Kitchen Garden | Easing into the Autumn Garden Clean Up | Irish Garden
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- Опубликовано: 2 дек 2024
- October has us busy harvesting, clearing up and tidying. Some planting of crops for the winter season, too.
But today, I will be clearing some of the spent plants in the Kitchen garden, mainly peas and broad beans and harvesting all of the corn.
Things do not always go to plan and the pumpkins are making me question things.....
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How is your autumn 🍂 season going? And what do you think about the pumpkin theory 🎃😊
Hi Maiju, I love your videos, you are so natural on camera, it is lovely to join you in the garden. Hoping you are 100% recovered very soon 😊
Thank you so much, Orla 🥰💚🌿That's very kind of you❤️
Get well wishes to you from a fellow introvert. Loved your attention paid to birds chirping & swallows possible departure at the end of your video while trying to conserve your own energy. Thank goodness for the awesome world around us too.
Thanks a million, Breda 🥰💚🌿Aren't they amazing little birds? Do you get them in Edmonton?... and they had left the previous day indeed.... I will welcome them back again in April ❤️
Autumn tubs done. Will tidy as and when between rain etc. it’s lovely to see the flowers you have, my garden is very green at the moment.
😊💚🌿 Lovely to have colour in the garden
Thank you again. I think you put into words so well what many of us feel about being outdoors and gardening.
Thank you so much Viv 🥰💚🌿Staying connected with nature and outdoors is so beneficial, it really makes me appreciate those moments in the garden 💚💚💚
Love the autumn 😊 A special time when we put our gardens to sleep 😊 Hope you are feeling better soon 😊
Thank you 🥰It is a lovely time of the year, a little bit nostalgic, but beautiful 💚🌿
Love your videos & how you share your garden with us. You are a natural in front of the camera. Hope you feel better soon.
Aww, thank you so much. It's really kind of you 🥰💚🌿
Maiju, Thank you for sharing a bit about how you feel about your videos. I am an introvert too. I work a bit in video production sometimes & for me you are like a pro. I think your videos are always informative, entertaining & charming. Get well soon. Thank you. 💚💚💚
Awww, thank you so much 🥰💚🌿I really appreciate you saying this ❤️
I know they say to people on stage - picture the audience naked...😂 - I don't, as I've nobody to look at 🤣 But it really is strange to look at a gadget and try to talk to it like it is a person....So really the only way I get to relax myself for this is to keep talking to as I talk to Spuds or the hens etc or perhaps my mum 🥰💚🌿
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awe, I am so sorry. I can only imagine how difficult it can be. I get where you are coming from completely. I guess it is difficult also because you do not know who your audience are. it is so strange opening your life to the world. I would not be so brave. I am so glad you have your friends there - Spuds & the Hens. They are important members of the team also! I think I might have said this before. I have watched so many gardeners on youtube & on gardeners world etc... & you are my favourite.😊 Having motivation to improve & develop the garden is always tricky when there is so much work to do. I get motivation from you because you are brilliant.😊It will be so wet for the next few days....but I dont mind. The plants need water. & so much work has been done recently. I am off to the garden centre today as nothing can be done outside...always exciting to go there. Bye. Thank you. 💚💚💚
Your hens are looking great, as are the pumpkins. Hello from county Clare!!
Hi Eilish and greetings to Clare 🥰💚🌿The hens are such characters, we love having them
Agree it looks like some kind of cross.
The garden is healing for sure. Hope you continue to feel better.
Thank you, Robin 🥰💚🌿Feeling much better 😊
Very much appreciate your vlogs and can only imagine how much care and thought goes into the process, considering how evident it is looking at the beauty of your gardens. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Much appreciated, thank you so much 🥰💚🌿
Feeling better already 😊and learning not to be too hard on myself when I'm not able accomplish everything in the garden due to time, weather, feeling poorly etc 😊
Hope you feel better soon. ❤
Thanks a million 🥰💚🌿Feeling much better already 😊
Enjoying your garden videos!
Thank you so much 😊💚🌿
Enjoy your videos and love your garden x
Thanks so much 🥰💚🌿
I love the autumn. Yesterday in the sunshine I was working in a t-shirt, as soon as the sun went behind a cloud jumper and woolly hat were needed.
haha, yes, its just like that, keep the layers on and off, and the sunshine heat can be really strong. it keeps pushing the temps over 40C in the greenhouse, but otherwise outside it is between 10-12C
I learn that Coco 🐔 is a good listener 🤗
Haha, Jim 😍 Coco is a superb listener, a real independent and mature hen 💚 I should have included a clip of her standing in front of me, but I didn't want to move the camera... None of the hens are scared of Spuds, but they don't like his speed and bouncy energy, as he'd run through anything for the sake of fetching the ball 😂
Love your videos! Several people I follow on YT say they are introverts, I am one myself and need a lot of me-time. Take care, hope you're feeling better! Can't help with the pumpkins unfortunately, didn't even know they could get toxic.
😊Thank you 💚🌿and thank you for saying about the me-time! as a lot of people do not understand that, but I'm the same 😀I feel I can be less introvert when I've been able to get a good amount of me-time. Also I can absolutely do large group gatherings and come across social and not introvert, but my recovery time from it after (as the reserves get used up very fast) is way longer.....
Hi Maiju 👋
Sorry to see you've been unwell, wishing you a speedy recovery and hope you're feeling a lot better now since filming.
You're a trouper gardening and filming ❤.
Fab pumpkins cross pollinated or not 😂
Awww isn't bird song just the sweetest sound ever 😍
Well considering you're nervous on camera, it certainly doesn't show, you come across so natural and lovely 👍😍❤ x
Thank you, Linda 🤗🤗on all accounts 🥰💚🌿
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Get well soon. 🙏🏾❤😷🤒🤧
Thanks a million 🥰💚🌿 Feeling much better 😊
Hi Maiju, they still look nice squashes even if they are from cross pollinated seed, I hope that they taste okay.
Thank you, Ady 🥰💚🌿They do look a fine pumpkin 😊
I hope the same, that the taste will be ok and the fruit is not toxic 🌿
You property is lovely
Thank you very much 😊💚🌿
Morning Maiju, yes we are fluctuating between 4c mornings and 18c afternoon but no masses of rain ☔️ yet. I cut all my calendula back and they’ve regrown 😅. But keep in mind that if you grew corn in a poly tunnel environment you would need to continuously shake them 😅. Did you mow over the pumpkin runners? I do before putting it in the compost. Perhaps they all cross pollinated. Hope your feeling better soon, look after yourself, Ali 🥶🌞🇨🇦
Hi Ali 🤗 It is definitely chilli out there, but I hope we 'll get some nice days still 💚
I did run over the runners with the mower, only the thick stalks were too close to the ground for the mower and I just chucked them as they were into the compost....
I do still shake the corn 😂 wind and outdoors or not, it just is a thing to do 😂
I also have some strange pumpkins. Some seeds I took from a pumpkin that a friend bought in a shop and those pumpkins look peculiar. I will test if they're bitter before cooking them. The weather is quite cool here but I still hope that some warm days are still coming in October. I hope you're getting better soon. Greetings Heidi 👩🌾💕
Hi Heidi, greetings to Germany 😊💚🌿 Thank you, I'm doing much better already🥰
I do wish we get some nice days in October and some years we have been quite blessed with dry weather, but so far there's a storm after a storm during the weekends....how do they time it like this? 😂😂
If you buy seeds (for example) of Red Kouri pumpkin and Butter pumpkin and plant them near to each other, you will still get those exact varieties on each vine. However the resulting seeds (next generation) of both those varieties will vary due to cross pollination
That's what I think could have happened with the original seed coming from a cross pollinated pumpkin 😊💚🌿
I was not planning to keep any seed from any of my pumpkins this year, but I would not mind doing some hand-pollination next year for proper home-saved seeds 😍
Love this for the garden shots and for your honesty and vulnerability. We are due to move to our forever home with some land on Monday and I’ve been toying with the idea of recording our journey on here. Like you, we are a very private family but we also get so much from watching others and channels like yours are what inspired us to be brave and commit to a new life. I’d love to be able to do the same for just one other person. But also the idea of making an idiot of myself is a bit terrifying 🙈🙈🙈
Hi and thank you so, so much 🥰💚🌿
First of all, congratulations on your forever home and what an exciting time you will have ahead of you!
Absolutely consider recording it and showing it on YT, you will not make a fool of yourself. People do love to see a start of a homesteading journey 😊 the only advice I would give is to consider doing research on YT thumbnail and video editing and getting a microphone from the get go (the viewer will appreciate a clear audio) And always remember it is a marathon, not a sprint and you'll be fine 🥰
@@spudsandroses thank you so much for the tips and encouragement. I decided to be brave so I had a stab at it and have uploaded my first video 🙈
@@OtterwoodCottage Just watched and subbed! It is fab, you'll do great!
@@spudsandroses oh wow, thank you so much ♥️
Lovely to see you Maiju 💕 Hmm so pumpkins. The Amish paste are a tomato so that might be the problem 😂😂😂 no seriously - is it Amish pie? Because they have a pointy end, very acorn looking I think... I've no idea what any of my pumpkins are 😂 and I'm not sure they have time to ripen, but keeping everything crossed. My supposed crown prince looked very bizarre last year but they tasted great. Ahhh there's the rain. Your garden even looks beautiful in the pouring rain!!! How lovely to have that to look out to when warm and cosy inside. ❤❤
Haha, Kerry nothing escapes you...😂😂 I heard it on the clip as well when editing, but I was sure between the accent and mic, probably it will be missed...but not, wont pass the English teacher 🤣🤣 🥰
We have been eating so many tomatoes, that it has gone into my brain....haha
Its good to know you're not afraid to taste and eat the ''nontypical'' looking pumpkins 💚🌿Once the foliage dies down more, I might be able to track the vines better and see what planter they lead to and maybe find actual labels, too🤦♀️
@@spudsandroses hehe it's only because you said it like a hundred times 😂 Yes pumpkins don't scare me! Give it a lick and off you go! 🤣
@@dogontheplot 🤣🤣 ....actually forgot to ask, did you grab any seeds at Malvern off the giant pumpkins?
@@spudsandroses no but I might still have some from last year ... You wanna grow an enormous pumpkin in the middle of the wildflower meadow???? 😀
A lovely atmospheric video - and hope you're well on the mend now. I'd definitely avoid any squash/pumpkins you suspect of being cross-bred seed - next door allotment holder and his family were all very ill for three days from that error. (And as a fellow introvert, have you read Susan Cain's 'Quiet: the power of the introvert' or seen any of her TED talks on the subject? Changed my self-perception remarkably. Thanks again for a therapeutic blog.
Thank you very much, really kind of you 🥰💚🌿
I had not heard about Susan Cain...but I will look her up, thank you.
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I had the same thing happen to me and my winter squash this year! Planted 4 varieties (Acorn, Jack O'Lantern, Butternut, and Nanticoke), and had several mystery squashes... the jack o'lanterns and butternuts (which were store-bought seed) were easy enough to spot, but the acorn squash came from a neighborhood swap. Now I have several long, dark green ones that look more like courgettes, and many that I suppose could be acorn squash, but their shape is pear-shaped, and a few little ones that look like ornamental gourds. I haven't cut into any of them to see what lies inside. I'll be curious if yours turn out to be edible!
😀💚🌿 the cross pollination does happen and sometimes they can get bitter if the plant was too stressed because of the growing conditions. I did chat to my mum about those seeds over the weekend and she confirmed the seeds were from a pumpkin off another grower, but not guaranteed clean pollination.
best of luck with testing your squashes for edibility 😊💚🌿
Hey Maiju, you are such a natural with the camera! I always really look forward to your videos :D. and I have just learnt sth new today, about cross pollination and toxicity. I had no idea! And I may have damned one of my pumpkins this way, by hand pollinating with another type's male flower, as there were none available of it's own kind. eh, well... now I know. Maiju, can I please draw on your gardening experience to decide how to handle potted perennials that I have? Long story short, I ended up not having any garden space ready for lupins, verbena and echinacea that I grew from seed this spring. So I put them all in (hopefully decent size) pots for the season. I will soon have that space and will want to move them from pots into the ground. I think its best to cut perennials in the spring, not autumn, but should I do it now, because I am stressing them by replanting? Or will they be fine until spring? Lupins have actually flowered for me this first season (but flowers gone now), verbena too and its still going. But no flowers on echinacea. I would be grateful for any tips once you are feeling better! All the best!! :)
Hi Justyna 🥰Always good to hear from you and thank you, feeling much better already 💚🌿
The plants will be absolutely fine in the pots as they are, If you still have the old flower stalk on the Lupin (maybe even seed pods on it) I would cut that back. The rest of the foliage can stay as is, there is no need at all to remove it before winter. It might be better to gather those pots together so you can protect them with a horticultural fleece if it comes down to really hard cold weather during mid-weather, and not to use any ''saucers'' under the pots to gather rainwater and the plants can drown in this wet weather.....other than that, you'll be fine to plant them now or wait until spring.
As far as the pumpkins go..I actually replied to another comment with much more detail, specifically about the cross pollination, but I could not ''Pin'' it...so if you can look that up under this same video, it might clarify a side of it that I didn't talk about 😊
All the best, Maiju 😊💚🌿
@@spudsandroses Thank you so much, Maiju💚😃
Evening dear, I think they call it, calm before the storm as there's a weakened hurricane heading your way for Sat, night Sun, morn. So batten down the hatches and be prepared. Did you say you still have corn left to pick, mine was all in the freezer by mid July and the mice eat the last couple of very smalls cobs. You had a bit of cold, then you better out than in if you are strong enough, but if I get like that it's Night nurse before bed for 2 days then you are back on your feet. I brought a bottle with me when I came here 5 years ago, is still in bathroom cabinet un opened as never had flue or cold for more than6 years now. Drier climate helps.Early Bird from Kings seeds is a very good variety and is what it says, early it will grow 2 but personally I take 1 off and let the first formed grow, that way you get a bigger cob. Easy answer to that, if you want to buy in bulk and use the same variety every year buy for a few years, use what you need at put the rest in the bottom of the fridge, fridge not freezer As they will keep for years so if seed gets expensive or that very good variety you like isn't available any more just go into the fridge and there you have. I brought a lot with me from AU.K. and run out of certain ones this year so had my friend bring me few supplies this which will give a few more years of the ones I like.Get well soon.
Hi Robert and greeting to sunny Portugal 🥰💚🌿
You're brilliant for all of this information, I took a note of the Night Nurse, I'm always waiting too long before I go to the pharmacy...Thank you 😊
I also looked up the Earlibird F1 and it does have high praise for the early maturing and sweet tasting quality.
I had none of my corn harvested until that video as the ears were tiny, I've opened all of them now and they are immature baby-corn cobs. I was sure I had taken a videoclip of this, but once I was editing, It wasn't there...🤦♀️
The taste was delicious though, really crunchy and sweet and they will be perfect for eating raw with a hummus or dip or used in a stir-fry. Also the cobs were long and slender, so all was not lost, there is enough for 1 family meal or 2 separate sides 💚🌿
@@spudsandroses Well the sun is about to disappear for a few days as this hurricane that is passing over you has a tail on it and we are in line, so will get 4 days of rain and about 4 " so ok will fill the well and bring the water table back up. I have used Night Nurse since it first came to the market in the 70's and nothing else since as it works or. It does exactly what it says on the tin, bottle in this case. The tassels on your cods need to be brow or dark brown before the cods are read, a light colour is no good as the cobs will still be white. If you are stuck for anything and need some imfo or advice, don't sit there thinking about it just ask and I'll do my best to give a straight answer. I have been gardening from 5 with my Dad Then I bought my own in 74 and was a pro market gardener for 40 years, now I just do it to grow for me, but have gained a lot of knowledge in that time. So am here to help if you need it ok. You can ask here if you prefer am here to help those that need. mrinvinsible9@gmail.com.
How many seasons you have ?Here Kind of Tropical seasons ?A long Hot. Summer ?
Hi, We do have 4 seasons, but as it is a temperate oceanic climate, we get mild winters and a lot of rain
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I think your theory is wrong toxic squash happens in the Pepo varieties when you cross Zucchini or patty pan squash with ornamental gourds, your pumpkins look like Maxima's Kuri squash are Maxima's and look like a cross between Butter Cup and Crown Prince Squash there are many different varieties of Kuri squash
Thank you so much for your comment 💚 it's really good to bring up these topics, and often, I brush over an aspect of a growing issue in my garden as I'm assuming the viewer being familiar with it and also there's nobody to ask further questions there and then when filming 😅 Believe you me, all that the hens want to know about - is there any worms 🪱 and Spuds - when are you throwing the ball? 🤭
I was referring to the odd size of the pumpkin as I was expecting the fruit look more like a Kuri(which I have grown before) and being a shape being different also immediately makes me question about a potential crosspollination and bitter/toxic syndrome. I have no way of knowing what got cross pollinated with the variety I was told should be a Kuri as I received the seed off my mum, but she didn't grow the squash herself, just harvested the fruit out of a squash she had bought for dinner 😊
All squashes can cross pollinate within its species - all Pepo varieties can pollinate with other Pepo varieties, all Maxima varieties pollinate with Maxima etc. Stressful growing conditions can also trigger the toxic syndrome, the main thing is to not continue eating anything from the cucurbit family fruit if it tastes bitter 💚
But if I only have Amish Pie pumpkin growing (Maxima species) and Crown Prince (Pepo species) growing side by side, I can save seed for the following year and they should come through normal as the species don't cross pollinate. But you never know what your neighbour is growing and the bees 🐝 travel long distances... so really always check for bitterness if the fruit looks funny and buy seed from store or handpollinate to save your own seed for next year 😊💚🌿 I hope this clarifies my thought process about those pumpkins
@@spudsandroses Interesting in Australia Crown Prince is Maxima I wonder if it's a different variety of pumpkin then what's called a Crown Prince in the UK and off if it's not a bitter melon in the Curcurbit family it doesn't taste right don't eat it but that also goes with food of any type like tomatoes and pumpkin
That's interesting 💚🌿See the link of the variety I'm growing....
www.gardenersworld.com/plants/cucurbita-pepo-crown-prince/
Hope you have battened down the hatches as my screen says it's hitting you now.
HI Robert 😀, Its been raining pretty hard, but the wind has been ok...Internet connection terrible 🙈
@@spudsandroses Not a problem I have satellite.
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