I thought I'd do a little walking tour of my garden so you'll have to excuse my goofy voice and silly hat!
there's much I've missed off this video but it gives a good feel for the garden. When I say "next year" I mean this year but next growing season, otherwise I just sound stupid! If people like the video I could do more - let me know what you think!
Briliant work Kev nice to have a video tour of your winter garden, I hope you continue with the videos perhaps one a month, would be great to look back on :-)
ReplyDeleteYeah I think that's a good idea, I like the idea of a regular walk around, it would be good for me to have a record of what I've been doing.
DeleteI think your veg garden is probably 1/2 to 1/3rd bigger than our entire back garden! Nice to see it though even if it made me a little queasy:)
ReplyDeleteI thought I might do something similar with mine later in the year.
It's quite a bit to keep on top of but I always want more space and have plans to increase my growing area! The space was the main reason I wanted to move here really, and a great location.
DeleteOh and after watching it back I think your right about the queasy bit. I need to be a bit steadier with the camera and slower panning shots.
DeleteGreat video Kev. A proper working garden. I'm about to hack back my goji berry. I didn't prune it last year and there were hardly any berries to pick(lots the year before). Someone told me to hard prune and I think they are right.
ReplyDeletere. the celeriac. yours is much better than mine, which has been a disappointment this year. I slice it and layer it between sliced potato and leek or onion and make a sort of gratin. I also use it instead of celery in soups, sauces and mince dishes. And of course there is a celeriac slaw - can't remember it's name, will get back to you on that one.
re. your comment on my last post and feeding scraps to chickens. I reckon they will have to change that as we need to feed more and more people. Though I understand the restrictions on feeding scraps to pigs I still don't understand those for chickens.
Just remembered it ! It is called remoulade. mix mayo, lemon juice an mustard in a bowl. Peel and grate the celeriac quickly into the sauce and mix. keeps in the fridge for a day or two..
DeleteCheers for the recipe but there's too many slug holes in mine to have them raw I think, maybe save that for a perfect specimen next year!
DeleteI've chopped the goji right back but I might do it a bit more after reading what you said.
As for the garden it's never going to be a pretty garden but like you said it's a working garden!
Oh well done! I thought you had excellent presentation, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing you in person, hearing your voice, and sharing your veg plot. I look forward to seeing more of the same, and in fact you have inspired me to sort out how to do videos on the camera I have been using for photos this past year! Well done, and keep the vids coming.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliment but there's a few improvements I need to make on the next one. I'd like to see a walk around your place and how you've got it laid out.
DeleteVery interesting Kev. Like the sound of the cockerel at the beginning of the video. Looks a good flat site. Look forward to watching more of your videos.
ReplyDeleteYeah - blinking cockerel never shuts up! the site does slope but not too much. Thanks Dave.
DeleteReally enjoyed that walk around the garden Kev, it made me yearn to be back on our allotment. We worked allotments for years but we are 69 and 75 now and getting up and down isn't as easy as it was so we had to give the up. I know the joy you are getting from your garden and will be following through the year. Well done.
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Cheers Briony and Tom, Glad you liked it, I do love gardening and I've got so many good memoires from it already so hopefully, like you, I'll look back on these times fondly. thanks for your comment.
DeleteLove it Kev! You do need to keep the camera a little more steady between shots though and pan a bit slower, like Dc I found myself becoming seasick! Perhaps you could give us some more 'long' shots so we can see all of the garden as well. It all looks great though, you have a lot of work there to keep you busy. The leeks look really good, I'll look forward to seeing many more videos like this, keep it up! (you sounded exactly like I imagined you to as well).
ReplyDeleteOh, I forgot....those Goji berries, they grow wild all around here and they do become a real pest, suckering all over the place so do keep an eye on them. Don't know where ours came from but they're on all the roadside verges outside our place and they get quite prickly too.
DeleteYeah, watching it back I move a bit quick and I'm a bit shaky. I think I need to slow it down a bit and do some longer shots, my wife told me off for not including the view as well. Hopefully I'll get better, I've been meaning to do a video for a while now and keep putting it off but I quite like the idea of doing one occasionally, if I can just get over the sound of my own voice!
DeleteI took some goji cuttings last year and they're romping away so I think you're right about them spreading, I'll watch them but thansk for the tip, better to know that now than to wait until it's too late! We had bamboo at our last place (not planted by me) and it was spreading everywhere, coming up in the lawn 10ft away from the plant! it was a nightmare, glad I don;t have to sort it now!
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garden is looking good. love all the trees in your nursery. great video
ReplyDeleteThe trees are doing well and it feels nice to have so many growing on . I even sold some on Facebook this year, not many but enough to pay for a few more rootstocks so I can keep learning.
DeleteLoved the tour! I'm envious of your leeks and berry patch. Berry bushes don't understand they are supposed to produce more than six berries per bush. Wild raspberries grow like weeds (but have no taste),cultivated berries are pathetic. Our growing season is too short to grow leeks any bigger than pencils.
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Thanks Jane!
DeleteMy autumn raspberries don't taste as good as the summer ones but we have so many raspberries from them I can hardly complain. They make great jam and we eat a bowlful fresh most nights in the autumn. I also dried loads and I've been adding them to cookies and cakes - they taste amazing, I'll be drying more next year that's for sure!
Thanks for the tour Kev, I can't get over the bare ground in February ... Ours is frozen rock solid four foot down, you'd need a drill and dynamite to make a hole in it today. And we just got dumped on again LOL
ReplyDeleteNo snow here this year so far and hopefully we won;t have any! When I did the video the ground was only froze on the top inch or so and now it's wet again as it's been raining (again). the only trouble I have when I dig a hole is it filling back up with water!
DeleteI caught a little bit about plants surviving in the green house. Something about banishing chickens, something else about you being too kind to a tree and going to whack the hell out of it and a little bit about a wet spot. Since you were outside I am assuming it was a garden wet spot so I refrain from making any unseemly comments :)
ReplyDeleteAll of that is certainly no reflection on your excellent filing abilities or oratory skills BTW only a glimpse into my inferior ability to follow British Island accents. I never was very good at it and then after spending so much time in Germany I got even worse.
The garden looks really neat though :)
I speak very close to the queens own English I'll have you know! I'll try to be clearer with the next one if I can sorry! Yeah the wet spot was in the garden...
DeleteKev - Honestly it isn't your speaking ability at all. I have always had a hard time with your regional accents because we talk so slowly here in Missouri. We have our own drawl and once you get used to it the speed at which others speak is what throws you. Hell I can't even understand New Englanders half the time :)
DeleteNow don't go lumping all New-Englanders together there LOL ;-)
DeleteThere are many variations, this is a New Hampshire accent; http://youtu.be/kpfLat0i5LE
This is Maine accent; http://youtu.be/Ecg_WizWicQ
New Hampshire sounds like Peter Griffin (family guy!) and the Maine one sounds like some old detective. What's a good example of Missouri accent so I can figure out how PP speaks!
ReplyDeleteMy accent probably locates me on the welsh boarder counties although I can never hear it others have told me.
Missouri has a buttload of different accents ranging from very Southern to almost German immigrant up North. An endless supply of slang words many of them just regional or even changing from town to town within a 30 mile radius. The biggest difference to me between Missouri and other places further afield has always been the speed though. Here's a good you tube link to a girl an hour or so South of my current location
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Central Missouri which is more where I grew up sounds a lot like that if rural but the Central Mo cities of Columbia and Jeff City don't sound near that Southern.
A regular video is a great idea, Kev. I've got a reminder in my calendar to go and take photos of the garden each month so I can see how it's changed over the years and remember what it looks like in other seasons. I don't manage it every month but I've now built up a good library of images to flick back thorough and see what worked and what didn't in the garden.
ReplyDeleteJst popped in to say enjoyed the tor and the seeds arrived yesterday, many thanks.
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I think the U key on keyboard is sticking lol.
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