Visiting Simplify Gardening and autumn planting!

[@ibrstellar1080]

Every time I see Danny with Tony it reminds of when the Karate Kid goes to see Mr Miyagi for his next lesson 😁.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

You're right. He's learnt everything he knows off me...

[@simplifygardening]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ibrstellar1080]

@@simplifygardening 😁✌💪

[@ibrstellar1080]

@@TheGrowUpChannel keep telling yourself that Danny 😂🤣👍

[@paulahughes6031]

Can’t beat a good bit of banter 😂🤣😂

[@RobinGardens]

Great peek- a- boo at Tony's plot. Love seeing all those little jobs you're doing....they offer a lot of inspiration.😀🥰

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thank you Robin! Glad you enjoyed xx

[@TheFarmyardGarden]

What a great video Danny. Lovely to see Tony’s composting set up, again. Beautiful composting. Your bays will look great once done and will make a huge difference for you. Good work with the barrel. With all the rain we’ve had over the weekend, it made me see that an IBC alone isn’t enough. It’d fill so quickly. I wish we’d installed a soak away now. Great work with the leg extensions for the staging. Little touches like that make all the difference. I feel like FT has solutions for every problem… including ridge bars for garden bed hoops! Nice idea. Christine’s always look so neat. So much planted up for winter. Incredibly productive growing space. Have a great week 😊

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thanks clare! Yeah it's always insightful visiting tony. The barrel was done just in the nick of time! Storm has been horrendous! So pleased with the staging now 😊🌱

[@theallotmentnewbie]

Blown away by Tony’s compost 😮 I have no doubt you’ll be up and running in no time Danny, with all the bells and whistles as well 😄

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

He's got loads hasn't he! Haha! Yeah it won't take me long now 😊🌱

[@emmellj7133]

Woohoo a field trip! 🚘 + 🤔💡 Nice to see Tony. And you got a lot of things done at the plot. Always inspiring to watch. Thank you for sharing.🌱🌿

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thank you 😊🌱 was a hectic week for sure haha!

[@simplifygardening]

A great idea to run the water away from the tunnel for when the barrel is full mate. Great to see you the other day. Wish my back would have allowed me to do a little more there with you, but that's life. Great update.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

After all this flooding today it's worked a charm tony! The plot would have been a bog otherwise! Always a good laugh when together. Cheers for the inspiration and all the support! Danny 🌱

[@bowtielife]

I always enjoy Tony sharing his wealth of knowledge. Thanks for visiting him on an obviously busy day with your live and all! My compost is strongly inspired by his system (only 3 bins). I have set rat traps in my compost and in raised beds just a few meters away and never caught a single rat in my compost but killed over 40 in the raised beds. It should be pretty easy to avoid rats in compost!

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Yeah he's got a great setup that's taken him years to perfect. Thank you for watching 😊🌱

[@Lisa.j365]

Good jobs done. I could listen to Tony all day.... So much knowledge. Looking forward to the builds👍

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Could you? That's nice for you 😂😂 I'll send him down next time he's around. You can look after him 😂 nah he's a good egg!

[@Gardenofglory-l6v]

Hi Tony and Danny great to see you all together and bringing information about the compost bin, you’re getting a lot of your jobs done have a lovely week ❤

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

It's Hi Danny and Tony actually😂😂 😂 Thank you very much. Yes I'm ticking them off slowly 😊😊🌱❤️

[@cherylprice1790]

The compost and leaf mould looks great. Bays look good.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

A great resource Cheryl! Food for thought!!

[@Feelgoodgardens]

Fab video as always Danny ❤ I enjoyed your visit to Tony's and the garden cebtre. I mentioned to Doug to watch your video for when he's ready to redo our compost bins. Gosh Tony has so many, doesn't he but the compost looks fabulous. I can't wait to see his tropical garden. Your polytunnel is great and you did a good job of that barrel. It looks much nicer than the white one. Some good planting done too. Gave a great week ❤ x

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thanks Linda! I'm sure you're welcome to Tony's! He only had tea when I visited this time, not the selection of coffees and biscuits and chocolate I'm used to 😂

[@Feelgoodgardens]

@TheGrowUpChannel Love to pay Tony a visit one day Danny. He has a wealth of knowledge and I'm sure I could drum up a few questions for him. 👍 See you soon at The Feel Good Garden Café for a variety of teas, coffees and biscuits 🤭😂 Linda ❤️ x

[@callistacraft]

Great idea with the barrel by the side of the polytunnel to divert the overflow of water. Love the compost bay set up at tonys. Another helpful video as always Danny i like how you always let us know what we would need to complete the jobs your doing.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thanks Lisa!haha I think i find jobs 🤦‍♂️😄🤦‍♂️😄

[@GemInTheGarden]

Wow what a treat getting to see around Tonys plot 👏 what an impressive set up! 😊 Great Video as always ❤

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Just showing what your mother wants 🤣 thanks Gem 😄🌱

[@GemInTheGarden]

@TheGrowUpChannel she will be re watching this video I think! 😆

[@georgemartin9618]

Tony has a very impressive composting set up, I swear I heard him humming "one bay at a time sweet Jesus " Thanks for another great video Danny, the tunnel is coming along nicely .

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Haha! Yeah they are great. Thanks for watching! Danny 🌱🫶

[@GrowingWithPlot21]

Nice to see what Tony has been up to. His compost bays are so good. Gave me some inspiration for my compost bays - I have one, but it isn’t the best, so I’m planning on re-jigging it. Great weather for all those jobs, gotta get them in when you have time and weather for it 👍

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Hey mark! Thanks for watching. Yes I'm hoping to build mine very soon..Danny 🌱😊

[@TheRightPearPlot]

Love you he compost section of your video!! More people need to start making their own. Tony just shows how easy it is. Look at all those cuttings!!!! 😂 Garden centres looking bare again apart from the Christmas stuff. Your tunnel looks miniature after being in Tony’s 😂😂 Do 4! Bays you can never have enough!! Definitely little and often to get all those jobs ticked off. Off up the garden now to shift some home made compost onto my beds xx ❤

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Haha! My tunnel is plenty big enough thank you 😂😂 yeah ill try and make as many bays as I can! Danny 🌱🫶

[@TheRightPearPlot]

@ 🤣🤣

[@jennyfromtheplot]

Wow what a compost set up!! Thanks for sharing the inspiration Danny!

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

So nice of you. Thanks Jenny!

[@moorsidegardener]

I love the idea of having the hoops raised up for taller plants. The metal hoops look so neat and tidy too. Tony's plot still looks amazing, even though he's not been able to do much there, will be nice to see him gardening again.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Well it's all been ordered. I just need them to arrive now 😊 woo! Tony's plots huge!!!

[@moorsidegardener]

@TheGrowUpChannel Fantastic, might have to treat myself one day too. 😊

[@Jimsraisedbedgarden]

Great update Danny , loved your chat with Tony especially the coffee grounds as I've just started to receive some from a local cafe hopefully once a month but I just add it to my compost unlike Tony drying his out first , loved it always learn stuff from you two guys , happy days 👍

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Cheers jim! Glad you enjoyed it. 😊🌱

[@Dawn_Grows_Veg]

Wow Tony compost set up is second only to Charles Dowding's. What a dreamy set up Tony has there. Your pallets will be perfect for your compost bays Danny. Great idea to get ones that are all the same size and height, Mine are all different ones I salvaged and while they do a job they are all higgledy piggledy. I like the slide on fronts Tony had too. I use coffee grounds mixed into my compost bins too. A great free resource.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thanks Dawn! Yes luckily all mine are the same size 😊 I'm hoping to build them this week 😊🌱

[@angietaylor5311]

Great video Danny, enjoyed the drive too. It’s so nice to see the country side where you call home, spotted a little bit of snow even. I’m having similar issues with my raised garden hoops so I’m interested to see what you do. Thanks Danny ⭐️♥️⭐️

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Well they keep saying we're getting more.. we've had a terrible rainstorm here that's flooded the town. The hoop reinforcements have been ordered. Just need them to arrive now . Thanks angie!

[@angietaylor5311]

@ oh bugger, stay safe over there ♥️ Omg it’s just been on the news here, so much damage. Hope the weather improves quickly so the clean up goes smoothly 😬♥️

[@virginiajarrell942]

Very enjoyable to watch and learnt a few tips , will add an overflow pipe to my shed waterbutt . Thank you

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Why thank you! Yes get one fitted. Was a godsend in a storm.

[@wendybarry5563]

It's definitely worth copying Tony's compost bays. I made 6 on my plot and have made so much fantastic compost using them. It's one of the best things I've done on my plot. I did end up covering the last 3 in plastic builders' sheets as the foxes kept ripping the black correx sheets off!

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Yeah absolutely ! Oh dear. They are rascals them foxes haha

[@patdelaney191]

The cut off top of the water butt, I would use as a bottomless plant pot. That is what I've done and it works great 👍😊

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

That's a great idea Pat! 😊🌱

[@jenidalby2383]

Another fab vlog, thank you ❤ I can’t wait for you to get your compost bins started. I actually love compost making more than gardening 😂 Im going to attempt to copy your idea of diverting the water away. Fab idea 😊

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thanks Jen! Yes they will.be built soon, for sure! Diverting the water has worked a treat ! Danny 🌱

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi Danny, what brilliant compost bins Tony has and you being able to visit his plot to get some inspiration for when you build yours on your plot. Isn't it just great to be able to do that and passing such information on KZbin too ❤ nice job on the water butt to conserve precious rain water 💧 hasntcrralusex you could grow kale in the winter, must do that next season, what variety are they? Looking forward to seeing you progress on this plot, you are doing well up to now 😊 another great video. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thanks chirstine! The kale's are red Russian, cavolo nero, midnight sun and wetland winter :)

[@flyoverurbangarden4315]

Excellent progress.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thank you. One step closer to the end 🫶🌱

[@SylviaCostello-lu1bu]

This was a fascinating video watching all gardeners work in different ways. Great video tgs Danny keep warm sylvi🎉🎉🎉

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thanks sylvi! 😄 glad you enjoyed it! Danny 😊🌱

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

Lovely to see Tony up at his plot - I think we might need to upgrade our compost bays already!

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

You've just made some 😂😂😂

[@myrustygarden]

Like going to the bloody garden centre visiting Tony 😂😂. Water system is looking bad ass oh no wait that’s you planting near the tunnel 🤣🤣🤣. Have an amazing week hope the essay went well, see ya Thursday Benny, Ali aka Jackie ☔️☔️🥶🇨🇦

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Haha that's so true! Lol 🤣🤣🤣 you're terrible lol! Sww you Thursday Jackie xx

[@marksallotmentplot]

Great to see a half decent gardener and allotment on this channel for a change 😂😂😂 Honestly Danny another great video. You and Tony make quite the double act 👍

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

😂😂 well I'm yet to see one on your channel 😂😂 haha its always a laugh when together. Welsh banter at its finest 😂😂

[@JackStokes-n1c]

Love your channel so much ❤️

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thank you so much jack! 🌱

[@RawLondonGardener]

Top job!

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Cheers 😄🌱

[@barbarahudson1042]

Great Vlog

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thank you barbara 😊🌱

[@tassiegirl1991]

No one has done a better looking compost system then Tony, not only do they function well for him but they look neat and tidy not an eyesore. Hi Tony if your looking I was about to copy with a double one having collected the necessities but the rats arrived and got in to our downstairs ceiling I think the bays were too close to the house and what I thought totally sealed room sized under the house then climbed up the bats into the ceiling. End of compost bays before completed. And after two years of baiting rats gone and those unsealed walls now covered. Just seen the pm news here and reports on the flooding over there I hope all are safe and homes all ok. Take care everyone

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

They certainly are a great set of bays. The weather's been dreadful and dangerous! But all safe here 😊🌱

[@bethanskitchengarden]

You are so good at chipping away at the jobs Danny, that new water butt looks great. Take care

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thanks Bethan! I'm so glad I got that barrel sorted with an overflow before the storm! It's proven to be really effective!

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

some great idea's. going to make my todo list longer and longer 🤣 🐝 Thanks for the great video 🌻

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Mine is huge too! I tick them off and add 10 more 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

@@TheGrowUpChannel I lost my list somewhere. SO made a new one,,, Last week i found it in a pocked. 2 lists HUGEEEE

[@jaynekennedy8469]

The two metal containers are great for carrots, as carrot root fly struggle to get that high.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Oh absolutely! However that's not always fool proof as wind can blow them higher. Still always better to net I think :)

[@LittleGreenShedAllotment]

You are certainly ticking those jobs off the list 😊 thanks for the mention, those bars across and pipe clips keep the hoops in place for sure. 🙂

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thank for the inspiration christine! You're very welcome.

[@JC-ps2zy]

Just finished building my shed on my plot and getting the log burner installed. All that's left to do is install the solar panel and lighting and I've got a year round functioning workshop on the plot. Gone for 10ft by 14ft pvc windows and doors pent roof and it's changed the game on the garden. Built a run on the side of the old 6x8 shed and turned into a coop. By spring we should be set up

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Very nice! Welldone 😊

[@JC-ps2zy]

@TheGrowUpChannel my garden never will look as good as yours does my friend that's why I've got 6 ft hedges round mine and you've got yours on KZbin. Really jealous of the tunnel but can't bring myself to stump up the cash. Not that you'd be interested with your rolls Royce tunnel haha but I got one from feel good uk 6x3m for 200 quid and I'm going into 3rd winter now and it's holding up real well. Recommend to anyone here :)

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

@JC-ps2zy Hahaha you're HILARIOUS 😂😂😂 well I'm glad yours has lasted you 3 years (and counting I hope!) You're funny 😂

[@yesidtac7863]

Execelente talento

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Thank you 😊🌱🌱🫶

[@cherylprice1790]

I'm continuing to watch now Danny ❤

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Aww thank you 😊🌱

[@Lisa.Gypsy.C]

🌱🌿💚

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

🌱😊🌱

[@stephking8872]

❤

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

🫶🌱

[@joyscott374]

Hope all well after storm Bert Danny 🤞

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Luckily, that overflow I installed prevented the plot from sinking. However, the town hasn't faired well at all..sadly. I stayed indoors until it was over. Thankfully 🌱❤️

[@rebeccazody1278]

Hi Tony!

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Hey..I'm here too 😂

[@rebeccazody1278]

@@TheGrowUpChannel hi Danny! I love these visits you go on

[@simplifygardening]

Hey, Rebecca

[@delmethomas8229]

I use horizontal bamboo canes and cable ties to secure my hoops to my raised beds, cheap and quick. Delme

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Hey Delme! I've done that. I find it rips my nets after a few months :( with all the wind we get.

[@barrymorgan7215]

Oh Danny, the roads you were driving on ---- look like the one we have around here ( the M 25 near the Dartford Crossing ) arrrg nah lol

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Ahh really! My favourite are in Westwood forest. The colours are truly magical!

[@ibrstellar1080]

There's some cracking DIY garden sheds on Pinterest and some excellent ideas.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Yeah I've seen a few. I'm open for inspiration, but I've already got the shed in my head. It's been there for almost a year..needs to be created now haha

[@trold1969]

Great video! Couldn't you make those bars with wood?

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

I could do yeah! But I'd have to somehow attach them to the hoops. I don't want to drill into them. The first tunnel option doesn't affect the hoops :)

[@Petetrenouth]

You can’t beat first tunnels for customer service, the wood for my doors warped really badly when I built mine and they replaced the timber straight away, with no quibbles. Would a water tank in the tunnel be a good idea for you? I have one and it makes watering the tunnel so much easier, plus it’s at a warmer temperature than outside. I use the Bosh pump to fill it , the same as you have I believe. Just a thought. Hope you get around to doing the solar powered irrigation video, so I can get some ideas. Take care, Pete.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Absolutely pete. I wasn't bigging them up for any other reason than they really do go above and beyond! I have considered a water tank inside actually... hmm.. and the irrigation video will be made..don't worry !

[@Petetrenouth]

@ Good man. 💦👍

[@jeffersonwildflower]

Do you need to shorten the down spout into your barrel? I don't think that the water will continue to flow into the barrel once the water level reaches the bottom of the spout which will just result in the water backing up into your gutters and overflowing off the side of the gutters. Your down spout should be shorter than the upper spout on your barrel if you want the water level to get up that high.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

I don't think that's how it works. It would only continue going up the downpipe it the barrel was a sealed :)

[@davidjenkins4665]

Thinking about kiwi what's bests in wales guys.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Hey David. Mines called Jenny. Which is perfect as its self fertile. Meaning you don't need a male (Atlas) and female (Hayward) variety to get kiwis. Having a 'Jenny means you only need one. Hope this helps. Danny 🌱

[@simplifygardening]

mine are Jenny too

[@davidjenkins4665]

Cheers thanks guys il have a look around keep up the good work both. Great watching the channels.

[@derekjackson5548]

Hi Danny, I was trying to remember the name of the other Allotment gardender on youtube that you used to take woodchip to ? Do you still speak to him ?

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Malcolm Kingswell! I haven't visited in a while. Malc is doing well! I'll try and pop round in spring 😊🌱

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

29 minutes Danny? Who do you think you are, ah? Kerry? 25 last time!you need an over flow barrow for your rain barrow

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

My videos have averaged 25-30 mins for a few seasons now? 🤔🤔 this isn't new 😂😂

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

LOL that face PMSL

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

😂😂🙊 I'm a git 😂 Welsh banter at it's finest. He's a good sport lol

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

@@TheGrowUpChannel Had to read you last sentence twice, I thought it said "short" 🤣

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

[@Sylvie_M]

I hae read that anerobic decomposition, like at the bottom of a bin of green grass clippings, produces methane...not good for the environment.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

I have to admit, compost isn't my forté. But hoping to get better at it 😊🌱

[@Sylvie_M]

@@TheGrowUpChannel LOL Simple rule...if it stinks, you are producing ammonia and methane. It just takes sufficient brown materials, water, oxygen and time. You will find pallet bins make it easier, imo.

[@dustyflats3832]

Lol, we used 10’ conduit for hoops and realized the plastic was barely covering now. The bug netting was plenty big and worked all summer and didn’t think about plastic till fall 🙄. Ewe…rats in compost, not for me 🤮. Still amazes me that you are planting out with ice on water. We will definitely be hitting freezing day and night later next week.

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Oh that's always a good thing to have, that piping! The ground is fairly warm still.. but will soon be frozen I'm sure ! I dunno about composting rats either but interesting! Haha!

[@traceypotts9425]

Lol

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

😊🌱

[@DavidGibb-vo3df]

If you go to a garden centre bet you buy cake

[@TheGrowUpChannel]

Actually I did 😂 but believe it or not, I'm not a huge cake fan 😂 linda provides cakes, I prefer savoury like sausage rolls lol