Hungry Gap | Changing Weather | Adapt and Change your plans | Seed Sowing | Green Side Up
The weather has certainly messed us about in this last 12 months,notably the high temps last summer in the UK, then the big freeze in December, even January was for the most part too mild, I need to adapt and respond to this..
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Hungry Gap | Changing Weather | Adapt and Change your plans | Seed Sowing | Green Side Up
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All useful info Steve. Will be trying some of these this year. Many thanks. 🙂
Thanks for the video. Chin up.
Merci beaucoup pour ce partage 😉
Happy days Steve, yeah I'm all over the place to be honest mate, my garden thinks its mid spring, I've no idea how I'm going to move forward just yet, so I'm grateful for the advice 😀
Radish on toast, I wonder who inspired that idea! 😁😁 Nice to see your positive outlook despite the cold Steve. Crazy to compare this year and last in your tunnel.
I lost all of the broad beans that were sown in Autumn, the tender stem broccoli has gone too, allotment is looking good though ready for the new sowings 🙂. The daughter has told me she has been buying Spinach, that's my next sowing lol , not something we eat, but will happily grow it for her 🙂
-17 might reduce your Slugs too! 🎉🇨🇦
Do you use any sort of condiment with your Radishes on Toast? That sounds just like the type of snack my elderly mom would like!
It’s been a pretty tough winter, especially where you are – sorry you lost so many plants. Like you said, I guess we were lucky to have a few very mild winters before this one. Great to see all those beds ready to go, and the new tunnel will be in business in no time 😊👍
Thanks Steve. It's reassuring to know that this isn't just a difficult winter for me. It's keeping me guessing quite what to start with. But…If you don't sow, it won't grow, so give it a go! Thanks.
My spuds are chatting in the conservatory. Pat
Silver lining that cold possibly reduced pest pressure for this year. Btw I'm looking at a metre of snow. 😳🥶🌨️
Bleak is the right word
Looks sort of like a Canadian garden! Lol! Minus the snow, though. Thanks for the tour! 🇨🇦❤️👍👍👩🌾🥕🥦
That carrot clump looks like a mole on steroids made!😁
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who lost all their hungry gap greens. I have been gardening for 65 years and I can't remember losing so many plants. All my cauliflowers bolted in the heat, I will miss them this spring. Still that's gardening, always a challenge.
God loves a Tryer Steve 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱il be looking up my old biscuit seed boxes tomorrow to see what I have left over and to give them a try , thanks for the reminder ‘
Another great video. I really need to get organised.. got another raised bed to build as well. Your videos are inspirational thanks!
I had such a lovely autumn garden planted up so healthy but all gone. I agree with needing to adapt. I lost all my squash because of the drought last year. I’ve planned this year to use some 5 litre bottles with a piercing at the bottom as a slow water irrigation so they won’t be killed off this year with any dry weather. I need to get some stuff in the ground in the greenhouse. Been planting up trays this week but you’ve inspired me to get in the ground Steve!
As a southerner the heat last summer was brutal. most crops absolutely failed, others however didn't do too badly. I have so much to learn before before I'm anywhere near making it through the hungry gap but all in good time. I do like the idea of growing some microgreens but id need to magic up some space first.
Radish on toast..sorry mate that's just WRONG
Hi Steve you are certainly right about the weather. I really was shocked at the severity of the cold at -9 . Like you I’m thinking outside the box planting seeds but I have a cheeky mouse that keeps avoiding my attempt to get rid of him as he’s causing havoc in my greenhouse little beggar.
Some things we don't have control over… some things we do. We, at the Yellow Frog community, keep our soil full of life in order to handle most of the intense weather out there. Good luck everyone!
Steve – When you've cleared the beds are you spraying with the SuperSoil? I haven't sprayed mine yet – waiting for the weather to warm up a bit first…
It's been down to -4 Deg C at staging level in my biggest polytunnel for 2 days and -5 Deg C this morning, and I'm 200 miles South of you. Don't think I'll be sowing anything in there, only indoors in propagators under lights.
Your Parsnips looked great. Though mine might be rubbish with 2 summer heatwaves, but they were planted into deep holes formed with a crowbar and sledgehammer and kept watered. Best lifted so far was 500mm/19.5" weighing 1.25 Kg/2 lbs 12 ozs.
Think we all got hit over winter, with the cold snap. Where now all trying our luck with sowing seeds and hoping for the best.
Some great ideas. Thanks to previous suggestions, I've actually got carrots, spring cabbage, mustard, a few chard and some perpetual spinach in my greenhouse. They're all pretty small, hardly growing but the greenhouse is usually completely empty at this time of the year. I'm hoping they all burst into life as Spring gets going and I get am earlier than usual harvest. I sorted through my many old packets of lettuce and other leaf type seeds and bunged those into some compost trays in my semi glazed potting shed. It took no time at all, if they don't do anything, no worries, if they do we get some nice greens.
believe it or not we still have whitefly!!
great video…as a nation we dont half waste some food….like raddish leaves etc….i never ate then didnt think too…but will now…..great video as always
What a brutal year it’s been!! Extreme weather is definitely showing us we must change our ways.
The year before tomato blight wiped us all out … what will this year bring???
🙏🏻🙏🏻 please be kind 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks Steve for these honest videos – gardening is really tough.
Hi Steve, as always, a great video with lots of helpful advice. Thanks for sharing and take care🙂