Kitchen garden tour in May | planted up at last!
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Your kitchen garden is beautiful and everything so vibrant and neat
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼
Thanks, priorities are safe, fun, easy, productive and neat. It ticks the boxes
You’re garden is a credit to you I have given up trying to grow vegetables because of Slugs! I have tried everything but have admitted defeat. Good old asda! Robert
It took me quite a few years to get them manageable : all the best - Steve
I stand my blueberry pots inside a raised bed frame. It used to be a black plastic one and now it’s galvanised steel. I don’t fill it with anymore compost. I think it does offer some protection to the tubs. The plants look healthy and are flowering well. By contrast I lost all my single pots of tulips in the same garden.
I'm going to have to rethink a bit if we start to have very cold snaps in winter regularly, I'm already making a few changes : All the best - Steve
Inspiring kitchen garden! I love you were lounging when the clip started…as if to say it all happened by magic and you just came upon it. Terrific learning, planning, and hard work on display; not to mention the prospect of some great meals.
Not so much hard work in the kitchen garden, it's about an hour a week, quite different to the allotment that can be 10 hours a week at times : All the best - Steve
Very neat and organised garden, looks beautiful 😍
thanks, perhaps more important though it's easy and quick to look after (1 hour a week), productive but also and safe and fun to play in : All the best - Steve
Really nice, I like that it still looks like a garden, aesthetic and practical with the lawn. Brilliant 👍
Thanks, it needs to be a fun and safe place to play and entertain as well as feed us : all the best - Steve
It looks like an immaculate show garden Steve, those lettuces look beautiful with all the different colours in neat rows.
Thanks, it’s quite amusing that it gives this impression given that the actual objective is to be minimal maintenance (1 hour a week) and just safe and fun for games and entertaining, being a ‘show garden’ s way down the list, to the extent that noting is measured, no straight edges are used etc : all the best - Steve
Always excited to see updates on how your garden and allotment are progressing Steve. I got the nematodes in the beds yesterday, potted up some seedlings and planted some out into beds. Every time I watch one of your videos I pick up some more useful tips. I have some brussel sprouts seedlings (only tiny at the moment) lined up for a bed mostly in the shade as something needs to go there. Thought it was worth a try even if just for some leaves. Do you think the kalettes will grow enough there too? I'm concerned that they will shade other plants too much if I grow them in the sunnier beds? Thank you for your all your help Steve.
Yes, kalettes do reasonably well in light shade
Nice tour Steve
good show, cheers Steve
You demonstrate that, if you do it right, a kitchen garden can show the diversity, interest and structure that more traditional gardens can. I have a pear tree growing in a recycled bin. How often do you water yours and how do you know when to? Best wishes
Watering is tricky, since the bins get quite wet over winter I don't water much until May and then I start with about 2-5 litres a week, increasing to as much as 10l a week in summer. Once it gets hot and the trees are in full leaf and fruit I water until I see water leaking out of the base of the bin : All the best - Steve
Thanks, I'm not very traditional but I do like the aesthetics of a kitchen garden more than the boom and bust that you often get in a flower garden : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards thanks Steve. I definitely would have been under watering!
I love seeing updates on your kitchen garden. It does look fantastic as usual
Thanks Cherie, it's important for it to look nice, but I meant to say in the video that the objectives are really: safe, fun, easy, productive, neat/organised in roughly that order : All the best - Steve
Beautiful, Steve. Good job.
Good job 7:55
Just shows what can be achieved in a small space Steve
Yes, we've hardly lost any useful play and entertaining space by adding in the veg and fruit beds but they make such a difference : All the best - Steve
Good to see the yacon tubers making an appearance. Are you leaving them outdoors 24/7 from now on? Mine are still in the shed, but sprouting nicely.
They are outside now, I need the space, I dug one up and it’s sprouting fine
@@SteveRichards Thanks Steve. I'll look to move mine outdoors shortly. Here's to a bumper crop of them this year.
Your garden is beautiful Steve - how long did it take to build up your fruit tree collection? It looks lovely with the blossom
Our oldest tree is about 25 years old and was grown from a pip taken from my favourite apple tree in my the orchard of my childhood home (which is now a housing estate) that orchard had 50 trees. Our collection now stands at 30 trees on the allotments and in the garden. The garden trees are a wide range of ages, some 3-5 years old, most about 10 years old : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards how wonderful that you still have that connection with your childhood home
It is, just before the land was fenced off for building we managed to dig up my favourite gooseberry bush, which is between 70 and 100 years old now and we have taken a few cuttings off it. It's still my favourite. The apple tree was of course from a pip so it's not bred true, but it's turned out to be an exceptional tree and quite close to it's parent
Very neat and organised. What do you use your weights for? I prop my greenhouse door open with one.
I don't use the weights much, I prefer to use the big water bottles (filled with water and gravel) for farmer's carry and pressups etc and the pull up bars as a supplement to barrowing wood chip, carrying bags of compost and turning compost bins : All the best - Steve
I prefer safe, fun, easy, productive and neat/organised. It ticks the boxes : All the best - Steve
It's so convenient to have so much at your back door :) How do you manage the watering of all the containers though? I'm toying with having my courgettes in big pots this year, but not sure I want to have to water something else, but you know how it is, running out of space...! Always informative watching your vids Steve :)
It is and we are actually putting in a lot of crops for a winter harvest this year because last year there were a few times when it would have been convenient to not have to travel to the allotment due to the weather. We also noticed it was noticeably warmer at the house : All the best - Steve
Most of my squash will be in the ground at the allotment, but a few containers doesn't hurt. I have three big 300 litre dip tanks and they make watering very quick. I also have an automated watering system which I'm hoping to use for the main garden beds and the tomatoes : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards I guess there's so much more thermal mass plus all around protection, despite the lack of sunlight in a few spots. You have the modern day suburban walled kitchen garden :)
@@SteveRichards Dip tanks are genius. And the blueberries will like the rainwater so bonus!
Yes, in theory, if only it rained in summer!
hi ste whereabouts is your allotment in Lytham I missed your open day last year and hopefully you have an open day this year kind regards
Google Shepherd Road Allotments and you will find them, they are in St Annes, which is the north side of Lytham St Annes
The open day is on Saturday the 5th August, starting at 10am