Greetings Nanou & Grinch! Your leeks & onions are fab! Grinch, you don’t like DIYing. Coulda fooled me. Your potting shelf is perfect! Plot 9 is a beautiful allotment! Thank you for sharing! Your friend from America, Cindy 🙋🏻♀️❣️
Hi Cindy! Thank you so much! I always look forward to your lovely comments! You put a big smile on Grinch’s face. He went for a hair cut early this morning and I read him your message the minute he came home! It is pouring with rain so it looks like he is going to get a day off today! Have a lovely weekend! 😘💕🌸
Thank you so much! He has done so well and I am so glad he is enjoying using all the tools I bought him after getting the allotment! I knew he would need them!!! 😘🌸💕
Cracking harvest on your leeks Nanou….well done! They look really good. I can see how happy up you are with your new staging….looks great! 💪🏼😁💚Well done Grinch!
Those veg were such a surprise!We still cannot believe how so many of them got so big! Just wonderful! It is making us looking forward to next year even more! 😄👍🌸💕
Fantastic Leeks ! Just chop and freeze to add to dishes throughout the winter🎉 Leave the bean arch where it is Nanou .Charles Dowding grows his beans and peas in the same bed for 10 years .I have a dedicated structure and theyve been growing over it for years and years 😊 Its very late to sow any seeds Nanou but maybe a tray of winter lettuce 🙂
I am planning on winter lettuce, that is a great idea! We love lettuce, we eat some everyday. I have already frozen my leeks! I am so happy with them! Thank you so much for the advice on the arch. I won’t move it because the beds are the perfect size for it! We will just strengthen it. 😄👍💕🌸
Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful garden with us. Everything is looking beautiful and you’ve done a great job always love a good garden tour and you did a great job today
Great idea to recycle the wooden slats. Some fabulous ideas for next season and I for sure can’t wait to get started 😂😂 but yes we need to get by winter first I guess 🤷♀️. Such a beautiful day to be in the garden, it’s pouring rain here for the next few weeks. It’s amazing how much root a allium has isn’t it but they look fantastic Nanou. Adorable and love a good bargain. Fantastic video and always a joy to see your excitement Nanou. Have a wonderful week and stay safe, Ali ☔️☔️🇨🇦
We had so much rain and wind in the last 20 hours!!! Jersey and Britany in France have had it a lot worse than us! I was very surprised how much roots those leeks had! I will definitely grow some again next year! Every visit to the allotment is just so exciting at the moment! So much to do! 😄👍🌸💕😘
Well done Grinch, staging looks fantastic! The leeks looked brilliant. I’m just waiting for it stop raining for a bit and the ground to dry out a little so I can plant my garlic 🧄 💕
Thank you so much! I hope for you the rain stop soon so you get to plant your garlic before it gets dark! I planted my indoor ones yesterday but I haven’t done the outdoor ones yet as it has been raining non stop where we are. Getting lovely rainbows though! 😘🌸💕
Your enthusiasm is infectious! and that soup ..... wow, it looked amazing. Funnily enough I had a pot of leek and potatoe soup on the stove whilst watching this, so it felt as if I could actually smell your soup cooking 🤣 Your plot gave you so much produce, and so much enjoyment. I think you would be right to say that year one was a great success for Plot No. 9 💚
Thank you so much, I love the fact you could smell your own soup while watching the video! Great timing! 😄👍. Our first year has been amazing! We never expected so much to grow, especially as we were so late planting everything. We were lucky with a kinder weather this summer. I think the rain helped. When I first announced to Grinch that the council contacted me and we could have a full plot if we wanted to, I told him: « Let’s just try it for a year and see, then we can give it back! ». I can safely say that we are definitely not giving it back! Even Grinch wouldn’t now!! 😘💕🌸
What a beautiful job Grinch did in the polytunnel. The leeks are wonderful and your vegetable soup looked delicious. You two should be so proud of your accomplishments this year. Thank you for another great video! 🧅 🥣 🍃🥕😘
I am so proud of him! It looks even better than what I was hoping for! The soup was delicious and I still cannot believe we grew everything that was in it! I never thought we would do this in our first growing season! We are so lucky! 😄👍😘🌸💕
Thank you so much Tracy! Those leeks were such a lovely last gift from the plot before winter! I will definitely plant some again next year! We love them! 😘🌸💕
What a productive few days on the plot you both had! The staging looks fabulous. What a wonderful job Grinch did. Have to admit, when Grinch tripped with the saw in his hand, my first thought was also for the polythene on the tunnel 🤣😱🤪 Leeks were fabulous. Amazing harvest! The soup looked delicious. Hope you’re not suffering too much with the storm. Blooming wet and cold for sure 😩
I love the staging, it is perfect for our space and for what I want to do! I am so grateful Grinch didn’t fall through the polythene… We are having so much rain and wind at the moment… we are still more fortunate than the Channel Islands and Brittany in France. Those leeks are finding their way in so many different dishes! We love leeks! I will be planting more next year! 😄👍😘🌸💕
@@plotno.9 Brittany is really taking a huge battering isn’t it? I want to travel there one year, with my dog Dexter. I feel I need to take a Brittany (or Breton as you may know the breed as) to the country of his heritage I made leek and potato soup with just two leeks, so I can only imagine how many dishes you are making. The staging really is perfect. I think I regret not having any staging in my tunnel
You will love Brittany when you go there. I love Brittany and Normandy. I had grandparents in Normandy who converted an old barn into a house and we spent many happy school holidays there! I loved going with empty plastic bottles to the farm next door and buy some milk still warm from the cows! I absolutely love milk and fresh milk like that was the best! We have jersey milk delivered every week by our milkman but it still isn’t quite as good as the fresh milk coming directly from the farm. If I could have a cow on the allotment, I would!!! 😘💕🌸
@@plotno.9 I’m a terrible farmer’s wife. I don’t like milk! We were dairy farmers until 2011. Every 8 weeks we had to do milk recording, which involved taking samples from every cow or heifer when in the parlour. I had that job and it used to make me heave. Just the smell of milk 🤣🥹😩 Most shop bought milk is homogenised these days, so no cream line. I think jersey milk us an exception. I don’t know what area of the U.K. you and Grinch live in but I can’t quite imagine it lives up to the memories (or warmth) of “home”.. even though it looks beautiful to me, as an English woman 🤗🤗🤗
Staging then rugby 😊 I think your plan is a good plan!! Seedling area will be amazing. Our house was filled with seedlings Feb onwards 😂 great to have a space in the poly tunnel for them. Xx gorgeous blue skies 😊 and gorgeous leeks 🎉😊
Thank you so much! It is amazing how blue the sky was! Not so blue now!!! It did amaze me how much room seedlings take! I am pretty sure we will end up with some in the house as well as in the polytunnel!!! 😂🤣😘💕🌸
You are quite right, leeks are slimy when they are cooked, but they give such a good taste to most dishes! Grinch did an amazing job on the staging! I just love it! 😄👍💕🌸
Wonderful! A polytunnel is such a wonderful space to have! I love it! I really hope you won’t have too long to wait for your allotment. I wish you all the best. 😘💕🌸
Charles Dowding in his No Dig philosophy suggests that a lot of crop rotation is not necessary. In fact the soil and the plant establish the perfect set up. He changes if disease occurs or the same pests. He harvests also by cutting off plants with surface crops and leaving the roots in. He says they decompose, they aerate the soil as they decompose and put the nutrients they hold back in the soil. Home Acres, his garden, is superb. Mine - not so much😂
Charles Dowding has such an amazing garden! Thank you so much for letting me know about not needing to move the arch, it is brilliant! I will be happy to keep it where it is! I am so glad we didn’t dismantle it ! We will just reinforce it next year. I am sure your garden is beautiful! 😘💕🌸
Hello from across the pond! You did a wonderful job for your first year growing a vegetable garden. I have all my tomatoes and peppers preserved and looking forward to next year. Time to glance through seed catalogs and figure out the crop for next year. xox 🇨🇦
Thank you very much! You are right, time to plan the planting for next year! So exciting! There is always something to look forward to in a garden!!! 😄👍🌸💕
You will be ok not rotating. I often put things in the same place. Only time I move is if there was a disease or something. I have a permanent bean structure, so I have done beans in the same spot over and over. I do move things around, just because I love the change, or to see if they thrive better elsewhere. Great leek harvest. It’s definitely soup weather, and that one looked amazing.
Thank you so much Robin! I had no diseases with the beans! I am thrilled not to have to move the arch as it fits perfectly in those smaller beds. We will just reinforce it for next year! Those leeks taste great as well as looking good! That soup tasted even better because we knew we grew every veg in it! Such a joy! 😄👍💕🌸
I still cannot believe the size of those leeks! I remember when they were just like little blades of grass! Incredible how they grow! I wasn’t sure they would do well as I didn’t do a large hole for them. I only discovered after I planted them that I should have done it!!! I have the feeling that potatoes will probably grow next year in those beds where the potatoes were. It is probably impossible to harvest them all! 😂🤣😄🌸💕
@@plotno.9 I've just planted my garlic! Im amazed my one raised bed is giving me goodies! I've had onions and sweetcorn, now I have carrots, parsnips and fingers crossed garlic! Hubby has promised to build me a greenhouse too but thats for next year!
Your soup looked thick and delicious! Did you puree it to have it look so creamy and smooth? Love watching your channel. It makes me smile when I see how you work together through the good and bad.
Thank you so much! The soup was nice and thick thanks to all our veg and potatoes I crammed in! I used my hand blender to purée it into a lovely velouté. We do love working together on the allotment, we have a lot of fun! 😄👍💕🌸
Hello ❤well done with the staging. if you want to consider self watering option check out the video i put out on how to set up self watering systems- the part about fabric pots starts at 2min 25 secs. i tried to add the link for you but you tube removed it 😂 -fantastic leek harvest - great onions - it is so true a lot of allotment owners disappear in the winter and yet it is the time you prep for next year’s success
Hi Stella! Thank you so much for sharing your video! I love it and I will try it! The soft pots are ideal for it! I agree, winter is the perfect time to prepare the allotment for the next growing season. There is always so much to do I find, plus I would miss going there so much! It is a lovely escape from home! 😄👍🌸💕😘
I absolutely love those veg stakes. They are so much fun! The smaller leeks nanou, I'd keep in until you need. They'll last in the ground until spring and slowly grow on ❤ Danny
Thank you so much Danny! I really didn’t know that leeks could be left alone until Spring. I wish I kept those baby leeks now! They are unfortunately shredded in the compost bin! I will follow your advice next year! Those vegetable stakes are very cute, I really hope to grow my collection next year! Love their smiling faces! 😘💕🌸
Greetings Nanou & Grinch! Your leeks & onions are fab! Grinch, you don’t like DIYing. Coulda fooled me. Your potting shelf is perfect! Plot 9 is a beautiful allotment! Thank you for sharing! Your friend from America, Cindy 🙋🏻♀️❣️
Hi Cindy! Thank you so much! I always look forward to your lovely comments! You put a big smile on Grinch’s face. He went for a hair cut early this morning and I read him your message the minute he came home! It is pouring with rain so it looks like he is going to get a day off today! Have a lovely weekend! 😘💕🌸
Wow those leeks! Prize winning. And well done Grinch on the d.i.y jobs.
Thank you so much! He has done so well and I am so glad he is enjoying using all the tools I bought him after getting the allotment! I knew he would need them!!! 😘🌸💕
Cracking harvest on your leeks Nanou….well done! They look really good. I can see how happy up you are with your new staging….looks great! 💪🏼😁💚Well done Grinch!
Thank you so much Will! The staging is fab! I just love it! It is perfect for me! Those leeks did so well! Such a lovely surprise! 😘💕🌸
Grinch great shelf! You two are getting so much good looking food from all your work! Great job
Those veg were such a surprise!We still cannot believe how so many of them got so big! Just wonderful! It is making us looking forward to next year even more! 😄👍🌸💕
Hi Nanou, what a marvelous job Grinch did! Lovely video, very uplifting, i giggle along with you both. 😅😊
We always have such a lovely time on the plot! We are so lucky! Grinch has done me proud! The staging is just fabulous! 😄👍😘💕🌸
Fantastic Leeks ! Just chop and freeze to add to dishes throughout the winter🎉 Leave the bean arch where it is Nanou .Charles Dowding grows his beans and peas in the same bed for 10 years .I have a dedicated structure and theyve been growing over it for years and years 😊 Its very late to sow any seeds Nanou but maybe a tray of winter lettuce 🙂
I am planning on winter lettuce, that is a great idea! We love lettuce, we eat some everyday. I have already frozen my leeks! I am so happy with them! Thank you so much for the advice on the arch. I won’t move it because the beds are the perfect size for it! We will just strengthen it. 😄👍💕🌸
Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful garden with us. Everything is looking beautiful and you’ve done a great job always love a good garden tour and you did a great job today
Thank you so much! The vegetable garden is really taking shape now! Slowly getting there 😘💕🌸
Great idea to recycle the wooden slats. Some fabulous ideas for next season and I for sure can’t wait to get started 😂😂 but yes we need to get by winter first I guess 🤷♀️. Such a beautiful day to be in the garden, it’s pouring rain here for the next few weeks. It’s amazing how much root a allium has isn’t it but they look fantastic Nanou. Adorable and love a good bargain.
Fantastic video and always a joy to see your excitement Nanou. Have a wonderful week and stay safe, Ali ☔️☔️🇨🇦
We had so much rain and wind in the last 20 hours!!! Jersey and Britany in France have had it a lot worse than us! I was very surprised how much roots those leeks had! I will definitely grow some again next year! Every visit to the allotment is just so exciting at the moment! So much to do! 😄👍🌸💕😘
Well done Grinch, staging looks fantastic! The leeks looked brilliant. I’m just waiting for it stop raining for a bit and the ground to dry out a little so I can plant my garlic 🧄 💕
Thank you so much! I hope for you the rain stop soon so you get to plant your garlic before it gets dark! I planted my indoor ones yesterday but I haven’t done the outdoor ones yet as it has been raining non stop where we are. Getting lovely rainbows though! 😘🌸💕
Your enthusiasm is infectious! and that soup ..... wow, it looked amazing. Funnily enough I had a pot of leek and potatoe soup on the stove whilst watching this, so it felt as if I could actually smell your soup cooking 🤣
Your plot gave you so much produce, and so much enjoyment. I think you would be right to say that year one was a great success for Plot No. 9 💚
Thank you so much, I love the fact you could smell your own soup while watching the video! Great timing! 😄👍. Our first year has been amazing! We never expected so much to grow, especially as we were so late planting everything. We were lucky with a kinder weather this summer. I think the rain helped. When I first announced to Grinch that the council contacted me and we could have a full plot if we wanted to, I told him: « Let’s just try it for a year and see, then we can give it back! ». I can safely say that we are definitely not giving it back! Even Grinch wouldn’t now!! 😘💕🌸
What a beautiful job Grinch did in the polytunnel. The leeks are wonderful and your vegetable soup looked delicious. You two should be so proud of your accomplishments this year. Thank you for another great video! 🧅 🥣 🍃🥕😘
I am so proud of him! It looks even better than what I was hoping for! The soup was delicious and I still cannot believe we grew everything that was in it! I never thought we would do this in our first growing season! We are so lucky! 😄👍😘🌸💕
Well done on the staging, it looks amazing. Those leeks looked lovely too.Have a lovely week Tracy 😊
Thank you so much Tracy! Those leeks were such a lovely last gift from the plot before winter! I will definitely plant some again next year! We love them! 😘🌸💕
What a productive few days on the plot you both had!
The staging looks fabulous. What a wonderful job Grinch did.
Have to admit, when Grinch tripped with the saw in his hand, my first thought was also for the polythene on the tunnel 🤣😱🤪
Leeks were fabulous. Amazing harvest! The soup looked delicious.
Hope you’re not suffering too much with the storm. Blooming wet and cold for sure 😩
I love the staging, it is perfect for our space and for what I want to do! I am so grateful Grinch didn’t fall through the polythene… We are having so much rain and wind at the moment… we are still more fortunate than the Channel Islands and Brittany in France. Those leeks are finding their way in so many different dishes! We love leeks! I will be planting more next year! 😄👍😘🌸💕
@@plotno.9 Brittany is really taking a huge battering isn’t it? I want to travel there one year, with my dog Dexter. I feel I need to take a Brittany (or Breton as you may know the breed as) to the country of his heritage
I made leek and potato soup with just two leeks, so I can only imagine how many dishes you are making.
The staging really is perfect. I think I regret not having any staging in my tunnel
You will love Brittany when you go there. I love Brittany and Normandy. I had grandparents in Normandy who converted an old barn into a house and we spent many happy school holidays there! I loved going with empty plastic bottles to the farm next door and buy some milk still warm from the cows! I absolutely love milk and fresh milk like that was the best! We have jersey milk delivered every week by our milkman but it still isn’t quite as good as the fresh milk coming directly from the farm. If I could have a cow on the allotment, I would!!! 😘💕🌸
@@plotno.9 I’m a terrible farmer’s wife. I don’t like milk! We were dairy farmers until 2011. Every 8 weeks we had to do milk recording, which involved taking samples from every cow or heifer when in the parlour. I had that job and it used to make me heave. Just the smell of milk 🤣🥹😩
Most shop bought milk is homogenised these days, so no cream line. I think jersey milk us an exception.
I don’t know what area of the U.K. you and Grinch live in but I can’t quite imagine it lives up to the memories (or warmth) of “home”.. even though it looks beautiful to me, as an English woman 🤗🤗🤗
Looks great. Well done Grinch! Lol.
He did so well! I am so happy with the staging! 😄👍😘🌸💕
Staging then rugby 😊 I think your plan is a good plan!! Seedling area will be amazing. Our house was filled with seedlings Feb onwards 😂 great to have a space in the poly tunnel for them. Xx gorgeous blue skies 😊 and gorgeous leeks 🎉😊
Thank you so much! It is amazing how blue the sky was! Not so blue now!!! It did amaze me how much room seedlings take! I am pretty sure we will end up with some in the house as well as in the polytunnel!!! 😂🤣😘💕🌸
Loved the formation Net dancing! Onions brilliant. Never grown leeks (whisper it... I think they taste "slimy"😂) Grinch "on the stage".
You are quite right, leeks are slimy when they are cooked, but they give such a good taste to most dishes! Grinch did an amazing job on the staging! I just love it! 😄👍💕🌸
Looks exactly like my poly tunnel inside and out! Just applied for my own allotment for more growing space so envying yours right now!
Wonderful! A polytunnel is such a wonderful space to have! I love it! I really hope you won’t have too long to wait for your allotment. I wish you all the best. 😘💕🌸
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Thank you so much! 😄👍🌸💕
Charles Dowding in his No Dig philosophy suggests that a lot of crop rotation is not necessary. In fact the soil and the plant establish the perfect set up. He changes if disease occurs or the same pests. He harvests also by cutting off plants with surface crops and leaving the roots in. He says they decompose, they aerate the soil as they decompose and put the nutrients they hold back in the soil. Home Acres, his garden, is superb. Mine - not so much😂
Charles Dowding has such an amazing garden! Thank you so much for letting me know about not needing to move the arch, it is brilliant! I will be happy to keep it where it is! I am so glad we didn’t dismantle it ! We will just reinforce it next year. I am sure your garden is beautiful! 😘💕🌸
Hello from across the pond! You did a wonderful job for your first year growing a vegetable garden. I have all my tomatoes and peppers preserved and looking forward to next year. Time to glance through seed catalogs and figure out the crop for next year. xox 🇨🇦
Thank you very much! You are right, time to plan the planting for next year! So exciting! There is always something to look forward to in a garden!!! 😄👍🌸💕
You will be ok not rotating. I often put things in the same place. Only time I move is if there was a disease or something.
I have a permanent bean structure, so I have done beans in the same spot over and over.
I do move things around, just because I love the change, or to see if they thrive better elsewhere.
Great leek harvest. It’s definitely soup weather, and that one looked amazing.
Thank you so much Robin! I had no diseases with the beans! I am thrilled not to have to move the arch as it fits perfectly in those smaller beds. We will just reinforce it for next year! Those leeks taste great as well as looking good! That soup tasted even better because we knew we grew every veg in it! Such a joy! 😄👍💕🌸
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Nice work with the leeks! 😊
Mine got a bit overcrowded by a crop of accidental potatoes 😅
I still cannot believe the size of those leeks! I remember when they were just like little blades of grass! Incredible how they grow! I wasn’t sure they would do well as I didn’t do a large hole for them. I only discovered after I planted them that I should have done it!!! I have the feeling that potatoes will probably grow next year in those beds where the potatoes were. It is probably impossible to harvest them all! 😂🤣😄🌸💕
Looking good my lovelies! Bet you are itching to get things growing! X
Oh yes! Planting is next! It will cheer me up from seeing all the beds empty now! It is amazing how the plot has changed in the last 3 weeks! 😘💕🌸
@@plotno.9 I've just planted my garlic! Im amazed my one raised bed is giving me goodies! I've had onions and sweetcorn, now I have carrots, parsnips and fingers crossed garlic! Hubby has promised to build me a greenhouse too but thats for next year!
Looks great guys!
Thank you so much! We are so happy with everything!!! 😄👍🌸💕
@@plotno.9 🙂
Your soup looked thick and delicious! Did you puree it to have it look so creamy and smooth? Love watching your channel. It makes me smile when I see how you work together through the good and bad.
Thank you so much! The soup was nice and thick thanks to all our veg and potatoes I crammed in! I used my hand blender to purée it into a lovely velouté. We do love working together on the allotment, we have a lot of fun! 😄👍💕🌸
Hello ❤well done with the staging. if you want to consider self watering option check out the video i put out on how to set up self watering systems- the part about fabric pots starts at 2min 25 secs. i tried to add the link for you but you tube removed it 😂
-fantastic leek harvest
- great onions
- it is so true a lot of allotment owners disappear in the winter and yet it is the time you prep for next year’s success
Hi Stella! Thank you so much for sharing your video! I love it and I will try it! The soft pots are ideal for it! I agree, winter is the perfect time to prepare the allotment for the next growing season. There is always so much to do I find, plus I would miss going there so much! It is a lovely escape from home! 😄👍🌸💕😘
I absolutely love those veg stakes. They are so much fun! The smaller leeks nanou, I'd keep in until you need. They'll last in the ground until spring and slowly grow on ❤ Danny
Thank you so much Danny! I really didn’t know that leeks could be left alone until Spring. I wish I kept those baby leeks now! They are unfortunately shredded in the compost bin! I will follow your advice next year! Those vegetable stakes are very cute, I really hope to grow my collection next year! Love their smiling faces! 😘💕🌸
@plotno.9 oh the baby ones are good to eat too 😊 Happy Growing Nanou and thanks for a lovely phonecall. Danny 🌱
It was so lovely to catch up with you 😄👍💕🌸
@@plotno.9 always a pleasure and a giggle x