Random Stuff - Blue Sunflower RESULTS! Spicy Parcel, Garden Stuff, Portland Bill, Comment Positivity
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Timestamps:
00:00 Sunflower calamity
02:20 Potato Harvest
06:10 Spicy parcel
07:12 What is a weed?
13:53 Watercress update
16:08 Comment Positivity
29:15 Downstairs Greenhouse
34:20 BLUE SUNFLOWER UPDATE
37:03 Portland Bill - Jak na to + styl
If I lived next door to you, I'd be sneaking into you garden at night and pouring blue food colouring onto the roots of your sunflowers to help them along.
Just as nature intended.
Good thing his location is a secret 😂
That's why he won't recommend the builder. Nobody can know where he lives, so they don't mess with the colour of his sunflowers.
😂
@@pigeonlizardhe already had to move once because every time they saw him coming at his local Tesco they kept throwing away all the bargain items to ruin the £1 a day challenge
One of the blue sunflowers was mysteriously sabotaged.... Well friends, I think it's pretty clear that our friendly neighborhood shrimp is involved in a coverup. Why is he covering up the existence of blue sunflowers? Why doesn't he want us to have them? Does he want to keep them all to himself? Do blue sunflowers have magical healing properties?
(I am of course joking)
He could have just switched the seeds if that was the case
The first rule of blue sunflower club is that you don't talk about blue sunflower club .
That definitely looked like it had Blue potential, someone got at it, or Atomic Shrimp has been got at, by Big Yellow Sunflower corporations.
Eva saw it was actually blue,and not wanting her human to feel humiliated "accidentally" broke it.
when the rain wouldnt wash the blue away - he was desperate shrimp, Eva's silence wasnt expensive to buy
In the US a lot of native plants were labeled as weeds by wealthy landowners long ago and those names stuck. It's a huge problem for native ecosystems because even today gardening and "lawn care" services will actively work to kill off those native plants just because of that label. Milkweed is a good example. It's the only thing that monarch butterly larvae eat but it's treated as a pest plant because it was labeled a weed.
We actively propagate milkweed in our yard to help the monarch butterflies ❤
I allow many milk weeds in my flower beds. The big pinkish flower balls they put out are beautiful. But I grow the wild orange butterfly weed and a big white swamp milkweed.
I enjoy catching monarch caterpillars and watching them make their chrysalis and pop out.
They are losing their habitat and I show them to the grandkiddos.
We have gotten one or 2 spicewing and swallow tails too. They all get released back into the wild
Lawn care culture makes me so sad. I genuinely care about plants, not gardening, just plants and their natural lives. I try not to disturb them more than I'm required to by the city.
Not so much wealth, but lack of appreciation for non-European plants or non-exotics. Someone once said that if dandelions were difficult to grow they would be a prized flower. Wealthy people did start the lawn madness, but they were not the only culprits, farmers constantly struggling to make a living do not appreciate weeds in their croplands. Also city folks move out into the country or people move to another state and immediately want something "from back home". That something may either require alot of water and chemicals or conversely be extremely invasive.
got lots planted in three flower beds. the milkweed that is.
"We dont stop playing because with grow older; we grow older because we stop playing."
The worst thing that can happen to a physicist is growing up.
Something I try to convince my wife of....
You gotta get some security on those rare blue sunflowers.
He should have recolored the footage, to trick us for half a second
Eva: "Bark Bark!"
Shrimp: "Quiet."
Eva: "bork..."
34:35
I interpreted that last bork as a somewhat sulky "No!"
Sounded like "okay!" to me. 😉
it's fun learning a bit about plant identification from your videos, just the other day I found myself looking at a plant thinking, "Ah, pinnate forms, carrot family"
Yarrow is a plant that tripped me up at the start - flat umbels of whitish flowers; feathery leaves - looks like an umbellifer but it's really a daisy
@@AtomicShrimpRecently picked some yarrow for a beer brewing project. Apparently it was used in some Scandinavian beers pre-hop. (Though it is not part of Gruit, despite what Wikipedia claims)
I totally agree with you about the whole 'Not acting your age' thing. There are people I see every day, who are, in years, not much older than me - I was sixty last birthday - but they are old. They think and act old, and don't seem to be enjoying life at all. I've never acted my age, ever, and I'm happy. Like you, little things, that might seem trivial, really make me feel good. The other day at work, a customer came in driving a 1947 Chevrolet pick-up. Battered and quite beautiful, I went and talked with the owner about it, and left happy. To most people, it was just a slightly rusty old truck, and they dismissed it. I didn't, and thought about it all day. If you think old, you're going to BE old.
Tom Baker's fourth Doctor character once said:
"What's the point in being grown-up, if you can't be childish sometimes?" (The Doctor was meant to have been about 750 at the time)
And I concur wholly.
Beautiful footage of Portland Bill - thanks for that - If you visit when the weather is a bit boisterous, it's a different place entirely. Fascinating and if I'm truthful, more than a bit frightening. I don't know if the M.O.D. still have a presence there; it's where their underwater weapons development site was - and, in the early 1960's, a hotbed of spy activity, known in the press as: 'The Portland Spy Ring'.
46:20 "Every part of this plant is covered with ouch" very true and made me smile widely ♥
You could say Atomic Shrimp is the Bob Ross of words
You are after all the Bob Ross of which words to toss
I feel the sunflower pain, my second year growing sunflowers, a stunty little one in the corner of the garden shot up to about 8 feet, it's stem was about an inch and a half thick, it was absolutely HUGE. It was sheltered by high fences to the back and side, with a similar height conifer on one side, so well protected. But about a week or two after it grew over the fence, we had a gale and it snapped. I chopped it, hoping for it to try to bush out and give us a couple small heads but unfortunately that was it, it just stopped there. I'm still gutted and it's been nearly 2 years
Why is the zomboid man here?
Didn't expect to see you here! The shrimp has wide appeal
You know I haven't watched these random stuff videos often before - I clicked on this mostly for the blue sunflowers - but after this I think I will watch the future ones more often because this was quite nice.
It's like visiting with a good friend, isn't it? A turn in the garden, an informal lunch, a walk in the afternoon, and all the latest news.
You're lucky, in that you have a backlog to enjoy.
It's such a mood boost. I watch CZcams most free minutes I have and Mike's is my favourite channel. You feel like you know him so well. It's like a friendship with a knowledgeable, curious, and particular chap that you don't have to maintain. He gets every drop of value out of everything he encounters.
It is right!! It’s like having a nice grandpa or neighbor who knows a lot about things and shares with you
Feels really cozy and pleasant so far!
My dad loved "new potatoes". He forbade any other cooking than boiled. Older, skin tougher potatoes were allowed to be mashed (the favorite of us children), or baked, or boiled, or scalloped, but don't do anything with his "new potatoes", served with "curds"/cottage cheese.
Well, thank you for a fond memory of my dad! 😊
My very Teutonic papa also loved "new potatoes". Aside from boiling a pot of coffee fit for resurfacing roads, his sole venture in the kitchen was a pot of fresh green beans and new potatoes simmered with sausage. (Since he didn't add salt, Mum permitted the otherwise forbidden sausage as seasoning.) A good memory, indeed.
New potatoes are the best. Usually eaten with cured fish up here in the nordics and something many people really look forward to in summer.
My dad loved gardening. New potatoes were definitely always cooked, served with salt and some butter. Fresh summer potatoes from the store might be eaten like that too, but treating your own freshly picked potatoes any different would have been completely unheard of.
Have you ever tried growing your own mushrooms? There are several options, including kits, guides to clone fresh supermarket specimens etc. And since you have a bit of woodland near the garden, you could even try growing some interesting ones on actual logs. Thought it could be a cool little autumn project.
I grow 2 types that I've seeded or spoored into logs. Shiitake and golden oysters. The golden oysters have literally taken over in our area too. They love the dead wood in our wooded area. I love fresh shiitake mushrooms and am thinking of trying the lions mane next.
Never grow up - it's a trap! I love taking my young grandsons out and pointing weeds and insects out to them.. My 4 year old grandson took worms out of the soil in his school garden and put them in his tray - mum picked him up and teacher was horrified that she hadn't noticed worms, soil & plant matter! I was delighted!
His tray? Like his meal tray?
@@somethingsomething404 No, they have trays to store all of their days work in like pictures etc and he made a leaf nest in there for his worms until he could take them home... I suppose I'm going to have to tell him that he broke up a family of worms and they are searching for each other till this day!
As someone who stumbled upon your channel because of the scam baiting stuff (after discovering TheHoaxHotel and binging all his videos) I thought that was all I'd ever watch from you. Shortly after, your limited budget food challenges became my favourite. Now I'm sitting here, watching you read positive comments (with a slight buzz sponsored by Baileys), and all I can say is that I'm glad I found your channel. It's so wholesome and unique and a welcome distraction from the weird world we live in. I sincerely thank you for all that you do, Mike.
He is really a lovely man.
As a Dane. I'm grateful you phrased the noodle ban as adorable, and not pathetic.
He is a remarkably kind and diplomatic gentleman, isn't he?
@@chezmoi42 yeah, he's lovely
Funny enough, I've had those noodles, I think anyone eating then knows what they're in for BUT they taste actually pretty bad lmao. I got a few packs in 2020 and the only reason I stopped buying them is the sad flavor
@@stickitydoodahI've tried 3 flavours and enjoyed them, definitelymy favourite "instant" ramen. I think they taste great and have good amount of heat. Mind you I usually cook them with onions, onion greens(for garnish) and a protein (usually chicken or tofu) so I'm sure that helps.
@@dijosto they're fine on their own but yeah they're definitely made relatively plain so you can cook with them instead of having them as is like a psycho
Speaking of blue sunflowers, I recently came across a variety of paprika or bell pepper by the name of Tequila (not Tequila Sunrise) which looks photoshopped in real life. The outer skin is a brilliant royal purple not unlike a slightly brighter eggplant, with flesh the sickly pale green of lettuce hearts. It really is quite the looker.
Peppers/capsicums, eggplants/aubergines, and tomatoes/tomatoes are all in the family Solanaceae, and I've seen dark, nearly eggplant-colored tomatoes, so purple paprika sounds much more plausible than blue sunflowers.
There are a lot of capsicums that start off purple (when unripe), then ripen through to red or yellow (in some cases retaining the purple surface colour; in other cases losing it)
A purple bell pepper is possible . . .
I used to think this was a weird channel. Its about scams, gardening and cooking, but now theres a video about all three and I love it.
I shall never not appreciate your appreciation of small plants in a random place
Dandelions are also edible. At least here we don’t shy away from them. The leaves are bitter, yes. But that can be mitigated with boiling water or just by picking them young. The roots (tea/coffee substitute) and flowers (syrup) can also be utilised in various ways.
Dandelion and burdock is one of my favourite drinks. Bit out of fashion now, I hardly see it in the shops.
I remember dandelion & burdock from visiting my grandma in the north of England as a child - I can still find D&B in the shops but it doesn't taste like my memories of the drink
They're incredibly bitter. At least in my locale. The only way is to pick young leaves before it flowers and soak those in water. Without the bitter, it's very very tasty
I give them to my chickens! They love 'em, and it's a fast-growing crop. Cuts down nicely on the feed bill during summer :)
I make dandelion root tincture, it has fantastic health benefits.
Hi Mike, on the topic of growing up, there's a book called Impro by Keith Johnstone. It's a wonderful collection of essays on specific aspects of improvisational stagecraft that is truly interesting in its own right, but also reflects of his life of teaching, briefly in early education and later on at the Royal Court Theatre in London. The first chapter dives into his first experience as a primary school teacher, where he remarks: "I began to think of children not as immature adults, but of adults as atrophied children." This quote and chapter hit right into your sentiments shared in the video and I think about it all the time!
That is a really interesting reference - thank you!
The island visit was very relaxing but I must say that the moth sex caught me off guard 😂
No one expects...moth sex!
So nice to see these videos. I've just become a dad for the first time and my wife and I loved visiting Dorset for days out throughout the different seasons. Having a newborn has put the kibosh on long drives for the next few months so seeing these videos is the next best thing.
I'm actually watching this with my daughter, she's just been fed and is now sleeping!
Congratulations!!!! And the Shrimp fandom continues to grow! 😀
I just wanna say I love your videos. You have a way of making us feel like we are there with you, just some old friends catching up on life and stuff.
Lots of love from Portugal!
only two weeks since the last random stuff video? You're spoiling us Shrimp! Very nice!
Eva wallowing about in the grass gave me a good chuckle.
a little fun fact is that hook and loop fasteners are called borrelås (burdock-lock) here in the Nordics
That IS fun! Thank you for that!
In Sweden they're called kardborre, with velcro being called kardborreband (burdock-strips)
In German it's Klettverschluss (burdock closure).
"I intend to do better." Inspiring words from a man already at the top of his game.
Nothing wrong with fish fingers, mash and peas! I coincidentally had it for the first time in YEARS a couple of weeks ago. I saw some parsley sauce in the supermarket and it inspired me 😂 😂
This is no mere fush fingers and tatties! Fine dining in my book.
I loved your description of getting things into one's head. Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU) pointed out in "The Science of Discworld" that we are hard-wired for storytelling (he suggests we should be Pans narrans, not Homo sapiens), and what you described is how the knowledge of the new plant is bound up in the story of how you learned it; now that you've told US the story, you're even less likely to forget it. : )
I appreciate greatly you not bombarding the video with midroll ads! 😅 These longer videos are perfect to put on for washing dishes, it's such a peaceful morning when you upload ❤
You are so very correct, sir. Purple IS the BEST color! 💜
Hello Mr. Shrimp! Pawpaw tend to develop long, brittle taproots, making them difficult to transplant. You may avoid some of that while they are growing in containers, but you may want to plant them in their permanent location sooner rather than later.
Apparently pawpaws are native to Kentucky, we've just got them growing around
FINALLY, THE MOMENT I SUBBED FOR.
Touhou profile picture spotted
I watched a programme ( I think it was countryfile) where they tested the snail hitchhiker thing, they went to a village and painted snails from different areas with different colour marker (I'm sure it must have been predator safe) and then moved them all around within about a mile or 2 if I remember correctly, and believe it or not all of the snails were in there original areas within 24 hours ( the blue snails were back in the blue garden ect) it really was surprising and quite impressive 😊
That's interesting. May have to try it. When my girls were little we used to paint racing stripes or numbers on the snails in the garden! Heard later that neighbors had been finding them in their gardens and were quite confused.
@yokeloeulci8001 it was areas, I didn't mean garden, there were like 4 gardens facing each other they used a drone and showed it coloured, I'll try to find it
I really looked, for a good amount of time, I couldn't find it I'm sorry
@@rattlesnakz9716hey rattlesnakz, thanks for looking! I'll give it a go and see what I find!
Even though my girls are grown up now, I might just get the nail polish out and try again. One of the snails we marked we discovered 4 years later still motoring around!
As a person who makes scale models (and plays with trains) for a living, your words are quite inspiring and I'm going to use the line when challenged in future "What's the point of growing up if all it does is make you miserable?"
Happy to see the cape gooseberries doing well! Mentioned it a couple videos back, but I've had them in the greenhouse since 5 or so years now. Started out as a couple volunteer plants from the compost. I truthfully don't remember ever throwing out more than one or two, but those things pop up everywhere I put compost down. They're like a plague 😅. Moving them down to the floor is a good idea though, mine grow at least 1.5 m tall. Maybe bigger pots? They drink a lot of water when they're big. Best thing though, is you can cut 'em down, keep them overwinter, and next year they're back bigger and bushier! I have two plants which are 5 years old now.
Do your plants produce much in the way of fruit?
For the space they take up, probably not 😅. I have three large plants and get maybe 50 fruit a year. If I fed and watered better - they wilt quickly, but come back quickly - I'd probably have more. They do best in the greenhouse. Had them one year outside, but hardly any fruit.
One the folk names for plantain is “white man’s footprint” because sailors/travelers would walk on it in a port, the seeds would get stuck in the soles of their shoes, and they’d get planted in the soil of their destination when they stepped off the ship.
It’s not seed dispersal by railroad, but imagine the journey of those seeds! Also, the folk name is one of my favorites and it provides a good reason why England would have so many species of plantain.
Some people are just bloody lovely. Dont ever grow up. ❤
Thank you for the beautiful footage of the sea. It’s been quite hot where I am and I no longer live near the coast. It just was relaxing to see and put me in a calm state of mind.
Thank you Mr Shrimp for reminding me of early 70s childhood summer days in Thanet when I'd take our dog for a coastal walk and disappear for hours. Happy days
Hi Mr Shimp.
I wasn't sure where to write this comment, so I will do it here. I just wanted to say thank you. I was never really into gardening before watching your videos but now really enjoy it. I have a 4 year old son and we have been planting fruit and vegetables in our garden. It's a very small garden but we try to make the most of it. We grow potatoes in bags, tomatoes, strawberries, cucamelons and blueberries (the bush was ones my grandads and has been passed down the generations!) My son absolutely loves checking the plants every few days to see if anything has grown and loves to bury his hands down into the potato bag to see if there are any goodies!
Sorry for the long comment, but once again, I wanted to show my appreciation for the content you post.
Many thanks
Thank you for sharing your trip to Portland. I am too old now, will never do it myself, but I feel that I have been there, enjoyed it.
I found a Facebook group called Dull Men's Club and despite the dull content, I found it to be the only worthwhile group thingie on that whole platform. I realised now that it's because it's the epitome of your type of content! Please never change, Shrimp, my household follow your endeavours on the edge of our seats.
1 hr atomic shrimp video I have been blessed
I'm not kidding around when I say that your videos have become an integral part of my self-care routine. Seeing how much joy the wonders of the world around you can bring are an excellent reminder for me to stop every once in a while and just quietly observe what's around me. It really clears the mind, and I'm eternally grateful.
Aw, this video is full of so much sweetness. You sound so knowledgeable and confident when talking about nature. I also like that you don't know something and are able to recognize that.
This video is also so chock full of stuff going on. I got 16 minutes in and I thought I was much further into this video.
Shrimp walking along the rocks at Portland island has a hypnotic ASMR quality
"I've been left behind because I'm rambling... as well as rambling"
Classic, the rambling rambler! Or is it the ambling rambler? 🤔
Rambling ambler?
Saturday morning with a coffee and my favourite uncle pointing at flowers 🎉
These potatoes looked delicious, Portland looks stunning and Im happy you appreciate nonalcoholic beer - there really is more to drinking beer than just the alcohol!
Thank you, Mike
Hey Mike, something about your videos normalizes and celebrates the spirit of just trying stuff. Recently, out of boredom and curiosity, I made homemade noodles with beef soup from scratch. I must say, one of the most successful things I've ever whipped up. You get some credit for making trial and error so approachable, especially with your budget food videos. Cheers!
Ah, I love to make pot roast and yeast rolls. I killed the yeast the first time and in midwinter I've started to cook the dough trying to rise it but it is so absolutely delicious.
Takes a whole day but just the smell will get you ready to eat. I also put enough vegetables in it and my dad does not. When we've eaten all the rolls I put the leftovers on top of egg noodles.
Have you ever been to the Peak District? Those blocks of Portland stone remind me of the abandoned millstones. Millstone grit used to be used in all the grain mills, but pieces wear off the stones and get into the flour, and the millstones also have a tendency to explode when spinning. So when better imported stone became available, the industry collapsed so fast it wasn't worth taking the completed millstones off the hillside and they're still lying all over today.
That's why the symbol for the Peak District National Park is a millstone.
What a fascinating place Portland Bill is. I’d never dreamed it was like that. That’s not an area of the UK I’ve ever explored. Thank you for the tour, I learned a lot. The sea cave was like a little grotto area, quite fascinating. I really enjoy your videos because I too get great pleasure from the simple things. Small flowers, colourful insects, the shape of a rock, the pattern of clouds etc etc etc. I could go on and on. In a world of trouble and strife, it’s good to rely on nature for the everyday pleasures to uplift us.
I hadn't noticed how closely 'Samphire' resembled 'Saint-Pierre', in the French pronunciation it makes perfect sense.
I have never understood why the views do not match the likes.
Come on guys, hit the like. Genuine good information.
Keep up with the phenomenal work.
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lol, it’s the first thing I do, even before I watch the video, because I know it will be awesome 😊
There has been a massive preponderance of ragwort this year around where I live, I have never seen so much on the verges. I generally try to keep it down in my garden and paddock, mainly because we are a horse village and I really don't want to create seeds that will potentially affect the two riding stables on my road, but I have to admit that I did leave a few plants alone the year before last because they were covered in tiger tails (the caterpillars of the cinnabar moth are striped yellow and black and were always known as tiger tails where I lived), I don't feel too bad because they were doing a very effective job of stripping the plants down to nothing and the final vestiges were easy to deal with when the caterpillars moved on (in single file, it is quite a sight).
The ragwort plant I preserved in the garden here now has the stripey bois on it!
@@AtomicShrimp Good to know, and I will be interested to know how long it takes for them to strip it to the roots! I have a small patch in the paddock that I am removing the flowers from to prevent seeding but no caterpillars so far this year. It is either too cold for them or they have found all the food they need in the surrounding area! I suspect my removing the flowers will not eradicate the ragwort, we probably have enough seeds in the ground for the foreseeable future 😁
That Aqualegia is a stunner ! I get loads of seedlings in my garden but never had a double flower like that one or one as purple as that. Would be interested in an experiment where you saved some seeds and propagated them to see what came out- would take up a lot of space though
If you get a packet of Black Barlow seeds they make a flower similar to the one found here.
thanks for the seaside ramble in this video! it's one of my favourite plant ecosystems; sea thrift is my favourite flower 💜
Watercress: in my childhood (early 90s) when i used to visit a friend who lived around the whichester area we used to walk her dogs where there was a watercress cultivation place. They grew in gravel and water only. No soil. Looking forward to your next experiments
The same thing happened in my country (Belgium) too with the hot instant noodles. The hottest ones are taken out the stores because there was a problem with small children.
Blue Sunflower is a Creepypasta author. Since Shrimp has been into some analog horror lately, this feels VERY coincidental.
Great Video, love this format. The way you mix up topics keep my full attention fully through
Loved the Portland island little tour and botanizing
Apparently snails have a homing ability, similar to pigeons, so your snails may well be on their way back from where you collected them.
I have heard of a weed the victorians spread with the railway, but can't find it on Google so maybe it was in a book.
I love your videos and use you as an example when talking about other youtubers chasing subscribers. Keep doing what you love
Edited, foud it on Google, oxford wagwort was supposedly spread by one plant via the train lines
I had the same recollection about a plant that dispersed along the Victorian railways. Rosebay Willow Herb seems to be the one.
I've certainly seen Rosebay alongside walking trails that were former railway tracks, a lot - the plant likes disturbed soil and the seeds are windborne, so that fits
Wasn’t Miss Wilmott’s Ghost spread by Miss W. scattering seeds from her railway compartment?
Interesting tidbit, thanks. Senecio is a genus that puts up the hair on the back of my neck anyway, but add the species name 'squalidus' and you have a doubly repellent plant.
@@chezmoi42 Some Senecio are delightful, like our native Stinking Willie and its attendant cinnabar moths.
A practical reason not to 'save' plants (when not necessary) is transplant shock. There's always a nonzero chance you'll kill the plant in the attempt. Whereas its surviving just fine where it is.
Mike, in light of your comment about your positive attitude towards the completion of your kitchen project, in particular your anticipation for making some kind of bread or baked goods, alongside your enthusiasm for foraging for your ingredients, made me wonder if you have ever considered harvesting any of the feral or escaped seed heads that can frequently be found in the roadside verges and at the foot of field walls and hedges where the combines have missed a small part of the crop in order to mill small batches of flour for your baking projects. I am sure that you would be able to harvest sufficient quantities of mixed grains for the purpose of creating your own flour perhaps if necessary using lesser grains such as wild grass seeds to create sufficient quantities of flour. I would think that such a project could produce more than enough video to make an interesting mini series of two or three episodes for your playlist. I hope that you will consider this as a viable project and look forward to seeing your thoughts on this subject maybe in the next of your analysis of your audience positivity comments.
Its rather lovely to see someone exploring the areas where i grew up
I remember someone describing those plant identification apps as great for looking up what a grown version of a seedling will look like, finding names, confirming toxicity ( NOTE: *NOT* confirming safety), and sending you to the ER for eating something you shouldn't have after thinking "not toxic = not dangerous"
There is something so ridiculously soothing about this video. It's like sitting down for a chat with an old friend. Your appreciation for nature is incredible. I'm so jealous of that garden, it's an inspiration. Your wisdom and wit are always appreciated.
For potatoes you want a grow bag or a much bigger pot with loose soil. I’m growing them this year too. You have to put them about 5 inches under the soil, and if the roots overtake the pot like that it stunts their growth significantly. You still got a decent amount though. Very surprising for a container that size, plants never cease to amaze me.
I learned this by trial and error. Sweet potatoes are in my opinion a better crop simply because you can eat the leaves which tastes like spinach, so even if you don’t get any sweet potatoes out of it, you still have an edible portion you can use…but I’ve tried and failed with growing sweet potatoes in pots, mainly because they need so much more sun and soil than nightshades.
Lovely video, thanks. Glad you will have your kitchen back soon. It's good they stopped chopping away at Portland, seems like a poster child for unsustainable industry, geez; beautiful place, and the views are amazing, thanks for the tour. Love to Jenny and Eva, have a wonderful weekend.
Amazingly, they are still quarrying stone from places further inside the island. When you look at how much of London is built from Portland stone, plus the export market and all the other stuff, it's amazing there is an island still left at all
@@AtomicShrimp Wow! That's mind blowing.
It's a pity your blue sunflowers have got dinky heads, the seeds are never easy to harvest even with bigger heads. But you can always save the heads to put out for the birds in winter.
Honestly yes! That comment about the 'genuine thrill and interest that you show for all manner of things' _is_ why I watch your videos! It's just such a delight to see. Thanks for doing what you do! 😊
these summer videos always make me miss home. england’s quite nice sometimes innit.
Random Stuff - always my favorite video format. Once again with brilliant paintings inspiration and plenty of interesting facts. For someone who enjoys the sea so much I'm very surprised that you are not an avid fisherman.. Even with a cane I'd be all over those rocks with a fishing pole. LOL
I have the theme tune to The Adventures of Portland Bill in my head right now. A lovely video of randomness and a hike to boot!
Good watch, this collection/mix.
Enjoyed it, start top finish.
Thank you for bringing these videos to us.
I'm really pleased that this came onto my computer as optional viewing. I'm working on a project as an extension of a university course in which I was a teaching assistant. (sustainable urban farming)
My home environment became my lab project and I never stopped.
With limited space in a small backyard and small front, I have been working my edibles all in containers or what free ground space is available to me.
My successes in containers have been salad greens, onions, beans, peas, peppers, and tomatoes, on available ground with my compost enriched soil. are raspberries, blackcurrants, blackberries, sage and few other herbs, and woodland fern for springtime fiddle heads.
Always something new to try out and see how well they work or fail.... currently trying out carrots ( had some failure due to animals digging my containers and uprooting and destroying items new to me this year.
It has been so much fun, but it's quite ok to enjoy the playful nature of trying new things
I'm going to keep you on my list for viewing 😊
A charming video as always. I deeply appreciate how honestly pleasant you are in your videos.
When you said you were happy to meet a new plant, i feel that so much.
Plants are often disregarded but they deserve so much more respect for being another type of life.
❤ you
I have a rule of thumb to order whatever food for which the restaurant is named. I’d order a crab sandwich if it were named “The Crab Trap”, so a lobster roll (or similar) since it’s named “The Lobster Pot”. 😂
Our local restaurant is called the Bricklayers Arms, I will test your rule out 😉lol , thanks for the idea . 🙏
42:53 in English its the brand name "Velcro", in Germany it's called "Klettverschluss". "verschluss" is fastener and "Klett" comes from the plants name "Klette" which is burdock.
So basically we are saying "burdock fastener" to a velcro ;-)
for watercrest, you normally just chop off the entire layer whenever it gets tall enough so it keeps growing
these videos are so relaxing, glad for a gem of a channel like this
Your knowledge of the plants is inspiring! I've learned so much of my plant knowledge from you (and foraged some lovely crow garlic flowers recently, thanks to you!). 😊 😊😊
12.5 GBP for the crab sandwich is definitely not cheap, but it looked really tasty
The island looks really pretty and perfect for a short walk (and I love Eva!)
Yeah, it's probably a reasonable price for it though - some things just shouldn't be cheap - indeed there probably are things where our national pastime of penny-pinching has driven the quality down along with the price, and now you just can't get the good version.
17:07 As the mythbuster’s world say ‘failure is always an option’
Brilliant video & can’t wait to see the new kitchen 🤗Thanks Atomic Shrimp 🦐😊👍
As a computer programmer, I usually hear the phrase "leaf node" in a very different context from the one you used it in!
love these videos thank you Shrimp
Love the idea that you created a one time snail highway. I’m sure they’re enjoying exploring their new habitat. Hope they don’t nibble your garden too much.
oooh the potatoes look lovely! I am a huge fan of small potatoes, I think they just taste so good, no matter the application!
I'd love to try Sea Beet - it grows in abundance near me and apparently is lovely sautéed in Butter - trouble is every bush is a dog pee magnet!
Dogs will tend to pee on things that stand out or stick out - so a lone clump of sea beet growing out of flat shingle would be a target, as would a straggly branch sticking out of the corner of a large clump. I've observed this from watching Eva's sniffing habits - she usually identifies a pee-post by eye before nose.
So if you find a whole bank covered in sea beet, picking it from the middle of the clump, away from the sticky-out edges is the least likely to be peed on. I don't think the risk is all that high anyway, and sea beet also stands vigorous rinsing.
I've been encouraged by these vlogs to buy a greenhouse. Roll on next growing season!
When you stop looking at things with a sense of wonder then essentially you stop living. Your CZcams channel Nelson reminds me a little of the TV series Out of Town, hosted by the late Jack Hargreaves except that was aimed at children
Oh I love your blogging style!
Just come back from a trip to Dorset where we went on a Shrimp stalking tour, visiting the places you highlighted in some of your videos, thanks for giving us the inspiration to visit such a beautiful part of our country.
I know I'm anthropomorphising but I love Eva's defiant little bark after you've told her to be quiet, like a sassy little "NO!" haha
What a wonderful video !!!
Wonderful video, looked like a great day to be by the sea. Interesting that you had exactly what my family tend to get when we go to the cafe near the pier down at the Southport spit on the Gold Coast in Queensland. Guess it's a popular seaside dish everywhere.