My Week In The Garden || Getting Ready For Spring 🌷🌷🌷

Hello everyone it's Juliette here from Enthusiastic Gardener and today I'm just going to have a little sit down because I've done all my jobs already and what I wanted to say was I have to go back to work full time and I did go back to work last year from September to December and I did my very best to do two videos a week still which I kept it up but it was a lot of a lot of work and I think I'm over undue pressure on myself to try and keep the gardening going because obviously I only get two days a week and I was gardening all the time both days just to get two videos out a week so I think what I'm going to do I am going to relax, chill, take a chill pill and I'm going to aim for one video a week from now on which I think will probably be on a Wednesday seeing as it's bang in the middle of the week and then I can just definitely get something done without undue pressure I hope you understand and I'm sure many people will be thinking only one video a week thank goodness for that so anyway first of all before we start with having a look at all my jobs I want to give a shout out to a lovely lady called Teresa and Teresa got in touch with me because she follows me on YouTube and she said that I had inspired her to start her own channel which is just fabulous now Teresa lives in a place called Weston which is in West Virginia in the USA she's been in her garden for 28 years now Teresa's video channel is just being launched and it's called Gardening on the West Fork with Teresa her garden is gorgeous it looks gorgeous now when it's quite bare and dormant it looks gorgeous and it's just all dormant she backs right onto the West Fork River it looks fabulous I can't imagine what it's going to look like in spring and in the summer she's really lovely as I say she's gardened there for 28 years I said to Teresa I'm going to give you a shout out so please check out her channel it's called Gardening on the West Fork with Teresa and she's a lovely lady and we've been chatting a lot and please please go over and have a look and support her channel she's she's only done to date maybe three videos and the first one is the walkthrough of her garden it's going to be beautiful anyway that's I wanted to say that secondly I want to show you this gorgeous sunset that I saw a couple of days ago which is just stunning I was sitting in my lounge which is just through there I kept looking over there thinking oh gosh that looks gorgeous I'll come running now do a film of it sit down and then it would change into a different colour but oh no that's better than the one before run out again film it again come running back in a third time I did it I thought that's it this is what it looks like I thought that's it anyway it's gorgeous and uh makes me laugh the little man who comes past on his bicycle so I thought that was amusing and I thought oh I'll have to show you that because it did look beautiful and so some of the things I've been doing this week I've done my jobs as I said and one of the things I did was I planted another three of those smart pots and the first one I had kale so I didn't realize you have to soak the seeds it's one of those you soak the seeds beforehand or overnight so I soaked the seeds and then in the morning some of the seeds were floating on the top and I thought I remembered somewhere that those ones that meant it's not viable so I took those seeds out the ones that were floating I didn't bother planting those so I planted up three more smart pots as you can see so in the first one there was the kale and then the second and the third ones are seeds that I was sent from my really lovely friend called Steve and he has a channel called Steve's Growing Space and he had sent me seeds from his own garden so I had some lettuce and I had some radishes so I planted those in the three smart pots then a couple of days later I thought right I have two more heat mats I need to get some more seeds in my greenhouse so I sowed those and in one of them I had intended to have a whole tray of strawberries but when I opened the packet there was only a few seeds you didn't get very many seeds so it ended up that the first tray has a mixture of strawberries and aubresia so this is aubresia cascade red and they grow up to about 10 centimetres strawberries and aubresia both take around the same time to germinate which is 14 to 21 days I thought they can go in the same tray and then they might be ready at the same sort of time then in the second tray I put in some chili pepper which is called hot rod hot rod chili pepper and I also put in some sweet pepper called sweetonia mix they're sweet yet a little warm it says and I put in some little aubergines baby aubergines it's an f1 pinstripe so they're in there now then in the third one I put in some cosmos double click which I did so in September as well but they didn't really make it round this year so I thought I'll try those again and I sowed some marigold called scarlet sophie and then in the fourth tray I had a whole tray full of red brussels sprouts and they're a novelty purple red sprout which retains its colour even after cooking so that's another four trays which are all in the greenhouse now in their heat mats and I was chatting to a friend of mine as well online chris stubbings who has a lovely channel on ponds and fish chris stubbings channel he suggested that I should take the domes off the humidity domes I should probably take those off for maybe about 15 minutes every day so I hadn't realized that because there is a lot of moisture under there if I bring it a bit closer you can see how much condensation and moisture is on there and chris stubby has recommended I take the domes off for maybe 15 minutes in the daytime so I'm going to do that any bit of help is welcome you can see there's loads of moisture yeah it's surprising how much moisture they create actually I'm quite surprised so I'll leave that off for 15 minutes and then put them back on again so I did that today took them off just for 15 minutes and put them back on again so I'll do that every day because chris says it might be a good idea yes it probably is a good idea so thank you for that chris I've done that today and I'll try and do that every day another thing that I have been doing is you will you may remember the hanging wall planter that Richard made from a pallet well that is now all planted up with beautiful beautiful colorful flowers as you can see from this picture here and you may think how have you managed to get those flowers growing so beautifully in February stroke March well I have to admit that they are fake they are plasticky fake flowers and I'm sorry yes you could probably throw things at me Jeanette how could you but as I heard from Jenny Jenny from Gardening with Creekside she says it's my garden I can do what I like yes exactly nothing grows in that wall pallet planter it's got the tiniest little reservoir tiniest little soil container all dries up I've tried I've planted things in there and also it's on my hottest wall for the afternoon the sun bakes everything the rain doesn't get to it because there's an overhang hanging off the bungalow so we're having fake plants in the planter and I don't care another thing I've been doing is looking around at my tulips and they are coming on very well as you can see this large planter here they are all orange tulips and they're from my friend Lulu she sent them to me and then I've got more tulips in this planter here and then I've got lots of tulips and they're all coming up and everything's looking very nice you can also see that I have been out in the night checking on my little seed trays to see if they're okay see if my heat mats are burning away and you can see me here in in the middle of the night it's not actually the middle of the night it's the evening but I just went to have a look and everything looks okay now this one is a new concept to me cow slip now you can sow cow slip in the early autumn and you just put it in a pot and leave it in a cold frame to over winter they need to be cold or alternatively you can put them in a pot in March to April which I'm going to do we put them in a pot and then we cover the pot with a lid and then we put them in the fridge for three weeks in the bottom of the fridge and then we get them out put them out and they need to germinate in the cold and I will set my phone for three weeks time so I don't forget to leave them in there so that's my jobs for the week really it's Saturday now Saturday evening it's a very very nice afternoon it is about five o'clock and I'm hoping to do some more tomorrow to get some some jobs done tomorrow but I'm going to leave it here for today and I hope you have a wonderful week in your garden we are nearly at well Mother's Day next weekend on Sunday in the UK's Mother's Day on the 14th so happy Mother's Day in advance to my mum and yes clocks change I believe the 28th of March we get another hour of daylight which will be fabulous so I'm going to go now thank you for watching and I will see you again very soon I'm Jeanette I am The Enthusiastic Gardener and take care and have fun in your gardens thank you for watching bye