My Very Unpredictable Garden

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@TG-ms6kq Ай бұрын

Hi Tony, I am a scout leader so do a fair bit of camping, you should be able to find a sleeping bag which opens on the other side without a problem, a lot of sleeping bags also have double zips so you could have the tube come out and still have the bag closed. Top tip for camp beds is to have a roll mat on top of the bed like a mattress this will insulate you from the cold air underneath, you also want to stuff the space under the camp bed with bags etc so there is a good barrier to stop the cold air beneath. Another tip is a wool blanket, it is great to snuggle in and will keep you warm even if it's damp. Final tip is to wear a woolly hat in bed - yes even in summer. Best wishes with your future camping expeditions Jenny

@JBNat Ай бұрын

Loved this catch up Tony

@wolfmoon2010 Ай бұрын

Got myself an allotment a month ago after 4 years on the list, feel like a kid at Christmas, will be rewatching all your vids 🤣

@mrich1416 Ай бұрын

Great stuff as usual Tony. Looking forward to the next Potty Mouth.

@dereknash3638 Ай бұрын

Never understood camping and don’t get me started on crocs, if I go away I like my comfort. Don’t have an allotment but runner beans, onions and tomato’s, potato’s have been great this year in my small garden

@Brigantius Ай бұрын

I agree; it's been a wierd year. So many of my early sowings were lost during the cold, wet start to the season, but they have been followed by some good results in the warmer, drier weather we've had here in south Durham since. It's been an excellent year for my brassicas, except for broccoli, all of which went straight to seed. Caulis and cabbages have been great and my brussels are looking better than in recent years. I don't know what has happened to my onions though. Last year I had a heavy crop of large ones. This year, the few that have done anything are tiny, though disease-free. Peas have also been perculiar. They were looking good, then as soon as the crop appeared to be almost ready, they just died. I've grown lots of broad beans for years and have always had an excellent crop, but the gales we had not long ago blew them all over when they were just about ripe, and something ate half the crop within one week before I could gather them all in! I've never experienced anything like that before. Beetroot have been late after the early year losses, but I'm pulling a good crop now with plenty more to come. My tomatoes under glass have carried less leaves than usual and been a bit leggy for some reason, yet I've had a good crop which is still producing. Outside ones are carrying a good crop too, but they haven't started ripening yet and I think it will be touch and go now whether they will do so to any degree. I keep a pair of camping chairs in my shed, one of which I keep set up so if I need a short break or I need to escape a shower, I can disappear inside and sit. The second one is for when I have a visitor call in for a chin-wag. :) Glad to see you looking so well, Tony, after what you have been through. :)

@Kershaw44 Ай бұрын

Keep up the good work Tony, love the channel, my Toms and Cucumbers have been great this year but not much else, roll on next spring so we can start all over again

@justtus Ай бұрын

My watermelon did the same as your cucumber, fine one day next wilting and brown. Luckily I've got a few small growing so hopefully they ripen. I've had much better luck this year with cucumbers with zero disease/damage - I selected a UK greenhouse specific F1 breed, a bit expensive but well worth.

@carolwhite6979 Ай бұрын

My beans came to nothing this year, but tomatoes and potatoes were good and the parsley and time! Today I am filling a bucket with crab apples for jelly and a big bag of green cooking apples to make pies!

@jmawdsley2 Ай бұрын

Quality content as always. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@barryroberts6470 Ай бұрын

Don't forget that Hori Hori under all those leaves. Barry (Wirral)

@jennyhulett5403 Ай бұрын

Hi Tony. I recommend the sleeping bags that are a body suit (often called walking sleeping bags) you look like a toddler in a snow suit but so so warm. Many have zips both sides of the chest and and a popper pocket so could be ideal for medical needs. I struggle with camping beds, I highly recommend a mattress topper. They fold into a vac bag and once you've pumped the air out takes up little room in the car. Vac bags on camping are so useful. If Daisy doesn't like the cold a dog camping bed is great. They raise them up off the floor a little to keep the damp/draft out.

@lynnpurfield9430 Ай бұрын

I have never had a bad bean year until this year. I thought it was because I complained about getting too many 😂

@christinerees50 Ай бұрын

You should have looked into a trailer tent Tony ..mattress and duvet ..even Daisy would approve !.I haven't been camping for four years and for a few years I only camped about 8 miles from home as my mum had dementia and I couldn't cope not seeing her everyday ..lost her 2 years ago ..my trailer tent remains in the garage untouched for 4 years ..perhaps next year I'll take my dog Ffynnon on his first camping holiday ...

@barbaracarter6726 Ай бұрын

My fig tree finally delivered the goods with about 65 figs on it this year and then the rains come. Then I wondered if old Noah would come knocking at my door asking me to hire on as cook for the ark. And the figs seemed to think it was their job to dry up all the land - and they split, they invited millions of troops of ants and the entire crop was gone. A farmer's life is a hard life. Better luck next year. Hey - dig out those pepper and eggplant plants and cut them down to force them into dormancy. Overwinter in a cool part of the house. They will be plants for you next spring to plant out into the garden! Don't let them go to waste.

@mygardenanddinosaurs Ай бұрын

Really enjoyed your chat today Tony. My toms are rubbish. Got great onions. Potatoes hit and miss. Peas great. Beans ok. A very weird year.

@Jacqui-Pen Ай бұрын

Nice seeing you well relaxed there Tony. Our first year having a go at growing everything. Had some failures & successes. Learnt a little too. Weather is shocking here in South Yorkshire

@christinebrooks6364 Ай бұрын

Hi Tony, it has been an awful year. My hubby's cucumbers just died off quickly although, we did het a good crop. Our beans didn't grow, the flowers did but, died off. Seed germination was poor too. Nice to hear about your camping trip & how much you enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

@thechilliman1602 Ай бұрын

Glad to see your doing okay Tony camping great fun just got a allotment so much weed trying to get it around going to be hard work

@maureenmckenna5220 Ай бұрын

Gave up gardening veg many years ago when the deer, rabbits and bugs outnumbered the veg. But, for 20 years now, gardening at my house in Virginia, here in the States, and have never seen such changes before, ever. The temps here hovered around 100, very high humidity too, with no rain for three weeks. Then, the temps dropped slightly, a little bit of rain, and back they went. I just couldn’t bear to go outside. When I finally emerged, I decided that whatever had succumbed was getting pulled out, whether because of deer or drought. It was clear which plants had survived and looked good, even though it had been dreadful. Fall is a good time to plant here, and I will be pulling out and sometimes not putting anything in, or planting what I know will work. No spraying, no extra watering. I have found beautiful, hardy varieties that are pricey, but worth it. Much good luck with your veg. Wish I could grow them.

@Dawn_Grows_Veg Ай бұрын

As an ex Guide leader even in my younger days I have always got cold at night sleeping on an airbed in a sleeping bag and thermal PJs. A friend suggested a duvet so I took a 10.5 tog double on and haven't looked back. I thoroughly recommend a duvet for family camping, unless you are willing to spend 100s of pounds on a proper mountaineering down sleeping bag, I find normal sleeping bags just aren't warm enough unless we are having a heatwave in this country and the air temps at night are above 20C. Thats me just a block of ice at night 😂

@angelacross7940 Ай бұрын

I would take another sleeping bag unzip it as another layer on top . 👍🤪

@Bexyboo88 Ай бұрын

My brother got himself a 2nd hand trailer tent for a couple hundrend quid, it's bloody brilliant! Folds down into a small little trailer size, so easily towed and then you can put it up in like 5 mins. Folds out on both sides, has a double bed, little units in, simple fabric binds and mesh insect netting on the windows. 100% recommend as a step up from a normal tent.

@janw491 Ай бұрын

Japanese beetles are horrible here in Ontario so I have net bags on my young fruit trees. Runner beans and bush beans have been fantastic this year even with the beetles that I pick off daily for chicken treats! Carrots are good too. I got tomatoes for the year but the cabbages, onions and leeks are all small but tasty. It’s been a great year overall.🇨🇦 Cucumbers total fail🤪

@keithmaker51 Ай бұрын

Tony one of the best angling bed chairs out there are made by Nash cheap one’s tend to sag over time and you end up lying on the leg cross bars.

@stevepreston6212 Ай бұрын

I've had a good year for beans north west Lancashire

@neilgrice8821 Ай бұрын

I am 71 and still go camping.

@glyniscolby3257 Ай бұрын

My cucumbers have done exactly the same, dead to the core. I was thinking if I should have fed mine more I’m like you can’t understand it.. what a blinking year of allotment life Hey! Glynis

@susiespearing6165 Ай бұрын

Get yourself an Aero king-size blow up bed Tony .Full height and fits most tents .I can recommend " The Orchards" in Isle of White .Indoor,outdoor swimming pool .Beautiful scenery 🙂

@jonquilhawthorne3257 Ай бұрын

Your lucky! My 2 cucumbers died in the greenhouse at 10 cms with one tiny cuc on one, I've been growing them for 10 yrs ! 🙈😆

@BumblebeeAdventure Ай бұрын

🐝thanks for the great video🌻

@jaynekennedy8469 Ай бұрын

You should take a blanket to put over your top half and tuck over the open zip. I love the smell of a cooked breakfast when you’re camping.

@bhalliwell2191 Ай бұрын

You know, American gardening great and gardening guru Ruth Stout, whom many credit with pioneering "No Dig" and/or lasagna gardening, talked in some article or interview about garden crop failures, and she said that some years, it comes down to this: You simply don't know and regarding that specific gardening season and that particular crop's inadequacy, you in all probability will *never* know why it didn't work out for you and that crop in that gardening year. She went on: If you have two beds of the very same variety of, say, turnip, or of swede/rutabaga, on the same plot of ground, getting the same sun exposure for the same number of hours each day, and the same breezes (or gale-force winds), the same rainfall and the same humidity and the same temperatures, you may have one bed come on like a world champion, and the other fizzles out, inexplicably. Both beds had the same preparation, both had equal amounts of the same kind of organic matter and/or compost added, they had the same fertilizers and were sown with the same seed by which is meant seed for the same variety of the same crop packed in the same year and purchased from the same vendor; possibly, if the seed package is large enough, both beds planted from the same package. They got the same weather, and the same supplemental care. But one bed fails, and the other flourishes. And sometimes it's nothing the gardener did or didn't do; furthermore, there might not have been anything s/he might have done differently which would have had both beds coming up with abundant crops of whatever it was (turnip, swede, some other veg.) I can't recall another gardening season like this one, and I can't recall *ever* feeling, in my gut, that the end of September is when all gardening stops, where I am, and that's a load of nonsense. But, it isn't how things seem. Haven't seen waterfowl winging their way southward, yet, but it feels as if they've already migrated away and out of here. But, quite contrarily, I'm still playing a kind of game of chicken with the first frost date, having sowed sweet corn (yes, at this late date!) for an elderly neighbor who has health concerns which prevent him doing any gardening, and all his life he has loved to garden. We told him we'd put the seeds in, or the transplants (which we've grown from seed), and that I'd do the weeding and watering. This is the "second round" for sweet corn, and if we get a harvest it'll be by the grace of God and the kindly whim of Mother Nature. Camping, specifically sleeping bags. Yes, you can obtain a sleeping bag with a right-hand zip. One source (no doubt there are others) in the U.K. is www.alpinetrek.co.uk/ Use the search window in the upper right hand corner to look for (without quotation marks) "Sleeping bag right hand zip." Am I correct in assuming or deducing that you use a mummy-style sleeping bag? You might want to think about adding a polar fleece or a cotton flannel (or wool flannel, even better!) liner to your bag. It's counterintuitive, but the liner ought to be shaped the same way as the bag is shaped, and a bit larger than the outside of the bag, even though you're going to put the liner *inside* the bag: the folds will help to eliminate pockets of air that your body heat otherwise has to warm. Two other very important points if you need or wish to avoid "sleeping cold:" one is, have a head covering, something like what we in America call a watch cap or a ski cap. The other is, to keep your feet warm, have something like a woolen sweater/jumper and put *both your feet into it as if it were a woolen sack,* and wrap them up. Your feet will be much, much warmer together in their woolen "swaddling" than if you wear a pair of wool socks, one sock on each foot. By all means, have the wool socks for wearing inside your outdoor footwear. Kept me lovely and cozy, toasty warm through a -5.55°C night in the Blue Ridge Mountains one fall season (late October, that year.) Not like being in the Rockies or the Himalayas, I know, but it was chilly enough outside my two-person tent and certainly cold enough for snow. And if a woolen wrap for your feet (you wrap the two of them together almost as if they were one appendage) is inconvenient or just not doable for any reason, a fleece jacket will do the trick, or a one-metre length of the same material. Wishing you every success! Much gardening and camping love from Northeast Ohio, U.S.A.! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊

@scottknox8817 Ай бұрын

This is our first year as an allotment holder in Aberdeen, but the one we got was like your neighboring garden so took us months to sort it and we are still fighting it so this year was a right off.

@RawLondonGardener Ай бұрын

👍👍👍

@don5125 Ай бұрын

Try cooking sweet corn in microwave 6 mins max for each corn Cook them in the husk. Interested to hear your opinion 😇👍

@Crumbleofborg Ай бұрын

If you can't get a runner bean slicer working, I'm not surprised you struggled with that super pump!

@lindajones3015 Ай бұрын

My cucumber did the same as yours after I harvested my first one at the beginning of the season. I chopped it right back and it revived itself. It's still going strong. Beginners luck I think 🤔

@barbaracarter6726 Ай бұрын

I'm too old to sleep on the ground now. Or in a tent. Maybe in an rv.

@sewkanna5723 Ай бұрын

Used to do camping with 5 kids in tow 😩 but now got a caravan, central heating, real bed, toilet, shower, microwave and fridge and only 1 child! 😂🍸

@kathmcgrane3492 Ай бұрын

Tony get yourself a Duvalay, memory foam mattress and blanket they are brilliant, made for caravan/motor home, and ideal for camping

@annlockey8552 Ай бұрын

My runners beans were slow to go but the last month they covered my arch, I've had about 20lbs if not more so far and there is plenty more coming. Also my cabbages are heading up nicely. Kale failed got eaten by slugs. Rhubarb an amazing 6 pickings this year thats never happened. Cucumbers are laughable I have 6 miniature cucumbers on a plant that's 8 inches tall 😅 French beans were miserable I pulled them such a flop. Peas were excellent but now gone. Onions also got eaten by slugs thats a first in my garden, tomatos dont know why but plants are small and small yeild, and lastly carrots have been slow but growing 😊 here's to next year

@kathysumner1443 Ай бұрын

Hi Tony I got bean plants from last year. Didn't see this growing and planted new ones .know am giving away .

@kazkimber5310 Ай бұрын

My runner beans just keep giving me just dig up amazing onions. Some things been disappointing though. Carrots not good for me.

@helentaylor4911 Ай бұрын

I picked one of my cucumbers which has a weird flat shape. When I cut into it it was a conjoined cucumber it had two distinct rows of seeds

@oakwillow4187 Ай бұрын

Hi you can go into a camping outdoor shop and ask for a right handed zip they do both it usually says on the label (in very small writing or a random L or R but if you don't know then no-one seems to say I found out by complete accident when I got a new one and the zip was on the other side I thought I was going a wee bit mad lol you have managed to grow a lot more than me between the slugs snails rain wind and crazy lack of sunshine was the tomatoes and they have produced absolutely masses the most I have ever seen of green tomatoes 😂🤣 Enjoy the camping!! love light and laughter to you and yours p.s is there any way you could cut a hole and feed it through if not you could velcro the top so that it does up without the zip

@jaynekennedy8469 Ай бұрын

I replanted my beans at the allotment 3 times and never really got a harvest but in my garden I planted some beans but later and I’ve had loads! There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the season. If you put green tomatoes with a banana, they should ripen.

@jaynekennedy8469 Ай бұрын

If you turn your sleeping bag inside out will it still do up as the zip would then be on the opposite side ⛺️👍🏼

@neilgrice8821 Ай бұрын

My runner beans have done well again.Unfortunately they are covered in blabk fly this year.😊