My English Farmhouse House And Garden Tour Late July Norfolk | Clean With Kate #housetour #farmhouse

Welcome to a heatwave house and garden tour here at our English farmhouse! ☀️🏡 In this mid-July house tour video, I take you along for a relaxed walk-through of our home and garden as the summer sun blazes down. From current home and garden projects both indoors and outdoors to what’s blooming (and struggling!) outside in the heat, I’ll show you the real-life state of things in the middle of a classic British heatwave.

Expect a mix of cosy English cottage and farmhouse corners, barn conversion and house renovation updates, garden plans, and a peek at how we’re managing both inside and out during this unusually hot spell. Whether you’re here for inspiration or just a gentle English country escape, I hope you enjoy this summer tour.

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Welcome back to Clean with Kate. It’s Friday. It’s really really hot. We’ve got to about 30° today and it’s it’s I’m still recovering from a recent illness. So, it’s too hot to clean. So, I thought you might like a little little tour around the house and garden and just see what’s been happening. Um, this is the front of the cottage and it’s an area where I really I love to sit and I’ve actually spent a lot of time this week just sitting here relaxing in the sunshine reading a book. I’ve got a little basket here with my sunglasses, my reading glasses, and a book that I’m reading at the moment, which I’m really enjoying. The Power of Habit. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it. Anyway, that’s Let’s see if I can get it back in the basket. But I like, this is my reading spot at the moment. I like to sit here with a cup of coffee and read. Anyway, I’ll just show you what’s happening at the front of the cottage. The holly hawks have been done really well. Um, and then they they haven’t set seed yet. It’s still quite early in the year. I’ve got a lot to do in the garden. Um, but I’m just pacing myself at the moment. I’ve got lots of seeds to collect. As you can see here, the uh poppies of the peie poppies have set seeds. So, I need to collect those. And the roses are just putting on a second flush. They’re absolutely fantastic at the moment. Look at this one. This one had an a really good flush in May. This is Madame Alfred Carrier, my favorite rose. And she’s having another wonderful flesh now. just covering the side of the house in these beautiful roses. It’s a really good, reliable rose. It will grow just about anywhere and it puts on so much growth every year. I’m just going through to here in the little courtyard. The holly hawks are doing really well. I’ve just actually seeded I think I’m I think I am going to seed the other side of the courtyard with holly hawks because I think it would look nicer. It looks a little barren at the moment. And actually last night, oh golly, I better go and see if they survived. I did plant some holly hog seed some holly hog seedlings out. Whoops. I’m actually dogsitting this afternoon. I’m looking after five dogs. And in fact, I’m supposed to get one of them out for for toileting. So, let’s see if he’s awake. My daughter’s here for the for the weekend and she’s got an appointment and she’s gone for an appointment. Where is he? Oh dear, that’s a bit ominous. Where is he? My goodness. Where is he? Winston. Winston. He’s supposed to be asleep in his basket, but he’s not here, which is a really a little bit worrying. Wonder if he’s gone upstairs. Winston. I bet he’s gone upstairs for a nap. He’s probably climbed over the boxes and gone upstairs. I’ll have to come and look for him later. That’s a bit worrying. The other four dogs are in the house. I should have put a sun hat on. It’s so It’s a really strange year. My Japanese anemies are already flowering and these don’t normally flower out until August or September. Oh dear, this isn’t looking good. Okay, it was an experiment. I I was doing a little bit of weeding and I found all these Holly Hawk seedlings and I thought, I wonder if I’ll get away with transplanting them. I’m going to have to come and give them another water. The answer looks like it might be no. I haven’t got away with it. I should have probably put them into pots. Any the garden’s looking really late summerish at the moment. It’s changed color. There’s lots of reds and yellows and this fantastic yellow daisy which I got from my dad many years ago. I’ve grown this yellow daisy in every garden that I’ve I’ve owned and it’s a lovely reliable. It’s really enjoying this position actually. It’s doing ever so well in this position and the bumblebees love it. Covered in bumblebees. There’s one in there. What’s happened to Winston? And one of my projects for the weekend is to just do some weeding in the in the little garden. These Annabels are incredible in here. Look at this. Never grown in this hydrangeanger before. Well, I have actually, but never like this. This is just incredible. These were only planted early I think end of last year we planted them in the autumn and just look at them. I see incredible the heads on them and that I think the secret to growing Annabelle well is water. Plenty of water. So these are quite young Annabels. I like them so much I’ve bought another one but because I’ve been ill I haven’t actually got round to planting it out. This is a really good plant. I had it somewhere else in the garden. It’s really easy to propagate. this huge daisy and it has these fantastic flowers on it. I’m really pleased with that plant. I’ve got quite a lot of it. I’m definitely going to propagate that one again, but I need to come in here in dead head cuz then it will keep things flowering for longer. This little bit of the garden is looking really good. God, it is hot. I think we are going to have to go inside. Oh, he’s Where have you appeared from? He has appeared. Where on earth were you sleeping? I think you had snuck upstairs, hadn’t you? He’s still got his harness on, which can’t be very comfortable. My daughter always seems to leave him with his harness on. I think it’s cuz he doesn’t like having it put on. I reckon it could probably come off now. No, you’re not going in there. It’s locked. Come on, you go back to bed. I’ll leave the door open so we can go in and out. Right, let’s go back over to the house. At least he’s come out wherever he was hiding. I think he must have been upstairs on one of the beds. Naughty dog. We need to put a stairgate on that stair, I think. So, one of my jobs when I’m feeling more energetic. I’m going to do it bit by bit. I’ve made a start is to cut back all this now. I’ve collected seed. I need to collect a bit more seed, but a lot of these plants now, the red valyan and the oxide daisy have finished flowering and the fever few and I need to just cut them back now. So, I’ll get a second flesh. This is quite an important job to get on and do now. And then I’ll be able to see my hydrangeas back there, which at the moment are completely lost to the lost to sight back there. I also need to dead head this rose because that will keep flowering if I dead head it. You can see this was a picture earlier in the month or the end of June, but now it’s completely finished flowering. I need to do a little bit of tidying up in my porch. Little bit of dead heading on these ivy leaf geraniums and I need to give them a feed. They’re looking a bit droughted actually. I don’t think this I’ve forgotten to water them this week. So, this is one of my jobs for the weekend. Actually, this is an urgent Friday night job. Water the ivy leaf geraniums. And then all this along here has been flowering beautifully, but it’s pretty much finished now. So, I need to Mike said he’ll help. So, it’s quite a big job to do on my own. And then I’ll be able to give it I think I’ll need to give it a bit of a water as well then and maybe feed those hydrangeas. Anyway, I think we’ll have to go in for a bit out of the heat. I might we might pop in the back garden later. So, there’s some of the projects I’m working on this weekend. Also need to water this pot of uh is it erroron? I think it is. I think I got the name right. I think it’s aruguron. I’m trying to get it to seed everywhere around here. So I’ve got some over here. I’ve got a pot of it here. Anyway, let’s go inside. We’ve got vis another visiting dog in here. Hello. This is Gigi’s back, aren’t you? Gigi’s back for a visit. She’s pretty regular visitor here, aren’t you, Gigi? And uh they’re all staying in this part of the house cuz it’s so lovely and cool in here. So, let’s have a look. What do I need to do? What are my jobs for the weekend? I’m I’m collecting seeds. Somebody at works kindly bought me these Chinese takeaway trays, which are really useful for collecting seeds in and labeling them. So, what’s changed in here? I’ve still got a lovely pile of books. But I’ve bought one of these Oxales in here. And this one is absolutely beautiful, isn’t it? It’s been in the conservatory. I felt this week it was a little hot for it in there, so I’ve actually brought it into the barn. It’s the one that has got the um avocado pip sprouted in it. So, I don’t know what I’m going to do with that. I don’t know whether I’m going to cut the avocado off or if I’m just going to let it do its thing together. The dogs are being really good. They get on really well. these four. Winston’s not so sure about the uh our puppies. They are quite boisterous. So, I’ve got I’ve added to my orchid collection this week. The I think Mike bought these for me. Maybe it was last week. I’ve lost track of time this week, but I’ve got these new orchids that I’ve added to my orchid collection. And the ones that were in this pot have gone upstairs into the orchid nursery. I’m just need getting while while Mike and and uh my daughter are out, I’m just going to do a few jobs to get the house ready for the weekend. So, I’m going to put my some of my workbooks away. I might deal with the laundry. You can see I’m really struggling in this heat. I’ve been doing a little bit I need to do a little bit plant care actually. I think my house plants need watering. I got halfway through them last night. I’ve watered all the orchids, but I haven’t watered finished watering all the house plants. And I think I want to re I still want to relocate these two plants. I think I just don’t feel they’re right there. And I definitely need to water these three. So, another job I want to do for the weekend is deal with this laundry. It was washed yesterday. I want to get it into the baskets and put away just so that going into the weekend. The utility room is tidy. I’ve got a load of uh washing cloths and towels in there drying. Thank you for the tip on tumble drying the microfiber cloths. They are in the tumble dryer and they are tumbling. So, I’m going to see what how my microfiber cloths come out. Never tumbled my microfiber cloths before. It’s a new thing for me. And tonight I’m going to tackle the ironing pile before it gets overwhelming. I’ve got I’ve got a Zoom this evening. So, I’m going to do the ironing while I while I’m on Zoom. Well, I don’t know if I’ve got very much to show you in here. I haven’t not a lot changed in here really, has it? The gu the view of the garden changes at this time of year. I’ve cleaned my windows this week, so I’ve got nice clean windows to look out of. And this room is wonderful because every view is of the garden pretty much from every window. You can see flowers. So, the color scheme in here is I because I knew that the fl the garden was going to be a really big feature of this room, I went with a very neutral color scheme in here. So, I went with sort of pale pale pink on the walls up there. And um the kitchen’s painted this sort of very pale sage green which is a very sort of naturalistic color. Works well with green and pinks. So I just tried to keep it a quite neutral palette so that the the plants and the greens could really pop. I always think sage green is a really good color for a kitchen or neutrals, stone colors, all those sort of colors, dusky pinks. I like they’re the sort of colors that I like in a kitchen. I like black in a kitchen as well. So that’s why we did the kitchen in the other barn black. I was toying with doing this kitchen black, but once the room was actually built because it’s so big and airy and light, it really lent itself, I felt, to actually putting in a light color. Whereas here the kitchen’s quite dark and I’ve gone for a darker color. The little snug and the book corner. It looks out over the back garden which is looking really really late summer now. Golly, it’s incredible how much it’s changed in the last week. We’ve got really hot weather again. The meadow’s been cut. I’ll take you out to see that actually. Well, we’ll just have a little wander around the house first and I’ll take you out and show you the back garden. Oh, the dogs are being so so good. We’ve actually been using the main house this week because it’s been really hot and because I’ve been unwell, I’ve been watching DVDs. So, we’re into the little um the tack room, the sort of offset kitchen sort of room where we store mainly store cockery um and tea towels and things in the big dresser over there. And there’s a little utility room off there which is a sort of working utility room. And then lots of china on here. Oh my goodness. I’ve just realized I haven’t still haven’t brought down my my summer crockery. I’ve still got new crockery on my dresser. I think I’ve just stopped noticing the dishwasher’s running. Don’t you love that sound of the dishwasher running? It’s one of my favorite sounds. I’ve got a massive pile of dishes to dry here. My husband and my daughter cooked an amazing lunch and uh some of the dishes had to be handwashed, but nobody’s dried them up. There’s a little pantry off this kitchen. This is the real working heart of the home and it’s a working pantry. So, a lot of most all our cooking pretty much gets done in this room. It’s all like our back kitchen. In fact, I think I want to have a slurp of my tea. Just bear with me. I’m just going to have a quick flurp. I’m getting quite thirsty. So, where should we go next? Let’s go down the entrance. Ent the old entrance hall. It’s lovely and cool in this part of the house. I love this. I I love this entrance hall. It when we first came to see the house, it’s one of the things I absolutely love cuz we came in the front door and this was the first thing I saw. Although it didn’t have the chandeliers or the mirrors, we’ve added those things and went to the downstairs L. And look what I’ve done. Because I’m struggling to remember the name of my plants, I’ve actually started labeling them. So that that’s why I remembered the oxales today. I’ve just got found another one I’ve popped under there. They love this little dark sort of toilet. And the color in here is just really pops. Give you a view of the antique toilet and the mirror. And me with sunglasses on. I wondered why it was so dark. I might have to take my sunglasses off. Actually, no. I haven’t had to wear my coats much this year. It’s my summer jackets have just not seen the light of day. It’s been so warm. It’s been so warm. I’m just going to take a pause while I take my sunglasses off. That’s better. But I’ve just realized I’m going into the conservatory. I’m going to need to put the sunglasses back on. That was really silly. And if I can manage filming in here without sunglasses. Golly, it is bright. So, I’ve done quite a bit tidying up in here this week. I’ve done some dead heading and watering. Just been doing it gradually because it’s been so warm. I think at the moment, these are my favorite geraniums. I love these. Oh, I might move these actually into the barn and have a swap around. These salmon pink geraniums are absolutely popping in here at the moment. I think they’re definitely my favorites. I love this one as well, but I’ve only got one of these. I think I’m going to need to take cutings off that one cuz some of the cutings that I put into compost earlier in the year like these, they’ve taken really well. I’ve got a whole pot here of of cutings, all different colored ones, shoved in a pot. But I am going to propagate that other one cuz that’s I really love that one. See, it’s really hot in here. Things struggle in the heat a little bit. Just spotted something that’s struggling. Needs to come down and be watered. But the geraniums, they love it. These still haven’t come back into flower. They’re ever so slow. Although they’re beautiful foliage, they they’re not as good as flower as some of the others. If you look at those, the variegated leaf geranium is not flowering nearly as well. Oh, I think this is dry as well. I’ve got things dropping their leaves. So, I need to come in and sweep the floor. There’s quite a lot of leaves on the floor. But anyway, I can’t stay in there long. It’s really warm. I love this little thing as well. I just It doesn’t seem to look that healthy. I’m hoping it will get going cuz the one over there is doing really well. I can’t stay in here. It is like an oven today. 30° in the sun and in here it must be 40. I haven’t actually got a thermometer in here, but it’s actually bringing me out in a hot sweat. past the cocktail cabinet. I think we’ll pop into the lounge cuz it’s lovely and cool in here. It’s even too hot at the moment to sit in the little chair there. I’ll tell you what I’ve done. I’ve popped some sun lounges out as well. I’ve put some sun lounges in a different position. The grass has been cut out here, the long grass, and I’ve popped a couple of sun lounges out there. I don’t know if you can see. Let’s go out the conservatory door. So thought that’s a lovely spot to just sit and watch the sunset. So I’ll be doing that this evening because I think it’s going to be a good sunset this evening. So you just pop out the conservatory. Nice a glass of iced fizzy water with a splash of lime and be lovely to relax there this evening. I think I might need to do it after I’ve finished this. It’s I’m sweating so much in that heat. Okay, I think we’re going to have a sit down in the lounge and talk about a little bit about the lounge. The lounge is absolutely lovely on a day like this because it’s such a cool room. Oh my goodness. We actually watched uh television in here in the the evening a couple of nights ago. My son and I were watching a DVD and it is the only room in the house that has a DVD player. So, we watching Lord of the Rings, which we couldn’t find on download without having to pay for it, I think. And since we had the DVD, we thought that was a bit silly. So, we came in here and we watch telly in here. This is our winter lounge, but actually, it’s also a really nice summer lounge in a heatwave because it’s cool and uh it’s a really lovely room to relax in the evening. So, I’ve tidied it up ready for the weekend. Although, I think this dog bed could come out of here. The dogs don’t normally come in this room very often. So, I bought this bed in, but actually they didn’t use it. They just laid on the carpet. So, I don’t think there’s any point in keeping it in here. And actually, it was quite chilly one evening in the week, believe it or not. So, we did did use our throws. Right. From here, we’re going into the hall. What do I need to do in here? I probably need to come through actually and water the house plants. I think that’s the only other job I’m going to do today. I’m going to water my house plants because uh it although this room is cooler, they still need regular watering. This is a lovely spot to just come and sit with a cup of tea on a really hot day and just enjoy it. It’s just a really tranquil little space this of the house. It’s my workout gear kept in there, but at the moment I am not working out because I haven’t been well enough. But I’m hoping maybe next week I might be able to start some gentle workouts. Just do some very, very gentle exercise. I treated myself to these this week. I bought them online. So, uh, these Tisserond aroma theapy little roller balls. So, I’ve got six of them. And what I’m going to do, I’m going to put them in my one a couple of them in my workout bag, all in my Pilates bag. And I’m just going to keep one here. And so when I’m doing a yoga session or Pilates session, I’m just going to rub those onto my wrists because then it just make it just gives you a really lovely relaxing feeling. I’ve been to a yoga class where the teacher does that and it’s really nice. So I thought I’d treat myself to some cuz I was ill. I thought it might although actually what I’ve realized is I I lost my sense of smell when I was ill. So when they arrived I couldn’t actually smell them. But you know that was that was not planned. I think I actually ordered them before I was ill. just cuz I thought it’d be really nice. So, what I’ve brought you upstairs to see is the master bedroom, which is looking lovely on a day like this. It get the sun just streams into this room. In fact, after I’ve finished making the video, I will need to come up here and draw the blind. Oh, draw the blinds to cut down the amount of sun coming into this room because today this is so hot. And if I do that, it’ll be a lovely cool room by this evening. So, this room has lovely views across the countryside. Hopefully, the hail will be getting cut soon. We’ve cut our meadow which is out there. It was strimmed at the beginning of the week. Or was it last week? I’m I do you know this? I’ve lost a week. So, the projects I’m working on at the moment gently uh I’m always I’ve always got projects in the house. I’m working on I’m going to keep it really simple. I’m working on decluttering the bathroom. So, I’ve got these three little soap stones that I think need to go. I’ve also got some little things the children made when they were little. I need just trying to decide where to put them and they’ve sort of been in here for years, but I think need to relocate them. Let’s just shut the baskets. Oh, I haven’t actually done anything on the top floor since I last showed you around. But I think why do we go in the garden? Cuz there’s quite a lot happening in the garden. I’ll have to put a sun hat and sunglasses on, I think. So, this is just a really really quick Friday afternoon tour just to give you a a little glimpse into life at the farmhouse. What’s happening? Bob, any projects we’re working on? Oh, we’ve got a very interesting chicken project on at the moment. Would you like to see the chicken chicken project? Some some of you were asking to see our chickens. Hello. Are you worried where I was? Oh, somebody wants feeding, don’t they? In fact, these this lot maybe want feeding. Although, it’s still quite early. You think you can wait for now? You haven’t had your afternoon walk, have you? It’s too hot though, isn’t it? It’s too hot for an afternoon walk, isn’t it? Are you all being good? This is a sensible one. Look, lying on the cold towel floor in the coolest part of the house. She is very sensible, isn’t she? While the rest of you are worrying, aren’t you worrying at where where I was. All right, I’m going to take you staying here. You’re not coming out in the garden with me. It’s too hot for you. Maybe later. It’s a little cooler. It’s still quite early. Okay. Well, we’re out in the garden. I’ve left the dogs in the house because it is too hot for them. So, what have we been doing this week? I think my husband’s done a water change on the hot tub uh this week. So, that hopefully will be heating up for over the weekend because I think my daughter will want to use it. These agapanthas are fantastic. They’ve come into flower this week and they’re just a picture on this wall. They love the really good position to plant agapanthas is against a warm sunny wall. They love the heat from the wall. And these crocosmia here, these crocosmia firelow, absolutely fantastic planted interplanted with the uh the yellow loose strife. I think this is yellow loose strife or old man’s beard is the other name, isn’t it? It’s in the yellow loose strife. Correct me if I’m wrong. It may not be yellow strife. The garden is just a hive of butterflies at the moment. Butterflies and bees. Look at this huge vabascum that’s just appeared. I don’t know where this appeared from. It’s clearly got the blascam caterpillar because there’s quite a bit of damage to it, but it’s still managed to flower. I’ll probably collect some seed off that one because it’s about 7 8 foot tall. So, it’d be a good one to collect seed from. And I need to This is a job for nice easy job for the weekend is to come out and dead head this incredible rose because if I do, I’ll get lots more flowers. This one is one of the ones that you dead head it and it repeat flowers. In fact, I need to go along this row because a lot of these are repeat flowers on this row. And here’s some more of this yellow daisy. Golly. So, should we go and see chicken project? So, I’m just taking you into a bit of the garden you don’t normally see. This is kind of a wildflower section of the garden, but next year this is we’re going to change this. This is going to become a cutting garden, I think. Um, so over the next couple of weeks, we take we’ve got a big section up here of uh black currant bushes. So, you probably got wasp after me. And this is mainly a lot of the plants in here just got stuck in here when we were doing the building project. But there’s about six enormous black currant bushes in here and they’re not there something wrong with them. They’re diseased. This used to be our old vegetable garden before we built the new vegetable garden. And what we’re going to do is we’ve got a guy come in with a digger and he’s going to dig these huge, huge bushes out for us and we’re going to cut them really hard back and we’re going to try and transplant them into the new vegetable garden cuz I actually want to plant this section here as a cutting garden. So, in the back section near the wall, I think I’m going to plant probably have climbing roses on the wall. And then I’m going to plant some shrub roses that are good for cutting. And I’m going to plant rows of other things that are good for cutting. Oh my goodness, I’ve just spotted that is a whole mass back there of dillies that you can’t see because they’re so far back. Also got this enormous rose here that I think is going to need to move. I think it’s a kifskate. I think it’s a selfseeded kifskate. I don’t know if that will move. It was something. There’s quite a lot of roses that were in pots that my husband just planted out. And I think that one is a selfseeded kids gate cuz it’s really enormous. Right. So, we’ve been to the wild garden. I don’t think I’ve ever bought you in the wild garden before. Actually, it’s a good job I’ve come down here because actually somebody’s left the gate open. So, one of the plans for this year is to build some compost heaps here. This used to be a massive pile of logs from when we had an oak tree that died and had to be cut down. And there was a huge pile of logs here, but the logs have now been moved to the log store. So, my plan is to put to put a what did I say I was going to put there? A compost heap there. But we need to build the composty rather than having it straight against the wall. So this is the way we go to the poly tunnel. Mike’s poly tunnel. If you watch our gardening channel, you may have seen Mike’s poly tunnel before. He he he built it early this year and he’s he spends a lot of time his poly. He loves his polyill. So I just take you down to the pond. We’ve got a wildlife pond down here. It’s not a huge pond. It It’s It’s original to the house. It’s been here a long time, but we’ve just been doing some work down here. And my husband was moving some turf. He’s We’re bringing the level up because it’s very boggy down here. So, uh, he was moving turf from another part of the garden, in fact, from my son’s garden. And he had So, he brought it here to bring the level up. Ollie, we do need to do some work down here. It’s only a small pond. And when we first lived here, it was our duck pond cuz we kept a lot of ducks, but we’ve turned it into a wildlife pond now. So, it’s full of water lilies and pond weed. And there’s lo lots of dragonflies on it today over it. Uh oh, and our first our first water lilies flowering. Hang on. Just be careful not to drop my phone in the pond. Hopefully, you can see the water lily. We were gifted given the water lilies by um a chap that I used to play badminton with. just put a I think I must have just put a request out saying did anyone have any pond weed cuz at that point our pond was just a muddy hole with no weed in it and he very kindly said actually I’ve got some water lilies if you’d like them. My pond they’ve taken over my pond and I want to debulk them so you’re welcome to come and get some and we did that a couple of years ago and these are the waterlies. They absolutely love this pond. They’re doing really well in it. This is the first year they flowered so we’re really pleased. Anyway, this is one of our jobs. one of our jobs for the weekend. Do you know what? We need to tidy this bit of the garden up. So, we’re going to weed the gravel and just tidy up the weed that area over there. Open up the shed, the summer house that’s down here, and give it a tidy up. We haven’t actually got round to doing much with that house. And we need to cut these weeds back so we can actually get through. We got a bit of a weed bed here as well. So, let’s keep the gate shut. It’s much safer for the dogs if you keep the gate shut. I need to cut the reads off the path. There’s not much we not much not much happened to the summer house yet this year. It just needs deco weather. And we’ve got a kettle. We’ve got a kettle and a coffee machine. A little fridge down here. So, we just need to get it all set up with some nice uh cushions. I need to get all the paint out of here and then it’s ready to go. I’ve just got covered in cobwebs. Walk through a spider web. Look, I got absolutely covered. God, it just fell off the step as well. I didn’t realize that step was quite so big there. It’s a big step. Right, just bear with me. I’m going to pause while I dec myself. Okay, from here I am going to take you through into the vegetable garden and then we’ll go and see the chicken project. So, the vegetable garden is just behind the pond. And there’s all sorts growing in here. This vegetable garden is in a little paddock. It used to be a little paddock that I use for dog training. Um, but then I I sort of stopped using it. So, my husband said, “Would it be okay if I put a vegetable garden in it?” And actually our our water treatment plant is also in here now cuz uh we have a large water treatment plant that treats all the not on main’s drainage and it treats the the water that comes the dirty water that comes out of the house and then it goes into the uh after it’s been cleaned by the water treatment plant which is enormous. Um it it’s a digesttor it then goes into the pond and the reed beds. This is a pumpkin, I believe, my husband tells me that’s crawling here. Absolutely enormous pumpkin. We’ve got, what else have we got? We’ve got uh broad beans. We’ve got sweet corn growing there. Mike’s planted a new asparagus bed. This asparagus bed has just gone in this year. Golly, he’s going to have to water it again today. This one’s been in a couple of years. We haven’t actually eaten any asparagus out of this asparagus bed yet because they take a couple of years to get going. And these are going to move. These gladiola, they’ve been here a couple of years. The problem with gladioli is they’re spectacular, but actually I find that they’re too big a cut flower. They’re great for a sort of wedding or something where you want a huge flower, but for the house I found them a little large. So, we’re actually going to move them in the autumn into the white garden. So, there’s all sorts planted in here. This is last year’s I think this is last year’s leaks and they’ve gone to seed. But wow, they’re just as good as aliiums. Look at that. And they’re absolutely covered in insects. Bees, flies. Golly, look at that. They absolutely love them. Even the horse flies are on there. I don’t know what the horse flies do on there. Isn’t that incredible? You who would have thought aliums, sorry, leaks would produce such a beautiful flower. What else have we got? We’ve got autumn flowering raspberries. Got a massive rhubarb patch. And we’ve also got these globe artichokes, which if you don’t end up eating them all, they produce the most spectacular blue flowers. These haven’t started to open yet, but they will do cuz I we haven’t actually eaten many of them this year. We’ve got potato beds over here, which we’ve been eating our own potatoes now for about a week or two. And lots of green beans or French beans, runna beans. Oo, my chundula started to set seed. I think they have. So, I want to collect these seeds this year. So, we’ve got lots for next year. And more vegetables over here. We’ve got a fantastic onion crop this year. It is such a good year for onions. Golly, it’s very warm out here. Good job I put my silly hat on. There’s lots of salad things and spinachy type things. And I think these are beet treats. This is the early salad here that’s pretty much gone over, but Mike’s got more salad here coming on. In fact, we need to pick some salad tonight for dinner. I need to come out and we’ve planted some roses down here. I need to come out and dead head them. Aha. And this is what brought you down to see you. I got a little sidetracked in the vegetable garden. This is chicken project. I think they think it’s tea time. They’ve come to see us. So, this area here has been recently we’ve planted some more trees. We planted a small orchard here. Um, this used to be actually a massive bonfire site here, but it’s much nicer as an orchard. I didn’t like having a bonfire here particularly. Bonfire site is useful in the garden, but we haven’t actually got one at the moment. So, these are our chickens. We’ve actually got six of them. There’s another one over there keeping itself to itself. Um, and they they live over here. Let’s take you and see. The chicken house is looking a bit worse for wear. I think the chicken house needs a bit of renovation this year. So, the project for this year is chicken house project. So, then we’re going to build a big chicken. We’re going to build reinstate the chicken run. So, you can see where the chicken run used to be. It used to run here. all this bit that hasn’t got gravel on it. So the ne hopefully by the time I show when I show you the next video, we will have a nice fence here. It’s not going to be a huge fence because it won’t actually keep the chickens in, I don’t think, but it keeps the dogs out. Means the dogs aren’t rumaging around and trying to get in the chicken house. And then we’re going to fence around here. And I think we’re going to bring the fence along here. Just a small picket fence. And then they’ll also it will fence off this section of the garden which is oil tanks and a boiler outside boiler. And then this will be also part of the chicken run. So and then I’ll build I’m going to plan my plan is to plant some plants on it. Oh golly. Another job for the weekend. Weed the gravel. And also Mike’s got a lovely job here. Got this lovely old table that I bought at auction. Bought it actually probably about a year ago. It’s a antique one, I think. But it needs it needs some renovation work. And Mike is really good at renovating these. So that’s the job we really need to do over summer so it could dry outside. I can’t decide what color to paint it. I’m It looks like it was a It has been green. So we might take it back green. Well, I think it would look spectacular white. Such all black. It’s a tricky one. Haven’t quite decided on that. So we’ve gone full circle. We’re back into the little garden, which is a bit of a work in progress still. I’ve got loads of things waiting to be me to be planted out. I’ve run out of energy a little on this project. I think we’re being on well. So hopefully this weekend maybe my daughter will help me get some of the plants planted out. I need to do a little bit of weeding first. Where are you lot to? They’re having a lovely scratch around. Anyway, you asked you as you asked to see the chickens. So, I thought you might like to see the chickens. And this is the sort of working side of the garden. But there’s no where the plan is to make it pretty as well. I’m not sure I can get in at the back. No, it’s locked. We’ll have to go a different route. So, say bye-bye to the chickens. I’ll go back this way. I think what I’ll do is I probably make a nice get a nice cold drink and come and sit here and then I’ll do a little bit of dead heading in this garden. I think it’ll keep it flowering. So, I’m just going to finish up, I think, with the final view of this spectacular hydranger. Oh my goodness. Never ever thought I’d be able to grow a hydranger as good as that. Anyway, thank you for joining me. Bye for now.