Random Stuff - Blue Sunflower RESULTS! Spicy Parcel, Garden Stuff, Portland Bill, Comment Positivity

If I lived next door to you, I'd be sneaking into you garden at night and pouring blue food colouring onto the roots of your sunflowers to help them along.

In the US a lot of native plants were labeled as weeds by wealthy landowners long ago and those names stuck. It's a huge problem for native ecosystems because even today gardening and "lawn care" services will actively work to kill off those native plants just because of that label. Milkweed is a good example. It's the only thing that monarch butterly larvae eat but it's treated as a pest plant because it was labeled a weed.

One of the blue sunflowers was mysteriously sabotaged.... Well friends, I think it's pretty clear that our friendly neighborhood shrimp is involved in a coverup. Why is he covering up the existence of blue sunflowers? Why doesn't he want us to have them? Does he want to keep them all to himself? Do blue sunflowers have magical healing properties? (I am of course joking)

"We dont stop playing because with grow older; we grow older because we stop playing."

You gotta get some security on those rare blue sunflowers.

Eva: "Bark Bark!" Shrimp: "Quiet." Eva: "bork..." 34:35

I totally agree with you about the whole 'Not acting your age' thing. There are people I see every day, who are, in years, not much older than me - I was sixty last birthday - but they are old. They think and act old, and don't seem to be enjoying life at all. I've never acted my age, ever, and I'm happy. Like you, little things, that might seem trivial, really make me feel good. The other day at work, a customer came in driving a 1947 Chevrolet pick-up. Battered and quite beautiful, I went and talked with the owner about it, and left happy. To most people, it was just a slightly rusty old truck, and they dismissed it. I didn't, and thought about it all day. If you think old, you're going to BE old. Tom Baker's fourth Doctor character once said: "What's the point in being grown-up, if you can't be childish sometimes?" (The Doctor was meant to have been about 750 at the time) And I concur wholly. Beautiful footage of Portland Bill - thanks for that - If you visit when the weather is a bit boisterous, it's a different place entirely. Fascinating and if I'm truthful, more than a bit frightening. I don't know if the M.O.D. still have a presence there; it's where their underwater weapons development site was - and, in the early 1960's, a hotbed of spy activity, known in the press as: 'The Portland Spy Ring'.

it's fun learning a bit about plant identification from your videos, just the other day I found myself looking at a plant thinking, "Ah, pinnate forms, carrot family"

I feel the sunflower pain, my second year growing sunflowers, a stunty little one in the corner of the garden shot up to about 8 feet, it's stem was about an inch and a half thick, it was absolutely HUGE. It was sheltered by high fences to the back and side, with a similar height conifer on one side, so well protected. But about a week or two after it grew over the fence, we had a gale and it snapped. I chopped it, hoping for it to try to bush out and give us a couple small heads but unfortunately that was it, it just stopped there. I'm still gutted and it's been nearly 2 years

46:20 "Every part of this plant is covered with ouch" very true and made me smile widely ♥

You know I haven't watched these random stuff videos often before - I clicked on this mostly for the blue sunflowers - but after this I think I will watch the future ones more often because this was quite nice.

My dad loved "new potatoes". He forbade any other cooking than boiled. Older, skin tougher potatoes were allowed to be mashed (the favorite of us children), or baked, or boiled, or scalloped, but don't do anything with his "new potatoes", served with "curds"/cottage cheese. Well, thank you for a fond memory of my dad! 😊

Have you ever tried growing your own mushrooms? There are several options, including kits, guides to clone fresh supermarket specimens etc. And since you have a bit of woodland near the garden, you could even try growing some interesting ones on actual logs. Thought it could be a cool little autumn project.

Never grow up - it's a trap! I love taking my young grandsons out and pointing weeds and insects out to them.. My 4 year old grandson took worms out of the soil in his school garden and put them in his tray - mum picked him up and teacher was horrified that she hadn't noticed worms, soil & plant matter! I was delighted!

As someone who stumbled upon your channel because of the scam baiting stuff (after discovering TheHoaxHotel and binging all his videos) I thought that was all I'd ever watch from you. Shortly after, your limited budget food challenges became my favourite. Now I'm sitting here, watching you read positive comments (with a slight buzz sponsored by Baileys), and all I can say is that I'm glad I found your channel. It's so wholesome and unique and a welcome distraction from the weird world we live in. I sincerely thank you for all that you do, Mike.

As a Dane. I'm grateful you phrased the noodle ban as adorable, and not pathetic.

Speaking of blue sunflowers, I recently came across a variety of paprika or bell pepper by the name of Tequila (not Tequila Sunrise) which looks photoshopped in real life. The outer skin is a brilliant royal purple not unlike a slightly brighter eggplant, with flesh the sickly pale green of lettuce hearts. It really is quite the looker.

I used to think this was a weird channel. Its about scams, gardening and cooking, but now theres a video about all three and I love it.

Dandelions are also edible. At least here we don’t shy away from them. The leaves are bitter, yes. But that can be mitigated with boiling water or just by picking them young. The roots (tea/coffee substitute) and flowers (syrup) can also be utilised in various ways.

So nice to see these videos. I've just become a dad for the first time and my wife and I loved visiting Dorset for days out throughout the different seasons. Having a newborn has put the kibosh on long drives for the next few months so seeing these videos is the next best thing.