@CampKohler the former. It's all overgrown and wild though at one time people probably used it to access the back of their houses. A few people have garages out back but most people have parking on their front drives so the lane is very quiet.
@Eliseharris You are fast! I posted a reply, saw that it was in the wrong place and had spelling errors, so I deleted it, corrected and reposted in the right place AND YOU HAD ANSWERED IT THREE MINUTES BEFORE. Yikes.
Nosy questions: Is your garden area the entire yard or is the yard split up by fences among several tenants of the building? If you go between the fence and the shed, does that lead to the front of the lot or do you have to go through the house to reach the street? Did you have the tree cut up or was that wood pile already there? Whose wheelbarrow is that? (You don't seem like the wheelbarrow owning type.) Can they evict you when you've cleaned everything up and charge more to someone else?
@CampKohler everything you can see, including the back shed (actually a garage) is part of the garden. The landlord had the some trees chopped down and we have been getting rid of the logs and sticks ever since (mostly putting the branches in the garden waste collection - but the green bins don't take much so it's taken a long time).
@Eliseharris@Eliseharris By lane do you mean an adorable, leaf-strewn path meandering through the neighborhood where possibly lovers trod hand-in-hand (which is what we might think in U.S.) or a narrow, utilitarian, sometimes ugly street along the rear of properties for access to garages, garbage cans (sorry, dust bins) and the like? We call those alleys. They are rare except in older areas, because they eat up land and invite crime.
You've made great headway and major improvements,cause for celebration.I just had a flash of me chatting with you on skype 10 years from now about these days in your life and mine.It would be like next door neighbors talk.
Are you going to make most of the yard a garden or plant grass seed? Do you have full use of the shed out back,or garage? OOOOH what mysteries are in the shed? Storage,Tools,ZOMBIES ? I wonder what video possibilities await in the shed??? How many years do you plan to stay?
@JerryLehane3 I can go in the garage/shed, but the garage door is missing so that would need fixing. There is old furniture and junk in there. Couldn't get to it this time last year as the missing door was hidden by felled trees and the front door was hidden by ten foot high blackberry canes. Don't know how long I will be here - never know what the future holds.
The pond is nice :). Gardening in the cold stinks I know. I have tons of tree in my yard and I have to rake at lest 18 bags + each time. The tree keep geting biger each yaer so make than over 20 for next year. Oh my I will need to beg someone to help it took so long this year.
It's also cold in east London, though I don't have a garden, I do get squirrels trying to get into the flat, I would like to shoot them with an air rifle but I don't have one. They are vermin, so long as you don't cause any unnecessary suffering you can kill them.
They likely dug up the bulbs you planted after having killed all the baby birds in the spring.
@Larkvall they are blackberry roots. The whole garden was hidden under ten foot high blackberry plants until last autumn, and for about 20 years before that. Still dealing with the last of the roots.
After I planted my bulbs I sprinkled them with paprika and chili spice. The squirrels didn't dig any of them up. But they did seem to be very sneezy...
Save yourself trouble&ASKlocal gardeners how to squirrel-proof your plantings.They're fuzzy littlePESTSwho destroy property&trees&rival insects for destructive power.Innocent faces,and cutesy wootsie tails don't fool me for one second.They'reNOTcutey patootys at all but a blight@society.We must arm ourselvesAVEChave-a-heart cages and peanut butter.Free them, release them in the woods and they'll just return.Cats are their natural enemy if you can deal with putrid litter boxes.HousecatsLOL
Probably the fairies understand the popularity and importance of your videos and do not let you eat anything which keeps you with them more than two days. Those roots may come from the root garden of the parallel reality, so if you follow them deep enough then the time will turn its direction and getting more begin to mean getting less.
Gives me not so fond memories of once living in East Finchley where I woke up to find ice on the inside of the window. I discovered that there is no way that hardship is character forming! I hope you're able to keep warm now.
@upbeatdownload it's pretty cold in North London too right now. When I lived in Peckham I almost got frostbite in my kitchen on a number of occasions last year. I think that was more me being too poor to put on the heating than it being South London's fault, though!
@goodagofilms don't worry - I won't be eating them. I don't think they are brown roll rims, but they might be poisonous Jack O'Lanterns rather than tasty chanterelle - so I will not risk eating them.
@Eliseharris Yes i would go with Jack O'Lanterns. why don't you Just buy some Button mushrooms, and place them about the place.Then you could pretend it's a lot safer. You can eat Squirrel Tho, so go get it! Squirrel will go with mushrooms!
@goodagofilms yes - I have heard squirrels taste very good! I probably won't be eating them either - nor the frogs and plentiful snails in the garden. Though if society collapses at least I will know where to find free food!
The poisonous chemical compound found in Jack.. Will Cause DNA damage that blocks the transcription process. This block can only be relieved by a repair system called nucleotide excision repair. Damages in non-transcribed DNA areas are left unrepaired by the cell. This property was exploited by the company MGI Pharma to develop an illudin-derivative called Irofulven for use as an anti-cancer medicine. Its application is still in the experimental phase.
@goodagofilms well, that doesn't sound good - though something to bear in mind if I ever want to set up a company making experimental drugs! I will be sure not to touch it.
@goodagofilms I have put a note on the video just to reassure people I won't be eating them (and so anyone else who finds similar fungi thinks carefully before trying them).
@CampKohler the former. It's all overgrown and wild though at one time people probably used it to access the back of their houses. A few people have garages out back but most people have parking on their front drives so the lane is very quiet.
Eliseharris 1 year ago
@Eliseharris You are fast! I posted a reply, saw that it was in the wrong place and had spelling errors, so I deleted it, corrected and reposted in the right place AND YOU HAD ANSWERED IT THREE MINUTES BEFORE. Yikes.
CampKohler 1 year ago
Nosy questions: Is your garden area the entire yard or is the yard split up by fences among several tenants of the building? If you go between the fence and the shed, does that lead to the front of the lot or do you have to go through the house to reach the street? Did you have the tree cut up or was that wood pile already there? Whose wheelbarrow is that? (You don't seem like the wheelbarrow owning type.) Can they evict you when you've cleaned everything up and charge more to someone else?
CampKohler 1 year ago
@CampKohler everything you can see, including the back shed (actually a garage) is part of the garden. The landlord had the some trees chopped down and we have been getting rid of the logs and sticks ever since (mostly putting the branches in the garden waste collection - but the green bins don't take much so it's taken a long time).
Eliseharris 1 year ago
And the street is on the other side of the house. There is a lane leading to the back garden.
Eliseharris 1 year ago
@Eliseharris @Eliseharris By lane do you mean an adorable, leaf-strewn path meandering through the neighborhood where possibly lovers trod hand-in-hand (which is what we might think in U.S.) or a narrow, utilitarian, sometimes ugly street along the rear of properties for access to garages, garbage cans (sorry, dust bins) and the like? We call those alleys. They are rare except in older areas, because they eat up land and invite crime.
CampKohler 1 year ago
You've made great headway and major improvements,cause for celebration.I just had a flash of me chatting with you on skype 10 years from now about these days in your life and mine.It would be like next door neighbors talk.
JerryLehane3 1 year ago
One person surveyed said Elise's gardening series is 75% more interesting than listening to Gardeners' Question Time.
mnemonyxx2 1 year ago
Are you going to make most of the yard a garden or plant grass seed? Do you have full use of the shed out back,or garage? OOOOH what mysteries are in the shed? Storage,Tools,ZOMBIES ? I wonder what video possibilities await in the shed??? How many years do you plan to stay?
JerryLehane3 1 year ago
@JerryLehane3 I can go in the garage/shed, but the garage door is missing so that would need fixing. There is old furniture and junk in there. Couldn't get to it this time last year as the missing door was hidden by felled trees and the front door was hidden by ten foot high blackberry canes. Don't know how long I will be here - never know what the future holds.
Eliseharris 1 year ago
The thing that you didn't know is called " Faga'a"
salloo77yy 1 year ago
It also really cold where I am (Utah) but it gives me an excuse to wear my Harry Potter scarf, so I'm happy.
PHvlogger 1 year ago
Oh Elise. You look so cute!
artgonewrong 1 year ago
The pond is nice :). Gardening in the cold stinks I know. I have tons of tree in my yard and I have to rake at lest 18 bags + each time. The tree keep geting biger each yaer so make than over 20 for next year. Oh my I will need to beg someone to help it took so long this year.
Inuyshathebom 1 year ago
It's also cold in east London, though I don't have a garden, I do get squirrels trying to get into the flat, I would like to shoot them with an air rifle but I don't have one. They are vermin, so long as you don't cause any unnecessary suffering you can kill them.
They likely dug up the bulbs you planted after having killed all the baby birds in the spring.
DefaultPosition 1 year ago
If you pull out all of the roots won't the trees fall down?
Larkvall 1 year ago
@Larkvall they are blackberry roots. The whole garden was hidden under ten foot high blackberry plants until last autumn, and for about 20 years before that. Still dealing with the last of the roots.
Eliseharris 1 year ago
After I planted my bulbs I sprinkled them with paprika and chili spice. The squirrels didn't dig any of them up. But they did seem to be very sneezy...
Ape65 1 year ago
im still waiting for this promised snow! garden is certainly coming on well!
jamiehasnomercy 1 year ago
I like your garden and mainly the squirrel, so nice
BITARTEN2 1 year ago
Save yourself trouble&ASKlocal gardeners how to squirrel-proof your plantings.They're fuzzy littlePESTSwho destroy property&trees&rival insects for destructive power.Innocent faces,and cutesy wootsie tails don't fool me for one second.They'reNOTcutey patootys at all but a blight@society.We must arm ourselvesAVEChave-a-heart cages and peanut butter.Free them, release them in the woods and they'll just return.Cats are their natural enemy if you can deal with putrid litter boxes.HousecatsLOL
JerryLehane3 1 year ago
Probably the fairies understand the popularity and importance of your videos and do not let you eat anything which keeps you with them more than two days. Those roots may come from the root garden of the parallel reality, so if you follow them deep enough then the time will turn its direction and getting more begin to mean getting less.
By the way, that's a cute hat.
arvidmr 1 year ago
Gives me not so fond memories of once living in East Finchley where I woke up to find ice on the inside of the window. I discovered that there is no way that hardship is character forming! I hope you're able to keep warm now.
upbeatdownload 1 year ago
Good editing. I always like your video diaries. It's so cold in South London, I may have to seek the comfort and warmth of Wine Rack!
upbeatdownload 1 year ago
@upbeatdownload it's pretty cold in North London too right now. When I lived in Peckham I almost got frostbite in my kitchen on a number of occasions last year. I think that was more me being too poor to put on the heating than it being South London's fault, though!
Eliseharris 1 year ago
Do not eat them they looked like Brown Roll-Rims to me! They will KILL YOU! Very Very Slowly.
goodagofilms 1 year ago
@goodagofilms don't worry - I won't be eating them. I don't think they are brown roll rims, but they might be poisonous Jack O'Lanterns rather than tasty chanterelle - so I will not risk eating them.
Eliseharris 1 year ago
@Eliseharris Yes i would go with Jack O'Lanterns. why don't you Just buy some Button mushrooms, and place them about the place.Then you could pretend it's a lot safer. You can eat Squirrel Tho, so go get it! Squirrel will go with mushrooms!
goodagofilms 1 year ago
@goodagofilms yes - I have heard squirrels taste very good! I probably won't be eating them either - nor the frogs and plentiful snails in the garden. Though if society collapses at least I will know where to find free food!
Eliseharris 1 year ago
@Eliseharris where is the medicine?
The poisonous chemical compound found in Jack.. Will Cause DNA damage that blocks the transcription process. This block can only be relieved by a repair system called nucleotide excision repair. Damages in non-transcribed DNA areas are left unrepaired by the cell. This property was exploited by the company MGI Pharma to develop an illudin-derivative called Irofulven for use as an anti-cancer medicine. Its application is still in the experimental phase.
goodagofilms 1 year ago
@goodagofilms well, that doesn't sound good - though something to bear in mind if I ever want to set up a company making experimental drugs! I will be sure not to touch it.
Eliseharris 1 year ago
@Eliseharris Yes you are right! The point is! your garden is very,very; interesting.
goodagofilms 1 year ago
@goodagofilms I have put a note on the video just to reassure people I won't be eating them (and so anyone else who finds similar fungi thinks carefully before trying them).
Eliseharris 1 year ago
@Eliseharris Good idea because in 1997 I made the error and painfully lost about 10 lbs in 2 days.
JerryLehane3 1 year ago
The squirrels were having a good time:) Great video!!
PlasmaDude47 1 year ago
wow, it does look very cold there. makes me appreciate my nice warm miami weather, lol.
anyname13579 1 year ago 2
Dancing in the Fairy Circle. In a Diaphanous Gown or Star Clad ? Video ? happy Thanksgiving !
Don't trust the mushrooms ! I've just recovered ...
Roddyoneeye 1 year ago
Gosh do the leaves ever fall there?
xxxMrSuspendedxxx 1 year ago
@xxxMrSuspendedxxx yes there are leaves all over the garden - it's just there is a lot of ivy and an evergreen tree.
Eliseharris 1 year ago
@Eliseharris Yes pines and waxy leaf magnolia are what I have to tide the dreary palate of winter over.
xxxMrSuspendedxxx 1 year ago
Haha! Cool hat :)
BluDevil93 1 year ago
happy thanksgiving
johnswackyworld 1 year ago
@johnswackyworld happy thanksgiving to you too!
Eliseharris 1 year ago