I Had A Garden Break | Checking The Allotment | Sowing New Varieties!
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- Bumper video full of allotment updates, checking after too long away, rambling about my changing garden tastes, holidays, formal gardening and much more.
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Oh gosh, thank you for opening up about this, I am less alone now.
I have avoided even social activities from May to August because of my attention to our huge garden and produce growing. People don't comprehend it generally but just look at how farmers have to live. Holidays are for the periods outside of production....its not weird...its normal JB xxxx
Hey J.B. Are you ready for the answer?? OK here goes I always bookend every holiday vacation away with a day off before I go and one day off after I come home. Make sure when you leave all the laundry is done, dishes done BR cleaned, bedding changed ect. That way you can leave knowing there will be nothing to do when you get back. Make a similar list for the allotment and be sure to do it. The day back is so much more relaxed time to go to the allotment or hang out at home resting relaxing. If you do this the anxiety will be at least 2 of 10 or lower.
Great tip!
This is a great tip and generally it's actually exactly what we do!! I'm really blaming the sister in law moving out for the current chaos we have going on 😅 Because after we got back it was time to totally reorganise the house and redecorate 😭 all going well though and I've got a few days for allotmenting now 😁
The lost gardens of Heligan down in Cornwall are meant to be good!
They're brilliant! I've been a few times. You'd love it JB!
Yes that's definitely on the list for next time! We were able to combine Land's End and Trewidden in one day so thought that would be a good idea :)
Lost gardens of heligan is an absolute gorgeous place to go. It's local for me and I love it. 💕
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You'll need a full day for the visit! It's vast and worthy of a full day 💚
I don't go on holiday until September, when i don't have to be so precious about my plants or gardening kobs. You should go to RHS Wisley- they have a brilliant allotment section. Also a section where they do lots of growing experiments and trials. happy gardening jB 🙂
Oh goodness, garden anxiety, or more to the point, "going on holiday allotment anxiety". I've only had the allotment for three years, but have become a bit obsessed with it and consequently it's totally changed my whole holiday schedule. I haven't been away during the spring or summer for those three years, although my wife has done with her mother and sister. As a couple we have tended to go away in September or October (somewhere warm) or early March. Certainly April, May or June are a no no for me! Yes I can get a few people to help water, but because of the effort, time and nurture I've put into it all and the fact they won't have that same connection means the anxiety still bubbles underneath!
Glad it's not just me!
It's the same with an animal-sitter. You know they won't understand your animal or plant's nuanced needs and won't love them like we do!
I have 'cat anxiety' if I go on holiday and now I have an allotment I'll have more 'garden anxiety' to look forward to! 😄🤦♀️
Thanks JB, really enjoyed the tour and your chat. Agree about the Eden project, I didn’t rate it at all but just loved Heligan. If you are ever in Devon, my favourite ever garden I’ve been to is The Garden House on the edge of Dartmoor, it has a prairie planting theme which looks a bit more natural than formal gardens. Another good idea is to look at the Open Garden Scheme to see if anyone is opening up their gardens for charity in your area. They give you loads of ideas and the gardens are of a more realistic size so you can relate them better to your own space, quite often have plant sales as well. What I really struggle with is I want to fit so much into my small space (about the same width as yours but slightly shorter) and I like cottage gardens, wildlife gardening, veg growing and prairie planting and I want a wildlife pond. At the moment it looks like a total mess so am currently trying to work out a more formal areas for veg planting and giving over the lawn to more flower beds. Hopefully when I get it done I can just relax and enjoy.
Great tips thank you! Empathise with you a lot on the garden. We spent a good few years not really sure what to do but absolutely love what we have now!
Hi JB, glad you and Jess had a lovely chilled holiday. Great video update. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
JB a holiday! I can't sleep at night think about slugs eating my plants 😢slug watch at least twice a day. Collecting around 20 a time. Can't believe how many there are.
I love visiting the gardens we have here in Fl. We have 2 boys,12 and 10..they've been going since pushing them through in buggys..gotta bring them up young..much love JB from Indian River County Fl
Thanks for this video
I went away for one night at the weekend and was worried about my polytunnel seedlings getting too hot. 4 days would probably give me a stroke.
I'm also growing those yin-yang beans for the first time this year. I'm calling them cow beans though.
Well done on the Yellow Rattle. I would love to get some going.
I've never enjoyed "show gardens" with there potted plants made to look like there all blooming together 😊 I need realism and to see how they really grow naturally .We live near Ryton Garden Organic and used to visit those gardens .
Hah.. what a varied smorgasbord of topics you’ve give us this time. Here’s my random thoughts.. hopefully it connects with you/others.
It is an interesting reflection on really connecting with gardens that you have a connection to the theme. On reflection I tends to agree. I love food..a lot of my career has been connected to from kitchens, to being a market grocer, to growing and allotment in… but I spent close to 30 years living close to rainforests in Australia.. so now for that connection I am constantly trying to garden on the edge - looking to try and recreate that rainforest feeling in N Wiltshire. I can well understand you loving the conservational gardens given your background and love..
Second.. you cracked me up when you mentioned about the allotment garden at the Eden project and how your chilli’s were better. Last week I went to Malvern and they had this kitchen garden set up.. yes… all perfect veg as a show garden.. but I similarly did a little happy dance when I saw my chilli’s, peppers and broad beans were better than those in their garden. Of course karma is a bitch.. because the next day I went up my allotment and the bloody pigeons had been pecking at my brassicas - that will teach me😂 😂.
In terms of holidays… well I admit I haven’t been away since I moved back to the UK from Australia back in 2018. For me I sort of look at it as a way of life. I love being outside in my garden and down my allotment.. I won’t lie I do often miss good weather as I had in Oz.. but I don’t feel like I’m missing out on holidays. I do take holidays from work but am content spending it pootle- ing around the garden and allotment.
Cackling at the karma 😅
A few people have said similar things about foregoing holidays and not feeling like they need them because they can holiday in their own gardens and I think you might be on to something!
Thanks for this vlog which I really enjoyed. I was interested to hear about your route into allotment gardening. I have been a keen grower for over 70 years (still not very good at it, but I do my best). I think you are entitled to have some days off, we will still be here when you get back.
🐝thanks for the great video🌻
Nice rambling, I think the wildlife element to my garden is by far my favourite.🐝👩🏻🌾🐞👍🦔
Nice 1 JB, I'm also growing Yin Yang beans this year. Mine are just germinating now. Will be interesting to see how yours and mine compare 👍
The hot compost sure lived up to its name. The lettuce and radishes in the tunnel! Yuge! 😄The fact that it gets harder and harder to film in the greenhouse feels like a good problem to have though hehe. My parents were "confused" when I started growing chillies since I never grown anything before and couldn't keep house plants alive if my life depended on it 🤪Think I've seen someone else grow those black and white beans. They sure look cool. Haha I kind of have the same with my chiliplants. I even skipped going on "conferences" (aka "party trips" with work)
cause I've had no one to take care of my plants at the height of the season (don't really feel like asking my parents to go 40 km one way to water 🤪) and I sure as heck will not risk what I spent the last ~6 months babying hehe. And grats on the yellow rattle! 🥳
I harvested some broccoli raab yesterday. Direct sown. 40 day variety that I sowed in late march. Really healthy plants. Kind of surprised by them. You might want to give direct sowing a go. I have been surprised how well they've done. Slugs didn't touch them but they have been eating lettuce right next to them in the same bed.
Great video I too bought the yin Yang beans so fingers crossed they taste good I was attracted to them to and excited to grow my hubby ( a garden viewer rather than doer didn’t understand my excitement lol
You could try the Canary Islands in January or February. Not so much happening in the garden, but still reasonably warm in the Canaries!
Like Scarlett O'Hara said in Gone With The Wind: " Tomorrow will be a day too".
Book a nice holiday in the sunshine for you and Jess 😎 we only have a set number of summers in our lives and each year they get less and less ☀️🏖️ 🌿🌺
Looking good! I know what you mean about the stress of returning from holiday, though.
I'm feeling smug at the minute, I have loads of yellow rattle coming into flower in my incipient wildflower meadow! It remains to be seen whether there will be any in the second year though...
Oooh that sounds awesome! Congratulations on your showing!!!
I’m totally with you on the holiday thing to lol
The only thing that's special about Bocking comfrey is that it doesn't flower so won't seed around. Ordinary comfrey is just as potent for making fertjiliser. Just use it before it sets seed or grow it in long grass, where not many seeds will get a foothold.
My garden anxiety was during the storms a couple of years ago wrecked my Polly house I fixed it then the second hit n I really lost my mojo for a year or so
JB have a look for a pdf from "When weeds talk" by Jay McCaman, it's just a 1 page table to download, bindweed is an indicator of very low Calcium, very low Phos, and very high Mg. low Ca with high Mg will tighten the soil causing compaction, gypsom is probably a good Ca amendment as it shouldn't alter pH too much as it's a sulphate, will help tying up the excess Mg and loosen the soil. This Ca/Mg ratio thing is a big part of Albrecht soil balancing method, difficult to do without a soil lab anaysis but weeds and soil texture give us a big clue.
Can't find that pdf anywhere but it does sound very interesting!
@@JBNat have emailed it to you mate
The garden you went to in Wales with Niall is Aberglasney. It's beautiful 💚
I knew someone would know!! That's the ticket!!
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It was good to see you and Jess on holiday relaxing. Would it not be possible to get your patents to pop on every couple of days or so to check on your plot 😊
The 'weird' looking plant looks a bit like Salsify, It pops up on my allotment every now and then. Really good flower.
I think you're right! Big pink flower opened up on it yesterday, definitely looks like salsify, wonder how it arrived!
Great video! I'm going dwarf with all my beans this year after trying them for the first time last year... On a compost related note I was putting some of them into 35l containers and realised that 40l bags of the compost I'd bought wasn't filling the 35l containers. The compost, a very popular brand, was fairly fluffy out of the bag and I've used in the past, but still didn't come anywhere near the top and this was before I compressed it to support the plants. After I did I had to add another seven or eight litres of compost. So a 35 litre container took 48 litres of compost even leaving a 2 inch gap at the top for watering. I've never had this before. All six 40l bags were the same. Have I inadvertently stumbled across 'Compostgate'? I'd be really interested to know if you noticed differences in volume in the composts that you're using.
I think I'd prefer the smaller garden.
With your quad grow and autopot set-up you have your own self watering system in place. Everything else can go in watering trays and saucers. I'm sure mum and dad will pop down to check up on everything. Please take Jess away more often 💗. Jo Devon 🙂
I work away often which was disastrous last summer and the previous i shattered my ankle during the heat wave. Im behind this year as i broke my wrist haven't even done my ssspc yet or any spuds
Good lord none of that sounds fun. Wishing you a speedy recovery!
Great video. Thanku. Did you enjoy your holiday down here in Cornwall. I love it here. Eden project is fab. Heligan is great to. Did u go there?
It was wonderful! Not done Heligan just yet. On the list for next time!
May help, but few years ago Monty Don sowed wild flower meadow. First he mowed the grass short, then scratched patches with a rake I think (biggish patches) to rough up the soil, then sowed a mix of meadow flowers and also a load of yellow rattle...(just broadcast the rattle on patches and grass)...saying that once it takes hold, it will overtake the grass and with the meadow flowers self seeding, the whole area will become meadow. Hope it helps.
Thank you! This is more or less what I've done but on a smaller scale with little success.. We'll get it eventually!
Hi JB, Monty don,also grows fruit and veg. Watch from fork to fork from the 1990s. It’s on you tube, it’s Monty and his wife growing veg and eating it ,with some recipes baking .
I wonder if you really love where you live and what you're doing whether holidays are necessary?
We just found Wood Avens popping up everywhere. We have been here 23 years and never seen it before. So pretty and it seemingly has a great deal of benefits for bees and butterflies. A but invasive by the looks though.
I just found some today in our back garden too! I didn't know they could become invasive
@@JBNat but they have shsllow roots.
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Took me two years to get the yellow rattle going now the lawn is Two thirds covered
Gorgeous!
Does anyone know the name of the yellow field of flowers at the pollinator garden?
I think it's meadow foam or poached egg plant :)
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Can't understand why onions are not doing good. My onions are doing great. but surrounded by weeds. How does that work???
Can you imagine your better half saying we are going to Australia for a month in March when I'm thinking it's time to start all the vegetables?? As it happens, this year it worked out well as the early spring was so cold,, I didn't start anything until after the first week of April and everything is on par, or even in front, of those who started early,, so any misgivings I had have been nullified
One of my plot neighbours does this! Not Australia, but they go away for two weeks at the start of every march. So he's just adapted to that and his season starts a little later than most!
The weird plant,it looks like salsify. How is your parents allotment?
Why make up a potting mix as opposed to just using normal compost???
For which purpose?
The clips of the veg growing outside the domes at the Eden Project looked like an allotment plot held by someone who can only commit an hour or two to the plot a month. Kind of sparse and weedy.
I wondered if they were deliberately leaving weeds to look environmentally friendly but it was a bit confusing that they had signs advertising how no dog means no weeds 😅
I don't watch Gardeners World either (I find it boring 😬) and have even stopped watching Beechgrove as don't like the way they've been doing it for last 2 seasons 😬
JB i know you need a bit of income from this channel but could you tell the advertiser's that as a74 year old man i don't need sanitary products or pregnancy products and as a 4th generation non Welsh speaker the synned propergander adds in welsh are a waste ot my time and my taxes your bits were brilliant as usual
If you subscribe to TH-cam, you never see an ad. I was shocked one time when I watch TH-cam at someone else’s house to see all the ads. Maybe I am speaking from a position of privelege?
😅 They do sound like some very interesting adverts Richard! Unfortunately I have no control over the ads that TH-cam (google) show the viewers! It's different for every viewer and based on your browsing history usually!
@@JBNat just a bit fed up just wish you tube etc had a proper complaints process, I don't know about you but I find advertising counter productive especially the adverts that insult my intelligence
Monty Don's garden isn't neat and perfect he has a wild garden approach. Even with his veg / fruit planting its no a perfect kitchen garden .