Thank you for posting this. Growing has been so hard this year - weather / pests / life. The main reason I follow this channel is because it's a real garden not a social media self sufficiency 'paradise'
This is why we watch your videos-keeping it real and helping people realize we can’t fail because it is OUR garden and we just have to learn and move forward! 👩🏼🌾 Now-someone please tell me I’m not the only one who kept waiting for someone to throw the snail back over the fence from the play park!!🤣🐌😆🐌
Great points Eli!! I would also add that no matter what you think of your own garden, other people appreciate it. I live on a busy street and everyone who goes by tells me how much they love my garden, no matter how it looks!!
Love my garden the disasters as well as the flowers that survive my attention. Its not the prettiest but its my space and it relaxes me which in itself is a huge plus.
Great message! Good attitude is very important. I get many comments about how terrible my garden looks... in January... in Colorado... when everything is dead. I still think it looks wonderful and endure the cold to enjoy it. 😊
Another pep talk, just when it was needed. I’m currently battling with leaf miners and single handedly keeping the nematode industry on its feet! So demoralising when you see the damage they cause and I’ve been feeling like a failure for not being able to control the problem. You have just reminded me that despite the whole garden looking like a mess, I’m still harvesting food for the table. So thank you, again, for the reminder to just stop being so hard on myself and to focus on the positives. You really are rather good for morale.
You are so right Eli, too many people worry about what others think. Last years garlic and onions all rotted, this year garlic and onions all rotted, I'm fed up with the weather, true but I know it's not my fault so I'm hoping for 3rd time lucky and a drier autum/winter and spring and lushious garlic and onions next year. Love the vlogs and your way of vlogging, you truely deserved your award.
Eli, you have the most timely videos. Just a day or two ago I was beating myself up because I still don’t have all the perennial weeds pulled from my vegetable garden. Not taking into account that 3 years ago I had major surgery, and the weeds got ahead of me, (due to the fact that I used grass clippings which were full of dandelion seeds as a mulch on the beds) so the second year I had a magnificent crop of weeds. That year I just gave up, but this year I’m fighting back. It’s slow going, but damn I’m determined to get her done! For a 74 year old, I now think I’m doing not too badly. Thanks for the encouragement!
My peas 🫛 have gone berserk, I can’t pick them fast enough. However when I harvested my carrots 🥕 there wasn’t a straight one amongst them. My strawberries have been rubbish but my corn is flowering. So it’s swings and roundabouts really. This is my first year as a gardener so I’m happy 😊
I actually relate better to gardeners/videos that keep it real, the good and the bad. Because that's the reality of gardening, every year is a grand science experiment with different results.
We are just as good as any of those with huge harvest baskets. Truly, they don’t have more talent and experience, just time, money, equipment and land. The more I’ve gardened the more I’ve found out how simple it is and anyone can do it.
Thank you Eli, I needed someone to give my head a wobble 😅 I've been so down with bad weather, slugs eating everything and just not doing as well as others. I've stopped putting videos on my channel and basically giving up. BUT this weekend I'm going to film worts n all, there must be something I'm proud of and a good tidy up may help. Thank you xxxx
❤ I love the new potted up plants and bush replacement area! My garlic was smaller this year too, but still good. It put the garlic scent in the soil to deter pests and I got enough small heads to make delicious recipes. Today I’m making scape pesto
Bless you so much for this word of encouragement. We all have our garden struggles. This week we had temps in the upper 90's F. TOO HOT! Some of my garden suffered because of it. I do grow for farmer's market, so there is pressure I put on myself to produce crops that are "just right" for selling. Well, I guess it will sell or it won't but I still love to spend time in the garden...when it's not so hot :)
One of my favourite videos, a much needed reality check! It's been a pants summer so far so any harvest is a win! Your wee chuck of the snail made me giggle lol
I just found your channel and I find it so reassuring and relaxing. Thanks for the reminder of the reason we love to garden. I'm going to enjoy it more and worry less. Thanks!
Glad you mentioned about social media and to bring yourself into a reality check. I’ve found myself going down that rabbit hole and you start thinking WTH did I do wrong. We are all struggling the affects of weather changes-it’s more extreme then ever. I’ve never had troubles with tomatoes in all my decades of gardening until this year. And I grew a lot of hybrids thankfully. The blight arrived in July and not the normal August timeframe and they are short and skinny. I may be able to salvage since the rain let up and sun returns. Thankful for dusty soil as it dried out quick enough I could get some liquid fertilizer on them to boost them up before storms Sunday. We have extreme heat indexes coming also for few days and shade fabric is needed and to do anything requires a lot of mosquito spray and head net. It’s been miserable to garden this summer. There are some wins, but like you we have had Way too much rain and rust and mildew are an issue here also. Never had rust on hollyhocks until this year and I also added two more varieties 🙄 now it looks like I may need rust resistant varieties or spray copper early. We just harvested garlic and I was concerned they and onions would rot, but again thankful for dusty soil. You both do a great job at managing your what you have-celebrate!🎉. And more mentioning of quit comparing ourselves with other more than perfect shots we see-just remember you aren’t seeing the whole picture.😉. There’s enough crap going on in this world then to beat ourselves up over our greatest stress reliever-The Garden.
Those little bulbs on the garlic are called "bulbils'....you can plant them and grow a garlic. Takes a couple years though. Always good to be "real" about the garden. Great video.
I needed to see this today. Thank you! I have been feeling a bit of a failure in the garden recently because I’ve hardly any blooms. Here, near Stirling we’ve had so much rain and it’s been so cold so it isn’t surprising. I’m so happy you bought some lovely plants. I’ve been feeling like I shouldn’t do that and that I should be growing everything myself. Thanks again, I really enjoyed and appreciated this video. 🥰
This is my first full year as a garden hobbyist. I've really enjoyed it and for the most part what I've planted has at least popped up. There have been a few failures though so I'm very much still learning. It's a pity it's not warmer. It feels like we haven't had a summer at all yet.
Great message Eli! I have physical disabilities, so my head makes promises that my body can't keep half the time. Watching videos just makes me think "but when do they EAT all that stuff?" rather than "my garden doesn't look like that!". The first year I moved here my family planted tonnes of veg for me that the local field mice really enjoyed before I was able to harvest, so now I just do a couple of edible things (including supermarket chives dotted around the borders, because pollinators love those flowers, and supermarket mint in containers for a cheeky mojito or iced tea) and loads of flowers/plants. In the same vein as your message, I've just ordered lots of seeds for winter/spring and when I'm queen of the world websites and catalogues will HAVE to state how many plants they've crammed in for those pictures, because they're pretty much not like reality.
Hi Eli & Kate, lovely flowers 😊 my garlic isn't any better than yours, wr get rust every bit, i still grow it, free,e it in ice cubes. I harvested broccoli for dinner today, first time growing it and ut was lovely. Lovely update thanks for sharing and take care 😊
Thank you for being a realistic gardener. In Florida this year it got hot way too early and my tomatoes and snow peas gave up early on. Then we are just now beginning to get our daily rain. So needless to say things have not grown too well this year. Oh well, maybe next year!
What a brilliant video. Well done Eli for such a positive message. With year we've had so far it's so easy to focus on all the things the slugs have eaten before I could (and its a long list), rather than celebrate the ones they left me and that I'm just starting to enjoy. Off to pick some mangetout now. Thanks !
I failed at gardening this year miserably....... as the garden has been ankle deep in water since last October!! The couple of dry weeks I got stuff planted out.... it's all dead... drowned by constant torrential rain... and my tears of frustration.... bindweed loves it!
Lovely little side walk up to the garden. Looks great. Acuba does bush up nicely but you can chop it hard back. The gardening is really a struggle this year. Nice to know all in the same space though. I agree it’s Not cheating buying plants sometimes it’s needed
I love your attitude to gardening. Have had a garden of some sort most of my life. I have never done it for vast harvests but because it gives me pleasure and takes me away from the stresses of life. Everything else is a bonus.
This was a great reassuring video Eli, when I first started gardening I would get really annoyed if a vegetable wasn't as perfect as the ones you can buy, now I realise that anything is better than nothing and we should enjoy the process rather than the outcome. Your new bed where the hedge was looks like it has always been there, they were a lovely mixture of colours, lovely job that. Take care 😊
I use a long profiterole lid as a trug. One of our chilli plants died when i up potted it and all of our ginger was eaten. I need to dig it up to see if there is anything left worth keeping. We have had some good harvests this year though. 3 sisters are doing great in the newly re purposed sand pit bed. Can't complain really even though the weather is crappy and the slugs and snails have taken over the garden. I think it is important to just try and think of the positives and what is working and what is also under your control to change to improve things. I sometimes get overwhelmed, stressed or depressed about getting a good year of harvests but i think this year, with the weather and pests, any win is a success this year. Take care!
I truly appreciate you sharing your garden with us! It is a vulnerability that, it seems, may not have been respected. As gardeners, we should be stretching and things don’t always work out; however, we learn. Thank you again for opening up your journey to viewers.❤
Lying here on the sofa feeling down. It is super windy and drying. We have had little rain. It is hotter than normal and heat does me in. The beetle bugs are eating everything before I can get a harvest and there is no stopping them. Yes I am feeling down. 🍷 👱🏻🍷👱🏻 🍷 (that is me whining). But, I still get compliments from passer by’s, so something must still be enticing to others. Thanks for all you two do! It is deeply appreciated.
And then I just came outside and two of my beautiful porch railing baskets with papyrus in them that I have been babying were blown off the rail and are pretty well smashed, and Ron is going to say, seeeeee I told you they needed to be screwed down, as he gives me a hug and feels bad for me. 🍷👱🏻 🍷 👱🏻
thanks for a bit of realism.. i don't have any tomatoes as yet, v disappointing with our freezing scottish weather. oh well at least i'm not the only one.
I just pulled up all of my wilted and bitter salad greens. No mangold came up, old seeds, I reckon. My squash got pulled too, all yellow and stunted. But I have harvested strawberries, sugarsnap peas, herbs, green leaves, early potatoes, and even a few green peppers. I have sown squash again and won't give up on anything. My success is measured by me and me alone :D
I look at gardening as a learning lesson. I’ve had good, great and poor results. Sometimes it’s me, sometimes it’s the weather, but it’s always a lesson there somewhere. This years lesson is my garlic and onions. You just have to accept it, learn and try to do better next time. ❤❤❤
I just bought my third and fourth green stalk planters. I'm so glad to see that you are making yours shorter as well. And I think I've decided to mix mine together. I have some of the deeper classic ones and I have some shorter pocket ones, the "leaf" style. Basket weave and plain finish. I'm going to make an area just for these green stalks. The round level surface where I had my above ground pool. Instead of four towers I think I will go with eight! I'm pretty sure I'm going to put a paver underneath mine as well, just like yours! I'm also taking in some small harvests, but it's all I need!😊 That will change soon enough.
In the process of moving so this year my garden is really whatever I could fit in pots and planters and plunked them at the top of the driveway. Your video reminded me to enjoy whatever small successes there are. Best of all we are moving to more land so next year’s gardens will be stellar. Thanks Eli and Kate for your common sense and encouragement
Great reality check. Gardening is a journey not a destination. As someone who grew up before social media, lol. It's nice to see a real garden with the good and bad.
Its been a tough tough year Never had my Garlic fail until this yr. Grew well then bulbs deformed So you are doing better than Love your content Kind regards to you and Kate
We are getting loads of rain but yet my hanging baskets keep drying out because they are shaded by the house so I’m watering in the rain. Cork Ireland wettest and cloudy est July ever I’d say. Every garden has issues. Love your garden it’s so kept ❤
When you know rain is coming, set them out from the house on the ground to get a good drink. I did the opposite yesterday. We are having torrential downpours today and tomorrow here in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, as a result of a hurricane. I moved all my plants in pots under the eaves or in the garage. Just trying to be a good plant mom. Hope the all survive.
Great inspirational video! Last year I would say I failed or didn't succeed with something. This year, I blame the weather or the plant. Saying that I'm not impressed with it's performance is better for my mental health than blaming myself. Still, I'm able to think if I can do something different, so a similar plant might impress me later. All "fails" are opportunities to learn.
Thank you for sharing your garlic experience. I needed this reminder. We're having lots of weather extremes this year, insect extremes, and right now my main goal is simply to keep plants alive in the current heat & humidity.
Thank you for this video. It's my first year in my new home and due to the sudden temp changes and constant rain it sure has affected my veg plants which I grew first. I'm just happy that I have a garden again. it appears my flowers are really happy, especially my Dahlias which I have grown from tubers early spring. Just love the fact I have a container garden, so it anything fails or is done for the season, I can switch them out and replace accordingly
I'm a garden grower too, and prefer these to full heads. I think I get more from them for longer, space wise. Yours there seems like a good one! I have enjoyed some Sprouting cauliflowers delistem white, should you ever want to try those. Thanks for another great video x
Some of my dahlias and zinnias are growing but loads of them are food for the slugs. Feel like it’s been very wet since March up near Manchester. Need a bit of sunshine! X
The only failures in my garden this year have been due to a lack of time, but there isn't much you can do when you work full time. Oh, and my courgettes keep going squishy, but I'm blaming the weather for that. Every year is a learning curve, and if I learn how to encourage 1 plant each year, then it's a win. Still gonna blame the weather for everything though :)
Quite agree! My garlic got rust, the onions bolted, the beans didn't germinate and my outdoor tomatoes are all leaf no fruit. But I am drowning in cucumbers, had a fab harvest of strawberries and the chillies are taking over the greenhouse! Every crop failure is a lesson learned as far as I am concerned. It's still a joy to be out in the garden 😊
❤I have a huge spotted laurel and I could never figure out what it was called - thank you! I don’t know how to care for it, but it LOVES the front yard with partial shade (grows towards the sunlight).😊
Absolutely honestly just the video I needed .... as Im always moaning about this year's failures .... Thank you so much for giving me the kick I needed .... Your channel is simply the best 😊😊❤️❤️🌷🌷🐝
Hi eli and kate thanks the video your garden looks great, I like what you've done where your hedge was ❤ I try not to beat myself up regarding the garden I do my best and enjoy what victory's come of it, I have got disappointed with vegetables or lack of them but with only a garden like you say limited space you do what you can 🎉
There’s no failures, only opportunities to learn. Every one of us in life, who uploads anything to social media or just takes photos for their own albums, always choose the most flattering angles. It’s human nature. I agree that gardening is gardening.. however you choose to do it. As long as it brings us joy, on the whole, it’s a win win Ps.. I was thrilled with my garlic. Then I saw others on social media and realised mine wasn’t as good as I thought.. but no one can take the joy away I felt when I pulled them. I grew a thing. That’s the goal and that can only be a viewed as a success personally.
Oh my... I LOVE my Calibracoa!! (Kal-uh-brick-oh-a) Like a petunia, except for you you never have to deadhead them and they don't hardly ever look bad and they never quit!! So much more Hardy. Between those and my discovering how strong and gorgeous begonias are... I always have blooms!. I've also recently discovered how gorgeous caladiums are. And Autumn sedum. I love my annuals but I want them to be just as strong as the perennials that I have fallen for! I wish I had a picture that I could show you here, but I think I need to do a quick flower tour! I am very ashamed of the parts of my backyard that I don't touch at all. I've basically got areas that I'm growing hay. Tall as my waist untouched grass. I just don't have the time to tend those areas. They are around the perimeter and my bunny & kitty love exploring through there. I have to give myself a pardon every time I look at it. The garden is ever-changing. We need to give ourselves the grace to move along with it. It does what it does and it doesn't always look great, so neither can we!!
The veggie tower might work a wee bit better with some dwarf marigolds so you have a map where things are? Bush peas are great for saving the annoyance of being unable to reach those peas way up at the top. I was disappointed, but then I finally understood what some directions were all about. I have far more flowers this year but just didn't see any of the sweet peas come up. Last week I told myself to plant some more because I want them. Life is about growing, our knowledge, too often weight, and learning too.
Got a first handful of peas yesterday. Just a gram short of 80 grams but enough for dinner with homegrown potatoes and pork steaks. Broad beans are struggling, so are the runner beans. Still trying to get kohlrabi to grow. Tho the leek seedlings I repotted have grown a lot more and will have to go into the final planter soon. And we had quite a few strawberries which are now jam. Little bit disappointed but also happy we got something so far after the abysmal Spring and the non-happening Summer. Cabbages and Sprouts are in to, so fingers crossed for them. It's all trial and tribulations. Love your smoke bush btw. ours needs a little trim, it's loving the weather. And how do you stop your cat messing in your borders?
our cats are house cats so they have absolutely no inclination to do the toilet outdoors. They come in from the garden to do the loo :D Neighbours cats have been an issue though and we've had to put pebbles down as a mulch in the places where they like to go to the toilet.
@@eliandkate My lot only use the indoor lav when it's winter, it's abysmal outside or there are no more free spots. I even dedicated a bit of border under a conifer just for their personal toilet. Nothing grows under there anyway as it took dry. Did the kitties get the hint? Absolutely Not 🤣
confession - my onions have been all leaf miner, and grotty. the garlic has been laughable. BUT - no cabbage white butterflies, so my brassicas are lovely!!! it's all relative!!! x
My conifer hedge in my back garden died so we took it out and replaced it with spotted laurel in ground and begonias in pots on the fence as its a very shaded area
It’s been a sucky year for garlic!! I just hope next year will be better! This the weather has been super for brassicas there’s al😂aye one crop that does well and another that’s is poor but then the next year it will be the reverse or something else 😊
Well.... most things I try up here fail , usually due to weather slugs or my forgetfull brain. Probably spent hundreds on failures... but... I still try... lol
We've recently had a big political enquiry into supermarkets and price gouging and food waste... one of the supermarket execs said something along the lines of "no one wants a giant banana"... that notion of what we are used to seeing in supermarkets versus what is perfectly good to use/eat is insane. Personally I would be quite happy to have a giant banana... much like I'm sure your garlic and broccoli and other things are quite lovely. (I too have sent snails on an over fence holiday... typically only after take off have I thought "I probably should have been doubly sure no one was on the other side of the fence".)
Great video as usual Eli, i don't think the weather helps it's suppose to be summer where is mr sunshine no such thing as failure as a gardener that is how we learn x
Ninety degrees plus most days for the last couple of weeks,so everything is kind of at a standstill. I have lots of blossoms on plants but over ninety degrees and pollen goes sterile. So no cucumbers and only a few zucchini.
I don’t care what you say, I’m a failure. My onions have failed, the runner beans are covered in black fly, the radish have been left too long, the peppers are not there, my wife has left me, the dog continually looks at me in a funny way, my water butt is leaking and I’ve lost my spade. Can you help?
@@eliandkate😂😂I was just thinking the somebody done me wrong songs. He won’t need a spade as he will have it made in spades 😂😂. I hope he meant the comment to be funny-right?
Those Violas would probably have come good again if you gave them a massive haircut. Some of mine went that way. I chopped them down short and they bounced back nicely. Buying plants is cheating? Not according to my rules and as it's my garden they are the only ones that matter. Yep plants die sometimes but that means you have space to grow something new. Thanks for the video. Cheers!
I pulled the remainder of my garlic today and my 2 elephant garlic (first time growing). Elephant garlic is very big, but has started to split open sadly - I'm assuming I harvested it a bit too late(?) Also Noticed a couple leaf miner about on some, but I'm not too worried about those as I will be able to see if these any on the cloves when I use them (I peeled back a couple layers and the garlic bulbs looked fine, so hopefully it was just on the outer layer). With the Ele garlic, I read online that you can just split the cloves, peel and freeze them. However, people on a veg fb page have said theirs were like that and they just dried them like normal and the cloves still kept fine for a long time, so not sure what would be best - what do you reckon? P.S. Listening/watching you planting them flowers in was so relaxing, I could have that sort of video playing on in the background for hours
@@eliandkate disappointed, I thought you were perfect and made/sowed/grew everything 🤣 Like you said at the start "so what, it's not cheating". Please make your buckets in future 🤪
It’s actually tenderstem,(the stuff you buy in the supermarket) it’s not truly broccoli, but a hybrid of sprouting broccoli and Chinese kale. I’m loving it
Ive planted 100 crocus blubs, about 45 different ranunculus bulbs, 15 tigridia blubs lots of dahlia, 5 echinacea lotsnof anemone and lots of alliums and more all bought from farmer gracey im so disappointed no spring bulbs even developed or rooted so no spring flowers only thing that has started to flower are the Dahlias. They are planted in front garden in the ground also in pots front and back garden . It's not the first year this has happened. Everything else i bought from elsewhere have grown. Vegetable beds doing ok considering the weather. I spent so much on farmer gracey site😢 to be left flower less 😪. And yes, i put them in the right places . Like the crocus blubs i dug up to see what was going on, they are the same as if i had just taken them out of the packet. Tomatoes are doing great outside and inside. Beans and peas only have one bean pea in the pod . Onions are good garlic small lettuce is good. Carrots are great even transplanted them.😊
i dont care what anybody thinks,never have and never will, but i do get down when i see other people veg, grow and mine seem to get attacked and theirs dont, [i know theirs does too} its only my 2nd year growing and so far this year i feel like giving up,[i wont} as my Cabbage and cauli,peas get either attacked by slugs,snails or pigeons. thers too much rain not enough Sun. [cloud seeding😂]Yeah i know im still learning and these downers are 50/50, but the rewards are very good, great tasting veg with no chemicals ,and you cant beat that
Garlic, fail bar one bulb but fried up a fab scape.h Broad beans win. 😃 Runners beans growning but very few flowers no beans. Chillis started March just getting flowers. Asters, cornflower, tulips, poppys colius, cosmos grown from seed all doing 😢 Tomatoes started March only just got flowers with 3 tomatoes growing out of 13 plants.
@@eliandkate I agree about tomatoes Eli, fingers crossed my chillis and peppers come on . Yorkshire has been so rainy and lacking in sunshine. Hope you and Kate are well, thanks for the reply 🙂
Think its been a pants season all-round this year. Ok its my first proper one with a green house and raised beds. Not had any veg yet this year not even a runner bean and think the winds gotten to them . , even radish have struggled as has carrots , either not grown or just bolted. Courgettes, cucumbers & tomatoes only just starting to show produce in the green house but gone made growing wise.
Thank you for posting this. Growing has been so hard this year - weather / pests / life. The main reason I follow this channel is because it's a real garden not a social media self sufficiency 'paradise'
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No such thing as failure as a gardener. It's just the normal battle with nature. It can't always be perfect 😊
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This is why we watch your videos-keeping it real and helping people realize we can’t fail because it is OUR garden and we just have to learn and move forward! 👩🏼🌾 Now-someone please tell me I’m not the only one who kept waiting for someone to throw the snail back over the fence from the play park!!🤣🐌😆🐌
😂😂😂😂 the snail is off on his hols
Great video and lesson for all of us! We love you Eli and Kate!
Great points Eli!! I would also add that no matter what you think of your own garden, other people appreciate it. I live on a busy street and everyone who goes by tells me how much they love my garden, no matter how it looks!!
Well said! We get the same! 😍😍
Love my garden the disasters as well as the flowers that survive my attention. Its not the prettiest but its my space and it relaxes me which in itself is a huge plus.
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Great message! Good attitude is very important. I get many comments about how terrible my garden looks... in January... in Colorado... when everything is dead. I still think it looks wonderful and endure the cold to enjoy it. 😊
I hope you delete those comments
Your garden is fabulous and I challenge anyone to say otherwise 😁
Come for the garden, stay for the positive self talk. I came for the garden, I stayed for your voice. Always waiting for you to say “wee”❤
Ha ha ha I’ll keep that in mind
Another pep talk, just when it was needed. I’m currently battling with leaf miners and single handedly keeping the nematode industry on its feet! So demoralising when you see the damage they cause and I’ve been feeling like a failure for not being able to control the problem. You have just reminded me that despite the whole garden looking like a mess, I’m still harvesting food for the table. So thank you, again, for the reminder to just stop being so hard on myself and to focus on the positives. You really are rather good for morale.
You are so right Eli, too many people worry about what others think. Last years garlic and onions all rotted, this year garlic and onions all rotted, I'm fed up with the weather, true but I know it's not my fault so I'm hoping for 3rd time lucky and a drier autum/winter and spring and lushious garlic and onions next year. Love the vlogs and your way of vlogging, you truely deserved your award.
I’m think I might go mad and change up my plants completely next year…. Maybe I should go for a big garden!!! 😂😂😂
Great message, thanks Eli. Hope you enjoyed your harvest.
Oh we really did, plenty of yummy harvests
Eli, you have the most timely videos. Just a day or two ago I was beating myself up because I still don’t have all the perennial weeds pulled from my vegetable garden. Not taking into account that 3 years ago I had major surgery, and the weeds got ahead of me, (due to the fact that I used grass clippings which were full of dandelion seeds as a mulch on the beds) so the second year I had a magnificent crop of weeds. That year I just gave up, but this year I’m fighting back. It’s slow going, but damn I’m determined to get her done! For a 74 year old, I now think I’m doing not too badly. Thanks for the encouragement!
You go girl!!!!!!!!
My peas 🫛 have gone berserk, I can’t pick them fast enough. However when I harvested my carrots 🥕 there wasn’t a straight one amongst them. My strawberries have been rubbish but my corn is flowering. So it’s swings and roundabouts really. This is my first year as a gardener so I’m happy 😊
So you have stuff!!!!
I actually relate better to gardeners/videos that keep it real, the good and the bad. Because that's the reality of gardening, every year is a grand science experiment with different results.
Ha ha ha I like that… a science experiment
We are just as good as any of those with huge harvest baskets. Truly, they don’t have more talent and experience, just time, money, equipment and land. The more I’ve gardened the more I’ve found out how simple it is and anyone can do it.
🤣hahaha... I am experimenting with a trout farm!
@@hikerlindacanadianrockies8478 definitely a science experiment; however mine resembles a 3 stooges episode. Keep on planting
Thank you Eli, I needed someone to give my head a wobble 😅 I've been so down with bad weather, slugs eating everything and just not doing as well as others. I've stopped putting videos on my channel and basically giving up. BUT this weekend I'm going to film worts n all, there must be something I'm proud of and a good tidy up may help. Thank you xxxx
Glad it’s helped 😜
❤ I love the new potted up plants and bush replacement area! My garlic was smaller this year too, but still good. It put the garlic scent in the soil to deter pests and I got enough small heads to make delicious recipes. Today I’m making scape pesto
scapes are the best bit about growing garlic :D
Bless you so much for this word of encouragement. We all have our garden struggles. This week we had temps in the upper 90's F. TOO HOT! Some of my garden suffered because of it. I do grow for farmer's market, so there is pressure I put on myself to produce crops that are "just right" for selling. Well, I guess it will sell or it won't but I still love to spend time in the garden...when it's not so hot :)
One of my favourite videos, a much needed reality check! It's been a pants summer so far so any harvest is a win! Your wee chuck of the snail made me giggle lol
So true! He had no invitee, therefore he was carefully escorted out
😂 me too! Nothing like sharing with the neighbors 😂😂😂😂😂
@@eliandkate😂😂😂
I just found your channel and I find it so reassuring and relaxing. Thanks for the reminder of the reason we love to garden. I'm going to enjoy it more and worry less. Thanks!
Yay! Thats good news Debbie
Glad you mentioned about social media and to bring yourself into a reality check. I’ve found myself going down that rabbit hole and you start thinking WTH did I do wrong. We are all struggling the affects of weather changes-it’s more extreme then ever.
I’ve never had troubles with tomatoes in all my decades of gardening until this year. And I grew a lot of hybrids thankfully. The blight arrived in July and not the normal August timeframe and they are short and skinny. I may be able to salvage since the rain let up and sun returns. Thankful for dusty soil as it dried out quick enough I could get some liquid fertilizer on them to boost them up before storms Sunday. We have extreme heat indexes coming also for few days and shade fabric is needed and to do anything requires a lot of mosquito spray and head net. It’s been miserable to garden this summer.
There are some wins, but like you we have had Way too much rain and rust and mildew are an issue here also. Never had rust on hollyhocks until this year and I also added two more varieties 🙄 now it looks like I may need rust resistant varieties or spray copper early. We just harvested garlic and I was concerned they and onions would rot, but again thankful for dusty soil.
You both do a great job at managing your what you have-celebrate!🎉. And more mentioning of quit comparing ourselves with other more than perfect shots we see-just remember you aren’t seeing the whole picture.😉. There’s enough crap going on in this world then to beat ourselves up over our greatest stress reliever-The Garden.
Those little bulbs on the garlic are called "bulbils'....you can plant them and grow a garlic. Takes a couple years though.
Always good to be "real" about the garden. Great video.
Yeah, you’ll find them on other plants too, like gladioli.
You’ve gotta be careful to get them or you end up with lots of rogue plants
good reminders! Thank you :)
I needed to see this today. Thank you! I have been feeling a bit of a failure in the garden recently because I’ve hardly any blooms. Here, near Stirling we’ve had so much rain and it’s been so cold so it isn’t surprising. I’m so happy you bought some lovely plants. I’ve been feeling like I shouldn’t do that and that I should be growing everything myself. Thanks again, I really enjoyed and appreciated this video. 🥰
I’m so glad you found our video today and let me tell you… the east coast is freezing!!!!!! We’ve got the heating on!!!!
@@eliandkate I don’t blame you, I have my chunky cardi on and my housecoat over me 🥶😬
This is my first full year as a garden hobbyist. I've really enjoyed it and for the most part what I've planted has at least popped up. There have been a few failures though so I'm very much still learning. It's a pity it's not warmer. It feels like we haven't had a summer at all yet.
Not failures
Just a reminder that Mother Nature decides
Great message Eli! I have physical disabilities, so my head makes promises that my body can't keep half the time. Watching videos just makes me think "but when do they EAT all that stuff?" rather than "my garden doesn't look like that!". The first year I moved here my family planted tonnes of veg for me that the local field mice really enjoyed before I was able to harvest, so now I just do a couple of edible things (including supermarket chives dotted around the borders, because pollinators love those flowers, and supermarket mint in containers for a cheeky mojito or iced tea) and loads of flowers/plants. In the same vein as your message, I've just ordered lots of seeds for winter/spring and when I'm queen of the world websites and catalogues will HAVE to state how many plants they've crammed in for those pictures, because they're pretty much not like reality.
😂😂😂😂 yea
Take it from someone that had to eat so much mustard greens that they can’t stand the sight of them now
@@eliandkate😂I have mustard popping up hundreds of feet from where I planted a few years ago😂
Cameras can do wonders on close ups and no background 😂😂
@dustyflats3832 😂😂😂😂
I left all social media about 2years ago, best thing I ever did
Hi Eli & Kate, lovely flowers 😊 my garlic isn't any better than yours, wr get rust every bit, i still grow it, free,e it in ice cubes. I harvested broccoli for dinner today, first time growing it and ut was lovely. Lovely update thanks for sharing and take care 😊
I needed to hear this love your beautiful green grass
Believe it or not… that grass is more work that the entire rest of the garden 😂😂😂
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 love you thank you xxxxx
Thank you for being a realistic gardener. In Florida this year it got hot way too early and my tomatoes and snow peas gave up early on. Then we are just now beginning to get our daily rain. So needless to say things have not grown too well this year. Oh well, maybe next year!
Indeed, there’s always next year
What a brilliant video. Well done Eli for such a positive message. With year we've had so far it's so easy to focus on all the things the slugs have eaten before I could (and its a long list), rather than celebrate the ones they left me and that I'm just starting to enjoy. Off to pick some mangetout now. Thanks !
We’re munching lettuce 😁😁
I failed at gardening this year miserably....... as the garden has been ankle deep in water since last October!! The couple of dry weeks I got stuff planted out.... it's all dead... drowned by constant torrential rain... and my tears of frustration.... bindweed loves it!
Lovely little side walk up to the garden. Looks great. Acuba does bush up nicely but you can chop it hard back. The gardening is really a struggle this year. Nice to know all in the same space though. I agree it’s Not cheating buying plants sometimes it’s needed
Yeah the one in the back garden looks fantastic now 😍
I love your attitude to gardening.
Have had a garden of some sort most of my life. I have never done it for vast harvests but because it gives me pleasure and takes me away from the stresses of life. Everything else is a bonus.
Managing stress is a massive part of our gardening…. It’s sooooo important 😍😍😍
I love this video Eli, you must've known how I was feeling and gave me a good talking to. Thank you xx
You aren’t alone my dear…. I think the weather is getting to a lot of us 😍
@eliandkate The weather has been awful up here. Worst we've experienced in years. Where's summer? It must've happened over night when I was sleeping!
@lindarobertson8505 I was just saying that in todays patreon video 😫
Uk had such a wet winter so I’m always thankful I got something tbh. We can’t change the weather we have to deal with 😢.
Scotland hasn’t had summer yet…. I still haven’t had a single tomato cause it’s not been warm enough for them
This was a great reassuring video Eli, when I first started gardening I would get really annoyed if a vegetable wasn't as perfect as the ones you can buy, now I realise that anything is better than nothing and we should enjoy the process rather than the outcome. Your new bed where the hedge was looks like it has always been there, they were a lovely mixture of colours, lovely job that. Take care 😊
Would you believe Kate is now considering taking the whole hedge out 😫
@@eliandkate you've created a monster 😂
😂😂😂😂
Wanna borrow her??
@@eliandkate 😂😂
I use a long profiterole lid as a trug. One of our chilli plants died when i up potted it and all of our ginger was eaten. I need to dig it up to see if there is anything left worth keeping.
We have had some good harvests this year though. 3 sisters are doing great in the newly re purposed sand pit bed.
Can't complain really even though the weather is crappy and the slugs and snails have taken over the garden. I think it is important to just try and think of the positives and what is working and what is also under your control to change to improve things.
I sometimes get overwhelmed, stressed or depressed about getting a good year of harvests but i think this year, with the weather and pests, any win is a success this year.
Take care!
We’ll take all the wins 😁
I truly appreciate you sharing your garden with us! It is a vulnerability that, it seems, may not have been respected. As gardeners, we should be stretching and things don’t always work out; however, we learn. Thank you again for opening up your journey to viewers.❤
You are entirely welcome my dear 😍
Lying here on the sofa feeling down. It is super windy and drying. We have had little rain. It is hotter than normal and heat does me in. The beetle bugs are eating everything before I can get a harvest and there is no stopping them. Yes I am feeling down. 🍷 👱🏻🍷👱🏻 🍷 (that is me whining). But, I still get compliments from passer by’s, so something must still be enticing to others. Thanks for all you two do! It is deeply appreciated.
If it helps were the opposite, so cold here we’ve got the heating running
And then I just came outside and two of my beautiful porch railing baskets with papyrus in them that I have been babying were blown off the rail and are pretty well smashed, and Ron is going to say, seeeeee I told you they needed to be screwed down, as he gives me a hug and feels bad for me. 🍷👱🏻 🍷 👱🏻
That hug is everything 😍😍😍
thanks for a bit of realism.. i don't have any tomatoes as yet, v disappointing with our freezing scottish weather. oh well at least i'm not the only one.
Nicely said Eli (and you are completely right). ❤
Thank-you for being real 😊
I just pulled up all of my wilted and bitter salad greens. No mangold came up, old seeds, I reckon. My squash got pulled too, all yellow and stunted. But I have harvested strawberries, sugarsnap peas, herbs, green leaves, early potatoes, and even a few green peppers. I have sown squash again and won't give up on anything. My success is measured by me and me alone :D
And I’m celebrating it with you!!!!!!
And I thought your garden was amazing I mean I still do but this gave me a new outlook nobody’s garden is perfect thanks!
100% I could do tight cropped shots and only talk about certain things and everyone would think everything is always perfect…. But it’s just not true
I look at gardening as a learning lesson. I’ve had good, great and poor results. Sometimes it’s me, sometimes it’s the weather, but it’s always a lesson there somewhere. This years lesson is my garlic and onions. You just have to accept it, learn and try to do better next time. ❤❤❤
Exactly
And your purchased flower plants gave you longer pleasure than a bunch of flowers probably for double the cost. Nothing wrong with that in my eyes.
I just bought my third and fourth green stalk planters. I'm so glad to see that you are making yours shorter as well. And I think I've decided to mix mine together. I have some of the deeper classic ones and I have some shorter pocket ones, the "leaf" style. Basket weave and plain finish.
I'm going to make an area just for these green stalks. The round level surface where I had my above ground pool.
Instead of four towers I think I will go with eight!
I'm pretty sure I'm going to put a paver underneath mine as well, just like yours! I'm also taking in some small harvests, but it's all I need!😊 That will change soon enough.
They are fantastic that you can tweak them and make them right FOR YOU! 😍😍😍
In the process of moving so this year my garden is really whatever I could fit in pots and planters and plunked them at the top of the driveway. Your video reminded me to enjoy whatever small successes there are. Best of all we are moving to more land so next year’s gardens will be stellar. Thanks Eli and Kate for your common sense and encouragement
You are entirely welcome 😍
Great reality check. Gardening is a journey not a destination. As someone who grew up before social media, lol. It's nice to see a real garden with the good and bad.
I suppose that is something to celebrate too… thanks to social media we can see other gardens and gardeners too 😂😂😂
Named compost bins...... That's class that is...
Makes it easier to specify which bin when we talk about it…
Dump that in Beano…. Or do t add new stuff to Gnasher I’m about to empty it
@@eliandkate 'Teacher' with the cane.....
😂😂😂😂 some of us are old enough to have been at school when corporal punishment was still a thing.
@@eliandkate 🤣Some of us are so old we remember dippy pens......
@grumpy_poo 😂😂😂😂
Its been a tough tough year
Never had my Garlic fail until this yr. Grew well then bulbs deformed
So you are doing better than
Love your content
Kind regards to you and Kate
Sounds like there’s so much weirdness going on this year
Watching your videos is always such a pleasure. Thanks for sharing your wonderful garden and harvest!
Awwwwwww glad you enjoyed todays 😍😍😍
We are getting loads of rain but yet my hanging baskets keep drying out because they are shaded by the house so I’m watering in the rain. Cork Ireland wettest and cloudy est July ever I’d say. Every garden has issues. Love your garden it’s so kept ❤
Ours are exactly the same…. Sheltered by the eaves of the house!!!!
When you know rain is coming, set them out from the house on the ground to get a good drink. I did the opposite yesterday. We are having torrential downpours today and tomorrow here in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, as a result of a hurricane. I moved all my plants in pots under the eaves or in the garage. Just trying to be a good plant mom. Hope the all survive.
Great inspirational video! Last year I would say I failed or didn't succeed with something. This year, I blame the weather or the plant. Saying that I'm not impressed with it's performance is better for my mental health than blaming myself. Still, I'm able to think if I can do something different, so a similar plant might impress me later. All "fails" are opportunities to learn.
Exactly
And Pammie says
That plant had two chances!!
Thank you for sharing your garlic experience. I needed this reminder. We're having lots of weather extremes this year, insect extremes, and right now my main goal is simply to keep plants alive in the current heat & humidity.
I think alive is a good goal😍😍😍
I think the garlic are great. It’s your effort that gone into it so what if it’s small. They can still be used. 👍🏼
And boy are they being used 😍😍😍
Exactly what I needed to hear today, thank you. ❤
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Thank you for this video. It's my first year in my new home and due to the sudden temp changes and constant rain it sure has affected my veg plants which I grew first. I'm just happy that I have a garden again. it appears my flowers are really happy, especially my Dahlias which I have grown from tubers early spring. Just love the fact I have a container garden, so it anything fails or is done for the season, I can switch them out and replace accordingly
Being able to switch out is the secret magic trick 😁😁😁
I would be excited if my garlic looked that good. 😀
👏👏👏👏 it's been a bad garlic year for a lot of people
I'm a garden grower too, and prefer these to full heads. I think I get more from them for longer, space wise. Yours there seems like a good one! I have enjoyed some Sprouting cauliflowers delistem white, should you ever want to try those. Thanks for another great video x
Now I have some sprouting cauliflower seed here but it came too late for this year… maybe one for next year then??
Absolutely! We are loving it
Some of my dahlias and zinnias are growing but loads of them are food for the slugs. Feel like it’s been very wet since March up near Manchester. Need a bit of sunshine! X
And cold…. Too bloody cold
You even have a basket full. I only got 4 heads. But then it’s my first time. And I don’t care what people say. It’s my handy work
It is!!!!!!
The only failures in my garden this year have been due to a lack of time, but there isn't much you can do when you work full time. Oh, and my courgettes keep going squishy, but I'm blaming the weather for that. Every year is a learning curve, and if I learn how to encourage 1 plant each year, then it's a win. Still gonna blame the weather for everything though :)
Oh it’s always the weather 😂😂😂
Quite agree! My garlic got rust, the onions bolted, the beans didn't germinate and my outdoor tomatoes are all leaf no fruit. But I am drowning in cucumbers, had a fab harvest of strawberries and the chillies are taking over the greenhouse! Every crop failure is a lesson learned as far as I am concerned. It's still a joy to be out in the garden 😊
It’s…. Utter joy 😍😍😍
❤I have a huge spotted laurel and I could never figure out what it was called - thank you! I don’t know how to care for it, but it LOVES the front yard with partial shade (grows towards the sunlight).😊
I completely ignore ours and it seems to love it
That was a good reminder Eli. We are having failure due to heat but I’m going to try to get some things going in August for an Autumn garden.
I say go for it…. Hey maybe I’ll get a late summer???? 😁😁😁😁
Absolutely honestly just the video I needed .... as Im always moaning about this year's failures ....
Thank you so much for giving me the kick I needed .... Your channel is simply the best 😊😊❤️❤️🌷🌷🐝
Say it with me
My garden is brilliant!!!! (Dog on the plot said that to me)
🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️🌷🌷🐝
More cat cameos please 😂
😂😂😂 I’ll speak to their agent
Hi eli and kate thanks the video your garden looks great, I like what you've done where your hedge was ❤ I try not to beat myself up regarding the garden I do my best and enjoy what victory's come of it, I have got disappointed with vegetables or lack of them but with only a garden like you say limited space you do what you can 🎉
Exactly…. We just have to keep reminding ourselves that it’s just for fun 😍😍
Your garlic is much better than mine. So you go gardener Eli.
😂😂😂😂😂
Calicos! Gotta love ‘em!
Little sods 😂😂😂😂
Shame u had to pull the hedge Eli but at least its sorted now and looks great. this weather is nuts this year
It is!
We’ve got the heating on!!!!!!!!!
@@eliandkate me too 🙄
Garlic cloves freeze well. They only have to be out of the freezer for a minute or two and they go through the garlic press easily.
They do. Although we use garlic a lot so that lot will be used up fast 😍
There’s no failures, only opportunities to learn.
Every one of us in life, who uploads anything to social media or just takes photos for their own albums, always choose the most flattering angles. It’s human nature.
I agree that gardening is gardening.. however you choose to do it. As long as it brings us joy, on the whole, it’s a win win
Ps.. I was thrilled with my garlic. Then I saw others on social media and realised mine wasn’t as good as I thought.. but no one can take the joy away I felt when I pulled them. I grew a thing. That’s the goal and that can only be a viewed as a success personally.
We celebrate wonky veg… so why not small garlic??? 😂😂😂
@@eliandkate I celebrate anything edible.. I am easily pleased 😂🙌🏼
Oh my... I LOVE my Calibracoa!! (Kal-uh-brick-oh-a)
Like a petunia, except for you you never have to deadhead them and they don't hardly ever look bad and they never quit!! So much more Hardy.
Between those and my discovering how strong and gorgeous begonias are... I always have blooms!. I've also recently discovered how gorgeous caladiums are. And Autumn sedum. I love my annuals but I want them to be just as strong as the perennials that I have fallen for! I wish I had a picture that I could show you here, but I think I need to do a quick flower tour!
I am very ashamed of the parts of my backyard that I don't touch at all. I've basically got areas that I'm growing hay. Tall as my waist untouched grass. I just don't have the time to tend those areas. They are around the perimeter and my bunny & kitty love exploring through there. I have to give myself a pardon every time I look at it. The garden is ever-changing. We need to give ourselves the grace to move along with it. It does what it does and it doesn't always look great, so neither can we!!
Yay you grow them too!!!!
We fell in love with them a couple of years ago and now I have to have them 😍😍😍
The veggie tower might work a wee bit better with some dwarf marigolds so you have a map where things are? Bush peas are great for saving the annoyance of being unable to reach those peas way up at the top.
I was disappointed, but then I finally understood what some directions were all about. I have far more flowers this year but just didn't see any of the sweet peas come up. Last week I told myself to plant some more because I want them.
Life is about growing, our knowledge, too often weight, and learning too.
We do the best we can and pray for the rest! Deer and rabbits eat everything I had this year so I'll try again next year! 😊
And next year you’ll be fore warned for the deer and rabbits 😁😁
Got a first handful of peas yesterday. Just a gram short of 80 grams but enough for dinner with homegrown potatoes and pork steaks. Broad beans are struggling, so are the runner beans. Still trying to get kohlrabi to grow. Tho the leek seedlings I repotted have grown a lot more and will have to go into the final planter soon. And we had quite a few strawberries which are now jam. Little bit disappointed but also happy we got something so far after the abysmal Spring and the non-happening Summer.
Cabbages and Sprouts are in to, so fingers crossed for them. It's all trial and tribulations.
Love your smoke bush btw. ours needs a little trim, it's loving the weather.
And how do you stop your cat messing in your borders?
our cats are house cats so they have absolutely no inclination to do the toilet outdoors. They come in from the garden to do the loo :D
Neighbours cats have been an issue though and we've had to put pebbles down as a mulch in the places where they like to go to the toilet.
@@eliandkate My lot only use the indoor lav when it's winter, it's abysmal outside or there are no more free spots. I even dedicated a bit of border under a conifer just for their personal toilet. Nothing grows under there anyway as it took dry. Did the kitties get the hint? Absolutely Not 🤣
I let my broccoli buds flower, they taste so sweet and are great in a salad!
confession - my onions have been all leaf miner, and grotty. the garlic has been laughable. BUT - no cabbage white butterflies, so my brassicas are lovely!!! it's all relative!!! x
there's definitely a real lack of butterflies of any kind this year. I think I've seen maybe one?!
Beautiful 👌😁
Look at you… first 😍
@@eliandkate premiere post 🤣
My conifer hedge in my back garden died so we took it out and replaced it with spotted laurel in ground and begonias in pots on the fence as its a very shaded area
Hurrah for spotted laurel!!!
It’s been a sucky year for garlic!! I just hope next year will be better! This the weather has been super for brassicas there’s al😂aye one crop that does well and another that’s is poor but then the next year it will be the reverse or something else 😊
Next year we’ll be swimming in garlic 😍😍😍
@@eliandkate next year I’ll go back to dump it in and neglect it….that will make it grow better 😂
Trying to figure out what the green clumps are. They make a great contrast with the beautiful flowers.
Hmmmmmm I might need some more info to help Jen
Well.... most things I try up here fail , usually due to weather slugs or my forgetfull brain. Probably spent hundreds on failures... but... I still try... lol
We've recently had a big political enquiry into supermarkets and price gouging and food waste... one of the supermarket execs said something along the lines of "no one wants a giant banana"... that notion of what we are used to seeing in supermarkets versus what is perfectly good to use/eat is insane. Personally I would be quite happy to have a giant banana... much like I'm sure your garlic and broccoli and other things are quite lovely. (I too have sent snails on an over fence holiday... typically only after take off have I thought "I probably should have been doubly sure no one was on the other side of the fence".)
I want giant garlic!! 😂😂😂
Great video as usual Eli, i don't think the weather helps it's suppose to be summer where is mr sunshine no such thing as failure as a gardener that is how we learn x
Ninety degrees plus most days for the last couple of weeks,so everything is kind of at a standstill. I have lots of blossoms on plants but over ninety degrees and pollen goes sterile. So no cucumbers and only a few zucchini.
You got garlic and enjoyed doing it. Win. Mind you, you better buck up.🤣🤣 Thank you for using the kneepad.
😂😂😂😂 I was thinking of you Bob… Did you see how often I flounced it at the camera????
@@eliandkate As usual I just bought one.😂😂
@Bob-bo8ik ha ha ha yeah yeah
Bet you wouldn’t be able to find this one 😂😂😂😂
@@eliandkate I had to look up flounce as I thought it meant someting else🤣🤣 I hope you meant exaggeratedly rather than impatient or angry.
@Bob-bo8ik 😂😂😂
I don’t care what you say, I’m a failure. My onions have failed, the runner beans are covered in black fly, the radish have been left too long, the peppers are not there, my wife has left me, the dog continually looks at me in a funny way, my water butt is leaking and I’ve lost my spade. Can you help?
😂😂😂😂😂 I think it’s time you moved to Nashville…. Plenty of material there!!!!
You know what, that’s a brilliant idea 🛫
@markrollings1762 😂😂😂😂
@@eliandkate😂😂I was just thinking the somebody done me wrong songs. He won’t need a spade as he will have it made in spades 😂😂. I hope he meant the comment to be funny-right?
😂
Those Violas would probably have come good again if you gave them a massive haircut.
Some of mine went that way. I chopped them down short and they bounced back nicely.
Buying plants is cheating? Not according to my rules and as it's my garden they are the only ones that matter.
Yep plants die sometimes but that means you have space to grow something new. Thanks for the video. Cheers!
Space for a wee garden centre run is always a bonus on my book
I pulled the remainder of my garlic today and my 2 elephant garlic (first time growing). Elephant garlic is very big, but has started to split open sadly - I'm assuming I harvested it a bit too late(?) Also Noticed a couple leaf miner about on some, but I'm not too worried about those as I will be able to see if these any on the cloves when I use them (I peeled back a couple layers and the garlic bulbs looked fine, so hopefully it was just on the outer layer).
With the Ele garlic, I read online that you can just split the cloves, peel and freeze them. However, people on a veg fb page have said theirs were like that and they just dried them like normal and the cloves still kept fine for a long time, so not sure what would be best - what do you reckon?
P.S. Listening/watching you planting them flowers in was so relaxing, I could have that sort of video playing on in the background for hours
I say try it…
You can always keep and eye and if you aren’t sure, use them 😍
Eli, did you make that blue bucket and grind down fishbones? I bloody hope so 😅
My sweet peas were made by a Mr B&Q, he did a lovely job!
The blue bucket? Ha ha ha no…. It’s plastic
@@eliandkate disappointed, I thought you were perfect and made/sowed/grew everything 🤣
Like you said at the start "so what, it's not cheating". Please make your buckets in future 🤪
@amandasylvester3878 😂😂😂😂
Noted
What broccoli was that Eli? The one in your bed which you picked after your garlic. I'm looking for that type with lots of stems. X
It’s actually tenderstem,(the stuff you buy in the supermarket) it’s not truly broccoli, but a hybrid of sprouting broccoli and Chinese kale.
I’m loving it
Ive planted 100 crocus blubs, about 45 different ranunculus bulbs, 15 tigridia blubs lots of dahlia, 5 echinacea lotsnof anemone and lots of alliums and more all bought from farmer gracey im so disappointed no spring bulbs even developed or rooted so no spring flowers only thing that has started to flower are the Dahlias. They are planted in front garden in the ground also in pots front and back garden . It's not the first year this has happened. Everything else i bought from elsewhere have grown. Vegetable beds doing ok considering the weather. I spent so much on farmer gracey site😢 to be left flower less 😪. And yes, i put them in the right places . Like the crocus blubs i dug up to see what was going on, they are the same as if i had just taken them out of the packet.
Tomatoes are doing great outside and inside. Beans and peas only have one bean pea in the pod . Onions are good garlic small lettuce is good. Carrots are great even transplanted them.😊
wow, that sucks.
I can honestly say I've never had such a disappointed with spring bulbs, from any supplier.
i dont care what anybody thinks,never have and never will, but i do get down when i see other people veg, grow and mine seem to get attacked and theirs dont, [i know theirs does too} its only my 2nd year growing and so far this year i feel like giving up,[i wont} as my Cabbage and cauli,peas get either attacked by slugs,snails or pigeons. thers too much rain not enough Sun. [cloud seeding😂]Yeah i know im still learning and these downers are 50/50, but the rewards are very good, great tasting veg with no chemicals ,and you cant beat that
Garlic, fail bar one bulb but fried up a fab scape.h
Broad beans win. 😃
Runners beans growning but very few flowers no beans.
Chillis started March just getting flowers.
Asters, cornflower, tulips, poppys colius, cosmos grown from seed all doing
😢
Tomatoes started March only just got flowers with 3 tomatoes growing out of 13 plants.
I think tomatoes will be my big disappointment this year but the really weird thing is, my peppers are doing really well!
@@eliandkate I agree about tomatoes Eli, fingers crossed my chillis and peppers come on . Yorkshire has been so rainy and lacking in sunshine.
Hope you and Kate are well, thanks for the reply 🙂
Think its been a pants season all-round this year. Ok its my first proper one with a green house and raised beds. Not had any veg yet this year not even a runner bean and think the winds gotten to them . , even radish have struggled as has carrots , either not grown or just bolted. Courgettes, cucumbers & tomatoes only just starting to show produce in the green house but gone made growing wise.
Mine are slow today, even in the greenhouse. We just haven’t had the heat this year
@@eliandkate Yep got my first solitary courgette
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