Last of the Asparagus and the Start of the Beans.! Plus Char, Polytunnel and BBQing. Ep217

[@ebxo269]

Love your mum's great Hair style, suits her nice..

[@jessievanswaaij2971]

No chicken update! The things you guys talk about on potty mouth as well as you when you show the beetroot i notice as well; everyting stays so tiny for weeks, months even. ( so not a compost thingy since i live in Belgium and we use differend brands and there isn´t peatfree compost over here)And you need the plants to grow to make any chance toward the slug army. So frustrating but on the other hand, i don´t grow foxes in my garden or badgers, so could be worse 😂 Lots of love from Belgium

[@Sylvie_M]

What a yummy looking lunch with beans on toast and asparagus in ham! FYI, the thumbs up button disappeared when I clicked on it and only the number shows.

[@lobodo988]

Same for me. Started just today (June 4, 2024) on all channels. Wonder what they're up to THIS time?

[@mollvandiepenbrugge9817]

I presow all my flowers at home, indoors.i cherish them too much to be eaten

[@Emma-sm8io]

Try germinating your beans (and any other seeds) in a lunchbox with wet kitchen towel. You could see shoots within a few days 🤞🏻🙏☺️

[@jennyjohnson9012]

I think its going to be one of those years Jessie. We seem to keep sowing lots but have nothing to show for it. I've lost tomatoes, beans, peas and even flowers. I think voles have been getting mine and also I had moles on my plot lifting everything up. The joys!!!

[@patricianathan4676]

Oh oh Jess, I am so impressed by a view of your stock of bottles ! Kitchen back room. Great sowing, and fox hole spraying. Sun promised next week. Well done. Fab kitten. ❤❤

[@debradevine3949]

Beautiful harvests today, lovely lunch, solid floor and beans sown. Great work!

[@Sarah-over-here]

Sprayer idea - wrapping rubber bands over the bit you want to grip might help, or if you want something a bit more nice looking, you can get rubber band things to open jars with (they look like giant rubber band and aren't usually too much). IF you have any spare, could you put a layer of the rodent mesh over and around the fox hole before you refill it to stop them burrowing up in the area?

[@chrisgoater4547]

Cooking tip: Another option for the broad beans if you pop the beans once cooked and deep fry the casing, tossed in chilli, salt and a touch of cumin. Amazing with a beer or 2

[@BettyandtheBees]

The chard matches your bathroom colour scheme perfectly. You need some chard themed decor in it!! 😂

[@jillbowler3292]

Really loving the paint scheme in that bathroom. May have to steal that for the panelling in ours. Hmmmm...

[@ebxo269]

With beans and peas its best to pre-soak overnight.. they germinate quicker..

[@BillBoulton-js8ns]

Our annual first and last tradition from the garden. Asparagus and Broadbean risotto 👍👍 Your beans on toast and BBQ asparagus looked fabulous.👍👍

[@rachelstark2391]

Greetings, The start of meteorological summer is actually on June 1st, so technically, it is already summer. Cheers ☀️☀️☀️

[@solveigludviksdottir4787]

I'm so jealous of your weather, 🌞 in Iceland there have been 3 days of hurricanes🌀 and snowfall🌧, everything I had put out has died and 2 days left according to the forecast, so now I'm sitting and watching your video and dreaming that move to warmer countries🌍

[@bertibear1300]

Oh no! Do you get sprayed in the sky too?

[@ritahobbs5256]

I love watching … so relaxing and inspiring… love the relationship between you… oh I miss my mum ❤

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi Jessie and your Mum, your beans are looking very healthy & will look loveky climbing over your arches too. I'm fed up losing plants to slugs too, it's been a very strange season. The weather has been wierd too 🙄 I have been to my plot today and it was very fine rain, so, I had a lot of potting up to do & tyding in my polytunnel so, didn't mind, now the sunshine is shining and not a cloud 🙄 plenty of harvesting too. Lots of planting done too. Polytunnel is coming together and I hope those foxes go away. So pleased your kitchen floor is done. Lovely video update. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

[@georgemartin9618]

Mum's piano playing is so relaxing.

[@IlkkaVuoristo]

The secret to opening a pressure sprayer is to sqeeze it between your arm and body and then twist the top.

[@mikeevonyna5322]

Sprayer trick is to completely depresurize before opening

[@brightpurpleviking]

And YAY! A cooking segment! I adore your cooking ❤ it’s gardening full circle

[@annlockey8552]

Summer starts 21st June 😊

[@janebray9736]

Slugs and snails are the worst I have known this season. I have had to sit all vulnerable sowings in the coldframe waiting to go out when it dries up a bit and have put them in large gravel trays sat on upturned trays with a moat of water around them. You've got to laugh or you'd cry. So enjoy your vlogs Jess 😊

[@Jimsraisedbedgarden]

Great update once again Jessie, busy busy busy lol pleased to see the progress on your polytunnel, keep up the good work and say Hi to your mum for me xx

[@user-ss9xc1uk6y]

Oh Jessie the slugs, snails and worms are vicious this year eat some of everything my squash and cucumbers are gone, we now are into the hurricane season and it’s raining so you no how there’re going to be, wish you and mum a wonderful week ❤❤

[@annaking9213]

Loved your white and flower sweater. Love the new nets for the beans.

[@debbiespitznagel1472]

Hope you keep the foxes at bay, or better yet, they find a new home far, far away!!! I hope that the foxes took care of the rats while they were there. I like the string things for the beans to climb up on. How fast and easy to put them on the arches. I will definitely look into getting some of those!

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

🐝thanks for the great video🌻 imagining the foxes just fetching the tennisball 🤣

[@debbiebrooks6487]

Hi Jessie, we are still in spring. Summer doesn’t begin until 20th June. So don’t be too downhearted about the weather. 😊😊

[@Free-dv2vm]

Spear and Jackson pump sprayer is awesome 5litre

[@teresaedwards3659]

I always learn and get inspired from you!

[@smellslikedirt525]

Hey Jess, You need a yellow Mesto Sprayer. It is German made and is AWESOME. It even sprays upside down. Company has been in busines for over 100 years. Great product. (Your okra probably got too cold. It does not like to ever go below 15. The hotter the better for that plant. Sow again.)

[@FM-qm5xs]

Those long beans are a tropical/subtropical bean. They need pretty warm weather to germinate. Here in Australia I don't plant them until the very end of Spring.

[@aniataylor1156]

I've been away for 3 days and have come back to rust on 50% of my garlic, black fly on my globe artichoke and dahlias. I also have them on my broad beans but had been dealing with that. As well as blight on my swift potatoes! They are in pots, so have moved them away from others but I'm thinking of taking them home and plonking them in the garden. I haven't had a slug issue since I used the nematodes you mentioned a while back but my mum had 11 tomatoes out of 11 slugged and some cucumbers, so I will be getting her some nematodes too. Feeling quite despondent this week.

[@lucrom1097]

Super Good work Jessie you the best te moostiun te planting good Time te week👍🌱⛅🍹🤗🧤🌿💐🐝☘️

[@bthyme]

Small tragedy - deer found my tomatoes. Ate more than half of my Sart Roloise, a good bir of an Alice's Dream, a part of Black Krim. Luckily I gave SartR and Alice's Dream to two neighbors, so I should at least get to taste them. Also, bathtubs are also useful for storing bumper crops of winter squash if you have a bathroom that stays cold all winter. Cheers

[@thomasthibedeau]

Something that you have to do at the home garden. You don't realize the pests until you plant something. Mine is bugs...all kinds and moles who do the most damage.

[@Stickladylove1]

Hi Jesse, great video. I feel your pain re the slugs, honestly I’ve lost so many seedlings due to the pests!!!! The most that I have ever lost, I’ve tried so many remedies to remain organic, the latest is the copper barrier but who knows if that’s going to work. Think lots of growers are suffering this year aren’t they x

[@stevendowden2579]

always a joy to watch well done jessie

[@ConcreteCauldron]

Terry King uses Lime around his plants to keep the slugs away. It’s on a recent video.

[@kevinstonebanks8552]

Thanks!

[@user-ns8gv7nf8l]

Terrible trouble at start of year, very little germinated and what did, stopped dead. At least 3 times resowed most. Got a bag of peat moss, added some to my compost with perlite and haven't looked back. Use same mix for potting on with little bfb.

[@AnyKeyLady]

Love that artwork on the home shed door! TBH, with that amount of chard, it's probably easier to wash in the bath. Weather has been a bit pants other than that week in May. Thanks for showing us the oil spray trick. Those rats are giving my sprouts a hard time. Sorry to hear about your courgettes! We had just planted out one and it died. We planted another in its place and it got attacked by slugs/snails. We have a load of pots on the patio but are in the process of clearing this section to jet wash the rest of it and hopefully send the slimy buggers to the salty water tub! Have a great week and take care!

[@jensissons5709]

im getting a sink for free to fit outside on my allotment so i can bring home ready washed and prepared veg. All compostable stuff and soil stays on the plot and used water goes on the plants.

[@lbeacon1]

Lovely lunch!

[@sharonphelps]

The leaves on some of my Charlotte new potatoes looked yellow with black spots like the potato plant you dug up. Mine are grown in large tubs. I emptied the affected tub and found the potatoes to be ok.

[@chitrabhakta3820]

You shpuld try soaking the beans in hot water overnight and then sow them. It might help with germination.

[@meapantz1983]

That dinners looks amazing 😍

[@jacquicablelabel6187]

Just watching you scatter your blood fish and bone fertilizer down - heads up to how much foxes and badgers love it. I can’t use it without strong defenses from my dogs. They will go through anything to dig up all those amazing smelly treats 😐😊

[@betbaker3479]

Hello just a thought have you ever looked up slugs on KZbin? There's a lot of really good videos one guy uses yeast or beer to attract them. Lot of really cool ways of getting rid of those. I also noticed on potty mouth nobody even mentioned alternatives on getting rid of them. Just a thought....

[@ginaturner8176]

Oooh! Sooo many sluggies! Had to resort to slug pubs, the wee blighters are getting more beer than me. Not good!

[@iandavies9154]

I think the not liking you pour the seed into your hands and then back into the packet is you can contaminate the seeds with bits of soil or moisture, the seed equivalent of double dipping in cooking. Cheers

[@tamararoberts9307]

❤ 🍻 😊 thx for another great vlog 👍

[@amandar7719]

Having same problem with our succession sown beetroot seedlings in modules. First sowing was direct. They too stalled and only now making an effort. Your chard looks fantastic and so giving this time of year. We too were relying on asparagus. Not sure if you like broccoli….. we transplanted Mammoth and tender stem greens in March under mesh and they’re ready to harvest now. Maybe something to consider for next year during this gap. Slugs are bad this year for sure. Right up there with weather forecasts!!! 😄

[@Jonoskillz]

Funny, touch wood my courgette's are yet untouched by the slugs but my peas have been absolutely battered....is it too late to resow some? Cucamelons also been annihalted....P.S/ lunch looked great, sadly I'd need about 4 of those to be full XD

[@KaneCheshire]

I feel you about the annoying weather reports teasing us with sunshine only to find out it’s yet more grey! I was wondering, is there any way to adjust the gain/levels on your mic? It sounds a little bit blown out at times compared to your last one!

[@auntyree5131]

i feel your pain OMG the slugs are out in force planted 3 courgettes 8 squash all my beans runner butter borlotti and french all gone 5.30am sunday had to sow them again i have spray one just like that one only cheap from tesco and i have same problem small hands the botttle is so smooth you can't get grip beetroot leaves look very yellow

[@smallbackgardenplot7273]

I live in Devon and the slugs and snails are the same ….. also my beets are like yours …. I think it’s the weather xxx

[@Hhaahland4]

Would standing the legs of your potting bench in containers of water, or wrapping them in something sticky/rough, deter the slugs climbing up?

[@elinoreastwood3062]

Hi Jess, can you tell us which journal app 0please- sounds a great idea!

[@EssArrB]

Chardtastic!

[@bertibear1300]

I got a mole last year and it’s back this year

[@georgeattard5508]

jessie if you put salt under and around the trays it will kill the slugs on contact and you will not have these problems.

[@jeanhelliwell8160]

I've had exactly the same with a lot of my seedlings this year, my beetroot were like yours, the golden all rotted, not that many even germinated

[@GettingGoshen]

Paint Sprayers from hardware store ( or big box home center) less expensive and larger capacity.

[@kreativekatevlog]

Quite a lot of stuff in my greenhouse is taking sooooo long to grow.... I'm getting to the point where I think my cherry and sunrise Tom's are going to be planted into the polytunnel even ghough they are still small.

[@siggiroberts7432]

Hi Jessie, the weather is absolutely horrible. I had the same problem with my potatoes (swift) grown in buckets. I took them out as well, just incase. The others are fine for now. Foxes can be a real pain in London. One tried to dig a 2nd chanel tunnel in the middle of my lawn in the backgarden when I lived in Greenwich. No problemo hier in South Yorkshire tho.

[@anthonystevens749]

My experience of germination has been patchy this year - good result with broad beans, runner beans ok (but nowhere near 80% success), after 3 fails I've given up on dwarf french beans (Ferrari), and opted for Cobra. 10 seeds in two of the little green trays have yielded at 40% with the first try - now waiting for results from the second try. 🤔😖

[@GrowintheBackYard]

nice video jessie iam a new subscriber and i have binged watched your videos over the past few days. fantastic videos.

[@myrustygarden]

Hope the smelly fix works 😂. Human urine does too apparently and less messy than the other one you mentioned last week. Oh my the bean arch should be absolutely stunning in summer. I’m trying Vicks vaporub around some of my pots because I found slugs on my gorgeous new dahlias. Nope as I sit here it’s pouring rain and high winds, I’ll never get outside to garden 😢. The Poly Fort Knox looks fab and should work a treat 🤞🤞. I use my calendar and I can search back years and a lot less space consumption for those photos. Everything is behind here too but then it is October oh wait nope June 🤦‍♀️. Doesn’t the FBB attract critters too? I hope all the bail comes up for you 🤞🤞, it should be fun. Have a most wonderful week ladies ❤, Ali 🌧️🌧️🇨🇦

[@user-px4ne5wm8g]

Compost this year has been pants and slugs have murdered everything in my pots to the point I have stopped sowing any veg

[@rachelstark2391]

Put that stone like mat over the fox den.

[@GrowYourOwnLife]

Good on you for calling hozelock out a dreadful firm. Gardners stay away from them 👍

[@rebeccazody1278]

The slug had like a milk mustache ? Lol

[@brightpurpleviking]

I’ve got an infestation of chiggers (harvest mites) in my garden to the point where I cannot even go out there for five minutes without getting bitten like crazy. I don’t want to use a broad string insecticide but my garden is completely unusable this way.

[@yvonnay8904]

Have you thought to make a hole in the 🎾 and add in full strength ( drops) peppermint oil. Maybe the smell would last longer? Good luck.

[@jeanhelliwell8160]

I hope the foxes had vacated their home. 😁

[@keithmaker51]

Sorry to here your Bruno long beans haven’t germinated I planted some after you planted them in your video, mine all germinated but I have noticed they do grow very slowly compared to other beans and I hope you have better luck with them this time.

[@alison3276]

Kitchen floor! Whoohoo! Chicken update? Winnie settling in?

[@juststeph6940]

I’m new around here I’m really enjoying your vlogs. I’m curious if you have a job and take care of your large allotment? Is KZbin your job? Just curious because I know gardens take a lot of time and energy.

[@annahight9895]

Is there anyway you could try and put some net over them and tuck it under to try to prevent the slugs and snails from getting to them, and try to put a support under so the net won't crush them?

[@Carol-oc7mx]

Hi Jess Can I ask where you did you get the welded wire mesh you use to cover/ arch over the beds The plots looking great 👍

[@helenkeough4187]

Id be interested to know what you're doing with all that chard!! Freezing???

[@connydijkstra7781]

What a nice vlog again! What do you do with all that chard?

[@Plot86]

always a pleasure watching your endeavours in the plot Jessie also do you have a link for those wire hoops you removed from the chard bed Cheers.

[@LittleMissBusy777]

Slug with courgette juice running down his mouth😂 If you don't laugh you'll cry. They are such a nuisance. Lost my cucumbers to them😢

[@squeezyjohn1]

I think your beetroot problem is dodgy Sylvagrow ... I've had several bags that just look wrong (almost orange and woody) ... it was producing awful slow seedlings with no nutrients ... swapped to the yellow bag Sylvagrow with added John Inness ... Much better results.

[@ebxo269]

Sprayer £16... put it under your arm to grip and undo.....

[@rachelstark2391]

Jessie, Did you notice some camera issues @ 33:28?

[@debbiegibson6113]

I'm in Oregon, USA. I'm also experiencing the same seed issues as you. I know most seed is grown and then seed distribution sites sell to selling sites. Do you think the distribution centers are selling compromised seeds? Another thing one vlog said to take a smear of sourdough starter and smear on cardboard then cover. In the morning lift the cover and dispense slugs and snails. It seems to be working!

[@meapantz1983]

Is there another exit on the fox 🦊 hole. Hopefully chickens can come out soon

[@paulineellison9047]

hi jessie what they liner u used to like the floor and sides of beds in the polytunnel thanks

[@timchristian8892]

love your videos i just have to say god you got amazing eyes

[@Nikapd]

Sow the bloody beans Jessie 🙄

[@carolinehoney6605]

Did you say you were using an app to record your sowings and plantings...that sounds super useful, are you able to share which one it is?? Thank you x

[@adms007]

I was going to ask the exact question, so thanks. X

[@roberttucker3322]

The journal app on Apple iPhone

[@adms007]

@@roberttucker3322 Thanks, I’ve found it and I’ll be using that too from now on…..

[@rachelstark2391]

Is there one for an Android?

[@adms007]

@@rachelstark2391 Sorry, I don’t know, but I’m sure there will be something and someone will know.

[@jayneeburks8482]

Always a joy!

[@mollvandiepenbrugge9817]

Can you presow poppies?

[@robbieg3014]

The thumbs up button has been deleted. I can only see the thumbs down showing 27 at the time of commenting.

[@ninemoonplanet]

19 minutes in, thumb up is there @50 count.

[@olgalewis6661]

You can click on the number not the downward facing thumb!

[@jeanlauridsen8596]

Hello My Jessie Babe, how are you?