Garden update (month 29) 

Only one thing, don't plant mint directly into the soil, it will take over. It sends out runners and will swamp that corner in a couple of years. Put it in a large plastic pot and bury that to contain the roots. Don't ask me how I know this!

I really like the thoughtful and patient way you are working with the garden and have kept a lot of the mature plants. So much of the show gardens and TV makeover programmes are based on levelling everything and spending thousands on buying plants. Our lawn has really suffered over the last year - a badger dug up parts of a high traffic area and it hasn’t recovered so far. We’re in the south and it got soaked for months and is now baked dry. I need to break it gently to the footballer in our family that he needs to move his pitch while I fix it 😊

Wow. All your hard work, both on the house and the garden is really impressive. I hope your neighbours appreciate you!

Lovely to see curved borders, there are no straight lines in nature.

I inherited a garden full of bindweed. I untangled a lot of it and laid it on plastic to protect the grass. Then sprayed it with root killing weed killer and now it is much better. I still have to check and top up the treatment. Better than trying to pull out the roots as it tends to like the bushes.

This video is like watching Alan Titchmarsh once his dementia sets in around age 90. lol. Great video, thank you Gosforth.

You could do with a waterwheel and generator, useful and great learning for the kids.

Garden updates welcome here. It'll be a backdoor paradise in a few years.👍👍

Your yard and garden have come such a long way from how it looked a few years ago. Really nice improvement.

Love the garden, but watch the roots of those wild cherry trees. If like they're ones Sunderland council planted in Washington for Peanuts Carter's visit in 77, the roots are a nightmare, shallow & wide spreading. Most have been chopped now, but the one beside me, roots lifted the fence & came up in the lawn. Haway man where's the veggie patch & the chickens 😅 (just me missing the allotment)

Chicken having a dust bath 😂

Your garden has become an impressive sanctuary. Such a variety of plants! Backing to a naturalized stream is a major bonus.

I trust that you turned over the grass sods "grass side" down Andy ...helps dry out the sods and kill the grass.

If you have any scrap wood left over, and if you ever find the time, have a go at making Steve Ramsey's rustic wheelbarrow. My cat loves to lie in mine or as it is now known - his.

Hi, I’m fine with the gardening content! Your garden is really coming along!

looking good enjoy all your hard work. with afew Stellas in the sunshine were having

Here in Ireland Hawthorn trees are associated with Fairies (or the Good People as they are called) & it's considered unlucky to chop one down - so good job you kept it! :)

Your garden is looking good now Andy and it can only get better with all of the work that you're (and Mrs Mac of course) are putting in. The wild area at the back with the stream is still may favourite area though. Personally, I like the odd gardening video thrown in to your normal schedule. Keep up the good work. Cheers.

So peaceful, beautiful, and LARGE! Where I am, such places are rare - so I really appreciate this!

Thanks for the video Andy, always interesting.👍👍

For the bindweed get it to grow up a garden cane, then with a paint brush or like applie weed killer

I can't believe that they actually sell compost with glass in it. Makes you wonder what else is in it!

I’d subscribe to a gardening channel. Love your videos

Andy your garden looks amazing ,like what you are doing with the borders shaping then instead of a strait line, moving the small plastic sheds to the other side is a good idea , putting a green house in it's place a good spot to catch the sun light. A second channel for the garden that would be nice, like Stuart on proper DIY who has a garden channel As always great video see you on the next one take care mate

"toilet brush plant" Even when gardening, your mind is in that utility room work :D

You can get a lot of nice topsoil just by knocking it off those turf cuts.

Time for an Automower Andy!

You like your Eve price👍I used to go out with an Eve price and funnily enough I really liked her as well she had some lovely features when in full bloom😉😉😉

Living the dream Andy, great job and lovely space 👍

Really beautiful garden. Hard work pays back 👍

Oh love this video. Bookmarking it for ideas for our garden once we get the extension sorted. As always thanks for sharing Andy. It’s nice to see how beautiful the garden looks after all the hard work you and Mrs Mac put in

Looking good! Just need to build a very small jetty out into the river for launching a paddle board and make video of a river exploration.

I love rhododendron, Azalea, Camelia, Clematis Fushia and roses. I dont longer put bedding plants or bushes that go rampant..Especially. Vine weed is not easy to get rid of put a cane to it and kill at the roots. As you've got animals. Not able to use strong chemicals. Our garden is a small space so limited plants..😢

Bindweed - Let one bit grow as the flowers quite nice, the rest paint the leaves with weedkiller, this will run into the roots from the leaves and the plant will die off

My partner has been getting rid of the bindweed quite effectively by using weed killer and tying a bag around it with an elastic band, then digging it out once it's dead.

grass mixtue was probably a larger percentage of annual than perennial too. That Azalea is gorgeous.. here in the states we have mostly a BUSH STYLE azalea.

Your garden is looking amazing. It's coming along really well. Mission accomplished, nice relaxing video. Move over Alan Titchmarsh and monty Don, we have a new garden presenter on the scene😂

Looks great! Love the Hawthorn tree

The bush the cats like is called Felinus Catbushii

Nice Newcastle United stripes in the grass

All of your hard work has really paid off... just beautiful. How is the front garden and drive faired since the addition? Thanks for always presenting such informative and entertaining videos...

Loved the video, thank you.

I really love your attention to detail. I've just finished doing bits in my own garden, trying to get the weeds and moss out of my grass

The garden is coming along beautifully. It really is back breaking work. I have been working up the landscaping at my place as well, getting all the final odds and sods (pun intended) sorted out as we are putting our current home up for sale next week. I was actually digging in 4x6 timbers before I came in for a sit and up came your video. I feel like I'm not alone now. LOL I bet the garden is looking great this many weeks later. Cheers.

Be interested to see your compost build. The garden's looking magnificent, Andy. I hope you and Mrs M are finding time to enjoy the fruits of your labours.

You’ve got a lovely house and garden for you and the family. Well done 👍 Chicken & Nugget also appreciate it too.

Your garden is beautiful. Would love to see more of the stream.

It’s looking good Andy. I’ll follow you no matter what. Thank you for letting me join you on your journey 🌞

Loved the gardening, would like to see more.

Such a great chilled out video, keep up the good work, i might try the compost dressing on my lawn, it seemed to work really well 👍

Take my hat off to you Andy the garden looks amazing compared to what it was 👍🏻

The yard is looking good! 🙂👍

I like some mix of gardening / landscaping work. Not sure of the right mix, but maybe 60/40 or 70/30 with the smaller being "pure" gardening. But I wouldn't count compost bins and other woodworking projects as just gardening stuff.

It's looking great and a brilliant tip about the compost on the grass

It's all looking great Andy, thanks for the update, It's nice to have both more formal and more natural areas ! If you stack all that turf, grass side down it will rot down and make excellent topsoil ! I like the garden updates but quite happy for you to carry on with occasional updates like this, with perhaps the odd project build video too, such as compost bins, etc. I wouldn't be too worried about the Hawthorn, left to their own devices they can get to 50ft high but they're easy enough to keep in check, we have a number in our hedges and keep these down to around 8-9ft and also have a stand alone tree kept to a lollypop shape at around 12ft high and 5ft diameter. Personally I'd be more worried about the Sycamore, they can get to 120ft and seed like mad. Something else to watch out for is your cherries depending on if they are grafted they can also get really big and the roots spread a long way and often push up paving etc. beautiful flowers though ! because the roots spread and are quite shallow don't be tempted to have your lawn aerated with a hollow tine corer ( yes, Tine, I know ) as everywhere it hits a root soul have another tree coming up and it will ruin your lawn, I can't believe the lawn maintenance companies don't know this !

Beautiful garden 🪴 lot of hard work gone into it, well done fella 👍🏻

Lovely garden! Loving seeing it come to life. Little tip with the mint you planted in the ground- it's prolific and it spread like wildfire if not contained. Would recommend putting it in a pot and burying the pot if you want a mint bush otherwise it will branch out and overtake your garden. ❤

@23:16 Just like Yankee Stadium! 😂

Garden looks very nice Andy. Well done to both of you. 👏👍

Looks really good , and all your hard work is definitely paying off . Like the idea of putting compost on a new lawn , to help it thicken up . We seeded our front centre area early in the year and it’s doing ok , but could do with a bit of a boost . Trouble is we have 400 hundred sq meters to cover so that would use a lot of bags of compost , so might look into bulk bags as an option . But if I can get our grass looking as good as yours , I would be a very happy bunny . Best wishes and kind regards as always. 😀👍👍👍

I loved this video. Aww what a beautiful yard or as you would day (garden). It's a sanctuary.

Great job Andy. You must be getting near time to move on to the next house by now?

👍👍👍Looks amazing. Thanks

Laurel and Rhododendron bushes, absolute pain! Pull them out now before you commit months of your life to controlling them :)

Love the diy but I love my garden too! Not to knowable with plants but was lucky to buy a house with a very well planted garden with lots of mature bushes and plants. My jam is my lawn and love a lawn care video! Honestly best thing for the lawn is early spring and late summer get a cheap dethacher/scarifier, cut it as short as you can, use your scarifier and over seed it! Then other then that just cut it regular not to short like tou are and water it well in evenings and it will look as good as it dose now every year!

Garden looking great! The hawthorn will take a good trim if necessary. Very hardy species. Sycamore will need to be kept under control also, very fast growing species. Hope you enjoy the garyover the summer andy.

Bellísimo jardín saludos

Andy you've got to lay hands on a long handle cultivator. The short one you're using is a proven torture device for the spine. Ask me how I know.

I love the garden videos and would love to see a new channel dedicated to it.

The garden is looking amazing. Definitely include some garden stuff in the channel. Don’t create a new one. Garden maintenance is still related to property maintenance.

Garden videos are most welcome!

Fab garden & quite a transformation. Any fish in that stream / river? I see the cats are not camera shy. Our three would not be up & about at that time of day. Is that Azalea in any special soil? I thought they needed ericaceous soil the same as Rhododendrons.

Love your garden it looks really good, Where did you get all your plants/trees from?

I've got an Azalea, fluorescent pink, I keep it in a huge pot so it's easier to give it the acidic soil it needs.

We are in the South East and the long term frosts of last winter killed off most of our Cordyline plants - some of which were very well established. Hopefully we wont have another extended cold winter this year but you are in more danger in the North East - you might need to protect the cordylines come JDecember/January !!

Any tips on how to stop the cats popping in the flower beds ? 😂

I feel for you on the bind weed. Shame it's such a killer as it has a pretty flower. I have to keep on top of it in my new garden, but it's exhausting. Edited to say - Great tip for the lawn - just got some more seed and I have a bag of compost.

Have you thought about a wood-fired sauna next to the river?

Thank you for your videos be careful about the blue belts they can take over the garden

@8:44 How ironic, digging up the grass that you worked so hard to plant.

@5:08 Those suckers at the bottom of the tree should be trimmed off.

Btw it's co-to-ne-aster not coton-easter

@20:07 Noooooo!!!!! You do not want raspberries in your garden. Raspberry bushes will take over. They grow enormous and wildly. They're very hard to keep up with especially in a garden of your small size. They do not belong there. They belong along edges of fields.

your garden is beautiful

Beautiful garden . Ours is still as the builders left it back on dec 2019 . Too expensive to do. We wish we had a small garden 🪴 🥺🧱👍🏽