What worked? What didn't? Garden Tour September 2024
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- In this video I give a garden tour of what has been occurring in my no-dig garden throughout September. I show the successes of my root crops such as carrots, beetroot and parsnips along with the failure of my tomatoes and cucumber plants.
I include a look at my beans, sweetcorn, brassicas and celeriac as well as my dahlias, morning glory plants and straw bale gardening. I also have squashes and pumpkins dotted around my no-dig garden as well as an update strawberries, raspberries and grapes. Gardening has been tricky this year with such unpredictable weather.
I really hope you enjoy this update on how my garden and plants have done this summer.
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@myrustygarden
@TheRightPearPlot
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Love the bloopers!!! Well done Bethan, you are like a ray of sunshine in this cruddy weather we’ve had lately 😊
Ah thank you so much for this lovely comment, I really appreciate it 😊
Sometimes we just run out of energy for the garden, that's when i just sit in it with a hot drink.
I just enjoyed doing other indoor things like reading, playing board games with the children and catching up on some tv series I've been trying to watch for ages. It was a great reset 😊
Nice update, Bethan! I'm like you and the heat is a stopper, but your garden continues to plug along and is going to produce harvest. Your gimbal made me giggle! All the best, Audrey
Thanks very much Audrey, how did your ginger do? I started to do your grow along but sadly my ginger didn't make it past the first pot, maybe I'll try again next year. Who doesn't love a gimbal failure 😂 Take care 😊
Lovely to see you back Bethan. I do love the message at the start “if you don’t feel like something, then don’t do it”. Wise!
So much going on in the garden. Sorry about the tomatoes, kale and celeriac not performing as hoped.
Brilliant news about new new greenhouse. That’ll be amazing when done.
The gimbal woes 😅😅🤣
Ah thanks Clare, the woes were very frustrating, I think I've worked it out now, the extra weight from my mic receiver were weighing it down so if I adjust where the hold is, it shouldn't happen 😂😂
It's been a shame things have not worked out but it was my fault as I held things back for too long or didn't pot them on, I'm hoping the new greenhouse will help 😂
If you are at Malvern today have fun, I think you said you were going and say hi to everyone for me. Take care ❤️
Glad for an update on your garden. Looks like you've had quite a harvest to spite tricky UK weather.
We've enjoyed our celeriac as chips in the air fryer. First time growing for me.
Nice new flock of chickens.
Thanks very much Robin, celeriac chips sound lovely. Hope your garden has treated you well this year? It's always great when we get some new chickens, they are funny animals. Take care 😊
😂😂😂 shame you have to use then just for wine 🍷
It's such a hardship Ali 😂
Oooh we all know about gimbals doing that. You were very patient with it. 😂I’d be f’ing and jeffing.
Lovely to see you back. You will have the garden turned round in no time. ❤
Thanks Allie, I've made a start and I had the day in the garden yesterday which I really enjoyed, I'm just no good when it's too hot. The gimbal was a challenge 😂 I hope all is well with you? ❤️
All is fantastic, in Malvern today and meet up with everyone ❤ such a laugh.
Raining here now but we were lucky it stayed dry for most of the day. Heading home tomorrow!! Xxx@@bethanskitchengarden
HERE SHE IS HAHA!! Wow the caulis look fab bethan!! Cant believe you didnt plant the greek gigantes haha! Danny xx
Nevermind, I'll plant them next year, maybe I'll acquire a few more beans by then, I only have 4 😂
Nice update Bethan. What a shame about the tomatoes. I must have a look for a ketchup recipe
Thanks Emma, glad you had enough tomatoes to be able to make ketchup. I made ketchup once or twice but I found it very laborious, I settle for passata now, well not this year 😂😂 Take care 😊
I’m glad your ok and I agree the heat straps ones energy beyond enjoying it. Our weeks of high 30’s were awful 😢. But having said that wow Bethan the garden looks amazing and harvests per Instagram posts were fabulous. I think everyone has had issues with tomatoes 🍅 even mine were insane and we had loads of heat. My beautiful carrot bed got inundated with caterpillars 🐛 and all of a sudden I noticed no tops on them 😱 so I harvested all of them (the carrots not the caterpillars they went to the birds). Ooh a greenhouse addition will be awesome. 😊 16:19 didn’t Darth Vader help with the tomatoes 😅😅.
It’s been an odd year all around but we deal with stuff as it happens and move on. Have a wonderful week keep smiling, Ali 🌞☔️🇨🇦
Ah thanks Ali, lovely to be back in touch. Yes it's a tricky year, in the summer I usually get up early in the morning to do my jobs but this year I just couldn't summon the energy, it has been nice though as I read a lot and did some hobbies that I had forgotten I enjoyed doing.
Shame about your carrots, it's awfully frustrating when pests decimate crops isn't it. I keep thinking I'm going to cut back on growing things but I like so many different vegetables it's hard to work out which ones to not grow.
I thought Darth Vader might have kept my chickens away from my beetroot but no such luck 😂
Thanks for your support Ali ❤️
Great to see you Bethan! Shame about what happened to the tomatoes. The rest of the crops are looking great and i am glad your flowers have turned up for the show!
I always find every year some things do great, whilst other things don't, when they normally do but i think this year has been tough for us growers. Lovely chickens. Have you named them?
We had birds nibble on our kale but at least they waited until they were bg enough. When our beans and tomatoes are finished i am really looking forward to using the new garden mesh finally as we didn't get time before planting them out. Hopefully, it will keep most of the beasties out over winter and next year. I have inter planted some Chinese cabbage and kohlrabi in the mean time and covered them with fizzy bottles until they get big enough to handle themselves. Hopefully also by then most of the insect pest pressure has finished for the year.
Fab news about your greenhouse! I bet you can't wait to get it ready and set up?
You were saying that your gherkins were tasting bitter and i hear somewhere that if you grow all female cucumbers next to male and female cucumbers, it can cross pollinate and make the all females taste bitter and best to plant them away from each other. Do you think that might be the case for you or do you think it was the variety you didn't like?
We only have one green chilli producing indoors! Somehow aphids got in and decimated the taller ones. I have cut my losses, literally and cut them back and put them in the bathroom to over winter in hopes of a better year, next year. Our California Wonders outside did start to ripen but then get either blossom end rot or have an insect poke a hole in and the water from the rain got in. We then started covering them with organza bags and just as they started blushing, we would harvest them. Again i heard that if you harvest the first few when they are big and green at this point, then they will produce more.
The gimbal outtakes made me chuckle! Take care Bethan and have a lovely week!
Thanks for your lovely update, I'm glad some things worked out for you and you have a plan of attack for the things that didn't. Yes it has been a tricky year for some things.
I'm not sure about the gherkins being male or female, I've grown them before and they weren't bitter then so I'm not really sure. I'm looking forward to the winter and getting lots of my jobs done. Take care and I hope you get yours done too.
@@bethanskitchengarden Thanks Bethan. You too!