@alinafrost7796
When you take the plants out don’t put them straight back in, put them in pots and then keep them in quarantine for 4 weeks or so to see if any more knotweed appears in the pots. When you know they are clean replant them. It might be time consuming but at least you know what goes back in will be clean. The same really applies to the bed when you take out the soil - leave for 4 weeks to check there is no more growth, before adding clean soil.
@cmcc8836
Anna is so lucky to have such a kind, loving mother and father 💕Anna is such a sweetheart 💕
@carolfaberpeake857
The rendering color brings the bricks alive and looks gorgeous!!! 🎉❤
@valindakimmel4552
Your channel is one of my favorites and I’ve been watching for years! It’s so fun to see Anna’s parents, hear them interact, see their clever ideas as they help and know how much you love it when they visit. They are precious hard working folks!!
@dianawilliams8801
Your parents continue to be legends Anna!
@joannetutor4051
Such skilled craftsmen on that facade! It looks beautiful. Can’t wait to see what Benoit comes up with. Love seeing the parents. Such great helpers. ❤
@irishdancer2753
Anna and Phillip, First, thoroughly enjoy your parent’s visit!!!! Second, your father/mother and your work Anna, on the garden bed, superb! Third, Phillip, your Mom did a great job keeping the garden alive! Yay! And fourth, Benoit, you are a hoot! Love your video, and thank you again!
@savedfaves
Ziggy always puts a smile on my face. Call his name through the screen, lol
@jokgoo
You might want to check out the law in France for Japanese Knotweed, there are very strict rules in the UK for its disposal and it also decreases a properties value. You are asked if you have Japanese Knotweed on the legal paperwork when you sell a house
@JuSutton
Please, please get Benoit to make new arched windows & doors for the whole coach house, the building is so beautiful and it would be such a shame to brick up or block off any of the windows/natural light. Perhaps forgo your sauna installation for a year. Your very lucky that both sets of parents are fit and well to come and help at the chateau - they are amazing.
@lauralahaye1019
I would never have thought to evaluate soil when transferring it to another place. This was a learning moment for everyone. Love what y’all did in the kitchen garden to protect plants. Hang in there and carry on. It will be beautiful. Love from Louisiana.
@jessicad83
0:56 they must be excellent at icing a cake 🙌🏻
@amychen2504
I do appreciate that this is not being presented as only Phillip and Anna's work. Having this much help seems really out of reach but it's honest!
@CatherineJohnson-n7o
Phillipe - we've all been there with the knotweed. Thank goodness you had the ability to fix it fast. Thank goodness someone spoke up about the impracticality of a full glass door. Just do the front windows now and in a few years, do the rear windows. I suggested a few months ago for you to save money by buying a pre-fab sauna (kit) and putting it in the area behind the coachhouse (now bushes). Plant new bushes but keep it hidden. I think you'll save money and energy by doing this. Keep up the good work.
@kristinamariaarts
Hi Anna & Philip, I have a tip for the raised beds. As Philip likes plumbing and DIY this ones for him 😄 make a rectangle lid frame as big as the bed in 2 x 1" and attach hinges to the lid frame and also attach the hinges to the bed, add brackets to the frame like the ones used on the metal bed frame. Here's where the plumbing comes into it 😉 get some blue water pipe and cut it into lengths that are long enough to reach from one side of the bed to the other in an Arch, just as you've done with the sticks. Slot the blue pipes into the brackets that are fixed to lid frame. Cover the arched frame with the netting and staple the netting to the lid frame. You now have a lid frame that you can open like a large chest suitcase. You don't have to keep moving things away to get to the strawberries. This Will last longer and more sturdy too. You did say you have to do things twice 😅 only this one will last much longer.
@karinbinnie1862
To keep the birds away from our strawberries we bought a plastic snake at a toy store and it worked. While we were on vacation the neighbor who was keeping an eye on our house came over at dusk, saw the snake which looked like a western diamondback rattlesnake, and nearly had a heart attack. He killed the snake with a shovel. Back to the toy store.
@ΟΛΓΑΙΩΑΝΝΙΔΟΥ-χ8ν
what a delight to see things going on and getting better preserving its character bravo to the whole family
@alisonsmee7076
It's all looking fabulous, this renovation seems to be moving along quite quickly ❤
@poppyhh2695
Your parents enrich your lives so much. They are an example to me of how to be the perfect grandparents and parents of adult children. Lovely! The beautiful rendering on the coachhouse is amazing to see! I love my garden and have only deer and clay soil here in Virginia in the US to thwart me at every turn. Have never heard of Japanese knotweed!! My heart went out to you in the face of having to redo the garden after using the contaminated soil. Did you buy soil for the new beds? Thank you for this wonderful vlog episode!
@adeo2673