I did see a few tiny ones at the surface, so I’ve covered them over with more soil. I don’t think it’d start them in pots again, as it means they’re not buried as deeply when transplanted

Yes, this one gets cut down to ground level every year. It’s growing outside of the garden, so I’m happy for it to stay there. ☺️

There must be some farmers near you?

😂😂😂 I laughed so loud at this!

This is an old short now. There’s been many a carrot harvest since then. I’ve used an equal mix of potting compost and play sand for my carrots. They seem to do ok on it. This year I also sieved some of my bulk buy vegetable topsoil into the carrot boxes on my new vegetable garden. Had the same results. The sand must be the key. Apart from that, I guess I’m lucky that my business is also on our farm, so I’m around in the day. I can water at will and whisper sweet nothings at my crops ☺️🤗

Thanks Holly. I love the fruit cage too, it’s so sturdy. Might be extending it over winter yet. Not sure. I really need to sort my strawberries out in to when they crop, but I think everbearers make more sense. They grow well undercover. You could have some in your polytunnel. Those blueberries. I’ve loved them so much this year. I have another plant to go with them for next season ❤️

Thank you ❤️

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I’ve recently harvested it for the grains, which we use much like quinoa. To be fair, you’d need a LOT of plants but it’s been fun to grow and a striking addition to the garden ☺️

I’m loving relieving some of the older shorts. ❤️

Hi Christine. The fleece seems to be working ok for the tunnel so far this year. It’s easy to put it on/off the plants too. I’m really hopeful of having a good early spring crop in the tunnel, so I can worry less about things bolting in summer. I’ve had such poor luck with spring onions this year. The ones in the tunnel aren’t looking the happiest now either. Thanks for commenting. Hope you are having a good week ❤️

I was pleased with it ❤️❤️

Thanks Sandra ❤️☺️

I imagine I’ll be seeing amaranth for years now too 😂😅 You’re right, the snow makes everything look so much better doesn’t it? Back to mud again now! I’m really happy with how the polytunnel is looking for winter. Everything seems to have settled in well, thankfully. Hope your shoulder is ok now? You work so hard. See you soon x

@TheFarmyardGarden Thanks Clare, shoulder was much better the next day. It was a rheumatoid flare up and was in agony with it that night. Your Love lies bleeding plant looked fabulous. I might have a go myself next year. Your polytunnel does look nice and tidy unlike ours. 😂 You are a lovely tidy gardener ❤️ xx

@ I am glad the shoulder is ok. However, my house isn’t tidy! 😂😂

@TheFarmyardGarden Clare neither is mine or my home garden 🤭 😂 xx

I was so excited that they gave me sponges. Ten months in the making to get there ❤️❤️

Yes, they were. It’s a couple of weeks ago now, I’ve harvested the last of them before the snow came.

It seems a warmer job in Timelapse. Can’t see me shivering 😂

Oh wow. We went down to -6.4°c last Tuesday. It was pretty chilly. Back up to 14°c at the weekend, with biblical rain to match. Stay warm out there. Hope Dale is ok too ❤️❄️

Thanks Kerry. I’m longing for the snowy scenery to return. Back to grey, wet and windy is no fun after the crisp, clean snow. I feel like the Luffas have been a long term relationship. Cannot believe they were 10 months in the making ❤️

That’s really interesting! Not noticed anything tasting bitter this year but I’ll bear that in mind in the future. I’ve heard the same about garlic with strawberries, but it seems to have been a trend this year with some gardeners

I didn’t feel very prepared with about 300 bulbs unplanted 🙈😂 I love those arches too. They’re from Rowlinson Timber via the Rowlo Outlet. Really rather reasonable price wise too 😊

@ oh thanks for letting me know where you got the arch from! Ah. Yes. The bulbs. Same here 🤣

@@HollyMaysGoodLife I’m dreading planting them as squirrels seem to be keenly looking for last years bulbs in the beds 🫣

@ it’s a hungry time for them. I’d like to suggest something but I have no idea! Netting all the way I guess! 💚

@HollyMaysGoodLife yes, I suspect you’re right. Netting or wire. No alternative. I do leave food out but clearly bulbs are to squirrels like Cadburys Dairy Milk is to me 😂🙈

They actually have different food. Pablo needs more calories to maintain weight (the skewed). It doesn’t really matter if she eats a bit of his. They get the same amount of food.. just hers has less calories.

Oooo I’ve just followed what other gardeners seem to do but thanks for that warning! I do have some farmyard manure and compost I could mulch the bed with instead.

We don’t have bindweed on the plot, thankfully. I think I’d be tempted to burn that 😂🙈

I am certainly glad I put my hood up 😂 Snow has all gone and we’re back to monsoon rain and dismal grey skies 😭😭😭

Hello Heidi. The snow has all gone and we’ve had a weekend of rain and strong winds now. I’m missing the snow.. just left with mud. Hope it’s ok where you are ❤️

Hi Joe. It definitely seems to have come earlier. Last year’s memory was a -5.5°c polytunnel temp reading. We got -6.4° Tuesday evening 😅😅 I do love seeing the snow but I was disappointed it wasn’t the sledging type of snow. I was all set for some fun 😭😭😭 Hope the wind didn’t damage anything for you over the weekend? Absolutely monsoon weather here

Ha! We are weather obsessed aren’t we? Throwing farming in to the mix and it’s almost an unhealthy compulsion 😂 Thank you for stopping by. I’ve just been over to your channel too. Wow.. your polytunnel is dreamy ❤️

Thank you for stopping by. Blessings 🤗

We got so much for November here. I briefly debated putting my Christmas tree up early. A rapid thaw soon brought me to my senses 😂😂

@@TheFarmyardGarden We're hosting Christmas ...... and actually I'd prefer no snow...for everyone's safe travels. It's chilling down now so it's inevitable here. Though prediction is milder than normal temp but also a possible polar vortex with the La Niña effect.....2 extremes.

@RobinGardens oh Lordy… it really could go either way! To be fair, for those travelling, a white Christmas is not ideal. I’d be quite happy to wake you up to a crisp frosty morning Christmas Day… just a feeling of a wintery tale Hope you get the better forecast xx

Thanks Danny. The snow got me good and proper didn’t it? Glad I put my hood up. 😂 Such a shame it thawed so quickly. I almost put my tree up early 😂

It sure does. Even muck heap looks pretty under a layer of snow It’s all gone now 😭

It sure does. Even muck heap looks pretty under a layer of snow It’s all gone now 😭

Hi Gaynor, I’ll be lifting my dahlias this week. They’ve all died back now after the snow and frost. I’m hoping I can harvest Oca in another few weeks, as they’ve also died back now. Everywhere looks gorgeous and clean covered in snow doesn’t it? ❄️

Oh wow Stella. What a shame it didn’t flower for you this year. I really hope you get some more seeds to try again. It’s such a striking plant. ❤️

@ it is definitely a gorgeous plant

Dehydrator is being unboxed as I type…. 😂😂 Even the muck heap looks pretty under the snow. Have you had the wind and rain all weekend? It’s been dismal. Bring back the snow!

@ haha 😂 don’t forget to chop the chillies up or they’ll take longer to dry. I bet it does! I’m so jealous! We always miss the snow We’re not lucky to miss the rain and wind tho it’s grim out there!

@Garden-of-weeden very grim. A weekend of zero gardening

@ well I did plant out my brassicas 🤪

Oh… you did well! Biblical rain here

Wow.. hello all the way from New York 👋🏼 I bought that hat when in Manhattan, so it’s an authentic tourist souvenir hat. I have visited twice. Once in October 2018 (with a girl friend) and the second time in June 2019 (with my husband and daughter). Then Covid hit and my father in law died, so we’ve not been able to go away as a family and leave the farm since. It’s such an amazing city and so different to anything I’m used to living in the countryside here. You will get lots of snow and super low temperatures soon enough, I’m sure. I can’t get over the extremes your climate has summer to winter. February sounds a good time to start seedlings. I started way too early this year and they became unmanageable. Note to self: start chillies in February here too ☺️ Thank you for commenting. Lovely to interact ❤️❤️

I did think of Jenny bashing her bays with a spade in last week’s video. Cracked me up 😂 I will be lifting dahlias this week now the frost has got them. The little ones in pots outside the greenhouse can get stored inside now, as the chillies need taking down too. I’m glad I’m not alone in the strawberry haircut. I think I’m going to extend the fruit cage soon, so I can have a a bigger strawberry bed. Snow all thawed and back to monsoon ran, floods and perpetual greyness… oh with storm force winds thrown in for good measure too. Joyous 😂 Hope the weather is being kinder to you and Gerald? Duncan wore jeans for 24 hours. He was unrecognisable lol 😂

@ cold and dull but rain has stopped for now and winds are low 👍👍. Omg 😱 did he have shorts on over his pants 🤣🤣

The reality of horses in winter is most definitely mud! Tilly (the dark horse) looks like a swamp donkey at the moment. She’s certainly been enjoying the odd mud bath. Think I’m going to have to admit defeat and bring them in overnight. Pablo, my skewbald, box walks, so I try to keep them out as much as possible.

Hello Darren, lovely to see new viewers appear in the comment section. Thank you for joining us 😊 You got a lot of snow in Wolverhampton, didn’t you? Saw your area featuring in the news. I genuinely thought the forecast was over exaggerating and was shocked when I woke up to it. Seems you had the opposite experience if you weren’t forecast snow. 😂😅😅 I think I might just have to order something from the place so happy it puts a smile on their boxes.. although I do have some brown paper bags, but thought they’d tear with my wet hands and the damp seed heads too. Thank you though.. .. I’ll remember to cut them off in the dry next year in to paper bags. Hope you have better weather than we’ve had over the weekend. Strong winds and biblical rainfall. One extreme to the other .. 14°c today too

@TheFarmyardGarden Same here with the rain, the wind helped it to batter my windows early hours and wake me up! I did think about the paper carrier bags from another well-known outlet (Sausage Rolls and Steakbakes, lol) but I don't think they're deep enough.

@DarrenGill-g5e oh yes. It made sure I didn’t oversleep for the F1 coverage in Las Vegas 😆

I was so sure the forecast was over exaggerating it. Was pretty shocked when I woke up to so much snow, Mal. Magical isn’t it? ❤️ Sadly it’s all mud and rain now 😅😭

Hi Christine. I do see you pop up on Danny’s channel, you’re so knowledgeable and such an active participant. Lovely to see you stop by here too. Thank you for subscribing ❤️ I am very lucky to live where I do, even if there’s a motorway running through the farm. I was not allowed pets as a child. My parents always said I could have as many pets as I wanted when I left home. I certainly must have kept that in mind when I met Duncan, a farmer, and ended up moving here in 2001 ( during the Foot & Mouth epidemic). I am really experimenting with the brassicas this winter, as I didn’t do too well with them over summer. Not sure what on earth happened to the cauliflower seedlings I had. The variety I’ve got planted is All Year Round. As the name suggests, you can sow it anytime. I sowed mine at the beginning of September but also bought a few extra plug plants from a local nursery, as they were on sale. I’m really hoping to be able to freeze store a lot of brassicas for summer eating, in case of being unsuccessful in the changeable summer weather with them again next year. Hope you have a fabulous week in the garden ☺️

@TheFarmyardGarden thank you for your lovely response. I think everyone has suffered this season with this very strange weather we have been having. Mine was sweetpeas, never had a problem before, sown them 3 times & all munched. Sunflowers grew to a certain height & quickly died off 🤔 i currently have sweetpea seedlings growing lovely in my polytunnel, hopefully they will find their way outside and flourish. Fingers crossed for next season 🤞🙂

@christinebrooks6364 ooo how sad to have missed out on the sweetpeas especially. They bring so much joy for so many months to a garden. I hope they are successful and you get a wonderful floral display next year. It was beetroot for me this year, oh and spring onions. Not much luck with either. 🙃

Aww thank you Linda. I have to admit I do secretly avoid certain farmyard duties. 😂😅 I can imagine it took ages for the snow to melt too. It’s only just thawed from that sides of the polytunnel, where it had slid off the roof. What a lot of snow … yet here we are back to 14°c and rain! Glad you enjoyed the video. Have a lovely gardening week. I believe the sun is going to shine tomorrow ❤️

Merci. La neige rend tout si joli, n'est-ce pas ? Est-ce qu'il neige souvent chez vous ?

@TheFarmyardGarden oui exactement ! Nous avons eu un neige il y a deux jours

Thank you so much, Dora. I enjoyed the challenge to see what I could get done before the snow, and to see if it even happened! Was so excited when I opened the blinds in the morning. ❤️ The asparagus do look toasty don’t they? I really hope they survive winter ok. 🙏🏻 Everything seems alive still in the tunnel… a bit of slug nibbling on the green lettuces mainly. I should have brought the horses in. Felt guilty when it had snowed as much as it did 🙈

Love is greater than everything ❤️ ❄️

Smattering.. there’s a word I don’t hear very often anymore. I love that word. ❤️ We’re back to biblical rain, flooding and strong winds now. I really wish we could go back to the winter wonderland already 😂🙈 My favourite blueberry is the centre one of the three. The outside two are pink lemonade. Unfortunately they flowered earlier, so were caught by a late frost and didn’t produce much. The centre one came from a Blue Diamond garden centre and was simply labelled “garden inspirations”. It was so prolific and super tasty, with tender skins. I’ve sourced another one to add in over winter, but I’m thinking of extending the fruit cage first. 🙈 Looks like we have a drier week forecast, so hoping to get back in the garden and sort out everything that’s turned to mush 😅 Have a fab week ❤️

@@TheFarmyardGarden Thanks Clare! Hope the storm has left you undamaged, as biblical rain and flooding doesn't sound good! I'm just catching up with the news and it looks like some folk are having an horrendous time! Smattering is a good word- fettle and nesh are favourites too lol!

Thanks Ady. I imagine you also had a good dumping of snow there too? Was so pretty. Shame it’s been biblical rain and strong winds all weekend 😅😭

I remember thinking the same, Sarah, whilst I was chopping it down. So toasty. I hope the crowns will be ok 🙏🏻 Did you get much snow?

😄 Only a sprinkling here in Lincolnshire 😊​@@TheFarmyardGarden

I don’t mind the snow but I detest a rapid thaw, especially followed by so much rain. Everywhere is very, very soggy now 🙃

It did look a bit muddy where the horses were! @@TheFarmyardGarden

@ it’s all happened in the last week. Heavy rain, then the snow, now it’s all thawed and we have had two more days of monsoon rain. Not quite ready to put them in their winter grazing, as there’s a section to fence off where a land drain has collapsed with the water pressure 😅

Thank you so much Allison. I love our Sunday check ins. Did you get much snow? 🤗

@ no nothing here 😒

@ oh no! If you’re a snow lover, like me, I hope you get some festive winter wonderland scenery soon 🙏🏻🙏🏻❄️

Thank you so much xx