Poor Rocky. He is so lucky to have you for a friend.

Norma has competition with Clara trying to steal the show...

I so enjoyed seeing Rocky. I was blessed to have a feral boy in my life for a couple of years. I was able to capture and neuter him, but the return bit didn’t work quite as planned! I kept him in the trap cage, in the conservatory with heat on overnight, after he’d been to the vets for his ‘proceedure’! Once released from the cage, he made his way around to the side of the house, and took up residence on the back step until he got fed. Over the weeks I managed to win his confidence, and he would come into the kitchen to be fed. For eighteen months he shared his life with me, becoming incredibly affectionate, the one day he simply went out, and I didn’t see him again. I know that he had health issues, but for the time we shared I will be forever grateful. Big Tig enriched my life, and taught me so much about trust and unconditional love.

Looks like you are off to a good start! I admire how you live with weeds and cantankerous animals with such good grace. We must love them...we do. Eileen has captured my heart with her haughty hissy orneriness. Clara is clever and steadfast in her search for culinary pleasures....have to admire her tenacity. And Norma has the cutest bum in the farm yard. Norma is all heart...as are you, Kate. Thanks for sharing your world with us.

Oh Kate. Clara is such a treasure. She is an adventurous soul.

Looks like my kind of day. A few years ago we sold our home to live in a motor home and move to a warmer place, more to my husband's liking. I really, really miss the large gardens I had that produced prolific bouquets of flowers, a multitude of herbs and lots of strawberries and fresh vegetables. So now, I enjoy gardening vicariously through all your gardening videos and travails through the woods and other wild area where creatures abound with the wild flowers. It is pure joy for me and I thank you so much for your generous sharings.

Yes outside in the garden! I love when you chat with us while you work. Claira the naughty hen!🐔 Norma the camera hog!🤗 Eileen was in a mood. And sweet Rocky on the window ledge. I just want to hug him. Hope all the other animals are well. Maybe we can see the other hens soon. ❤ Also Quick Steve from Hercules Candy asked about you in a video posted today! Craig added a link to your channel. They have over 275k subscribers. You are a celebrity now!😉

Thoroughly enjoying going back to old videos - making bean sleeves, seeing Rocky again, watching Eileen enjoying a swim - simple and wholesome. Thank you Kate for inviting us to share your world.

Kate, It's so very enjoyable to watch/listen your videos. It's like visiting a friend and having a chat. Thank you for sharing your life with us.

I love your videos! I couldn't wait to get home from work to watch this. I love Clara the hen also and the way she talks, so sweet, mild and contented. You should just let her roam with you when you are outside and put her in when you go in for the day. I had a duck once (he didn't know he was a duck...thought he was a dog or cat) that followed me all over the farm and quacked at me to give him worms. I really miss him. I love Norma also!

Plant a few of the strawberries around the outside edge of the chicken run, so some can grow through for them to eat, but they can't get to the main body of the plant to chomp through all of the main plant.

Margaret here, watching this from York, Pennsylvania. I just found myself offering you some plant labels …… too bad I’m too far away and about 4 years too late. Love your channel. I tell everyone about it. Hope you have a great garden in 2024.

“Hey guys (strawberry plants), the party’s over.” ROFLOL!!! 😂😂😂

Hi Kate, wonderful long video. It was nice to visit you and Clara and Eileen and Norma this afternoon. No need to go the gym for you when working so hard in the garden! Clara is clever and naughty indeed or she has Alzheimer😁 Perhaps you can hang the strawberry plants or put them on the steps of an old ladder? What a wonderful idea of the nwspaper pots, i have seen people use the inside of a toiletpaper roll but this is the same. Eileen attacked your friend but mayby she wants to protect you or she is jealous. I guess she needs a friend when swimming in the lake. She looks a bit lonely. I love the way you talk to everything that is near you , a seed, a person, the animals, your you tube friends. Thank you. Keep going Kate, take care.

Eileen does not sound happy about her confinement. She was simply being a good watch goose. Protecting you from all comers. Amazing how intimidating a goose can be isn't it? Your soil is so beautiful. I'm envious. I'm sure it's taken some years of effort to get it to this point. I'll bet you have no problem finding homes for those strawberry plants..... The garden centers/nurseries here sell bare root starts for $1.00 each! Clara is far too clever. You had best keep an eye on her or next thing you know she'll be heading up a full scale 'great escape' from the chicken yard. (At this point she's only doing recon.) xxx

Whenever I watch one of your videos I start scheming as to how I can worm my way into your daily life! You're my fantasy dream getaway. LOL

Ironing done thank you Kate for making this mundane job go so quickly whilst listening and watching you in the garden. Naughty naughty Clara!

Clara deserves the Houdini award. She is so cute. Has a mind of her own. Sure glad you got it straight with Norma about sniffing grass. Lol.

So glad I am not the only one talking to my plants! Lol.

I love that hen. Her and Norma are my kind of people. 😀🐱🐔

What a beautiful place you live Kate. The animals are lucky to live whit you. Enjoy every day off the garden and your animals and i hope we have a wonderful summer. 🐔😻🌱🌱🌞👍❤

Kate....you are a lucky duck (no pun intended...LOL!) to live in such a wonderful place.....I have learned so much for you and I am currently going through all of your videos. Thank you.

You have a Rocky! We had a Rocky too! He was big and furry and kind and beautiful.❤

Kate- My pincushion arrived yesterday. One week from Hexham to Texas. Great postal services. Thank you so much. It’s lovely! Sweet note too!

Lovely to see you working in the garden Kate, and seeing Eileen enjoying her swim. Clara made me laugh, very determined to get her own way! All animals have their own characters a bit like naughty children really! Blessings x

Our garden is up. The collard greens I pick every other day. Cucumbers, cabbage, okra, celery, corn, potatoes and one tomato plant. Put out elephant ears, iris, gladiolus, amyrillis, white and red, cactus, a new bird bath and lilies. Never thought I'd like lilies. Garlic and onions. Onions here are $1.88 a pound. Clara just wants to be held, cuddled and to sit with you. I need a chicken. Oh, we have a pecan, grapefruit and lemon tree. Norma, the grass nosed cat. I am keeping a garden schedule to know what grows and what doesn't. Do you use heirloom or organic seeds to harvest and replant? I didn't mention green beans. Gets too hot here for peas. Just buy a can. Good luck Kate. Texas USA.

I could eat out of the garden and never get tired of it.

I was always told that if you talk to your plants they will grow and be happy. Love your relaxing videos.

Can't wait to read the story of clever Clara and the strawberry patch. The cat that sniffs grass.

I know I'm late to watching your gardening video, but I have to say it was the most relaxing 34 minutes I've had in a very long time. You are probably aware of the way things are going in the good old US of A. Each day brings another reason to be anxious. I will watch every video of yours as I try to find a balance to the chaos. Thank you so very much.

I enjoyed our visit this morning. We have had too much rain, chilly temps, and cloudy days to be out in the garden. The ground is too cold yet for planting, and I am beginning to think it maybe Mid-June before we get the garden in! That just won’t do! A good solid week of sunshine would be wonderful...

Gardening has just starting here, spreading mulch, manure, and thinking about which plants needing division. A lot of gifted people in the UK, listening to a gardener from Ireland, John Lord very entertaining and knowledgeable about everything in the garden. I wish I had more land to plant, but then it’s more work. Raised bed are great, I have only one, so much easier on the back as you well know Thanks for sharing, love your videos ❤️👍

Hello, Kate a lovely video naughty Ileen she was protecting her mum, Clara is an adventurous one today, Rocky just want to hug him but he eats slowly so that is a sign he is fed well and trusts you, and wonderful to see the beautiful Norma, bless her, not forgetting you Kate, loved watching your gardening and no video is too long from you they are always so relaxing to watch and learn from, Thank you have a beautiful week x

Batty old girl talking to your strawberry plants🤣just adore you!

Hi Kate... you have a lovely garden. I’m envious of the space you’ve created for yourself. So green and peaceful, even with Clara being mischievous. I like your long videos. Always a nice escape for me from the day.

Love it when you talk to your strawberries!

Sweet Norma, kitty! Kate, Ienjoy watching you plant.I used to want to garden, but I found out, I don’t do it well,while working 12hr shifts at the hospital.

What a lovely productive day for you. I didn't know that strawberry planted needed to be 15 inches apart. I'll see how mine are doing this year. Only planted them last year. I don't have chickens that eat them, but the robins love them. I'll have to net them. Thanks for the gardening tips.

I did the same thing today, weeding underneath my fruit trees. Was able to pluck a ripe Persimmon before the squirrels beat me to it. It's 65 degrees cool tiis morning, Now I'm watching your inspiring video and relaxing before I start on my quilting.

Chicken and dumplings coming up..? Oh Clara, naughty Clara 😱

“Sorry guys the party’s over. You can still be friends.” LOL

Oh Kate..I wish I could be your volunteer. It looks so beautiful there right now. We have a bit of sun, but it's still too cool to do any planting. And an excess of strawberries??? Some lucky person will sure enjoy those. So elder weed is nettles, huh? I had to go into a plot of nettles to get a ball for my daughter. I was wearing shorts and my legs were stinging for hours. Never again. I don't have the production going on here like you do, but soon I'll have some fun out there. Such a healthy way of life. Have fun!!!

Well that was lovely! I don’t have a garden anymore, so I loved this. I do remember my worst invasive plants - buttercups and I warred every year. The same with morning glory that does the same thing as your ground elder; any tiny bit of root will sprout a new plant! I also made a huge mistake and actually planted Melissa in one of the beds, which the bees loved, but which is practically impossible to get rid of once it’s got it’s head. Oh, and celendine -another rampant grower, which I wouldn’t have minded but discovered that white flies just loved it! My Gordon Setter Felix and I used to fight over the raspberries, but other than that, he and my Irish Setter Gyp were very good in the garden. It is said that if you want to know where to put garden paths, just follow kids or dogs who will show you the best places, and they did. I spent many happy hours over the years in my garden, but I have the kind of mobility issues now that really preclude it - but they don’t stop me from enjoying someone else’s!! So thank you Kate.

Hi Kate., I adore sweatpeas I had them in my wedding bouquet and my cake was decorated with sweatpeas. Ok, you might say , how nice. Well, marriage a shambles but my love for the fragrant beauty continues. Also, I love your 'I'll be right back, getting some scissors ' music, made me do a salsa wiggle. Most enjoyable. Love from my neck of the woods to your. 💞

I think you need to write a story about Clara, next! 😂😂😂 I just dug up all my strawberry bed, and today I am putting some in pots too, I am starting a new bed in a different location, so getting that bed ready. Loved this garden video very much! Dale from Canada

I haven't been able to get much gardening done between snow storms and the dandelions have taken advantage. But I'll pull them all out of my garden and eat them in salad! That'll show them. Also, my lawn mower won't start, ah Spring. Lol

Even though this is a 4 year old video I enjoyed it. I’m surprised you say the zucchini is tricky to grow. Here in Oklahoma, USA, zucchini grows like yellow squash- there is so much friends and neighbors get so much they have to say “no more”!

I too, talk to my plants. Love your garden.

Hi Kate. Thanks for sharing your garden day with us. We are oming into our winter where e erything is blahhhhhh in Aussie. Enjoy you summer. Oh dear I love Norma. Splitting image of my parents cat. Xxx

I am grateful to see this video! I have watched several of your older videos and am intrigued by your crafts and your garden. I saw your patchwork curtains and am seriously thinking about making some. Please continue to make your videos. I enjoy your videos.

This is my first year really getting invested in seedlings that my sister is goign to establish in our family garden, and I've been known to talk at them as I put the tiny germinated seeds into plugs and plugs into pots with soil. My wyfe calls them my seed babies!

Can’t wait to see your sweet-peas ....they are my absolutely favourite flower...Hope they are the old fashioned perfumed verity. Norma loves being in shot eh ...Clara a bit of a adventurer. My daughter had a pet hen when she was little named Dora the Explorer...she followed my daughter around just like a puppy 🥰...and poor Eileen ..got put into time out 😂🤣 naughty girl . Love spending time with you Kate 😘

Enjoyed your video as always Kate.. I love to see how you garden. I am trying to do a small garden this year in raised beds and bins. I have never been successful with planting anything but I am determined this year that I will have some fresh veggies. I have Tomatoes, 3 different colors of bell peppers, cucumber (1 from a plant the other from seed) carrots, 3 different kinds of potatoes, sweet potatoes and radishes. I also planted some marigolds by the tomato plants...someone told me they were good for keeping the pests away. Happy gardening and have a Blessed day. Glad to see Norma is keeping her nose out of the grass....

Good to know that Rocky is around. Where did he winter? Lots of rain here. Haven't been able to get out and plant anything when I have free time.

Our strawberries are blooming quite well. Hubby has been planting our garden. Can't wait til veggies start coming in. I so enjoy your longer videos and seeing how quirky your animals are. Your place seems so relaxing. Have a wonderful day.

I have hens for the first time in my life at 70 yrs old . I recognize that every flock must have a Clara ! I’ve named her Clara! Thank you! ♥️🍓🍓🍓

Just found your channel thanks to Arne and Carlos. I could listen to you all day while I stitch. I could and I do ...

Hercules Candy mentioned you in their latest video Kate. Snack time with Kate Jackson. 😀

I love watching your daily life at your farm very very interesting 😊

Kate it must be candy making time again... Hercules misses you and called you out by name!. Now, I am going to see what you are up to on this video.

Thank you Kate! Watching you work is oddly relaxing!

Great idea, the paper pots. Thanks. My cat was watching Eileen so closely, haha. Such a nice garden, wish I could have one. But, I'm enjoying my cactus blooms, so pretty. I wish you could see them. Take care. :)

Rocky is beautiful. I don't think I've seen Rocky before. Yes, hens always find a way to get out. We had a couple escape artists when we had a farm. Love your tutorials. I always learn something new. I had never heard or seen pots made of newspaper before. Great idea.

What a beautiful day you had, love all the friends you have around you lots of fun 😊 ❤ your a good friend also, take care.

Rocky is a cutie!

I wonder how old Rocky is?....Great job planting the seeds, thanks, I am doing mine tomorrow, you give me so many ideas...Saw the splitting of the strawberries, mine have just taken over, must have at a guess, 60 or so plants, they are not very big, but are so close together no room to grow...I live in Michigan, the mitten state, at the top of the Thumb, very close to Lake Huron...Its been so cold, raining all the time, today the sun has come out-yeah!Thank You for all your help!! Just in time!!...Jan

Thoroughly enjoyed it Kate, please post more😳. Don't worry about planning late, I still haven't planted out the courgettes or cucumber as we are having very cold weather these days, I can see snow on top of the surrounding mountain from my kitchen window! February and March were very hot! Glad dear Norma is doing great😊💕

I’ve watched this so many times, but every time is a fresh view....you gotta love Clara 😂 soon be that time again Kate. Can’t wait to see what you’ll be planting out this year. Let’s hope for an amazing summer again 🌺

Go ahead and talk to your plants, Kate. I do it all the time and I think they respond. You should see my red hibiscus! LOL! So enjoy your videos on every topic.

My flowers haven't appeared above the ground yet but got a drink this morning..... can't wait....

Hi Kate, I plant some Strawberry along the gardenways. Sorry,my Englisch is not so good You make my day happy 😃🍀

I will have to rewatch this because I loved having a long video to listen to while I cut and sew masks. The birdsong, Eileen and your gardening natter were great to listen to but now I want to be sure to see the lovely footage that goes with it all. Thank you, Kate!

Ooh I loved the short blast of samba music! 💃🏽 🕺🏻

A weed is just a plant that you don't know all of its wonderful uses. Nettles and Plantain are awesome. I am watching you put them in a discard bin and wanting to snatch them and have a feast as well as dry some for later. Wanted to reach through the TV. I am casting the video. Of course this isn't live and I can't time travel. If only. My word, I need to move back into the countryside where they grow thick anytime you turn the soil. To me most plants other consider weeds, I harvest and use and am profoundly thankful for them. I consider them the first crop of the garden. Blessings they are for the most part, if you learn how to utilize their bounty. Some will always be weeds and need removed, but others may become nature's free gift for your table and medicine cabinet. They have mine. Currently I live in an apartment and no chance to garden. If I had better transportation I would apply for an allotment at the community garden. This town doesn't have much available space. Plots don't open up for use often.

Oh my goodness nettles and plantain.. all wonderful herbs.. plantain is good fo the lungs as a tea, good of stings and bites when you crush the leaves... and nettles are a blood cleanser and excellent for a manure tea for your garden.

Thank you Kate!! For sharing your wonderful life and days xxx I believe Eileen is your guardian goose/angle - I do enjoy all of your videos the longer the better!!! I always learn something important. Sincerely Your Friend Lynne

Hello! Do your chickens like the dandelions ? Mine are crazy for them! A bad weed becomes beneficial!!! Have a wonderful weekend! Thanks for making my day so much better!

Not long enough!! I just found your videos last week and am hooked! I have been binge watching to catch up. So glad you are having some lovely gardening weather. It is still horrible and cold here in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) and now we are having severe flooding. This is the first spring in 30 years that I have not had a garden to plant up and prepare so I am so glad to vicariously enjoy you in your lovely garden. Thank you for sharing your amazing life. Short of dealing with electrics is there anything that you cannot do?! Looking forward to your next video.

Hahahahaha that Cute Norma always shows up. She is a character. Lol. I must have missed something. I thought Eileen went somewhere else to live. Poor ferrel cat looks so tense. I feed two ferrels.

I love your videos. You're so pleasant, but not annoyingly happy like a cheerleader! Ha Ha. It's like having a nice after-noon visit with a neighbor.

Thank you for the lovely video. Hope the swim made Eileen s day better. I use toilet paper rolls for starting for starting seeds this year. Will see how it works. The weather is so fickle this spring. Moving from 19 degrees to 70 in one week! Anyway, lovely visit. Have a good weekend.

Ms. Kate you have Clara eating your produce, and I have a family of groundhogs.😬 I surrender🏳️

Thanks Kate for this vid really gave me hope that I will be able to get out and do more of my pots this week, today is chucking it down with rain and a frost is forcast for tonight so I will have to go out and put their little hats on (I have elasticated fleece boudoir caps used for therapy) so they are perfect for my pots to keep the frost off them for a couple of nights and then the forecast here in the West Midlands looks to be fine for the coming weeks YAY! I am on my second lot of cucumber seeds the first lot just didn't sprout. Hope yours do better than mine.

Would it be possible to sell the potted strawberry plants? Put them on top of your egg cabinet. Honor sale😃 I LOVE Clara. New story Kate. So good to see Rocky.

Wow you had a busy gardening day! Claire just wants to see what's cooking this year. She really is a neat chicken. I see someone got their swim after all, she looks so beautiful on the lake. Take a rest now, you sure deserve it and thanks for sharing your homestead.

Love so many of the things you do! Wish I could visit ! Love the animals, farm and quilts.

Oh Kate. What a treat! I’m watching this at the end of a very busy day...taking care of my lovely folks. This was wonderful. Clever Clara 😃 cheeky but who can blame her, she wanted to spend time with you 😁. It’s so lovely to see you in the garden 🌸🌷🐝🐔🐱 Thank you x

Hi Kate. I'm so enjoying you in your garden. My fingers itch to get started but I can't. I have to clean out my balcony since the owners of the apartment building decided that they are going to some maintenance on them, again. So no plants or fresh veggies or fruits from my balcony this year. 😕 I so looked forward trying to grow some jalapenos. But still I can watch you, and your animals. Just love Norma, taking her front row seat in front of the camera. 😂 Clara just knows where she can get the really good stuff, her snacks and dessert. Eileen being herself as always. And poor Rocky. He was glad you closed the window but the look on his face when he saw you outside said all. 😂 Oh and get yourself ready for a challenge Steve more or less set out for you. Making Snack Clubs. Craig already said "No pressure Kate". 😂 good luck with that one. 😉 💕xxxx oh a thought about the strawberries you don't have room for. Why not make hanging baskets with the strawberries. I remember Jamie Oliver doing something like that in his garden and he got lot's of fruits from them.

What a lovely video out in the garden. It's relaxing to watch especially in such a setting, ty!x

First garden video of the year. WooHoo!! It seems like you almost need a people garden and an animal garden at your place. 😆 I smiled when I heard your name on Hercule’s Chocolate’s video this morning. You’re so famous 😉

I'm a little sad that I can't get a garden in this year. We have had so much rain and strange weather that it has been impossible to get the ground tilled. I have decided that I am going to try and get a few tomato plants in and call it good.

Nice video Kate. Don't worry, you're not behind. It will all catch up. :-) Rocky! I was thinking about him just yesrterday. Bless him. He's so handsome!

Loved it Kate thanks,now to the strawberries! 👍Lizzie

I love Rocky :)

Love to was you do your shores and of course your sewing! I’m from the small Island of Puerto Rico!

Thanks for the idea about the paper pots. Needed something to start some seeds and you gave me the solution! TU.

sounds like Eileen has some jealousy issues :) I love my tomatoes diced with garlic,basil, balsamic vinegar & a drop of olive oil.The birds sound beautiful in the background...thanks for the gardening tips Kate

Your wee metal dish reminds me of old fashioned sick bowls! As a retired nurse it brought back memories!🤣

Love your video 🌸 BTW there is nothing wrong with talking to your plants 🌱

Love the time learning new things from you.