I saw a fellow on youtube do a potato growing testdrive and he tried many different containers, as well as in the ground, all at the same time. His best yield, by far, was cardboard box wrapped in burlap on the outside to hold it together.....it was shallower than the bags or buckets, and that seemed to help with more yield....wide and shallower vs. tall and deep. The potatoes clearly had much more room to develop out from the main stem, while closer to the surface, vs. out and down from the main stem, because the bags aren't as wide, making the plant grow the potatoes further down in the soil. He got more than 20 good sized potatoes from one plant. It was shocking as he dumped it out and all the potatoes appeared!
I live in western Canada and I’ve grown potatoes in hay for the last two years. It’s a succcessful way to grow them and they are very clean to harvest if you do it when it’s dry.
Catherine you've come so far. You're so generous by giving others credit for what they've accomplished. You are as sweet as can be.. loving the videos. God bless 🙏❤️
You are a very kind and hardworking girl, you deserve this nice gift. I am also European (Hungarian) but now I live in the USA, and I know that European herbs are very valuable. May these be for your health, with God's blessing.
Not seen your videos for ages. Love them even more now 😊. So inspiring. Going to go binge some more after this one 🤭. You are so great. Feels like we know you 🌹🌻🌷
Your soft potatoes look like the seed potatoes. I believe you planted Maris Piper potato’s which are a main crop, the ones you harvested looked like MP, they did not look like early potatoes. If planted in buckets make sure good drainage one seed Potato per 10 litres of compost, should yield approx 1.5 lb per seed potato. Start your bucket potato’s in you greenhouse Feb/March placing buckets outside after danger of frosts.
Yeah i am hella old and have done the artists way over and over, it changes every time. She is 75 and published the book in 1992. Great BOOK! POTATOES: Cut the whole bottom out of the bag, but set it on a BBQ rack, can get at the 2nd hand store cheap. so you can lift later. Take a half of bag of the soil out to hill them up as the grow up. White potatoes grow up the stock..... by burying it more, as they grow, as you go. Sweet potatoes grow down so use full bag of soil to start and they will produce going down. Way too wet for good production, but try removing the whole bottom and setting on the ground will draw extra moisture away. Need full sun all day if can. try to dry off a bit, as they get ready to harvest, like beets and carrots, it makes them sweeter. Then leave them out on a table in the green house, if it is hot/dry, so they can develop a thick skin for storage. If you can rub the skin off with your thumb... not ready for storage. (jus so you know, when you bring in the big harvests.) Love you sweetheart!
i am a writer, I journal and write poems, i like all things creative like interior design and art, its why i watch along. Thanks Catherine for all the videos and advice
Those allium globe master are so neat! Isn’t it amazing how fast a garden can get away from us! Your garden is really cute! I loved watching about potatoes in a bag gives me such great ideas for next season. I’ve been wondering about your cute little hedgehog, has he or she come back this year?
When you clean the bird bath, if you add several copper coins to the bottom, it will keep the bath pristine. Always love the evolution of your little garden...just needs the sound of water, it's so relaxing to hear. Birds are also attracted to gentle moving water.
It's funny that you mention Bob Ross. My daughter and I were talking about "no accidents, just happy trees," and I sent her your Bob Ross costume video. We agree, the picture you painted is 🔥❤.
Hi Catherine, lovely video, I really admire you the way in which you do things and how you do things for yourself. The drawing and water colouring I know you will enjoy an artistic Catherine coming through. Your garden once again brilliant . Hope everything goes well. X
Loving your garden as always.. mine didnt come on great this year with all this irish bad weather but i live in hope lol. Ive got lovely white roses blooming at the minuite so im excited about that. Your potatoes look great. I love a maris piper. Enjoy your art classes ❤
I just cut my herbs for the 2nd time yesterday. I froze the chives after chopping them up. I learned that by having them dry on a plate they got really pale looking. I have sage, apple mint, & thyme drying on plates in the dining room. I just put the 1 cutting of these in glass jars. Lorraine
I’m so very thankful for the gift of this video. I’m so grateful that you highlighted the book The Artist’s Way. I fell down the rabbit hole into something beautiful ❤
Glad it was helpful! It is my favourite self help book and I love the morning pages for getting all that mental gunk out of my. head before starting the day x
Hello from hot and humid northwest Florida USA. I planted in ground in early March, about 35' row of three different varieties of potatoes. I harvested in May and June. I harvested about half the row for myself and then my grown grandchildren as well as my son and some friends came and harvested the rest. They also harvested corn and okra. I planted five varieties of okra this year and they are still making. I did some garden tours over the summertime. I am learning about how different it is here at my new property than it was at my old property. I planted runner beans under my corn which has worked out good for me in previous gardens in other locations but here a wind storm hit in mid June and layed over my corn. I still had a good crop of corn but my beans are now a big tangled mess growing on corn that is laying on the ground! Lesson learned!
The Forager gift box looked amazing, perfect for a hard working gardener. Love the jars are glass and timber and paper packaging. Recently did a workshop on more environmentally friendly cleaning and shocked at the facts on plastic. Hugs from Australia 🦘
I just harvested my first successful (3rd try) potato growing. I did the buckets/bins method, but make sure to drill holes on the bottom and set the bins on a couple of 2x4s for really good drainage. The 2x4s under the buckets are what finally gave me a good harvest.
Hello Catherine, for us the veg garden didn't do well at all this year. To much high heat then to to much rain! No one in my area did well with gardens. The flowering plants suffered also. Oh well there is always next year. I always enjoy your channal.
I tried my hand at growing potatoes in 5 gallon buckets. Following my experienced daughter, I used standard potting soil and made sure the buckets were up on boards so they could drain.
Hi Katherine Ive been following you for a while. You are adorable and you always make me smile. I am in Perth Western Australia,so our seasons are quite opposite, but I am so enjoying your videos. You and Karen are so hillarious. Keep up the beautiful work and will continue watching my little Irish lass from afar.
I'm loving your garden and Karen s I was right in to fruit trees but now I'm starting to grow flowers and loving them I'm into the Calla Lilly at the moment OXO I'm from Australia Qld
As of today,,, Julia Cameron is still alive and living in New Mexico. She was born in 1948. Thank you for this connection, her books look very interesting. Several of her books are on Amazon.
I have to try growing potatoes. This lady loves some spuds! Your garden is beautiful even when in transition. Most gardeners have green thumbs, but you have a green body! Enjoy your art class.
Catherine if you get some of the floristry green sticks you can break off your alium flower heads and poke the green sticks up into the flower heads, works for mine. !
I did the artist way last year! I have a couple of videos on my RUclips channel where I show the journal I made while doing the course. I absolutely loved it and gained so much wisdom about myself... BUT didn't realize it while I was in the middle of it all. I am going to do her walking book course next!
I grow my potatoes in food safe buckets and get great potatoes. I use bone meal when planting and add dirt as the green parts grow up. I will be harvesting my potatoes soon.
You have motivated me last year to plant potatoes so this year i did and here in South Africa we are going into spring now. So they are growing beautiful and green. I have planted them in my two tyres stacked on top like yours❤
I always look forward to watching all your videos. Have you thought about getting a solar fountain for your pond to help aerate it? When I had my garden pond at my previous home, I had a small waterfall and pump that did the trick as I had an electric outlet nearby. Solar would probably work best for you.
Love your channel, Dainty! Great you’re growing some of your own food..such a good idea in this economy with expensive grocery prices and uncertain supply of food.. we’re a family of six with no garden space, just a small patio and I’m trying to figure out what and how to grow for my family. At the moment I just have a few herbs in a pot and a zucchini (courgette..Brit in the US) plant with no sign of zucchini’s!. Would love a video on how to start up a little mini homesteading spot on a patio to be little more self sufficient but unfortunately no chance of chickens allowed where we live! Thank you and God bless.
Have you ever considered an allotment? There might be something local and there not too expensive to rent for the year, ( well, they aren't where I am )
Love your barrel arrangement! And, your flower photos at the beginning of the video were stunning. I hope you enjoy your flower painting classes, Catherine.
Catherine, I grew Maris Bard potato’s in tubs this year. I had about 5 tubs and yielded 20 pounds of lovely tasty potatoes. Give it a try. Love the videos. Cath.
I've noticed that so many of your plants grow equally well here on Vancouver Island, where we get tons of rain too, but today is sunny, if only the forest fire smoke would clear away.
Alliums are pretty easy to grow from seed. The big ones like globemaster might take a couple seasons to size up really well & make the big flowers though but since they are pretty cold hardy that would work if you plan on letting them be a summer perrenial in the same area(s) year after year.
Good day Katherine. Yes, I've done the Artist's Way a few times in the last decade or two. It's very therapeutic. You can be as deep and introspective as you like. I find it helpful especially when I haven't been kind to myself or feel lost creatively. It's amazing how covered your pond got this year. I kept having to remove myself that you have one back there. 😊 Enjoy your art classes. Good for you to do something you've been wanting to. Go draw and paint those flowers. ❤
I'm excited to harvest my potatoes...it's my first year as a gardening. I planted my potatoes in an IKEA bag with holes punched in the bottom. Love your videos
I do my potatoes in the black plastic containers that you get at the garden centres. I'm in Quebec and my potatoes didn't flower either. I harvested them about 2 weeks ago bc the foliage was dead. I did 4 containers and the harvest was minimal😞The potatoes are definitely better tasting than those at the shops though☺️
Great to hear you’re doing something good and fun for yourself 💕great content and so much food for thought. I find this summer has been so busy I didn’t allow myself time to journal and I’m really feeling kinda lost - so you have given me the motivation to get back to doing things for myself can’t wait to start painting again and just writing down my thoughts and ramblings ❤
Yes, I love this, its great when life s busy and full of fun things happening, but I too get a little lost, I find the journalling and morning pages so helpful x
Hello dear Catherine 👋😊 THANK YOU very much for the WONDERFUL video and congratulations on the harvest. 🥔🥔🥔 I really like your garden (my model is the garden of Tashi Tudor - illustrator of children's books ) I love when the garden is alive.🍀🌼🦋🌻🌿🦗🐜🌸🐞🐝💮🏵️🦎 🌳THANK YOU once again, I wish you all the best (may you be successful☘️) and I greet you with love Maťa from Slovakia 🇸🇰💕💕💕
Hi Catherine, my teasel looks like yours. I googled it and it said it won't flower the first year, so obviously a biennial. Oh well, we'll see it in all it's glory next year. It's feeling very autumnal out there x
I went to Feebee’s website to purchase some of her products, but, unfortunately, she doesn’t send to the US. I’m so disappointed as her products look lovely! Tyfs ur garden antics with us! Hope u had a great holiday!! 💞
I’ve had a disappointing harvest from my bag potatoes so far, it the self-seeded potatoes in a raised bed which I contralto pinched off the flowers were huge and bountiful.
Curious why are you lifting? I grew lots of potatoes but always in well draining containers set on wheels and in plenty of sun. I never grew anything in bags. Did it for fun mostly. But mostly grew corn zucchini many types of tomatoes peppers beans snap peas all in containers. Always added most of the soil into the woodland garden I had behind my home and added compost and fresh soil each years. My little pond had a small fountain so it aerated. Every year I released lady bugs. They kept pests at bay in a big way.
My attempt to grow potatoes in bags was dismal this year I still have 2 bags to check on which will probably be tomorrow but I’m not holding out any hope of having a good harvest like yourself I haven’t got enough to last the winter
I had know idea potatoes that go green are poisonous. Thanks for mentioning it. I was going to eat mine tomorrow and they had turned green. Guess I'll pitch them. Thank you.
Lovely video Catherine! I came across a RUclips video about you & your earnings by a channel called Money Matters. They call you Dainty Dairies all the way through & girl you have some fancy cars! 😉🤣🤣
Tomatoes are also categorized as determinate or non-d. Again you can get a list under the headings of which “brand” of seed you buy. I put in brand for the potatoes seeds name.
If you want to adopt a kitty my beautiful cat “Biscuits” has given birth to 4 beautiful babies! I only want to regime them with lovely people who will care for them.
I saw a fellow on youtube do a potato growing testdrive and he tried many different containers, as well as in the ground, all at the same time. His best yield, by far, was cardboard box wrapped in burlap on the outside to hold it together.....it was shallower than the bags or buckets, and that seemed to help with more yield....wide and shallower vs. tall and deep. The potatoes clearly had much more room to develop out from the main stem, while closer to the surface, vs. out and down from the main stem, because the bags aren't as wide, making the plant grow the potatoes further down in the soil. He got more than 20 good sized potatoes from one plant. It was shocking as he dumped it out and all the potatoes appeared!
Thanks for taking the time to type and share this 🙏🏼 that’s so interesting 🥔
I have a question please. Do you know the medium of the soil he used?
Did he try laying them on flat ground and covering with straw? I keep hearing about this way of growing and I’m so curious if it works well.
I live in western Canada and I’ve grown potatoes in hay for the last two years. It’s a succcessful way to grow them and they are very clean to harvest if you do it when it’s dry.
That is GREAT information! I just commented that my potato harvest was a huge fail in 10 gallon bags!!!
Catherine you've come so far. You're so generous by giving others credit for what they've accomplished. You are as sweet as can be.. loving the videos. God bless 🙏❤️
Thank you so much Sharon, so kind as always x
You are a very kind and hardworking girl, you deserve this nice gift. I am also European (Hungarian) but now I live in the USA, and I know that European herbs are very valuable. May these be for your health, with God's blessing.
Not seen your videos for ages. Love them even more now 😊. So inspiring. Going to go binge some more after this one 🤭. You are so great. Feels like we know you 🌹🌻🌷
Welcome back, happy you found me again x
Really enjoyed watching your lovely video. Love your videos keep them coming! Have a fantastic day! 🌸
Thank you! You too x
Your soft potatoes look like the seed potatoes. I believe you planted Maris Piper potato’s which are a main crop, the ones you harvested looked like MP, they did not look like early potatoes. If planted in buckets make sure good drainage one seed Potato per 10 litres of compost, should yield approx 1.5 lb per seed potato. Start your bucket potato’s in you greenhouse Feb/March placing buckets outside after danger of frosts.
Such a Lovely feel to your Garden 🏡 Excellent 😊
It’s my special place 😍😍 thanks for watching xx
@@DaintyDiaries I definitely appreciate that and know what you mean ☺️ you're welcome 🤗 Keep on keeping on 🙏
That was fantastic hearing all the kids playing outside. Never hear that any more really!
Yea, this time of year when the evenings are bright, you hear it a lot, less in Autumn as the evenings get dark x
Yeah i am hella old and have done the artists way over and over, it changes every time. She is 75 and published the book in 1992. Great BOOK!
POTATOES:
Cut the whole bottom out of the bag, but set it on a BBQ rack, can get at the 2nd hand store cheap. so you can lift later. Take a half of bag of the soil out to hill them up as the grow up. White potatoes grow up the stock..... by burying it more, as they grow, as you go. Sweet potatoes grow down so use full bag of soil to start and they will produce going down. Way too wet for good production, but try removing the whole bottom and setting on the ground will draw extra moisture away. Need full sun all day if can. try to dry off a bit, as they get ready to harvest, like beets and carrots, it makes them sweeter.
Then leave them out on a table in the green house, if it is hot/dry, so they can develop a thick skin for storage. If you can rub the skin off with your thumb... not ready for storage. (jus so you know, when you bring in the big harvests.)
Love you sweetheart!
i am a writer, I journal and write poems, i like all things creative like interior design and art, its why i watch along. Thanks Catherine for all the videos and advice
I love this, your such a creative soul xxx
Those allium globe master are so neat! Isn’t it amazing how fast a garden can get away from us! Your garden is really cute! I loved watching about potatoes in a bag gives me such great ideas for next season. I’ve been wondering about your cute little hedgehog, has he or she come back this year?
When you clean the bird bath, if you add several copper coins to the bottom, it will keep the bath pristine. Always love the evolution of your little garden...just needs the sound of water, it's so relaxing to hear. Birds are also attracted to gentle moving water.
That’s a great idea ❤️❤️
Just like you I always draw , colour , and paint beautiful flowers 🎉
It's funny that you mention Bob Ross. My daughter and I were talking about "no accidents, just happy trees," and I sent her your Bob Ross costume video. We agree, the picture you painted is 🔥❤.
Love the pottering around the garden... I into mine today. Love the journal idea, very mindful
It’s the best time 😍 good for the soul!!
Hi Catherine, lovely video, I really admire you the way in which you do things and how you do things for yourself. The drawing and water colouring I know you will enjoy an artistic Catherine coming through. Your garden once again brilliant . Hope everything goes well. X
Love your channel and your garden, thank you.
So nice of you, thank you x
Love watching what you grow in your garden and how everything turns out . Have a great week Catherine ❤
Thank you! You too Diane x
The barrels are beautiful. I love the wall too.
Thank you! xxx
@@DaintyDiaries you're welcome. You got sooo much done!! I got tired just watching. 😂
Loving your garden as always.. mine didnt come on great this year with all this irish bad weather but i live in hope lol. Ive got lovely white roses blooming at the minuite so im excited about that.
Your potatoes look great. I love a maris piper.
Enjoy your art classes ❤
Beautiful Peacock butterfly lovely garden for wild life.
Great video Catherine, the mix of gardening and the sound of Children in the background…such a happy mixture. X❤
I just cut my herbs for the 2nd time yesterday. I froze the chives after chopping them up. I learned that by having them dry on a plate they got really pale looking. I have sage, apple mint, & thyme drying on plates in the dining room. I just put the 1 cutting of these in glass jars. Lorraine
I’m so very thankful for the gift of this video. I’m so grateful that you highlighted the book The Artist’s Way. I fell down the rabbit hole into something beautiful ❤
Glad it was helpful! It is my favourite self help book and I love the morning pages for getting all that mental gunk out of my. head before starting the day x
I'm a fan of Julia Cameron and yes, she is still alive. Thanks for everything.
Hello from hot and humid northwest Florida USA. I planted in ground in early March, about 35' row of three different varieties of potatoes. I harvested in May and June. I harvested about half the row for myself and then my grown grandchildren as well as my son and some friends came and harvested the rest. They also harvested corn and okra. I planted five varieties of okra this year and they are still making. I did some garden tours over the summertime. I am learning about how different it is here at my new property than it was at my old property. I planted runner beans under my corn which has worked out good for me in previous gardens in other locations but here a wind storm hit in mid June and layed over my corn. I still had a good crop of corn but my beans are now a big tangled mess growing on corn that is laying on the ground! Lesson learned!
The Forager gift box looked amazing, perfect for a hard working gardener. Love the jars are glass and timber and paper packaging. Recently did a workshop on more environmentally friendly cleaning and shocked at the facts on plastic. Hugs from Australia 🦘
I just harvested my first successful (3rd try) potato growing. I did the buckets/bins method, but make sure to drill holes on the bottom and set the bins on a couple of 2x4s for really good drainage. The 2x4s under the buckets are what finally gave me a good harvest.
❤❤❤❤❤Awesomeness as usual 😊thank you 😊 have a wonderful week 😊
You too sweetheart, I hope you have a fun week ahead x
I'm watching while I'm shelling the broad beans from our allotment! Making lunch for work with all our veggies from our plot and the neighbours!
That sounds dreamy 😍😍
Hello Catherine, for us the veg garden didn't do well at all this year. To much high heat then to to much rain! No one in my area did well with gardens. The flowering plants suffered also. Oh well there is always next year. I always enjoy your channal.
I tried my hand at growing potatoes in 5 gallon buckets. Following my experienced daughter, I used standard potting soil and made sure the buckets were up on boards so they could drain.
It's so relaxing to watch your garden videos. Thanks for sharing! 🍄🌸
Glad you enjoy them xxx
Hi Catherine.enjoyed that video.tks for sharing.🍋
Hi Katherine
Ive been following you for a while. You are adorable and you always make me smile.
I am in Perth Western Australia,so our seasons are quite opposite, but I am so enjoying your videos. You and Karen are so hillarious.
Keep up the beautiful work and will continue watching my little Irish lass from afar.
Aww thanks so much for watching 🥰
Love that you entitle bugs into your yard.
I never would have thought of transplanting sunflowers until I saw you do it successfully. Now I have self sow sunflowers where I want them.
I'm loving your garden and Karen s I was right in to fruit trees but now I'm starting to grow flowers and loving them I'm into the Calla Lilly at the moment OXO I'm from Australia Qld
Love this! Are you heading into Spring now?
As of today,,, Julia Cameron is still alive and living in New Mexico. She was born in 1948.
Thank you for this connection, her books look very interesting.
Several of her books are on Amazon.
Thanks for sharing that, I did wonder is she was still alive x
I have to try growing potatoes. This lady loves some spuds! Your garden is beautiful even when in transition. Most gardeners have green thumbs, but you have a green body! Enjoy your art class.
Wow, thank you xxx
Omgosh! You had me at Potato!!!! Loooooved how this video started too! Xo
Thank you for your inspiration
I love the garden videos. ❤
Catherine if you get some of the floristry green sticks you can break off your alium flower heads and poke the green sticks up into the flower heads, works for mine. !
Yes, such a helpful tip!
I did the artist way last year! I have a couple of videos on my RUclips channel where I show the journal I made while doing the course. I absolutely loved it and gained so much wisdom about myself... BUT didn't realize it while I was in the middle of it all. I am going to do her walking book course next!
Oh wow, I didn't know she has a walking course, I love walking!
Hi Catherine, I’m glad you harvested some potatoes, I bet they tasted lovely. Have a great week.
Yes, my friend tried some yesterday and said they were delicious, she roasted them, I haven't tried mine yet x
@@DaintyDiaries 😊
Soak up the goodness from your Artists Way journey 😊
Yes, the wild look is nice, but can get chaotic if not tamed occasionally. I do love hardy geraniums and your pond area looks nice❤
Yes, some taming is definitely needed x
Love my painting, I use oils, its just for me also, my beloved hobby 🖌🎨🖼💕
I love it, I have used acrylics before but my teacher said oils can be easier x
I grow my potatoes in food safe buckets and get great potatoes. I use bone meal when planting and add dirt as the green parts grow up. I will be harvesting my potatoes soon.
Love watching your videos. Definitely inspired me to get my plants sorted. The garden is good for the soul. Love the hair cut too.
Thanks Karen xxxx
If you do a bucket put some gravel in the bottom to help keep the holes from getting plugged with soil.
Wild areas look wild. Ive embraced the look. I just love all the wild things it encourages.
You have motivated me last year to plant potatoes so this year i did and here in South Africa we are going into spring now. So they are growing beautiful and green. I have planted them in my two tyres stacked on top like yours❤
That sounds fab 😍😍
Hi Catherine, love your channel and all your enthusiasm. Thanks for all the good ideas and natural products. You are adorable!
I always look forward to watching all your videos. Have you thought about getting a solar fountain for your pond to help aerate it? When I had my garden pond at my previous home, I had a small waterfall and pump that did the trick as I had an electric outlet nearby. Solar would probably work best for you.
Please share your watercolor flowers. I like to paint them also. Would love to see what you learn. Your videos are great thanks for sharing!
Hi, I'm a new subscriber! Those allium heads would be amazing Christmas decorations, painted and some glittery sparkles added!
Thanks for subscribing ❤️❤️ hope you shooter Pamela xx
I am very impressed with your potato harvest🎉🎉
Exciting stuff 😍😍
Hello Daisy from South Africa 🇿🇦 you are very beautiful and inspiring ❤Love your show ❤️
My apologies for calling you Daisy Kathrine ❤
Love your channel, Dainty! Great you’re growing some of your own food..such a good idea in this economy with expensive grocery prices and uncertain supply of food.. we’re a family of six with no garden space, just a small patio and I’m trying to figure out what and how to grow for my family. At the moment I just have a few herbs in a pot and a zucchini (courgette..Brit in the US) plant with no sign of zucchini’s!. Would love a video on how to start up a little mini homesteading spot on a patio to be little more self sufficient but unfortunately no chance of chickens allowed where we live! Thank you and God bless.
Have you ever considered an allotment? There might be something local and there not too expensive to rent for the year, ( well, they aren't where I am )
We joined a community garden when we lived inan apartment. It was only $75 for a whole year for a large plot. And people always share what they grow.
The most successful crop of potatoes I ever had were grown in buckets, it’s well worth trying 😊
Hi Catherine good luck with the art class. 👍👍❤
Thanks Cathy! X
I hope you enjoyed the art class. Lovely video thank you.
Love your barrel arrangement! And, your flower photos at the beginning of the video were stunning.
I hope you enjoy your flower painting classes, Catherine.
Thank you ☺️ Iv had so much fun at art class, even though I’m not very good yet 😆
I love the cloud of pink geraniums! I’ve done The Artist’s Way a few times and enjoyed it, especially the weekly artist dates 🌸
Yes, the artists dates are such a treat x
Catherine, I grew Maris Bard potato’s in tubs this year. I had about 5 tubs and yielded 20 pounds of lovely tasty potatoes. Give it a try.
Love the videos. Cath.
I love this, well done x
One of those barrels would be ideal to grow your potatoes in.
That “prayers to the nature spirits” book looks interesting!
I've noticed that so many of your plants grow equally well here on Vancouver Island, where we get tons of rain too, but today is sunny, if only the forest fire smoke would clear away.
Hi catherine..thanks for the advice about the artists way. I did the course in a group many years ago.
ENJOY.
Oh wow, love the you were able to do it in a group x
Alliums are pretty easy to grow from seed. The big ones like globemaster might take a couple seasons to size up really well & make the big flowers though but since they are pretty cold hardy that would work if you plan on letting them be a summer perrenial in the same area(s) year after year.
Good day Katherine. Yes, I've done the Artist's Way a few times in the last decade or two. It's very therapeutic. You can be as deep and introspective as you like. I find it helpful especially when I haven't been kind to myself or feel lost creatively.
It's amazing how covered your pond got this year. I kept having to remove myself that you have one back there. 😊
Enjoy your art classes. Good for you to do something you've been wanting to. Go draw and paint those flowers. ❤
I'm excited to harvest my potatoes...it's my first year as a gardening. I planted my potatoes in an IKEA bag with holes punched in the bottom. Love your videos
Ooh brilliant 😍😍 hope you got a good harvest!
I do my potatoes in the black plastic containers that you get at the garden centres. I'm in Quebec and my potatoes didn't flower either. I harvested them about 2 weeks ago bc the foliage was dead. I did 4 containers and the harvest was minimal😞The potatoes are definitely better tasting than those at the shops though☺️
Great to hear you’re doing something good and fun for yourself 💕great content and so much food for thought. I find this summer has been so busy I didn’t allow myself time to journal and I’m really feeling kinda lost - so you have given me the motivation to get back to doing things for myself can’t wait to start painting again and just writing down my thoughts and ramblings ❤
Yes, I love this, its great when life s busy and full of fun things happening, but I too get a little lost, I find the journalling and morning pages so helpful x
Cant wait to see what you make in your new art class❤
Thank you, so far I have just been drawing x
Hello dear Catherine 👋😊 THANK YOU very much for the WONDERFUL video and congratulations on the harvest. 🥔🥔🥔 I really like your garden (my model is the garden of Tashi Tudor - illustrator of children's books ) I love when the garden is alive.🍀🌼🦋🌻🌿🦗🐜🌸🐞🐝💮🏵️🦎 🌳THANK YOU once again, I wish you all the best (may you be successful☘️) and I greet you with love Maťa from Slovakia 🇸🇰💕💕💕
Maybe try the potatoes in those lovely barrels, I wonder if that would work, what do you think?
Hi Catherine, my teasel looks like yours. I googled it and it said it won't flower the first year, so obviously a biennial. Oh well, we'll see it in all it's glory next year. It's feeling very autumnal out there x
Autumn is certainly coming 😍😍 hopefully next year is better for us both xx
I saw a little frog in your pond. ❤❤❤😊
Love my garden visitors 🥰
My pink geranium has done EXACTLY the same x
I went to Feebee’s website to purchase some of her products, but, unfortunately, she doesn’t send to the US. I’m so disappointed as her products look lovely! Tyfs ur garden antics with us! Hope u had a great holiday!! 💞
Hey! I am now shipping to the States x
Hey! From the southern US, our best result was from cardboard boxes.
I’ve had a disappointing harvest from my bag potatoes so far, it the self-seeded potatoes in a raised bed which I contralto pinched off the flowers were huge and bountiful.
I'm sure your content will benefit from that course, even if that's not the reason why you're taking it. Lovely vid, as always.
❤❤❤❤❤
Curious why are you lifting? I grew lots of potatoes but always in well draining containers set on wheels and in plenty of sun. I never grew anything in bags. Did it for fun mostly. But mostly grew corn zucchini many types of tomatoes peppers beans snap peas all in containers. Always added most of the soil into the woodland garden I had behind my home and added compost and fresh soil each years. My little pond had a small fountain so it aerated. Every year I released lady bugs. They kept pests at bay in a big way.
My attempt to grow potatoes in bags was dismal this year I still have 2 bags to check on which will probably be tomorrow but I’m not holding out any hope of having a good harvest like yourself I haven’t got enough to last the winter
❤
Will you be planting some potatoes now to have for Christmas? I am going to give it ago myself.
I had know idea potatoes that go green are poisonous. Thanks for mentioning it. I was going to eat mine tomorrow and they had turned green. Guess I'll pitch them. Thank you.
Yes, I didn't know that until Monty Don said it x
Dampness - causes ? Blight
Enjoy your art class. What medium acrylics? You will be telling us💕🌺
You have answered my question x
Lovely video Catherine! I came across a RUclips video about you & your earnings by a channel called Money Matters. They call you Dainty Dairies all the way through & girl you have some fancy cars! 😉🤣🤣
haha, I hate those videos, they just use your name to get kicks and make money off you
@@DaintyDiaries I’ve seen them on a few other RUclipsrs too, the amount of misinformation is shocking.
@@shirleydunn8050 I actually reported it for misinformation and it got removed x
Tomatoes are also categorized as determinate or non-d. Again you can get a list under the headings of which “brand” of seed you buy. I put in brand for the potatoes seeds name.
Have you any plans putting the raised beds in the front garden? Have you started yet
Yes, and no haven't started, I think it is going to be an Autumn job, the sleepers are still sitting on the palette, Summer ran away with me x
I do love the dungaree shorts. Where did you get them please?
So do you leave the allium bulbs where they are and they will grow again next year? Then you plant autumn plants over them?
Yes, that’s what I do ❤️
Has your little hedgehog house been occupied all summer? It’s a little creature I miss living in Canada.
If you want to adopt a kitty my beautiful cat “Biscuits” has given birth to 4 beautiful babies! I only want to regime them with lovely people who will care for them.
Omg..can I have some seeds😮❤