These Plants NEED To Get A Move On! | Allotment Gardening For Beginners
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2024
- Allotment gardening comes with its challenges, and has its highs and lows. This week, there are lots of positive and exciting things to show you all, however there are some things that aren't so great, as there always is. But that's just gardening! The weather hasn't been kind to us this week, with persistent heavy rain battering the allotment plot and plunging the temperatures - a slugs paradise!
Let me show you what's going on this week at plot 33, and we shall see if there have been any significant changes since last week when we did the big plant out! We planted out our sweet corn, cabbage, broccoli, beans, leeks, and courgettes last week.. but how are they doing this week?
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Even Charles Dowding has had big problems with slugs!
Like we all have
Oh god the rain !! It’s the same here in Manchester . I’m glad you said stuff is glowing sluggish I feel mine are too .
Honestly the slugs are savages this year. They're going for everything this week! Annoyingly the carrots and pikes peak sunflowers! It's said to be cool and wet again from next week 😢
Thank you 👍👍😇
You're welcome!
There has been some signs that I’ve noticed that we in Devon have acid rain in the recent past
Also I’ve had problems after adding horse manure to one of my raised beds. Bought from a garden centre!
Hi im a old boy 50 odd years allotmeting i have a 5x5 meter brassica tunnel i let the nettles and brambles grow around the outside i don't like getting stung and the 1 foot stomach pests don't either also water through a pipe letting the soil dry as always happy gardening Richardx
Thanks Richard! 😊 Do you use the nettles to make your own feed?
I've been growing veg for 50 years and this is the first year that slugs have been eating my onions. Very strange! Loving the vid's by the way.
Thank you I'm glad you enjoy my videos 😊📸 I'm waiting for them to grow larger so the slugs don't go for them!
Do you grow from seed or sets?
I planted out my grown from seed onions a week ago and the slugs have eaten them all, also all my spring onions. Never seen that before 😢
They ate one of my cheery trees unbelievable, good luck
Great video jim.
Thanks James!! 🧑🏻🌾
From past experience peas dont like to be planted with allium plants.
That is interesting. I have some next to beans and I've been told the same with those too
good job mate your doing really well
Thanks! I try my best 😂 that's all we can do 😊
I can admit to being impressed and slightly shamed by how neat your garden was in that last video….
Thank you! Honestly there are still plenty of weeds now it rained and things I need to tidy, haha. It isn't perfect. I do have messy parts of my plot which I try not to show!
Hi, great video, Ive just found you . I think we're not that far away, im in north Manchester. The rain has been horrendous , and its full on slug party in my garden 😢
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the watch 😊 yes not far! I'm around Preston area. It really is isn't it, never ending and next week supposed to be the same!
Noooooo not sluggish 😮. Here too Jim I was in flip flops last week and now it’s back to winter coats. Shhhhh my carrots have not been attacked either but now you mention it I’ll net them. Fabulous update Jim almost 3k 💪💪. Have a fab week, Ali 🌧️🌧️🇨🇦
Netting my carrots this week! I've had to sow ANOTHER few carrots.. 3rd time! Had to fill in the gaps where those sneaky slugs have gone in on them 😡 have a fantastic week Ali 💚
Hi James, Ive only planted my beetroot and runner beans out as well as my onions, I'm holding on until next weekend to plant my runner beans and brassicas, they are all ready now to go out, I still haven't done my main crop potatoes, I was going to do that tomorrow but rain forecast again through the night, All your potatoes beans are looking great, fortunately my onions are ok, like you I'm going to have spares which is a good thing, great video.... Steve
Cheers Steve! I'm sure the onions will get going in June.. always seems to be the case with my onions. I may need to move my runner bean supports to another bed and re plant as there's definitely aminopyralid in there 😡
I've seen the weather seems to be looking better this weekend.. I've even heard about a little heatwave ☀️ happy gardening to you and have a fantastic week, whether in the garden or not 😊
Hiya Jim. Wow, you have loads going on. Crops mostly looking great. My onions (from seed) are slow too. No slug damage on them so far. My lettuces are getting munched big style though. I put out two summer squash yesterday with copper rings and a miscanthus mulch. It’ll be interesting to see if they have been munched overnight as it has been very wet. Hope our weather picks up again so things get a move on. Take care. Mags
Do keep us in the loop 😊 half my sunflowers have been ravaged by the slugs, real pain in the backside. Most things look okay but I don't think we will ever have 100% perfect every year. Big vertical support plant out in the polytunnel this week 🌱 happy gardening and take care, have a lovely rest of the week 😊
The onions may be vulnerable to slug damage now because of the lack of hot dry weather. I started mine from seed and I put copper tape on the top of the bed. I do that differently with bits of other metal under each end of the tape. It's supposed to create a mild current which combines with the slug mucous to create a deterrent. So far, rainy weather hasn't encouraged the slugs anywhere near as much as last year.
I hunt for the slugs too, removing any I find.
One thing I have noticed is if there's a gap between the sides and soil I see far more slugs. This year I deliberately pushed the soil down, packed it against the edges.
I tend to agree you got amino paralyds in the manure. Check out where that manure is from. Cow and horse manure may have the contamination.
I'm going to stick slug beer traps around the allotment this week to see if I can catch some! I've got some of that slug tape, around a carrot bed and they're too determined and just crawl right over it 😂 I may have to move the entire wig wam support over to the bed which I have the potato buckets sat on and then move the potato buckets to sit on the contaminated bed.. real pain in the butt.. but may be necessary. I have spare bean plants thankfully
It's horse manure as well.. we are getting all sorts of piles of it dropped off lately and nobody really knows who! Lots of farmers have keys to the site and just let themselves in and drop it off 😂
Am a gardener,gardening 6 months behind/infront of you, so next week we are in Winter. We need rain!!!
You're in the Southern hemisphere? Where are you from? We've had LOADS of rain lately!
@@downtoearthwithjim Google Hororata! 4th morning of frost, we need wind or rain to stop the back door area being frozen, we expect this Late June to mid August. We had rain that then froze, may happened again tonight, but next week back to over 5 degrees at night.
Oh another tip beans are hungry so nettle in water nitrogen feed i use nettles comphey and a general feed mixed in a water butt
What do you apply to the soil? Manure? Composts? I'm thinking of starting my own feeds as there's plenty of nettle and comfrey about near me
@@downtoearthwithjim not much my site has been worked for years i just dig a hole and water in use the blue pipe and scaffold netting you can water and feed through a pipe letting the ground stay dry as much as possible as always happy gardening Richardx
I have some spuds in the ground but thinking of doing some in tubs do you find you get more by doing it in the ground or is it about the same
I've not noticed any difference, if anything I end up with more by growing in containers as there's no risk of me damaging them with tools, or missing any. Plus there's little to no pest damage from wireworm or slugs. I'm actually conducting a (lazy and not perfect) experiment in ground vs containers to quickly see the difference. I'll post the results but it's far from a fair and controlled test and is just one circumstance. But in buckets is my preferred way.. easier and better quality spuds
Onions are actually poisonous to slugs but those stupid little slime balls just eat them anyway and often die or get very ill later on. Slugs have decimated my onions sets - extremely frustrating growing season so far this year in south west england.
Haha, a new slug control method! I think every year has something new going wrong. I don't think the wet winter has helped things and I think with our milder winters, pests and diseases are surviving over winter much easier
New subscriber here Jim. Where are you based.
Hi there! Cheers for the sub! I hope you can enjoy my content. I'm based in Lancashire, UK 😊
Even Charles Dowding has had big problems with slugs!
Like we all have
Even Charles Dowding has had big problems with slugs!
Like we all have
Charles pays a team of helpers to kill em while they weed his no dig beds , someone's been slacking