Hard decisions in the garden

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  • Опубликовано: 29 янв 2025

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  • @GardenerScott
    @GardenerScott Год назад +6

    Your garden looks fab and I love that the GreenStalk is doing so well for you. A little tough love makes you a good garden mum.

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад +1

      Ha ha ha tell the plants that… I’m sure I can hear them conspiring against me

  • @carmengiles456
    @carmengiles456 Год назад

    🎉Happy Birthday🎉
    Hope you are having a great day.

  • @suewoodbridge9284
    @suewoodbridge9284 Год назад

    Happy Birthday for yesterday 🎁🎂🥂❤️

  • @billy4072
    @billy4072 Год назад +1

    You obviuosly know your onions , But blimey..to be a natural presence In front of camera and easy on the ear, .. that is a gift .. ..The Beasties...lol..they got to survive as well.🤙 good philosophy . Happy Birthday . Obvs.

  • @robinscontainergarden
    @robinscontainergarden Год назад

    You gotta do what you gotta do! Your flowers are beautiful, as always! And I love that greenstalk! Your greenhouse looks like a wee jungle, too 😁

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      It absolutely is a jungle…. Difficult to work in there just jow

  • @marie-theresehayes6875
    @marie-theresehayes6875 Год назад

    Pulling my strawberries as they have not been great. Think the weather was to blame. Happy birthday

  • @alizaterrell7607
    @alizaterrell7607 Год назад

    Happy Belated Birthday!!! Hope you had a fantastic day!

  • @jennyjohnson9012
    @jennyjohnson9012 Год назад

    Oh I hope you had a wonderful birthday Eli!!

  • @lorifitzgibbon3085
    @lorifitzgibbon3085 Год назад

    Your flowers are gorgeous!
    And I just love the covers on the raised beds, and your information on the strawberries was great.

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      Awwww that’s fab to hear the video was a hit with you 😍😍😍😍

  • @elizabethfarkas6468
    @elizabethfarkas6468 Год назад

    Happy Birthday to you! What a great way to celebrate your day! I have a birthday in August...

  • @Newsagent61
    @Newsagent61 Год назад

    Happy Birthday hope you have had a fab day XX

  • @samanthahoos9827
    @samanthahoos9827 Год назад

    🎉Happy Birthday ❤

  • @helenkeough4187
    @helenkeough4187 Год назад

    Has to be done. And the compost bin always benefits!!! And when you go fetch some more strawberries, some other plants might fall into your basket as a birthday present....win, win!! Xx

  • @annickaprevander9863
    @annickaprevander9863 Год назад

    Happy Birthday.❤ Thanks for the video.

  • @maureenscott5343
    @maureenscott5343 Год назад

    Happy birthday Eli 🎉🎉🎉

  • @AngelaM745
    @AngelaM745 Год назад +1

    Happy birthday to you 🎉🌻🌷
    I've ordered the greenstalk via a Scandinavian website, first I found that can deliver in Europe, it should arrive this week 💕

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      Wow really? I didn’t think we could get them delivered over this side of the pond

  • @budj13
    @budj13 Год назад

    Happy birthday! You garden looks great and it is obvious you enjoy it. Slainte!

  • @Yankeesista203
    @Yankeesista203 Год назад

    Happiest of birthdays to you Eli! Your garden is absolutely amazing! You both are great gardeners!

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      😍😍😍😍 awww thank you.
      We had a lovely week long celebration 😂😂😂

  • @susandowney7634
    @susandowney7634 Год назад

    Happy Birthday Eli. I hope you had a wonderful day ❤🎉

  • @gudi361
    @gudi361 Год назад

    My last lettuces were all eaten by slugs. As it has been ralning lots lately, we have tons of slugs now. Sowing new ones will have to wait.
    Hapoy belated birthday, Eli!

  • @ninemoonplanet
    @ninemoonplanet Год назад

    I let both lettuce and spinach go to seed. The lettuce is amazing, it continues to grow through snow and frost. The spinach is one I really enjoy the taste of.
    My strawberry plants are 4 years old, actually producing better than last year. 🤷 I did get a few new ones, plus took the runners and potted those up. I have a grandchild who can't get enough strawberries to eat.😊

  • @andyfarmer759
    @andyfarmer759 Год назад

    Happy Birthday Eli

  • @debbybrady1246
    @debbybrady1246 Год назад

    Happy Birthday! Mine is the 9th. We're awesome Leo's!

  • @mimispier1
    @mimispier1 Год назад

    Happy birthday! Strawberry, do awesome in green stalks! Thats where mine are.

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад +1

      My top row is strawberries 😍

  • @wildchook745
    @wildchook745 Год назад

    Happy Belated Birthday, Eli! I love that red tree next to your side gate. Very pretty. Your garden is fruitful and lovely. Cheers to you & Kate!

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      Thank you Mary
      It’s a smoke bush if you are ever looking for one

  • @Sarcasticallyinspired
    @Sarcasticallyinspired Год назад

    My tomatoes have done great. Getting a fair few harvested now, work lunch has had to switch to sandwiches to accommodate them all

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад +1

      We are the same… current rule: every meal involves beans tomatoes and pesto

  • @timd2809
    @timd2809 Год назад

    Happy Birthday, just happens to be my Birthday too while I am watching.🎉

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      Awwwwwwww almost twins 😍😍😍😍

    • @timd2809
      @timd2809 Год назад

      🤣🤣@@eliandkate

  • @briannecarter2901
    @briannecarter2901 Год назад

    Happy Birthday! 🎉

  • @karenshields1878
    @karenshields1878 Год назад

    Happy Birthday 🎉

  • @charlotteinnocent8752
    @charlotteinnocent8752 Год назад

    Happy Birthday! :)

  • @lizatrue7543
    @lizatrue7543 Год назад

    Happy Birthday! Hope you're enjoying a beautiful birthday today. Thank you for another wonderful video. Your gardens are absolutely BEAUTIFUL!🎊🎂🎉🍷🎁

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад +1

      Glad you enjoyed our wee update Liza

    • @lizatrue7543
      @lizatrue7543 Год назад

      @@eliandkate I'm a moderator for the largest Gardening group on a certain social media website (won't name which one) which has over 106K members and believe me when I tell you that your garden is one of the most beautiful and cared for that I've seen! You two are green thumb queens and entertaining too! 😉😊

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад +1

      Awwww thank you. That’s lovely to hear

  • @frankporterfield8121
    @frankporterfield8121 Год назад

    Happy Birthday! Love your videos!

  • @GardenDiscovery
    @GardenDiscovery Год назад

    My crocosmia flowers got snacked on by the neighborhood deer this year. Yours look amazing

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад +1

      I absolutely love them…. I look forward to late summer just because they always look amazing

  • @sheliaheverin8822
    @sheliaheverin8822 Год назад

    I have never had luck with strawberries. I planted some in my greenstalk this year and got a handfull, if that. Blanch and freeze your green beans to eat in the winter in soups.

  • @annlockey8552
    @annlockey8552 Год назад

    Happy Birthday ❤

  • @Jimsraisedbedgarden
    @Jimsraisedbedgarden Год назад

    Happy birthday Eli , hope you have had a great day x,
    Interesting to see your strawberries I changed mine this as I grew from seed , Alpine but although there are plenty of flowers the few strawberries I have are tiny so am looking for a new strawberry for next year xx

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад +1

      Yeah, the continual harvest sounded like a good idea at the time I got them but they haven’t lived up to expectation 😭

    • @Jimsraisedbedgarden
      @Jimsraisedbedgarden Год назад

      @@eliandkate frustrating Eli xx

  • @Garden-of-weeden
    @Garden-of-weeden Год назад

    Hey thanks for adding an inner circle patreon option!!! I’m very excited to be growing along with you next year!! Love how we get so many extra updates on your patreon ❤

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      Glad you are enjoying being part of the patreon group Pammie… can’t wait to get our various projects going.

    • @Garden-of-weeden
      @Garden-of-weeden Год назад

      @@eliandkate I love being part of it 😍

  • @kburkes4245
    @kburkes4245 Год назад

    Happy birthday 🎉. I am getting to the 'brutal' stage with my first round of squash and cucumbers -- pulling them out. Fortunately I live in the southern US, and have time to plant a second round before first frost.

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      Yay for lots of time… phew!

  • @annies2440
    @annies2440 Год назад

    Happy birthday 🎉
    Found your channel a while back and I love your videos. I live in Sweden and it's fun watching other gardeners from around the world ❤

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад +1

      Glad to have you with us 😍

  • @giaannstdenis3661
    @giaannstdenis3661 Год назад

    Tough love for the garden but easy to watch!
    Many happy returns of the day!

  • @radiotowers1159
    @radiotowers1159 Год назад

    Here`s been brutal, I have a plum tree coming out, its suffers from massive aphid attack every year , has shothole leaves again. Ive tried early season bone meal , fish blood and bone and general fertilizer over the last few years and it produces very little fruit if at all. I normally prune back all the summer growth just now early August but looks like its getting a real pruning this year!.
    Happy Birthday :)

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      It’s gutting when you put all that work in for little reward

  • @mags9536
    @mags9536 Год назад

    Happy Birthday. Have a great day 🎂🍾

  • @bonitahunter8905
    @bonitahunter8905 Год назад

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELI. 🎉.
    What happened to the plants that you planted seeds three times in? 😅😅😅😂.

  • @bwolf0003
    @bwolf0003 Год назад

    Great video. Happy Belated Birthday!

  • @lindarobertson8505
    @lindarobertson8505 Год назад

    Thank you for the another fab video 😊

  • @cokesonyou1201
    @cokesonyou1201 Год назад

    Happy birthday! Hahah loved the clip where you said " we are celebrating while you're watching". The garden looks wonderful !

  • @janetroberts2262
    @janetroberts2262 Год назад

    🎂Happy Birthday🎈❤

  • @annlockey8552
    @annlockey8552 Год назад

    Absolutely love your garden 😊

  • @dawnlalek
    @dawnlalek Год назад

    Happy birthday Eli. I hope you had a lovely day. Great video as always xx

  • @oreopaksun2512
    @oreopaksun2512 Год назад

    Happy birthday! Lettuce and spinach planted outside in July....so jelly! I have lettuce started in and Aerogarden and will watch your crop grow. Growing enough for you, Kate, any beasties, then Beano and Gnasher! Everyone can be fed and happy!
    Looking forward to your guesting on Gardener Scott Live tomorrow, Monday, July 31. 11AM for me in US east coast....4 PM your time?

  • @christinamoxon
    @christinamoxon Год назад

    Happy birthday, hope you got lots of lovely goodies. We didn't get as many strawberries as we expected this year either, funny that. We've moved from months of no rain at all, to weeks of perpetual rain and winds. But the garden is still producing! I'm loving the spring onions. I left them in to grow really big and they're gorgeous (and quite strong). Love and hugs to you both.

  • @squadiodatamj5998
    @squadiodatamj5998 Год назад

    What an exhilarating tour in the garden of Eli and Kate today.....and it's your Birthday, Eli! This vid was packed with party favours.....The Green Stalk (oh how I covet thee) is such a happy story and do, tell us more. My belly-laugh moments happened at 12:00 "...and the greenhouse pfphfphttt (sp?)". Also at 18:00 "....the HMS Dahlia.." What a fun party! Hardly noticed the slaughter and up-rooting wrought by the hori-hori and puners.

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      The slaughter was cunningly disguised

  • @cherylbranson6557
    @cherylbranson6557 Год назад

    Your garden is so fabulous! I just love it. You have so many wonderful flowers!

  • @stephendarlingbrown
    @stephendarlingbrown Год назад

    Happy Birthday Eli 🎉🎂 hope you’ve had a great day!

  • @mariedeyo7399
    @mariedeyo7399 Год назад

    Happy happy birthday 🥳 all the best for the year comming. ❤ Phoenix, my godgrandkid is having her 5th today. So I hope you have a wonderful day, with a grand party. ❤

  • @carolinebown8686
    @carolinebown8686 Год назад

    Hope you're having a fabulous Birthday ❤
    Brilliant informative video as always .... you give me the strength to alter/move things ... Im getting alittle less panicky about gardening ...
    I'm amazed at the tomato harvest & courgettes ... so many 😊😊😊 xxx

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      Glad we’re helping with your garden bravery 😍

  • @cherylbranson6557
    @cherylbranson6557 Год назад

    I grew lettuce and spinach in the green stalk! Did great!

  • @villanella
    @villanella Год назад

    happy birthday, eli!

  • @quietspacearts
    @quietspacearts Год назад

    looks great well done, Happy Birtthday lovely lady xx

  • @CSaville
    @CSaville Год назад

    Happy Birthday Eli! I've just finished a family meal. I watch several other RUclips gardening channels, one which sadly finished this year. Yours was the first I found and I've never missed an episode since. The meal included my own lettuce, rocket, tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, chives, onion and potatoes! You are a true inspiration I really hope you have a great Birthday!

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      Awww glad you are still with us 😍

  • @cherylbranson6557
    @cherylbranson6557 Год назад

    Happy Birthday to you and many more!!

  • @donnaprima2802
    @donnaprima2802 Год назад

    Great minds think alike! I just came in from pruning my garden, planting 3 broccolini seedlings, picking tomatoes, and planting lettuce in the Greenstalk (it finally gave up--I can't remember having lettuce this late!). Didn''t move anything--that was last week's job. Beautiful garden, by the way!! Happy Birthday!!

  • @saundrajsimpson9627
    @saundrajsimpson9627 Год назад

    Hope you had a great Birthday Eli. Really enjoy watching your channel here in East Tennessee, USA. I just got bit by the Dahlia bug this past Spring. A little nervous about the idea of having to overwinter them by digging them up but, everything gardening is a learning process. Not sure as to when to take the bulbs up and how I will store them.

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      Take them up after your first hard frost. Once the plant has been “burned” by it.
      If you go watch my video on storing my dahlias you can see how I do it

    • @saundrajsimpson9627
      @saundrajsimpson9627 Год назад

      @@eliandkate Thank you so much, I will do that today and be sure to save it for future reference.

  • @AV-ze2hf
    @AV-ze2hf Год назад

    Happy birthday!! Love the content. I started my gazania a week later then yours (never heard of them untill you mentioned them) and i was wondering if they were doing alright since i don't see flowers yet, but now i see you dont have many yet so i keep my fingers crossed. It's so hard as a beginner to figure out if the plant is struggling and if it is struggling to figure out why she is struggling, so many things to consider 😅

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      And just as you get the hang of one plant you discover another needs something completely different? 😂
      Your gazania are little sun worshippers so give them as much sun as possible 😍

  • @skygazer1024
    @skygazer1024 Год назад

    Happy Birthday! 🎉 Great video as always.

  • @julie-annepineau4022
    @julie-annepineau4022 Год назад

    Happy birthday Eli! Garden looks fantastic!

  • @dif672
    @dif672 Год назад

    Happy Birthday, Eli!!!🎉🎂🍅🥬🫑

  • @i.a.4694
    @i.a.4694 Год назад

    Happy birthday as well! I had new strawberries this year, the variety is called sonata, and i was really happy with them. Big juicy and sweet strawberry. So tasty...

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      I’m excited to be thinking about all the possibilities

  • @cpoco
    @cpoco Год назад

    Good stuff. I received a solar powered stereo today so I'm hoping to try it in the greenhouse to see if it improves growth :)

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад +1

      Solar powered stereo? Ok I’m going to ask for clarification cause to me that’s a music system?

    • @cpoco
      @cpoco Год назад

      @@eliandkate tis indeed... it can play radio, sd card or USB so I put some music on (Billy Connolly actually for the time being) and it can play in the greenhouse and be recharged via the solar panels. I'm curious to see if it will make a difference to the growth... Mythbusters seemed to find there was a possibility it can help growth... so we shall see.

    • @cpoco
      @cpoco Год назад

      Oh and happy birthday! :D

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад +1

      Ah 😁
      Yeah I heard it a lot growing up that you should talk to your plants and play music. They react to it

  • @colleenstinton-czuprynski9894
    @colleenstinton-czuprynski9894 Год назад

    Great video. Thanks.

  • @libbyrowe8961
    @libbyrowe8961 Год назад

    🥳Happy Birthday Eli 🥳

  • @Oktopia
    @Oktopia Год назад

    Happy Birthday! Enjoy it! Sadly green stalk doesn't deliver to Norway. I've seen fake ones sold online but I've heard the plastic is inferior and in the Norwegian climate we can't have brittle plastic outside. Nearly ALL of my salad went super bitter this year on account of the heat. Even in my shade bed it went bitter and got eaten by slugs. I have sown some new stuff now and will take full advantage of the cooler weather of late. Sadly our nights are super chilled, it has been all the way down to 8-10 C at night. My plastic greenhouse is bulging from the tomato plants though. Looks like I'll get something if it warms up a little. Fingers crossed.

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад +1

      Oh I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you

  • @ghost70
    @ghost70 Год назад

    place damp wood boards around the planters, should then be able to collect the slugs each days, been working for me. can also p[lace boards in the beds just check regular

  • @siggiroberts7432
    @siggiroberts7432 Год назад

    Happy Birthday Eli. 🎉❤

  • @GillianTaylor-o2j
    @GillianTaylor-o2j Год назад

    Are you sure the bare root plants you got three yrs ago were actually first yr stock?

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      I can answer yes but I’m afraid that unless you elaborate more on what you are asking I ant really offer more detail

  • @Cordelia0704p
    @Cordelia0704p Год назад

    Happy Birthday Eli! 🎉

  • @flowers_and_farls
    @flowers_and_farls Год назад

    Are there previous clips about growing in the Greenstock? Are they an expensive piece of kit?

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      I think this is the first time I’ve talked much about the greenstalk as this is my first year with it.
      Expensive I suppose is your decision. I don’t think it’s expensive for what it is, unfortunately it’s not available in the UK yet so I was lucky to have been gifted it by a friend.

  • @Papapatch
    @Papapatch Год назад

    Happy birthday Eli...
    Can you tell me the name of the dwarf tomatoes you have growing in greenhouse please

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад +1

      Heya
      It’s the same ones I’m in the greenstalk.
      Anmore dewdrop, tiny Tim and Mongolian Hanging basket.
      Got them all from camillascountryliving.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/froliste-tomater-2020/

    • @Papapatch
      @Papapatch Год назад

      @@eliandkate thank you

  • @RegBettles
    @RegBettles Год назад

    Happy birthday Eli! Where can I get the "greenstalk"

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      I don’t know where you are in the world Reg but if you are Uk based I’m afraid they don’t shop here yet

    • @RegBettles
      @RegBettles Год назад

      @@eliandkate yes Eli UK, oh well never m

  • @markrollings1762
    @markrollings1762 Год назад

    Hi Both
    Could you point in the direction of where could source a Beano and a Gnasher please. Thank you.. Mark

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      Do you mean the actual compost bins? If so they are from hotbincomposting.com

    • @markrollings1762
      @markrollings1762 Год назад

      @@eliandkate
      Very kind. A couple of further questions if I may. Did you buy with plinths and what was the reason and are Beano & Gnashet 200litre versions; just trying to judge scale. Thank you again
      Mark (from Wales)

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      I did get the plinths, hence they are taller than just the bin size and yup they are both the larger sized bin

    • @markrollings1762
      @markrollings1762 Год назад

      @@eliandkate Thank you; you’re a star. Keep up the good work 👏

  • @kimosborne3454
    @kimosborne3454 Год назад

    Happy birthday hope you had a great day, quick question on the strawberries when you say you have to pe place them every 3 years can you do that with the runner plants or does that not work?

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      Yup usually you would do that using the runners and save some pennies

    • @kimosborne3454
      @kimosborne3454 Год назад

      @@eliandkate thank you for a moment I thought I had half a dozen pots of baby plants for next year for nothing few you scared me lol

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      😂😂😂

  • @cherylbranson6557
    @cherylbranson6557 Год назад

    By the way, how often do you need to water your plants?

    • @eliandkate
      @eliandkate  Год назад

      Depends on the plants, weather and temperatures. More often when it’s warm or windy as that increases evaporation from the soil. In late autumn and winter then I don’t usually water at all because the ground is generally damp all the time. In a week where it’s hot, every couple of days for the thirsty plants.

  • @teresapring7831
    @teresapring7831 Год назад

    👍❤️

  • @jihad.haidar
    @jihad.haidar Год назад

    Thank you for the video. The Dahlias look amazing. I was hoping to get my hands on some this year, but it did not work as planned.
    This year I started showing stronger resolve in deciding which plants should stay and which should go. But, it is never an easy choice. Most heartbreaking is when you lose plants to disease, for example, I had to pull out a couple of plants of a round zucchini variety (they were all that I planted of this variety). But, I have certainly never stabbed my plants with a huge knife like you did here 😲 LOL
    BTW, I think that I heard someone or something scream "help" when you opened the composting bin. Perhaps you should look into that *shrugs* 😂

  • @carolpursley2901
    @carolpursley2901 Год назад +1

    Happy birthday!! and many many more.

  • @LadyInTheDell
    @LadyInTheDell Год назад

    Happy Birthday!!! 🎉

  • @deb1973d
    @deb1973d Год назад

    Happy Birthday!

  • @christelfleet6189
    @christelfleet6189 Год назад

    Happy Birthday 🥳 Eli. The garden looks wonderful.

  • @cyndywaskelisthecrowscall
    @cyndywaskelisthecrowscall Год назад

    Happy Birthday Eli!

  • @SuzMcDonaldWellbeing
    @SuzMcDonaldWellbeing Год назад

    Happy birthday Eli 🎉

  • @Me-td8eo
    @Me-td8eo Год назад

    Happy Birthday 🥳🎉

  • @margakat
    @margakat Год назад

    Happy Birthday!