Our BIGGEST episode EVER | Early March garden | garden vlog
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Oh yes, they are back.... our biggest episode ever is a bumper tour of BOTH gardens and all the colour and excitement of spring. Take a full tour of our suburban gardens in early March and see the beautiful spring bulbs in bloom and get some ideas for your own garden. This is a must-see for anyone looking for some gardening inspiration!
Join us as we show you around our little slice of paradise just as spring starts to promise it's arrival!
:hears the rain pounding outside and grumpily turns on YT: A 40 MINUTE ELI AND KATE VID???? YES!!! POPCORN AND COFFEE TIME!! hahahahahha
Ohhhh pop corn!!! Genius!!!!
I really enjoyed watching that, Eli. Thanks for all you put into making it, especially on a weekend day.
Someone else has said it- I also think you’d be brilliant on TV. You’re such a natural presenter and not annoying- always a bonus 😂
Have a brilliant week. Hope the longer days encourage the bulbs to flower for you and that the sun is warm enough for you to get a wee sit oot.
Glad you enjoyed it!😍
You’re right! Some of us are under a fresh dump of snow - about 20”! Yikes! 😱 March 6 here in the middle of the prairies in Canada 🇨🇦 and seeing your green grass and spring flowers is a sight for sore eyes! So thanks for giving us the tour! Loved it! ❤️
Wow
I can’t even imagine what it’s like to know that’s how this time of year will work EVERY YEAR! So glad I could give you a burst of colour 😁😁😁
I'm new to your channel and I really appreciate the overall map x'd while you move around. That makes it so much easier to understand the area! Your space is beautiful!!
Woohooo glad to have you with us Amanda
Love your content and presenting style. You should be on the telly
Appreciate you and Kate x
🤪🤪🤪 don’t think I have quite the “thing” for TV 😂😂😂
Hi Eli & Kate, lovely plot tour ❤ thanks for sharing and take care 😊
windy as heck here tonight in Blackpool , its rained nearly every day although we did get an afternoon of dry but its cold , i was shocked today at just how much compost a raised bed takes to fill ,going to start making my own ,buying it is way to expensive but for now bought will have to do ,hardly got any left for my pots now though . love your videos they always cheer me up and we need it with this miserable weather.
actually sunny and not too windy here today - for a change 🤣
Glad you enjoy the videos... and oh yeah... don't know if you saw the video of us making the back bed but I used up everything I had from both compost bins and still needed to buy more :(
Superbe vidéo 😊
A bientôt
😁😁😁😁
@@eliandkate de rien
Epic video! 😀 Your garden is so bland (not!), unlike my garden filled with fabulous colors like brown, beige, straw, tan, taupe, and occasionally white. Everything looks fantastic! And I got it... chill-oot-er-ee. 😂 Along with sit-oot-er-ee, now I can speak Scottish. 😂
And…. Now you are allowed to sit in it 😉
I’m sure there’s a spare Adirondack you could use 😻
So long as you don’t pronounce it as
sh it-oot-er-ee
I love how clean and tidy your garden looks. And, I appreciate your word explanations as you go along. Great job.
Fab tour and you make us chuckle. My family are highlanders so the born in a barn made me laugh sounding like my mum. 😂
Love the fact you make such great use but also have a normal sized garden.
Looking forward to seeing spring for us all.
There you go…. I was thinking that was a west coast saying but obviously goes further afield too 😍
Where in the highlands were your parents born?
@eliandkate Hi, Buckie originally, mum passed away over 20 years ago now. My sister and aunt are in Nairn, some are on the islands. I've lived in Glasgow and Dundee but I was a bit too soft so came back south. I love on the coast of sw Wales for 17 years now. Very wet, but warmer. And less snow. 🤣
@GardenMyselfHappy ha ha ha that’s a bit harsh on yourself…. A bit too soft lol
We’d all like to live somewhere drier and warmer 😂😂😂
Oh wow.. I did love this tour. Thank you for guiding us around your lovely gardens. Love how it’s planned to give year round visual interest.
Great video and I always enjoy the injection of humour in your presenting style 😊
Must also mention the rather impressive garden plan drawn by Kate! Love this.
Yeah yeah! I know you fell asleep!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@eliandkate lol.. I got up at 4am today. Finishing your video was my top priority. 😅😂😍
@TheVegPlotThickens ha ha ha
Nice try
You were up at 4am cause you’re a farmers wife 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I’m just emailing you
@@eliandkate said farmer just woke up! There’s no getting up early anymore for farming. We gave up dairy farming in 2011 😂
No don’t ruin it for me!
I picture you with milk pails and everything
Charming garden Eli. All of the hard work you have both put in over the years has created a beautiful wee corner of the world.
You have inspired me (once agin) to get out & have a tidy & sort out, now the rain has stopped 🤞
Jumping in and out to miss the rain- is too 😂😂
Great stuff. Does Kate ever appear and just talk gardening? Sweet William/Stinking Billy : I am English BUT go with Stinking, and Wallace, and freedom. 😂❤
The videos aren’t really Kate’s thing and she’s a bit newer to gardening, she has sown and potted in with me as she’s learned but she’s not interested in making videos 😁
Well presented, loved it
I enjoyed the tour. Although we have been getting unseasonably warm weather this Spring its still too cold to start to do anything in our garden. We are in Toronto Canada
I doubt you'll be the only one who is still seeing it as too cold to do anything.
We have such a variety of gardens and environments here in our community, its amazing :D
I'm so excited about those thornless blackberries. Unfortunately our garden is invaded by a wild one in the neighbour's garden. The garden went wild when the house went to auction. It's so so invasive
It really can be but they can be grown in a big planter
I'm in Iowa, not currently under snow but definitely with no color in the garden yet. Just starting to dream about growing this year, so this was a huge burst of color from my point of view!
Glad to bring some spring colour your way 😁
Just catching up with last week's episode, really interesting seeing your garden in March, keep up the great work girls 😊
Ha ha ha it’s a long un. Won’t quite last till tonight’s realise but almost 😂😂😂
Brilliant 🎉
You’re so cute 😂 Texas Gulf Coast here. I put out my tomatoes yesterday. Will put out the peppers in two weeks or so. I miss color but it’s coming!🩷
Wow
We’re a long way from putting tomatoes out yet 😁
Thoroughly enjoyed this episode! I learned so much with all of the wee talks on all the different plants etc. Thank you!
Yay! Thats fab…. I so didn’t realise I was actually saying anything interesting 😂😂😂😂
@@eliandkate oh, you most definitely shared heaps of knowledge (as per usual) 🙂
Eli, your garden is STUNNING! Thank you so much for a really good nosey at all your beautiful pretties 😊 I've been in contact with The garlic supplier... the carcasonne & kingsland hard neck are a fail... mine haven't sprouted either! Really disappointing! If they don't sprout within 6 weeks from planting they're unlikely to...
😢I Love Ceanothus and bees adore
them too! is there some way of wrapping the water pump with bubble wrap without covering the solar panel to dampen the vibration noise? Thoroughly enjoyed the tour
Thank you x
Ha ha I answered this one already 😂😂😂
@@eliandkate well numpty dumpty here put it to the wrong video and now deleted it…
Great tour Eli. Really enjoyed it 😊
Glad to hear it Mags 🥰 a bit of hope for spring
What a really great video .... just fabulous ... even in late Winter your garden looks stunning ... so neat & tidy .... I'll be happy if my garden ends up half as beautiful as yours ... Thank you for sharing it with us ❤❤❤😊😊😊
You are very welcome!
I can’t wait till my tulips are up!!!
Tulips are so lovely 😍
Great vid, love the full tour, not really seen it being a new viewer, will be nice to see the progress this season.
More to come!
My favourite is colourful corner and especially the new planters. When the bulbs come up will be marvellous
Its going to be great this year deciding what to plant in there 😁😁
Hi Eli and Kate. New addition to the family here. You channel is about the only Scottish one I’ve even. I reside in north Lanarkshire and as you know the weather is horrendous, storm aiesha wrecked everything. Can you recommend flowers for pollinators that will grow (not sunny at all). Thanks. Keep up the awesome work 😊 . Oh aye and I got your sweet William reference 😂😉
Oh there are heaps
what about snowy woodrush, foxgloves, geum,cyclamen, liriope muscari, viburnum, lily of the valley,
@@eliandkate ❤️thank you for replying, I will look for these, cheers 😊
Planted daffodils, not a leaf, gladiola bulbs, mush from getting frozen completely. It's still going down past zero °C. But, I see old tulips are persevering, strawberries are sad, 🤣 who was it said gardening is relaxing?.🙄😂🇨🇦
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It is all so beautiful. Thanks for the tour. I've gotten a few ideas, just need to see if I can get the hubby to do some construction, ha ha. Wish that we could grow heather, I love it, but it is too cold here.
it's funny, I don't really think heather is anything exciting, but when you get entire hillsides covered in it, it's gorgeous
I've given up on gardening now my garden is 150 foot lo g by 250foot long and back up to the house I had a pond now it's a wooden box so I have given up on my gardening I use to love my garden but not interested any more grass grass that's all I got so I might have a couple of pot but I don't think so your garden is fantastic
Great to see your garden! I think the foxgloves will look lovely in that pot when they start flowering. :)
AWESOME garden tour! Loved it! I'm so jealous of your spring bulbs. Around here they are the squirrels' pantry, and we have a lot of squirrels in the wooded areas across the road. Any protective covering I've used has become their game to undo. It'll be so fun to see how your garden blossoms as early spring turns into summer.
This year we have squirrels too. We have no trees near by but they have eventually found us.
I said one time “if you build it they will come”….. There was no garden here before we moved in, so we had no pests for years…. But they are all finding out about our garden now 😭
🐝Thanks for the great video 🌻 so many flowers love it
Thanks for visiting with us 😀
What a beautiful and colourful garden tour. 1st week of March and in Scotland. Well done 👍❤️
Bring on June! 😂😂😂
Great tour Eli and the map helps
the map is more a bit of fun that anything... usually all I'm doing is walking across the lawn - not like your "kingdom"😍
Fantastic tour. Great video Eli. Thanks for your hard work.
Just discovered your channel and I’ve already watched a few videos and loving it!
By the way, I’m a Yorkshire lad and I call them brambles too!
It’s funny how a lot of the “regional” dialects share words 😍😍😍
Fab video Eli
Really enjoyed your tour of your front and back gardens. All looks really lovely. Raised beds and planters look great. I can see a lot of thought and hard work has gone into making it so beautiful. Love your seating areas too. 😍❤️
Glad you enjoyed it😍
Really enjoyed your tour Eli, you have loads of colour for this time of year, lovely garden, everything is so tidy 😊
I can't help myself though... I'm still desperate for everything else to bloom 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great video and I love your garden and learning Scottish terms "chillooterie" but you forgot to take us in and show the herbs....another tour???
Ah sorry….. I’ll maybe do something later in the year when there is more to show 😁
A recent subscriber here, so it was nice to get a full tour of the garden.
I'm terrible so far as flowers are concerned. I concentrate on the useful.
Sure I've always got flowers growing but they are more about attracting pollinators than colour in the garden.
I promise I'll try a little more this year. 😊 As for Kate planting Iris, they are definitely my favorite flower ever. Cheers!
It’s not about trying or not trying… your garden should bring you joy, for me, I love my flowers and they bring me so my joy so I’ll always grow them.
Loved your garden tour! You have such a relaxed and friendly way of doing your videos - I always feel like I'm right there talking with you. Even in winter/early spring, your garden is beautiful. Here in Canada, mine is still as dead-as-a-doornail. I'm jealous of your being able to still grow salad ingredients throughout your winter. That wouldn't work here but - we're thinking of a greenhouse. Thanks for all you do for us!
There are always things we covet from other folks environments.
I wish we got less rain and I really wish we had more sunshine especially in spring and summer
Grass is always greener 🤪
Wonderful garden tour! We had a bit of a thaw and a lot of rain this week so I can see a few crocus leaves peaking thru. Your garden gives me inspiration and crocus leaves give me hope!
I’m the same Julie, those early flowers fill me with sunshine
Your channel gives us all possibilities thanks Eli & Kate 👍
Now go check out your garden… what’s coming up??
Great video. It was worth the wait! You’re so creative!! Love seeing the bulbs coming up! Can’t wait to see how the surprise box comes out
Me too…… hopefully soon 😻
I miss our Dubai sitooterie. Now we’re back in Scotland. We didn’t get to sit oot once last year so let’s hope we get a good summer this year. It’s amazing to see so many plants in bloom in your garden when you’re not really that far from us. Our snowdrops are out and the daffodils have just started peeping through. Lovely wee tour of your garden. Looking forward to seeing it come to life over the coming months.
I said the same thing about my daffs and I am only about 60 miles south of Eli and Kate. Glad I am not the only one with slow starters.
The position of things in your garden will make a difderence and obvious how nutritious your soil is. The better your soil the better your plants 😁
What a great March tour. Will be fun to see the changes as your weather warms.
Just wait till end of May /June
Trust me!
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That was very nice Eli.👌 Really, enjoyed it. Thank you.🍓🌱
Glad to give you that wee bit of chill today 😁
28:00 if you don’t sit there anymore could the chairs not give way to a larger raised bed? Maybe a double layered one - could look amazing from you actually seating area and house. I imagine at the moment the planter along the fence isn’t really visible from where you sit as the corner of the shed will obscure the view? Just an idea.
Thanks, for looken ❤❤❤❤❤
Another Fab video as usual. I love your garden tours, so inspirational. and yes, I nick all your best ideas. Currently putting up shelves in my greenhouse... 🤘
You nick away… I probably stole them from someone else!
You have flowers. I have almost a foot of snow and frozen ground until about mid-April. I'll take a tour!
On which case Linda… this is for you!!!!!!
Brill tour, you always inspire me. I’ve only really ventured out to the garden this week, I feel as if I’m waking up as the days get longer! Although,it was a pretty good weekend weather wise here in Glasgow.
Lucky you!
I’m the same… I can feel spring happening 🥰🥰
Thanks!!!!
I am only about 60 miles south of you and your bulbs are waaaay ahead of mine! My daffs have just started developing buds and I can’t see any crocus spikes yet.
I thoroughly enjoyed that tour, especially as I have similar sun (or lack thereof) issues, being surrounded on 3 sides by tall buildings and being north facing.
Yay someone who understands!
It sucks doesn’t it?
I’d love more sun!
Told you! You are superwoman. Well, either that or you added something to the coffee. Either way, well done. Now if only you’d mentioned the hanging baskets. Would love to know what you grow in those trio pot whatsits hanging on the fence, trellises, whatever.
I now feel inspired but I also what to know where you got all those really big colourful planters pots, like where the fatsia is, and did I spy a bonsai in the rockery?
😂😂😂 now if you just go back and watch the last, maybe 6 years worth of video all will be clear 😂😂😂😂
No seriously.. pots came from B and Q, hanging pots are bidens and hanging baskets are pansies, violas and primula 😁
Love it!!! Thank you!!!
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How is your garden at this time of year?
@@eliandkate under snow right. Getting starters going.
Really enjoyed this tour, thanks! I'm in the US and thought sitooterie and chillooterie were silly made-up words before you explained them 😂.
Well they are silly made up words, just in a local traditional kind of way 😁
I am on coast Ayrshire and get frost up yo may then September some years
Our last frost date is end of May too
Great video love the garden ❤
Hope it brightened up your dreams of spring 😁
@@eliandkate it sure did trying to get my mojo back but the weather is dragging us all down roll on spring ❤️
Thanks for such a lovely insight around your gardens, I always luv seeing kates handy work I pause the video and show my husband in hope for myself 😅 one day, lots happening in your garden 😊❤
Awwwww
Lorraine tell him Kate says “get it done, it’s worth the brownie points!”
This was really enjoyable and relaxing video to watch, thank you Eli. I did not realise that HMS Dhalia had a little hanging in the air drawer ( sorry can’t think of proper word for it) at the back, is this new addition or was build there originally)? Garden looking great 👍
Ah it was an addition a couple of months later when we realised it just looked weird from that angle… we call it the life boat 😁
Ha ha, that's brilliant...Little life boat, plant it with some orange/white flowers, it will look like its been filled with life jackets 😂
Great video! Love the variety of plants in your garden.
Can I ask a carrot question please? Watched an old video earlier where you planted carrots in root trainers. How did it go? I got an allotment plot on Friday so making plans and seeing what I can start off in the greenhouse now.
Thank you 😀
Of course Michael.
It went well, I used to do that for year but you don’t have to…. You can use flower pots etc as well…. I just used the root trainers cause it helped with me being clumsy… BUT I’ve since found that if I use some of the earlier varieties of carrot… I can direct sow and get great results… so with a wee bit of research on varieties with you.
You never know
Hey there! 👋
New to your channel and OMG what an Epic garden you have! I love the colours of the infrastructures and the rustic bit at the front with the bricks. There is so much there to talk about an be in awe in! Love it!
I also really love how you edit your videos! I am from London but i love different accents from around the world and different old time cannon words/phrases.
Can't remember who shouted you out recently (Maybe Danny or Potty Mouth?)
Please can you tell me the shade of paint you use on the fences, wood, etc? I was trying to get something like that when we painted our fences.
TBH, your last video, which was my first, i didn't know your name of the two listed in the channel name. I thought that this was another allotment plot video and we just have our garden. Noice!
This video was absolutely a great explanation. My vision isn't that great and i thought it was you at the beginning of the video, until i paused it (I can't watch on normal speed). I am guessing that is your wife Kate? So do you have kids, pets, both, neither? I am waiting patiently for someone to say they have an alien hiding in a basement, making breakfast. Then i will be amazed that there are basement flats outside of London.
Going to try to binge watch your older videos, when i can. I have been gardening for a few decades now and want to make the garden look a bit prettier, not just practical in production but i love this clean focused garden.
We have just been restructuring the lawn area as slow process of renovating the mature garden, after renovating the house. Overall a fun task but we have had challenges moving in, whilst pregnant. It's been a whole wide curve of learning from hubby but again, it is all a great progression.
I'm subbed, with bell on your journey! I'm here at 30k subs! Already waiting for the 50k announcement!
hey
lovely to have you with us :D
Yup I absolutely get it about the videos advertising garden when it's an allotment, I've had that same thing when I was relatively new where you endup with unreal expectations based on these enormous spaces people have to grow in and frustrated at their lack of concern for the fact tha a garden is more thn just a veg patch but over the years you learn which channels you like, which videos are useful and which are just plain old fun and you find your "jam" :D
Ours is just. wee garden, in the middle of a suburban street. Like lots of folk.
So questions: this might help you get to know us better :D
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Kate (my wife and co-host of "Eli and Kate" was the one who popped around the door to remind me that I had a video to make.
The fences are "Autumn Red" according to the paint tin. It's kinda the colour in our neighbourhood so not really a choice we made, they were just that colour when we moved in.
25:30 Any thoughts on building this deeper and staggered like a ladder so each planter has direct exposure to rain from above? Seen this done before and worked really well. You are right - the current size holds little water in such small soil deposits making growing very difficult.
Nah, the planter was an interesting experiment but it’s not really important enough to us that we would want to put that much work in to changing it.
When the time comes I’m sure there’ll be another fun thing to try 🤪
Hi Kate - love your videos, I learn a lot. Can you give me a link for the large colorful pots you have? And do you know if they ship to the US? Thanks again!
Hey Sandra
(It’s Eli 😻)
Afraid I’ve no idea about the pots. We bought them locally.
I’m sure you could get something similar near you though 😁
Just woke up to snow covered Fatsia’s 😢 they are a new addition to my garden. Do you suggest covering them with fleece when snow or much colder temps are forecast? And will the fleece covers withstand the crazy winds we are due from the storms coming in? 🤔
Nah they are hardy to minus 15
Generally it’s good to go around and knock the snow off all your big plants and shrubs though. It blocks the lights and can cause issues for some of your plants. For me it causes issues with my hebes.
No snow here. Just the usual torrential rain
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Totally new to gardening this year and have developed an obsession with garden centres, was just wondering which ones you would recommend? I’m in the central belt and don’t mind travelling
Hey…. Love the username 😂
Afraid our garden centre of choice is a local one, Pentland Plants but I’m sure you’ll find decent ones near you.
It’s just a trial and error thing to find the ones that sell the stuff you want/like and have the prices that are right for you.
The chains are all pretty much the same regardless of where you are so look out for local nurseries and garden centres.
FYI Garlic hates wet feet. It’s so easy to overwater. They will rot in a heartbeat. 😢
Oh yeah that’s our biggest problem with garlic, the whole reason I moved from growing in beds to growing in fabric pots 😁
I’ve lost all mine due to the rain 🙁
@@susanelwood5794 Oh that's a bummer. Try fabric pots. Easy to move out of the rain and they dry faster. I grow my garlic in pots.
@@debbybrady1246 I grew spuds etc in them a few years ago but I found they went mouldy 🙃. My greenhouse will be up soon so will grow in there come autumn
hi thanks for all the videos where did you get the strawberry planter from iv been looking for.... a nice deep one to grow in thanks
Do you mean the big green vertical planter?
Thats not a strawberry planter specifically, it’s a greenstalk vertical garden. Where you get them will depend on where you are so have a google for greenstalk vertical garden 😁
Hit the like ,peeps
Awwwwwwwww thank you 🥰
Enjoyed your tour. Lovely garden. About the greenstalk, how did you get yours since they don't ship internationally? I've been wanting one for years, trying to figure out how to get one over in France for my new balcony garden next year.
Ha ha then I can help 😁
Growerstowers.eu
They supply the EU and UK
Tell Pam I sent you 😁
@@eliandkate Thank you!!
What soil mix do you use in your raised beds?
nothing specific Lois, just a mix of compost and top soil... and every year I amend this with more compost form my bins.
so, eli, why are those thin boards tied to the trees in the sitooteree's (is my spelling correct?) bed?
You mean the stakes? The trees were recently transplanted so the stakes are to help support them as they establish
omg! How did you guys get a greenstalk?
Ha ha ha I was just talking about this in our live stream
You can get them from growtowers.eu
@@eliandkate oh my heckin heck. I honestly spent hours trying to figure out how to get it from USA to UK via shippers and temporary postal addresses.
So grateful for this info!