What plans have you thrown out and mixed up in your gardens this year? I’m growing several crops now that were never part of my garden plan for 2024.. and this is super exciting! Thanks for watching. Have a lovely weekend ❤😊
Thank you Rebecca. It’s been a joy watching it come alive over the last couple of months. I find myself wandering across there several times a day to just to soak it all in. I’m glad someone else likes the planter. Duncan rolled his eyes at me 🫣🥰
I’m going to find the stall for you at Malvern! 😂 Thank you so much. I’m so pleased with how it’s all going at the moment. 10 flowers on the Kent Blue Peas so far 🙏🏻
Hey Clare. Fingers crossed for your sweetcorn. I'm sure it'll do great in that bed. You shouldn't need to shake as the wind will do the job 😄 Garden is starting to look lush 💚🫶🏽
Hopefully it’ll do it for me but I’m willing to give it a helping hand 😂❤️❤️ Thanks.. it’s amazing how quickly things green up this time of year isn’t it? Just so exciting! ❤️
Hello Barry. Lovely to see you pop up again. Hope you have been well and your growing season is going well, in spite of the horrors the weather is throwing at us all. Thank you for such a lovely comment. Take care xx
Hi Clare, if those sweetcorn don't thrive in that luxury bed then they are fussy blighters 🌽 I am regretting not planting some amaranth, but it sounds like I'm not too late! Ps my Niwaki want list is getting longer and longer... added the Hori Hori to my birthday list 🤣
I have been looking for amaranth plants in local nurseries, hoping they’d have some of the molten lava variety. Sadly not! I was very excited when Kerry offered me some seedlings last month. Hope it does well. The sweetcorn has better grow or I’m in trouble 😂
Best of luck with the sweetcorn. From what I know, your 2 varieties will probably cross pollinate, but they are both sweet, so it should work. We didn't have quite such poor weather but much wetter than usual, and a plague of (huge and tiny) slugs and snails, so I've had to resow lots of beans and cucumbers (cool weather didn't help). I've got lots of squash though, mostly my own saved seeds from last year, but some Crown Prince and Hokkaido, and Sweet Jack and one green one for seeds. I counted 27 for sure last night and probably more! I don't know where I'll store them all... But I think they end up hard enough to be mouse-proof, so maybe the barn. Wee Felix tries his best, and is a good hunter, but he's only one cat! I've hit Peak Courgette and today I must make relish... because now the cucumbers and runner beans are finally starting (very late). I have lost most brassicas to slugs, white fly and now caterpillars - was telling a neighbour this week that I'm going to build a British-style brassica cage next year! Your flowers are lovely and I like the bike! There's a garden in town where they have all sorts of quirky things like that and it always makes me smile!
Oh Kirsty, it’s been such a challenging year for all of us hasn’t it? I’ve resorted to a few slug pellets around the bottom of my dwarf French beans to make me feel proactive at the slightest onslaught. Didn’t lose any to slugs last year but they’ve suddenly found them and it’s brutal! I was so upset, after waiting so long for them to look like they were going to live. 😭 I did read about the two varieties but am just hoping for the best there. I can’t find anywhere else to put a third batch, so I’m going for it 😅 I don’t have a single courgette ready to pick. This time last year I was already needing to get creative to use them, and I only had one plant, late sown too! Just unthinkable that they’re so slow/late this year. Our farm cats ignore the rats. They prefer to chase after birds. Will look into the courgette relish though.. for the much anticipated glut to arrive 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Omg Clare I LOVE LOVE LOVE that bike planter!!!! That was a great video - really enjoyed it. Hope the amaranth does well. The varieties should be Love lies bleeding, Hot biscuit and Tricolour. I'm also putting out some last ditch sweetcorn today. Btw I decided not to plant two diff varieties together this year as I think that's the reason my corn didn't taste great last year - will be interested to see how mine turn out this year and if yours work ok.
I didn’t realise about not planting two varieties together. I could split them, as I have plenty of the second variety left to plant. Hoping that, as Kirsty said, with them both being sweet varieties it should be ok 🫣🙏🏻 At this point I’m thinking that just getting any sweetcorn is my job.. and Duncan will have to pretend to like it 😂😂😂 Thanks for the varieties and the plants. I’m so excited by them! ❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden mine were both sweet too last year - but I mean, it may have been another factor that made mine hard and chewy!! I wouldn't move them now that they're in. And that's what I did last year - just pretended to like it because I'd gone to such trouble to grow it 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂 did you say by the end of the season, does he do what Gerald does and just rolls his eyes. Hope the corn does well, we buy ours directly from our l al farmer as support to them and it’s cheap as chips here. Like the idea of the BFB in pellets as I cringe when people use the powder in wind. Spring onions everywhere 👍👍. Flowers are stunning all over the farm ❤, have an amazing weekend, Ali 🌞🇨🇦
I had a few issues of the BFB myself. Problem is it’s very easy to confuse which is which now 😂 I think Duncan is sold down the river of “growing sweetcorn whatever the cost” now. It’s personal. Gotta beat The Lottie Plottie (he won’t graciously admit defeat there!) 😂🤪 Flowers are looking fabulous. So are yours? I can’t help but be more pleased with the flowers than the veg at the moment.. they’re stealing the show for now ❤️ Have a fabulous weekend xx
@@TheFarmyardGarden some of mine (gladioli) didn’t come back but I’m mulch them this winter just in case. I know a lot of people pull theirs up but I’m not that gal 🤣🤣, maybe I’ll check with Amir he leaves his in the ground all year
Coming for a second watch (3rd if you count the listen 🎧) I’d be interested to see how the moneymaker taste Clare. Fantastic cucumber 🥒 they are coming slowly but surely. Oh wow look at the compost squash!!! They and the hissing Sid the snake love the warm🐍 Think we will all be getting baby corn at this rate 😂😂😂😂 Jolly Green Giants on standby 😂 Born pregnant urghh will keep an eye on my chillies as I don’t grow aubergine (said with Nanous accent)😂 Right off to dig up 5 tomato plants !! Keep smiling ❤ Allie & Tricia xx
I hope it’s only 5 plants Allie 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️ I love how Nanou says aubergine. Not in a mimicking way, just genuinely love how she enunciates it. Compost squash is a good ‘un. The size of its leaves too. Madness compared to the raised bed ones. Gave them all a seaweed feed this morning (raised bed ones) to see if it helps. Jolly Green Giant definitely on standby 😂
I have purple amaranths as well. Didn't think they'd do much as they were slow, but they grow well, even in shadier spots, they just don't get that tall, which is fine on a balcony. I thought I'd might eat them, they taste like spinach, they say, but they are too beautiful. I'm putting strawflowers on my list, they look and sound so cool. Thanks for the update, cute bike.
I’m a bit worried I won’t want to eat them for the same reason! The leaves are so beautiful on some of them. I’m not sure of the varieties. I need to ask Kerry again. 😊 Strawflowers are so quirky but so beautiful. Utterly addicted to stroking the petals. I believe they dry well too, I’m just loathe to cut them down 😅
@@ThatBritishHomestead yeah. In the polytunnel. I’ve had the dwarf “house” tomatoes ripening and they’re now planted in the herb trug outside. They’ve done well. In fact they’re the only ones ripening so far
Corn is wind polinated, so should be planted in a 4x4 square at least 6x8 is best and different types should be 50ft apart as they will cross polinate. n I'm in Iowa - the corn state :D
Shops sell sweetcorn in cans Duncan. You'll suffer if you try the sulky sweetcorn guilt trips!😂 Makes you appreciate the livestock though 😂 far less temperamental
What plans have you thrown out and mixed up in your gardens this year?
I’m growing several crops now that were never part of my garden plan for 2024.. and this is super exciting!
Thanks for watching. Have a lovely weekend ❤😊
@@TheFarmyardGarden I'm growing romanescos, cavalo Nero, brocoletto, pak Choi and chillis.
Everything but the pak Choi is great! 😁
@@TheFarmyardGarden I’m watching you all which is also great fun and very rewarding 😉😂❤️🥂
I loved growing pak Choi last year.. didn’t much care for eating it though 😂
We’re all going to need to do a collab again soon
@@TheFarmyardGarden yes I know. Once we know we not all got slug mafias running wild 😆😂
Clare- your garden is happy. It looks so great. I love your bicycle planter.
Thank you Rebecca. It’s been a joy watching it come alive over the last couple of months. I find myself wandering across there several times a day to just to soak it all in.
I’m glad someone else likes the planter. Duncan rolled his eyes at me 🫣🥰
Clare it all looks wonderful! A credit to you! Love that bike!! I want one ❤❤ Danny 🌱
I’m going to find the stall for you at Malvern! 😂
Thank you so much. I’m so pleased with how it’s all going at the moment. 10 flowers on the Kent Blue Peas so far 🙏🏻
Strawflowers are stunning.
I really adore them. ❤️
Everything is looking neat, tidy, and healthy.
Thank you. The weather is definitely an improvement and helping the garden 🙏🏻❤️
I love that bike! It’s cute!!
I love it too. I can imagine my granddaughter wanting to sit on it 😂❤️
Hey Clare.
Fingers crossed for your sweetcorn. I'm sure it'll do great in that bed. You shouldn't need to shake as the wind will do the job 😄
Garden is starting to look lush 💚🫶🏽
Hopefully it’ll do it for me but I’m willing to give it a helping hand 😂❤️❤️
Thanks.. it’s amazing how quickly things green up this time of year isn’t it? Just so exciting! ❤️
Beautiful garden work
Thank you ☺️
Hi, Clare your garden is looking amazing well done.
Barry (the Wirral)
Hello Barry. Lovely to see you pop up again.
Hope you have been well and your growing season is going well, in spite of the horrors the weather is throwing at us all.
Thank you for such a lovely comment. Take care xx
I haven’t been on YT much and it’s lovely to catch up with your garden. It’s looking fabulous ❤
Thank you Clare.
How are you doing on the plots? Hope the slugs are lessening now the weather is heating up a bit x
@@TheFarmyardGarden we’ve had a few nice days but the slugs are still loving life 😆
It all looks wonderful, Clare 😍😍 love the new bike planter, I am going to keep my eyes peeled for something similar 🌸
It’s so cute! I’m sure they’ll be at Malvern in September.
@@TheFarmyardGarden yay! I’m so excited for that! Will be my first time attending! 🎊👩🏼🌾🪴
@SundaysInTheGarden I’ve never been to the September one. Supposed to be so much better for veg growers
@@TheFarmyardGardenoh, that makes me even more excited! Can’t wait! 😃😃😃
@SundaysInTheGarden ❤️
Hi Clare, if those sweetcorn don't thrive in that luxury bed then they are fussy blighters 🌽 I am regretting not planting some amaranth, but it sounds like I'm not too late! Ps my Niwaki want list is getting longer and longer... added the Hori Hori to my birthday list 🤣
I have been looking for amaranth plants in local nurseries, hoping they’d have some of the molten lava variety. Sadly not! I was very excited when Kerry offered me some seedlings last month. Hope it does well.
The sweetcorn has better grow or I’m in trouble 😂
Only pot of joy I know if the ones that jasmine has as a treat 😮
😂😂
Best of luck with the sweetcorn. From what I know, your 2 varieties will probably cross pollinate, but they are both sweet, so it should work. We didn't have quite such poor weather but much wetter than usual, and a plague of (huge and tiny) slugs and snails, so I've had to resow lots of beans and cucumbers (cool weather didn't help). I've got lots of squash though, mostly my own saved seeds from last year, but some Crown Prince and Hokkaido, and Sweet Jack and one green one for seeds. I counted 27 for sure last night and probably more! I don't know where I'll store them all... But I think they end up hard enough to be mouse-proof, so maybe the barn. Wee Felix tries his best, and is a good hunter, but he's only one cat! I've hit Peak Courgette and today I must make relish... because now the cucumbers and runner beans are finally starting (very late). I have lost most brassicas to slugs, white fly and now caterpillars - was telling a neighbour this week that I'm going to build a British-style brassica cage next year! Your flowers are lovely and I like the bike! There's a garden in town where they have all sorts of quirky things like that and it always makes me smile!
Oh Kirsty, it’s been such a challenging year for all of us hasn’t it? I’ve resorted to a few slug pellets around the bottom of my dwarf French beans to make me feel proactive at the slightest onslaught. Didn’t lose any to slugs last year but they’ve suddenly found them and it’s brutal! I was so upset, after waiting so long for them to look like they were going to live. 😭
I did read about the two varieties but am just hoping for the best there. I can’t find anywhere else to put a third batch, so I’m going for it 😅
I don’t have a single courgette ready to pick. This time last year I was already needing to get creative to use them, and I only had one plant, late sown too! Just unthinkable that they’re so slow/late this year.
Our farm cats ignore the rats. They prefer to chase after birds.
Will look into the courgette relish though.. for the much anticipated glut to arrive 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Omg Clare I LOVE LOVE LOVE that bike planter!!!! That was a great video - really enjoyed it. Hope the amaranth does well. The varieties should be Love lies bleeding, Hot biscuit and Tricolour. I'm also putting out some last ditch sweetcorn today. Btw I decided not to plant two diff varieties together this year as I think that's the reason my corn didn't taste great last year - will be interested to see how mine turn out this year and if yours work ok.
I didn’t realise about not planting two varieties together. I could split them, as I have plenty of the second variety left to plant. Hoping that, as Kirsty said, with them both being sweet varieties it should be ok 🫣🙏🏻
At this point I’m thinking that just getting any sweetcorn is my job.. and Duncan will have to pretend to like it 😂😂😂
Thanks for the varieties and the plants. I’m so excited by them! ❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden mine were both sweet too last year - but I mean, it may have been another factor that made mine hard and chewy!! I wouldn't move them now that they're in. And that's what I did last year - just pretended to like it because I'd gone to such trouble to grow it 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂 did you say by the end of the season, does he do what Gerald does and just rolls his eyes. Hope the corn does well, we buy ours directly from our l al farmer as support to them and it’s cheap as chips here. Like the idea of the BFB in pellets as I cringe when people use the powder in wind. Spring onions everywhere 👍👍. Flowers are stunning all over the farm ❤, have an amazing weekend, Ali 🌞🇨🇦
I had a few issues of the BFB myself. Problem is it’s very easy to confuse which is which now 😂
I think Duncan is sold down the river of “growing sweetcorn whatever the cost” now. It’s personal. Gotta beat The Lottie Plottie (he won’t graciously admit defeat there!) 😂🤪
Flowers are looking fabulous. So are yours? I can’t help but be more pleased with the flowers than the veg at the moment.. they’re stealing the show for now ❤️
Have a fabulous weekend xx
@@TheFarmyardGarden as I say I grow food for fun but flowers I grow for love ❤️💕💕❤️❤️
@@myrustygarden ooo I love that!!! ❤️
My new favourite is the gladioli. Never grown them before ❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden some of mine (gladioli) didn’t come back but I’m mulch them this winter just in case. I know a lot of people pull theirs up but I’m not that gal 🤣🤣, maybe I’ll check with Amir he leaves his in the ground all year
@myrustygarden I wasn’t planning on pulling mine up either. Hope they’ll be ok. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
That's really cute. Love those strawflowers too. Do they dry well? I like purple statice as they dry really well and keep their colour.
I’ve not tried to dry them yet but they’re supposed to dry well and really retain their colour ❤
@@TheFarmyardGarden They would be great for crafts or present toppers.
@AnyKeyLady they really would!
Coming for a second watch (3rd if you count the listen 🎧)
I’d be interested to see how the moneymaker taste Clare.
Fantastic cucumber 🥒 they are coming slowly but surely.
Oh wow look at the compost squash!!! They and the hissing Sid the snake love the warm🐍
Think we will all be getting baby corn at this rate 😂😂😂😂
Jolly Green Giants on standby 😂
Born pregnant urghh will keep an eye on my chillies as I don’t grow aubergine (said with Nanous accent)😂
Right off to dig up 5 tomato plants !!
Keep smiling ❤
Allie & Tricia xx
I hope it’s only 5 plants Allie 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️
I love how Nanou says aubergine. Not in a mimicking way, just genuinely love how she enunciates it.
Compost squash is a good ‘un. The size of its leaves too. Madness compared to the raised bed ones. Gave them all a seaweed feed this morning (raised bed ones) to see if it helps.
Jolly Green Giant definitely on standby 😂
@@TheFarmyardGarden oh once you said about Nanous accent saying aubergine 🍆 I knew exactly how you feel. I love the way she says it too.
@@TheRightPearPlot ❤️❤️
😂😂 on ya bike Mrs
Ha!!! At least this one won’t get a puncture 😂
Absolutely love it as well as the bird tap 👍🏻
The bird tap is such a cool addition. I can’t resist these garden show purchases. My niece bought a squirrel tap on Wednesday. ❤️❤️
I have purple amaranths as well. Didn't think they'd do much as they were slow, but they grow well, even in shadier spots, they just don't get that tall, which is fine on a balcony. I thought I'd might eat them, they taste like spinach, they say, but they are too beautiful.
I'm putting strawflowers on my list, they look and sound so cool. Thanks for the update, cute bike.
I’m a bit worried I won’t want to eat them for the same reason! The leaves are so beautiful on some of them. I’m not sure of the varieties. I need to ask Kerry again. 😊
Strawflowers are so quirky but so beautiful. Utterly addicted to stroking the petals. I believe they dry well too, I’m just loathe to cut them down 😅
My corn was patchy but good! My squash is embarrassing
I think everything is a bit pants at the moment. Can’t quite believe we’re nearing the end of July and I’ve barely harvested a thing.
@@TheFarmyardGarden tell me about to! I've had 3 cherry tomatoes
@ThatBritishHomestead Same! Some are blushing a bit now though 🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@TheFarmyardGarden and yours are inside?!??
@@ThatBritishHomestead yeah. In the polytunnel. I’ve had the dwarf “house” tomatoes ripening and they’re now planted in the herb trug outside. They’ve done well. In fact they’re the only ones ripening so far
First on the list to listen to whilst at work ❤
Turn the headphones down.. this voice is not pleasant delivered directly to the ear canal 😂😂😂
@@TheFarmyardGarden 🤣🤣🤣
Fish blood and bone can't burn plants
That’s good to know ❤️
It was me who recommended the Amaranthus only mine the slugs have all eaten 😬thanks for video
Corn is wind polinated, so should be planted in a 4x4 square at least 6x8 is best and different types should be 50ft apart as they will cross polinate. n I'm in Iowa - the corn state :D
It’s a grow tower thingy
Christ! I’m wrong. 🤦😂
lol! I do love those though 😂
Sister swap Duncan!!! Sister swap. 😉😂😂❤️🥂
That’s his only chance of getting any sweetcorn! 😂😂😂
Shops sell sweetcorn in cans Duncan. You'll suffer if you try the sulky sweetcorn guilt trips!😂 Makes you appreciate the livestock though 😂 far less temperamental
😂😂 I think that the other channel Jimmy “Sister Wives”