Welcome to my gardening channel. From 2023, this is where I'll be posting up new gardening videos. My gardening video styles range from shorts, still photography, researched & focused articles, & construction projects. I aim to offer some gardening perspectives you may not find on other gardening channels, coming from over 10 years of experience.
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Great informative video. Especially your experiment with the singulars. I have a new plot and was clearing an area I thought with just bindweed but in a 4x4 ft area I discovered about 200 rhizomes, some clumps, some individuals. I now know to pot in larger clumps. As I don't know the colours will definitely be a mix. I still have another 10x10 ft to dig, may be slow progress if I discover more! J
Hi JB. I don't think that is true. You might be confusing this with Euphorbias, check out my video on them. Those have a latex sap which is definitely a skin irritant. Alstroemerias I've always been able to handle without gloves or problems. However, if you Google "Is Alstroemeria poisonous", the results say that all parts are, including skin contact (dermatitis), though I think some of these warnings are a bit over inflated. You should exercise your own cautions but don't be afraid to buy this plant and handle it, with gloves, if necessary. Hope this helps.
Hi thank you for your reply I have looked and it does say can cause skin irritation in the uk. I have seen other people with this plant and havnt had any problems it's such a beautiful plant I will buy it and handle it with gloves as an extra precaution thank you for your reply.
Thanks for the video, I have a good sized Alstroemeria (same variety as yours) in my raised bed and this has inspired me to divide it for some new plants.
Thanks for your great comment, Andrew. Good luck with yours. It really is as easy as I show in the video. The buckets I filled with the divisions I gave to my next door neighbour in September and she transplanted them into a couple of spots in her garden and they've already come up! In the meantime, the spot where I took the divisions from have grown back so quickly, replacing what I previously cut out!
I have recently planted my first penstemon. I have saved this video for the future when I will try my hand at propagating. Thanks so much for your knowledge.
Hi, because these were a propagation, not to be confused with when stems die back, at which point you pull them out to encourage new growth. When propagating, you need to take off most of the load of top-growth, so that the root clump has time to establish, which is what you see later in the video. Hope this helps.
Excellent video. Thank you. I live in Essex with heavy clay soil. Would a bucket of 100% garden compost or maybe a 50:50 mix of soil & compost be a good idea? My parent plant (also Indian Summer) seems to struggle so I assume the heavy soil or perhaps lack of nutrients reduces it's performance.
Hi neighbour (I'm only a few miles away from Essex!), 50:50 soil:compost would be fine. I've not found Alstroemeria to be at all fussy. All it needs is a sunny spot and a little bit of watering 3 times a week. My soil is very poor quality and also heavy clay, like yours, and I've done nothing to amend it, as you can see in the video. The soil I had in the buckets was not much different, though there was some old compost in there. I'm not a big fan of buying compost when free soil is everywhere. Check out my Gardeners Mindset video and my soil video. Good luck.
Hi Jeanette, yes ordinary topsoil is perfectly fine. A lot of the top gardening channels always talk about elaborate, expensive composts, which really are over the top for getting plants started. If you notice the little nodes sprouting on the stems as I point out in the video, then you're pretty much 100% likely of success in propagating the plant. Good luck.
@prentishancockgardening have checked plants no roots starting to grow yet have tobe a soft wood cutting nearly lost them with the frost this year then I found that awful chameleon plant growing across the front garden so the whole front garden is be treated to try to kill so many of my plants are it pots
Are you talking about Houttuynia Cordata Chameleon? I've done two videos on propagating that! Also, if you've checked out some of my other videos, you'll see I'm also a container gardener!
HI! Where do you store buckets of alstroemeria in winter? What is the best way to store it in winter???)) I planted it in the ground, but I also have one in the bucket))) what to do now??? I don’t know)))))) I live in the west of Ukraine! Thanks for the answer!
Hi! I'll just be leaving them outside. They should be fine. If you've split some and planted in the ground then that should also be fine. Put some mulch on top to protect a little from possible frost and snow and to keep the clump a little warmer.
What did you call me??? Lol. No, my fig trees are not Brown Turkey. Brown Turkey figs are smaller than the ones my trees produce. Though I don't know the varieties of my trees as they were already here or I have propagated from trees from my near neighbours. I have 8 different varieties.
i dont have this situation,i just want to know how to digtheclump,doyoucut it down, what season, i put mine into ground in its pot from the nursery because i was afraid iwould kill it or something would eat it,neither happened and its now enormous 5 months later but it is still in the plastic pot and no doubt the roots are very vulnerable.please help!
Hi. I think you should dig out the pot and then take the plant out of the pot and plant it directly into the ground. Leave it for a couple of years to grow some more before you do the process in the video. If you're in the northern hemisphere (i.e. it is now summer), now is a good time to do it. Make sure the soil is well-draining. Give it a good watering immediately after planting and thereafter water twice a week.
@@prentishancockgardening, I am a little confused. You advised honeycat to make sure her soil is well-draining. Yet, you advocate against amending the soil... How do you square this circle, may I ask?
I had to read that twice! Hmm, I see what you mean! I had to think back to what I meant when I wrote that. I think what I was trying to convey was you don't have to add any special compost or grit mix to the hole you're dropping the plant into. So long as it is going into a spot that doesn't get waterlogged when you get heavy rain.
This is a great idea! Thanks for sharing. Simple and no special equipment needed. I have seen a similar thing done with brown paper bags on bunches of grapes. It makes me wonder if this could be used to also provide a degree of protection from rain on ripe figs. Obviously not fully waterproof but every little bit helps when you have near-ripe figs and imminent rain. Thanks again
Hi Jim, thanks for the great comment. Yes, I agree. I forgot to mention that in the video. If you put the base of the bag facing upwards and tie the knot facing downwards. I do that most of the time when reach is not a problem. Including adjoining leaves in the bag, helping to keep the bag puffed up, also helps the water run off the bag. I've not done it with grapes, yet, as I can usually get to my ripe grapes before the pigeons! I just picked a crop today, funnily enough!
Hi Yannis, Greece is an ideal place to grow fig trees. They grow fast there, what with the low latitude and higher temperatures. Thanks for the great comment.
@@prentishancockgardening If you go to the village of Taxiarxis in Evia Greece 🇬🇷 you will find miles and miles of land with just fig trees they export us well
I have grown the single tubers successfully (not 100% though). Also a small grouping of 3 or more tubers (about the size of a tennis ball), attached together planted into a small pot will almost always develop into a nice Alstroemeria plant.
Well done. I thought mine would work but if you see at the end of the video, I started snapping them in half and they looked soggy, though not rotted. So maybe it was because they were outside and were well watered when they needed to be a little drier? Sounds like you had similar results to me, when you have a larger clump.
In UK when is the best time of the year to pinch fig tips so that a fruit bud grows the right size to overwinter and to develop into next year's crop ?
Hi Mike, you can't keep the figs on to ripen the following spring, well it's very, very rare that I've had any do that. That works with lemons but not really with figs. They'll stay on the branches but they're very unlikely to ripen. I pinch the tips when I want extra branching, then you'll get more figs from year-old branches.
Hi @mompuff, I live in London, England. This is at latitude 50 degrees north, and is equivalent to US Zone 9. Thank you for your comment, I'm glad you liked the video. :-) Check out my other fig tree videos, and I hope to do more later this summer.
You're very lucky. It's because you have the heat, sun, and humidity that it works so much faster for you. Here in England it takes that much longer - up to a year or more.
I don't know the variety names of my fig trees as they've all come from local trees as cuttings. Though I am keeping score on how many different varieties I have, and I have about 8 so far.
Hi. Just wondering if the cuttings that you used were from the same fig tree in your backyard? I had 8 cuttings shipped to me. 4 were from South Carolina, and the other 4 from California and only 3 rooted. 2 of those 3 died after they were up-potted. I'm left with only one success and hoping it will survive. Do you suppose there is higher failure rate if the cuttings are shipped to you as opposed to using fresh cuttings?
Hi Cap Cats, thanks for your questions. In this video, no they weren't. They were given to me by a neighbour about 100 metres away. He'd cut down his fig tree and he had these cut branches sitting on the ground for maybe a 2 - 5 days before I got them, so they weren't as fresh as I'd have liked. But they were still viable. I normally do this with fresh cuttings with a very reliable success rate (I've done over 60 in the last 10 years). The problem with getting cuttings from people through the post is you can never be quite sure if they have been prepared properly and secured properly to survive the journey. It's always better to try and get them yourself, in person.
@@prentishancockgardening Thank you for replying Prentis. I won’t be ordering any more cuttings online. Going to visit a local nursery and hopefully will find a nice fig tree.
I was taking a stroll in my neighbourhood and noticed this Camellia. The Camellias are all in bloom now and there are a wide variety and they're all fantastic and very different from each other. But this one really stood out... for very obvious reasons. I checked carefully and it is not two Camellias close together; it is one Camellia producing two completely different colours. Even more, I couldn't get it into the video shot, another trunk of the same tree was fully covered in red flowers, making this a true bi-colour Camellia.
well done. . . but a better drill and elec screwdriver would have made job quicker. I made a Bench after giving up repairing old one. . waterproof wood glue between all joints makes it last a lot longer being outside 24/7
Thank you, Ron. My pallet wood constructions are pretty basic. I don't have any specialist woodworking tools. I made this planter three years ago now, and it's still solid as a rock.
