Stony Ground

[Larkvall]

You kind of remind me of Elizabeth Hurley in this video.

[andysplace]

LOL i think you need to get the timeteam in to your garden to dig it up or the police seems be a lot of bones lol

[MyOddSock]

Sprouting spuds are ok if the tuber feels firm and is not green. The toxin solanine is present in clorophyll green spuds. Washed spuds in clear bags go green quicker. Strangely some shops have the spuds washed and then sprinkle a dry compost over them to make them look freshly dug. The cynic in me thinks the shops keep their spuds well lit once on the shelf to gain from a repeat sale. Ideally store in the dark between 5 and 10C. Make the digging easier – Azarda.

[Swifted17]

All I have is a garden of dandelions and wild carrot. :(

[Eliseharris]

@Swifted17 well they are both medicinal - both very good for the liver. maybe you can invent and patent some sort of hangover cure!

[jaded5632]

@Swifted17 haha a wild carrot

[Eliseharris]

@PhiltrumOz I don't think this area has really been very well explored in terms of geography or archaeology - as I said the history seems to suggest it was too hard and claggy to farm and nobody lived in the area until after the domesday book was compiled. This particular part was not touched until this house. It was likely woodland for several hundred or more years.

[chaseallenhager93]

Omg!!!!! Thank you so much this is such an honor!!!!! (: Thanks Elise soooo much (:

[Eliseharris]

@chaseallenhager93 good luck with your new channel!

[paulnsara]

Sorry Elise but I think you will find that your 'rocket' is in fact milk thistles.

[Eliseharris]

@paulnsara maybe - but that's not too bad - It medicinal!

[ujdo]

Do you just forget to harvest the potatoes?

You need to have them looked at by an expert. One of those looked like a part of a jaw bone.

Will you be putting a fish in the pond?

[Jersey526]

Just one word of advice: MULCH.

[TheRadicalreels]

That stone @ 2:34 looks to be a human bone to me. Love your Garden, looks like you have been busy! My Grandparents were from Italy and the enjoyed eating Fennel after most every meal. They called it finocchio... My Fennel is not at nice as yours is, but I have had record amounts of tomatoes this year! Good to see you, you look wonderful! Rad

[FOSEEBOY]

doing the garden....digging the weeds......who could ask for more? will you still need me? will you still feed me? when I'm 64....

[Eliseharris]

@FOSEEBOY there is certainly a lyric for all eventualities!

[GUIDOBRAT]

@FOSEEBOY ahh..a Beatle fan ! ^5

[monicavm]

Hmm, don't like fennel.

[Toottycat]

Maybe I can suggest something: You occupy what in archaeology is termed as a midden - a prehistoric 'refuse heap'. You clearly have flint implemets, what looks as spear-heads, adzes and scrapers - possibly all Neolithic (3,000 BC+/-) - unless you find Bronze Age artefacts (which in Britain sets off after 3,000 BC). What is surprisingly absent from your 'digs' is the absence of pottery shards, have you found any? Typology of fired clay would be instrumental for dating your finds. S.D. from Malta.

[Eliseharris]

@Toottycat a few bits of slate and tile on the surface but none really underneath. It is clearly either the site of a workshop or a rubbish dump, yes! I think someone far back in the past made a lot of stuff around here and just left it when they moved on. People did not live here until the middle of the last century . It was woods until the 19th century or so then common land. Don't think this part was farmed because the soil is too poor and stony.

[sinfulmoose]

Sorry Elise, but the fact that there's so many different types of stones in your garden actually means there's not going to be any stone tools or ancient bones in your reach. It instead means that your garden's seen a lot of construction and rubble the past 100 years or so. Artifacts and biofacts are found in undisturbed ground that is usually very smooth deep down and almost completely undisturbed. Sorry! :{ Good work though :}

[Eliseharris]

@sinfulmoose there really hasn't been any construction apart from the house. As I say in the video the whole area was unfarmable common and woods for hundreds and hundreds of years. Nothing was built on it until the house.

[sinfulmoose]

@Eliseharris Well then I hope someday you get a couple of things looked at and prove me wrong :}

[GUIDOBRAT]

@Eliseharris Hello, Elise...greetings from America. haha !! number one) you're hilarious !! number two) you're awesome number three) marry me (I wont take "no" for an answer..

*s*

[Eliseharris]

@GUIDOBRAT well that puts me in a difficult position! I had better say I will think about it then!

[GUIDOBRAT]

@Eliseharris haha...very diplomatic answer !! :) (ps : ignore me..I get silly sometimes---what do you expect from a "budding" comedian (no pun intended)

seriously though, your skits are great--keep up the good work ^5 (I'm watching your "Train-spotting" right now)

thx, kjm.

[michaeljking]

With soil like that you should look into "no dig gardening" and just add mulch/compost on top to build up the soil and keep in moisture

[robertpina99]

That garden is an ideal place for a gnome.

[audadvnc]

What's that racket in the background - somebody breaking whole kitchens of crockery? Or a drummer? Same difference, I guess... Here in the American Midwest, we have 20 feet of topsoil before you hit rock - or used to; farm erosion over the last 100 years has brought it down to about 6 feet. Your rocks look like potatoes, and vice versa. That carving at 3:25 looks like a Stone Age Venus figurine.

[Eliseharris]

@audadvnc the carving does, doesn't it! 

[powerspade]

Some of those stones are flit arrow heads

[Eliseharris]

@powerspade yes, I think they probably are too - and a random collection of tools.

[Roddyoneeye]

Is your pond leaking? The stones look like slag and over fired lining of a smelters forge.

[Eliseharris]

@Roddyoneeye there seems to be a bit of slag, but not all of it is. Back home (Wales) we got a lot of slag, but we called in clinker. Mostly blues and greens - it was incredibly pretty. It's not that, for the most part, but there is evidence of burning (not so much vitrification).

[Eliseharris]

@Roddyoneeye and no, the pond is not leaking - it's just been very dry and a lot of birds have had baths and then soaked up water!

[Larkvall]

You look gorgeous!

[RupertsCrystals]

Was that Ollie on the drums?

[mudpies4u]

Oh Elise,just had a fun idea looking at your rocks.Have you ever done mosaics? It would be cool to use your rocks along with mosaics to form a body/animal/creature, with your rock feet,rock boobies, toes and fingers etc.......I love rocks too. Love your little terraces there.Where I am there are no neighbors for a mile.

[xxxMrSuspendedxxx]

I thought I seen coal cinders near the end.

Good gawd trim your nails and practice up the ukulele, then have the cello guy sit in with Vada Rhia. Order dear Squire Broadway to practice up his violin too. Hopefully the Asian chap's London Philharmonic tryout isn't canceled because of appearing with Vada Rhia, though.

[Steve7508]

you should get a geologist or archaeologist to have a look at all those stones and tell you what they are or might be. not sure where you'd find one, but it'd be interesting.

[JustusScottJr]

Those feet looking stones are obviously the stone shoes worn by the common garden gnome, silly!

[McPrfctday]

2.15 - 2.48 drums next door! Is it Julian Lloyd Webber moving in? no lol

[Eliseharris]

@McPrfctday not unles Julian Lloyd Webber is now Japanese!

[McPrfctday]

@Eliseharris with a name like that I thought he always was Japanese. No but how cool! a Japanese cello player... looking forward to eavesdrop videos! (Electric Dreams)

[m0nde]

you can break off those nubs from your potatoes and plant them!

[Eliseharris]

@m0nde I planted the whole potatoes. The other few plants were made from one cut up sprouting one but it's such hard work to dig the holes it seemed easier just to plants as few as possible!