GARDEN HORRORS - evil creatures, monstrous weather and inevitable diseases ...

[@jogrowsveg]

I've only seen the first few seconds and already you've earned a super thanks because you, milady, are a legend 👻🎃 The thumbnail font, the music, the lantern, the title... *Chef's kiss*

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Oh now that is so kind of you - thank you so much!

[@allotmentjoy]

Absolutely brilliant 👏 👻🎃😁👍

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

@@allotmentjoy glad you enjoyed it - thank you!

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

Real fun

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

@@BumblebeeAdventure thank you!

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi Jane, what a brilliant video! Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Ha ha - it's a golden oldie but I still love it - thank you!

[@simplifygardening]

Great video Jane. very timely and well put together. Great job

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Thought it deserved another airing! Thanks Tony x

[@suemcdonagh7650]

Great vlog

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Thanks Sue - glad you enjoyed it!

[@gloriadavidson8599]

Great video 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Glad you enjoyed it - thank you!

[@cherylprice1790]

I love this upload, Jane. Really great.

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Thank you - it's always fun to put something like this together!

[@doras.allotment]

Oh Jane!! Such a creative video oooohhh 👻👻👻

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

It was great fun to put together Dora - thank you.

[@Feelgoodgardens]

What a fabulous collaboration Jane, enjoyed watching this 👍😀❤️ xx

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

@@Feelgoodgardens thanks Linda - it was fun to put together!

[@Feelgoodgardens]

@JanesGrowingGarden You did an amazing Job Jane and loved your storytelling setting 👏 ❤️ xx

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

@ thank you x

[@trold1969]

Great one! 🥘🦇

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Thank you!

[@janwilletts1986]

Great video Jane. Slugs in the garden and fungus gnats in the greenhouse were my horror stories. Too cold and wet to plant until late in the season, never known a year like it. Fingers crossed for next year, the triumph of hope over experience…!

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Ha ha - yes the beauty of optimism. Let's cross everything! Thanks Jan.

[@susiespearing6165]

Great video Jane 🍷My nightmare has been lack of 🌅 making everything grow so slowly and the ☔😂

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

The lack of sunlight this year has made a huge difference hasn’t it - let’s hope next year is a bit brighter! Thanks Susie.

[@annthomson-ewers2835]

Great video rain rain weeds 😂

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Ha ha - and then a bit more rain! Thanks Anne.

[@Garden-of-weeden]

This was brilliant! Loved last years but you’ve topped it😊

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

I thought it was worth a bit of a revisit - glad you enjoyed it. Thanks Pammie.

[@Garden-of-weeden]

@@JanesGrowingGarden I’m glad you did x

[@eraramasamy3104]

What a great video! Just loved it❤️

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Glad you liked it - thank you!

[@KarenBowers4]

This was so unexpected and wonderfully delicious. Instant classic. The spooky feel was perfect Halloween magic in the garden. Jane I love this video.

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

I do like a bit of the spooky stuff - glad you enjoyed it! Thanks Karen.

[@siggiroberts7432]

Great video, Jane. Like your intro a lot. ❤ I grow in raised beds and containers in my little backgarden. I am lucky, i haven't got to deal with creepy crawlies and other animals a lot( now and than pigeons and cabbage whites), but the biggest nightmare was the weather this year for me.

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

I think the weather is changing so rapidly - we're really going to have to up our game if we're going to be able to keep growing successfully. Great that you're able to grow stuff in your back garden - can't get more convenient! Thank you.

[@jennyjohnson9012]

Fabulous Jane. I sympathize with everyone. My nightmares are rats, which eat everything. They dig up my tulips and even when I put chicken wire over them, they nibble the tops as they come through. This year, the tulips have been doused with chilli powder and so far its worked!!! Childrens windmills solved my mole problem. We all have our problems but we can only smile through it!!!! I live in southern Scotland and the wind has been terrible all year. Worst I can remember.

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

I know we have rats around but as far as I'm aware they haven't affected us too badly - so far! Great idea with the chilli powder. I did have a lovely windmill a couple of years ago and it was great for the pigeons - not sure where it's got to now. Weather of one sort of another seems to be catching a lot of people out doesn't it - let's hope for a calmer 2025! Thanks Jenny.

[@tennesseenana4838]

LOVED this!!! Your creative energies were in full bloom with this video. My garden horror was my July and August water bill from our drought and heat. Both month's bills were 4 times their normal amount. Yes, I have to pay by the gallon used.

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Oh that’s terrible - makes me appreciate our current rain a bit more. Thank you!

[@chrissiehart22]

Nicely done x

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Thanks Chrissie - glad you liked it!

[@chrissiehart22]

@@JanesGrowingGarden completely seasonal and totally petrifing for us gardeners

[@chrissiehart22]

Slugs and mice

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

@@chrissiehart22 😅😅

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

@@chrissiehart22 so small and yet so devastating!

[@Ragt0p]

So, where’s your cauldron? 🎃🎃🎃 Loving the intro!

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Ha ha - I'm sure I can find one somewhere! Thank you.

[@GardenofEmma]

Love this. Very halloween themed lol

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Thanks Emma - I thought it was worth another airing!

[@Brenda-xc7sq]

Clever idea for a vlog and well executed by yourself and all your growing friends.

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

It was great fun to make - thank you!

[@SundaysInTheGarden]

So good! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🫣🫣🫣 so much fun and creativity!! My garden nightmare this year has been the blooming caterpillars getting my brassicas!! All I wanted was a brussel sprout at Christmas! Is that too much to ask? They were a real horror, leaving my poor brassicas skeletal and trembling! 💀🐛😂

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Oh your poor brassicas - I used to love collecting caterpillars when I was younger, I thought they were sweet little things - but not any more! Thanks Sarah.

[@SundaysInTheGarden]

@@JanesGrowingGarden they are very cute! In the past, my boys have had the ones which you keep and watch metamorphosise in to butterflies. But not so cute when they destroy our crops! 😂

[@BriansJerseygarden]

Great vlog we haven't had rain in ages but the little garden I was able to do was eaten by some bug I assume slugs but after a while I gave up

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

It's really tempting to walk away sometimes isn't it? Here's to a better growing year next year! Thanks Brian.

[@AnyKeyLady]

Ooh Spooky and truly horrific Jane, et el! I was wondering if you was going to do a Halloween one again this year. Great collab guys!

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

I thought it was worth a little rewatch! Thank you.

[@steveflitton8903]

My nightmare this year has to be SLUGS! So destructive. Many of my plants have been damaged or lost by these little blighters. I'm just glad we don't have gophers in the UK. Moles are bad enough.

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Oh the slugs have been worse than ever haven't they - but yes, at least we haven't got gophers ... YET! Thanks Steve x

[@hikerlindacanadianrockies8478]

Hailstorms from Hell are the horror story of southern Alberta. With our season so short, plants don't have time to completely recover and produce.

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Oh crikey yes I'm sure you have a whole different bucket of problems over there! Good luck for next year.

[@rough-hewnhomestead5737]

We planted sweet corn and.....we brought something FORTH! CROWS!!! They pulled up the sprouts...they dug the seed kernels out with their beaks! Finally, we got some corn growing after planting fot the billionth time. Then....DROUGHT! Horrors! Thank goodness for rainwater catchment! We did manage to foil the plans of one garden demon...the cabbage moth! I netted the day Iplanted and we actually got a few cabbages this year! Happy Halloween!

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Oh no - the crows probably thought you were very kind putting the corn out for them! Sometimes it’s a bonus to get anything isn’t it! Well done on defeating the cabbage moth though - at least you were able to harvest something! Thank you.

[@susanok2264]

Hi Jane! I'm a California gardener with gophers. I have an exterminator that kills gophers using metal traps. Unless you've experienced a gopher eating 9 square feet of Oriental poppies in one day or watched as they pull a whole tomato plant underground, you can not understand how destructive they are! We've also had to rebuild a shed and pay to have contaminated shelves, paper products, and garden supplies removed after an outside rat infestation at a cost of thousands of dollars. We now have the exterminator bait rat traps in the yard with a non secondary kill poison that won't harm any scavengers. I'm all about bringing birds and butterflies into my garden, but no gophers or rats are allowed. Love watching your videos, even if I don't always agree with you. 😊

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Honestly I don't know how we'd cope if we had gophers - I'm sure there would be a lot less people trying to grow things - they sound so destructive! Hope your defences are working! Thanks Susan.

[@RobinGardens]

Well done. Horrors here were: Rabbits, Squirrels, Cucumber Beetles and Root Rot Nematodes (ugly scary looking).

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

It's always scary when you hear of a new nasty - root rot nematodes sound horrific! Thanks Robin.

[@stevendowden2579]

its been a nightmare jane rain cold for weeks so depressing

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

It's been a pretty rubbish year all round hasn't it Steven - here's to 2025!

[@janeturley3717]

This year the squirrels are all of my pears and the badgers dug up my carrots, at least they didn't use my plot as their toilet, which is what they did in a neighbours plot 😮

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Thank heavens for small mercies!

[@mycountrygardenchannel]

Oh Jane, that was fab. Loved hearing about everyone’s nightmare, because we all have them. Mine was blight this year on my potatoes and outside tomatoes. There’s always next year 😀

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

I'm sorry to hear that Mags - amazingly we didn't get any this year which really surprised me because of all the damp weather. At least we're not alone though! Thank you x

[@growwell8872]

Zombies in the garden are my biggest garden nightmare! 🧟‍♀️ Specifically a zombie gardener-they are quite common but not often spoken about….but very very dangerous in your garden 🧟‍♀️👻 How do you know if you have been infected? 🕷️🕸️ You will notice you slow down, almost to a crawl, weeds creep in, harvest stay on the vine, animals move in to the plot, plans are forgotten, best intentions are but a distant memory -the only thing that feels good to zombie gardeners are slow strolls thru the fading fall garden watching the spiders weave, the leaves drop and winter creep in……watching KZbin gardeners doing all the proper things at the proper times moaning a long zombie gardener moan 🧟‍♀️💀

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Ha ha - in that case I'm definitely part zombie! Thanks for the giggle!