I always forget to do the Ali waft to remove the cobwebs before inwalk straight into them with my face. 😂😂😂 Nothing beats the taste of a home grown tomato ❤ Hope you Enjoyed Wales!! Great job tidying up those tomatoes Helen. Have a lovely weekend☺️
I always forget to do the Ali waft to remove the cobwebs before inwalk straight into them with my face. 😂😂😂 Nothing beats the taste of a home grown tomato ❤ Hope you Enjoyed Wales!! Great job tidying up those tomatoes Helen. Have a lovely weekend☺️
Fabulous tomato jungle cleanup. Mini harvest is lovely Helen. 😂😂 I walk through at least 2 cobwebs 🕸️ every time even after wafting my hands. Fab coureggets wow. Hope the weekend has good weather, Ali ☔️☔️🇨🇦
I think your general disposition told more as a review! Not a glowing endorsement. I use a petrol strimmer for work. I know they are more expensive, but they are so powerful. I think the only advantage of electric is noise. Horses for courses. Thanks for posting though, it was informative.
Gerald has one similar but it has a shoulder strap that helps you balance it. Hope it works out for you because this stuff isn’t cheap. Have a super week Helen, Ali ☔️🌞🇨🇦
@@myrustygarden I decided to spend out on this brand because I already have 4 batteries due to having other DeWalt tools, but I wouldn't say it's any better than the cheaper quality brands.
When you were showing yourself strimming, it looked very big and powerful, but your review of the strimmer doesn’t sound that enthusiastic. It looks like it did a very good job though?😊
How is holding it with the right hand? My old strimmer had a handle and safety switch and these new ones look like you just grip under the battery, which looks a bit odd. Hope this makes sense? Guess I’m wondering if it’s comfortable to hold!
All your hard work is bringing things back under control quickly, Helen - weedeating (strimming? 😊) always makes everything look so much cleaner and more spacious. I really need to do some (a lot!) of that myself! 😁😎 Yep, right on about the orange balm. I didn't realize that about lemon balm when I planted it years ago. It let me know! 😂 Now I'd rather grow Lemon Verbena! Your green beans are gorgeous - and squash and broccoli! 👏👏👏 Great job - speaking as a fellow solo gardener! ☺️
Yes, the heat has been hard this year, Helen - and around here, the smoke, too. 😢 But even though weeds and pests have overtaken some of your veggies and fruits, a lot of your garden still looks great and is producing nicely!😊 Love those pure-speckled beans! ❤ (They look like Dragon Tongues I grew a few years ago.) And your brassica look fabulous!
Hopefully the warm weather sticks around a bit but not too long 😂 never satisfied are we. Caterpillars 🐛 are awful and such good hiders. Great video Helen, have a marvellous weekend, Ali 🌞🇨🇦
It is a fact of life that as a self employed gardener I spend all summer wishing it was cold, and all winter longing for the heat! Well done being on the plot at 7 am! My wife is only aware of one 7 o’clock in every 24 hours, and it’s not that one! 😜
At the moment Helen we are inundated with moths, outside I don’t mind but they are in the house now too. Fab to see bees 🐝 again. Great to still have a strawberry 🍓 or two. Have a great day Helen, Ali ☁️🇨🇦
That looks like a very lovely juicy strawberry! I managed to get up to my plot for the first time in a week to have a proper look around this morning. I don’t think I’m going to get any sweetcorn this year. It’s less than a foot tall so I think my chances of garnering any harvest from it can be forgotten😢. I did pull up armfuls of onions though, and I still have a lot more to pull up next week. I think with the weeding, it is just tackling one bed at a time and prioritising which one you do first…
How about passing the wire through the square hole on one side, wrap it around the plastic above the hole a few times, then pass it across the centre to the other square hole, and repeat?
Every time I go up the plot I pick one small area and hand weed. That together with concentrating on the crops gets me past the swathes of weeds growing at this time of year. That looked like one hell of a strawberry! 🍓👍
When you feed the pigeon you're training to stop at a spot that resembles its home roost, i would say. Cute little bird, anyhow. I would put netting up so it looks different
When I was a young soldier, we did a week long survival exercise. Anything we ate, had to be foraged, or trapped. That pigeon had lunch written all over it! And I say that as a vegan of 10 years. You and your family are so much nicer than me! 😂
😂😂 a homing pigeon meaning Helen’s home 😂. He’s very handsome though 🐦. Maybe he thinks he’s a parrot 🦜 aye matey 😅. Fun update Helen, have a fab weekend, Ali 🌞🥵🇨🇦
Great use of the space growing in containers Helen. My mother grew a lot in containers as we didn't have a garden in the apartments I grew up in. As that area gets a decent amount of sun you can turn it into a kitchen garden with herbs and things that you can pick fresh as you need it. Freshly picked mint to go in your mojito whenever you fancy one! Salad leaves would be good too. I am thinking of turning part of my home garden into a kitchen garden so I can get things fresh and fast rather than going to the allotment. Looking forwards to see what you grow in there.
Successes and failures are the norm for everyone this year but you've won through with some decent crops. Your fruit bed looks just like mine! If I ever find a way of selling bindweed, I'll be a millionaire.
Ahh 😢 sorry to hear your not feeling 100% Tricia hadn’t been well for a couple of weeks, but is much better now. Lots going round. Great to get some seeds in and try to have some harvest later in the year. ❤ Get plenty of rest and see you soon 🤗 Allie & Tricia
Hi Helen, I think it was a slow-worm in your compost, the golden shimmer looks different to the scales of a grass snake. Great idea to make that growing space and what lovely looking compost! How about growing garlic in those pots?
You may already know the unblemished and healthy looking broccoli leaves are delicious. If you compost them, you're discarding a very flavorful veggie. I, and many other gardeners, finely cut the leaves and simmer them for an hour or more in a broth with smoked meat, onions, and other seasonings until tender. Delicious!
More room to grow is allways a good thing Helen. I realise that you are quite softly spoken but of late I'm having trouble hearing you on your videos could you possibly turn up the volume a bit for the next one cheers.
Yes, I litter pick but clean streets are not a budget priority where I live downtown. I was clearing out weeds/trees from some 'community' planters on a busy roadway, and planting in root veg, but the city nixed that.
