Category: Gardening
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, January 29, 2022
9 Year Old Bird of Paradise Plant / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Anika_Walayat
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Our Flowering Bird of Paradise plant is 9 years old and so it is Anika's 14th Birthday who has cared for the plant for 9 years as this video illustrates.
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Friday, April 23, 2021
Growing Fruit and Nut Trees in the UK / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Anika_Walayat
Here's Eliza and Anika's fruit tree garden, in a small north England garden, it might be cold but you can still grow a large variety of fruit and nuts up here including various variety of Apples , Pears, Cherries, Almond, Hazelnuts, Plums, Grapes, Walnuts and Strawberries all in VR 180 so yuou can look around in a VR headset or browser.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020
How to Grow Huge Fruiting Magical Indoor Grape Vines at Home UK / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Eliza_Walayat
Who says you can't grow grapes in the North of England? Find out how it's done in our latest gardening video.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Fruit Trees Gardening to Beat Coronavirus Blues - , Apple, Cherry, Kiwi, Pears, Plums, Grapes, Bananas May 2020 / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Eliza_Walayat
Covid-19 may be continuing to rage in the UK but that's not stopping the plants coming alive. In this video 5 year old Eliza shows what our fruit trees look like in May 2020, and we have a lot of fruit trees growing in a relatively small spaces that includes various varieties of apple trees, Cherry, Kiwi's, Pears, Plums, Grapes and we even have Banana Trees growing!
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Kids Summer Holidays Fun Activity Growing Giant Sunflowers (3) / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Eliza_Walayat
Here 3 year old Eliza shows how kids can have lots of summer fun by planting and growing giant sunflowers from planting seeds and then watch as they germinate and grow as the rate of growth of giant sunflowers is truly spectacular! Something that the kids will enjoy!
Our third video in this series covers what to expect in terms of growth from Day 37 to 50. Specifically why you need to support the sunflowers once they start passing 1 foot in height else risk them flopping over. Though if they do bend over then all is not lost as this video shows.
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Thursday, June 20, 2019
Money Saving Kids Gardening Growing Giant Sunflowers Summer Fun / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Anika_Walayat
Here 3 year old Eliza shows how kids can have lots of money saving summer fun by planting sunflower seeds and then watch as they germinate and grow as the rate of growth of giant sunflowers is truly spectacular! Something that the kids will enjoy!
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Friday, April 19, 2019
Growing Bird of Paradise Strelitzia Plants, Pruning and Flower Guide Over 4 Years / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Anika_Walayat
Temperatures are rising and summers just around the corner! So now is the time to for Britains gardeners to plant their centrepiece plants. Those special plants that will stop people in their tracks to look. One such plant that is guaranteed to grab peoples attention is the Bird of Paradise that delivers in unique bird like flowers.
In this unique video that you WILL enjoy watching we follow Anika from age 5.5 over the following 4 years, right through to age 10 as she both grows and shows how to grow and look after a Bird of Paradise plant in the UK, starting from a small 6 inch plant all the way to a 4 foot flowering bird of paradise plant over 4years later. Anika covers the key stages of growth towards achieving the target of having a flowering bird of paradise plant.
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Sunday, September 16, 2018
Flowering Bird of Paradise Plant's Life Cycle (UK) / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Anika_Walayat
Anika's Bird of Paradise Plant has finally flowered after 3 long years, so here is the life cycle of of what to expect from a Bird of Paradise Plant Flower, right from when it first appears, blossoms and then very slowly dies back over a good 6 months to reveal it's final secret when the spent flower is cut from the plant.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2018
Can Flowering Banana Plants Survive UK Winter Nov to March 2018? / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Sami_Walayat
Our big flowering and fruiting banana plants with little green banana fingers growing on them have been winterised during November 2017. However the UK is about to experience it's coldest winter in over 5 years (late Feb / Early March 2018), so despite winter care can our banana plants survive the harsh "beast from the east" UK winter ? Find out in our latest video in our growing banana plant videos in the UK series as we desperately try and bring last years flowering banana plants into summer 2018 where this video covers the period November 2017 to late March 2018.
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Gardening Money Saving by Reseeding Spent Flower Baskets for New Summer Growth / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Anika_Walayat
Here's how Anika's flower baskets that she bought from Tesco at a bargain price of just 50p each grew from May right through to February of the following year when it was time to reseed them. It's really child's play to reseed flower baskets, so don't bin last years spent flower baskets because you could literally get years of new growth out of them at little extra expense.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2018
TESCO Super Markets All in One 50p Flower Baskets! / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Anika_Walayat
With spring around the corner, Britains super markets such as TESCO will soon be stocked with loads of gardening plants including the all in one flower baskets, populated with a variety of plants that tend to start at £5 each. However amongst the pile of flower baskets there will be the odd disheveled flower basket that staff perhaps forgot to water, that the store will be eager to get rid of and so tend to be heavily discounted to perhaps as low as just 50p!
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Sunday, February 11, 2018
How to Grow Tomatoes From Seeds, Homegrown Organic Money Saving Gardening / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Sami_Walayat
Now (Mid February) is the right time of year to get started growing your own vegetables of which given the high shop prices tomatoes should be at the top of ones list. In this comprehensive guide, Sami shows literally how anyone, even a child can easily grow hundreds of tomatoes indoors in a small pot from seed germination, to planting, to hand pollination, to pruning and then enjoying the fruits for a whole years worth of money saving crops of healthy freshly organically grown home tomatoes, good for your financial and physical health as well as delivering a lot of self satisfaction
Wednesday, February 07, 2018
How to Grow Dragon Fruit Trees From Seed, Germinate and Growth Over 1 Year UK / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Adnaan_Walayat
It's going to be spring soon so many gardeners are probably already wondering how they will liven up their homes and gardens, of what seeds to plant to grow flowers and fruits. Maybe thinking of including a few exotics. In which case this video shows how to EASILY AND SUCCESSFULLY germinate and grow Dragon Fruit trees from seeds! It's literally child's play! And don't worry about trying to find seeds because the Dragon Fruits sold in your local supermarket will do just fine!
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Sunday, September 03, 2017
Banana Plant Flowers and Fruits in Sheffield, Yorkshire UK For First Time in 5 years / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Sami_Walayat
Finally, and completely unexpectedly our Basjoo Banana plants have started to flower and fruit! The other day (25th July) we noticed that a new emerging leaf did not look quite right, instead we had the beginnings of a fruiting flower, and barely a 6 days on we noticed that another banana plant in a seperate container was ALSO showing signs of flowering! This was a big surprise, for the earliest we have seen banana plants fruit in Yorkshire was after 9 years of growth! As appeared on BBC Look North last year, so we are 4 years ahead of the fruiting banana tree curve!
Thursday, February 02, 2017
Tesco Supermarket Tomatoes vs Homegrown - Which is Better, Bigger? / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Sami_Walayat
Now is the right time of year to get started growing your own vegetables of which given the high shop prices tomatoes should be at the top of ones grow our own list. So exactly what difference can one expect between home grown tomatoes, say on a window sill and supermarket shop bought tomatoes such as from Tesco? Find out in this video.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Grow Your Own Tomatoes From Seed - Step by Step Easy Money Saving Guide / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Sami_Walayat
Now is the right time of year to get started growing your own vegetables of which given the high shop prices tomatoes should be at the top of ones list. In this comprehensive guide, 9 year old Sami shows literally how anyone, even a child can easily grow hundreds of tomatoes indoors in a small pot from seed germination, to planting, to hand pollination, to pruning and then enjoying the fruits for a whole years worth of money saving crops of healthy fresh organically home grown tomatoes, good for your financial and physical health as well as delivering a lot of self satisfaction.
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
How to Get a Bird of Paradise Plant to Flower - UK Growing Video / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Anika_Walayat
We may have just started the new year, but it's a good time to start planning garden flower beds, baskets, property frontages and lounge flower displays. And where flower displays are concerned then there isn't much out there that can beat the Bird of Paradise plant (Stelitzia reginae) in producing one of the most uniquely beautiful vibrantly coloured flowers of any plant that literally resemble flying birds.
Saturday, September 03, 2016
Kid's Fun Fruit Trees and Plants Garden UK (E1 - August 2012) / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Anika_Walayat
This is the first in a series of videos starting August 2012, where 4 year old Anika first shows her fruit trees and plants garden in the UK from tropical trees such as Mangoes and Bananas to the traditional Apple and Cherry trees, nut trees including walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts, plenty of citric lemon and orange trees continuing with some raspberry and blackberries bushes strawberries and grape vines. Watch as the fruit trees and plants grow over the following seasons and years so you too can plan your own fun fruit filled kids gardens.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Money Saving Gardening by Propagating Roses From Cuttings - Propagating Rose Plants Over 2.5 Years / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Sami_Walayat
Before you go and spend money buying new rose or other flower plants, first watch this video to find out just how easy it really is to propagate as many rose plants as you want from cuttings. Here 7 year old Sami demonstrates how easy it is to propagate a rose bush from cuttings in this step by step video that shows the progress of the cuttings taken over 2.5 years! And what impact the likes of miracle grow feed can have on your cuttings against plain old simple water.