My harvest basket is definitely not as big as yours, and my garden is not as impressive as theirs. My flowers aren’t as big and bright, my garlic is an embarrassment and don’t get me started on the tomatoes outdoors…
but none of this is important when I’m in my garden, here in beautiful Scotland.
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Named compost bins…… That's class that is…
Ive planted 100 crocus blubs, about 45 different ranunculus bulbs, 15 tigridia blubs lots of dahlia, 5 echinacea lotsnof anemone and lots of alliums and more all bought from farmer gracey im so disappointed no spring bulbs even developed or rooted so no spring flowers only thing that has started to flower are the Dahlias. They are planted in front garden in the ground also in pots front and back garden . It's not the first year this has happened. Everything else i bought from elsewhere have grown. Vegetable beds doing ok considering the weather. I spent so much on farmer gracey site😢 to be left flower less 😪. And yes, i put them in the right places . Like the crocus blubs i dug up to see what was going on, they are the same as if i had just taken them out of the packet.
Tomatoes are doing great outside and inside. Beans and peas only have one bean pea in the pod . Onions are good garlic small lettuce is good. Carrots are great even transplanted them.😊
I would be excited if my garlic looked that good. 😀
The only time you are a failure at gardening is if you fail to try to garden at all. Slugs and a dry spring took out a lot of my flowers I started and some of my veg that was direct seeded. I am trying tog et the slug population knocked back and trying to seed things out again. By Aug everything will look very different even if right now there are some bare patches.
Nicely said Eli (and you are completely right). ❤
Great video as usual Eli, i don't think the weather helps it's suppose to be summer where is mr sunshine no such thing as failure as a gardener that is how we learn x
Great message! Good attitude is very important. I get many comments about how terrible my garden looks… in January… in Colorado… when everything is dead. I still think it looks wonderful and endure the cold to enjoy it. 😊
Think its been a pants season all-round this year. Ok its my first proper one with a green house and raised beds. Not had any veg yet this year not even a runner bean and think the winds gotten to them . , even radish have struggled as has carrots , either not grown or just bolted. Courgettes, cucumbers & tomatoes only just starting to show produce in the green house but gone made growing wise.
Eli, you have the most timely videos. Just a day or two ago I was beating myself up because I still don’t have all the perennial weeds pulled from my vegetable garden. Not taking into account that 3 years ago I had major surgery, and the weeds got ahead of me, (due to the fact that I used grass clippings which were full of dandelion seeds as a mulch on the beds) so the second year I had a magnificent crop of weeds. That year I just gave up, but this year I’m fighting back. It’s slow going, but damn I’m determined to get her done! For a 74 year old, I now think I’m doing not too badly. Thanks for the encouragement!
Thank you for posting this. Growing has been so hard this year – weather / pests / life. The main reason I follow this channel is because it's a real garden not a social media self sufficiency 'paradise'
thanks for a bit of realism.. i don't have any tomatoes as yet, v disappointing with our freezing scottish weather. oh well at least i'm not the only one.
Bless you so much for this word of encouragement. We all have our garden struggles. This week we had temps in the upper 90's F. TOO HOT! Some of my garden suffered because of it. I do grow for farmer's market, so there is pressure I put on myself to produce crops that are "just right" for selling. Well, I guess it will sell or it won't but I still love to spend time in the garden…when it's not so hot 🙂
I love this video Eli, you must've known how I was feeling and gave me a good talking to. Thank you xx
Its been a tough tough year
Never had my Garlic fail until this yr. Grew well then bulbs deformed
So you are doing better than
Love your content
Kind regards to you and Kate
What a brilliant video. Well done Eli for such a positive message. With year we've had so far it's so easy to focus on all the things the slugs have eaten before I could (and its a long list), rather than celebrate the ones they left me and that I'm just starting to enjoy. Off to pick some mangetout now. Thanks !
We've recently had a big political enquiry into supermarkets and price gouging and food waste… one of the supermarket execs said something along the lines of "no one wants a giant banana"… that notion of what we are used to seeing in supermarkets versus what is perfectly good to use/eat is insane. Personally I would be quite happy to have a giant banana… much like I'm sure your garlic and broccoli and other things are quite lovely. (I too have sent snails on an over fence holiday… typically only after take off have I thought "I probably should have been doubly sure no one was on the other side of the fence".)
Got a first handful of peas yesterday. Just a gram short of 80 grams but enough for dinner with homegrown potatoes and pork steaks. Broad beans are struggling, so are the runner beans. Still trying to get kohlrabi to grow. Tho the leek seedlings I repotted have grown a lot more and will have to go into the final planter soon. And we had quite a few strawberries which are now jam. Little bit disappointed but also happy we got something so far after the abysmal Spring and the non-happening Summer.
Cabbages and Sprouts are in to, so fingers crossed for them. It's all trial and tribulations.
Love your smoke bush btw. ours needs a little trim, it's loving the weather.
And how do you stop your cat messing in your borders?
Glad you mentioned about social media and to bring yourself into a reality check. I’ve found myself going down that rabbit hole and you start thinking WTH did I do wrong. We are all struggling the affects of weather changes—it’s more extreme then ever.
I’ve never had troubles with tomatoes in all my decades of gardening until this year. And I grew a lot of hybrids thankfully. The blight arrived in July and not the normal August timeframe and they are short and skinny. I may be able to salvage since the rain let up and sun returns. Thankful for dusty soil as it dried out quick enough I could get some liquid fertilizer on them to boost them up before storms Sunday. We have extreme heat indexes coming also for few days and shade fabric is needed and to do anything requires a lot of mosquito spray and head net. It’s been miserable to garden this summer.
There are some wins, but like you we have had Way too much rain and rust and mildew are an issue here also. Never had rust on hollyhocks until this year and I also added two more varieties 🙄 now it looks like I may need rust resistant varieties or spray copper early. We just harvested garlic and I was concerned they and onions would rot, but again thankful for dusty soil.
You both do a great job at managing your what you have—celebrate!🎉. And more mentioning of quit comparing ourselves with other more than perfect shots we see—just remember you aren’t seeing the whole picture.😉. There’s enough crap going on in this world then to beat ourselves up over our greatest stress reliever—The Garden.
Some of my dahlias and zinnias are growing but loads of them are food for the slugs. Feel like it’s been very wet since March up near Manchester. Need a bit of sunshine! X
This is my first full year as a garden hobbyist. I've really enjoyed it and for the most part what I've planted has at least popped up. There have been a few failures though so I'm very much still learning. It's a pity it's not warmer. It feels like we haven't had a summer at all yet.
I left all social media about 2years ago, best thing I ever did
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Those little bulbs on the garlic are called "bulbils'….you can plant them and grow a garlic. Takes a couple years though.
Always good to be "real" about the garden. Great video.
Those Violas would probably have come good again if you gave them a massive haircut.
Some of mine went that way. I chopped them down short and they bounced back nicely.
Buying plants is cheating? Not according to my rules and as it's my garden they are the only ones that matter.
Yep plants die sometimes but that means you have space to grow something new. Thanks for the video. Cheers!
More cat cameos please 😂