placename, which is pleasingly evocative of grizzled country folk navigating the land using seasonal flowers as landmarks.
Floppadocks - what a wonderful word!
They were also called cowflops, at least in Devon but probably other counties.
Wow I love that name
That! Is the new name for foxgloves that I will teach my children. Thank you
@@Sara-xc9xo Since I discovered the Floppadock name, I've told everyone at every opportunity in the hope of bringing it back. So I am delighted to see that it's starting to take,
During Prohibition certain relatives resorted to home brewing. Among them was a young bride who had married into a Catholic family and was eager to make a good impression on the local priest at her first dinner party. Alas, before dessert was served her guests were startled by the sound of objects banging into the dining room floor from below. The priest gently remarked, "It's the corks, dear. We're having the same problem in our cellar at home."
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when my father was making home brew beer about 20 or more years ago, he'd sometimes put in too much sugar for the yeast when bottling which resulted in excess gas build up. i woke up to the sound of exploding beer bottles during the night more than once. he never quite got the hang of it. fortunately, he kept them in the garage which was a separate building to the house.
At uni we would sometimes buy "brew bags", a home brew kit that just needed water adding. A housemate foolishly hung his from a coat hook on his door. As the fermentation progressed the bag swelled and ripped the hook out, with the pressurized bag falling five foot onto the floor. Boom!
Back in the day (1980s) when I was home-brewing I had an old book that advised storing the bottles in a wooden crate with a piece of heavy blanket or carpet over the top. My mum has a story from when she was a kid of her dad making cider in stoneware bottles and having one go off and embed a chunk in the kitchen wall not a foot from her head. Knowing my gran I can imagine the walloping he got!
One time we had a bubbling carboy fermenter thing explode and pop off and there is still a beer stain on the ceiling from that
@@Sally4th_ Is that piece of stoneware still in the wall to this day?
"Eva tends to... interfere... with small animals"
has some Slaughter Valley energy to it
Even the can didn't want to use the ring pull...
I have noticed the retro-reflectivity in (native) orchids. Especially ophrys holoserica has a surface that gives the impression of being strewn with diamond dust.
About the weird potentilla: An anecdote from my time in school (which is farther back than I care to admit): We were learning about drawing flower diagrams, and were tasked with picking a species and diagram their flower. One of the students brought in a diagram of ranunculus acer (buttercup) with six-fold symmetry. They were scolded for their sloppy work. Next they they brought in the plant. All the flowers had six-fold symmetry...
Yes this!!! I've seen petals like that where in certain light they look iridescent. Nature is wondrous.
About the retroreflective courgette flowers: Assuming that this is common to all curcubits, there may be an explanation for this (though I also can't find any literature mention of this phenomenon, I'm just speculating here). Wild curcubits are pollinated by 2 genus's of bees, Peponapis and Xenoglossus, together known as squash bees. These bees are matutinal in nature, meaning that they are most active during the twilit predawn hours. I can easily see how a retroreflective flower could be more easily seen during those times, especially as the shadow of a bee would be much less disruptive to the reflection than a larger human shadow.
how did you comment on a video 10 days ago when it came out an hour ago
@@logodsaw These videos get released into early access 2 weeks early on the channels Discord server before getting published publicly
You made me think about bee vision. I once heard some(?) bees also see in the ultraviolet making the flowers look wildly different to what they look for us. Revealing hidden structures and patterns.
@@oetgaolif you have a UV light, take it out at night and shine it on the flowers. Some react brightly, probably those which bees and co are attracted to. Others, nothing. I've seen faint patterns which you don't see in normal daylight, but nothing as patterned as I was hoping.
I really would like to see a "how to create an edible hat, because the sunflowers were blue" video
@@xavierxeon If anybody is capable of inventing one, it’s the Atomic 🦐
Blue sunflowers do exist but much like the great Nile river of China they can only be seen from space . Interestingly they are also mammals and not as most people think , fish .
Th Great Wall of China is so big it can be seen from anywhere on earth!
That omelette. Life on a plate.
Use before date aside, that beer situation was simply unacceptable. No reasonable person should be expected to be concerned about cans of beer exploding days after their sell before date.
That box was litterly sitting inchches from your laptop. Imagine what would have happened if you had removed them from the box before setting them there? This all seems very wrong to me.
In retrospect, it probably wasn't a great idea to put them near electronics but then again, no customer is really thinking 'what if this can of drink explodes here' when they put it down
it's fine to drink before it goes bang ....
@@AtomicShrimpYou should definitely email the brewery to ensure they are aware of this.
I would email the brewery just to let them know that their expiry dates might not be as long as they think. I defo think you are right about them adding a flavoured syrup which re-started fermentation, as i've been doing wine for a couple of years and thats a thing to avoid doing.
Also as a bonus they might send you a voucher to buy a new pack or send a pack to your house.
@@Jennyandersonjenny What would he do with a second ticking time bomb?
jokes aside, it's probably a good idea to inform the brewery. this seems like an avoidable mistake for anyone in that industry if it actually was caused by those added surgars
Best before / by usually indicates when flavor is best. Not a self destruct.
Its cutting edge food production technology, best before or else
@@GreatSageSunWukong I've got a family size quiche with a best before date of tomorrow . Should I call the bomb squad ?
@@balaclavabob001 Yes
Something makes me think, that if food manufacturers ever found a way to have packaged food spoil exactly at the 'best before' date, they would totally do it, though 😏
Planned obsolescence
The beautiful thing is those amazing omelettes came from not having a kitchen, you can't buy that inconvenience.
That wasn't an expiry date, that was a count down 😂
Hearing you talk about Slow TV and how you don’t care about the performance is truly an inspiration to me.
In a world where everyone wants to sell me something and mass produce as much swill as possible, it’s lovely to be on your channel.
Random other question regarding kitchenware: I’ve noticed your knives seem always quite sharp. Do you have a sharpening system/jig/routine? Your butchers block of course helps maintain an edge, but I’m excited to hear how you keep smooth cuts. I’ve got a Ruixin sharpener that’s fairly decent, but i suspect that it isn’t sturdy enough to keep things from deflecting (and thusly giving me a less sharp edge than otherwise possible)
Mike sends them off to a place over in Slaughter Valley, I think. I've heard he sometimes gets them back before he has sent them.
Even from a distance that oven light flickering is making my eyelids twitch 😂 Thank you for the black bar in your normal videos.
I have an autoimmune disorder that kicks my butt often so I end up in bed, watching a lot of UA-cam and I got into flower channels. Three years ago we moved to a home with a lot of garden space and full sun as well as a sprinkler system with drip tubing in the flower beds. I started some seeds indoors under grow lights and had some minor success with a probably 20 plants so I stuck them in the garden. Over the summer, I found I checked on them almost. every day, giving them a pep talk and watching them grow.. I found I loved watching the bees and luckily, I had planted things that bees love. The first time I planted zinnias- mostly those in the Queen Lime w/Blotch and Benery's giant helm. t thought they weren't supposed to be all that popular with bees due to the pollen being difficult to get to but I found the bees loved them. That lead to putting in a cutting garden two years ago with loose plans to get rid of most of the 3 acres of grass by putting in pollinator-friendly plans. In America we have had 3 years of abundant milkweed growth. It's coming up everywhere and like most people, I left it where it popped up. One of my beds has over 20 plants this year and the Bees are besides themselves. I also have a form of catmint in that garden that bees love. I've seen a Monarch on the milkweed but I can't wait for more to come and hopefully I'll get some cocoons. Pollinators are so fun to watch. I've never been scared of bees, even after tripping into a hive as a child, but I never took the time to really enjoy the them. After watching some honeybee farmers for a few years, I really find bees fascinating and I love when they are around.
If you are insulating the ceiling of your kitchen, you should check there's ventilation above. Hard to see from the video, but there'd be a high risk of interstitial condensation
@@SplicedSerpents I think I’ve been suffering from interstitial condensation for some years now…
I absolutely love the eclectic mix on your channel, Mr Shrimp. From Scam-baiting to foraging to random science. Your brain must be a wonderful place to live :)
Lesson learnt, always drink beer as soon as you buy it!
Agreed 😂
It's only 1030 on a Saturday morning and as a safety precaution I have demolished a 24 can slab of special brew...
@@b0b5m1th"Beer" is a very generous description of Special Brew 😂
@@ferrumignis someone could've mentioned that sooner, I'm now heading out to a traffic island to shout at cars and wet my trousers.
@@b0b5m1th Good work sir but god help whoever lives with you! 😂
As a Scot who's been living in Spain for 10 years I have to say that I love seeing your lush garden, it's so dry here. The sounds of the birds too transport me back to my youth. There are few bird songs where I have been living and it's just made me realise that Spain is actively anti-bird. I look out into other peoples gardens here and they have so many anti bird measures, whereas in the UK you'd see bird feeders, I wouldn't be able to tell where to find bird feeders here. My sister in Scotland is complaining that all her strawberries have been eaten by the local birds and yet mine here are fine despite the neighbourhood magpie eyeing them up. Anyway, love the video, it's always my favourite part of Saturday morning!
We've got a heavily mutated foxglove growing in our garden at the moment which is a single plant that has about a dozen flower stems growing from it, all staggered up the stem like a display spindle. It's rather lovely.
I left a can of 'pop' in my centre console during the last hot spell. It totally evacuated itself with the top completely parting company with the body of the can. Lesson learned.
Ohh man
It's named 'pop' for a reason.
Yes, exploding can may be from over- carbonation due to unintended fermentation in the can, which is a big issue for the brewery. Not only is it poor form to have your product exploding in the customers hand, but as they are taxed on alcohol content, they are open to legal issues if the government wanted to give them the stick. Consolation prize, you get an higher ABV then expected beer.
Not Blue Sunflowers is my favorite saga on this channel
Lol 😂
Re Bees: At a physics conference I heard a talk by Dr. Daniel Robert from the University of Bristol. He studies how flowers use electric fields to signal to bees that they are ready to be harvested and that bees can distinguish between different fields. Maybe worth shooting off an email and asking if he has any insights. He was a great speaker and very enthusiastic about it!
It takes several years to get to know the characteristics of a new house and garden. You are really making great progress . Lovely to see.
Maybe flowers taste different to bees like vegetables appeal to some of us and not others
That's almost the same trick I use to get meds into my dogs. However, I've always given them 2 or 3 unadulterated treats before the medication impregnated ones, followed by another 2 or 3 afterward. It seems I've been giving them far more treats than I need to. I'm definitely going to try it your way next time.
On a related topic, I also coat tablets in warmed up gummy candy to help kids learn to swallow them. Obviously, I make sure they are well aware that their medicine is inside. Lol, I wouldn't want them chewing straight Tylenol or something.🤢
They do seem to learn to swallow pills much more quickly with that method. It prevents them from tasting the medication and avoid the dry chalky texture that can cause pills to get stuck on the way down and/or make the child gag. The trick is to get the gummy candies very warm so they can be stretched into a very thin coating.
Mom always crushed our pills then put it in a spoonful of jelly.
The best part of this kind of video is the randomness, I highly appreciate that. And I like the friendlyness and the in-passing-education. Plus you don't try to sell something, no "hauls" or "testing of products you just got sent" (for a "honest" review). This is the most wholesome channel I know 😍
you forgot to cover the oven light for once! Would like to see more cooking with the courgette flowers, here in Italy we eat them filled with ricotta, battered and fried - delicious!
That's the last hurrah for that flickery oven clock. Make way for the new flickery oven clock!
Long live the new flickery oven clock!
Seconding the stuffed courgette flowers. They’re mostly why I grow courgettes in the first place. My favourite recipe: stick of feta cheese, leaf of basil, lemon zest. Tempura batter. I could eat that every day.
Oh I've heard of that dish and it sounds awesome.
@@mgratk 😋 It is! So easy to make, and in season right now. Talk to veg sellers at your producers market. If they grow courgettes, they have no use for male flowers. They’ll be happy to help.
My mum has a rockspray cotoneaster and every year there always tons of bees in it, when my Shar Pei was alive she use to do her toilet right below the shrub it amazed us that she never got stung onces within her 12years she was alive, the Bee section just brought a memories back about her and the Bees. Thanks for bring back memories of her Shrimp ❤
I guess the Bee saw no threat in her and she saw they was no threat in them amazing how two different species work.
I'd take a closer look at those "bees". Are they collecting nectar or are they just alighting? I had a flowering bush once (forsythia, I think) that attracted thousands of what looked like bees but were really flies with markings of wasps and bees.
@likebot. they just flying about like there a nest in there we get them every year there I'm not sure what there doing the be honest they aren't bothering me they didn't bother Shar Pei when she was about I leave them be to do there bee stuff
@@KnugenMooMoo I prefer bees to flies, that's why I uprooted my shrub and replaced it with flowers.
51:25 That momentary pause before deciding on “interfere” 😂. Yeah, dogs can be… interesting animals. Right on cue my dog is trying to get a bird 10 foot up in a tree lol.
The exploding can thing happened to me once! I was driving home from a friends house, and he had given me some craft beers for my birthday. I heard a huge bang, and when I arrived home I found that the entire top of one of the cans had burst off!
I have never heard of that happening before today. I wonder if it has something to do with government regulations in different countries.
Where I live, beer must be fully pasturized prior to bottling or canning, especially if any residual sugars or carbohydrates remain in solution at the time of bottling. Unless I'm mistaken, stabalizing agents such as potassium sorbate are also mandatory. As far as I'm aware, natural carbonation via fermentation is not permitted here, though I may well be wrong about that.
I recall a rash of injuries from exploding 2 and 3 liter glass soda bottles being reported on the national news in the late 1970s. There was at least one high-profile celebrity injured quite seriously. Shortly afterward, glass bottles were outlawed for carbonated beverages over a certain volume. The thickness and quality of the glass used in single serving bottles were also substantially increased at that time.
I'm one of the viewers who enjoys your Slow TV series.
It's a nice video to unwind with after a long day. In fact, a lot of your videos are great to unwind to after a long day. I just enjoy picking up something new to know about.
That omelette had no right to sound so good. Never had the kind of peas/beans you put, neither sage, and specially courgette flowers...they reminded me of my mom.
Today would had been my mother's 75 birthday, and she would always talk about fried courgette and pumpkin flowers...she ate once like, in the 70s, and never got a hand on flowers ever again.
So seeing it reminded me of her, as silly as it sounds. Thanks ❤
Lovely stuff as always. Can’t wait to see the new kitchen.
Re blue flowers - I’ve grown Nigella ‘love in a mist’ from seed for the first time this year. Really impressive, intricate delicate little flowers.
the bee thing is called flower constancy, it's so interesting and a really nice catch. it's amazing what tiny details nature holds that we rarely ever notice.
I can't wait to see the new kitchen. I'm sure it gets old "roughing it" while it's under construction but hopefully it'll be great to have a new space to be creative designed to your own specifications soon.
That omelet must have tasted all the better from the planning, planting and freshness from your lovely garden. A simple thing done well. Bon appetit
I really liked the edit at the end. It looked like an animated art piece. I can't wait for the bee watching video! I watch the few bees that come to my place and really enjoy passing the time like that.😊😊
I really like the little 'Pause to Read' progress bar atop the text box. Thank you for your videos, your channel is inspiring in a variety of ways.
Can't wait to see how the kitchen turns out, hope it's everything you want it to be (within the limitations of the building).
Those omelets look delicious, better then any restaurant food!! Thank you so much for the videos, they have helped me through my long recovery from spinal fusion surgery. Your garden is awesome, I did as best I could in planting mine, but the flower bed is on its own this year. Eva is such a nice dog, my dog,rip,could find a pill even after he already swallowed it, I would toss little bites in the air and he would not notice the pill. I hope your kitchen redo goes by fast, my roommate and I just went two weeks without a refrigerator during a heat wave in Ohio, it was difficult. I have borrowed some of your garden ideas, thank you for the inspiration to keep trying!
"Roast dinner brown ale" what timeline are we in
the timeline where thats the safest least-explosive can of the pack, of course
@@wahoodotwav And also the least drinkable, for balance.
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ikr, just have a tidy beer _and_ an actual roast dinner
whether it's crummy product that 'needs' disguising or worse good product marred by poor tinkering - then no.
sure sometimes there are good products enhanced by a flavour but also crap products with crap flavourings added, so that's a pretty poor possibilty space for potential outcomes
Can explosion: I once had this issue with UHT milk, well before expiration date. I had to store it in my room in a shared flat because we had too little space in the kitchen. The packaging was intact until too much pressure build up and it spread rotten milk all over the place. Luckily I didn't have carpets but it took a while to clean everything up...
Your cooking segments are some of my favorites, so could you do a pick nick basket lunch segment, then an outdoor walk part, where you eat the lunch?
I love foxgloves! One of my favourites. I enjoyed seeing the kitchen clock flickering mwahahaha even though it's sad to say goodbye to it... actually this whole video was full of delights from the bulging oddly satisfying explosive cans, to your foraging basket, the lush bluey green broad bean leaves and the cheeky wall pennywort, and Eva's expectant face 😍 The ongoing saga of the blue not blue sunflowers always makes me chuckle. With the flowers phenomena can you stick some different lights on flowers to see if they have UV reactive lines or patterns that we can't see in normal daylight? My favourite light phenomenon is pinhole camera I guess it is? I can squish my index fingers and thumbs together to make a tiny hole that acts like a lens. It brings things into focus if I'm not wearing my glasses for short sight, although I wouldn't use it while driving ha ha.
I'd love to see a video about blue in nature. I found a jay feather the other day, I think the blue on them is made by refraction from the structure of the feather rather than pigment?
Ive never seen such a thing with explosive cans in this manners.
Exploding stuffs in a can. 😂
Effervescent content for Weird Stuff in a Can
that happened on daily dose of internet, a guy opened a prank item and it didn't go off as he opened it, it was a delayed reaction.
This is my comfort series.
Foxgloves used to be called ‘folksgloves’ because people though they looked like gloves that the fairy folk of woodland would wear. Over time, people stopped talking about the folk of the forest and so the name was misunderstood and thought to be about foxes since they have dainty little feet.
I just found tiny buds in the center of my courgette plant (zucchini to us in the US) and am thrilled! I now know the difference between the male and female flowers, thanks to you, AS. Thank you for your garden update! Very well timed.
Walking around the garden, picking some fresh plants, and making an omelette out of them. Such a beautiful process, and looked delicious too.
as the cans were in a box, the box may have been dropped at some point, damaging the can, but you wouldnt have noticed it because it was in a box
I’ve heard a tip that works for some dogs is to be eating something yourself, drop the pill on the ground and then say “oh, no- no (dog name)!” And then they rush to eat it before they can be stopped
Yeah, I could see that working with Eva - she is there like a shot if anything falls and the more you try to stop her, the faster she wolfs it down - she ate a piece of banana one time just because I was trying to stop her (she hates banana normally)
The foxgloves are really pretty. I love how they're basically wild. And the bird bath looks very inviting for your feathered friends.
A different knot that would make your cane-tying a bit easier and more effective: first put the string around the plant (with the plant in the middle. Hold both ends together and wrap around the pole twice, going down the pole, then go up to the top and around, and lock it off by tucking both ends under the last loop (around the top), finishing with the ends coming out just above where the plant side string comes off. This will give you a friction hitch, which won't slide down the cane, and doesn't need you to tie the three knots you're currently tying.
I learned a new word ... Foxgloves ❤...
So fitting! In German we call them Fingerhut... I.e. after the thing you put over your finger when stiching or similar...
I think "Thimble" is the word you describe. That makes so much sense😊
I call that a thimble, but fingerhut is better!😊
The Finnish word for foxglove is "sormustinkukka" which literally means "thimble flower". I wonder if the Finnish word is originally.a direct translation from German, since foxgloves aren't native to Finland, and they're mostly found in gardens or sites of old houses or manors.
After some research I found out that the Swedish word for foxglove is "fingerborgsblomma" which also means literally "thimble flower". It's a more likely source for the word, since Finland used to be a part of Sweden, and Swedish is still spoken in parts of Finland. (Language nerd here, lol.)
The botanical name for the plant - Digitalis also refers to fingers. Seems like humans have been tempted to put their fingers in the blooms pretty much forever.
There is a folk myth here that if you can manage to insert all five fingers of one hand into the flowers, without breaking the flowers off the plant, the faerie folk will appear and grant a wish.
I hope you get your money back from that beer. Thank goodness it didn't explode all over your car seats or while sitting on top of important documents. Heaven forbid it somehow managed to leak on valuable electronics like a phone, camera, or hard drive.
I’m so excited to see the reveal of your kitchen renovation! It’s going to be an amazing place for you to cook! Congratulations! 🎉I love how you use lots of good things from your garden. You inspire me! I love to grow fruit, berries, herbs & edible flowers for the tea house where I work.
I've never been so emotionally-invested about kitchen renovation.
I love when you let the volunteer crops grow, seeing bith what it is and how the next generation does!
The "foxgloves" were stunning, I have to agree the scatter was awesome.
57:27 I really enjoy listening to you talk about the kind of behind-the-scenes stuff like this, and the earlier part about how you made that animation. Your enthusiasm and the pleasure you find in making things is clear and infectious. It’s also a nice reminder that videos don’t just come out of nowhere- which I knew of course, but I can appreciate the details much more on a repeat watch. :)
hello mr. atomic shrimp!
i wanna say that your videos make me really happy, its very stressful times for me atm, living in the us and other unrelated stressors. i hope youre doing well. thank you for providing content in stressful times!!
I don't have a greenhouse at the moment so I'm having to grow my toms outside. But when I did I would tie one end of string to the roof and bury the other end under the tomato and cucumber plants. That way all you have to do is to twist the vine and string together as it grows and no faffing about with ties.
Love the dog psychology trick with the meds. Will take heed with that one. 😊
Not sure if you noticed but that oven clock flickers on camera.
Lol of course I’m joking with ya. lol love the videos shrimp!
46:46 when the evenness of petals seems odd
Cape gooseberries! How did I miss you planting those! You're gonna have fun with them. I tossed one or two from the grocery store in the compost 5 or 6 years ago. Cant get rid of the things. 😂 There seem to be more seeds in one berry than you could ever count. But I always keep a couple plants growing in the greenhouse, and harvest a bowl or two a year. A couple of tips ... keep them in the greenhouse. Outside I had hardly any fruit. (For reference, I'm down south in Germany). They need big pots! They can grow up to 2m. They need a lot of water! Once a day or they wilt (but recover quickly). You can cut them back radically, but they grow back strong. Mine are constantly losing leaves, but seems no problem. And ... You can keep the same plants growing year after year. Mine must be 5 years old now.
The leaves are pretty fuzzy; but smell them after rubbing them. They're almost citrony smelling.
the 'blown up' cans is what we call in the industry "Secondary Fermentation", and yes it's exactly as it sounds - the product has indeed started fermenting again after packing. we had a lot of this happen when the alcoholic Kombucha fad 1st hit our stores (liqour stores/bottle shops) we had to remove and dispose of quite a lot of stock as it was happening quite often early on (soooo much cleaning up of fridge shelves and cold-room floors :(
I love, love, love your channel. It’s interesting, full of beauty, informative, relaxing and I learn something every time I watch it. Thank you so much for all your hard work in putting it together. I guess a lot of people might consider you a bit of an anorak. I love anorak people, because they know so much lol. Vegetables are one of my favourite things on the planet. I’ve just moved house and for the first time in my adult life I have a garden. Once the interior is sorted I am going to sort out the garden and grow produce for the very first time. I can’t wait. I’m disabled, so it’s not going to be easy but I am determined. Your videos have ignited the desire and passion for it all. I’m living in the country now too, so want to start foraging too. I get really excited when I get my notification you’ve posted a video. All things nature are good to me. Thank you for making my day.
Btw, fab shirt for your reflective piece. I loved it. xxx
My favorite videos of yours is showing us areas of England. Many Americans of all walks of life have British Isles heritage, but most like me have never been to the UK or Ireland and may never have a chance to visit.
Lovely video as always. Kitchen progress exciting to see. I thought it would be funny if you kept the flickery clock and framed it, to hang on the new kitchen wall, requiring you to still cover it with the infamous warning :)
Love the occassional tips you never asked for throwback to the "you want to start a youtube channel" video.
The omelette looked so good!
These videos are always so comforting, especially when I am a bit tired, somehow. Thank you!
These random stuff videos are my favourite. I always leave more knowledgeable and they are entertaining. Much appreciated 😊
We have a similar kitchen just slightly wider and shorter. We just had it completely redone and it has made me incredibly happy! I hope your new kitchen will do the same😊
We finally got to see the oven clock!
I guess if the oven clock may no longer be there, it would be a shame if we never saw it.
I always love the "talking utensils" when Mr. Shrimp is doing a plated food taste test.
Simple but great tip for the dog pill!
Tip I learnt to tie plants to canes, wrap string around cane twice, one end over the other before you then tie loosely around the plant above a branch (the string can't fall down because of the branch and the weight of the plant will keep it in place.
Love these random stuff videos to catch up on Shrimps life
55:00 Adam Ragusea has a whole video on blue in nature and anthocyanins which you've probably already watched, given that you're also a Ragusea fan
I absolutely love these "random stuff videos" .. I could watch a 5 hour long random stuff video lol
Looking forward to seeing the new kitchen! Hope it all goes well
Hey Shrimp,
I have a handy tip for your tomatoes. I cut mosquito netting to size for the bottoms of my square pots before adding soil. Cut the netting into squares, then make a cut at each corner so they bend and hug the pot walls, covering the drainage holes. Honestly, any kind of netting works. Sometimes I even use those net bags that grocery store vegetables like avocados and onions come in.
I've primarily done this in a flood and drain hydro system with coco coir, but I imagine it would work well with soil too. I also add a thin bottom layer of clay pebbles. This keeps the roots aerated and ensures good drainage without leaving a mess. Give it a try next time!
Oh and I wouldn't mess with the net-bags, they are only OK for small pots. Fly Screen Window Fabric is perfect stuff and reusable for pot bottoms.
BEES , Hi Mr Shrimp, the thing you have noticed with the Bees is they are in search of nectar from the flowers, it's the flowers that take it in turn to produce nectar during the day ensuring they are completely pollenated . Also bees have smelly feet and leave a stink on a visited flower so the next bee does not waste it's time visiting and moves on to a fresh flower. Interesting stuff for sure? Also I have a terrible lack of insects about the garden this year of all types especially bees.
I had a can explode in my car’s trunk (boot on your side of the pond?) while I was driving home. Needless to say it scared the crap out of me. Even weirder, it happened a few weeks after a friend had told me that a can exploded on her while driving, and I had mentioned that I’d never heard such a thing occurring.
I really enjoy the glimpse into cottage life. It looks so comfortable and calm- kitchen renovation aside, maybe. You’ll enjoy cooking even more once it’s finished, though. Thanks for sharing it all- I always learn something new!
I have been watching Your videos for many years. I get great joy from them. You project a calming vibe that I appreciate in this chaotic world we live in these days. Thank You.
You should be able to tie stings to the poles without them slipping if you use appropriate knots. Constrictor or prussik knots should hold well unless the pole is extremely slippery
Having recently rewatched Jurassic Park for the millionth time, "Moving Parts" was a segment that brought me great childlike joy, finally experiencing after so many years the words "its vision is based on movement" from the T-Rex's point of view.
I’ve been watching your scamming adventures for a while, it’s really nice to see the other things you get up to, that omelette look smashing 👍🏻