Transforming My Cottage Garden: Spring Cleanup, No-Dig Meadow, & Bee Hive Assembly 🐝
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- Опубліковано 27 бер 2024
- 🌼 Welcome! Get ready to immerse yourself in the beauty of spring as we embark on a satisfying cottage garden cleanup journey together!
🔍 In this video, join me in my Spring cottage garden as we indulge in the ultimate spring cleanup. Watch as I replace old, rotting wood edging with charming sleepers, transforming the borders of my garden.
🌱 But that's not all! Watch as I try to create a mini no-dig meadow. ( make sure to subscribe to see if I can succeed)
🐝 And for the cherry on top, I'll be assembling and painting my brand new bee hive, as I hope to one day have some bees in the garden to contribute to the essential cause of pollinator conservation right from my backyard.
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A baby Robin fell into my yard 3 summers ago. His parents did not find him after dark. I checked all day long. He saw me so I spoke to him. He has come back, this is 3rd year now. Buzzes house, cheeps, then waits. I come out,find him and we 'talk'. God looks after the birds. Mr. Cheers is always fat and beautiful.
This is so sweet!
What a sweet and lovely story.❤
That is precious! Thank you for sharing! Cheers to you and Mr. Cheers!🎉
I love his name! What a sweet story!
Oh my friend! We have one bee box (5 layers of boxes sitting on each other) and last year my husband cultivated 120 lbs. of honey! Ask for help with this... you will LOVE the free honey as it tastes so good! We trade ours for eggs and beef with people who raise those animals. Have courage... it is not difficult once you learn how. Another thing... the bees are generally 'sweet' around those who care for them and will amaze you with their personalities... not even kidding you! Enjoy this new adventure. It is most satisfying when you reap the rewards. Your friend from Canada.
Awww thank you for sharing this with me! Yes, I am worried about the heavy frames, I lifted some in bee class, and they weight of one frame alone! X
Every year your garden gets better.
Your so kind ❤️
It's amazing what you can get done in a short space of time. Don't worry about living up to expectations. Yes you go on telly talking about gardening but it's your relatability that people love. None of us are perfect, or have perfect gardens, life isn't an Instagram reel. Your garden looks great and I love seeing it. Its perfect 🌷
Thank you for the kind words! life certainly isn't an Instagram reel x
I get so excited when your garden starts blooming...🌷
I love the idea of the cardboard & wildflower seeds!
SPRING HAS SPRUNG 🩷
Got me tea. Windows open & in my comfy track pants sitting and watching you in the garden. This is a beautiful..time. Thanku sweet Catherine. You do my heart good. Blessing be yours.
Awe glad you enjoyed it x ❤️
The opening music, the tulips, the birds chirping, outdoor spring cleaning...all so lovely! It's difficult to get motivated to tidy up the garden in cold weather. Can't wait for warmer temperatures!
Aw thank you xxxx
Hi Catherine this was so interesting about the hives can’t wait to watch your progress. My new nature thing this year is a bird box with a camera inside. It’s so addictive watching the house sparrows build a nest so Im hoping to see wee baby birds . But at the minute I have my hands full with my new pup and she finally has a name … Daisy . She’s a 4 mth old shih tzu and just a wee bundle fluff and so cute. Have a lovely Easter 🐣💖🙋🏻♀️ Patricia x.
I LOVE the sound of your bird box with camera!
I feel you on the wet Spring, it’s been bleak in Northamptonshire; cold, windy, wet and miserable.
I can’t wait for the sunshine days. You’ve made such good progress Spring cleaning the garden.
I love watching your garden videos. Been watching since day one & each time it amazes me how much it’s changed & how far you’ve come 😊 it’s relaxing watching & seeing all the beautiful colours & cute little animals 🩷💜
That’s so kind ❤️ thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Gardens are like children.👶🥀 They start out small but grow very quickly 🌷🌷🌷and have moments when they are messy but moments when they shine. 🌞They bring us frustation and joy. 💖In the end they bring more joy than pain and I couldn't imagine my life without mine🍃🌻🐞You have a lovely garden🍀🍃🍀🍃
Hi Catherine 👋🏻 I’m Lia 👩🏻🦱 from Brisbane, Australia 🇦🇺 It’s Easter Long Weekend here and myself and my husband have had a weekend full of gardening jobs out in the beautiful weather we’re having in Autumn. 🍂 Since discovering your channel, I love to watch one of your episodes for inspiration and motivation before I head out to work in our gardens. We have fully landscaped front and back gardens comprising of ornamental and kitchen gardens. Like you, I’m also still learning and still consider myself an amateur when it comes to gardening. I started gardening just three years ago when we got our home professionally landscaped and learn something new every day I’m out in it. I also have a bird bath, bird house and insect house as well want to create our own little eco system. I love ok forward to watching many more of your old and new videos. Happy Easter! 🐰
All those leaves that you find in your garden are tremendously advantageous to your composter. Please sweep them up and put them in there or grind them with your mower and place them on your beds. Wonderful food for your garden, and free too.
Yes, have you watched my Autumn videos, I collect them for leaf mould when they are lovely and wet and freshly fallen. Have you made leaf mould before?
I did my whole back garden with the no dig/cardboard method and it works wonderfully!! You'll love it!
That is so good to know that it worked for you ❤️
It's amazing how clean & tidy you keep your home; inside and out! ❤
Thank you! 😊
Love the garden videos! Those tulips are giving me life! Thank you!
We have a Ryobi lawnmower as well, but it’s the more powerful version. Our property is steeply sloped at the front and side and the mower handles it like a dream. It even has power assist that helps for the steepest inclines. Granted the mower itself is much heavier than our old corded version, but the battery lasts for the whole of the mowing which takes a couple of hours to do. We also use Ryobi power tools with the 18v battery, but knew we needed to use the beefier mower/battery for the garden. Now we just need to upgrade our Ryobi strimmer to a higher voltage version.
My neighbors lined the areas of their front garden with cardboard in order to create new flower beds. It was fun to watch their ingenuity produce a new area to enjoy flowers.
Aw fab! Did it work out for them?
Yes, they added an English country garden theme, complete with stepping stones. Unfortunately, the new homeowners have not maintained it. But we have the memory of how it once looked.
Your yard is always so pretty. It's a cool windy and wet day here in Oregon. Never dis on the rain because usually after June it's gone. I went out and picked rhubarb for Easter Sunday Dinner and I had blossoms on my Italian plum trees. So excited I have loads of berry bushes and a small orchard. I am only going to allow the trees to get no higher than 5 feet tall. Any way I see your kittens are out with you and that is fun also. Have a blessed Easter weekend Catherine.
Awe thanks for sharing! Love that you picked your own rhubarb ❤️
I watch this with 20 cm of snow falling on Montreal, Canada (April 4th). Makes me wanna cry.
You are a busy bee yourself!.🐝🐝.. I love the idea of the no dig flower meadow.. looking forward to see how it grows..😊❤
Can’t wait to see it come together! 😍 thanks for stopping by xx
I live on Vancouver Island in BC Canada, and spring on the West Coast has had a reluctant start. I planted some bulbs in my little greenhouse that I bought for a very reduced price. I wasn’t expecting much, but lo and behold, I’m getting lots of flowers I can bring in. Also, when all else is delayed, there’s rhubarb😊
OK Catherine I’m ready to come see you so that I can spend time in your beautiful garden. I see the flowers peeking up and it’s going to be gorgeous as always!
I'm with you. My husband bought and electric mower just for around the house. I was not expecting the noise plus the lack of power. It is almost like a weed eater with handles. With you on papers/trash flying into my yard. Tulips and all the flowers in your raised beds are really showing out. Just beautiful. Love the pretty Bee Box color. I'm looking forward to your new adventure. Wishing you and your family a Blessed and Happy Easter.
Your tulips are beautiful x
We love tulip season! 🩷
Hello Catherine. Does anyone else think that the fabric used to cover the table could be a framed piece of art? I love the Autumnal colours on it. It then made me think we could frame ours to remind us all of our painted projects. The different colours bringing back happy memories! That thought made me very happy xx
Greta idea framing fabric ❤️❤️❤️
The flowers are looking so pretty Catherine, I have seen the no dig beds before and they work well, and good luck with your beehive, bees are Mother Nature’s pollinators and so important to the ecosystem, tfs x Julie
You're one brave lady, takin up so many new projects and learning nw skills! Becoming a beekeeper, who would've thought! I'm sure you'll do great, because you re such a caring person.
Все очень мило 😊
You have the most beautiful flowers in your raised beds and you do such a beautiful job of explaining all that you do.
The sleepers looks great
My dream is to have a backyard garden like yours. Mine is about the same size as yours and I didn’t think I got make it as beautiful as yours so thank you for sharing your journey. I want a greenhouse like yours but I can only dream about it right now but it does help me sleep at night dreaming about what my backyard will look like someday. Love watching everything you do ❤
Your tulips look beautiful....gosh where do all the leaves come from ,it's a never ending task !😀🌷
I'm getting the real life studio ghibli vibes watching this ☺️✨️🍃🌷
Wow your bulbs are just gorgeous. Here in Melbourne I've just ordered my spring bulbs but may have to order more to have the same effect.
Video yang sangat menarik❤
We all have to start somewhere, right? My front yard is full of leaves from two towering oak trees that drop their leaves all winter. During the summer they provide WONDERFUL shade but they can feel like an annoyance. I too have lacked motivation as we have had three consecutive months of SO MUCH RAIN I feel any plants I have are struggling to survive. I feel waterlogged as well. So you aren’t alone. Yes, I love my RYOBI tools but you do need more than one battery. 😊
Have a LOVELY EASTER Catherine 🌷🪴🪻🐇🪺🦚!
Same to you 🐣❤️
You have done a beautiful job with your yard. Happy 🐣
The wildflowers are going to look beautiful ♥️ you've put alot of work into your garden, can't wait to see everything in the coming weeks 🥰💚🌱🌿🌳
Thank you 😁
Have a very Happy Easter 🐇🐰
I am looking forward to the bees. Your garden looks so pretty, tulips are beautiful.
the tulips blooming just lift my heart! Love these flowers. In the US, on the west side of the country, my daffodils and tulips are not quite ready to bloom yet, but they are within 2 weeks of doing so! Can't wait!
As I live in an apartment now, sadly without a garden, I prefer your indoor episodes. I feel sad unable to garden now. But you do have such a lovely garden and Your joy makes me feel happy for you and I smile. ❤❤❤
Please don't feel sad that you cannot garden, would you like to? Your an do small herbs etc indoors and get the same pleasure x
I love watching your videos. Great source of inspiration 🪴 I’ve recently got my first garden of my own and a bit overwhelmed by the work that needs doing. It’s bramble city atm ! But watching your videos really helps me keep trying. Hopefully mine will be pretty one day 😊
I’m excited to follow your journey with the compost bin! I’ve been thinking about getting one for awhile now. Please share the pros and cons on your journey!🥰
I’ll definitely keep you posted!! ❤️
@@DaintyDiaries Oh yay! Thank you! 👏🏻👍🏻🥰
We have a lot of metal edging in our yard/garden. We used dark green where it edges grass and brown where it edges plant beds with mulch or areas with rocks. It's more expensive, but it lasts forever.
I am in love with this series, so satisfying to watch ☺☺
Your garden with the bulbs is beautiful. I love when you are out in the garden. The sleepers look great as a border.
We are having an early Spring, so bulbs and flowering shrubs going off. Of course it is a roller coaster of nice days and fridgid days, but nice to have some flowers for Easter.
We leave our evergreen wreaths and porch pots til March when things warm up, but this year when we were going to remove the wreaths,one had a mommy, a nest, and 5 little blue eggs...so it remains til they are finished!
I’m excited for you taking up beekeeping. You certainly nailed all the details about your little hive. Bees are so fascinating, and every day you learn more and more about them. I took up beekeeping in 2019 starting with one nuc of Italian bees. I now have several hives due to splitting hives to deter swarming, and catching swarms from my hives. It’s such an interesting and challenging ‘hobby’. As I’m in SE Australia I’m now in the process of packing down my hives and getting them ready for the winter. I look forward to seeing more of your beekeeping journey🐝🍯
Wow your hives sound amazing!! 😍🐝 you’re a pro!! I’m super excited to share more of my bee journey now! Lots to learn!
When your video’s end my sigh is audible - love being in your garden with you 💚🌸💚
Awwwww x
Looking forward to your visit journey and buzzing along with you 🐝🐝
I put my compost bins (I now have 2 plus a keyhole raised bed that you put compost in) near the back door because of how much snow we get in the northeast USA. I'm very happy with it being easy to get to. I also got 2 rain barrels last year and I used them soooo much.
Love seeing how your garden is so lovely with your blooming flowers. I am looking forward to get out in my own little garden. We recently had a small snow storm, thing that is the last for the year. However you can never be sure here in Canada. My son is building me a small Green House, can't wait for the finished project. As always love watching all you videos. Much love from Canada ❤️
Hope you’re okay after the storm!
@@DaintyDiaries Everything is fine. It was just unexpected since we had been getting some warm spring days. Unfortunately in Canada anyway winter seems to like to hang on as long as it can.
Lovely episode….all you really needed was the pink tulips and the beautiful robin…a great lift for the day…
Aww 🥰 glad you enjoyed it x
We have been super happy with our Green Works electric lawnmower and yard tools (blower, edging tool and hedge trimmer). Our mower is a bit bigger than yours, and we've never felt it was under-powered. Not sure if you have that line branded the same across the pond? If you ever make a change, I would highly recommend.
Thanks for sharing that ❤️
Great video, really looking forward to seeing how your no dig meadow goes. Would love a video on your must have garden tools 😊
Great way to kick up the spring vibes....absolutely looking forward to when the wildflowers meadow starts blooming, and the bees start moving into the bee-hive... super excited🤗 Your tulips are looking beautiful 👍🌷
You go girl we love bees. I live in southern CA and it is raining or a wind storm not a normal spring. I love the bee box you built, it is beautiful! I love how you keep planting and adding to your yard. It is going to "bee" stunning.
Awwww thank you ❤️ sorry to hear about the weather 🌦️
I have a Sunjoe electric lawnmower. It handles my front yard pretty well and is fairly quiet. The battery life is fairly decent. I didn’t even think to look for one matching my drill, but that’s a great idea.
A busy bee🐝. Love watching thank you ❤
Your a busy lady ❤️
Always been in wonderment on bees 🐝 🍯. It’s impressive and brave that you’re going to be a keeper of the bees.
Well, I hope to be one 😁 I might get scared 🐝
Your like a worker bee yourself always working and it shows in your home and garden they are really beautiful.
Loved the entire video. Thank you.
I love your garden, even when you say it's messy, to me it still looks good .
Lucky you to have Spring arrive already. I am zone 2b/3 so still have lots of snow and cold, cold weather…BUT…I am living vicariously through your garden right now 🌷🪻.Always love your videos, keep ‘em coming! Greetings from Sk Canada 🇨🇦
Lovely! Thank you for sharing.
Lovely flowers are out already wow! Wishing you well with the bees, it should be an exciting project. Have a great week Catherine, stay well.
❤❤❤❤❤❤😊thanks for sharing your world with us ❤❤❤❤
I have 7 big flower beds I have to clean in spring. I put sheep manure mixed with top soil on beds every spring. I also fertilize flowering trees and all my plants. I have beautiful flowers all summer and into fall . I do also have lots of potted plants on my deck. I fertilize throughout the blooming time. I'm 69 and enjoy it so much. I use a battery lawnmower works great. I have a huge lawn. 🇨🇦
Well done you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 that’s great work to do to prep the beds ❤️
relaxing & lovely🌱
Honeybees can be very ruthless. Not only do they dispatch unreliable queens, come Autumn they will kick the Drones out of the hive. They are absolutely fantastic little creatures.
Nothing wrong with asking for help, I am very independent and find it hard asking. I'm 70 this year and I suppose if I can't do something it means I'm old, yes I know I am 🙄. Bring on the sunshine 🌞 I think it's been a long winter, can't wait to get outside. Great video. 👍
You need to get yourself a leaf blower.....it is a game changer and so quick to clean up especially when gardening, potting, leaves etc
Lovely video Catherine, I agree it’s so hard getting motivated when it’s so cold and wet, but once you start, you get your gardening muscles going again!! 😊 loved the wooden sleeper edging, looks really good, your border will be so full and established this year, and it will look beautiful .❤
Sooo hard to find the motivation isn’t it! But spring time just brings such joy and excitement 😍🌸
Really enjoyable episode. Im looking forward to the progress of your ruthless bees!
The tulips are beautiful.
I enjoy the garden videos so much. It’s inspiring!
Spring is for the garden! 🩷
Your tulips are beautiful ♥️
Can hardly wait to see how the cardboard works. Have an area 20 × 30 feet that is going to put from lawn to wildflowers.
I forgot you were doing the beehives, can’t wait to see how things go with you here in a couple more months. When I was young, we had five or six beehives on our property. Of course my dad had a candy company and the shavings from the lollipops as they came down the conveyor belt and, for lack of words shake the excess off that’s what we would put out for them to gather some of their nectar suites from and not only that all the wildflowers they would go and get their nectar from. But there was one year that the beekeeper had to come out and remove two queens and take them to different hives in different places because they were fighting against each other when you came out with perfume deodorant or hair products that had a smell to them they immediately went to because they thought you were a flower. So the only way that we could get rid of them from attacking us when we came out the house was to remove the two queen bees, and place them in two separate locations so they could have their own hives and they did quite well. So I will be interested to see how you and your bees get along.
Watching your video creates a calm from all the craziness happening in the news.
I am glad you get some escapism from them, I find it really hard to be plugged in all the time, and I limit my news/social media in take now
Wow Catherine you got so much done. My back garden grass is still soggy so I have to wait for it to dry out a bit. Great idea for the grass in your front garden, I'll be waiting and watching with interest as I'd love that for my small front garden 😊 Looking forward already to see what you'll be doing next ❤
Fingers crossed the seeds take in the front, a few sunny and mild days will help everything dry out and grow x
I love your garden vlogs and your voice is beautiful
Excited to watch your bee journey. I have always found bee hives fascinating!!
It’s sooo interesting!! So excited for the bee life now 😂🐝
You are making the most of your little plot of Ireland.
Yur garden was a delight even before the tidying up. Such gorgeous flowers!.
I was tired of buying gas mowers. The littlest thing made them break and i couldn't do the pulling motion quick enough to fire it up.
I bought a electric cord plug in type model. I already had an outdoor cord. The mower is the same size as your rechargeable. It is so light weight and the electricity makes it very powerful. It is almost like vacuuming because of the light weight.😂
Lovely video as always.
Your garden is looking great. Look at all your Tulips already!
You are such an inspiration, Your garden looks amazing!
That is so kind x
You can get converters for the battery packs so you can use other brands. My husband does a lot of woodworking and has a few different brands of tools and uses the battery packs interchangeably
Thank you for another great video! Even though the weather is still a bit dreary where I’m at, you are getting me inspired to get out and clean up the garden. ☔️🌷
Your tulips are stunning!
I did my first bit of gardening today. I live in Ontario Canada, the days are still a bit cold, but the tulips and daffodils are just popping their shy heads above the soil. It was so satisfying ❤ keep the faith my girl, it will all come together, one day at a time.
Well done for getting out in the garden 😁
I put cosmo seeds in milk jugs and did the winter sowing method and it worked really well for germination.
Good Luck and Best Wishes on your beekeeping journey...🐝🐝🐝🐝 Your garden is so pretty and charming, beautiful 🌷🌷🌷 and a little robin to boot!🐦..everything the heart desires
Thanks so much!! Excited for the bee journey 😍🐝
Oh, Catherine on that black paint it could also be a roofer's cement which is black and thick and a very good product. It is applied with a paint brush that should be discarded after so use an old one. 👍
yes! That's what it was x
The garden is looking great so many flowers and beautiful colours
I’ve done exactly the same with RYOBI haven’t bought the lawn mower I don’t have a lawn had it paved when I knew I couldn’t do it anymore because of mobility issues but I have been buying the tools more so when they’re on sale
The beehive is starting to take shape
Spotted the little Irish Robin 😊