A Garden Tool That Makes Zero Sense? Join me on a joyful day of planting and allotment innovation!
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- A garden tool that makes zero sense? Join me on a surprisingly joyful day of planting, innovation!
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Thanks for the shout. I never had an issue with mine not working but you do have to manually remove the tape and not put it in the compost matey lol Great update
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert. However, I would force the large crown of Rhubarb to give the smaller crown a chance to build strength. Forcing weakens the crown, so you might be able to get them equally productive next year. 😊
I didn't see your comment until I scrolled down after writing mine. I couldn't agree with you more. I too would force the stronger crown as forcing considerably weakens a crown. Happy gardening 😃
I'll let you on my secret for getting cardboard, our Tony. Head to Halfords. They have massive boxes twice a week in my area because of the bicycles. I've had the same cardboard down since early October on some of my beds and they are still going strong.
I'm sure you loved that tape tool when you got it 😂
I absolutely loved it until I used it for first time 😂
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Great video Tony pal garden coming on now. Tony with potatoes try putting black plastic down on your bed just hold it down round edges with soil then slit the plastic put a potato 4 or 5inch down in rows as normal. Then you don't even have to row them up cos plastic is stopping the light turning them green. Then when ready just peel plastic back and take what's needed mate. I've done it twice now works a treat.
Hi Tony, i have bought my big bag of chopped rape seed straw a few weeks ago same as yours. I used some today in my fruit cage, removing last years mulch and a few inches of compost too pn all my pots. Toped up with a layer of compost and tape seed hay on top, getting them ready for the Spring. I also mulched my beds in my polytunnel to last summer to help with retaining moisture with the hot summer & worked well. Great video update. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
i’ve used leaves for mulching and like you they haven’t been blown away so i’m sold- come autumn i will be seen sweeping the village pedestrian walkways for leaves 🍂 a bin a week will give me enough leaves to cover all my beds
I totally agree with you on the worst tool ever... 🙈 I threw mine like 20 meters in to the woods in anger last summer 😂😂😂 My dad picked it up the day after and asked if we should put it on the wall for target sho*ting with darts. 🙈 😂 😂 😂 😂
I tried the strw but the rabbit bedding I used turned out to be barley straw, no weeds but had to ick out lots of barley
In the USA we have a thing called EZ straw. It's fine chopped stray. It CLAIMS to be 99% weed seed free but I was pulling weeds from it all summer. 😡 I'm going back to fine saw dust, I KNOW there's no weed seed in that.
Hi Tony I use Equinola and on the packing it’s says horse bedding. I use it as a mulch on the top of my potato containers, also when I am short of browns in my compost containers. Think it’s great stuff and it easily breaks down. You do get the odd mushroom type plant growing from it on the potato buckets. Purchased mine in 2022 on line via Amazon and still have some left, cost me £17, now £22 per bag, like to know where you get it for £8 per bag.
It says online: "Strulch is made from wheat straw with added iron minerals."
So essentially if you soaked your straw in something perhaps like Chelated Iron, probably be the same thing haha!
Only thing I would say is to just be carful to try and source straw that's not been sprayed with herbicides as that can kill your plants.
You can get the horse bedding with eucalyptus added smell lovely. I use the poultry bedding, the same stuff with eucalyptus added. As I can not get wood chips, I also use it for my paths. Good to see you back at it.
Good idea Tony. I got fed up with the grass coming from mulching with straw and got some pet wood shavings this year. That stretch might be okay for a little strawberry or artichoke bed but it's too expensive for general use for me. I hope you don't get rapeseed shoots from that straw. Let's hope it's been sterilised.
Is there not a risk of Aminopyralid contamination with something like the rape straw? Not knowing the source, and the unfortunate likelihood of them using broad leaf weed killers when growinh would be a concern, as this could contaminate the soil...
🌿🌿🌿🌿I must start preparing my vegetable bed tomorrow.
It should be a good day to do it, as it was a red sky tonight.
Thanks Tony for inspiring me to get on with it. 🌿🌿🌿🌿
I agree with you, about the worst tool ever. I worked in a garden nursery and we were given that horrible tool to tie up the hundreds of climbers we had. It would jam up, not tie the staple on or just stop the tape through Frustrating. I eventually got my boss to ditch that and we tied up with raffia . less plastic used and and less swearing . !!!
Hi Tony, where do you get the Equinola from please. I'm in Boldon, so very local to you.
call me cynical but the leaves beds are weed free and the hay beds and strulch beds are not😅, on a serious note are we paying for something we maybe dont need? would a wood chip layer be more effective?
Just subbed to your channel, used to watch it last year and aswell as learning stuff, your cheery banter is nice 👍🇮🇪
Straw boss here in Canada love it. I use it under the chicken roost and poo pick daily. It takes only a few months to break down in the compost.
When the straw says “treated with oils”, do we known which oils…
Worms love plain cardboard (not the coloured rubbish) add’s carbon
You got some huge chem trails overhead you Tony terrible
You did a lot today Tony. We did three good days last week but it's turned too cold again for me and 😮
Used one of the tools for over 20 year also grower use them you must be using wrong just buy a new blade
I'm sure Jessie at Plot 37 got one of those tools for Christmas.
Like some sort of strange Viking warrior-hero....
Tony Smith : strulch-sniffer😂
Tony, I put cardboard on my raised beds, covered them with that straw, then put seaweed on the top of the straw.
Ooo Brian one more layer than me 😅
Tony, what pots did you have next to the straw?
Ha Ha Jessie@plot37 got that tool for Christmas,you can compare opinions on your next live show.
I’ll ask Jess who bought her it!
I have been using that straw bedding on my potato buckets thanks to Tony, great tip
I'm going to try this for my potatoes this year. Straight on the bed and then cover it with at least 6in of straw. No digging and apparently it works great
Tony is great if ya put a few inches of reasonable compost over a bed. Does look beautiful but feeds the soil I’ve been lucky to get 25 x Keith singletons 80 litre bags this month. Magic. Finally I’m able to mulch all beds AND have plenty for me pots 👍
Tony, we are lucky enough to have a local brewery which delivers used malt hops to our allotment site as they are a waste product and they save money by giving them to us rather than paying to dispose them. I use them for mulching my beds. Not only is it good as a weed suppressor and excellent for water retention but the crops, especially rhubarb smell and taste fantastic. Haydn
Great info on the Strulch substitute. Rhank you. I would have forced the stronger rhubarb plant, and leave the weaker crown to build further. You will weaken that plant and it will take ages to recover. You should only force a string crown. and not every year but only every 3 years or so. Forcing takes a lot out of a plant. Happy gardening 😃
I use that Equinola on my beds Tony after I've used it for chicken beddingin their coop....Feeds my beds with all the chicken manure as well as mulching
Your homemade compost always looks so good when you spread it on the beds. It looks as if it is dry and crumbly enough to sieve and I wondered if you could use it for seed sowing or potting on etc. I have started sieving mine and using it for seeds and pricking out without any problems so far. My compost is not so crumbly as yours and I have to lay it out on trays in the greenhouse to dry it enough to be able to sieve it.
I use grass clippings from the lawn to cover the tops of my potato tubs. They're free & break down rapidly.
For building height in raised beds, I scrounge topsoil from wherever I can, including mole hills at this time of year, leaving 1-2" of space for an annual application of compost.
I recorded the amount of compost going into my 30 litre potato tubs last year (900 litres) then what I was left with (600 litres).
Clearly, compost isn't the answer to filling raised beds on a permanent basis.
I use the double sided velcro tape for tomatoes - still using the same pieces after 3-4 years.
Another great update Tony. My cardboard covering have also started to disintegrate so I need to try something else too. 😊
Looked the bedding up its got natural occurring essential oils ??? Also says very absorbant...wont that restrict watering to the plants
Compost is continually digested by the worms & organisms I believe but over time (15 years in our case) on the allotment it creates deep beautiful growing spaces. My old dad always said feed the soil not the plants & it really pays off 😻
Bet you got well excited when you first got your hands on it. I got a few tools like that myself, collecting dust!
Ooo, you reminded me to order rhubarb crowns. We have two new little beds in front of our new polytunnel. The old rhubarb got damaged so I'm hoping for a new posh variety to go into those beds. Rhubarb is my favourite choice in chilli jam.
Now, I could that too extremely useful when I had one, unfortunately I lost mine around 20 years ago, and never replaced it . But I loved it.
Great wee video as usual can you write down name of straw please and were you got from great to see you looking so healthy ❤
Definitely getting a supply of straw to cover all my beds and potato pots this year...🥔
Get yourself a heavy duty strimmer and strim some cardboard to put on your beds. You will pay the strimmer off in no time
😂Don't tell Jess about that tool Tony! She had one for Christmas! X
great video Tony what are the green poles called that you have up by the fence
Thats the same straw i use and it works quite well supressing weeds.
Amazon equinola £22 per 20kg bag!?❤
Try here www.moleonline.com
That a gud plan
Hi does this alternative to scrulch help with keeping slugs and snails away too? 😊
I’ll find out soon enough Kathleen 😅
@@TonyCSmith No I'm afraid it doesn't ..I went back to strulch mulch . Those pesky slugs and snails were eating everything the strulch stops them in their tracks .
Please Tony, paint your shed before it falls down
The shed Jeff is solid 😅
Here in NZ there are warnings on compost bags "open bags with face averted or in open air" because of Legionaires disease. Do UK bags not have those warnings?
Don’t think so Beryl
Is NZ like California? Put silly warnings on absolutely everything?
I have just googled legionaires disease in compost in the UK, and yes there have been deaths from it!😢
@@bluewolf4915 No we aren't silly putting warnings on bagged compost, google it and see for yourself
Good to see the plot again, getting ready for the rush on Feb and march lots of sowing and planting
Tony I have been looking up the straw mulch and it says that brand is perfumed with lemon essential oils and I wondered would this be OK to use as a mulch on food crops. I'm interested in getting some but now wondering if it would be OK.
It’s used as a bedding for horses so I’m ok putting on my garden. You got to make your own choice Liz🌈
@@TonyCSmith I did think if it's ok for horses (who probably do eat it) but I thought I would double check 😂