I love the way that you make people feel included in your community. Your warmth and grace definitely shine through in your videos! Thank you for spreading joy!
Something I did when I had my garden house: I took two large pots and filled them with soil, then added the largest tomato cages I could find. I planted Sweet Peas, and as they grew, I twisted them around the cages...in no time, not only did I have outstanding topiaries, and they were extremely fragrant, but every time I went in and out so did the fragrance. As long as bouquets are cut for inside, it continues to produce more and more blooms.
Happy Spring fellow gardener! I love your enthusiasm. I totally agree with you. I get so much joy sharing plants. If the people in this world would spend their extra time gardening just think how much happier and kind we'd be to one another.
Wait with the Cosmos Catherine .Wait till end of March .I learnt by experience that earlier sowings go leggy very quickly but sowing early April produces healthy stocky plants that can be sown straight in the greenhouse 🙂
@@DaintyDiaries I did Catherine and buried them slightly deeper when potting on but I sowed another tray on the 1st of April and couldn't believe the difference ! They far outstripped my earlier plantings and were much healthier .They even flowered better and longer .So now I wait ☺️
Love sweet peas. My grandmother always grew sweet peas on trellises she had at each end of her clothes lines. So lovely. Wonderful childhood memory. My grandparents had an amazing backyard garden, amazing wisteria so large my grandfather pruned out a mini room underneath he had nestled a lovely garden bench. Fun hideaway on a hot summers day.
@@DaintyDiaries it can be very beautiful. Especially in starry night when the norhern lights dance around the sky. To survive the stormy days for “summer souls” it is essential to have growing lights to jumpstart the sowing since our growing season doesnt start before june. I have already sown some tomatoes seeds and sweet peas to have indors.
So lovely to see some green grass! We've just gotten a nice snowfall here, about 6 inches, so spring is a bit off for me & my little garden. Thanks so much for taking us to the walled garden. Magical!!
I’ll be interested to see how yours germinate. Laura (Garden Answer) soaks her seeds about 8-10 hours in water before she plants to speed up germination. Can’t wait for the gardening season to begin.💚
Hi Catherine, everything I started in Autumn out in the unheated greenhouse froze in the bad weather, even the Broad Beans so I'm glad I didnt start my Sweet Peas off then. I put mine in indoors last week and they are already up. I'll wait until its a bit warmer and then grow them on in the greenhouse. I love that we're back to a bit of gardening !! Its so exciting.
Thank you for sharing your plans in the garden world Catherine wonderful so hot here in Port Macquarie we did have a mini cyclone come through here a couple of weeks ago and now it’s in the 100,s 😢 but there is hope in the horizon can’t wait to see your seedlings spring up 🙌Karen from Oz 🇦🇺💌🐨🦘👒🧤
Hi Catherine.. I’ve been binge watching your videos over this last lot of days. You are just class!! I LOVED your solo walk travel in Camino… that was unreal! You’re an inspiration 🤎 Your garden videos are lovely! It’s the sweetest space 🪴🌾👒 I’m gonna have a cuppa with my mum Cus she loves gardening, and show her a few of your videos🌻 You are a hoot too… sending you love my RU-vid friend from Victoria in Belfast xO Ps - your name for your channel is the cutest 😍
Bonus! I was enjoying the odd job video and went to click on an old/new to me gardening video and I saw this! THANK YOU for doubling up. I know how much work filming is so we all appreciate you taking the time. Ps Sweet Peas were my Gran's favourite so I plant some in her memory and love picking them for displaying in your recycled glass jars xx
It must be so much a milder climate where you live. But we had the same idea. I bought seeds too, three kinds of Lathyrus, for a whole 4 months of little posies in my house. Yay! Tree Dahlia's never heard of them? On the go to find them. I will sow the seeds later, we have frost till late May. Ps, I bought 5 tree dahlia or Dahlia imperalis, so excited.
That was fun to watch! I am looking forward to seeing how your seeds grow over next month and excited for you. I am doing many similar projects around my homestead. I also got a fig tree, three varieties of muscadine, and four varieties of blueberries, plus two climbing rambler antique roses that I'm so excited to add to my homestead this year. For now I have them all in pots until I prepare their new areas on my land. I'm so glad you are doing garden videos again! Oh and I love your book that I acquired recently. I am contemplating getting some for Christmas gifts to give this year.
Hi Catherine, loving this video on sweetpeas, one of my favorite flowers! Where I live in Adelaide, South Australia its recommended to plant out our sweet pea seeds directly into the ground on St Patricks day! We then enjoy beautful blooms when early spring arrives. So sweetpeas have an Irish connection down here! Love all your videos, just the best. Thank you!
I'm gonna sow with you! Almost all of my bulbs are coming up & I'm SO excited Catherine! Your yard is going to be beautiful this summer!! Great job with the mulching!
So exciting to start a new garden saison with you. I have a large stack of seed packs in my basement. I´m going start them next month. My cosmos always self seed them and I never know what colours I get. They mix and match themselves. That is so cool. Hugs from Germany ♥
Yay spring is sticking its nose up!! Collect loo rolls and cut them in half two pots for one 😀 start lots of seeds off in loo rolls you won’t damage the roots as you won’t touch them… I always have sweet peas off two of my neighbours as they grow too many but I’m going to try to grow more veg this year… fingers crossed x
I’ve used the milk or water jugs too. I love them. I’ve also used individual water bottles when I’m only doing a few plants. I love your sweet peas this year. By now (July) your garden is absolutely gorgeous. I’m glad you did the sweet peas. I’ve never planted them. I’ll be ready next year for them.
It's mild here too so I have had a weekend of gardening. It's lovely to see new growth a sign that spring is on the way at last . Love watching you garden it always inspires me to do mine. Xx
Love this video! Spring is on the way. You got a new broom: ). I want to try to start seeds in milk jugs also. I've seen people put them outside to save space inside, I want to try that. Thank you for sharing with us!! Spring!!!
Hi Catherine, I’m so happy that you’re doing this video on sweet peas. I’ve always loved the soft colours of this plant but have bad luck with them and they always die so I finally gave up on them, so I’m hoping with this video I can finally get some good tippers and have some live sweet pea plants. Also I always love when you take us along on your trip adventures to different places in Ireland and other countries. I just looked up Dahlia Imperialis and what a beautiful tree. Of course there’s a video on RU-vid that popped up on how to care for it during winter by Monty which is worth looking at ❤.
Hello. I have never done it but apparently you can stake pumpkins on a strong trellis..who knew. I googled it and it is a thing. Love sweet peas...love them growing wild in the summer along the roadside..so lovely. We hit 5 C today in Southern Ontario. Snow all but disappeared till next round comes thru :)
Hi Catherine, the pumpkins will be a 2fer as decoration and you can puree and freeze the pumpkin to do pumpkin pies....yummy. I thought you were going to grow vegetable sweet peas lol.... I learned something today about flowers known as sweet peas.😁😁
You are such a big inspiration and you give a lot of joy . This weekend, we worked two long days, and the garden looks a lot better than last week. The garden season has started and we replaced a wooden terras for old bricks and we have cut the plants back in the borders and put some bulbs and coloured plants in pots. En cleaned everything that was green from alg. I feel every muscle but am very proud and the birds are too, they are singing their beautiful song..... 🥰
I’m excited to see your sweet peas grow 😊 the milk cartons are a great idea as well , you inspire me to get back out in my garden and see what’s happening out there x
Aww that brings childhood memories. My Granny had a trellis with sweet peas! They were always my favs! So beautiful and smell so good! The bees will be so happy!
Its summer here in Australia and the sweet peas seedlings where out in the garden centre so I just planted them as well. I can see how excited you are for spring time! Loved the outing to the walled garden.
Make sure you remove the lid for ventilation and it should work great. I also use water bottles for starting seeds and cuttings. It’s so nice to reuse what we can.
I love spreading mulch! Your space looks great. Love the milk carton idea!! Your enthusiasm for your garden is getting me excited to start some seeds inside too! Thank you!!
So jealous! My garden still looks dead and it's a bit early to start seeds in these parts, but it's great to see that there is green somewhere out there!
While I’m not doing sweet peas, I did order some dahlia tubers and seeds for the first time ever thanks to all the great ones I see in your garden!! So we are in the same ocean just different boats!!! 😂
You and i are so on the same page. I have planted every plant i had over wintered today to make room for seed starting. Here in south west France it is frosty in the mornings but dry and sunny. Thank you for the seed information, i haven't got sweet pea's . They look very pretty. Fingers crossed you get them all sprouting in no time. Xx
I live in cold Alberta Canada. I plant sweet peas in March directly in to the ground. They get snow on them all spring but are beautiful all summer. Also I love your videos.
Those cupcake ones are cute. Garden is taking a hit with the heat here (Australia) was 36 today and everything's getting roasted. Cant wait for the season to change.
Thank you for sharing your day with us! Your joy for gardening is contagious 😍 I've actually bought cosmos and sweet peas. I always admired my Daddy's sweet peas and begonias. I've not had a lot of luck with begonias; so far. But I still try; it's a nice way to remember him
Great video looking forward to see the seeds grow. The mulch looks gorgeous. New signs of life coming up. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I am giving a go with starting my own seeds as well this year. I've got milk jugs, and I've been saving up toilet roll tubes. Good luck with your jug seedlings 🌱. Hopefully we will both be successful in our endeavors. Happy gardening.
I love sweet peas,! I used to grow a whole fence line of them by just sticking a pencil in the ground to make holes, and would drop the pea in, in Autum n in California. A warmer zone. Since moving to the midwest Illinois, I can't seem to get them going. Funny I can grow regular peas. When using the milk and juice containers, I have always taped the opening, and always take off the cap, then put outside to do their thing.
I'm desperate for colour in my garden and this year I want to try growing from seed as we've taken down the kids' trampoline so I now have more room for pots! Love your gardening videos as your garden is so pretty.
