What why😢

Are you gonna watch and film or help?

😂 nothing else to do today Anthony

I believe you will get a veritable onion forest!

I sow all the time as succession sowing. As they grow I tuck them in lots of spots. I left the papery stuff in an entire chive flower and they grew fine. Have a super new years guys, Ali ☔️🥶🇨🇦

Thank you for the reminder. I may have some shallot seeds to do this with.

Looking forward to seeing the results 👍

I always sow my onion seed March/April no need to sow Boxing Day, its a KZbin thing, have a great growing 2025, Steve

Nice, a new video, awesome, I have green onion seeds I want to plant, will use your method , cheers :)

Very informative!

Well done on an excellent harvest and hopefully you enjoyed eating your hard work. Happy New year to you and your family. ❄️Happy gardening, Terry King.

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas Rachel, Anthony and family, here’s to a super 2025 season, Ali 🎄🧑‍🎄🇨🇦

merry Christmas 🎅🎅🌱🌱

Happy Christmas to you both

Great video Rachel, it gets lonely in the UK as a canner !!! I have been using Kilners with the two piece lids but lug jars would be so much cheaper so I'm going to give that a go. Really helpful for a veg heavy base curry recipe too. Delighted to have found you!!

How do uou prepare your bed and fertiliser

Hi। i have biloxi blueberry plants that were developed originally by tissue culture. These are Hot climate blueberry plants. Can I use cuttings to propagate these? Or am I bound to learn tissue culture if i wish to have more plants?

Brilliant explanation, thank you!

I join the grateful voices that appreciate uk vids on this . Id love to know if your meals, soups ect are set canning recipes? Or your own ? Im super new to canning.. water and im frighteningly planning on preasure cooking canning 4 pint jars today. Yes i have seen a bunch on preasure canner info.. im at 240m .. so 10 is enough... after buying and returning many a cooker .. spoke to prestige and looked at electric ones and US importation costs that made my hair curl ... so i stead i have a preasure cooker that says its 11.5. Soooo im going yo try it . I cant currently see how a 400 dollar one at 11 or 15 is going to do anything more than this at 11.5. I am going for chicken .. for 75 minutes plus 5 minutes for "saftey" lol .. gee i hope it works .. im only half way into your vid so i look forward to finding out if you're using the preasure cot pro plus thing or the big boys or whatsever its called ... i looked at that but it said ot only does 84kpa so as we need 104 i gave up . I would love a decent canner and freeze-dryer but theyl have to go on the life long bucket list. Thanks for video. Im nervous can you tell .. lol i just want to start canning 😂

You need to put a weight on it so none of the fruit can rise and float

Hi, love love love your videos! can you please suggest the best fruit and veg to grow + harvest for each month. As a newbie gardener, Im not sure whats the best thing to grow and when in Manchester. Thank you in advance.

Hi, I’m in Manchester too. ❤

Great video great tips keep them coming

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I have that weed too and thought it looked sort of related to Geums but really have no idea, and it is annoying!

My friend Tracy at @OurSmallholdingAdventure has had trouble with bind weed this year.

The weed that you didn’t know the name of is called creeping buttercup it is so invasive, it has deep roots and sends out runners like strawberries and also self seeds it will take you a couple of years now to get rid of it but am sure you will. Good luck.

Is that weed creeping charlie? I hate the stuff 😢 and it's way to hard to get rid of. I planted 3 thornless blackberry bushes, so we will have to wait until next spring to see if they make it or not.

I want to grow large onions. Im enthused. Thanks for this

That is to many plants for the size of the container. You will still get a large yield but they will be small. I would not have more than 2 or 3 plants in there and the Yield will be almost the same but the tubers will be bigger.

Hi, can you explain the difference between hardwood and softwood for the beginners here😂

I did this with a Northland Blueberry plant and a Pink Lemonade. Except I did not use Rooting powder just used about a cup of water and stuck them in it until I seen the small fibrous roots.

Thank you for your very helpful videos. In Australia we have a problem with buying jars for canning. Learning about the Jars and bottle companies helped me find a couple of companies here. You have some very helpful ideas, this helps us learn new ways of doing things, eg. Mash potatoes prepared in the freezer and the frozen ready roast dinner frozen FABULOUS! Our son lives an hours journey away, we often get home 4pm from a day visiting him, a ready prepared dinner will be very helpful!

Hello friends how are you,

Can you show is how you prepare all these things from pick to pack to store please. I'm a show and do learner and can't figure it from a book.... I failed miserably. But I'm good at following along

And would be good to see how you rotate your produce

Would be good to see an update with what you do now and your journey

How big is your poly tunnel? Also, beautiful allotment, well done!

Those onions are brilliant

Hi Rachel, I didn't manage to make it to the allotment fete, I only live in Rowland Ave, but I had done my back in, I could hear the band playing and everything, but I couldn't have walked round the corner, so sorry I didn't get to meet you, I have got a tomato glut at the moment, I'm going to make chutney at weekend, I still can't walk too far but I'm getting there, the weather has been quite wet this year and it's been a job just keeping the weeds down, I've only done tomatoes and strawberries this year, I get the foxes too they have dug holes at the bottom of the garden, and they have taken one or two wood pigeons, but I have to say I do love them they are beautiful creatures, although the dog might disagree, love the vlogs xxx

Your plots look really productive 😊

Beautiful ❤

Your plots look amazing, so abundant. Please tell me your secret for the blueberries and how you get them to crop so much! Mine are in tubs, in a greenhouse, and although tasty, nowhere near as many berries as yours.

ok bare with me this ended up a bit longer than intended but wanted to share this…. As you mentioned you gain very little benefits from using compost until the plant is rooted , which you are better off having low nutrients so the roots will SEARCH and get out there and ready to explode with life once you water it with compost. If you wanna skip my longwinded rambles…. I suggest cocofibre with various ammounts of vermiculite/perlite and peat depending upon the moisture and drainage needs of specific plants for rooting. And use a willow extract if concerned about chemistry, you can make your OWN willow based tea but it needs to be used. One thing I do is I soak my cuttings IN a willow tea I made by BLENDING willow in a BLENDER, then using a french press to get a clean clear tea, this seems to work better than anything else. Also, be damn careful with concentrating seaweed based products, SADLY they can introduce all the micro nutrients you need yes, alongside giant ammounts of alllllll the heavy metals and depending upon your location many other pollutants. one alternative is stinging nettle as long as you are not smoking anything grown in silica enriched soil…. ☠☠☠☠ Im not sure blueberry needs as much as other faster plants like Tomatoes, strawberry, potatoes, pumpkins.. the soil where they grow is not so rich , it is quite low, hence why they have evolved to grow slower. Plants like Tomatoes are growing in busier places where the nutrient cycle is able to cycle faster and dump more nutes into the soil…. Near or in partnership with nitrogen fixing plants…. Imagine seeing a lupine and belladonna in the same place as a blueberry? Nope, you are more likely to see MUSHROOMS, moss, and tree droppings, which contributes to nice soil for tomatoes IF you add some chalk and organic material…. Regarding rooting hormone and nutrient concoctions Most governments allow companies to get away with fraudulent claims on gardening products much like they do with “health supplements” often worse. if it is missing the HORMONE from the ingredients it is NOT HORMONE and if they had some magic substance that doubles as a hormone and does the same thing then this discovery would be published and well documented , it is like using homeopathic remedies , they don’t do a single thing for you but cost the same or more than the things that are evidence based.

Question, do you top up the compost in your Charlotte container?

I'm looking forward to using your tips. My root starter came in the mail this week.

We put brass cup hooks into the sides of the raised beds, pointing downwards and then we just hooked the net onto the hooks. It worked for us even on pretty windy days.

Thank you for explaining this, I have cut mine back as there is still some new leaves growing, but it was not blight, so I’m lucky it was just natural die back. I’m going to leave mine now and see what happens.

Thank you for the information. I am going to do this today!

Love this Rachel! So encouraging to see this preserving set up in the UK. I'm Urmston born and raised (now in NWales) and I've a feeling I met you at an allotment open day yeaaaars ago when you enjoyed making blackcurrant Cassis for Christmas (was that you?) - we've not been able to find any blackcurrants at all this year but have planted almost 90 edible hedges in the garden so it will happen one year! Thanks for the inspo... Will follow with interest. Nic