Welcome back to my garden in Essex on the south east coast of England. It’s now less than 3 weeks to the end of Winter and the beginning of Spring, my favourite garden season.
Since Spring is such a busy time for us gardeners, I thought I’d spend an hour or so this morning to declutter and tidy up my small garden shed and it turned out to be so worthwhile and has made me feel so much more organised and ready for the start of another season in the garden calendar.
I hope today’s video might inspire some of you to tackle yours.
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hello everyone it's Janette here
enthusiastic Gardener it's such a
beautiful afternoon in the garden I will
have to show you that my little purple
crocuses have all suddenly
emerged I was wondering where they were
they're slower than the yellows but so
pretty today and we only have 3
weeks left of
winter and I know so many of you are
still in deep snow but really
really it won't be long so hang on in
there because spring is on its
way the best time of The Gardener's
Year bless you lty
it is however very very
cold at the
moment it's getting down to minus well
it's getting down to zero at least most
days but I must just tell you last
weekend or in the last video I mentioned
about getting possibly a new Palm to go
here and I've now taken out my hooka the
old big old hooka and and the buer which
was there and I've moved it to here I
need to prune the buer actually late
winter early spring time to prune bleers
but I went to local Garden Center and I
found the most perfect Palm it's a
Shamar Ops a Shamar Ops and it's going
to go there but I don't want to buyy it
yet because we still have a risk of
frost and although they're Hardy at the
moment the garden center that it's in
it's kind of undercover so it's not
completely
climatized to any coldness so today I'm
going to do something which I've been
saying I'm going to do for pretty much a
year and today I am going to do
it hello everyone I'm Janette the
enthusiastic gardener that was actually
yesterday afternoon I didn't have enough
time or daylight left in the the day
yesterday to do this but today it's
beautiful
sunshiny lovely Sunday morning and
someone's just decided to start drilling
over there but there's a quick break in
it so we are going to clean the shed out
and yes about a year I've been saying
this let's clean the shed out I'm going
to do it today it may not be the most
exciting job but hopefully it it will
give you some motivation perhaps to do
yours so as I mentioned last
week it's a mess it's it's a tiny tiny
little shed you wouldn't think tiny
space could get so messy but it has it's
got stuff and and the main problem is by
the time I've finished gardening at the
end of the day I'll just throw things in
there because I'm worn out I just want
to get inside so that's what happens and
it's all these canes as well so I'm
going to take the canes out and put them
down the side of the shed but I hope
that I might give you a little bit of
motivation to clear out your shed you
only take me I bet not even an hour to
do so I'm going to do that and I just
want to say hello and thank you to all
my lovely new subscribers I've had lots
of new subscribers because I can tell
it's the beginning of the Year everyone
suddenly keen on their Gardens sorry the
drillings going on again they're Keen in
their on their Gardens and they you know
want some inspiration and and some ideas
as as I do as well anyway so hello to
you and please comment hello in the
description box and say hello and say
where you're from I do answer every
comment and we are such a friendly group
and most of my subscribers or lots of
them have been with me in the 5 years
that I've been making videos on YouTube
and we are such a wonderful wonderful
community so let's get on with the shed
what I'm going to do is just bring
everything out put it all down here then
I'll go through it then I'll put it back
tier but my motivation to you if you
want to do this is put some headphones
on put some music on say to yourself
right I'm going to listen to an album or
something for an hour and just work for
an hour that's what I do it's so
enjoyable and I'm often quite
disappointed when the album finishes
because I'm in the swing of bit by then
so come with me we're going to clean out
the
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shed so the first thing I'm going to do
is these which are
my um Garden steaks all of these and all
these canes I'm not bringing them out
I'm just going to tie them down
there that's it the staks are there big
ones little ones and all the canes are
up there and I can actually get in there
now
so let's get everything
out so I've decided everything on this
side is the keeping it
pile and everything on that side is
donate
or
discard and I never use this it's too
much effort so
donate
pile this is
vinegar that I bought to maybe clean my
patio with at some point well I bought
that probably four years
ago and then I've got all different
Garden
shoes food
more Garden shoes which I didn't even
know I
had mini head
trimmer don't need the
Box multiple heads we don't need that do
we
don't I have a load of grow bags this
was from my vegetable growing days back
in
about 4 years ago I did
vegetables sort them
out yeah good
girl then I'm going to throw these away
these are capillary maps for the uh my
little sea trays but
they're so old and I've got heat
mats four heat mats
there
that's very useful that's for do my weed
killing which I do out here on the
paving and at the front we've got um
block Paving which is a nightmare for
weeds a
nightmare that goes in that got these
which I've never used I'll keep them you
never know you never know and more more
Garden
shoes I didn't know I
had just found these These
are they were trays for my fridge and I
must have put them in the shed at some
point thinking that they might come in
use for
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this is the beer the bitter I told you
about last week when I was trying out
SLU beer traps these fat balls for
Birds they're probably block
hard then we just have a lot of
fertilizers and
plant
food I mean I don't need
this it's for fertilizing your
grass which I have
artificial don't need that anymore more
bird
seed well this is good I didn't even
know I had this this is for patios weed
killer it's expensive so I already have
that one and I have this one so that's
good then I don't use this anymore this
was called zenui this was when I
had boxwood
caterpillars which fortunately I don't
have anymore and I've obviously bought
myself some spray cans at some point and
some insect
repellent more plant food ly
you didn't know we had
that and more PL food see we just keep
going buying more this is a fting cover
which uh don't need that
anymore and we have a empty beer can
empty box this is my lovely very good
slow release Palm
fertilizer from Hardy palms. co.uk
definitely need that I really didn't
know I had all these slugs be
gone and then we've got that attaches to
my hose pip for the
fertilizer that can go in the garage M
back
paint and what's this oh this was when I
used to have a
lawn and I had two dogs then lty and
Lucy Lucy blesser should be gone a year
now bless her miss her so much this was
to it's it's um yeah it minimizes the
effects of salts from dog urine on grass
because as you probably know when dogs
um use the glass as a toilet it leaves
yellow patches but I don't leave that
anymore that can go get the gar with
paint empty washing
powder
containers rubbish oh that's actually a
guard for the little HED trimmer nearly
there that's in the greenhouse more
tomato pla
food I've got some hormone rooting
powder don't know what's in there I'm
going to throw that away and this what
is this oh yes this is my
or the planting BBS more Garden
shoes and an
oasis floral foam this is the key pit
pile all the key pits and this is the
discard pile which is yeah what should
we say
25% yeah
25% and let me just show
you I have swept all the way down there
and I've cleaned every
shelf and it's beautiful and tidy and
the floor is as good as it's going to
get
you can see
that the shelves are kind of
disintegrating now we've had this shed
for maybe about I don't know eight years
I'm keeping those up there I haven't
moved those then I found a roll of
fleece didn't know I had that that's
handy and I have back there and I'm not
getting that out it's a lawn edger
electrical lawn edger which actually
don't need so if someone wants that I
can give that to someone and then that
is a a hedge
trimmer
so I'm going to have a little break oh
went back into the wall I'm going to
have a little break and a cup of tea in
the
sunshine and
then tackle
this right tea break is over so I'm
going to put it all away nice and tidy
never get it in a mess again how many
times do we say this
h
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okay it's done let me show
you I mean no this was not the most
exciting of videos but I hope it's
motivated you and now look I can get in
there have all my my forks and things
hung
up and that's the hanging baskets the
Ora the heat mats along here are all my
ferti izers or weed
killers and the weed killer box all my
leaf blower tools those are the bags the
grow
bags so that's it I won't let it get in
a mess ever ever again if you believe
that you believe
anything I'm so glad so glad I've done
that um yes I'm sorry it wasn't the most
interesting exciting of videos but this
is just a kind of garden Vlog it's what
I'm doing at the moment and I am so
pleased that my shed is clean and clear
for the moment I hope it's inspired you
to do something I've done a load of uh
decluttering inside the house all over
the winter I've been throwing things
away going through one drawer every
night or one cupboard or just Tiding up
things like in my wardrobe I've put all
my colors
colorcoded and I've gone to the rainbow
so I've got all the blacks and the Grays
and then I've gone red orange yellow
green blue indigo violet and it just
makes it all feel organized and I just
like I really really like doing things
like that anyway thank you so much for
watching I'm Janette I'm the
enthusiastic Gardener who knows what
I'll be up to next week and hello to all
the new subscribers and my very very
great fond wish
and love to everyone who's been with me
for longer bless you all take care and
see you soon thanks for watching bye