Garden with Me & April Allotment Tour 2023

[@bluumz-n-veg]

Thanks so much for sharing your allotment with us, it is my favorite on all of YT!

[@homegrowngarden]

Thanks for your support! 💚

[@fungreengardninghomemade1321]

Nice video beautiful garden

[@vhsarchives357]

What a stunning view and the garden looks tidy too 🤪😋

[@radhekamohammed2021]

Your garden is beautiful ❤

[@AntonGully]

I could be doing with those clumps of grass to fill in the patches on my "lawn".

[@jess49497]

I loved your video, you are a wonderful person, new subscriber a cordial greeting from Mexico City Congratulations👏👏👏🌷🌷

[@spaceintel]

Nice small pond

[@angietaylor5311]

Your allotment is looking absolutely beautiful, enjoy Katrina 💚❤️💚

[@josie_posie809]

'Blood and bandages' will now forever be with me whenever I see red and white. What a grandma thing to say 🥰and what a slice of romance your allotment is even in April.

[@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

Hello Katrina, What a fabulous video today. So much information and everything is looking so nice. All of your planning and hard work has paid off so well. I am beyond excited to see how the wedding flowers come along and turn out. I am praying for a successful garden and for your wedding flower plans to turn out. I always look forward to your videos as you have such a calming voice and your infectious enthusiasm is refreshing. After days of the news bringing us down your video comes along to lift our spirits and refresh the feeling of spring and the passion to do and grow while exceeding our own boundaries. Thank you for this video and all the videos that do leave an incredible amount of joys for so many others to have for free. Wishing you a fantastic garden experience and the most spectacular wedding as you both start this blessed union and binding of hearts, minds, souls and lives. There is a long journey yet ahead make many pauses to allow the magic and wonder to flourish and develop the same way your garden will unfold its own peace and beauty. Bye for now

[@lysmalls658]

The Tulips are Beautiful

[@stevendowden2579]

a lovely video

[@jgbsweeper7325]

I simply love your videos ! If I could only watch one KZbin channel, this would be it. Thanks !

[@RGB0703]

Just peace when I watch ur allotment ❤

[@josephscudlark9476]

You allotment is a real "Garden of Eden" right now.

[@liZBBM]

You're so pleasant to listen to. Such a pretty allotment. Great info ❤

[@maryparton5131]

Another lovely video! I can't wait to see all the gorgeous flowers in bloom!

[@Plotonthehill]

Everything looks amazing.. Beautiful time for blossom 😘

[@christinamichael2043]

Hi Katrina. All looking promising and lovely. Can't wait to see the roses and the peonies. ❤Xx

[@suesummers8813]

You are so enthusiastic it’s contagious… can’t wait to get back out in my garden…

[@jayneeburks8482]

Charles Dowding composts all his bindweed shoots. He says they do not survive. Loved the video Kat💗

[@homegrowngarden]

Yeah, he can because his compost bin gets super hot. Mine doesn’t.

[@jayneeburks8482]

@@homegrowngarden That makes sense. Thank you.

[@johnnylucas1929]

Beautiful garden. Like the flowers in between 💪

[@rambukah76]

Thanks

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

love an allotment tour they are some beautiful deep red blossoms. They are amazing

[@charlesyeo8252]

Charlotte is such a wonderful name.

[@lilal3753]

I love your garden. I would be so happy just sitting there enjoying the day.

[@cpoco]

Could you get a container, fill it with water and put your bindweed cuttings in to leave to decompose?

[@melissamclaughlin]

Ooh your plot is blooming Katrina! Love seeing your enjoyment of the blossom. We recently bought a dwarf apple tree and it's blossoming just now. Trying to work out if I have enough room for a crab apple too after seeing yours!

[@sandrasenior1289]

I love your garden,am a new gardener and am looking to buy some flower and vegetable seed or tubers,do you sell them ❤

[@marykappesser5145]

your hard work is paying off. Great job. it is beautiful

[@johnkelly6594]

Loads of flowers on my falstaff apple tree, your right should have lots of apples this year. 🇮🇪

[@nowyouareoneofus9684]

This channel just popped up. A lazy Saturday night. Classical music on the back ground. This woman causes enormous disruption in my being. I am in love. ❤

[@homegrowngarden]

Thanks for joining me! Hope to see you on the next one.

[@michaeldavidson2073]

The plot is looking awesome - spring is an amazing time of year. Thanks for your enthusiasm and inspiration.

[@willowgrove631]

What an absolute joy this video is! Everything just bursting into life ❤️🐝

[@stevekay1766]

I do love white tulips, your new climbing rose has taken really well, you definitely have so much going on now in your allotment, it will be interesting to see how it progresses into summer 🌸

[@paulharrison6490]

At 9:37 you were visited by a Bee Fly, most likely Bombylius major which hovered briefly in the bottom right corner. Great pollinators and I love seeing them at this time of year. 🙂 Things are definitely coming along and fast even up here in Yorkshire. Your allotment is looking great and very tidy ready for the onslaught of plants.

[@homegrowngarden]

Yes! I spotted that when I was editing. Such a cool creature.

[@primeribviking3688]

Have you tried growing a strong mustard green in your potato patch and tilling them in and letting them settle before you plant potatoes?

[@mags9536]

Everything in your plot looks so healthy

[@Greyghost80]

Kat it looks amazing 🤩 you put a lot of effort into it every year. I been going back watching your older videos. You have came along way

[@jaydewoodman338]

Oh so lovely🥰 I’ve just started building an allotment garden and dream for it to be this lovely 🥰

[@wildlifegardener-tracey6206]

I love this month and May, your plot demonstrates perfectly why. Beautiful it was lovely sharing your love of this season of the year. Really enjoyed seeing how your gorgeous plot is bursting into life. 💚

[@carmenbailey1560]

Wow, everything is looking gorgeous, spring is definitely in the air for you. Love seeing your garden and all the new growth . The greens, and spring colours everything. I can almost smell the blossoms, here in Ontario it’s wet, damp and cold so seeing your garden is very enjoyable. Thank you very much for sharing. 👍❤️😊

[@lydiagumfory8562]

I just came on to see if you had a new video update! 🙂 I’m fixing to do some work in my garden and I love to sit and watch your videos for inspiration!

[@lindseynoel3522]

Ahh! Thanks for the information on tulip fire, I was wondering what had happened to some of mine! Guess what I’m doing this morning! Xxx

[@treehouse3240]

The garden looks beautiful.

[@cherylbeswick7327]

Loving these longer videos ❤ everything is looking fabulous!

[@toneyjohnson8910]

The flowers are going to be amazing this year. Here in Georgia USA spring is finally showing up still getting down in the forties at night it needs to warm up I have tomatoes and peppers to plant. thanks for sharing.

[@Lisa.Gypsy.C]

Your plot looks amazing Kat, 🌼🌿

[@davidmcqueen6941]

Love your video’s Katrina, if I’m stressed watching them chills me right out. Just a quick question is your plot near Woodborough rd ?

[@993ti]

My Sarracenias are just starting to show new growth, so yours will probably be fine too.

[@artistlovepeace]

Just a beautiful honest channel of gardening. Astonishing, entertaining and welcome in a world of disinformation.

[@longway4442]

My first garden had the hottest peppers ever. Not even the deer wanted to eat them 😂 my mouth still 🥵 ,, wondering who learned the best ways to raise plants from there grandparents? Great channel girl! Been enjoying the content for years.🕺

[@Cerrydwenn]

Such a beautiful space u have :) My roses are already riddled with aphids thanks to all the ants, will have to keep on top of that this year. I had also not heard of wireworm before, but we had colorado beetles on our potatoes the previous years. Lots to keep an eye on.

[@TobyRobb]

Something interesting about ginkgo it has motile pollen! That's right, it has a flagella and it can swim!!

[@leadbelly1495]

I really really like your channel just wanted to let you know thanks

[@homegrowngarden]

Thank you 😊

[@Peg06]

Great spring tour! And remember: there is no such thing as too many dahlias.

[@andrewislas7742]

Your garden has transformed so much. Everything seems so organized this spring No more beautiful chaos going onthere but a purposeful arrangement of green 😊

[@homegrowngarden]

Oh believe me, there’s still plenty of beautiful chaos going on 😆

[@sandrasenior1289]

And some roses cuttings

[@5pr1nk57]

Heyy! 👋 Glad to see you with an April update at your allotment and some gardening! I've saved to watch later as just about to pop out to do a bit in my garden! 😁 Your tulips look great! I was worried my new ones weren't going to amount to much as I planted late (Jan) but while a little stunted, they're now all coming into bloom! 😊

[@The_man_himself_67]

April is a great month. Blossom and birdsong. Enjoy!

[@nineteenninetyfive]

Careful, buying David Austin roses can get out of hand! But that Roald Dahl rose is beautiful though...

[@beverley1539]

Hiya Katrina, wow the allotment is looking fabulous truly enjoyed. Looking forward to the climbing roses on the old plum tree /bird feeder so glad with your choice. Oh how is your little sink pond? I will be watching for any ideas regarding planting in pots etc as my space is limited. Take care Thankyou Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝

[@breatheandgrow4055]

I absolutely love your channel Kat! Weird question: What trousers do you garden in? I can never find anything hardy enough x

[@homegrowngarden]

These are just walking trousers from Decathlon. In winter I wear fleece lined ones.

[@aaron1143]

Always a joy to watch your videos. Any luck with pea germination? I've set 30 in small pots and got two!! So i've sown more direct into the soil. Hope it works out. 🤞

[@homegrowngarden]

Too early to say! They only went in 5 days ago.

[@aaron1143]

@@homegrowngarden Ha ! I should have watched all the video first. Hopefully yours will be good. You seem to have great germination success in your polytunnel 👍👍

[@neilharrison7422]

I always look forward to seeing the allotment each month Katrina. Can I ask how old your Blueberry plant is.

[@homegrowngarden]

Good question. I just checked. I’ve had them about 3 years. There’s a bit more about them in this video where I repotted them kzbin.info/www/bejne/emaYd2ucrq2Zj9E

[@punjabseth260]

so nice😍🌼

[@MrSoppysod]

Interested to hear your comments about not keeping medaka outside. I have two similar outside ponds with the same fish and they have survived almost total freezing up this winter and of the 12 I had, it's now 10 and the two that died were probably too young for the ordeal they had to face. They are beautiful little things but have still not got used to my approaching them and rush for cover with a long wait until they appear again. This makes the difficult to catch when I wanted to clean up their trough home - in fact I didn't manage to catch any! Love your vlogs and I wish we were allowed to grow the wide variety of non vegetable plants in out allotments.

[@ViveClaire]

Lovely April garden! I’m trying to figure out what variety my inherited crab apple is as well. Does yours have a two year cycle for blooming/fruiting? Mine holds on to its fruit a really long time and only does a big bloom every other year. Really deep pink blossoms and reddish new growth like yours.

[@laragallin7251]

Found your channel when looking for advice on growing potatoes in containers as I'm having a go at growing container veg on the patio this year. Love the content and the best thing is that I'm in also in the East Midlands so we have the same weather. I'm also growing Rudbeckia Sahara and Panicum Frosted Explosion although the former I bought as plug plants and I haven't sowed the panicum yet. Technically, that's a job for tomorrow.

[@homegrowngarden]

It’s a great time to be sowing Panicum! Thanks for subscribing ❤️🙌

[@jop8833]

Boss video x

[@cliffordchristopher1]

Hot compost the bindweed root in fresh hose manure and straw.

[@homegrowngarden]

I’m sorry but none of you are ever going to convince me to keep bindweed 😆

[@suewilson2550]

Hi. Loved the tour. I have grown autumn sown nigella and wonder if I should pinch the tops out as they’re a bit floppy. Thanks

[@PlantNative]

The Nandina here in US has killed songbirds. They c as by digest the dry seed “berries.” Be careful if it isn’t native to 🇬🇧 please.

[@robert4027]

Any butternut squash or yellow squash this year. ??? Excellent garden you have built 👍👍👍👍

[@homegrowngarden]

You can see the squash varieties I’m growing here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ-2XmCAls93edk

[@wichtelgarten]

Wonderful and very inspiring!

[@davidbradley3724]

Does anyone know what those colourful plants are called that look like pretty stinging nettles. The lady spoke about them just before the hellebore bit.

[@homegrowngarden]

Hello! That’s called dead nettle I’m not sure which variety it is though.

[@davidbradley3724]

@homegrown.garden Thanks, I've never seen anything like them before with the white stripes on the leaves. I'll google dead nettle and try and find out. Anyway, it's good for the bees 🐝 👌

[@homegrowngarden]

@@davidbradley3724 spotted dead nettle!

[@davidbradley3724]

@@homegrowngarden Thanks 😊

[@A-LineDanceVideos]

I’ve had the same problem with exactly the same arches. Mind the width of the base, just put them less wide and the kink on top is gone. Or wider of course when the kink is the other way.

[@homegrowngarden]

Thanks for the tip!

[@A-LineDanceVideos]

@@homegrowngarden Just took me 2 years to figure that out 🙈

[@shoshanahcrookes4406]

Enjoy your videos so much Katrina. I have to ask you some questions which I hope you have time to answer? What is the little plant like a nettle called? Also I only have one hellebore which I love. You have so many but they're very expensive. Did you buy all yours or grow from seed? Or any advice if you propagate? And yes my blue tits haven't come to my box and I failed to clean it out too so that must be the reason 😞

[@malonekenny1]

love

[@lisaladnier1847]

Love your videos! I’ve been wanting to get a Generous Gardner rose ever since I first saw you talking about them on your videos. Do you keep yours in a container? If so, do you take it inside during the winter?

[@homegrowngarden]

Thank you! You can see more about my Generous Gardener rose by the gate here when I first planted it Planting a Bare Root Rose / Homegrown Garden kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXesm2ejgrqYkJI It stays outdoors all year round 👍🏻

[@paulw3182]

The garden is wonderful! Thanks for the video. Did you have the bindweed before you put in the turf?

[@homegrowngarden]

Yes.

[@itsmewende]

I love a crisp edge, my mom was a stickler for that, she loved to garden, yours looks so fresh. Your big bucket of tulips, wonderful, this yr I had some that bloomed down in the foliage, like where some of yours are just showing the bud....."the crumble is calling" 😊 "blood and bandages" 😱 😂 If I'm not mistaken, I think Charles Dowding said you could compost bindweed, I think using a separate bag would make for a great garden experiment, which I do love.

[@homegrowngarden]

Charles Dowding has a fantastic composting set up, unfortunately mine wouldn’t get as hot as his and I don’t risk it. I treat bindweed like the plague 😆

[@itsmewende]

@@homegrowngarden I wondered about the heat for you. Your bindweed sounds like my wire grass.

[@itsmewende]

@@homegrowngarden I wondered about the heat for you. Your bindweed sounds like my wire grass.

[@1snakehips]

Thank you for your Spring tour, nice to see those Tulips blooming (I like them too). Glad you mentioned Fireboreblight (?) as I've spotted something similar in my own garden. Oh and you mentioned the slow feeders, that was a good point too, that's an item on my shopping. Looking forward to potting my potatoes, in raised buckets as my garden suffers from frequent flooding after raining. Love watching your videos, thank you.

[@spaceintel]

Where do you live?

[@aarthidding]

She’s in Nottingham, UK!

[@flowerpixel]

Sorry about your fish :( The arches are going to look so cool. I also don't like bright red by itself or with white much. I've never heard blood and bandages before 😂

[@homegrowngarden]

I think they were too young to survive such extreme, prolonged cold in December 😔 The ‘blood and bandages’ I think comes from Victorian or World War 1 times in Britain. It’s said to be bad luck and a symbol of death or ill health. It’s considered bad taste to give red and white flowers to someone for this reason, especially if they’re in hospital. It’s a bit of an old fashioned expression though and I don’t know how many young people know about it now. 🤔

[@jennyjohnson9012]

Hi Katrina your plot looks amazing! My blue tits havent returned either. They were looking at the old box 2 weeks ago, didnt want to know about the new box, but so far nothing. I do however have a Wren building a nest in the bottom of my hanging basket, so I wont be using that this year!! I know the male builds a few nests and then the female decides. He's been at it for about 2 weeks so fingers crossed. I love all the blossom on your plot. Just beautiful!

[@homegrowngarden]

Wrens are the cutest! It baffles me how such a tiny bird can produce such a loud song.

[@caoakley2157]

Any tips for keeping slugs off dahlia's I can't get them past a few inches tall in my Welsh garden!

[@homegrowngarden]

Are they in the ground? Growing them on in a polytunnel or greenhouse first will help massively.

[@Hhaahland4]

Will solarising your turf and bindweed in black plastic bags over the summer kill the bindweed? I love my Roald Dahl rose. If you deadhead constantly it will repeat flower from spring through to autumn. The first year it grew long arching branches that meant all the flowers were laying on the ground and I nearly yanked it out but I waited another year and with a good prune the branches started to thicken up and hold themselves up. It does still tend to send out the long arching branches in Autumn but when I deadhead I cut the branch right back to a thicker section.

[@homegrowngarden]

I may need to do something like that for the ground elder but I would have to move all my strawbs. Thanks for the heads up on the rose!

[@catemc2323]

🌈💚🍀

[@angrybees8122]

Kat how big is your allotment plot?

[@homegrowngarden]

Approximately 25 x 15m

[@stewartmk7]

When my late father had an allotment, it was always measured in "poles", the choice was either a 5 or 10 pole plot? I think dad had a 10? We had clay at home, but only a mile away it was quite sandy, so he grew certain things at home, and other things at the allotment. Early memories was hearing the first cuckoo, something I've not heard for years.

[@georgemartin9618]

A pole is a measurement of area approximately 30 sq yards or 25 sq metres. Just googled it , I always thought it was length so you learn something new everyday .

[@homegrowngarden]

@@stewartmk7 ahh yes. The poles! Such an old fashioned measurement from the past that means nothing to anyone else 😆

[@peterbunyan3924]

Wow, where are you going to put all that lot? 😂

[@homegrowngarden]

I guess we’ll find out 🤷🏻‍♀️ 😆

[@sandrasenior1289]

I live in Bradford, West Yorkshire

[@fafafarmlife]

Xin chào bạn ❤

[@Flower_hoarder]

🌱🪴🌸PRETTY 🌸🪴🌱

[@carolyncarlon9870]

If a viewer is adamant about not buying into questionable products, it’s certainly not shaming anyone. It’s called sharing wisdom. Yes, feeling strongly about something is a good thing. I bought into these companies’ hype decades ago…never again. Case in point, Monsanto/Bayer Round-Up.

[@homegrowngarden]

Yes, you did you shamed me - take a look at the definition. Feeling strongly about something is a good thing if you share helpful knowledge for others. You didn’t share any wisdom. If you commented with a reason why people shouldn’t use those products that is backed up with scientific evidence, THAT is knowledge.

[@carolyncarlon9870]

I forgot you work at a plant nursery…perhaps you need to do your own research. But I don’t think you are inclined. Sorry to ruffle your feathers. I’m a proponent of organic gardening. Charles Dowding, Huw Richards, and Liz Zorab are amazing!

[@homegrowngarden]

@@carolyncarlon9870 I don’t feel like I need to defend my use of certain products. I explained in the video why I only use it in containers that don’t contain actual soil and never in open ground. 🤷🏻‍♀️ It’s just more helpful to everyone reading if you explain your reasons that’s all, rather that saying ‘this is is wrong’.

[@Crocs4cats]

Why is every one of your comments on this channel so negative? It just makes you look like a very unpleasant and miserable person 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

[@jjr1728]

I love labradors

[@homegrowngarden]

Who doesn’t!

[@meenalpatil1537]

Why can't you add bricks border to restrict the grass in pathways?

[@homegrowngarden]

It gives slugs a place to hide and breed! 🐌

[@StuWright]

blood and bandages? lol , thats a new one on me, must be from the war era.

[@olegkanev3950]

Ten likes!

[@sandrabeauchamp4207]

💯♥️🥰💯🙏🙏🙏