When this video first posted, I was having a day......as soon as I saw you in the greenhouse, it was like popping in on an old friend and I felt the days stress leave. Each Sunday I look forward to seeing what your up to in the garden. Generally, it's when I sit for a cupper and take a break from all the business of the week. Thank you for inviting us all into your gardens.

@eliandkate

Ай бұрын

Well you are always welcome to come join us for a wee cuppa and a pick me up 😍😍😍😍😍😍

I have my new green house now & hubby put it up so I'm watching & learning lots of tips from you both , I find your videos so good & I've watched a few a few more times , Thankyou to you both for sharing & being so easy to watch x

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Hurrah for the exciting new greenhouse… bring on the growing

I'm quite the harsh plant mom. If it comes up it does. If it survives it does. I'm not spending time cuddling my baby plants. I live in Norway, zone 4. My plants must be strong Vikings to survive. :D

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

I’m with you on that one!!!

I love the fence planter and those irrigation systems are good for keeping pots and things watered

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

I kinda want another one for the big bed t the back with the apple trees :D

Hi Eli & Kate. Lots of tyding up jobs done today. Lovely update. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

A wee tidy is good for the soul me thinks

For once I don't feel like I've sown too much as I still have space to fill and I decided to get serious about succession planting, which I do by the moon, this year. So I'll be playing Nick Drake tomorrow and then the next rows of carrots, beetroot and beans will go in somewhere round 8th May. I don't know much about flowers, so I've been taking notes on your vertical rockery.

Fab update Eli ❤ Your plants are all looking amazing in your greenhouse. Your fence planter looks fabulous . Have you tried just putting compost over the straggly bits to see if you get new growth coming through? Have a great week both ❤

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Thanks you Working on getting a bit of space in the greenhouse now!! 😁

Kate needs to get her finger oot!! Tell her she has until Sunday to improve or I’ll be reconsidering having her at the top of my list, for when I start my garden. 😉❤️🥂

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

improve what? :D

@jimmyconnolly3461

2 ай бұрын

She’s my number 1 item to have in my garden and now we don’t see her doing anything in the Sunday vlog. She needs to up her game. Otherwise I’ll have to put her at number 2. God knows who I’ll have to pick to replace her. I think it’s just easier if the takes her finger oot. I’ve enough to do, and don’t need to waste time on her replacement 😉😂❤️

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

@@jimmyconnolly3461 🤣🤣🤣

**Panicking** We just had 23.3* F (-4.83*C) last night and it’s diving again tonight fast. Ugh! This time of year in the Midwest is not for the faint of heart. We get no sleep as we work hard to prevent freezing of plants especially fruit. It was warm today and I sit here at night wondering if I should run out and cover Haskaps 🙄 as they are finally in great bloom. I left most covering in place or nearby, I suppose I should drag my butt out there as it’s already 35*F. Potting up-started way more annuals and perennials this year and some things are so tiny I do the clump method and sort them out later as long as they are not a fragile plant. It does take up room doesn’t it? I have a shoe horn you can borrow 😅. Pray it doesn’t get as cold 🥶 the next few nights and that the rain stays steady to get out of this drought.

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Show horn at the ready

Great video Eli. Thanks for showing me green beans and for explaining which ones are the little thin ones. I wanted to grow the ones that you can buy frozen but was confused over the type. Luckily I’ve chosen dwarf french and they sound like the right ones. I didn’t know they would be ok in containers so that is good as I only have a back garden to grow in. I’ve planted some on in my polytunnel. Hope they will be ok in there next to my tomatoes. X

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

That’s the chaps In the UK we tend to call them French beans and you can get dwarf plants or huge big climbing plants

I love your fence planter. Thanks for the idea of dwarf beans in the green stalk.

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

It works great in there I did it last year, so easy to harvest

@dawnlalek

2 ай бұрын

Ooohhh. Need to shop dwarf bean seeds now.... 😉

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

@dawnlalek 😂😂😂😂😁

That's a lovely lot of green in the greenhouse. :)

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

A little bit too much green 😂😂😂

You could try one of my trailing/creeping faves in there, Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea'), it looks so lovely haning over planters and pots etc... It quite likes wet soil as it's a shallow, marginal plant but will grow anywhere as long as you keep it watered. Comes back every year and extremely easy to propagate. I can't relate to the being fed up with seed sowing, it's my absolute favourite thing, I just want to sow more and more haha! I find it so relaxing. I actually did a free plant pick & mix last year for any locals to come help themselves as I always have loads and gave me a reason to sow loads more seeds (and use some up). So I'm going to do the same this year on an even bigger scale.

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

It’s the potting on I like 😁

Those are snazzy pink plant labels Eli.👌

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

I have lots of colours 😁

Re:- Dahlias I apologise,I can't recall the persons name that was interested in how my experiment with keeping my Dahlia bulbs ,in containers, in my unheated greenhouse over winter. As of today,,22nd April 2024, they have growth of about 2 inches.

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Hurrah

I love your vertical fence planter. I might do something like this in an area of our garden. It looks so beautiful all filled up with the trailing plants. I am so with you on the seedling shuffle. I’ve been trying square pots as I seem to be able to squeeze more in that way.. note I’m looking for ways to enable myself to plant more and not ways to rein in my obsession 😂 Can’t wait for the peas and bean harvests here. Remind me of that when I’m shelling peas 😂

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Ha ha ha I’ll defo remind you

Potting up my seedlings scares the bejeezez out of me. All of a sudden I have two left hands and disconnected from my brain. My first year gardening so hopefully next year it will not be so scary. I literally break out in sweat. Ok the 25 degrees Celsius in my greenhouse also might have something to do with the sweating part 😅.

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

I promise… every time you do it, you get a little more confident

Hi Eli ❤rudbeckia i luv all the sowing and planting up this time if year especially everything popping up in the greenhouse ready to go out i see you too have a busy greenhouse be nice when it gets warmer outside to see most things growing in the garden ☀️

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

It’s so full in there!!!!

The fence planter is looking good, will look great in the summer. Can't wait to harvest the dwarf green beans this year. Exciting!

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

You are gonna love them and they are perfect for your garden

@chicosgarden

2 ай бұрын

@@eliandkate I’m planting individual ones in my strawberry planter 🙂

The wall looks so much better than it did with the strawberries. I actually 😲 got peppers to germinate in my cooler home. Tomatoes showed up voluntarily from compost, as did a few peppers. Hazard of having "cold" compost. Greenhouse is living up to it's name.(Pun intended). 🇨🇦👍

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Wooohoooooo

i still havent put my GH up yet, when i was gonna do it,it rained, hoping this wednesday 🤪 i know im lagging but i do stupid nights, and work every weekend.so when i get time off its only for 2 days [but part of that i finish at 06:30am in morn]😪. Love your bee [light] next to your pallet planter

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

it sucks when things get in the way of gardening !!!

@andrewstirrat1628

2 ай бұрын

It really does ❤

Marvelous. Thank you Eli. Have ordered me some dwarf french bean seeds. Having recently discovered the magic of wrapping corriander seeds in a damp cloth to germinate, (every seed germinated 🎉) I shall try the same process; just for the hell of it 😊

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Keeping it fun! 😁😁

🐝Thanks for the great video🌻 The wall looks amazing!!

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

I can’t wait till summer when it’s full of flowers

@BumblebeeAdventure

2 ай бұрын

@@eliandkate I will just bummbel allover all the flowers 🤣🐝

Love to see more information about the solar watering system.

🌱🌱

Great update and thanks for the tip on potting up and see the plants take off also because they have been disturbed. I've been thinking it was just more space and fertiliser that did it. Uh, that means I have even more potting up to do now. 😄

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 sorry

Your yard will be cheerful and gorgeous! I'm also growing beans in a Greenstalk this year, but I discovered a garter snake made the planter its home when I watered the seeds in haha. We're going to have to come to an agreement.

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

I hope you are charging it rent!!

@deb1973d

2 ай бұрын

@@eliandkate As long as it eats the slugs, it can stay!

Planted peas,bunching onions,radishes and carrots the last couple days because the weatherman said temps in the fifties and sixties this week. Can’t prove it today and they have dropped temps to forties and maybe fifties after I planted.

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Typical!!!!

Hi Eli & Kate, a question for you both. What line of work are you in, what are your jobs? Forgive me for being nosey but i can see Eli working as a teacher with children 😊 love to you both from down here in Leicester & thanks for being so positive & inspirational in your vlogs xx

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

You’ll understand why we can’t be specific but absolutely not working with children! 😂😂😂 but education yeah. Kate is an information specialist

@sharonwindram6833

2 ай бұрын

Thank you my lovelies ❤

What I'm sick of is the return of winter here in Germany! Frost last 4 days, another 4 to come. -3C this morning, reached the giddy heights of about 7. Last week we had 22!. I've got the house packed out with warm loving refugees from the greenhouse tent, sharing too few UV lights and window space. The new greenhouse is yet again stalled waiting for a replacement huge 6m x 2.1m. It's probably going to go straight to HOT at the weekend. Let's see! I can cope with anything, but just as long as the epic frosts are gone !

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

It’s crazy isn’t it??

Oooh are you painting your chairs? Love the black and grey look!😍 the wall of pretties is really looking great! I sowed my beans too yesterday…. Really missing my veggies this time of year!

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Nah leaving the chairs. It matches the other set I know what you mean about missing veggies

@Garden-of-weeden

2 ай бұрын

@@eliandkate must be my mind playing tricks on me!

4:41 have you tried maybe putting something between them which will disguise the older growth but still let the front flowers show? Just an idea.

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Do you mean in front of the aubretia? Nah not even thought of trying to disguise it. I kinda see it as just one of those things. I factor it in 😝

Chill ooterie is looking lovely 😊

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Thank you Hope it’ll get even better 😁

@mags9536

2 ай бұрын

I'm sure it will 😊​@@eliandkate

give the aubretia a good cut back new growth will come and flower again

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

I’ve never had any luck with that 😭😭😭😭

💡🚨I’m Defcom one, i’ve had to change the lightbulb (Red Dwarf reference) And I’ve just ordered 9 Dahlia tubers from Farmer Gracey 🤦🏼‍♀️ I’m a lost cause

@kirstypollock6811

2 ай бұрын

Blue alert!

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Ha ha ha you are

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

No not that!!!!!

@karenaWarner144

2 ай бұрын

@@kirstypollock6811 Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb. 😂😂

The fence planter is looking fab ....like the rest of your amazingly tidy garden ... simply stunning 😍 Are they your tomato plants on your back staging in your Greenhouse .... if so wow 👌 ❤

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Ah no the tomatoes are still tiny. Thats my peppers 😁

@carolinebown8686

2 ай бұрын

Still Wow ....massive wow ... my peppers are about 2 - 3 ins tall ....pathetic really

@kirstypollock6811

2 ай бұрын

My peppers AND tomatoes are both still small too! I'm sure they will catch up.

Can I ask, do you heat your greenhouse? So I'm in southern Ireland and trying to decide if I can leave my tomatoes overnight in my polytunnel. Would love any advice on the subject. I'm currently being overrun with eggplants, peppers, chillis seedlings, it would be lovely to be able to downsize my workload and put the tomatoes out.

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

I don’t no. Generally speaking it’s best to wait until the night temperatures in there are reliably above 10c

@WilliamODonnell-uw6tr

2 ай бұрын

@@eliandkate thanks for the reply 🙂, I think I'm gonna risk the lidl €2 ones and keep bringing the fancy ones I started from seed indoors.

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

@WilliamODonnell-uw6tr hopefully it won’t be long for you now. I’m absolutely taking a massive gamble this year…. It’s normally May for us but I’m just outa space

I must of miss something. What are those bins you have you soil mixes in the greenhouse?

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

This might help, I spoke about them the other week Making the BEST use of your new greenhouse kzread.info/dash/bejne/mqCCxLBwhsyrf9I.html

I'm after a new lawnmower and looking at getting a Bosch. Are you pleased with your 320E.R.? Thanks.

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

kate absolutely loves it

@wendybartlett6717

2 ай бұрын

@@eliandkate Thanks for that. Reviews on line seem to vary. I knew you'd give me an honest answer.

How do you deal with slugs planted lettuce last year but the slugs got it all

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

You have to learn to garden with them David. Nothing “stops” or eliminates them. You basically learn to avoid planting the things they will decimate in the places they are most likely to be decimated or take measures to try to make it less easy for the slugs. Planting up off the ground or not in the ground helps. Copper tape works great on pots if you don’t have other plants reach over them.

eli can i pick your brains, im a beginner grower tried a few bits last year, this year im bit late cos of the weather but ive planted loads of seeds for bedding and pot planters ive put them in spare bedroom as still too cold, only got a small plastic greenhouse thingy! anyhow planted seeds little bit of water ive checked them today and still feel damp etc how often do you recommend watering new seeds and do i need to turn heating up in the room they are in? got a couple of cheap grow lights but dont know how long should have them on over tyhe plants a day got about 6 already got green shoots breaking the soil, ty x

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

OK Amanda, not a single simple answer I'm afraid and you are going to have to do a bit of research on your own, sorry. Very simply, if you have seeds in the soil, you need to keep it moist so that they will germinate. You can't water on a schedule, that's not how plants work, instead, if the soil feels dry, water, if it's still damp, don't wanter. Heat... it depends. Seeds need the soil to be warm to germinate, hence why we usually use heat mats. They usually want hotter than the temperature of our homes... but... if they are indoors it may just means they germinate a little slower if the soil is colder. Seedlings and plants are different from seed starting though, which is where it gets difficult. You will need to look up what temperatures those plants would like. Growlights, some seeds need light to germinate but most don't, however the lights will give a tiny bit of warmth. Once you have seedlings you will need to have those lights on in order to stop the seedlings becoming leggy and weak. As to how long... well plants all have specific needs so you could go find out what the different plants need and go with the most needy... or what I usually do to keep it simple is look at how many hours of day light those plants would get once you put them into the garden and mimic that, mimic sun up and sun down.

@amandapitchford3094

2 ай бұрын

@@eliandkate oki doki ty so much! x

What make are the root trainer that you use elli

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

They are from garland 😁

@annethomas4112

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

@annethomas4112

2 ай бұрын

By the way love love watching your vids xx

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

and we're glad to have you with us Anne :D

If the plants don't grow, it would make a good pigeon loft? ;-)

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😁😁

If you can't eat it.

@eliandkate

2 ай бұрын

Maybe not the channel for you then Bob as my channel is about gardening and not allotmenteering or homesteading. My garden is 80% about look and feel.

@Bob-bo8ik

2 ай бұрын

@@eliandkate Wild horses.