A New Garden Part 3: The Polytunnel

[@ShedTV]

That pheasant would make a tasty supper!

[@martinberry4315]

Grandad is an absolute legend 👍

[@Palinkat]

Lovely Max, hope Sir Granddad is doing OK!

[@maximusironthumper]

He is thank you!

[@viriato8566]

Thanks Grandad Ironthumper for helping Max! Hope you're well & we'd all enjoy seeing you again. Grandad + Max = invincible duo.

[@MapleMarmite]

‘Tis the season for Grandad to make some appearances again, I feel. He needs to take an advisory role in all of this shenanigans, at the very least. About a month behind you in the weather, here in Nova Scotia, so following with interest as I consider a garden again this year. Didn’t get to it the last two. 👍🏻

[@martinjustice]

Wishing you a successful growing season. I reckon a scarecrow modelled on a cross between you and spungletrumpet should keep that pheasant at bay, not to mention great content and potential merch on a T-shirt. Joking aside tie some light duty bin bags on re-bar will likely deter the birds.

[@LucasRichardStephens]

An automitron of somekind? With bells and whistles....

[@pyrrhical3423]

@@LucasRichardStephens fancy seeing you here. Love the videos, been watching for a few years now!

[@LucasRichardStephens]

Great commitment! It is a lot for one person, all in all. Hope the films bring in enough means to free up other stuff you might otherwise have had to do. All the best from (still snowy for me) Norway!

[@Lemma01]

Wheat-a-Max! You, Grandad, and that old shalely bed will be making toast before the year's out! Totally mad, but absolutely lovely. Thank you, Friend.

[@alanargent5422]

I know nothing about gardening but would 100% recommend planting asparagus. Bit of a lay out at first but then pretty much zero maintenance for years. Keeps coming back and tastes great. Doesn't mind weeds which is pretty much all I grow!

[@gigi3242]

Thanks to Grandad, he's awesome!!! Garden is looking great; grass is a pain in the ..., hopefully the wheat eats up all the nutrients. Take care, be well

[@MartsGarage]

I've got the opposite of green fingers. Everything I touch shrivels up and dies. So while I am not a gardener, I enjoy watching you do it. I also enjoyed watching that fellas wheat to loaf videos. Top stuff! All the best, Mart in Solihull.

[@MrKanjidude]

Ahh, the greenery of spring. I'm surprised your hilarious chickens are not sneaking around trying to get in.

[@Dominic.Minischetti]

Pheasant with pineapple and sweet peppers is a lovely meal! 😂

[@owainnlll6387]

grass or clover can be considered a cover crop. It helps maintain nutrience in the soil before the wheat can fully form. You're gunna do great!

[@bigunone]

Come fall build a couple of pig tractors, like the name says they are rolling pens to confine pigs by moving them every couple of days the pigs will root up your ground consuming all organic material and leave you some nicely tilled earth behind.

[@KeiteiVentures]

That's a happy Robin there 🎶 Lots of seeds 🌱 🌾! Fingers crossed they're all successful :D!

[@jameshodge482]

Pheasant stew, or pie for that matter is particularly nice 😜

[@martinsmith2656]

Wonderful - here's to a great growing year!

[@Jaqaroo]

That was great Max! Love this gardening series!

[@skaraborgcraft]

Snow has only just gone this week in Sweden. Ruptured discs in my back mean no spuds this year, or anything else. Will be following the bread experiment.

[@danlogicaluk8721]

Have you heard of the three sisters planting you plan a sweet corn pea and pumpkin in the same hole, the corn grows and provides somewhere for the pea to grow and nitrogen fixes for the pumpkin which gets shade from every thing else. Have you considered a max scare crow? Great vids as ever. Dan

[@mickestahl6178]

Love it, we have the window seals full of seedlings but still to cold here in Sweden to plant them out in an unheated greenhouse. But soon it's time to move the cucumbers, tomatoes and the other greenhouse plants out. I will till the potato beds in a week or two so they are ready. We have many cubic meters of horse manure to till down in the beds so I hope for a good growth this year.

[@georgeclegg668]

A good pot roast is the best way to deal with a pheasant

[@whitecompany18]

I've done all my onions from seed again this year, but this year I upgraded from one big tray to individual cardboard pots for everything being seeded to save disturbing them, saved me so much time already. Simply pinch the soggy bottom off and pop it in a hole. If you like chillies I highly recommend planting them in rows next to your onions because they will both benefit 👍

[@viriato8566]

I've done onion starts in trays a couple of times. Mixed success. This year I upgraded to purchased sets! Talk about cheating😂. A bountiful season to you & gardeners everywhere.

[@colinlakin]

I planted an onion once from the kitchen that had sprouted it grew a lovely white flower and they turned into seeds, the following year I put some seeds in a pot and had hundreds of shoots, onions over winter and seem to keep growing.

[@moiragoldsmith7052]

At this time of year ( in UK) I buy a few bunches of scallions if they have been reduced in price...and shove them in the ground, they tend to grow into onions... or sometimes I leave them to flower and allow them to sow seed....whereupon I get a crop of scallions the following year. Happy gardening season Max.

[@gedreillyhomestead6926]

My first thought re the pheasant: Mmmmm tasty. 😉 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Jaded-Wanderer]

Awesome

[@chrisfryer3118]

I grow onions from seed, no chance of importing disease as you may with sets. Its a similar method to your broccoli routine, excepting transplanting from seed tray to open ground when its warmed up a bit, say end of April.

[@SimonCoates]

You need to practice 'safe sets' 😂

[@twocvbloke]

Just have to wait and see what grows whether it's wheat or grass, but it'll mostly be wheat I'm sure, with planting all that seed it ought to be... :P

[@howereade2501]

entirely disconnected but a sankey trailer refurb series to go with your freshly done landy would be cool

[@hihosilver925]

Hi Max, You may already have done so as I see this video is over a month old now, but if you make a cross or some stick figure shape and dangle some old cds you dont want any more it will keep the birds off for a few weeks. A more modern version of a scarecrow.

[@bobpenner4260]

Once you rototill the garden, the clumps of grass should be easy to pluck from the loose soil. That is if you don't want to spray weed killer.

[@mickles1975]

Let the grass grow and eat its seeds. It'll think twice next year once word gets around.

[@dragontattooee]

Hope you'll have a great growing season

[@lazylad8544]

Well done, upto now everything is going good.

[@MotherElf]

Hemp would help the Soil no end...

[@dustymiller7758]

Hope all goes well with the seeds.

[@davros517]

I think you may have trouble manoeuvring your combine !............

[@edgeeffect]

uuuugh! That's a tough one... considering wheat IS a grass, what do you do?!?! Just put up with it, I s'pose?

[@205gti19]

maybe the pheasant could be a source of protein? 😉

[@Etheoma]

considering even nowerdays how cheap onions are yeh it does seem kinda draft although I do personally use a lot of onions so maybe for me it would be a good idea... Do update us on that one as actually yeh I would like to grow onions.

[@sea-saw2654]

My wife promised me some purple sprouting broccoli what feels like two years ago and I’m still waiting ..

[@alanak3210]

Any more progress on the Zil and fairground organ ?

[@chrissmith7655]

Hi Max , rather watch Landrover project.

[@garypoulton7311]

This is like Harry's farm, but he's got no equipment, or supercar videos to give him financial backing. Look forward to more Zil and Series LR stuff, you are a busy chap.

[@888johnmac]

' wheat Vs rye grass ' .. tune in next time to see who is victorious .. ooh the suspense

[@danhoppy5517]

FIGHT..!!

[@Farlig69]

Get rid of the pheasant with a shotgun & have a nice dinner!!!

[@nole4life29]

A New Garden Part 3: The Polytunnel,

[@dadawoodslife]

If you soak the wheat overnight indoors, it is germinated and comes up within a day or so. Gives it a better chance to crowd out the grass.

[@Hagar2670]

Pheasant tast good! lol. Now they are no longer able to find seed, the ducks and geese will be along to eat the shoots