Your garden looks about 45 days ahead of us in USA zone 5. That island of yours is so much warmer than our prairie state location. Sweet peas, lettuces, kale and spinach doing well (planted seeds 1 May). Yes to flowers in the veggie beds. Watered today and noticed our perennial sage went to flower, glorious purple flowers. Love your land, raised beds, glass houses and your smart bunny shirt!
Bunny, you've given me the courage to do the Chelsea Chop! I also like the concept of hurrying the green house for warmth in winter. It's the reverse of a root cellar to keep produce cool in summer. Thank you for another informative video.
Thank you for sharing your garden, It's a joy to see how you design and tend to your garden. I hope you will continue to show more as the season progresses!
Looking at vegetables gardens always gave me a calm feelings. Yours is super calming. Thank you for sharing. My country just started total lockdown....yet again....this video really release stress.
So glad you showed the French tarragon. My favorite herb for flavoring. It's hard to find here and I bought 2 tiny little plants. One looks dead and the other is half it's tiny starting size. I thank you for showing me what it's supposed to look like !!!!!!!!!
@@martinaohare5129 Should have kept mine in the pot until it got larger. It’s still holding on for dear life. But not growing. It has great drainage. Oh well.
Love the green house my first I built when I was 15 and 30 years later I am still using it built the same as you but with a per specs roof. Just bough two replacements for it today. Mine is above the ground like ur first one
Love your mature rhubarb ~ fascinating to see the flowers....quite elegant! I think you've started a new trend Bunny, as few of us have probably ever seen vegetables/salads crops/herbs reaching their full maturity to flowering. We call it 'bolting' as if it is some type of dreadful event in the garden, but now you have me thinking, and I'm going to experiment see what crops look like if I let some of them go on to full maturity.
Love your gardening videos - only ones on youtube that I subscribe to. Many thanks for the heads up on cutting the sedums - that's something that I've wanted to do, and consistently forgotten to do for decades. Off with their heads today!
@@bunnyguinness I wish I could say - when I planted the Tarragon I was at a very different level gardening level - wasn't documenting as much as now. Your work is both admirable and delightful by the way. Yours Jennie
Thank you for your interesting tips how to grow the garden. Now I wonder if I can Chelsey crop my chrysanthemums that grow too tall or is it better done later in a year? Love your videos. Always find them very knowledgeable, inspirational and useful. Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden! We had Lady Slipper Orchids when we moved into our home and had to cut down the pines that had a beetle and then slowly all the Lady Slippers died. I found out too late that they live off of a fungus that grows on the pine needles. 😭 I would have tried putting pine straw down if I had known. Is there anything special you do for your orchids?
I always said you can't have too many parsnips. I was wrong. I have a huge HEDGE of parsnips from last year in my veg. I love the plants, they look a bit like angelica, and the butterflies love the flowers.
I didn't think you could cut into old box wood. Have recently moved into a property which has 80-year-old low box hedging so good to know as some hedging has bare wood due to other plants being allowed to grow over them. Thanks for info.
I just watched this and was shocked at the hard pruning that you gave to the boxwood. I find this amazing! Can you tell what zone equivalent you are to the zones in the US? I would love to give this a try but am concerned that our winter weather would kill the boxwood. Also, would you only do this in May so that the shrub has time to rebound?
I am in USDA zone 8. I was really amazed at high fast it has grown back it is now early July and a good half of the dead wood is covered with green shoots, I think it will be fully green by the end of the growing season. It has helped that it has been an abnormally wet summer this year here. The risk of cutting it later than May is it would not get enough water to spur on the new growth but you could always irrigate. Hope this helps you.🐇
Actually there has been research done on companion planting: Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden by Jessica Walliser
Mine have not started to flower yet I reckon they will in around 4 weeks time, but everything is very late this year in the uk. Keeping them in a warm sheltered place or under glass really brings them forward. At the end of the year they just go on sometimes even till up to Christmas if warm. High potash feeds are meant to aid flowering in many plants but I don’t over force feed mine but many would.🐇
@@bunnyguinness thank you so much for the advice ill put them under some large domes i have and see if they do better and feed them if not, any tips on over wintering them ?
I had not realised that about western red cedar good point. I do know that English grown trees produce wood that is not very durable unlike the Thuja we import for the joinery trade, which is durable. When we have removed these trees we get very little money for the timber. Re upward sweeps on cutting - the only reason for this is so that the cuttings fall away from the plant. For some shapes I find this not so easy so just cut as feels best and then clear clippings away as necessary. Many thanks for your comments! 🐇
Er, it doesn't actually "die", just kind of hibernates for winter. The crown, or rootstock, of the plant is still alive and well under the surface. If you're in a cold, snowy climate it's a good idea to cover it with a bit of straw, especially in early spring when any fresh new leaves can be damaged by frost. I have about 3 or 4 rhubarbs which I LOVE ! Unless of course it truly does die and doesn't come back in which case it could be bad drainage..
What zone are you in? Needs a cold winter and if the summer is too hot it might temporarily die back. Soil too wet? If the conditions are right it should grow easily for many years.
I just skip and continue on. Nothing will get in the way of my watching Bunny in action. You could always pay for RU-vid, no commercials. $$$ makes the world go round, and if you spent a much time recording, editing and producing... well, I hope you would be well rewarded for your efforts.
