A whole new challenge: can I compete with the experienced show growers?

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi Eli & Kate, ooh, now this is very interesting & looking forward to seeing your lovely flowers for the show too. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

[@eliandkate]

You will get to see it all, every step

[@GardenerScott]

What a great start to another adventure! Great demonstration and explanation of things to come. We're anxiously awaiting the results next year.

[@eliandkate]

You can imagine what it’s like for me waiting 🤣🤣🤣

[@elizabethwilson9983]

Exciting looking forward to the daffodil 🌼 journey. All the best 🥇 for the show

[@eliandkate]

Thanks Elizabeth. You know I’ll keep you up to date

[@gardenaddict]

Fantastic guidance Eli 😁 sure you'll have great results 😊💚

[@eliandkate]

I hope so too!

[@xanitajobe5920]

Ohhhhh 🤩 how fun ❤️ good luck at the show 🤞🏻

[@eliandkate]

Were many months of yet but you’ll get to come along on the whole adventure

[@Sarcasticallyinspired]

Peer pressure from Pam! 😂 should be interesting to watch the process

[@eliandkate]

It absolutely was!!!!!

[@Saladgirl123]

Really interesting video, and I'm very interested to follow your journey. I think this crappy season had got us all a bit down in the dumps, but it's good to see you so enthusiastic and excited to be trying something new, your positivity is infectious! 👍

[@eliandkate]

Come on Grow with me!!!! 🤪

[@carolinebown8686]

Very exciting .... I absolutely love Daffodils ....all the different varieties ....so very beautiful .... Wishing you good luck ... can't wait to follow your 'show' journey 😊😊❤❤

[@eliandkate]

Me too!!!! I love them!

[@mzundastud07]

Great vid Eli! 👍🏼 looking forward to seeing how you get on with them!! 🫶🏼

[@eliandkate]

Let’s hope for no mice!!!!!

[@susanelwood5794]

Tête-à-tête are my favourite 😊

[@eliandkate]

Our fence bed is full of those…. One of the first pops of colour

[@stephenmckelvie2032]

Hi Eli, Looking forward for spring to see the result of your daffs. Hope you win a prize, you deserve it, good luck. My favourites are Tete-a-Tete and Jetfire (dwarf 8"" high), also King Alfred and Dutch Master (Trumpet 16") what your friend calls long nose.

[@eliandkate]

Oh I love tete-a-tete as well. Our fence bed is full of them!

[@markcrichton3257]

This is fantastic and I look forward to watching you on this journey. Thank you for the detailed explanation and demonstration as I have never heard of growing daffodils for show and what is involved to grow the flower for this event. Will be cheering you on.

[@eliandkate]

I bet there are some some shows near you Mark…. Fancy giving it a try? We could be show buddies!

[@DaisyDebs]

Never seen about all this before. Fascinating . 💐

[@eliandkate]

Just wait till Feb Debs… I suspect it’s going to get crazy as I try to make nature do my bidding 🤣🤣🤣

[@WeMustCoexist]

I’m so excited omg ur gonna win

[@eliandkate]

😂 oh steady.....this is something people do "seriously" and have years of experience.

[@kimallard225]

Loved the video and explanation. I might even try some daffs in my garden. Bulbs going in asap. Thanks for the advice. Kim x

[@eliandkate]

Yay! Daff grow along

[@trold1969]

Exciting! Thanks for taking us along and explaining! 💚

[@eliandkate]

Hey it’s selfish really… I’m gonna need lots of hugs if it all goes wrong 🤣🤣🤣

[@trold1969]

@@eliandkate There'll be hugs for comfort or celebration. ☺

[@eliandkate]

@trold1969 😍😍😍😍

[@JamieW-o7b]

The first prize is always the best......she is addicted now, no helping her!

[@elizabethshelby5613]

😂😂😂

[@eliandkate]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ninemoonplanet]

On the other hand we could supply many more things to "show" and sit back. 🤔🤫

[@eliandkate]

🤔

[@Allotment-of-the-Dead]

Best of luck! I lve daffodils but my wife loves them more. I like flowers that are more intricate, uniformity is something that hits on my adhd.

[@eliandkate]

Oh so you are deffo more of a division four kinda daffodil person, like me?

[@Allotment-of-the-Dead]

@@eliandkate yep, the more frilly and unusual the better

[@Sarcasticallyinspired]

Sand does make it easy to see the difference between pot of compost and blubs and the surrounding area as well, once they get proper buried

[@eliandkate]

Oh yeah Didn’t think of that

[@Sarcasticallyinspired]

@@eliandkate love this new adventure by the way. Good luck with all your bulbs

[@eliandkate]

😍

[@AmsNl2BcnEs]

Oooh that is new! I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes. All the best to you both! 😊

[@eliandkate]

It’s gonna kill me having to wait till Feb!!!!

[@AmsNl2BcnEs]

@@eliandkate haha, well hopefully not kill. It’s a slow burner. Have you ever grown anything soil free? I’m already thinking of Christmas and some bulbs I can grow indoor in decorative dishes and vases for gifts.

[@eliandkate]

No I’ve never tried it. We’re not really flowers indoors kinda people

[@JohnWood-tk1ge]

First hard frost this morning so growing season is over except for the garlic I put in Saturday,until seed starting time late winter. Good luck with your daffodils!

[@eliandkate]

I suspect it’ll be the end of the month for us

[@ziathomas5923]

Hydrangeas are my daffodils. Everywhere in South Wales where I grew up had the same enermous insipid blue ones. This year I've gone & bought a Vanille Fraise paniculata and I absolutely love it!

[@eliandkate]

I love hydrangeas! but they just don't work in our garden :(

[@ziathomas5923]

@@eliandkate l've noticed.😔 Have binged your entire back-catalogue. It has been truly inspirational & educational!

[@eliandkate]

@ziathomas5923 wow How long did that take? Did you do it in order?

[@ziathomas5923]

@@eliandkate Yep, first to latest. Not going to lie it took a fair few months, but I was between jobs, so I feel like it was time well spent. This was my second ever veg growing year - I tried a few years back, but we went away right at the start of a heatwave (the one that was cause all the wildfires). Nothing survived! 😔 This year was still a disaster - the only thing that grew well were the carrots, but the variety I choose was horribly bitter 🙄 - but I'm hooked! So, thank you for spreading the infectious love!

[@majordog2399]

Beechgrove had some great tips for growing bulbs for showing with callum and George competing together.

[@eliandkate]

They absolutely do 😁

[@JanRonandArthur]

Ok, so I am growing along with you, just a little adjustments in time. It is just a bit early yet to “plunge” the bulbs. Samhain is our day to plant bulbs in the fall and then about 100 days later, we are seeing them. Anywho, my raised beds are approximately 36” deep. To do the plunge, should I only go about 18” (halfway) down? Thoughts? This is an experiment for me as well. Thank you in advance for your time and thoughts.

[@eliandkate]

Oh exciting…. Someone growing with me! The plunge needs to be a good few inches above the bulbs (I was quoted 4 or 5), it’s basically mimicking the bulbs being in the ground.

[@cpoco]

Is there a reason to have five to a pot? Might they grow better with fewer to a pot as they will be able to take more nutrients for themselves? Or are they semi-social plants and perform better with company? (I have no clue). I was similar when I started my garden... I wanted to avoid the "standard" plants simply because I wanted something different. I've since added daffodils and tulips... but they are simply part of the greater variety now :D Best of luck!

[@eliandkate]

There are two ways to enter, single stems in a vase or a pot of blooms. I think the 5 in a pot is the standard for entering the whole pot. I’d have to check though, not 100% certain

[@cpoco]

@@eliandkate ahhh, that makes sense. I look forward to seeing your fantastic blooms!

[@sharonbell7335]

Maybe I am being stupid but how do you take them out the plunge without damaging them? Sand will get quite compacted and heavy surely?

[@eliandkate]

Very carefully 😁 We’ll see how that goes in February

[@elizabethshelby5613]

Where did you get the sweatshirt from please?

[@eliandkate]

They are the shirts we used to seek in our shop It was the series I did over the last couple of years

[@elizabethshelby5613]

@@eliandkate I looked on your website I didn’t see a shop?

[@eliandkate]

@elizabethshelby5613 the shop is on KZbin… there’s a tab that says store that shirt was one from previous years but this years shirt is available on there

[@eliandkate]

:D just for you Elizabeth, I've put that design back into the store :D in-the-garden-with-eli-and-kate.myspreadshop.co.uk/

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

You know m and s got in to big heat for selling them near the onions, they were labeled spring bulbs and people were eating them!!! 😮

[@eliandkate]

Yes well………

[@juliemcgugan1244]

Lol! My garden centre is excellent and the kind lady who runs it out my spring bulbs and my onion and shallot in separate bags, just to make sure I don’t end up eating the wrong thing! 😆 Some of the wee bulbs look similar and I am a beginner, so better safe than sorry!

[@GardenDiscovery]

No, you're not competitive at all 😅 I love daffodils because the gophers won't eat them or naked ladies - well, that doesn't sound right but. .. good luck- looking forward to the spring fling. 👍

[@eliandkate]

Oh now I’m intrigued you are so gonna have to explain that one!!!!

[@juliemcgugan1244]

Lycoris squamigera. Like daffodils and other bulbs, all parts of the plant are toxic.

[@Bob-bo8ik]

Can you eat them?

[@eliandkate]

Surprise!

[@Bob-bo8ik]

@@eliandkate I am actually thinking about bulbs for the front next year, You are a bad influence.

[@eliandkate]

@Bob-bo8ik no you’re just a big spender 😁