I do love Monty so much on gardeners world . And to you simon and.lorna .i wish you and your loved ones a happy Christmas. Ive loved your videos in 24 ,and please carry on in 25 . I do love walking talking gardeners ❤ thank you for your great advice. Xx take care 🙋♀️ dad was a great gardener , sadly he's not here anymore ..if only i could ask him stuff . ❤
Hi Mandy and thank you for your lovely comment. We will continue for 2025 and will hopefully add a few more gardens from further afield. We are looking at the carribean in the spring and have financing applied to go back to the canary islands in the summer. Kind regards Simon
Thank you Simon! I start peppers indoors in January and plant out in late May. I started eggplants indoors before and I found it's cheaper for me to buy a couple of plants. Tomatoes - I start in March. The rest - I direct sow.
Thanks for getting in touch, Canadian gardening. Your sowing timings sound spot on. You also highlighted a great point, which is the cost of producing your own seedlings. Compost is not only expensive but often substandard. Seeds can be surprisingly expensive, and if you need a heated propagator, the cost per plant is significantly more than you purchasing the same plant in the spring. Kind regards Simon
I know all the professional equipment for starting some of these warm-temperate/subtropical veggies can be really expensive, but it doesn't really need to be. I have friends in Southern Tasmania (just over the Strait from me) with a climate comparable to yours and they start their seedlings by a window in a large, clear, plastic tub (or multiple smaller tubs) sitting on a tray of sand with a reptile tank heater strung through it and a grow light on a timer. Whole setup costs less than AUD$90 (£46). They drilled some holes down quite low for ventilation, which they can cover as needed to increase or decrease humidity. Of course it's 35*C outside where I am today, so I did all the watering early and have come inside to enjoy the cool. I'll go out and pick all the tomatoes that have ripened though the day later on when the sun is low behind the trees and everything has pulled itself together after the heat of the day. Hoping some apricots might be ready too!
Hi Anser, I love this comment. It shows what can be done with a little bit of passion and ingenuity. It might not look pretty, but if it is doing the job required aesthetics become irrelevant. Thanks for sharing. Simon
As I’ve said before, Monty Don is good to learn from, but Simon and Lorna are much more in depth and more engaging. Excellent video
That is very kind of you to say. I have pinned your comment to the top in application. Kind regards, Simon
I do love Monty so much on gardeners world . And to you simon and.lorna .i wish you and your loved ones a happy Christmas. Ive loved your videos in 24 ,and please carry on in 25 . I do love walking talking gardeners ❤ thank you for your great advice. Xx take care 🙋♀️ dad was a great gardener , sadly he's not here anymore ..if only i could ask him stuff . ❤
Hi Mandy and thank you for your lovely comment. We will continue for 2025 and will hopefully add a few more gardens from further afield. We are looking at the carribean in the spring and have financing applied to go back to the canary islands in the summer. Kind regards Simon
Thank you Simon!
I start peppers indoors in January and plant out in late May.
I started eggplants indoors before and I found it's cheaper for me to buy a couple of plants.
Tomatoes - I start in March.
The rest - I direct sow.
Thanks for getting in touch, Canadian gardening. Your sowing timings sound spot on. You also highlighted a great point, which is the cost of producing your own seedlings. Compost is not only expensive but often substandard. Seeds can be surprisingly expensive, and if you need a heated propagator, the cost per plant is significantly more than you purchasing the same plant in the spring. Kind regards Simon
I know all the professional equipment for starting some of these warm-temperate/subtropical veggies can be really expensive, but it doesn't really need to be. I have friends in Southern Tasmania (just over the Strait from me) with a climate comparable to yours and they start their seedlings by a window in a large, clear, plastic tub (or multiple smaller tubs) sitting on a tray of sand with a reptile tank heater strung through it and a grow light on a timer. Whole setup costs less than AUD$90 (£46). They drilled some holes down quite low for ventilation, which they can cover as needed to increase or decrease humidity.
Of course it's 35*C outside where I am today, so I did all the watering early and have come inside to enjoy the cool. I'll go out and pick all the tomatoes that have ripened though the day later on when the sun is low behind the trees and everything has pulled itself together after the heat of the day. Hoping some apricots might be ready too!
Hi Anser, I love this comment. It shows what can be done with a little bit of passion and ingenuity. It might not look pretty, but if it is doing the job required aesthetics become irrelevant. Thanks for sharing. Simon
My tip is that if your plants are just sitting there and not growing, then pot them up to the next plant pot size anyway come the new month.
Hi GDJames. Thanks for supporting our channel by getting in touch. Kind regards, Simon
Much rather have Toby and Carol.
Hi Pat, fun fact. Toby Buckland and I were in the same year at Hadlow College of Horticulture and Agriculture. Simon