Thanks for taking us on a tour of your garden! This year I have had a go at growing edible stuff! It's an ongoing experiment as I am almost a complete virgin on this matter!! I am also a virgin at posting video responses (your video inspired me to video my garden)!
Alas, after a summer of protracted struggle, I harvested a handful of the most expensive green beans in history. Then, when the tomato plants instantly rotted after a single downpour, I surrendered my license to grow edible things.
Gah! Wisteria! We had a wisteria vine wrapped around a large metal pole, so it gathered into a kind of tree-like configuration. Cool to look at when trimmed, but the stuff just spreads like wildfire. One day, I shall plant both wisteria and bamboo in the same plot just to watch them battle it out.
What you said at the end there reminded me of a saying I heard a while ago which was: If you want to be happy for a day get drunk, if you want to be happy for 5 years get married, if you want to be happy forever...get a garden.
oh, at 4:03 are those yellow iris's? My wife and I just bought a house with a garden full of many different colors of iris's.... along side of it we planted all sorts of vegies, fruits, and herbs... we are quite excited about it.... our tomatoes and corn are doing quite well... but the bugs seem to favor our lima and green beans.... seems we need more spiders!
Just planted a large garden yesterday in the very hot weather. Herbs, squashes, tomatoes, peppers, ect. I love doing it. Also your irises and wisteria are beautiful. Enjoy.
I haven't lived in a house since I was a very young child, so no large vegetable gardens for now, sadly. We do have herbs on the terrace though; rosemary, thime and mint. Nothing quite like a fresh mint tea.
I dont have a true garden because I live the 20th floor of an apartment, but I do have some potted fruits that I am growing, including passion fruit, strawberries and rhubarb.
If you think you have problems with rubbish, a friend of mine bought a house in East Ewell just outside London. He started digging the garden and clang. The previous owner had buried an old electric cooker in the garden. Can you imagine the size of the hole that must have been required. I love gardens but sadly my back will not allow me more than 5 minutes before I want to die.
@Tridhos I fully sympathise with the digging business. I find I am soon standing, leaning on the spade, trying to recover enough to take one more go at the bloody rocks and flints and old bricks.
T, I don't give even one little hoot about gardening, but I would probably watch and favorite a video of you vacuuming your carpet. Damn, I think I'm a fan-boy! Very embarrassing for a 62 year old Texan. Keep up the great work...or I will be very sad. Damn, there I go again! Never mind!
@sonvolt48 Thanks for the kind words. Now then, I'm sure Texas would be a great place to grow a garden - for one thing it's rather warmer than the west of England!
I never encourage spiders.. Mainly because in Australia I never know what size/toxicity they'll be when they mature. I often wake up to find a palm-sized huntsman perched on the ceiling above my bed.. not a pleasant experience. Also found a couple of Redbacks in the yard this Summer... I usually terminate spiders on site with extreme prejudice. Always leave praying mantises alone though.
@antonc81 I agree. In your country I should be very wary of the creatures but so far redbacks haven't migrated here, so we're safe enough for the time being.
I'd not worry too much about getting all the stones out of the soil, plants have been growing around them for hundreds of millions of years just fine. The bones are a tad worrying though!
This year we're likely to have a couple of accidental harvests. One of the small saplings in the garden turned out to be a fruit tree and we have a few probable plums growing on it.
In with the broad beans I found a potato plant, it must have been in with the compost, I've potted it up out of curiosity.
@lamnaa I tend to agree about the stones, but the carrots tend to grow into obscene shapes otherwise. The bones look like animal! I've found old bricks, nails, lots of clay tobacco-pipe fragments and even some pieces of leather. Good luck with the plums and potatoes.
One of the things that I think is sad is the current trend in filling in gardens with loose stones or paving over them. Not only is it bad for the environment, but it upsets the watertable and contributes to flooding in times of heavy rain. I live in an upstairs flat with a balcony - I have no plants there because it is also my astronomical observatory!
You are WAY ahead of us. Our strawberries have just started to flower.It has been a VERY soggy and foggy spring so the local market gardener is way behind. I would love thornless Blackberries. I spend more effort wacking the wild ones out of gardens than I do picking them.
my gardens will be more rewarding when I get them under control after not being able to take good care of them last year. So many things went wrong that I couldn't spend any time on them. Overgrown with weeds and things I should have split up, but didn't get a chance to. Oh what a mess.
lol, I still prefer your videos on how to drink a real gin and tonic, but I must admit this was quite pleasant. My parents would be thrilled to exchange photos of flowers with you, I think... but I won't encourage it, they are utterly obsessed with they garden and have literally hundreds of hours of footage of flowers that they force upon unsuspecting visitors...Cheers.
I began gardening for the first time last year, it really is back breaking work.
I too have so many stones, glass, metal things, brick etc in the soil. I have planted rocket, leeks, red onions, potatoes and a blueberry bush this year.
Well done old chap. i only moved to a new address seven months ago and the garden was dreadful when i moved in, big but dreadful nevertheless, It took me a good three weeks or so just to clear up, i too understand the problem the rocks in the garden, i had to buy a sieve to separate the soil from the rocks.
My i suggest you add worm casting to your garden ? it will do wonders, if you need advice or question feel free to ask.
You have a lovely garden! I've got a bit of a wisteria addiction, too. I gave up gardening for a while because I can't move around so well anymore, but I've just started again with help from my husband. It's strange how happy seedlings can make me...Thank you for sharing this and for the referral to growingyougreens. (btw, if you have a green house, you might put the glass and stones in a tub and use them as a heat sink - for all the trouble they've given you, they might as well be useful)
@durtygrrrl Thanks for the advice. No greenhouse, but I'm pretty enclosed with high walls so there is a mini-climate which holds the heat well enough and keeps out the worst of the wind.
@Elipson3 Clover and some chamomile varieties don't even need to be mowed :) Depending on your area, they might not even need to be watered! You are not alone in the lazy gardening department :)
@Elipson3 Very sensible. But on the other side, it's uncomfortable to sit on, it gets clogged with dandelions, daisies and moss, the bloody stuff needs cutting on a regular basis and you can't even eat it - unless you happen to be a goat.
Hi Tenneral,
Thanks for taking us on a tour of your garden! This year I have had a go at growing edible stuff! It's an ongoing experiment as I am almost a complete virgin on this matter!! I am also a virgin at posting video responses (your video inspired me to video my garden)!
Cheers!
alistron1 8 months ago
I didn't know figs could be grown in England. Your garden looks lovely.
1Weemaryanne 8 months ago
Alas, after a summer of protracted struggle, I harvested a handful of the most expensive green beans in history. Then, when the tomato plants instantly rotted after a single downpour, I surrendered my license to grow edible things.
juliuschas 8 months ago
Wonderful video,I just planted the veggies last weekend .My rhubarb is half the size of yours,Strawberries haven't even flowered yet.
I can not wait for the first strawberry -rhubarb pie . (sometime in july ) yes I'm envious.
Wisteria is beautiful, I should see if I could grow it here. thanks again
pamor25 8 months ago
Gah! Wisteria! We had a wisteria vine wrapped around a large metal pole, so it gathered into a kind of tree-like configuration. Cool to look at when trimmed, but the stuff just spreads like wildfire. One day, I shall plant both wisteria and bamboo in the same plot just to watch them battle it out.
bcoffin12345 8 months ago
@bcoffin12345 Jolly idea but where I live Wisteria grows painfully slowly. This one took well over 20 years to reach its present size.
tenneral 8 months ago
I've had trouble getting wisteria to grow vigorously. I've switched to trumpet vines.
ozmoroid 8 months ago
Nice video. I didn't know that British people pronounce the h in herb.
squiresuzuki 8 months ago
@squiresuzuki Yes, we are always amazed that it loses its H in America!
tenneral 8 months ago
What you said at the end there reminded me of a saying I heard a while ago which was: If you want to be happy for a day get drunk, if you want to be happy for 5 years get married, if you want to be happy forever...get a garden.
grnlfe01 8 months ago
@grnlfe01 Good way to summarise this work : I'll remember this wise saying.
tenneral 8 months ago
when i move i will be restarting my garden
reduciblycomplex 8 months ago
Thanks for your garden video Tenneral! It makes me want to spend more time in mine.
MercifulMing 8 months ago
oh, at 4:03 are those yellow iris's? My wife and I just bought a house with a garden full of many different colors of iris's.... along side of it we planted all sorts of vegies, fruits, and herbs... we are quite excited about it.... our tomatoes and corn are doing quite well... but the bugs seem to favor our lima and green beans.... seems we need more spiders!
brianthemayan 8 months ago
@brianthemayan Yes, Irises although I give them no attention. And I find soapy water a good way of clearing aphids from beans.
tenneral 8 months ago
@tenneral We will try the soapy water! Our cilantro has just started sprouting some coriander which we are quite excited about!
brianthemayan 8 months ago
Just planted a large garden yesterday in the very hot weather. Herbs, squashes, tomatoes, peppers, ect. I love doing it. Also your irises and wisteria are beautiful. Enjoy.
vardogr 8 months ago
I haven't lived in a house since I was a very young child, so no large vegetable gardens for now, sadly. We do have herbs on the terrace though; rosemary, thime and mint. Nothing quite like a fresh mint tea.
LynxChan 8 months ago
I dont have a true garden because I live the 20th floor of an apartment, but I do have some potted fruits that I am growing, including passion fruit, strawberries and rhubarb.
RomeoCo 8 months ago
I still remember the first time I found ripe green beans. I ate them right off the vine. Yeah. Don't do that.
nothingUnrealExists 8 months ago
I want to grow more veggies but my wife and her mum think they are unsightly. The only place I can grow is out of sight and ... out of the light!!
fluffymcdeath 8 months ago
What a wonderful garden! :-)
distopianBliss 8 months ago
I do my best with my plants here in NYC. My roof top is not as large as your back yard but you have inspired me to keep up the effort! thanks.
natureboywonder 8 months ago
If you think you have problems with rubbish, a friend of mine bought a house in East Ewell just outside London. He started digging the garden and clang. The previous owner had buried an old electric cooker in the garden. Can you imagine the size of the hole that must have been required. I love gardens but sadly my back will not allow me more than 5 minutes before I want to die.
Tridhos 8 months ago
@Tridhos I fully sympathise with the digging business. I find I am soon standing, leaning on the spade, trying to recover enough to take one more go at the bloody rocks and flints and old bricks.
tenneral 8 months ago
T, I don't give even one little hoot about gardening, but I would probably watch and favorite a video of you vacuuming your carpet. Damn, I think I'm a fan-boy! Very embarrassing for a 62 year old Texan. Keep up the great work...or I will be very sad. Damn, there I go again! Never mind!
sonvolt48 8 months ago 3
@sonvolt48 Thanks for the kind words. Now then, I'm sure Texas would be a great place to grow a garden - for one thing it's rather warmer than the west of England!
tenneral 8 months ago
I never encourage spiders.. Mainly because in Australia I never know what size/toxicity they'll be when they mature. I often wake up to find a palm-sized huntsman perched on the ceiling above my bed.. not a pleasant experience. Also found a couple of Redbacks in the yard this Summer... I usually terminate spiders on site with extreme prejudice. Always leave praying mantises alone though.
antonc81 8 months ago
@antonc81 I agree. In your country I should be very wary of the creatures but so far redbacks haven't migrated here, so we're safe enough for the time being.
tenneral 8 months ago
I'd not worry too much about getting all the stones out of the soil, plants have been growing around them for hundreds of millions of years just fine. The bones are a tad worrying though!
This year we're likely to have a couple of accidental harvests. One of the small saplings in the garden turned out to be a fruit tree and we have a few probable plums growing on it.
In with the broad beans I found a potato plant, it must have been in with the compost, I've potted it up out of curiosity.
lamnaa 8 months ago
@lamnaa I tend to agree about the stones, but the carrots tend to grow into obscene shapes otherwise. The bones look like animal! I've found old bricks, nails, lots of clay tobacco-pipe fragments and even some pieces of leather. Good luck with the plums and potatoes.
tenneral 8 months ago
One of the things that I think is sad is the current trend in filling in gardens with loose stones or paving over them. Not only is it bad for the environment, but it upsets the watertable and contributes to flooding in times of heavy rain. I live in an upstairs flat with a balcony - I have no plants there because it is also my astronomical observatory!
neil73 8 months ago
Bones??? Anything you'd like to confess ; )
johny344 8 months ago 2
@johny344 I shall have a word with my assistant Igor, who should really dispose of some things further away from the house!!
tenneral 8 months ago
You are WAY ahead of us. Our strawberries have just started to flower.It has been a VERY soggy and foggy spring so the local market gardener is way behind. I would love thornless Blackberries. I spend more effort wacking the wild ones out of gardens than I do picking them.
angryislander56 8 months ago
@angryislander56 The thornless variety is quite new in England although John Kohler says they are more common in America.
tenneral 8 months ago
my gardens will be more rewarding when I get them under control after not being able to take good care of them last year. So many things went wrong that I couldn't spend any time on them. Overgrown with weeds and things I should have split up, but didn't get a chance to. Oh what a mess.
tattooskin72 8 months ago
lol, I still prefer your videos on how to drink a real gin and tonic, but I must admit this was quite pleasant. My parents would be thrilled to exchange photos of flowers with you, I think... but I won't encourage it, they are utterly obsessed with they garden and have literally hundreds of hours of footage of flowers that they force upon unsuspecting visitors...Cheers.
accentgrave1 8 months ago
@accentgrave1 There you are! Make a video of their garden for YouTube and get your video production going!
tenneral 8 months ago
Do you use Facebook? If yes, can i friend you!
Scanini 8 months ago
@Scanini I am on FB but hardly ever use it - it's not really my medium of choice.
tenneral 8 months ago
I began gardening for the first time last year, it really is back breaking work.
I too have so many stones, glass, metal things, brick etc in the soil. I have planted rocket, leeks, red onions, potatoes and a blueberry bush this year.
Keep up the gardening vids!
Scanini 8 months ago
@Scanini Good luck with your own endeavours.
tenneral 8 months ago
Thanks for the update!
flyingfisbeefilms 8 months ago
Well done old chap. i only moved to a new address seven months ago and the garden was dreadful when i moved in, big but dreadful nevertheless, It took me a good three weeks or so just to clear up, i too understand the problem the rocks in the garden, i had to buy a sieve to separate the soil from the rocks.
My i suggest you add worm casting to your garden ? it will do wonders, if you need advice or question feel free to ask.
theracemixer 8 months ago
@theracemixer My sieve has been in constant use, as you can imagine. Good luck with your own big garden.
tenneral 8 months ago
You have a lovely garden! I've got a bit of a wisteria addiction, too. I gave up gardening for a while because I can't move around so well anymore, but I've just started again with help from my husband. It's strange how happy seedlings can make me...Thank you for sharing this and for the referral to growingyougreens. (btw, if you have a green house, you might put the glass and stones in a tub and use them as a heat sink - for all the trouble they've given you, they might as well be useful)
durtygrrrl 8 months ago
@durtygrrrl Thanks for the advice. No greenhouse, but I'm pretty enclosed with high walls so there is a mini-climate which holds the heat well enough and keeps out the worst of the wind.
tenneral 8 months ago
Your garden is wonderful, thank you for showing it off!
foureightfifteensix 8 months ago
Bones? Who owned your house before you Fred West?
MrElliotpaige 8 months ago
@MrElliotpaige It sure looks like it. Actually the bones are mostly sheep and pig bones, [or am I being optimistic?]
tenneral 8 months ago 2
Thanks for sharing!
bobster451 8 months ago
Why have grass?
1) Somewhere to sit
2) Even idiots like me can make it grow!
3) I'm... too lazy to actually keep a proper garden ;)
Elipson3 8 months ago
@Elipson3 Clover and some chamomile varieties don't even need to be mowed :) Depending on your area, they might not even need to be watered! You are not alone in the lazy gardening department :)
durtygrrrl 8 months ago
@Elipson3 Very sensible. But on the other side, it's uncomfortable to sit on, it gets clogged with dandelions, daisies and moss, the bloody stuff needs cutting on a regular basis and you can't even eat it - unless you happen to be a goat.
tenneral 8 months ago