SPRING INTO SUMMER GARDEN ACTION PLAN – PLAN, PLANT, POT, SOW

Welcome to Adam’s Gardening Guides.
As we move from Spring into Summer there are plenty of gardening jobs that need doing around the garden to plan and prepare for the warmer Summer months ahead.
In this video I’ll show you what I’m up to around my garden including things to plant and sow, crops to grow and plant out, colourful flowers at their best, an easy way to feed your lawn, plus much, much more.
And if you have other gardening jobs you’d like me to cover in future videos do mention them in the comments section too.
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00:00 – Introduction to the video and what I’m covering
07:07 – Favourite tree for small gardens – Golden Full Moon Maple
08:12 – Golden Hop for pergola cover
09:52 – Viola for hanging basket colour
11:22 – Geranium ground cover for roses
12:31 – Summer patio pot planting tips
14:11 – Deadheading daffodils and care tips
16:21 – Rose development
17:48 – Hellebore seed heads
18:59 – Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ + Solomon’s Seal
21:20 – Clematis Boulevard in a pot
22:16 – How to plant a Hanging Basket
25:48 – Lily beetle
28:00 – Colchicum
29:00 – Remove plain shoots on variegated shrubs
30:09 – Ericaceous Feed – acid plant food tips
31:38 – Acer in a Pot – how to plant
38:53 – Dahlias in pots
40:00 – Perennials by post
42:44 – Apple and pear blossom
47:23 – Fourberry
47:51 – Poached egg plant – Limnanthes
48:38 – Climbing bean support
49:42 – Rhubarb
51:03 – Strawberries in pots
01:05:31 – Lawn feeding
01:06:41 – Tomato growing tips
01:08:07 – Salad – early crop in a cold frame
01:11:27 – Choisya ternate and other shrubs
01:13:05 – Cane fruits – Tayberry, loganberry + blackberry

SPRING GARDEN ACTION PLAN

AUTUMN GARDEN ACTION PLAN – Part 1: Flower Garden

HOW TO GROW LILIES IN POTS – Adam’s Favourite Lilies And How To Grow Them

PICK THE BEST PLANTS FOR AUTUMN & WINTER COLOUR

FABULOUS HEUCHERA FOR FANCY FOLIAGE

MOUNTAIN LAUREL – Variety guide to Kalmia

EASY SUMMER FLOWERING BULBS

GOLDEN FULL MOON MAPLE

THE GOLDEN HOP – EASY PLANTS FOR ANY GARDEN

HOW TO DIVIDE HOSTAS

Or for a tour of my garden in the East Midlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=065Th…

welcome to Adam’s gardening guides and a very warm welcome to my garden as spring moves into summer it’s time to start planning for those flowers fruits and crops that we’ll be enjoying over the months ahead this is a lovely time of year as days are getting longer and generally warmer encouraging us to spend more time in the garden to enjoy the very best the late spring has to offer as well as focusing our mind on exactly what crops and flowers we want to grow in pots and baskets in our borders as well as on the veg plot and in the greenhouse over the months ahead and a sunshine has brought the early flying butterflies out too like this beautiful peacock butterfly I spotted feeding from the Bluebell flowers on a local Woodland walk I’ve been enjoying many flowers around the garden too like the p Bush exord macrantha the bride with its arching stems foroned with white flowers roted endrance are coming into their own now like this striking pink variety Cosmopolitan bold Brash and flamboyant and aren’t those early flowering clemes superb and even a tiny garden will have space for the compact clemes Avalanche doesn’t it look wonderful or for a larger garden and more space look out for clemes Montana and it’s many varieties they really will stop you in your tracks when they’re in full flower and as the flowers on one plant fade the next wave of flowering shrubs will take over there’s choia with its wonderful scented white flowers I have choia tanata in my garden more on that later and also choicer Aztec Pearl which has narrow finger-like leaves for a slightly daintier display then there are the equally fragrant lilac varieties that grow into bold shrubs almost small trees like stunning sensation or a favorite in my May Garden the Korean lilac seringa pabin I’ve often seen lilac partnered with Laburnum providing a perfect contrast to those magnificent trailing Cascades of golden flowers and from these brilliant flowers you can see why it has got the common name of the Golden Chain Tree and of course there’s Blossom on fruit trees and ornamental trees including cherries and pears and apples like crab apple malus red Sentinel that my neighbor has in their front garden which forms large red fruits into Autumn the birds love feeding on through into winter crab apples are a great garden tree tree with real Wildlife value then there are the pretty frilly pink Blossom on flowering cherry prunus Canen simply breathtaking when at their Peak but more on fruit Brom later in this video I must mention a lovely Evergreen Laurel I grow in my garden too I’ve grown a short hedge of prunus Oto lyen for years trimming it shoots regularly through the year to keep it neat and compact but as we come into may just look at these lovely upright candles of white flowers aren’t they gorgeous and a new flowering sh I’ve just planted in my raised acid bed in my garden this is a compact aelia called Hino Garden Evergreen white just coming at a flower and I’m really looking forward to watching more flowers open over the coming days in fact all around my garden I have early flowering hearty perennials coming into flower look at these lovely blue flowers on centoria the mountain corn flower delicate wispy petals joined together at their dark Center if you’re looking for a Hardy perennial with a really long flowering season then look no further than the perennial warflower BS mve it starts flowering early around April in my garden but even earlier in warm districts continues growing bushier and taller and producing a succession of flowers right through summer and into Early Autumn the bees love it too it’s not a longlived perennial but easy to propagate from cuttings scabious butterfly blue is coming into flower and you can see why it has the common name of the pin cushion flower when you look closely at these gorgeous puffy blooms and one of the first hearty uranium’s or cran bills to flower in my garden is saani blue with this intense deep blue almost black veining running down each petal I’ll enjoy this early dislower but cut back the plants right back to their base after flowering to promote new growth and further flushes of flowers later in the year and there are flowers developing in the shoot tips of hydranges too and it’s not just flowers as my displays include many glorious foliage plants my pots of hostas have all burst into New Growth sending up their colorful new foliage and I know I’ll have to keep the Slugs and snails away from these to preserve their pristine appearance my honia is grown in a pot as it can be quite a spreading and invasive perennial if grown in the Border mine is a variegated variety called chameleon that grows well and apart in a shaded position but there are other colorful varieties too like flame with these beautiful red markings on its leaves it loves moisture so do keep it while watered and all the Japanese maples are now bursting into full Leaf too with these first leaves often having the most intense colors creating impressive displays so keep watching this video as later I’ll be showing you how I planted a new Japanese Maple in a pot I’ve got lots to cover in this video so please do like the video with a thumbs up and subscribe to my gardening Channel too really does help help to support Adam’s gardening guides thank you coming up watch out for Lily Beetle eating your lies how to plant up pots for colorful summer displays it’s time to prepare your plot for summer crops so I’ll be putting up my climbing Bean supports what to do if you find plain green shoots ruining your beautiful variegated shrubs how to go strawberries in pots for tasty summer pickings and much much more so let’s get started by looking at one of my favorite trees for small gardens I love it when the new leaves unfurl my lovely Japanese maple this is Asa shirasawanum orium the buds were quite pink when they start to swell and then they burst open and the leaves open these beauti beautiful Palm shaped golden color this looks lovely especially through spring into early summer with the Golden Leaves putting on a really lovely display as you go through the year the leaves can go a little bit Greener but you’ll get a lovely display of autumn color as well Japanese maples are a really valuable addition to the garon and even in small garbens you can usually find one which you can grow in a pot or if is a little bit too big like this one of mine you can plant it out into your borders and it prod produces a lovely feature tree a small feature tree that looks glorious month after month after month my perlar garden arch has got trellis panels on either side which I train climbers up I’ve got pot of clematis coming up nicely there on the compact dwarf varieties but here is one of my favorite climbers a very fast growing perennial climber called the Golden hop humulus lupulus orus lovely Latin name it’s got orus meaning gold because the new foliage look at that gorgeous golden color gets Greener as you go through the season but the new leaves that develop they’ve got a wonderful golden color this has got a slightly sort of sharp abrasive stem to it but it Twins and climbs its way up up through the trellis panel and by the end of April into may this will have already reach the top be arching up over the top of the perlar I’ve got this alongside a lovely Fatina shrub which has got a beautiful redish colored new leaf on it this is Fatina Red Robin nice contrast to the golden hop behind so if you want something which is Hardy comes back every year just cut it down to the ground level the end of the season As you move through spring those new Twining stems of Golden Leaves will work their way up over any sort of structure you’ve got in your garden to layer on their Golden Touch a few weeks ago I bought this lovely little Viola called White Rose wing from the garden center and I planted it up into this hanging basket look at that flower isn’t it gorgeous and I’ve put the basket in the greenhouse just so that the plants can get established get well rooted once they are well rooted like they are now I’m going to take this basket and hang it up in the garden and it’s worth doing that with the plants earlier in the year if you got some protection like I have with a greenhouse you can get things po it up early and now I can take this basket and I’m going to take it up the garden and hang it up to enjoy nearer the house and at the back of my house I’ve got a hanging basket bracket so I can hang the basket to enjoy in the house itself and I’m going to put this up here now we go up onto the bracket and now the basket can be enjoyed in all its Glory filling this Gap now through from Spring before the summer betting comes into bloom this provides some really roughy Charming little flowers so I’ll enjoy this and then as we move through into early summer you can take this basket down and replace it with some flowers to enjoy for the summer I do like to make the very most of the space in my garden so underneath the roses in this Rose bed centrally positioned one in my part Garden I’ve underplanted the Roses themselves with a carpet of geranium sanguineum as we move through spring this Hardy cranes spill or harded uranium the foliage died down at the end of last year I cut all of the old growth off of soil level and now the leaves have grown and carpeted the ground underneath the roses and as we move through Into Summer I’ll get a beautiful display of flowers on this little jum sanguini or it’s called the bloody crane spill this will give me a nice display of flowers just sets off the rose bed makes the most of the space so if you got some roses in your garden do a little bit of ground cover a carpet of flowers beneath it then check out the bloody cran spell draining sanguini I love osteospermum for summer color and this is osteospermum blueeyed beauty isn’t it gorgeous and to grow mine in a terra cotta pot good drainage in a base to make sure the compost doesn’t get water logged layer of gravel’s fine ly the inside of the pot with some bits of old compost bag just to stop the compost drying out too quickly then a good layer of Pete free compost into which I’ll mix in some slow relase fertilizer to keep the plants well fed during the Su I just mix that into the compost and then I’ll slip the pot off the little osteospermum plant and I’ll use the pot as a template for planting make sure the rim of the plastic pot is about an inch below the outer rim of the terra cotta pot to make watering easier fill in around each of those pots with some more pea free compost fur it down lightly with your fingertips and then you can just twist to remove each of the plastic pots and pop in the root bow of the beding plants just nice easy way of planting without damaging the shoots of the plants just pop the root ball in push it down once you finished you can just top up the compost filling in around with a little bit more compost as I say make sure the layer of that compost is just below the rim of the main pot water well to settle the compost I’ll grow mine in the greenhouse for a few weeks till they’re well established and then bring them outside to enjoy a wonderful display of Summer color I hope you’re enjoying this video and if you are please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel it really does help boost the channel and make sure I can produce even more videos like this to enjoy over the months ahead thank you very much now I’ve got quite a mix of things in my flower border the aliums of the flowering on are coming up nicely already producing flower heads early on in the year so those will open as we get into early summer still got a few muskai or grape highin growing up here going to have to clear these away they’re smothering my little golden leafed Corners here so I’m going have to do a little bit of clearing away here but just as I’ve got new flowers developing in one part of the Border some of my spring displays have come to an end like on these narcissus or daffodils and so once the flowers have finished and they’ve formed these seed heads I tend to just pick off the old seed heads themselves because I don’t want the bulbs to be wasting energy making seeds I want all of the energy to go back down into the bulbs themselves so I think in Spring it’s worth just going over your flower borders and if you’ve got any bulbs which are making old seed heads like these just pick them off leave the the stem on but just take off the old flower heads themselves take these off pick them off to stop the bulb wasting its energy making seeds and then you can give these clumps of bulbs a good liquid feed so that the feed will go down and the bulbs can enjoy that fertilizer in the spring so I’ll leave the leaves on these bulbs and let them die down naturally some people want to cut off the leaves of their old defil but it’s important to leave them in place as long as possible if at all possible leave the leaves on and let them die down before you clear the foliage or away if you really have to clear away the leaves of of daffodils and spring bulbs then let them stay in place for at least 6 weeks or a couple of months so that the foliage has made food that’s food has gone down into the bulb The Bulb Has restocked and hopefully that will ensure a flower display next year now I pruned my roses probably about six weeks ago now and this is a shrub rose called ger gel the stems were shortened so last year’s shoots were cut back so i’ cut the stem back to here and further down the stems now we can see the new shoots already developing so I cut back here to a BD and that new shoot is developing up follow that stem back down I’ve got side shoots like this developing down here this little bit of growth I pruned back and I’ve got new shoots coming on that so the new growth is coming on the Roses now and this will be carrying flowers later in summer in fact on here I’ve already got one new rose bloom developing so it’s say my Garden Spring pruning early spring pruning great for Roses keeping control of the size and shape of your plant this next to it is a variety of Rose called Jeff Hamilton and again I’ve shortened it back but the new growth is coming and the new flower buds are just starting to form so these will give me the earliest flowers they head promptly after flowering in summer you encourage more side shoes and more flowers to form but for now how’s that for a sign of flowers to come the hore flowers have been lovely this spring I’ve enjoyed the display once the flowering is over hel balls will set seed you can see here every flower started making these seed heads they look really attractive don’t they so you can enjoy the display of these through right the way through to early summer but then the seed heads will be fully mature they will dry and they’ll burst open and they will drop more seeds down onto the bed now if you don’t mind that you can just let your helbor seed themselves around your plots just let these seed heads ripen up let them burst open and the seeds to fall if you want of course you could collect some of the seeds from inside and sew these to grow on plants in control controlled conditions in a propagator in a pot or something like that but I just let mine self seed and the seedlings come up in my border and I can enjoy their displays in future years you never know what you’re going to get now alongside the helor in my shade border is a lovely Hardy perennial the Broner Jack Frost this is the perennial forget me not because if you’re familiar with Forget Me Not flowers’ got this similar beautiful blue coloring and as we move through April in to May you’ve got the lovely flowering display but it’s the leaf which is so gorgeous on this Bron it’s got a silvery metallic heartshaped leaf with that intricate green veining which patterns the leaf beautifully the leaf itself has that almost metallic Sheen to it beautiful display of these Forget Me Not blue flowers here now Jack Frost is certainly a variety which I’d recommend growing forms a nice big Clump if I want I can dig some of the outer pieces up and divide this plant up to enjoy elsewhere in the garden but arching over the top of the Jack Frost is another Hardy perennial called Solomon’s seal this has got lovely new stems growing up now it died down completely in the winter but these new stems are growing by the day growing up and arching over and they will give me a beautiful display of arching stems dainty little white flowers hanging down from the tips Solomon Seal is a lovely hard it look we can see already see the flowers just starting to develop along the stems of these um it’s Latin name polygonatum Solomon Seal is his common name and it’s certainly worth growing it behind a lower growing perennial at the front so if you’ve got a bed with some low perennials at the front consider putting something like Solomon Seal behind it so the stems will grow up an arch over and these will put on a wonderful display of flowers as you move through spring my Boulevard Cletus growing in a pot is trained up nice me spiral Obelisk haven’t actually tied this in at all the uh Leaf P tend to sort of grass on and clamper and climb up the support if you do have any waywood shoots I’ve got some around here but I might just get a little bit of Garen string just tie these in gently but otherwise you could just leave them to produce a more natural display but a central support is essential so I’ve got this metal Obelisk pushed well down into the pot to give it some support and this will support the growth of the clematis as it develops up through spring and I’ve got flower BDS already forming on here these will be opening very soon to put on a flowering display to welcome in summer when it comes to hanging baskets I like to choose the biggest basket I can bigger baskets hold more plants and I put a sorcerer in the base TR it as a reservoir to collect water before filling with a Petree compost any multi-purpose Pete free compost is fine I put a good layer of compost in the base just firm it down lightly with your fingertips get the level about right before you start planting then I mix in generous handful of slow release fertilizer granules these little granules will gradually dissolve over the summer to release food to keep the plant display going right the way through the summer months just mix that lightly into the compost with your fingertips and now choose which plants you’re going to grow I like to have a back a middle and a front to my hanging basket so at the back here I’m putting quite a tall bold growing colus or solar nosta this is one of the Kong series beautiful variegated leaves on it on either side of that I’m going to put a white floured peloni or geranium these summer flowering plants really keep the display of color going throughout the months ahead and I’m going to just gently make a little hole and drop the root ball of the pelagonian down into that just firm lightly around with compost adjusting the height of the plant as you go next I’m putting in a pink flowered nesia this got a really nice root ball of compost just make a hole with your hand and just to settle that down so the level of the compost in the little pot that the nesia came in is just below the rim of the liner of the basket there and the final part of my combination is a boled fabina beautiful little flower on this and just settle these in around the front of the basket itself now you can be as generous as you want in baskets they can cram in quite a lot of plants in them but uh just be sensible and give your plants enough room to grow I can just squeeze in another nesia in here so little hole Gap in the compost and just squeeze that root ball in and once you’ve got the levels of the plums about right then it’s time to just adjust them slightly just to get the levels right and now fill in around with more compost and you just want the top of the compost to be little bit lower than the edge of the basket liner here just fill in gently tease the compost in between the plants lightly firming it down with your fingers and Mound it up in the middle as well just make sure that each of those Ro root balls of plants is completely cut with compost good firm contact with it as you push it down and then my final job once I’ve finished filling it around is to water the compost well and once that’s done I hang my basket in my Greenhouse for a few weeks so that they get well rooted and established before eventually hanging the basket outside in the garden to enjoy throughout the summer in my pot store behind my perlar Arch I just move the pots for the winter to give some protection and now we’re moving to the spring The Perennial grasses like the miscanthus are coming up the hosters of developing new shoots and I’ve got pots of lily bulbs which I let die down naturally in the Autumn and these are now producing their new stems and I don’t repot them every year quite often I’ll just leave them in the same pot and just give them a good feed and water as we move through the season but one once you’re getting through spring it’s worth watching out for one very Troublesome pest there’s something which loves eating your lies and I was inspecting the shoots of these lies today and it’s just worth checking over the tips of the shoots and I noticed there’s some little bits been chewed off these leaves here and if I look closely let me have a look around here can you see that there is down here a little red Lily Beetle he’s already in there and he will be munching away at my lies so inspect your lies regularly and be on the lookout for these little red Devils you’ll have to pick them off and get rid of them Lily Beetle it’s a pest you’ll find quite often around your garden through the summer and this little Beetle also nibbles away the leaves of frittle areas um it crawls but it also flies so it could fly off at any moment it will let it eggs the adult eats the leaves the eggs hatched lvy they eat the leaves it’s horrible little pest so if you spot them around your garden you’ve got to get rid of them now in the Autumn I had a lovely display of flowers from this bulb called a cultum this is a variety called water lily and it’s planted at the front of one my flower borders just in front of a little Corners called Kelsey gold in the Autumn the cultum or Naked Ladies as sometimes called naked because you get the flowers without the leaves in the Autumn so I enjoyed the water cultan flowers in the Autumn and as we move through spring this Clump now produces its leaves so let it do its thing the leaves will be stocking up the underground bulb and then they will die down a bit to clear away the leaves from from the cultum clear these away let them do the thing at the moment stocking up the bulb and then I’ll clear away the leaves completely and then as you move through into Autumn I’ll get another display of lovely flowers developing I think I’ve mentioned this before but when you’ve got evergreen shrubs particularly vated ones they’ve got a nasty habit and on this ymous it has habit of the variegated variety producing these plain green stems of leaves and what I don’t want is for this green growth to take over the plant what I love is the very variated nature of this particular uus so if you do notice any green shoots developing I’m going to go and find my secetaries and cut that right the way down at its base and remove it so that the green growth which often is stronger growing doesn’t take over and smother the plant and the plant will revert back from its beautiful variegated Habit to The Unwanted green growth of this from variety so check over your variegated shrubs regularly through the year and if you notice that any of them have got reverted shoots reverting back to the green cut these out right away I use a specific erous feed for aelas Chamas roed dendrons of different ones on the market this one comes as a a powder and I’ve got to get a little scoop out from inside the packet I need two scoops in a watering can so a couple of scoops of the fertilizer which I’ll dilute in water a 2 gallon watering can so just dilute this up with water to mix up and make the liquid feed for feeding my ericaceous plants and then you can just give each of your plants a really good drench with the ericaceous plant food I’ve got roded dendrons and Chamas and a host of other acid lovers in this bed and the fertilizer provides all of the essential nutrients and the micronutrients that the plants need to make sure that you keep the growth healthy the leaves nice and green and it will encourage good flowering performance every year too and it says you can give the plants a feed every 2 or 3 weeks through the year so treat your plants feed them regularly ensure you get the very best from them one of my favorite ornamental Garden trees is the Japanese Maple and I’ve got a new variegated variety now which I’m going to grow on in a patio pot as a patio feature for a few years It ultimately might get too big I’ll have to put it in a bigger pot even planted out in the garden but I think for a few years now this ornamental tree will form a lovely patio feature I’ve got several Japanese maples in my garden some green leaf ones purple leaf ones and also a beautiful golden leaf variety called ASA shirasa morium that started off in a pot and was planted out in the garden when it got a little bit too big but today I’m going to plant this variegated form in a pot now I like growing things in Terra Cotta I like terra cotta because it’s a nice natural material but it’s also quite weighty and stable so if you’ve got a small tree growing in a pot you don’t want it to blow over in summer storm so I think the pot itself provides more weight and therefore more stability to the plant itself the other thing I’m going to do for Maples is they like an acid soil and so I’m going to use an ericaceous planting compost to put it into rather than just a ordinary multi-purpose compost I think an acid or acious compost would be perfect for planting up this Maple now this pot has got a drainage hole in the base It’s always important the pots have usually they come with them if you were using a plastic pot instead you could drill some holes in the bottom so you can use plastic it’s fine but I’ll probably put some stones in the bottom to provide some more weight and stability I don’t want the compost to fall through the bottom of the hole in the pot there so I’m going to cve that with some pieces of just some old pieces of broken terra cotta pot and just put those over the drainage holes there to stop the compost from falling out through the holes and then I’m going to pour in some grit and this is going to cover over the Terra Cotta and this layer of grit in the bottom of the pot just provides extra drainage so the root ball isn’t going to be sitting um directly into any water any rain or water is going to drain away from the bottom so always put a layer of grit in the bottom of the pot first and then with terra cotta I find that these are poorest material but some plants like it dry and some plants like it wet so if I was growing for instance some pelagonians some sum geraniums in a pot you might just leave the pot as it is it doesn’t matter if the compost dries out a little bit but with this I don’t want the compost to dry out completely so I’m going to align the inside of the pot itself just with some old pieces of compost bag which I’ve cut up uh before I fill it with compost and this just make sure that the compost isn’t in direct contact with the pot itself the compost won’t dry out overly quickly so just going to line the inside of the pot with that that should be about right and then I can put in my first bit of compost now quite often when I’ve got plants I will just take off the pot from the root ball just so I can use the pot as a template if I take that off I can see that this uh Japanese maple got a nice root system developing there and you just need to put compost in the pot good layering first and then adjust the height of the pot itself so I’m going to put in a layer of compost firm it down a little bit with my fingertips um but not overly firm it in there check the height still a bit too deep bit more compost in there and that is the nice thing about doing it in this way just to get the height what I’m tried to do is to make sure that the level of the compost in this is about couple of inches below the rim of the pot so that I’ve got room to pour water in and wash the compost in the summer so just checking in out that just F down a bit is about the right height for the plants to be and then I’m going to fill in around the pot itself with more compost keep in a potting position but just filling in around with just firming down with your fingertips just put this in and this I find this is just slightly easier way of potting up big plant so that I’m not going to damage the branches of the maple as I’m filling the pot with compost there is a always a risk that you bash the plant and you snap off a stem or you break a little bit away but keeping the pot in here as a mold a mold the shape and size of the root ball of the maple just means I can fill in with compost until this reaches the desired height and once it does again just check the finished level of the compost I can cut off any bits of old compost bag at the end if I want little bit more compost around the side here and that just firmed in around means that last thing I can do is to just take that plant pot out and leave a mold the shape of the root ball before I drop this into I’m just going to check there’s no Weeds on the surface here a little bit of moss you can just pinch off any weeds or any rubbish from the surface of the compost you want and now I can drop the root ball of the maple down into the hole that I’d made firm the compost hand around it make sure it’s vertical it’s in the right position top up with a little bit more compost over the top just to finish that off and then you’ve got that nice little Maple in a pot to brighten up the patio my last job is to water it well and just water around the whole of the compost to not only moisten the compost but to settle it in around a root ball of the maple itself just make sure there’s no air pockets in there and the compost is Thoroughly wet and there we haveit Japanese Maple in a pot nice little feature looking forward to watching the leaves on furl and putting on a nice display to cheer up my patio over the coming months I really hope you’re enjoying this video and if you are please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my Channel at Adams gardening guides that helps me produce even more inspiring videos just for you the daer tubers that I potted up earlier in the year they’re growing up nicely now plenty of lovely new shoots on this pink princess variety and I’ve also got down here a variety called Bishop of York again lots of new growth and new stems developing now I’m going to leave all of these shoots on here if you’re a Keem propagator then you can actually cut off these new shoots and uh root them as cuting and grow a number of plants so I could get one two three four about five cuttings off this plant about four or five off that one as well but I’m going to grow these in a pots I’m going to leave all the choots on there the only thing I’ve got to do over the course of the spring and the M this pot is in my un unheated Greenhouse is just to keep it watered and I will probably start giving it a feed in a few weeks time as well just to boost growth so that this potted daily can put on a good flower display on my patio I’ve just received a delivery of some new Hardy herbaceous perennials by post which I’m going to plant in my garden for the summer I’ve got a Radia called linat Herston and I’ve also got a arantia or Master wart this one’s a strania major large white now the plants themselves are quite small you could plant these straight into your borders if you want but I would much rather pop them up and grow them on into a well rooted a larger well rooted pot so I’ve got a bigger plant an established plant to put out in the borders if I plant something like that out of my border it’s likely to get smothered and not flourish so I’m going to pot these up into a bigger pot now this pot should be ideal because if you just look here if I plant this uh small plant in there I’ve got room for compost all around so that should be just about the right size to grow on this Rod Beck here so I’m going to do is as I always do with things in pots is to take the plant out of its pot so that I can just check the root ball in here look at that beautiful root development on there so that plant’s going to grow nicely but I’m going to use a multi-purpose Pete free compost put a layer in the bottom of the pot use the outer pot as a template just to fill in around this with some compost and firm it down with your fingertips don’t firm it overly you don’t want to make it rock hard but just fill in around until you filled all the gaps in there just push down with your fingertips to make sure there aren’t any air po pockets in there fill right up to the top and as you can see I’ve adjusted the height of the pot so it’s just sitting a little bit deeper than the outer pot is in then I can just pull this pot out leaving a square template in there and pop in the root ball of the rug Beck here tap it well give it a water and grow this on to a larger size ready to plant out into my garden later in early summer and do check carefully when you’re potting up plants there’s a slug hiding away at the bottom of this pot so that’s something I don’t want climbing up and eating the young plants as are developing so I’m going to get rid of that it is lovely when Blossom time arrives and a really welcome sight when you see the apple blossom developing because hopefully that means a good crop of fruits to enjoy later in the summer this variety is one of the column the upright vertical growing um apples I think this variety is called Charlotte lovely good crop of flowers developing beautiful Blossom which is growing through um April and what I hope now is that the bees are going to discover these flowers pollinate the apple and I’ll get good crops for picking in the Autumn now some varieties of Apple have self-pollinating habits which means that when it flowers the pollen can actually pollinate its own Bloom but there are varieties which need to be cross-pollinated so if I’ve got one apple tree and here it’s trained as a cordon along the side of my path but if one is in flour it needs a neighboring Apple to be in flower at the same time so the insects can take pollen from one variety and move it across to another cross pollenating the variety so on my plot I’ve got some varieties of fruit which are self fertile which just means if the insects visit the flowers it will help to pollinate itself but you can get much better pollination much better fruit set if you grow more than one variety but make sure you choose varieties that flower at exactly the same time so that when one is in flower so is the other and the bees and pollinated insects will be able to carry and transfer pollen from one variety to another and that will guarantee you the very very best fruit set and if you ever read about people saying apples and pink buds this is the pink Bud stage and this will open to the open flower stage and at this stage this is when fruit Blossom can be most susceptible to frost damage at night so if you do live in a very cold area and frost is forecast you could get a a piece of garden fleece and hang that down over the trained fruit tree if it’s a small trained variety like this it’s easier to get a piece of fleece and hang it to protect the flowers at night keep the frost off the blooms to ensure they’re not damaged and then they will set Fruit by being pollinated and guarantee you a good crop and another tree covered in Blossom at the moment is my peir this is a variety called Concord and it’s a self fertile variety of pair I think it was bred as a cross between a conference pair and a Comm pair it’s very like a conference when you eat it this will have some good crops probably right for picking in about October time in my garden but the blossom is coming through end of March into April as I say it’s self fertile so I only need to grow one pear tree in the garden but the flowers still need the bees and pollinating insects to visit to pollinate the flowers the tree stayed nice and compact I think I’ve had it here for good 20 years now I grow a lovely Clematis at the base this is a variety called Dr ruple and I’ve just planted it at the base of the pear tree so the stems will grow up and these will get holded into the lower branches to layer on a little bit of flour which is a bit fun to have if you got some fruit trees why not train some cities up them as well but at this time of year as we’re moving into spring the blossoms coming I want the bees to pollinate those blooms so I get a really good crop of this peack or Concord for picking later in the Autumn the branches I just haven’t pred it at all actually I just let these branches Arch over and around I can walk underneath this through my vegetable plot to just enjoy a small fruiting tree single tree growing here on my plot look forward to those crops as well as we move through into Autumn and alongside the raspberries I’ve got a variety of fruit called a for Berry with these lovely golden flowers this flowers in Spring and it will set fruit which is a little bit like a black current and I leave the growth the stems and the canes on it every year and it flowers up beautifully to produce crops for picking later in the summer around my veg plot I’ve got some lovely clumps of seedlings coming up and this is a Hardy annual called the poach egg flow and I just let it grow flower and set seed so here along the edge of my plot where I’ve got some rasuras the poach EG flowers grew last year it’s a beautiful little flower on this Hardy annual I let the flowers develop the bees adore feeding from them and then once it’s finished flowering I just let it die down naturally and the seeds fall to the ground and they grow up again the next year to give me further flowers for the insects to enjoy around my vegetable plot I’m looking forward to some crops of climbing beans through the summer so now I’m going to get my plant supports in place I’ve built a Timber a frame that goes over my vegetable bed and then I tie in canes on either side to produce a nice A-frame Wigwam to support C the beans as they grow space in the canes about 6 to 8 in apart you don’t have to be too fussy once the frames in place later in May I can sew the seeds directly into the soil at the base of each of the canes you can start plant soften Pots if you want raise them under glass or on a witer sill plant them out I going to sew my beans directly outside keep the crop well water through the summer as well Beans really want lots of water they’ll climb up the canes and give give you some good summer pickings if you found in the past that your beans run out of steam then try successionally sewing a second crop in a month or two’s time so that those will grow on and give you a slightly later crop than the early sewings R Barbie is such an undemanding crop I’ve got several clumps around the garden here look at these beautiful stems here now we for picking and to pick rubarb literally all you got to do is to grasp the stem at the bottom just ease it backwards of forward a little bit and pull it away and there look at these beautiful colored stems so I’ll pick some of those some of my rhubarb like this one I’ve just got out in the vegetable garden just going outside but you can also get forcing jars like this nice terracotta forcing jar which you can put over your clumps of rhubarb and what this does is excludes light and by excluding light you’ll hopefully get taller longer stems rubar for picking so just check under here now yeah the rhubarbs come up to the top and theyve got to do with these is is put your hand down inside and grasp it at the bottom let me just give that a tug there we go and then you’ll get some lovely tall tender stems of rhubarb to cook and enjoy and I’ll enjoy cooking that later have a little bit of rub up for my tea few things can be more rewarding when you’re gardening than growing your own fruit strawberries are one of my favorites and you can grow these in beds outside on your veg plot or your fruit plot you could grow them in growing bags or you can grow them on the patio or in the greenhouse like I’m here just simply in pots now strawberries can be bought as growing plants in garden centers or you can buy what are called strawberry Runners from mail order suppliers and a strawberry Runner comes in the post is basically a young strawberry plant these are misted tip old stored Runners and it’s a variety I’m growing this year called flamco this is an everbearing variety and you can get varieties of strawberries that flour in different seasons of the summer or this particular variety called flamco as I say will produce fruits in flushies through summer and into Autumn this is how you buy them so I bought a pack of 12 of these lovely little Runner plants and I’m going to plant two in each pot so that they should give me some fruits this summer and these will flour and fruit within a few months of planting and the plants will get bigger I’ll overwinter them and next year I’ll get an even bigger crop and the lovely thing about growing strawberries is that you can keep the plants cropping for several years before they slowly deteriorate and they’ll get virus diseases and so on and the fruiting will diminish over time now my strawberry plants need to be planted in pots of compost so I’m going to put these to one side and the compost I’m going to use is going to be a combination of things in a pot you need a free draining compost but it’s be a compost that retains moisture and it’s got good nutrition too so I’m mixing together today some LOM based johnin compost this is johnin number three I’ve got a Pete free compost which has got lots of nice organic matter in it and I’m going to mix in with that a material called vermiculite now vermiculite is a man-made material which is heat treated and turns it into this sort of mic vermiculite and this opens up the compost stops it getting too water logged but it does retain some moisture of its own so it’s a really good additional material to put in the compost so today I’m going to mix together one part or one pot of this JN in his number three compost I’m going to mix into that one pot of Pete free multi-purpose compost mix these two in to one another and then I’m also going to add about the same amount about a pot full of vermiculite so just pour this onto the compost about the same amount of volume as the other two thereabouts don’t have to be too exact and all three of these ingredients can be mixed in together now once you think you’ve got a nice even mix consistency you can fill a pot these got drain Sholes in the bottom I’ve chosen a plastic pot and just have to fill this up about 2/3 full and I I’m going to plant two of these strawberry runners in each pot so just two decent Siz plants now these plants have got a new Chute developing at the top and they’ve got a good root system if the roots are very dry you could soak these in water just to hydrate them a bit but they’ll soon get moist when you put them in a pot and in the pot itself I’m just going to make a nice deep channel right the way down to the base of the pot and like going to put one plant on each side so just open the roots up bit put the plant in the pot I need to keep the top of the plant that little crown of the plant where it would have been planted in the ground outside I want to keep that level with the surface of the compost so at that point there just make sure you don’t bury it any deeper spread the roots out in the pot itself get some more compost and cover over the roots and I’m going to put one plant on each side of this pot it’s the first one in I’ll get the level of it adjusted in a minute and the second plant again just tease that one over get deep down because you want these roots to go right down into the compost itself spread the roots out bit as you go new shoot already starting at the top of the plant so just open the roots up spread them out through the compost and fill in around those roots with some more compost level it down now I’m just going to adjust the heights of those two little strawberry Runners as I said before you can’t plant them too deeply you don’t want to bury it I want it about the same level as it was grown on the nursery burn the compost down and that’s about it all I’ve now got to do is to water the pot keep it moist make sure it does dry out I’m going to keep these parts in my Greenhouse you could put them in a frame you could put them on your patio you can put them wherever you like in the greenhouse it’ll be a little bit warmer they should start growing and flowering a bit sooner and I’ll have fruits If plants are planted around about April time you should be picking some fruits June into July and being an everbearing variety this one should go on give me some pickings into the Autumn ped strawberries can continue cropping for several years I leave my pots outside for most of the winter because the cold treatment encourages the the flower buds to form in the crowns of the strawberry so I leave them outside and I bring them into my Greenhouse earlier in the year to start putting on New Growth and to start flowering but then the important thing to consider is that the flowers of strawberries need to be pollinated if all I do is keep them in the greenhouse with a doors closed quite often there’s few pollinating insects around so I stand the pots outside during the day or if they’re in the greenhouse I open up the vents and the doors so that bees and beneficial insects can fly in and they will visit the flowers and pollinate the flowers to make sure that the fruit forms correctly you might have noticed in the past you get some abnormal shaped strawberries and that can be due to poor pollination so what we need is good pollination and that needs bees and H flies and other beneficial insects to come in and visit the blooms once they’re at this stage I also feed regularly anything growing in a pot needs feeding whether it’s beding plants on the patio it’s hanging baskets it’s Tomatoes or cucumbers and things in the greenhouse and I tend to use a high potach fertilizer for lots of my Greenhouse crops you can use it for your bating plants and your hanging baskets too this has got a balance of nutrients in it but it’s got a lot of potach and for good flour and fruit production you need potach plants need the nitrogen to get good leafy growth phosphates for roots but lots of potach for the flowers and fruits so I can use this around the greenhouse I can use it for my tomatoes for my chilies for my peppers for my cucumbers as well as the the summer bedding plants and the flowers but particularly to keep my strawberry plants healthy and encourage lots of flower production now you can get strawberries that flour and fruit at different seasons you can get ones that flour and fruit in early summer in high summer or I do like these Perpetual fruited varieties like this variety of flamco that I’m growing this will flour and therefore fruit over a longer period of time so it will give me a succession of pickings through the whole of Summer and into Autumn I’ll get flushes of flowers and fruits developing so it gives me fruits little and often through the summer so I do thoroughly recommend you check out these if you want some early fruits then of course get some early frued varieties but if you want pickings over a longer period of time these ever bearing or Perpetual fruiting varieties are certainly worth considering now as well as growing strawberries in pots which does have the advantage that you can bring the pots under cover to keep the birds away I am going to plant up this little strawberry bread here and hopefully I’ll produce another video that you’ll find on my Adams gardening guides YouTube channel which shows you just that I’m going to cover the bed with a weed suppressing membrane and plant the strawberries in here and then put a frame over the top to cover with netting keep the birds away and you can buy little strawberry plants like this Cambridge favorite uh from garden centers with uh fruits already setting on it it flowed well and it’s fruiting well and you can see I mentioned Runners before you’ve already got some Runners developing on these plants and once a little plant forms at the end of that Runner I’ll Peg that down into a separate pot of compost to root and make some new plants so I’ll be planting these out and I’ve also got some little trays of strawberries too just look for the best value plants that you can get this is um a variety called Symphony again the young plants probably will already have some flowers and some fruits developing so try and choose plants with the biggest crown you can to plant out so this little bed here will be planted with strawberries and there’ll be a new video coming to my channel very soon so if you’ve got somewhere under cover keep your pots perhaps in a greenhouse where it’s warmer away from Birds let the pollinating insects come in and pollinate the flowers enjoy lovely clean pickings which also stay quite disease free because it’s dry in the greenhouse the fruits stay dry they don’t get wet in the rain they don’t get the gray mold that can develop on outdoor crops sometimes when it’s been raining once they’ve finished uh fruiting later in the Autumn what I’ll do is I’ll let them die down naturally and I’ll cut off all of the leaves the winter now I tend to stand my pots outside just in a little sheltered corner of my patio area down by my Greenhouse for the winter um they don’t mind the cold they Hardy pants quite Hardy outside so that the cold won’t hurt them but you don’t want them to get too water locked all the leaves have been cut off and the cold weather actually encourages the flowers to form in the crown of the strawberry which will open the following spring and summer and give you fruits the following year so I’ll leave them outside for the winter come the spring I’ll bring them under cover bring them to warmth when a Cold Frame put them on your patio encourage them into early growth if you possibly can because earlier growth means earlier flowering and earlier fruiting so you’ll enjoy fruits earlier in the summer and the cycle repeats itself keep the pots well watered and fed compost in pots has very little nutrient in it so all of those nutrients will have been used up after four or five or 6 weeks so you must remember to feed regularly too to ensure the growth um of the plant is strong and the flowering is good then I think in Parts strawberries can last for a good 3 to four years before sometimes you’ll notice the uh fruiting potential starts to to to drop off so you can get good value once you’ve invested in your strawberry crowns you can get several good years of pickings from them as I said the plants will form Runners you can root those Runners you can get new plants for free and build up your stock of strawberries in that way thanks for watching and I hope that’s given you a few ideas on growing your own strawberries in pots and if you keep tuned into my YouTube channel at Adams gardening guides I’ll develop a new video on growing strawberries outside in a strawberry bed too but for now these strawberries ints will give me some really lovely tasty homegrown picking so have it Go yourself try growing your own strawberries and enjoy your own homegrown crops whatever you do in the garden this summer enjoy your garden thanks for joining me one job to do as we move through into early summer is to feed your lawn and I use a soluble plant food using a diluter which attaches to my garden hose and all you’ve got to do is to put the feed the packet into the feeder pop on the top and then if I attach the hose to this as I turn the tap on and water passes through the feeder it dilutes the feed and feeds the lawn so all I’ve now got to do is to walk up and down the lawn just spreading the liquid feed solution over the lawn giving the lawn a good soak this will ensure I get lovely green grass thick strong growth right the way through summer and you can repeat this as intervals if your lawn needs it to make sure you give your lawn a really good boost of feed certainly a good job to do in early summer the young plants will need some support as they grow so get a cane and push it down into the pot close to the main stem and then just use some Garen string to tie the stem as it develops right up to the top of the cane just gives it more support stops it getting weak and bending over and breaking and then the plants can be potted up so once they’re really well rooted into their 3 or 4 in pots you can move them up into a larger size container to gr for the summer use a good Peak free multi-purpose compost layer of compost in the bottom of the pot just check the height you want to plant it a little bit deeper than it was in its main pot put the plant centrally in the big pot and then fill in around it with compost just ease the compost in around the root ball and firm it with your fingertips so it’s in really close contact just going feeding the compost in around it firm it down just get right up to just below the rim of the pot that should be absolutely fine now these tomatoes are going to be grown as single stemmed cordons in the greenhouse so I don’t want any side shoots to develop and you can just pinch these off as it develop check regularly in the axial of every leaf where it joins the main stem and pinch out all the side chudes I’m always Keen to make the very most of my vegetable plot and that means getting the successional sewings and plantings and croppings developed so earlier in the year I used these modular trays to fill with compost and sew seeds to grow in my green house or on your window sills or wherever to get seedlings to give you the earliest picking so I sewed tray like this a few weeks ago with some rocket and some Water Crest and these lovely little plug plants are ready now planting out in my Cold Frame and the thing about getting the best in your plot is sewing little and often so trade like this I will plant out and about 6 weeks to 8 weeks after sew in the first lot I’ll sew another lot so that I’ve got a successional crop so I’m going to plant these out in my Cold Frame here but I’ll have another tray sewn in my Greenhouse to develop seedlings so that when this lot has finished cropping I can replace them with some new plants so now let’s get on and plant these out I’ve red over and prepared the soil in this bed so now I can get ready for for planting this is a variety of Rocket called cultivat cultivated rocket it’s it’s Italian seed variety so all I’ve done is to put a pinch of seeds into each of these modules so I’ve got some Lov little plug plants for planting out and you just have to make a little hole in the soil or compost and just tease the soil back around it I’m going to space them out about 10 in foot apart also so each of these modules has got room to grow and develop you don’t have to be too fussy about the spacings but I find if you put them in too close then there’s so much competition between plants they don’t actually get a very good crop so space them out lots of seedlings in here and the nice thing about growing a little plug of seedlings like this is I can start by picking off some of these seedlings to enjoy in salads and then I can leave some of the other plants to grow up and and mature once the crops are planted you can just water gently I like to use one of these hose guns just set to a gentle shower and I tend to water the compost right the way around each plug in turn to settle the soil compost around the root ball of the plug and just make sure it’s got good contact with the surrounding soil keep these watered as is required so I’ll check in the fras every few days if the compost looks like it’s dry or the weather’s been very hot and sunny they might need a little bit more water otherwise probably need a really good thorough watering during the springtime maybe a couple of times a week just to keep them growing strongly I will start picking these young leaves while they’re still small but I will wait for some of the others to go bigger to give me pickings over the coming weeks and months sometimes you want green in the garden and green provides a lovely foil for other things I’ve got a host of Evergreens and assiduous shrubs in my garden I’ve got an evergreen called danai race mosa this part of the border which stays green all the year round alongside a nice little lilac which has been uh deciduous lost its leaves in the winter new leaves have grown and I’ll get some flowers coming just see the new flowers developing later in late spring to early summer but at the back here look at that isn’t that a wonderful flowering shrub this is the Mexican orange blossom choia tanata which has wonderfully fragrant white flowers these are starting to open now to put on a glorious display set off by that shiny Green Leaf but the flowers themselves look lovely in Spring I do like white through Springtime and this will give you that nice backdrop to the border and it’s nice having the flowers at this time of year because as we move through into the summer the main flower border will start producing flowers from all the Hardy perennials which are now coming up but at this time of year the choic here is in flow and I can just smell that wonderful fragrance now a gorgeous Hardy shrub I’ve got this post and wire support system running right the way down the length of my garden to divide off my uh part from my Greenhouse and this is trained with cane fruits there’s a mix on here of hybrid berries like Loganberry and tabur and at the far end thornless Blackberry in fact all of these fruits are thornless and as we move through April into early May the first of these cane fruits starts to flour and I’ve got the uh Loganberry producing its first flowers lots of flower buds developing but these open flowers will be pollinated and these will give me some of my earliest pickings probably June into July and I want the continuity of pickings of fruit in my garden so Tab bery and Loganberry give you the earliest flowers and they for the earliest fruits the far end lots of flowers up here look at that it’s going to get a really good crop on these canes you drained in and then I’ve got the thornless Blackberry at this end here we are flower buds developing but no open Blooms yet and these flower successionally through the summer so they’ll give you pickings right the way through into late Summer and Autumn so just a simple post and wi support training your cane fruits up to give you a long season of pickings by planting several different varieties together training up the canes canes develop one year and carry flowers and fruits the second year so these are the fru and Canes which are going to give me crops to pick this year and if I look down to the base here on this Loganberry you can see I’ve already got the the new canes developing up and it’s these new canes which are going to train up this year and these will carry fruits next year so once the canes up here have finished fruiting our PR these away completely and then the new canes which grow up from the base will be trained in and these will carry flowers and fruits next year so you’ve got this cycle New Growth one year trained in to carry flowers and fruits the second year I really hope you’re enjoying this video and if you are please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel that helps me produce even more inspiring videos just for you