Lovely to see your garden take shape. Good and long so you can enjoy grass and veg plots. We moved into a small place here in Scotland, not really big enough to swing a cat, but there was nothing except a lawn with 90% moss and no nutrition. I brought in a couple of Black Rock chickens in to decimate most of it and put lime in. Gradually put in compost and rock dust. Manage to pack it with small apple trees with fruit bushes. I now keep quail for eggs and their poop is highly nutritious too, like the chickens. Mum helped me move a small rockery twenty years ago, to make a small raised bed in which I planted a fig tree, which is doing well but still too cool this summer for fruit to ripen well.

Am alwas in awe of folks like you guys .. so clever, so innovative, clearly an awful lot of very hard work and the finish so impressive. Congratulations, it looks brilliant.

Well done love it 🥹👍🤓

Just discovered your channels today. The garden is gorgeous! Eat the broccoli and the kale! Kale might freeze, maybe blanch first. Ask the google. Also, I wonder if you pruned your tomatoes? Looks like energy went to creating fruit and leaves instead of ripening. I learned that the hard way. Next year, be brutal! If that’s the case, make salsa verde with all the green ones! Yummy.

Great video. I googled "Planting a woodland garden, before and after".

Watching your video on the polycarbonate greenhouse how does the small bar that the little triangle polycarbonate fits to before the long slider door glide goes to

Love it 😁😁

Asda is the worst possible place to buy veg

I got here by searching for Bottle Brush Tree frost protection but quickly liked and subscribed. Love it 😍

Put out egg shells for slugs

I’ve got a couple hundred acres in Montana and over the past ten years or so we’ve done a lot of work putting in road, thinning timber, and building our dream cabin overlooking a small trout pond. But it’s tough country-not much moisture and prone to extreme temperatures (-30°F to 110°F). You learn to work with the native trees, plants, and grasses so the dream of an English garden is just that, a distant dream. But seeing how you and your wife have taken your small (comparatively) plot of land and created such a wonderful space is inspiring. It’s a work of art, filled with heart, and sure to grow more beautiful with each passing season. We strive to be good stewards of our land and I hope to leave it in better shape than I found it. It’s a pleasure to watch someone pursue the same goal.

Hi Andy, beautiful garden x try pickle green tomatoes recipe. There are as well some other green tomatoes recipes on the internet.

Looks great and riparian 💧

Lovely yard!! ... I hope you enjoyed the project as much as I enjoyed watching!!

Just happened upon your channel. My dad always grew moneymaker variety of tomato. He used to make chutney, green and red using a recipe from mrs Beeton’s book(of household management, I think). If they were not ripening at the end of the season, he would pick them and put them on the window ledge indoors to ripen. Strawberries, plant the trailing plants into small pots to pot on but do not cut the trailers until the roots have established. I’m sure you can overwinter in the greenhouse. We had a book that was called vegetable expert again, I think. It gave info how to plant, when and where to plant, harvesting, varieties, pests and also some cooking ideas. It was a paperback but was really useful. You could plant some potatoes. If you don’t want to dig get a potato bag or some old tyres, put paper or straw in the tyre which helps insulate and uses less soil, as the potatoes grow build up the soil in another tyre and keep building and topping up as they grow. When it is time to harvest just remove the tyres layer by layer. You could get an early variety and harvest in the spring as new potatoes with very little digging, only to recover the potatoes from the pile of soil. Hope these ideas are useful. Mum and dad no longer with me but happy to pass on some of the things they taught me as a young girl.

All that potential, and you rip out the native species and just make it a boring lawn.

Looking great.

Fabulous video. Such a lot of work. Satisfying to watch..

Thanks for showing us as I had forgotten how I did it years ago. Can’t remember what the spring tensioner looks like. I like your garden looks like mine green and big.

I found your channel on an automated link from other renovation projects. I will certainly look at your other channel too. Great work and I shall look forward to the new episodes.

Just popped up on my feed , but glad it did. Really enjoyed the video. I built my house and garden about 10 or so years ago so I get the hard work and you deserve a pat on the back, looks great!

I wish you would have thought a bit more of environmental impact of building with concrete blocks and maybe thought more about bio diversity in your garden. The end product looks nice, but it’s as if you took a place that nature was slowly starting to reclaim and put a stamp of human intervention all over it.

Been watching all your videos on you main channel, this just came up in my recommendations this morning! Really nice to see a time lapse of the whole process.

Mines rusted in......trying the good old hammer technique

looks fantastic and well done

Enjoying this vid using 1,75x speed😅

This video was extremely satisfying to watch, but the hard work that went into it is incredibly, beautiful garden.

I'm impressed in so many ways, well done for your vision and tenacity.

For colour try Red Amaranth (red garnet) as a fast growing herb, with leafs and seeds that are edible. Great pollinator attractor too. Plant where it gets about 6 hours of sun per day. Try red sorrel as a ground cover in the shaded side as long as it's light shade. Strawberries and red-veined sorrel grow well together. Nandina Nana has red top leaves and a mix of green and yellow underneath. Very hardy, especially in part shade. Frost tolerant too once established. So protect when young.

Also, if you look back at this vid towards the end you'll notice that whatever that is growing house-side of your greenhouse is casting shadow; that won't be helping in terms of full sun for ripening the plants at the back of the greenhouse.

I've never had good results from those F1 hybrid tomatoes bought as expensive plants or seed. The best tomatoes have been from fruit bought from small greengrocers that I've liked the taste of. Cut one in Feb/March, squeeze out the seeds and shove them in a pot on the kitchen windowsill. Job done. Repot up to the first TRUE leaf as soon as you can to stop them putting on too much vertical growth (lack of light) and stick them in greenhouse roughly April. If your decking is a sun trap, as a test try two pots there and see if that makes a difference for ripening next year. I found it did, I think because of reflected heat from walls.

Hi I am really enjoying your gardening journey and I also grew tomatoes and cucumbers for the first time this year. I watch a lady on youtube who is in Canada but she grows all kinds of fruit and veg and explains so much on how to grow and look after them and when to pick etc. I've learnt so much from her videos so maybe give her a watch to get some info on your brocolli and kale and tomatoes and sunflowers? (She loves sunflowers!!) Her channel is called Little Mountain Ranch. Hope this helps xxx

Thanks for the video Andy, I found it very relaxing to watch. I think you can say that this year has been a bit of a success and the whole garden is looking great which is a testament to all the hard work you have put into it. Cheers.

Take off all the leaves and new flowers from the tomato plants and the ripening will sharp speed up! Mind the plants don't look appealing 🤢, I'm also in Newcastle and did this a few weeks ago and the harvests have been abundant!

Hi Andy, that time of year now, I must say the tomatoes are still looking good I would leave it for 3 weeks or a month. Did not know about sun flower stems to be used as sticks to support plants the following year. As always a great video Take care

Do you eat your Nasturtiums? The flowers are good in salads.

My tomato is also still trying to make fruit. It’s not even in a greenhouse! Totally mad

Curly kale is (by far) most delicious after frost. The the plant produces sugar to prevent the plant from dying. In NL curly kale mashed with potatoes and good (= no supermarket) sausage and crunchy baked lard are a winters' treat.

Removing the excess foliage on the tomatoes should help them ripen.

Onion sets(check variety), plant now, get them going in the greenhouse, then plant out and over winter, harvest late spring or early summer. Garlic, plant cloves now for a crop around mid June. You can overwinter purple broccoli. Getting them in and rooted will give them a huge boost come spring, just a couple of ideas for you

Thanks Andy, great update, what a brilliant first year you've had with your greenhouse and veg growing, you've certainly been self-sufficient in Tomatoes, have you had to give loads away ? As far as the plants go now, I would remove most of the foliage as they don't need the energy from them they just need to ripen so the less shade there is the better, it also helps with air circulation to avoid moulds and the dreaded blight ! Many salad leaves are cool weather crops so you could raise some seedlings ready to plant out once the tomatoes are cleared, some will be fine outside too especially things like lambs lettuce ! Food to see you composting everything, the compost you create is your best friend for sorting out the areas with poor soil so the more the better, you can also use the spent compost from your pots for mulching or even top-dressing the lawn ! Finally if you like sun-dried tomatoes it could be worth investing in a dehydrator/dryer, It takes a while but they're cheap to run and you get to keep your glut of lovely fruits in oil for a year or two, good for mushrooms, plums, apples etc too !

The seasons are all over the shop. If it doesn't break the bank you may as well try seeding early if only to see what happens. Carry on experimenting Andy!

I was told that to finish off ripening fruits, put them in a paper bag with a banana. Would that work with tomatoes? Otherwise, lots of chutney.

I still have tomato plants outside with fruit ripening. Mind you I live in Kent.

I think you've earned a promotion from 'very' to 'quite' amateur gardener

The romans did say to mistreat basil for it to grow! But yeah not in the north east haha. Are you doing the same this year? I bought some basil this summer and just cut off about 25 cuttings that are now in water. I think ill get some grow lights before the winter comes.

Hi, from Houston tx, put egg shells closer to the wood inside snails don't like and the shells is good for the plants.

I remember a few years back on a packet of Tesco bog standard tomatoes...proudly proclaiming 'grown for flavour'! Like, what else would they be grown for?? Industrial tomatoes are often commercially grown using aquaponics....just water and chemical nutrients and it does make the skin hard and the tomatoes tasteless. You're doing nowt wrong, it was a shite year all round. My advice (maybe for next year) if growing in tubs, put one near your greenhouse and another on your patio once the summer hits. That seems like a sun trap which will most likely ripen them well and it will be easy to see if there is a difference. It's all trial and error really.

Probably a bit late for you to see this, but the yellowing/curling leaves look to me like amino pyralid contamination in your compost. It usually affects peas, beans tomatoes etc but leaves brassicas alone. It's because of the amount of herbicides some people and the farming industry use, mainly in grasses and feeds which then get cut and composted, or eaten by horses and cattle and then into manure. The best way to tell if the manure one buys is infected is to plant broad bean seedlings into a test post. If they survive you can use the compost elsewhere. It's also (obviously) in municipal composts. It'll take more that a year dug into soil, turned regularly and left fallow to degrade. If just left in the bag or in a pile it won't for years. Sorry to be a bearer of bad news, but a worthwhile heads-up. See Charles Dowding's channel for more details, he did an entire vid on it a few years ago.

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