When life is not going well it's good to have a constant, your smiles and a cheerful attitude on a regular basis are very welcome. It's like going to the little local coffee shop where you know you will be greeted with a smile.
Hi Jess , you could , pot up some mint plant next to your brassicas , and say goodbye the the catapillars , as the butterflies hate the smell of mint , I tried and it's worked , I would like to say you are lucky with courgettes , here Loire valley , nobody have had any , it look like you had better weather then us , your potager is absolutely beautiful, take care , love from 🇫🇷
Oh those caterpillars are something Jess, never seen so many, are they hatching out of the soil???? But lets cheer all the beans, courgettes, and mums Gladioli, keep smiling.
Hi Jess your plot looks lovely organised and tidy. Our plot everything is growing together in beds with no sides polyculture we decided this year no netting no hoops no feed well apart from comfrey and no insecticides slug pellets etc. we have had a little slug and snail damage no real caterpillars yet. Our biggest worry is blight. We have flowers self set growing everywhere for pollinators etc. I think this works to keep a good balance. Birds were our biggest threat fledgling thrushes and sparrows. It was a risk but glad we took the risk and the plot is a little past it’s best now but it looked amazing in July even tho it was wet. We will carry on like this I think. Let nature take its course. But you have a really amazing looking plot with masses of successes
So glad i only planted four courgettes this year (shooting star i think). I've more Courgettes than i know what to do with. I think it must be the wet weather; they're drinking it up and literally (almost) throwing courgettes at me as i walk past.
Congratulations 🎉 on 24k 🎉. Here it’s drowning in beans 🫘 😂, I can only fob off so many on family and friends. Courgette glut I should be so lucky 🍀. Fab harvest and lots hopefully to come. Have a super week ladies, happy gardening 👩🌾, Ali ☁️☁️🇨🇦
I was about to whinge about our drought here in BC Canada, but just as you and your mother wandered onto your allotment in rain jackets, the rain started here. Whoop whoop! It’s not heavy and it’s not supposed to last long but we’ll take what the sky offers! 🇨🇦❤️👍😂
When I prick out and pot up I start with the pot furthest away from me and work backwards. That way I don't have to "work around" those that I have already potted up and there is less of a chance I might brush over one and break a stem. Just a thought...
Morning Jessie, great vlog as usual. Just been to the greenhouse to check brassica plants again after finding some little green critters yesterday, only found one or two tiny ones so fingers crossed I don't find any more. Lovely day sunny morning just right for more time in the garden. Take care.
No comments just lately from ‘Moi’.. but have been watching!!!…Jessie and Mom….blackfly on runner beans!!!… so now have another row going…fingers crossed🤞🤞…plenty of pick and come again lettuces and carrots (small round ones, because of not much space…cabbages quite good…but a bit eaten by the fiends!!…. tomatoes( outdoor small varieties…picking now…and a good crop too…Watercress very successful …Yea!!!love it so much….spring onions… growing but not like yours…yet?!…rhubarb great but as new crowns so can’t eat them 🤬🤬…and some failures…cucumber ( only one!)… and beetroot and broad beans…never mind.. that’s life and gardening…love all of the produce picking…so satisfying for you Two 😁….and Lil being ultra cute and ‘clingy’…Just going outside to plant some more ‘sucessinals’… for later on…hopefully???…Cheers… Sue..(still watching in Birmingham!!)…
Hi Jessie & your Mum too, I found lots of those caterpillas in my polytunnel 😢 Q Is it due to the extreme heat we have earlier this Year? Never had them.before. oh no! Your poor seedlings! Lovely harvest of vegetables & fruit too. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
You have had the same problem as me… caterpillars on my brassica seedlings in my greenhouse. You also do the same as me when potting on you seedlings… plant them deep; but I use round pots. Then when planting out, I use a bulb planter to form the planting hole. Again, planting them well deep. Seems to work very well. Had some exceptional brassicas. Happy gardening.
Hi Jess,,,I’ve had the same problem as you this year. For me, with swede. Potted up and placed outside earlier on, until slugs were eating them. Moved into the poly tunnel and seemed to be doing fine. That is, until the invasion of the tiny green caterpillar’s !!! Grrrr Never happened to me before??? Xx
Our courgettes not doing that well and we don’t have one red tomato. We have had loads of beans. Chard and potatoes and some cabbage are our main stays at the moment. It’s hard at plot as we just lost our pup and he loved being at plot with us. We so very sad right now. But we still have to eat.👍🙋🏻
I've picked the first courgettes of the year, they're doing really well. Runner beans are just starting to come through and get to a decent size, too. And great tip re square pots vs round - will remember that!
Would a mesh curtain over your green house doorway provide enough air flow while keeping butterflies out? You can get those magnetised ones that keep it closed.
I really don't like the caterpillar pests, and have you ever just cut the spring onions just above the soil, and let it regrow back, whilst enjoying the rest. Unless you have a lot of them, and want to pull them all up when wanting to use. Love your vlogs.
We’ve had nowt but rain for 5 weeks, mixed with cold nights - not good for squash. Also, I must have the biggest fattest slugs in the world. Been a disaster except for celeriac. As for caterpillars I feel your pain
This winter visit charity chops buy voile panels or net curtains and cut some plastic water pipe to the required length then hem the ends .slude the fabric over your plastic pipe and then push into the soil over your seedlings to prevent cabbage whites getting to your leafy greens.sprinkle coffee grounds around the pots of seedlings as this dispatches slugs and snails efficiently too .
Thank you for this video! I planted carrots after pulling potatoes and they’re popping up quickly. Tomatoes and eggplants are starting to look rough, but I’ve been making soup almost daily to freeze for winter. Q - Why didn’t you take off the bubble wrap in the greenhouse this summer? I thought it was for winter insulation. Yes, pest in the greenhouse! I pulled all mine out in June when flea bottles got inside but now I’m cleaning it up to move my strawberries inside for the winter.
courgettes are very moderate for me this year, everything seems one month advanced here in NW Ireland. Raspberries are finished, poor harvest, not sure should I blame the birds entirely. Have also been picking off small cabbage white caterpillars from kale. Notably absent for some years now are the large cabbage whites, the ones with the yellow and black markings, its strange, they used to devour my nasturtiums and the hens refused to eat them! Tomatoes are coming on nicely but I have no luck with bush tomatoes, they are laden, but plants rot away quickly
I grow potatoes in the flex builders tubs, from Aldi and lidl are cheap. No digging and forking them, tip out ,I use a builders cement mixing tray, Yes I was a builder, no spuds growing in the wrong place anymore. 1st early's just finished, were amazing, now starting 2nds and main crop to follow. Got about 15/16 tubs.and going to get some more when they get them in again. Have copied you bean arch idea, working really well, had runners for a good week or so and the french beans have been really good as well.We do not talk about the onions, but I have sow some onion seed and they are now in the vacated potato tubs, this is an experiment to see what happens/ act of desperation , they will go in the greenhouse when it gets cold. Had the same problem with caterpillers as you with the cabbage and caulies but seem to have got rid of them now. Your positive thinking keeps me going when it all goes wrong. Thank you muchly. A.
bless your poor baby plants! everybody wants to eat them! : ( fabulous depiction of drowning in courgettes, not to mention the lovely airplane dance. i feel another side-job idea coming on. : D
Good recipe for courgette s is chic chip and courgette brownie and linguine with smoked bacon, onion , mushrooms and courgette and you saute the bacon a And veg off then add creme fresh warm through gently and add to cooked linguine its so nice , just a few ideas for the courgette glut 😁
Q&A Whats the story with Lil? Does she live at the allotments? is she just cruising between everyone getting fed or does she just wait for you to come? She's so cute I don't know how you resist not taking her home. :) Love your videos. ps had caterpillars in my greenhouse too, ate all my mooli radish!
I finally planted the tromboncinos this year after all the TH-camrs kept going on about them. Although it did take 3 rounds of germination, they are amazing! Two of them I missed so I am letting to grow into the butternut squash version (they are a meter long 😮), but the young ones what a taste! It reminds me of a mix of potato and kohlrabi. Very prolific, they are going onto my list for next year for sure.
Hi jess lovely potato 🥔 harvest. Something has been nibbling my seedlings going to have another look to make sure it's not caterpillars. Have a brilliant week .Tracy 😊
Q+A, i was wondering if you have always been interested in gardening. Did your lovely mum get you into it or did you get her interested in it ? Great vlog as always and a pleasure watching what you are getting up to at the plot 😊
I have exactly same issue with caterpillars and slugs here, in Somerset. I go to my little garden every day to collect these little beasts, but they still managed to destroy all my broccolies. Also, slugs and woodlice made me to pull out the courgette plant just because I lost hope to see grown up courgette-as soon the flowers are finished blooming the wood lice gets inside a baby courgette and eats it from inside 😢
A lot of my brassicas got eaten by caterpillars, too. :( I cleaned them up and moved what I could to the windowsill at home to give them a bit of a chance. It's still not ideal, but it's something...
I made the jump to a micromesh net for my brassica bed this year, having had them demolished last year. It certainly has been worth it. I was cleaning out the old leaves yesterday ( in the rain , so no butterflies about) beautiful clean plants, no caterpillar or whitefly damage. Restored my faith 😊.
Q&A I'm soon to have my own allotment plot, what's the best advice you have, how long do you spend a week to keep yours looking so wonderful? Thank you for all the blogs, I'm learning so much!
I have to net my brassica seedlings here in the Chicagoland area. We saw are first in April which is unheard of. Probably came out with the week of extreme heat. 🐛🐛Once you have an attack dust the plants with flour🐛🐛. The caterpillars eat it and bloat up, so you can see them to pick off and feed the girlies.🐔🐔
Q&A have you tried BT to keep the caterpillars at bay. I've had horrible cabbage moths this year ate my first crop,so I planted a second and covered in mesh. About every 10 days for insurance I spray with BT. GOOD LUCK ! And cheers I usually have a lime with my Corona. Yummmy.
Check underneath your pots and trays for slugs with July so wet it's been a bumper year for slugs snails and leather jackets found a snail trying to take on a fully grown cucumber five feet off the ground in the greenhouse they're like ninjas this year
Hi Jessie. On your advice, after scouring everywhere I finally have found Deuce de Provence Also go a piece of half pipe. Happy days. Do I plant now please?
Q&A: What size plot do you have and how much roughly does it cost? I think the ones near me are about 5 x 1 rod? Do you rent it for a few years or do they change the plots every so often? I brought in some plants from the heavy rain and two caterpillars decided to become yellow moths in the utility area, one hatched right next to the loo, literally! lol I am surprised i didn't notice either of them until they plopped out! lol I wish our courgettes come along a bit in containers but i have a second round nearly ready to plant out. Hopefully, we will have some better weather soon for longer!
Tried sowing some quick cimini.. doing well one day.. decapitated the next. Going to do some brassica types qui kly in growlights in house and bring them on quite a bit before planting out... pesky things!!
great vlog jess i'm having slug problems this year eaten all my pepper plants in the green house and have now started to eat tomato leaves you missed caterpiller on side of the seed tray spray them with a solution of garlic and washing up liquid works a treat
Hi Jess, first of all, I'm sorry to say but I'm pleased that you had some disasters- means I'm not the only one 😂 Re slugs etc - I saw someone placing empty bowls of sort under the legs of the potting table, fill bowls with water - so that hopefully the slugs getting demised before they have a chance to climb up the table legs. I'll be trying that out next year. I mean, why do these blighters have to be so greedy and eat all the food plants? I can handle some damage but not all or most of the plants being nibbled away🙄🍅🥦🧄
Hello Jessie does it make any difference to a pumpkin if the flower falls off after it is pollinated. Your airplane dance in this video was very nice and cheerful. And also how plays the pianio in your videos it is very calming music. Thanks.
Q+A Is the plot far enough away from your house that you need to go on the bus to get there when your mum is unavailable? Or can you get there on your own? I imagine being on the bus with a granny trolley full of veggies must be such fun! 😂
Q: How do you travel if you don't drive your own car, and if you don't drive do you find that it effects your social life in getting out and in confidence while meeting protental new friends. Thanks Jessie.
I feel for you trying to film the day after the storm. I’m a bit further up the flight path to you, and whilst normally they come over every 90seconds, the day after that storm they must have had some back log, because they were nearly nose to tail! Thanks for all the videos Jessie…cheers to Mum!
8m feeling your greenhouse pains regarding your seedlings and slug damage. Have you heard of WD-40? I don't know if it's sold in the UK but there may be a similar product or sold under a different name. But this is listed on their website because it has so many uses: "Protection from Slugs or Snails Are you sick and tired of seeing your plants ruined by snails and slugs? The simple solution to the problem is to spray WD-40 on the outside of the pot. Snails, slugs, and bugs hate this stuff and they will stay far away from your beautiful plants. And since the material is waterproof, it will remain on the surface even if it rains." Good luck!!
Usually have huge cabbage white issues but have seen very few this year and I made a big attempt at creating a special waist high shelf for brassica pots and hooped it with butterfly netting....hmmm, they didnt come...lol
It’s a weird year for weather this year, hope we get some sun soon 🤞🏻 QA what would be your favourite fruit bush for eating ( fruit not the plant 😂) I’m looking to add to my fruit cage for next year
I've been making lots of chutney with my courgettes.i adapt HFW river cottage recipe. I put all sorts of veg from my garden in. And I also net my babies in the greenhouse, but somehow the caterpillars still make it in!! Really bad year!
I think summer is a right off this year lost 8 tom and 6 taties to blight 😔 fab vlog Jessie 🥰 Q how do you know the best place to put things ie sheds, compost bins, green house, Polly tunnel
I am in the Czech Republic, and have the opposite problem - I can swim in tomatoes but no courgettes - all have white mold on their leaves and grow ever so slowly. Well, that´s life. Q&A - why there´s bubble wrap still in your greenhouse, I get it during winter but would think it must create double heat/condense in summer months, maybe that´s the reason for all pests in there ? Have a great season - love watching your channel. 🙂
Q n A - not had great harvests of Bell Peppers over last couple of years (but I can grow Chillies like a champ). What variety would you recommend for next year please Jessie?
Hi I love square pots too but where do you get your trays from I’ve never seen any like them and they look really good? Also I really wish I was drowning in courgettes Ive had ONE so far from the slug plague!!!!
I got Lilia spring onions a few month ago due to you mentioning them, doing ok so far and 1 probably decent size to eat but I think they're restricted being in one of those long windowsill cell trays. Caterpillars seem to love my Lazio F1 spinach, Salvias and Hurst Green shaft pea leaves. All in greenhouse too like others are complaining about 😢
Hi Jessie, we had terrible problems with caterpillars last year, stripped the kale overnight. This year hardly any cabbage whites, but everything is covered!!! Our chickens wont even eat the caterpillars (I think they're fussy chickens lol) and they smell really horrible too. Perhaps it's your bad year and next year will be better!! I had all my zinnias in the greenhouse eaten to nothing and the cosmos too, but that was teeny tiny slugs. Little buggers.
My potatoes were non existent and my zucchini is embarrassingly non productive. I have had about six zukes and that’s it. Usually I’m inflicting them on people by now. Aug 9 is ‘leave a zuke on your neighbour’s doorstep’ day and I have nothing to give. What is this? Weird year.🇨🇦❤️👍🥰
Q&A:- Does the burying of Brassica stems when transplanting still apply to Kohl Rabi & should I also bury the stems of Chard & Spinach when transplanting? Thanks😊
Our courgette plants have been pants...was goin' on Jessie? However, for the first year we are super abundant in cucumbers. The beans are loving the cooler temps too. Just need some sun to ripen the San Marzano beasts outside 🙄
On a completely non-gardening subject, I am LOVING you mum's hair! FABULOUS 👌
When life is not going well it's good to have a constant, your smiles and a cheerful attitude on a regular basis are very welcome. It's like going to the little local coffee shop where you know you will be greeted with a smile.
I hope life picks up for you very soon. Blessings 🙏
Loved the "bloody airplane" song n dance 😂 You are definitely a quadruple threat - gardening, chatting us up, singing and dancing. Amazing!
Its been a challenging year...however, much prefer green growth to yellow/brown and rock hard soil. Plane dance was a joy 💃
Hi Jess , you could , pot up some mint plant next to your brassicas , and say goodbye the the catapillars , as the butterflies hate the smell of mint , I tried and it's worked , I would like to say you are lucky with courgettes , here Loire valley , nobody have had any , it look like you had better weather then us , your potager is absolutely beautiful, take care , love from 🇫🇷
Ooh, mint?? Any sort of mint??
I’m trying that next year! Thanks.
Greetings,
Any hints for cucumber beetles?
Cheers
Oh those caterpillars are something Jess, never seen so many, are they hatching out of the soil???? But lets cheer all the beans, courgettes, and mums Gladioli, keep smiling.
Net curtains from charity shops are great for covering seedlings
Thats what i do as well
Fantastic harvests ,well done both. Yippee we have sunshine today.☀️🤞🤗👍✅
I love your vlogs and I love hanging out at your allotment with you. 💚🤎💙🌏🍃🌿🌱🪱
Cannot recall a year when I have had such a huge harvest of courgettes. And no tomatoes!
Hi Jess your plot looks lovely organised and tidy. Our plot everything is growing together in beds with no sides polyculture we decided this year no netting no hoops no feed well apart from comfrey and no insecticides slug pellets etc. we have had a little slug and snail damage no real caterpillars yet. Our biggest worry is blight. We have flowers self set growing everywhere for pollinators etc. I think this works to keep a good balance. Birds were our biggest threat fledgling thrushes and sparrows. It was a risk but glad we took the risk and the plot is a little past it’s best now but it looked amazing in July even tho it was wet. We will carry on like this I think. Let nature take its course. But you have a really amazing looking plot with masses of successes
So glad i only planted four courgettes this year (shooting star i think). I've more Courgettes than i know what to do with. I think it must be the wet weather; they're drinking it up and literally (almost) throwing courgettes at me as i walk past.
Congratulations 🎉 on 24k 🎉. Here it’s drowning in beans 🫘 😂, I can only fob off so many on family and friends. Courgette glut I should be so lucky 🍀. Fab harvest and lots hopefully to come. Have a super week ladies, happy gardening 👩🌾, Ali ☁️☁️🇨🇦
I was about to whinge about our drought here in BC Canada, but just as you and your mother wandered onto your allotment in rain jackets, the rain started here. Whoop whoop! It’s not heavy and it’s not supposed to last long but we’ll take what the sky offers! 🇨🇦❤️👍😂
When I prick out and pot up I start with the pot furthest away from me and work backwards. That way I don't have to "work around" those that I have already potted up and there is less of a chance I might brush over one and break a stem. Just a thought...
Maybe only plant a couple of courgette plants next year,, one yellow and one green 😂😂
Morning Jessie, great vlog as usual. Just been to the greenhouse to check brassica plants again after finding some little green critters yesterday, only found one or two tiny ones so fingers crossed I don't find any more. Lovely day sunny morning just right for more time in the garden. Take care.
24k subs, pure gold. Keep up the great work.
The only thing good about the caterpillars is the joy I feel feeding them to the chickens 😂. 🥂
Wa hoo 24k!!!! Congratulations soooo deserved!!!! 💚🩷xx
No comments just lately from ‘Moi’.. but have been watching!!!…Jessie and Mom….blackfly on runner beans!!!… so now have another row going…fingers crossed🤞🤞…plenty of pick and come again lettuces and carrots (small round ones, because of not much space…cabbages quite good…but a bit eaten by the fiends!!…. tomatoes( outdoor small varieties…picking now…and a good crop too…Watercress very successful …Yea!!!love it so much….spring onions… growing but not like yours…yet?!…rhubarb great but as new crowns so can’t eat them 🤬🤬…and some failures…cucumber ( only one!)… and beetroot and broad beans…never mind.. that’s life and gardening…love all of the produce picking…so satisfying for you Two 😁….and Lil being ultra cute and ‘clingy’…Just going outside to plant some more ‘sucessinals’… for later on…hopefully???…Cheers… Sue..(still watching in Birmingham!!)…
Hi Jessie & your Mum too, I found lots of those caterpillas in my polytunnel 😢 Q Is it due to the extreme heat we have earlier this Year? Never had them.before. oh no! Your poor seedlings! Lovely harvest of vegetables & fruit too. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
I never thought Lil was responsible for that kill! 😁
I feel your pain .... I am finding slugs and snails the size of houses .... last 2 sowing of lettuce all gone!!!!!
You have had the same problem as me… caterpillars on my brassica seedlings in my greenhouse. You also do the same as me when potting on you seedlings… plant them deep; but I use round pots. Then when planting out, I use a bulb planter to form the planting hole. Again, planting them well deep. Seems to work very well. Had some exceptional brassicas. Happy gardening.
Yep, caterpillars in my greenhouse too. Drat. It’s my first serious attempt at sewing brassicas in summer. Good to hear it’s not always this bad!
Lily looks like a kitten today.
Hi Jess,,,I’ve had the same problem as you this year.
For me, with swede. Potted up and placed outside earlier on, until slugs were eating them.
Moved into the poly tunnel and seemed to be doing fine.
That is, until the invasion of the tiny green caterpillar’s !!! Grrrr
Never happened to me before??? Xx
I loved the aeroplane dance it made me🤣🤣🤣
So like yourself nothing but bloody rain ☔😐😐😐 Even after I parked the canoe 😂😂😂Too wet to even harvest !!!! Enjoyed the video 😁😁😁😁xx
Our courgettes not doing that well and we don’t have one red tomato. We have had loads of beans. Chard and potatoes and some cabbage are our main stays at the moment. It’s hard at plot as we just lost our pup and he loved being at plot with us. We so very sad right now. But we still have to eat.👍🙋🏻
I've picked the first courgettes of the year, they're doing really well. Runner beans are just starting to come through and get to a decent size, too.
And great tip re square pots vs round - will remember that!
Would a mesh curtain over your green house doorway provide enough air flow while keeping butterflies out? You can get those magnetised ones that keep it closed.
I really don't like the caterpillar pests, and have you ever just cut the spring onions just above the soil, and let it regrow back, whilst enjoying the rest. Unless you have a lot of them, and want to pull them all up when wanting to use. Love your vlogs.
Where did you get your carry trays for the 9cm pots please?
Oh yes Q&A how is your kitchen coming along? Thankyou 🇨🇦🐝
We’ve had nowt but rain for 5 weeks, mixed with cold nights - not good for squash. Also, I must have the biggest fattest slugs in the world. Been a disaster except for celeriac. As for caterpillars I feel your pain
Lol,love the bloody airplane song!
Look for the yellow egg's, always on the underside of leave's.
Hiya Jess, Cheers luv Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
This winter visit charity chops buy voile panels or net curtains and cut some plastic water pipe to the required length then hem the ends .slude the fabric over your plastic pipe and then push into the soil over your seedlings to prevent cabbage whites getting to your leafy greens.sprinkle coffee grounds around the pots of seedlings as this dispatches slugs and snails efficiently too .
You should adopt Lilly the Cat. :) And again, very good music.
Jessie stick a bag over them to stop the caterpillars, just for a week at least.
Thank you for this video! I planted carrots after pulling potatoes and they’re popping up quickly. Tomatoes and eggplants are starting to look rough, but I’ve been making soup almost daily to freeze for winter. Q - Why didn’t you take off the bubble wrap in the greenhouse this summer? I thought it was for winter insulation. Yes, pest in the greenhouse! I pulled all mine out in June when flea bottles got inside but now I’m cleaning it up to move my strawberries inside for the winter.
courgettes are very moderate for me this year, everything seems one month advanced here in NW Ireland. Raspberries are finished, poor harvest, not sure should I blame the birds entirely. Have also been picking off small cabbage white caterpillars from kale. Notably absent for some years now are the large cabbage whites, the ones with the yellow and black markings, its strange, they used to devour my nasturtiums and the hens refused to eat them! Tomatoes are coming on nicely but I have no luck with bush tomatoes, they are laden, but plants rot away quickly
I grow potatoes in the flex builders tubs, from Aldi and lidl are cheap. No digging and forking them, tip out ,I use a builders cement mixing tray, Yes I was a builder, no spuds growing in the wrong place anymore. 1st early's just finished, were amazing, now starting 2nds and main crop to follow. Got about 15/16 tubs.and going to get some more when they get them in again. Have copied you bean arch idea, working really well, had runners for a good week or so and the french beans have been really good as well.We do not talk about the onions, but I have sow some onion seed and they are now in the vacated potato tubs, this is an experiment to see what happens/ act of desperation , they will go in the greenhouse when it gets cold. Had the same problem with caterpillers as you with the cabbage and caulies but seem to have got rid of them now. Your positive thinking keeps me going when it all goes wrong. Thank you muchly. A.
bless your poor baby plants! everybody wants to eat them! : ( fabulous depiction of drowning in courgettes, not to mention the lovely airplane dance. i feel another side-job idea coming on. : D
Good recipe for courgette s is chic chip and courgette brownie and linguine with smoked bacon, onion , mushrooms and courgette and you saute the bacon a
And veg off then add creme fresh warm through gently and add to cooked linguine its so nice , just a few ideas for the courgette glut 😁
Q&A Whats the story with Lil? Does she live at the allotments? is she just cruising between everyone getting fed or does she just wait for you to come? She's so cute I don't know how you resist not taking her home. :) Love your videos. ps had caterpillars in my greenhouse too, ate all my mooli radish!
I'm keen to know this too, she's such a pretty girl, obviously well loved and looked after 🥰
Its been told a lot of times before so if you are curious just bingewatch jessie 😀😍
I finally planted the tromboncinos this year after all the TH-camrs kept going on about them. Although it did take 3 rounds of germination, they are amazing! Two of them I missed so I am letting to grow into the butternut squash version (they are a meter long 😮), but the young ones what a taste! It reminds me of a mix of potato and kohlrabi. Very prolific, they are going onto my list for next year for sure.
Hi jess lovely potato 🥔 harvest. Something has been nibbling my seedlings going to have another look to make sure it's not caterpillars. Have a brilliant week .Tracy 😊
Q+A, i was wondering if you have always been interested in gardening. Did your lovely mum get you into it or did you get her interested in it ? Great vlog as always and a pleasure watching what you are getting up to at the plot 😊
They are probably underneath your table move your plants to a plain table that is wash down with disinfect
Those caterpillars are relentless I feel bad for you
I have exactly same issue with caterpillars and slugs here, in Somerset. I go to my little garden every day to collect these little beasts, but they still managed to destroy all my broccolies. Also, slugs and woodlice made me to pull out the courgette plant just because I lost hope to see grown up courgette-as soon the flowers are finished blooming the wood lice gets inside a baby courgette and eats it from inside 😢
A lot of my brassicas got eaten by caterpillars, too. :( I cleaned them up and moved what I could to the windowsill at home to give them a bit of a chance. It's still not ideal, but it's something...
I made the jump to a micromesh net for my brassica bed this year, having had them demolished last year. It certainly has been worth it. I was cleaning out the old leaves yesterday ( in the rain , so no butterflies about) beautiful clean plants, no caterpillar or whitefly damage. Restored my faith 😊.
Your red dukes are huge Jessie , maybe I dug too soon .
Thanks
Thank you so much!
Q&A I'm soon to have my own allotment plot, what's the best advice you have, how long do you spend a week to keep yours looking so wonderful? Thank you for all the blogs, I'm learning so much!
I have to net my brassica seedlings here in the Chicagoland area. We saw are first in April which is unheard of. Probably came out with the week of extreme heat.
🐛🐛Once you have an attack dust the plants with flour🐛🐛. The caterpillars eat it and bloat up, so you can see them to pick off and feed the girlies.🐔🐔
Q&A have you tried BT to keep the caterpillars at bay. I've had horrible cabbage moths this year ate my first crop,so I planted a second and covered in mesh. About every 10 days for insurance I spray with BT. GOOD LUCK ! And cheers I usually have a lime with my Corona. Yummmy.
Check underneath your pots and trays for slugs with July so wet it's been a bumper year for slugs snails and leather jackets found a snail trying to take on a fully grown cucumber five feet off the ground in the greenhouse they're like ninjas this year
The chickens aren’t stupid mom 😂😂 they know where the dry ground is 🐓🐓
Hi Jessie.
On your advice, after scouring everywhere I finally have found Deuce de Provence
Also go a piece of half pipe.
Happy days. Do I plant now please?
Q&A: What size plot do you have and how much roughly does it cost? I think the ones near me are about 5 x 1 rod? Do you rent it for a few years or do they change the plots every so often?
I brought in some plants from the heavy rain and two caterpillars decided to become yellow moths in the utility area, one hatched right next to the loo, literally! lol I am surprised i didn't notice either of them until they plopped out! lol
I wish our courgettes come along a bit in containers but i have a second round nearly ready to plant out. Hopefully, we will have some better weather soon for longer!
Almost wants you to give it all up!
Tried sowing some quick cimini.. doing well one day.. decapitated the next. Going to do some brassica types qui kly in growlights in house and bring them on quite a bit before planting out... pesky things!!
great vlog jess i'm having slug problems this year eaten all my pepper plants in the green house and have now started to eat tomato leaves
you missed caterpiller on side of the seed tray
spray them with a solution of garlic and washing up liquid works a treat
Hi Jess, first of all, I'm sorry to say but I'm pleased that you had some disasters- means I'm not the only one 😂 Re slugs etc - I saw someone placing empty bowls of sort under the legs of the potting table, fill bowls with water - so that hopefully the slugs getting demised before they have a chance to climb up the table legs. I'll be trying that out next year. I mean, why do these blighters have to be so greedy and eat all the food plants? I can handle some damage but not all or most of the plants being nibbled away🙄🍅🥦🧄
Hello Jessie does it make any difference to a pumpkin if the flower falls off after it is pollinated. Your airplane dance in this video was very nice and cheerful. And also how plays the pianio in your videos it is very calming music. Thanks.
🙋🏻♀️Jess, the really long squash you harvested, what kind is it? Great vlog! 🥰
Hey Jess- saw the large fig you grew in last video. Was wondering what variety of fig that was? Our 2 fig trees don’t grow figs even half that size.
Q+A Is the plot far enough away from your house that you need to go on the bus to get there when your mum is unavailable? Or can you get there on your own? I imagine being on the bus with a granny trolley full of veggies must be such fun! 😂
Q: How do you travel if you don't drive your own car, and if you don't drive do you find that it effects your social life in getting out and in confidence while meeting protental new friends. Thanks Jessie.
Q&A tips for getting rid of greenfly in greenhouse they seem to over winter despite spraying with SB plant invigorator / squishing 😢😢😢 tia Cheryl
I feel for you trying to film the day after the storm. I’m a bit further up the flight path to you, and whilst normally they come over every 90seconds, the day after that storm they must have had some back log, because they were nearly nose to tail!
Thanks for all the videos Jessie…cheers to Mum!
8m feeling your greenhouse pains regarding your seedlings and slug damage.
Have you heard of WD-40? I don't know if it's sold in the UK but there may be a similar product or sold under a different name. But this is listed on their website because it has so many uses:
"Protection from Slugs or Snails
Are you sick and tired of seeing your plants ruined by snails and slugs? The simple solution to the problem is to spray WD-40 on the outside of the pot.
Snails, slugs, and bugs hate this stuff and they will stay far away from your beautiful plants. And since the material is waterproof, it will remain on the surface even if it rains."
Good luck!!
Usually have huge cabbage white issues but have seen very few this year and I made a big attempt at creating a special waist high shelf for brassica pots and hooped it with butterfly netting....hmmm, they didnt come...lol
Q&A Hi Jess, what is the lovely piano music that you play in the background?
Nice haul today.
It’s a weird year for weather this year, hope we get some sun soon 🤞🏻 QA what would be your favourite fruit bush for eating ( fruit not the plant 😂) I’m looking to add to my fruit cage for next year
Blackcurrants... No competition 😅
Try a Jostaberry they're delicious!
Blueberries mmmm
I've been making lots of chutney with my courgettes.i adapt HFW river cottage recipe. I put all sorts of veg from my garden in. And I also net my babies in the greenhouse, but somehow the caterpillars still make it in!! Really bad year!
I think summer is a right off this year lost 8 tom and 6 taties to blight 😔 fab vlog Jessie 🥰
Q how do you know the best place to put things ie sheds, compost bins, green house, Polly tunnel
another lovely video jess i always love the music
Cheers Jessie
Q&A Thanks Jessie for yet another wonderful Vlog♥ My question is "Do you still have a day job and if so what is it?" 😀 xx
what a harvest mate , im a few weeks behind you in sewing
so hopefully soon my stuff will catch up
I am in the Czech Republic, and have the opposite problem - I can swim in tomatoes but no courgettes - all have white mold on their leaves and grow ever so slowly. Well, that´s life. Q&A - why there´s bubble wrap still in your greenhouse, I get it during winter but would think it must create double heat/condense in summer months, maybe that´s the reason for all pests in there ? Have a great season - love watching your channel. 🙂
Could you put a butterfly net on the doorway of the greenhouse or sow some and leave them in your conservatory?!😊
Q n A - not had great harvests of Bell Peppers over last couple of years (but I can grow Chillies like a champ). What variety would you recommend for next year please Jessie?
Check under the leaves as you must have tiny possibly orange colour eggs somewhere..
That's a tiger moth
Hi I love square pots too but where do you get your trays from I’ve never seen any like them and they look really good? Also I really wish I was drowning in courgettes Ive had ONE so far from the slug plague!!!!
bit of a crap summer in england, RIP my peas
I got Lilia spring onions a few month ago due to you mentioning them, doing ok so far and 1 probably decent size to eat but I think they're restricted being in one of those long windowsill cell trays. Caterpillars seem to love my Lazio F1 spinach, Salvias and Hurst Green shaft pea leaves. All in greenhouse too like others are complaining about 😢
Hi Jessie, we had terrible problems with caterpillars last year, stripped the kale overnight. This year hardly any cabbage whites, but everything is covered!!! Our chickens wont even eat the caterpillars (I think they're fussy chickens lol) and they smell really horrible too. Perhaps it's your bad year and next year will be better!! I had all my zinnias in the greenhouse eaten to nothing and the cosmos too, but that was teeny tiny slugs. Little buggers.
My potatoes were non existent and my zucchini is embarrassingly non productive. I have had about six zukes and that’s it. Usually I’m inflicting them on people by now. Aug 9 is ‘leave a zuke on your neighbour’s doorstep’ day and I have nothing to give. What is this? Weird year.🇨🇦❤️👍🥰
Q&A:- Does the burying of Brassica stems when transplanting still apply to Kohl Rabi & should I also bury the stems of Chard & Spinach when transplanting? Thanks😊
Our courgette plants have been pants...was goin' on Jessie? However, for the first year we are super abundant in cucumbers. The beans are loving the cooler temps too. Just need some sun to ripen the San Marzano beasts outside 🙄
Looks like about 5 kilo of potatoes there, not bad if it's about a kilo per plant.
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