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The reality of horses in winter is most definitely mud! Tilly (the dark horse) looks like a swamp donkey at the moment. She’s certainly been enjoying the odd mud bath. Think I’m going to have to admit defeat and bring them in overnight. Pablo, my skewbald, box walks, so I try to keep them out as much as possible.

Hello Darren, lovely to see new viewers appear in the comment section. Thank you for joining us 😊 You got a lot of snow in Wolverhampton, didn’t you? Saw your area featuring in the news. I genuinely thought the forecast was over exaggerating and was shocked when I woke up to it. Seems you had the opposite experience if you weren’t forecast snow. 😂😅😅 I think I might just have to order something from the place so happy it puts a smile on their boxes.. although I do have some brown paper bags, but thought they’d tear with my wet hands and the damp seed heads too. Thank you though.. .. I’ll remember to cut them off in the dry next year in to paper bags. Hope you have better weather than we’ve had over the weekend. Strong winds and biblical rainfall. One extreme to the other .. 14°c today too

@TheFarmyardGarden Same here with the rain, the wind helped it to batter my windows early hours and wake me up! I did think about the paper carrier bags from another well-known outlet (Sausage Rolls and Steakbakes, lol) but I don't think they're deep enough.

@DarrenGill-g5e oh yes. It made sure I didn’t oversleep for the F1 coverage in Las Vegas 😆

I was so sure the forecast was over exaggerating it. Was pretty shocked when I woke up to so much snow, Mal. Magical isn’t it? ❤️ Sadly it’s all mud and rain now 😅😭

Hi Christine. I do see you pop up on Danny’s channel, you’re so knowledgeable and such an active participant. Lovely to see you stop by here too. Thank you for subscribing ❤️ I am very lucky to live where I do, even if there’s a motorway running through the farm. I was not allowed pets as a child. My parents always said I could have as many pets as I wanted when I left home. I certainly must have kept that in mind when I met Duncan, a farmer, and ended up moving here in 2001 ( during the Foot & Mouth epidemic). I am really experimenting with the brassicas this winter, as I didn’t do too well with them over summer. Not sure what on earth happened to the cauliflower seedlings I had. The variety I’ve got planted is All Year Round. As the name suggests, you can sow it anytime. I sowed mine at the beginning of September but also bought a few extra plug plants from a local nursery, as they were on sale. I’m really hoping to be able to freeze store a lot of brassicas for summer eating, in case of being unsuccessful in the changeable summer weather with them again next year. Hope you have a fabulous week in the garden ☺️

@TheFarmyardGarden thank you for your lovely response. I think everyone has suffered this season with this very strange weather we have been having. Mine was sweetpeas, never had a problem before, sown them 3 times & all munched. Sunflowers grew to a certain height & quickly died off 🤔 i currently have sweetpea seedlings growing lovely in my polytunnel, hopefully they will find their way outside and flourish. Fingers crossed for next season 🤞🙂

@christinebrooks6364 ooo how sad to have missed out on the sweetpeas especially. They bring so much joy for so many months to a garden. I hope they are successful and you get a wonderful floral display next year. It was beetroot for me this year, oh and spring onions. Not much luck with either. 🙃

Aww thank you Linda. I have to admit I do secretly avoid certain farmyard duties. 😂😅 I can imagine it took ages for the snow to melt too. It’s only just thawed from that sides of the polytunnel, where it had slid off the roof. What a lot of snow … yet here we are back to 14°c and rain! Glad you enjoyed the video. Have a lovely gardening week. I believe the sun is going to shine tomorrow ❤️

Merci. La neige rend tout si joli, n'est-ce pas ? Est-ce qu'il neige souvent chez vous ?

Thank you so much, Dora. I enjoyed the challenge to see what I could get done before the snow, and to see if it even happened! Was so excited when I opened the blinds in the morning. ❤️ The asparagus do look toasty don’t they? I really hope they survive winter ok. 🙏🏻 Everything seems alive still in the tunnel… a bit of slug nibbling on the green lettuces mainly. I should have brought the horses in. Felt guilty when it had snowed as much as it did 🙈

Love is greater than everything ❤️ ❄️

Smattering.. there’s a word I don’t hear very often anymore. I love that word. ❤️ We’re back to biblical rain, flooding and strong winds now. I really wish we could go back to the winter wonderland already 😂🙈 My favourite blueberry is the centre one of the three. The outside two are pink lemonade. Unfortunately they flowered earlier, so were caught by a late frost and didn’t produce much. The centre one came from a Blue Diamond garden centre and was simply labelled “garden inspirations”. It was so prolific and super tasty, with tender skins. I’ve sourced another one to add in over winter, but I’m thinking of extending the fruit cage first. 🙈 Looks like we have a drier week forecast, so hoping to get back in the garden and sort out everything that’s turned to mush 😅 Have a fab week ❤️

Thanks Ady. I imagine you also had a good dumping of snow there too? Was so pretty. Shame it’s been biblical rain and strong winds all weekend 😅😭

I remember thinking the same, Sarah, whilst I was chopping it down. So toasty. I hope the crowns will be ok 🙏🏻 Did you get much snow?

😄 Only a sprinkling here in Lincolnshire 😊​@@TheFarmyardGarden

I don’t mind the snow but I detest a rapid thaw, especially followed by so much rain. Everywhere is very, very soggy now 🙃

Thank you so much Allison. I love our Sunday check ins. Did you get much snow? 🤗

@ no nothing here 😒

@ oh no! If you’re a snow lover, like me, I hope you get some festive winter wonderland scenery soon 🙏🏻🙏🏻❄️

Thank you so much xx

You know what.. I totally didn’t! I was so cold after clearing all the snow (waterproof gloves apparently not waterproof after all) that I just decided to get warm. Didn’t occur to me. I wanted to sledge but it wasn’t the right kind of snow.. too wet. 😭 We have had nothing by biblical rain and strong winds for the last two days. It’s so warm today too. 14°. Bit of a change again. Hope you’re not suffering with the wind/rain either. I think it was forecast more north than south of the country. Have a fantastic week too. December next Sunday… oooo the Christmas hats will be out in force!

@@TheFarmyardGarden Ahh don't blame you. My sister (from the Netherlands) gave me a couple of her children's sleighs and i laughed. It's more likely to be used as a mud sleigh! lol Apparently will be 18c today but it is very windy and noisy. We have 8 - 15 storey block of flats being built near us and there are 3 massive cranes that are swaying in the wind. scaffolding is clanging, alarms sounding. Driving to my Dad's in Surrey so will have to take it easy. We have had rain but it is more the wind that is the problem, with low lying cloud. Yes it is meant to be worse in the North but we have wind in the south west, south too but not as bad. Hate to think of what the NW is going through. We've already got a lot of Christmas decorations out... Got to have some light cheery things to do in this weather!

I hope it’s survived for you, Debra. I did have another little patch of it that wasn’t covered and that seems relatively ok, if a bit flattened. Will see if that bounces back. Shame we didn’t get to sow it a few weeks earlier, it would have been significantly stronger. Oh well.. fingers crossed for us both 🤗

@ I’ve been down to the plot and most of it looks like it’s survived!!

Yay!! That’s excellent news ❤️

Oh that’s a lovely suggestion, thank you. I’ll remember for next year. Funnily enough, I saw some amaranth Christmas decorations last week, so I’ve bought those to add to my tree this year. Couldn’t resist when I saw them. ☺️

Morning Kirsty.. snow on the beach is a rare thing normally isn’t it? Always hear people say they don’t get snow very often if they live on the coast. I love that you inherited an old wooden rake. Perfect tool for the job. The snow has thawed now and we’ve had a couple of days on monsoon level rainfall. Everywhere is very soggy, on top of the thaw. It’s jumped back to 14°c today here too.. positively tropical after the -6.4° in the polytunnel Tuesday night! You definitely MUST take a cutting of that plant. Hope you have a good week. Forecast suggests a bit drier early next week.. hope so. I have so many bulbs to plant out 😅

Morning Sinéad. That little snowman sounds so cute! Such a shame you don’t get much snow there, although you do live in such a beautiful country. Lapland will be amazing! What an experience for your children (and you). How wonderful!! For the beans.. I’ve not grown them before but I intend to add the butter beans in to stews and soups, so they’ll mostly be cooked in stock. Butter in the pan sounds yummy too! Thanks for that suggestion in return ❤️❤️

​@TheFarmyardGarden oh I've been to lapland twice already but it'll be my husbands first time.and childrens too, he looking forward to it too 😊 oh soup,how have I not thought of that! Although it'll be just 2 of us eating it, the other 3.arent fans

Morning Trude. Yes, I’ve noticed the birds haven’t shown any interest in any wind fallen seeds, or the plants themselves. I’m thinking you’d need a field of amaranth to get enough grain to make it worthwhile… so I’ll focus on them being “edimentals” next year I think. I’m not sure if they’ll self seed, as you say, due to the weather here. We shall have to see 😅 I have so much clearing to do now. -6.4° c Tuesday night certainly saw many sensitive plants finished for the season and in need of removing. All the chillies have well and truly succumbed. Has snowy season started for you yet, over there? I imagine a white Christmas is pretty much the norm in Norway?

@@TheFarmyardGarden First heavy snow-day today, but it's getting milder so it will melt luckily. My greenhouse thermometer says -7,2 °C last night. I wish for no more snow but on Christmas eve (which is the most important x-mas day here). Last winter was long, freezing and with lots of snow, so I'm hoping this one gets easier. Yeah, I think it's easier to buy whatever amaranth I want to use for cooking/baking. As a coeliac it's a nutritious addition to my diet, but sorting the seeds from the husk was tedious and impossible to get perfect. I was a little late finishing my last pots, they were frozen and hard to get the stakes out, but it's all done and covered up now. I have the last really sad calendulas in a glass in front of me. I do want to grow lots of vegs and flowers in my future garden, but it's nice to be reminded on how much work there is to do at the end of the season, and I will try not to maximize. Clearing and preparing for winter outside is one thing, then there is all the harvest too that need processing.

Oh Sue…. Next week FOR SURE! The hats are coming back out! I love hat season… no need to worry about my straggly, fly away hair 😂🙈 Have a fabulous week x

@@TheFarmyardGarden yay you too 👍🏻

Yes! They really are, thanks Jacqui. I’m so pleased. I need to make luffa/loofah soap next ❤️❤️

@TheFarmyardGarden hope you make a video Clare showing what you do x

I get super excited over all harvests. It’s brings so much joy … combined with utter amazement that I did something successfully 😂❤️❤️ Who knew picking a humble carrot would make me giddy? 😝❤️

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😂😅😅❤️

Thank you ❤️

They blew me away, Allie & Tricia. Honestly so happy (and slightly disbelieving) that I managed to get them to the finish line. It’s been a long 10 months. 😅❤️❤️

@ I definitely think a poly is needed for the heat and the space !! Well done you x

@TheRightPearPlot thank you. Are you going to try again next year?

Just a little tiny bit giddy 😂😂❤️

Thank you. I can’t lie, I get VERY giddy harvesting. If you give the related video linked a little watch, you’ll see just how excited! I may over subscribe to the use of the word wow 😂❤️❤️❤️❤️

Have just watched and subscribed. Love your enthusiasm. For some reason I can't comment on that video so I've come back here. I would recommend you get yourself a hori hori knife, my daughter gave me one for a birthday, it's the most versatile garden tool I own and will make digging up those celeriac a doddle. Great video, thoroughly enjoyed it. ❤

@NorthernStar-zf1zt thank you so much! I have a hori hori, which was a lovely gift for 1000 subscribers from a friend. I’m left handed though, so I have to be careful as the serrated edge is on the wrong side for me. I use it for some things, not others. I’m lethal with sharp things 😂🫣 I get such a buzz from the harvesting. Sounds corny, but it’s like harvesting joy. Quite literally ❤️

Thank you Sophie. 10 months in the making, as I sowed the luffas January 19th. 😅❤️

Tha you so much. 🤩❤️

Thanks Liz. I’ll be adding well rotted farmyard manure in spring, before the summer crops go in. I just added fish, blood and bone to the planting holes when I re-planted for winter though ☺️

@@TheFarmyardGarden Thanks.

Duncan’s favourite farm assistant 😆

I’ve not done my greenhouses yet. I’ll get around to it .. maybe not today. Bit too chilly

I’m working up to it! 😂

Duncan’s favourite tool is the telehandler. He doesn’t believe in manual labour…that’s my job 😂🙈 An acre is a great space for growing food on. Shame you can’t slowly teach a few more feet a year though. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Wow Sinéad, a 40ft polycarbonate tunnel is HUGE! What an amazing space to grow in. With you being in Ireland, did you use KSB for the tunnel? I really liked the idea of a polycarbonate one, but wanted 12ft wide minimum. When we moving ours, Polyeco (the company we were looking at) didn’t make them over 10ft wide. They do the 12ft now. I was devastated. I do love my tunnel but feel polycarbonate would feel a bit safer from rodents and warmer over winter than polythene. I’m not sure we’d have put up one like yours either. Wise move letting the company do it. Bet it’s been amazing this season. Watching the ads too.. you are the bestest ❤️🤗

That certainly sounds challenging. The hinged mini polytunnel can be used with mesh too, and that’s heavy enough to stay put

Oo I love thinking of it being called it Tipperary turnip. That sounds so much romantic. I’m still not 100% sure what the difference between and swede and a turnip is. What I will say is they are all so much easier to peel/chop when you’ve pulled them fresh.. same with butternut squash too

Sooo many stages and soooo many barrows of soil being shovelled. I think I still have blisters from last winter, Sinéad 😂

Oooo roasting it sounds a good idea too! I’ll give that a try too. Thanks Becky. Kerry is trying her own luffa to peel 😂❤️❤️

Wow.. that’s a big expansion for you too, Sinéad. This is how it starts for all of us but it always escalates as it’s so addictive! ❤️

Aww thank you Sinéad, that’s so nice of you. Every comment and like helps. It seems such a long time ago that I made this video.. things certainly escalated since this time. ☺️

​@TheFarmyardGarden oh yes! I've been watching your newer videos, what a great set up you have!! And I have to say, you come across so well on camera!! It's something I'd love to do but not a chance I'd have the nerve 😂 I love you bark walkways! I'm getting that done next year 😊 you'll see me loads in the comments 😊

@ you’ll get comfier over time. I try to pretend (now, not so much when I started) that the camera is just a friend I’m talking directly to. Think it helps that I use my phone to film off. I think I’d be instantly more nervous of an actual camera. ❤️

Thank you…It’s such a buzz, isn’t it Stella? I was blown away by all of those carrots especially. The luffa was 10 months of looking after them. I’m so glad we got sponges ❤️

Thank you so much. It’s all under snow now. What a difference a week makes 😱

Thanks Clare, lovely to see you pop back up again. I’m really looking forward to seeing how you get on with your new plot. It’s very exciting! I wonder if there’s any big changes you’ve got planned, in terms of the actual infrastructure planning, after having the first allotment this season? Things you’ll do differently now…. I’ve so pleased with how this first season has gone. I feel very fortunate.

@ I’m not going to used raised beds, just wooden sides when I start to establish the beds, then remove them. I’m going to try and minimise slug habitat because I don’t like killing things if I can deter them instead. I know. I’m naive 😆😆

@Littlesheddiaries not naive at all… I don’t pork the idea of killing things either, but I’m thinking I’ll use nematodes in spring instead.. somehow seems less spiteful. We have more slugs than snails in the garden, so nematodes will work well. They’re free to live in the main gardens.. just not chopping my cabbages too much 😅

They’ve done so well this year. I’m so pleased with them ❤️

You 100% should be proud crying for those luffas - go you!!

Oh Dora.. those luffas. 10 months in the making.. it’s been a long journey to get to this point. I’m so pleased with them. ❤️

I think getting to know what you can sow and plant for later harvests is one of the things I’ll never stop learning about. It’s so tricky to time it all. I have to admit, some of the cabbages were bought because I simply didn’t work things out effectively. Thankfully we have a local independent nursery that is great for plug plants whenever we forget something or have an unexpected space in the garden. I was so pleased with the carrots but must learn to thin them more for bigger ones. They’re so much less of a chore to peel if you have larger ones. The earlier harvests I just scrubbed the skins and didn’t peel them, but this late in the season they seemed to need peeling. I’m so so proud of this season. Really happy with how everything has been. Lots to learn to take forward to next year. ❤️

Oh wow Bill.. that sounds divine! I have made some winter vegetable stew but it never occurred to me to add Ginger to it. What a fabulous idea. Thank you for sharing ☺️

Thank you Jenny. I’ll catch up with your latest shortly. That intro of yours puts me in the best mood. So funny 🤣