How Bad Is It? | Getting Back Into The Allotment Garden

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@reallysmallfrisby 2 ай бұрын

Plantain, chickweed, and dandelion, all edible. That's a free harvest there! Love dandelion honey as an alternative to real honey. Welcome to the 'giving up' squad, I've been off the allotment since the end of last year and then my greenhouse collapsed and smashed at the end of January too. I basically started from scratch a few months ago and have been clearing and resetting. I have my first tray of seedlings of the year ready to go out, pak choi, kale, coriander, amoranth, chard, and beetroot. Sometimes you just need to accept you can't do it all and to ease off something. You've made so much progress though, I've got a whole year of your videos to catch up on!

@glassbackdiy3949 2 ай бұрын

Your house looks amazing JB, you've been busy there for sure! I just got back in the garden after abandoning it for 3 weeks, grass a ft long, all the beds dry as a bone, just looks like a whole list of jobs atm.. , still, 4 gal of toms to process and a few jars of overgrown spring onions to turn into pickled onions, not all bad

@soniataitt636 2 ай бұрын

While here in Barbados its extremely hot in the 80F. Everything droopy except the sun loveing plants.

@freckles2437 2 ай бұрын

I've just had a week off and have been able to blitz the allotment and feel much better about it. Started digging and turning my compost heaps and mulching beds, as they get cleared. It's amazing what a few relaxed days and good weather can do. Jo Devon 🙂

@bowtielife 2 ай бұрын

I swore off putting cardboard with wood chips last year. Your conclusion is the very reason! So much work!

@thatgirlthatgrows 2 ай бұрын

Such a great day for it JB, great to see you back!

@amandar7719 2 ай бұрын

You do seem more chirpy, JB. 🤗 Amazing achievement on the house. My word! You’ve ticked a good many essential and general improvement DIY project boxes! And it’s wonderful to see you’ve had some great harvests. The bell pepper phenomena across the home gardening community this year has to have been initiated by a specific pest or maybe two this year. Maybe exacerbated by a humidity triggered mould? We had bug holes in all our outdoor in-ground bells last year. Whole harvest ruined although we don’t eat much green pepper tbh. Just had better than expected home saved seed germination and stuck them outside. Couldn’t figure what bug it was. Started with a hole. No slugs to start with but they did arrive later. Couldn’t see any caterpillars or grubs that others have found this year on social media but we didn’t look closely. We netted for a while but damage was already largely done. Then the blight hit hard. So inconclusive at the end of the day. We keep valuable undercover space for specific chillies although I also grow loads of extras in pots outdoors also planted with a lemon grass, aubergine, cherry tomato, carrots, a flower, mangetout, a parsley, coriander, basil and a bunch of spring onions. Survival of the fittest. Pots look nicer in the kitchen, patio style, garden than planted up individually. It’s not a method we use for particular success …just aesthetics. Point is, it can’t be a weather issue because I haven’t had any bug holes or mould damage or blight on the outdoor bells this year. And they’ve survived the frost we had last week that took out the courgettes. We get spider mite or something similar every single year on both indoor and outdoor aubergines, and sage. But not our boxwoods. Sucks the life out our aubergines and we rarely get fruit. Mites don’t seem to affect anything else so I figured the aubergines are the sacrificial must have in all our growing spaces. We occasionally get a fruit in a diverse multi-potted pot. We also got one fruit from one in a pot shared with sweetcorn. We have limited freezer space so cold store, ferment or can staples and eat seasonal fresh. Anything that survives the kitchen garden pots through fall, winter and spring is a bonus. I’m wondering if it’s because we woodchip our paths in our greenhouse that helps us stabilise the air moisture….? It’s never humid in there. We also don’t use quadgrows or chillie pots that contains a water reservoir. We don’t get nearly as healthy chillies as those who use them, though. Tbh, we sow the chillies and what germinates and survives the seedling stage goes into the greenhouse in ground. Everything else is stuffed into pots outside. If anyone is interested, using above methods this year has produced poor indoor Korean chilli plants, excellent outdoor paprika and bell peppers. Satisfactory indoor and outdoor Serrano. Forgot to sow jalapeños until late June and they’re now huge with abundant developing budding fruits but no telling if there’s enough time for the fruits to mature. Hope this input helps others.

@amandar7719 2 ай бұрын

Oh… JB. I’m pondering on making a paprika based fermented sauce for use as a substitute for paprika powder to add to a rub or seasoning. Should I stabilised with vinegar like with a hot sauce. Have you ever made a paprika sauce? Tips?

@thesmirkinggrape 2 ай бұрын

Get the heavy hitter in and spray away. I've had to do it ok my neighbouring plot which has been given up and not allocated yet.

@playingwithdata 2 ай бұрын

I wouldn't feel guilty about using glyphosate on bindweed as long as you're close treating the weed and not crop spraying it like some people seem to do. I have a running battle with it coming from a neighbour and, while I'll pull any out in the open, I'll treat the ones I can't easily dig out with a little hand sprayer.

@stephenmckelvie2032 2 ай бұрын

Hi JB, good to see you back. Reference to your neighbour's plot, I would dig a trench the legnth of the border and bury roofing tiles (on end). Plenty of people re-roofing this time of year. I use slates.

@angelacross7940 2 ай бұрын

Good to see you back and smiling , house looks very good lots of hard work gone into it but certainly has paid off . I live in Cornwall, again it’s been a terrible growing year ,nice to have this mini heat wave but the evening have been extremely cold .

@lg2352 2 ай бұрын

The sunny weather has made such a difference! I've made a great start cleaning / clearing the beds, seeing to the compost heap and thoroughly cleaning the greenhouse. Looking forward to the spring now - I don't intend to do much until then!

@zuzauramek9850 2 ай бұрын

I was sulking because my chili plants for 2 months were micro but when I replanted them in my own compost soil they grew like crazy in one month. Well, I said that I think the seeds were faulty. No. It was soil which I bought in the garden center. I am mad like hell that I waited 2 months for replanting in July. I have fruits but I don't know if they will mature before winter. Oh well, maybe I try to winter them for next year in my home greenhouse.

@RawLondonGardener 2 ай бұрын

Back in action! Good to see ya

@christinebrooks6364 2 ай бұрын

Hi JB, a lot of mould on your pkants, I've never hears of it before. Peppers & chillies are looking good. Nice to see you back on your plot. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

@HopeFCharity 2 ай бұрын

Gardening is a therapy money cannot buy. In my experience patience is everything. Now that I am retired I try not to be too ambitious. This keeps pest and problems away.I would advise to take time to stop and stare. Slowly, slowly. I look forward to see your progress next year.

@jennyjohnson9012 2 ай бұрын

Good to see you back JB. The nice weather certainly makes a difference to our mood. My plot has totally got away from me but hey ho. I've had successes and failures, its been a very strange year, but I'm taking away the good and looking forward to a better season next year. Your chillies are fab!!

@tonyr7393 2 ай бұрын

Regardless of all the minor gardening setbacks that we all experience every year, you'll look back on this season and once again be very proud of everything you've achieved. A ton of hard work, but very rewarding. Maybe next year scale back a bit on the number of plants under cover and give them (and you) a little more breathing space.

@cathysmiley6798 2 ай бұрын

For the weeds coming in from the neighboring plot can you use a torch? It can kill the vines and not poison everything? I use one for my garden perimeter

@ZoYourOwn 2 ай бұрын

Good to you back! You look a lot happier in this video 😊 I'm new to gardening and having a channel, I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets carried away talking having long videos to edit😆 I'm intrigued as to what you do about your bindweed, I have loads in my garden and have pretty much given up trying to get rid of it!

@DavidGibb-vo3df 2 ай бұрын

Its always ups and downs on the allotment but hopefully it's more ups

@JaniceLaird-sv3ws 2 ай бұрын

Good to see you back 😀

@alisonward3167 2 ай бұрын

We’ve been having lovely days in West Yorkshire, although it is cold at night the days have been sunny. I only took on my neglected plot in May and I am harvesting every week, I’m living off courgettes 😬

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment 2 ай бұрын

that leaking pepper made me gag haha. the side of growing vegetables people don't see much of lol

@PreatorRaszagal 2 ай бұрын

Too bad about the tomato plants 😥But 10 liter is a lot of "sauce"! Nice chili jungle 😍And those Lemon StarrBurst phenos! 🤩Cool with the California Wonder that grew around the stem. Looked kinda funky hehe. My parents had the same thing with their plum tree. I remember taking a picture earlier this year when it looked like there would be plenty of plums. I'm pretty sure they haven't actually had a single one though...

@janebolton8971 2 ай бұрын

Aww glad you're back ❤

@mikeinportland30 2 ай бұрын

We had a strange year here for Zucchini (Courgettes) with very little production. My garden friends were complaining about it and I thought if we had a Potty-Mouth Garden Club "PNW-US version" I'd have a joke that Zucchini never makes you people happy! "Too many - how will we eat them all?!", "They grow too fast - yesterday it was the size of a pencil, today a Zeppelin!", "I'm not planting more than one ever again!"....and this year "Why didn't I get more Zucchini and why so small?!" 😂😂😂

@JoyoftheGardenandHome 2 ай бұрын

I'm with you on the low mood. Still seeding but not weeding😝 That aubergine is passed, not shiny anymore.

@johnmcgauley421 2 ай бұрын

Well.done

@margaretalice6343 2 ай бұрын

JB I Wish you every success with the rest of your harvest 💕🤩

@jaynekennedy8469 2 ай бұрын

I found several small snails inside of a couple of my peppers which started them rotting

@JBNat 2 ай бұрын

I do wonder if some of the flesh damage has been from slugs and snails nibbling on it

@richardhart7652 2 ай бұрын

Your mention of dear Steve made me wonder what he'd think of this year,the poor weather etc

@JBNat 2 ай бұрын

Yes exactly. I sort of side tracked myself but what I was meaning to say is that I think he would have understood why I took the break! I have no doubt he would have been ploughing on as best he could, making great use of his tunnels and covered growing areas. If things failed he could always take it right on the chin so I think he would have been largely unphased!

@mandytaylor1008 2 ай бұрын

Hi jb your first summer harvest in Steve’s poly has to be called a success he would be proud. You do beat yourself up. What with a full time job a garden and house renovations an allotment and poly Isn’t that more than enough? You manage so well. Do you really eat all that chilli in a year?

@PatrickKazmierczak-j6i 2 ай бұрын

Awesome chillies

@annpryce6476 2 ай бұрын

How do you treat the greenhouse and polytunnel after blight? Do you have to disinfect it in some way after harvesting and removing all the plants?

@JBNat 2 ай бұрын

Good question - thankfully the spores can only survive on living tissue so you don't have to worry about composting it or going nuclear trying to clean.

@annpryce6476 2 ай бұрын

@@JBNat thanks JB. Hope your next growing season is blight free

@MrLaking123 2 ай бұрын

had the same this year small onions it's like that scary movie quote take my small hand take my small onions lmao

@gladysmcconnell6822 2 ай бұрын

My courgettes didn't do at all. I sowed Globo onion seeds & got massive onions.

@bago696 2 ай бұрын

'You could feed an army with that' love it, more sarcasm please 😂

@margaretalice6343 2 ай бұрын

I always try to combat humidity It’s the biggest issue with most spaces I’ve ever had Im always surprised gardening channels never cover this issue 😂

@JBNat 2 ай бұрын

I talk about the importance of ventilation all the time - very important. For most of summer I've had the greenhouses as wide open as possible, but there's not much I can do in the tunnel without cutting into it and getting crazy!

@Festoolification 2 ай бұрын

In the car I've got the petrol, a sign of intent, for a second I thought you were going for the burn it all down approach.😀

@JBNat 2 ай бұрын

Haahhahahaahhaa

@louiseirving9845 2 ай бұрын

Made my day! x

@louiseirving9845 2 ай бұрын

It's so good to see someone so industrious, caring and committed. And you get a harvest as well!

@Lynne-plot35b-36b 2 ай бұрын

Good to see you back and feeling the Lottie vibe again JB. Remember there is always next year. I wonder if botritus is a result of old tomato plants ie we sowed them back in early January didn’t we? I’m sow😅big in end Feb next year.

@JBNat 2 ай бұрын

Nitrites? I didn't sow mine until mid March! I always start mine a bit later as I dont have space indoors

@margaretalice6343 2 ай бұрын

Do pod grows create high humidity. High humidity is definitely not good for toms or most plants confined plastic Who knows but I’m so so pleased I haven’t got a polytunnel 🤩🤩😂

@Bexyboo88 2 ай бұрын

Ohh spidermites, horrid things, absolutely smothered my Physalis plants and auberinges (first year growing both of those) but even so, I still managed to get a harvest from them both. It's just the plants looked awful. On the Physalis (groundcherry/goldenberry/cape gooseberry) I'm talking like whole branches of leaves encased in the webbing - just insane. And, I had done 2 bombs at the start of the years too (A chemical and garlic one) and cleaned out the greenhouse, swept, dusted, hoovered etc.. but obviously made no difference. Apparently spider mites are particularly overly fond of Physalis and aubergines. Probs was they were then spread onto all my young tomatoes and sweet peppers. I literally have no idea how it's going to be possible to grow anything decently in there if they keep coming back, so I might just have to whack everything outside as soon as weather warms up in spring and hope for the best next year. Aubergines are at their best when picked when the skin is still smooth and has a shine, don't leave them too long or they go dull and then that means bitter.

@JBNat 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the harvesting tip! Really sorry to hear about the spider mites. They are an absolute menace. Makes sense that they were all over my ground cherry though.