You may only have a small space for planting, but how exciting to think of what to grow and how to utilise the space so you can cram as much in as possible. Good times ahead me thinks. ❤
Tommies in your front garden sounds great 👍. My inside living room windowsill is a great greenhouse in the summer, so I think I think I might do some tommies in pots at the front too. I did a Tumbling Tom in a hanging basket at the back last year, first plant to produce fruit and though small, got a lot 🍅. I don’t normally buy bagged veggies, but these Christmas deals on uk produce was too good to miss. Hope you enjoy your festive treats and have a lovely Christmas time 🎄x
Your enthusiasm about your Christmas treats is infectious! Thanks for helping me get more excited about the treats my little family will be sharing over the next few days! Merry Christmas!
Onions and tomatoes - yah! Yes, onions take a lot of space to grow, but what about a pot of chives. You get an onion flavor for your cooking, nice decorative flowers that the bees love (the flower is also edible) and they come back up after cutting back after flowering, as well as the fact that they come up every year in early spring. You probably have some allotment friends who can give you part of their establish chive. You have «onions» from early spring until the frost comes. There are also many bush tomatoes you can grow in pots and that have larger tomatoes than the tiny ones. One year I grew beeftomatoes as bushtomatoes in pots. I hope so much that your move goes well. Have a nice Christmas🎄
I had never heard of a satsuma until I started watching your Christmas videos. Recently, I was doing our Christmas food shopping and wanted some citrus. Our grocery store had satsumas! I grabbed a bag and my daughter said, "What's a satsuma?" I replied, "Idk...it's some kind of citrus and Vivi likes it, so let's give them a try!" Ohhhh my goodness....they are WONDERFUL! Thanks for the mentions. I think of you when I'm enjoying one! I've actually thought of you several times during this season. I enjoy small pleasures like citrus, a decadent goody, a special song, or just looking at our tree lights and I think, "Vivi would understand why I like this!" Sadly, not everyone gets it. Merry Christmas!!
I have 2 huge celery plants that I grew from scraps that are now having babies and 2 years old. (They are kind of taking over the place but I'm proud of them)
Vivi, hi! Thank you very much for mentioning the book Tom's Midnight Garden in the last video, I found and listened to the audio book in Russian with great pleasure for almost 4 hours! When I was listening to it, I walked as if in a dream) This book is incredible, magical! Once again, thank you very much and Merry Christmas! Kate
Merry Christmas, Vivi!YourExcitement coming home with your shopping was delightful! You know, you could plant chives in your tomato and celery boxes. They are decorative, and flavourful and fuss free! plus, it is a perennial! dill is pretty and an easy grower! Just thinking those lawyers should have all that paper work sorted soon. Fingers crossed!
Merry Christmas Vivi - just got back from delivering home-made sticky toffee pudding and sausage rolls to friends. All that done, now going to chill and enjoy a peaceful few days with my two cocker spaniel puppies. Take care.
Darling Vivi. I am so thrilled that you loved the book. Your enthusiasm for it has spurred me on to read it again. I have read so many books but this stands out a mile as the best book. If you finely crush the walnut shells they make great filling for pin cushions as it sharpens the needles and pins. Sending you so much love. xxxxxxxx
Oh, I loved everything you got! Good for you. I eat late and go to bed late as well, so some of my late night snacks are the same as you bought. I was reading a few studies and they said that if you're going to have food after dark, the best ones are cheeses, nuts, hard boiled eggs, hummus and some fruits. Yay,, so no guilt there. Thankfully, the cheeses made in the US are made of vegetarian rennet. I LOVE Stilton cheese!!! Going back to one of your older videos, you gave a book review of Wintering and it's funny because I must've been reading it at the same time as you. I totally agreed with you about the book. I couldn't get into it, so I didn't finish it. The part where she's supposed to be having this profound moment watching the swarm of birds dancing in the sky definitely felt unbelievable and forced. I think because she didn't believe in it herself. Oh well. There's too many books out there to indulge in and I can't wait to check out The Long Walk. Enjoy your Christmas goodies! I started eating mine two days ago. Such a treat!
I grow low tomatos in the windowsill, interplanting outside with seedplants I growed inside a month ore more before planering out. I hade grown beteende the tomatos, like parsley, dill, springonion or chives!❤
'Vegetable cathedral' - love it. :) I hope you are already slowly getting into the Christmas mood. Next year you'll already be quite settled celebrating them in your new home. Yay!🎉🎉🎉
Wishing you a wonderful holiday season. The book sounds very interesting, and I did go to my library app and put a hold on for the audio version. I do wish we could get the walnuts in the shell year round too. Now I an off to find a mincemeat pie recipe from my grandmother. Enjoy your holiday goodies
It's wonderful to see you so pleased with your Christmas shopping, Vivi. I"m wondering if satsumas are the same as Mandarin oranges. Have a lovely Christmas.
I bought the book before you stopped talking about it! £3.04 from Amazon... bargain! My father was Polish, only nineteen when the war started, but that's another story. I had to buy it so thank you for recommending it ❤
Hiya Vivi nice visit with you today enjoy your goodies. Re Christmas hmm I shall put on a smile and be nice for my partner’s sake Anywhoo until next we see you take care and stay cozy. Blessings luv Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
Hi Vivi, I just saw your post about the freezer. Are there any charities nearby that could use or store it over the weekend for you? Make soup! I feel your pain.
Merry Christmas Vivi. Being able to go outside and pick at any time will be wonderful and you might find over time that this completely changes what you grow versus what you have done previously on the allotment. Researching and dreaming is never a bad thing and you can save the detailed planning until the move is a done deal. Maybe research Greenstalk planters as they are wonderful for getting many plants into a very, very small space (going vertical) and could be very beneficial to you. You can get wheeled/spinner stands as well if needed to turn to sun and move around. I know they are expensive, but could possibly be an investment and a way for you to be able to grow more and more different things in your small space.
Herbs would be my first plants for drying and fresh. A bed full of chmini rappa , mustard greens and lettuce anything where you just pick leaves as you need them. Mushrooms in bags hanging from brackets . All micro greens. I buy all my beans and lentils grains etc. organic online in bulk-they are cheaper than the supermarket.
Putting herbs amongst the celery would repel harmful insects and the fresh herbs are healthful and delicious. I would recommend thyme. Possibly lemon thyme.
A very merry Christmas Viv. If I may, i have a couple of suggestions. On U Tube, there is someone gardening vertically. He is using recycled 2 lt pop bottles and some ì⁸one else is doing the same with 4 ltr milk containers. Another is using the milk containers to make mini greenhouses for over wintering seedlings in alaska. The other idea 0⁰ĺis a dehydrator. I am now over 76 and have had to give up most of my gardening. Onions I buy the big sacks from Asda knot them in tights. I delivery lasts me a year. I go for the last delivery usually between 11 and midnight. This year it was 50p. You have to make the delivery up to £45. So I look at other long lasting products. The other is to invest in a dehydrator. It cost pennies to run. Nothing to store. I cup of veg + 2 cups boiling water for a stew. 7 large portions. I will add curry to 3 for verity.
I don't know of anyone who gets as excited as you do over a treat. It would do us all good to practice a bit of delayed gratification so we could all experience just how special a treat really is. I wonder if you are familiar with the book, Angela's Ashes? I read the book and watched the movie. Good read and the movie follows the book spot on. Sad lives though, I must say.
@@cynthia57169I think it is inappropriate for anyone younger than an older teen. One of the few books I have ever spoken to the school librarian about being moved to the older students section. (We have a very small school district.) I thought it way more difficult to read than The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank).
I do only have limited space and most of the space is in large pots, and small beds. I try to grown a number tomato plants in pots because like you I use a lot of tomatoes. I also try to plant a few cabbage and lettuce which I grow from plug plants and harvest a few leaves at a time as they are there on hand. I do grow onions, garlic and a few early potatoes. This year I also sewed potatoes that had started to sprout as and when I had them. The yield from these was not as good but they did provide another few meals. I will try growing celery this coming year. Can I ask what variety you usually grow. I only move to a property with a small garden so didn’t do a full years growing so I need to look what I can grow when. I have got my onions and garlic in already but hopefully I can make good use of the space I have got over the whole of 2025.
Cheers lovely....the variety of celery I grow is called 'Green Utah'.....and it's very easy to save seed from too (but requires another half a year to come to seed).
Vivi you can grow indeterminate tomatoes and instead of training it to grow up, just let it hang down. You can train it to grow where you want it to grow. You can let it hang and grow along the ground or tie it up at various points horizontally to get larger tomatoes than what typically grows as a hanging tomato plant. Merry Christmas! Stock up on the cheap vegetables while you can especially at the prices they are offering.
When I was young, my father and I would share brick cheese and crackers. We were the only 2 in the family who appreciated a strong cheese. I have also always loved Jarlsberg cheese. But my go to is Colby Longhorn which is a mild cheddar made here in Wisconsin, the dairy state in the US. I love how when it melts in a gri!led cheese sandwich, the cheese pulls out in great long warm stringy messes while you eat it. Comfort food for sure.
Hello dear Vivi, there has been so much controversy about the book The Long Walk. It has been claimed by another WW2 Polish veteran that he was the person whose experiences in the story were written about and it was not the actual experiences of the author. My own father who was Polish spent a year in Siberia and he very rarely spoke of his own experience as it was so traumatic. The horrors of war are something most of us will never get to thankfully have to experience.
So much joy in small things. That’s the way we should all live. For my garden, I underplant my tomatoes, peppers etc with purslane and/or amaranth. They act as a ground cover but also as healthy greens for consumption. Purslane, you might be aware, has high omega 3s. That could be an option for you. ~Niki
Cold here woke up Sun morning to 30 degrees F lots of hot 🕳️🕳️🕳️I am watching buried under the covers 😊and I am not coming out😊,👋👍♥️🙏🎄🇺🇸grow vertical never mind you said it
Wishing you a very happy peaceful festive seasons . Lidls are great for us plantbased /veggie folk. I got SEVERAL packs of 12 mince pies !! Adult kids love them warmed up and topped with Elmlea or Flora " cream" 💚💚
Merry Christmas! I have quite a small home garden, and grow kale and chard, calendula, herbs, squash in containers, tomatoes in containers, leeks and beans(both pole and bush for fresh not dry). At the end of the season, there are squash everywhere 😊. I like Tromboncino as it can be used like courgettes or butternut, and produce a lot in a little space.
I keep finding massive bags of carrots for next to nowt and I make a gf version of sticky toffee pudding using tons of grated carrots ! It’s delicious.😊
Thank you for the book recommendation Vivi, I ordered a copy yesterday when you posted on your IG, it arrives tomorrow. I'm sure I too will cry my eyes out. I visited Auschwitz some years ago & just standing on that site filled me with a horror that has never left me. My grandad was in the army and was a POW, captured in Poland. All I know is he escaped twice but he never ever spoke of it so I know nothing of his suffering😢. War is a terrible thing and sadly humans don't learn from it. To be informed is, I think, very important. Anyway, enjoy your late night snacks - of course, walnuts are super healthy so that cancels out the mince pies 😂❤x
I'm so glad you got a copy of the book......I won't say 'enjoy' it....that's the wrong word (obviously) but I hope you get as much from it as I did. You will need a handkerchief in the final third of the book.....and right at the end. X
Hi Vivi - not sure if you’ll remember me, but I’m Josh’s cousin Zoe! I love the channel, he told me about it today when we had lunch with my family - it would be wonderful to catch up one day x
Yes, of course I remember you! Hello lovely! I hope to get back up north some time next year so hopefully we can meet up. I hope you're well and enjoying life. 😊
@@WhatVivididnext that would be amazing! I’m based Lancaster way now, so if you find yourself in the area it would be lovely to grab a coffee or lunch and have a chat - it’s been a long time! ❤️
Happy Christmas Vivi ♥️ I’m with you on plant selection for gardens! Scarlett Runner Beans for me, Butternut and Delicata Squash and Pumpkins, Leeks, Tomatoes are the essentials. I have a “cutting leaf” celery which is perennial and self seeds. It’s superior in taste and has strong flavour. I didn’t get any garlic in - too much rain and the plot is a pool. Mmmmm Stilton AND walnuts!!🐇♥️🎄
Happy christmas Vivvi l would grow tomorrow green beans and squash just like you vivvi.llove you,re talking growing in your garden in the future good luck 🎉🎉🎉😊
I fear that it is the farmers who are subsidising the dirt cheap bags of veg on the supermark shelves this Christmas. As you said in a previous video recently, we should try to buy organic or locally grown vegetables. Have a heart for the farmers! Merry Christmas x
Another good book in that sad genre is "The Endless Steppe" written in the view of a young girl. And completely off-topic is an amazing short story; "The Long Walk" written by Stephen King psuedo Richard Bachman.
Hi Vivi, the other thing to think about when choosing what to grow is “ what supermarket produce no longer has a good taste/texture?” So it’s good you’re going to be growing tomatoes! Peaches have also lost the soft sweet juiciness they used to have but I don’t suppose you’ll be growing those. Best wishes.
Merry Christmas Vivi. I know you are going to enjoy all your wonderful treats. Take care. x
Cheers lovely....and a very happy Christmas to you.
Happy Christ mass. Hope you will be warm and safe with joy and peace in your heart and looking forward to your new beginning.
You may only have a small space for planting, but how exciting to think of what to grow and how to utilise the space so you can cram as much in as possible. Good times ahead me thinks. ❤
Absolutely......I can't wait to start getting creative with it. 😊
Merry Christmas, Vivi!! Thank you for sharing your joy with us. 🎄✨
Tommies in your front garden sounds great 👍. My inside living room windowsill is a great greenhouse in the summer, so I think I think I might do some tommies in pots at the front too. I did a Tumbling Tom in a hanging basket at the back last year, first plant to produce fruit and though small, got a lot 🍅.
I don’t normally buy bagged veggies, but these Christmas deals on uk produce was too good to miss.
Hope you enjoy your festive treats and have a lovely Christmas time 🎄x
Thank you, you too. 😊
Happy Holidays. Glad you bought some Christmas treats. We all deserve nice things.
Your enthusiasm about your Christmas treats is infectious! Thanks for helping me get more excited about the treats my little family will be sharing over the next few days! Merry Christmas!
Awww, I love this! Enjoy, have fun! 😊
Onions and tomatoes - yah!
Yes, onions take a lot of space to grow, but what about a pot of chives. You get an onion flavor for your cooking, nice decorative flowers that the bees love (the flower is also edible) and they come back up after cutting back after flowering, as well as the fact that they come up every year in early spring. You probably have some allotment friends who can give you part of their establish chive.
You have «onions» from early spring until the frost comes. There are also many bush tomatoes you can grow in pots and that have larger tomatoes than the tiny ones. One year I grew beeftomatoes as bushtomatoes in pots.
I hope so much that your move goes well.
Have a nice Christmas🎄
Yes, I forgot to mention chives.....I love them as a border for the bees. 😊
Since the extra gastro shop gives you so much energy and joy for £10, i suggest you do it every month- you deserve it!
Or at least a quarter.
Happy Christmas and do enjoy your Christmas treats.
Swiss chard would be a good plant and come again veg in a pot also. It is colorful and pretty.
Absolutely.
Chard looks good and is hard to get in shops. Happy Christmas
Have a good day tomorrow and New Year’s Day too and every other day too.
Thank you lovely....and the same to you and Ernie. 😊
I had never heard of a satsuma until I started watching your Christmas videos. Recently, I was doing our Christmas food shopping and wanted some citrus. Our grocery store had satsumas! I grabbed a bag and my daughter said, "What's a satsuma?" I replied, "Idk...it's some kind of citrus and Vivi likes it, so let's give them a try!" Ohhhh my goodness....they are WONDERFUL! Thanks for the mentions. I think of you when I'm enjoying one!
I've actually thought of you several times during this season. I enjoy small pleasures like citrus, a decadent goody, a special song, or just looking at our tree lights and I think, "Vivi would understand why I like this!" Sadly, not everyone gets it.
Merry Christmas!!
I totally get it! So glad you got to try, and enjoyed, satsumas! 😊
I have 2 huge celery plants that I grew from scraps that are now having babies and 2 years old. (They are kind of taking over the place but I'm proud of them)
Vivi, hi! Thank you very much for mentioning the book Tom's Midnight Garden in the last video, I found and listened to the audio book in Russian with great pleasure for almost 4 hours! When I was listening to it, I walked as if in a dream) This book is incredible, magical! Once again, thank you very much and Merry Christmas! Kate
Oh how lovely! I'm so glad you managed to get a copy.....and could drift into it like a dream. 😊
Merry Christmas, Vivi!YourExcitement coming home with your shopping was delightful! You know, you could plant chives in your tomato and celery boxes. They are decorative, and flavourful and fuss free! plus, it is a perennial! dill is pretty and an easy grower! Just thinking those lawyers should have all that paper work sorted soon. Fingers crossed!
Yes, I forgot to mention chives.....I love them for the bees if nothing else. 😊
Merry Christmas Vivi - just got back from delivering home-made sticky toffee pudding and sausage rolls to friends. All that done, now going to chill and enjoy a peaceful few days with my two cocker spaniel puppies. Take care.
Aww, what a great way to start your festive time....visiting with home-baked goodies to friends. ❤️
Happy Christmas dear Vivi.xx Thank you so much for your channel. Love it.
Aww, thank you lovely. 😊
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones. ✨️🎄☃️💫❄️ ...
Darling Vivi. I am so thrilled that you loved the book. Your enthusiasm for it has spurred me on to read it again. I have read so many books but this stands out a mile as the best book. If you finely crush the walnut shells they make great filling for pin cushions as it sharpens the needles and pins. Sending you so much love. xxxxxxxx
It was such an amazing read.....and so moving. Thank you!!!
@@WhatVivididnext my absolute pleasure xxx
Happy Christmas Vivi! All the very best for your move in 2025!
I wish you a Happy, happy,happy Christmas! If could wish for something it would be to see your new apartment. I`m so curious!
Thank you lovely.....that's my wish too! 😊
Merry Christmas Vivi and a happy and prosperous 2025.
Blue cheese is my guilty pleasure every Christmas as well. Have a happy Christmas and a Happy New Year from Queensland, Australia.
I had a bit last night.....it was sooooo good. 😊
Oh, I loved everything you got! Good for you. I eat late and go to bed late as well, so some of my late night snacks are the same as you bought. I was reading a few studies and they said that if you're going to have food after dark, the best ones are cheeses, nuts, hard boiled eggs, hummus and some fruits. Yay,, so no guilt there.
Thankfully, the cheeses made in the US are made of vegetarian rennet. I LOVE Stilton cheese!!!
Going back to one of your older videos, you gave a book review of Wintering and it's funny because I must've been reading it at the same time as you. I totally agreed with you about the book. I couldn't get into it, so I didn't finish it. The part where she's supposed to be having this profound moment watching the swarm of birds dancing in the sky definitely felt unbelievable and forced. I think because she didn't believe in it herself. Oh well. There's too many books out there to indulge in and I can't wait to check out The Long Walk.
Enjoy your Christmas goodies! I started eating mine two days ago. Such a treat!
Yay to our late eating treats being OK! 😉 I'm glad I wasn't the only one disappointed with 'Wintering'.
Merry Christmas from Rockford IL USA
If I can find that book I shall buy it for my husband he will love it. Have a super Christmas Vivi and savour your lovely Christmas treats. x
I believe it is still in print - well worth the read. 😊
I grow low tomatos in the windowsill, interplanting outside with seedplants I growed inside a month ore more before planering out. I hade grown beteende the tomatos, like parsley, dill, springonion or chives!❤
I’ve tried growing Spring onions over two years now. Cannot get them bigger than a blade of grass!
'Vegetable cathedral' - love it. :)
I hope you are already slowly getting into the Christmas mood. Next year you'll already be quite settled celebrating them in your new home. Yay!🎉🎉🎉
I certainly hope so! 😊
Love walnuts...my go to nut munch is shelling pistachio. Have fun cracking them.
Wishing you a wonderful holiday season. The book sounds very interesting, and I did go to my library app and put a hold on for the audio version. I do wish we could get the walnuts in the shell year round too. Now I an off to find a mincemeat pie recipe from my grandmother. Enjoy your holiday goodies
Oooh, enjoy making your mince pies. 😊
Good morning Vivi,have a wonderful week
Merry Christmas Vivi!🦃🌲🎁
I read that seven mince pies per person are sold in the UK at Christmas time. You are one behind on your national quota :)
Hahaha....best get another box in then. 😉
Have a happy Holiday.
It's wonderful to see you so pleased with your Christmas shopping, Vivi.
I"m wondering if satsumas are the same as Mandarin oranges.
Have a lovely Christmas.
Not quite the same.....but similar.
Merry Christmas 🎄 x
Merry Christmas Vivi ,great video 👍
Merry Christmas vivi loving the videos and book reviews ❤
Thank you. 😊
Ive read that book years ago, it was recommended to me by my dad. There was a movie made from it too.
Wishing you a restful and peaceful Christmas 🎄 vivi, enjoy your treats. ❤
Merry Christmas!!
Thank You So Much Vivi! 🎄🥰
I bought the book before you stopped talking about it! £3.04 from Amazon... bargain! My father was Polish, only nineteen when the war started, but that's another story. I had to buy it so thank you for recommending it ❤
It's an amazing read! Have your handkerchief ready.... 😊
@WhatVivididnext
I will x
Hiya Vivi nice visit with you today enjoy your goodies. Re Christmas hmm I shall put on a smile and be nice for my partner’s sake Anywhoo until next we see you take care and stay cozy. Blessings luv Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
Hi Vivi, I just saw your post about the freezer. Are there any charities nearby that could use or store it over the weekend for you? Make soup! I feel your pain.
Happy Christmas Vivi.xx
Tomatoes, butternut squash, swiss chard. Oh and beets. My favorites - I love me some beets. Happy Christmas and all the best to you during 2025.
Merry Christmas Vivi. Being able to go outside and pick at any time will be wonderful and you might find over time that this completely changes what you grow versus what you have done previously on the allotment. Researching and dreaming is never a bad thing and you can save the detailed planning until the move is a done deal.
Maybe research Greenstalk planters as they are wonderful for getting many plants into a very, very small space (going vertical) and could be very beneficial to you. You can get wheeled/spinner stands as well if needed to turn to sun and move around. I know they are expensive, but could possibly be an investment and a way for you to be able to grow more and more different things in your small space.
I can't wait to get planning properly. 😊
Herbs would be my first plants for drying and fresh. A bed full of chmini rappa , mustard greens and lettuce anything where you just pick leaves as you need them. Mushrooms in bags hanging from brackets . All micro greens. I buy all my beans and lentils grains etc. organic online in bulk-they are cheaper than the supermarket.
Merry Christmas Vivi and wishing you all good things for 2025! xx
Putting herbs amongst the celery would repel harmful insects and the fresh herbs are healthful and delicious. I would recommend thyme. Possibly lemon thyme.
A very merry Christmas Viv. If I may, i have a couple of suggestions. On U Tube, there is someone gardening vertically. He is using recycled 2 lt pop bottles and some ì⁸one else is doing the same with 4 ltr milk containers. Another is using the milk containers to make mini greenhouses for over wintering seedlings in alaska. The other idea 0⁰ĺis a dehydrator. I am now over 76 and have had to give up most of my gardening. Onions I buy the big sacks from Asda knot them in tights. I delivery lasts me a year. I go for the last delivery usually between 11 and midnight. This year it was 50p. You have to make the delivery up to £45. So I look at other long lasting products. The other is to invest in a dehydrator. It cost pennies to run. Nothing to store. I cup of veg + 2 cups boiling water for a stew. 7 large portions. I will add curry to 3 for verity.
I don't know of anyone who gets as excited as you do over a treat. It would do us all good to practice a bit of delayed gratification so we could all experience just how special a treat really is.
I wonder if you are familiar with the book, Angela's Ashes? I read the book and watched the movie. Good read and the movie follows the book spot on. Sad lives though, I must say.
I've never read it for fear of getting a migraine from crying too much! 😉
@@WhatVivididnextsuch sad things happen, I’d never recommend anyone with young children read it. I did. So very sad.
@@cynthia57169I think it is inappropriate for anyone younger than an older teen. One of the few books I have ever spoken to the school librarian about being moved to the older students section. (We have a very small school district.) I thought it way more difficult to read than The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank).
@ agreed; definitely addresses adult situations.
Oohhh walnuts and blue cheese 🥲
Exactly. 😉
I do only have limited space and most of the space is in large pots, and small beds. I try to grown a number tomato plants in pots because like you I use a lot of tomatoes. I also try to plant a few cabbage and lettuce which I grow from plug plants and harvest a few leaves at a time as they are there on hand. I do grow onions, garlic and a few early potatoes. This year I also sewed potatoes that had started to sprout as and when I had them. The yield from these was not as good but they did provide another few meals. I will try growing celery this coming year. Can I ask what variety you usually grow. I only move to a property with a small garden so didn’t do a full years growing so I need to look what I can grow when. I have got my onions and garlic in already but hopefully I can make good use of the space I have got over the whole of 2025.
Cheers lovely....the variety of celery I grow is called 'Green Utah'.....and it's very easy to save seed from too (but requires another half a year to come to seed).
Vivi you can grow indeterminate tomatoes and instead of training it to grow up, just let it hang down. You can train it to grow where you want it to grow.
You can let it hang and grow along the ground or tie it up at various points horizontally to get larger tomatoes than what typically grows as a hanging tomato plant.
Merry Christmas! Stock up on the cheap vegetables while you can especially at the prices they are offering.
That's one of the options I was thinking about.....and I already have my own seed (saved). 😊
Merry Holidays Vivi☃🌲🎁❄
You need a Greenstalk for your new place!! So much growing space and it's vertical.
I did look at them but I'd prefer to find something that's not plastic. 😊
When I was young, my father and I would share brick cheese and crackers. We were the only 2 in the family who appreciated a strong cheese. I have also always loved Jarlsberg cheese. But my go to is Colby Longhorn which is a mild cheddar made here in Wisconsin, the dairy state in the US. I love how when it melts in a gri!led cheese sandwich, the cheese pulls out in great long warm stringy messes while you eat it. Comfort food for sure.
Oooooh, you've got me salivating! 😉
Hello dear Vivi, there has been so much controversy about the book The Long Walk. It has been claimed by another WW2 Polish veteran that he was the person whose experiences in the story were written about and it was not the actual experiences of the author. My own father who was Polish spent a year in Siberia and he very rarely spoke of his own experience as it was so traumatic. The horrors of war are something most of us will never get to thankfully have to experience.
So much joy in small things. That’s the way we should all live. For my garden, I underplant my tomatoes, peppers etc with purslane and/or amaranth. They act as a ground cover but also as healthy greens for consumption. Purslane, you might be aware, has high omega 3s. That could be an option for you. ~Niki
Great idea. 😊
Have a very Merry Christmas, Vivi
Merry Christmas Vivi.🙏😻❤️🎄🎄
Thank you lovely.
Cold here woke up Sun morning to 30 degrees F lots of hot 🕳️🕳️🕳️I am watching buried under the covers 😊and I am not coming out😊,👋👍♥️🙏🎄🇺🇸grow vertical never mind you said it
Wise choice to stay put! 😉
Merry Christmas Vivi 😊 ❤❤❤ 🎉🎉🎉💫💫💫
Wishing you a very happy peaceful festive seasons . Lidls are great for us plantbased /veggie folk. I got SEVERAL packs of 12 mince pies !! Adult kids love them warmed up and topped with Elmlea or Flora " cream" 💚💚
Yum! 😉
@@WhatVivididnext 😇🥰
Mince pies are the work of the devil! 😂
@@bobbidazzler1343 Hahahaha.....all the more for me then. 😉
Merry Christmas! I have quite a small home garden, and grow kale and chard, calendula, herbs, squash in containers, tomatoes in containers, leeks and beans(both pole and bush for fresh not dry). At the end of the season, there are squash everywhere 😊. I like Tromboncino as it can be used like courgettes or butternut, and produce a lot in a little space.
Yay for a mini veg jungle! 😊
I keep finding massive bags of carrots for next to nowt and I make a gf version of sticky toffee pudding using tons of grated carrots ! It’s delicious.😊
Ooooooh, yum!!!
i buy horse carrots £2.50 for a 20kg sack from the local feed store.
Merry Christmas, Vivi!
Thank you lovely, and to you too. 😊
Merry Christmas Vivi 🎄
We are growing celery now , parsnips and leeks .
Merry Christmas Vivi! 🎄
Thank you for the book recommendation Vivi, I ordered a copy yesterday when you posted on your IG, it arrives tomorrow. I'm sure I too will cry my eyes out. I visited Auschwitz some years ago & just standing on that site filled me with a horror that has never left me. My grandad was in the army and was a POW, captured in Poland. All I know is he escaped twice but he never ever spoke of it so I know nothing of his suffering😢. War is a terrible thing and sadly humans don't learn from it. To be informed is, I think, very important.
Anyway, enjoy your late night snacks - of course, walnuts are super healthy so that cancels out the mince pies 😂❤x
I'm so glad you got a copy of the book......I won't say 'enjoy' it....that's the wrong word (obviously) but I hope you get as much from it as I did. You will need a handkerchief in the final third of the book.....and right at the end. X
Merry Christmas, Vivi
Merry Christmas Vivi. Soft fruits. Blueberries raspberries small apple tree????
I would love an apple tree but I think there won't be enough space/light.
I remember reading The Long Walk for school in the 70’s Vivi 🤔
I think it must have been a different one? This one was published in 1999.
Hi Vivi - not sure if you’ll remember me, but I’m Josh’s cousin Zoe! I love the channel, he told me about it today when we had lunch with my family - it would be wonderful to catch up one day x
Yes, of course I remember you! Hello lovely! I hope to get back up north some time next year so hopefully we can meet up. I hope you're well and enjoying life. 😊
@@WhatVivididnext that would be amazing! I’m based Lancaster way now, so if you find yourself in the area it would be lovely to grab a coffee or lunch and have a chat - it’s been a long time! ❤️
@@zoecrombie6970 Soooooo long! I think the last time was at the Egmont Show...
Happy Christmas Vivi ♥️ I’m with you on plant selection for gardens! Scarlett Runner Beans for me, Butternut and Delicata Squash and Pumpkins, Leeks, Tomatoes are the essentials. I have a “cutting leaf” celery which is perennial and self seeds. It’s superior in taste and has strong flavour. I didn’t get any garlic in - too much rain and the plot is a pool. Mmmmm Stilton AND walnuts!!🐇♥️🎄
My friend only just got her garlic in.....and discovered it all dug up the next day by her too-cute-to-scold dog. 😉
@ haha! I’m going to try in January…maybe there will be a dry week or two?!
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Happy christmas Vivvi l would grow tomorrow green beans and squash just like you vivvi.llove you,re talking growing in your garden in the future good luck 🎉🎉🎉😊
I can hardly wait to get stuck in! 😊
I fear that it is the farmers who are subsidising the dirt cheap bags of veg on the supermark shelves this Christmas. As you said in a previous video recently, we should try to buy organic or locally grown vegetables. Have a heart for the farmers! Merry Christmas x
Hear, hear!
I heard that the supermarkets take the hit and sell them at a loss. Hope so.
@@judithmorganjudyteen I hope so too. What they call a 'loss leader' I think.
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Hi vivi MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅🎄 lv Irene 😘 xx
And to you. 😊
IHi Vivi, I saw you in a UA-cam video from Dave's allotment garden and ting .. You ware singing! 😊 ❤
Gosh that was years ago! 😉
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Dear Vivi - it's CAvolo nero.
You said "food for thought." It's not food for thought here, it's thought for food!! 😄
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Another good book in that sad genre is "The Endless Steppe" written in the view of a young girl. And completely off-topic is an amazing short story; "The Long Walk" written by Stephen King psuedo Richard Bachman.
Hi Vivi, the other thing to think about when choosing what to grow is “ what supermarket produce no longer has a good taste/texture?” So it’s good you’re going to be growing tomatoes! Peaches have also lost the soft sweet juiciness they used to have but I don’t suppose you’ll be growing those. Best wishes.
Yes, taste is so important!
You could try putting them into a brown paper bag with the top folded down to test if they might soften and sweeten. Best wishes!
Lemons!
i watched this story's movie (The way back)2010 so dramatic