Seeds I'm Sowing In April

[@Urukfairy]

Words cannot express how much I adore this channel.... Apart from those words 😅

[@eliandkate]

😂😂😂😂 awww thank you

[@rudozemeu3357]

Oh yes these different colors on spreadsheets are helpful to concentrate for me also!! Another thing you mentioned a lot time ago and helped me to know what's wrong with me apart with my 1st time garden/wreck yard/post WWII findings/Field 💖💖💖

[@sunsetfarmohio8964]

A always have an aggressive seed sowing list but I follow as much as I have time for.

[@eliandkate]

And space for… I’m seeing so many people this year sowing enough to run a farm whilst they have a small garden. The tomatoes are always the one that gets interesting😂😂😂

[@whileriding]

I love your videos! Thanks for sharing.

[@eliandkate]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@anitahaywood9827]

I wish I was so organised, I just sow things as I remember, planted Luffa's early (I was late last year and didnt crop) they are currently coming up to 4ft tall and on my office windowsill, cant get them out until mid may lol x

[@eliandkate]

Oh don’t feel bad Anita, I suspect half the country have done the same things with tomatoes 😂😂😂

[@elizabethf5819]

The cut and come again lettuce dragon made me laugh out loud! I nearly woke up my sleeping baby. 😂

[@eliandkate]

Oops…. Sorry… best not to wake the baby

[@GardenerScott]

Fantastic video, Eli! Great job explaining your process along with the how and why.

[@italianlifestyle7911]

Have a lovely productive day!🌄

[@eliandkate]

Thank you! You too!

[@Oktopia]

Dragons! Yay! I love you guys. So comforting to know that not everyone is "on track" with the sowing. I tend to be slow with my sowing because of my last frost date. Mid-may also. I'm also new to this area, so I'm watching my microclimate and weather patterns carefully. Even making notes of where the snow melts first or where it piles up.

[@eliandkate]

There be dragons 😂😂😂

[@myrustygarden]

I always have the best intentions of doing a journal but it never happens 😂😂. So what I have started doing is putting things in my phone calendar and if it’s a successional seed I put it in the calendar as a future event with an alert. It’s good too for easy searching when I sowed things. Thank you for sharing 🐝 safe ladies

[@eliandkate]

You are very like me, I am super obsessive about being organised… alerts are my friend

[@theladysgardenandhome]

Thanks Eli, I'm going to try to do a lot of succession sowing this year too. I've got lots of seedlings started but today I'm sowing my first seeds of the year outdoors (peas).

[@eliandkate]

Oh exciting 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

So nice to see you using the latah and house tomatoes. I know you use your space really efficiently. They won't take too much space I'm sure 😊🌱

[@eliandkate]

Your ears will be burning if they end up to be huge 😂

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

@@eliandkate 😂😂😂 well mine are already potted on. Haha so you'll see mine planted out next month. So you'll have a future preview of yours :) the house ones for sure stay TINY! Promise haha

[@jakey28]

0:38 Ronald Villiers - love it :-)

[@eliandkate]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I had to explain to kate

[@jakey28]

@@eliandkate This will do it kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5-bhIhvm8mYias

[@charlie5204]

Broccoletto, I never heard of it. Now it's on my list for this year, as we love Broccoli. Thanks for sharing :-)

[@eliandkate]

So it’s probably easiest to find it called broccoli raab or rabe It’s quite bitter but we love it

[@AmsNl2BcnEs]

I’d really appreciate hearing more from you about the specifics of succession planting including cut once flowers if you are doing any. 😊

[@eliandkate]

Afraid I’m not planning to do any large scale succession sowing again. It was a fun experiment for that year but far too much hassle for a garden that’s meant to be about fun.

[@rmac8737]

Well I've been lucky enough to get an 8 x 10 ft poly tunnel for free!!! I just need to take it down from the neighbours garden and buy new plastic for it. its a really good make of tunnel, complete with instructions etc I can't bloody wait!!! so.... not growing much this year as ill need to dismantle some beds and move things around so I'm living vicariouslythroughyou this year. but.... nxt year ill be all over it. Those fab slug rings have saved my hostas so far this year!!! Best thing I've ever won and ill be buying more!!!

[@eliandkate]

Hurrah for a free greenhouse that’s the best thing ever!!!

[@rmac8737]

@@eliandkate honestly.... I was near in tears when we got offered it. So we will take it down and fill in any holes left behind. I'm going to get her some lovely planters and some nice plants for her to say thanks.

[@eliandkate]

😍😍😍😍

[@victoriawolfe686]

I was just thinking I’m going to have to stop teaching school every day if I want to accomplish everything I want to in my garden. Damned paycheck!

[@eliandkate]

Yup those are my thoughts exactly… work means I hardly get any time in the garden but work also means I can have a garden Can’t win😂😂😂 So when you say school do you mean children or generally just education? I’m never sure where folk are from so not sure of the little colloquialisms Sometimes

[@eliandkate]

😂😂😂😂 Yup I had a giggle the other week because someone complained that I wasn’t making enough videos… turned out they assumed folk on KZbin did nothing else 😂😂😂

[@michaeld.3779]

What a difference latitude makes. Two weeks ago, I started planting cucumbers, spinach, romaine lettuce, and peas. A week ago-and again today-I planted two different varieties of pumpkins (I’m going to do my Halloween display this year, after a two-year hiatus). I’m not happy with the drip tubes I bought. The drippers are nine inches apart, and I’ve decided that six inches is more appropriate for peas, and a few other items I have planned. It’s really nice to have an automatic drip system, however. My strawberries are on a spry system, which is tied to the drip system. The watering last year was a drag. Two times a day during summer, equals a good tan, but does nothing for my mood.

[@eliandkate]

🤣🤣🤣 that is very true… you do always look tanned

[@jennyjohnson9012]

I'm just holding on...its cold and exposed where I am. Only sowed a few tomatoes yesterday, Have chillies, peppers and aubergines indoors, but like you I'm not sowing too much , definitely staggering this year. Thanks for all the great tips Eli as always.

[@eliandkate]

definitely sensible... there's no rush :D

[@bristolveggiebeds5310]

Looks lovely weather.....I bet it's cold now!

[@eliandkate]

Not overly cold but we’re back to reality and it’s wet, just endless 24 hours a day drizzle 😭😭😭

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi Eli, great video on sowing seeds and advice too.thanks for sharing and take care 🙂

[@eliandkate]

Glad it might be useful for you Christine Have you started your gardening for the year yet?

[@amiladybug9526]

Thanks for sharing...Also I had to started up some more tomatoes as I had wee mishap , but it has been one of those weeks as shelf collapse with seedling and then I forgot to add labels to three of them when potting up some more. Least my strawberries plants doing well and pot them up in there container ready when good weather arrives end of May. I have Journal what seedlings sowing later on in April .

[@eliandkate]

Oh I think most of us have either had a shelf mishap or a label mishap 😂😂😂

[@BloosSelfReliance]

Oh awesome!!! I have about 2 more weeks before I can really plant anything yet. It's all good it all catches up :D The grow along looks fun I will have to see what I have in the tomato box and if they aren't there then I will just have to buy more seeds... oh no lol

[@eliandkate]

I’m sure you will have plenty of seeds 😂😂😂

[@charlotteinnocent8752]

I have to say, although you said you do you? I find you a very useful reference as to what I can grow and when in Ireland. So many American videos online and they are usually in a MUCH warmer zone and it often feels like what they are talking about doing in say, April, bears NO resemblance as to what I can do! I can do bit more than you, but its so much closer! So thank you, very very much!

[@eliandkate]

Awww glad you are enjoying the videos 😀😀

[@charlotteinnocent8752]

@@eliandkate Honestly, thank you so much. Everything you do in video is massively helpful even if I can start a couple of weeks earlier!

[@BroadwayGardener]

Your shirt is PERFECTION!!!!

[@eliandkate]

Ha ha ha why thank you It’s our channel motto 😀😀😀

[@interestingasfck]

I just found your channel and i really enjoy it! The videos are great :-) Keep up the good work!

[@eliandkate]

Awww thanks , glad you are enjoying the vids 😀😀😀

[@sandravijftigschild9317]

Hilarious that dragon! Thanx for the Video, I thought I was to late with my tomatoes. Our last frostdate is mid Mai, and there were so many gardeners who said it is to late to start sowing.. But after this video I'm gonna make an effort to grow some. Thanx Eli❤

[@eliandkate]

It used to be the standard that folk in the UK waited till may apparently so I think we are just squeezing in

[@robinscontainergarden]

Finally have had a chance to sit and watch this one. I lost my only Sungold tomato seedlings in the storm on Sunday, which nearly took my new half-greenhouse. I reordered seeds and got some patio tomatoes, as well so I get to join y'all in the patio tomatoes! I also love dill - I've got some growing on the windowsill in my office (need them for the Grow a Recipe With Me series for making pickled cucumbers) and can't wait to get them and my other herbs out in the garden. I have the same Cosmos as you held up there, love them so much. I made my own garden journal (I hand-bind books). Lovely video, Eli. And you'll need to get some dragon pellets for your salads, I see. Don't worry, they don't kill the dragons, just neutralize their flames so they don't burn everything in their wake. 😉

[@eliandkate]

😂😍😂 I'll look for those dragon pellets I have a couple of little journals that we made too :D

[@robinscontainergarden]

@@eliandkate If I see the dragon pellets, I'll let you know (they're cheap as chips) 😂😂 I'll show the garden journal I made at some point. 📚

[@susankerr6710]

I have just ordered some of the Tomato seeds to grow along, but couldn't get the House Red from Real seeds as they are sold out on the website following an article in the guardian! Got the other 3 though, so I'm ready to start! Looking forward to it.......... Love watching your channel. very informative but relaxed at the same time.

[@eliandkate]

hurrah - where are you Susan? What's your growing area like?

[@bwolf0003]

Don’t worry, I am way behind this year too.

[@eliandkate]

Best laid plans and all of that 😂😂😂

[@bethannesam8671]

great video so helpful thank you 😊 looking forward to the next one

[@eliandkate]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Yankeesista203]

I thought I was the only one to have seedling mix all in my note book!🤣 So funny you have the same issue! I downloaded your excel program but a little intimidated to set it up because of my mental block with some technology! 🙃I'll keep at it! Happy gardening my friend! 🪴

[@eliandkate]

It’s all attitude Sista, keep saying you have an imaginary mental block and you are making an excuse not to progress… instead say “I totally got this, I just need to do it” new skills are useful in lots of situations, we get to learn them in gardening which is fun 😀😀😀😀

[@Sarcasticallyinspired]

Looking forward to the journal info. Would be highly interested in the tomato video

[@eliandkate]

Should hopefully be a bit of a different take on the journal thing 😀

[@Sarcasticallyinspired]

@@eliandkate everything I've watched has been great so far. I'm only just starting out, so I'm sucking up information like a sponge from all over. Our little garden in the west midlands needs something in it, and this year is The Year for me.

[@kirstyhill1248]

Lovely plants, thanks for such a great idea of what to plant! It's our second year growing stuff, but this is the first I've actually planned anything and your videos are such a good help ❤️

[@eliandkate]

Oh exciting what have you gone for?

[@kirstyhill1248]

@@eliandkate sunflowers, rudbeckia, dahlias, peas, rainbow carrots, leeks, onions, tatties and our kale and strawberry plants that survived the winter! Got some other wild flowers the kids fancied too that look pretty. Your spreadsheet idea definitely helped me figure out all the placements too!

[@eliandkate]

Awesome…. Hoping we both have a great year

[@Sophia-bf5wm]

Yay think you’re the same weather as my area in Sweden. Do you have a shareable google sheets spreadsheet template you could link? 🤔...for the succession planting in your area? 😊 This is a wonderful idea 💡

[@eliandkate]

I do indeed and a whole video showing you how I made it and my thinking. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3ypoKKad7Nnick

[@christinaqueeno3874]

I could listen to you all day long. April in my part of the world. My first set of peas are coming up. Waiting for round two to appear. Waiting on my salad greens to appear still. My first year back to gardening. It feels good to put food in the ground. Feels like hope. Bwahahaha! The dragon! I have a daughter we call Eli as well who has a wicked sense of humor developing. May share this video with her just bc of Kate making the salad greens exciting for Eli.

[@eliandkate]

Sounds like your in for a super successful year 😀😀😀😀 Tell little Eli we said hi 👋

[@MorningsattheAllotment]

I'm so far behind with filming because there's so much actual gardening work to do 😉 Love to take a few minutes off to see what others are sowing and growing though - especially since you're in a bit of a different climate.

[@eliandkate]

Trying to make videos and get the actual gardening done is difficult isn’t it? 😻😻😻

[@susanrush8217]

Great video again Eli! Your so good at explaining, I write all my notes in a booklet, so I’m looking forward to you showing us the journal 📔 routine. I’ve sown one of the tomatoes you mentioned already the one beginning’s with R can’t remember the name 😅 will grow another along with you too when you sow 😃 Happy Gardening 👩‍🌾

[@eliandkate]

Oh exciting

[@gabrielmaroto18]

I know I know I know this is off-topic but I want that hat 🎩😻🙀

[@eliandkate]

Which hat is this? 😀. I never wear hat 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Good for keeping the rain off, got a brilliant one from the Brazilian tarp hat folks that’s one of my favourites.

[@Bev437Sqn]

I'm trying my best to journal this year. Sometimes life gets in the way 🙄

[@eliandkate]

It absolutely does … for me too

[@Mtrossell100]

Hi 👋 I'm really looking forward to your video about keeping a Journal. Will we get a peak into the Holy Grail of Journal's 🤩

[@eliandkate]

Oh there will be lots of peeks into journals and my brain and thinking 🤔

[@susanrush8217]

The pak Choi will you be starting off in the greenhouse, and then planting out side later on, only I’m going to be sowing this for the first time 👏

[@eliandkate]

Yeah I’m not planting anything out for a bit yet so the idea is to bring things on in the greenhouse The park Choi outdoors got hammered by slugs last year so we’ll see how it goes

[@susanrush8217]

Great stuff! I may even pop some in between flower pot displays too 👏 Spent a couple of hours last night potting on cosmos candy stripe, would you take the tops off in the greenhouse for bushier display prior to planting out side

[@eliandkate]

I didn’t last year but I might this year… I don’t have any strict must do rules, I generally just garden to relax 😀

[@susanrush8217]

@@eliandkate Me Too it’s my happy place 👏👩‍🌾 Looking forward to your next video

[@antonia5682]

Thanks for the video! Looking forward to the garden journal video and tour of Pentland Plants too. :D So would you start to sow hardy annuals outdoors this month? I'm thinking of cosmos, wildflowers for pollinators, etc. Our temps down here in the south of England are probably a few degrees higher than yours, but my last frost date is similar to yours, mid-May-ish.

[@eliandkate]

I will sow but leave them in the greenhouse just now. We get hard frosts until almost June. It just not worth risking

[@antonia5682]

@@eliandkate Definitely best to wait a little!

[@eliandkate]

And it’s not long

[@rachelstark2391]

Greetings, I must know what shade of paint do you have in your kitchen? Love it! Cheers 🍷

[@eliandkate]

Out in the shed to check for you… it’s Dulux kitchen plus honey mustard

[@rachelstark2391]

@@eliandkate Brilliant...TY. Cheers 🍷

[@firefancs1324]

Do you know when is the best time to plant carrots and potatoes in Scotland?

[@eliandkate]

The old saying is that you plant your tattoos when the ground is 10c Pretty much applies to carrots too

[@firefancs1324]

@@eliandkate Should I wait until mid May for both? I’m planting outdoors without a greenhouse also new to gardening, tried my luck with a few strawberry plants last week I hope they survive 🤞

[@danicauzelac4688]

You’re so cute

[@karenshields1878]

Pasta sauce

[@karenshields1878]

I can't wait to next year I am already in have all summer crops planned. But this will be great for Autumn planting.