The Garden in February – Harvesting veg, DIY berry trellis, and Garden Tour

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It’s the garden in February, and today, I’m finishing the new thornless blackberry support, planting early potatoes, and harvesting winter vegetables. I’m also getting one of my beds ready to become my ‘Fryd Bed’ this year. I’ve created a planting plan that you can follow on YouTube and the Fryd (pronounced frood) app.

00:00 Introduction
00:23 Building a Berry Trellis
03:30 Harvesting Carrots & Preparing the Fryd Bed
07:24 Planting Potatoes Undercover
10:39 Garden Tour
14:57 Wildflower Bank
18:01 Seeds to Sow in February
18:34 Seedling Update

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When I gave up the rented allotment garden and moved all of my gardening efforts here at home I brought a few plants along with me not many but a few and one that I did bring along is thornless blackberries now back at the alotment I had loads of them growing

Along a trellis at the bottom of my plot and thornless blackberries obviously don’t have thorns and the fruit is huge and I wanted to replicate that same trellis here at home and so I took three of those plants root cut them down and then I planted them here along the side

Of our driveway last year and now it’s time to put them on a trellis get them wired up and get them into production so we’re going to tackle that today as well as harvest some winter veg late winter veg look at a bed that I’m going to be

Creating a planting plan for that you can follow along with and we’ve got a few other things up our sleeve so let’s dig in the plants are there the posts are placed in the soil so next steps are that I’m going to create a nice long no

Dig bed so all those plants can have a nice fresh clean slate to live in and all that entails is putting cardboard down on the soil and then topping it up with a good couple of inches of compost and then after that I’m going to tidy up

The wood chip pads on either side I’ve got fresh wood chip to lay down and finally I’m going to wire up the four posts and then attach the thornless Blackberry canes to each one it took a good couple of hours but we’re all finished now the line is attached you

Can’t see it from this side because I’ve put the eyelet screws all on the back side here so there are three of them on each post that’s about 10 cm from the top 50 and 90 and these are stainless steel eyelet screws and galvanized wire so they’re not going to rust over time

There’s 10 feet between each of the posts there’s my shadow hello and the thornless blackberry plants are kind of situated in the middle in between these posts and I’ve gone ahead and tied the canes that have remained after winter onto these wires it’s just a figure of eight loop with

Some normal Garden twine and they’re ready to go so this year I don’t expect very many berries if any but what I do expect are plenty of new canes and as they emerge I will be tying them onto this middle wire and the top wire and

Then next year we’ll have a pretty big Harvest I would say I’ve harvested some purple sprouting broccoli which is my favorite homegrown veg and also a big old parsnip which is going to make a fantastic soup and now what I’m doing is digging up the rest of

The carrots from this bed we have a pretty mild climate here so I can leave a lot of root vegetables in the ground they won’t freeze and these carrots have been delicious over winter but I need to clear it out because this is going to be

Quite a special bed this year I have created a planting plan with not only vegetables but some culinary herbs and some medicinal plants as well that we can use in soap and skincare and I put this gardening plan on an app called frud and food has only been available in

Germany up until now but it is now available in the United States and the United Kingdom and what it is is an online app that you can access on your phone or your computer it helps you with planning out your garden it helps you with gardening tips uh succession sewing

There’s a community on there where you can ask questions and of course you can also see other people’s planting plans and so if you go over and sign up there’s a free version and a paid one you’ll be able to see my planting plan and you can plant along with me this

Year so if you have a bed that’s a similar size maybe a little bit smaller even you can use that planting plan to create a very similar planting scheme and we’ll continue following along with this throughout this year I’ve cleared all the carrots out of this bed and I’ve

Leveled it out roughly and then I’ve laid the carrots out over here for us to have a look at closest to us are the purple carrots these are my favorite they’re just a nicer color they’re just a novelty they taste the same as these orange carrots that I have quite a few

More of lots of them to be honest and then we’ve got a handful of carrots here that are yellow and you’ll notice that the sizes of them are small to medium and that’s because I didn’t thin them if you don’t thin your carrots out when they start germinating then you’ll get

These small to medium siiz ones but if you thin them out to about 1 in apart you’ll get the biggies regardless of that I have quite a few here so if you have any ideas for me for carrot recipes leave them in the comments below if you’ve been with me for long

You’ll know that all of my beds out here in the garden are no dig beds well obviously I’ve just dug the carrots out so no dig does not mean that you don’t ever dig it means that you don’t till it so you don’t turn the soil over at the end of the season

Instead what you do is just mulch with compost and that’s what I’m doing right now is I’m preparing this bed for a season of planting now that it’s completely empty this is a great time to do it and it’ll take two wheelbarrow loads for this size bed of compost and I

Just push and rake it out evenly so it’s about an inch thi this layer and that is plenty to mulch the soil to feed it and to prepare it for a big bed of vegetables and other gorgeous plants this summer it’s still a little bit too early to be

Planting potatoes outside that’s more for end of next month but here inside the poly crub it’s getting a bit warmer and at night it’s not dropping below 5 celsus and in fact most nights it’s usually about 7 so I’ve moved the seedlings out that I started in last

Time’s video and I’ve also decided I’m going to plant some potatoes and keep them in containers here in the poly crub for now and this is our favorite type of potato it’s called Annabel I cannot find seed potatoes for it here but you can buy it

In the supermarket and for the last 2 years I’ve been just using Supermarket potatoes to grow crops and you can see these ones have been in the cupboard a little bit too long they’re already starting to sprout and that’s fine I’m going to plant them up today they’re

Going to live in here undercover and then when it’s a little bit warmer I’m going to put them outside and let them carry on and this way we’re able to have our own tasty Annabelle potatoes what I have are six Annabelle potatoes and I’m going to plant them up

Individually in these containers they’re good siiz containers and because Annabelle potatoes and I think all other first and second early that I’m aware of are determinate that makes them ideal for putting in container ERS and small spaces I’m going to be planting them in pure compost this is the same stuff that

We used outside to mulch the bed it’s composted horse manure and wood chip and the reason that I’m keeping these inside is that you can see that the tips are starting to form leaves and I’m planting these so that those are sticking up from the surface those leaves are very

Delicate when it comes to frost and cold weather and they can be damaged and the entire plant can be damaged if it gets touched by Frost if you look closely at the tops of these containers you can see that some of them have a bit of the stem popping out and some

Don’t why have I done that I’ve done that because I’ve planted these so that the potatoes are towards the middle of the container and if they didn’t have long stems I just completely buried them they’ll grow right through the compost and if they did have stems that stuck up

That’s why they’re sticking up because they were quite long to begin with and the reason goes back to these being determinant potatoes that they’re going to form all of their potatoes right there in the middle I want to make sure that they’ve got some space down below

Some space above and they will more than happily send up more shoots as they need them now as these grow it could be that some potatoes start appearing it’s probably not likely with these but if that does happen you can cover it up with some kind of mulch on the top just

To stop those potatoes from turning green aside from the potatoes in the poly crub there are a few other things popping up all of the greens that are here in the middle bed I planted last Autumn they’ve kind of just hung around not done much over the winter it’s the

Same story every every year and then once warmer temperatures come back they come back to life and then I get an early crop of solid greens and then there are some brasas in here as well some calib broccoli and some cauliflower these at the end these are

Turnips but I don’t have high hopes for them they’re starting to go to flower which is fine I’ll pick those off and that will make a nice green I’ve started tidying up the bir’s beds but they are pretty empty for the most part there’s the last of the Perpetual spinach the

Water crust has done pretty okay over the winter there’s chard over here as well it’s pretty hearty and more water crests at the very back and then one thing I want to point out is that last year I put cardboard down and mulched it with wood Chi all around here and you

Can see there’s tons of grass coming up through it and I didn’t actually have enough wood chip to do this back area here as well so the next time that you see this area in the next monthly garden video this is going to be completely REM

Mulched and it’s going to look so much tidier it’s still very early on in the season not even spring but it does feel like it the sunshine is back definitely feeling a lot more enthusiastic about working outside and there are plenty of beds to mulch over the past few weeks

I’ve been busy clearing out these beds weeding we’ve been putting down new wood chip in areas and the next step is to mulch all of these beds with more compost and you can obviously see the one we did earlier the one down below it needs a new layer

And you can see the color difference there almost everything in the garden right now that’s green is an overwintered vegetable of some sort here we’ve got shalots on the left and then Autumn onion sets up above there’s some kale and here this big bushy thing this

Is flat leaf parsley and it does so well here now in its second year it does shoot up and flower good to seed and then eventually die but you start it off from seed in Spring you’ll have so much of this leafy green to use in cooking

And then it survives all winter long here a lot of plants are still dormant or just starting to wake up right now but over here in The Perennial bed you can see on the far left there The Perennial kale is just massive and it is such a reliable source of greens

Especially in the winter you pick these younger leaves here at the top and even smaller ones not so much the larger ones underneath though because they’re a bit tough but this is a a quite mild kale variety it’s called Taun and Dean and also beside it is another perennial that is quite

Interesting this is a type of perennial leak so in the aliam family and they come up twice a year and you just cut them close to the soil the entire thing you don’t uproot The Roots because they’ll grow back later on in the year and in the years to follow this little

Patch started off as just a few tiny little sets that I got from a UK supplier and it’s just growing and hopefully will become a bigger patch over time last year this bank was an absolute riot of color it was packed full of wild flowers and I used two

Different mixes the first mix is one that I got from the local MX Wildlife trust and if you look in here you’ll see lots of green plants and that’s all from that mix and it’s survived and I’m going to have to do very little cleaning up in

Here to get it right back into productive shape on the other and over here and on the other side this came from an annual mix of wild flower seeds from the rhs standard mix that you can get in most garden centers and because it’s an annual mix the flowers basically die down there’s

The odd malow in there but also there’s tons of weeds in there you can see there’s dock here Nettles coming through and I think this is the problem that a lot of people have with Wildflower seed mixes is that it looks great and then it turns into

This whereas if you have a perennial mix you can sew the seeds and then every year they’ll start coming back and just be as beautiful as the first year so one of my tasks for next month is clearing the areas that had the rhs mix so here and on the other side putting

Down some new clean compost after removing some of those perennial weeds and get it rese and I’m thinking I’m going to try for another perennial mix like the poly crub the greenhouse is also filled with potted plants that are overwintering but right out front are the buagas that I planted last November

Do you remember that video we planted up this container and it has already had a couple of flushes first of the the iris reticulada and now this is the second flush of crocus these really beautiful buttery yellow and we’ve got tulips and daffodils to look forward to as well as

Uh a different type of Iris inside the greenhouse it definitely looks like February there’s not as much green as there is Brown from just potting mix these are onions they were onion sets that I didn’t really know where to plant out in the garden so I put them in little po

They need to go out the yakon that I harvested last Autumn I’ve planted these up and most of these plants I’m giving away at the Isle of Man seed Swap and plant share which is on April 6th and if you’re local please do come you can pick

Up one of those plants we’ve got some dwarf Jerusalem artichokes and then over here obviously we’ve got a sweet little commi and Comet and lots of plants that have been overwintering and are starting to regrow in the last video we seed quite a few different seeds together and I also

Went over my potting mix that I use for seedlings some of the containers Etc it is very early on in the season right now it is only February so there’s only a few seeds to start but it’s this slow start and this slow movement into seed sewing that does kind of help us

Get into the Rhythm for March and April when it’s masses of seeds that need to be sewn I am really happy to let you know that most of the seeds have germinated most of them actually within the first week and I’ve now divided them into two groups the first group are the more

Frost tender plants and they don’t like cold temperatures and those are the tomatoes and the eggplant the peppers and the loofah they’re still inside and they’re under a grow light because they need extra light and extra warmth right now the other group are the more temperate veg and I’ve got them out here

It is still really bright out but it’s not as warm and that’s good for them because warmth extra warmth can actually affect the root development and also how leggy plants can get early on in the year so I’ve got the col rabi and the purple spreading broccoli out here the

Snap Dragons the onions the lettuces broad beans and sweet peas and this is where they’ll live until I Harden them off and then plant them out in the garden I’ve also taken the opportunity to sew a couple more trays of seeds and down here I’ve got some spinach and this

Isn’t a rubber type of a seed tray I’ve not used it before but supposedly they are quite eco-friendly because they’re indestructible and then over over here I’ve got a crimson flowed broad bean and I’d nearly forgotten about it and I found the seeds thankfully I saw some

Last year at a garden show and I had to have it so I’ve sewn those up as well if you have any questions about anything in this video or you’ve got any spring sewing questions leave me a comment down below and also don’t forget

To to get the app the frud app and find me on there find all the different tools that are in the app because it is such a brilliant way to keep track of your garden to plan to get tips about succession sewing Etc and again there’s

A free version and there’s a paid and I’ll leave a link down in the video description thank you so much for watching and I’ll see you in a couple of weeks here on Lovely greens bye for now