Potato Decisions and Gooseberry Pruning in the January Sun! Ep 199 || Plot 37

This week its time to choose the Potatoes for the year!
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[@AZJH8374]

Beautiful cat!!! Yeah, you just said ep 200 will be a plot 37 overview. So you don't live where your garden is. Hum! Can't wait to find out more. Nurse Judi in AZ

[@colrunswild4adventure781]

Chatting potatoes can't be a waste of. They're sat there doing there thing, you don't have to do anything one you sat them in the trays. I love chatting but on the fence.

[@AZJH8374]

New subscriber. I've been watching homesteaders for 5 years now, & this is the l st UK vlog like yours. Except for Just Alex. How fun. Married, kids? Let's just go see & have fun!!! Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister. Prayers daily 🙏🏻 for ✝️ 🙏🏻 you.

[@JoesPatch]

Was that tea coming straight out of the kettle 😮 so teabag boiled in the kettle 🧐😮😱🫣🤯

[@janenewley1014]

Looked like it to me too😀😀😀Jinxy

[@AZJH8374]

1 down, 198 to go!!! Beautiful music, BTW Classical piano player for me 25 years. Just adds to the enjoyment of your vid. Fun thing, I have to learn metric, & pen & paper by so I can write down the name of some of your plants. Lol. Like eggplant 🍆 🤪 l think we would have been fast friends in a different lifetime. Good luck. I can't believe you don't have 100,000 subscribers already. You certainly deserve it. 👏

[@Colinking2127]

Don't worry about what anyone else thinks. Life's too short. I've 3 buddlejas in my garden that give me endless enjoyment watching the butterflies and bee's. This is the time for changes in the garden or allotment, I'm altering the garden to grow my vegetables at home as I had to give up my allotment due to health. I always enjoy watching your vlogs.

[@janenewley1014]

When I get to picking…I pick from below…easier not to get prickled to death😱😱😱Jinxy

[@johngilbert5302]

Re-do the pottery in black and white - took me back to my childhood and the potter's wheel intermission. Need different background music though...

[@paulinemorris5186]

whatever makes you happy, just carry on

[@jonathanharvey4879]

Surely to "chitt" or not to "chitt" is academic since your potatoes will "chitt". What you should do is control this by storing them in the cool light place. If not as you said you will end up with the long spindly shoots, like a sack of worms! Try sorting that out for planting.

[@blessildajoy]

I have missed your lunches at the allotment.

[@AZJH8374]

&&& your a Potter. My little sis is as well. Boy, you are talented. 😊

[@prospero4183]

God that's milky tea

[@heidicha305]

I love Red Duke of York and I don't find them here in Germany any more. You lucky ones! 😊

[@janenewley1014]

My sympathies…I,ve been pruning soft fruit recently too…ow,ow,ow😢😢😢

[@lynnpurfield9430]

After 20 years we ditched the gooseberry plants in favour of more strawberry plants, they are kinder and more giving 😂

[@alexhuxley3355]

There had better be go-go girls, dancing penguins, fireworks and drinks all round for Episode 200 😸😹😻💘🙉🙈👾🎆🎄🎃 Edit: 🐧🐧🐧👯👯👯👯

[@georgemartin9618]

I'm a chitter not a quitter. Pink fir apple should be very knobbly and produces all sorts of lewd offspring. There is a modern variety called Anya , a cross between Pink fir and Desiree, which looks similar but not as knobbly , so easier to peel . Anya is a second early so you might be able to find out if they're selling fakes if they mature ahead of schedule.

[@sewingman1]

Chitting seed potatoes is the only way ro go. Absolutely nothing to lose and so many yummy potatoes to gain. Next season may I suggest you also try Pentland Javelin. An early potato bred and developed by Jack Dunnett who also bred Kestrel second earlies. Although he has now moved on to that great potato field in the sky, you may enjoy reading about him, start by googling his name.

[@juliefowkes9796]

I’m with you on chitting, it’s part of the allotment/gardening cycle. I also love using egg boxes and this year we got 16 different varieties from Nottingham Organic potato day (including Caledonian Pearl, which we haven’t grown before and I was pleased to hear you singing it’s praises!)

[@joanpulleyjo]

Cheers, Jessie great video. I liked the little pottery segment. 🙂

[@stevendowden2579]

lovely video jessie i liked your pot making what a clever giri you are

[@Sylvie_M]

the paper bag hat is a winner!!! But oh, those prickly jobs....raspberry canes and roses for me. And potting! I just love hand thrown pottery. What else did you do in your Arts studies? I love the relationship that you have with your Mum and hope that you have it for a long time in the future. Good luck with the flowers!!

[@leahayes4644]

Feed the trombancino to the chickens

[@rustysmith8784]

You are a lady with many talents Jess, those bowls looked great. The part when your Mike wasn’t on and you sped up the film, reminded me of a Benny Hill sketch. It made me laugh so much I had to pause the TV. I am also with you about chitting, it give me a nice feeling going into the shed and seeing them all layed out in egg boxes, it is very much a personal thing.

[@Sean.hinchlffe]

@Jessie congratulations for next week, 200 wow, well done. I’m thinking heat 28C is a myth coz here in cold Yorkshire I managed on south windowsill above a radiator set at 20C to germinate 50% of my chillis Cayenne, Habanero & Naga. Onion grow along update not so good , hardly grown & some have damped off. Btw thanks for the reminder to coppice my Buddleias.

[@nataljarimawi4655]

Love your videos! ❤ Ps. Please adjust the headrest in the car - your momma's safety matters x

[@VictoriaHunter-Lines]

Happy chitting

[@Crumbleofborg]

"Budlya" :D

[@SharonBrookes-y6w]

And Jess so do I, so do I 👍

[@susanbrookes8247]

Lovely video as usual . Long live buddlejas

[@angeladrummie4461]

Great Vlog as per usual Jessie. The pottery interlude was great. How are your broad beans growing ? Looking forward to the 200th episode. Well done. X

[@stephenmckelvie2032]

Hi Jessie, Totally agree regarding chitting the spuds. I always chit mine, can't help myself, its in my blood. The good part is that you get to choose what size of of spuds you want by rubbing off some of the chits for larger spuds or keeping the chits on and growing smaller spuds. Loved the pottery lesson, reminds me of my school days, you've got it down to a fine art. I like your grow light set up, it looks the business.

[@aniataylor1156]

Excellent! I'm off to Chapman's on Friday. Have been waiting to find out when they will have potatoes. I also don't want to buy them by the kilo or more and want to try different varieties. I wonder if your allotment shop will sell me some Sylvagrow?? I have tried Osterley twice now and they keep telling me it"s on order!! Can't wait to see your bowls glazed!!

[@suewellings4500]

Your pottery making skills are amazing. I didn’t know you could do that. Were the bowls you ate lunch from your creations too? BTW congrats on your 200 vlog next week. What a milestone 🎉🎉

[@debradevine3949]

Great video.❤❤❤. Is there any plans in the future to add a chicken run or a grassy area for them to enjoy? Just love the girlies❤

[@carollloydjones1313]

Chit away Jessie! Chit away!🤣🤣Cheers 🥂

[@thewitch69]

wow you on a potterswheel is awesome , I live in the potteries and only had one try and it was a disaster zone lol

[@bthyme]

I believe in Plan B: It looks like you could write the potato variety right on the cardboard tray with magic marker - in case the markers get lost. Also, give those trombontinos to your hens - especially the seeds and guts. Natural wormers. They will hollow out that shell to paper thin.

[@Dawn_Grows_Veg]

199 episodes! crikey Jessie well done! looking forward to episode 200, congrats and cheers 🥂. And you keep on chitting , lovely. I will too 👌👍🥔🥔

[@KOLLEKZIYA_FASOLI]

💚💚💚Jessie,thank you very much for the video💚💚💚

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

🐝 Thanks for the great video 🌻 so many sputs nomnom

[@TOPtee34]

so how long you been doing pottery ? well impressed 200 episodes well done ladies.

[@nitelite78]

Wouldn't an advantage of chitting main crop potatoes be that it ensures you don't get long fragile stems growing in the dark? Especially if you are using home saved potatoes.

[@AZJH8374]

What does plot 37 mean? You have that many properties?

[@gardeningwithkay]

Jessie, your pottery skills are mesmerizing ❤ if you ever visit RCA, come and give me a visit at Bento❤

[@moirapastre1234]

Amazing! 199!!! Congratulations!

[@Leanne_N]

I hope we get to see the pottery once it’s all completed, you made it look so easy! I haven’t tried my hand at it yet!

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

I chit potatoes because I like to be sure each one will grow before I plant them. That way I'm not worrying. Similar to sprouting seeds before planting. Puree and bottle the tromboncino squash. I don't know what they taste like. Vegetable marrow squash puree is a good replacement for potato in creamy soups. Also good with milk and sugar for a desert.

[@RichWoods23]

Squash puree, milk and sugar is effectively a pumpkin pie filling, isn't it? I've only had pumpkin pie (American style) once and it was delicious.

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

@@RichWoods23 pumpkin pie uses pumpkin or butternut squash puree, eggs, spices, sugar and milk. Just puree sugar and milk will give an apple sauce type consistency. 😋

[@SusanDuffield-t1y]

Barbecue tongs from the kitchen for pruning goosies and roses - saves fingers!

[@annaking9213]

I have been making pots for 36 years as our family business. In Seagrove, North Carolina, USA. The pottery capital of the UnitedStated. Around 100 different stores within 10 miles. The clay in the area is great for turning. Ours is Kings Pottery , our daughter has her own shop. Crystal King Pottery, she started making pots when she was 5 years old. We make dish’s of all kind, but we are known for are folk art face jugs. It was fun watching you turn.

[@lynnpurfield9430]

Love the cly venture, you are so talented Jessie 😍

[@jacquis-j9606]

Hi Jessie being a fairly novice gardener could I ask if you could talk about your tunnels, cages etc at some point and why you have different coverings on each. Thank you

[@lynnpurfield9430]

Oooo looking forward to Flower Potty Mouth xxx

[@jonquilhawthorne3257]

While I,m lying here with the Real flu, that attacks Every part of your body, its So lovely watching you doing what I should be doing, you've brightened my day Jessie ! 🤩

[@kathleenfoleygeiger2511]

This was so much fun! Thank you! I laughed ut loud at your potato exploits! Your mum! Yes! Short term memory. I laughed so hard at this part in the car, and am in this same boat! Wishing you all the best for 200!

[@Nicktgrief]

what a difference from episode 1 ... quiet little shy mouse presenting and now ... ta for the weekly treat over all the weeks its been emotional

[@delphine88313]

You are so gifted

[@johndeakin7401]

lovely video jessie . love youur videos i get a lot of tips from your show . love the potty club good to see you all on it .get a lot of tips from thee show to can not wait till its on . i dont have any luck with growing flowers but this year am going to give a go again . john from scotland

[@paulachalk1247]

Well, been watching for a while, but first time commenting, i have both gooseberry and Budleiya in my garden so thats a great reminder for me to get my pruners out.

[@Genevieve8002]

I’ll have to try and get over to Chapman’s, I’ll be growing in about 4 pots, may be 3. No need for me to have a whole kilo!!! Also it will be nice to try some different varieties. Can’t get there for a couple of week’s though - hope they won’t be sold out!!

[@jensissons5709]

mylar space blankets are cheap alternative to aluminium

[@andrewhead6267]

Glove Hunt sounds like a Tory cabinet pairing.

[@lindaalbano6868]

I love how you made your bowl

[@lydiaStrugas]

There you are! Happy to see you. Lydia

[@lithiump0p688]

i went bit bonkersthis year with my potatoes I orderd online since where i live there are no cool potatoes and got almost like 20kg. I got pink ones Red Cardinal and blue ones Violet Queen and really old sort Zeuwsche Blaue and long tuber ones Sardellkartul. Probably need to give some to friends and neighbors. But they only sold minimum of 3kg on some and some only 10kg.

[@kimallard225]

Jess, you should be wearing safty glasses or even just sun glasses when prunning gooseberries. I've done that job, and you dont see the points, and believe me that frigging hurts like billio if you scratch or poke an eye ouchie ouchie. Love Kim xxx

[@kareninthegarden]

I also chit my potatoes :🥔😁

[@janenewley1014]

Next step…Great British Throw Down??😀Jinxy

[@nitelite78]

I saw some Caledonian Pearl potatoes at my local garden centre yesterday and remembered you saying they were good. I was really tempted - they look really nice on the front of the pack with their pale appearance - but I had decided I would do Charlotte vs Nicola this year as I've never grown either. Up to now I've only grown International Kidney (AKA Jersey Royals) for new potatoes but I want something more productive. Also I don't think International Kidney are as good as they were when I was younger. Used to taste better - my Mum who is from Jersey always says that too. Think it's something to do with them not using sea weed anymore, so I want to try other varieties. I could no way do all three as I also have 3 main crops and I won't have the containers or compost for 6 potato varieties. So it's Nicola vs Charlotte this year and next year I will try Caledonian Pearl if I can still get them locally.

[@kimallard225]

Jess, I'm with you 👍, I like chitting my potatoes, starting February. Me again. I'm being quite prolifically chatty this week, sorry. Love the vlog Great, as usual. 🤗

[@richardhart7652]

Buddleia is fantastic. New throwdown star?😊😊😅

[@dogontheplot]

I'm a chitter too and same - it's not really about them needing it or not, it's about the sense of anticipation they produce sitting there on the windowsill. There's so little else to be doing in winter and if there's space, why wouldn't you want to see your little potatoes coming to life and heralding in the start of Spring! Good advice on the buddleias - I've noticed a couple of seedlings pop up in the fruit tree guilds so I think I'll relocate where they can act as a privacy screen and then do the same and coppice them. Looking forward to ep 200!

[@samanthahoos9827]

Potatoes! ❤ Last year’s harvest was great, but a bag of potatoes was forgotten long enough to start sprouting so I’ll be using them for 2024 growing season. Yes, I CHIT but I chop my potatoes to have 2-3 eyes per seed starter allowing the cut side to scab over. I plant in March, but this year I’m doing more in buckets than the beds to make space for more plants. When you prune you plop things on the ground rather than put them right in a bucket for dumping elsewhere - save time and your fingers. Pavers in the fruit cage - do you worry about pests hiding underneath?

[@tamararoberts9307]

Can hardly believe I've enjoyed 199 of your vlogs already ❤ I too, use foil behind my seedlings every year 😊 I love to craft and have always wanted to get into pottery but haven't yet. Looks like you know your stuff with that , beautiful bowls 😊 as always, looking forward to your next vlog ❤ cheers from a fellow chitter! 🍻 😊

[@homegrownstu72]

Hi Jessie. The tin foil issue you're right about is when you are using high power grow lights such as HPS or Metal Halide. For your little LEDs you'll be fine. One piece of advice if you don't mind me saying. Move your lights much much closer to your plants. The lights you are using are very low powered and the distance they are from the plants is causing them to stretch as there isn't sufficient lumen levels reaching the plants and they're reaching for the light. Loved your pottery work, that was awesome watching you make those bowls, such skills. Wow 199 episodes, and I've watched every single one! Stu

[@gloriadavidson8599]

Jessie you are a truly gifted potter 👍👍👍👍 Garden work lots done 👏👏👏👏 Thank you for the video 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Love Gloria xxx

[@carolallen7747]

Hi. Jessie . In one of your videos you recommended a rake that was recommended for you and can't remember which one it is.🤦 Looking for a decent rake due to mine has now on his last legs 😂. Thank you.

[@nitelite78]

I really enjoyed my cima di rapa that I grew earlier this year after seeing it on your channel and Steve's Green Side Up channel. Wonderful bitterness to it. I didn't grow enough of it though so hopefully will find space for more next year.

[@ChristopherHendrie]

I like Buddlejas their magnets for the butterflies 🇦🇺

[@suebell3677]

Wow Jessie, number 200 next week, I still remember finding you on youtube when you did number1 in lockdown !!!!! Are you going to celebrate?🎉🎉🎉🎉 Amazing pottery, you make it look so easy, mine always wiggles into an ugly shape!! Love to chit too!!!

[@TheFarmyardGarden]

The pottery was such a joy to watch. You have many talents. Very impressive. Such a lovely episode. I’m chitting my potatoes but may have done the complete opposite of your (very good advice) and bought the bags of each variety. Sooo many potatoes 🤣

[@jessievanswaaij2971]

I love my hat, thank you so much 🤣.I´m looking forward to the history of plot 37 and your big reveal thingy. I didn´t know you did pottery, you doing awesome! I can´t remember the recipe with cimi di rapa but i do remember the cavolo nero shoots with garlic , chili and fennel seeds and pasta i think. I made that a lot anyway. Lot´s of love from Belgium

[@dereknash3638]

I’m a chitter, mine have been in egg boxes on conservatory window sills chitting since early Jan. I like you can buy them loose as you can pick the size, when you buy in packs you you get a mixture of sizes.

[@myrustygarden]

Will you get more sunshine on the plot with the tree gone? It has been ages since lunch 🥙 on the lot but sun looks amazing. Budlehia are a banned bush in the USA thank goodness not here in Canada I love them 😍. We don’t get potatoes here for a bit longer but we definitely don’t get them loose like you 😢. Exciting times ahead. Have a super week ladies here’s to episode 500 yes I said it 500 ❤, Ali ☔️🇨🇦

[@brightpurpleviking]

What a pleasure this was to watch 🎉I’m excited to see the garden take shape for 2024! Thank you for sharing ❤

[@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

Hello Jessie, I am so excited we do not have any snow on the ground anywhere today. Last year by today we had 55 inches of snow compared to 7 inches this year so far. Tomorrow we will be 55° F or 12.7° C!!! It is just crazy. I am already adding up the reduction of cost for the winter heating bills. Can not wait to see how much we are saving this winter. I am fighting to not get excited about starting seeds knowing in two weeks we could have 20 inches of snow. We have not had winter yet we did have a few days of daytime highs -23° C for a couple of days otherwise very mild winter. I am very interested in getting some of the Cima di Rapa seeds I have wanted these for several years. I found I can buy some Italian seeds locally so I am getting them. Potatoes: I have all my potato harvest and all the ones that start to sprout will then chit themselves until the day I take them and plant them for the new crop. I do not buy any potato seeds as I just watch them and eat all the good ones and let the rest volunteer to be the seeds for next year. We get 50 pounds every years this is 10 to 15 years now. So I do not know if I chit or not I just plant them and laugh as all the other folks lose their minds at what others are doing. Cya next time take care.

[@teresaedwards3659]

Nice to see you!

[@sharon1615]

Fab vlog Jessie 🥰

[@gregbluefinstudios4658]

Across the pond, here's my choices for Potato: Yukon Gold, Red Bliss, Adirondack Blue, Red Norland. I just got to Chitting! Mine go into ground about March 17th (St. Patrick's Day) well, when I say ground, I mean my 25 gallon Fabric Grow Bags. 1/3 compost, 1/3 peat, 1/3 garden soil.

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi Jessie and your Mum, itcwill be interesting to see which advice works for your gooseberries. Love the re-use of all the tree branches ❤ looking forward to the flower chat on Potty Mouth. I'm with you, I like chitting my potatoes too 😊 I have cucumbers & melons too, so pleased I sown mine the same time 😊 I might try the foil for my plants too. Aww, lovely Lil ❤ great video! Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

[@avrilsadler6813]

I also love to chit my potatoes including my maincrop ones. I love the tradition, just as you do, of seeing them sprout into life. Love your videos. Like you I have so much to do at my allotment.

[@Fortheloveof.gardening]

Well done. There are lovely thornless gooseberries... well done on getting the video out !

[@KraftyKaren-7]

You are so talented, are those 2 bowls you are serving you food in are the ones you had made yourself? Love the color design on the inside bottom of them. Congratulations to making you 200 episodes!!!! Yay!!! Cheers to you and your mom😊💜

[@helenhawkins4054]

Loved it all.😊

[@jennyjohnson9012]

Totally agree with you about Buddleias Jessie. I have 3, all different shades of purple and I love seeing all the beautiful butterflies each summer. I use the sticks too! I haven't ordered my potatoes yet, but I do chit as well. Haven't decided on the variety but definitely planting in tubs this year. Mine in the ground were very poor last year. Enjoyed the video as always.

[@sherridynpistorius4910]

Oohh! Loved watching the hand thrown pottery, always wanted to try. Too much hand joint damage now but love seeing others do it😊

[@ClareOvaltine]

Thanks

[@BettyandtheBees]

Absolutely loved watching the pottery bit, you're very talented. And drooling at that pasta at the end. Delicious!

[@Stephen474]

Hi Jessie great bowls, as well as shower maintenance you can do pottery, many talents your bf is a lucky fella, I grow main crop spuds and never chit them, the earlier varieties yes chit them but with main crops I don't plant them straight away, 199 😳have I been watching that long haha 😉watching you grow as a KZbinr from couple vids before covid then your covid videos as you lost your job, Ive watched you every week for 4 years since as its been a pleasure watching you from the start, I love the wine ending chats, take care Steve