Sorting out the Polytunnel Tomatoes, Harvesting Shallots and Sowing Salad || Plot 37 (Episode 65)
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- This week on the allotment we have had all the weather! Vlogging in the rain mostly! But because of the rain we have decided to lift (harvest) the shallots that were grown from sets. They probably could have done with a few days of sunshine but the weather has been so wet they are in danger of rotting out in the ground if we didn't harvest them! They are a little safer because of being grown in a raised bed but they are starting to look a bit soft.
I am also tidying up the tomatoes that are growing in the polytunnel. The tomatoes are getting quite tall and i am pruning them and tying in the plants and tightening the strings they are growing up. I also give the tomatoes a really good feed with a liquid seaweed feed. Feeding tomatoes is really important at this stage just as they are beginning to produce their first fruit!
After that i am sowing loads of lettuce seeds into module trays ready for planting out when the current lot are finished.
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I learned something new today. I thought I was growing onions but watching your video I see they are shallots. I was given 20 of them last year and just left them in the ground. Today I harvested 100 of them. I will replant the small ones and do it all over. Thank you.
I watch all your vlogs. Thank you for sharing your experience and valuable information. The person that I admire so much is your mom. She is such a humble, hardworking and quiet person. She goes about her work in such a quiet but yet concentrated way and just by her action you immediately know that she has a mountain of garden knowledge. Thank you once again. I loved your sister, s garden as well.
Felicity Jacobs, Cape Town, South Africa
2 years ago and the garden was still beautiful. Have a great Tuesday.
Jesse, if you can get your hands on 2 inch copper tape and put it around the stems of your plants it will deter slugs and snails. Hope this helps you!
Thanks Pamela. I’ve tried copper around the tops of pots before but never around the actual plants! Good idea.
Excellent vlog again. No wonder the English are obsessed with the weather as we get at least a couple of seasons every week!
Thanks Jessie for another relaxing vlog. I think we can introduce the "drinking game" to this edition, every time muellered is mentioned take a swig/sip of your favourite tipple.
Cheers Jessie
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Hahah, thanks Sheila. I think ‘muellered’ is sadly going to feature next week too… 😂
Grow radish close by as a sacrificial lure, slugs and snails prefer it, then you just compost the radish that has been devoured.. :) Saved my french beans and brassicas doing this way this year.
I’ll do some between!
Hi Jessie
It's a real joy to see you at work. I usually watch your vlog on TV in the evening. Much better than normal programs. Nice tip for tightening up your tomato strings and you're not alone with slugs. Get plenty of rain and they're out in force! If I get poor quality compost I force it through a small sieve to make it finer and more workable for seed trays plus you can remove any larger unwanted bits.
Thanks Steve! The slug-war is real this yeah isn’t it?
I actually tried putting a bit of that stuff through a fairly wide sieve and absolutely nothing came through! 🙄
Not sowing all your suggestions, Jessie, but a good few. It's just good to get the names. Thanks. Sorry to hear job problems. You won't be out of work long.👍🏼
Got a lovely crop of spinach this year, baby turnips & beets, onions, brassica leaves....Lovely
Ah, that’s lovely!
Totally with you on onion sets!
🪰 My four Calendula plants had numerous stalks that were smothered in black fly. Today I noticed that hoverfly were encircling half of the Calendula, both of which were now clear of the fly mess! Now I need them to move across to the other pair of plants. As I was dead heading some of the flowers I even found Mrs 🐞 patrolling amidst the black fly, so I left her to it. Go grrl!
Morning Jessie and mom hope everyone is doing well. I do onion sets because I’m too lazy to faf about with tiny seedlings. 😂😂 I remember Tony C Smith did the same put up lovely net and then found he’d trapped a few moths. Still praying for rain here not only for the garden but forest fires are running rampant. Do you think you will make a bigger poly tunnel in the future, you seem to utilize it a lot. I know in Victorian times they would lay entire seaweed plants between strawberry plants to ward off slugs and fertilize. 🤮🤢 on the seed compost. Everything looks fantastic and pm me if you want some poppy seeds. Thank you for sharing ✌️🇨🇦🐝 safe all
I’ll have a word and see if we can swap weathers for a bit!!
Seaweed is pretty amazing stuff… if I lived near the sea I’d be dragging it onto my strawberries I’m sure!
Maybe one day on the polytunnel front. Or possibly a second one. Or maybe I’ll wait until I buy some land and build a huge one! 😄
I’ll DM you re poppies!
We harvested our shallots yesterday for the very same reason. The weather is more akin to April than July!! Your plot looks incredible !
Thank you for posting another lovely video. I'm always learning from you. Love your mom's pink hair! How fun!!!!
Thanks Debbie! (I’ll pass that on to her 🙂)
Before i go any further in this vlog i just want to say that "Windy stick" is a great idea. Never heard of this before. I guess i wouldn't as i'm not a gardener or even have a garden or allotment. I just really find your videos so fascinating and calming. x
Ah, thanks Joanne!
what a lovely video that was
Thanks Steven!
A very beautiful garden and life! You are very blessed.
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Those Atomic Grape tomatoes take forever to ripen. If this is your first attempt then I would suggest they have to have a bit of give in the flesh, be fully coloured and look for fine red stripes in the flesh before harvest. Could be in for a long wait this year. Worth it apparently. They are on my list for next year. Great episode as always. Closing in on 14K! Nice.
Thanks Corynsboy, I’ve heard a lot of people being rather unimpressed with them because I guess they are picking too early. I will hold off!
2nd year grower. Popped electric onion sets in last October and pulled them today because of the wet, warm weather. Pleased to have some huge healthy onions, have loved seeing them grow, they got snowed on and everything over winter. So it's sets for me for now, maybe give seeds a try in future. Love the vlogs, thanks Jessie
Thanks Gina, yeah sets do perform magnificently for some people! I just never seem to get much bigger than from seed where I am, so it’s a bit pointless. Glad you got some gorgeous onions!
Thanks for all your hints and tips and your music choice is just perfect. I could listen to it all day. 🎼🎹
Most seaweed fertilisers have high levels of natural plant growth regulators too. Kelp is one of the fastest growing plants in the world.
Yes, it’s wonderful stuff!
Jessie you got me inspired with your vlogs. So for the first time ever in my gardening career, I will be doing succession sowing and see how it goes. Also, I remember the very first year when I moved from a urban gardening on my tiny balcony to a plot gardening, the plot was infested with slugs. I very literally cried of broken heart when the slugs destroyed the entire lettuce and broccoli bed over night. It was even hard to walk the slugs were everywhere... The only solution that helped saving the leftover crop was beer. Absolute nightmare. Anyhow... my fall seeds just arrived and I realized that I ordered some more pretty lettuce that I just can live without and as it turned I already had it in my stash :) The good thing is that you can never have too much lettuce. I will be eating a lot Merveille de quatre saisons this year ;)
Oh, one of the things about slugs is just that isn’t it? They just wipe out whole beds over night… 😞
Hahahah, Never too much lettuce! 😄
Somewhere in the world it's morning.
Great stuff again Jess.
Thanks Gary!
@@JessieatPlot37 always a pleasure to see you girls.xx great stuff.x
Another great video Jessie. Thank you
Thanks Bev!
I planted peppers in my polyhouse with the tomatoes, the peppers started getting chomped by slugs, planted marigolds in amongst them...yep, they're getting mullered too. HELP !!! Great vlog though Jessie 👌
It’s bloody relentless right now isn’t it!!! 😞🙄
@@JessieatPlot37 absolute nightmare Jessie, plus the damn pigeons and mice...ahhhh the joys😂
‘Roberts your mother’s brother!’ 😂😂😂 that comment killed me - never heard it before lol Lovely vlog as usual my lovely xxxx
Hahahah, thanks Helen!
Me too, hilarious 🤣😆😂
Great vlog, as always Jessie, 👍thank you 😊
The cleverest version of 'Bobs Your Uncle" I have ever heard for sure!
Gorgeous, one hell of a gardener and one hell of a chef, Are you single ?????
Love your videos, Jess!
😄 thank you!
Interesting comments about the cabbage white. I think the small white must have branched my defences for my brassica tunnel with the result my red cabbage, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower were decimated literally overnight 😢😢😢😢 ps keep your amazing videos coming, as it keeps me going 🤞
Let’s get Jessie up to 20k subs👍👍👍
Hahah!
The potato beetle is my version of the slug onslaught... I pick hundreds of them daily from 45 meters of plants 🌱 🌱
Interplant bush beans. They repel potato beetles.
@@trollforge I’ll try it next year... I have managed to get ahead of their life-cycle and the problem is greatly reduced... thank you
Lovely vlog as always Jessie
Thanks Hamish!
Nemaslug!!!!!! If only there was one for snails
Indeed! But there’s only so much nemaslug you can use too… lol
Really nice garden and very informative video, excellent, i've subscribed
Mange tout netting...I think you've found the perfect wedding dress!
Ah yes! And a gown of enviromesh! 😄
Really helpful, always reminds me what I should be doing. I blame the weather, and I could do with a handy helper.👏🏼👍😊
Handy helpers are the best! 😄
Love your little „windy sticks“ and how/why you use them. I use them as well, but rarely to tighten, more to loosen the string. When my tomatoes hit the roof I cut off lower leaves and lower the whole plant to the ground so it can continue growing. I never realized it would help when the knot at the bottom starts slipping up (I don’t bury it because I’m afraid it will rot) so it will definitely make that easier
The rotting off thing is not something I’d really considered before because I’ve always used Nutscene natural string but I bought something else this year and I think that’s what’s going to happen. So I’ve started re-anchoring it!
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I feel your pain with the slug problem. It's like a zombie apocalypse of slugs out there at the moment
It’s a battleground and we are being overwhelmed!
@@JessieatPlot37 I have always had a slug problem and for the last few years use Slug Bells dotted around the garden to tempt the slugs to the slug bait.
Leave about a tablespoon of beer in the bottom of a can and leave it where you are bothered by slugs. They will actually crawl into the can and…no more slug! They will be happy and so will you.
Yeah, we have tried the beer traps. Never just left the cans around though… 😄
I knew this would be a excellent vlog before I watched it and it didn't disappoint( it never does with Jessie's video's). My onions from sets were disappointing because they were much the same size as when I put them in. The shallots were much the same so I have decided this autumn and next season I won't be growing onions/shallots but the garlic has done well so I will still grow them. I still have seeds to sow this month such as Black Radish, spring lettuce and other salad crops and my potatoes are doing well.
Sometimes you just have to go with what works, don’t you! I took a few years off garlic because I couldn’t get anywhere with it!
Glad the other stuff is going well!
This weather and crops ! I have massive cabbages with no hearts, peas only up 5 ins so far, all the beetroots have gone woody lol....but my broad beans, salad crops, and beautiful chard are wonderful. There is some hope!! Love your videos Jessie x
We had exactly the same thing with our compost, so woolly, so decided to buy a specific seed sowing compost, more expensive but worth it!
Yeah, I think i might have to go that route!
Today i learnt that i need to chop side shoots on my tomatoes for airflow/light, problem is that I can only just get through the door of my poly tunnel.... it's like a tomato jungle 🤣
Hahah! 😄
Nice video. Garden is looking great.
Thank you!
Great video nice to see lots of stuff growing and ready to harvest I'm just going to plant out my pepper mint chard keep up the great work jessie@plot37
Thanks Nick. Love peppermint chard, it’s so pretty!
I'm hoping it will taste just as good as it will look
Nice bit of Twin Peaks at the end😎
Cheers Jessie 👍😀👍❤🌻🌷🌼
Cheers!!
I hear you about slugs!!!! I've lost count of how much they have eaten!
It’s a slimy nightmare right now isn’t it?!
Thank you for getting me re motivated. I love your videos, you are sooo relaxed and the advice is excellent as your allotment is in same area as mine.. Look forward to each new episode.
Great vlog Jess! Polyhouse and tomatos looks stupendous! I just direct sowed some lettuces, radish and a tiny bit of spinach last week. Radish are coming through already. Hoping the slugs and snails give you a break, yeiish. Fingers crossed you get a pea and bean harvest. Haha, good ole backward walking mum. She always makes smile. See you Thursday! 🙂
I never had amazing results with the wool compost, the clay buster is brilliant. Seed compost most seeds would not germinate, vegetable compost no major improvement on yield, flowering plants seem to sulk. I now using another compost and results have been much better, fertile fibre seed compost and potting compost. My hanging baskets look fantastic, best ever, dahlias look like there going to flower like crazy. I successfully grown tones of seed this year (I can actually garden).
No, it’s not fantastic. I won’t be buying it again!
@@JessieatPlot37 I would write to the manufacturer and say that your not happy. I know Charles Dowding did with Moorland Gold compost, earlier in the year.
ok Jessie I think I'm now officially a superfan, not a stalker lol (just saying haha) I came across your channel a couple of weeks ago and reversed back to vlog 1 ... I've caught up on all your weekly tubes and it's now time for the addendums :) I've just realised that you have brilliantly organised your playlists so I can just press play for all those categories still to watch :) ... I have applied for an allotment last March and I am making do with my garden at the mo, as well as living virtually, it seems, though your amazing allomenteering. I've learn so much, thank you ... you're a natural and remind me of a modern day Charlie Dimmock.
After being inspired I sowed some Valmaine. Potted it into my salad trough and the slugs and snails promptly enjoyed absoloutely every last one. 😭. Did manage to germinate some parsley though which is a first for me. Hurrah.
Eugh, I know!!! It’s a bloody battleground out there right now!
Litre pop bottles cut in half make good mini cloches to keep slugs off lettuce and other seedlings until they are big enough to cope with a few nibbles.
@@suemowat222 great idea thank you xx
Definitely looking forward to the beans! We have very healthy parsnips this year - at least the top growth is lush - hope they are happy below ground too :-)
I can’t make head or tail of this weather it has rained every day but the intense sun spells and humidity means most of my pots were dried out even though leaves were wet... also the recent wind has all my plants leaning quite severely and broke off one of my best tomato branches!!!!
Ahh, it’s all over the place isn’t it!!
@@JessieatPlot37 indeed just hoping for a decent July so things can move along a bit!!
Any gardeners in the UK still believe in global warming? Lol. Great video as always Jessie.
It’s global wetting right now! 🙄😄
Took me a few minutes to figure out you were talking about shallots. 😊
Enjoyed the vlog as it inspires me to keep succession planting. Now gearing up for fall plantings starting with the cubic yard of mushroom compost I got today.
Thanks Evelyn, oh the joy of a massive pile of beautiful compost!
For a slug and snail deterrent try a product called Strulch (it's a straw mulch mix) and seems to work pretty well.
Thanks Rick. I tried strulch in my hosts pots a few years ago, it was quite successful! But I would need so much for the plot!
Loved Lilly watching you seed sow, one of my own cats followed me down the allotment one weekend and watched me work till I was done then followed me home.
I also harvest my first cabbage yesterday had a third of it for dinner tonight and it was amazing.
Ah, the pure joy of a homegrown cabbage!
Lifted my shallots too for same reason..allium leaf miner had got one or two as well as truly clobbered my sturon so it's environmesh in the autumn. It's going to get to the point where half my ot is covered in one way or another..cabbages, carrots, onions, garlic, leek, radish, rocket. Tent city. Wish it would warm my sweetcorn are virtually static!! Love the home made poly ..wish I had your skills.
Ah, it’s relentless isn’t it! I had a few seasons of tent-city but eventually decided to just cover the carrots and leeks with enviromesh. I ended up providing a whitefly paradise free from predators when I covered my brassicas 😂🙄
But yeah, sunshine!
Hi Jessie, you need to try an Oriental mix lettuce, I think it was a kings seed. it was an absolute joy!! mix of bitter and sweet, different textures, some spicy. you MUST try it 😊 xx
Ohh, nice. Thanks Anita!
Picked a few of my Atomic Grape toms - mine were acidic with a fairly thick skin. But I will re-evaluate after several more ripen up.
Apparently they take an absolute AGE to ripen! You have to wait until they are really quite soft and develop red streaks. I’ve been warned about it even though I haven’t got there yet!
Does make you wonder how certain plants like brassicas manage to survive all of their attackers without intervention... I do have a random brassica that was sown when I spilled some carrot and onion and radish seeds together accidentally and decided to try plant them anyway in a spot and harvest any onions as spring onions... few of those survived the dry weather and later slug attacks. But the brassica is still alive along with one radish. We’ll see if it survives long enough to bring a harvest.
Yes Jessie I the same situation with parsnips I have just 5 parsnips after two sowings :( But Hey ho : )
Joan! Parsnips my nemesis
Failed parsnip club! 🙌
It’s so weird seeing you in your polyhouse 🍅🍅 coz it feels like you’re in mine 😂
All looking fab 👌
Have a great week Jessie ...cheers 🥂 x
There's a bit of a ManRay vibe on the pics on your wall
Good old ManRay!
expensive for the lilia, try premier seeds direct 1400 seeds 99p, can also over winter and it will bulb up like normal onion, I use this and Holland blood red as red onion sets always go to seed for me
Cheers Jessie.
I didn't know Mum could speak Alien. That's something new while walking backwards.
Went back to Thursdays post for the salads as I was wondering why you sowed in trays and didn't direct sow. Am I correct in thinking it's because your beds are full and you will plant these out once you've harvested your current crop?
Hi Andrew, yeah exactly. I’m going to bring them on so they can replace when there’s space!
It’s the same thing across the pond in New England….weathers been terrible it’s drought then it’s pouring rain it’s really hot really cold. Massive pain in the butt.
I'm living in RI and feel your pain! The cooler weather, while not the best for growing veg, is a welcomed relief to the heat and humidity.
Small world lol I’m in North Scituate where are you ????
@@newenglandyankeeliving5052 I'm in Westerly. Love it here. North Scituate is also beautiful.
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@@debbiespitznagel1472 my wife works as an RN in the ICU down there. I was an aquaculture tech down at Matunuck Oyster Farm when it all froze solid. Lol small small world that we run into each other on a blog from Old England. Sorry to socialize on your channel Jessie I love your content and I’m jealous of your set up and trying to do similar myself
Hi Jessie and Mum, I don't know if you have tried SALADIN lettuce, I grow Saladin, webs wonderful and little gem along with some red tinge lettuce and I reckon Saladin is every bit as good as the other green lettuce, Take care and thank you for another great video.
Ah interesting, no never grown Saladin! I will look it up!
The slugs on my french beans and runner beans are decimating them.
At first I though it was ants making holes in the leaves and I am still thinking that I’m not sure if they do that 🤷🏻♀️
So tomorrow I’m off to the garden centre to get some copper tape for around the raised bed the beans are in and slug pellets 🤦🏻♀️ don’t judge me but I’m not adversed to using them after all my hard work getting the beans to grow.
Bloody slugs, seriously. They are such a nightmare!
You gotta do what you gotta do.
Great vlog, as always!! Always look forward to your videos.
FYI... I know how you feel about being unemployed again. Right there with you
What's the large leaved tree/shrub behind where you sowed your seeds? Love your relaxing videos.
It’s a Mulberry tree!
I bought the new horizons veg stuff a couple weeks ago as it was all they had and dislike it a lot. Like a knackered old duvet that's been ripped apart by rats!
Still have 1.5 bags of the stuff but rather than muck on with taking it back I'm just going to dig it into a bed at some point.
Hopefully next year my hotbin will be my only source of compost..
Yeah, it’s not great is it! I’ve used it to pot some more established plants up and they do seem happy enough with it but i doesn’t feel right!
Having enough of home made compost is the dream!!
The joys of only having a small patch I guess..!
My chilli's are in the bit I used and happy but the pots niff a fair bit tempted to repot them again.
In the states...that type of weather is just called florida lol. Between june and september, it rains every day here.
Wow, I couldn’t put up with that! 😂
Great vlog as ever. Can you please tell me and include vlog on ensuring melons get fertilized. I'm growing the Minnesota midget you recommend. Not seen any bees in my greenhouse.
Thanks Andy! Oh lovely Minasota Midget!it’s a gorgeous little melon, really is. Do you have and doors/windows open to let pollinators in?
You can hand pollinate. I had to do a bit of that last year. Just use a little very soft paint brush.
@@JessieatPlot37 Yes I keep the door open in good weather. The flowers are tiny and hard to tell which are female.
I didn’t have many slugs because I used nematodes but snails I’m losing it so much damage it’s doing my head in. I literally throw them across the garden,one night I collected as many as I could and trapped them over night in a tub with air holes,it didn’t make a lot of difference their cousins must have pop over for a visit so still loads of damage. It’s got to stop raining soon let the heat dry them up
Hi Karen when I lived in town we had more snails than the French so 1 day I gathered a half carrier bag, and we had some really obnoxious people a few doors away, so when it went dark I liberated them!
Eugh!! They are absolute little sh*ts. They really are. Relentless!!
I remember a few years ago Chris Packham did an experiment painting snail shells from different areas of his garden then he collected them all up and moved them into other gardens in his street and village. Within a few days they were all back in the right section of his garden… 😱
@@JessieatPlot37 one of my allotment neighbours tells me they have a 2 mile homing instinct. I can't believe how much space they can cover!
Damn! 2 mile homing radius? My alpine strawberries are in a raised beds next to a fence with a footpath the other side; every morning I used to pick the sheltering snails off the insides of the beds and toss them over the fence. Now I realise I was only giving the little buggers a gentle work-out and opportunity to build up a healthy appetite!
@@tonyspencer692 oh no! I had to give up with strawberry plants on the wall as they got decimated every time 😭 I walk my dog on the local common, necessarily early with the summer heat. Whenever there's been rain overnight, there will be slugs and snails on the pavements and roads. I always imagine they're off to people's gardens. These are busy areas and it's dangeous for them, so I can only assume the instinct to return is overwhelming for them. I still try to rehome them though! Xx
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Jess, I just love your videos, spotting the cabbage white butterfly & your comment, was so funny! Jumper on & jumper off 🤣 is what it's been like in Walasey, Wirral too, the weather has been pretty wierd. What do you line your tomato beds with in the polytunnel. I'm getting a polytunnel in October and can't decide where to have raised beds or just use pots. 🙂 sorry to hear you out of work, hope you find something soon 😊
Lost pretty much all my cabbage/leeks and parsnips to slugs this year and now they’re starting on the green beans. Devastated.
I'm going to be overrun with parsnips. Unfortunately, I'm a little to far away to do a swap.
I've attempted to grow onions from seed this year and it hasn't worked very well for me. I'm in the north of Scotland and they just don't want to get big at all. So I'm going to overwinter set onions so I actually get a harvest. If I could I'd much rather grow from seed but it hasn't worked at all.
Hi Charlie, yeah it’s so different depending on where you are isn’t it. I’ve had a few years where the ‘from seed’ ones have barely got past the salad onion stage!
@@JessieatPlot37 so much! You are definitely the reason I got shallot sets though, I was the same in my belief you would just get a bigger one. Its fantastic that you actually get a few
I have the same opinion about onion sets :)))
I may be wrong, but I don't think you have the right netting on against Cabbage Whites - not fine enough gauge.
No it’s the right netting, it just wasn’t pegged down properly at the end!
Strange year for my red baron onions from seed, quite a few have bolted, very unusual for onions from seed, not uncommon for onions from sets......
Very unusual! But a bit of a strange year all round!
Do you use any slug and snail bait? I used in my garden and we are no longer having issues. I have to reapply maybe once during summer.
Hi, love your Vlogs. I am growing black tomato, MIDNIGHT. Please help,
how do you tell when they are ready for picking?
New Horizon peat-free compost came bottom in Which? trials this year. I'm using it because I needed some quickly and it was all there was but haven't decided yet if Which? was right.
Lovely vlog as always . What compost do you use for seeds ? I have tried so many different ones this year and have not been 100%happy with any I have tried .
Can I grow any lettuce/veg seeds in pots..or do they have to be a specific seed for pots...
Almost anything can be grown in pots! Just size/shape matters depending on what.
Aww I am also fed up of 🐌😔
Ditto Ritu… it’s pants isn’t it!
Does a saucer full of beer work to drowned your slugs and snails over there as well?
To a certain extent, yes! But I feel like I’d need sponsorship from a brewery to tackle this many! 😄
The weather has been really bad for us😒
I tried to go peat free this year but I found the compost really disappointing, very grey and gritty and full of huge bits of branches and rocks and rubble. Especially as I don’t drive so I paid too whack for it to be delivered and with the New Horizon branding I was really disappointed. Things seem to be growing OK but quite slowly and things I direct seed don’t seem to take off at all. I don’t know if I will go peat free next season...
Sticks, bits of plastic and a bit of glass in mine!
It’s a problem isn’t it! But peat free is so important. We need to complain loudly to improve the peat free compost available!!
@@JessieatPlot37 I agree If anything I think the peat-free manufacturers should be trying their best to make things better than traditional alternatives or how can they hope of converting people who have been buying peat compost for years!!
I want to have new potatoes for Christmas dinner not sure how to grow them
Real food has holes and comes dirty!
Very true!