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There’s a well known phrase that in gardening, as in life, you never stop learning, and that is certainly true when venturing into the world of edible fruit and vegetable crops. This year I’ve had a few disasters when it comes to seed started vegetables, and while it is a bit annoying you have to just notch it up to experience and learn from it.

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00:00in terms of fruit what we have here is the strawberries which are coming on great

00:24I have three parts of strawberries here over here we have a couple that are ripe

00:37so I am just going to pick them here's another one that was not like that but keeping them up on a height like this is great

00:49because it means that the critters are more likely to attack them these are giant and this is a variety

01:04something here somewhere and then I have this one is wild strawberry native Irish so this is just

01:18wild strawberry and I can see here already there's runners at it so what I'm going to do is let them take root so I get more plants

01:28and there's the size of those strawberries like so it's pretty good and this is a definite one again although I've lost the label

01:39I think there's two in here actually but you can see there's more flowers coming

01:46and here we have

01:52the broccoli that we agree from seed

01:56I light back the purple and see the purple veins on this one

02:00and that is coming up really well

02:06and that should flower and that

02:10and maybe another month or so that'll be ready to harvest

02:14I would say

02:15some of it's being eaten so you have to have a look at that

02:19and this was

02:20the salad crest and stuff

02:23and the salad rabbit that just went to seed

02:26and I should probably collect some of the seeds for that

02:31here we have the potatoes

02:33the seed potatoes

02:34looking really healthy as well

02:37my flower in the summer

02:39and here's some brussels sprouts

02:42and some more seed potatoes

02:47but this is where I keep all the vegetables

02:52there's some tomatoes that have been grown outdoors

02:54I think they had a bit burnt there

02:56inside the greenhouse

02:58so I've left the door open

02:59I know that there's some nice warm water

03:02and I'll just show you the difference between growing tomatoes

03:08indoors and outdoors

03:09in the mud

03:10so these are the same tomatoes planted at the same time

03:19as the ones under it

03:22but I also had some in smaller pots in here

03:26which in the greenhouse is not empty

03:28we've got the

03:30some tomatoes they have potted up yesterday

03:33but they've only potted up one last time

03:36into a big big container

03:37down here I've got some squashes

03:39which I'm going to try and train up here

03:43so

03:45these are looking great

03:47I often seed as well this year

03:51and look at the difference in the tomatoes

03:58when you see these ones

03:59these are taller than me now

04:08it's like a jungle

04:11what I think I'm going to do now is

04:13I'm going to put these in the living house

04:17I think

04:17it'll even slow they'll grow for a wee bit

04:20but

04:20they're just getting

04:24and you can see here

04:25I'm drying out some honesty as well

04:27for some of the ornamental silver seed pods

04:34I'll just take you up and show you some of the fruit now

04:38oh I'll take you into the sea one too

04:40so

04:41you might recall

04:43I try to grow various things in this bed

04:45and nothing really

04:46everything gets eaten

04:47so

04:47I had some carrots

04:50and beans in there

04:51but you can see now

04:52we're starting to get

04:53some of the beans

04:55these are runner beans I think

04:57that have come up

04:59there's some more there

05:04so I can probably start harvesting them soon

05:07but the one thing that did grow in here

05:09was the spring onions

05:10they were quite easy to grow from seed

05:14and this is chamomile

05:15this little flower

05:17this is a gem in chamomile

05:19so you can make tea and stuff from that

05:21it's supposed to be very good for chamomile

05:23and I also have some fennel in here

05:26that I'm growing from seed

05:27I had asparagus in here

05:30but I don't see it coming on

05:31it's two bare roots

05:33but I'll leave it for a while

05:36and see

05:36because it's a bit of a long term plant asparagus

05:40so

05:41and

05:43we'll go on up here

05:45the red currants are

05:49now coming into season

05:52I see the birds down

05:55checking these regularly

05:57the blackbirds and starlings and stuff

06:01they will all

06:02basically devour them

06:04as soon as they come in

06:05I've got something growing up through them too

06:09and I don't want to choke it

06:10trying to make sure that's out

06:14there I come

06:15and then

06:19this was a cotton of a blackcurrant plant

06:23that I just put out yesterday

06:24there's two more here

06:27along with two blueberry

06:29plants that haven't really come on

06:31you can see one there

06:32it hasn't really grown at all

06:34in two years

06:35and

06:36you know a small one there

06:38doesn't really done anything

06:39these are three pear trees

06:41which aren't doing too bad

06:45two of them are new

06:46and the pear variety for this one

06:48is conference pear

06:50and that one

06:51this one

06:53is an older one

06:54but

06:55the soil is not great up around here

06:58but it's good for

06:59gooseberries

07:00which are now

07:01growing in the fruit

07:04and

07:05these are such an easy fruit to grow

07:08I like them because they have a mild enough taste

07:11they're hardly picked because of the thorns

07:13but

07:15a pair of gloves on me

07:16and

07:18you can make jams out of them

07:19you can use them

07:20in desserts

07:21they're really really versatile

07:23that is

07:25everything I have for now

07:27I like them

07:29how do they Frage

07:29this

07:32will them

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07:34regardless of how to value

07:34and

07:35if you

07:36check the

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07:42you

07:42know

07:43you

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