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Andy Mac
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Follow us on our amateur gardening adventures! We've got a 500m2 garden to bring under control and we really have no clue what we're doing. Join us on our journey to see how it progresses - this is going to be a steep learning curve!
This was my first ever channel on UA-cam, dating all the way back to 2011. There's lots of cheesy and historic stuff on here so don't judge. Please do subscribe!
All content on this channel is exclusively owned by MacLellan Creative Limited. All rights reserved. MacLellan Creative Limited, Registered in England & Wales, Company number 12667542. Please get in touch via the contact page at gosforthhandyman.com
This was my first ever channel on UA-cam, dating all the way back to 2011. There's lots of cheesy and historic stuff on here so don't judge. Please do subscribe!
All content on this channel is exclusively owned by MacLellan Creative Limited. All rights reserved. MacLellan Creative Limited, Registered in England & Wales, Company number 12667542. Please get in touch via the contact page at gosforthhandyman.com
Garden tour August 2024 - Sunflowers, Marigolds, Zinnia and Tomatoes!
It’s time for a garden tour! Summer 2024 and things are coming along nicely. Still a few problems to sort but we’re looking at Sunflowers, Marigolds, Zinnia and of course the Tomatoes!
Full garden renovation timelapse:
ua-cam.com/video/I4c5hI5K_DI/v-deo.html
Here's some of the products I'm using:
gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/
Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-only tape measure:
gosforthhandyman.com/shop/
Garden tour chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:20 - How things are looking
01:50 - Decking plants
02:55 - Top of garden
04:35 - Sunflowers
06:10 - Shady side
08:49 - Studio room plants
09:40 - Raised beds
12:05 - Wild area
13:04 - Marigolds
15:10 - Viola Swiss Giants
16:19 - Zinnia
17:37 - Tomatoes
24:28 - UA-cam comments
All content on this channel is exclusively owned by MacLellan Creative Limited. Copyright (c) 2024. All rights reserved.
#gardening #gardenideas #gardeninspiration
Full garden renovation timelapse:
ua-cam.com/video/I4c5hI5K_DI/v-deo.html
Here's some of the products I'm using:
gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/
Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-only tape measure:
gosforthhandyman.com/shop/
Garden tour chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:20 - How things are looking
01:50 - Decking plants
02:55 - Top of garden
04:35 - Sunflowers
06:10 - Shady side
08:49 - Studio room plants
09:40 - Raised beds
12:05 - Wild area
13:04 - Marigolds
15:10 - Viola Swiss Giants
16:19 - Zinnia
17:37 - Tomatoes
24:28 - UA-cam comments
All content on this channel is exclusively owned by MacLellan Creative Limited. Copyright (c) 2024. All rights reserved.
#gardening #gardenideas #gardeninspiration
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Our first proper garden harvest!
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As summer finally arrives today we’re taking a look at what has worked and what hasn’t worked in our garden so far this year. Give Dan (Geordie Grower) a follow: geordiegrower Follow my decking project: ua-cam.com/video/LVsi2DFpS8M/v-deo.html Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/ Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-only tap...
How is the garden looking in Spring 2024?
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We started bringing this garden back from the dead in 2021. That meant ripping out a whole load of invasive plants to allow the garden to thrive. In the past a few folks have mentioned we shouldn’t have been so hard with the initial cut-back but they genuinely don’t have a clue about the sacrifices you have to make on a project like this. We ripped out brambles, bindweed, snowberries, ivy and m...
First time planting out tomatoes - San Marzano, Moneymaker and more!
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Today I’m finally planting out our tomato plants in the greenhouse. First time I’ve ever done this so bear with me! Tomato varieties planted: - Red cherry small fruited - San Marzano 2 - Moneymaker - Ace 55 VF Also explaining my understanding of the difference between vermiculite and perlite... and a bunch of other stuff. Enjoy! Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/produc...
Fitting greenhouse shelves and re-potting red sunflowers
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I’m running out of room so today I’m fitting some shelves in the greenhouse, re-potting loads of stuff, battling with slugs and preparing to plant out the tomatoes. Our amateur gardening adventures continue! Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/ Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-only tape measure: gosforthhandyman.com/shop/ All content ...
Fixing our dead lawn WITHOUT fertiliser!
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Our poor lawn didn't do too well over the winter. All the dampness and cold has resulted in very sparse growth and lots of moss. Today I'm fixing it... without using any fertiliser! Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/ Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-only tape measure: gosforthhandyman.com/shop/ All content on this channel is exclusi...
Small tomato plants, wood chipping and what happens next?
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My seedlings are growing well but are my tomato plants too small? Should I be worried or am just being a bit impatient? Lots of wood chipping today too! Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/ Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-only tape measure: gosforthhandyman.com/shop/ All content on this channel is exclusively owned by MacLellan Creat...
Do seeds really go out of date?? Lots of updates!
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Loads of updates today! We’re looking at dodgy solar lights, pricking out seedlings, green potatoes and do old seed packets really go out of date? Oh, and I made a spreadsheet to keep track of all my plants! By the way, don't buy those hooks. Two broke in the first week. Absolute junk! Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/ Buy my Gosforth Handyman...
Fitting Bayliss XL auto vents on our greenhouse
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The greenhouse is getting too hot! Today I’m fitting some Bayliss XL auto vents and overcoming some problems while fitting them. Also a very quick greenhouse seed update! Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/ Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-only tape measure: gosforthhandyman.com/shop/ All content on this channel is exclusively owned ...
Did I break our potatoes? ...and did our bottlebrush plant survive winter?
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Loads going on today. I’m planting onion sets, seed potatoes, loads of seeds in the greenhouse and I may have destroyed our potatoes. Quite a few things are going wrong but it’s all a learning curve. We also have some surprise visitors at the bottom of the garden! Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/ Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-o...
The greenhouse is operational - SO EXCITED!! 👨🌾🌿
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It’s been a lot of work to get to this stage but the greenhouse is now fully operational! To get started I’m getting organised and re-potting some house plants. Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/ Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-only tape measure: gosforthhandyman.com/shop/ All content on this channel is exclusively owned by MacLell...
Amateur gardener confused by SEEDS!!
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It’s time to actually plant something! I need to grow some seedlings but this can be a daunting task for an amateur gardener. Here’s my random approach to getting started! Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/ Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-only tape measure: gosforthhandyman.com/shop/ All content on this channel is exclusively owned...
Tree pruning - I nearly DESTROYED our new greenhouse!
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So I bought a pole saw to prune some very high branches on a sycamore tree. These branches are huge and around 7m (23ft) high. Hopefully this will highlight some of the dangers of doing this sort of work. Did our brand new greenhouse survive?? Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/ Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-only tape measure: gos...
Dangerous trees and February planting!
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It’s time for some dangerous tree trimming and our first planting of 2024. We’re moving a few plants around and I’ve been to the garden centre. Enjoy! Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/ Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-only tape measure: gosforthhandyman.com/shop/ Look out for the greenhouse bench build on my Gosforth Handyman chann...
What’s next for our garden? Plans for 2024!
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Last time we looked at a time lapse of what we’ve done to our garden over the last 3 years. We’re in to the start of year 4 and there’s lots to do! In this video we’ll look at what we’ve planted so far and discuss some of our plans for the coming year. Here's some of the products I'm using: gosforthhandyman.com/products-i-use/gardening/ Buy my Gosforth Handyman double sided metric-only tape mea...
1920’s garden makeover - 3 year timelapse!
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1920’s garden makeover - 3 year timelapse!
I’m finally building our new 8’ x 10’ aluminium greenhouse!
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I’m finally building our new 8’ x 10’ aluminium greenhouse!
Building a proper slab base for our new greenhouse!
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Building a proper slab base for our new greenhouse!
I've given up growing BASIL in winter!
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I've given up growing BASIL in winter!
How I build some easy raised beds - FULL VIDEO!
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How I build some easy raised beds - FULL VIDEO!
Gardening POV - building raised beds / planters
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Gardening POV - building raised beds / planters
Amateur gardening - autumn 2023 garden jobs!
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Amateur gardening - autumn 2023 garden jobs!
Polycarbonate greenhouse - timelapse build
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Polycarbonate greenhouse - timelapse build
Making your own firewood for a wood burning stove
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Making your own firewood for a wood burning stove
How to dismantle an old trampoline
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How to dismantle an old trampoline
Trail camera IN-DEPTH review and guide
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Trail camera IN-DEPTH review and guide
Amateur lawn care - what we’ve done this year
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Amateur lawn care - what we’ve done this year
Red thread disease! Garden update - Aug 2023
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Red thread disease! Garden update - Aug 2023
You need an irrigation system, ive got one and doing two year review soon on my channel
Andy I do my onion seeds in December under led grow lights
Great job Andy All the best from Australia
My wife said your onions need to be planted a little deeper. 😅 We only pulled ours out when it started to go yellow. Our broccoli got eaten, courgette, potato, garlic, all did well.
Congratulations Andy you and your wife have done amazingly well in such a small amount of time - if you aren’t a gardener you cannot appreciate the efforts you have put in well done - just a little tip your rosemary will do much better with sun good luck from Australia
Thank you! 😊
Andy, as a fellow North Easterner I despair at your use of "Socks and Crocs" but having said that your channel is absolutely brilliant! Removing the snobbery from gardening is a fantastic format. "Don't know what I'm doing, see if it grows" - brilliant. Keep up the great work for us!
Ha thank you! Still lots to do so watch this space! This is really the first year where we haven't had major building projects (apart from the decking!). 😂
Your garden is beautiful. Shouldn't gardens be about creating happy spaces, that make us happy while we're creating them? Happy gardening Andy and thank you for sharing yours with us. 😍 🪴 🌱 🌿 🌾 🌳 🏡 🌲
Thank you - exactly! It's all about enjoying the journey. 😊
Searched UA-cam for "renovations" and your video popped up. Enjoyed this thoroughly - you have a HUGE garden (what we would call a yard here in Canada). Looking forward to watching more of your vids.
It's all a learning curve for me too and that's why I like watching your channel. I think you've done a brilliant job!
Thank you - learning so much on here!
Well done its been a tough growing year your doing just fine ❤ As to that sycamore you cut down drill a few holes in stump and spray with wd40 I did this on a willow stump its now rotting down 😁
Cheers - yeah it's been a challenge at times! I'm gonna treat that sycamore as a bush for now until I get bored with it then it will go a journey. 👍😂
Labor of love! ❤👩🌾❤👨🌾
Look to see which way the garden is orientated. 6 hours and over is full sun. 3-6 hours is partial shade. Under 3 hours is full shade. I find that rule helps me . As Beth Chatto says , right plant, right place!! Thank you for your garden vid, always lovely to see how other people manage to make their gardens flourish.
Thank you - getting there slowly but surely! 😊
Your fuchsia would be more happy on the shadier side of the garden. They don't like to be i full sun. Sounds like you maay have been sent the wrong sunflower seeds or maybe the colour is due to using saved seed which has cross pollinated or maybe F1 seed was saved? I hve a tall multi headed red sunflower - Claret. That's an F1 but I don't save the seed as it doesn't come true. I relocate slugs and snails to a nearby piece of pastureland. They need to go over 60 feet away otherwise they will crawl back to where they were taken from. My Zinnias seem to like nice soil. They are very bushy and flowering beautifully. This year I am growing pink dahlia flowered. Really pretty! I use paracord for stringing my tomatoes. As it is a ,man made product it lasts and doesn't rot and can be used year after year after year. I just roll it uo and tie it to the cross wire at the end of the season, ready to use the next year. I use the same cord for my cucumbers and melons too. Gtreat idea to fill your garden with seed grown plants. You get so many plants for such little money. Happy gardening 🙂
Ah didn't know that about fuchsia - on my list to move 👍. The sunflower thing is weird - for the life of my I can't find the seed packet. Some are defo deep red but mixed seeds would also explain the giant ones! 😂
Looks so nice, great work. Thanks for the great videos
Cheers and no worries at all!
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Glad you’re enjoying it still! The garden looks lovely
Thank you!
On the side of the studio where the rosemary is, try Hollyhocks.
Great tip!
On the shady side, try hydrangeas, lavender, impatients, bleeding hearts, hellebore, primroses, and lobelia, just to name a few flowering shade lovers.
Awesome - cheers! Hellebore look lovely!
Great job! I always save marigold seeds and set with my tomatoes. Helps to keep weeds and aphids away. One of my tomato plants has been attacked by slugs. Need to put out beer traps. I live in NW Oregon, so we tend to be wet most of the year, but drier and warm mid June thru mid September. Water is getting expensive, but like to keep all green.
Interesting! Is that near Portland? Looks like similar hardiness zone to us (9a) but you might have slightly higher rainfall since you're on the west? I think we get about 600mm rain per year on average... I think!
It looks wonderful. Great job. 😊
Cheers! 😊
Looking wondrous!
Cheers - getting there! 😁
Looking fab! 😄 For the shady border creeping phlox, sometimes called carpet phlox is easy to propagate and gives good Spring colour. It acts as excellent ground cover in other seasons reducing weeding and water loss in the best of Summer. If the fuschia's happy there, try propagating it to create a drift, perhaps?
The phlox looks lovely - might give that a shot. Cheers!
How about gravel to cover the soil? It can add colour if you choose the right variety.
I'm kinda hoping the plants will eventually cover everything. Trouble with gravel is I'd need a hard border to the lawn (e.g. brick) otherwise they lawn mower tends to pick the gravel up. 👍
Hi Andy, Your garden is looking amazing! I am about a year and a bit behind you so it is nice to see that there is some light at the end of all this work... Have you thought about adding an Olive tree? I have one that is a 90+ year old Olive tree (it has been cut back so it is quite short at about 5 foot) that is going to be going on my decking when I have built it in the next few weeks (thinks for the tips on you building yours..) The Olive tree is full of colour and is a massive talking point when people come over as I have replanted it in a really big terracotta pot. As for the slugs, have a look at some of the people on YT that are really good at companion planting. It may work for you? But thanks for the videos they have helped a lot over the years!
Cheers - it's amazing how quickly the plants mature. We had an olive tree a while ago but it didn't survive a North East winter 😭. We defo need more plants that slugs don't eat. 😂
I tried some grass seed mixed with wild flower seed. I chucked it around the wild part of my garden where the chickens had scratched up the grass - new grass grew! Then when I got to the bottom of the box there was a sachet of wild flower seed you were meant to mix in!!! RTFM!!
D'oh! 😂😭
👍👍👍Grandios!
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Looking great. Well done.
Cheers Mark! 👍
Looking great!!! Cherish your potatoes and tomatoes!
Cheers! I'm a bit worried since most of our tomatoes are still green! I may need to cut back more of the suckers. 👍
@@AndyMac Give them time to ripen on the vine. You can't rush mother nature!
My GF suggests having a fern area on that right hand side Andy. Ignore the trolls, they probably live in flats and are jealous of how nice you have it.
Cheers - we've already got some ferns in there! They're still quite small but hopefully they'll come through. 😁
You guys have done an amazing job
Thank you - getting there slowly but surely!
You could stick some Verbena in front of the studio - it grows tall and slender with little ball shaped clusters of flowers (like allium)
Oh they look lovely! That would be perfect for around there and looks like I can grow them from seed. Cheers - on the list! 👍
Hibiscus flower around this time of year and are quick growers. Come in a variety of colours as well.
Awesome - will check that out. Cheers!
To keep the greenhouse and veggies thriving, place them in close proximity and in view of the house. The great Square Foot Gardener Mel Bartholemew said always have your garden near at hand, to tend and care for it as needed. Burying these elements behind the studio will inevitably lead to poor performance and yields.
Andy, useful videos thanks. Not sure if I missed it but what depth did you dig out the foundation area to before building the base? Cheers Andrew
First off, #1 Get rid of the Hedges . ( there always a pain in the (ass) lol #2. You've got way too many plants . ( Don't add anymore ) #3. As far as your flowers,,,,,,? Cut back on what you've got. Good rule of thumb. (if you can't remember what you have, You've got to much. ) As far as the grass,,,,,,,,, I would add a nice walkway through it , and since you've got so much going on in the back. Hope this helps? :-)
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.Urine done it for me but you may need to experiment (diluted ? ) on small areas and definitely add it in the night not in full sun.Thank you for sharing
Please without the music. Terrible!!!!
I just randomly got this recomended and I really enjoyed it 😊
probably have a lot of die back in the winter as you used rye grass. best to overseed in a fescue.
Really enjoyed watching your video. 3 years is a lot of time and you did a great job. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
You really need to map your garden through the seasons and where the sun does/doesnt sit then select your plants from there. You have shown plants that need full sun that have been planted in shade and vice/versa. All conifers are garden killers in the long term as they suck all the moisture out of your garden beds personally I wouldn't bother with them at all.. I also noticed that appeared to be no mulch on your beds why not. Oh and lose the lavenders and go for proper lavender plants you have planted French lavender that doesnt do at all well in cold weather, you need to plant english lavender. Oh and get rid of that tree that you have allowed all the suckers to grow up off. Its going to caused issues long term( the one near the rose and lattice frame. I feel you lost so many plants when you planted as they appeared to be pot bound, but also they dont like wet feet aka roots. When you pull out a plant from a pot and Its roots are all jammed up and round the base of the pot remove 1/4 of the entire root ball this encourages new root growth and if you put fertilizer in the hole you have dug always put soil over it before you plant. @AndyMac learn what gardening zone you live in and plant to that particular zone, just because you can buy a plant locally doesn't necessarily mean that it is suitable for that area, thats how they make money. Find a qualified horticulturist that actually owns/runs their own nursery . Cheers for now. (ps I have clicked the thumbs down to draw you attention to this post one you have read it reply and I will tick the thumbs up! ciao?)
Have you tried grow lights? It will help tremendously. You can buy LED grow lights.
Que hermoso Jardín, es un lugar que te lleva a un RELAX increíble, los felicito, esos 3 años valieron la pena.
Hello from Washington state! Your channel just popped up on the sidebar today, and I love gardening. We are removing lawn in favor of native plants that attract pollinators, but we have a lot of deer and wildlife that treat our borders as buffets. I enjoyed watching all your work, and am curious about the water at the end of your garden, do you have access? Can you kayak there? Did you get a new handle for your fork?
STUNNING, esp leading down to the water....just so lovely.I would like to see maybe a few more of the lovely tree with dark pink leafs, the one you planted near the studio. :)
OOh love the string in the hole trick!
You can make hoops out of soft pvc pipe and then put your mesh over top :)
You do know that morning glories are essentially bindweed right? :). Run a light fan on your leggy plants to make them more hardy. It's called hardening off.
Looking good now, Andy