Hard decisions in the garden

Sometimes you gotta show some tough love in your garden and make the big decisions about what stays and what goes. I've got a strawberry patch that isn't producing and a bed that is so full that it stops plants from growing. Time to get the hori-hori and the pruners out and take some drastic action.
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[@GardenerScott]

Your garden looks fab and I love that the GreenStalk is doing so well for you. A little tough love makes you a good garden mum.

[@eliandkate]

Ha ha ha tell the plants that… I’m sure I can hear them conspiring against me

[@billy4072]

You obviuosly know your onions , But blimey..to be a natural presence In front of camera and easy on the ear, .. that is a gift .. ..The Beasties...lol..they got to survive as well.🤙 good philosophy . Happy Birthday . Obvs.

[@eliandkate]

😂😂😂

[@helenkeough4187]

Has to be done. And the compost bin always benefits!!! And when you go fetch some more strawberries, some other plants might fall into your basket as a birthday present....win, win!! Xx

[@eliandkate]

😂😂😂😂

[@carmengiles456]

🎉Happy Birthday🎉 Hope you are having a great day.

[@ninemoonplanet]

I let both lettuce and spinach go to seed. The lettuce is amazing, it continues to grow through snow and frost. The spinach is one I really enjoy the taste of. My strawberry plants are 4 years old, actually producing better than last year. 🤷 I did get a few new ones, plus took the runners and potted those up. I have a grandchild who can't get enough strawberries to eat.😊

[@ninemoonplanet]

Happy birth anniversary! 🇨🇦❤️

[@suewoodbridge9284]

Happy Birthday for yesterday 🎁🎂🥂❤️

[@marie-theresehayes6875]

Pulling my strawberries as they have not been great. Think the weather was to blame. Happy birthday

[@AngelaM745]

Happy birthday to you 🎉🌻🌷 I've ordered the greenstalk via a Scandinavian website, first I found that can deliver in Europe, it should arrive this week 💕

[@eliandkate]

Wow really? I didn’t think we could get them delivered over this side of the pond

[@lorifitzgibbon3085]

Your flowers are gorgeous! And I just love the covers on the raised beds, and your information on the strawberries was great.

[@eliandkate]

Awwww that’s fab to hear the video was a hit with you 😍😍😍😍

[@carolpursley2901]

Happy birthday!! and many many more.

[@robinscontainergarden]

You gotta do what you gotta do! Your flowers are beautiful, as always! And I love that greenstalk! Your greenhouse looks like a wee jungle, too 😁

[@eliandkate]

It absolutely is a jungle…. Difficult to work in there just jow

[@gudi361]

My last lettuces were all eaten by slugs. As it has been ralning lots lately, we have tons of slugs now. Sowing new ones will have to wait. Hapoy belated birthday, Eli!

[@eliandkate]

Slugs grrrrrrr

[@alizaterrell7607]

Happy Belated Birthday!!! Hope you had a fantastic day!

[@jennyjohnson9012]

Oh I hope you had a wonderful birthday Eli!!

[@Sarcasticallyinspired]

My tomatoes have done great. Getting a fair few harvested now, work lunch has had to switch to sandwiches to accommodate them all

[@eliandkate]

We are the same… current rule: every meal involves beans tomatoes and pesto

[@sheliaheverin8822]

I have never had luck with strawberries. I planted some in my greenstalk this year and got a handfull, if that. Blanch and freeze your green beans to eat in the winter in soups.

[@eliandkate]

Booooo

[@elizabethfarkas6468]

Happy Birthday to you! What a great way to celebrate your day! I have a birthday in August...

[@budj13]

Happy birthday! You garden looks great and it is obvious you enjoy it. Slainte!

[@eliandkate]

Thanks you 😍

[@Yankeesista203]

Happiest of birthdays to you Eli! Your garden is absolutely amazing! You both are great gardeners!

[@eliandkate]

😍😍😍😍 awww thank you. We had a lovely week long celebration 😂😂😂

[@Newsagent61]

Happy Birthday hope you have had a fab day XX

[@maureenscott5343]

Happy birthday Eli 🎉🎉🎉

[@debbybrady1246]

Happy Birthday! Mine is the 9th. We're awesome Leo's!

[@eliandkate]

Indeed

[@annickaprevander9863]

Happy Birthday.❤ Thanks for the video.

[@mimip3330]

Happy birthday! Strawberry, do awesome in green stalks! Thats where mine are.

[@eliandkate]

My top row is strawberries 😍

[@andyfarmer759]

Happy Birthday Eli

[@radiotowers1159]

Here`s been brutal, I have a plum tree coming out, its suffers from massive aphid attack every year , has shothole leaves again. Ive tried early season bone meal , fish blood and bone and general fertilizer over the last few years and it produces very little fruit if at all. I normally prune back all the summer growth just now early August but looks like its getting a real pruning this year!. Happy Birthday :)

[@eliandkate]

It’s gutting when you put all that work in for little reward

[@Jimsraisedbedgarden]

Happy birthday Eli , hope you have had a great day x, Interesting to see your strawberries I changed mine this as I grew from seed , Alpine but although there are plenty of flowers the few strawberries I have are tiny so am looking for a new strawberry for next year xx

[@eliandkate]

Yeah, the continual harvest sounded like a good idea at the time I got them but they haven’t lived up to expectation 😭

[@Jimsraisedbedgarden]

@@eliandkate frustrating Eli xx

[@samanthahoos9827]

🎉Happy Birthday ❤

[@GardenDiscovery]

My crocosmia flowers got snacked on by the neighborhood deer this year. Yours look amazing

[@eliandkate]

I absolutely love them…. I look forward to late summer just because they always look amazing

[@LadyInTheDell]

Happy Birthday!!! 🎉

[@TCamp72a]

Happy Birthday Eli! 🎉

[@eliandkate]

Thank you 😍

[@wildchook745]

Happy Belated Birthday, Eli! I love that red tree next to your side gate. Very pretty. Your garden is fruitful and lovely. Cheers to you & Kate!

[@eliandkate]

Thank you Mary It’s a smoke bush if you are ever looking for one

[@timd2809]

Happy Birthday, just happens to be my Birthday too while I am watching.🎉

[@eliandkate]

Awwwwwwww almost twins 😍😍😍😍

[@timd2809]

🤣🤣@@eliandkate

[@frankporterfield8121]

Happy Birthday! Love your videos!

[@Me-td8eo]

Happy Birthday 🥳🎉

[@karenshields1878]

Happy Birthday 🎉

[@lizatrue7543]

Happy Birthday! Hope you're enjoying a beautiful birthday today. Thank you for another wonderful video. Your gardens are absolutely BEAUTIFUL!🎊🎂🎉🍷🎁

[@eliandkate]

Glad you enjoyed our wee update Liza

[@lizatrue7543]

@@eliandkate I'm a moderator for the largest Gardening group on a certain social media website (won't name which one) which has over 106K members and believe me when I tell you that your garden is one of the most beautiful and cared for that I've seen! You two are green thumb queens and entertaining too! 😉😊

[@eliandkate]

Awwww thank you. That’s lovely to hear

[@charlotteinnocent8752]

Happy Birthday! :)

[@kburkes4245]

Happy birthday 🎉. I am getting to the 'brutal' stage with my first round of squash and cucumbers -- pulling them out. Fortunately I live in the southern US, and have time to plant a second round before first frost.

[@eliandkate]

Yay for lots of time… phew!

[@annlockey8552]

Happy Birthday ❤

[@susandowney7634]

Happy Birthday Eli. I hope you had a wonderful day ❤🎉

[@Garden-of-weeden]

Hey thanks for adding an inner circle patreon option!!! I’m very excited to be growing along with you next year!! Love how we get so many extra updates on your patreon ❤

[@eliandkate]

Glad you are enjoying being part of the patreon group Pammie… can’t wait to get our various projects going.

[@Garden-of-weeden]

@@eliandkate I love being part of it 😍

[@bwolf0003]

Great video. Happy Belated Birthday!

[@bonitahunter8905]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELI. 🎉. What happened to the plants that you planted seeds three times in? 😅😅😅😂.

[@eliandkate]

Sorry I don’t get it?

[@cherylbranson6557]

I grew lettuce and spinach in the green stalk! Did great!

[@giaannstdenis3661]

Tough love for the garden but easy to watch! Many happy returns of the day!

[@annlockey8552]

Absolutely love your garden 😊

[@eliandkate]

Awww thank you 😊

[@lindarobertson8505]

Thank you for the another fab video 😊

[@eliandkate]

😍

[@villanella]

happy birthday, eli!

[@donnaprima2802]

Great minds think alike! I just came in from pruning my garden, planting 3 broccolini seedlings, picking tomatoes, and planting lettuce in the Greenstalk (it finally gave up--I can't remember having lettuce this late!). Didn''t move anything--that was last week's job. Beautiful garden, by the way!! Happy Birthday!!

[@eliandkate]

Always jobs to be done 😂

[@oreopaksun2512]

Happy birthday! Lettuce and spinach planted outside in July....so jelly! I have lettuce started in and Aerogarden and will watch your crop grow. Growing enough for you, Kate, any beasties, then Beano and Gnasher! Everyone can be fed and happy! Looking forward to your guesting on Gardener Scott Live tomorrow, Monday, July 31. 11AM for me in US east coast....4 PM your time?

[@eliandkate]

See you then

[@annies2440]

Happy birthday 🎉 Found your channel a while back and I love your videos. I live in Sweden and it's fun watching other gardeners from around the world ❤

[@eliandkate]

Glad to have you with us 😍

[@saundrajsimpson9627]

Hope you had a great Birthday Eli. Really enjoy watching your channel here in East Tennessee, USA. I just got bit by the Dahlia bug this past Spring. A little nervous about the idea of having to overwinter them by digging them up but, everything gardening is a learning process. Not sure as to when to take the bulbs up and how I will store them.

[@eliandkate]

Take them up after your first hard frost. Once the plant has been “burned” by it. If you go watch my video on storing my dahlias you can see how I do it

[@saundrajsimpson9627]

@@eliandkate Thank you so much, I will do that today and be sure to save it for future reference.

[@cokesonyou1201]

Happy birthday! Hahah loved the clip where you said " we are celebrating while you're watching". The garden looks wonderful !

[@eliandkate]

😍😍😍

[@christinamoxon]

Happy birthday, hope you got lots of lovely goodies. We didn't get as many strawberries as we expected this year either, funny that. We've moved from months of no rain at all, to weeks of perpetual rain and winds. But the garden is still producing! I'm loving the spring onions. I left them in to grow really big and they're gorgeous (and quite strong). Love and hugs to you both.

[@CSaville]

Happy Birthday Eli! I've just finished a family meal. I watch several other KZbin gardening channels, one which sadly finished this year. Yours was the first I found and I've never missed an episode since. The meal included my own lettuce, rocket, tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, chives, onion and potatoes! You are a true inspiration I really hope you have a great Birthday!

[@eliandkate]

Awww glad you are still with us 😍

[@cherylbranson6557]

Your garden is so fabulous! I just love it. You have so many wonderful flowers!

[@eliandkate]

Thank you Cheryl 😍

[@mags9536]

Happy Birthday. Have a great day 🎂🍾

[@stephendarlingbrown]

Happy Birthday Eli 🎉🎂 hope you’ve had a great day!

[@quietspacearts]

looks great well done, Happy Birtthday lovely lady xx

[@eliandkate]

Awww thank you

[@AV-ze2hf]

Happy birthday!! Love the content. I started my gazania a week later then yours (never heard of them untill you mentioned them) and i was wondering if they were doing alright since i don't see flowers yet, but now i see you dont have many yet so i keep my fingers crossed. It's so hard as a beginner to figure out if the plant is struggling and if it is struggling to figure out why she is struggling, so many things to consider 😅

[@eliandkate]

And just as you get the hang of one plant you discover another needs something completely different? 😂 Your gazania are little sun worshippers so give them as much sun as possible 😍

[@squadiodatamj5998]

What an exhilarating tour in the garden of Eli and Kate today.....and it's your Birthday, Eli! This vid was packed with party favours.....The Green Stalk (oh how I covet thee) is such a happy story and do, tell us more. My belly-laugh moments happened at 12:00 "...and the greenhouse pfphfphttt (sp?)". Also at 18:00 "....the HMS Dahlia.." What a fun party! Hardly noticed the slaughter and up-rooting wrought by the hori-hori and puners.

[@eliandkate]

The slaughter was cunningly disguised

[@dif672]

Happy Birthday, Eli!!!🎉🎂🍅🥬🫑

[@eliandkate]

🎉

[@dawnlalek]

Happy birthday Eli. I hope you had a lovely day. Great video as always xx

[@ghost70]

place damp wood boards around the planters, should then be able to collect the slugs each days, been working for me. can also p[lace boards in the beds just check regular

[@i.a.4694]

Happy birthday as well! I had new strawberries this year, the variety is called sonata, and i was really happy with them. Big juicy and sweet strawberry. So tasty...

[@eliandkate]

I’m excited to be thinking about all the possibilities

[@mariedeyo7399]

Happy happy birthday 🥳 all the best for the year comming. ❤ Phoenix, my godgrandkid is having her 5th today. So I hope you have a wonderful day, with a grand party. ❤

[@Oktopia]

Happy Birthday! Enjoy it! Sadly green stalk doesn't deliver to Norway. I've seen fake ones sold online but I've heard the plastic is inferior and in the Norwegian climate we can't have brittle plastic outside. Nearly ALL of my salad went super bitter this year on account of the heat. Even in my shade bed it went bitter and got eaten by slugs. I have sown some new stuff now and will take full advantage of the cooler weather of late. Sadly our nights are super chilled, it has been all the way down to 8-10 C at night. My plastic greenhouse is bulging from the tomato plants though. Looks like I'll get something if it warms up a little. Fingers crossed.

[@eliandkate]

Oh I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you

[@christelfleet6189]

Happy Birthday 🥳 Eli. The garden looks wonderful.

[@carolinebown8686]

Hope you're having a fabulous Birthday ❤ Brilliant informative video as always .... you give me the strength to alter/move things ... Im getting alittle less panicky about gardening ... I'm amazed at the tomato harvest & courgettes ... so many 😊😊😊 xxx

[@eliandkate]

Glad we’re helping with your garden bravery 😍

[@skygazer1024]

Happy Birthday! 🎉 Great video as always.

[@colleenstinton-czuprynski9894]

Great video. Thanks.

[@janetroberts2262]

🎂Happy Birthday🎈❤

[@libbyrowe8961]

🥳Happy Birthday Eli 🥳

[@cyndywaskelisthecrowscall]

Happy Birthday Eli!

[@Papapatch]

Happy birthday Eli... Can you tell me the name of the dwarf tomatoes you have growing in greenhouse please

[@eliandkate]

Heya It’s the same ones I’m in the greenstalk. Anmore dewdrop, tiny Tim and Mongolian Hanging basket. Got them all from camillascountryliving.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/froliste-tomater-2020/

[@Papapatch]

@@eliandkate thank you

[@flowers_and_farls]

Are there previous clips about growing in the Greenstock? Are they an expensive piece of kit?

[@eliandkate]

I think this is the first time I’ve talked much about the greenstalk as this is my first year with it. Expensive I suppose is your decision. I don’t think it’s expensive for what it is, unfortunately it’s not available in the UK yet so I was lucky to have been gifted it by a friend.

[@siggiroberts7432]

Happy Birthday Eli. 🎉❤

[@cpoco]

Good stuff. I received a solar powered stereo today so I'm hoping to try it in the greenhouse to see if it improves growth :)

[@eliandkate]

Solar powered stereo? Ok I’m going to ask for clarification cause to me that’s a music system?

[@cpoco]

@@eliandkate tis indeed... it can play radio, sd card or USB so I put some music on (Billy Connolly actually for the time being) and it can play in the greenhouse and be recharged via the solar panels. I'm curious to see if it will make a difference to the growth... Mythbusters seemed to find there was a possibility it can help growth... so we shall see.

[@cpoco]

Oh and happy birthday! :D

[@eliandkate]

Ah 😁 Yeah I heard it a lot growing up that you should talk to your plants and play music. They react to it

[@Cordelia0704p]

Happy Birthday Eli! 🎉

[@GillianTaylor-o2j]

Are you sure the bare root plants you got three yrs ago were actually first yr stock?

[@eliandkate]

I can answer yes but I’m afraid that unless you elaborate more on what you are asking I ant really offer more detail

[@RegBettles]

Happy birthday Eli! Where can I get the "greenstalk"

[@eliandkate]

I don’t know where you are in the world Reg but if you are Uk based I’m afraid they don’t shop here yet

[@RegBettles]

@@eliandkate yes Eli UK, oh well never m

[@kimosborne3454]

Happy birthday hope you had a great day, quick question on the strawberries when you say you have to pe place them every 3 years can you do that with the runner plants or does that not work?

[@eliandkate]

Yup usually you would do that using the runners and save some pennies

[@kimosborne3454]

@@eliandkate thank you for a moment I thought I had half a dozen pots of baby plants for next year for nothing few you scared me lol

[@eliandkate]

😂😂😂

[@markrollings1762]

Hi Both Could you point in the direction of where could source a Beano and a Gnasher please. Thank you.. Mark

[@eliandkate]

Do you mean the actual compost bins? If so they are from hotbincomposting.com

[@markrollings1762]

@@eliandkate Very kind. A couple of further questions if I may. Did you buy with plinths and what was the reason and are Beano & Gnashet 200litre versions; just trying to judge scale. Thank you again Mark (from Wales)

[@eliandkate]

I did get the plinths, hence they are taller than just the bin size and yup they are both the larger sized bin

[@markrollings1762]

@@eliandkate Thank you; you’re a star. Keep up the good work 👏

[@cherylbranson6557]

By the way, how often do you need to water your plants?

[@eliandkate]

Depends on the plants, weather and temperatures. More often when it’s warm or windy as that increases evaporation from the soil. In late autumn and winter then I don’t usually water at all because the ground is generally damp all the time. In a week where it’s hot, every couple of days for the thirsty plants.

[@teresapring7831]

👍❤️

[@jihad.haidar]

Thank you for the video. The Dahlias look amazing. I was hoping to get my hands on some this year, but it did not work as planned. This year I started showing stronger resolve in deciding which plants should stay and which should go. But, it is never an easy choice. Most heartbreaking is when you lose plants to disease, for example, I had to pull out a couple of plants of a round zucchini variety (they were all that I planted of this variety). But, I have certainly never stabbed my plants with a huge knife like you did here 😲 LOL BTW, I think that I heard someone or something scream "help" when you opened the composting bin. Perhaps you should look into that *shrugs* 😂

[@eliandkate]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@margakat]

Happy Birthday!

[@cherylbranson6557]

Happy Birthday to you and many more!!

[@julie-annepineau4022]

Happy birthday Eli! Garden looks fantastic!

[@briannecarter2901]

Happy Birthday! 🎉

[@deb1973d]

Happy Birthday!

[@SuzMcDonaldWellbeing]

Happy birthday Eli 🎉