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Hi! I'm Lorna, a multi-hobbyist who's green, thrifty, inked, and nifty. Join me as I:
🥔 Grow potatoes in my small container garden
🎨 Create unique art and DIY craft projects
🛍️ Discover hidden gems while thrifting
🍰 Bake/cook up the odd concoction
Don't miss out - hit that subscribe button and help me reach 450 Subs 👍
As a devoted full-time mum and carer, my son is my top priority. This channel is a delightful hobby, and uploads may be sporadic based on my schedule.
🥔 Grow potatoes in my small container garden
🎨 Create unique art and DIY craft projects
🛍️ Discover hidden gems while thrifting
🍰 Bake/cook up the odd concoction
Don't miss out - hit that subscribe button and help me reach 450 Subs 👍
As a devoted full-time mum and carer, my son is my top priority. This channel is a delightful hobby, and uploads may be sporadic based on my schedule.
Container Potato Harvest
Potato reveal time! The results of my Sarpo Mira potato harvest from 4 x 30-litre pots! I experimented with two different planting methods: whole seeds vs cut-out chits. Watch as I dig through each pot to see the difference in yield and quality between the two methods.
However, not everything went according to plan. The final pot had an unexpected surprise-a thriving ant nest, leading to a disappointing outcome with rotten potatoes. Learn from my successes and failures in this detailed harvest reveal. Don't forget to check out my channel for more harvests.
Hello my Hobby Friends 🌿🎨🌱🧶🧁🛒 My Name is Lorna.
Watch as I explore into the vibrant world of container gardening, thrifting, crafting, and much more! 🌟 Don't miss out - hit that subscribe button and help me reach 450 Subs 👍 Let's build a community of gardeners, hobbyists and creatives today! 💫
Thanks for watching 😊
However, not everything went according to plan. The final pot had an unexpected surprise-a thriving ant nest, leading to a disappointing outcome with rotten potatoes. Learn from my successes and failures in this detailed harvest reveal. Don't forget to check out my channel for more harvests.
Hello my Hobby Friends 🌿🎨🌱🧶🧁🛒 My Name is Lorna.
Watch as I explore into the vibrant world of container gardening, thrifting, crafting, and much more! 🌟 Don't miss out - hit that subscribe button and help me reach 450 Subs 👍 Let's build a community of gardeners, hobbyists and creatives today! 💫
Thanks for watching 😊
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Container Garden: Small Harvest
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Welcome back to my small typical British garden. In today's video, I'll take you on a relaxing tour of my cozy garden space, where I've been growing a variety of fruits and vegetables in containers. Despite the limited space, the garden is bursting with life and color, and I’m excited to share it with you. As we stroll through the garden, I’ll be harvesting some of the fruits (and veggies) of m...
Potato Harvest: Experiment Fail
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Maris Piper potato reveal. 🌿 Today, we're diving into an exciting container potato reveal experiment. It all started when we found a massive Maris Piper potato while peeling spuds for dinner. Instead of throwing it away, we decided to plant it and see how it compared to a certified seed potato. In this video, we reveal the results after just 15 weeks of growing. The plant had started to die bac...
Container Potato Reveal
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Today, we're diving into an exciting POV potato harvest, harvesting the delightful Nicola variety. Join me as we uncover the bounty from two containers: 2 x 30 liter containers, 4 seeds in each. I believe I may have overcrowded and underwatered the plants. With better care, they could have lasted a few more weeks as planned, potentially doubling the final weight. Despite these challenges, the N...
Container Garden: Lush to Lifeless
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Welcome back to my small typical British garden. Watch my progress as I attempt to create a kitchen garden using container-grown produce. I am completely new to gardening and learning as I go. Wanting to see how much I can grow in a small space with limited time. Bringing you along to show what is possible with very little knowledge and a can-do attitude. In just 2 weeks, there's been incredibl...
Potato Reveal: Jazzy: Container Garden
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🌿 Today, we're diving into an exciting POV potato harvest, harvesting the delightful Jazzy variety. Join me as we uncover the bounty from two containers: a 5-gallon fabric pot and a 50 litre pot that's only half full. 🔸 Container 1: 5-gallon fabric pot with 3 seed potatoes 🔸 Container 2: 50 litre pot (half full) with 6 seed potatoes The yield may be small, but there's plenty to enjoy! I counted...
Potato Reveal: First Earlies: Small Garden Tour
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Potato harvest time, welcome back to my small typical British garden. Watch my progress as I attempt to create a kitchen garden using container-grown produce. I am completely new to gardening and learning as I go. Wanting to see how much I can grow in a small space with limited time. Bringing you along to show what is possible with very little knowledge and a can-do attitude. First a tour of my...
Container Garden: Garden Tour + Ladybugs & Composter
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Welcome back to my small typical British garden. Watch my progress as I attempt to create a kitchen garden using container-grown produce. I am completely new to gardening and learning as I go. Wanting to see how much I can grow in a small space with limited time. Bringing you along to show what is possible with very little knowledge and a can-do attitude. In just 2 weeks, there's been incredibl...
Thrifted Recipes: Blackcurrant Cheesecake
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Will this Decorative Recipe Taste Any Good? Join me in the garden as we attempt to recreate this decorative recipe. Today, we're diving into a deliciously nostalgic treat: a vintage Blackcurrant Cheesecake. This recipe comes straight from a charming, thrifted decorative dish that I stumbled upon, and I couldn't wait to bring it to life with some baking. In this video, we'll take you through eac...
Container Garden: Progress & Plans
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Welcome back to my small typical British garden. Watch my progress as I attempt to create a kitchen garden using container-grown produce. I am completely new to gardening and learning as I go. Wanting to see how much I can grow in a small space with limited time. Bringing you along to show what is possible with very little knowledge and a can-do attitude. This update gives a tour of the space, ...
Container Garden: Herb Garden Addition
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Welcome back to my small typical British garden. Watch my progress as I attempt to create a kitchen garden using container-grown produce. I am completely new to gardening and learning as I go. Wanting to see how much I can grow in a small space with limited time. Bringing you along to show what is possible with very little knowledge and a can-do attitude. This update gives a tour of the space, ...
Taking on the Single Seed Potato Challenge: Part one #SSPC2024
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Taking on the Single Seed Potato Challenge: Part one #SSPC2024
Container Garden: Preparing & Planning
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Container Garden: Preparing & Planning
Love to know what you think of the taste of Sarpo Mira, Lorna. It seems to have a mixed fan base.
I was impressed with how well they roasted yesterday, ruffed up nicely. Flavor I couldn't really tell as seasoned them too well. I'll try steaming one for a taste test at somepoint this week but so far this year I've enjoyed the Duke of York the best.
@@themondaycorner Cool. I didn't want to say anything but I found them a bit bland when boiled or mashed, but I guess it doesn't really matter as a roaster LOL
Like you I love a good potato reveal. Using a table to do it on is such a good idea to, it’s the way I do it and it’s so much easier than being over a wheelbarrow, or on the floor. You asked for a link to potato reveals. So here’s mine, where I harvest mine and select the best for the local garden show. Hope you find it interesting and happy gardening…..Pete. czcams.com/video/27wvyvMHtAs/video.htmlsi=IrL5RSKITaI3yJRA
Any harvest is a good harvest Lorna. You'll get some great Organic Homegrown goodness out of them and they'll taste better than anything out of a supermarket. Speaking of supermarkets, Why don't Dwarves buy potatoes at Aldi????? Because they're 'Lidl' people 😄 And if you want to feel better about your Spud harvest not being as big as you would've liked, check out my Carrot harvest today, it's a good job I'm not a market gardener or I'd be out on the street begging!
Like the joke! I roasted some of them today and they were great! I'll check out the carrot harvest in a sec, I've been putting mine off as I fear they're all top and no bottom 😂
@@themondaycorner My first batch are hilarious. One stubby one, one that's been munched by Carrot Root Fly and Slugs, and a load of tiny Carrots with Massive Green Afros! I ate one of the tiddlers after I washed them all, it was gorgeous so all is not lost 😂
Loverly pot Garden Very Successful ❤❤ Happy planting
Yes, thanks
Open a male flower up by removing the petals just before it opens. Touch the stamen very lightly on your finger tip. If it stains yellow then rub it all over the reproductive parts of the inside of the female flower with the fruit behind it. Smother all around the inside and outside of the central parts of the inside of the flower and its very centrr too, and cover it all with the pollen. This will help to set your fruit.
I will try this on the next flowers to come up, I've missed so many! hopefully I get at least one this year. thank you :)
Thanks for sharing your trick on how to plant vegetables on a basket .
Thanks for visiting
Really fab channel Lorna, especially loving the jokes!!! Subscribed and looking forward to more 😊
Thank you 😊
the 2nd pot looks good..i mean much better
It does! I didn't do anything differently to the first pot.
Looking good Lorna, those Blueberries were a good size and the bush will grow a lot coming into next season. I'll be potting up my last container Blueberry into a larger pot for next year, the 30 litre potato pots will do. Maybe we'll get a late summer so those tomatoes will do well 👍
I think the pots are on offer at morrisons at the moment so I will look at getting bigger pots, thank you. Do you trim them back at all? :)
@@themondaycorner Yes, I hard pruned one of the container ones and removed all the 3 year old wood. This year it didn't do too well but it's now sending up new shoots from the base which is what I wanted. When it goes 'woody', the fruit gets much smaller on that stem so it's good to remove full pieces from the base to encourage new growth. No need to do it on young bushes, give it about 4 years and then just keep them tidy within the pot. Here's a quick half-decent vid about pruning czcams.com/video/Dbn-AoPkeF4/video.html
It hasn't died back. The leaves are still green and haven't fallen over. Try using dome ashes when you plant to kill disease...after watering it's like potato soap (lye).
I will have to have a look at trying that next year :)
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You did great, 4 is the right amount of seed potatoes for first and second earlies, two in the bottom, two halfway up, they are new potatoes/salad potatoes after all, bigguns are for the Maincrop which then you put too per pot. Loving the song good fun, well done to your hubby 🙂
Thank you! I have learnt alot this year so hopefully next year I will have a prefect crop 🤞. I still have 5 or 6 more reveals this year to do.
@@themondaycorner genuinely really good return, don't put yourself down, especially this growing season has been a nightmare, great return honestly
You did great, 4 is the right amount of seed potatoes for first and second earlies, two in the bottom, two halfway up, they are new potatoes/salad potatoes after all, bigguns are for the Maincrop which then you put too per pot. Loving the song good fun, well done to your hubby 🙂
I will try alternate levels for my earlies next year, thank you for the tip! :)
The compost will be okay, I reuse mine year after year, scab or no scab. The main cause of scab is lack of water during the first critical weeks of tuber formation - so water well. Beware of using supermarket spuds. Many are treated with a (organic) growth inhibitor. So yes, they will produce spuds but the yield will be down on a proper seeds spud.
Yes, think it's down to lack of water like you said; Plan on putting in a watering system next year to help and I'm not risking supermarket potatoes again!
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Great harvest 😊
Thank you!
It seems that adding sulphur to the soil stops scab from forming if the ph is too high. Search scab and sulphur to see if this will help. After Many tries my potatoes are growing after I added sulphur. I added sulphur in the trench where the seed potatoes went in.
I have been thinking of doing some experimenting next year to see what will work well, I shall add sulphur to my list of things to try, thank you :)
Heh heh!! I like the potato song!! Is there a copy of it for my growing and harvesting potatoes facebook group please?? LOL!!
My husbands going to look at publishing it. I'll let you know when it's up :)
It's just a bit of scab Lorna, the big Maris Piper didn't look too healthy to start so don't worry. Peel the scabby bits off and the spud underneath is still perfectly edible. Getting over 20 spuds from that one beast is still a good return, well done 👍
Looked pretty good to me, if you leave 1 or two chits on the potato and rub the rest off you will get bigger potatoes than if there's lots of chits. 👌🙏🥔😁
I will definetly be doing this next year! My sspc will be interesting to harvest as it's chits only :)
@@themondaycorner lots of my Sspc are cuttings and chits I ripped off, they do give a yield.👍👌🙏🥔😁
It would be so much simpler one you get it out of bag flip the whole thing over grab stems and shake because your probably leaving potatoes in that clump of soil potatoes and dirt fall out doing that
3-4 seed potatoes seems to be the sweet spot for me. I keep on top of the watering so maybe that helps. Even with blight I've had great harvests this year. Keep on trucking! 🦾
Nice harvest.
Thank you!
WOW, they sure produce a lot.
Amazing harvest,they looks like eggs.
Yes they do!
Looking good Lorna, the herbs may simply be too shaded so give them a week or two in a sunnier spot and see if they perk up a bit. As always, it's trial and error in a garden as you know. If it works it's food, if it doesn't it's compost, win win. I woke up to a load of Poppies lying flat on the Lawn, the wind here in Liverpool gets ridiculous coming in off the river, so a few of my plants end up in Casualty. All the best.
I'm gonna try moving the trees out the way and see if that help, Thank you :)
Khu vườn của bạn nhìn thích quá ,cây trồng rất đa dạng và phát triển thật tốt bạn rất giỏi chăm sóc .
I harvested Jazzy around the same time but didnt get nearly as many. May I ask how many seed potatoes you put in each container? They were yummy though 😂
There were 3 seed in the first small container and 5 or 6 in the bigger tub. I think I put too many in the pots, that's why they're soo small. Were yours any bigger?
@themondaycorner They may have been a tiny bit bigger but I couldn't swear to it. I couldn't remember when I planted them, so I just left them till the stalks were yellow. They never got a chance to dry out with all the rain we've had
I just had 4 seed in a 40 ltr bucket so that probably why my numbers were a bit low too. We live and learn so they say, here's to better luck next year x
Looking good there. I'm lucky that there are always a lot of Ladybirds in my garden so aphids aren't an issue (mostly). Nice to see another yellow pair, I thought they were very rare but it turns out the UK has a lot of them. I spotted a yellow one on my Clematis and it's the first time I've ever seen one, lovely things. Keep up the good work 👍🍀
Dispite me purchasing the classic red lady birds I seem to only spot the yellow ones in my garden.
Good harvest there Lorna, hopefully they taste as good as they look and you can give a few away to friends. Keep planting 👍
Tasted really good, definetly on my short list to grow again!
Lol love that music ! And i don’t even like country
Aw, thank you! My Husband created it for me cause I'm obsessed with potatoes.
Great stuff! Another few weeks for mine, hope they look like your!
Fingers crossed! All my potatoes no matter the variety seem to be falling over and wilting on the lower leaves way sooner than the plant should be, any suggestions?
@@themondaycorner When you say all varieties, do you mean maincrops as well? I'd expect 1E and 2E to be going over soon (mine are). 1E are typically ready in 10-12 weeks from planting and 2E in 12-14 weeks.
@@DigwellGreenfingers Yes. I don't mind my 1E & 2E looking sad but my Sarpos, maris pipers are looking off too and they have 50 ish days to go. My SSPC look mostly ok.
@@themondaycorner They could just be "aging gracefully". Take the old leaves off before they attract pests and disease.
@@DigwellGreenfingers ok thank you! I'll keep my fingers crossed I'll get some spuds out of them.
Wow that’s a really nice harvest. I wish the jazzy variety was sold here in Texas
There are so many american varieties that we can't get over here. Next year I'm planning on trying the ones I can get hold- Russet Burbank and Yukon Gold 👍
One of the best feelings is when you're harvesting your Potatoes. I thoroughly enjoy it.
It really is! That's why I've planted so many this year :)
It's exiting when you are a novis making new discoveries and learning so much at your own pace in your own personal garden. So glad your husband found that compost barrel. I'm impressed. Love your video☆
Thank you! and the compost is certainly composting.
Loved this, I'm going to look for similar dishes with recipes on them in charity shops, brilliant idea!
Thank you! Hoping to make/film another recipe next week. They are surprisingly everywhere I'm sure you'll easily find some. :)
Tuyệt vời ❤.
Beautiful garden. What is the name of your composter?
Hozelock, Easymix 2-in-1 composter. 👍
Nhìn bạn thu hoạch khoai Tây thích quá 👍.
Cảm ơn. Tôi bị nghiện khoai tây
@@themondaycorner món khoai Tây nhiều dưỡng chất ,có thể chê biến thành nhiều món ăn khác nhau ,mọi người đều thích khoai Tây bạn nhé 👍,
Khu vườn của bạn được bày trí rất gọn và đẹp ,bạn rất giỏi chăm sóc cây trồng trong vườn xanh mướt phát triển thật tốt ,rất vui vì bạn đã chia sẻ để mọi người cùng nhau học hỏi kinh nghiệm trồng trọt .
That’s a good result from the 2 tubs as the potatoes were not looking good 👍🥔🌱
Yes, I was very surprised!
Wow! What a great looking potato harvest there!!!
Thank you!
Excellent harvest, well done!
@@claraanderson1305 Thank you
Looks like you did better in grow bags.
100% trying again this year :)
Hi it is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed to you. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. Continue to do all you can. All the best on this journey.
Thank you! Will do! I have returned the sub.
Nice video... 👍
Thank you 👍
Adorable! Hoping my garden looks like yours even a little bit
You can do it!
Lovely video , so good to see what plants look like at each growth stage & many thanks for sharing
My pleasure 😊
I like the jokes and the garden looks good.
Thank you 😊
Love your container garden! I really like the green containers. Never seen them before. Your container garden is an inspiration. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you so much!