Hello from California, Bay Area!! I’m new to the channel so I’ve been binge watching your videos. Very inspiring and entertaining. Your garden looks beautifully simple and great! keep the videos coming!!
Eli, I’m new here and simply adore your joyous approach to gardening (tho I could never, ever be so tidy). Figs are amazing - sweet and delicious. The secret is to NOT over-fertilize. They are easy/no-care trees that are pest-free here in North Carolina. Ripe the moment that lil fruit droops just a bit on its branch. Yum! I’ve got 5 metal garden beds and a big ol’ bunch of grow bags. I am plagued with horrid voles and rampant grass/weeds so planting above-ground works for me. I am embarking on Year Two of veg growing. Watching seeds grow (on shelves in the dining room 😱) is simply amazing. Keep those videos coming! You are a garden treasure, dear one! 👍🏻👍🏻
New gardener here at the age of 50. I’m in west Aberdeenshire, with an acre of land which is mostly a big hill. I’m saving for a greenhouse, have two veg beds and been trying to grow fruit and veg over the past two years of living here with limited success. Your videos are super helpful and have given me lots of tips. Bonus like from me for the “anemone do do do do do” giggle 😂
Hi, I found you today, and I’m excited to compare growing at different ends of the country, what we grow and the differences in harvest times. I love Charles Dowding, he is so knowledgeable. Excited to follow you and grow things with you. Thanks for the onion seed planting on Boxing Day tip; I’m always late planting, so I’ll get straight on to those 😁 Thanks, Amanda
Hey Amanda Lovely to have you with us I love a good comparison- one thing to note that may be helpful to you… you can sow things a little earlier than me, we’re usually a few weeks behind you guys weather wise
Hey Eli, I have grown Appletree, cherrytree, peartree , blackberry, rasberry, gooseberry, current and strawberries in pots , for years and it works great. They need more plantfood, water and some new compost every year and a bigger pot every 3 years till outgrown. As plantfood I use sheepwoolpallets, horsedungpellets, seaweed and homemade nettle juice. It helps to put a garlicglove in to the pots with fruittrees. Sheepwool also saves water. Your garden is lovely and flowers are a must for bees. We also have front and backgardens here. Mostly frontgardens are the same, flowers and trees or shrubs. Unless they are dead stonegardens without plants. Horrable. I still grow lots of plants in pots, Topinambur, potato, peas and beans go great in pots. 🌻
I'm a big fan of edible flowers! Nasturtium are my favorite, they taste like radishes and there are color variations for any decor! I usually eat more of the leaves than the flowers, they taste the same. And added benefits of being a natural plant medicine used for many things!
Hey Eli, Loved this weeks video 👍🏼 - note on strawberries we had are best harvest ever last year as we used the folding poppy trugs for all our strawberries plants, that good we now have bought 5 great as you can move them about in the garden easily, you can fit a full 40L compost bag in each much better crop than in the small 3 tier hanging rope tins you can buy or the small multi stacked 3 tier plant pots - filled the others with bulbs in the bottom for spring then summer over planted my mini bush tomatoes plants - veranda red / summer last / sweet n near yellow / 100’s & 1000’s micro tomatoes - best outdoor tomatoes seeds we used last year were mostly the blight resistant type - looking forward to watching you guys this year along with plot37 - you really inspire us to try and grow more veggies and flowers- my big thing to master this year is spring onion they fail each time but this year is the year 🤞🏻 hopefully take care Kelly
You're such a pleasant person and you make very nice presentations. Thank you for sharing your gardens with us. Here's an idea - You're so good at training the berries on the fence . . . why not train a few fruit trees on the fence. Espalier. Growing trees in pots is unpredictable. Difficult. Planning my garden is (almost) half the fun! Starting the slow growing seeds is super exciting too. The seed catalogues are arriving weekly and making us crazy. Cheers
I would love to be able to do that, unfortunately one of the things I battle is space and sun. We are using ALL of the sunny space that is available. The majority of my garden is in shade either by the house of the fences. So we work with what we have, but it doesn’t mean we don’t have a fantastically productive garden. Just gotta be clever 😂
Grow Lassie grow! I love your garden! There is nothing better than salt air to cleanse your soul! I love Scotland! My children are “Scotch and Water” as their Da was from Glasgow.
@@eliandkate His name was Rob Ritchie. He immigrated to the USA in 1976 with his parents when he was 16. Most of his family moved back to Glasgow in the 80’s but Rob and his youngest sister stayed in the US.
Yes, too much rain on alliums. I actually covered them last year for a rainy bit we had. I was thankful for the rain as we have had drought. What you pulled up was my worry. Give them an unbrella😊
Robin IS certainly proud! You know I love my containers 😜 I love all your plans! I'm going to be growing more flowers this year, too - I need to get more round the north side of the house than I had last year, to bring more pollinators (I'm not a very good bee!). You gotta sing more 😉 My indeterminate tomatoes produced more than I had ever imagined! I'm doubling them for this year. I'm looking forward to your other videos this year, Eli!
I'm watching you as I'm sorting through my seeds. I love flowers and veg. The garden outside our farmhouse is usually full of buzzles as I call them! I've decided this year to grow for quality rather than quantity. I usually sow far too much and the pricking out drives me crazy. I'm so looking forward to next weeks vlog, it should help me get my head clear 🤣 Happy Gardening year ahead.
I grew dwarf,determinate, tumbling and basket tomatoes last year in my polytunnel. What a disaster it was... most of them split with the humidity and got slugs and all sort of beasties living in the plants (first time I've ever seen that amount of slugs in the poly) They at least did good in containers outside for my friends and fam, so will do some for them again to go through those seeds. I suggest up-potting your fruit trees this year. I've made many mistakes with those size of pots and just seeing your babies in the gives me anxiety haha With the heat waves we've had, the large pots have been a life safer (I forget about things in containers and just focus on my raised beds tbh) After the second or third year, I tend to plant some shallow rooted annual flowers in the tree pots. My four year old cherry tree with the biggest tub was happy to host strawberries and bunny tail grass last year. All my garlic has rotted with the rain (I forgot to drill extra drainage holes in my new containers...) I planted new one last week and at the very least, I'll get some tasty green garlic.
Yeah those are only the establishing pots, the three of them will be put in their final pots this winter I cut that but out of the video because it was too long 😂😂😂
Love love love the video Eli this week. Thank you for taking us through some of your Plans for this year, so looking forward to another year of gardening along with you 👩🌾💐👌
Sunday evening and its time for my favourite RUclipsrs👍 Great video, loved having a look around and hearing about the plans. Should have dipped your toes in the North Sea though, I'm sure it would have been fine....❄
my gardens are a soggy mess non stop rain and wind here in Blackpool . its miserable but hope to get a greenhouse this year if bills dont get in the way .
I might have to check what our council rules are about our front yard... I've only got fruit trees planted there (though I did grow snow peas too)... it's mostly for my flower (attempts). My Lilium's bloomed in time for Christmas which was lovely... my Gladioli are starting to open up now and my dwarf sunflowers look like they are doing ok. I'm attempt to grow dhalia's from seed but I think they may succumb to slugs (will have to try letting them grow longer in the greenhouse). Lovely tour as always (love our clam your office seems too). I am planning on upping my compost game this year though... I've noticed a lot of my soil is pretty dry not far under the surface even after watering. I have a local (25mins away) supply of free horse manure so that should help :D.
You seriously need to try Lettuce leaf Basil, as it suggests the leaves are mahooosive!! if you like basil, you will love these. Grew them in Polly last year, I'm sure I've got spare seeds if you would like me to send you some, let me know! 🙂 Strawberries are such a funny animal, (you don't find out if they are any good until its too late!) I had taken runners and planted the first year I got my allotment (oct 2020) I had hardly any the first year, last year I had millions even with the hot weather. I've done a mix for this year, halved the bed, its got the original plants in, other half is asparagus. I've took runners and built vertical beds, lets see how they perform!🤞🤞
I love these videos :) those figs should be ‘the next crop’ I believe it’s good theyre small now as they might make it through the winter safely :) Brown turkey fig is yummy I have one outside and am trying to make more I love when they turn a brown purplish colour they’re so pretty :)
Had a rubbish season last year because I just didn’t have the time to dedicate to the garden, so it’s go go go for this year, I’ll be trying King of the north too
Thanks for the tour and inspiration! I'm planning to change up my backyard garden to expand my main no dig bed along with pots in 2023. I've been having the same problem with my strawberries. What strawberries I did get were gobbled up by my dogs when I had my back turned 😐 🤨🤣
Ah! It's so exciting! I have my first snowdrops blossoming and I'm doing what everyone is doing right now. Trying not to sow everything yet 😂 But I have to say, your garden is looking amazing. I did a ten minute tour of ours today, between the rain, and I am so happy with how it's looking. Loads to do, but that's part of what makes it exciting. Thanks for the update. ❤🎉
Yeah, more flower talk! I bought more herb seeds this year to create more to make tinctures and teas. But the flowers that I can grow for the same uses is exciting. I love your flowers and hope to grow along with you.
I've had the same results trying to grow strawberries in channel type beds and smaller raised bed style planters. I am going to go with a Birdies planter like our certain Aussie gardener uses!
Interesting space in your backyard. Its small compared to mine in the US, but you have a lot packed in there. It will take a lot of work to get as organized as you are. Im only going into my 5th year of gardening. This year I am going to add 4-6 large tote sip's. I have already drawn out the layout and lots of work left to do. Good luck and I will watch how you progress.
Hey JB I’ve seen you on Scott’s channel so lovely to proper chat. 😀 It’s a funny one how different our spaces and expectation of them are, I often hear about US gardens being bigger than mine but would you believe mine is considered a reasonably big garden for here? Now I have to ask cause I don’t know what you mean, what are tore sips? We know totes here are small canvas bags for shopping (quite small and cheap).
@@eliandkate I like Scott's channel, been subscribed there for a long time even though his zone if very different than mine. One of the things I got from his channel is to glean useful info no matter the location. I was blessed with an extra large backyard. My total area devoted to growing is about 100' x 25' (feet in case the notation is confusing). But I mainly do container gardening because of a buried petroleum pipe under my backyard. Better safe than sorry since I grow a lot of food. So I watch a lot of small garden channels as they usually have container videos. A SIP is a Sub Irrigated Planter, been trying to get Scott to try one for a long time. They can be made out of anything that holds water. There are lots of video's on them on YT, look for "diy earthbox" or earthbucket to see an example. Totes in the US are big plastic storage bins with snap on lids. I will be using 55 gallon ones. I also have lots of 5 gallon bucket sip's. They cut down on frequent watering, and when mulched cut down weed pressure. I got into gardening at 55, how I wish I had discovered I liked it earlier. The green thumb of my grandmother skipped a generation it seems. She had a small backyard and a flower garden with flowers packed into every nook and cranny.
@@eliandkate I would have loved to try homesteading in my younger days, but at this point in my life it just isn't realistic. I turn 60 this year, and my house is almost paid off. Homesteading is for younger people that dont have physical limitations. Still gardening brings some of the benefits of homesteading. Getting out in the sunshine, and growing your own food is a wonderful thing.
Awesome plans 🤩. Love the blackberry idea. I just bought 3 plants for hanging baskets but going to steel your method for my new tayberry and grow it up my barn.
Eli do you put any winter protection around the fig tree as a plot neighbor said he is going to gift me a cutting but being right on the NE coast I'm not convinced it will do well. He keeps his tree in the greenhouse on his plot mine would have to live outside south facing.
We didn’t no. We were really that serious about it so didn’t really put any effort on. I saw some folk have theirs in the ground, same variety so figured it should be ok Hoping!!!!!
Hi Eli, Just wondering if there is anything that you cannot grow being near the sea? I am 1 minute away from the beach and would like to see if anything is just not possible with the salty air. I only grew my tomatoes outside last year (my first year) and got absolutely loads, I still have about 10 KG in the freezer.. My garden is north facing but is 80% sun all day. Happy New Year to you both.
Hey Stuart 😀 Hmmmm to be honest I think I’m really lucky that we’re sheltered from the sea front by quite a few streets and we all have high fences on that side so we don’t get the worst of it. The biggest problem is the salt and wind, you need some kind of barrier, like the fence or tall hedging, otherwise you end up with a lot of scorched leaves, especially on the more tender plants. Our biggest issue as I’ve said before is the lawn. We have such a hard time keeping a lawn out front where there are no barriers. It gets burned and bald really quickly so needs a lot of work to keep on top of it. The back garden isn’t as bad, it’s protected and north facing.
I grew up in Scotland and I never knew there could be rules about not growing veg in your front garden! I find that crazy, to be honest. Here in Germany (land of rules!) I'm also clueless, but I live in the country, my house is on its own, it's farms all around, and my front garden gets some good sun, so I've got veggie beds in it. Nobody has told me I can't - and believe me they would - so it must be ok here! I need more flowers for the pollinators but I don't know what... I'll have to look in my local supermarket seeds section when it turns up about February...
yeah one of those things, there are a few things like that written into the deeds, always worth checking before you buy. Some of them are good, like no fixing cars in the street or your drive... its meant as a way of keeping the neighbourhood nice - so a good thing
@@eliandkate gosh! The car fixing thing is harsh too. Me and all my exes have always fixed our own vehicles... There's some places I read won't even let you in a flat dry your washing on the veranda, or in a house on the front garden. I must admit I considered it all a bit of snobbery... But I suppose some folks do take the proverbial and it's good to have a means to make them buck up their ideas.
Just watching the first few of your videos the last couple of days. My thoughts.. "I like this channel, dont ask me why... it's gardening (huge plus), and somehow even with a confusing walking around style... easy to follow (another plus). Quote of this video "I hope I'm not chopping my head off". Out of context, whew....
😂😂😂😂😂 this one is very much a different style than normal lol All comes down to how much time I have to make a video. And how random I’m feeling that day 😂😂😂
@@eliandkate you're "I'm being scattered brained let's move around 10 times has more flow than you would think it does". Either way didn't mean anything negative about it, just meant it's different in more ways than 1. Different is not always a bad thing. Ever watch a channel where they quick transition backgrounds 100 times in a paragraph? Ooof my brain.
Oh I hate those, I just can’t watch them I actually really don’t like the whole hand held thjng, I find that really difficult to watch, makes me queezy so I try not to put others through thy 😂😂😂
@@eliandkate I am in year two of doing any sort of planting "on my own". I am also someone that wants to be informed about what I am doing, but in terms of gardening youre never gonna know it all, which is why I have you guys to supplement. I am just ready to start growing! I think we are all getting antsy to start. Plus here it is winter so ....stir crazy too! Hopefully with all of the different YT channels, books articles, etc. Everything will be a learning process and either work out or give me information for 2024! 🙂
All that lovely seaweed for composting 😍
Ha ha ha you’re not the only person to notice Keith
I loves me an extravaganza. Especially one with a thinking face. Love this video!
everyone needs a good thinking face....
Hello from California, Bay Area!! I’m new to the channel so I’ve been binge watching your videos. Very inspiring and entertaining. Your garden looks beautifully simple and great! keep the videos coming!!
Awww thanks Randy
Lovely to have you with us 😍
Eli, I’m new here and simply adore your joyous approach to gardening (tho I could never, ever be so tidy). Figs are amazing - sweet and delicious. The secret is to NOT over-fertilize. They are easy/no-care trees that are pest-free here in North Carolina. Ripe the moment that lil fruit droops just a bit on its branch. Yum! I’ve got 5 metal garden beds and a big ol’ bunch of grow bags. I am plagued with horrid voles and rampant grass/weeds so planting above-ground works for me. I am embarking on Year Two of veg growing. Watching seeds grow (on shelves in the dining room 😱) is simply amazing. Keep those videos coming! You are a garden treasure, dear one! 👍🏻👍🏻
There is nothing like the excitement of those first seedlings 😀
Love Your Greenhouse
Could listen to you for ages
ha ha ha I love it too :D
New gardener here at the age of 50. I’m in west Aberdeenshire, with an acre of land which is mostly a big hill. I’m saving for a greenhouse, have two veg beds and been trying to grow fruit and veg over the past two years of living here with limited success. Your videos are super helpful and have given me lots of tips. Bonus like from me for the “anemone do do do do do” giggle 😂
Wow an acre….. so much space to do exciting things.
It took me years to save for my current greenhouse but it was soooo worth it!
Hi, I found you today, and I’m excited to compare growing at different ends of the country, what we grow and the differences in harvest times. I love Charles Dowding, he is so knowledgeable.
Excited to follow you and grow things with you. Thanks for the onion seed planting on Boxing Day tip; I’m always late planting, so I’ll get straight on to those 😁
Thanks, Amanda
Hey Amanda
Lovely to have you with us
I love a good comparison- one thing to note that may be helpful to you… you can sow things a little earlier than me, we’re usually a few weeks behind you guys weather wise
Hey Eli, I have grown Appletree, cherrytree, peartree , blackberry, rasberry, gooseberry, current and strawberries in pots , for years and it works great. They need more plantfood, water and some new compost every year and a bigger pot every 3 years till outgrown. As plantfood I use sheepwoolpallets, horsedungpellets, seaweed and homemade nettle juice. It helps to put a garlicglove in to the pots with fruittrees.
Sheepwool also saves water. Your garden is lovely and flowers are a must for bees. We also have front and backgardens here. Mostly frontgardens are the same, flowers and trees or shrubs. Unless they are dead stonegardens without plants.
Horrable.
I still grow lots of plants in pots, Topinambur, potato, peas and beans go great in pots. 🌻
Thanks Eli and Kate, looking forward to this years videos.
Hey Brian
The growing game is on 😂
Good luck with all your plans!
Sending smiles like you give me with your videos
Awwww thank you so much Carol
That’s the best thing to hear we give you smiles
Hi Eli & Kate, great video on what you are thinking of growing & planning too. Exciting times ahead 🙂 thanks for sharing and take care 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it Christine
Just discovered your channel! Thank you! From northern Minnesota USA
Glad to have you with us 😍
Getting excited for the new season 🙃
Me toooooooooooooooo
I really liked the vlog/handheld style of this video 😊
😀 glad to hear you enjoyed it Alx
I'm a big fan of edible flowers! Nasturtium are my favorite, they taste like radishes and there are color variations for any decor! I usually eat more of the leaves than the flowers, they taste the same. And added benefits of being a natural plant medicine used for many things!
Hey Eli,
Loved this weeks video 👍🏼 - note on strawberries we had are best harvest ever last year as we used the folding poppy trugs for all our strawberries plants, that good we now have bought 5 great as you can move them about in the garden easily, you can fit a full 40L compost bag in each much better crop than in the small 3 tier hanging rope tins you can buy or the small multi stacked 3 tier plant pots - filled the others with bulbs in the bottom for spring then summer over planted my mini bush tomatoes plants - veranda red / summer last / sweet n near yellow / 100’s & 1000’s micro tomatoes - best outdoor tomatoes seeds we used last year were mostly the blight resistant type - looking forward to watching you guys this year along with plot37 - you really inspire us to try and grow more veggies and flowers- my big thing to master this year is spring onion they fail each time but this year is the year 🤞🏻 hopefully take care Kelly
Jessie is one of our favourite channels too and a good friend so no doubt we’ll see you there 😍
You're such a pleasant person and you make very nice presentations. Thank you for sharing your gardens with us.
Here's an idea - You're so good at training the berries on the fence . . . why not train a few fruit trees on the fence. Espalier. Growing trees in pots is unpredictable. Difficult.
Planning my garden is (almost) half the fun! Starting the slow growing seeds is super exciting too. The seed catalogues are arriving weekly and making us crazy. Cheers
I would love to be able to do that, unfortunately one of the things I battle is space and sun. We are using ALL of the sunny space that is available. The majority of my garden is in shade either by the house of the fences. So we work with what we have, but it doesn’t mean we don’t have a fantastically productive garden. Just gotta be clever 😂
Bugger now I have mahnamana stuck in my head! 🤣
Love your gardens, all so beautiful, just like you both 💚
Ha ha ha I’m so sorry
There’s nothing worse than an ear worm
Grow Lassie grow! I love your garden! There is nothing better than salt air to cleanse your soul! I love Scotland! My children are “Scotch and Water” as their Da was from Glasgow.
Oh and I love the color of red you used on your fences! It makes a beautiful backdrop for your plants.
Ha ha ha I’m growing I’m growing
Wonder if he’s from the same area of Glasgow as me 😂
@@eliandkate His name was Rob Ritchie. He immigrated to the USA in 1976 with his parents when he was 16. Most of his family moved back to Glasgow in the 80’s but Rob and his youngest sister stayed in the US.
Afraid I wouldn’t know him personally, Glasgow is Scotland’s biggest city but just wondered if we were from the same part of Glasgow.
Yes, too much rain on alliums. I actually covered them last year for a rainy bit we had. I was thankful for the rain as we have had drought. What you pulled up was my worry. Give them an unbrella😊
😂😂😂😂😂
you need to get some saucers for the fruit trees for the summer x
Saucers?
Great video. Here's to a great year. PS I was totally singing along with you!!!
Ha ha ha I had completely forgotten that I’d left that scene in… now I’m cringing
@@eliandkate It made me smile ❤ 😄
Love a bit of a tour
😂😂😂😂
Love the video, Eli! Wait to watch all the exciting stuff coming up this year. All the best to you and Kate, Audrey
Hello you 😍😍😍😍
How is it all going in Detroit? You ready to go?
@@eliandkate Go to Scotland, yes!
Awwwww
I’ll put the kettle on, when you arriving?
Robin IS certainly proud! You know I love my containers 😜 I love all your plans! I'm going to be growing more flowers this year, too - I need to get more round the north side of the house than I had last year, to bring more pollinators (I'm not a very good bee!). You gotta sing more 😉 My indeterminate tomatoes produced more than I had ever imagined! I'm doubling them for this year. I'm looking forward to your other videos this year, Eli!
I forgot I included that clip of me singing
Cringing now 😂😂😂
@@eliandkate All I'll say, is keep your day job - BUT don't stop singing, it makes your heart happy 😊🎶
😂😂😂😂
Try African Blue Basil - for the flowers - bees love it.
I'm watching you as I'm sorting through my seeds. I love flowers and veg. The garden outside our farmhouse is usually full of buzzles as I call them! I've decided this year to grow for quality rather than quantity. I usually sow far too much and the pricking out drives me crazy. I'm so looking forward to next weeks vlog, it should help me get my head clear 🤣 Happy Gardening year ahead.
oh that sounds awesome.... a wee afternoon with the journal and seed plans if fab :D
I grew dwarf,determinate, tumbling and basket tomatoes last year in my polytunnel. What a disaster it was... most of them split with the humidity and got slugs and all sort of beasties living in the plants (first time I've ever seen that amount of slugs in the poly) They at least did good in containers outside for my friends and fam, so will do some for them again to go through those seeds.
I suggest up-potting your fruit trees this year. I've made many mistakes with those size of pots and just seeing your babies in the gives me anxiety haha
With the heat waves we've had, the large pots have been a life safer (I forget about things in containers and just focus on my raised beds tbh) After the second or third year, I tend to plant some shallow rooted annual flowers in the tree pots. My four year old cherry tree with the biggest tub was happy to host strawberries and bunny tail grass last year.
All my garlic has rotted with the rain (I forgot to drill extra drainage holes in my new containers...) I planted new one last week and at the very least, I'll get some tasty green garlic.
Yeah those are only the establishing pots, the three of them will be put in their final pots this winter
I cut that but out of the video because it was too long 😂😂😂
Love love love the video Eli this week.
Thank you for taking us through some of your Plans for this year, so looking forward to another year of gardening along with you 👩🌾💐👌
Let’s hope it’s productive and fun 😂
Great video as always ... so excited to see whats coming up 😊😊😊❤
Oh there is sooooo much
It’s quite exciting
Thank you for the tour Eli!
Love the tidy garden.
A place for everything and everything in its place. :)
I must confess, it’s mostly Kate to thank for the tidy… she deals with all of that.
Sunday evening and its time for my favourite RUclipsrs👍
Great video, loved having a look around and hearing about the plans.
Should have dipped your toes in the North Sea though, I'm sure it would have been fine....❄
Awwwwwwwwwww
Yeah that clip is from just before that cold spell hit… would have been lovely 😂😂😂😂😂
my gardens are a soggy mess non stop rain and wind here in Blackpool . its miserable but hope to get a greenhouse this year if bills dont get in the way .
Miserable wet and windy here too
Boooo
Let’s stay indoors
I might have to check what our council rules are about our front yard... I've only got fruit trees planted there (though I did grow snow peas too)... it's mostly for my flower (attempts). My Lilium's bloomed in time for Christmas which was lovely... my Gladioli are starting to open up now and my dwarf sunflowers look like they are doing ok. I'm attempt to grow dhalia's from seed but I think they may succumb to slugs (will have to try letting them grow longer in the greenhouse).
Lovely tour as always (love our clam your office seems too). I am planning on upping my compost game this year though... I've noticed a lot of my soil is pretty dry not far under the surface even after watering. I have a local (25mins away) supply of free horse manure so that should help :D.
Sounds like adding mulch might be a good ideas, a few inches of compost/ manure on top will work wonders
I'm going to try apple trees in pots this year. I hope we both have great success!!
Fingers crossed for us both
You seriously need to try Lettuce leaf Basil, as it suggests the leaves are mahooosive!! if you like basil, you will love these. Grew them in Polly last year, I'm sure I've got spare seeds if you would like me to send you some, let me know! 🙂 Strawberries are such a funny animal, (you don't find out if they are any good until its too late!) I had taken runners and planted the first year I got my allotment (oct 2020) I had hardly any the first year, last year I had millions even with the hot weather. I've done a mix for this year, halved the bed, its got the original plants in, other half is asparagus. I've took runners and built vertical beds, lets see how they perform!🤞🤞
Off to google lettuce leaf basil now 😂😂😂
@@eliandkate mammoth leaf (or lettuce leaf) basil is great! Grows really well for me here in Minnesota (think cold zone 4B) and has a mild flavor.
I love these videos :) those figs should be ‘the next crop’ I believe it’s good theyre small now as they might make it through the winter safely :) Brown turkey fig is yummy I have one outside and am trying to make more I love when they turn a brown purplish colour they’re so pretty :)
I might come back to you and annoy you for advice Taryn :D
Had a rubbish season last year because I just didn’t have the time to dedicate to the garden, so it’s go go go for this year, I’ll be trying King of the north too
Is that cause you were hanging around the gym toilets too much? 😂😂😂
@@eliandkate 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for the tour and inspiration! I'm planning to change up my backyard garden to expand my main no dig bed along with pots in 2023. I've been having the same problem with my strawberries. What strawberries I did get were gobbled up by my dogs when I had my back turned 😐 🤨🤣
Oh our biggest strawberry eaters were blooming slugs 😬😬😬
@@eliandkate I didn't see any slugs.. but my dogs probably ate those too 😆
Hey, we have the same t-shirt! Best of luck for the coming year! I am excited for your plans and am fully invested in your success!
That’s my favourite shirt. I am a major River Song fan 😂
Love your thinking face. Lol
:D I was thinking hard!!!!
Ah! It's so exciting! I have my first snowdrops blossoming and I'm doing what everyone is doing right now. Trying not to sow everything yet 😂 But I have to say, your garden is looking amazing. I did a ten minute tour of ours today, between the rain, and I am so happy with how it's looking. Loads to do, but that's part of what makes it exciting. Thanks for the update. ❤🎉
That’s exactly what makes it exciting… never boring or predictable 😍
Yeah, more flower talk! I bought more herb seeds this year to create more to make tinctures and teas. But the flowers that I can grow for the same uses is exciting. I love your flowers and hope to grow along with you.
Hurrah
Flowers are soo awesome and underrepresented on RUclips gardening
I’m looking forward to hearing about your plans for more flowers! Your garden always looks so colourful - the bees must love it! 😊
Kate is a massive bee fan so flowers are a must 😍
Always enjoy your videos and learn a lot. Figs are usually ready when they start to droop and good luck with the upcoming garden year.
I’m not convinced I’ll ever get the hang of digs, but I’ll give it a darn good try 😂
Loving the video's, looking forward to going through the gardening, season with you both. Thanks for sharing.
You are entirely welcome Sheila
I've had the same results trying to grow strawberries in channel type beds and smaller raised bed style planters. I am going to go with a Birdies planter like our certain Aussie gardener uses!
That should be fab John
Lots of space and will hold moisture much better
Interesting space in your backyard. Its small compared to mine in the US, but you have a lot packed in there. It will take a lot of work to get as organized as you are. Im only going into my 5th year of gardening. This year I am going to add 4-6 large tote sip's. I have already drawn out the layout and lots of work left to do. Good luck and I will watch how you progress.
Hey JB
I’ve seen you on Scott’s channel so lovely to proper chat. 😀
It’s a funny one how different our spaces and expectation of them are, I often hear about US gardens being bigger than mine but would you believe mine is considered a reasonably big garden for here?
Now I have to ask cause I don’t know what you mean, what are tore sips? We know totes here are small canvas bags for shopping (quite small and cheap).
@@eliandkate I like Scott's channel, been subscribed there for a long time even though his zone if very different than mine. One of the things I got from his channel is to glean useful info no matter the location.
I was blessed with an extra large backyard. My total area devoted to growing is about 100' x 25' (feet in case the notation is confusing). But I mainly do container gardening because of a buried petroleum pipe under my backyard. Better safe than sorry since I grow a lot of food. So I watch a lot of small garden channels as they usually have container videos.
A SIP is a Sub Irrigated Planter, been trying to get Scott to try one for a long time. They can be made out of anything that holds water. There are lots of video's on them on YT, look for "diy earthbox" or earthbucket to see an example. Totes in the US are big plastic storage bins with snap on lids. I will be using 55 gallon ones. I also have lots of 5 gallon bucket sip's. They cut down on frequent watering, and when mulched cut down weed pressure.
I got into gardening at 55, how I wish I had discovered I liked it earlier. The green thumb of my grandmother skipped a generation it seems. She had a small backyard and a flower garden with flowers packed into every nook and cranny.
I’m the same… I wish I’d got into this earlier… I would 100% have gone the full way to homesteading I think.
@@eliandkate I would have loved to try homesteading in my younger days, but at this point in my life it just isn't realistic. I turn 60 this year, and my house is almost paid off. Homesteading is for younger people that dont have physical limitations. Still gardening brings some of the benefits of homesteading. Getting out in the sunshine, and growing your own food is a wonderful thing.
Yup
Singing from your hum sheet here 😂
Try "bartelli" cherry tomato. Fabulous tasty, heavy cropper. I grow them outside in Derbyshire.
I shall look them up 😂
@@eliandkate well worth it. I get up to 70 fruits on a truss. They are amazing. Really tasty.
Awesome plans 🤩. Love the blackberry idea. I just bought 3 plants for hanging baskets but going to steel your method for my new tayberry and grow it up my barn.
Good plan
Oh Tay berry yum
Any thoughts on having a flower bed in the centre of the lawn? Seems like a lesser explored area?
Thoughts certainly but Kate loves her lawns. Thats her pleasure and who am I to say that’s not as valuable of my love of flower beds 😁
I just stumbled across this channel. Delighful. Besides I am sucker for that Scottish lilt. What are the dimensions of your space?
glad to have you with us :D
👍 Do you grow any eatable flowers?
Not deliberately Gayle
I grow lots of flowers but more for the visual appeal
Eli do you put any winter protection around the fig tree as a plot neighbor said he is going to gift me a cutting but being right on the NE coast I'm not convinced it will do well. He keeps his tree in the greenhouse on his plot mine would have to live outside south facing.
We didn’t no.
We were really that serious about it so didn’t really put any effort on.
I saw some folk have theirs in the ground, same variety so figured it should be ok
Hoping!!!!!
Hi Eli, Just wondering if there is anything that you cannot grow being near the sea? I am 1 minute away from the beach and would like to see if anything is just not possible with the salty air. I only grew my tomatoes outside last year (my first year) and got absolutely loads, I still have about 10 KG in the freezer.. My garden is north facing but is 80% sun all day. Happy New Year to you both.
Hey Stuart 😀
Hmmmm to be honest I think I’m really lucky that we’re sheltered from the sea front by quite a few streets and we all have high fences on that side so we don’t get the worst of it.
The biggest problem is the salt and wind, you need some kind of barrier, like the fence or tall hedging, otherwise you end up with a lot of scorched leaves, especially on the more tender plants.
Our biggest issue as I’ve said before is the lawn. We have such a hard time keeping a lawn out front where there are no barriers. It gets burned and bald really quickly so needs a lot of work to keep on top of it. The back garden isn’t as bad, it’s protected and north facing.
I grew up in Scotland and I never knew there could be rules about not growing veg in your front garden! I find that crazy, to be honest. Here in Germany (land of rules!) I'm also clueless, but I live in the country, my house is on its own, it's farms all around, and my front garden gets some good sun, so I've got veggie beds in it. Nobody has told me I can't - and believe me they would - so it must be ok here!
I need more flowers for the pollinators but I don't know what... I'll have to look in my local supermarket seeds section when it turns up about February...
yeah one of those things, there are a few things like that written into the deeds, always worth checking before you buy. Some of them are good, like no fixing cars in the street or your drive... its meant as a way of keeping the neighbourhood nice - so a good thing
@@eliandkate gosh! The car fixing thing is harsh too. Me and all my exes have always fixed our own vehicles... There's some places I read won't even let you in a flat dry your washing on the veranda, or in a house on the front garden. I must admit I considered it all a bit of snobbery... But I suppose some folks do take the proverbial and it's good to have a means to make them buck up their ideas.
Yeah the car fixing thing I actually wish they’d enforce more
Sick of constant engines running and mechanics going on outside our windows grrrrr
6 thousand views and only 563 likes? Lazy people!!! Help these gals out!
Awww thanks
I've had to blind plant 🙈🙈 wind knocked my pop up green houses over and tbh I have no clue what some where
Then I guess we treat it as an adventure!!!!
@@eliandkate net the lot 🤣
I know my tomatoes , potatoes,onions but greens ??
Mustards, pak choi, chard etc etc
@@eliandkate yes , and others x
Just watching the first few of your videos the last couple of days.
My thoughts.. "I like this channel, dont ask me why... it's gardening (huge plus), and somehow even with a confusing walking around style... easy to follow (another plus).
Quote of this video "I hope I'm not chopping my head off". Out of context, whew....
😂😂😂😂😂 this one is very much a different style than normal lol
All comes down to how much time I have to make a video. And how random I’m feeling that day 😂😂😂
@@eliandkate you're "I'm being scattered brained let's move around 10 times has more flow than you would think it does". Either way didn't mean anything negative about it, just meant it's different in more ways than 1. Different is not always a bad thing. Ever watch a channel where they quick transition backgrounds 100 times in a paragraph? Ooof my brain.
Oh I hate those, I just can’t watch them
I actually really don’t like the whole hand held thjng, I find that really difficult to watch, makes me queezy so I try not to put others through thy 😂😂😂
@@eliandkate I am in year two of doing any sort of planting "on my own". I am also someone that wants to be informed about what I am doing, but in terms of gardening youre never gonna know it all, which is why I have you guys to supplement.
I am just ready to start growing! I think we are all getting antsy to start. Plus here it is winter so ....stir crazy too!
Hopefully with all of the different YT channels, books articles, etc. Everything will be a learning process and either work out or give me information for 2024! 🙂
Musselburgh?
Yup 😀