No need for raised beds to save the bending over with that one is there? Thought you’d appreciate the silly mistake. I thought of another one afterwards… can’t remember now though. 😂 Hope you have a fab week
Hi Clare! Thank you so much for the mention, so kind of you. Love the new name and I am looking forward to see more of the farm and all your gardens, great idea! The updated logo is brilliant! Everything is growing beautifully! Glad to see the cardoon seeds are doing well for you! Love your greenhouses! I really hope to find one on Facebook market one day! I just love the transparency of the glass compared to the opaqueness of the polytunnel. Your grow cage is fantastic! 😘💕🌸
It was such a highlight of a video, largely due to how polite your mum was being. You could tell she was thinking it wasn’t right but didn’t want to upset you (especially on camera). Just so wholesome and brilliant humour too. You’re so lovely ❤️ I’m really pleased the feedback has been so positive. It’s taken me months to get around to it, as I kept flitting over it in my mind.
We call strawflowers -paper daisies here. I grew quite a few of them and they are just beautiful I have saved so many seeds from them. I must try and plant some to see if I can germinate them too. Love the name of your new channel. Sometimes we have to tweak things along our youtube journey. Good luck 😀😀👍👍🦘🦘🩷🤗🤗
Thank you Cheryl, it felt the right thing to do. That’s fascinating and your name for them really does make sense too. They’re beautiful so I hope I can get them to grow. 🙏🏻
Wow the greenhouse is absolutely stuffed with things ❤❤. Omg that was a hilarious video her poor mom 😂. I never realized how delicious strawberries 🍓 were off the vine instead of the store so I’m growing way more. Yes but Iz does awesome designs for the garden so kudos there 👍👍. What a wonderful overview of the farm Clare 😊. You have done a fantastic job Clare and Sir Duncan of the Shorts plus the lovely Iz the family creator. Have a stupendous weekend and I hope Kathleen passes you by ❤, Ali Love the new name 🥰🥰
The greenhouse is overflowing isn’t it? You should see how much my sister has packed in to hers this weekend too. Impressive levels of Tetris happening here. 😂 I love strawberries and super fresh are extra delicious. They were tasty from the greenhouse last year too. I may need more yet too! Love the designs. Isobel is currently tasked with changing the banner for UA-cam. We have enjoyed the whole process of creating the plot and are keen to incorporate more of the home gardens and also turning our attention to projects on the garden too. He’s still in shorts… diehard. Very windy here. Hope you’re having a fabulous weekend there too Ali. ❤️
I love love love strawflowers 🙌 I grow them to harvest for crafts and use them to make everything from gifts to Christmas decorations! They are beautiful 💚
Sounds really cool that you're going to be showing off more of the farm side of things, my ears pricked up when you mentioned conservation projects especially 😊 Excited to see more!
It’s early days for wanting to get on board some of the stewardship schemes, but we are evolving. Really want to pay some attention to protecting the wildlife and waterfowl on the various ponds we have here and introducing a more diverse flora and fauna to those areas, further encouraging new wildlife to move in. Some of the ponds are plagued by Canada Geese but the more sheltered ponds could be teaming with even more wildlife with some changes. Trees are on the agenda, new hedging to fill in some gaps too.
I was obsessed with everyone's strawflowers last year, mine look just like yours, I can't wait to see them in real life! Your plot is one that I am really looking forward to seeing flourish as the season progresses, I think it's going going to look great and I am excited to see farm life too! Wishing you all the very best with The Farmyard Garden 🍀💚 🍀xx
Thank you so much Laura (and for letting me bend your ear the other day, appreciate that). I’m so impatient for the straw flowers to look like they may be a success because I’m also obsessed with them! I was debating direct sowing some later in the season, as it does say to scatter sow where they’re intended to grow. Worth a try. I am equally as excited to see your allotment and the tiny garden through this growing season, in particular how the new growing space changes (if at all) how you grow at home. I love the new name. It just feels so right now ❤️
Lovely tour and Q&A Clare. I really liked your old name, I thought it was very witty but I like your new name too and look forward to seeing your other gardens and farmyard. If your grapevine has a spare side shoot you can afford to lose then break it off and if there is some green in the cumbrian layer the vine will still be good. Take care 😊
I liked the name too but it just didn’t seem to quite fit. My vegetable garden will still have The Veg Plot Thickens signs around it, an ode to the beginnings. It’s such a small grapevine I’m not sure I dare chop any bits off it. I’ll give it a bit more time yet 🙏🏻
Great video Clare. I really enjoyed that. The drone footage was great. Best wishes for your name change and slight change of direction for your channel 🎉
Great Q&A Clare and garden/polytunnel and greenhouse tour.❤ Sunflowers are doing great and better than mine 😂 good luck with the sunflower challenge/grow along. I like procrastinating on housework too by using the allotment excuse 😂 Shame about your wood chip, we love it too but birds seem to leave it alone and potter around in the soil. Fabulous having a record via UA-cam to look back on isn't it. So lovely to have viewers that enjoy watching our vlogs too. Love your new channel name ❤
Procrastination of housework excuses are the best! 🙌🏼😂❤️ I didn’t realise until I watched it back that I hadn’t put your name overlaid on the screen, just in the description below the video. Sorry about that. There were a lot to add and I think I got carried away looking for the question askers. UA-cam is a great way to keep a record of achievements and the journey. Sometimes it’s easy for us to forget the changes we’ve made. I tend to live impulsively in the here and now. It’s great for me to have those reminders. I’m really happy with the channel name. Thank you. Here’s hoping we all get a decent sunflower to enjoy. I hope we do! ❤️❤️
Strawflowers like it warm I’m guessing mine indoors are getting bigger and hairy 😂. Ones in greenhouse are smaller. 🎉on the new name and natural progression to the farm side of you. Allie & Tricia xx
They’re no different in the house or outdoors here. I’m struggling to fathom it. 😭😭😭 Thank you for supporting the name change and seeing some of the farm in little snippets here and there
@@TheFarmyardGarden Morning Clare, finally seem to have escaped torrential showers, hail etc. And the garden is starting to dry out properly. I've been away so took a chance to have a break. Need to get back to the greenhouse project and planting seeds now it's warmer in the day not not at night.. Hope you're good. Love the idea of how you showing more farm life.
Sometimes the best learning comes from mistakes........grow it in the greenhouse again if you have room......maybe a vining type you can train up? I wish I could avoid powdery mildew. Love the new channel name, and seeing more of you property etc..
Thank you Robin. It really was a comical mistake last year, until I realised I was managing to avoid the powdery mildew. Thinking of trying them in the corners of the polytunnel, where they’d have more room. I love the new name too and am exciting to be able to show snippets of the farm with you all too. Felt important to get that out there before the livestock went back out after winter housing ❤️
Great video Clare. Good to see how everything is doing before growth really kicks in. Those Ranunculus are lovely, such showy flowers. I'm sure all the flower seedlings will soon come along including the strawflowers 😆🤞. Very good Q&A some interesting questions. I would have contributed but pretty rubbish at coming up with questions lol. Fabulous germination on the carrots 😍 and all the veg seedlings look fantastic. Love the name change and looking forward to seeing the wider Farmyard Garden and other goings on. Cheers 🙂🌱
Thank you Joe, as always, for your support and commenting. I’m so excited for everything this summer. The name change is one of those things and being able to show you all some snippets around the farm. The ranunculus are beautiful aren’t they? I’ve told them they may need to be relied on if those pesky straw flowers don’t play ball!! 😅😅 I was going to go and get changed in to the correct clothes for the PSB question but it just seemed to tickle me, so kept the fail in 😂 Carrots are sown in seed sowing compost with sieved multipurpose and even more added sand. 🙏🏻
Loving the new channel name Clare, and thank you for answering my question 👍. You have so much going on in the greenhouse, you need more space lol. Great video clare with some fantastic questions and answers.
I forgot to mention that Duncan has used liquid slurry run off before for fertilising but it was on the lawn in wet weather years ago. Thanks for your support and for asking a question ☺️
Man I love mango and pineapple! I thought coconut would be one! lol Happy chitting! When I was pregnant with jasmine I couldn't bare tomatoes and even the smell of them I couldn't bare! I remember opening the back door and throwing my OH sandwich out coz I could smell the tomato plate and all! How I'm still really funny with tomato ketchup... makes me feel a little sick! 🤢 but everyone else int be house eat it like soup
I can’t the the smell of tomato ketchup. It smells so sickly sweet. It’s funny how taste changes during pregnancy. Coconut would be lovely and maybe a stress stream of bananas.
@@TheFarmyardGarden banana trees are so cool you can kick them over they are so weak! I agree with you.. it's too sweet that's why I want to make my own!
Great video Clare, I’m only half way through but before I forget I’ve got to say my neighbour at the allotment has a grapevine in his fruit cage and it’s absolutely amazing and I’m in Yorkshire which is officially an overcoat colder than down south!
“An overcoat colder than down south” 😂 👏 😂❤️ I do think it might be dead.. but I’m keeping my fingers crossed a bit longer. I keep checking them out at the local garden centres and they don’t have buds on their smaller grape vines yet either. My mindset is, if they thought they were dead they may have moved them off sale by now 😂😅😅🫣
@@TheFarmyardGarden OMG I’m so glad you’re including the whole farm on your videos. You are literally living the dream Clare and it’ll be great to come along with you and share that journey, especially seeing the animals. My sister used to live in the Yorkshire Dales and her husband was a farmer and some of my fondest memories are when we used to go stay with her and help out on the farm when I was a small child. Look forward to seeing more from you. Deb
Awww thanks. This is EXACTLY the response I was hoping for. Will take a few months to work out how much to include or not, depending on viewer reactions, but I’m excited to take you along whilst I figure that out ☺️☺️
Really excited to watch your videos and the new direction they will take. We are very similar to you with house garden, vege garden and farm in New Zealand so it will be great to see what is the same and what is different.
We bought our 2nd hand tractor in 1993 and it's still going. Our son convinced us to buy 2nd hand New Holland last year. He bought a bigger model to start a contract business doing silage and hay. Suddenly we have machinery everywhere with his 'toys' ( he trained as a diesel mechanic, now doing his first love of driving tractors!)
@rrichards1210 that’s brilliant. A few of the tractors have been here on the farm since before Duncan was born I think. a tractor for every job, so as not to have to keep swapping things on the PTO
My grape vine has only just started to show buds this week and it’s inside my poly tunnel so I would think that you should start seeing signs soon as we are basically in the same area. Your parsnips have taken off really well. I have a few shoots showing for mine, which were planted at the same time. Well I’m hoping they are parsnips not weeds 🤣. When your bocking 14 arrives allow a large area for it to grow in as they grow enormous. Ours get to around 3ft in diameter and well over 6 ft high. Also if you divide the root you will be able to get more plants. We cut our root into three pieces and each one grew amazingly well. If yours don’t arrive let me know and I’ll send you a roof cutting.
Oh wow. That’s for that info Adam. Really appreciate that and the offer for a root cutting, should my new plants not arrive. We used to have comfrey growing on the farm many years ago but it seems to have disappeared.. much like the indestructible rhubarb did too 😂🙈
@@TheFarmyardGarden I commented before I saw the whole video so didn’t see the new channel name. I think it’s a great idea to include aspects of the farm and home garden. You are certainly in a unique position and I’m sure there will be a lot of people, including myself who would be interested in seeing what’s involved in running a farm. It will be like gardeners world meets Clarksons farm but with less bad language.
Fantastic Clare can’t wait. Love the plot but so looking forward to having a nosey around the farm and what that entails. Good luck with your new channel its going to be a huge success 👍🥂👏
Hi Claire, I have 10 grape cutting I cut from next doors grape vine, all have leaves now. I also bought one Boskoop black grape not a sign of life so it’s getting another 4 weeks before I get my £20 back
Oooo I need to keep my eye out for grapevines in the neighbourhood soon! Brilliant idea. This did have leaves on it early autumn still, but I think it might have been too young/newly transplanted to have coped with the extremes down to -9 briefly over winter. Fingers crossed for your Bostock Black Grape 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Good name! Farmyard Garden - Deadly Duncan, Dexter & The Invisible Sister could be the subtitle. Now wanna see Isabelle get her hands dirty herioting about on the farm 😂😂😂 Your plot always strikes me as the perfect set-up without space or resource problems. Only the climate seems to trouble you and as you say new drainage is coming. It all looks wonderful. You are very lucky❤
If someone had asked the question “does your sister exist” I swear I’d have made her get on camera. No one asked! You missed your opportunity there 😂😜 I am truly aware of how fortunate I am to have the resources and live where I do (even with the motorway through the farm). I think sometimes it can be a little too romanticised though, so I’d like to be able to show some the tying side to farming too. Namely the 365 days a year Duncan works. It’s exciting to be able to be the whole me and to bring you all along for that. It’s going to be subtle changes, it’s not going to become a farming channel. We’ll be waiting a long time for Isobel to get her hands amongst the worms and spiders 😂
@TheLottiePlottie YOU are The Invisible Sister! So you exist in the cyber world at least. Obviously a cyber world with hard-core on the paths not woodchip. (A sisterly "I told you so" there) heehee
Ohh I could have sent you some Bocking 14! I'd be needing ladders to get to the top of the PSB lol, I'm 5'2 🤣🤣 Totally with you on the coconut front, I use a coconut scented shower gel and deodorant lol
I use coconut shower gel too and a vanilla/coconut shampoo. Totally obsessed 😂 Thank you for the offer. I’ve had a couple of offers now. I’ll let you all know if it arrives alive or not 😂❤️❤️
I loved the old channel name, but I love the new one too! Thank you for sharing, Clare and for answering my question! (I'm going to try growing patty pans in a container this year)
You’re welcome. It was a great question to get the ball rolling. I’m ridiculously excited for Patty pans. I’ve got the custard white ones. Which colour are you going for? I liked the old name too but something about it just didn’t seem to fit in my mind. I’m happy the new choice but I think I’ll always call the actual veg plot my Veg Plot Thickens ☺️
Nooooo… not giving up. Just made some changes and I feel really happy with them. Looking forward to continuing to take you along on the journey with me x
Hi Mark what's at the other side gum trees because it would dig a trench could put a piping in Ben Phillips back up all or what I was just go through the pipe
I’m not sure if this is for me, as I’m not Mark, but we are digging a drain trench between the greenhouses and under the hedge and across the fruit trees area out towards the pond. It’ll be piped and filled with gravel
I came across your channel on your 3rd / 4th video so from the beginning. I haven't been keeping up the last few months. I suppose the question I have, had you got experience in growing before you started utube. Gardening starting off is expensive especially the amount of raised beds fruit cage polytunnel ect you put in right away. Had you been putting money aside to set up the garden. The allotment and garden videos I watch the utubers started from strach and it's taken them years to build their gardens and when I look back on their videos its amazing how over the years how their gardens / allotment have changed. You went in building everything at once over a very short time. That's why I'm thinking you must have loved growing and had experience before utube.
I think my garden is an outward sign of my “all in” mentality. Whether that’s some undiagnosed neuro diverse trait or not, I don’t know. But it’s me… sometimes a blessing and sometimes a curse. We live a pretty simple life here, with little social outlets, so naturally we are quite resourceful with savings. We always say we’re saving for the next project… we just don’t always know what the next project will be. In this instance, it was Duncan which pushed more to extend the plot in to the paddock and get all in the infrastructure in from the off. Having the resources to be able to organise that financially and physically, just meant saving time and money in the long run to re-organise the space. I’m reassured it’ll pay for itself in 2.5 years (ish). We shall see! Thanks for commenting. There’s no right or wrong way to me. Building slowly, or going all in.. it’s all a journey. We’re all unique. I’ve always had a garden but growing vegetables is new to me. We used to suffer with a big rat problem on the farm, so that put me off growing my own food. With some changes to how feed is stored, that problem has seriously reduced, so it felt time to try it. Happy gardening ❤️❤️
That is a giant sprouting broccoli! Happy to see more farmy things. Happy gardening!🦆
No need for raised beds to save the bending over with that one is there? Thought you’d appreciate the silly mistake. I thought of another one afterwards… can’t remember now though. 😂
Hope you have a fab week
Hi Clare! Thank you so much for the mention, so kind of you. Love the new name and I am looking forward to see more of the farm and all your gardens, great idea! The updated logo is brilliant! Everything is growing beautifully! Glad to see the cardoon seeds are doing well for you! Love your greenhouses! I really hope to find one on Facebook market one day! I just love the transparency of the glass compared to the opaqueness of the polytunnel. Your grow cage is fantastic! 😘💕🌸
It was such a highlight of a video, largely due to how polite your mum was being. You could tell she was thinking it wasn’t right but didn’t want to upset you (especially on camera). Just so wholesome and brilliant humour too. You’re so lovely ❤️
I’m really pleased the feedback has been so positive. It’s taken me months to get around to it, as I kept flitting over it in my mind.
We call strawflowers -paper daisies here. I grew quite a few of them and they are just beautiful I have saved so many seeds from them. I must try and plant some to see if I can germinate them too. Love the name of your new channel. Sometimes we have to tweak things along our youtube journey. Good luck 😀😀👍👍🦘🦘🩷🤗🤗
Thank you Cheryl, it felt the right thing to do.
That’s fascinating and your name for them really does make sense too. They’re beautiful so I hope I can get them to grow. 🙏🏻
Wow the greenhouse is absolutely stuffed with things ❤❤. Omg that was a hilarious video her poor mom 😂. I never realized how delicious strawberries 🍓 were off the vine instead of the store so I’m growing way more. Yes but Iz does awesome designs for the garden so kudos there 👍👍. What a wonderful overview of the farm Clare 😊.
You have done a fantastic job Clare and Sir Duncan of the Shorts plus the lovely Iz the family creator. Have a stupendous weekend and I hope Kathleen passes you by ❤, Ali
Love the new name 🥰🥰
The greenhouse is overflowing isn’t it? You should see how much my sister has packed in to hers this weekend too. Impressive levels of Tetris happening here. 😂
I love strawberries and super fresh are extra delicious. They were tasty from the greenhouse last year too. I may need more yet too!
Love the designs. Isobel is currently tasked with changing the banner for UA-cam.
We have enjoyed the whole process of creating the plot and are keen to incorporate more of the home gardens and also turning our attention to projects on the garden too. He’s still in shorts… diehard.
Very windy here. Hope you’re having a fabulous weekend there too Ali. ❤️
I love love love strawflowers 🙌 I grow them to harvest for crafts and use them to make everything from gifts to Christmas decorations! They are beautiful 💚
I love them too but am truly struggling to get them to grow 😫😂
@@TheFarmyardGarden I hope you have success 💚
Sounds really cool that you're going to be showing off more of the farm side of things, my ears pricked up when you mentioned conservation projects especially 😊 Excited to see more!
It’s early days for wanting to get on board some of the stewardship schemes, but we are evolving. Really want to pay some attention to protecting the wildlife and waterfowl on the various ponds we have here and introducing a more diverse flora and fauna to those areas, further encouraging new wildlife to move in.
Some of the ponds are plagued by Canada Geese but the more sheltered ponds could be teaming with even more wildlife with some changes.
Trees are on the agenda, new hedging to fill in some gaps too.
I was obsessed with everyone's strawflowers last year, mine look just like yours, I can't wait to see them in real life!
Your plot is one that I am really looking forward to seeing flourish as the season progresses, I think it's going going to look great and I am excited to see farm life too! Wishing you all the very best with The Farmyard Garden 🍀💚 🍀xx
Thank you so much Laura (and for letting me bend your ear the other day, appreciate that).
I’m so impatient for the straw flowers to look like they may be a success because I’m also obsessed with them! I was debating direct sowing some later in the season, as it does say to scatter sow where they’re intended to grow. Worth a try.
I am equally as excited to see your allotment and the tiny garden through this growing season, in particular how the new growing space changes (if at all) how you grow at home.
I love the new name. It just feels so right now ❤️
Lovely tour and Q&A Clare. I really liked your old name, I thought it was very witty but I like your new name too and look forward to seeing your other gardens and farmyard. If your grapevine has a spare side shoot you can afford to lose then break it off and if there is some green in the cumbrian layer the vine will still be good. Take care 😊
I liked the name too but it just didn’t seem to quite fit. My vegetable garden will still have The Veg Plot Thickens signs around it, an ode to the beginnings. It’s such a small grapevine I’m not sure I dare chop any bits off it. I’ll give it a bit more time yet 🙏🏻
Great video Clare. I really enjoyed that. The drone footage was great. Best wishes for your name change and slight change of direction for your channel 🎉
Thank you Kerry. That means a lot. I am looking forward to showing more of my growing spaces and the extended fields surrounding it. Exciting! 😍
Great Q&A Clare and garden/polytunnel and greenhouse tour.❤ Sunflowers are doing great and better than mine 😂 good luck with the sunflower challenge/grow along. I like procrastinating on housework too by using the allotment excuse 😂 Shame about your wood chip, we love it too but birds seem to leave it alone and potter around in the soil. Fabulous having a record via UA-cam to look back on isn't it. So lovely to have viewers that enjoy watching our vlogs too. Love your new channel name ❤
Procrastination of housework excuses are the best! 🙌🏼😂❤️
I didn’t realise until I watched it back that I hadn’t put your name overlaid on the screen, just in the description below the video. Sorry about that. There were a lot to add and I think I got carried away looking for the question askers.
UA-cam is a great way to keep a record of achievements and the journey. Sometimes it’s easy for us to forget the changes we’ve made. I tend to live impulsively in the here and now. It’s great for me to have those reminders.
I’m really happy with the channel name. Thank you. Here’s hoping we all get a decent sunflower to enjoy. I hope we do! ❤️❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden No problem Clare. Thanks for the mention anyway 👍 It was a lovely Collab ❤️
Great video, Clare 💚
Best of luck with the new name, and its a lovely name 🥰Exciting times ahead 💚🎉
Thank you Maiju. When I commented on your video the other day, it made me smile. Even I forgot ❤️😂
The new direction sounds wonderful Clare. I grew up opposite a large farm and live in a rural area so look forward to seeing your farm ❤
Thank you Clare and thank you for asking a question for the video ❤️
Strawflowers like it warm I’m guessing mine indoors are getting bigger and hairy 😂.
Ones in greenhouse are smaller.
🎉on the new name and natural progression to the farm side of you.
Allie & Tricia xx
They’re no different in the house or outdoors here. I’m struggling to fathom it. 😭😭😭
Thank you for supporting the name change and seeing some of the farm in little snippets here and there
Over 2k subs is amazing Clare.
Everything is looking great. 😊
Thank you. How’s things going for you?
@@TheFarmyardGarden Morning Clare, finally seem to have escaped torrential showers, hail etc. And the garden is starting to dry out properly. I've been away so took a chance to have a break. Need to get back to the greenhouse project and planting seeds now it's warmer in the day not not at night..
Hope you're good. Love the idea of how you showing more farm life.
@GardenMyselfHappy the weather is just not playing ball is it? So much for an early spring. Can’t wait to see your greenhouse finished too.
Loved this Clare. And fab name change 😊 congrats and welcome The farmyard Garden ❤
Thank you Rach. ☺️☺️
What a great space you have, so much to do and see. Looking forward to following your journey 😊
Thank you Jackie. I’m looking forward of having you along for the journey ❤️
Sometimes the best learning comes from mistakes........grow it in the greenhouse again if you have room......maybe a vining type you can train up? I wish I could avoid powdery mildew.
Love the new channel name, and seeing more of you property etc..
Thank you Robin. It really was a comical mistake last year, until I realised I was managing to avoid the powdery mildew. Thinking of trying them in the corners of the polytunnel, where they’d have more room.
I love the new name too and am exciting to be able to show snippets of the farm with you all too. Felt important to get that out there before the livestock went back out after winter housing ❤️
Hi Clare, plot looking great (including your sisters) and nice to hear all the answers.
You will need the new food store.
Yes. It’ll be an exciting project to get that sorted later in the year. Will need to wait whilst we get some spring farm projects finished first
🐝Thanks for the great video🌻 Ow going to be so great!! Love to peek over the fence
Thank you. I cannot wait to show you all more of where we live and what’s living and growing around the farm as well as all of our growing spaces ❤️
@@TheFarmyardGarden 🥰
A fantastic plot, can’t wait to see it in the summer .
Thank you Wendy. I’m so excited to get these beds filled up now. Just need to turn the rain off 🙈 🙏🏻
Great video Clare. Good to see how everything is doing before growth really kicks in. Those Ranunculus are lovely, such showy flowers. I'm sure all the flower seedlings will soon come along including the strawflowers 😆🤞.
Very good Q&A some interesting questions. I would have contributed but pretty rubbish at coming up with questions lol.
Fabulous germination on the carrots 😍 and all the veg seedlings look fantastic.
Love the name change and looking forward to seeing the wider Farmyard Garden and other goings on.
Cheers 🙂🌱
Thank you Joe, as always, for your support and commenting. I’m so excited for everything this summer. The name change is one of those things and being able to show you all some snippets around the farm.
The ranunculus are beautiful aren’t they? I’ve told them they may need to be relied on if those pesky straw flowers don’t play ball!! 😅😅
I was going to go and get changed in to the correct clothes for the PSB question but it just seemed to tickle me, so kept the fail in 😂
Carrots are sown in seed sowing compost with sieved multipurpose and even more added sand. 🙏🏻
Exciting, I look forward to what's coming up - in your garden and on youtube. 😉
Thank you. I’m excited for it all too. Thanks for your comment ☺️
@@TheFarmyardGarden Thing is, I've enjoyed many of your videos and only put a thumb up and not said anything. Now you know, haha. ☺
It’s lovely to know the people behind the thumbs up. I love a like too ❤️❤️ 👍
Loving the new channel name Clare, and thank you for answering my question 👍. You have so much going on in the greenhouse, you need more space lol. Great video clare with some fantastic questions and answers.
I forgot to mention that Duncan has used liquid slurry run off before for fertilising but it was on the lawn in wet weather years ago.
Thanks for your support and for asking a question ☺️
@@TheFarmyardGarden 👍
Man I love mango and pineapple! I thought coconut would be one! lol
Happy chitting! When I was pregnant with jasmine I couldn't bare tomatoes and even the smell of them I couldn't bare! I remember opening the back door and throwing my OH sandwich out coz I could smell the tomato plate and all! How I'm still really funny with tomato ketchup... makes me feel a little sick! 🤢 but everyone else int be house eat it like soup
I can’t the the smell of tomato ketchup. It smells so sickly sweet.
It’s funny how taste changes during pregnancy. Coconut would be lovely and maybe a stress stream of bananas.
@@TheFarmyardGarden banana trees are so cool you can kick them over they are so weak!
I agree with you.. it's too sweet that's why I want to make my own!
@ThatBritishHomestead that makes it easier to harvest 😂
Some great questions answered there and love the new name 🙂
Thank you Susie. I tried to cram them all in ☺️
Love the new name and can't wait to see your other projects around home garden and farm. Exciting. ♥️
Thank you Christine. I love the new name too. It just feels the right fit.
I am excited to be able to show you more around the farm too. ☺️
Everything is growing so well. 💚🌿
It’s a busy time of year. Space is at a premium at the moment. Summer is fast approaching though ❤️
Great video Clare, I’m only half way through but before I forget I’ve got to say my neighbour at the allotment has a grapevine in his fruit cage and it’s absolutely amazing and I’m in Yorkshire which is officially an overcoat colder than down south!
“An overcoat colder than down south” 😂 👏 😂❤️
I do think it might be dead.. but I’m keeping my fingers crossed a bit longer. I keep checking them out at the local garden centres and they don’t have buds on their smaller grape vines yet either. My mindset is, if they thought they were dead they may have moved them off sale by now 😂😅😅🫣
@@TheFarmyardGarden OMG I’m so glad you’re including the whole farm on your videos. You are literally living the dream Clare and it’ll be great to come along with you and share that journey, especially seeing the animals. My sister used to live in the Yorkshire Dales and her husband was a farmer and some of my fondest memories are when we used to go stay with her and help out on the farm when I was a small child. Look forward to seeing more from you. Deb
Awww thanks. This is EXACTLY the response I was hoping for. Will take a few months to work out how much to include or not, depending on viewer reactions, but I’m excited to take you along whilst I figure that out ☺️☺️
Really excited to watch your videos and the new direction they will take. We are very similar to you with house garden, vege garden and farm in New Zealand so it will be great to see what is the same and what is different.
Oh this is truly exciting to be able to share along with others. We farm very lowkey here. No swanky new tractors. All ancient Ford or New Holland. 😂🙈
We bought our 2nd hand tractor in 1993 and it's still going. Our son convinced us to buy 2nd hand New Holland last year. He bought a bigger model to start a contract business doing silage and hay. Suddenly we have machinery everywhere with his 'toys' ( he trained as a diesel mechanic, now doing his first love of driving tractors!)
@rrichards1210 that’s brilliant. A few of the tractors have been here on the farm since before Duncan was born I think. a tractor for every job, so as not to have to keep swapping things on the PTO
Love your plot and your videos Clare ❤
Thank you so much. Lovely of you to say. It’s going to be a fabulous growing season, I hope, for all of us. ❤️
My grape vine has only just started to show buds this week and it’s inside my poly tunnel so I would think that you should start seeing signs soon as we are basically in the same area.
Your parsnips have taken off really well. I have a few shoots showing for mine, which were planted at the same time. Well I’m hoping they are parsnips not weeds 🤣.
When your bocking 14 arrives allow a large area for it to grow in as they grow enormous. Ours get to around 3ft in diameter
and well over 6 ft high.
Also if you divide the root you will be able to get more plants. We cut our root into three pieces and each one grew amazingly well. If yours don’t arrive let me know and I’ll send you a roof cutting.
Oh wow. That’s for that info Adam. Really appreciate that and the offer for a root cutting, should my new plants not arrive. We used to have comfrey growing on the farm many years ago but it seems to have disappeared.. much like the indestructible rhubarb did too 😂🙈
@@TheFarmyardGarden I commented before I saw the whole video so didn’t see the new channel name. I think it’s a great idea to include aspects of the farm and home garden. You are certainly in a unique position and I’m sure there will be a lot of people, including myself who would be interested in seeing what’s involved in running a farm. It will be like gardeners world meets Clarksons farm but with less bad language.
@@adamdaykin4052 Ha! Much more of a gardening channel and less of a farming channel here.. but a little insight at times
Fantastic Clare can’t wait. Love the plot but so looking forward to having a nosey around the farm and what that entails. Good luck with your new channel its going to be a huge success 👍🥂👏
Thanks Sharon. ☺️
It’s still going to be a gardening channel but the odd snippet may be of interest to some of you. ❤️❤️
Amazing video. Love the new name.
Thank you Harry and thanks for the question and support ☺️
Beautiful fruit cage 😍
Thank you. I love the fruit cage ☺️
I can’t wait to see all the spaces you have 😊 x
I can’t wait to share more with you all 🥰
@@TheFarmyardGarden it’s going to be a shock I think! 🥰
Hi Claire, I have 10 grape cutting I cut from next doors grape vine, all have leaves now. I also bought one Boskoop black grape not a sign of life so it’s getting another 4 weeks before I get my £20 back
Oooo I need to keep my eye out for grapevines in the neighbourhood soon! Brilliant idea.
This did have leaves on it early autumn still, but I think it might have been too young/newly transplanted to have coped with the extremes down to -9 briefly over winter. Fingers crossed for your Bostock Black Grape 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Good name! Farmyard Garden - Deadly Duncan, Dexter & The Invisible Sister could be the subtitle. Now wanna see Isabelle get her hands dirty herioting about on the farm 😂😂😂
Your plot always strikes me as the perfect set-up without space or resource problems. Only the climate seems to trouble you and as you say new drainage is coming. It all looks wonderful. You are very lucky❤
If someone had asked the question “does your sister exist” I swear I’d have made her get on camera. No one asked! You missed your opportunity there 😂😜
I am truly aware of how fortunate I am to have the resources and live where I do (even with the motorway through the farm). I think sometimes it can be a little too romanticised though, so I’d like to be able to show some the tying side to farming too. Namely the 365 days a year Duncan works.
It’s exciting to be able to be the whole me and to bring you all along for that. It’s going to be subtle changes, it’s not going to become a farming channel.
We’ll be waiting a long time for Isobel to get her hands amongst the worms and spiders 😂
how were you planning on holding me down?
Covert 😂😂😂
@TheLottiePlottie YOU are The Invisible Sister! So you exist in the cyber world at least. Obviously a cyber world with hard-core on the paths not woodchip. (A sisterly "I told you so" there) heehee
@@chriseverest4380 if you have Instagram.. go and check out @thelottieplottie on there. There’s even photos! 😂
love it
Thank you ☺️
Ohh I could have sent you some Bocking 14! I'd be needing ladders to get to the top of the PSB lol, I'm 5'2 🤣🤣 Totally with you on the coconut front, I use a coconut scented shower gel and deodorant lol
I use coconut shower gel too and a vanilla/coconut shampoo. Totally obsessed 😂
Thank you for the offer. I’ve had a couple of offers now. I’ll let you all know if it arrives alive or not 😂❤️❤️
I loved the old channel name, but I love the new one too! Thank you for sharing, Clare and for answering my question! (I'm going to try growing patty pans in a container this year)
You’re welcome. It was a great question to get the ball rolling. I’m ridiculously excited for Patty pans. I’ve got the custard white ones. Which colour are you going for?
I liked the old name too but something about it just didn’t seem to fit in my mind. I’m happy the new choice but I think I’ll always call the actual veg plot my Veg Plot Thickens ☺️
@@TheFarmyardGarden I’m doing the yellow patty pans this year! I also have Ronde de Nice squash that I’m going to try in another container.
@latebloomerdiaries4219 ooo will have to look that one up!
Can’t wait to see the outcome of messy corner! 😊
@@suemcdonagh7650 that’s going to be a big project I think but it’ll be great when finished. Be nice to see the old building restored to some use ☺️☺️
Phew…it sounded as if you were giving up utube…and I do so want to see how the veg plot develops😀Jinxy
Nooooo… not giving up. Just made some changes and I feel really happy with them. Looking forward to continuing to take you along on the journey with me x
Your veg plot is thickening. Looks absolutely beautiful already. Congratulations on the name change. It reminds me of when I changed my name. 😂😉❤️
It was very confusing finding you to tag 😂❤️
I’m more bothered about it being me thickening. Cheese salad sandwiches are the best. 😂
I love a cheese salad (coleslaw) sandwich too. 😂👍❤️
@jimmyconnolly3461 add Kerry’s sourdough in to it and I’m doomed to every be thinner 😂
@@TheFarmyardGarden we mostly buy sourdough these days. Our local spar sells an excellent one. Sourdough is our favourite bread.👍😉❤️
@jimmyconnolly3461 ours too, which is why I’m keen to make my own ☺️
I saw it oh gosh it made me laugh 🤣🤣 she was so wonderful
Nanou’s mum was just so polite over that cardoon, bless her 😊
Got coffee…. Here we go
Hope you’ve got extra sugar to keep you awake 😂🤪
Hi Mark what's at the other side gum trees because it would dig a trench could put a piping in Ben Phillips back up all or what I was just go through the pipe
I’m not sure if this is for me, as I’m not Mark, but we are digging a drain trench between the greenhouses and under the hedge and across the fruit trees area out towards the pond. It’ll be piped and filled with gravel
No sos
@@stevenbell1443 I didn’t think so, but thought I’d try to reply something slightly relevant 😂🙌🏼👋🏼👋🏼
I came across your channel on your 3rd / 4th video so from the beginning. I haven't been keeping up the last few months. I suppose the question I have, had you got experience in growing before you started utube. Gardening starting off is expensive especially the amount of raised beds fruit cage polytunnel ect you put in right away. Had you been putting money aside to set up the garden. The allotment and garden videos I watch the utubers started from strach and it's taken them years to build their gardens and when I look back on their videos its amazing how over the years how their gardens / allotment have changed. You went in building everything at once over a very short time. That's why I'm thinking you must have loved growing and had experience before utube.
I think my garden is an outward sign of my “all in” mentality. Whether that’s some undiagnosed neuro diverse trait or not, I don’t know. But it’s me… sometimes a blessing and sometimes a curse.
We live a pretty simple life here, with little social outlets, so naturally we are quite resourceful with savings. We always say we’re saving for the next project… we just don’t always know what the next project will be.
In this instance, it was Duncan which pushed more to extend the plot in to the paddock and get all in the infrastructure in from the off. Having the resources to be able to organise that financially and physically, just meant saving time and money in the long run to re-organise the space.
I’m reassured it’ll pay for itself in 2.5 years (ish). We shall see!
Thanks for commenting. There’s no right or wrong way to me. Building slowly, or going all in.. it’s all a journey. We’re all unique. I’ve always had a garden but growing vegetables is new to me. We used to suffer with a big rat problem on the farm, so that put me off growing my own food. With some changes to how feed is stored, that problem has seriously reduced, so it felt time to try it.
Happy gardening ❤️❤️
Thanks for being so honest.
I was thinking of putting courgettes into polytunnel this year. Only got one of those small green ones so maybe a mad idea. 🤔
Well… my greenhouse is only 8x6 and it grew fine in there. I just had to train it up a bit from the centre and it seemed to work ☺️
@@TheFarmyardGarden ooh. Thanks. That sounds promising. Might give it a go then. 🙂👍
@@mags9536 I don’t have much footage of last year but it was pretty well contained in that corner of the greenhouse.
@@TheFarmyardGarden thanks. I'll definately give it a try 😊