It has taken almost 5 weeks for my carrot seedlings to pop up in a pot I had outdoors. I learned the lesson to wait after the previous pot I had given up on and sowed radish seeds into it sprouted both.
Your alpine strawberry flowers have black centers which means the frost has got to them and they won't form fruits. Just pinch the flowers off and the plants will grow more.
Carrot seeds need to remain wet when germinating so if the seeds dried out they won’t ever sprout. The weather shouldn’t of stopped the carrots. Try wetting the carrot seeds and keep them wet and you may still get carrots.
@@diann9159 I’ve never had any success with carrots until I saw Jessica Soward (Roots & refuge CZcams) doing it with a board. It is definitely my method now.
I really like that you can look at yourself not too seriously and have a good laugh at your garden fails! You really need a good sense of humour I feel for gardening , some people take it way too serious. I for one had a wee chuckle to myself alongside you when you were doing the garden tour, we can all relate to seeds not germinating etc !
Ah thank you so much. I think the only thing I take properly seriously is my chili peppers! Everything else I'm able to grow feels like a pure little bonus...
Don’t you just love Purple sprouting broccoli. Like you Carrots in the ground always took forever , it drove me to grow them in the tunnel and in containers. Great video JB take care Malc
Hi malc, Psb is really a delight, something extra special about it because it's just about the only harvest on the plate at the moment! Mine are just coming to their end now, as we found out to our surprise after cooking up an especially bitter harvest 😂
Do cover your squash and cucumber seed pots until after germination. 🐭🐁🐭😉. My onion seeds had very poor germination, as did my first few batches of leaks. I succession sow cabbage to always have fresh cabbage or cabbage leaves throughout the entire year. Also peas throughout the growing season to snack on or to add a few peas at a time into the freezer. You do make me chuckle with your laid back “It’s not the end of the world” attitude. Well done with your successes, especially blackberry propogation. Congratulations on reaching 2000 subs. 😃👍🏻💥
Thank you so much for such a lovely comment! I'm still a baby gardener so if I got upset at every failure I'd be a very miserable gardener! The squash & cucumbers get their own little cloche at night in the greenhouse, and our lows are only briefly hitting -1 at the moment, so I'm hoping they'll be fine. Now I think about it I should have brought them home and got them germinated first! Great advice on the cabbage, I'll get some more sown shortly!
@@JBNat No probs. I like helping honest folk by leaving honest comments. If my “world did end” experience tittle tattle helps with algorithms, then all’s well. 🙂
Your voice is so relaxing. Great video. Thanks for showing us the good bad and they ugly. Appreciate your realness. I'm sure we all do. Xoxo dana from pa
I'm finding that peat free compost gets very soggy and baby seedlings don't like it. They seem much happier if I mix in a generous amount of grit or perlite. I really hope these frosty nights stop soon, I'm holding back from sowing a lot things for a bit longer.
Good to know! I use perlite on my "special" plants. The second set of salad trays I've sown are just starting to come up and they look great - used perlite in that so maybe that's the trick!
I am focusing on growing in order to blanch and freeze a winter supply. My carrots have taken forever and I am still cautionly optimistic. Would not grow last year. I am in north central AZ, USA. Erratic weather and I am using clear plastic containers and frost cloth. Be patient.
I’m still waiting for my potatoes ( tatties as we say in Scotland) to show their leaves, but it’s been soooooo cold! ❄️☃️ BUT..... spent 3 hours in greenhouse today pricking out seedlings, so not all bad . Your garlic looks fab! I think we’ve all had disappointments this spring, some of my trays are dismal lol
I've been caught out by loads of frosts as soon as I posted this video! So I'm glad my spuds are still in hiding and haven't all died from frost damage! 3 hours in the greenhouse sounds lovely 😊😊
My first carrot sowing this year (23rd March) took over 3 weeks to germinate, so I wouldn't give up hope yet. This April has been the coldest and driest for nearly a decade down in my part of Hampshire, so I'm not really surprised that seedlings are very slow to emerge this year. Do you use fleece at all? Would probably be helpful. Thanks for the tour and good luck for your growing season!
Ahh we're both in Hampshire, very nice. I just recorded a little piece for a future video the other day boasting that "because I'm on the south coast, I've not had to pay for horticultural fleece" 😂 It's my fault that we've got such late frosts!! Think it's a mixture of low temperatures and lack of watering that's stopped them!
Hi, JB hope your well, your garden is coming along well. Good job!! My name's Ellie, I'm a retired English teacher here in northern Greece. Would you mind if I puts my 10 cents in? I've noticed a lot of gardeners keep their seed trays at home where it's nicewarm. They then take them to their plot after they've sprouted and have grown a bit. I'm surprised you're not into tomatoes (Don't like Greek salad?) Hope your garden turns out a smashing success.
I'm still a beginner so I'm always happy for advice! I did grow on a few things at home in the conservatory, but it is west facing so it only gets the sun from about 1pm, whereas the greenhouse gets sun from really early so the soil for the seedlings actually warms up a lot quicker. I have a few specialist plants which I raise at home with heating and grow lights, and I'm sure as time goes on I will expand that enterprise and start off more things at home, its a great way to get a head start! I love growing tomatoes, I had a few plants last year that did really well, but this year I've traded them for chili peppers, which are my true love 😍 thanks so much for watching!
Your excess vegetables can be blanched and frozen so you have a regular supply all year round. make the garden work for you. A bad gardener is someone who doesn't have anything ready for the table.
Lack of heat yes but also lack of moisture for your carrots (been unseasonably dry of late). Remember these seeds are sown shallow and so dry out very quick. Just try a pain of glass lain straight on the ground to help with the heat and to trap moisture then when they show just remove the glass and keep damp
I have trouble with carrots too. I believe they need warmth and plenty of moisture to germinate. Also covering the row with a plank of wood is supposed to work. This year in desperation I'm going to sow them on 21 April which is supposed to be a root day by the moon, although I'm not really into that kind of thing.
Glad to know it's not just me struggling to see seeds germinating. In Scotland we're going through a drought and no how much we water them they don't want to germinate and grow. I have a blackberry called Loch Ness which means I shouldn't have any problems with it since it developed near me.
I love potting up seedlings too! Definitely my favourite gardening job. I don't know if you have found the same but it feels like we've had a very cold spring so far. Could be why you've not seen any of your carrots come up yet.
I'm on the south coast so should be one of the warmest places in the country! Funny year for sure. My arran pilot just started to poke out the ground a few days ago and I know you don't have to, but I've earthed them up just to be safe for now!
My marigolds sprouted, then all died. Haven't a clue what happened. Everything else seems to be growing OK. I'm fairly new to gardening, so I'm pleased I didn't manage to kill everything. Got to get back to those marigolds now!
Oh no! Congratulations on your success, for the failures there's always next year! Or if not, time for another sowing this year! I have a second tray of marigolds in crossing my fingers for...
@@JBNat I put a second marigold tray in this afternoon. Let's hope we both get lots of them this time! There is always next year, and there is always the garden centre to buy my way out of disaster! :)
Really enjoyed the plot tour JB 😃 I'm hella jealous of that thornless blackberry! So encouraging that the sucker is taking also. I've sown Purple Sprouting Broccoli this year so hoping for the same levels of success as yourself. In answer to your question, I am successionally sowing my brassicas (broccoli, calabrese, brussels, and cauliflower) just to see if I can stretch out the crop 👍
Thanks very much niall! Can't wait to see how your Psb turns out this year (and how it compares to mine). Its the end of its season for me so I've just spent a LONG time cutting them down this afternoon :( Great to know about the Brassica succession as well.
Your soil looks too rough for carrots, just like mine is. I finally plant my pelted carrot seeds in large deep pots! I can use sifted soil so it’s nice and fine, I can control the water better, and put the pots in full sun which is rare in my garden. You can plant carrots in your soil, but you will probably have to sift it a bit finer. Good luck with your garden, it’s growing so well. 👍❤️
Hey check these out! czcams.com/video/ptSJVnuOOXg/video.html These are the ones I grew last year. I was really shocked when they came out as nice as they did. Certainly not magnificent but the soil here isn't too bad for growing them!
@@JBNat is it ok to say I have carrot envy? This are so good! Mine usually looked more like that little three legged man you showed. Lol. I’m so glad for you!
@@meghanplamondon8639 I read there's a few reasons people often get really forked carrots! A) when the soil is recently dug (which people often do, to try and make the soil fine) it creates air pockets, and when carrots find those they often divide B) the soil is too rich /has had manure or compost added too recently, I guess this stops it developing a deep taproot as it searches for nutrients lower down? Stones are also a bit of a culprit, and my soil definitely has its fair share of those!
@@JBNat I’ve got the unfortunate luck of stones and hard clay. Thanks for the info. I’ll keep it in mind this year when trying to plant some carrots directly in the garden when things warm up more.
I think we're about the same. I boast in this video about Mid-April being my last frost date, and since then we've had 2 weeks of frosts forecast!! Luckily everything is still weathering the storm in my greenhouse.
Oh no! Sorry to hear about your frost casualties, it's heartbreaking isn't it? A neighbour told me today that she lost 50 tomato plants to frost 😭 Charities and food banks are a good shout, I had a wheelbarrow full of apples which were donated last year :)
If you sow another batch they should catch up with the warm weather. Maybe start them off indoors to get the heat to them. They should germinate in 3 to 7 days
Good luck! I think it's quite shade tolerant and doesn't do well if it dries out. Watch out for beet leaf miner and flea beetles which like to eat spinach plants!
I don't want to rain on your parade, but, Your strawberry flowers will not come to anything as all flowers with black centres have been done by the frost they need white petals and yellow centres (not black) and your greenhouse, heat isn't the issue its the over watering.good luck with further germination.
Not at all! Always good to learn things from people who know more than I do! I'm hoping the strawberries will still set new flowers, plenty of time for them to do so and the plants themselves look really happy! I don't think overwatering is a problem in the greenhouse I must say, if anything it's the opposite. I've got a pretty good feel for watering these days but if anything I'm an underwaterer. Learned the hard way after drowning the first chili peppers I tried to grow! Everything is mostly looking good and healthy now 😁
My seedlings seem to be growing and germinating really slowly too, im sure things will perk up soon 😃
Thank you for your video. I’m glad Eli & Kate sent me to your channel. Be well!
Ah bless, I love Eli and Kate. Thanks so much for checking out the channel!
It has taken almost 5 weeks for my carrot seedlings to pop up in a pot I had outdoors. I learned the lesson to wait after the previous pot I had given up on and sowed radish seeds into it sprouted both.
Oh wow!
Your alpine strawberry flowers have black centers which means the frost has got to them and they won't form fruits. Just pinch the flowers off and the plants will grow more.
This is great to know, I hadn't even noticed! Thank you so much!
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Carrot seeds need to remain wet when germinating so if the seeds dried out they won’t ever sprout. The weather shouldn’t of stopped the carrots. Try wetting the carrot seeds and keep them wet and you may still get carrots.
@@diann9159 I’ve never had any success with carrots until I saw Jessica Soward (Roots & refuge CZcams) doing it with a board. It is definitely my method now.
Thanks for the advice all! I will definitely try the board method. I have been watering them sparingly, so dryness is probably the culprit!
I really like that you can look at yourself not too seriously and have a good laugh at your garden fails! You really need a good sense of humour I feel for gardening , some people take it way too serious. I for one had a wee chuckle to myself alongside you when you were doing the garden tour, we can all relate to seeds not germinating etc !
Ah thank you so much. I think the only thing I take properly seriously is my chili peppers! Everything else I'm able to grow feels like a pure little bonus...
@@JBNat ok, I’d better not have a chuckle to myself if your chilli peppers don’t do well then ! 😂
@@louise8582 hahahaha so long as I get a decent crop we can still all laugh at my failures 😂
Don’t you just love Purple sprouting broccoli. Like you Carrots in the ground always took forever , it drove me to grow them in the tunnel and in containers. Great video JB take care Malc
Hi malc, Psb is really a delight, something extra special about it because it's just about the only harvest on the plate at the moment! Mine are just coming to their end now, as we found out to our surprise after cooking up an especially bitter harvest 😂
Do cover your squash and cucumber seed pots until after germination. 🐭🐁🐭😉.
My onion seeds had very poor germination, as did my first few batches of leaks. I succession sow cabbage to always have fresh cabbage or cabbage leaves throughout the entire year. Also peas throughout the growing season to snack on or to add a few peas at a time into the freezer.
You do make me chuckle with your laid back “It’s not the end of the world” attitude. Well done with your successes, especially blackberry propogation.
Congratulations on reaching 2000 subs. 😃👍🏻💥
Thank you so much for such a lovely comment! I'm still a baby gardener so if I got upset at every failure I'd be a very miserable gardener! The squash & cucumbers get their own little cloche at night in the greenhouse, and our lows are only briefly hitting -1 at the moment, so I'm hoping they'll be fine. Now I think about it I should have brought them home and got them germinated first!
Great advice on the cabbage, I'll get some more sown shortly!
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Your voice is so relaxing. Great video. Thanks for showing us the good bad and they ugly. Appreciate your realness. I'm sure we all do. Xoxo dana from pa
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This video showed up in my feed. I enjoyed having a look around your allotment. Nice work. Marketmore such a great Cucumber.
Ah thank you so much! I've seen a few of your videos before!! Really appreciate it.
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I'm finding that peat free compost gets very soggy and baby seedlings don't like it. They seem much happier if I mix in a generous amount of grit or perlite.
I really hope these frosty nights stop soon, I'm holding back from sowing a lot things for a bit longer.
Good to know! I use perlite on my "special" plants. The second set of salad trays I've sown are just starting to come up and they look great - used perlite in that so maybe that's the trick!
I am focusing on growing in order to blanch and freeze a winter supply. My carrots have taken forever and I am still cautionly optimistic. Would not grow last year. I am in north central AZ, USA. Erratic weather and I am using clear plastic containers and frost cloth. Be patient.
Good luck! And good advice! I wish you luck 😊
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I’m still waiting for my potatoes ( tatties as we say in Scotland) to show their leaves, but it’s been soooooo cold! ❄️☃️
BUT..... spent 3 hours in greenhouse today pricking out seedlings, so not all bad . Your garlic looks fab!
I think we’ve all had disappointments this spring, some of my trays are dismal lol
I've been caught out by loads of frosts as soon as I posted this video! So I'm glad my spuds are still in hiding and haven't all died from frost damage! 3 hours in the greenhouse sounds lovely 😊😊
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My first carrot sowing this year (23rd March) took over 3 weeks to germinate, so I wouldn't give up hope yet. This April has been the coldest and driest for nearly a decade down in my part of Hampshire, so I'm not really surprised that seedlings are very slow to emerge this year. Do you use fleece at all? Would probably be helpful.
Thanks for the tour and good luck for your growing season!
Ahh we're both in Hampshire, very nice. I just recorded a little piece for a future video the other day boasting that "because I'm on the south coast, I've not had to pay for horticultural fleece" 😂 It's my fault that we've got such late frosts!! Think it's a mixture of low temperatures and lack of watering that's stopped them!
Hi, JB hope your well, your garden is coming along well. Good job!! My name's Ellie, I'm a retired English teacher here in northern Greece. Would you mind if I puts my 10 cents in? I've noticed a lot of gardeners keep their seed trays at home where it's nicewarm. They then take them to their plot after they've sprouted and have grown a bit. I'm surprised you're not into tomatoes (Don't like Greek salad?) Hope your garden turns out a smashing success.
I'm still a beginner so I'm always happy for advice! I did grow on a few things at home in the conservatory, but it is west facing so it only gets the sun from about 1pm, whereas the greenhouse gets sun from really early so the soil for the seedlings actually warms up a lot quicker. I have a few specialist plants which I raise at home with heating and grow lights, and I'm sure as time goes on I will expand that enterprise and start off more things at home, its a great way to get a head start!
I love growing tomatoes, I had a few plants last year that did really well, but this year I've traded them for chili peppers, which are my true love 😍 thanks so much for watching!
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I’ve had the same experience with my carrots sown 3 wks ago nothing coming through as yet may need to re sow 👌
Your excess vegetables can be blanched and frozen so you have a regular supply all year round. make the garden work for you. A bad gardener is someone who doesn't have anything ready for the table.
I never said I was a good gardener! Ha! I've blanched a fair few veggies in my time though, and it is very good advice!
Lack of heat yes but also lack of moisture for your carrots (been unseasonably dry of late). Remember these seeds are sown shallow and so dry out very quick. Just try a pain of glass lain straight on the ground to help with the heat and to trap moisture then when they show just remove the glass and keep damp
Great advice, thank you!
I have trouble with carrots too. I believe they need warmth and plenty of moisture to germinate. Also covering the row with a plank of wood is supposed to work. This year in desperation I'm going to sow them on 21 April which is supposed to be a root day by the moon, although I'm not really into that kind of thing.
A lot of people swear by using the mob calendar. Never tried it myself... Great advice on the board, will give it a go!
Glad to know it's not just me struggling to see seeds germinating. In Scotland we're going through a drought and no how much we water them they don't want to germinate and grow. I have a blackberry called Loch Ness which means I shouldn't have any problems with it since it developed near me.
Hope the weather eases up soon for ya!
I love potting up seedlings too! Definitely my favourite gardening job. I don't know if you have found the same but it feels like we've had a very cold spring so far. Could be why you've not seen any of your carrots come up yet.
Definitely an unusual spring for us, the usual last frost is 10th April, and we're still getting them at the moment!
I noticed my potatoes are just starting to show now. I live in the midlands so may be warmer than in your area.
I'm on the south coast so should be one of the warmest places in the country! Funny year for sure. My arran pilot just started to poke out the ground a few days ago and I know you don't have to, but I've earthed them up just to be safe for now!
My marigolds sprouted, then all died. Haven't a clue what happened. Everything else seems to be growing OK. I'm fairly new to gardening, so I'm pleased I didn't manage to kill everything. Got to get back to those marigolds now!
Oh no! Congratulations on your success, for the failures there's always next year! Or if not, time for another sowing this year! I have a second tray of marigolds in crossing my fingers for...
@@JBNat I put a second marigold tray in this afternoon. Let's hope we both get lots of them this time! There is always next year, and there is always the garden centre to buy my way out of disaster! :)
Really enjoyed the plot tour JB 😃 I'm hella jealous of that thornless blackberry! So encouraging that the sucker is taking also. I've sown Purple Sprouting Broccoli this year so hoping for the same levels of success as yourself. In answer to your question, I am successionally sowing my brassicas (broccoli, calabrese, brussels, and cauliflower) just to see if I can stretch out the crop 👍
Thanks very much niall! Can't wait to see how your Psb turns out this year (and how it compares to mine). Its the end of its season for me so I've just spent a LONG time cutting them down this afternoon :(
Great to know about the Brassica succession as well.
Your soil looks too rough for carrots, just like mine is. I finally plant my pelted carrot seeds in large deep pots! I can use sifted soil so it’s nice and fine, I can control the water better, and put the pots in full sun which is rare in my garden. You can plant carrots in your soil, but you will probably have to sift it a bit finer. Good luck with your garden, it’s growing so well. 👍❤️
Hey check these out! czcams.com/video/ptSJVnuOOXg/video.html These are the ones I grew last year. I was really shocked when they came out as nice as they did. Certainly not magnificent but the soil here isn't too bad for growing them!
@@JBNat is it ok to say I have carrot envy? This are so good! Mine usually looked more like that little three legged man you showed. Lol. I’m so glad for you!
@@meghanplamondon8639 I read there's a few reasons people often get really forked carrots! A) when the soil is recently dug (which people often do, to try and make the soil fine) it creates air pockets, and when carrots find those they often divide B) the soil is too rich /has had manure or compost added too recently, I guess this stops it developing a deep taproot as it searches for nutrients lower down? Stones are also a bit of a culprit, and my soil definitely has its fair share of those!
@@JBNat I’ve got the unfortunate luck of stones and hard clay. Thanks for the info. I’ll keep it in mind this year when trying to plant some carrots directly in the garden when things warm up more.
Like you I've just planted out my beetroots a day or two ago, though haven't yet tried the Chioggia..
Good luck with them! I'm excited to see how the chioggia come out.
Don't worry... Your greenhouse will fill up😃
Do you want me to send you some marigolds?🤣🤣🤣🤣
Please send marigolds!! Haha, I've got two trays of flowers sown now, some of which are marigold, so hopefully these ones actually germinate!
Everything seems about two weeks behind last year, here in Birmingham
I think we're about the same. I boast in this video about Mid-April being my last frost date, and since then we've had 2 weeks of frosts forecast!! Luckily everything is still weathering the storm in my greenhouse.
There are a lot of charities that would appreciate any extra spare crops. Frost has killed off my brocholi and cabbage seedlings😭
Oh no! Sorry to hear about your frost casualties, it's heartbreaking isn't it? A neighbour told me today that she lost 50 tomato plants to frost 😭
Charities and food banks are a good shout, I had a wheelbarrow full of apples which were donated last year :)
If you sow another batch they should catch up with the warm weather. Maybe start them off indoors to get the heat to them. They should germinate in 3 to 7 days
I had same with my spinach half of it died or poor germination so going have to buy some from garden centre 🙄
Good luck! I think it's quite shade tolerant and doesn't do well if it dries out. Watch out for beet leaf miner and flea beetles which like to eat spinach plants!
@@JBNat thanks for the advice 👍
I don't want to rain on your parade, but,
Your strawberry flowers will not come to anything as all flowers with black centres have been done by the frost they need white petals and yellow centres (not black) and your greenhouse, heat isn't the issue its the over watering.good luck with further germination.
Not at all! Always good to learn things from people who know more than I do! I'm hoping the strawberries will still set new flowers, plenty of time for them to do so and the plants themselves look really happy!
I don't think overwatering is a problem in the greenhouse I must say, if anything it's the opposite. I've got a pretty good feel for watering these days but if anything I'm an underwaterer. Learned the hard way after drowning the first chili peppers I tried to grow! Everything is mostly looking good and healthy now 😁
Where are you based? I have onions and garlic growing, no spuds and nothing else. My supermarket garlic is A-ok
South coast of the UK! Should be ahead of everyone but the cold snap hit pretty hard here. Temperatures are looking up now though 😄
To be fair my marigolds didn't germinate i had to sow more. Think the weather hasnt helped out.
I've got some more sown, and my fingers are crossed!
@@JBNat my second lot grew so finger crossed for u