The Allotment is Filling Up

[@helenhawkins4054]

Iove them for their names alone, all looking good.🤗

[@jeanhelliwell8160]

I can see why you would be excited about the shredded cardboard. My husband got me an industrial shredder that does it like that, he brings home cardboard boxes from work, so I have lots on hand, it's so exciting.

[@gwenntastic7143]

Very interesting how your Buena Mulata had green leaves and mine had purple, even as tiny plant. Later, when plantet out, it faded more into green though.

[@nineteenninetyfive]

At the end of spring i move everything unnecessary out of the greenhouse and create more space for the plants to grow. I recommend it.

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi JB, oh no! 2 hours of your videoing work gone! At least you can start again 😉 but, make sure you mic is on 😂 i thinknwe are a guilty of chuckingvallsorts into our greenhouses during the seed sowing part of the season. I had to clear out my polytunnel a few days ago and its surprising how you forget what you actually have too 😂 well done Jess in writing & publishing your first book and good luck too ❤ your peppers are doing well. Great video update, thanks for sharing and take care 😊

[@potagermalo]

Superbe vidéo bravo 😊 A bientôt

[@amandar7719]

All the best for Jess’s book launch!!! 🎉🎉🎉🍾🍾🍾

[@JBNat]

Thank you!!

[@katedijkers7827]

You are amazing! How you can laugh after things go worng! This video on the peppers and chilis is really informative. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@mandytaylor1008]

I think next year I must grow along with you my chillies and peppers

[@cathtf7957]

Peppers look really good.

[@RealFoodComesDirty]

Hi JB, thanks so much for the shout out! You really have become a chile head! Just ordered Jess's book, can't wait to read it♥

[@JBNat]

Oh Audrey you absolute legend thank you!

[@danhadley8204]

All I grow is chillis. I'm obsessed. Lv the channel. Just need lots of chilli updates. 🌶

[@JBNat]

Yesss chilli heads unite! I fully understand that

[@mandytaylor1008]

Sweet peppers about the same size. It happens every year I will keep trying and they above the radiator where it’s very warm but I think the cold nights might be the reason why they don’t grow

[@thetinygarden_]

Your peppers look amazing 👏 😋 🌶🫑 look forward to seeing how they get on later in the year! Laura 🌱 🙃

[@JBNat]

Thank you Laura!

[@mandytaylor1008]

Hi jb I usually go to plot later in the day and stay till 7.00-8.00 and I often alone as most are there early morning and stay till wen I arrive

[@Melinda_WA_US]

The galoshes in corner of the greenhouse are so cute.

[@JBNat]

The pink ones? They're my mums 😂

[@Melinda_WA_US]

@@JBNat They had flowers 🌺

[@Fortheloveof.gardening]

congrats on the book 👏🏻Like the idea of sewing seeds at different times I might do that. Every year they are volunteer tomatoes outside that catch-up ...

[@kimallard225]

Hi JB, I love your you tube channel. Today purchased Jess book. Sample was great. So I can enjoy the book over the weekend while gardening at my allotment. Good luck with it Jess. Xx

[@JBNat]

Thank you Kim!!!!!! Thank you so much!

[@ConcreteCauldron]

Love the book cover!🎉

[@JBNat]

Thank you!! 😍

[@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

Hey JB, G'day mate I am glad to see you are very happy today and having fun showing the peppers and all their glory. I see you are growing Korean peppers I have ordered Korean garlic to arrive in the fall for October planting. I make lots and lots of Kimchee so I grow the Daikon Radish, garlic and Napa cabbage for that. I would love to make the red pepper powder as well. So I will follow your plant with much interest so I can find some seeds for next year. I do hope you can find some to enjoy your garden all summer long. Peace and blessings bye for now

[@JBNat]

Ooh Korean Garlic, interesting! Anything different about it from the usual varieties? I'd love to try making kimchi at some point.

[@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

​ @Naturally JB this year I ordered Korean, Vietnamese, Persian and Armenian seed garlic. They come in cloves we plant them October and harvest in August. These are hardneck varieties.

[@jeanhelliwell8160]

I've ordered Jess's book, looking forward to it arriving.

[@JBNat]

Thank you so much Jean!!!!

[@PreatorRaszagal]

Nice that the other allotments are getting used 👍Haha that difference in size between the Lemon StarrBurst and the Buena Mulata 😄Though since they are from different cultivars, so it is probably like comparing apples and bananas hehe. Cool experiment with planting seeds this late. Can't wait to see how that goes.The answer to "why do you grow so many pepper plants" is of course "so I can burn my face of in many different ways" 🤪I have *one* tiny Olho de Peixe growing in a can. Not sure it will amount to anything though. All your plants look nice (and a bit thirsty hehe). I think you did the right thing with pot sizes. I usually go from starting tray to a 9 x 9 x 9 cm pot to a 1 litre pot and then to a 6 or 9 litre pot. This year however I went from the 9 cm pots to 2.5 litre pots. Some of the plants will stay in those and some will get potted up in to the 6 or 9 litre pots. We'll see how many I think I can accommodate on the balcony!

[@JBNat]

Great stuff Ras. I've just put some in 2.5L pots and I'm wondering now if I should have just bitten the bullet and put them straight into their final sized pots.. I was thinking I didn't have enough compost for all of them though!

[@PreatorRaszagal]

@@JBNat I've been thinking about that too. I just went with the deeper 2.5 liter pots because I *had* to pot them up and it was still too cold to have them on the balcony. Would never have had room for all the plants in anything bigger than these pots hehe. If I ever mange to only grow like 4-6 larger plants I think I'd go from 9 x 9 cm to 1.5-2 liter and then to final size. But I just keep growing too many plant and can't decide which to put in big pots 🤪

[@amandar7719]

My main harvest peppers were sown 15 March but I’ve found the missing orange bell pepper seeds today and intend to sow them as a trial. (1st May). Will keep folk in the loop via your channel #OrangeBellPeppers

[@mandytaylor1008]

I have one Hungarian hot wax one shake and some lemon drop and another long slim that’s it and they are alive but only about 4” tall

[@stephenblaze4571]

Cracking video JB so many types of peppers I like growing tomato plants no idea why I just love them

[@julieallinson5729]

Jess’s book is totally charming. ❤ Well done, girl! 🙌. Oh, and your peppers look great, JB. 😅

[@JBNat]

Thank you so much Julie!! I think the book is definitely more important than the peppers, you got the priorities right!

[@mandytaylor1008]

I am terrible at griwing chillies sweet peppers and aubergines they always struggle to get going I sowed in feb but they so small

[@nazimchowdhury7307]

Hi, do you snip the tops of the pepper plant to encourage bushy growth?

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

the alloment feels like it is going to be super full very very soon! i know the weeds are booming lol

[@emdeejay7432]

You got me wanting to grow some exotic varieties of chili. We've got some bhut jolokia(which is just a fancy name for ghost pepper, which you probably know) and i ordered a striped sugary rush peach, you had that in one video and it was so pretty i had to try it i got some others too habanero and chocolate habneros and a bunch of more everyday varieties too. But yours always look so nice i wanted to get aome different varieties. Your aji amarillo and cayenne looked so great in one video. Your videos always make my growers envy kick and go "I wanna grow that" and before i know it im on etsy ordering a bunch of seeds going well its only a few dollars and then its up to 30 dollars before I know it haha. My bf looks at me like im crazy everytime another package shows up for me cause he knows its seeds hahaha

[@christinamoxon]

Love to see you smiling over your chilli plants. I get the same giddy feeling. They make me so happy. I've struggled with my NuMex chillies this year - either they didn't germinate or they stalled really early and haven't grown at all. I'm babying the sole survivor. I have to say, some of them are looking a bit sparse in the leaf department. Some of them, like the Kashmiri, are climbing high but really narrow - not sure if that's normal as I'm a novice chilli grower. I need to do so much more research.

[@JBNat]

Kashmiri are tall and some of the NuMex varieties can be tricky! Sounds like you're not really doing anything wrong to me! Check out Tony C. Smith's Kashmiri plants, they're so tall!

[@spacedogsuk3789]

my chillis sown 1st feb are tiny! compared ....have scotch bonnet...red demon..cayenne..trinidad perfume and tabasco.....thanks for yr advise ....have 6 more cayenne sown 4 weeks ago and are allmost catching the others up!

[@seanH1768]

Looks like you’ll be needing another greenhouse 😂

[@glassbackdiy3949]

I grew Jalapenos and scotch bonnet last yr, still have a jar of dried Jal and two jars of scotch left having runied at least one meal with them adding too much, sticking to sweet peppers this year, we're such lightweights lol getting a forcast of 2C on Tues night/wed morn here in the E Mids, which for us in the bottom of a valley means getting the fleece out just in case! Peppers and melons are staying indoors for now ;)

[@JBNat]

Hahahah I've ruined plenty of meals for myself before, that's how you start to build up a tolerance 😅

[@wildchook745]

Congrats, Jess! I just ordered your book :) Don't forget to plant some sugar baby watermelon JB. Use a vertical trellis to keep it off the ground so the rats don't get to it. A nice treat to have at the end of summer. :)

[@JBNat]

Thank you so much Mary!!! My sugar babies are still safe inside at home :) they're actually doing really well on the window sill! I'll move them out to the greenhouse in a few weeks when it's even warmer

[@amandar7719]

JB. I’ve noticed a peculiarity with my peppers this year. Of each variety at equal stages of growth, they appear to use water in spurts. That is, odd pots dotted about in their watering trays get really dry overnight but not all. Then another day others appear to have a drink sesh and dry out when their mates are fine. I’m hardening off atm as most are earmarked for transplanting outdoors without being potted up again. They’re healthy, dark green and itching to stretch their roots. Do peppers have growth spurts like children do?

[@JBNat]

Hahaha that sounds really interesting! It doesn't sound completely strange as they love a wet/dry cycle. I notice that my peppers drink and use water at completely different rates, so I have to pick up each individual pot to see how dry/wet it is.

[@StellasVegetablegardens]

my trinidad perfume sat on windowsill is flowering is that normal 😮

[@vanessawilkinson9855]

JB my peppers are much smaller, started them February I think & don’t have grow lights so been growing on windowsills. I’ve repotted them on to their 3rd pot (7cm) I think. Should I start feeding them to encourage their growth? I think if I potted them on again there’d look daft!, still indoors too, but will eventually go to the greenhouse. Thanks

[@JBNat]

Yes if they're only getting window sill light it will slow them down quite a lot. Potting them into too big a pot can slightly slow their growth as well so I would wait until they're a bit bigger yet. You can hopefully see the sort of size mine are getting to before I pot them on into 1 Litre pots :)

[@mandytaylor1008]

Do you not plant in the ground?

[@JBNat]

I prefer pots because of the control it gives, and I've never set up a greenhouse with a raised bed (yet)

[@sprre3899]

Hi, sorry if you’ve answered this question before, but are you feeding your chilli plants at this stage, and if so what are you using? Also how do you go about watering them, do you saturate the soil or is there a certain way you water them?

[@JBNat]

Very light seaweed feed, bottom watering is best but I can't really do that as I don't have any level surfaces anywhere!

[@curbs76-uk-54]

Hey jb have you tried growing your chilli peppers outside ?

[@JBNat]

Yeah I find they don't do too well. You really have to wait for the soil to have warmed up too. Easier in a raised bed too. They can do okay outside but nowhere near as much control as a greenhouse offers you

[@curbs76-uk-54]

@@JBNat OK thanks

[@nazimchowdhury7307]

Hardening off seedlings raised in the house is such a chore. Really find it annoying when I have trays of variety of plants.

[@mandytaylor1008]

Do you get lots of fruit jb?

[@JBNat]

Some years better than others! 2021 is worth going and checking out a few of my harvest videos from the pepper playlist. 2022 everything went wrong due to my dad's health. I had to spend a lot of time helping out and in the hospital etc so it's a miracle my plants ever survived.

[@Lynne-plot35b-36b]

Areyou going to do a voice over like Tony does sometime on the video with no microphone? Lol

[@JBNat]

That works so great for when you're doing something.. but when it's just a 20 minute video of someone talking to the camera and giving advice, not so much 😂

[@mandytaylor1008]

Probably gonna need a propogator

[@mags9536]

Just do voice over on the video microphone wasn't on. 🙂

[@Carol-oc7mx]

Don't waste the video footage ...... Do a Tony C Smith and do a voice over 😊