I know what you mean about animals in the compost, mine is currently a cardboard box with peelings and scraps in it. No problems for two months, then yesterday a RAVEN was perched on the edge, flinging coffee filters and banana peels everywhere. He did it again today! Honestly, I'm happy to have ravens, but I would rather leave out pumpkin seeds than have bits thrown around 😅
Stark raven mad! I’ve heard people adapt them with chicken wire to prevent rats which sounds like a good idea. Ravens are really intelligent though so I imagine they’d come back with a pair of pliers 😭
Great you dug out the compost darlek :-) part of the epic journey of clearing the site . On our council allotment it is illegal to have tyres. Please spread the word that they leech toxins and chemicals into the soil and into your crops, as well as micro plastics. Please remove from around your strawberry tower x I speak from experience of clearing my plot, which included 2 fruit trees with tyres around them. The council spend hundreds of pounds having staff come with massive industrial chainsaw to remove them as they have steel cores.
I didn’t know that tbh. I just used it to stabilise the tower. It’s not as bad as round a tree I suppose because it won’t get stuck and require cutting out. I’ll probably pull the tower out and stake it then. Thank you
Just found your channel watched loads yesterday cant wait for next instalment ..my grandson and i have two plots both needed lots of work and clearing that was 5 years ago now looking good ..and he hoping to get a placing at Kew ...having an allotment can be very rewarding ..so good luck
I found rats make gorgeous compost. they make it really fine and rich. Just don't stir it up when its dry and dusty, or you could get a lungful of disease. Otherwise though, a rat family can actually help out
I've had an allotment for a month, all the beds were covered with tarp, I thought great ready to plant up!! Turns out the whole allotment is riddled with bindweed!! reminds me of the red weed from War of The Worlds! If I didn't know better I would swear he was cultivating the stuff. I know what you mean about the rodents, was on my friends allotment yesterday, he took the lid off his compost bin and found a nest of mice looking up at him.
That’s what my experience with the black plastic has been too. Underneath there is tons of mares tail and bindweed. War of the worlds 🤣 too real. Good luck with it. You’ll beat it eventually Was he able to communicate with the mice and serve an eviction notice?
Brilliant! I've managed to get 60 to 70 Deg C out of a dalek compost bins, I have three, and three wheelie bins with holes drilled in, excellent composters.
I found that guy's hard drive with millions in bitcoin on it, you know the one who threw it away? I tried to spend it at Asda, yet they wouldn't accept it.
We have just had a couple leave my site and i was offered a polytunnel frame from them via the committee. So i snapped that up. We aren't allowed to take from plots that have become empty, unless offered by the leaving tenants.
@@Plot10b The sites I've been on do it so it helps clear the plot for the new tennant. Some plots have a lot of what many would consider rubbish yet can be repurposed by imaginative gardeners. Just the other week I took some wet wood, dried and painted it and made allsorts out of it. Some of it was 3 parts mouldy though. That was off my pal who didn't want it, yet there's always things left over on derelict plots that can be reused.
That’s a great idea! Helps keep the plots clear. As far as I know it’s not a thing here. Although nobody has been on that plot for years by the look of it. Maybe they’ll come back and let me know they want their composter back for their bramble cultivation
With how long some waiting lists are for allotments. It amazes me, how many allotments over the last few years I have seen on youtube in a similar condition to yours and even some complete sites overgrown and unused
😢 We've been on a list for 4 years now yet we've been told an allotment site near us has at least 6 neglected pitches, we can't have one as the 'owners' of those pitches pay the yearly rent! Clearly no committee to 'police' the lack of activity.
@@sallyfenney429 on ours you get a letter after 6 months of no activity, then another a month later, then a month after that termination if still no work being done, trouble is I think people just like to tell their mates they've got an allotment but find it too much hard work, sometimes you they give you abuse when your terminating their contract!
I have just got a half plot that is a mess. The new allotment officer at the council has been really strict with the conditions on the sites and has started to issue notice. While talking to others on the site, mine has not been worked properly in about 6 years as people have took it on and given up without planting
I’d love to but he gave us the mix and I’ve been trying to get the recipe. I know it had coriander in it but that’s about it. They were so crispy while also soft and green on the inside. I’m hungry now thinking about it. I’ll post it if he eventually breaks and hands over the recipe
Do you have any drone footage from when you first got the allotment? A birds eye view of the allotment and the progress you've made already would be a lot of fun to see! What a fun strawberry tower, and how nice that he saw that you had planted in it already! Seems like there's always someone around there. I just found out today that Norway is one of the least self sufficient countries in the world. One of the main agri-shops is giving away free potatoes and buckets today, all over the country. I usually plant potatoes late April as it's so cold here, but it's an early variety (late june) from my neighbours great grandmother! It's fun to have old heritage potatoes. And Jesus, you scared me approaching that pile of plastic with your weed eater! 😂 Looks like you need to bring a chainsaw for the next round. Maybe you should just get a ton of pallets already.. Make those compost bays, and maybe make a ground deck for your breathers? Imagine a pergola covered in hops, grapes, vining tomatoes or purple string beans! Awesome to know that you have great ambitions for your Fava beans. Those falafels soundes amazing. I'm sure your wife has some ambitions for the garden as well! How many times have one grown something that yields massive amounts, and then filling up the freezer in no time due to lack of ambition how to prepare it 🤭 If I were you I'd get some herbs in for the pollinators, it's the perfect time to sow thyme, parsley, oregano and coriander. I get so inspired, allotments isn't that big here in Norway, even if I live on an old small farm. Can't wait to see the rest!
I might get a friend to bring his drone for that! Yes I’ve been starting some herb seeds recently as well as some other plants for pollinators. I looove herbs when I cook/make drinks tbf. I use so many sometimes like they’re salad leaves. The pergola with all of those plants sounds dreamy 😍
@@tecmow4399 Functional is great, but why not sprinkle some "pretty" on it in the process 🌃 🤩Fresh all-the-things while cooking is so rewarding! Dill is one of the only herbs I can't stand, but the texture is awesome and it's supposed to support a healthy fruit tree guild, so I'm trying that out this year. Can't wait to see what more you come up with, both cooking wise and on your patch! Keep up the momentum!
Love the humour in your vids. Good that you put the darlek to good use. What is the name of the nasturtium looking plants? Could you give us an update how they look when in flower?
If you put a 2-ft bamboo going through one side and out the other of the strawberry planter and stick bottles on the ends n a x pattern it allows you to net the strawberries from the birds the bottles hold the net away from the strawberry
Have a think about covering large areas with black plastic, leave what you can reasonably expect to bring back into cultivation in the next few weeks and cover the rest, it won't be so overfacing, and when you do get to those areas, it'll be relatively weed free and easier to keep on top of.
At work we use the tumbler type of composters. They work great for keeping the vermin out.
I’ve still never used a tumbler but they look great
I hear the fava in the falafel goes very nicely with some Chianti
I was going to mention liver but that joke is too offal even for me
You can wrap a few layers of carpet around the compost bin it helps to keep the wind off the plastic
That’s a great way to insulate it! Hadn’t thought of that so thank you 😊
I know what you mean about animals in the compost, mine is currently a cardboard box with peelings and scraps in it. No problems for two months, then yesterday a RAVEN was perched on the edge, flinging coffee filters and banana peels everywhere. He did it again today!
Honestly, I'm happy to have ravens, but I would rather leave out pumpkin seeds than have bits thrown around 😅
Stark raven mad! I’ve heard people adapt them with chicken wire to prevent rats which sounds like a good idea. Ravens are really intelligent though so I imagine they’d come back with a pair of pliers 😭
Great you dug out the compost darlek :-) part of the epic journey of clearing the site . On our council allotment it is illegal to have tyres. Please spread the word that they leech toxins and chemicals into the soil and into your crops, as well as micro plastics. Please remove from around your strawberry tower x I speak from experience of clearing my plot, which included 2 fruit trees with tyres around them. The council spend hundreds of pounds having staff come with massive industrial chainsaw to remove them as they have steel cores.
I didn’t know that tbh. I just used it to stabilise the tower. It’s not as bad as round a tree I suppose because it won’t get stuck and require cutting out. I’ll probably pull the tower out and stake it then. Thank you
Fun projects! The measure of a true gardener is when you can be kind to yourself and have a day off from any heavy work.
I like heavy work most days, even if it hurts more than it used to.
However you get your energy for gardening, keep doing it I say. Fun projects make light work 😊
Nice to have some great ppl on the site. Zaman is a top bloke i enjoy his videos, reminds me of my dad who also lives in my home town Birmingham. 😁🌱
He’s a such a generous man! Odd that you also live in my hometown of Gloucester 🤣. We should definitely do a collab one of these days
@@tecmow4399 haha… 😁 definitely up for a collaboration mate, have a good week 🌱👍
Just found your channel watched loads yesterday cant wait for next instalment ..my grandson and i have two plots both needed lots of work and clearing that was 5 years ago now looking good ..and he hoping to get a placing at Kew ...having an allotment can be very rewarding ..so good luck
Thank you so much and good luck to him at Kew! I’m really enjoying it too. Getting stuff in the ground is so exciting 😃
I found rats make gorgeous compost. they make it really fine and rich. Just don't stir it up when its dry and dusty, or you could get a lungful of disease. Otherwise though, a rat family can actually help out
I had no idea they contributed to it!
I've had an allotment for a month, all the beds were covered with tarp, I thought great ready to plant up!! Turns out the whole allotment is riddled with bindweed!! reminds me of the red weed from War of The Worlds! If I didn't know better I would swear he was cultivating the stuff. I know what you mean about the rodents, was on my friends allotment yesterday, he took the lid off his compost bin and found a nest of mice looking up at him.
That’s what my experience with the black plastic has been too. Underneath there is tons of mares tail and bindweed. War of the worlds 🤣 too real.
Good luck with it. You’ll beat it eventually
Was he able to communicate with the mice and serve an eviction notice?
@@tecmow4399 😂 He gave them 24 hours, then they can expect the bailiffs lol.
Brilliant! I've managed to get 60 to 70 Deg C out of a dalek compost bins, I have three, and three wheelie bins with holes drilled in, excellent composters.
That’s great to hear! I’m looking forward to going down there today now to get the temperature now you’ve said that!
Thanks for the update. It may indeed have plenty yet to do but it's a world away from where you started.
The cheeky comments are fun too.
Thank you ❤️ Yeah it’s definitely far from the plastic filled bog I inherited 😊
Love the silence of the lambs joke.
I can’t help myself 😆
Mental what people leave behind! I've spent nearly a year clearing my new plot! So much buried into the ground!
I found that guy's hard drive with millions in bitcoin on it, you know the one who threw it away? I tried to spend it at Asda, yet they wouldn't accept it.
🤣
There’s so much buried rubbish on them isn’t there?! It’s wild
@@tecmow4399 yup I've found some weird things in the ground!
On our site when a plotholder leaves and they've taken what they wanted, everything is up for grabs until a new tennant sees the plot and takes it on.
We have just had a couple leave my site and i was offered a polytunnel frame from them via the committee. So i snapped that up. We aren't allowed to take from plots that have become empty, unless offered by the leaving tenants.
@@Plot10b The sites I've been on do it so it helps clear the plot for the new tennant. Some plots have a lot of what many would consider rubbish yet can be repurposed by imaginative gardeners. Just the other week I took some wet wood, dried and painted it and made allsorts out of it. Some of it was 3 parts mouldy though.
That was off my pal who didn't want it, yet there's always things left over on derelict plots that can be reused.
That’s a great idea! Helps keep the plots clear. As far as I know it’s not a thing here. Although nobody has been on that plot for years by the look of it. Maybe they’ll come back and let me know they want their composter back for their bramble cultivation
You should check out the new allotment I’ve just taken on. Full of rubbish and plastic. Am thinking it will take a year of just cleaning!
Thats abit like mine i have just got. Sure i have removed 15 bags of rubbish up until now
Good luck with it! A year sounds optimistic to me 😂
It’s relentless isn’t it? The quantity of rubbish is enormous
With how long some waiting lists are for allotments. It amazes me, how many allotments over the last few years I have seen on youtube in a similar condition to yours and even some complete sites overgrown and unused
I think sometimes when people go & see an overgrown plot they see how much hard work it will involve so wont touch it! I have seen it first hand!
@@schuey089 I guess these people need to learn how to eat an elephant......... One bite at a time and you will eventually finish it
😢 We've been on a list for 4 years now yet we've been told an allotment site near us has at least 6 neglected pitches, we can't have one as the 'owners' of those pitches pay the yearly rent! Clearly no committee to 'police' the lack of activity.
@@sallyfenney429 on ours you get a letter after 6 months of no activity, then another a month later, then a month after that termination if still no work being done, trouble is I think people just like to tell their mates they've got an allotment but find it too much hard work, sometimes you they give you abuse when your terminating their contract!
I have just got a half plot that is a mess. The new allotment officer at the council has been really strict with the conditions on the sites and has started to issue notice.
While talking to others on the site, mine has not been worked properly in about 6 years as people have took it on and given up without planting
Your allotment neighbours seem really nice!
They’re amazing. I’ve made so many friends being here. Everyone is so generous ❤️
That’s like a strawberry support sculpture 😁
Im really looking forward to seeing it covered in strawbs and foliage. Then it will be a green leafy phallus sculpture
Are you able to share the falafel recipe with us? Sounds amazing!
Yeah, I'd like that!
I’d love to but he gave us the mix and I’ve been trying to get the recipe. I know it had coriander in it but that’s about it. They were so crispy while also soft and green on the inside. I’m hungry now thinking about it. I’ll post it if he eventually breaks and hands over the recipe
Do you have any drone footage from when you first got the allotment? A birds eye view of the allotment and the progress you've made already would be a lot of fun to see!
What a fun strawberry tower, and how nice that he saw that you had planted in it already! Seems like there's always someone around there. I just found out today that Norway is one of the least self sufficient countries in the world. One of the main agri-shops is giving away free potatoes and buckets today, all over the country. I usually plant potatoes late April as it's so cold here, but it's an early variety (late june) from my neighbours great grandmother! It's fun to have old heritage potatoes.
And Jesus, you scared me approaching that pile of plastic with your weed eater! 😂 Looks like you need to bring a chainsaw for the next round. Maybe you should just get a ton of pallets already.. Make those compost bays, and maybe make a ground deck for your breathers? Imagine a pergola covered in hops, grapes, vining tomatoes or purple string beans!
Awesome to know that you have great ambitions for your Fava beans. Those falafels soundes amazing. I'm sure your wife has some ambitions for the garden as well! How many times have one grown something that yields massive amounts, and then filling up the freezer in no time due to lack of ambition how to prepare it 🤭 If I were you I'd get some herbs in for the pollinators, it's the perfect time to sow thyme, parsley, oregano and coriander. I get so inspired, allotments isn't that big here in Norway, even if I live on an old small farm.
Can't wait to see the rest!
I might get a friend to bring his drone for that!
Yes I’ve been starting some herb seeds recently as well as some other plants for pollinators. I looove herbs when I cook/make drinks tbf. I use so many sometimes like they’re salad leaves.
The pergola with all of those plants sounds dreamy 😍
@@tecmow4399 Functional is great, but why not sprinkle some "pretty" on it in the process 🌃 🤩Fresh all-the-things while cooking is so rewarding!
Dill is one of the only herbs I can't stand, but the texture is awesome and it's supposed to support a healthy fruit tree guild, so I'm trying that out this year.
Can't wait to see what more you come up with, both cooking wise and on your patch! Keep up the momentum!
Love that strawberry planter
Let’s hope it’s productive too! Thank yiu ❤️
Love the humour in your vids. Good that you put the darlek to good use. What is the name of the nasturtium looking plants? Could you give us an update how they look when in flower?
Good find with the dalek.
If you put a 2-ft bamboo going through one side and out the other of the strawberry planter and stick bottles on the ends n a x pattern it allows you to net the strawberries from the birds the bottles hold the net away from the strawberry
That’s a clever idea thank you 🫶
Have a think about covering large areas with black plastic, leave what you can reasonably expect to bring back into cultivation in the next few weeks and cover the rest, it won't be so overfacing, and when you do get to those areas, it'll be relatively weed free and easier to keep on top of.
That’s a great idea, thanks. I can’t cultivate the whole patch all at once for sure!
Love your humor.
I try exceptionally hard, thank you 😆
I put mesh under my compost bin have have never had a problem with rats.
That’s a brilliant idea! I’ll have to try that
Henceforth i will only use the term compost Dalek. 👍
🙏 Thank you 🫡
Bit of a funny mood today? Lol
I always try to be 😂
For the Algorithm kidda .....
Thanks