Welcome to our small suburban garden where we grow heaps of fruit and veg, and flowers and generally enjoy our garden. We're Eli and Kate (to be honest, mostly Eli) who share their gardening days in the form of upbeat vlogs in our Scottish garden. We basically aim to share our love of our garden. So grab a drink, relax and come enjoy our garden with us.
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Woooohoooo oh new greenhouse day in the best EVER, Andrea!!!!! This one might be useful too BEST use of your greenhouse (and my IKEA hack for it) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hlNbN7ViEOo.html
The green stalk looks absolutely brilliant and so healthy, ive tried growing in verticals before but found moisture retention always a problem hence poor results, these look deeper and looking at the growth in yours, worth investing in, if you've seen my vids you will know I have literally no space left, the garden is rammed so vertical may be an option I need to consider next year, thanks for the great video !
Yeah I know exactly what you mean about the moisture thing. The difference with the greenstalks is that they have an internal system for watering, so you water the top and it feeds through various reservoirs inside
Sounds like you were given hay rather than straw 😭 That’s actually really common and lots of folk have had the same issue. Less reputable suppliers dobbies off with hay (cheaper for them), which isn’t the same. Hay can still have seeds in it, hence the “grass” 😭😭😭
I'm so jealous of your pepper harvest! Yellow peppers are my favourite bell. My pepperoncini varieties (Golden Greek) are barely a few inches high, but I might have something come mid-late August, fingers crossed. Oh, update on the determinate tomato tumbler - it's heaving with flowers and setting fruits (at last). Alicante & Elsa are giving fruiting well too. P.S. - I'll watch this over Gardener's World all day long, great content by a lovely couple xo
I absolutely love your channel. I 100% learn something new each time I watch an episode. I’ve grown basil this year for the first time and it’s looking fabulous now I’ve split it up and potted it on but I did wonder how to harvest it therefore making it bushier. Thank you for sharing.
Hi Eli & Kate, your Strawberries are huge, what variety are they? All your plants are looking really health. Always plenty of hints & tip content in your videos. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
Must have had much better weather than i have here in northumberland , only just getting few strawberries , no runners yet or carrots ! Potatoes just starting too !
Getting a nice harvest from your garden. To maximize I’m sure it pays to find the best varieties with the most or largest production. I’m not the biggest fan of rhubarb and mainly it’s a nostalgic thing for me, but I would find a place to add it to the flowers for greenery and use the bed for other veg. The apples are doing great! I have a few in 3 rd year on dwarf trees. I should have got all trees that could withstand cedar rust. We just had a few blueberries and one has giant berries which have a lot of meat to them. I think we are finding after our earlier harvest of honey berries that we like them better. The great thing is they are easier to grow and heartier.
Great video, may i ask where do you get your dwarf pea's and beans from i would like to have ago a growing them as i don't really do well with normal sized ones
of course Steph, this year I got mine from Mr Fothergills but I generally just shop around looking for whatever I'm after, I don't have just one seed supplier I use :D
Videos I mention: How to prune basil: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YBZLEuYasyY.htmlsi=SdGxQy9GJRWPLaL_ Summer pruning apples: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--sBTPUOsmRE.htmlsi=5cUzJEfIj1-PvbM1 Last June's Garden tour and Newton: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zG1vvIgVsa8.htmlsi=cFLXBICrOnXg8VLs
Wow. June harvests have been great here too. More than I expected. Love how well the tenderstem is doing for you. Worked out well. Our strawberries are proving to be prolific, which has surprised me as only planted as new bare root plants over winter. Really interesting to see the difference in cropping between the bed and the greenstalk for your strawberries. Love that you couldn’t resist one. Talking of which, that greenstalk is rammed. Amazing! What a fabulous amount of food you’re growing in such a small footprint of the garden. I can really see why you love the greenstalk so much now. It’s so productive! Very impressive. I need to start making pesto with our basil too. Everything in the garden looks great and for a space 90% devoted to a flower/plant garden it’s impressive how much food you’re still growing in the relatively small space devoted to it. The apple trees especially are brilliantly chosen for fitting in the garden, so subtly amongst the garden borders. Great update. Some random woman popped up at the beginning … think I recognised her too. 😅😂
My green tomatoes I swear are dropping and disappearing, but its also been 90+ F here. My cabbage needs to go... its starting to head but with this weather it's too much space for what it's gonna give me. I need to reset the bottom bed because the weeds are absolutely OUT OF CONTROL. Parsley is about 4ft tall and has all of the interesting pollinators bees hoverflies and at this rate even ants all over it. Fascinating that the flowers are still going strong i was gonna seed save but its been a while waiting for them to brown and die. Love the videos and the feeling you give off of "just hanging out".
Beautiful harvests. Garden is looking great. For fig, you might want to try one that fruits off 1st year wood. I am trying Chicago Hardy. It aready has 3 fruit growing and it can come back from frost kill and still produce. I also wanted to suggest the green sprouting broccoli I am growing this year. Planted the starts out early May and I am getting a meals worth of shoots every 2 days. The variety was called Green Sprouting Calabrese. It is a 70 day variety. Also thank you for the king of the North suggestion. I am growing some this year and they are doing fantastic in my eastern Canadian spring.
I've finally got one tiny shishito pepper that will be ready to harvest in a day or 2. I didn't do much veg this year to begin with then there were slugs & weird weather. Just as well I suppose because I've been in an autoimmune flare & can't eat much fruit or veg right now. The fruit trees & cane berries are pretty well done for the year, a small harvest of blackberries left & some everbearing strawberries will keep producing till winter.
My first crop of purple sprouting broccoli happened Sunday past, lightly fried and steamed with the first softneck garlic..superb. The softneck garlic had only a couple of brown leaves yet some bulbs had already started to split up so actually lifted too late
Hi Eli and Kate, a wonderfully informative vlog as ever, I always learn so much from you. Why do I put your videos on and they seem to end within 5 minutes! Your garden is looking wonderful. I just love this time of year! 🍓😊
my sons mum in law sent me some alpine strawberry plants from Scotland ,got two berries off them but good lord theyre tiny .she said they grow all over where she lives . dont think i,ll be getting a bowl of them anytime soon or ever lol. but theyre cute .
yeah alpine strawberries are really small but SUPER tasty and sweet, more so than bog standard strawberries and they go on producing for ages. Which is why a lot of folk grow them, nice to keep getting snacks rather than just that massive harvest once. They're fab for snacking on but you'd need a lot of plants to make jam 😂
Hi Eli, Please can you take pity on me 🙏and tell me the details of your broccoli seeds? I grew tenderstem and it is a nightmare. It's huge!😱 Not in a good way huge, but all leaf and taking up all my bed space, And so tall my covers are squishing it.
Hmmm that doesn’t sound like the one I’m growing Mine isn’t broccoli, it’s the hybrid that actually tenderstem is ( the stuff you buy in the shop). I got it from Mr Fothergills
Yesterday my gorgeous Gabriel Ash greenhouse was delivered and installed. As I’m heading for 80 I’m a little late to the party and while I was in the mood I’ve ordered a Greenstalk so I better not turn toes up anytime soon !!
My blueberry bush is grown in a big pot I’ve had it for around six years. Every year I get a fair harvest if I can beat the birds to them. I have noticed that the poor thing had so many roots the whole pot was filled with of them so this year my husband and I took it out of the pot and pulled all the fine roots away and pruned it back to no more than tiny branches. I put it back into the pot filled with fresh Ericaceous compost and prayed because it looked pitiful 😞and I wasn’t sure he was going to be ok, but it’s growing great new leaves and branches not going to get a crop this year but it looks so much more healthy. I have a huge cooking apple tree in my garden it’s I really don’t know 🤔 but our bungalow is build on a medieval orchard so it’s got to be a few hundred years old but I can’t tell you how many times I have been brained by June drop and those cooking apples are big.
i noticed your thors hammer necklace nice one, where i live so many wear them because of our viking history up here. Anyhoos, love your greenstalk am going to make my own for my polyhousetunnel i am making at mo, just doors and frames to do and timberrails and then polyplastic 800gsm xx keep on growin lassy, my garlic never grows just peedie little chive looking then they die off
@@eliandkate yes and with it on top of decking i made too my first ever project and has to be 126mph wind gust proof lol i reckon i got that god willing, boarding all round for stability too same like ur raised beds but bigger area lol its 9ft long by 10ft wide made to measure a lot of sawing and cussing lol but will get there.
I dry my basil and crush it to use later to season things. I also dry my strawberry leaves and crush them for cooking with later. The only cure for slugs I know is natural using the help of a garden snake, a couple of lizards and other helpers. I still have a few in my strawberries. That is maddening. My garden got a late start so I haven't harvested anything except a few green beans.
It's nice to see such a green and lush garden in the glorious sunshine, might have to save this video for November and I'm missing the sunshine. Also, I need to get some barry's crazy cherry, and I can't wait to see it ripen :O
Lovely to see your harvests Eli, and as usual you give tonnes of information so a big thank you from me. I'm experimenting with climbing strawberries, "Rambling Cascade" and "Mount Everest", up frames this year in the hope that along with Strulch and Nematodes I can get some fruit before the slugs figure out how to reach them!. Tomatoes ("Tiny Tim" and "Balconi Red"), are in hanging baskets so are relatively safe - although last year I saw an intrepid snail sliming along the irrigation hose to get to them. I didn't bother with lettuce this year, so cabbage white caterpillars are feasting on my sacrificial nasturtiums instead. Too hot for any outside malarky here today (London), it was 33 in my garden for most of the morning/early afternoon and it's still 29 now at 6.30pm.
@@eliandkate Haha that's what I thought when I read about them too! The Rambling Cascade will have 6ft runners with fruit on the end, so you just tie them to a pole or frame, I got them from Victoriana Nursery and they're doing really well (but not 6ft yet!). The Mount Everest are from T&M, so I'll just say they're the usual standard from them but I'll persevere 😉
Your words come to me & I'm already planning January 2025 .... as I just wasn't on it this year .... and I do think that's why I'm not having much success + the poor ( expensive 😩 ) compost .... Plan plan plan 👌
We had our first strawberries yesterday. Malling centenary. From the co-op. very nice. We also had a small bowl of mixed varieties from the garden, The bought ones were sweeter, but the garden ones were much tastier. I also cut the main stem off my cocktail cucumber by mistake. 😒😒 there are offshoots so not a total disaster.
