Exciting to see you working the new plot. Great things in store for next year!! I stick my leaves in bin bags, punch holes in the bags and hide for 2 years!! lol to lazy to get the mower out to chop them up. Although the ones off the lawn get mowed with the grass so will be chopped up for the compost. Have a great weekend x Allie & Tricia x
I mowed them last year but this lot just got dumped in the bin. I’m struggling a bit for time, hence fewer videos. I am really excited about this plot, it feels so right. It’s really beautiful 😊
What a fab haul of leaves and as they are in the “forest” should have some great micro nutrients. Seedlings are looking great 👍 hopefully the sheep’s wool keeps them warm and safe. Exciting times head Clare 🎉 oh bring on spring 😂. Have a great weekend, Ali 🌧️🥶🇨🇦
I love the little woods where I collect the leaves. Me and Delilah walk there most days and it’s just magical. Big storm coming in tomorrow so I’ve tied those seedlings down! Have a lovely weekend Ali, stay warm ☃️
Great update, Clare. I am looking forward to seeing the new plot evolve. Lovely to get things planted in it. I love collecting leaves too. On the live chat last night the advice was to chop/strim the leaves so they break down faster. I might try it Have a fabulous few weeks. See you in December ❤
Hello Clare, yes it is nice to get something in the ground. Had a bit of a disaster with some frozen seedlings yesterday but I hope I’ve managed to rescue them 🤞
Hi I have been using nettles and brambles for over half a century now this year I chopped down the wild patch around my brassica tunnel and the slugs snails and rats got in it does work happy gardening Richardx
I’ve been please with the results so far. A little snail did eat all my larkspur seedlings, but of course, I only put the nettles around the edges, not underneath. I expect he wriggled up through the middle of the pallets from underneath 😆
Hi Nick, as I’ve been putting them down I just know they’ll be a magnet for the the molluscs 😆 I can’t move them yet as there’s a big storm coming tomorrow 🌪️🌪️🌪️
Great to see you back Clare and to catch up on your progress with the new plot. It's all looking great. Like you I have got in a bed of onions and one of garlic and am looking forward to harvesting the late leeks in December and January but apart from that only a few kale plants and some parsnips survived the continuous rain on my allotment in the Welsh valleys. My daughter is hoping to try permaculture in one of the beds next year with a view to gradually increasing this if it works so that is our experiment for next year and finances permitting perhaps a greenhouse.
Thank you, it’s nice to put a little video up again. I liked looking back at last years development on the old plot, lovely memories so I’m happy to record it all again with the new plot. I hope we get a little less rain this year, it’s been a shocker hasn’t it. I’ve got my eye on a greenhouse on a neighbouring plot that hasn’t been tended to this year. If they’re giving up the plot I’ll make an offer. They’re just so expensive to buy new aren’t they. Keep me updated with the permaculture experiment. My onions and leeks are a bit of monoculture but I think it’s too late to put anything else in now. I’ll fill the gaps with lettuce in the early spring. My experiment is seeing how many flowers I can fit into one allotment 😆🌷
Hi Clare, just found your channel and seems like just the right time to join as you start up on your new plot! What lovely views you have from your allotment 😊 That nettle barrier on your seedlings is a splendid idea, I’m going to try that next year because I have LOADS of nettle on my plot and billions of slugs.
Hello, I am very lucky, it’s so beautiful. I went to the plot on Friday and had a lovely surprise, the person who owns the field behind has trimmed the hedge down and now my view of the hills is spectacular 💕 I’ll find your channel and see what tips I can use for my plot 😊
@ oh that’s lucky! The farmers opposite me said they’re going to be trimming the overgrown hedge opposite my house. Apparently they left it get so tall because they didn’t like the man who used to live here! Fingers crossed they’ll actually do it because then I’ll have a lovely view.
It's always interesting to me watching gardeners at the other end of their cycle... in the Northern hemisphere..... planning for the next growing season. Good job on all those perennial flowers! Hope the onions all do well where you have them.... I don't think we'd get way with soil that shallow here.... but that's more about drying out than anything. Looking forward to seeing it develop! In southern Australia, we have just over a week of spring left before summer officially starts and today was 40*C in the shade. Not normal for November here. It hasn't rained for weeks and we are low on garden tank water already..... just about the driest winter/spring on record, I think. But the veggies are all looking great. Already harvested the first round of potatoes, the snow peas are about finished and the first tomatoes and pumpkins are on the vines. Different set of problems to deal with compared to you guys, but enjoying it when it works. Still no ducks on the horizon for your mollusc infestation?
I love the thought of some little ducks to gobble up the slugs, they’d be very fat and happy here. Sadly it’s not my land and I can’t fence them in. I’ve been trying the nettles which I think you suggested earlier this year? I have to say I’m blown away by the soil on this new allotment. It’s unbelievably gorgeous, soft, dark and crumbly. It looks like pure compost, but having been worked for 400 years now, it probably is! I’ll do a close up on my next video. I’ve got a fair few friends in the southern hemisphere and it’s nice to think you are basking in the warmth as we start to freeze. I hope you get enough rain to fill your tanks 😊
@@Littlesheddiaries I don't think I suggested nettles.... though certainly sacrificail herbs and maybe copper tape? And ducks. Your soil there does look particularly good.... much better than my compacted, buckshot clay! I have raised beds in the veggie patch, though some beds do sit directly on improved clay, so deep-rooting my bigger veggies is an option. My companion/cut flowers are in the new garden for the first time, so they'll need a couple of years to get going, but the young asiatic, ginger and calla lilies are bringing in the bees and other native polinators, while the tobacco and passion vines attract the honeyeating birds and fairywrens which eat the pest insects. Looking forward to seeing you lovely plot in the next installment.
@@Littlesheddiaries little flashes of electric blue popping up between plants, then vanishing again, all in a instant. And they can be bold as a European robin.
Exciting to see you working the new plot. Great things in store for next year!! I stick my leaves in bin bags, punch holes in the bags and hide for 2 years!! lol to lazy to get the mower out to chop them up. Although the ones off the lawn get mowed with the grass so will be chopped up for the compost. Have a great weekend x Allie & Tricia x
I mowed them last year but this lot just got dumped in the bin. I’m struggling a bit for time, hence fewer videos.
I am really excited about this plot, it feels so right. It’s really beautiful 😊
What a fab haul of leaves and as they are in the “forest” should have some great micro nutrients. Seedlings are looking great 👍 hopefully the sheep’s wool keeps them warm and safe. Exciting times head Clare 🎉 oh bring on spring 😂. Have a great weekend, Ali 🌧️🥶🇨🇦
I love the little woods where I collect the leaves. Me and Delilah walk there most days and it’s just magical.
Big storm coming in tomorrow so I’ve tied those seedlings down!
Have a lovely weekend Ali, stay warm ☃️
Great update, Clare. I am looking forward to seeing the new plot evolve. Lovely to get things planted in it.
I love collecting leaves too. On the live chat last night the advice was to chop/strim the leaves so they break down faster. I might try it
Have a fabulous few weeks. See you in December ❤
Hello Clare, yes it is nice to get something in the ground. Had a bit of a disaster with some frozen seedlings yesterday but I hope I’ve managed to rescue them 🤞
Hi I have been using nettles and brambles for over half a century now this year I chopped down the wild patch around my brassica tunnel and the slugs snails and rats got in it does work happy gardening Richardx
I’ve been please with the results so far. A little snail did eat all my larkspur seedlings, but of course, I only put the nettles around the edges, not underneath. I expect he wriggled up through the middle of the pallets from underneath 😆
Hi Claire check under the pots for slugs too. I hope you have a great harvest again with your onions and garlic.👍👌😁
Hi Nick, as I’ve been putting them down I just know they’ll be a magnet for the the molluscs 😆
I can’t move them yet as there’s a big storm coming tomorrow 🌪️🌪️🌪️
Beautiful Autumn vlog 🍂 Thank you 🙏👩🌾
Thank you, I will keep posting because I realise how lucky I am to have an allotment in such a pretty place and it’s nice to share the view 💕
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Great to see you back Clare and to catch up on your progress with the new plot. It's all looking great. Like you I have got in a bed of onions and one of garlic and am looking forward to harvesting the late leeks in December and January but apart from that only a few kale plants and some parsnips survived the continuous rain on my allotment in the Welsh valleys. My daughter is hoping to try permaculture in one of the beds next year with a view to gradually increasing this if it works so that is our experiment for next year and finances permitting perhaps a greenhouse.
Thank you, it’s nice to put a little video up again. I liked looking back at last years development on the old plot, lovely memories so I’m happy to record it all again with the new plot.
I hope we get a little less rain this year, it’s been a shocker hasn’t it.
I’ve got my eye on a greenhouse on a neighbouring plot that hasn’t been tended to this year. If they’re giving up the plot I’ll make an offer. They’re just so expensive to buy new aren’t they.
Keep me updated with the permaculture experiment. My onions and leeks are a bit of monoculture but I think it’s too late to put anything else in now. I’ll fill the gaps with lettuce in the early spring.
My experiment is seeing how many flowers I can fit into one allotment 😆🌷
Hi Clare, just found your channel and seems like just the right time to join as you start up on your new plot! What lovely views you have from your allotment 😊
That nettle barrier on your seedlings is a splendid idea, I’m going to try that next year because I have LOADS of nettle on my plot and billions of slugs.
Hello, I am very lucky, it’s so beautiful. I went to the plot on Friday and had a lovely surprise, the person who owns the field behind has trimmed the hedge down and now my view of the hills is spectacular 💕
I’ll find your channel and see what tips I can use for my plot 😊
@ oh that’s lucky! The farmers opposite me said they’re going to be trimming the overgrown hedge opposite my house. Apparently they left it get so tall because they didn’t like the man who used to live here! Fingers crossed they’ll actually do it because then I’ll have a lovely view.
It's always interesting to me watching gardeners at the other end of their cycle... in the Northern hemisphere..... planning for the next growing season. Good job on all those perennial flowers! Hope the onions all do well where you have them.... I don't think we'd get way with soil that shallow here.... but that's more about drying out than anything. Looking forward to seeing it develop!
In southern Australia, we have just over a week of spring left before summer officially starts and today was 40*C in the shade. Not normal for November here. It hasn't rained for weeks and we are low on garden tank water already..... just about the driest winter/spring on record, I think. But the veggies are all looking great. Already harvested the first round of potatoes, the snow peas are about finished and the first tomatoes and pumpkins are on the vines. Different set of problems to deal with compared to you guys, but enjoying it when it works. Still no ducks on the horizon for your mollusc infestation?
I love the thought of some little ducks to gobble up the slugs, they’d be very fat and happy here. Sadly it’s not my land and I can’t fence them in.
I’ve been trying the nettles which I think you suggested earlier this year?
I have to say I’m blown away by the soil on this new allotment. It’s unbelievably gorgeous, soft, dark and crumbly. It looks like pure compost, but having been worked for 400 years now, it probably is!
I’ll do a close up on my next video.
I’ve got a fair few friends in the southern hemisphere and it’s nice to think you are basking in the warmth as we start to freeze. I hope you get enough rain to fill your tanks 😊
@@Littlesheddiaries I don't think I suggested nettles.... though certainly sacrificail herbs and maybe copper tape? And ducks.
Your soil there does look particularly good.... much better than my compacted, buckshot clay! I have raised beds in the veggie patch, though some beds do sit directly on improved clay, so deep-rooting my bigger veggies is an option.
My companion/cut flowers are in the new garden for the first time, so they'll need a couple of years to get going, but the young asiatic, ginger and calla lilies are bringing in the bees and other native polinators, while the tobacco and passion vines attract the honeyeating birds and fairywrens which eat the pest insects. Looking forward to seeing you lovely plot in the next installment.
Ohhh fairy wrens, I’ve only seen pictures but they look adorable 😍
@@Littlesheddiaries little flashes of electric blue popping up between plants, then vanishing again, all in a instant. And they can be bold as a European robin.