All about my (ever so slightly pampered) houseplants and little Urban Backyard Snackyard. With food prices soaring, I'm trying to cram as many fruits and veggies as I can into my small space. I especially love growing fruits that we can't easily find in our local supermarkets here in England. It's such fun to try new and unusual flavours. The dream would be to create a Food Forest, but my garden is only little, which is why I call it my Backyard Snackyard.
Hopefully you have the correct soil. It doesn’t like soil. Also, the flowers are cute and all, but it diverts so much energy to grow it the leaves can suffer
Ah, thank you. You are too kind - especially as I can't get my Persimmons or Feijoas to flower, much less fruit, no matter how much I feed or ignore them 😆 My new Rojo Brillante actually has lots of flowerbuds, but they never opened🙈 Maybe next year...
It’s the same like mulberries, when it’s cold they grow slower, but bigger ❤ I’ll finish harvesting the first end of this week then I’ve a few weeks rest before the next set then I won’t force them to bear fruits again till Oct so they’ll be sweeter when there’s more sun in winter ❤❤❤ Just too much rain and cloudy these days 😢
That's nice that you can get a little break in between harvests. It's very grey here too...I just managed to get inside before the heavens opened yesterday, then it rained and stormed all day - very Autumnal. At least I didn't need to worry about the garden being watered.
@@Handsoffthekids I tend to do this to all the trusses with open flowers on them every day when I water the plants because the flowers don't all bloom at the same time and I don't want to miss any, but yes, I do think that each little flower only needs to be tapped once.
@@Orange_You_Glad that's funny you should ask: I was just looking at it today wondering whether it might fruit next year. It is growing pretty slowly, but it did have a few set-backs: first I put off repotting it for too long, then it got attacked by slugs/snails, but now that it is in a good sized container in a lovely sunny spot, it is looking great. I hope I get to taste the berries soon.
Sorry to hear about the slugs! I also bought a late-season transplant and hope that it fruits next year. (I’m in Canada so my “late season” is a bit earlier than yours!”)
Glad to see videos from your garden! I started watching because I randomly got some pepino melon seeds at some point and wanted to know how it grows. I kept watching their progress and it's always nice to see them in the garden.
So lovely to hear from you. I am finding the Pepino Melons so fun to grow. It's amazing how abundantly they flower and fruit too - and the fact that they do so well in containers really makes such a big difference in my little garden.
@@gardentours I just looked that up and yes, I think you are completely right. I think my sister gave me a different name, but it might have been the French one, because she lives in France😀
@@lucylu1050 I'll have to get some more strands and do it again, but all I did was lay the strands flat on the surface, then place the plant pot in a warm position in indirect sunlight and keep them moist.
@@backyardsnackyard True with the season 😂 During rainy season in Thailand (which is quite long nowadays, from mid May till end of Oct) there’re lots of snails and insects that keep eating the baby plants. But this winter I’ll only force a few mulberry trees to bear fruits at a time so I’ll have enough water for my vegetables 🥰
You can see just how merry and bright my Poinsettias have gotten in the past with this treatment on my Poinsettia Playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLsjhsECvRcLHqZ71egjTfh7gRi19v53sU&si=P1dZkTKhpGHTFn1Y
What a sweet little treat, Dani. Ive had my eye on these for some time. They are hard to get ahold of! Paviour & Davies are the only nursery ive found that sells them 😊
@@Tom-ro7em yes, I saw them listed on Paviour & Davies' website too, but they never seemed to be in stock. I even emailed P & D and was added to a waiting list, but they never contacted me again...then I saw these little plants listed on Potterton's Nursery website. They sell Alpines, which luckily includes these little guys.
@@backyardsnackyard wow! Thank you Dani, I hadn't come across this nursery before. I can now finally get some of these beautiful little plants! Thank you so much 😁
