I think that bird should be called Jeremy! Well it came to mind to me and well I’ve been binge watching clarksons farm! Haha, I think that would really suit him! ❤
It,s helpful to us that you are showing the probs you have…we are all trying to cope with this year’s weather. Take pity on me trying to grow anything on a building site! Jinxy
@@janenewley1014 Oh Jinxy. That must be really testing your patience and resilience as a grower. I don’t envy you that! We had a lot of building work done two years ago and I do not wish to go back to that stress. Here’s hoping the weather picks up for all of us, but especially so your building work can be completed smoothly and swiftly x
I think he should be called 'Robinson the Pheasant' as in Heath Robinson who loved to cobble together gadgets and devices using knotted string (a bit like farmers with baler twine. LOL)
@@lisawilliams5752 oh I love the idea. It’s a marital surname of someone close in my family (who subsequently was divorced, so not sure they’d appreciate that if they heard it).
Leaf curl = temperature fluctuations. Aphids = wait for ladybirds to arrive (or bring them in). I think everybody is struggling but as they say, this too shall pass. I tell myself to chill. Sometimes it even works 😂
I’m pretty chill about the sweetcorn and tomatoes.. I don’t really like either. Sadly, Duncan does. Feels like a conspiracy 😂😅😅🫣 There’s lots of ladybirds about so I may relocate some to the greenhouse. Good idea. ☺️
Id love to have your failures!!! 🤣🤣 Those aubergines looked super. Yeh maybe pop them outside and see if natural predators sort them out? Whay amazing peppers too. Lovely to be harvesting ❤
It really is lovely to be harvesting. Hoping the aubergine plants will bounce back, as I agree those aubergines themselves are pretty impressive so far. Such a funny year isn’t it
Wow patty pan is loving the bin 👍, my tromboncino is the only thing ramping up. Don’t leave Phil the Pleasant Pheasant outside in winter he will not be happy. The aubergine are fab yes I’d take off some of the leaves below the flower and fruit. If they are concentrating on them and not harming the fruit I’d leave them. You are doing fab Clare more good than bad 😂😂, have a super week, Ali 🥵🌞🇨🇦
It feels like Duncan with think it’s intentional. Tomatoes and sweetcorn are my least favourite things 😂😂 I’m going they’ll pick up soon. The top leaves on the tomatoes are already uncurling, since the calmag feed and the shade net was put up . It’s also been warmer overnight but cooler in the day in there .. so seems like that is the solution. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Phil the Pheasant (if we settle on that.. front runner so far) might have to live in the polytunnel over winter 😂
The highs and lows of gardening in 2024 🤭 We are all having struggles with some of our crops this year Claire so you're not on your own. Lots of crops doing well though including your sunflowers 🌻 🌻 🌻 👍 😍 Have a great week ❤ x
Yes, it’s a testing year for us all isn’t it? I’m very pleased with the things which are doing well and not overly upset with the things not doing so well. Losses are part of the game. “Can’t win them all” as we often here said. Hope you’re having some lovely weather. Been glorious here at Goodwood ❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden Been lovely here today too Claire. Been sorting out the shed on plot 2 again but didn't do a video on it this time 😂 Have a great week 🌻🌹❤️ xx
Everything is slow. Everything is stunted. I'm hoping this is Spring now and Summer and Autumn will be amazingly warm until November and a first frost.
🤞🏻for your toms! Mine have curled today due to the sudden v. warm day we've had. I don't have tomatoes yet, just some flowers. Ahhh, the cucumber joy!! It's a funny ole growing year - I bet your squash in the beds are envious of those in the compost and manure 🤣Fab peppers!! 🫑
@@TheFarmyardGarden I’m yet to check on them this morning after a drenching last night. It is - they look very happy there. I have a big pile of weeds/grass clippings near my allotment shed and I think that will be the spot for squash next year
Thanks for the honest tour. Hope you get some patty pans. Mine stopped producing as the weather got colder. Female flowers got moldy and died before they developed. Lots of male flowers though, it's like they are hoping there is a happier squash nearby. Ants won't help with aphids. They just farm them for sugar, and then the ants keep beneficial bugs away. And the jalapeños - they get more stripes as they ripe. I've let a couple turn red and they were very stripey. I'm no expert, mind you, it's my first year growing jalapeños, but I have tried ro research some. Mine hardly have any heat at all - only the white inside has some heat - don't know if it's the variety or something I've done, but they are lovely, and even better red in my opinion. If you want them hotter, you're supposed to harvest just as they turn red, I read somewhere. I think the pheasant looks like a Ursula. Have a lovely week!
Ooo thanks for explaining how and why ants farm aphids. That helps me to understand. My jalapeño mammoth had dry/crazed stripes on it, not pepper markings as such. It seemed they might split/rot if I left them any longer. I didn’t expect the black knights to ripen red, given their name. Guess they’re expected to be picked sooner and less hot. Like you say, anything can be left to ripen, so there’s no real rush to harvest. I love seeing everything grow and change shape/colour. Would love seeing the sweetcorn grow too 😂😂 I hope your party pans pick up! They’re the thing I was most excited to try this year, so I’m heavily invested in them being successful 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Love the name Ursula but it’s a male pheasant. Maybe we need to find him a friend! 😂
Oh just had a quick flick through and couldn't see a message from me, so will add one now. As long as you get tomatoes who cares about a little bit of leaf curl. Hope you enjoyed your travels these last couple of weekends. The experiences sounded wonderful, and we all need a break from the garden and YT for a bit. Glad you sowed plenty of carrots as a handful of our bolted too. I'm glad we are not the only ones that cannot grow a spring onion this year!!!!! 3 sowings and maybe 3 came up on the 3rd attempt. I find it very strange comparing the hundred we grew last year. Just not a spring onion one for you and I. Keep smiling xx Allie & Tricia xx
@@TheRightPearPlot I’m so pleased I’m not alone in the spring onion problem! I grew loads last year! Really don’t get it 😂😅 Gardens are great levellers aren’t they? My carrots were all brilliant last year. A proper mainstay of growing. This year they seem woody and bolting. Not my finest moments. It’s all still fun and I’m learning the areas of this garden that may suit some plants more than others. Pretty sure this is not the best spot for carrots now. Maybe courgettes would love those boxes next year 🤔 A break from the garden was very much enjoyed. Shorter videos are also soooo much easier to edit 🥰🤗
I had a terrible time in my greenhouse with aphids, I purchased some ladybird larvae and now I can say, no aphids but no ladybirds either. I can only think they have moved on to continue eating somewhere else.
I keep meaning to buy some larvae. We do see a lot of ladybirds about, strangely not in the greenhouse though. I always loved ladybirds as a small girl. Now they’re even bigger heroes to me 🤗❤️
How strange to see those tomatoes like that.. unsure if it's just heat. I did wonder if it was the manure, But seen your other comments... maybe do a soil test just in case.. or plant some lettuce in.. as a sacrificial crop to test the soil Clare.youve got some lovely crops though, but agreed we are all struggling with our crops this year. Danny 🌱
I have seen a few comments suggesting that it might be aminiopyralids (sp), as a few UA-camrs are quite vocal about it this year. I have used the same compost throughout the vegetable garden and the same batch of manure. It’s only my tomatoes. My beans have all germinated in the compost no problem. The cucumbers are happy, the marigolds happy, the basil happy too. I have to say, some of the tomatoes have started to uncurl their leaves since I’ve put up the shade netting, so this is a good sign 🙏🏻 Definitely not the beautiful picture I was hoping for. I need to find ways to naturally provide more shade next year 😅🥹😊
I've been germinating my bunching onions in cell trays this year. Great success. I'm loving ishikura the best. Curl is def caused by the temp swings. I find planting calendula next to crops aphids love helps, as they seem to go for the calendula first. Ladybugs like sweet alyssum and it can handle a bit of heat. Maybe you could have a few potted attracters that can be moved around. Phyllis the incandescent, tenat, pheasant
I do have calendula in the polytunnel and the main plot, but none by the greenhouses. Schoolgirl error! 😱😭 The leaves are uncurling since I added the shade cloth (and gave them a calcium feed) so hopefully we are on the right track now. I swear I just watered tomatoes last year and they got on with it. No drama at all. 😂🫣 Love the name Phyllis but it’s a cock pheasant ❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden I'd say learning curve vs error. Gosh my learning curve has been going on for years, Wish UA-cam was around when I started. I did a lot of visits to the library to get help.
@@RobinGardens UA-cam is a valuable resource, for sure. I do have books and do read them but there’s nothing like being able to truly visualise how others do something through video media. You’re a great resource to me, even though you’re thousands of miles away in Chicago Land ❤️
Hey Clare. Aww they look like mine, I've clipped off the curly leaves now as they started going brown and furry 😢 4:53 that looks lush! I cut the stems of the carrots whilst they were still small. Carrots were fab as you saw. Can't believe you've had no spring onions! Put some in now and try again 😄 Looking forward for my beans! My peas weren't good this year but sowed some sugar snaps just the other day that are coming through already 😅 Our sweetcorn is slow too. Maybe take the aubergines outside and water hose down, then use the soapy spray. I've done that with my chillis and seems to have worked. I seriously thought of buying ladybirds. Great peppers Clare! Bet they tasted so sweet! ❤
The peppers were lovely. I’ve started chopping them to store in the freezer now, to last longer. You cut the foliage off carrots or just the flower stems? I’ve given up on spring onions 😂
@@TheFarmyardGarden I have no freezer space 😂 So the carrots, when I checked mine every other day, I noticed the thicker stem, the bolt, and if just chop that, the same type of thing you would as an onion scape, the carrots were fine 😀
@@TheFarmyardGarden and cold year completely the only thing I've seen bees on this year is my dahlias which are crawling... perhaps more different flowers will attach them in
Oh no. I’m sorry to hear that. Mine had a really poor start but seem to have picked up now. Definitely not as good as last year though. It’s been such a trying year for us all 🤗
Thats really interesting. The leaves do feel dry, yet the moisture meter says the plants are moist, not overly wet and certainly not dry. Hopefully they will start to behave more normally soon 🙏🏻
@@TheFarmyardGarden I love that about them. I just see this video where a women is stressing coz they are splitting and that's what they do it's all part of their charm. I love the splits on the big beef steaks I think they look lovely
Temperature fluctuations and cold nights is definitely an issue for tomatoes. Mine have had similar issues but my cucumbers have been even worse, extremely slow growing and I'm not sure I'll even get anything off them now. Low light levels is also an issue I think. Celery and spring onions and beetroot have all been amazing this year though so not all bad!
Oh this is strange as my cucumbers seem pretty happy, even the luffas. I expected them to succumb first. Hope yours pick up. Such a trying year for us all
Everything of mine is weeks behind last year too. I’m in Northumberland, so it’s a challenge to begin with! All the leaves on my French beans are yellow due to lack of sun. My chilli plants are much smaller than this time last year 😢 Fonzy the pheasant?
It’s crazy isn’t it? I remember people telling me last year was challenging too. Guess with climate change we are all going to have to learn to adapt sadly.. although I’m still optimistic things will improve. Lovely part of the country you live in ❤️ Fonzy is a cool name!
Aw Clare, I feel your pain with the tomato plants. I’ve also had leaf curl on mine in the greenhouse. Mine aren’t as extreme as yours, but I’m down on the SE Coast and temp swings are not as extreme and min has been 10 and max 35. I’ve also started calmag a couple of weeks back too and shade netting is on👍. I’ve never had such a challenge with tomato plants. I’ve invested in JBA Blight Guard for the 1st time and watching the BlightSpy page daily. I’m sure others have experienced similar too with the awful weather we’re having. I thought mine were going to die and they’re now roof height and got some good trusses of fruit, but the leaves do look worse for wear! 🤞🏻. Yours bounce back from this.🤞🏻 Enjoy your racing weekend Kaz🙂
It’s a weird year isn’t it? Since putting up the shade net and feeding with calmag the upper leaves have started to uncurl. Hopefully this is a good sign for them ❤️❤️ I’ve heard of the blight guard. I need to look in to it
@@TheFarmyardGarden fabulous! They’re bouncing back Clare. Mine look more like bonsai plants than tomatoes😂. And yes, the shade netting and calmag appears to help, albeit slowly. I’m hopeful and don’t want anymore tomato challenges this year. The Blightguard is £20 and with 16 varieties should last me at least 2 years. BlightSpy is addictive 😂
I heard, I think from Charles Dowding on his channel, that leaf curl in tomatoes can be caused by big temperature swings. 41C?? Wow. Photosynthesis stops at 42C ....
Long shot...but could it be aminopyralids in horse muck you might have used in your tunnel beds? I was watching Down to Earth with Jim's youtube channel and his toms are looking like yours! FYI my 19 year old son bought the same team jersey at F1 in Singapore last September...he was lucky enough to be in the pits!!! Go Mercedes 😂
I did mention this and edited it out. I know my manure doesn’t have any weed killer in it as it’s our own manure and we don’t use it. I’m not sure I’m buying the herbicide thing so much, as so many of us are struggling this year. Since filming and putting up my shade netting (and feeding calcium) the top leaves are now uncurling How brilliant for your son! We got a pit walk but didn’t get in the garage 😭❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden I knew you used you're own horses manure, so did think it was a long shot. Sounds like you've hit the nail on the head with the shade cloth. We're used to extremes of temperature over summer in Australia and I have to be diligent looking after my toms when it gets too hot...contrary to popular belief, they don't actually like it too hot! My veg garden is shaded by our house by about 3pm every afternoon and that suits my toms just fine! Glad you enjoyed Silverstone 😉
It's the temps Clare ,the new growth will recover on the Tom's .Brilliant chilli's 🎉 My beans are slow and my corn . Hopefully things will start taking off soon .On the bright side ,my celerys loving this weather and my onions aren't bolting and tons of lettuce 🙂
It’s such crazy year isn’t it? The upper leaves are uncurling after putting up the netting, so you’re right there. Celeriac here is thriving too. Lettuces are in a shady area in my dog garden and looking fab too. Not bolting Thanks for watching
It doesn’t rhyme, but I’m thinking that pheasant looks like a Chandler 🦚 For the aubergines, I’ve had the same thing happen. I think aphids just seem to love them. These days I just go on a ladybird hunt in the garden. Relocate them onto the plant. They usually don’t stick around too long but if you relocate enough of them they’ll tend to lay eggs and the little nymphs can’t fly off so they help longer term.
I’ve seen quite a few ladybirds in the polytunnel. I’ll relocate some to the greenhouse. Funny how it’s only the one, so I do believe the aubergines are the target. Chandler! My favourite friend 💔❤️
But the marigolds and calendula are so impressive ❤. Your temp fluctuations are insane we are just hot 🥵 it’s stupidly hot. I have to shed really early in the year. Tomatoes yiu can take off any leaves below the first truss for air flow and your tomatoes should be ok. I have lots of plants like this too so it’s not your fault 😂. I have a flat stem cucumber 🥒 with a mega bloom on it WTF 🫣. Flower drop is heat just wait they will be ok. Keep at it Clare it’s never going to be perfect even Charles has issues 😊. None of my bunching onions germinated. Anyway gotta get outside I’ll finish my novel in a bit 😂😂, Ali 8:06
Oh Ali.. it’s been a crazy year. I can’t quite get my head around how hot you suddenly had it after being so cold. We don’t generally get such extreme heat but as you know, things get hot with a little bit of sun in a polytunnel. Can’t imagine how hot it gets in yours! The flowers are the stars of the show this year. I’m going to be forever growing calendula and cosmos now, I’m sure. I’ve taken all of the lower leaves off the tomatoes. The leaves have started to uncurl now there’s shade netting up but the pretty jungle images are not going to happen this year. Some of the tomatoes have simply rotted on the plants before ripening. Not bottom end rot.. completely mushy, the whole thing. I saw Charles is having issues. It’s been suggested to me that I have herbicide poisoning but I can’t accept that so many of us are all having the same thing. I know my manure is herbicide free as we don’t use it on the farm. My sister has one tomato plant that is suffering in her greenhouse and it’s the only one not getting shade from her netting or the compost bins behind the greenhouse. Why are onions being so dramatic this year?! 😭😭😭
@@TheFarmyardGarden it has been mid to high 30’s the last few days 🥵 sleep is elusive because it’s high teens all night. We get this for a few weeks but not normally this early it’s usually more an August thing. Oh well when and if it does rain I’ll complain then 🤣🤣. People tend to go right to,herbicide panic 😱 but I don’t use horse manure and I’ve never had an issue in my beds. Plus ALL my vegetables are in the same soil and beans and squash are doing fine.
…and all your flowering plants are very cheering😀😀😀
@@janenewley1014 they really do make the plot an aesthetically pleasing place to be. I love them 😍
Put a row or two french beans next to the tunnel where it's hot they love it and good shade for the poly tunnel 😊
Nice idea!
I think that bird should be called Jeremy! Well it came to mind to me and well I’ve been binge watching clarksons farm! Haha, I think that would really suit him! ❤
@@freddielawrie Jezza the Pheasant.. hmmm could be!
It,s helpful to us that you are showing the probs you have…we are all trying to cope with this year’s weather. Take pity on me trying to grow anything on a building site! Jinxy
@@janenewley1014 Oh Jinxy. That must be really testing your patience and resilience as a grower. I don’t envy you that! We had a lot of building work done two years ago and I do not wish to go back to that stress.
Here’s hoping the weather picks up for all of us, but especially so your building work can be completed smoothly and swiftly x
Spring onion killer!!! 😂😂😂❤️🥂
They’re not even yellow Jimmy… 😂
I think he should be called 'Robinson the Pheasant' as in Heath Robinson who loved to cobble together gadgets and devices using knotted string (a bit like farmers with baler twine. LOL)
@@lisawilliams5752 oh I love the idea. It’s a marital surname of someone close in my family (who subsequently was divorced, so not sure they’d appreciate that if they heard it).
Something will come hun… hope you’ve had a great weekend at Goodwood 🥰
It’s been fabulous, thanks.
Hoping everything soon picks up ❤️
Leaf curl = temperature fluctuations.
Aphids = wait for ladybirds to arrive (or bring them in).
I think everybody is struggling but as they say, this too shall pass.
I tell myself to chill. Sometimes it even works 😂
I’m pretty chill about the sweetcorn and tomatoes.. I don’t really like either. Sadly, Duncan does. Feels like a conspiracy 😂😅😅🫣
There’s lots of ladybirds about so I may relocate some to the greenhouse. Good idea. ☺️
Too the words out of my mouth
Id love to have your failures!!! 🤣🤣 Those aubergines looked super. Yeh maybe pop them outside and see if natural predators sort them out? Whay amazing peppers too. Lovely to be harvesting ❤
It really is lovely to be harvesting. Hoping the aubergine plants will bounce back, as I agree those aubergines themselves are pretty impressive so far.
Such a funny year isn’t it
Wow patty pan is loving the bin 👍, my tromboncino is the only thing ramping up. Don’t leave Phil the Pleasant Pheasant outside in winter he will not be happy. The aubergine are fab yes I’d take off some of the leaves below the flower and fruit. If they are concentrating on them and not harming the fruit I’d leave them. You are doing fab Clare more good than bad 😂😂, have a super week, Ali 🥵🌞🇨🇦
It feels like Duncan with think it’s intentional. Tomatoes and sweetcorn are my least favourite things 😂😂
I’m going they’ll pick up soon. The top leaves on the tomatoes are already uncurling, since the calmag feed and the shade net was put up
. It’s also been warmer overnight but cooler in the day in there .. so seems like that is the solution. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Phil the Pheasant (if we settle on that.. front runner so far) might have to live in the polytunnel over winter 😂
The highs and lows of gardening in 2024 🤭 We are all having struggles with some of our crops this year Claire so you're not on your own. Lots of crops doing well though including your sunflowers 🌻 🌻 🌻 👍 😍
Have a great week ❤ x
Yes, it’s a testing year for us all isn’t it? I’m very pleased with the things which are doing well and not overly upset with the things not doing so well. Losses are part of the game. “Can’t win them all” as we often here said.
Hope you’re having some lovely weather. Been glorious here at Goodwood ❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden Been lovely here today too Claire. Been sorting out the shed on plot 2 again but didn't do a video on it this time 😂 Have a great week 🌻🌹❤️ xx
Everything is slow. Everything is stunted. I'm hoping this is Spring now and Summer and Autumn will be amazingly warm until November and a first frost.
Wouldn’t that be something? We can but dream…. 😂
🤞🏻for your toms! Mine have curled today due to the sudden v. warm day we've had. I don't have tomatoes yet, just some flowers. Ahhh, the cucumber joy!!
It's a funny ole growing year - I bet your squash in the beds are envious of those in the compost and manure 🤣Fab peppers!! 🫑
Arrggh.. joining the curling tomato club. 😭😭
I think you might be right about the squash not in the compost. The difference is startling isn’t it?
@@TheFarmyardGarden I’m yet to check on them this morning after a drenching last night.
It is - they look very happy there. I have a big pile of weeds/grass clippings near my allotment shed and I think that will be the spot for squash next year
@doras.allotment that sounds perfect! Fingers crossed the tomatoes are ok
Thanks for the honest tour. Hope you get some patty pans. Mine stopped producing as the weather got colder. Female flowers got moldy and died before they developed. Lots of male flowers though, it's like they are hoping there is a happier squash nearby.
Ants won't help with aphids. They just farm them for sugar, and then the ants keep beneficial bugs away.
And the jalapeños - they get more stripes as they ripe. I've let a couple turn red and they were very stripey. I'm no expert, mind you, it's my first year growing jalapeños, but I have tried ro research some. Mine hardly have any heat at all - only the white inside has some heat - don't know if it's the variety or something I've done, but they are lovely, and even better red in my opinion. If you want them hotter, you're supposed to harvest just as they turn red, I read somewhere.
I think the pheasant looks like a Ursula.
Have a lovely week!
Ooo thanks for explaining how and why ants farm aphids. That helps me to understand.
My jalapeño mammoth had dry/crazed stripes on it, not pepper markings as such. It seemed they might split/rot if I left them any longer.
I didn’t expect the black knights to ripen red, given their name. Guess they’re expected to be picked sooner and less hot. Like you say, anything can be left to ripen, so there’s no real rush to harvest.
I love seeing everything grow and change shape/colour. Would love seeing the sweetcorn grow too 😂😂
I hope your party pans pick up! They’re the thing I was most excited to try this year, so I’m heavily invested in them being successful 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Love the name Ursula but it’s a male pheasant. Maybe we need to find him a friend! 😂
Oh just had a quick flick through and couldn't see a message from me, so will add one now.
As long as you get tomatoes who cares about a little bit of leaf curl. Hope you enjoyed your travels these last couple of weekends. The experiences sounded wonderful, and we all need a break from the garden and YT for a bit.
Glad you sowed plenty of carrots as a handful of our bolted too.
I'm glad we are not the only ones that cannot grow a spring onion this year!!!!! 3 sowings and maybe 3 came up on the 3rd attempt. I find it very strange comparing the hundred we grew last year. Just not a spring onion one for you and I.
Keep smiling xx
Allie & Tricia xx
@@TheRightPearPlot I’m so pleased I’m not alone in the spring onion problem! I grew loads last year! Really don’t get it 😂😅
Gardens are great levellers aren’t they? My carrots were all brilliant last year. A proper mainstay of growing. This year they seem woody and bolting. Not my finest moments.
It’s all still fun and I’m learning the areas of this garden that may suit some plants more than others. Pretty sure this is not the best spot for carrots now. Maybe courgettes would love those boxes next year 🤔
A break from the garden was very much enjoyed. Shorter videos are also soooo much easier to edit 🥰🤗
@@TheFarmyardGarden now check your compost for snakes !!🐍
@@TheRightPearPlot noooooo 😂😱😱😱😱
@@TheFarmyardGarden 🤣🤣
I had a terrible time in my greenhouse with aphids, I purchased some ladybird larvae and now I can say, no aphids but no ladybirds either. I can only think they have moved on to continue eating somewhere else.
I keep meaning to buy some larvae. We do see a lot of ladybirds about, strangely not in the greenhouse though.
I always loved ladybirds as a small girl. Now they’re even bigger heroes to me 🤗❤️
Hi there, garden looks beautiful 😍 must say I am new here. Great sharing
Thank you stopping by and for the lovely comment ❤️
How strange to see those tomatoes like that.. unsure if it's just heat. I did wonder if it was the manure, But seen your other comments... maybe do a soil test just in case.. or plant some lettuce in.. as a sacrificial crop to test the soil Clare.youve got some lovely crops though, but agreed we are all struggling with our crops this year. Danny 🌱
I have seen a few comments suggesting that it might be aminiopyralids (sp), as a few UA-camrs are quite vocal about it this year.
I have used the same compost throughout the vegetable garden and the same batch of manure. It’s only my tomatoes. My beans have all germinated in the compost no problem. The cucumbers are happy, the marigolds happy, the basil happy too.
I have to say, some of the tomatoes have started to uncurl their leaves since I’ve put up the shade netting, so this is a good sign 🙏🏻
Definitely not the beautiful picture I was hoping for. I need to find ways to naturally provide more shade next year 😅🥹😊
You never liked tomatoes! You’re a tomato killer!!!! 😂😂❤️🥂
It does seem rather convenient, doesn’t it
I've been germinating my bunching onions in cell trays this year. Great success. I'm loving ishikura the best.
Curl is def caused by the temp swings.
I find planting calendula next to crops aphids love helps, as they seem to go for the calendula first. Ladybugs like sweet alyssum and it can handle a bit of heat. Maybe you could have a few potted attracters that can be moved around.
Phyllis the incandescent, tenat, pheasant
I do have calendula in the polytunnel and the main plot, but none by the greenhouses. Schoolgirl error! 😱😭
The leaves are uncurling since I added the shade cloth (and gave them a calcium feed) so hopefully we are on the right track now. I swear I just watered tomatoes last year and they got on with it. No drama at all. 😂🫣
Love the name Phyllis but it’s a cock pheasant ❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden I'd say learning curve vs error. Gosh my learning curve has been going on for years, Wish UA-cam was around when I started. I did a lot of visits to the library to get help.
@@RobinGardens UA-cam is a valuable resource, for sure. I do have books and do read them but there’s nothing like being able to truly visualise how others do something through video media.
You’re a great resource to me, even though you’re thousands of miles away in Chicago Land ❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden Ahhhh TY. Always glad to share if I have experienced it first hand.🥰
Hey Clare.
Aww they look like mine, I've clipped off the curly leaves now as they started going brown and furry 😢
4:53 that looks lush!
I cut the stems of the carrots whilst they were still small. Carrots were fab as you saw.
Can't believe you've had no spring onions! Put some in now and try again 😄
Looking forward for my beans! My peas weren't good this year but sowed some sugar snaps just the other day that are coming through already 😅
Our sweetcorn is slow too.
Maybe take the aubergines outside and water hose down, then use the soapy spray. I've done that with my chillis and seems to have worked. I seriously thought of buying ladybirds.
Great peppers Clare! Bet they tasted so sweet! ❤
The peppers were lovely. I’ve started chopping them to store in the freezer now, to last longer.
You cut the foliage off carrots or just the flower stems? I’ve given up on spring onions 😂
@@TheFarmyardGarden I have no freezer space 😂
So the carrots, when I checked mine every other day, I noticed the thicker stem, the bolt, and if just chop that, the same type of thing you would as an onion scape, the carrots were fine 😀
The jalapenos do have them marks on them it's called corking that's how they should be
I grew them last year and then never got to that stage, so it was alien to me.
Thanks for that info 🤗
Night temperatures in polytunnel in Scotland are very low too and very high during the day. My tomatoes look just like yours. Weird weather for sure 😏
It feels good to not be the only one doesn’t it? Somehow comforting to not feel responsible
@@TheFarmyardGarden definitely 👍
I hope the weather picks up for us all consistently ❤️
Flower drop is the heat
@@ThatBritishHomestead someone also suggested less pollinators due to how wet it is, but I’ve seen loads of bees, hover flies etc about
@@TheFarmyardGarden and cold year completely the only thing I've seen bees on this year is my dahlias which are crawling... perhaps more different flowers will attach them in
Loving the channel Clare. How about Philip Plesent the Happy Metal Pheasant
Oo Phillip is cool. I’m looking forward to seeing all the suggestions.
Thanks for the channel love ❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden no worries at all love. Enjoying every minute 😍
My beans haven't done as well this year xx
Oh no. I’m sorry to hear that. Mine had a really poor start but seem to have picked up now. Definitely not as good as last year though. It’s been such a trying year for us all 🤗
@@TheFarmyardGarden It certainly is a very trying year
I’ve read online leaf curl is caused my high heat and dehydration
Thats really interesting. The leaves do feel dry, yet the moisture meter says the plants are moist, not overly wet and certainly not dry.
Hopefully they will start to behave more normally soon 🙏🏻
Heirloom always come out a little odd that's normal for them. Like they have odd growths. Part of their charm
@@ThatBritishHomestead I don’t think I’m cut out for funky.. They stress me out 😂
@@TheFarmyardGarden I love that about them. I just see this video where a women is stressing coz they are splitting and that's what they do it's all part of their charm. I love the splits on the big beef steaks I think they look lovely
@@ThatBritishHomestead I have cat facing on mine and I don’t mind that. I understood that would happen when I saw the mega blooms
Temperature fluctuations and cold nights is definitely an issue for tomatoes. Mine have had similar issues but my cucumbers have been even worse, extremely slow growing and I'm not sure I'll even get anything off them now. Low light levels is also an issue I think. Celery and spring onions and beetroot have all been amazing this year though so not all bad!
Oh this is strange as my cucumbers seem pretty happy, even the luffas. I expected them to succumb first.
Hope yours pick up. Such a trying year for us all
Phil the pheasant
Been a few suggestions for Phil ❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden Phil, definitely not Philip, okay? 😉😂❤️
It is a hard year
It’s not great for motivation. So many people are disheartened
The Pheasant's red head = Fezzy❤
lol!
We’ve had Phil, Chandler, Foggy and Fonz suggested too.
He does need a name. Can’t go with Ursula though, another suggestion, as he’s a he
My tomatoes were like that last year 😩 think it was the heatwave we had x hopefully you’ll have a better year next year 😊
Fingers crossed! Are yours doing better this year?
@@TheFarmyardGarden yeah 👍🏻 I have no idea why?
I had terrible luck with spring onions and French beans too
Weird isn’t it? I didn’t expect problems with spring onions.
Everything of mine is weeks behind last year too. I’m in Northumberland, so it’s a challenge to begin with! All the leaves on my French beans are yellow due to lack of sun.
My chilli plants are much smaller than this time last year 😢
Fonzy the pheasant?
It’s crazy isn’t it? I remember people telling me last year was challenging too.
Guess with climate change we are all going to have to learn to adapt sadly.. although I’m still optimistic things will improve.
Lovely part of the country you live in ❤️
Fonzy is a cool name!
Aw Clare, I feel your pain with the tomato plants. I’ve also had leaf curl on mine in the greenhouse. Mine aren’t as extreme as yours, but I’m down on the SE Coast and temp swings are not as extreme and min has been 10 and max 35. I’ve also started calmag a couple of weeks back too and shade netting is on👍. I’ve never had such a challenge with tomato plants. I’ve invested in JBA Blight Guard for the 1st time and watching the BlightSpy page daily. I’m sure others have experienced similar too with the awful weather we’re having. I thought mine were going to die and they’re now roof height and got some good trusses of fruit, but the leaves do look worse for wear! 🤞🏻. Yours bounce back from this.🤞🏻
Enjoy your racing weekend
Kaz🙂
It’s a weird year isn’t it? Since putting up the shade net and feeding with calmag the upper leaves have started to uncurl. Hopefully this is a good sign for them ❤️❤️
I’ve heard of the blight guard. I need to look in to it
@@TheFarmyardGarden fabulous! They’re bouncing back Clare. Mine look more like bonsai plants than tomatoes😂. And yes, the shade netting and calmag appears to help, albeit slowly. I’m hopeful and don’t want anymore tomato challenges this year. The Blightguard is £20 and with 16 varieties should last me at least 2 years. BlightSpy is addictive 😂
I heard, I think from Charles Dowding on his channel, that leaf curl in tomatoes can be caused by big temperature swings.
41C?? Wow. Photosynthesis stops at 42C ....
That’s explains it. The temp is so much lower with the shade netting now and the upper leaves have uncurled.
Long shot...but could it be aminopyralids in horse muck you might have used in your tunnel beds? I was watching Down to Earth with Jim's youtube channel and his toms are looking like yours! FYI my 19 year old son bought the same team jersey at F1 in Singapore last September...he was lucky enough to be in the pits!!! Go Mercedes 😂
I did mention this and edited it out. I know my manure doesn’t have any weed killer in it as it’s our own manure and we don’t use it. I’m not sure I’m buying the herbicide thing so much, as so many of us are struggling this year.
Since filming and putting up my shade netting (and feeding calcium) the top leaves are now uncurling
How brilliant for your son! We got a pit walk but didn’t get in the garage 😭❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden I knew you used you're own horses manure, so did think it was a long shot. Sounds like you've hit the nail on the head with the shade cloth. We're used to extremes of temperature over summer in Australia and I have to be diligent looking after my toms when it gets too hot...contrary to popular belief, they don't actually like it too hot! My veg garden is shaded by our house by about 3pm every afternoon and that suits my toms just fine!
Glad you enjoyed Silverstone 😉
leaf curl is temperature fluctuating
Yeah, since filming I’m seeing proof to confirm that. The upper leaves are uncurling since putting up the netting
It's the temps Clare ,the new growth will recover on the Tom's .Brilliant chilli's 🎉 My beans are slow and my corn . Hopefully things will start taking off soon .On the bright side ,my celerys loving this weather and my onions aren't bolting and tons of lettuce 🙂
It’s such crazy year isn’t it? The upper leaves are uncurling after putting up the netting, so you’re right there.
Celeriac here is thriving too. Lettuces are in a shady area in my dog garden and looking fab too. Not bolting
Thanks for watching
The weather is just terrible
Utterly pants!
@@TheFarmyardGarden there is always next year! I'm concentating on cold crops now
@@ThatBritishHomestead I’ve resorted to putting down a few slug pellets today. The slugs have found one bed of French beans 😅
@@TheFarmyardGarden you don't ever you need to! It's been a very hard year
It doesn’t rhyme, but I’m thinking that pheasant looks like a Chandler 🦚
For the aubergines, I’ve had the same thing happen. I think aphids just seem to love them. These days I just go on a ladybird hunt in the garden. Relocate them onto the plant. They usually don’t stick around too long but if you relocate enough of them they’ll tend to lay eggs and the little nymphs can’t fly off so they help longer term.
I’ve seen quite a few ladybirds in the polytunnel. I’ll relocate some to the greenhouse. Funny how it’s only the one, so I do believe the aubergines are the target.
Chandler! My favourite friend 💔❤️
But the marigolds and calendula are so impressive ❤. Your temp fluctuations are insane we are just hot 🥵 it’s stupidly hot. I have to shed really early in the year. Tomatoes yiu can take off any leaves below the first truss for air flow and your tomatoes should be ok. I have lots of plants like this too so it’s not your fault 😂. I have a flat stem cucumber 🥒 with a mega bloom on it WTF 🫣. Flower drop is heat just wait they will be ok. Keep at it Clare it’s never going to be perfect even Charles has issues 😊. None of my bunching onions germinated. Anyway gotta get outside I’ll finish my novel in a bit 😂😂, Ali 8:06
Oh Ali.. it’s been a crazy year. I can’t quite get my head around how hot you suddenly had it after being so cold. We don’t generally get such extreme heat but as you know, things get hot with a little bit of sun in a polytunnel. Can’t imagine how hot it gets in yours!
The flowers are the stars of the show this year. I’m going to be forever growing calendula and cosmos now, I’m sure.
I’ve taken all of the lower leaves off the tomatoes. The leaves have started to uncurl now there’s shade netting up but the pretty jungle images are not going to happen this year. Some of the tomatoes have simply rotted on the plants before ripening. Not bottom end rot.. completely mushy, the whole thing.
I saw Charles is having issues. It’s been suggested to me that I have herbicide poisoning but I can’t accept that so many of us are all having the same thing. I know my manure is herbicide free as we don’t use it on the farm. My sister has one tomato plant that is suffering in her greenhouse and it’s the only one not getting shade from her netting or the compost bins behind the greenhouse.
Why are onions being so dramatic this year?! 😭😭😭
@@TheFarmyardGarden it has been mid to high 30’s the last few days 🥵 sleep is elusive because it’s high teens all night. We get this for a few weeks but not normally this early it’s usually more an August thing. Oh well when and if it does rain I’ll complain then 🤣🤣. People tend to go right to,herbicide panic 😱 but I don’t use horse manure and I’ve never had an issue in my beds. Plus ALL my vegetables are in the same soil and beans and squash are doing fine.