July Allotment Tour & Harvest 2019 / Homegrown Garden

After a gloomy June, the month of July has yo-yoed between wet weather and record breaking high temperatures during a brief heat wave. Join me in this month's tour to harvest some of the crops that are ready for picking as we take a look around the plot to discover what flowers are blooming and vegetables are growing! I also reveal my newly painted gate and my amazing new pallet compost bin design that has got me excited about composting again.
Since recording this video I reached 10,000 subscribers! If you are one of them reading this, thank you so much for joining me in my allotment garden and for supporting my channel.
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[@crespoopserc]

If every human being is like her, the world would be a much better place 🌹

[@randomcuriosities6205]

If every human had a place when he can garden, world definitely would be a better place

[@naudynaudy7940]

@@randomcuriosities6205 if every human tired making a garden, world would definitely be a better place. (Lol)

[@ughgross1258]

Honestly I think everyone should have a garden❤❤the world would so much nicer

[@Ed19601]

Sounds great but in reality how do you see this happen in mayor cities?

[@ughgross1258]

@@Ed19601 Well I remember when i visited NYC they had these little community plots, my dad has a garden that everyone in his apartment shares and if you have a balcony you can grow in pots

[@Ed19601]

@@ughgross1258 no doubt but 'they' is not everyone. There are 3.3 million households in NY and exactly how many allotments did you see? Similar story for any major city Chicago 1.1 million LA 1.4 million Tokyo 7 million households, 5 million households in London. Pipedream

[@ughgross1258]

@@Ed19601 K sure whatever.

[@cliveedharris1353]

Love it beautiful garden loving it specially when you said strawberries and blueberries love them

[@Andrea29987]

Can’t tell you how much I’m loving this channel. Exactly my type of garden and method of gardening. ❤️

[@johnnylucas1929]

Best and most friendly channel of all

[@Elaine-br4lw]

I can tell how passionate you are about gardening. That makes the best gardeners. Beautiful garden.

[@napeekapunpimtongnara9111]

I can feel that your garden is really complete and beautiful. It can tell if you are a nature lover. I think your garden is really your big world. Because I heard birds and saw many insects flying. I think your garden is designed in style, beauty and warmth.

[@GraftingTactick]

Amazing garden paradise I should say👌👍

[@neilrobinson9806]

One of the best channels on KZbin 👍👍👍👍👍

[@williamconrad4292]

Nice garden excellent presentation thanks for sharing

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

A lovely harvest and so much growing 🌸💕🌸

[@kvg44gbs]

Beautiful garden, accent, and women. Have always wanted to grow potatoes in pots as well.

[@lorellstoneman74]

Great idea compost box.

[@teknotony]

You have beautiful energy and a beautiful allotment.

[@janemackrell3733]

Thankyou for posting your monthly updates - they are very useful for a novice gardener like me!

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

No matter the time time of year you have so much growing!

[@niazsgallery]

Very nice video. Thanks for sharing.👌👍

[@HappyFarmsLa]

I also follow Charles Dowding's methods with great success. Your garden is lovely and inspiring!

[@kimjohnson4304]

Awesome vidio! I enjoyed it very much, Your plot looks great and you are so charming!

[@sakinamirsultan6072]

U are lucky the summer last only abou 3 months. The weather here in Malaysia are hot, humid and rain for the whole year. Only one weather for the whole year and it is really difficult to deal with the hot weather here. We eat less but drink plenty of cold water because of the hot and humid weather here. Stay safe and ❤️from Malaysia 🇲🇾.

[@StarLight-yk6es]

Very nice ! Oh for an English Country , Garden :) ! In Australia I dream of such fertile , moist conditions . :) Great job , very beautiful indeed .

[@cityvegetablegardener2638]

Good to see a well used plot. I can’t wait for my own allotment plot 😀

[@richardmang2558]

I am not familiar with an "allotment". Can you explain what that is? Thanks, from California.

[@rayp7818]

💕 love the homegrown chic

[@carolsoo1208]

Great day to your guys, i love your smiling face and tone of talking to us, of cause all your introduction, tqvm cheers ...

[@kelly-annegray2614]

So thrilled to have discovered your lovely channel! I absolutely love gardening and would always rather be in the garden! Your allotment looks so good... Makes me so eager to move to our new home and start my garden!

[@michaeldemetriou3043]

Magical allotment ❤ you have.

[@stevensloan6915]

Very impressive video. Beautiful garden

[@htiencp1378]

Fresh vegetables, love your garden. thanks for your sharing

[@woodnugget7513]

Pleasure to see a nice enthusiastic young lady making the effort to grow fab n tasty veg. Keep it up. Ian

[@whitneywalsh4527]

Hey, I'm only 20 so I won't have my own home with a garden for a fair while, but I have definitely taken your allotment/garden as inspiration, the flowers are beautiful, and you veg looks great! 😊

[@wandashouse]

Thanks I will be doing that too!

[@onajas]

same. Can you explain to me what an allotment is pleased if you don't mind. English isn't my first language and I don't get it :/

[@CurlyProverbz]

Ona J an allotment is a plot of land normally 15m by 15m is size that the government allot to individuals for a fee of about £75 for a year (very cheap the cost of one weeks grocery shop). Individuals can grow what ever they want for eating as well as flowers. Every county / borough has several. Most people can walk to their in 15 mins but waiting lists are very long. You can wait one or two year or even longer to get one

[@JanahLife]

Lovely garden and really love how you combine flowers and veggie together 👍

[@fidenciom.h.9529]

beautiful tipe of garden very nice

[@andrewpenwright2266]

Awesome and you've done yourself proud

[@mygardenanddinosaurs]

I adore your allotment. Such a great mlx of fruit, veg and flowers. Great harvest. Really enjoyed the tour. Take care. Mags

[@happydays1336]

Let your lettuce go to seed every year (even though it's messy looking). Next year you'll have lots of plants and they'll start growing at just the right time for them. You can have lettuce in perpetuity from the first planting. It comes back true to variety.

[@GardeningCare]

You are a great gardening lover dear friend thanks for sharing your experience 👍👌🤗🤗🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@lizae9492]

Just catching up with your progress having had a break from having an allotment for the last 3 years due ro down siIng to a flat in an area with no local allotment. However having now moved to a house in a village stting we have today got the key to our new allotment. Yaaaaay. So. The first thing we did after 2 very hot hours of pulling weeds was a shower cup of tea and straight on to you tube on the telly to search you out. Congrats on your 100 video milestone and good luck with the house hunting. Liz and Ian x

[@lauras6300]

Beautiful garden, I loved watching this! You could have your own show on TV, you are really good at it! I’m a new gardener only in my 2nd proper year of growing veg so this has been really helpful, I’ll be watching out for the next video! Thank you! 🙂

[@homegrowngarden]

Thanks for watching and for taking the time to say such kind words 🥰 Let me know if there’s anything specific you would like me to cover in future videos! Happy growing 🌱👩🏻‍🌾

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Va felicit pentru gradina care este superba! ! 👍 Super! !! 🌹 🌹

[@judywhittlesey4010]

BEAUTIFUL, RICH, SOIL around those yummy potatoes Your flowers are Top Quality georgous!!

[@eliev7844]

Aww, this was such a pleasure to watch! Beautiful allotment!

[@amosduggan]

Wonderful garden tour. Thanks for sharing.

[@nenemaria-cornfieldsgarden]

My courgettes are very behind too. They didn't seem to like the very wet and cold June. It's been funny weather this year. We're now having days of 16 degrees and nonstop rain. I don't know what the plants are going to think after 30 degrees and sunshine all last week! Sorry to hear about your strawberries, the blackbirds got a lot of mine this year.

[@ATZ44122]

beautiful!I love sweet pea flowers!

[@maxxusmaksim5431]

Plants look awesome!

[@ourfloridagarden4191]

In a pinch hand sanitizer on the red ants bites take the sting and itch away instantly. Love the compost doors.

[@gavincook4684]

I have just been allocated a allotment. 5 meters wide by 12 long! I am slightly overwhelmed and a little confused. However your videos along with others have helped me to conceptualise a plan/lay out. Thanks for the videos and keep them coming . Hopefully someone from the BBC will see your videos and offer you a job!

[@jacquis-j9606]

Such an amazing allotment - wow. Loving all the flowers fruit and veg you are growing x

[@fastkuts]

beautiful soul full of passion, love the vibes, cozy garden full of life that's what i'm in the process of creating over in new zealand :) bring on summer

[@s.f.n.4491]

Un jardín maravilloso, cuidado con gran delicadeza. Una grandísima jardinera. Una chica increible.

[@dianeirvine1384]

Great update love the colours you choose for flowers I think we have similar taste, loved pale pink, deep red,lavender and pinks and whites to top it off.Thank you great job.

[@lovepeaceandliberty4223]

I love your garden so nice 😊😊😊😘😍 a lot of plants and vegetables this is my dream garden 😍😍😍

[@amberamber100]

Your garden is beautiful and so are you

[@alexandertsiolkovski5848]

Super nice!! Good job.

[@hawk270leadflinger9]

Gorgeous!

[@johnorr8094]

I recently learned to plant peppermint or spearmint in the garden to deter rats, squirrels, and rabbits.

[@alionofengland4059]

Your pumpkin tree idea is cool! I would love to see the update when the time comes :) im sure many others would too

[@TheChristinaJo]

Love the way your garden looks! The Dalias! Soooooo pretty

[@marmaladealmond5257]

This was my first video and you have me hooked! Your garden is beautiful! Looking forward to some benge watching!

[@OncuFarm]

nice garden. this is very inspiring. thank you for sharing.😊👍🏼👍🏼

[@CuidandodoJardim]

Nice job.

[@EastMesaUrbanHomestead]

Awesome garden and haul! Thanks for sharing!

[@KNPoveda123]

Try planting some mint by your strawberries to keep the rats away. They hate mint!

[@singlemomlifeandwork9665]

very beautiful it's always motivate me to plant more on my small garden, I wish I had a big space like Yours that's really beautiful flowers and fruit trees with different kinds of veggies just woww😍😍

[@hassansultan6567]

I love this channel!

[@Backwoodscountryman]

Just saw you on Gardeners World. I always thought you should be on the telly and I was right. Expecting after your brilliant performance to see more of you on the big screen well done 🙂

[@culdesacgrocerygarden]

Your garden is so lovely!

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[@misi19780826]

Thats great garden! You are a skillful girl! Congratulate for you from Hungary! Just carry on!

[@darlenesmith2456]

Nice potatos, I think I’ll try growing like that

[@kendo2377]

The Northumbrian accent is delightful.

[@carmenbailey8209]

Love your birdbath transformation, my sister did the same using succulents turned out beautiful Your garden is looking great, love your videos thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊

[@marymcandrew7667]

I feel your pain about the rat situation! Last year they found my strawberries and kept returning and what made me mad was they would pick them off, take a few bites and just leave it in a pile! I had a pile of my gorgeous strawberries laying rotting, the little rotters! So this year I got more proactive, I put wire cages around my two patches. I pushed stakes into the ground for the corners and just bent it around them to make rectangle. At the bottom I bent the wire out a bit to discourage any digging in (you need to snip at the corner so it can bend out). One such cage I just draped bird netting over, the other I made a wire top too. Most important is inside each I put one easy to set rat trap, I never got rat but in one cage I continually get mice and voles, they do a lot of damage too. These are my strawberries, organic and healthy, we don't eat the ones at the stores because of pesticides used, so I don't mind protecting them!! This year I have bumper crops, still picking a few, and all are going in the freezer. I want to add, we do feed the birds on our patio, this attracts rats and mice I know, but maybe it's also been enough to distract them from my strawberries under cages? The cages were the big help though! Oh yes earlier in the spring it was the slugs, so I did spray a bit with garlic spray and sometimes with the water-soap-oil spray; I wonder if that deterred them at all? Thanks for the video!! Lovey patch you have!

[@jimclark1374]

Gorgeous...the garden, I mean.

[@miketobish5387]

Love your videos

[@GardenALittle]

This was a very soothing allotment tour, haha. I hope all your plants catch up and produce much more fruit!

[@binoythomas6441]

Great good job

[@beautifullibrarymusic9944]

Nice garden. flower pink wow

[@rebeccakrause7057]

Hi from the US, you're garden is beautiful! 🌷🌹🌸

[@evercapdevila13]

q hermozo lugar.😁😙☝👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👋

[@visionbear5826]

YOUR VIDEOS ARE SO VERY AWESOME AND AMAZING AND SO VERY MUCH YOU ARE ALSO ,!!!

[@TerryMcGearyScotland]

Wow! Those container potatoes! Definitely, the way to go. I haven't got lots of room so a few big pots on the patio would let me use the ground for other things. I was inspired seeing Charles Dowding's videos too. What a nice chap. I have planted beetroot through cardboard too. Seeing your Sarracenia makes me want to try them again. I'll check them out if I dare visit our nearest garden centre. My Drosera is continuing to unfurl its flowers today. Your guitar music (peppers) is one of my favourites (along with English Country Garden, though not the one we all think of!). Thanks again.

[@cupofjae]

just found your channel and it's absolutely wonderful! Your voice is so relaxing!

[@margiesteininger3344]

i love those yellow potatoes the best too - they are so good with butter salt and pepper

[@jamesSmith-fl5wv]

What a beautiful and graceful woman!

[@LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow]

Your garden is fantastic! Thank you for sharing it with us. I also garden and make garden videos. It’s a lot of work. I appreciate the tips, tricks and inspiration your videos provide. I hope that we can not learn from each other as we grow!

[@Arie-Ruiter]

Great video, lovely garden! Thank you for sharing, greetings from the Netherlands

[@BoldlyGrowHomestead]

My dahlias are started coming in a week or two ago but the plant is ready to take off with many blooms in coming weeks, excited!

[@gardenernag3803]

Excellent....

[@markglonek490]

Very lovely garden

[@berri5769]

Loved the video! Your heatwave is everyday for me in Los Angeles 😂 and no humidity. Love your garden and will definitely incorporate ideas I saw in your garden ❤️

[@sanjitng7483]

Wow, beautiful

[@0xstev3]

Think how happy you made those little furry creatures though, finding a strawberry patch must have been heaven for them ☺️

[@homegrowngarden]

😐

[@0xstev3]

@@homegrowngarden They're cute if you look at them without the stigma, like mice. 'MON THE RATS!

[@richardhineman]

Pretty. Garden is pretty too.

[@thecasualcitizen492]

Enjoyed the tour, Thank you!

[@Roadsaftyslowdown]

31°c hot, love it.🤣🇦🇺 Plenty of natural rat trap designs on you tube you can make yourself. Keep it up.

[@adelacozlac366]

So beautiful!

[@mikes8917]

This is the real England. Wonderful.. looking forward to next months update.

[@julesa245]

I am in awe of your plot. I am often overwhelmed by my large homemade plot. I am reducing the size of the beds this year. I love the potager style you have and long for that but I panic when I see grass emerging and I have many butter cups and creeping sorrel! Today I have made a raised bed with spare stones. Your plot is my fave and I’m glad you share it. Xxxx

[@gastet2156]

so lovely !! thank you for sharing