Ep131 - Autumn Excitement! And planning for Next Year || Plot 37

[@Paula_T]

If the figs are big enough you can dip a round toothpick in extra virgin olive oil, and touch the eye of the figs with a drop. The fig will ripen in just a few days. Best while still warm outside but worth a try.

[@bevbennett5961]

Always so excited at the beginning of the season but so unorganised. A copy of your spreadsheet would be so helpful. Love watching your videos.

[@cherylprice1790]

Fab idea. I'm normally frightened by spreadsheets but a tutorial on this would be fab.

[@susiespearing6165]

Jessie please please pull out that red oxalis with the tiny yellow flowers on in the beetroot segment of the video .The seeds fly up to 40 ft and you will never ever get rid of it .A small patch has colonised nearly every veg bed I have despite constant weeding.

[@peacefulgarden]

FYI I've grown Sugarbaby watermelons. They are absolutely delicious. Extremely sweet, tiny seeds, thin skin. Mine were teeny tiny but no matter, that watermelon crispy sweet flesh was bang on. I made little hammocks fir the melons and grew the vine upwards, worked a charm. Good luck!

[@mandytaylor1008]

You need to take all those figs off in autumn so the new little ones can come that will be your harvest next year. We always have hundreds we take off every year but we have had a good harvest this year.

[@phirst55]

Jessie,, you could collect all those leaves you were walking through at the start of this video and make leafmold to improve your very sandy soil,, a great plot tour with loads of jobs still to do,,,

[@lynnrushton7458]

Impressive spreadsheet Jessie! 👌 I’m a total technophobe so would love you to share yours lol 🙈😂 Glad flo is happier now bless her Cheers 🥂 x

[@robinmiller1783]

Beets make fabulous soup..borscht. Delicious and warming for winter. It freezes fabulously. I have done sugar babies for 2 years now...yummy. Don’t forget weekly feeds high in nitrogen and regular watering. Grow some micro greens with all those extra lettuce seeds! Because I am covered in snow all winter in Chicagoland, micro greens are my growing fix.

[@mudoh2131]

ab Jessie. I am a little out of sync - work keeps getting in the way! I would love a tutorial re google sheets. Your way of organising made perfect sense to me. I love planning.

[@ceedee2570]

Oh and yes, one woman does need that many lettuce seeds

[@madhatter61]

Ah the green zebra, made famous by Pie in the Sky Squashed Tomatoes. I've not had much success this year.

[@deniseavis8293]

With the beetroot I cook peal and slice mine and then freeze in small portions. I also peal and cube raw beetroot to mix with other veg or fruit for smoothies which I was told help with carpel tunnel

[@DownloadWoodworkingPlans]

"A carpenter is known by his chips.."

[@mandytaylor1008]

You are young and very studious Jess spreadsheets are very much you. I too old my office work is over done that for years. Thinking of you cos of mills I so sad for you and it’s a big miss for you a big hug for you my darling xxxx💜

[@madhatter61]

You've got chain saws, I've got constant strimming here.

[@myrustygarden]

You need a brassica cage the size of the fruit cage 😂😂. I am still harvesting purple queen french beans 🫘 but then it’s still mid 20’s here 🤷‍♀️. Looking lovely and great flowers I am loving zinnias and they are apparently loving this heat. Have a fantastic week ladies be safe

[@lindaalbano6868]

You can pull your beet root and give it to a food bank.

[@jamiemittermuller6470]

The spreadsheet looks and sounds amazing. I use a dairy and put smiley or sad faces to indicate if it was a success or not, then when I get my new diary at Christmas I copy across sowing dates along with any updates. October probably my busiest month in the garden, just the huge amount of tidying up to do. I have got some planting to do next week. Preparing my forced bulbs for Christmas

[@abigailellenmartins4849]

Would love you to share that spreadsheet! 🧡 I keep meaning to make one but I just never have the time so I write it on paper and by march it's buried in the soil somewhere!

[@suejames6808]

Really enjoyed the autumn tour of the plot….successes and ‘not so much!!’…love the variety you pack into the space…Lots of ‘envy’ going on this end 😵‍💫😵‍💫…(in a good way 😃😵‍💫)…The way you treat the plants and flowers like loveable little personalities, is great 👍👍….though the list of things to do was getting a bit frightening 😱…I agree about the runner bean flowers…got to be the bright and cheerful orange/red ones !!!!….Glad the two girlies are adjusting to being just a twosome now…still strange though 🙏😢..my tomatoes and beans are over completely…and winter ‘stuff’ in their place…And the Christmas ‘Spuds’ are doing well in those potato bags…so far 🤞🤞…we shall see, later!!…Do you eat the nasturtium leaves in salads’.. I know you can eat the flowers…I love them, they grow themselves with no effort…Tell ‘Mom’ from me… that my watercress growing was very successful… she could grow some at home in your house garden… which she would love… and not difficult really 😃👌👌….Very impressed with the spreadsheet , Jessie, but my IT skills and interest is negligible…Don’t grow vast amounts…and keep plans in my head mostly… and then ‘wing’ it !!!🤣…have really enjoyed getting back into growing stuff again… 🥂🍾…..cheers to you for the inspiration…again Jessie and ‘Mom’ …Sue (Birmingham) 🐓🐓🍎🍐🥬🥦🥕🫑..(yum!)

[@mandytaylor1008]

We grow red rum for long green beans and they have red flowers scarlet emperor didn’t do as well as red rum. And we love trombocinos they are the best.👍

[@davidwateridge2447]

Jessie, would love a template of your spreadsheet and to be greedy a blog on how to use it properly 😅

[@julieonallotment1374]

So lovely to see how your plot works. I'm still struggling with layout to make things easier for me and my ailments so just keep telling himself ... "it's a work in progress" bless him, he does try to help. I'm going to have to find some of those arch's as I think they would really be useful and as for your planner - fab-u-lous - thanks for sharing , Julie

[@janenewley1014]

I store beetroot in sand in boxes overwinter…some have gone to seed so are woody/stringy….so I ration those and give them to the Guinea pigs….much enjoyed by them😋

[@ceedee2570]

Nice to see you in better spirits. I like your organization. My guess is that some will want a demo/tutorial and others will want the document. (nice system, I should get organized too)

[@michaelpollard9450]

All that salad seeds. Maybe your Super Model mode kicked in

[@sawcat6]

I would love just a blank of it. Could I suggest, you offer the blank for everyone, but if you feel the need to write out the instructions for building a new one or modifying it, you could offer that to patreons, due to the extra effort?

[@jacquiwateridge5535]

I would love to have your spreadsheet. I would also like to be able to learn how to make one to. Love your Vlog

[@juliaodonnell5941]

I’ve never used a spreadsheet before so I love this idea! The Google spreadsheets app has been downloaded! 😊

[@monicapmsantos]

I would love the possibility to have that spreadsheet, thank you so much for sharing this with us. Love your videos, thank you for doing this. Love to you and your sweet mother!!😘

[@mattilett1444]

Jessie, your channel is a calm oasis. My courgettes went the same way, they were late to start then all over when it started to rain. Such a strange summer this year. They had very short cropping season (6-8 weeks?) but what grew was delicious! Grisette, Petty Pan and Yellow Scallop. Testing winter lettuce and cabbage (and rainbow chard) in the polytunnel this winter in Bristol, UK. Cheers to you, the family and for little Mills.

[@valeriepritchard677]

Beetroot is easy to pickle which would use it before it goes woody. If you like pickled beetroot of course!

[@she_sows_she_grows]

Check you out with the spread sheet!! What cleverness! Very interesting to see all your varieties too! Gutted for you losing Millie. It’s so hard. We lost our Poppy Pekin last spring and she was only 11 months. Who knows why?! It’s so hard. At least you can be safe in the knowledge that Millie lived in a chickens paradise, living her best life everyday. Our girls have just gone back into flockdown again here in Suffolk! Gutted. Local News was reporting with a focus/point of view for the welfare of the chickens during flockdown which was very interesting! Still sometimes you’ve got to focus on the best bits and you’ve done that really well in your vlog this week. Love the tour! Nothing better than a nosy around someone else’s garden 🙌☺️

[@lilal3753]

Millie was so lucky to be loved by you! I'm sorry for your pain. She would want you to be happy. Hugs!

[@davidredgate1801]

Excellent video as usual, Congratulations, Looking forward to lots more of the same. Would prefer the spread sheet to be downloadable, it would be much easier for us oldies to have a copy instead of a tutorial. Much obliged. Dave. I'm 74.

[@georgemartin9618]

Kerrs Pink is a flavoursome potato but not a big cropper at the best of times, also very susceptible to blight. My suggestion for you Jessie is Sarpo Axona or Sarpo Miro two modern red varieties, they're very blight resistant and heavy croppers. Axona is the best taste but the Miro isn't bad . They store extremely well too compared to the Pinks . Have you considered sowing all that lettuce together and getting a few rabbits to keep it under control . Excellent video as always.

[@jasminemarshall7495]

Sorry to hear about your little pal. I had to smile because I too have masses of packets but this year didn't go to plan and since my hubby's mini stroke we have had to re hash our half allotment. Still have lots of lovely heritage tomatoes to harvest. I would love any help with your spreadsheet. All the best to your mum. Jasmine

[@mandytaylor1008]

I never plan it’s always in my head. I stand and look around the plot and I say I think I will grow onions there garlic here…… etc etc and I clear spaces and plant this and that in spaces I find. We have no sides on our beds but we do have little woodchip paths mingling here and there. But you have beds very organised. We do have beds on the new strip but no sides. Do you watch Steve’s seaside allotment? He has lots of spreadsheets and charts he is so organised. You will have mum to help now as she couldn’t much this last year could she. So cheers for the new growing year🥂

[@madhatter61]

Strawberries are flowering and fruiting again on mine and next doors

[@robertbeaston5042]

Hit me up if you want some chilli seeds! How about Aji Strawberry Drop to go with your Lemon and Pineapple? I also have seeds for Ciliegia, Aji Mango, Aji Rojo, and seeing as though you're growing Sugar Baby melon, I have lots of spare seeds for Sugar Baby "Matisse".

[@matthewgordon-clark2392]

gone to pot - boom boom. She is here all week folks!

[@icaniwillgrow]

Great video, as ever. Spreadsheet blank would be absolutely wonderful

[@mandytaylor1008]

Oh my gosh all that salad seed😮

[@havenpatorland]

Make green tomato salsa. Tastes way better than the chutney 😁😁😁😁

[@GardenofEmma]

Hi Jessie. I planted my Pak Choi close too so I think I’m going to pick too. Plot is looking fab for the time of year. Shame about the fig tree. I’m sure the redcurrents will come back. Have a great week

[@TraceyTwilightteaserDowell]

Jess, a tutorial would be great. I seriously have no clue so would help a great deal

[@bevbennett5961]

Tutorial would be very helpful ❤

[@lisa-lou57]

I think you need a seed intervention 😂😂

[@mollvandiepenbrugge9817]

Gosh, hugh plot doing really well! Good l9ng vlog, thank you

[@Katydidit]

A tutorial would be fabulous! I am over across the pond in the southern region of the U.S. So that would allow me to truly make many adjustments. Love the opportunity for a lesson as always! Adore seeing all the differences in our climate and seasons. So sorry for your dear sweet chicken loss. They do be come like family over time.

[@Fortheloveof.gardening]

I chopped chicory down to the ground like you do with rocket (it was too dry to dig the roots out) to my surprise it sprouted lovely young leaves..spreadsheet would be great

[@lisa-lou57]

Oh I love your spreadsheet! A tutorial would be fantastic

[@carlsmith7240]

Evening Jessie, two things, firstly, your tomato list is missing Black Cherry, i suggested them last year to you, prolific and gorgeous, secondly "The type of girl who needs 9 varieties of Chickory"....one that wears lime green woolly hat indoors...that's who 😄😄, great vlog as per. Cheers

[@jennyjohnson9012]

Oh Jessie I'm the same, duplicate seed packets everywhere. Have to sort out 8 seed tins that are rammed lol. Your allotment looks amazing. My viburnam plant is in flower, supposed to flower in mid winter. What's going on with these plants!! I love a spreadsheet and found it really helpful. My garlic bulbs arrived today, so putting them out this week. I'm cheersing you with a gin and tonic. Cheersing...is that a word? Have a great week 🍅🫑🥒🥬🥦

[@paulinemcleggan7585]

I’ve tried to make my own spreadsheet using Excel. I cant seem to work out how to do the tick boxes and the split cells for the months of the year. Other than that its almost there. Thanks so much for your videos Jessie. You are an inspiration for a 63 year old xx

[@blackcatwebdesign]

I’d love a download of that spreadsheet! Fantastic idea!

[@marcknight4568]

Pretty sure you'd need josta berry plants there

[@2smallplots]

It's all just gone to pot ! 🤣

[@SouthernYankee]

I would love a blank spreadsheet so I can add in my seeds. Great idea. I don’t know how to make excel spreadsheets but I know how to use them.

[@mandytaylor1008]

I took your advice last year and grew Socrates we had a few but not as prolific as marketmore. We grew telegraph in poly but they started off being very bitter then settled down. Once we had first cu we have had them continuously and still eating them so very successful

[@bs5218]

Ooh I would love a tutorial that would be fab Jesse 😀

[@vivsalittlebitcrafty4854]

Millie's forever in your garden, and we buried Tangle beneath a new Rowan tree...which will now be known as a 'Tangle Tree'😄 As for green tomato chutney, I made a dozen jars of the stuff yesterday🤭This has been my very first year of growing veggies and I reckon I got lucky with the weather because we've had so many beautiful tomatoes, cherry, plum and a 'black' one (name escapes me) cucumbers were so-so, kale has been fab, courgettes have been brilliant too, must grow more next year, didn't plant enough this year, peppers were a success, broad beans were ok-ish, but they're a right faff and for the amount of tlc I gave them, by the time I'd prepared them, well, let's just say the return wasn't great, but at least the black fly attracted the ladybirds. Flat leaf parsley was super-duper...just ask the rabbit!!🤣elephant garlic was a revelation, loved it...onions got white rot, green beans would have been great but for the fact that I planted them in such a way that I could see the beans but couldn't flippin' get to them without destroying many of the plants, don't ask!!😂Rhubarb omg it's my new best friend lol and the fruit trees excelled themselves unlike the raspberries(but we won't mention them). All in all, I don't think I did too badly for my first attempt...no-one told me that I'd have to do it all again next year though!!😝

[@sans0m]

Ha love your spreadsheet like the sub category n description idea, I always do my sowing list but it goes mad by March, I have my seeds grouped by flower n veg by month so I can grab the months drawer and be there or there abouts depending on the weather. I also use Visio for my planting plan so I remember what has been planted where. I also have a seed bought and use by column too

[@andrewlee5237]

Thank you for your continued wonderful videos. I hope you had a good break and you feel refreshed and recharged again 🌟👍🤩😁

[@madhatter61]

All my apples were stolen. I took one to see if they were ready and went back the next day and they were gone

[@andrewwilkinson3766]

Cheers Jessie.

[@jitkareid744]

I would kill for that spreadsheet, I would be up for both options, if you can share yours and also show us how to do it :-D Thank you for your videos - great great great.

[@janenewley1014]

I would also love the basic spreadsheet please…currently use back of a LARGE envelope every year😀😱

[@living_my_allotment_life]

a tutorial on how to make one would be great - if i just have that one ill have no idea how to alter it and add collumns etc if i want to as time goes on! haha.

[@thelandofmint]

If only I can share a photo of my monstrous tromboncino! Its nearly a metre long😳 and still growing 🤔. It climbed on a tree and the problem is I don't know how to get it! I might need to call the fire brigade 🤣😂💚😘

[@wfpbstu9956]

Yes to the spreadsheet Jessie 👍 Sorry I've not been on the discord lately, been so busy busy busy with my new job!

[@susiescola4921]

Oooh a tutorial would be fab Jess!

[@tangocat4370]

Im a nerd and love spreadsheets!!!!!!! Not boring at all Jessie!

[@plaisirdelanglais]

I would love a direct copy of that spreadshead. I am not a friend with Excel in general...but yours is so beautiful. Fantastic work. I always look forward to your Tuesday vlog.

[@angeladrummie4461]

Good afternoon Jessie, just back from a week away on the Jurassic coast, so only just watched this episode. Please can you do a downloadable spreadsheet for us tech challenged watchers ! I really need to start using one, as I planted way too many different varieties of tomatoes this year and ended up frightened to go to the allotment in case more were ready to take home 🤣 Love to you & mum, take care.🍷🍷

[@sundancer442]

Tute for sure.

[@Sarah-Plot4a]

Share the spreadsheet please, I’m no good at doing stuff on my PC 😂

[@Millerman84]

Didnt remember that socrates was the variety you grew in the house this year, but by coinkidink ive ordered that variety this week from dt browns, pound seed sales on.. cant turn your nose up at cucumber or the borlottis seeds when there less than 25% of the usual price

[@SaraHartman09]

I love your spread sheets. Will try and if I can’t make one, will check to see how you made yours. This year I got sick from MidMay through End of July, and everything died. Better plans for next year……thanks for your heads up……😅

[@mandytaylor1008]

Hi Jess it’s been a bit of an up and downer this last year some wonderful harvests and some terrible flops but it’s October the beginning of the new year for us so come on Jess here we go again 😄

[@richardgore2000]

Excellent and I can sympathise with so many seeds of the same varieties. A downloadable version of the spreadsheet would be fantastic. We lost our hen hyacinth a few months ago, very sad as she was so well behaved unlike some of the others!

[@benb-en9rq]

Plots looking great as always. Would love you to share that spreadsheet, looks like exactly what I need.

[@adms007]

I would love you to share your spreadsheet. It’d so help me to organise myself.

[@kaygrowingveg3543]

Please share it is a great work

[@helenhawkins4054]

Impressive on the chart front, wish I was a bit more techie, it would definitely help with planing.

[@Hhaahland4]

Both a tutorial and a copy of your database would be great if possible. Went to buy some Sungold seeds from local centre and they were $6 (AUS) for 5 seeds 😧. I don’t think so.

[@johnnylong8821]

Video on your spreadsheet would be great, looks really useful and can be worked upon over the winter, thanks :)

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi Jessie, lovely tour of your plot with lots of information and plans you have for the coming months. Love your videos ❤️ always happy vibes and your Mum is looking really well too. Ooh, your spreadsheet sounds interesting, would love to see how it works & would love a copy please. Thanks for sharing and take care 🙂

[@clairelemay4408]

Hey Jessie, I love to watch your blogs. It would be fantastic if you could share your spreadsheet. I could definitely do with help organising my planting. By the way, you said if there was any glaring holes in your tomato varieties to let you know. Well can I say kellogg’s breakfast are prolific, enormous and so so sweet. I can”t believe how much success and I”m in Scotland

[@jonhart8875]

If you don't want the best roots is there a food bank you could give them to ? Also globe artichokes are perennial so it keeps coming back and gets bigger each year.

[@BettyandtheBees]

I'm well impressed with that spreadsheet!!

[@lindseythompson2108]

Another great vlog. Would love a tutorial.

[@Pervydachny]

Hello! Great plans for the future! Wish you luck👌🌻🐦

[@annaking9213]

Beautiful, fall is looking good in your garden. Have a great day.

[@dif672]

A download or tutorial on your spreadsheet would be great!

[@stephendarlingbrown]

Great video as always Jess. The allotment is looking great 😊 can’t believe it’s October already! I’m hoping my tomato’s finish ripening soon a lot green. 😬 I would love a video on your spreadsheet looks amazing.. so organised.

[@paularobinson3615]

Would love a tutorial on making the spread sheet ❤ Sorry for your loss 💔🐓

[@legrandfamily1723]

I would love a download of your spreadsheet . Love your videos.

[@karenbrooks9251]

Hi Jessie- You make my Tuesdays great! Doesn't hurt that it is Taco Tuesday here too! If it is not too much to ask, I would love the blank sheet and the tutorial! I have searched the internet for a decent spreadsheet but to no avail. Yours is the best! I especially love the right side - so much info for planting and harvest times. It would take me years to figure it out on my own! Thank you for sharing!! Karen