May seed sowing and potting on | in my garden - vegetables and flowers
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- I'm in the full swing of seed sowing and potting on plants now that May has arrived. Checking my monthly sowing and planting plan tells me I'm ahead on some things and behind on others so time to get to work sowing and growing. The greenhouse and garden are already bursting with vegetables and flowers so there's transplanting out to the raised beds to be done to make way for the next batch of seedlings.
There's also an update on the first Grow Along with Eli exciting tomato growing experiment.
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Kate wants me to make a correction…. She is not a hoarder…. She is a dragon and that of course is her hoard!!!!!!!
I totally get it - I’m always hiding small bits of lumber here because they are handy for future projects/repairs or even just holding something down lol
unfortunately my hubby thinks most of these should be in his burn pile - hence the hiding 😂😜
We actually used some of them today and I was soooo glad if her stash 😂😂😂
Thanks for showing the realness of gardening, it can be discouraging when things don't go to planned . Great life lessons as well I guess. Love your channel, have learned so much and been inspired Just got my greenhouse installed and it will be quite the learning experience I think. So fun!
Oh a new greenhouse is always exciting.
Not sure if it would be useful for you, getting you set up, but I’ve got a playlist of videos of my different greenhouse set ups for different seasons.
ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4kYC4OV1J6vChfrGXnhKr5X.html
Hey Eli. Personally I've found much better lettuce germination by sprinkling over the surface and watering, no top compost or press down. I think they like light to germinate.
I’ve found that too… goes against all the packet instructions but defo works better doesn’t it?
Love the orange tulips in the background, gorgeous colour. Been potting on my Tom's and peppers this weekend. I usually wait till they are a foot tall to plant my sun flowers out...usually too big for the slugs to kill them then. Thankfully it's now may and some things can be hardened in the green house now.
Those tulips have been stunning this year. Really chuffed with them 😀😀😀😀
Your garden is impressive! Your passion and hard work shows. As a gardener & I make garden videos too. I am extremely thankful for any tips and guidance you provide. I hope we can learn from each other as we grow! Never stop learning!
Awwww thanks 😊
Always learning that’s the fun of life 😀
Kate probably knows now! Lol. Your videos are so entertaining and educational! Hi Kate!
Aww thanks Rebecca glad you enjoy them 😂
Looks like we're all dealing with the blinkin' wind! Just went around the Pacific Northwest (a 2000 mile trip) and found that none of us have got warm. Still cold rain or ferocious wind. Colorado and Northern Nevada the same. It warms my heart to watch you plant and sow Eli! :)
To be fair it wasn’t too bad this week, a bit breezy but not proper windy, so I really shouldn’t complain.
Except maybe cause it’s been chucking it down with rain ever since 😀
Hey ladies, I struggled with courgette germination so I now do the wet paper towel in a bag on a tray above the radiator. Did far too many thinking they would be duds too,and ended up with every one germinating 🤣typical. Worth a try Eli and its way quicker mine this year took 2 days. Did my garlic in good draining pots too as had the same problems as you last year.fingers crossed they are looking good so far. 🤞❤️
Oh Lisa… you’re making it worse… talk about showing off your courgette success to the poor gardener with nine?!?!?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ha ha ha oh I got mushrooms in my tomatoes lol
No just wicked… a lot of them are full of crap
Great tip about sowing the bigger seeds sideways so the water 💧 runs off!
Let’s hope they germinate this time 😂😂😂
@@eliandkate Sending positive germination energy 🌱❤🥰
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Continual sow and grow is a great idea. Your garden looks great and this wonderful video shows it off well.
Thanks Scott. So far so good and we’ll see how the season goes 😍
Geat video you two, I was riveted to it, start to finish! I even got a mention!...Steve...😃
Where there is brocoletto quarantino riccio there will always be a Steve 😀😀😀
Great video, Eli! Succession sowing is one of the best ways to keep the harvests interesting and yummy. I look forward to being on Tony's live this coming Monday with you. It is always fun and you never know what's gonna happen.
Will be nice to have a good old gossip 😻
Full of great information as always Eli. Oh and I love your "sow, grow, eat, repeat" jumper! I'm following you in sowing little and often. Its all happening in the garden!
Wonderful! We're doing this together. Will be brilliant to follow how we both get on over the year :D
Glad you love the shirts, I had meant to make them available for ages but only managed recently :D
Great update. Plants and crops are looking fab.
That last frost date is getting ever closer! Counting the days here.
Not long…. We should raise a glass in the garden together when it goes…
your garden is looking great eli and it's nice to see the succession sowing plan is coming together
So far so good and I’m actually quite enjoying it 😀
It is so reassuring to hear about gardening fails as well as all the success. I have had a few.. parsnips! Spring onions?! And gaps in my rows of chard. So I don’t feel so bad about it now. But ALL my Latah and RotKappchen have come up. Yipppeeee
Wooohoooooo for the tomatoes!!!!
Hehe I loved the heckling throughout this video it made me giggle xx
Glad you enjoyed! We used to try and pretend we were all professional and cut this stuff out, then realised, we were making so much more work for ourselves... and it can be fun
@@eliandkate I loved it I like to see peoples personality in their videos I try to bring that into my own xx
I've grown ishikura for a few years. I actually overwintered in a flower bucket in a cold greenhouse and they have done really well. Will do it again.
Oh that’s good to know
I grew winter Lisbon over winter but good to try something different
I grow my garlic in a super rainy climate as well (Vancouver BC Canada--temperate rainforest). Mine is in a raised bed on our concrete driveway. The bed has a wooden bottom (because the drive is extremely sloped), and the bed drains really well, so maybe that's why they've fared well.
Could be. Ours normally fair well to but we’ll just have to see how it goes 😀😀
Gardener Scott sent me. 😉👍🏻
Hey Blue Wolf, lovely to have you
Looking great! Our forecast is predicting a minimum of 8C for the next ten days (which brings us to our last average frost date) - but I‘m still erring on the side of caution. If the forecast stays stable, I‘ll plant the tomatoes next weekend - but holding back on the peppers and cucurbits…
That sounds like a good plan… better safe than sorry
Looking great. I was slow to start as I just got some raised beds put in, only ever grown in pots or growbags before. Can see some signs of life though, which is exciting. Here's hoping they can mature into tasty veg!
Oh brilliant 😀😀😀😀
Raised beds are just BIG containers 😀😀😀😀
Love these videos xx
Hey Eli. Love how you get so excited about the garden and growing all different types of flowers and vegetables. Thanks again for another wonderful video.
Awwwww Sabrina if you’re not getting excited about your garden we need to try to help!!!!
Oh then. I get very excited about my garden and always try to do my best at cheeping it looks beautiful and nices and clean. Got a little sad yesterday when I see that all my seeds on my back outside tablet that I had planted had been drop over by the next-doors nabers cat that had jumped the fence on to my tablet. So looks like I have to start again.
Ohhh no. Well at least we both still have time to get more growing 😍😍😍😍😍
Yes that is so true. I'm trying not to think of the bad things and only thinks about what I can do better next time as I'm still learning about gardening. Going to try to fixs it some how so the cat doesn't get in my gardens.
What we’ve done is to put the barriers on the beds… that’s what our big hoops are for, to stop cats digging in the beds.
You two are lovely : )
😂😂😂😂 why thank you
Just thinking on the hoof here. Could you perhaps make extra drainage holes in the sleepers to increase drainage? Also perhaps a drainpipe with holes drilled in it to direct the water away could be sunk in to the bottom of the bed. Mind you, it’s probably the opposite problem when the weather finally brightens up. I’m just thinking about the ways that farmers help the drainage in fields and how that could be downscaled. Perhaps just altering the mix of compost and aeration-substances would help (bulking agent). Dunno. I’m enjoying the video so far. Just 1/3rd through though. Keep up the great work. 👍
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Hello, I'm a new follower, your advice is perfect, I'm relatively new to veg growing and I'm in Fife, so totally copying your growing plan. And yes, Lettuce!!!!! totally a pain to grow, thought it was because I'm a newb. catch you all on the next video, cheers for the advice.
A fifer….. Kate’s family are fifers 😍😍😍😍
We are right RIGHT on the coast here so I can stand at the end of the street and wave at you 😂😂😂😂😂
Hahaha, perfect, I'll mind and wave back when I'm walking along Kirkcaldy prom :))). Cheers.
Difficult month up here nr Aberdeen. Lots of stuff taking off in the garden giving the impression of time running out yet greenhouse and polytunnel nighttime temps still to cold for Toms etc. Willpower…
You can do it Sheila 😍😍😍🤞🤞🤞😍
Gardening is always a challenge! Less than 5/100s of an inch of moisture here in Denver , Colorado in April. Very dry in the American West.
Wow, I can’t even imagine that!!!!
NorCal here, and I think for once we’ve had more rain than you, and we are still only at 50% of norm. All these folks with their super moist UK soil better not complain AT ALL this summer. 😂
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@@melissasullivan1658 Although Huw Richards in Wales and Charles Dowding on the coast have both commented how dry it's been. Definitely must depend on where you are in the UK, like in the US.
Yeah absolutely. Even depends where you are in any of the countries in the UK.
Exact same for courgettes, I always have success with them but not a single one germinated. They have been inside in the warm as well, it's a mystery. Love the video 🌱😊
Well we just need to try again and eventually… we’ll win!!!!!
@@eliandkate absolutely, I have faith 😁
In Kate’s defense we built a lean-to off of our well house out of extra wood we had. I mean, technically she’s just being environmentally friendly. I will say, after I told him about the wood, even my husband asked if she’d be painting it red🤣🤣🤣. Everything looks great, especially in the greenhouse! Are those the peppers you overwintered!?
To be fair, there are soooo many times that her stash of wood comes in handy.
One of the peppers was over wintered yeah 😀
Lovely! Can't wait to see how the perpetual spinach comes along. Please let us know how they taste compared to ordinary spinach! :)
Shall do 😀😀😀
I have discovered your channel in the last week or so and I am totally marathon-ing through it as I work whilst I cannot get in the garden! You have given me more confidence and lessened how much I feel overwhelmed with my garden and growing so thank you so much for that! I have just placed an order for 2 quadgrows and 2 chilli grows and cant wait to see how they go on with our chillis and tomatoes!! Out of curiousity, have you tried their root or salad planters? Thank you for cheering me up this week!
Oh that is brilliant news… I’m so glad
Haven’t tried them no… wonder what they are like
@@eliandkate Wasn't expecting a reply.... thank you, that was an unexpected lovely boost. I might give those 2 different planters a go next year :) ...... I have also had major trouble with courgette germination and I am in the south UK soooo I may have panic bought more seed to sow tomorrow :) Also, I am totally nicking your greenhouse shelving bracket storage idea - cant wait for my shelves/brackets to arrive :D Thank you again :)
I do my best to reply to every comment if I can, but at the very least know I read every single one 😍
You nick away, I probably nicked it from someone else!
So watched one if your first thanks for reply to that 😃👍 I made it to the latest vid just checking them out my birds eat lots if veg & fruit so thinking if growing some of my own 👍
Oh exciting stuff
It’s way easier than people make out
Start small, and just have fun 😀
I enjoy your energy and enthusiasm so much! Your garden is beautiful. Why have you netted the beds? The hoop structures are ideal for applying fabric in case of frost. I"ve been thinking of building something like that for my beds, but haven't decided if I want a single large hoop structure of two or three smaller sections. Keep up your great work on excellent content.
Thanks Bud
There are different types of nets to stop different pests. Super fine net to stop allium miners or carrot fly and larger nets to stop butterflies and moths
Variegated Mattapeno Pepper is worth a look if you've not seen it as is Thor's Thunderbolt
Oh that’s a good name 😻😻😻
Awesome!!! This week is seed sowing week for me ... normally i woulda done it a week ago but its been that awful the weather i left it till this week :D :D :D
Oh exciting so what on your to do list?
@@eliandkate Ummmm everything lol I haven't sowed anything yet because I have to wait to as close to our frost date as possible as we have nowhere inside for seed trays. So first up will be tomatoes, beans, herbs, cucumbers, I think i have 14 varieties of courgettes this year (yeah I may have a problem lol ) carrots, radishes, sweet peas, melon seeds, spring onions, skirret, spinach, marigolds, brassicas, I have to plant up some of the strawberry runners and sort the bed out, sort out the mint bed, bring the fruit trees out of the polytunnel all except the peach and repot the olive tree possibly a couple of others, repot the chestnuts and some of the lavender, I also have raspberries to split and and and .... phew exhausted just thinking about it lol ... think I need a brew lol
Oh sounds absolutely awesome
Coming to you from gardener Scott
Hey Junie :D
welcome to our wee community :D
@@eliandkate Yes and im way north a but like you, but in southern Finland . So quite interested in Your planting
Oh I suspect your are way way colder too
Thanks for the tip
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I got my lettuce growing and sweetcorn I like to show you but don't know how lol your a great Gardner and make it so easy to follow you
Oh that’s fab…. You could give me lettuce tips
Best way to share pics is by adding a hashtag to your own social media posts.
We use 2
#inthegardenwitheliandkate
Or if you are taking part in any of the grow along with Eli stuff
#growalongwitheli
@@eliandkate hi lettuce easy I seed frist in pots then I replant them in little bread box I use bread box's for Tom's and cue plus flowers everywhere
I don't know how to send them lol not good on Internet lol
My hoard of "useful" random stuff is a running thing at our house as well....
But that’s the thing… it I useful!
It may be a year after I see it, but I will use it for something lol
Awww courgettes failed to come up. That’s rare. I’d send you my spares but they’d be destroyed by the time they got there. It’s still a decent time to sow them though.
exactly... and we were out in a garden centre yesterday and seeing what they are selling..... yikes.... I've got sooooo used to my own homegrown... everything was tiny and pale!
It'll be fine :D
Really enjoyed watching! When your seeds don’t germinate, do you put the compost left in the trays in your hot compost bin, or on the garden? What do you generally do with spent compost?
But if a mix
Generally out in the garden but at the start of the year I know I’m going to need seed starting mix so it goes through the process for making that (sterilising etc)
There’s a playlist I’ve been making this year covering all the useful stuff like this if you are interested in delving into it
ua-cam.com/play/PLjhUBZdMh-4nP4Y6ppYldLiASuYXD4mkB.html
Hi gals! I found you through Gardener Scott's channel. A couple of questions... You mentioned a "slug ring" and said you weren't taking chances with one of the plants you were transplanting. What is a Slug Ring?
I love your cute yard, and how you set up the saw horses to work on that tray! Great ideas!
If you are concerned about slugs, if you have a neighbor with chickens, they love slugs! Ducks do too!
The 1st video of yours I've seen! Very nice!
Also, what are the plants that have the seeds that look like squash or pumpkin seeds? I forget what you called them, but I haven't heard of them before! Perhaps we call them something else here in California, USA?
Thank you for sharing your garden! I had a similar idea for my son's family's raised bed. What did you use for the frames the blue stuff for making the hoops? Are those Hula Hoops?
We have Squirrels here. One year, I had about 40 feet of lettuce, it was ready for harvest, but a hot day, so I decided to wait until morning, so it wouldn't be bitter or wilt easily. The next morning, I came out to the garden, and my lettuce was gone! It was cut off at the ground. On my fence was a very fat squirrel that even burped! I'm not kidding! I think she and her babies had a feast! They had beat me to picking my lettuce! There wasn't a single leaf left! I guess it was good, as she just laid on the fence, looked at me, and didn't move much at all!
I was upset, but figured I had healthy Squirrels around my home.
Anyhow, now I know I need to protect my lettuce, and other crops as well. With COVID-19, everyone I know pretty much has had voles, moles, rats, possums, raccoons, and other critters in our yards (& some have made their way into our homes!)
We even had a couple bears one year! My icon picture is a real bear that came to visit, and decided to climb up a neighbor's pepper tree, after creating some excitement in the neighborhood!
I'll have to get some videos myself going. I thought about starting a discord group, or a Zoom group perhaps down the road?
Anyhow, it would be great to do a live tour, if you haven't already! I'll have to see what videos you have! Great to find some more gardeners! I need to get my garden going those year!
I hope to see you on Scott's Monday live chat again. That was the 1st live of his I had caught. Looks like a great group!
Take care and have a great gardening week!
Hey Carol
Hmmmm ok slug rings are hoops made of copper that you put around your plants to deter slugs. They worked amazing for me last year.
Seeds were courgettes, or you call them zucchini 😀
The blue hoops in the raised beds are just plastic water pipes cut to size, it’s a pretty common way to do things here 😍
Hi Eli, another great video. What seed tray did you use to transplant your Cosmos in please they looked robust and deep. X
They are from containerwise. Really robust
could you send a link please - not sure of the sizes - are they CD15's,??
These are the 3 I have
containerwise.co.uk/product/28-dan-propagation-tray-28-cells-e/
containerwise.co.uk/product/15l-shallow-long-life-propagation-tray-15-cells-e/
containerwise.co.uk/product/40h-deep-long-life-propagation-tray-40-cells-e/
Hi Eli can I ask what is the pretty white plant in bloom along your back fence behind you in your video while transplanting your dwarf sunflowers. Great video again btw 👏👌. Thank you.
Ah that’s a clematis 😃
My green beans didnt come up either, not even one ! My Cosmos are growing rapidly, they are all about 10 inches tall and some have flowers on I'm desperate to plant them out
I’m going to nip out the growing tip on mine next week to encourage them to bush out. Hoping that’ll give them a wee spurt too 😀😀
Hi..where did you get the connectors for the blue piping on your raised beds?..great video as usual
Hey Anthony, it's actually a kit you get from Quickcrop
Don't know if this helps, we built them a few years ago: ua-cam.com/video/bkg0USAf_5g/v-deo.html
Thanks so much 😀
What are the white flowers growing along the fence?
That a clematis. Flowers around late April through to maybe June. We love it 😍
Were do you get the fillings to join the water pipe together and to the frame
They are a kit of connectors you get from quickcrop
Can you grow the likes of a gem lettuce in a pot?
Yup… the thing to remember when you grow in containers is that they need extra attention and care. They will dry out much faster than in the ground so you need to be vigilant with watering and also feeding. The nutrients on a pot will get used up, so you may need to feed as well.
Hello, what greenhouse shading are you using, looks like it has suckers on it to hold it in place? My toms really suffered today, Thanks.
Out the house just now so I can’t look it up but there’s a link in the video description to all our gear 😀
Been using those for the last year
@@eliandkate thank you for replying I will have a look and see if I can find it. Have a good day
@@eliandkate perfect. Found them.
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Hi, what site for you use for your last frost date, the one I use says my last frost is end of April, just to see if there is a difference
Heya
Ok so it’s not one frost date for the whole of Scotland. It all depends on your area etc but there’s a link right at the bottom of the video description that might help.
But just be aware these are average… so not a definite last date. I actually keep a record of my frosts so I know last year we were actually getting frost right up till the end of May even though our average last frost date is the 18th May.
@@eliandkate Thanks it says my last frost date is February, my site says end of April, maybe I will start a journal as you mentioned in ine of your vids, please keep sharing and stay safe
February?????? Nah no way. If you’re in Scotland I’d go end of April at the earliest 😻😻😻😻
What are the white flowers on the fence?
There are two types, the ones higher up are erigeron (daisy) and the lower ones which have bigger blooms are dianthus
Is ‘brown onion’ what we call yellow onion in the states?
Em….. I don’t know. Googled…. Yup it is 😀😀😀😀
@@eliandkate sweet, thanks I totally should’ve just googled. 😬
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What is a slug ring?
A ring of copper you put around your plant to deter slugs and snails
can you place a copy of your sow plan , as an example ,to have some idee ?
Frank I can go one better for you… there is a whole video on it and I even give you a copy to save for yourself 😀
ua-cam.com/video/UKFoodBN4Sg/v-deo.html
@@eliandkate woehoe thx
😂😂😂😂 you are entirely welcome Frank
What is a slug ring??
It’s a copper ring you put around the base of your plants to deter slugs.
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What is a slug ring?
They are copper rings you put around your plants to deter slugs
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