Former superstar footballer David Beckham is in his gardening era and he isn’t here to mess around.
A few months after uploading his original garden tour at his sprawling Cotswolds estate, he has blessed the social media world with another. This time, he is giving us a glimpse into how he’s preparing his crops for the UK winter frost.
Beckham’s new garden tour starts with, of course, greeting his chickens. As one commenter adequately puts it, those chickens are the “only girls to run away from David Beckham.”
The chicken pen and his garden are bordered with a classic white picket fence. There are perfectly even rows of fruits and vegies and, in the background, a gorgeous glasshouse that we can only assume is home to more plants.
“Winter is coming! With the help of lovely Carly, who helps me with some of the vegies, we have mulched all the beds ready for the frost. We’ve actually done them with a mushroom mulch which we’ve had bags of. My back is in bits, but it looks good,” he says to the camera.
Watch David Beckham’s new garden tour:
“We have a few little leeks coming through there,” he says, showing the camera. “Some onions sprouting there, some red onions, and my favourite – a bit of garlic.”
He moves to his purple kale plant which has grown to significant heights.
“I’m quite impressed – the kale is still going strong and I’m very happy with it. The other thing I have to show you is this,” he slowly reveals a sweet potato to the camera. But it isn’t any ordinary sweet potato.
“This is my only sweet potato that came through and it’s… interesting. Look at that… really? This is my only sweet potato and it’s shaped like… that,” he laughs, holding a weird and oddly circular sweet potato to the camera.
In case you missed his previous garden tour where he displays a variety of his crops – keep reading. It’s what English cottage garden dreams are made of.
Watch David Beckham’s previous garden tour:
Once again, Beckham’s garden tour began in his chicken pen, where he is greeted by his clucking chickens and hens. “They’re all eating… Did he just say good morning? Very hungry this morning.”
He’s living out our fresh egg, farmer dreams (hey, blokes can be a trad wife, too) and he’s doing it right. Beckham then proceeds to show us the first part of his vegie patch: spring onions in a clean, bordered garden bed.
“Pretty impressive, look at this – our spring onions. The spring onions are going well,” he says.
Beckham previously shared a clip of harvesting spring onions for the first time when, out of nowhere, one of his chickens hilariously walked into the frame and started nipping at the garden bed as he harvested. We must admit, it was quite funny to see, especially when another one walked into shot and proceeded to eat his fresh harvest.
Watch the chicken takeover:
Next on his garden tour, we see Beckham’s plum trees.
“We’ve got all these amazing wildflowers that I’ve planted. More plum trees, more flowers that we [also] have in the house… a nice little cobweb,” he says.
In the caption of his garden tour reel, he adds, “@victoriabeckham you’re welcome [to] the flowers for the house.”
David Beckham planting wildflowers in the vegie patch for his wife, Victoria, is a literal couples goal.
Continuing with the garden tour, he proceeds to show off his impressively tall kale plants. “Tell you what I’m doing really well over here? Kale, look at that. Kale is doing very well. A bit of red cabbage. Red cabbage is doing great, not ready, but doing great and we have more cabbage. So, not bad.”
Kale has been growing in popularity over the years, and one of our top easy and healthy recipes is kale chips. But speaking of chips, Beckham’s seemingly favourite part of the garden (and ours) is the next section.
So. Many. Potatoes!
“We have a lot of potatoes and today I am going to make some crisps because I’m a savoury person, not sweet. So here we have potatoes… potatoes… potatoes… and more room for potatoes. So I think we have a few potatoes,” he laughs.
Like Beckham, Aussies love carb-y delicious potatoes. Hot chips, normal chips (crisps), baked, mashed, roasted, on a pie, and always with tomato sauce (controversial). They’re versatile, always yummy and we’re craving potato recipes just thinking about it. So we understand why he’s got an entire section of his vegie patch dedicated to growing potatoes.
But despite the former footballer admitting he doesn’t have much of a sweet tooth, there’s still a generous section filled with berry plants.
“This is something that we’re working on. This is the berry area, and, as you can see sage and olive, over there are trying to get in. Trying to get into my chicken and hen,” he laughs, pointing at an olive and sage tree still waiting to be potted.
That brings his epic garden tour to an end, but our keen eyes noticed a gorgeous glass greenhouse beside the fence. To our disappointment, he hasn’t revealed what’s inside… yet. There’s still hope.
“I can hear my East End mates going, ‘He has changed’… My content used to be motorbikes and camping, now it’s kale, honey and flowers for the house. Might have to get back on the road soon,” he writes in his caption.
Beckham has had several passions, from football to outdoor adventures and now gardening.
While his garden is grand and likely expensive, it doesn’t need to cost a lot of money to create a beautiful vegie patch in your own backyard.
From creating a vegie patch in 15 minutes to building the ultimate vegie garden, we have all the information to help.
