A New Garden Part 6: Harvesting the Wheat
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- After a most peculiar summer weather wise - it's finally time to harvest the wheat - but will it even be worth doing!?
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Grandad is an absolute trooper. I love seeing the videos with him.
How nice that you still have your dear Grandad. I miss mine.
I love this, the scythig and grandad with the Jay, brilliant stuff.
This is filled with wonderful moments. I love helpful, knowledgeable people - and you showcase them so well. My heart almost melted when the bird popped in for a snack.
I miss my Grandad. Spend as much time as you can with yours.
How wonderful that so many chipped in to help with the harvest; traditional farming at its best!!! Love to Grandad. Take care, be well
Grandad where he is happiest, kept amused and loving life 🤗👍🇮🇪
Good to see Grandad! I also see he is spoiling the local bird population. 😀
What a wonderfully eclectic video. Celia was awesome and Grandad is amazing. That Jay swooping in was magic. I cannot guess how much flour you will end up with, but no doubt it will taste amazing. Love to you all. Pete
Took a wee break from your Kermit videos and great to see your grandpa. All the best from Ekibastuz in northern Kazakhstan 👍
So wholesome. Great video. I especially appreciated the Farmer and Grandad. 😊
It's always a good day when you get your van back from the garage and then get home to see an ironthumper video!
An even better day when no garages are involved and you get home to see an Ironthumper video! Hope it wasn't an expensive repair buddy👍
@@BrainCaseSugaryGoodness true but it was a free repair because they buggered it up the first time haha
What a lovely video. Friends helping each other, and good old Grandad is a great guy. I wish I had one...or even a Dad. At 64 myself I suppose it's a bit late for that...Love to you all...
Great to see people helping each other. Great that grandad is back. Hope the bread was worth it.
Nice to see you have a little community of people you can ask for help when you need it.
Tom is a great friend and neighbour to have.
Awwwwww you grandad is lovely
Grandad makes this video. What a lovely guy.
So nice to see grandad back ,he's an absolute star x
Grandad enticing the birds. Perfect. ☺
Oh Max, your Grandad is really a one in a million!
Pumpkins are the most amazing plant to grow.
We used a mix my fatherinlaw knocked up.
Harrvested monsters.
It. Was a mix of horse shit, rain water, his own urine, tea leaves, nird shit and any bit of greenery in the house.
Steeped all spring and left in plastic bottles.
A potent brew.
Bigger pots all around in that poly tunnel will see you right. Especially peppers. Happy growing bud.
Nice harvest there and so lovely to see grandad again!
Thanks for sharing grandad with us Max. Lovely fella.
Nice to see grandad back 👍. Just shows how much work goes into a commercial crop of wheat so it’s not swamped with weeds.
Real old England right here.
Yay! Harvesting time for the wheat, great to watch the process. 🌾
Grandad and Jay double trouble 😁
I feel like sharing my experience of harvesting grass with a scythe/sail. I grew up on a farm and there we mowed the grass under the fence wire in the pasture. In the 80s I bought a small country house where I had sheep, cattle, horses and poultry. I got a scythe and started cutting grass with it. I did the best I had learned, but it was not entirely successful. An experienced neighbor told me that the blade should be thinned, not sharpened. The local village blacksmith knew the old blacksmith craft. He could hammer the blade thinner. He taught me how to adjust the blade. He laid the blade, mounted on the hilt, on the floor, marked with chalk on the floor, the blade by the hilt, stepped on the top of the hilt and turned the blade until the tip of the blade hit the chalk mark. Then the blacksmith showed that the tip of the blade should be a few cm below the mark, i.e. that the radius of the blade, from the top of the hilt, must be smaller than the radius of the blade at the hilt. How much the radius should be smaller, you have to find out by feeling when the blade cuts the grass. A comment to her, who hits with a scythe, that you hit the grass set to the left, i.e. you cut with the blade from right to left, so that the cut is free and not where you hit next time.
I hav at lot og respekt for RUclips skills.
I cut my front lawn in June, after the flowers have seeded, with a grass hook and there's nothing better than getting it right, the grass just drops.
Lovely to see you getting help from your neighbours.
Great stuff, keep up the good work. Shout out to farmer Tom! 🧑🌾
Good to see that ole character back .A stable in your vids
How nice to see some new people in the video… Granddad has good beard game too
The Eggplant likes a sour soil, so next year get your self some book matches and drop three or so match sticks under the plant.
Great entertainment as always and well done to Grandad for his patience sorting the wheat.
That looks like so much fun. Nice to see grandad again x
That would answer the question as to why the jays are so cool around you :)
What a lovely video! Very happy for you having such friends, granddad, peace and own harvest!
A Star performance especially from grandad well done.
Good to see grandad again!
Loved watching this! What a cracking bunch of people.
soooo amazing its more than just farming its staying grounded. Literally.
Love the scything sounds
Nice to see grandad, scything the wheat reminds me of my own grandad. He used to own a farm and used a massive scythe(like the one death has) for various jobs round the place. I've worked on one of the old threshing machines you talked of run by belts to earn pocket money in my youth. Great memories.
Grandad is the Jay whisperer!
There is so much to like about this video. Thank you.
The scythe my grandfather used for cutting down cereals had a wooden " hook"" added about 8 inches above the handle by the blade so the crop would not fall back but fall on the side and make a perfect row he would cut the barley by hand and beat it to save the straw for roofing that was in Normandy in early sixties
About the plants in the poly tunnel: Your pots are way too small. Many plants will adjust their size and the size and setting of fruit to the amount/quality of soil available.
As you mentioned, that's why your peppers in the big pots are growing bigger fruits.
They say the only thing better than a lot of soil is even more soil.
If you want to continue growing in containers might I suggest you try the gardena (or similar) watering system with the clay cones that act as valves for tiny tubes.
You can mix up a barrel of liquid fertilizer or liquid plant manure and connect it to the watering system.
This will keep your plants always perfectly watered but also simulate a bigger pot by providing the plants with a constant stream of nutrients.
I have seen great results from systems like this.
Check the root balls of the plants that are not doing well for evidence of vine weevil. If you can see root damage, infestation can be reduced to the point of eradication by either using sharp sand in the compost mix or spreading a layer of it on top of the compost in the pot. Might even be worth doing it prophylactically.
Grandad and a beautiful jay - brilliant. Hope your bread is successful - you’ve really earned it!
Loved the scything, say hi to Granddad from us
Nice to see grandad back i would like if you could have him there more love his stories.
Hello 👋 Max, grandad, Celia, farmer . Fantastic!!!
Love the update, thanks Max. Therapeutic. I've never tried cereal crops in my garden but it looks like you're having a similar problem to me. Everything I can do with the compact tractor gets done. The bits that have to get done my hand I find I can never give enough time to them. I only ever seem to get about half my anticipated yield, the rest going to pests or weeds. Still just about worth it though.
Wish my kale looked as good as yours Max, keep on keeping on .
Makes your day when you see grandad there helping
It will be the best loaf you ever eat 😊
Great to see you making the most of your time with your Grandad. Lovely to see
Thank you Max, for a most delightful presentation - very relaxing to watch. Nice to see Grandad back in harness!
Makes you appreciate being able to go to the shop and buy as much flour as you want.
Grandad the Legend 🙌👏👏🇬🇧👍
Granddad - you're so lucky to have him around. :)
Toodle-pip, Grandad! 🖐
Always great to see Grandad make an appearance and nice to see others involved in what you do too 😊
Well done
As with garden paths and such, it's best to use heat or elbow grease for weeds, and avoid deadly chemicals at all costs.
Nice video series Max, made me smile the whole way through .. I do wonder if traditionally farmers in England used their spray booths as dry hanging areas.. cheers. Pots. Australia.
Rock on
Love seeing grandad! Also, the jaybird is great! I remember seeing it in the previous Landrover video. New family member?
Woah! I thought that Jay was kinda friendly when it was sitting on Kermit's bonnet. But having one take seeds out of my hand would be ACE!
Great to see your grandad back again.
What an absolute star your grandad is. A great, upbeat and informative video.👍🏻👌🏻
Nice one Grandad, was that a dog treat you gave the Jay? Good job you got all the spraying done on the Landy now the spray booth’s a threshing room.
Bless 'em
Bringing in the sheaves bringing in the sheaves. Cool video Max. Helpful neighbors. And dear old grandad.
Something tells me Max is heading to the blacksmith shop and hammer out a hand powered thresher.....
Wonderful.
Hello grandad and great video
It's like The Good Life 2.0
That loaf of bread looks like a lot of graft, I hope its the best loaf of bread ever!
Thank you Celia, I'd never heard of PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING before now, upon research they're a bit fab and I think I'm a fan of them now.
I had 9 Jays at the bird bath this summer, 7 chicks with a good appetite, been a consistent 2 for the past 8 years. My early spuds were great. Dug up the last of the lates yesterday, total disaster, 3 hours spent turning 18kg of blighted spuds into 8 kg of mash potatoe, now in the freezer. Hope the bread proves worth it, even if most likely a one-off.
good stuff, cheers Max :)
Triple thumbs up for every Grandad episode
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cool stuff, that first loaf of bread will be satisfying! I can see you'll have to make a scythe in the future. you're definitely right about the bigger pots, from personal experience you will get a lot more chillis of of one plant in a 30l pot than of all those you've got in small the pots, with less watering. eggplants definitely suffering from that pot size.
As someone who works in grounds maintenance and can sometimes spend up to 10 hours a day using a strimmer, I can confirm that I too hate the bloody things! 😂
Is Grandad Dr. Dolittle?!!!
great to see your grand dad working away still. Curious to see what happens next with your harvest.
Peppers do really well in 20 litre barrels with the top cut off them my aunt got 10 over last winter (on facebook for free) and they take up less space than the 6 big pots she used to use. And this year she had a glut of different types of sweet peppers
9:20 Grandad is a Disney princess? Are we to expect a song at some point, accompanied on project awesome?
Maybe try handpollinating the aubergines?
He's at it again; look, and an Austrian scythe.
9:21!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the past I've thought about using a scythe for dealing with overgrown stuff, but the way my back has gotten over the years, I'd probably snap in half if I tried!!! :S
Also, nice to see that the Jay is hanging about, seems like a friendly bird... :)
I've done a bit of scything. The green stuff makes it so much harder.
Your grandads great
Keep an eye on your tomatoes for small black spots on the fruit & leaves (not sure if it's waste or larvae), I had an infestation of craneflies last year in the polytunnel - it was about this time (I'm in the UK) - most of the tomatoes were still green, lost about 20% of the crop!
Brilliant! Well done. Will the bread be sourdough??
Made my day Max 👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you.
How did grandad train that Jay to his hand? They’re normally such secretive jumpy things…?
Is that project awesome 2.0 in the background? 👀