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hi folks and welcome back to the plot I’ve just arrived and we’re going to talk about Garden anxiety there’s quite a few different kinds of garden anxiety I think quite a few things that can get you stressed and worried but today I know the garden anxiety that I’m feeling is going to be very familiar to most of you and that is because I’ve been away for the weekend we’ve been away for like four or 5 days um we went down to Cornwall Jess and I and it was really really nice really really relaxed but it’s been AB absolutely roasting while we were away and it’s been roasting here on the south coast as well and so 5 days without seeing the plant I’m a little bit nervous I can just see the greenhouse and I think it’s okay but I’ve just popped up today to have a look we’ve got all sorts going on we’ve just had a really restful holiday but now it’s action stations because my sister-in-law has moved out of the house so we’re decorating and doing all sorts of not very fun stuff but the thing I was worried about of of course was the Chili Peppers the tomatoes have exploded already everything is looking okay which is I think a relief just as we were on the way we were sort of leaving to go to cor and I was like we’ve got to stop in at the alotment and I’m just going to give everything a really good soaking and I’m so glad I did there was a lot of water in the bottom of the trays but I knew that if it got really sunny and really really hot in these green houses there might be a bit of risk so I’m very very glad I did that the tomatoes in here are looking a little bit cooked W we’ll have a proper look they’re not too bad actually but they are sort of looking a little leggy this one’s flowering already what the heck is going on there what is wrong with you maybe overwatered a little bit I’m not too sure oh we’ve got one that’s just germinated very funny year for the tomatoes look at this one the spoon really taken off sweet potatoes are looking a little I don’t know I think I might get them in the in a tub or something soon but there is new growth on here which is very very good Tomatoes all up here have I think doubled in size just over the weekend oh okay I think we’re okay in here have a little look at the poly tunnel but it is shocking how much the grass has grown over one weekend and the beds what on Earth there were maybe one or two scattered weeds in here but it did not look like this the weeds have absolutely gone boom peas have gone boom too which is good news hot bins looking hot I uh I was up here a little while ago oh yeah that’s very hot I could see the heat Haze coming off the top of this thing and I opened it up and it was 70° inside the compost probe so uh it’s really wow I’ve already even gone a weekend look at the grass it’s turned into an absolute Meadow I did do quite a few things as well there’s a few little bits to show you but first I want to just check in the poly tunnel look at this look at this I think this one might just be the black birds yes let’s just look in here see if anything else has died from the heat okay yeah little bit of wilting a little bit of wilting Chili Peppers Look okay though which is really good the peas are looking all sorts of weird and the rewing doesn’t look like it’s germinated sometimes you just got to have a little dig around haven’t you okay they’ve not rotted maybe they’ve dried out I think I might end up just putting this out and hoping for the best leaks survived somehow a lot of this cabbage hasn’t bolted despite it must have been cooking in here this weekend so that’s good oh my goodness the lettuce has really hearted I can’t believe it’s just been a few days all of the rocket unfortunately has bolted not a big surprise it was just starting to Bol actually but um it’s a really mild rocket this one there’s a few radish I’ve let oh my god I’ve let go uh is this still edible I’m not too sure I will probably Harvest those today but mostly good news isn’t it one little salad tray looking a little bit dry and a few bolted rocket it’s fine all of the Chili Peppers that’s really what you know that’s what I was worried about my my pride enjoy the one thing I really care about the chilies and they’re looking okay something else is looking okay a day or so before we left I I planted out the sweet peas and they were looking I don’t know if you remember these were in the poly tunnel and they were looking really quite anemic and I just kind of bit the bullet it’s warmed up enough I mean these are quite Hardy anyway but it’s warmed up to the point that these will probably start growing and hopefully be able to out compete any slug damage and they are growing I know they don’t look amazing but these have grown a lot since I put them out I can just see I actually planted these a little bit far away from the support but you can see lots of new bushy Gray which is a good sign so we’ve got sort of Steve’s old uh Steve’s Chelsea collection over here and then the oldfashioned on the right there there’s a little Cosmos I planted out I planted out a few other little bits and Bobs I put some trays under these because a few of these were really starting to dry out the potatoes really wanted it and I planted out a little row of salads and some flowers in the big bed and they have survived the weekend I really thought that I would come back and these would all be completely decimated by the Slugs so this is fantastic the nasium peach Melbourne nasium has gone okay let’s flower this is a little sulfur Cosmos and then we’ve got another one here at the back I’ve pinched out the top of that to hopefully encourage it to get a little more bushy the one oh wow I was going to say there’s one other thing I want to look at right back there and I can see from here it’s growing well oh there’s so much weird stuff to show you what is going on but yes the peas that is what I saw from a distance look at these look at these These are the older men and it looks like the support netting is going to work perfectly they are growing quite upright I was hoping that they would go at an angle with the uh the support but I’m sure as they get a little bit taller they will end up leaning on that support and hopefully as they start to grow up and the pea pod start to droop down it will allow really easy harvesting there is so much grass growth in this manure but the onions I put in the back here they’re looking okay just a few little spare red onions and I thought these would all get dug up straight way but they’re okay they’re okay this is where that gutter of peas was meant to go and I was going to put it on another set of kind of trellis that went the other way but obviously they’re they’re quite behind so I’m not sure whether to just plant them out and see what happens even with the ones in there that haven’t germinated but we’ll see lots and lots of space in the beds um this one is just kind of ticking over that red onion I kind of want to see what that is doing but let’s leave it the weeds have just exploded it’s such a shame this was such a nice noow dig bed until the foxes came along and dug it all up look at there’s some wild fungus growing in here and a lot of bindweed as well this is Fort Fox where we’ve got the carrot sewings and the onions it does look like there’s there were two sewings in here that look like they have just completely failed so I might redo those and you can see or can you see there is some horrible bindweed in there the onions still not growing unfortunately it’s possible that they don’t like this bed or it’s possible they were just really quite rootbound oh goodness Me the Weeds as well I think there is some carrot germination yes definitely some carrot starting to pop up but I could do with a really good weed the whole plot just needs a bit of TLC the grass has gone wild everywhere I had a really good comment suggestion um to put some cold frames up this end of the poly tunnel by the door and I drag this one out and it fits pretty much perfectly you can see there’s some nice gladioli at the moment I didn’t plant these these were here when I took on plot but I might move those somewhere else and this would be perfect for lot of the brassas and slightly cooler you know crops that don’t want to be in the poly tunnel or the greenhouse at this time of year and I can put some netting over it and it will just be really good there’s a little bit of comfrey over here as well once again this was on the plot I don’t I imagine this probably isn’t bocking 14 but I do want to keep a comfy patch whether or not I’m going to keep it here I’m not too sure but I do want to do something with that and the asparagus look the asparagus is doing it’s thing really really good to see this it’s already starting to turn into fronds but these these bits are basically like the leaf you know so they’re going to do all the photosynthesizing give that energy to the roots and the crown and that’s why you don’t want to harvest it for the first year or two but they’re looking really good they’ve all taken all of every single one is regrowing which is a really good sign I just love these potato pots as well I’m definitely think I’m going to get a couple more of those in fact there might be a couple at home it’ll be good to just have them all the way along there so yes that’s the fun stuff that’s the relief that’s a quick walking tour but I do need to actually do something I’ve only got an hour or two up here but I think it’s either a case of planting a few bits out or sewing some new seeds I do first just want to water these salads see if they make it just give these a really quick soak then I’m going to have a little look more closely at the seedlings in the greenhouse see if there’s anything ready to go out ready that needs to be planted and then have a think about what needs sewing you can see in here there’s actually loads of space I’ve taken out on this shelf these ones just so this lck could get a little bit more light loads of good stuff on the top and down right at the bottom a lot of my brascas hidden away in the slightly cooler part of the greenhouse looking really good actually a little bit thirsty but they are growing quite well I’ve had really slow growth on my brasas this year the compost trials lots of interesting stuff there I need to record a little progress segment on there don’t look too closely I’m saving it for the video there’s lots of other stuff which I’m just saying is failed now this herb tray it’s just worth plucking out those putting them into little cells and then I’ve got some more space there’s loads and loads of s I need to do similar up here I think although the basket Flower just starting to pop out but there’s Mar Golds have definitely failed the Seline needs to to kind of come out and these ones are the flowers I’ve just started planting out I did do a quick little compost trial actually between silver grow and heart of Eden compost and look you can just start to see ones on the left doing much better than the ones on the right here the wormwood and way too early to to conclude anything but this one on the left is the silver grow and I would say it’s the wormwood at least doing slightly better than the heart of Eden but don’t read into it too much don’t read into it too much it’s just one one little pot the corett this is what I was really wondering is could these go out and I think I’m oh these ones are looking close these ones are looking close the beauty of having these big cells is that you don’t have to pot up you can get a cette or a squash out from just growing in one of these so they’re close they’re close another few days and I think I could put those out and hopefully they’ll be able to resist some slugs same for the cabbages these um cabbages they’re not cabbages JB cucumbers these are cucumbers looking really really good so I’m pleased to see something is growing correctly at the right speed for once the tomato is looking a little bit leggy a little bit unhealthy but that’s just kind of part for the course this year isn’t it not too sure what’s going on with some of them but they are moving in the right direction at least so good news nothing urgently that needs planting out that’s really what I wanted to check the brassers do need a bit of work I found some spring onions hidden in the poly tunnel as well they need to go out but I think what I really want to do today is get some of the the really heat loving stuff so so a lot of the squashes I didn’t do yet did I not do the squashes yes I haven’t done my winter squashes yet I’ve just done my cette so it’s time to do some squashes and a lot I haven’t done any beans any beans yet and actually I wanted to talk a little bit about the um a few of the gardens that we went to on holiday just shifted you around so you can see what’s going on and getting this back in its rightful home in the green how’s the sewing station I love it but yes I got a few seeds where are they I consider myself generally pretty good at resisting The Edge to get seeds but I saw a few I couldn’t resist you know when you just can’t resist the first this one dwarf botte as you know bit of an aversion to uh faffing in the garden and setting up plant supports so I saw dwarf and I I immediately picked it up and put in the basket couldn’t resist I love the idea of dwarf varieties I know you get a little bit of a reduced crop but the idea of just having lower maintenance stuff and Botti is something I tried to grow a little bit last year I’ve got some saved seed but just quite a lot of work and the idea of just having a few dwarf ones these are I think worth growing just for how gorgeous they look more than anything apparently you can start these in April but I’m sure they will be fine now I got a new little lettuce just a kind of heting remain light lettuce type thing CU I don’t have any of these at the moment and another exciting one spigarello now this I think it’s very similar to the minestra Nera that Jesse at plot 37 has been talking about a lot this year where is my minestra it is looking okay it’s this one in here looking okay a little bit kind of leggy reaching for the light but that’s because I put it in the shade deliberately broccoli R not very good germination but yeah these are quite tricky I’ve not had a good home for these I don’t want to put them out in the ground just yet cuz I think they’ll get slugged pet tro all of my beak tree is growing so slowly this year and this is all a bit thirsty but yes my minestrin era is growing well I’ve got loads too much to be honest but a lot of people have been kind of saying they can’t get seeds for minestra but they can get seeds for spigarello and I thought it’d be interesting to grow both and just see how they compare how they kind of look because I think spigarello is quite similar to minr I think minest is like a type of spigarello I’m not too sure if you don’t know what I’m talking about it’s a very cool looking apparently very tasty braa so yes not many seeds but you might have noticed they’ve got a specific Eden Project thing on them and I’m going to make up some potting mix and then just while I’m SE just chat you a little bit about the gardens I think that would be nice I did have someone ask me the other day if I’d stopped using silver gr and not quite sure what gave that impression I have been still using it and I need to buy some more I’m still so far a fan I know a lot of mixed experience experiences this year lots of mixed comments but also lots of can you see me there lots of people also saying it’s it’s work just fine for them this year so I think my my feeling is it’s more of a weather a weather situation so beans the main thing oh I’m just I’m really really excited about these I really chanced these last year I went quite early and to be honest it worked quite well but just one of those things I haven’t sewn them this year just because everything’s been a bit slow but these are so gorgeous these are the khma bean once again this is a dwarf my favorite kind of crop low maintenance and one of the reasons I’ve not been too anxious about having so many empty beds is because this year I want a whole bed of just these dwarf green beans they are so so good kma quite hard to get in this country I was kindly sent them by Audrey from real food comes dirty last year and these are all self- saved seed I do still have a few from the seed packet as well actually but really excited to do those and another one that Audrey sent the Christmas lemur I’m going to do a few of these these are a climber and what I might do is because I’m lazy where I’ve had all that failed PE germination I might just sew a few of these in the gaps or sort of consolidate the peas into one one area and then have a few of these elsewhere but we’ve got time to to get that support sorted there is another one as well um this one this is a seed I couldn’t red reduced no this is seed I couldn’t resist it just looks amazing the yin yang Bean it’s kind of this cool black and white color no idea how it’s going to taste but we’re going to give it a go and the main well I’ve got this slightly unusual SE tray that I’ve not used before I think Jess bought these for a sweet peas but then they turned out to be a bit too small so it’s 5 by8 quite a lot of cells but they’re just sort of like mini root trainer ones hopefully not too much effort to get in the ground I think with something like this you can just do a little trench and then pot everything up you know I’ve been complaining about the diing I’ve only got one of those and the rest I think we’ll just have to go into these kind of standard slightly larger the 4×7 trays um and I’m not too sure how many I’m going to do I’m going to do as many as I feel like doing where can you go where’s going to be good it becomes more and more challenging to film in this greenhouse as the season goes on probably for obvious reasons but yes Gardens right so I wanted to just talk about this a little bit something I’ve mentioned on potty mouth before is that like my background my introduction to gardening is is not from gardening if that makes sense so um I’m a big lover of like nature and the natural world and that’s kind of what got me into enjoying time Outdoors spending a lot of time on nature reserves doing butterfly transects volunteering for conservation work you know um species conservation and habitat conservation and that kind of thing so when we started recording potty mouth live um I remember people couldn’t believe it that I didn’t watch Gardener’s world you know I’d never been to I don’t know an rhs Garden whizley or the Q or anything like that it’s not really in my I don’t know like my gardening background or my gardening tastes um I very much was interested in getting an allotment actually because I I gave up the the outdoors job and I took a desk job and I still wanted to be outdoors you know just in nature experiencing it despite the hay fever and anyway what I’m the point I’m getting to is that over over the last kind of few years raise you up a little bit so I’m not crouching my um my kind of Outlook has changed a little bit I to be completely honest I think unfairly I had a bit of a dim view of tra just traditional quote unquote gardening you know Monty Don I don’t know Alan titch Marsh like ornamental planting ornamental Gardens it never really it never really did it for me you know I’ve always been interested a little bit in Wildlife gardening my parents were always had quite a lot of um Wildlife Garden thing going on but you know they couldn’t get me out there like they couldn’t get me out there looking at it with them like when my mom kind of saw that i’ started a YouTube channel about gardening she just could not believe it you know but yes over time especially as we’ started doing a lot more flowers in the back Garden um I’m kind of coming around to it you know and I can I can appreciate a formal Garden a little bit more I think the first time I went to a formal Garden was April last year April or May March kind of early spring I was with um Nile from Nile Gardens we were we were in Wales and um I can’t actually remember the name of the garden but it was so cute it really really won me over and I was like I get it now you know I get why um we used to go on family holidays to Corn war and you know my parents would go off to to visit some of the gardens and that kind of thing it’s just my idea of hell you know just so so boring dropped a bean and it’s only now in my 30s actually that I I’ve grown to to kind of get it and understand what is going on there so that brings me on to this holiday and the first time that we were in Cornwall and thought let’s try some Gardens Jess was quite up for it because you know she’s the main the main home Gardener now and so we went to a couple I’ve just I’m going to do a bit of a succession with these kma beans so I’ve just done one tray here but quite a lot um and two in each which might be a little bit much but there is a decent deep Reservoir here and these things grow densely quite happily last year they were they were fine growing as bushes the only slight downside to the bush varieties obviously is that they can be a little bit trickier to harvest you’ve got to get right kind of down there you know to do to get in oh I need a tray where are they all I just bought a load up in the other Greenhouse I’ve somehow misplaced the trays or used them all oh this one here I should label that while I remember shouldn’t I that would be a good idea what are they um and I might actually not do many of these other ones these are quite big cells but I think I’m going to do half the yinyang and then half the Christmas lemur the Christmas lemur get really big but yes so we found ourselves looking at Gardens in corwall and we wanted to go to L end and we visited a little Garden near L end and we went to the Eden Project which is kind of like you know it’s a bit of a flagship it’s a sort of place where it’s a bit more of an attraction more than just a garden and I must say 40 quid a ticket for the Eden Project W blew me away um that was a that was a bit of a shocker but we went to the Eden project and a little garden called trdy um and the little garden was about 8 pound a ticket and I have to say we enjoyed the small garden so much more than the Eden Project the Eden project was really cool I have been when um you know I was much younger and my parents took me I must have been I don’t know 145 something like that and um it is cool the Eden Project is cool obviously the main attractions are those those biomes the Mediterranean biome and the rainforest biome and the rainforest biome is undeniably amazing you know the size of some of the trees that they’ve got in there are absolutely staggering but the bit I found myself most drawn to um at Eden project was all the Edibles obviously it kind of makes sense you know as an alotment Gardener but it was a real I don’t know it kind of surprised me that the thing that really you know sparked a joy and got me excited as we were walking around was their little allotment section their crop section by the um the cafe they had like this Bank of um Cula that they were they were using in the cafe um loads of beetro and chard and things like that growing that all went into to you know you could go and these look amazing this is specifically why I bought these just because they look so good but how could I resist they look awesome their allotment section I must admit did not impress I’ve got some my allotment actually looked better than a lot of their allotment section they did have some cool like um crops around the world um little bits and Bobs lots of kind of a few Asian crops like ginger and coriander that I’m not doing um massive banana plants obviously but um yeah their chilies didn’t look as good as mine which did put a big smile on my face and it just interested me to see about my own tastes in gardening and I think what I’ve grown to appreciate I’ve double SE these and I think I’m just going to single SE them is um what I know you know so um how to explain the bits I really enjoyed were the Native wild flowers the native trees the apple trees the crops the allotment section all that kind of thing and I’ve just realized that that is exactly what I what I appreciate in gardens generally more often than not it’s the native plants that I’ve come to know and love from spending lots of time on nature reserves and doing conservation that’s the stuff for me that really Sparks joy that so native wild flowers native plants and crops because that’s what I know and love and I there is something that really sparked joy for me about seeing um people just growing food and it was really cool I must say at the Eden Project to see it it all being used but I did feel that the Eden Project especially a lot of the outdoor Gardens could have just had way more care and attention a lot of it was sort of um it felt like a placeholder it was like non-native shrubs just like a mean the sort of thing that you might have as um not like Laurel or Cherry Laurel but just really gross shrubs that you might see in someone’s front garden that they’ve just planted for screening or something like that whereas trui it was it was so small it was infinitely smaller and it was um you know quite a small garden with a winding path that took you forwards and backwards and through like Meadow Glades and they had um their big their big thing was um a lot of actual not native plants so their big thing was um chamelia bushes um but they did have some fantastic specimens chamelia rododendron which is something I I generally don’t like but it was in flower and it looked really good and the other one was Magnolia they had some 100y old um or hundreds of year old magnolia trees and it was pretty impressive the size of them you know I didn’t know they got that big yin yang and the other one is lemur Christmas lemur but I just thought it was interesting that I think both of us Jess and I enjoyed our time at the trdy gardens near L’s end much more it was just um it felt like a much more densely packed experience you know we were walking really slowly through every path pointing out like bits and Bobs and bits and Bobs the Eden Project the paths were more like um you know you’re going from place to place they had one really nice bit which was um called a pollinator path um which once again was well it wasn’t that impressive actually I was expecting to see lots more wild flowers lots more about that they had one section that blew me away and it was um a plant called Meadow foam or Meadow meow something you kind of come around to it and you can hear this like almost deafening sound of honeybees that were all over it having the absolute time of their life which it was just amazing but I just thought it was quite I kind of learned a lot about my myself and my taste for gardening and I’m sure they will continue to evolve but um it just seems like it’s really driven by what I know and what I already love and have like it’s what I’m able to appreciate in a Garden you know going around a rainforest biome undeniably cool very awesome but you you’re not going around going oh it’s that oh it’s that oh oh we’ve got that in the garden or oh we could grow that next year because we don’t have a rain biome in our back Garden but um yeah my first my first sort of I just thought it was interesting to share it’s not necessarily about alarm menting but find it quite interesting how my own tastes are changing you know from someone who wouldn’t be really seen dead in a formal Garden not for any particular reason it’s just never been something for me you know I’d rather take a nature reserve walk any day but um one of those things that’s starting to change as the age and I just thought it was quite interesting but that’s beans done I’m going to I’ve been absolutely rambling on so I’m going to do a little bit more and show you what I’ve done complete not lie I’ve just turned the camera off and straight back on again because the other thing that I wanted to talk about was holidays and the title of the video and the whole thumnail and everything is about Garden anxiety and um and when we were going around cornall there were a few times where I couldn’t quite remember like how long it had been since we’d last been there um we’re quite often bombed down because I’ve got a load of friends who live in coral so we quite often bomb down and just stay with them for for literally like a night or two in that kind of thing and I was trying to remember like when was the last time we had a holiday and did that kind of thing and it’s been absolutely ages and Jess gave me one of those looks when I asked her the question she’s just like we don’t go on holiday very much anymore or she goes without me because I’m stressed about the garden well like she asked me at a really bad time and I’ve got a to-do list as long as my arm a greenhouse to build a poly tunnel to build and quite often we just don’t do holidays because of the garden for the longest time um my holidays have basically been at the alotment kind of For Better or Worse you know obviously I I do love it um you see how much joy the allotment brings me but um I do wonder if maybe the B has been slightly off we’ve not been abroad since 2018 in 2018 we went to Amsterdam and um this year I’m going to Italy later on for quite a long time and I’m terrified I’m really nervous about leaving the garden for so long I haven’t actually I need to find someone to you know come and water it do have lots of um close neighbors who would probably help me out but um it’s interesting I ched to one of my patrons um Chris he goes on holiday quite a lot um and sends me kind of updates about um you know like people he’s asked to look after his uh his chilies and that kind of thing and I it’s a big problem for a lot of people isn’t it you know what do you do if you go abroad and for me the solution has been well don’t just go away for like we’ve just done it only a weekend at a time but I do think the alotment is moving more towards being finished there I say finished um in terms of the big projects obviously an alotment is never finished but I’m hoping the only infrastructure project now is the shed which is going to be a winter project and hopefully won’t interfere with any kind of holidays or that kind of thing look at it that thing back there looming but yes Garden anxiety I think the the the thing I’m trying to get at really is um don’t let it get to you you know don’t let it get in the way of your life um I think that’s probably not an issue for most people I can be a bit um slightly high strung I guess about the allotment slightly too worried sometimes but it’s very easy for everything to get on top of you and when you’ve got um you know five or six jobs that you’re behind on and someone’s talking about you know going on holiday for a week in the height of the season um you know May or June I’m just no no don’t what you mean talking about holiday like there’s so many things I need to do and you know if I miss the potting up of the peppers or anything it can really impact on the majority of the season so for a long time I’ve been about kind of forward planning and that kind of thing and taking a little bit of time off work before a holiday which is exactly what I did this week and it pays off dividends because it meant I was able to get all my Peppers done and all that kind of thing but um yeah Garden anxiety is a big thing for me you know it really is and as always I think it helps to share these things sometimes sometimes spending a bit of time in the greenhouse sewing and putting things on it just hits perfectly I’m feeling so good just the the right amount of things to do so it’s not too stressful feeling just so chill and so relaxed now I’ve come outside because there’s something I’ve seen which made me punch the air I’m so excited I did want to mention as well in here I did a few sewings some really healthy lettuce that’s been planted out and I direct sewed a few quick crops I can see I think that’s a line of radish there that’s just popped up in amongst the re weeds and as soon as I saw it one of the foxes came and dug a massive hole I think these might be lettuce these tiny tiny little ones so there’s a few things growing in amongst the weeds broad beans are looking really healthy as well I don’t know if I’ve shown you this colossal volunteer aqualia it’s one of the few things in this bed at the moment I just saw it coming up and left it I think this has actually been there for for years and years it just never normally flourishes quite like that which maybe is a good sign about the nutrition of the bed I have let given the peas an extra little line of support they’re looking really really good but over here so so pleased it’s just down here can you spot it any botanists seen it yet this one just here is yellow rattle somehow a bit of seed has survived and I’ve got not one but two plants there not amazing but very interesting to note that it’s kind of surrounded by vet much smaller grass probably much more nutrient por little patch of land and for the longest time I had Ambitions to basically convert under the orchard area it’s not really an orchard but under the fruit trees into basically a wildflower Meadow you know I was talking earlier about how I’ve taken my kind of gardening inspiration from nature reserves and I wanted to have a little patch of that here and it’s been an absolute pain trying to get yellow established is kind of a it can be the first step on a long-term kind of meadow creation project and I started out with seeds it did nothing then I went to plugs that didn’t really establish so then I kind of went back to seeds and I’ve had one or two that have germinated but generally I’ve I’ve kind of slightly given up on it and then I’ve Just Seen Those and I’m like o that means there might be some more in here I did SE a few Meadow plants there’s three bamboo steaks in there these are all growing much slower than their surroundings and I can’t remember which ones which but there one just here much lower so I might have to get in here with the strimer but there I think there’s a good chance that there might be one or two more yellow rattle plants in here but hopefully if we give them a bit of time they might pop up and I’m really hoping they can they can get established there is this very weird looking I don’t know if that’s a maybe that’s a cornflour or something like that there’s something that’s come up a bit strange I did as well so a plant in here called Shepherd’s needle which is very unusual I’m not 100% sure what it looks like but it’s quite a rare arable weed and one of my colleagues who works on um sites of special scientific interest gave me a handful of seed works on the a of white where it it grows in his back Garden he’s got it established and it’s borderline endangered so if that is Shepherd’s needle that would be quite cool like I said I’d sort of given up on this a little bit but to see a little little bit of yellow rattle very encouraging it means it can just start to get established so what I will do is take those seeds when they’re ready and scatter them across this area and we’ll hope we’ll hope I’m I’m desperately looking to see some more but I can’t see any but we’ll hope it continues to establish but yes in the greenhouse what have I been up to I have been busy and this is pretty much full now and I’ve parted up all these uh pretty pathetic looking brassers uh these these were sewn quite a long time ago and they’ve just barely moved so hopefully potting them on uh will give them a little bit more oomph and they’ll start getting going again I’ve done all sorts of salad operations planted a few little bits out planted out some spring onions look at these wilty wilty ones gave them their own pots I’m not sure if they’ll survive but right down here in the salad tray I’ve sewed that Frankie seed that I got is that how it’s pronounced I don’t know but we’ll see I’ve redone the white Lisbon as well I’ve done about 10 to 15 seeds in each of these cells because the germination has been so bad this year we’ve got the dwarf Bor Lotti we’ve got the CMA beans have been sewed and we’ve got the yinyang and the Christmas Lemma I absolutely love it when those shelves start to fill up really really pleased things are really starting to pick up as well obviously it was a bit of um oh God when I turned off and all the grass has grown but the broad beans have grown a lot of the things in the ground are growing now so I should be very very positive and happy about that I think the next big thing for me to do and something I want to set aside some time to do tomorrow is a bit more bed prep um the weeds are really starting to take hold and do you remember I did that whole episode on trying to get all the beds ready at once in hindsight I think that was a bit foolish probably should have done it a bit more gradually but by bit left them covered because I’ve taken everything off and I didn’t realize I was going to have a really really slow start of the year so a lot of the crops just haven’t gone in which means the weeds have just been able to grow freely not been mulching or weeding because there’s nothing there’s nothing there so I need to mulch and weed these now to stop the weeds really taking hold get a hold of them before they start to flower and do their thing but hopefully you’ve enjoyed my rambling about Gardens today and all that kind of stuff thank you ever so much for watching an extra special thank you to all of my chili pepper deer patrons Tony Bill Pam Louise Mel Michael Denise socks in Garden Andrew Sarah dcasa Louise Angela and two new Chili Pepper teer patrons thank you so much Andre and Brett hopefully I’ll see you again in the next one