June Allotment Garden Tour 2020 / Homegrown Garden

[@angelsspirit335]

I am in Tennessee of the USA. i have kidney cancer and am in the last months of my life. You are about the age of my own daughters? You are so beautiful and kind! What a breath of fresh air to see such a positive and encouraging person! I am always happy after watching your channel. I was a local gardener of my own about 20 years ago. It was such a good time in my life. I enjoy the outdoors though now i have to see it from a wheel chair. I really enjoy your personality(your SOUL). Your kind and gentle nature express such an innocence. I look forward to seeing you again and celebrating life in general. Sincerely Art , in the USA!

[@Foxkitten86]

Please forgive me for suggesting you read 'Chris Beat Cancer'. A plan that has worked for many, including two close friends, one of whom was sent home to die. Three years later, she's alive and kicking.

[@patriciasmith7074]

Fox Kitten My husband was told by a doctor over the phone to get his affairs in order that he would be dead in two weeks. We couldn’t accept that. Friends suggested we go to MD Anderson and a doctor devised a chemo treatment plan for his stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer with Liver Metastasis. We managed to get 2 more years of life and celebrate our 40th Wedding Anniversary and we had two birthday parties for him for turning 65. He had never in his whole life had a birthday party. We did put him on a special diet, no sugar for one thing because it feeds cancer. We fed him lots of Buffalo meat produced with no growth hormones because it is the lowest fat even lower than chicken and buffalo don’t get cancer. We made him protein shakes with frozen non gmo fruit mixed in for vitamin C to fight disease. You also need vitamin D3 to fight it. No cakes or cookies or candy. He drank tons of filtered water even all night long the nights after the chemo treatments to flush the kidneys because it was hard on them. He had to take special enzymes to aid digestion. The doctors complained that he was gaining weight but we kept death away. Try to eat as healthy as you can and take vitamins to boost your immune system. Get plenty of rest. God bless you and I will pray for you, many people prayed for him. I hope you don’t think I’m crazy but we actually saw his soul right after he passed away. I had told him if it was possible to tell me some way that he was okay to do it. He did. My daughter was setting right next to me and she saw it too and it was our cat who first saw it and made us look up at the ceiling. It has given me great comfort. I know there is another life. I hope I didn’t offend you, I only meant to give you peace.

[@lesleyfrench4182]

Beta Thinker... aka Art...blessings, love and light sent to you x x

[@angelsspirit335]

@@lesleyfrench4182 Thank you so kindly.isnt this channel a fun one? i think she is so sweet.

[@patriciasmith7074]

I meant this to go to the person with cancer sorry I sent it to the wrong person. I hope Beta Thinker sees this.

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

You have done so many beautiful things in your plot it’s such a pleasure to watch every month 🌸💕🌸

[@BettyandtheBees]

Your plot is so beautiful it looks like it was drawn by Beatrix Potter.

[@homegrowngarden]

What a compliment! Thank you 💕

[@magdalenamaria8101]

I totally agree. You have the most beautiful allotment I have seen and you are such a nice person. I love watching you. Greetings from Polish girl living in Spain.

[@gopalt5045]

I have watched your many times .your garden is so beautiful. Flowers ,fruits, vegetables amazing farming .I very like it why mean nature is every time beautiful.😍

[@GardeningCare]

Wow so beautiful garden dear and so tasty and delicious strawberry harvests👍👌🤗🤗👌👌🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@SpicyMoustache]

Lovely allotment and great editing skills in making the video. Well done! 😊

[@VegetarianFeast]

Such a positive and inspiring young lady. You've done super well with the garden. Well done

[@ihopeugrow]

I just watched you prune away all the vines (on another video) to clear the hedge and show the beautiful, glorious view of the sky, the neighbor plot and the city. I remember the days I was as motivated and strong as you! Now, just thinking about pulling off a vine makes my back hurt. What more using a saw to cut down trees omg lol I applaud you!!! You have the sunniest smile that matches your beautiful garden! - Zee, N. Cali zone10a

[@IIJOSEPHXII]

The bird making the loud noise was a wren. The German word for wren is Zaunkönig, which means "king of the fence". Loving your pottering. My strawberries have all been eaten now, going to have to complement them with some mid and late varieties. All the best!

[@clairehooper5467]

Love watching your monthly updates. I've just taken on another allotment , based down south of England. Taken me a year to get my first one up to scratch , and so decided I wanted more space, I have chickens on my plot, and I'm lucky enough it's just over the road from my work so I can relax in all this mayhem after a stressful day. It truly is my favourite place to be right now. Keep up the good work, and look forward to next months update 👍🥦🥬🥕🍓🐔🍒🍇😊

[@Leviability]

I am from Argentina and we're in winter now, I love watching summer garden tours because it helps me get through the winter and it take inspiration for my summer garden too and also helps me staying aware of things like those late frosts that happened in the north too!

[@Lunaleodrune]

I could watch this for hours, I never skip a word you say. I love that you have created a productive and abundant edible garden but you've also made space for wildlife and other flowers, it has the perfect balance. Making the most of broken things and using what you have on hand is lovely to see as well. 6 years of hard work has certainly paid off. Before I overload you with compliments I will say this as a final one - your temperament is so soft and gentle, it's lovely to watch you and your beautiful hair! :)

[@Lunaleodrune]

And the noisy bird was a wren, they have the loudest song of any British bird in proportion to their size! :)

[@hobbyfarmingro8840]

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[@TheAncientBiker]

I've watched your plot improve every year, you've done absolute wonders and I hope you feel very proud of your achievements. I've only got one standard plot and that's a lot of work, yours looks huge.

[@luanllluan]

I feel blessed that once a month we get the chance to see this marvelous person show her gorgeous garden. when I see so much nature in an urban area it gives me hope. Great video

[@laceysnursery5080]

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[@Eon0007]

Like you I don't have Strawb's out of season and when you eat your own to me it's a great reward for the effort put in all year!

[@f101clan3]

Your always smiling i love to see it 👍🏻👍🏻

[@jasehargreaves]

Your video's are a welcome distraction to the uncertainty, thanks. Gardening rocks.

[@davidstronge8818]

Hallo from Vancouver Island. Very similar climate to UK. Re potatoes, grown them for years, and the advice is to pick off the flowers, as they take energy from the tubers. Your fig is ready when it is a bit soft, and droops down. Delightful videos of an amazing plot, my heartiest congratulations.

[@TimHowellX]

Always wonderful to see your updates and it's lovely to see from other comments how much joy you're bringing to others.

[@anitachristopher3937]

I always look forward for your monthly allotment videos. Such an inspiration you are. I dont have an allotment but I grow plants mostly in containers in our small garden in London. After seeing your videos I have now applied for an allotment with our local council. Your hard labour and perseverance has definitely paid off. Best wishes. God bless you!

[@Adrian-cw8yu]

Your garden is cute and so are you 😍 be good to see how your blueberries are doing, I know it's late in the season, maybe next year.

[@333jtj]

Such a joy when your videos come out. Thank you so much for doing them. The metal poppy head is lovely. I'm a gardener in the south east and all apple&pear trees seem to be fit to bursting with fruit. I've been swapping plants and harvests around my customers so everyone got what they needed when garden centres were shut. The produce and enthusiasm people have for the garden as a whole at the moment is wonderful. Have you returned to work yet? Keep up the great work. Your smile and joy is infectious. Happy gardening.

[@homegrowngarden]

Thanks for watching! Did you escape the late May frost down south? It’s so great to see and hear of more people getting into gardening and growing their own food in light of the pandemic. I didn’t stop working, I’ve been gardening the entire time! Thankfully the team on the estate where I work is very small and the garden quite large so we’ve been able to continue working safely. ☀️

[@leighbee13]

So incredibly glad to see this video pop up in my feed. I’m a new subscriber and have found that watching your garden grow through your old monthly videos has been the most soothing balm to the current times. If you were going to show literally the contents and progress of every single bed I wouldn’t be mad! I only have a tiny balcony garden in London but have stuffed it with flowers and veg this year. Current stars are a brandy wine tomato, an enormous nasturtium, night sky petunias, some potentially misguided purple broccoli (apparantly they get huge, I worry I don’t have the space!) and a pair of potato plants that I grew from some cooked potato pieces I found had rooted in my wormery! Those plants are 3 foot tall now! Loving your work :)

[@TerryMcGearyScotland]

A wormery on your balcony is a great idea. Do you use the compost they produce? I agree about how soothing these videos are too. I could easily stand listening to the whole plot being gone over!

[@deborahzamora479]

Beautiful Garden, well done! Your lovely figs will bend down toward the ground when they are ripe, and they will be soft to the touch. My Grandfather always grew figs and brought them to us for a treat, and I loved them. Now I grow several types and enjoy them. Good Growing!

[@Bigblue769]

Hello from Missouri in the USA started harvesting zucchini and cucumbers! Plot looks gorgeous! Def a good reminder when watching somebody with an established garden that it takes years to get it to look like that! As a first time gardener i really appreciate your style in gardening, mixing flowers and food. Thank you for sharing.

[@chateau6528]

Thank you so much for your calming, informative, inspiring video of your gorgeous homegrown little patch of the world.. Seeing your new video on my feed is a sheer delight so I make a cuppa and make sure I have some me time to indulge myself.. I might be disheartened when I see my little plot, but that's beside the point. Please don't stop, Oh, and it was 'Inside Number 23' that brought you to my attention - a big thank you to her too.

[@SparrowsEndBusinessDiaries]

I needed to hear this today! I’ve only sorted about a third of my allotment out over the course of 18 months and it’s nowhere near as big as yours. Will definitely keep chipping away at it. Your plot is stunning, I love it 🥰 x

[@kanisherureyes8127]

hi I like your garden very nice

[@jowilde4702]

you have done so well its all looking gorgeous! the perfect place to de-stress during this pandemic. i have planted a pink fairy rose this year cant wait for it to flower. stay safe hun. xx

[@katrinaklapproth8788]

Absolutely beautiful Katrina. You’ve worked so hard on your allotment this year and you should be so proud of yourself! Love being shown around your allotment 🌸🌸 You have inspired me to have a go and grow caledula, Lettuce, carrots and radish this year. I’m in love with calendulas 😊

[@bethmckinlay1377]

Yesss an allotment tour, just what I needed :) 🌼🌱🍓🍓

[@emmasallotmentdiaries]

Ah I love the climbing rose. It's inspired me to create more of a 'garden' space at my allotment plot. Somewhere to just sit and relax or have friends round. Mine is very formal and structured at the moment and I think this is what it's really missing! xx

[@juliereis146]

My favorite is strawberry and rhubarb pie 🥧😋😋😋😋 my grandmother use to make it for every year when I was a child 🥰🥰🥰🥰 I haven’t had it from her in over 20 years, I’ve tried it from a shop but it was to sickly sweet 😒. I’ll have to find her recipe from my mom. Thank you so much for the tour, everything is so beautiful , I especially love the lupines and the mint 🥰😋🥰

[@neilrobinson9806]

You have done a fantastic job lass ❤️❤️

[@rosem4584]

Your hard work has paid off! I always look for word to your videos, I got some good news! I got a pine apple growing this has really mad my day, take care and stay safe!

[@stephaniethomas833]

So inspirational. I'm in Brisbane Australia, we are still in winter here so it's good to see how your crops are doing and to plan for Spring. Your sweet peas flowers are so lovely, cant wait until my own start flowering. Keep up the good work.

[@TerryMcGearyScotland]

All looking great. I will come back and finish watching later once I’ve watered my own greenhouse. I hope we had our promised thundershower here in central Scotland last as I was relying on those to water in my snapdragons,, king mallows and French marigolds😀 Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm.

[@chrischris3457]

Amazing plot. Love the mix of homegrown and flowers.

[@melaniescott4214]

I am in my first year of my allotment, your allotment is such an inspiration to me to carry on and tackle through the weeds (especially the bindweed, gah!). Looking forward to next months video!

[@joecashman3225]

Yay. Perfect way to start a gloomy Saturday morning. I've had a glut of strawberries too!

[@homegrowngarden]

Yeah it’s a bit wet in Nottingham this morning! Much needed after the heat in the week. Enjoy your strawbs, I’ll be jamming some this afternoon 🍓

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

Hi from Newfoundland. We were insulated from the pandemic and got of the best that I heard of. Strange heatwave last few days though. 37C with a humidex of 42C! unheard of for here. It might help me get some better cucumber plants though. I will direct sow some morden earlies. I have to re-sow one bed of carrots.

[@shonnaleaharvey1526]

I love watching your allotment tours each month, they bring joy and peace to my stressful life. Thankyou

[@juliasoulliven2958]

Just found you and have enjoyed the tour of your plot. It is very pretty. I live in New Zealand and it is extremely cold here right now. Definitely no gardening happening!🌻🌻⚘⚘🌷🌷 I will start again in August to sow some seeds. Just sitting by the fire getting inspiration from lovely people like yourself. ❤

[@PeterJ25-c9o]

Gardening is rewarding work and you get back what you have put in . I love your videos which are full of treats for the eyes and mind. Looking forward to seeing how and where the banana plant grows. Thanks.

[@usnmedic09]

I look at you the way you look at your strawberries 😻

[@TheDougies]

Can’t wait to get our first lot of strawberries! Also you inspired us to do our own tour video of our vegetable and fruit garden. If you get chance it would be great to see what you think to it.

[@tracieneary5973]

I love your videos. Your allotment looks beautiful and so inspirational. So nice too to see you are allowing a few odd weeds to be seen, so normal . Keep the videos coming please.

[@homegrowngarden]

Keeping it real ✌🏼 Just because I have a huge following doesn’t mean I have an immaculate garden! 😄 We need to let some weeds grow for the wildlife anyway 😉

[@tracieneary5973]

@@homegrowngarden too right x

[@paulmartin1296]

Great video again your garden looks amazing managed to pick my first strawberry ever look forward to your next video.

[@williammcduff6531]

Katrina, Kudos on your efforts in the allotment plot. Regards from Canada

[@mydanishgarden3112]

I've been looking forward to your blog for over a week before you published it. Your allotment is looking wonderful. I'm trying out the 3 sisters planting with sweet corn, beans and pumpkin, so far, so good 🌽🎃🤞Our gooseberries are looking lovely and we've just had our first raspberry ripen here in Denmark. Looking forward to see how July goes for you 👍

[@terifarrar7317]

Congratulations! All the work has paid off. Now MotherEarth works for you. Gorgeous garden!

[@kazuwilliams5222]

Thank you for sharing. I live in Los Angeles and have a very small urban garden that brings me lots of joy. My cute tomatoes have just begun to turn color and my Thai pepper plant is flowering.

[@beverley1539]

Thankyou for a lovely journey through the garden see you soon blessings. Ontario Canada 🐝

[@waltermccartney8995]

Recent subscriber, however, I have binge-watched most of the videos. Excellent what can be done in a limited space and without spending a fortune my kind of gardening. I wanted to thank you, I started watching during the local (Knysna, South Africa) Covid lockdown and have been motivated to walk away from the laptop more often and go do some gardening.

[@carolynmarie4008]

I was delighted to find your June garden episode this morning. Your inspired me to start an allotment style garden in my yard last year. Like all gardeners, I want to expand beyond its current boundary. Your style has influenced me in my allotment design. Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden and your sweet personality. I look forward to your next episode.

[@jean-loup2186]

a very beautiful garden, you love it, you're the little fairy of it, thank you to watch it

[@m.g.d4721]

This is my first time on your site. Your garden is breathtaking! Enjoy your diligent work! 💕you have an eye for beauty! The way you organized your plants and made cute separate vignettes, they deserve their own magazine!💚

[@PleasantPrickles]

It’s looking lovely! Enjoy the crumble! The lower end transformation is very impressive! 🌱🌱🌱 🍓

[@pamd1861]

Love what you've done and enjoy your videos seeing the progress!! Thank you

[@itsmewende]

Your garden is just Wonderful, I don't know how you can close the door behind you. If I were a critter I'd be calling your plot home, like Betty and the Bees said, I could see Peter and friends playing there. That Clematis flower is huge, that area will be so nice when all the climbers are in their Glory. BTW...I love your bench/table so much I'm having one made for myself. I'm on Maryland's eastern shore, east coast in the states, garden is growing slow, been cooler here longer this spring.

[@robinmiller1783]

Great vlog as always. My Chicagoland gardens are humming along. Everything is getting more attention than normal.....too bad friends can’t come round to enjoy. Looking forward to the first zucchini I will harvest this week and sad to say farewell to the last of the peas. Started drying herbs for the winter and as gifts.

[@joywhitley3141]

Love your videos! I look forward to them so much. You’ve done so much and your plot is looking really amazing. Thank you and blessings.

[@patrickdobbels2342]

Very nice. You have such a variety of things going on. We all have successes and failures in the garden during the season. I like the fact that you don't wash things over. Keep it up.

[@andyhart4534]

Looks like you are spending your time well , enjoying your channel

[@janb4720]

Your allotment looks gorgeous and you can see how your hard work is paying off. Thank you for sharing this wonderful space with us and inspiring me to crack on with mine!! Take care. Jan :-)

[@cherylgreenfarb8044]

Congrats on 30,000 subscribers! Have been watching you for several months. It is refreshing and relaxing to watch you. It is a much needed break from an ER nurse in Maryland. Very relaxing video with the ability for me to destress. 💕

[@photchy]

I love this beautiful garden.

[@beagle7622]

I love your enthusiasm. I wish I could have a strawberry. I can get them in Melbourne, Australia now but they are sour.

[@margarethuffman1961]

This garden is a dream! You are so talented!

[@khanhto7899]

Those strawberries look amazing! I could only find 1 plant this year at the nursery but your harvest has encouraged me to grow a bed next year!! Will have to find them before they sell out.

[@homegrowngarden]

My strawberry patch started with just 9 plants! You won’t need to buy many and they multiply by the runners they send off giving you lots of free plants 🍓

[@juliansmith4230]

Beautiful, natural gardening and presenting style. Very watchable.

[@Cidtalk]

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing your garden and projects with us all.

[@MamatasEssence]

You have beautiful allotment ❤️❤️ I also have allotment and it is coming up nice.

[@jonbarber889]

Hi new to your channel, love your plot. I have lots of the hardy geraniums and rose campions in my garden absolutely love the combination. My courgettes are struggling too this year, very few germinated and now just sitting in the veg plot, I am hoping for a spurt soon!

[@suzyking9973]

It is looking amazing, lovely plot, you have worked so hard .

[@stateniland]

very healthy looking garden.. well done! the eating part is the BEST!

[@TerryMcGearyScotland]

Congratulations on 30,000. I wish I had your success with peppers. I got 1.5 germinating!. Courgettes indoors are superb, outdoors catching up. Your corn will soon shoot up. I couldn't get a hold of any and I was keen to interplant them with outdoor courgettes. My first courgette will be harvested today or tomorrow, my Tigerella tomatoes are visible so I'm quite excited about that. My potatoes will be dug up by my little grandson and me from now on, and I might even video it since he is a YT natural.:) My wild corner is a 3m diameter disc in my front lawn which has an unknown variety of wildflowers (seedbox from Aldi). Just about to start flowering so I can get my 50-year-old Oxford Book of Wildflowers out and have fun ID-ing them all. :) Good to see your re-purposed chiminea. I don't think gardeners ever throw much out! I rescued a plastic bucket from the hedgerow on my recent local wander and repurposed it as a wormery! All I need now are worms! A great video again. Thanks for sharing your plot.

[@AGloriousLife]

I'm in America and my mother always called it "crumble" as well - I love it! :)

[@suebar5177]

Your garden is gorgeous!!! The trellis turned out great 🌞

[@tahliabarnard8180]

Thank you Catrina, you have worked wonders on that plot, so inspiring!

[@LanaiDebbie]

I love in Hawaii, which is of course a very different climate than almost anywhere. I was inspired by you to try and grow Dahlias this year. I planted 9 tubers the end of June and only 3 have come up. I am very disappointed to have lost 6 of them to rot, but excited to have the flowers from the remaining 3.

[@ronniasybiria1207]

Great to see your garden.All tahe best from North Scotland

[@markfrancis9106]

Loved the tour. Look forward to seeing the harvest👍

[@emelitanakagawa8397]

You are so beautiful &love your long hair! :) I like the way you did to your allotment! Thank you for the video! Watching from Japan

[@m.g.d4721]

My garden is doing well. Slowly but surely. I’m enjoying every stage of my plants.💚

[@ashleyrobinson7989]

Looking lovely. Such a wonderful time of year to see things actually growing so fast. Looking forward to seeing your blooming dahlias

[@heatherpotchford3908]

Your plot is looking amazing !! Just down the road in Sutton in ashfield, have a little veg patch in my garden, I took my boys “ to Batman’s house” the other day and live seeing the baby dear, can’t wait untill the gardens are open All the best xxx

[@trevorbutler785]

Converted part of my own garden to growing veg this year, struggled to get seeds in lockdown so everything that we ate that had a seed go planted. So far so good. Experimental year I call it, as I know I have made many mistakes such as not thinning out. My Beetroots are crazy but no real beetroot when you pull it up, I am told because too many shoots have joined together? Who knew that learning to grow things would be so scientific - I don't plant weeds but they appear to grow with no intervention or watering and look amazing!! Courgettes are doing well - and the excitement of eating your own produce should not be underestimated. Keep growing everyone - its good for the soul. (South East England)

[@homegrowngarden]

This is all so great to hear! One of the positive outcomes of the pandemic is the number of new people gardening and growing their own. Beetroot can take a little while to swell. I grow mine in clusters of 3. Anymore and I remove them to give more space to grow. I’m sure with plenty of water your beets will swell soon. To check on the size you can use a finger to rub away the soil on the surface and have a feel. That way you don’t harvest them before they’re ready!

[@jimjim7708]

looking great... and the garden is doing well too.

[@brokenplanet7948]

The garden is looking fab 👍

[@mobrosch9154]

So much to celebrate there on your beautiful plot. Such hard work, but look at the reward 😁 thanks for the advice about blight watch I am just about to move my costoluto tomatoes outside from being under a decking shelter, but will check first! What have you used on your paths they look amazingly weed free ? Enjoy your well earned rest now and enjoy the fruits and veg of your labours!

[@westlondongardener4476]

Your hard work has paid off ❤❤❤

[@aylamonic]

Even though it doesn't produce actual fruit, You can use the banana plant leaves to wrap food to grill! Love your garden!

[@homegrowngarden]

Ooh! Good tip, thank you 😃

[@elisachinx3426]

I love your garden so much

[@riesmuffa5781]

Wowww... Beautifull garden

[@maxxusmaksim5431]

Your allotment garden is awesome. I live in South Florida USA and this time of the year is so hot at times. I'm jealous 😃 stay safe young lady.

[@dawndawn6946]

Congratulations on all the new subscribers!🎉🎊🍾

[@dawndawn6946]

Everything looks so beautiful! So much good work!❤️

[@toneyjohnson8910]

Your garden is looking so good and the strawberries I'm so jealous I need to plant some for next year. Thanks for sharing this video

[@merindalee]

I just watched a video from last year where the strawberries weren't happy, I so glad they are finally kicking off! :)

[@homegrowngarden]

I harvested 2.4kg yesterday and just made 9 jars of jam. I’m over the moon 😁🍓

[@ciararaf]

Thank you, it was very encouraging to watch your video.