Even though I have lived in Australia for 50 years it’s always a pleasure to hear a posh Geordie accent which is quite unlike our common drawl here in the Antipodes. I remember assisting my grandparents with their allotment and garden in Longbenton as a child and I used to ask how much should I space them or how many per plot . My grandparents just used to say “ Just bung em in pet nature will look after them “!
I chucked spring onion and lettuce seeds directly in the gorund 2 weeks ago, they've already sprouted (need to thin them). The only things in my mini greenhouse at the moment are a couple of varieties of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers which will go outside soon-ish. It's just a bit of fun really, seeing what happens. If something grows, then great - but they better taste good with how much they cost over buying from the supermarket/farmers market 😂
We’ve all been there at some time in our gardening journey. The only rule that I’d suggest is sow/plant more densely than the packet/label states and then thin to stronger plants when they’ve germinated. For example I would have put 4/5 seeds in each of the Marigold cells and thinned to two plants when germinated. The two can then be split apart at the roots when planting out. I’d recommend that you have a watch of Charles Dowding’s UA-cam channel - especially his ‘small garden’ videos. Last year he got 113kg of produce from a 5mx5m plot!
When you fill your seed trays try not to firm in the compost. Just loosely fill then and the a couple of taps of the tray on the bench will settle it. It gives new soft roots a chance to grow. Pop the trays into a larger tray and put water into that. That way you don't wash away or disturb the seed. Great video, but leave those spuds alone!!!
Just found your channel mate i'm in the same boat as you just started haven't got a clue.I've only got 6x4 ft raised bed so i'm doing square foot gardening to try and grow as much as i can.I've got 10 buckets to do potatoes in also and hopefully i'll get a small greenhouse in the not too distant future.(small garden)It's really nice to see someone as clueless as myself🤣subscribed.👍
My kind of gardening is also to chuck it all in and see what happens!😂 That said, it is always heart warming when you see sprouts burst forth. The trick then is to keep them growing into something that you can make a meal out of! Also, how wonderful to have deer roaming along the back of your garden _(lets hope they don't pop in for a snack on your hard work)_ Thanks for the video.
As others have said, you might have made a mistake with your tatties 🥔 in the raised bed; as I understand it, when the plant breaks through the surface, earth over the top. When it breaks through again, put more earth over the top again. Repeat a few more times; the idea is that the potato tubers need to be away from the sunlight, otherwise they’ll go green and be poisonous to eat. Best option is a big enough barrel or bag or a bed that is deep enough for lots of soil to be added - otherwise you’ll just end up washing away the soil over the edge of your bed.
Too late now, but I'd water the compost before adding the seeds and then you don't wash them about. But just experiment, you'll soon find out ( in a year or two!) what suits your garden, enjoy.
For your spuds , try reversing a compost bag, so the adverts are on the inside, add 6" of compost, put may be three seed pots in and roll the collar of the bag down. Once the sprouts show, add more compost, until the bag is full. Good luck.
Buckets for your potatoes .Two maincrop per bucket ,add 4 inches place seed potatoes ,add compost to top .One shallot can produce six to eight per bulb Andy lol Seeds don't mind rough compost when sowing direct .Never bought seed compost in 40 years Andy .I just use multi for everything .I add vermiculite and sieve it for really small seeds .
potatoes will sprout again, no worries :) Just make sure that once they break ground, you cover them when it freezes or you'll have another setback. I usually cover each one with a flowerpot and maybe some fleece, depending on how cold it'll get
Onions will just get bigger, Shallots will split and make more, and each Garlic clove will grow into a whole bulb. I’ve got into Square Foot Gardening for raised beds, where you can fit either 1, 4, 9 or 16 seeds/plants into 1 square foot and I bought a plastic template with holes to make the spacing very easy.
I bought at Bottlebrush shrub last year &, even though it was placed in our sheltered porch over winter, it looks like our relatively mild winter has done for it. It looks a lot like yours. We've cut back all the dead bits & see if if comes back to life. We had another one a few years ago that seemed to coupe with winters no problem but alas not this time.
Planting your carrots with your onions will help prevent your carrots getting destroyed by a weevil. They don’t look me onions apparently. I’m a novice gardener too, but I know that much. 😬❤
I''m sure the spuds will be fine Andy, some people like to cut them (as you did) into "slips" but others say the bigger the potato you plant the greater the yield so it's worth finding what works for you, if you can be bothered to record what you did - video useful for this ! I wouldn't worry too much on the spacing, it may just result in a lower yield, you've only got limited space so make the most of it, I reckon you'll be needing another couple of raised beds ! I'd get some MDPE hoops over those beds soon for net/mesh/fleece, to keep the cats, Deer and pigeons off your crops ! Pleased to see all your seedings germinating at the end, it's so exciting, just need to work out where you're going to plant them all now - remember you can interplant many with other ornamental plants in the main garden where you have loads of space still, this can have advantages regarding pests and disease too !
One thing to bear in mind when spacing seeds or plants is - do you ever see mother nature with a tape measure? Do what feels right and they will still grow.
We are in north Yorkshire and I have never covered my bottle brush plant and its covered in leaves also the mimosa tree is covered in flowers ,the bottle brush may have sweated under the fleece.
This time of year a lot of my money ends up at the garden nurseries! The spare onions I'd put in pots but the shallots will end up the new ones growing off round the seed one so the bed would be better. Look at 'succession' sowing. Sow some, then a couple of weeks later sow a few more and so on, otherwise you end up with a glut. Lettuce is soporific so munching your way through a lot of that may lead to some snoozing time. I also plant some onions, shallots and garlic in October as cold weather is supposed to improve the flavour and then more in spring. The remaining potatoes could go in old compost bags using your homemade compost? I use old dustbins so they are easy to 'earth up' Bottom line is grow for flavour not quantity, supermarkets are so much cheaper for that. However a potatoe dug up and then cooked half hour later is something else. Enjoy the journey too, there is no such thing as failure, it's just part of the learning.
You don't have to plant things at the distances apart that the instructions say all the time, obviously there needs to be a good gap but if you plant things closer you generally just end up with a smaller plant, which for onions isn't always a bad thing, also plant onions around carrots as that helps stop carrot root fly. Any spare onions get into some pots so they start growing, you can always transplant them later on into other containers and get some buckets or even any old container you can get your hands on for the potatoes, I've only got a yard so grow just about everything in the flower buckets from Morrisons or the old kerb side recycling containers. And you can always make a small poly or scaffolding net tunnel using the 25mm blue water pipe to make hoops to keep the cats off the beds, will also help keeping the butterflies off your cabbages!
Deer are lovely but theyll eat your stuff! If you can't, or don't want to block their access, you need to protect your plants. Theyre as bad as rabbits for munching in the garden. We have crabapples that drop fruit outside the back fence into the green space behind and the deer love them. Our city has made a bylaw that prohibits us leaving edibles where the wildlife can get at them. 🥴
Keep sticking a few more potatoes in the corners etc. Do you really want giant tatties for roasting? For me boiling smaller potatoes works better with smaller ones - you just end up cutting the big ones in half to get them to cook evenly
Even though I have lived in Australia for 50 years it’s always a pleasure to hear a posh Geordie accent which is quite unlike our common drawl here in the Antipodes. I remember assisting my grandparents with their allotment and garden in Longbenton as a child and I used to ask how much should I space them or how many per plot . My grandparents just used to say “ Just bung em in pet nature will look after them “!
I chucked spring onion and lettuce seeds directly in the gorund 2 weeks ago, they've already sprouted (need to thin them). The only things in my mini greenhouse at the moment are a couple of varieties of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers which will go outside soon-ish. It's just a bit of fun really, seeing what happens. If something grows, then great - but they better taste good with how much they cost over buying from the supermarket/farmers market 😂
We’ve all been there at some time in our gardening journey. The only rule that I’d suggest is sow/plant more densely than the packet/label states and then thin to stronger plants when they’ve germinated. For example I would have put 4/5 seeds in each of the Marigold cells and thinned to two plants when germinated. The two can then be split apart at the roots when planting out.
I’d recommend that you have a watch of Charles Dowding’s UA-cam channel - especially his ‘small garden’ videos. Last year he got 113kg of produce from a 5mx5m plot!
Garden associations can save you a fortune on materials, pots, seeds and a great place to get advice.
When you fill your seed trays try not to firm in the compost. Just loosely fill then and the a couple of taps of the tray on the bench will settle it. It gives new soft roots a chance to grow. Pop the trays into a larger tray and put water into that. That way you don't wash away or disturb the seed.
Great video, but leave those spuds alone!!!
Row, row, row ya onions! I think you are the same school of gardening as me: bung it in and see what happens 😊
Just found your channel mate i'm in the same boat as you just started haven't got a clue.I've only got 6x4 ft raised bed so i'm doing square foot gardening to try and grow as much as i can.I've got 10 buckets to do potatoes in also and hopefully i'll get a small greenhouse in the not too distant future.(small garden)It's really nice to see someone as clueless as myself🤣subscribed.👍
My kind of gardening is also to chuck it all in and see what happens!😂 That said, it is always heart warming when you see sprouts burst forth. The trick then is to keep them growing into something that you can make a meal out of! Also, how wonderful to have deer roaming along the back of your garden _(lets hope they don't pop in for a snack on your hard work)_ Thanks for the video.
As others have said, you might have made a mistake with your tatties 🥔 in the raised bed; as I understand it, when the plant breaks through the surface, earth over the top. When it breaks through again, put more earth over the top again. Repeat a few more times; the idea is that the potato tubers need to be away from the sunlight, otherwise they’ll go green and be poisonous to eat.
Best option is a big enough barrel or bag or a bed that is deep enough for lots of soil to be added - otherwise you’ll just end up washing away the soil over the edge of your bed.
Too late now, but I'd water the compost before adding the seeds and then you don't wash them about. But just experiment, you'll soon find out ( in a year or two!) what suits your garden, enjoy.
Your seedling are doing well in the green house, never know your potatoes my still grow never say never, Its all looking good Andy🌱🌱🌱🥦🥔🥬👍👍
i love this, more hope than expertise. just great 👍🏻
Thank you for taking me on your journey with you, Andy enjoyable as always 🌞
Spare seed potatoes in containers (25lt) is a good use for them. Easy to maintain and crop plus protects them from disease. Great channel 👍
For your spuds , try reversing a compost bag, so the adverts are on the inside, add 6" of compost, put may be three seed pots in and roll the collar of the bag down. Once the sprouts show, add more compost, until the bag is full. Good luck.
Buckets for your potatoes .Two maincrop per bucket ,add 4 inches place seed potatoes ,add compost to top .One shallot can produce six to eight per bulb Andy lol Seeds don't mind rough compost when sowing direct .Never bought seed compost in 40 years Andy .I just use multi for everything .I add vermiculite and sieve it for really small seeds .
andy put something on top of your bamboo canes or they will have your eye out
potatoes will sprout again, no worries :) Just make sure that once they break ground, you cover them when it freezes or you'll have another setback. I usually cover each one with a flowerpot and maybe some fleece, depending on how cold it'll get
Onions will just get bigger, Shallots will split and make more, and each Garlic clove will grow into a whole bulb. I’ve got into Square Foot Gardening for raised beds, where you can fit either 1, 4, 9 or 16 seeds/plants into 1 square foot and I bought a plastic template with holes to make the spacing very easy.
I bought at Bottlebrush shrub last year &, even though it was placed in our sheltered porch over winter, it looks like our relatively mild winter has done for it. It looks a lot like yours. We've cut back all the dead bits & see if if comes back to life. We had another one a few years ago that seemed to coupe with winters no problem but alas not this time.
Planting your carrots with your onions will help prevent your carrots getting destroyed by a weevil. They don’t look me onions apparently. I’m a novice gardener too, but I know that much. 😬❤
I''m sure the spuds will be fine Andy, some people like to cut them (as you did) into "slips" but others say the bigger the potato you plant the greater the yield so it's worth finding what works for you, if you can be bothered to record what you did - video useful for this ! I wouldn't worry too much on the spacing, it may just result in a lower yield, you've only got limited space so make the most of it, I reckon you'll be needing another couple of raised beds !
I'd get some MDPE hoops over those beds soon for net/mesh/fleece, to keep the cats, Deer and pigeons off your crops !
Pleased to see all your seedings germinating at the end, it's so exciting, just need to work out where you're going to plant them all now - remember you can interplant many with other ornamental plants in the main garden where you have loads of space still, this can have advantages regarding pests and disease too !
You can grow potatoes in big pots or even buckets. They do dry up quick as potatoes get very thirsty. Have fun
One thing to bear in mind when spacing seeds or plants is - do you ever see mother nature with a tape measure? Do what feels right and they will still grow.
We are in north Yorkshire and I have never covered my bottle brush plant and its covered in leaves also the mimosa tree is covered in flowers ,the bottle brush may have sweated under the fleece.
This time of year a lot of my money ends up at the garden nurseries! The spare onions I'd put in pots but the shallots will end up the new ones growing off round the seed one so the bed would be better.
Look at 'succession' sowing. Sow some, then a couple of weeks later sow a few more and so on, otherwise you end up with a glut. Lettuce is soporific so munching your way through a lot of that may lead to some snoozing time. I also plant some onions, shallots and garlic in October as cold weather is supposed to improve the flavour and then more in spring.
The remaining potatoes could go in old compost bags using your homemade compost? I use old dustbins so they are easy to 'earth up'
Bottom line is grow for flavour not quantity, supermarkets are so much cheaper for that. However a potatoe dug up and then cooked half hour later is something else. Enjoy the journey too, there is no such thing as failure, it's just part of the learning.
I’d suggest putting the marigolds outside in the daytime, but the clip was perhaps a while ago?
Benefits of raised bed gardening, you can reduce spacing.
He's back in the glass man shed !
3:13 looks like a bog-brush plant! Still it might recover…
You don't have to plant things at the distances apart that the instructions say all the time, obviously there needs to be a good gap but if you plant things closer you generally just end up with a smaller plant, which for onions isn't always a bad thing, also plant onions around carrots as that helps stop carrot root fly. Any spare onions get into some pots so they start growing, you can always transplant them later on into other containers and get some buckets or even any old container you can get your hands on for the potatoes, I've only got a yard so grow just about everything in the flower buckets from Morrisons or the old kerb side recycling containers. And you can always make a small poly or scaffolding net tunnel using the 25mm blue water pipe to make hoops to keep the cats off the beds, will also help keeping the butterflies off your cabbages!
"Tattie bye"... I see what you did there! 😉
Deer are lovely but theyll eat your stuff! If you can't, or don't want to block their access, you need to protect your plants. Theyre as bad as rabbits for munching in the garden. We have crabapples that drop fruit outside the back fence into the green space behind and the deer love them. Our city has made a bylaw that prohibits us leaving edibles where the wildlife can get at them. 🥴
so interesting to see the deer ... does that happen often ?
You allowed to plant imperial veg 6” apart in metric made raised bed 😂
Keep sticking a few more potatoes in the corners etc. Do you really want giant tatties for roasting? For me boiling smaller potatoes works better with smaller ones - you just end up cutting the big ones in half to get them to cook evenly
It's not a contest so your win some and lose some good luck ❤
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