In the Garden with Eli and Kate
In the Garden with Eli and Kate
Welcome to our small suburban garden where we grow heaps of fruit and veg, and flowers and generally enjoy our garden. We're Eli and Kate (to be honest, mostly Eli) who share their gardening days in the form of upbeat vlogs in our Scottish garden. We basically aim to share our love of our garden. So grab a drink, relax and come enjoy our garden with us.
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The nuking method is brilliant!!! Thank you.
Hopefully it’ll make life a bit easier
Haha aww I was wanting for a dance off there 😂 💚🫶🏽 brilliant
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I know I need a new shovel! I broke my favourite one the other day out in the garden while using it. The handle snapped in two and gouged my leg: I got a huge blood sample from the scratches and now lovely colours of black and blue are showing up. 😢😂😂
Oh ouch!
Does anybody wash their strawberries in Sugar water to kill off bugs? It’s been suggested to me, but I’ve been eating my strawberries without washing them. I don’t use any pesticides, so I don’t see the need to wash them. Great video as always, Eli I was wondering when my garlic and onions would be ready so this has been very very helpful.
No not something I do…. I know there is research happening in the use of sugar instead of insecticides for some pests like aphids but it’s still research stages.
Thank You great video for a new comer very informative I learned so much you are awesome
Awww I’m so glad it’s helped Walt! 👏👏👏👏 Not sure if it’s be useful but I e got a slightly less intense one as well… might be a few tricks in there for you…kzread.info/dash/bejne/mqCCxLBwhsyrf9I.htmlsi=_qDwGlXeoOeGCu1I
Thank you so much I didn’t know know what to do with the runners, will try to propagate now, thank you so much 🎉🎉
Oh you are so gonna have soooooooo many strawberry plants now!!!! No more buying plants 😍😍😍😍😍
I don't think I'm going to have much lucky with my onions (yet)... I sowed some direct in the veggie patch and later I put some in trays in my propagators... but it occurred to me recently that the seeds I used are likely ones I bought last year (maybe even the year before)... so I'm guessing they are no longer good? I might sow the remainder in a place I don't mind them popping up and in the mean time buy a pack of fresh seed to see if that makes the difference :D I need to refine my pepper/capsicum growing too... I might try getting them started earlier this year, we had some last season... but not much and I think they could have been bigger, you live and learn :D
Yeah I’ve had zero luck with seeds more than a year old but plenty of other folk have said they’ve had no issues… so you just don’t know 😍
That is exactly what got me into gardening!
Me too 😂😂😂
I just got a small greenhouse. About 9 X 8 feet. So excited! This is my first staging video I watched. Very helpful. Thank you. You are fantastic!
Woooohoooo oh new greenhouse day in the best EVER, Andrea!!!!! This one might be useful too BEST use of your greenhouse (and my IKEA hack for it) kzread.info/dash/bejne/mqCCxLBwhsyrf9I.html
Thanks for the tour!
You’re more than welcome 😍
The green stalk looks absolutely brilliant and so healthy, ive tried growing in verticals before but found moisture retention always a problem hence poor results, these look deeper and looking at the growth in yours, worth investing in, if you've seen my vids you will know I have literally no space left, the garden is rammed so vertical may be an option I need to consider next year, thanks for the great video !
Yeah I know exactly what you mean about the moisture thing. The difference with the greenstalks is that they have an internal system for watering, so you water the top and it feeds through various reservoirs inside
@@eliandkate Fab!
I put straw round mine and it began to grow grass like
Sounds like you were given hay rather than straw 😭 That’s actually really common and lots of folk have had the same issue. Less reputable suppliers dobbies off with hay (cheaper for them), which isn’t the same. Hay can still have seeds in it, hence the “grass” 😭😭😭
I'm so jealous of your pepper harvest! Yellow peppers are my favourite bell. My pepperoncini varieties (Golden Greek) are barely a few inches high, but I might have something come mid-late August, fingers crossed. Oh, update on the determinate tomato tumbler - it's heaving with flowers and setting fruits (at last). Alicante & Elsa are giving fruiting well too. P.S. - I'll watch this over Gardener's World all day long, great content by a lovely couple xo
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I absolutely love your channel. I 100% learn something new each time I watch an episode. I’ve grown basil this year for the first time and it’s looking fabulous now I’ve split it up and potted it on but I did wonder how to harvest it therefore making it bushier. Thank you for sharing.
Woohoo New thing learned 😍
Great harvests, it's great you got some broccoli. Those strawberries from your bed were huge, yum yum. Fab harvesting video 😊
They were monsters weren’t they 😂😂😂
Nice haul 😊
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@@eliandkate is this a Scottish word… Google is not helping me today😅
@Garden-of-weeden ha ha ha from willy wonka
Hi Eli & Kate, your Strawberries are huge, what variety are they? All your plants are looking really health. Always plenty of hints & tip content in your videos. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
😂😂😂 I went to all the effort of putting the varieties on screen Christine 😂😂😂😂
Barry's crazy cherry was an option on pointless recently.
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@@eliandkate 6 names. which are real and not known by anybody.
BEST USE of a half hour lunch break evah!!!
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Such wonderful harvests! Your garden is fabulous!
Thank you so much! A wee bit of work to get done this weekend to tidy some mess the black birds have done but an excuse for more flowers
Must have had much better weather than i have here in northumberland , only just getting few strawberries , no runners yet or carrots ! Potatoes just starting too !
Sorry to hear that! It's always rotten watching other folk get harvests before you.
Try drying the basil. Just hang it up somewhere airy and dry or try flash drying it in the microwave.
Getting a nice harvest from your garden. To maximize I’m sure it pays to find the best varieties with the most or largest production. I’m not the biggest fan of rhubarb and mainly it’s a nostalgic thing for me, but I would find a place to add it to the flowers for greenery and use the bed for other veg. The apples are doing great! I have a few in 3 rd year on dwarf trees. I should have got all trees that could withstand cedar rust. We just had a few blueberries and one has giant berries which have a lot of meat to them. I think we are finding after our earlier harvest of honey berries that we like them better. The great thing is they are easier to grow and heartier.
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Hi Eli where did you get your towers from please they are fantastic
they're available in the UK and EU now at growtowers.eu :D
Great video, may i ask where do you get your dwarf pea's and beans from i would like to have ago a growing them as i don't really do well with normal sized ones
of course Steph, this year I got mine from Mr Fothergills but I generally just shop around looking for whatever I'm after, I don't have just one seed supplier I use :D
@@eliandkate Thank you i will shop around and i will try and grow them next season x
Videos I mention: How to prune basil: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i3aOrqeuicTZqbw.htmlsi=SdGxQy9GJRWPLaL_ Summer pruning apples: kzread.info/dash/bejne/X6d2trKOf9bTgqg.htmlsi=5cUzJEfIj1-PvbM1 Last June's Garden tour and Newton: kzread.info/dash/bejne/rHtl2NiCl7nZkZs.htmlsi=cFLXBICrOnXg8VLs
My basil -and parsley- in the greenhouse was completemunched be I slugs this year 🤨
boooooooooo slimy little sods!!!!
Another informative video I love watching them.
Glad to hear it Angela! ❤
Wow. June harvests have been great here too. More than I expected. Love how well the tenderstem is doing for you. Worked out well. Our strawberries are proving to be prolific, which has surprised me as only planted as new bare root plants over winter. Really interesting to see the difference in cropping between the bed and the greenstalk for your strawberries. Love that you couldn’t resist one. Talking of which, that greenstalk is rammed. Amazing! What a fabulous amount of food you’re growing in such a small footprint of the garden. I can really see why you love the greenstalk so much now. It’s so productive! Very impressive. I need to start making pesto with our basil too. Everything in the garden looks great and for a space 90% devoted to a flower/plant garden it’s impressive how much food you’re still growing in the relatively small space devoted to it. The apple trees especially are brilliantly chosen for fitting in the garden, so subtly amongst the garden borders. Great update. Some random woman popped up at the beginning … think I recognised her too. 😅😂
yeah she follows me around that one, can;t get rid of her :D :D :D
My green tomatoes I swear are dropping and disappearing, but its also been 90+ F here. My cabbage needs to go... its starting to head but with this weather it's too much space for what it's gonna give me. I need to reset the bottom bed because the weeds are absolutely OUT OF CONTROL. Parsley is about 4ft tall and has all of the interesting pollinators bees hoverflies and at this rate even ants all over it. Fascinating that the flowers are still going strong i was gonna seed save but its been a while waiting for them to brown and die. Love the videos and the feeling you give off of "just hanging out".
A tad toasty Wormulous?? 😁
@eliandkate yea when the car reads 100F it's hot. 80F is like a cold spell now
Nice to see the harvest - congratulations! Curious for the reason for netting on your garlic, onion, rhubarb bed? Bug prevention?
It was because it had other things in there last year and was netted to reduce bugs in that 😁
Beautiful harvests. Garden is looking great. For fig, you might want to try one that fruits off 1st year wood. I am trying Chicago Hardy. It aready has 3 fruit growing and it can come back from frost kill and still produce. I also wanted to suggest the green sprouting broccoli I am growing this year. Planted the starts out early May and I am getting a meals worth of shoots every 2 days. The variety was called Green Sprouting Calabrese. It is a 70 day variety. Also thank you for the king of the North suggestion. I am growing some this year and they are doing fantastic in my eastern Canadian spring.
Alas, we are very very limited in fig varieties for Scotland (UK really) 🥲
I've finally got one tiny shishito pepper that will be ready to harvest in a day or 2. I didn't do much veg this year to begin with then there were slugs & weird weather. Just as well I suppose because I've been in an autoimmune flare & can't eat much fruit or veg right now. The fruit trees & cane berries are pretty well done for the year, a small harvest of blackberries left & some everbearing strawberries will keep producing till winter.
Probably a good thing that you e not been overwhelmed this year 😢
My first crop of purple sprouting broccoli happened Sunday past, lightly fried and steamed with the first softneck garlic..superb. The softneck garlic had only a couple of brown leaves yet some bulbs had already started to split up so actually lifted too late
Mmmmmmmmm tasty
Hi Eli and Kate, a wonderfully informative vlog as ever, I always learn so much from you. Why do I put your videos on and they seem to end within 5 minutes! Your garden is looking wonderful. I just love this time of year! 🍓😊
It’s cause you are so focused Daisy! No distracting you 😍😍😍