Is This The WORST GROWING YEAR Ever? June in the UK Market Garden
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If you look up you will see why ✈️
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Spot on.. We all know why - My comment was deleted because I’d mentioned the actual words and YT didn’t like it.
Go ahead, look up, and what you ARE seeing is condensed water from the jet engines after the engines compressed air and released that air.
This is at least 8 years old Q-Anon conspiracy theory.
Those trails are completely harmless. Physics 101.
Yes you're right. The great elephant in the room!
Oh seriously can’t believe this is the first comment. Get a grip.
There’s going to be massive food shortages by the end of this year. A lot of arable farmers have seen crops failing to germinate due to waterlogged ground and now it’s getting too late to sow a second time.
Livestock farmers have been forced to keep livestock indoors due to flood fields and fields earmarked for grow hay and silage are being used for grazing. You think food is expensive now!
I feel that you're going to be right. There must be severe crop shortages due.
Just looked at a weather forecast of things across the pond, and there are three massive heat domes sitting over parts of America.
I can imagine what that's doing for food security over there.
Meanwhile, in the UK, a wholesaler was telling a YT interviewer how he had to buy carrots from 'China' (of all places!) because his usual European sources came up dry. I'm checking packs now.
No way will I buy produce from China, seen too many videos of fake food and land poisoning to even consider it.
I'm in the States but I'm having a nearly identical growing season and seeing the same odd plant behaviors as you are. I don't know about you but I seem to wake up every morning looking around at the strangeness and just saying "What in the world?". The whole thing is a bit eerie! I'm sorry you are going through this but thank you very much for sharing. Hang in there, you are doing an amazing job!!
Thank you SO much! And I'm the same every morning .... I woke up today and there was blue sky. Summer? nope, disappeared to grey rain!
Those chem trails made the blue sky disappear.
Wonder why we’re seeing auroras so far south and deep Into spring? The cause is the weakening of earth’s magnetic field which protects us from harmful solar and cosmic radiation. Research the ever faster magnetic poles and the South Atlantic anomaly.
The earth is on the cusp of a major magnetic excursion or pole shift. During this time it would be best to shelter in caves or if you’re a billionaire, a survival bunker. And how do the elites increase their odds of surviving? Global depopulation.
We so feel for you! Thankyou for still taking the trouble to film and smile.💕We all need to pray harder for better weather and if it’s all manipulated it will back fire on the perpetrators 🙏🙏
Humans are natural born whistle blowers.. Just look at how many doctors are keeping quiet, even though the “research “ is now showing harms being caused. Geo Engineering is on the government’s own website. Do your own research and don’t rely on what your dad told you back in 80s 🙄
I needed to watch this video just to share the pain of the weather.
Everything you mentioned, including no black fly on the broadbeans has happened at my plot.
I might go out and make pumpkin tents out of fleece to move them along a bit growth wise. Which is a ridiculous thing to be considering in June.
Good luck to you!
I feel your pain! Here in Belgium it’s the same issues.
Seems to be worldwide ... had US folks saying its terrible too.
I’m with you, in north Yorks. Been allotmenting for 14yrs, worse year ever . Thinking of giving up and growing from home. 😭🌧
That's hugely challenging with an allotment as it's harder to do a 'quick nip' into garden to check plants!
I am sorry to say it, but it's somewhat nice to see that it isn't just me struggling....well perhaps reassuring rather than nice. At least I know I am not doing something wrong. BUT my god this has been a tough year, fingers crossed for a perfect end to the summer for all of us. SLUG FREE!!!!
Don't be sorry, I was partly assured to film this as I saw another flower farmer post one and it made me feel better. 🤣🤣 we're all in it together and all that!
Same here in the US. Some garden staples just barely chugging along with some moments of intense growth then nothing. Even the nettles and comfrey are taking a bit to come back from a harvest.
Same thing here, if i hadn't had enough to do to keep me warm, i'd turn on the heating. My perennial kale cuttings are all doing great, but seed just doesn't want to do anything. Courgettes are in the thinking about flowers stage and have been for a week or more. Main reason i can get some harvest is because most of my veg. garden is perennials.
Slug patrol is a daily evening chore and it is the only thing along with copper rings around some really vulnarable plants that works.
We all love sheep, just sometimes they need mintsauce to be loved.
Hahahaha! That they do. I have some lovely mint growing .....
Ahh the weather has been pants!!! Hang in there Geoff, we're rooting for you!! 🙂🥕🧄🥬
It's been awful! And thanks!
They are spraying the skies
@@wilbursmith2955yep, probably. On the plus side, we can probably look forward to 30 degrees Celsius in September again.
What a nightmare year were all having .Everythings just sitting there ,not growing ,bad germination,pest damage .It does feel like why bother this year .Lamb chops anyone ? 😊
It really does feel like why bother ... but we'll do it all again I'm sure! And yes ... with some nice mint sauce. 👌🏻
I’ve had some begonias appear, I got them reduced last year, planted them in my containers and left them..they died back in winter , but 3 have put on growth again
I love when things like that happen. Life finds a way!
Its the same down here in the west country, i dont have the worries of running a csa but my family and animals do rely on me to feed them. chin up love your videos xxx
Thanks ... and good luck to you too! Even without a CSA, it's no joy to see hard work not growing!
Slugs, ugh. A plot holder used fermented flour (sourdough starter) on chunks of cardboard. She was quite successful at drawing the slugs to this.
As you're living on site, you can do what she did, pick up the cardboard and toss it in the compost or into where the chickens, ducks feed.
The fermented flour draws the slugs because it's starchy.
Climate is changing, the North Atlantic currents are getting weaker affecting the weather in the UK, Ireland and Europe. Instead of the warmth, the ocean is cooler, creating more precipitation.
You've got a year to revise what you grow, when you start the seeds, and how to deal with increased moisture/winds. Yes, it means changing some of the crops, flower and veg.
Los Angeles California, it’s dodgy weather here too! This year will be my 3rd gardening in my apt, with a ton of 20gal grow bags, good sprouting/light/hardening set up inside to head start my plants… I did SO GOOD, was able to overwinter a couple tomatoes but there is NO SUN, and my plants are wanting to thrive so bad but I’m only getting harvests from my over wintered plants ironically!!! I fear once August hits it’s going to be miserable heat and everything’s gonna die before it even grew UGHHH sos
That is SO frustrating but also interesting to hear the weather seems to be out of whack across the world! Amazing what you've grown in your apt though!
Here in the Cambrian Mountains, my garden is having the same problems as your allotment. My germination rate for May was 5%. Seedlings are either rotting or going straight to seed. I have lost an apple tree to apple scab, most of the leaves have fallen. We have had more frosts in May and June than we did in the winter. Temperatures can fluctuate over 10 degrees in the afternoon. Slugs and snails have been a nuisance but mice have been the biggest problem. Even my terrace can reach 30C for a while in the afternoon but then down to low single figures at night. I was self-sufficient last year but I don't think I'll get much of a harvest if any this year. I'm hoping that 2025 will be better.
I live in Perth in Western Australia & we have had one of the driest 7 months on record even the native bushland was withering. In summer temperatures in the forties & even in Autumn (March - May) temperatures over thirty degrees C. It's all sand so water disappears quickly & has to be constantly enriched with compost. We have some dam water but also a desalination plant.
It’s hard to keep cheerful this year. I’m growing plants bigger before planting to keep slug damage down, but that’s more work, some expense, and space consuming. Conversely to your experience, I’ve never had greenfly on broad beans (18 years) until this year. And the geese just haven’t laid at all. Still, as the M Pythons said,”mustn’t grumble”.
My geese have laid but none were fertile but everything else has been way off. And you're totally right on space - more time, more effort, more energy to grow the plants bigger just to try and reduce effect of slug damage. :\
Same here, it’s so annoying not to be able to get going properly. I was really relieved to see your statice though, because it’s the first time I’ve grown it and I thought I’d bought some miniature dollshouse version it’s so tiny - like it might make bouquets for field mice, but they don’t pay. Everything else small - last year this time I couldn’t pick flowers fast enough.
I’m doing a hot, but not too hot, sunshine dance xx
Yes - the statice is awful. It just loves heat - of which we've had none. My plants are so stressed a couple have tried to flower so Im thinking they might be a total loss this year.
The weather has just been wack!
It really has been!!
Hiya Geoff. I hear ya loud and clear. I have sown, resown and resown yet again. Germination was not too bad for me on most things as I sowed them all in the house but putting them out stunted them massively, even in a mini greenhouse and under glass. Even the plants that have limped along at an ok rate are yellowing despite feeding and fresh compost. My broadbeans are a fail.... our local overfriendly raven devoured every single bean (all 120) out of the ground and then when I resowed and planted them out as plants, the raven pulled them all out breaking them off LOOKING for beans underneath.
My cukes (3 lots of planting out big plants) have been devoured leaving just a stump under the earth, my large sweetcorn leaves are ribboned, my French beans are gone as are half my lettuces. My outdoor tomatoes look incredibly depressed. I didn't even get my first earlies in til mid May as ground was so wet and cold and full of slugs.
I am going to fence the veg patch round so I can put the ducks in to de-slug the area and we haven't even HAD the cabbage whites yet. Argghhh. I am gong to convert a lot to perennial veg... they withstand the random seasons so much better and will be up and ready earlier. An investment for sure, but worth it for sure.
Keep on keeping on.
Ugg, I hear you on the raven .... I've had that with the blackbirds. SO frustrating!!
That is something I can fall back on at least - perennial veg. Not as tasty as the annual stuff, but it is highly tolerant (except the Jerusalem Artichokes, which fell to mice this year).
Although my summer started really well, I have noticed far more animal attacks on unripe food.
My blackcurrants, which are normally left well alone by everything, have started disappearing. Green, unripe, small blackcurrants. Never happened before.
There 'should' be more apples, pears, cherries, plums, and aronias - on account of all the plants being bigger. But despite a very impressive blossom time, the fruit set was mostly pinched while still in its embryo stage.
I have peaches (because I netted the tree, which is wall trained and in the safest position).
There are gooseberries, blackberries and raspberries - so long as they don't mould.
But the best looking crop of all (and one that doesn't mind Scottish level heat, rain or cold) is the Blueberries. I have around 20 plants, most of them under 2 years in the ground and bought small, but even these small blueberry bushes have some fruit on them. I will have to net them eventually, but right now nothing has taken them.
Got same problem nothing is growing and the plants that do grow the slugs eat.
So frustrating isn't it?! And because plants aren't growing, any damage done to them is much worse as they don't recover.
Weather is honestly all over the place
It really is!
Eggshells in the garden will cut slugs into bits. 💖🌞🌵😷
My slugs use them as a shell to pretend to be snails 😂
@@Nellyontheland, then you need to crush the eggshells a bit finer. 💖🌞🌵😷
@suzisaintjames I was joking 🫡 I actually bake mine, powder it, then place either directly under a newly planted tree, or sprinkle it liberally on the compost. We bake, and have loads of shells each week. Powder form is space saving.
Cheers 🇬🇧
I hope the weather has improved slightly. It has been rubbish.
It's getting there!
Never ever keep the doors closed on a polytunnel in June !!(40 years experience growing )
It’s been awful here, all the same problems as you and to top it all off I spotted a bunny in the veg patch…😩
I bought a mini orchid on a mother's day sale, $8. Beautiful blooms well worth the $8. But I'm having fun growing the plant (my first), hydroponically. The fun is that the roots turn green when moist & happy, and silvery when they crave water. It's fun to drain off the water and watch the roots go silver and so satisfying to watch them turn green and plump up. ... The best part is they like the same temperatures as me (in the house). We are a bit dry here in the Arizona 🌵 desert (and with all the air conditioning) but that's part of the fun of getting a new plant! The suspense of will it grow?
It's struggling a bit. There's a tiny bit of rot on the stem where the roots connect. I think the grower planted it too deep (another reason I took it out of medium). But I've got a tiny bit of root growth down below, so there's hope.
It had 10 blooms (the tips were broken off in shipping). 3 crashed the other day (I think it got too hot). But the rest are still beautiful. And I see a tiny bud on the spike, so there's something happening (maybe a branch and more flowers or maybe a baby)? There's always hope, but there's always a chance of being ruined by a first time amateur.
I'm only sharing to get your mind onto something beautiful. Cut a few flowers to brighten your home, your deserve it! And spend your off time snuggling some chicks/ducklings. 💖🌞😷🌵
I'm so lucky this year regarding the slug problem: we have a hedgehog in the garden every night. It's extremely satisfying to go down in the morning to the veg patch and nothing has been munched at all.
That hedgehog could die if it is only eating slugs. They can be poisoned by a certain bacteria or such like in some slugs. It’s not their food of choice.
The dull rainy weather is fooling plants into flowering in response to shortening days.
Weather is terrible, so bleak at times. you will get there you have done so well x
Thanks Jackie!
I increased the amount of vegetables I grow this year (Scotland), and to start with the weather was perfect for growing.
I sowed everything late (you learn to do that up here. Light constraints), my courgettes are just a little larger than yours, the peas are excellent, tomatoes and potatoes doing well, radishes were fine until mice found them (and the rocket, beetroot, most of the onions), and slugs found everything else.
But aside from the animal pests, the weather was spot on - until yesterday. Now, it is really cold. I touched the car roof because I wasn't sure if that was moisture or frost I could see (moisture, but I'm betting it was a close thing).
I know I will have to put the heating back on today - in June!
This is going to be a serious problem if weather keeps changing as radically as this.
If we cannot be sure from one year to the next what the climate is going to be, changing markedly throughout the world, how can we best decide which crops to grow for which region?
So sorry to hear your veg and flower gardens are so challenging. Here in Hampshire its slow going too. Like you the greenhouse is getting to 40 C part of some days but i have made netting doors to get the air through each end. They wouldn't withstand many determined animals tho. Can't understand your Broad Beans only flowering at the bottom but nice not to have black fly, mine are well covered. I have to net everything outside on the allotment or the birds would take more than their fair share. Do hope things improve for you soon 😊
Thanks Lynda. Hope they improve for all of us!
My strawberry ain't ripening.
I can believe that!
Only 6 weeks till winter too!!!
Keep your chin up don't let it get you down. I like to think it will buck up although I think it's more likely to be changeable.
Every time the sun comes out, I summon some cheer 😁
Hey Geoff.
You are having problems with your produce, owing to the weather. Sorry to see your hard work being so negative. I think that the weather will improve for the better. We are not reliant on crops, as you are, other than a few things for our own use but we have had cold wet, windy weather and so our spring grass is far behind. We are still bringing some ewes and lambs in at night- in June!
We hope you have improved weather soon. Best. Jacob and Johnny. 🐶
That is madness you're having to bring sheep in!
@@BrimwoodFarm Yes it is but better safe than sorry. We have done similar before at this time of year, we have had snow in June here in the past. We hope the weather improves for you Geoff. 🤓🐶🧔
I fully agree, worst growing year I've known. 😢. It's either rotted in the ground or it's bolted, all that time and effort we all put into growing vegetables and flowers 💐. But we will do it all again next year. Even a small crop is better than non. I see yours, and they mirror mine. My broad beans have done the same as yours, and the pods are not filling out. weather here in North shropshire is about the same as you're having. My main pest is jackdaws, lots of jackdaws. They roost in the church yard across the road 😢😢. But I refuse to beaten, so I will persevere on , it's all we can do.
You're totally right, Colin, that's all we can do. And we will do it all again next year!
Early flowering is a survival technique in adverse conditions.
And boy have we had adverse conditions!
Hi I have done a few videos on slug prevention im thinking of doing an experiment too see what works best but ill have to go on a slug hunt as I have only found one baby with my method happy gardening Richardx btw im subbing
Only one?! You're a lucky man! And seems your anti-slug methods are working
I use slug collars from ‘garden organic’they definitely work for plants that are spaced out
Will have to look into those!
Fleecing is going to be make or break for you. It will improve your germination 10 fold, plus protect your crops. Broad beans are likely stunted with crop due to the windy location and lack of protection. The amount of plastic and long grass in the market garden is why you are experiencing so many slugs. Hang in there and try to be tactical about what you are doing. If the sheep are costing you your farm and crop… maybe think about filling your freezer for winter. Just a thought.
Yeah, I wonder if the wind blew the flowers off which is why the upper stems are bare. Slugs have been outrageous this year!
Hello Brimewood farm you got nice flowers +❤ New frend from Brimelow farm by chon I got same this year not so good keep going
We shall keep persevering!!
Yes! It is a weird year in my Yorkshire garden. Two main culprits for me - no 1- Peat free compost has not worked at all well and decimated all my plantings especially tomatoes; out of 70 plants I've managed 15 suitable for the greenhouse. Gives great root development but very poor foliage. (Apparently I should also be using the company's liquid feed to make up for the "deficiencies" in their compost ...yeah right).This was then hampered by no 2 -the cold weather. Even in the greenhouse the plants were suffering and early crops that can normally withstand the cold e.g. peas have been very slow to start and lack vigour. Garlic and onions are currently long sticks with no bulbing. Broad beans - no pods in sight. But I'm having a crazy raspberry year and the blackcurrants look very promising. I know how disheartening it is, but I'm an amateur dabbler and my thoughts go out to you and your livelihood.❤
There's a marketing ploy if ever I heard one - here, save the planet and use our peat free compost BUT you'll need to buy additional products! Outrageous!
Yep, I grow garlic every year, this year no bulbs…🙄🙄🙄
My garlic has rust so is being dug up and eaten early this year. No aliums in that area for a bit. My snap peas had a slow start and were eaten by snails and possibly slugs but they’ve shot away now and I’ll soon need steps to harvest them. Saved my own seed Magnolia peas and had them for lunch. Field beans are late, broad beans are good but I go round and cut the tops out and cook them as greens. I’ve had weevils as well as blackfly to contend with. Tomatoes are finally out at night 13th. June having cosied in the conservatory last night 4c 🙄 Chilies and cues are still indoors and French beans are struggling to stay alive let alone
My garlic has rust so is being dug up and eaten early this year. No aliums in that area for a bit. My snap peas had a slow start and were eaten by snails and possibly slugs but they’ve shot away now and I’ll soon need steps to harvest them. Saved my own seed Magnolia peas and had them for lunch. Field beans are late, broad beans are good but I go round and cut the tops out and cook them as greens. I’ve had weevils as well as blackfly to contend with. Tomatoes are finally out at night 13th. June having cosied in the conservatory last night 4c 🙄 Chilies and cues are still indoors and French beans are struggling to stay alive let alone climb. Slugs and snails are on the beat and cabbage whites are round the corner ready to get the PSB and kalettes🤨
Much love and regards from N Yorkshire Take care everyone
I feel your pain my onions have not done well. Slugs have been at everything I want to hide away this year nothings doing well.
Mind you my soil is very poor no matter what I do. That's why I'm Billy the struggling plotter. UA-cam. I'd suggest look up at the trails in the sky and see who have patented seeds that grow in high aluminium soil.
Its been hard for us all. The shops are also empty although that may be more to do with delivery too! My wife has a very good memory. This weather was the same around 8 yrs ago.
Our plot improved with an addition of some posts and a "fence line" wind breaker of some scafolding netting. Creating smaller heat sinks helps. The green netting is a godsend.
QUESTION... Have you put the posts in for your home decking yet? Or at least drawn a plan? I hope you have at least thought of it! 😂
Cheers 🇬🇧
I definitely think more wind breaks are required, though the breeze has been helpful in previous years when it was baking hot as it brought some cool.
I've begun to plan but not build!
@BrimwoodFarm Great news about the platform. It can be costly. Four posts each month, and four planks each other month, and you've got it. I would hope your first post is in by September 1st 🫠
It certainly helped me to plant a hedgerow first.
When I first moved to my property 21 years ago. Virtually no soil, and a harsh, cold wind would scream down the hill almost every day of the year.
It took 5 attempts to plant that hedgerow, but finally the gaps are filled, some plants allowed to grow into small trees (managed heights) for extra protection where it counts.
The hedgerow is very tight-knit, a mixture of species, mainly native, somevretaining winter leaves like Beech and Oak, some are nectar-rich ornamentals to provide for a neighbour's many beehives, some are fruit plants, some evergreens.
A lot of birds have started nesting in this hedgerow, and while they do pinch certain fruits nearby, they never become an increasing menace because birds are extremely territorial, driving off competition. So there's going to be a limit to what is taken, because there will be a limit to how many birds the Blackbirds will allow.
And, to reduce hybrid fruit losses, I am currently planting a selection of natural bird-favoured berry plants at a quiet end of the garden.
The birds are great as pest control.
Before the hedgerow was growing at a satisfactory rate, my Amelanchiers were being hit bad by weevils. I had to pick loads of them off the plants daily. Now, I don't have to bother. Something is doing the work for me (Chaffinches, Willow Warblers and Nightingales were later arrivals to the garden, so I suspect one of those).
Another really great thing about a hedgerow is - free alternative peasticks and canes for supporting veggies and fruit plants. Species most suitable for this purpose can be planned into the mixture - I chose Birch and Hazel for this purpose. Birch great for peas, Hazel water sprouts can be trained into hoops.
And a hedgerow is a source of soil-building materials. I hand prune the hedge throughout the year, building brash heaps that rot down to produce the richest, blackest compost. Excellent in containers, as a top dressing, or mulch.
Brash heaps are great nesting/sheltering/hibernation quarters. Mine are full of Wrens, frogs, toads, newts, and the occasional pheasant. They'd be great for hedgehogs, if they still exist in your area (seem to be extinct where I live).
Also, brash heaps keep underlying soil cool and moist, attracting fungi species. One heap produced masses of Morels until about 2 years ago.
I don't turn these heaps or fuss about with them unnecessarily, just add more prunings to the top, letting them rot down at their own pace, scraping out the compost from the base when I need it.
I have about 250ft total in brash hedges and heaps. Wouldn't be without them now.
I'm thinking about your broad beans... Why they are producing down low and not high. Could it be the wind? The whole video... my gut is saying cover them so they are warmer and out of the wind (it would protect them from the birds too). But you're not doing much better in the poly tunnel either.
You didn't say... did the seeds take longer to germinate in the poly tunnel?
The peas that are covered looked good. So maybe that's your answer, IDK. 💖🌞😷🌵
Ooh, interesting thought. It has been incredibly windy so maybe it just blew all the flowers that were higher up, off the stems!
Heavy rain washes out nutrients.....maybe a good dose of fertiliser would help...whatever you use....
That's very true as well!
Oh, it does feel heartbreaking, doesn't it? I feel your pain, I really do. I have found that all my perennial veg in my food forest, and stuff that self-seeds (tree spinach and vegetable mallow etc), has done remarkably well. But, like you, the seeds have been poor at germination and then static when put in the ground. Things are starting to take off now, which is a relief. Re. slugs: I have discovered that if you can find some of the big green blotchy ones (green cellar slugs I think they are called), they will eat the rotting vegetation and they seem (completely observational and I don't know how true this is) to either scare off the smaller destructive slugs or eat them - no idea which. They don't eat fresh growing plants. I put a plank out where the worst culprits are and find a big green slug and put it out under the plank. Somehow (it could be just luck) the slug damage virtually disappears. All I know is that it works. Keep going. I envy you so much, your space...
OOOH, I'm going to look for green cellar slugs. Would be interesting to see it that works here too; you could be onto something. I've also found the same with perennial and self sown stuff; that has thrived.
@@BrimwoodFarm I know the leopard slug is supposed to kill smaller slugs but I don't have any of those that I know of. I honestly think that going perennial is almost essential nowadays, even though the slugs still have a go at that. At least the self seeding stuff keeps coming. I've never seen such a carpet of beautiful tree spinach, ever. Thanks for the videos, Geoff - it does give a lot of inspiration to peeps.
Mine is average but i tried my best and also went with some cold tolerant plants to grow. Dissapointing though.
Glad you're managing to get by. Definitely a good idea having decided on some colder tolerant plants.
Does anyone attribute this awful plant year to geo engineering because I’m wondering?
Absolutely, it is 💯
Yep. They spray the sky constantly-if the day looks like it’s brightening out come more ✈️💨💨💨
You will be OK if you buy seeds that have been engineered to grow in aluminium poisoned soil.
No, I don't. My father was involved with work at a climate research unit very briefly 40 years ago. He told me all this was going to happen way back then, in the 1980's.
Unfortunately, since then, sensationalism by the media has muddied the waters of truth over climate change. Journalists, desperate for 'new' stories, have confused the general public (and politicians) by digging out mad claims by researchers of low repute.
Hence, a lot of people have stopped trusting scientists in general, even though those experts who supplied the original data have always been spot on with their predictions.
When you look up in the sky and see trails out of the back of aircraft engines, that's condensation, exhaust. They are not special chemicals.
Think about it...
If governments were secretly spraying cloud seeding chemicals in the air, how long do you expect that to be kept secret?
Humans are natural born whistleblowers, and no pilot is going to release chemicals into the air knowing that he could be found out, that someone might rat on him to the public, that he will do this and jeopardize the food sources that his family, friends, colleagues, neighbours all rely on.
You seriously think that the government would risk our food sources, our crops and herds, when it is only too well documented throughout history exactly what happens to the ruling parties in times of famine?
(They breathe the same air. They eat the same food. They drink the same water).
As some people state in some comment sections regarding the threat of famine - Eat the rich!
And that is metaphorically or literally what has happened in historical scenarios.
So governments wouldn't risk upsetting the masses. They know that people moved by hunger become irrational, violent, deadly. With nothing to lose, the common people face the barrages of bullets, taken down until the bullets run dry and the survivors take down the government. This scenario is repeated throughout history. There is no way a handful of people governing the world's nations can get away with destroying the food supplies for over 8 billion and live.
No, it isn't worth the risk
This problem is caused by climate change, just as predicted in the early 1980's. My father designed data collection programs for computer banks. He tested the systems, saw the predictions, and told me what would happen.
None of this is a surprise to me.
It's just a shock to see so many people being deliberately misled by fossil fuel industry propaganda and the whacky conspiracy theories (Haarp, geo-engineering/chemtrails. Oh, and you may as well add reptilian overlords, Illuminati and aliens to the list, because they are equally as silly as the other 'alternative' explanations).
Boring as it may seem, climate change by the burning of ancient fossil fuel stores forms most of the problem we're facing (plus conventional agricultural methods such as ploughing and tilling, which exhausts huge amounts of CO2 into the air), construction - especially with cement; and continued massive scale deforestation.
And simply planting trees, trillions of trees, would only serve to solve a small part of the problem (which is carbon sequestration).
People really 'need' to stop buying so much stupid junk, filling up their lives with things they don't need. Industrialised junk manufacturing is pointless, energy hungry, a waste of resources, and fulfils the recipient of such products with a brief spell of contentment before whatever it is inevitably breaks and gets thrown away.
Kids are practically swallowed up by toys these days, young women bamboozled by fast fashion, accessories and make up that makes them look like ugly painted oranges.
You Tube constantly throws holiday ads at me. I'm not interested in any of them. Many are. Countries all around the world are now kicking back at over-tourism, their lands and ancient monuments suffering, crowds of people swarming into squares to photograph distant statues. And how do these people get there? Aircraft. Ships. Ports and airports expanding every few years to fit the burden of increasing numbers (and weights) of passengers. Both ships and planes are the worst ways of travelling when it comes to energy consumption and pollution.
People eat too much. Way too much. Snacks are designed with sugar, grain derivatives and chemicals to leave people wanting more. Shiny packaging and bright coloured food entice people like the primitives in Gulliver's Travels to shiny diamonds.
A more basic, organic diet (I'm not saying vegan, just more basic) is sufficient for everyone. My family has 2 meals per day, no snacks, no alcohol. That's it. It's enough, and 2 of us are manual workers.
But there are people out there who graze hour after hour, getting sick, getting so enormous they can't move. Food addiction driven by certain factions within the food industry, this in compliance with pesticide/herbicide and artificial fertiliser companies, all of them massively contributing extra CO2 unnecessarily, piling more problems onto our suffering atmospheric systems.
We can fix this.
It might seem too late, with floods washing away parts of China and Europe, heat domes crushing America, Wet Bulb events killing India.
But we made these scenarios, we can put them back, by being mindful over what we do, buy and how we live and entertain ourselves. You can be happy without indulging in all this excess of distractions.
We do need to plant trees, yes. That as well.
I've planted several thousands of trees in my lifetime, plus many thousands more wild flowers. I haven't mowed the grass in my garden for 21 years (saving a lot of money, sequestering carbon, avoiding carbon emissions from mower equipment, and providing great habitat for lots of creatures - including a few rare species and those that eat common pests).
I'm also investigating a way of quickening up the sequestration of carbon in soil using plant thicket management. Early stages, but I've seen this happening naturally in the wild, looked at soil depth and quality in these places, how they compare with other types of woodland, moisture content, soil stability, localised ecology, etc. Very promising, if a lot of extra work needed to maintain it.
Sequestering carbon 'back' into the soil, where carbon came from in the first place, is our best hope of restoring weather patterns to a more civilised condition.
@@Debbie-henri thank you for your response, I’m glad to read your explanation - it explains a lot of what’s going on & I agree with you we must be mindful of how we treat the earth & we would all be much happier with less material stuff 😁❤️
Everything I plant out is getting eaten at the moment!
Interesting though, that all my packet seeds have had a poor germination rate, but seeds I saved from plants are almost 100%
Not that I’m able to stop them being dug up, eaten once they go out though…
I don’t know what the answer is! (Maybe dry roasted chilli slugs could be a thing? 😂🤢🤔)
We have pork scratchings, why not chilli slugs?!
Seeds can get overheated in shops very quickly. They can get just as overheated if being delivered by post, sitting in some boiling warehouse or post office van before they're delivered.
Not one packet of beetroot came up this year, not a single seedling. I suspect overheating.
Likely, you store the ones you collect from your own plants in the salad box in your fridge, as I do?
I never have a problem with seed that I collect and store this way.
Got an immense crop of Hosta seedlings in trays (taken from Bressingham Blue), and these are an edible type that I will either use as 'sprouts' or will look up to see if I can use as a treat for poultry.
It's rotten for you Geoff. I've just reseeded chard and am growing it in the green house.
And who thought chard would be hard to grow?! LOL!
Criss cross skies!
What does CSA mean please?
Community Supported Agriculture 😊
Thanks 👍
Although the weather has not been very summer like in uk yet, the plants you motion not growing like kale, peas, cornflowers, statice are good growers in cooler moist weather. Hate hot and dry. I think other issues like poor soil, pests, weeds, flapping plastic hitting crops, have contributed more to your problems
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Geo engineering, sky is being sprayed constantly to dim the sun and keep temperatures down. See Dane Wigginton
100% they’ve ramped it up this year and more people are now questioning it.
That comes from an old Q-Anon conspiracy theory. Those trails are nothing more than moisture from the condensation and expansion of water vapour.
In short, totally harmless.
@@ninemoonplanet Yea right.. I bet you believed the jab was safe and effective too.
@@ninemoonplanetnope you’re wrong unfortunately. Contrails dissipate in the air quite rapidly these are different they linger in the air for hours and spread out and completely fill the sky. You can watch it happening, don’t dismiss it as a conspiracy, it’s well known that it’s being done it’s called stratospheric aerosol injection
@@ninemoonplanet No it doesn't. That's beyond naive. Even the met office have admitted to cloud seeding.
On about Gardening To be Honest Jesus is Coming back "full stop" The Bible say's Matthew 24:6 And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that you are not to be troubled: For all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. [7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. "All Gardeners when you see all your plants and Veg They have not come from nothing ! It's God Creation from Jesus Christ .