Used tea leaves on the roses ended up getting root rot,! oh and black spot ,so much torrential rain have lost a lot of new perennials from wet and wind.It has been cold as well and a lot of people have lost plants to blight ,box caterpiller etc we have had both.Terrific! sometimes I wonder why bother? then the taste of fresh veg reminds me why I don't just quit! Best Wishes xx☺🍅.
I'm with you on that one! But I was so happy to see my ripe tomatoes today!!! Thank so much for them tips I feel like tea leaves is an easy one to fill victim too
A lovely video Nik and your right gardening people are the best and if there were more of us the world would be a better place. Have a marvellous day it looks like your getting a bit of sun finally, Ali 🌞🥵🇨🇦
I hadn’t heard of some of these myths, so good to have them busted before I even discovered them. Thank you. Looks very toasty there. Could do with some heat here 🤗
Its looking pretty exciting on your plot .... wow lots going on .. my tomatoes still looking sad . But amazingly still alive .. still waiting patiently for flowers 😊😊😊
Bless this weather has really knocked my tomatoes its warmed up a bit now hoping they will be happier and have a change around ..ill have a look for your peppers . Though gosh your veggies are looking amazing .
Great video Nik! Aww It is so lovely you have someone to garden with at the plot and they have a LO too. I do love this community too for the same reason. My sister lives in the Netherlands so we don't have any family close by or friends interested in gardening. I think our child's play friends parents and most of the parents at the school tbh know me as the crazy plant lady as i am always trying to give them plants or preserving what we have grown and doing traditional cooking. So apart from hubby, i don't really have anyone to get excited or disappointed in stuff to do with all that. Tbh, i don't even think my hubby is as into gardening as i am. lol I learnt a lot from my step father in law before he passed away. He got a DR in Geology decades ago. He did no dig before i saw people doing videos on no dig and did a hybrid thing with tomatoes in his greenhouse and now we can save the seeds from it. I don't think he even had a name for it so we just call them Dr Tony's now. It does kinda get lonely but that is why i like watching all of these lovely people, who are near me doing videos. I used to only see people in the US make YT gardening videos, so it is great to see people more local to us and have the same weather as we do. Just seems more relatable. One US channel i spoke to assumed that in London, we get -12c and a load of snow in winter! I would love snow here and haven't seen any proper snow in years! I have been recording stuff on my phone with a tripod but i have social anxiety, so a bit apprehensive to post them but i would love to share updates on what is going on in our garden and how we garden and do stuff. Anyway, hope you have a lovely week and take care! x
Hello! I'm not Nik, but so much of what you've written resonates with me, some of it the "flip side" of the figurative coin. Someone whose acquaintance I'd made on a social medium platform recommended YT "Self Sufficient Me," and from there I found Charles Dowding (not sure how, but I'm glad I did), and then Huw Richards, and it seemed there were no videos made by any American or Canadian gardeners. Finally found a few, and one of those was even in a comparable cold hardiness zone and had growing conditions similar to mine during the growing season! The U.S. is very large and has quite a range of cold-hardiness zones, so when a gardener in southern California says, "...and you can do thus-and-such through the winter," no: some of us can't, at least not outdoors, we can't. The state of Utah (I'm in Ohio) has six cold-hardiness zones, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, with average annual low temperatures ranging from -30°F to 25°F or -34.4°C to -3.9°C, depending on where you are in that State. I have one elderly neighbor who's very interested in gardening, and who from childhood used to do a lot of it although he reckons that by this time in his life he's past doing much of it for himself. He takes a keen interest, though, in his neighbors' and friends' gardens, and I supply him with rhubarb for the rhubarb pies he loves so much (usually he makes just one or two per season, as a special treat.) My guy's quite supportive of my gardening, but he understands very little about horticulture or agriculture and doesn't have much interest in learning (that's fair: I'm not all that interested in his avocations!), so when I want to ramble on about this or that plant or plant support system, he lets me do that, nods at the appropriate places in the rather one-sided conversation, and gets a lot of facts and fancies all jumbled in his head and he'll often startle me, later, with some of the resultant ideas he gets. Meanwhile, he's happy to have Tuscan kale/cavolo nero, summer squashes, winter squashes (which *he* grew) and onions (again, which *he* grew) from the garden. So, come to think of it, he's not completely disinterested, just satisfied with a much simpler garden. I'm forever trying to squeeze another few square feet of bed space out of the area I have to work with, or how to coax another interplanted crop out of the season. Like you, I've tried giving plants away to relatives and friends, thinking it might encourage them to take an interest but.... No. Disappointing, that. Tried sharing out seeds, too, but most of the people I know personally just aren't all that interested. You have my empathy! Much gardening love to you from Northeast Ohio, U.S.A.. 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
Oh my we would LOVE to see your updates! That would be amazing! I honestly in just over 4 years I've had 2 not nice comments. One we chatted for about 6 messages and she was very nice the other it was a miss understanding and it was fine! The RUclips community is awesome! I love making videos and having this community it's amazing. I am very much like you it can be very lonely being a mum of a small baby but now I feel rich! lol it does make me laught however I bet we are completely wrong about the weather there too! It's so nice to hear British RUclipsrs that have similar weather and humour!
@@ThatBritishHomestead I wish the gaming community was as nice. I get some right stinkers sometimes but also some lovely ones. Yes love the gardening humour too as it doesn't have to be serious all of the time.
@@ThatBritishHomestead It depends on what devices she has access to already and the budget. You can switch off some of the things for online stuff and chat with parental controls. Also look out for deals on games.
Eeh! You've touched on it, and I don't know that it's an actual myth or just some misunderstanding, but it's a pet peeve of mine: complaining about having "terrible heavy sticky clay soil." First, virtually all of North America (or at least the largest mass of the continent which would be the Canada, Mexico and the U.S.A.), has clay soil, a bit acidic east of the Mississippi River and more inclined to alkalinity west of that same waterway. I'm in Ohio, which means I'm dealing with slightly acid soil although unlike most gardeners, I'm gardening on what might have been an old Great Lakes lake shore, or an old beach head from some other smaller body of water, or a long-gone stream bed; but the soil is very, very sandy, and in fact sand is considered to be the hardest soil to garden in because it doesn't hold on to nutrients (although, very vexingly, it does hold on to heavy metal contaminants, go figure.) I've mixed in organic matter, and overlaid organic matter, and within a growing season I need *more* organic matter because what I've mixed in and overlaid is gone and we're back to sandy soil with small, flat and *very sharp* little stones. Still, I'm grateful for the sandy vegetable beds; there's no question of adequate drainage! As you quite rightly observed, clay has plenty of nutrients; its density is due to its particulate matter being very, very fine so unlike my sandy garden beds, clay can hold water. (And no, I am not giving any thought to adding clay soil to my sandy garden beds.) As an aside before I leave the topic of sandy soil, in this part of the world we have quarries for what is called Berea sandstone, finest anywhere on the planet and known to some folks as bluestone. No sugar offerings for them, but one of the quadrants of the garden has quite the ant colony and they haven't bothered any of my garden's plants as far as I know, but they come out if force if some gardener (*a-hem!!!*) is foolish enough to walk on that soil wearing open-toed sandals. This gardener prefers not to kill local fauna, including the ants. You know, of course, that you're a well-loved friend to us, too. 💚 And that we're thankful for all you do and share with us via your RUclips channel. Much gardening love from Northeast Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
Thanks so much for your kind words and your right there is so much that's good about clay soil!!! I think most soils have their challenges. Near me there is this farm that's on chalk I don't how they grow anything the soil is white! Honestly! I think I get out more from the channel, I just love interacting with everyone! It's so lovely! In real life no one I know really cares for gardening like I do
@@ThatBritishHomestead Chalk! Well, that's got to be difficult, unless the farmer is growing things which favor dry, alkaline conditions and low fertility, such as lavender and some of the other herbs. I understand, though, that Ireland has plenty of limestone in her soils and as a result those soils breed up some of the finest horses anywhere. So it must have its uses! Apropos of nothing except you mentioned being a geologist, a great-grand-uncle on my father's side (this actually has nothing to do with gardening, just so you know that; more to do with weather, I suppose) was a geologist who prospected for crude oil for one of the major oil companies. Dad worked for him during his university summers, setting the dynamite charges whose sound waves, reflected back from the rock formations however deep-down, indicated the potential for crude oil or not; I expect you already know about such things. But the "oil crews" worked the Mississippi River valley from Cairo ("Kay-Ro") Illinois, which is at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers, to the Gulf of Mexico, and according to my dad it was hot-Hot-HOT and humid enough to wring water out of the air. And the mosquitoes got bigger the farther south they traveled, and the venomous snakes bigger and more venomous. That taught me not to bother complaining about hot, humid weather, because what I knew as hot and humid was *nothing* compared to what those young men dealt with (sweat rolling down your back at night, said Dad, kept you from sleeping, la-La-la-La-la,) and if I did complain about the weather he could, would and generally did one-up me. Okay; that's my anecdotal contribution, if it can be considered such, for the week. And if not, then I do beg pardon for going off-topic! Any number of online vendors and some brick-and-mortar gardening centers have their seed packets reduced in price, and as you know I'm just about constitutionally incapable of passing by any garden seeds. Had a different errand to do today, but on the way back I stopped in at the garden-center-nursery second-closest to home, and succumbed to the siren song of seeds! Thrilled to have purchased some Black-Eyed Susan seeds (Rudbeckia Hirta) which are perennial so in theory that's one pollinator attracter I won't need to buy and sow again. Much gardening love to you from Northeast Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
Used tea leaves on the roses ended up getting root rot,! oh and black spot ,so much torrential rain have lost a lot of new perennials from wet and wind.It has been cold as well and a lot of people have lost plants to blight ,box caterpiller etc we have had both.Terrific! sometimes I wonder why bother? then the taste of fresh veg reminds me why I don't just quit! Best Wishes xx☺🍅.
I'm with you on that one! But I was so happy to see my ripe tomatoes today!!! Thank so much for them tips I feel like tea leaves is an easy one to fill victim too
A lovely video Nik and your right gardening people are the best and if there were more of us the world would be a better place. Have a marvellous day it looks like your getting a bit of sun finally, Ali 🌞🥵🇨🇦
Absolutely. Completely agree. It would be greener too! World would be healthier
I hadn’t heard of some of these myths, so good to have them busted before I even discovered them.
Thank you.
Looks very toasty there. Could do with some heat here 🤗
Always learning from you!! 🙏🏼😊 only 62 😂
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Its looking pretty exciting on your plot .... wow lots going on .. my tomatoes still looking sad . But amazingly still alive .. still waiting patiently for flowers 😊😊😊
You need to see my peppers they look very very sad
Bless this weather has really knocked my tomatoes its warmed up a bit now hoping they will be happier and have a change around ..ill have a look for your peppers . Though gosh your veggies are looking amazing .
@@SAZZYGIRLBLUE must be the camera angle lol 😝
@@ThatBritishHomestead 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for clearing those up for us Nic!
Any time!
Really enjoyable video Nik. Ali from My Rusty Garden put me onto your channel. Glad she did. All the best. Mags
Ah bless her she is amazing! Nice to have you here and I'm glad you lied the video!
Great video Nik!
Aww It is so lovely you have someone to garden with at the plot and they have a LO too.
I do love this community too for the same reason. My sister lives in the Netherlands so we don't have any family close by or friends interested in gardening. I think our child's play friends parents and most of the parents at the school tbh know me as the crazy plant lady as i am always trying to give them plants or preserving what we have grown and doing traditional cooking.
So apart from hubby, i don't really have anyone to get excited or disappointed in stuff to do with all that. Tbh, i don't even think my hubby is as into gardening as i am. lol I learnt a lot from my step father in law before he passed away. He got a DR in Geology decades ago. He did no dig before i saw people doing videos on no dig and did a hybrid thing with tomatoes in his greenhouse and now we can save the seeds from it. I don't think he even had a name for it so we just call them Dr Tony's now.
It does kinda get lonely but that is why i like watching all of these lovely people, who are near me doing videos. I used to only see people in the US make YT gardening videos, so it is great to see people more local to us and have the same weather as we do. Just seems more relatable. One US channel i spoke to assumed that in London, we get -12c and a load of snow in winter! I would love snow here and haven't seen any proper snow in years!
I have been recording stuff on my phone with a tripod but i have social anxiety, so a bit apprehensive to post them but i would love to share updates on what is going on in our garden and how we garden and do stuff.
Anyway, hope you have a lovely week and take care! x
Hello! I'm not Nik, but so much of what you've written resonates with me, some of it the "flip side" of the figurative coin. Someone whose acquaintance I'd made on a social medium platform recommended YT "Self Sufficient Me," and from there I found Charles Dowding (not sure how, but I'm glad I did), and then Huw Richards, and it seemed there were no videos made by any American or Canadian gardeners. Finally found a few, and one of those was even in a comparable cold hardiness zone and had growing conditions similar to mine during the growing season!
The U.S. is very large and has quite a range of cold-hardiness zones, so when a gardener in southern California says, "...and you can do thus-and-such through the winter," no: some of us can't, at least not outdoors, we can't. The state of Utah (I'm in Ohio) has six cold-hardiness zones, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, with average annual low temperatures ranging from -30°F to 25°F or -34.4°C to -3.9°C, depending on where you are in that State.
I have one elderly neighbor who's very interested in gardening, and who from childhood used to do a lot of it although he reckons that by this time in his life he's past doing much of it for himself. He takes a keen interest, though, in his neighbors' and friends' gardens, and I supply him with rhubarb for the rhubarb pies he loves so much (usually he makes just one or two per season, as a special treat.)
My guy's quite supportive of my gardening, but he understands very little about horticulture or agriculture and doesn't have much interest in learning (that's fair: I'm not all that interested in his avocations!), so when I want to ramble on about this or that plant or plant support system, he lets me do that, nods at the appropriate places in the rather one-sided conversation, and gets a lot of facts and fancies all jumbled in his head and he'll often startle me, later, with some of the resultant ideas he gets.
Meanwhile, he's happy to have Tuscan kale/cavolo nero, summer squashes, winter squashes (which *he* grew) and onions (again, which *he* grew) from the garden. So, come to think of it, he's not completely disinterested, just satisfied with a much simpler garden. I'm forever trying to squeeze another few square feet of bed space out of the area I have to work with, or how to coax another interplanted crop out of the season.
Like you, I've tried giving plants away to relatives and friends, thinking it might encourage them to take an interest but.... No. Disappointing, that. Tried sharing out seeds, too, but most of the people I know personally just aren't all that interested.
You have my empathy!
Much gardening love to you from Northeast Ohio, U.S.A.. 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
Oh my we would LOVE to see your updates! That would be amazing! I honestly in just over 4 years I've had 2 not nice comments. One we chatted for about 6 messages and she was very nice the other it was a miss understanding and it was fine! The RUclips community is awesome! I love making videos and having this community it's amazing. I am very much like you it can be very lonely being a mum of a small baby but now I feel rich!
lol it does make me laught however I bet we are completely wrong about the weather there too! It's so nice to hear British RUclipsrs that have similar weather and humour!
@@ThatBritishHomestead I wish the gaming community was as nice. I get some right stinkers sometimes but also some lovely ones. Yes love the gardening humour too as it doesn't have to be serious all of the time.
@@AnyKeyLadythat's one thing I know nothing about gaming. Bob wants to get jasmine something for her birthday. And I have not consent of games! lol
@@ThatBritishHomestead It depends on what devices she has access to already and the budget. You can switch off some of the things for online stuff and chat with parental controls. Also look out for deals on games.
Always learning from you!! 🙏🏼😊
Ahah we learn from each other
@@ThatBritishHomestead such a good comment I thought I would put it twice 🤣
@@TheRightPearPlot lucky you did as I don't think once was enough
Very nice plant and good information
So nice of you thank you
Hi there, lovely garden nice sharing
Thank you so much 🙂
Eeh! You've touched on it, and I don't know that it's an actual myth or just some misunderstanding, but it's a pet peeve of mine: complaining about having "terrible heavy sticky clay soil." First, virtually all of North America (or at least the largest mass of the continent which would be the Canada, Mexico and the U.S.A.), has clay soil, a bit acidic east of the Mississippi River and more inclined to alkalinity west of that same waterway. I'm in Ohio, which means I'm dealing with slightly acid soil although unlike most gardeners, I'm gardening on what might have been an old Great Lakes lake shore, or an old beach head from some other smaller body of water, or a long-gone stream bed; but the soil is very, very sandy, and in fact sand is considered to be the hardest soil to garden in because it doesn't hold on to nutrients (although, very vexingly, it does hold on to heavy metal contaminants, go figure.)
I've mixed in organic matter, and overlaid organic matter, and within a growing season I need *more* organic matter because what I've mixed in and overlaid is gone and we're back to sandy soil with small, flat and *very sharp* little stones.
Still, I'm grateful for the sandy vegetable beds; there's no question of adequate drainage!
As you quite rightly observed, clay has plenty of nutrients; its density is due to its particulate matter being very, very fine so unlike my sandy garden beds, clay can hold water. (And no, I am not giving any thought to adding clay soil to my sandy garden beds.)
As an aside before I leave the topic of sandy soil, in this part of the world we have quarries for what is called Berea sandstone, finest anywhere on the planet and known to some folks as bluestone.
No sugar offerings for them, but one of the quadrants of the garden has quite the ant colony and they haven't bothered any of my garden's plants as far as I know, but they come out if force if some gardener (*a-hem!!!*) is foolish enough to walk on that soil wearing open-toed sandals.
This gardener prefers not to kill local fauna, including the ants.
You know, of course, that you're a well-loved friend to us, too. 💚 And that we're thankful for all you do and share with us via your RUclips channel.
Much gardening love from Northeast Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
Thanks so much for your kind words and your right there is so much that's good about clay soil!!! I think most soils have their challenges. Near me there is this farm that's on chalk I don't how they grow anything the soil is white! Honestly!
I think I get out more from the channel, I just love interacting with everyone! It's so lovely! In real life no one I know really cares for gardening like I do
@@ThatBritishHomestead Chalk! Well, that's got to be difficult, unless the farmer is growing things which favor dry, alkaline conditions and low fertility, such as lavender and some of the other herbs.
I understand, though, that Ireland has plenty of limestone in her soils and as a result those soils breed up some of the finest horses anywhere. So it must have its uses!
Apropos of nothing except you mentioned being a geologist, a great-grand-uncle on my father's side (this actually has nothing to do with gardening, just so you know that; more to do with weather, I suppose) was a geologist who prospected for crude oil for one of the major oil companies. Dad worked for him during his university summers, setting the dynamite charges whose sound waves, reflected back from the rock formations however deep-down, indicated the potential for crude oil or not; I expect you already know about such things. But the "oil crews" worked the Mississippi River valley from Cairo ("Kay-Ro") Illinois, which is at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers, to the Gulf of Mexico, and according to my dad it was hot-Hot-HOT and humid enough to wring water out of the air. And the mosquitoes got bigger the farther south they traveled, and the venomous snakes bigger and more venomous.
That taught me not to bother complaining about hot, humid weather, because what I knew as hot and humid was *nothing* compared to what those young men dealt with (sweat rolling down your back at night, said Dad, kept you from sleeping, la-La-la-La-la,) and if I did complain about the weather he could, would and generally did one-up me.
Okay; that's my anecdotal contribution, if it can be considered such, for the week.
And if not, then I do beg pardon for going off-topic!
Any number of online vendors and some brick-and-mortar gardening centers have their seed packets reduced in price, and as you know I'm just about constitutionally incapable of passing by any garden seeds. Had a different errand to do today, but on the way back I stopped in at the garden-center-nursery second-closest to home, and succumbed to the siren song of seeds!
Thrilled to have purchased some Black-Eyed Susan seeds (Rudbeckia Hirta) which are perennial so in theory that's one pollinator attracter I won't need to buy and sow again.
Much gardening love to you from Northeast Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊