Ep85: I'm ditching the to-do list! | Gardening the easy way in May

There is just so much to do in the garden at this time of year and (for me) very little time to do it - so I'm ditching the 'to do list' and going with a simple 'see it, do it' approach! In the end I manage to:
- prepare the greenhouse bed for the tomatoes
- mulch the small garden raised beds
- pot on chillis, aubergines & peppers
- plant out the oca
- pot up squash, courgettes, cucumbers, melons, snake beans and brassicas
- pot on dahlia cuttings
- ditch the pumpkins
- start chitting the beans and peas
- plant out the tomatoes!
We also swing by the allotment plant sale and put in a few late 'pink panther' onion sets - and much of the rest of the week is spent slug hunting😭🐌 - but with a new little trick...!
I'm still getting used to new editing software so please bear with me while I learn the intricacies of the programme!
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Vlog: Gardening with my dog in the home kitchen vegetable garden and our UK allotment plot. I hope you enjoyed this week's video - please do like and subscribe if you did. Thank you for watching 💕😊
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[@dogontheplot]

Are you keeping on top of things or, like me, ditching the to do list and just chaotically gardening 😂

[@TheRightPearPlot]

😂😂 all best intentions kinda out the window here🪟 😂😂 Will label that in a bit…. Never gets done 😂 Will deadhead and tidy older leaves off plants…. Erm… nope Manic here too 🤗🤣

[@dogontheplot]

@@TheRightPearPlot can only do what we can do! Plus there's always the excitement of a mystery plant 🤣

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

My list where getting there own lists.... i stopt and started doing what i can whenever i can...

[@TheRightPearPlot]

@@dogontheplotoh I have 20 mystery tomato plants, the tombola packet from plant world 😂

[@dogontheplot]

@@TheRightPearPlot oh yes!! 😂

[@michelleann1899]

Hi Kerry! So happy you have new followers!! This time of year is always so busy..planting out and pricking out an potting up...oh my!! The inside of the house is on hold...just keeping up. But, oh it is a wonderful time of the year...enjoy!! 💚🐦🐞🐝🌞🦋🌻

[@dogontheplot]

Aw thank - it's really nice when someone comments and say they're new to the channel. Same here - although I did clean the bathroom yesterday 😂 It IS a wonderful time of year - except for the slugs! 🤣

[@cazhardcastle9096]

Chaotic gardening works for me😂😂

[@dogontheplot]

My whole life is chaotic 🤣

[@dustyflats3832]

😂😂my husband says stay focused and what he doesn’t realize I’m capable of doing many things at once between inside and outside chores. I’m slowly whittling down the number of flats in GH. E-Gads it was a lot! Got all the veg plants in and a friend took the rest to families in need. Then I over did flowers and squeezing them in where ever there is a spot. Hope today I get most everything in. 😂a little slug?😂. Those things are huge! I guess we all have our own specific bugs.

[@dogontheplot]

I'm not sure where I'm going to put everything at all! But yes - squeeze it in and hope for the best 🤣

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

Oooo another tea! 😊 my todo list is in my head... why I forget everything! I do the look and do! lol 😅

[@dogontheplot]

Alllll the teas!! (Except black teas)

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

@@dogontheplot milky coffee for me! I've moved on to my iced latte now but they are touch and go with the weather

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

🐝Thanks for the great video 🌻 owmyyyy what a job to put all beans in a blanket

[@dogontheplot]

You're welcome Sandra. Haha all tucked up in their damp blankets 😂 chitting nicely though 👍

[@myrustygarden]

Lots to do and yes I have a list and it’s more of a suggestion list. Like you I get distracted by jobs and end up doing ones not on the list. I keep the journal in my phone. We seem to have rolled back to March here it’s cold and wet. My tomato plants were eaten mostly by slugs 😢😢 good thing I held back spares. Great update Kerry hope its warm there, Ali 🌧️🌧️🌧️🇨🇦

[@dogontheplot]

Ah I think that's the key Ali. Don't put all your eggplants in one basket. I'm terrible for wanting everything to be consistent, but I must learn it's ok to hold some things back or do them differently. Actually I did this (by accident) last week when another plot holder gifted me a pumpkin. I put it straight out. When I went back it had been completely devoured by slugs! So glad I only put the one out. Hope your weather improves 💕🌱

[@stephking8872]

No wonder you feel overwhelmed Kerrie. You do so much plus working and your house well done!❤

[@dogontheplot]

TBF I'm my own worse enemy - I want to do it all!! Luckily I'm good at ignoring housework 🤣

[@stephking8872]

@@dogontheplot good for you!😂

[@TheFarmyardGarden]

Oh wow.. what a busy week you’ve had! I love the see it/do it mantra. I’m more of a pretend I didn’t see it type of person.. especially with house work 😂 23 tomato plants.. I should have crammed more in the tunnel 😅😅 I’m so excited for the Oca. I have you and Maiju to thank for that. Thank you for the mention. I’m glad your crown prince have come up. I’m struggling to germinate beans this year, think it has gotten too hot in the tunnel, when the sun is out, for them. Excited for the season ahead. Might try the sour dough enticer! Thanks for that.

[@dogontheplot]

Oh totally the same with the housework as you well know 🤣 Lenny was busy while I was at the plot today... 😛 I told you I'd have got at least 50 toms into that poly 🤣🤣 I really hope we have a great oca season and can do colour swaps for Christmas!

[@TheFarmyardGarden]

@@dogontheplot that would be amazing! 😍 I only noticed last night that the red Oca has white stems and the white Oca tubers have produced plants with red stems. You’d think it’d be the other way around.

[@dogontheplot]

Oh I haven't planted in any colour order so I won't know what stems belong to what tubers until I harvest (they've just started to peak up out of the soil now)

[@AnyKeyLady]

Great video Kerry! Cut rhubarb leaves are working well for me to trap the slugs and snails. I normally put the molluscs in the composter but it is already too full of them and don't want them dominating over the red wrigglers, in terms of population, amongst the other insects that live there. Sadly, these new ones go into a salty water spa tub. i am also seeing baby slugs and slug nests (?) everywhere in the garden. At some point they must escarGO!

[@dogontheplot]

That's a good point about balance in the compost bin actually. Hmm...

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thanks for the mention kerry. So pleased you're chitting the beans & peas I gave you. They'll do you proud, im sure!!! Fingers crossed. Great progress made. Danny ♥️

[@dogontheplot]

Here's hoping!! Pongo are chitting nicely 👍

[@GardenofEmma]

The occa looks great. Never tried it before myself though. I find if you ditch the list you end up with more jobs to do as you go looking for jobs that need doing. ❤

[@dogontheplot]

True true! Altho the jobs are banging at the door right now 🤣 Big wkend ahead...

[@margaretalice6343]

Always always plant my beans last (apart from Broad beans). The aim is getting them in first week of June or a week or so later if the weather is too cold (not this year thankfully) I’m in SE Northumberland so weather can be unpredictable. I’ve even planted beans in July & they’ve provided a decent harvest. Worst thing is planting too early cos they suffer & don’t really recover hoping you get great results 🤩

[@dogontheplot]

Ah cool! It does say April to June on the packets 👍 they're chitting away nicely so if I can just get them to survive the slugs ...

[@kazjohns]

Great update Kerry and found it very relatable with the chaotic random picking of priority jobs achieved from the to do list😂. I am at the same point on tomato planting in the greenhouse with 16 varieties in with mycorrhizal and leaning towards the simplicity of old school canes. In my head and on paper it looked so easy with the string method, which I’ve never got round to trying until now. It just feels like a faff to install and impractical in such a small area . Defo an accident waiting to happen for me to strangle myself at some point😬. Maybe, I’ll trial a few at the back?… I could be wrong! Wishing you a fab bank holiday gardening weekend.

[@dogontheplot]

Thank you Kaz. Snaps! I've gone for canes in the end. I like the sturdiness! They weren't quite tall enough so I've tied string between the top of the cane and the greenhouse wire 🤷‍♀️ I'm just glad they're in the ground 🌱🍅 good luck with yours 💕

[@kazjohns]

@@dogontheplot 😂. Most likely ditto. I’m sure the string method is excellent with a single row in a Monty Don greenhouse!

[@cms9902]

The slugs might breed in the compost, and you'll have lots of them. They'll soon escape from the heap as they enjoy eating your veg and green foliage. But it'll be interesting to see what happens. Beer traps are preferable to pellets. However, it is said pellets will affect birds who eat the dead slugs. I've left dead slugs out, and my tests so far show birds won't consume dead slugs.

[@dogontheplot]

Hiya, yes I got this comment quite a bit but my thought is if they're not breeding in the compost they'll only be breeding in the garden anyway - and at least while they're there they can chomp through some stuff that actually needs chomping through. The compost heaps are right at the back of the garden so although I know they do travel back, my hope is they find something tasty (and less valuable) on the way, before they get back to the veg beds! I could collect them up and relocate to the local park, but I haven't quite got that level of commitment to the cause yet 🤣 (My garden is a no-kill zone, as far as that is possible.) Interesting that the birds don't fancy a dead slug - I hear that actually most animals - even hedgehogs and frogs - will choose to eat pretty much anything over a slug, alive or dead! That said, I know rats will eat slugs... but would I rather have slugs or rats?!!

[@vanessahawkhead6316]

I know the feeling of being overwhelmed my grass is like a sponge with all the moss one of my neighbours lent me there scarifier almost a week ago it’s something I’ve never done before so I’m putting it off it’s daunting

[@dogontheplot]

Ah I've scarified the lawn before - yes, takes some effort and looks a mess afterwards, but I guess it will be worth it in a few weeks! Tbh I prefer moss 🤣 Good luck with it - in next week's episode I do a job I've not been looking forward to so I set a kitchen timer for 60 mins and just go for it 👊

[@vanessahawkhead6316]

@@dogontheplot I like your attitude towards the moss it’s a bit of a problem trying to mow it back breaking at times 😂 I’m not looking forward to it looking a mess think I might go out and have a go though and maybe set a timer myself 😂

[@dogontheplot]

@@vanessahawkhead6316 go for it! You'll feel so much better afterwards ☺️

[@vanessahawkhead6316]

@@dogontheplot just finished I’m on 🔥 I survived the scarifier 😂 thanks for the words of encouragement

[@vanessahawkhead6316]

@@dogontheplot just finished I’m on 🔥 I survived the scarifier 😂 thanks for the words of encouragement

[@margaretalice6343]

Thanks for the vlog. So useful 🤩. I just pick slugs & snails & put them to work in the compost heaps Works for me tbh apart from brassicas we plant decent sized plants & use organic slug pellets. (I’m not totally convinced they don’t harm wildlife so I use them in totally covered beds just to be sure I use crushed eggshells. Amazing but you need alot of them. Worked for my hostas but I need to continue to add them throughout their season

[@dogontheplot]

Hi Margaret. Works for me too 👍 I've got another line of defence to reveal next week too...

[@TheFarmyardGarden]

Forgot to say. I loved when Dorie brought you the ball… “No we’re not playing ball Dorie” - immediately plays ball with Dorie

[@dogontheplot]

🤣 how can I resist the floof

[@TheFarmyardGarden]

@@dogontheplot impossible! (I did correct my brought/bought typo too ha)

[@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

Hello Kerry, you are truly in the middle of the cyclone! It seems no matter how we plan and prepare there will always be too many seedlings ready for the next step and yet there is a bottleneck in the path that is caused by too many things all need to happen at the same time and there is more to do than time to do them. I run into feeling bad about the plants that are struggling while they wait. I have several spiral notebooks which are a running journal synopsis of the current condition of things related to the date and time. Each book starts where the last finished. I can go back to the particular time period to see where I was where I am going and what has failed along with reasons and possible corrections for the future. Reading back is so helpful for finding the new path and plan knowing it may or may not be better this time. Still the need to stop and sit still to see all that is done and happening around us and relishing these moments and not miss them in a frantic dash to just keep going. Thank you for the video today you are doing so much and the plot is looking fantastic. Cya next week peace and blessings bye for now, Steven

[@dogontheplot]

Thank you - you're always so supporting Steven! Yes I think after the frantic-ness of this week, next week should be a chill episode... We shall see 🙈🙈🙈 I also love my garden journals - I have all three out all the time because I'm always looking back at the previous year.

[@JoesPatch]

Thanks Kerry, lovely update. It is crazy busy at the mo without the added workload of being marking season for you 🫣. I do still have a to-do list which I'm trying to get through but it has been tricky especially with the weather being a bit all over the place 🌱🌱

[@dogontheplot]

Yes the weather has been ... fun 🙈 Plot pretty flooded again 🥴 but at least it makes the weeds easy to pull 🤣 Marking is now over and I can breathe a little. Been busy at the plot today - updates in next week's episode! Have a good week Joe 🌱

[@ninemoonplanet]

The use of sourdough starter is a new one to me, but it should be quite effective. Hmm. Where are you possibly going to plant everything? 😆 I am still waiting for temperatures to get above 10 ° at night here. The plants, except the lettuce, are just sitting there, waiting too.

[@dogontheplot]

It's a valid question. I have no idea. 😂😂 But I'm sure it'll work itself out 😛 Oh yes hope your warm nights arrive really soon 🌱

[@Feelgoodgardens]

Fab video update Kerry ❤ Oca looking great 👍 I have ours to plant too, not grown it before so looking forward to growing and trying it. What a good idea keeping a diary, we have a seeds sowing diary but not a planting out diary at the moment. We were late planting our tomatoes last year and they grew fabulous until we had blight 🙈 Lesson learned though, leave the polytunnel open this year. Looking like a garden centre in your polytunnel ❤

[@dogontheplot]

Thank you Linda. Ooh I hope you like the oca. It's nice to grow something a bit different too and oca isn't too fussy - pretty foliage too. Yes things are getting full! 🙈😂

[@WendyL63]

Hi Kerry, brilliantly timed video. We just came back from 4 days in London, including a chelsea show visit, ❤😊 and walked into my greenhouse and said arrgh. So I'm taking your advice to see it, do it, and move on, thankyou and have a great week ❤❤❤

[@dogontheplot]

Aw thank you Wendy. Did you get lots of inspo from Chelsea?

[@WendyL63]

@dogontheplot Yes, lots, the self seeded garden is in vogue with lots of geums, foxgloves, heuchera and ferns 👍💕

[@thewitch69]

its all go ha? ive just kicked out a whole raised beds of old strawberries to make way for a 3 sisters bed with a a few added extras of chard borage mini sunflowers and spring onions ,lol I figured more variety of food in one place that's taken up with strawbs that only fruit a few weeks and I've got 100s lol hope ya oca grow the ones I put in my under bed drawers are looking fab and are a foot high so excited for those ,when do you harvest yours #?

[@dogontheplot]

Oh gosh yours are way ahead of mine then 👍 not until a couple of weeks after the first frost ( you have to be patient 😂). I love strawbs but that sounds like a strategic plan. I've got them as an undercover in the front garden and the fruit tree guilds.

[@thewitch69]

@@dogontheplot i only started oca after watching yours tho lol but ye super pleased they're growing but long time to wait to try then ha ,and yes officially running out of space yet again but I've got so many strawbs now last year I was freezing them cos I just had too many to eat every day lol

[@Garden-of-weeden]

Wow have you got any fingers left? Or are they worked to the bone? Hurrah to the tomato planting 🎉 mine are going in today!🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

[@dogontheplot]

🤣🤣 They're filthy but still there! It feels soooo good to have the toms in. Staked them yest too so I'm all set 👍 good luck with yours 💕🌱

[@Garden-of-weeden]

@@dogontheplot I bet it’s a relief! If mine could talk they’d give me a talking to lol

[@dogontheplot]

@@Garden-of-weeden 🤣

[@samatronn]

wooo vegan!

[@dogontheplot]

#friendsnotfood ☺️🌱

[@nicholasryan5401]

Greetings from Ireland, great video, My wife has no interest in gardening but I do and have been gardening for the last twenty years. We have four flower beds, fifty two perennial pots and six pots of annuals on the two windowsills in the small front garden. My wife tells me it looks like a mini garden centre. There is grass out in the back garden and in the bottom of the garden there is a glass house, containers for carrots, water barrels, a no dig veg bed and a three bay compost bay system. I started the veg garden three years ago after I retired from work. I plan to put down two big no did flower beds out the back next autumn. I can split loads of perennial flowers that I have and I have loads of homemade compost so it wont cost anything to create. For me flowers are number one and the veg are for family and friends and our dog Rory he loves carrots.

[@dogontheplot]

Love that! Your plans sound great and using what you have so it doesn't cost you anything is definitely my preference! Although I do like to shop for plants... 🙈 I would like to sort myself out a cut flower bed but not sure I'm prepared enough for this year. Good luck with the new beds 🌱

[@TheRightPearPlot]

Our Greek giganti are doing amazing ❤ already planted outside at the plot. (Thanks for the mention 😊) and the 🫘 Had mixed results with direct sown beans, thanks to the slugs. Trail of tears I can’t wait to try, they are doing well apart from a few nibbles 😢 yin yang at home getting bigger yet again a few slug nibbles. Our plot neighbour had the apricot flower bean last year, they looked amazing. You did well giving away all those plants 🪴 I know i’d struggle to part with mine. We didn’t like the Kent blue peas last year so didn’t grow them again this year. Can never have enough beans 🫘 good luck with them all ☺️ Yeah 🎉 on getting your tomatoes out they look great. 😊 Still not thinned out parsnips must do that this week!!! I’ve bought para cord as back up as our string is rotting and snapping already. Ones in greenhouse have cane’s ☺️ Can’t wait for home grown tomatoes 🍅 ❤ Time for bed 🛌 Great video Love Allie & Tricia 🤗☺️

[@dogontheplot]

Bean update in next episode. I may have made an error... 🙈 so pleased to have the toms out though. Just 35 more plants to go .. somewhere!! 🤣

[@TheRightPearPlot]

@@dogontheplot oh no an error with your beans 🫘 🥲 have you soaked them in vodka??? Instead of water 🤣

[@dogontheplot]

@@TheRightPearPlot that would have been a waste!!!

[@bethanskitchengarden]

Lovely update Kerry, I always mean to write things down but never get around to it. I too feel like there's no point in a to-do list at this time of year as there's so much that needs doing. Good luck with your tomatoes, at least yours have made it into the ground. Take care

[@dogontheplot]

Thanks Bethan. It feels like a weight has lifted now they're in the ground! I recommend the Sarah Raven diaries - they are so pretty!!

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

Hydrophobic

[@dogontheplot]

Thank you 😂

[@cms9902]

Enjoyed your video. Would be useful to give images of plants after mentioning them, and also display the names of plants.

[@dogontheplot]

Thank you!! Yes, I should be more conscientious about this when editing. Thank you for the feedback 👍

[@sandrawoodall6545]

Hi. I’m a bit concerned about your method off putting slugs and snails on your compost heap,surely they will lay eggs and that will go into your soil that your making! Can you put me right on this. Thanks 😊

[@dogontheplot]

You may be entirely right Sandra 🤣 although I think they prob just slink off elsewhere (hopefully nextdoor 👀😆) - but if they aren't laying them in the compost heap they'd be laying them in the garden and there's always the off chance that other critters eat the eggs in the compost (I have a robin who basically lives in there!) or it might even heat up enough to prevent the eggs hatching?? I have no idea. It's less an ideal place to put them, more just the furthest point in the garden from the crops 👍

[@williamhamblin1585]

The slugs will lay eggs in your compost and you will spread them across the garden😢

[@dogontheplot]

I guess if they weren't laying them in the compost they'd be laying them in the garden anyway - more chance of the eggs being eaten by birds in the compost ? I've got a robin who practically lives in there 🤣 I mean it's a never ending battle, but I just want to keep my seedlings alive right now! 🌱

[@thebutterfly1356]

Found something new to gave a go at next year. Oca 😊 its tye first time of heard of it but will definitely be trying next year. Thanks 😃

[@dogontheplot]

Ah I thought when I was editing I should have said more about what it is and how it tastes - but I do highly recommend (if you can get the tubers at a reasonable price - mine were originally from @realseeds

[@trold1969]

So great to see another update. Got inspired, took my beans out and was going to copy your chitting method. Only to realise I have no room for beans, not even dwarf. Maybe next year. ☺ Well, I could chit beans at work - I have a huge growing space (16 2x3m beds, several smaller beds and a small field, lots of fruit bushes and trees and a greenhouse) and my task is to grow stuff and make it look nice, to put it simply. It's in a public park, so not only pests, but dogs and people too. People are the worst, they steal or just destroy. I can not have see it - do it approach there, I would be weeding and fixing broken beds all the time.

[@dogontheplot]

No room for beans!!! I guess beans are a fairly cheap option for the park ...? TBF I prob don't have room either but I never let that stop me 🤣

[@trold1969]

@@dogontheplot I have restricted space at home and I'm bad at planning and realising how huge cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, mint, dill, kohlrabi, chillies etc. get. I just loved how you looked at the beans and then - Let's do them all! I am definitely doing beans in the park, if people pick them before they're matured, at least we've had flowers.

[@RobinGardens]

Dahlia cutting bed....oh ya. Barry's Crazy Cherry is an indeterminate.

[@dogontheplot]

I need to find space 🙈 Yes, it seems so - why do they always look so bushy though 😂 do ppl tend to let them just grow as a bush because they're meant to be crazy?? 🤣

[@RobinGardens]

@@dogontheplot Probably because of the large trusses that form? It's my first time doing them. Can't go wrong with anything from Brad Gates @ Wild Boar Farms. I'm growing Golden Hour which is a new release. Last year's Tim's Taste of Paradise, a new release,🥰 was amazing......and the only repeat in my line up of 12 this year. I look forward to your updates each week.

[@dogontheplot]

@@RobinGardens ooh good to get recommendations! I can't wait for the toms this year 🥳🍅 Aw thank you Robin. I'll be sowing the garleek in the next episode 💕🌱

[@ericandrachallotmenteers]

Hi Kerry. It's lovely to see you can go back over the years. Fantasy greenhouse 😂😂 I've got one of those too 👍🏽 Fab job sorting the greenhouse 🌱 excited to see everything growing. Lovely update Kerry. Cheery as always 🥰💚

[@dogontheplot]

Thank you Rach. Maybe not a fantasy for long... 😲

[@ericandrachallotmenteers]

@@dogontheplot 😁 you'll have peas in gutters swinging all over the place 😂💚

[@dogontheplot]

@@ericandrachallotmenteers 🤣🤣

[@tutortani]

❤❤❤ Good video. I'm glad to have you as my friend. Gardening is fun. ❤❤❤

[@dogontheplot]

Thank you 🤗🌱

[@chrissiehart22]

Defo on slug watch. One evening I collected over 100 and only counted because I was collecting so many and I'm sure people didn't believe me lol. A local fellow vegan Kerry we may have bumped into each other at events. I spend hours planning where I'm going plant everything and the go out and plant where I feel at that moment x

[@dogontheplot]

100!! It doesn't feel fair does it 🙈 Ah we may well have! Haha I'm exactly the same - deliberate for ages then get fed up and just plonk them anywhere 🤣

[@chrissiehart22]

@@dogontheplot I love planning. I guess that's how I process things but never space things properly as I want to get loads in and think well there might be some left after the slugs 🤣It actually feels right to plant something else where than planned

[@dogontheplot]

Exactly - as soon as I thinned the parsnips some got eaten so now I wish I'd left them alone! Grr.

[@chrissiehart22]

@@dogontheplot it's so frustrating. I've even found them eating my onions, Leeks and garlic whicker they're ment to hate. Can't win at the moment x

[@dogontheplot]

@@chrissiehart22 agreed 😭

[@katebettesworth2638]

Hello, I'm new to this channel. I absolutely love your use of the dog bed for a potting area! Genius and hilarious! 🤣

[@dogontheplot]

Welcome! Lovely to have you. Haha - I've become so used to it I'd forgotten it might look strange 😂 It does the trick and reuses/upcycles something that might have otherwise been landfill 👍 Dorie does eye it up sometimes, as if to say why is my bed up there...? 🤣

[@katebettesworth2638]

Thanks for the welcome. I have an enormous black plastic dog bed I don't use anymore. I think I might re-purpose it! 🤣 My dog is kinda medium sized, he is half Mini Shnauzer, half Bedlington Terrier. We call him a Bedzer! 🤣 he is too small for it really, even though he loves to sleep stretched out like a spatchcock chicken! 🤣🤣🤣

[@dogontheplot]

@@katebettesworth2638 oooh I would love to see a pic. Are you on Instagram?

[@katebettesworth2638]

I'm not, I am such a tech dunce! 🤣 🤣🤣

[@dogontheplot]

@@katebettesworth2638 😂

[@spudsandroses]

Delighted to see you have the tomatoes 🍅 😀 finally planted out...and the Oca 😅 First pea pod already 🥰 yum! Good to be able to carry the excess of chilli plants for sale, but to keep 2 of each, that's plenty of spicy chillies 🌶 Gosh, seeing the Greek Gigantea beans again, they just look stunning.So immaculately white in colour and blemish free 🥰 Hopefully all chits perfectly for you incl the pumpkins 🥰🥰🥰 Happy gardening 🤗💚

[@dogontheplot]

Oca!!!!!! 💕💕💕 Yes the beans are sprouting nicely. Think I'll pot them up today 👍 pumpkins are a no show. I've given up. I might pre-chit whatever I've got left ... I think there's still time.

[@rebeccazody1278]

For me, chaotic gardening is a relief and my creativity comes out in force. I am so much happier that way. I am an abstract artist and appreciate the freedom. However, I do make to do lists just for ‘check in/up’ organization periodically. Dorie is such a cutie.

[@dogontheplot]

Gardening with, rather than against, your personality 👍 Yes it doesn't all have to be straight lines and neat edges. I'm definitely having to embrace the chaos. I think I need to admit I've taken on a bit too much really and some things will just have to be whatever they end up being! 😂

[@SundaysInTheGarden]

See it, do it! I love that! 👏🏻 I am definitely feeling very overwhelmed atm, as I work in education too and also travelling around examining so it’s the busiest time of year here as well and with two boys and home education taking up the rest of my time, just feel like it’s impossible to get everything done! 😅 So this morning I have a couple of hours in the garden and I am going to adopt your mantra! It’s all looking great, Kerry! 💚

[@dogontheplot]

Bless you. You always look so relaxed and calm!! 🤣 I was editing this video thinking oh no I'm talking a mile a minute in my shrill panicked voice cataloguing everything - hyper! 🤦‍♀️🙈🤣 I find ignoring housework helps but at some point I'm going to run out of clean clothes... May madness indeed!!

[@SundaysInTheGarden]

@@dogontheplot haha aw thank you! Glad I at least give off a calm vibe! 😅 definitely a swan peddling away under the water though! Yes, garden definitely takes priority here over the house work! I am always surprised how much I can get done in just a few hours too when I put my mind to it so hoping to get lots done this morning before we are off out this afternoon 🤞🏻🙏🏼 Have a great Sunday!

[@Tamsins_Potager]

Hmmm...Barry's Crazy cherry is an indeterminate variety. Love a garden diary. Nothing better than making notes on what I've done after a hard day in the garden 😊 and I find it an invaluable resource.

[@dogontheplot]

Ah thank you! I think when I've seen other ppl growing them they're so bushy that I assumed they were determinate! I know - it's a nice way to finish a long day in the garden and reflect on the achievements!