Hope you enjoy a fun and restful Christmas and New Year break, and just throw up a video whenever you feel like it! I will be taking my foot of the pedal at the plot over these next couple of months of extreme cold, as will most UK gardeners I imagine. I've got some big plans for my plot next year though, and I'm looking forward to watching how you get on with your big plans too!

Hey Jim. Enjoy your break. I think you're great and what youre doing at your plot is fascinating. Will look forward to the up dates when you can, no pressure at all though.

Ime 58 , i love my gardening, just collecting leaves at the moment for the compost pile/ leaf mould,having a break for two month from early December to early February,we all need a break no shame in that my friend

Hope your feeling better soon, you need a rest and time with your family. Looking forward to any videos you make but don’t do too much. Like you I have taken on a second allotment recently and have lots of ideas but after recent emergency surgery and the terrible UK weather things will take time. Gardening is not a race it’s a wonderful journey 😁🌺🌸

Hi Jim, 1st time I've posted (sorry). I enjoy your content and think it caters for all. Carry on what you are doing you should be proud of what you produce. Enjoy your break.

James you deserve a break, you have a great channel, Your always honest about everything, all your subscribers will understand you taking a winter break, and we all look forward to your next video. the raised beds look fab.they make gardening a lot easier, I have 5 smaller raised beds that are hugelkulture but filled them with fallen branches from my local wood, the mycelium is all over the beds, nice healthy beds, another great video James take care and look forward to your next video, Steve

Jim, I love your videos and your natural style - talking to us as if we're just next to you having a natter. So excited to see what you do with your plots but in the meantime it makes sense to slow things down and spend more time with your family during the dark winter days. Don't forget to video your construction projects as they're useful. Please don't edit as I for one prefer to see your true self. Take care of yourself Jim and hope you get rid of that cold soon

great videO. Sometimes it's time to rake stock of our lives and assess our gealth and what is important. I think you are very wise to make the decision to step down a bit- as you say - a perfect time to do so, and get ready and refreshed for the new growing season. Happy growing 🙂

Love the videos, have a break you deserve it. I always seem to be behind with the allotment while working a full time job 👍

Looking forward to next season. I'll join again.

Hiya Jim. You do deserve a well earned rest. You’ve have a busy year and now is the perfect time to take your foot off the KZbin pedal a little. Take care. Mags.

Give yourself a break. Short 4 or 5 minute videos are fine.

Take care. Enjoy some downtime. Get well. Look forward to seeing videos whenever you can put them out. 💚😊

Rest up, recharge your personal energy and come back refreshed

Also you dont need to edit ghe videos, I would watch your videos anyway even if you messed up , honestly! The more natural the better!

Cant wait to see you sort the strawberries out as i have just bought s fruit cage and want to have it just for my strawberries , and want to absolutely fill it as much as possible so any good ideas, maybe vertical gsrdening ideas, but any tips to get as many strawberry plants in as possible would be great !

I was gonna try to start at an allotment but watching your return from Scottish Holiday vid l thought maybe be more realistic and plant in buckets.

I think we're all feeling a bit burnt out! I don't blame you!

Don't apologise for being your own true self. That's why we follow you, because you're exactly the opposite of the perfect slick "presenters" that are clearly in it for the money & we can't identify with. Have a great break & thank you ❤

Time to chill Jim , enjoy time with your family and catch up when your ready mate 👍

Bless you you do sound a little ill. I am the same and I am slow on doing my beds but it's headphones on and chill 😅

Just do what you want to do, it’s your life and only you know how best to look after yourself. Did you manage to get hold of some Ailsae onion seed for the growing challenge? Be great to have you join in with that, it’s a great fun and a stress free community of people just growing. 🧅👍 Take care, Pete.

Big blue ball of healing energy sent your way i dont edit that's my style im thinking of a visit cause carnt work out live email me happy gardening Richardx

My garden some years freezes, when it doesn't have a list of jobs to do to improve, replacing bed sides, have jobs to do when it does freeze especially sorting the shed out ha ha!!! I follow a few gardeners who never edit.

It's amazing to see how your channel has grown! I remember when you were just trying to reach 1000 subs. 🥰 I found your channel a few years ago because of your video on tomato blight! (I've researched in books and watched lots of YT on blight, but your video is still the best info I've found on the subject. Might be worth a revisit in spring now that you have so many subscribers!) 😂. And I absolutely 100% agree... take some down time! Take all the down time you can, when you can. Your batteries will be fully recharged next year 👍❤👍

Take some time off Jim .Its been a hard year for a lot of people . Your audience will still be here come spring 🙂

Enjoy some downtime 😊

You sound full of it 😂😂 a cold 🤧 🤒 I mean. Fun to watch you no matter what James because we are interested in you and the channel too. I think your doing awesome your real and down to earth. Yes I’m always in awe of people like yourself who shuffle and jiggle so much. Don’t ever change and take a break as needed we will be here when your ready. Have a great weekend look after yourself, Ali 🌧️🥶🇨🇦

Hi Jim I always enjoy your videos, so will wait for your next upload . Winter is a good time to take a step back and take stock

HI James, looking forward to see how you get on with the raised beds next year, After the trouble with the horse manure you had this year i thought you were not going to use it again.

I really enjoy your channel James and appreciate the effort you put in to your videos. I have wondered how a younger guy with a family and a job manages it all. Your work ethic is obviously phenomenal. Stepping back a little for the winter is a great idea. Go hibernate, you like your garden, need a rest.

Jim, you don't need to edit! We follow you because you are true and honest.

Enjoy taking a bit of down time! Looking forward to what you get up to next year.

Very useful video. Thanks Jim ❤

Can you sow supermarket garlic cloves, or is it best to get from a nursury? I read in a book you can just break apart a supermarket garlic bulb and pop them in the ground, but that book was from the 1970s and I wondered if modern commercial varieties are cultivated to not do this.

I like to use up old/going out of date seeds, especially brassicas, as microgreens instead of throwing them out! 😊

Be safe with recycled cardboard, not all cardboard is healthy, some have heavy metal contamination from prior inkts (for instance, cardboard boxes that come from chinese producers)

Sorry to say but black plastic = slugs they love it

Curious about the micro greens. November seems an odd month under grow lights as I grow them with trays on top to aid germination for at least 4/5 days then the last 2 days in the light to make them go green. I grow them in coco coir,misting them from the top & then bottom feeding to prevent them dampening off. Be interesting to see what you do.

Jim just an idea...why don't you put the white cover over to see if it fits & if it does then remove the green cover

Physalis do seem to ripen up when left on a window for a couple of days, I found the same as your experience with there being lots of lanterns but the majority still green even when they'd fallen off naturally. That being said even when they do 'ripen' by the window they are not particularly vibrant orange, more of an off orange colour and will split when ready. As for sweet potatoes I have also had brilliant success with two Japanese varieties call Murasaki and Sakura which both prefer a cooler climate (South England). Started the slips in February and planted out in may I think it was. I had also (probably quite importantly) grew them up a structure using string to twist around the vines like you would a tomato in a polytunnel which was a lot of work but seems to have paid off and would recommend giving them a try.

Did you build your raised beds from scratch or buy them ready-made? Great tip putting the membrane under the wood at the bottom 😊

Love your enthusiasm Jim

I love the butternut I was so excited to have a tone but it didn't work out. I still have a load! 😅 I want them for weaning the baby! I only did 2 plants and we got some massive ones but then it's a cold year!

Hiya Jim. Plots are looking fab. Loads of potential for the coming years. All the best. Mags.

What great work, everything on your plot is looking really great. Yes roll on spring 😊

My sweet potatoes were like yours I took them home washed them and cut them finely and put them in a stew Lovely addition.

Well that's pretty much the end of harvests for this year - certainly will be when the frost comes next week, as I'm still harvesting a few tomatoes, peppers & aubergines. Last beans are drying on their vines in the polytunnel & winter salads are producing. Outside, I'm down to beetroot, leeks, brussels sprouts & a couple of late cabbage. Oh well, at least I've had time to build my new woodworking bench & a make four panel, glazed screen to divide the kitchen from the living room over the breakfast bar/counter top. Worked out I made 3.5m³ of 'finished' compost this year, which is a little over the minimum I need for 75m² of beds, including greenhouse & polytunnel, plus the 450 litres I need for my 50/50 mix in my potato tubs. I'm about ready to enter hibernation...