Hello! Thankyou! Yes we are having the biggest rest!!!! The week between Christmas and New Year is perfect.. no one knows what day it is.. we don’t do much haha.
Hi gorgeous one!! So great to see your update and tour! Gosh it’s been crazy this season!! The weather and now weed pressure is crazy!! This is only my second season & I have had weather problems during both, including hail storm damage last season & now flooding this season 😅 baptism of fire!! How good is feverfew?!! I’m loving it to! This is my first year of doing sea holly & I love it!! Totally understand your stance with dahlias 😉 I like your thinking 🙌🏼 Blessings for the new year lovely!! Cheers to you and many many blooms!! 💐💝🌼 xx
Hi Anita! You always leave a lovely comment 💕. You’ve had a very rough introduction to flower farming 😩. Hang in there, I think we will always have something to deal with but the flowers (what survives) make up for it. Yep… the weeds are insane. So hard keeping on top of them now. I’ve been going around cutting seed heads off before they mature so at least they don’t spread. Xx
So glad to see you have encouragement! Great progress in the flowers. I’ll enjoy watching your harvests. I have to sew floating row cover for all my shrubs and items deer like. Here the deer eat and consume right down to the roots. You could look for deer tracks they are easily identified.
Have you thought about raising the beds using a hugelkultur technique. It might be a project you can do in autumn and might help with the flooding as essentially you’ll be keeping the plant roots above the flood line and stopping the plants from going anaerobic. It’s a technique that I’ve used a few times after a friend of mine who started a small farm introduced me to it. But I keep thinking maybe it would be a good solution. And happy holidays 🥰
lovely our, re the deer problem I think you'd see droppings much bigger than the rabbit but similar in shape, I get deer in my Hungarian garden they always leave droppings. Happy Christmas to you and your family.
Merry Christmas!! I don’t think it’s deer.. there is no signs now we have looked harder. We have some very destructive birds here called cockatoos… and it might be them.
Great tour! Nice to see all you have happening. I have only successfully grow one type of pumpkin vertically (smaller Connecticut Filed pumpkin). I don’t bother anymore and give space to smaller winter squash like butternut,honey nut, spaghetti squash. My favorite cooking pumpkin (Long Island cheese) gets to sprawl. Funny bout the weeding raspberry. I pulled mine to replace with dahlias and it took several rounds of weeding to get up runners and roots. Switched to thornless blackberries in wine barrels. Most people might think it smells too strong but I make a lovely bouquet with sage leaves/flowers and sunflowers. I use the lemon balm and oregano too besides mint and basil. Happy holidays!
I hope my pumpkin will grow over my arbour!!! I have butternut too.. will it not climb? I can’t believe our friends weeded the raspberries THAT good. I was devastated. I love the idea of thornless blackberries in wine barrels!
@@phaedragardeness They will climb. I plant 2 butternut on a trellis/arbor (3ft wide). It’s good to help them by tying ( I use garden Velcro tape) the vine especially where they develop heavy fruit.
Funny about the dahlias this time last year I had heaps and I thought I have done something wrong when I transplant them when I saw you having problem with dahlias I didn’t feel so bad I’m not the only one even though I’m sorry that neither of us had beautiful days but I’m glad to see that your farm is okay after all that water and flooding you are beautiful young couple you’ll make it and I do wish you all the luck and Merry Christmas
rabbits will chomp on gladiolas as well as sunflowers according to google. Deer on the other hand, don't like glads. I sell all my left over (dinnerplate) dahlia tubers as started plants. In Canada - the westcoast, this came out on xmas eve afternoon.
Ah thats a great idea to sell them as started plants! Wish we thought of that, we know for next season Thankyou! Yeah I don’t think it’s a deer either, I think we would have noticed it!
Great tour, thanks. I have a apricot tree. I live near Orange NSW so cool climate. It thrives. Gone through drought too. It's been in around 5 years. I think you would be successful with one. My favourite.
Good on you for keep going despite the flooding etc you have had! Do you have any tips for stopping earwigs eating dahlias? Thanks for showing us your gardens 👍
Thankyou! Apparently you can make a beer trap with linseed oil (like how you do it for snails, but with linseed). I haven’t tried that. But if you leave damp rolled up newspaper around the garden they crawl in there and you throw the whole thing in the bin!
@@phaedragardeness They are destructive little buggers at times. I've had them eat leeks to the ground just for fun and pull out my garlic plants too as well as completely destroy cauliflower heads. I wouldn't have thought it was cockies until one day their poop gave them away! ha ha
Thanks so much for the tour! But.. where was Jamesy? We play "Where's Jamesy" in each video I watch with my 2.5year old daughter!! Also, are you growing any Cliffs Salmon dahlia this year?
Tesselar was such a disappointment for me… bought gladiolus bulbs from Tesselar and they were infected with a fungal infection, I had to destroy them and disinfect the soil; hydrangea and purple fountain grass arrived almost dead - couldn’t save hydrangea but I’ve managed to save the grass by cutting it right back. Will never buy again from them.
Oh no!!!! I have purchased a lot of glad bulbs through them and I haven’t had a problem but that would be so disappointing :(. I’m glad you could save the grass!
