Love hearing from you all, and seeing this community grow, so let me know your thoughts on how I'm getting on, or what you're upto in the garden this week!

You can tell this area is going to look amazing 🌸🦋🌸

My husband and I love your videos. We discovered your channel a few weeks ago and binge watched through all your videos so delighted to find a new one today. 😀 We bought our house here in Donegal last March, renovated indoors and are ready to start in the garden 🥳 We don't have a polytunnel but I still enjoyed this video. We need to plant a good privacy hedge , I want some nice yet low maintenance flower beds and lots of pretty trees so we will have colour in the garden throughout changing seasons. We have a stream running by the end of our garden so would love to make that area prettier too - it's all overgrown right now. So lots of work ahead of us. Your videos are great for giving us ideas and so realistic with the Irish climate. 💓

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

That is such a cool and kind message - I’m chuffed to bits! Thank you! Sounds like you’ve got a great garden to make your own. The funny thing is that your garden sounds a little like here... we have a little stream at the back of the garden that’s overgrown so I haven’t shown it yet! Can I ask very roughly where in Donegal you are? No problem if you’d rather not say. It’s just that every summer as a child we’d spend one or two weeks up there so it’s got a special place in my heart. We’d have stayed up near Carrigart so I know all around that area 😀

@InTuneParenting

3 жыл бұрын

we are a good bit away from Carrigart in St.Johnston. O I'd love if you make a video on your plans for the stream! I hope we could potentially have a garden as nice as yours but for now it's very bare , just a large plot of grass and some bushes and trees around the boundary, very boring.

Great job Niall, I always enjoy your videos, thanks for sharing.

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much 👍 Really chuffed that you're enjoying them!

Hi Niall, so happy I found your channel. Love it. We're getting ready to put up our first greenhouse 16' x 24' low side wall tunnel with roll up sides. Just picked it up yesterday from Grower Solutions in Cookeville, TN. I live in Greeneville TN it was about a 3 hour drive one way. Having your tips on the Landscape Fabric is going to help me so much. Thank you for your efforts in creating helpful videos!

Very nice job! Looking forward to see the finished product!

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

You and me both! 😂 Yeah it should be such an improvement!

Great video Niall! Loved it!

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks! 😃

Great tip with the trimmer up against the plastic poly tunnel. You are really thinking so that you don't have to work twice, three times. I like that roll of black fabric. I will have to check that out -- and I don't like fabric but that looks pretty good. You did double with that fabric -- no weeds coming through there. You are right it looks so good already. All that hard works is going to pay off for years to come. Great job.

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Renee! Yeah hopefully the landscape fabric will do the job, at least for a few years! I've got the woodchip down now and it looks great - that'll be in the next video... it makes such an improvement to the whole area.

Great video Niall. Good explanation.

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍 Glad you enjoyed it!

Really enjoyed the video Niall, dying to see the chip down, i really mean that, it was like a cliff hanger in a movie ha ha ha. Must keep in mind your tip with the wood. Want to fast forward to next week already 🤣🤣. Well done Niall, thanks for sharing.

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Lorraine! In that case, I'll have to get a wriggle on and get the woodchip laid down this week to show off on Sunday! 😂 Really glad that you're enjoying the episodes so much.

@LorraineG123

3 жыл бұрын

@@niallgardens ha ha on with the rain coat and get chipping. Oh look forward to your Sunday episode. The work you are doing is fantastic, really putting your own mark on the place, well done Niall.

Love the tip for strimming close to the tunnel, I always end up leaving an edge which I then pull the grass by hand, time consuming and not great for my poor old back! I will now be using your board tip 😊👍x

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

Oh super! Really glad it was helpful! Like I say in the video, I very much learned through error! 😂

Hello Niall it’s so nice watching the progress of your gardening and I’m not sure if you have told us before but just how much land do you have there. And do you perhaps have an aerial view of the property it would be lovely to see it from the big picture. Hope the weather stays good for you being outside 🥶❄️ 🌧. As always stay safe and stay gardening ✌️🇨🇦🌶🥬🧑‍🌾💐🥕

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Ali! 👋 The garden is just under one acre, though it's longer than it is wide. Oh, I'll have to get onto that! Maybe when I do another garden tour, I'll include a map so that you can see where each bit of the garden is? It's looking like it's going to be a wet week - yuck! Hope all's well with you!

It looks neat and tidy.

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Hey man great videos, just want to recommend if the fabric is woven to sear the edges you cut. Otherwise it frays quite quickly and you end up with weeds pushing through and tons of black strings of plastic flying around the garden. Keep up the good work 😁

@scottellwoodgardening287

3 жыл бұрын

You’re right there Paul. We tend to cut it a few inches larger and tuck a piece under when using that type it’s one downside of that product.

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! I'll be doing exactly that to avoid the fraying - thanks!

Really looking forward to seeing it all finished with the wood chip down. Daft question, I've never made my own chips but wondering if you were able to use the diseased trees for this given they were just for paths or if you had to burn those?

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

Dont worry, no such thing as a daft question 😉 In Ireland, it’s illegal to burn garden waste or have a bonfire in your garden which makes disposing of material really tricky (or expensive). I had the reassurance of the environment agency’s disease tests, but to be safe I’ve split the material I cut down... anything that I suspected wasn’t 100% has been disposed of (a portion of the pear tree), and I’m only using the remainder (inc the Apple tree) which I believe is unaffected, for the woodchip paths 👍

Great job Niall. Ill be doing the same in my veg garden when i start doing it. I bought 2x 100m rolls of landscape fabric. To cover my plot. In a similar fashion. Due to arsenic in soil. Debating on doing on top of soil under raised beds to keep separated. Whats your thoughts ? I envy your flat land mine on quite a slope so may have a digger in to terrace land

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you’re recovering well 🤗 Yeah we’re very lucky to have such a flat site - I’d say the land only slopes about 10-15ft over the acre. I have to be honest and say I’ve never dealt with the situation you’re describing. I tend to think that a barrier like you describe is a good course of action, but I think it might be worth double-checking on the net whether it’ll be sufficient and whether there’s anything else that might help.

Hi niall , great video as always. Is your wood chipper good ? I'm in the market for one , would you recommend i get your one ? I made a woodchip path 5 years ago , but the fabric was poor quality and so needs redoing.

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, absolutely! I love it - it's noisy, but chips the wood incredibly finely which I like. It's been replaced by a newer (and quieter I think!) model, but I've linked that model in my kit page. In the video description, there's a link to my kit page, and a section on power tools. The latest incarnation of my shredder is there. I haven't used it because my one is still perfect, but I can't recommend Ryobi tools highly enough 👍

random question, but i need good gardening gloves, and good online recommendations?

@niallgardens

3 жыл бұрын

No problem! I pretty much live in gardening gloves! Rather than expensive 'gardening specific' ones, I use ones for trades work, but they're thin enough to still have some 'feel' and they're really comfy. I have a link in the description to my kit page... If you go there, there's a section I've called Everyday Carry and you'll see exactly the gloves I wear 👍 Just make sure to pick the right size because it'll take you to the size I wear! (which is about a small/medium).