Oh I can't tell you how excited I am to find a gardener from N. Ireland!!! I wish I had discovered you earlier so that I could have sown and grown along with you. I was so unsure of exact frost dates etc. I love your videos, they are straight forward and to the point!! Also you have a lovely manner about you. I will definitely be watching you Niall and hopefully be sowing and planting the same times as you!! Thank you xx
In the Canadian Pacific North West, those lovely black and white beans are called Orca beans because they look like the Orca whales that live in our ocean.
Yes! I'm in W Oregon, and get Orca beans from a wonderful couple at our year round farners market who grow several wonderful bean varieties, and various colored popcorn, in addition to fresh veg! I was just thinking I should see if I habe some left to sow!
Yes I can even think of June planting here in zone 4 in North Dakota USA. We went from borderline freezing nights to in the 60's and over 100 in the days, the locals say this is not unusual. I will be growing many of the same veggies as you so it will be fun to see the challenges of two very different areas. One funny thing I must share about seed tape. I tried having my grandson sow the carrots last year and as you can imagine we had millions to thin out when they sprouted. Well I figured lets try seed tape this year. Well the birds must have been watching so now we have nest with seed tape. -Great video!
Wonderful and informative video! By the way, the italian beetroot variety Chioggia is not pronounced as you did. "Chio-" sounds like "Kyo-" in "Kyoto", while "ggi" sounds similar to "-dge" in "judge"
Love that you are growing kohlrabi! We do a spring and a fall sowing- and love it raw for green and pasta salads. I did an experiment and tried an overwintered crop- many of them bolted as soon as the soil warmed...so I pickled as much of the bulb as I could, AND the shoots and flowers which were delicious! A wonderful crop!
Funny to see this video last night after picking up some veggies to plant from Gasko’s (NJ-USA). I also picked up white sweet corn and butternut squash (my favorite, too) to plant up the cattle panel hoop house, along with Rosemary, a citronella plant to hold the mosquitos at bay during happy hour al fresco with my gardening and gin buddy, and just for fun, black elephant ears. Still on my ASAP list are stevia and watercress, and I have a few dozen gallon jugs sowed a few weeks ago with flower and veg seeds now peeking through the potting mix. It’s nice to have someone to compare notes with, despite being a pond away.
Lovely update! Thanks Niall. I agree with the butternut squash! We have had our last frost now in Uppsala Sweden too, so all these seeds are perfect for us too. I've even got lentils and chickpeas growing this year- in Sweden!
Great video, very encouraging g. I'm in Somerset so probably ably have warmer drier summers. But I'm super excited to plant more beetroot, love their easy to handle seeds, and more baby corn. Great in stir fries and they seem easier to griw than regular sweetcorn. My first batch was planted out a but early. It looks healthy but is fairly short still, think it's sulking from the cold nights in May.
Love watching your vids, even though I don’t have a veg garden yet. Will next year though and your info is valuable. Live in a cold area of Canada so short season veg are good to know about.
🇨🇦🧑🌾🇨🇦Hi Again Niall! Visiting your channel from Gander Newfoundland and Labrador Canada! It is JUNE 6th, our Last Frost Free Date and we are sowing small seeds OUTSIDE TODAY!
Hello again! Delighted to hear from you! That’s so good that you’ve reached your last frost date also... it’s interesting because your Newfoundland climate seems to have quite a lot of similarities with Ireland!
Our climates are similar but you folks have the WARM Gulf Stream....we have the COLD Labrador current....on my way to Subscribe....please share the love my friend!
I’m so happy that I stumbled across your channel. I’m in Nova Scotia, Canada and I’ve been planting in containers this week. Other than my tomato plants, everything else was planted as seeds. Fingers crossed that I have success with them. Just wondering what planting zone you’re in? I’m in zone 5, so I hope I’m not too late in direct planting seeds.
Hello over there in Nova Scotia! I pretty much straddling Zones 8a and 8b so we have a very temperate climate here. I say you're never too late, it's always worth giving some seed a go!
Morning Niall I am growing black beauty and they are doing great but my cuke plants for this year are super slow going. I did butternut and red Kuri for my winter squash. Bok choi I grow lots and let some go to seed for next year. Peas are going insane and I am having a good problem of trying keep up. Beans are doing well too and I like you am growing funky coloured beans. Corn is about a foot tall and I did 2 varieties a 60 day and a 90 day. Poly tunnel looks great and so full. As always thanks for sharing ✌️🇨🇦🐝 safe
Hi Ali! Oh brilliant - we can compare notes on courgettes this year then! Yeah butternuts are just great as a crop aren’t they? Sounds like you’ve got some great stuff growing!
Lovely selections and video, Niall! I am in W Oregon, with a similar climate, and planting many of the same veg. I just got a seed order from a local OG farm, and planted Doucette d'Alger - a summer corn salad cousin, and Cilician flat leafed parsley, an old variety from Syria! Plus a pretty purple bush bean and small watermelon penny's that followed me home from a nursery ...
I am so behind this year and even though it feels late I am planting so many seeds now. I’ll have a harvest a but after some others but I will get a harvest!
Hi Niall, Many thanks for your videos absolutely thrive on them. May I ask what seed company you used for your butternut squash. It was great how info came with the packet. Kind Regards
Strange, this year it was complicated starting courgettes/zucchini for me as well 🤔 normally it's so easy. Thanks for the list. I still have to sow carrots. 🥕🥕🥕🥕
Thanks Niall, loving the list. Well done. Have a great bank holiday weekend. My hubby did laugh hearing you say purple sprouting broccoli,as i talk about them all the time,and hearing you recommend too on a Saturday morn gave him a giggle( he is sick of me saying it 🤣🤣)Niall check out Terry King,he made a wee seat,to cluck on to his beds,i bet it would suit you on side of your poly beds,, very handy.
@@niallgardens psb is my fave veg, my family know it ha ha.Do check it out, twas a simple idea,and he slots it on to the beds,one long leg and one short.
Fantastic video Niall....and you’re local!!! Poly tunnel renovation videos were great! It looks amazing. I’ve really struggled to source seed packets this year. Any tips or companies who are still shipping?
Hi Niall, we sowed kohl rabi (we're in Co Leitrim) last month in the tunnel to plant out and they are doing great so I've directly sown another bunch. I also tried pumpkins for the first time ever, transplanted them out and they haven't died, woot! Also the runner beans are out but they attracted every slug for miles around it seems. :/ We've had a lot of trouble with the leafy greens bolting (spinach, bok choi and even rocket) but it's good to know I can sow more. Great video, thanks. :)
Here down south we wait until after summer Solstice before sowing any more rocket; i say more, is now mostly all over serving as a great ground cover in certain areas that require shade for brassicas.. although when planting for salad is less likely to bolt if sown at the commencement of our shorter days in uk x
Should leave kohl rabi and turnips for mid july now really. June not a great time to sow them in UK. Think you'll be disappointed and get bolting or smaller woodier roots and possibly more pest damage. Don't believe the back of the seed packet. They don't do well at hottest point of the year. Best to be tiny seedlings in August. Those tomatoes look way too close together to me too.
Niall, I have a friend in Cork that needs a source for common variety of flower seeds like violas, African daisy, sweet peas. He's had a tough time ordering online because of brexit and the costs associated. Do you know of any places within Ireland to get seeds, preferably online?
Hi Kelley! I had the exact same problem, but I came across a great company called seedaholic. They're an irish mail order seed company and I've been impressed with them so far! Hope that helps (and that they stock what your friend is looking for!)
