Potatoes, blueberry cuttings and pruning – My March vlog

My friend what weather It's actually dangerous here now Things are starting to blow around in the garden Look Oh oh I'm not sure they've been here all along We're going out And this is the raider The thick skin I've tried to keep out of this She takes the first opportunity to slip in It's uncomfortable when it's so windy We need to put a stone in front of the exhaust pipe so it doesn't blow up The most unpleasant thing I think is the wind coming back And I still have memory images from Storm Gudrun The trees only snapped here in the forest The sound that roaring sound when only a distant wind is heard so incredibly far away Then it just howls and pounds against the whole house It's absolutely terrifying What a customer These are the kinds of stakes that have been used for pine trees or other forest plantings that I have received They are large and perfect for driving stakes into berry bushes Additionally a major advantage is that they fit perfectly into many of these greenhouses that are designed for small mini-greenhouses For some reason I got a little feeling when I was in the car an hour ago And I thought I would really like to take up this experiment with blueberry pickers I was pretty much fed up with blueberry muffins three years ago I had taken all these hundreds of blueberry cuttings to figure out how to root cuttings properly I got between 30 and 40 plants from all the hundreds of cuttings I took And gave away quite a few Some of them are standing by my potato patch Then I got a little wink and thought I'd take a few more But what I'm doing differently now is that I'm taking the seedlings much earlier in the spring So that already in March and I plan to bring them in and put them on a heating mat indoors Probably most of it will fail I already know that from the beginning I can't help but feel that way I'll just delete that part from the list too I'll do that The best chance of success with blueberry cuttings is when using peat as the material in which the cuttings are placed Field or rhododendron soil It was Norrland I should probably write that down here right away I can fit 20 of each type I don't believe for a second that there will be 20 of each kind that end up getting mixed up That would really surprise me Then I just cut it as long as I can so I can push the needle almost all the way so that it's just a small girl sticking out But what I've learned about blueberry picking is that the best chance of success is It's when you have blueberries in a very hot and very humid place It takes a long time for the seedlings to develop roots So one must have patience and be able to give up this place for a very long time I'm home all day when I'm at home with the childre So it's often the case that I clean inside do the breakfast do the laundry and the dishes Such things prepare Then just go out and I work the brain for 45 minutes and then back to the dishwasher again Today I'm staying home all weekend with the kids five days while Filip is away working in Stockholm So it's naturally extra busy and a huge number of shuttles are running back and forth Take them leave them night all the children and you know the whole thing So those are the extra valuable times I'll try to finish the project this weekend that I need and can then check off the list So now I'm going to go out and grab a small bed that's just outside the greenhouse I have previously grown strawberries in this frame It consists of some large second-hand or third -hand sorting rules that I just put together Now I'm going to clear some grass there and add horse manure I'll grow something interesting here this summer I think some kind of vegetable maybe cabbage this year These huge worms that I found in the soil are earthworms they are not compost worms These worms are slower than the red compost worms you may have seen in my worm composters They also eat a lot and are very pleasant to have in the ground Men they do not multiply as quickly and not as much mold does not form in the soil And they are slower to eat and move around on the earth and so on So it's simply a larger yield if you have these red compost worms They will come with us now that I'm spreading manure So welcome to the warmth I'm completely red-faced right now These are my friends Marianne Fargo hello Sometimes I've seen you slip by in different places in my videos and on Instagram I've just been in your tunnel and said hello Oh now you're here and trimming my trees Yes exactly I took a green card last year for pruning fruit trees So now I'm starting to do it a bit on commission and such But I've been a bit cowardly about posting and so that I do it You asked if I would come here to trim the tree and then you would have been like this but I will do it now So said Martin yes but you dare to cut off Sara but not to go out and anoint her Why did you think you should cut down trees I've worked quite a bit with trees in my career but they are very big old trees So those that are called protected trees So I have been able to learn quite a lot in theory about how to prune trees They don't really seem to have done it in practice And now we're starting to plant an orchard We have probably planted about 30 fruit trees or something like that Then I thought well maybe it's good to know then The first thing you said when you came here and saw my trees you said have you considered mulching the trees Tell me how have you been doing at home We have put up a silage For that we have gone around We thought it was supposed to be Compost is said to be the best Fruit trees don't like it when it's too rich They like and like They engage in growing and not simply producing fruit Like everyone else Yes so one wants to establish fruit trees very much in the beginning but then it works Then they establish themselves quickly and well They still won't put a lot of energy into having fruit right at the beginning either We have a lot of sand at home Except at the very bottom of our orchard There we discovered that we really have blue clay Well just don't have too much change right on the stem Because it's like especially the lawn that it suffocates Well your trees are growing pretty well at least I thought I'd try to tell a bit about what I've been doing in the garden during March I could hardly remember half of it And I've been a bit bad at bringing the camera and documenting it too Men in all fall är resultatet av det nu när man ser hur trädgården ser ut Maybe it's most obvious that I've had a huge amount of horse poop I've been so happy about this and I have also caught myself doing it as well I think it's so fun to take a break that I've put other things on hold a bit For example I filled it with horse manure in this new neighborhood I did last summer Oh there are five beds with manure on the cardboard and then there is a tarp and wood chips in between Oh what I've really done is just removed some quikroot that has frozen in these beds I've put on 20-30 cm of horse manure It's very good Unfortunately I have a huge population of moths that live in the ashes and they have several nests there They pick it up and pull out a bunch of stuff from this cover so that it spreads something terrible But this year I have tried to reduce the damage by putting on a cloth I have filled the horse manure into the buckets I have put horse manure into the tunnel greenhouses I've put horse manure in the garden in the kitchen yard and I'm also in the process of building up another one In some areas one could say that in the neighborhood where I will be growing coal this year And in this very neighborhood I have Actually four more traditionally raised beds where there is also a moisture hose over the beds It's just that I'm getting a bit tired of growing the same way all the time and that 's why I've done it this year I already started last year covering the entire area with grass clippings leaves and wool Now I lay the woolen strings across facing the other way so they become more horizontal lines one could say Here I will place a stake on these so that eight plants fit in each row and that makes a total of five rows So it's fun to do something new And here in this big bed that I have covered with straw now So strawberries grow and what's it called now Very scary I have a beehive in the garden So I'm a bit interested now in improving for the pollinator as well by putting out some perennials I the garden beyond the summer flowers that I hope to be able to plant as well So this area over here With this new neighborhood it's going to be a small one it sounds so cute to say but a cut flower garden that is a flower cultivation I have thought about this all year Let's see if I can make it happen All such projects tend to fail Because I already feel that I want to grow vegetables Come on old man Is it time to go in Come on I'm so eager to just try it I happened to have an extra bag I got the wrong type and so I ended up with a different one Who seems to be described as a delicacy potato Aura and now I think I really have nothing to lose I'm putting it in now in the middle of March let's see what happens I haven't grown potatoes in my own garden Other than in pots in recent years I am so very hungry to have potatoes because I have really missed them So I just think I'll make it as simple as possible and put it down for he digs a small hole and puts in the potato Along the outer edge of the bed towards the bicycle fence I just place them a little in a row so I know the approximate distance is correct because it looks so ugly I think A huge distance in one place and then a huge long distance to the next Oh now I think I'll try practicing this by keeping early things that you don't want to freeze away when you put them out For example as potato seeds that can be planted very early so I make a deep hole and put the potato in That's because even if there was frost in the upper layers of the bed the risk of the frost penetrating several decimeters is quite low Then the potatoes can establish themselves there and then the sprouts will come up and hopefully it's a bit warmer in the air then So we'll see Aura is a variety that takes 10-12 weeks to develop so it is not one of the earliest varieties I don't need that here either because I have early potatoes growing at another locatio So this is like just a bonus and then I'll grow something else inside the potatoes towards the cycles and exactly what it is I'm not really sure yet we'll see It feels almost a bit silly to do things like this you shouldn't absolutely do that planting potatoes this early it could just fail It's still mild which is great in my pocket yes we' re doing really well Everyone is out and happy the children are building and It makes it safe but you will come home for dinner see you then