Thank you! These are delicious and so readily available now, we should all be growing them! My step mother is Chinese and introduced me to some that I haven't had a chance to grow yet: bitter melon and tung ho. I love finding tasty new things to grow 😋🥬
Have you ever roasted radishes? They’re delightful and get a nice sweetness when cooked that way. And I’m glad you mentioned fava beans! I don’t think they’ll survive our winter, but I did want to sow some as a cover crop.
No, I haven't roasted radishes but I definitely am going to now! Thanks for the tip! I sow most of my fava beans in the spring, but I like to have a few sown early just to start the season sooner. Can't wait! 😁
Roasted radishes are delicious! I also love adding them to soups. I stir fry the fresh leaves or use raw in salads, but when I have heaps of them, I blanch and freeze the leaves to use in soups, lasagnas, stuffed shells, and so on.
Thank you! Your winter climate is just like ours, so these videos will be perfect for you! If course your summers are MUCH warmer and you get all that gorgeous sunshine, so in summer you can grow fabulous fruits that sadly don't enjoy it here as much! 🍉🍑🍒
Yes, and mine ends up with crushed seashells in it as well! The trick is remembering that these minerals will break down very slowly in the soil, so the finer you can crush it the better. I know one gardener who uses an old blender to get them like a powder before he sprinkles them in his garden and his crops are amazing 😍
@@agulusek for slugs, I use my Dad’s old remedy. He would put a head or two of garlic in a pot and fill with water, cover and bring to a boil. He would then simmer the garlic until completely soft, turn the heat off an let the whole thing go cold. He would empty the the liquid into a bottle, throwing the spent garlic on the compost. He would then spray the plants, around the plants, the undersides of the leaves, etc…anywhere the slugs and snails would crawl. Now it smells like garlic for a day or so, but those creatures just cannot stand the taste of the garlic. The down side is when it rains you need to go spray again. But it does work well. I had wondered if planting wild garlic among and around the plants would also help keep them at bay, or even picking a bunch of the wild garlic leaves in the spring when they are abundant and just soak them in a large bucket or two of water to decompose and then use that to spray the plants and surrounding area, similar to using nettles this way as a feed, I have not tried it yet but have decided to give it a go this coming spring. While it will be smelly, I am going to decant it into bottles and spray regularly in a small area just to see how it works.
Crushed eggshell works well in dry countries, but sadly here once it gets wet with rain they just slime right over it. Natural wool can work well, too, and I know a bulb grower here in Ireland who swears by ash from the fire. Hope that helps!
Thank you for all the valuable information you shared...i was really worried about sowing my spinach in the garden bed but ill definitely give it a try now. Can you tell me if its possible to plant beetroot seedlings in a raised bed without any cover or is it too cold for them? Im in Manchester so we do get a lot of rain this time of the year so wasnt sure whats suitable without any cover. Any advice would be great thanks
It's a bit late to plant beetroot this year, I usually plant mine between April and August, but they are definitely be fine in a raised bed outside with no extra protection. 😄👍
Most years they will be fine as long as they are in well-drained soil and you don't get a particularly cold winter. They can cope with 14F, so most years they should be fine for you. Worst case scenario if it does get colder than 14F, you can pop some fleece or a cloche over the top to give them a bit of extra protection. I've never lost any to cold, but I have lost a few to those pesky slugs before now! 🐌 Good luck with it!
Amy, fantastic video. I have a plot not too far from you. Getting some bits and pieces established. Hopefully I can avail of your expertise if you’re ever down when I am. Thank you. Peter
You could certainly try it, I'm not sure how effective it would be. Please let me know how you get on with it! The point of spraying it on the leaves disguises the delicious smell of the leaves and makes the slug/snail think the leaf is an inedible allium instead of a delicious whatever it really is. Please really do let me know if you try it! 😁👍
I need to get some of that slug stuff because slugs killed lots of my shasta Daisy and Dianthis plants as well as a few others .. And them rollie pollie too ..
Northern Ireland: Lots of rain, frosts and light snows in the winter, winter temperatures usually between -5 and +5C (23-41F). Thanks for the comment! 😊
If you live somewhere that will get below freezing over winter it does limit your choices, but you can also plant onion and garlic sets in October or November as long as the ground isn't frozen or waterlogged, and you can also plant dormant cuttings from roses and willow when you prune them over the winter. ☺️
Being across the pond, what zone are you in we are in 7 so we have snow and can go below freezing and with global warming ice storms, we might need a cold frame for garden veggies. Maybe broccoli? Your soil looks wonderfully amended, I would be curious what to plant as a cover plant to help the soil for next year. Try a bowl of beer for the slugs, they go in and drown. Ah you mention beer and copper tape. Those are my go to. to many other critters around
I think our equivalent would be USDA zone 8A. Our winter temperatures dip to between 18F and 25F for short periods, but mostly we're around 30F. The corn salad/lamb's lettuce that I mentioned will germinate at temperatures as cold as 41F, And is perfectly fine with frost and light snow for short periods. If you get heavy snow and prolonged hard frost, then you probably are better to wait until spring to sow your crops. Clover and mustard are my two favourite cover crops, but I sometimes like to let the ground rest: I put a light covering of seaweed on the soil, cover in cardboard, and then mulch with grass cuttings/hay/leaves/whatever I have. The worms do all the work for me moving the nutrients through the soil and in Spring I just plant directly through the mulch- no dig 😁
@@amykellygardening Thanks, there was an older Italian woman who lived up the street many moons ago she had a cold frame and I'm guessing a few winter vegetables growing. Maybe broccoli. She was great always wore a black dress. I don't even think she drove a car. Long gone now
Try Patio Raspberry "Ruby Beauty"- it's a much smaller plant you can grow in a container or pot and you still get as many berries as a full size raspberry bush 😁
I'm out in the country/forest in Sweden so, my garden is literally loaded with snails, slugs and other hungry bugs. This year I have tried something new. It was quite by accident and not pretty but, it seems to work better than most other things I've tried. I grow a lot of squash, zucchini, leafy greens, cucumbers, you get the idea. Everything a slug, bug or larvae loves... I remove quite a lot of the leaves of the larger plants and usually I've just carried them to my compost pile and let them do their thing. This year, one day after spending hours in the garden on a very hot day, I was to tired to haul the dis-guarded greenery to the compost and, let them just sit in the long row/path I have between my 2 garden plots. Came out early in the morning the next day to find that the whole row where I had just left my "compost" material was covered with slugs. 😱 Put my gloves on, yes I hate the slimy feeling on my fingers that is difficult to just wipe off... I picked almost a liter of slugs... I'm evil and pour salt on them before throwing the whole milk carton I use in the garbage bin at the end of my driveway. I've also been thinking about putting a few containers with beer amongst the green leaves, as I know that there are most likely many more slugs than those that were still out there munching away when I come out in the mornings.
That certainly sounds like an effective technique!!! I've known gardeners who just leave the old leaves etc. to rot beside their crops, hoping that the slugs will eat their fill of the rotting leaves. The truth is there are different types of slugs: Some prefer really fresh living material and others prefer old rotting material, but unfortunately it's hard to get rid of them selectively I just try to keep the numbers in my garden and allotment down as much as possible. I have far less trouble at home because we have the pond there to attract amphibians and birds, which are both amazing natural slug and snail control. 🐦⬛🐌
@@michaeltomkins6932 Thank you. Yes, beer is very expensive over here. But I do bake a lot and even make my own yeast. Not sourdough yeast, never got the hang of that and, I'm not that crazy about sourdough bread and neither are my kids but regular yeast for baking is quite easy to make/continue, using a small piece of yeast you have left.
The seeds in the seed vault are kept under really specific humidity and temperature conditions that are maintained at a constant level. The ones you buy in the shop are subjected to really variable temperatures depending on if they stick them in a sunny window or wherever less than ideal location. The seed companies don't want you to be upset that you've bought seeds that haven't germinated so they err on the side of caution with the dates, but seeds as old as 2,000 years have been germinated successfully. Bear in mind that the seeds from some plants naturally survive a really long time, whereas other plants, for example, parsnips, have a naturally very short seed life. It's hard to germinate a parsnip seed even 2 or 3 years old, you're much better to use fresh. On the other hand, if you're growing a date palm, you may have success with a seed hundreds of years old 😁👍
Ireland, so we have light snow in winter and lots of frost and rain/hail/sleet! These seeds can be planted at the start of Autumn /Fall by anyone who gets frost or light snow over winter. If you're in a colder area they may need some protection like fleece or cloches. 👍
Great video Amy. Really informative and I have learnt so many new things.
I'm really glad you found it useful, thanks for the lovely comment ☺️
I hate radishes in salad - I only grow them to roast or cook in casseroles, yummy!
I only recently discovered roasted radish- OMG delicious 😋🤤❤️
Thank you for your sharing. l am happy to hear that you like the Asian vegetable. Actually I love Choi Sum very much. l can't wait to see the result.😊
By the way, your video is good for me to learn English. Thank you.❤
Thank you! These are delicious and so readily available now, we should all be growing them! My step mother is Chinese and introduced me to some that I haven't had a chance to grow yet: bitter melon and tung ho. I love finding tasty new things to grow 😋🥬
What is your native language? 🥰
@@amykellygardening Cantonese
Great video lots of information and freakly fantastic jumper
Thank you so much! 😏
Thank you for kindly sharing this content
My pleasure, thanks for the lovely comment! 🥰
Have you ever roasted radishes? They’re delightful and get a nice sweetness when cooked that way.
And I’m glad you mentioned fava beans! I don’t think they’ll survive our winter, but I did want to sow some as a cover crop.
No, I haven't roasted radishes but I definitely am going to now! Thanks for the tip! I sow most of my fava beans in the spring, but I like to have a few sown early just to start the season sooner. Can't wait! 😁
Thank you for the information on roasting radishes- I ne4ver thought of cooking them that way. Cheers and happy gardening 🙂
@@bewoodford2807 I hope you will enjoy them! You can also sauté the greens and eat them together with the roasted roots.
Try roasted cauliflower it's delicious, also roasted broccoli is nice, it saves on fuel as you can just shove everything into the oven.
Roasted radishes are delicious! I also love adding them to soups. I stir fry the fresh leaves or use raw in salads, but when I have heaps of them, I blanch and freeze the leaves to use in soups, lasagnas, stuffed shells, and so on.
Thank you for the sharing!! I work with gardens in Brazil and we are totally in the same page. Cheers!
Thank you! Lovely to find a kindred spirit 🥰
Thank you for such an informative video
Thanks for watching 😁
Thank you. Great video!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for the lovely comment ☺️
Like the sweatshirt message. Thx for the info as well.
Thanks so much. That's really kind of you 🥰
Now you gave me ideas for X-mas presents! I will build slug pubs! 🤔☺
Brilliant!!! That sounds fantastic! I've got a mental image of a mini pub with slugs at the bar! 🤣
@@amykellygardening It was the first thing that came to my mind! A little box with a roof and beer inside. Pub! ☺
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Lots of very useful information, thanks for sharing..new friend here from Growing My Own.
Hi! I've just been having fun watching your channel. I can't wait to try some of your recipes. Thanks for subscribing! 😊
Thanks for the shearing 👍💐
Thanks for visiting! ☺️
Lovely video. Thank you from California.
Thank you! Your winter climate is just like ours, so these videos will be perfect for you! If course your summers are MUCH warmer and you get all that gorgeous sunshine, so in summer you can grow fabulous fruits that sadly don't enjoy it here as much! 🍉🍑🍒
Thank you for a very informative video. Did you ever tried to throw crushed eggshells on the soil?
Yes, and mine ends up with crushed seashells in it as well! The trick is remembering that these minerals will break down very slowly in the soil, so the finer you can crush it the better. I know one gardener who uses an old blender to get them like a powder before he sprinkles them in his garden and his crops are amazing 😍
@@amykellygardening I meant to use them for slugs. They would not like to "go" through those.
@@agulusek for slugs, I use my Dad’s old remedy. He would put a head or two of garlic in a pot and fill with water, cover and bring to a boil. He would then simmer the garlic until completely soft, turn the heat off an let the whole thing go cold. He would empty the the liquid into a bottle, throwing the spent garlic on the compost. He would then spray the plants, around the plants, the undersides of the leaves, etc…anywhere the slugs and snails would crawl. Now it smells like garlic for a day or so, but those creatures just cannot stand the taste of the garlic. The down side is when it rains you need to go spray again. But it does work well. I had wondered if planting wild garlic among and around the plants would also help keep them at bay, or even picking a bunch of the wild garlic leaves in the spring when they are abundant and just soak them in a large bucket or two of water to decompose and then use that to spray the plants and surrounding area, similar to using nettles this way as a feed, I have not tried it yet but have decided to give it a go this coming spring. While it will be smelly, I am going to decant it into bottles and spray regularly in a small area just to see how it works.
Garlic spray is AMAZING! I recommend it in the video, and know a lot of professional specialist growers who use nothing else 🧄❤️
Crushed eggshell works well in dry countries, but sadly here once it gets wet with rain they just slime right over it. Natural wool can work well, too, and I know a bulb grower here in Ireland who swears by ash from the fire. Hope that helps!
G'day new sub here from Australia thank you for an excellent video.
Thanks so much for the sub!!! I'm from Adelaide originally, lovely to meet a fellow Aussie 👍😁
PS, don't forget to invert the seasons, so the plants I say to sow in September in my video you would be sown in your Autumn, June-ish 👍
Thankyou for you lovely also informative video, just subscribed. Good luck with your vlog and crops.
Thanks very much for subscribing and for the lovely comment ☺️
Thank You ❤!
My pleasure 😄
Thank you for all the valuable information you shared...i was really worried about sowing my spinach in the garden bed but ill definitely give it a try now. Can you tell me if its possible to plant beetroot seedlings in a raised bed without any cover or is it too cold for them? Im in Manchester so we do get a lot of rain this time of the year so wasnt sure whats suitable without any cover. Any advice would be great thanks
It's a bit late to plant beetroot this year, I usually plant mine between April and August, but they are definitely be fine in a raised bed outside with no extra protection. 😄👍
Will the broad beans survive winter in zone 8
Most years they will be fine as long as they are in well-drained soil and you don't get a particularly cold winter. They can cope with 14F, so most years they should be fine for you. Worst case scenario if it does get colder than 14F, you can pop some fleece or a cloche over the top to give them a bit of extra protection. I've never lost any to cold, but I have lost a few to those pesky slugs before now! 🐌 Good luck with it!
Just found your channel and have subscribed. Really enjoyed watching your video. Very interesting. Thank you. Happy gardening 🙂
Wow, thanks for the sub! That's so kind of you. I hope you enjoy all of the videos, there's lots more new ones to come! ☺️
Beautiful!!
Thanks 🥰
Amy, fantastic video. I have a plot not too far from you. Getting some bits and pieces established. Hopefully I can avail of your expertise if you’re ever down when I am. Thank you. Peter
Thanks Peter, feel free to catch up any time you're at the plot! 👍
Could you spray the garlic spray at the foot of a plant, on the ground?
You could certainly try it, I'm not sure how effective it would be. Please let me know how you get on with it! The point of spraying it on the leaves disguises the delicious smell of the leaves and makes the slug/snail think the leaf is an inedible allium instead of a delicious whatever it really is. Please really do let me know if you try it! 😁👍
I need to get some of that slug stuff because slugs killed lots of my shasta Daisy and Dianthis plants as well as a few others ..
And them rollie pollie too ..
Sorry to hear that. It's so frustrating when your beautiful plants get eaten. I hope that some of the slug tips work for you 👍
Where is this planting going on? What climate is it like in your place?
Northern Ireland: Lots of rain, frosts and light snows in the winter, winter temperatures usually between -5 and +5C (23-41F). Thanks for the comment! 😊
Hi Amy, very informative.Thank you. Not much options for sowing in winter apart from what you planted?
If you live somewhere that will get below freezing over winter it does limit your choices, but you can also plant onion and garlic sets in October or November as long as the ground isn't frozen or waterlogged, and you can also plant dormant cuttings from roses and willow when you prune them over the winter. ☺️
@@amykellygardening Thanks Amy. still learning :)
Being across the pond, what zone are you in we are in 7 so we have snow and can go below freezing and with global warming ice storms, we might need a cold frame for garden veggies. Maybe broccoli?
Your soil looks wonderfully amended, I would be curious what to plant as a cover plant to help the soil for next year.
Try a bowl of beer for the slugs, they go in and drown.
Ah you mention beer and copper tape. Those are my go to. to many other critters around
I think our equivalent would be USDA zone 8A. Our winter temperatures dip to between 18F and 25F for short periods, but mostly we're around 30F. The corn salad/lamb's lettuce that I mentioned will germinate at temperatures as cold as 41F, And is perfectly fine with frost and light snow for short periods. If you get heavy snow and prolonged hard frost, then you probably are better to wait until spring to sow your crops. Clover and mustard are my two favourite cover crops, but I sometimes like to let the ground rest: I put a light covering of seaweed on the soil, cover in cardboard, and then mulch with grass cuttings/hay/leaves/whatever I have. The worms do all the work for me moving the nutrients through the soil and in Spring I just plant directly through the mulch- no dig 😁
@@amykellygardening
Thanks, there was an older Italian woman who lived up the street many moons ago she had a cold frame and I'm guessing a few winter vegetables growing. Maybe broccoli. She was great always wore a black dress. I don't even think she drove a car. Long gone now
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love raspberries but...they aeem an awful lot of bush for not many berries.....I am limited for space
Try Patio Raspberry "Ruby Beauty"- it's a much smaller plant you can grow in a container or pot and you still get as many berries as a full size raspberry bush 😁
I'm out in the country/forest in Sweden so, my garden is literally loaded with snails, slugs and other hungry bugs. This year I have tried something new. It was quite by accident and not pretty but, it seems to work better than most other things I've tried.
I grow a lot of squash, zucchini, leafy greens, cucumbers, you get the idea. Everything a slug, bug or larvae loves... I remove quite a lot of the leaves of the larger plants and usually I've just carried them to my compost pile and let them do their thing. This year, one day after spending hours in the garden on a very hot day, I was to tired to haul the dis-guarded greenery to the compost and, let them just sit in the long row/path I have between my 2 garden plots. Came out early in the morning the next day to find that the whole row where I had just left my "compost" material was covered with slugs. 😱
Put my gloves on, yes I hate the slimy feeling on my fingers that is difficult to just wipe off... I picked almost a liter of slugs... I'm evil and pour salt on them before throwing the whole milk carton I use in the garbage bin at the end of my driveway.
I've also been thinking about putting a few containers with beer amongst the green leaves, as I know that there are most likely many more slugs than those that were still out there munching away when I come out in the mornings.
That certainly sounds like an effective technique!!! I've known gardeners who just leave the old leaves etc. to rot beside their crops, hoping that the slugs will eat their fill of the rotting leaves. The truth is there are different types of slugs: Some prefer really fresh living material and others prefer old rotting material, but unfortunately it's hard to get rid of them selectively I just try to keep the numbers in my garden and allotment down as much as possible. I have far less trouble at home because we have the pond there to attract amphibians and birds, which are both amazing natural slug and snail control. 🐦⬛🐌
If you find beer expensive, any yeasty liquid will do. Rinse out the bowl next time you make cinnamon buns.
@@michaeltomkins6932 Thank you. Yes, beer is very expensive over here. But I do bake a lot and even make my own yeast. Not sourdough yeast, never got the hang of that and, I'm not that crazy about sourdough bread and neither are my kids but regular yeast for baking is quite easy to make/continue, using a small piece of yeast you have left.
If seeds have a best before date, why is there a seed vault?
More lies I assume I think they are kept cool in there though maybe ? X
The seeds in the seed vault are kept under really specific humidity and temperature conditions that are maintained at a constant level. The ones you buy in the shop are subjected to really variable temperatures depending on if they stick them in a sunny window or wherever less than ideal location. The seed companies don't want you to be upset that you've bought seeds that haven't germinated so they err on the side of caution with the dates, but seeds as old as 2,000 years have been germinated successfully. Bear in mind that the seeds from some plants naturally survive a really long time, whereas other plants, for example, parsnips, have a naturally very short seed life. It's hard to germinate a parsnip seed even 2 or 3 years old, you're much better to use fresh. On the other hand, if you're growing a date palm, you may have success with a seed hundreds of years old 😁👍
Yes, you're right. It's all about temperature and humidity control 👍
what country are you based
Ireland, so we have light snow in winter and lots of frost and rain/hail/sleet! These seeds can be planted at the start of Autumn /Fall by anyone who gets frost or light snow over winter. If you're in a colder area they may need some protection like fleece or cloches. 👍
can you use worm castings for the additive?
Yes, absolutely! I have a wormery and the castings are magic! 🪱❤️
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