Tip for next time - don’t wash potatoes or anything you harvest, until just before you want to eat them as it speeds up the rotting process. The mud around them ‘protects them
Hi Emma, I know it was not a big harvest but remember you never wash potatoes until is time to actually eat them, I know big box stores do it but they go trough a different process where everything is bigger, beautiful and tasteless. Keep it on, you can probably get another harvest before your first frost if you plant some now.
Was going to say the same about spubs, I've learnt that digging up spuds when the ground is dry & then let them dry out before dusting off the dry dirt, they will store longer if you do.
Those potatoes look yummy. I have young blackbirds in my garden and yesterday one came in my kitchen door to tell me there wasn't any food in the pot so cheeky but adorablexx
Get more potatoes in.most take roughly 90 to 100 days first week of october you could be harvesting more . Get some daikon radish in . Turnips snowball maybe. Mustard greens 9 star brocolli Lettuce
I always leave my potatoes in until the seeds are well developed after they flower and they get massive by then. Also they are great for loosing up clods of grass, I just turn the sod on top of the potato, they look like roosters. After 3 years in a row you need to move the potatoes. Maybe try carrots where the potatoes were.
I thought you didn't wash potatoes until you ate them. Might be wrong though! Something to do with them sprouting when being stored. That's probably those guys harvesting tons. I have one tub I'm gonna dig up sometime in the next 2 weeks.
If you get many Potatoes at any time and you want to keep them for a few months try to keep dry ,do not wash, spread them on the floor in your polly tunnel on some plastic for a few days to dry and set skin, brush dry to clean then store in a paper sack away from the light .
Foxes dig up all sorts, they can be quite a nuisance. I lay bamboo sticks around as they dont like walking on an unstable surface and it helps stop the blighters digging your plants up. I'm very envious of your tattie harvest, very impressive.
Hello Emma, I live in Nova Scotia, Canada, and in the spring when I plant my seedlings, raccoons will dig up my seedlings and search the ground for grubs. They seem to go for freshly turned earth and new plantings. Not sure if that’s a problem in the UK. xox 🇨🇦
Here in Australia we leave tin lids upside down with beer in them as it attracts the slugs and snails and they die happy.....true story. Having a bee hive close by is good too and also earthworms are excellent in the garden . Do you have a compost heap for the garden ?
I'd avoid planting the same stuff in that bed - potatoes already took the potato needs, you should get something else there. You can still put some quick growing peas or beans for late autumn. Or some brassicas for the winter harvest like swede, black radish, all sorts of cabbages (check the winter varieties)
I absolutely love your vlogs. I find your presentation so calming, inspiring and motivational - this year, I’ve grown tomatoes from seeds and go out into my garden every evening after work to tend to them, and to my other plants. Gardening is turning into more of an interest than a chore 😊
Yay so glad to hear that! Look out for Wednesdays vlog because I show the side of the allotment I don't normally film! Might help to give you more motivation to keep going! x
You can plant a second crop of potatoes, Autumn lettuce, cauliflower, chard, spring onions, pal Choi, carrots , B-road beans, garlic, pease, just a few as I think they like a bit of cold weather and do better. Emma they also say don’t wash potatoes out the ground till you use them as they last longer I only learnt this not long ago xx
Love the potatoes! I'm having an experiment and have replanted the earlies that had small ones still on the end as I saw a guy who got a second harvest!
Them tatas look fabulous 😋 could be desiree or red duke of York, you could plant all sorts now look for quick growing crops could do a quick pea frame and plant lettuce underneath, fab vlog Emma 🥰
Great trick with the plaster, I will remember that one so thanks for sharing. Your potatoes looked yummy Emma and I bet they tasted good too! Hard work payed off, everything is looking lovely and green and lush in your beds there.
Hello Emma, Those are some very impressive potatoes the most amazing vibrant colors with perfect skin. I am a big fan of the "Whack it in method" of gardening! Even the pumpkings are climbing. Sooooo happy for you have a great week God bless be safe
Love the potato harvest Emma 👏🏻 I’m sat on a beach in Zantie feeling homesick for my garden so loving your reels. Can’t wait to get home and harvest my potatoes and carrots 😊
Oh! it’s the smell for me when it rains! Curious to know what happened about those people who were concerning you though Love your enthusiasm - that brings me back 😊
I am very happy with my cucumber harvest today and friday never grown them like that before, your potatoes look healty so you had a very good harvest today
We are expecting rain today, not had more than a few drips for ages. One of my Jack be Little pumpkins has died and the others don’t seem to be climbing up as well as yours,so I’m hoping they might get going very soon. Your potatoes look amazing, hope you enjoyed them
i love going to my Allotment in the rain i thought i was only mad person/ try beetroot after spuds i do they go well its not good idea to plant potatoes after a crop of spuds as they need crop rotation have nice Day emma dont get to wet
Hi Emma, great haul of potatoes. I've put kale in where my potatoes were and also spring cabbage plants I grew from seed. Filling in with lettuce, spring onions, beetroot and beans. Always something to shove in lol x
Hey more potatoes or even carrots as the soil will be broken up from the potatoes having been in. It's possibly a fox, badgers (if you have them) or even a bigger bird that's dug up your plant
Gorgeous potatoes 🎈 I think I’ll grow carrots, chives and parsley in the potato bins next. Or maybe kale, I’ve never tried that. Harvested some spring garlic today. Rather small but healthy and nice looking, so happy! Harvested the last of the endives too and don’t want to grow any more carrots so I think I’ll just let the tomatoes grow over the empty space haha. Thank you! Bye
Try field beans- originally a green manure crop but they taste like a cross between peas and beans. I had loads of blackfly but just left them and the ladybirds have controlled it. Easy crop.
Hi Emma, I’ve. Just lifted my potatoes on Friday, Saturday I planted 3 rows of rainbow chard I brought up from seed at home. Sunday the birds had eaten the lot, I forgot to put nets on them. So I have 3 rows of peas don’t know if it’s to late or now
Emma been watching you and laughing for ages I'm a new be to but I've harvest my new pots first 2bins also yesterday 2 courgettes to go with are roast love E watching keep on go girl
I came to the comments section as I have the same question as a newbie gardener. I grew my potatoes in bags so do you believe the same rule applies to grow on roots after potatoes?
I want to talk about nettles again im asking again for you to try an experiment with me mulch all vulnerable plants with nettles see what happens with the slugs and snails happy gardening Richard x
U should get water barrels put a tap on it and attach a garden hose . 😅. I thought i had a cat digging up my plants leaving big holes like that believe it or not it was a black bird😅
Love watching your diaries 😊 I had problems with things being dug up and I caught my resident hedgehog at it one night, could maybe be that or your fox friend 🦊
Oh no! Could be that the soil isn't fine enough and it's growing around stones and lumps. Or maybe watering problem. Could also be a bug. It's usually a bug.
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8:52 The sound of excitement, joy and happiness right there.
I was always told not to wash off my potatoes after harvesting.
Beautiful camerawork today Emma! We loved the shots of you walking with your wheelbarrow. Especially the snail bit! 🐌
Tip for next time - don’t wash potatoes or anything you harvest, until just before you want to eat them as it speeds up the rotting process. The mud around them ‘protects them
Hi plant more potatoes for Christmas Dinner ad blood fish and bone then your potatoes
Yay! I thought I had to wait until August for xmas spuds? Can I get them in earlier then? x
@@emmasallotmentdiaries hi yes give them a head start
Hi Emma, I know it was not a big harvest but remember you never wash potatoes until is time to actually eat them, I know big box stores do it but they go trough a different process where everything is bigger, beautiful and tasteless. Keep it on, you can probably get another harvest before your first frost if you plant some now.
Was going to say the same about spubs, I've learnt that digging up spuds when the ground is dry & then let them dry out before dusting off the dry dirt, they will store longer if you do.
Definitely a cat :D We have cats digging holes in our plot too.
Those potatoes look yummy. I have young blackbirds in my garden and yesterday one came in my kitchen door to tell me there wasn't any food in the pot so cheeky but adorablexx
Try chick peas please never too late , next time start in greenhouse in feb, I wish I could sent you photos of mine. We need to start sowing in UK
Get more potatoes in.most take roughly 90 to 100 days first week of october you could be harvesting more .
Get some daikon radish in .
Turnips snowball maybe.
Mustard greens
9 star brocolli
Lettuce
Turnips sound good. And mustard greens, I've never tried them before. Thanks! x
I always leave my potatoes in until the seeds are well developed after they flower and they get massive by then. Also they are great for loosing up clods of grass, I just turn the sod on top of the potato, they look like roosters. After 3 years in a row you need to move the potatoes. Maybe try carrots where the potatoes were.
Sweet cherry pie love you keep it ❤🍒😁
I enjoyed the little allotment wildlife clips you kept in the vlog today! 🐦🐌
Now's the perfect time for autumn winter brassicas,spinach ,more salad,kohl rhabi Emma.
Hi Emma great haverst of spuds got some spuds out of my allotment today myself they were lovely new spuds 😊
I thought you didn't wash potatoes until you ate them. Might be wrong though! Something to do with them sprouting when being stored. That's probably those guys harvesting tons. I have one tub I'm gonna dig up sometime in the next 2 weeks.
Oh I cooked these the same day and the next day and they were fine. Good to know if you want to store them though! x
My understanding is you don’t wash potatoes when harvested. You let them set for about 2 weeks. Then wash before you cook and eat them.
Emma thats a FANTASTIC harvest of potatoes, doesn't get better then that ... well done 👏👏👏👏👏 Plant some Christmas potatoes 👍❤
Thank you
If you get many Potatoes at any time and you want to keep them for a few months try to keep dry ,do not wash, spread them on the floor in your polly tunnel on some plastic for a few days to dry and set skin, brush dry to clean then store in a paper sack away from the light .
With my no dig I put brassicas in as I lift my potatoes. They will be ready for autumn here in NE Spain .
Thats what I was thinking of putting in! x
Foxes dig up all sorts, they can be quite a nuisance. I lay bamboo sticks around as they dont like walking on an unstable surface and it helps stop the blighters digging your plants up. I'm very envious of your tattie harvest, very impressive.
Hello Emma, I live in Nova Scotia, Canada, and in the spring when I plant my seedlings, raccoons will dig up my seedlings and search the ground for grubs. They seem to go for freshly turned earth and new plantings. Not sure if that’s a problem in the UK. xox 🇨🇦
Fantastic harvest of potatoes there Emma. Hope you enjoyed them 😊
Hi Emma glad to here your plaster worked fantastic loved your video lv Irene 😘 xx
Your pumpkins are looking fab this year Emma. Well done nurse Emma 😍
Here in Australia we leave tin lids upside down with beer in them as it attracts the slugs and snails and they die happy.....true story. Having a bee hive close by is good too and also earthworms are excellent in the garden . Do you have a compost heap for the garden ?
I'd avoid planting the same stuff in that bed - potatoes already took the potato needs, you should get something else there. You can still put some quick growing peas or beans for late autumn. Or some brassicas for the winter harvest like swede, black radish, all sorts of cabbages (check the winter varieties)
Those are some good looking potatoes 🥔 I bet they tasted great 👍🏾
I absolutely love your vlogs. I find your presentation so calming, inspiring and motivational - this year, I’ve grown tomatoes from seeds and go out into my garden every evening after work to tend to them, and to my other plants. Gardening is turning into more of an interest than a chore 😊
Yay so glad to hear that! Look out for Wednesdays vlog because I show the side of the allotment I don't normally film! Might help to give you more motivation to keep going! x
I thought I was the only one who moved woodchip with their hands 😂😂 Though I’ve moved onto using a spade recently 😜😜 Nice spuds x
Haha! I just hate dragging a shovel all the way down and back again, the wood chip is heavy enough! x
Hey Emma, I used a plaster on one of my tumbling tomatoes at the weekend as it was snapping… thanks for the tip as it still looks alive 😂
Haha! So glad to hear it's working! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you! x
Well done fab crop of potatoes 🥔
The potato's look great! Well done Emma. I'm sure there are lots you could plant in there. bush beans, beet root, some greens like kale or spinach.
Hellooo , was thinking maybe you may have Squirrels near by , as I have 3 & the rascals dig my garden up looking for nuts
You can plant a second crop of potatoes, Autumn lettuce, cauliflower, chard, spring onions, pal Choi, carrots , B-road beans, garlic, pease, just a few as I think they like a bit of cold weather and do better. Emma they also say don’t wash potatoes out the ground till you use them as they last longer I only learnt this not long ago xx
Emma, you are a joy to listen to. Love your excitement
Love the potatoes! I'm having an experiment and have replanted the earlies that had small ones still on the end as I saw a guy who got a second harvest!
Those potatoes look lovely well done good harvest and so satisfying x
You could sow carrots, beets, chard and spinach in that bed Emma.
So satisfying growing your own food, are you going to do a side food channel? love to see what you make.
Them tatas look fabulous 😋 could be desiree or red duke of York, you could plant all sorts now look for quick growing crops could do a quick pea frame and plant lettuce underneath, fab vlog Emma 🥰
Great trick with the plaster, I will remember that one so thanks for sharing. Your potatoes looked yummy Emma and I bet they tasted good too! Hard work payed off, everything is looking lovely and green and lush in your beds there.
Hello Emma, Those are some very impressive potatoes the most amazing vibrant colors with perfect skin. I am a big fan of the "Whack it in method" of gardening! Even the pumpkings are climbing. Sooooo happy for you have a great week God bless be safe
Love the potato harvest Emma 👏🏻
I’m sat on a beach in Zantie feeling homesick for my garden so loving your reels.
Can’t wait to get home and harvest my potatoes and carrots 😊
Hiya Emma yay well done girly enjoy your harvest. Blessings luv Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
Such an inspiration xx love them potatoes
Oh wow same thing happened my cabbage plants, I saw a feather so I think it might have been a large bird digging.
Oh! it’s the smell for me when it rains!
Curious to know what happened about those people who were concerning you though
Love your enthusiasm - that brings me back 😊
The name for the smell of rain on ground after a hot spell is called petrichor - I thought I'd share as I've only just found this out myself! 🙂
I haven't seen them since. I was there at a different time, so I don't run into them now I'm back to my early slot! x
@@Sarah-over-here oooh thank you Sarah. Mind you, it doesn’t even have to be after a hot spell, just the snell of clean, washed earth
@@emmasallotmentdiaries ahh sensible!
I am very happy with my cucumber harvest today and friday never grown them like that before, your potatoes look healty so you had a very good harvest today
😮thank you Emma the allotment is looking great and the potatoes are beautiful ,enjoy xxx
We are expecting rain today, not had more than a few drips for ages. One of my Jack be Little pumpkins has died and the others don’t seem to be climbing up as well as yours,so I’m hoping they might get going very soon. Your potatoes look amazing, hope you enjoyed them
Nice harvest, Emma!
I just love the colour of your potatoes x well done
i love going to my Allotment in the rain i thought i was only mad person/ try beetroot after spuds i do they go well its not good idea to plant potatoes after a crop of spuds as they need crop rotation have nice Day emma dont get to wet
I’ve got some leeks to put in after I’ve dug up my potatoes. Who knows if that’s right. Thanks for the vid- loved it
Beautiful spuds 👏👏👏
YEAHHH ANOTHER VLOG :D Greetings from the Netherlands
Every Monday Wednesday and Friday!! x
The potatoes look delicious!
I honestly enjoy watching all you videos
Thank you so much x
Hi Emma, great haul of potatoes. I've put kale in where my potatoes were and also spring cabbage plants I grew from seed. Filling in with lettuce, spring onions, beetroot and beans. Always something to shove in lol x
How satisfying Emma... wonderful 😊
Brilliant. Put more potatoes in will probably be ready for Xmas.
Hey more potatoes or even carrots as the soil will be broken up from the potatoes having been in. It's possibly a fox, badgers (if you have them) or even a bigger bird that's dug up your plant
Carrots are a great shout! x
Gorgeous potatoes 🎈 I think I’ll grow carrots, chives and parsley in the potato bins next. Or maybe kale, I’ve never tried that. Harvested some spring garlic today. Rather small but healthy and nice looking, so happy! Harvested the last of the endives too and don’t want to grow any more carrots so I think I’ll just let the tomatoes grow over the empty space haha. Thank you! Bye
Hi Emma love your potatoes 🥔 looked really clean ( no scabs on your spuds or worms making holes ) they are lovely enjoy lv Irene 😘 xx
They've done absolutely amazingly! x
Hi that's a good return from your potatoes enjoy them and your week
Thank you! x
Try field beans- originally a green manure crop but they taste like a cross between peas and beans. I had loads of blackfly but just left them and the ladybirds have controlled it. Easy crop.
Oh great shout, my neighbour grows these and they always grow really well for him! x
Hi Emma, I’ve. Just lifted my potatoes on Friday, Saturday I planted 3 rows of rainbow chard I brought up from seed at home. Sunday the birds had eaten the lot, I forgot to put nets on them. So I have 3 rows of peas don’t know if it’s to late or now
Another wonderful video keep up the amazing work on your plot😊
Emma been watching you and laughing for ages I'm a new be to but I've harvest my new pots first 2bins also yesterday 2 courgettes to go with are roast love
E watching keep on go girl
Oh amazing! My courgettes have all been eaten this year! x
Well done Emma. Your potatoes look amazing. ❤️ Love your blog more than any other one. Can’t wait for them to appear 🌸🌸🌸
Congratulaions!!!
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Carrot, Beetroot, Turnip can all follow potatoes in that space
I came to the comments section as I have the same question as a newbie gardener. I grew my potatoes in bags so do you believe the same rule applies to grow on roots after potatoes?
I want to talk about nettles again im asking again for you to try an experiment with me mulch all vulnerable plants with nettles see what happens with the slugs and snails happy gardening Richard x
I'll do this around my newly planted brassicas! Think that should be the ultimate test as they are my slugs favourite crop! haha! x
Emma, monkeys do eat peanuts 👍
Keep whackin' em in 😎
Good to know! x
U should get water barrels put a tap on it and attach a garden hose . 😅.
I thought i had a cat digging up my plants leaving big holes like that believe it or not it was a black bird😅
I reckon it could be a bird as it's right below the tree and that's where they all sit, chatting and having meetings...
No don't plant potatoes after potatoes, beetroot, rocket, radish, could even try some pea's they are quite fast growing 😊
Get your leeks in!! Lovely red tatties by the way Emma x
Love Robins
Lovely vlog Emma well done, I felt excited for you digging your potatoes it was so positive.😊
Ah thank you! x
I like cats, so it pains me to suggest it, but the courgette destroyer could’ve been Rocky? 😔😜🤣 Or that fox you saw in the last video? 🤙🏻👍🏻🤣
Try sowing turnips after the spuds, you’ll just need some butterfly protection over them and some of that slugless stuff! 👍🏻🤙🏻
Couldn't possibly, could it?! Not after all the cat treats I give him! x
Top dress with compost and plant salads don't put potatoes there for a while
Nice spuds
Plant more Potatoes. Harvest in the fall .The ones that get left behind in the ground will be Volunteers next year.
Brilliant! x
Love watching your diaries 😊 I had problems with things being dug up and I caught my resident hedgehog at it one night, could maybe be that or your fox friend 🦊
I reckon it's the fox! x
Gorgeous potatoes Emma. What are they?
Dig deep for your potatoes
Fox dug it up?
potatoes / leeks - repeat.
Mr fix has been digging
Hello good video. How long did you wait until harvesting the potatoes?
I planted these at the beginning of April! x
@@emmasallotmentdiaries Ok, thanks!
Pigeon?
Could be...
Carrots
Don't wash potatoes, it shortens their storage life.
Why do my carrots grow all twisted I tried everting
Oh no! Could be that the soil isn't fine enough and it's growing around stones and lumps. Or maybe watering problem. Could also be a bug. It's usually a bug.
My god I'm so buying plasters
They are the best hack! Haha! x
Looks like someone came in and stole your plant... im sorry
Better to use a fork
I know, but I couldn't find it!!