Allotment Diary : Quick Winter Harvest : Testing Manure for Herbicides

[@myrustygarden]

Wow Dan after the mouse issue with the carrot box those carrots 🥕 are fantastic. Great harvest Dan 👍👍. Have a great weekend stay warm, Ali 🌧️🌧️🇨🇦

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

I try and get my horse poop from the same place, but they may get their hay from a different supplier. It's a chance we have to take some times when we collect all year around. My carrots started to rot in February so this season I have insulated them with coco coir and covered in plastic to stop the rain getting to them and I am so glad that I did. ♻️Happy gardening, Terry King.

[@Allotment-diaryUk]

I always try to test my muck Terry. Better to be safe than sorry. Cheers Dan 😊

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@Allotment-diaryUk I collect the juices so will try some on my green manure beans as a comparison half and half.

[@grumpy_poo]

You're looking very smart there Dan. What a great harvest worth the visit.

[@Allotment-diaryUk]

Thank you kindly. Cheers Dan.

[@RawLondonGardener]

Got quite a good harvest fella especially in this cold! Keep up the good work!

[@MuddyBootz]

Lovely harvest there Dan, particularly like those turnips 👍🏻

[@Allotment-diaryUk]

Love the odd turnip. These are really sweet and about as hard to grow as a radish so anyone can grow em. Cheers Dan 😊

[@credenza1]

Few things are as pleasant as harvesting your own veg.

[@Allotment-diaryUk]

Couldn't agree more. Cheers Dan 😊

[@bristolveggiebeds5310]

I looks cold!..... but keeping busy keeps you warm

[@rachelhudson8362]

Good idea to test the manure. I'd been doing so well on my allotment and produce in abundance. The following year my tomato plants became narrow and Tisted, my brassica s were minute, everything was contaminated

[@scottharriswestwalesfishin639]

happy days

[@BillsCountrysideAdventures]

My carrots even though bit damaged are so sweet and big, will be doing it again next year. Nice little harvest, its horrid out there at the moment

[@Allotment-diaryUk]

It's the taste that matters. Cheers Dan 😊

[@BillsCountrysideAdventures]

@@Allotment-diaryUk Certainly right, I used mole seeds this time with coating, worked out really well

[@littlegardendiary8513]

Nice one Dan. Missed your updates mate. Nice little haul and what always gets me over the years is how some of the root veg are as tough as boots and hold up with the weather. Catch up soon and all the best mate to you and yours. Much love, Andy and Karen 👍😎

[@Allotment-diaryUk]

Not much going on so no updates really. Cheers Dan 😊

[@rachelhudson8362]

My runner beans grew to about 4 inches high when my soil was contaminated.

[@funnysods]

All the veg looks perfect. I grow Sweet Candle same as you, but the carrot fly got to them. I've no idea how as this was the first season. I'm covering them with enviromesh next year.

[@VanderlyndenJengold]

I use environmesh against the carrot and leek fly, no alternative really. Flyaway carrots may work but probably at the expense of that lovely carrot smell. Still, you have to make sure there's no holes in your mesh and it's secure or they'll get in as I found to my cost.

[@Allotment-diaryUk]

I'm lucky as far as carrot fly goes. Enviromesh should sort it though. Cheers Dan 😊

[@BillsCountrysideAdventures]

Dan looking good mate, well done on weight loss :)

[@Allotment-diaryUk]

Not lost any weight fella. Just had a hair cut and a shave for the first time in ages.

[@BillsCountrysideAdventures]

@@Allotment-diaryUk lol sorry mate, fresh look makes you look younger too :)

[@bewoodford2807]

fabulous carrots. Are they grown in pure sand? How do you feed them? Thank you. Beautiful crops. Fabulous. Happy gardening 😃

[@davedawson9851]

Eyup Dan. Tidy little rake of snap there as usual. Your 'lucky man in a high wind' carrot was particularly impressive. What happened to Q&A then? Do I sniff a sneaky test of a future treat? Enjoy yer dinner and I'll sithi after. Dave

[@Allotment-diaryUk]

Had some teething problems. Couldn't get my coal fired tablet going so had to abort. Sithi.

[@neilthomas6954]

Hi Dan, seems impossible to get hold of Blue Danube seed potatoes over in The Netherlands. Any chance you could ship us some? 😅

[@annecallaghan2862]

Hi I don't have much luck with carrots, do you have a video of the mixture you use and how you plant them?

[@AdeleHulme]

Great harvest. When did you sow your turnips? I have not managed to grow any for winter this year. Thanks

[@Allotment-diaryUk]

I sowed them after my peas finished so probably around early September. Cheers 😊

[@MrMush78]

Best off with Cow Manure tbh mate 👍

[@Allotment-diaryUk]

Same problem with cow muck marra. If they've been fed on silage or bedded down on straw both of which could have been sprayed with the same stuff you're still gonna be up sh&t creek. Cheers Dan 😊

[@funnysods]

Hello again Dan, just a quick question mate. Who do you get your Elista seeds from?. I've grown Zebrunne since I first saw them on your channel but last year was an absolute disaster with germination and growth, so this year I'm growing Elista.

[@VanderlyndenJengold]

I've grown turnips before yet didn't like them. Didn't put them in stews though, maybe I might find them OK then. I'm guessing home grown turnips are like anything else home grown - much tastier than those bought at a supermarket. Is this right? Before I grow new veg I usually try some from the supermarket, yet time has taught me the taste is pretty insipid with most store bought veg.

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