Thanks Conny ☺️ always so lovely to hear from you! Life took over a little I had family visit from England and I haven't seen them in years, I became an aunty for the second time and I have the university thesis deadline on the horizon 😆 soon I will be back to more regular uploads!! Thank you for tuning in and watching 🥰
I have to admit that I had to watch the video twice. First time was just to see all the news and the second time was to enjoy the video. Good job and thank you. G
Thank you so much Kerrie! I hope you are doing good and getting time for yourself in the garden. Fingers crossed the weather picks up and I get some nice sweetcorn
What a lovely update. Sorry I’m so delayed, but with two weekends away I’ve struggled to keep up. The plot is looking productive. Loving the new tap set up. Looks fab! That looks hard work with the broken concrete and plastic. Really is a gift that keeps on giving isn’t it?! 😫 Potatoes looked good that you pulled. Impressive
Hey Clare 👋😁 I am the exact same juggling life at the minute I have so much to catch up on TH-cam 🤣 it's a nifty new tap set up and no more leaks! I spent the day with a pick ⛏️ going at the stones the more I remove the more I find 😭
What a lovely update. Sorry I’m so delayed, but with two weekends away I’ve struggled to keep up. The plot is looking productive. Loving the new tap set up. Looks fab! That looks hard work with the broken concrete and plastic. Really is a gift that keeps on giving isn’t it?! 😫 Potatoes looked good that you pulled. Impressive and the cucumber is massive!! 😱❤️
Ugh. Concrete chunks and shredded plastic 😣 the bane of gardeners everywhere! I live in a windy suburb, and my garden seems to be a catch-all for people's rubbish that blows in. I'm constantly having to tread into my garden beds to pull rubbish out. Very frustrating, especially if the plastic disintegrates! When it gets to that point, I usually shovel it into a garbage bag, because I don't want it hanging around in my garden soil. Your allotment is looking amazing! Same with your Tiny Garden. I'm so envious! Everything is full of vibrant green and bright colours 💚 Here on the other side of the world, it's still overcast, grey, and looking mostly bare. I think only my daphne is flowering, but it smells divine, so that's nice!
You said how I felt in own word ugh! 😩 I am trying the same tactic, shoveling it up but there is a lot of it 🫣 The plot is starting to feel like a real grow space nice, keeping on top of the grass and weeds is a little challenge but I hope to buy an electric battery operated mower and strimmer..maybe the same brand and my drill because all the batteries will be interchangeable! Has your winter finished yet? 🤔Xx
@@thetinygarden_ we have winter until end of August. 1 September is the official start of spring here, so only just over halfway through our miserable winter 😅 August is usually the coldest month, but usually by then there's daffodils popping up optimistically. Although that said, a lot of bulbs are up earlier than expected. I think they might be confused about where we are in the season! We had several nights that dipped into the minuses, so it's possible that they think we're past the worst of the cold 😂
I truly hope you are so proud, you have achieved a lot in this space in such a short amount of time . With radish pods, pick them when they're tender, you can just add them to salads. If you have a bunch, they make a great pickle or ferment. I make gallons of half sour fermented pickles (mainly cucumbers, Im in South Texas) and I add my radish pods and garlic scapes to the brine. Also, I started making "radish chips" from the leaves, in a low slow oven, barely rubbed with s&p&chili and they're shockingly good with an ice cold beer or crisp white wine.
Hey Bird ☺️ oh wow I love a crunchy snack with a crisp beer 😋 I like white wine and red wine too 🤭 I have never heard of raddish chips they sound amazing, thank you! I am chuffed with it to be honest, there is still lots of unused space but I will get to that over time! I need to get learning how to ferment things!!
Yay for an allotment update! That cucumber looked marvellous, you must have quite a sun trap there for that and the red pepper (especially this year) ☔ Your plot is looking fabulous, especially knowing how busy you have been/are!!
Thank you Ceylon 🤗I loved the cucumber 🥒 I've never grown one like that before, I usually go for the ridge ones but none of them germinated this year! I hope I get more like this 🤞🤞
Great tour again, Laura. I love this time of the year! Your potatoes have Septoria Leaf Spot - often mistaken for blight but it is harmless. I've seen some channels lift their spuds early because of it!!
@@DigwellGreenfingers thanks Steve 👋 that's good to know!! I think it's something I might get every year by the looks of it! I am so glad I had a few people to ask up at the plot they were all very confident it wasn't blight! It's a great time of year, finally the hard work is paying off! Take it easy now on that new plot yours!
Wow looks like a completely different plot Laura, well done, your rewards are paying off now. You must be thrilled 😊 I direct sown some turnips last week & they're already germinating, I've got to thin them out next. Enjoyed watching as usual, have a lovely weekend xx
Hey Carol 👋 small harvest wins! Some of the veggies like the raddish have a few marks on them but I guess I have to take that with it being organic 🤭 I didn't think mine I really should have, and my carrots 🫣 so glad you enjoyed it! Have a lovely weekend I hope you get to harvest the potatoes soon with your granddaughter 💖xx
Hey Laura great to see you,its been some time and you have been missed.lts all looking fantastic,all your ha4d work is definitely paying off 🍓🥒🍅🥦🌶👋👋 for now.
Hey Joyce 👋 so lovely to hear from you! My broad beans at home are almost ready I picked a few but inside they were mixed sizes! Still can't get over how early your harvest was! It has been a little while since the last video life took over 🤭😅 as soon as university finishes I can get better at my uploads! Hope you are getting lots of harvests, take care 🤗till next time x
Wow that cucumber 👏👏 mine are forming but still dinky 😆. Plots looking great 👍😍. Think everyone is having bit of a time with weeds, it's never ending here and I really need to get put a good hoeing session in, dreading it after this rain 🫣😆. My potatoes are also looking a bit worrisome, been having palpitations at the thought of blight coming in so considering a total chop myself but dithering over it so don't know 😂. And no worries, nice to support a lovely channel 🌱🌱
Hey Joe 👋 after I chopped off the fruit the plant put on loads of flowers so I hope I get lots more cucumbers because my outdoor cukes never germinated! 🥺🥒 The potatoes are a funny one aren't they, chop or not to chop! It's so damp again this season the brown spot is having a whale of a time! There was something else as well as brown spot on those potatoes though, I just cant put my finger on what it is 🤔 Fingers crossed you can hold off on your spuds 🤞 take care, till next time! 🤗
Welcome back, Laura 🤗🤗🌻 Your plants are thriving, they're all so big and that cucumbers plus already red pepper.....we had hail yesterday, and the temperatures have been coolish.... sry to see the rubble pile coming out 🙄 not a great find.....and the potato worries....we're having a blight warning daily nearly now 😕 Mind yourself and take care in the meanwhile 🥰💚🌿
Hey lovely 👋 hail in July oh no..the weather is very unpredictable at the minute! The rubble and plastic is a really annoying 🫣 but I'll get there with it! The pepper is from my over wintered plant small bit still a red pepper in Ireland in July! Wahoo! 🎉 Lovely to hear from you, take care and talk soon 💖x
So good to see your progress Laura, the plot is looking fantastic 😊 Isn't it exciting when you start to harvest your hard work 😊 That cucumber looked amazing, mine are doing well but not as large as the one you harvested 😁 my sweet dumpling has flowers on it now, so excited to see fruits on it soon. Your new tap setup looks great. Water is such an important part of the garden. Looking forward to your next video Laura, have a wonderful weekend 😊 xx
@@julieg1270 hey Julie 👋 it's so exciting to harvest! On my drive up and I think to myself I wonder what I can pick today 🤭 that is my only cucumber 🥒 and since I harvested it loads of flowers have started to grow, fingers crossed some more cukes to come! I am nearly sure I planted 2 sweet dumplings at the plot and I am not sure where they are now, possibly one on the end of the teepee bed I'll have to wait to see what it looks like as the season goes along 🤣😅 I can't believe you have flowers already!! So pleased with the tap, with it leaking the way it was, really started to bother me! So far all the pipe fixings have stayed out 🤭 Looking forward to filming the next one, see you really soon, take care ♥️xx
Hi Laura. If you let the fennel grow to seeds, they are lovely and tasty gently roasted. Insects love the flowers and burds love the seeds too. But maybe you will just harvestvthe bulb? The seeds are full of natural oestrogen for those older woman that might need it, but hopefully butvyiu just yet 🤔. Sending love, light and Summer blessings 🐝🏵🐞🌹 xx
Hey Veronica 👋 oh wow I didn't know that about the fennel seeds!! Wow that is so interesting! Haha I hope not just yet either 😅I will definitely harvest the one I showed in the video as a bulb but I might leave a couple to go to seed, if I can resist temptation 🤭 thank you for that! Take care, till next time 💖x
Nice to see you again, sometimes life gets in the way . The plastic look like video tape , what a pain . Allotment looking good and growing well, my green beans are still struggling. Waiting for rain here in Stafford not had any for weeks. 😢. The fennel look amazing . Tfs till next time :) Marina
Hey Marina ☺️ 👋 life certainly got in the way! The plastic is a bit of a problem 😔 I wonder if it not the year for green beans 🫛 it might be too cold. You are waiting for rain 🥺 It has been raining since 7am this morning, I am waiting for the sunshine 🌞😆
@@MarianWalsh-vz9fy Hey Marian 👋 ah it's good to be back filming! Life got a little busy! The birds are so cheeky, I had all my raspberries netted and they still perched on the canes and snapped them 🤣 some battles you can't win! 😅X
Hi Laura it's me 😂six weeks where have you been? what has happened now? Have i fallen asleep😴and woke up six weeks later?🤔🤣 As for your Plot wow and wow again everything is looking super great you have done amazingly well, in fact brilliantly should be the word considering we were once deciding which plot was the better one for you to pick. You finally fixed that tap with new fittings so well done and a treat as well. That rocky plastic shredded area, could you get away with putting in a small Wildlife Pond or something that doesn't involve picking rocks or bits of plastic out? Anyway well done again for what you have achieved on the plot i knew you could do it, see you were that good you didn't need me to fly out afterall 😂 Take Care. Barry (the Wirral, ENG) xx
😅😅 Hi Barry! It's been 6 weeks since I showed the allotment and 3/4 weeks since I uploaded a video so your weren't asleep for as long as you thought 🤣 Its funny you mention that, I was trying to figure out how long I had the allotment for, 27th January is when I took it on, so just over 5 months! Thrilled with the tap now hopefully the back of the plot is no longer a bog! I was thinking about putting in a wildlife pond area, I'd like to get frogs to control the slugs, decisions decisions!! Thank you so much Barry, you are always so kind and helpful! Take care till next time x
Hi Laura, sorry i havent been around for a while, but now i am catching up. You are looking really well, as is the plot. You have done a great job with the post, tap and fittings. Salad bed looks really good and that cucumber is awesome. Your potatoes looks more like septoria leaf spot than blight. All in all plots looking great, you have plenty growing and took home a nice harvest, well done x
Hey Jimmy 👋 I am the very same its hard to keep up! I have so much to catch up on. Thank you so much, thrilled with the new tap and I think you could be right on the potatoes, they don't seem to have deteriorated the stems look perfectly fine! Lovely to hear from you, hope you are doing good, take care x
@@thetinygarden_ I am doing well thank you Laura, although i must be honest and say i have neglected the plot over the last few weeks. But onwards and upwards as they say x
Such a shame about the plastic and rubble 😢 but you have simply done an incredible job with the space. Oh I love the cucumber 🥒 mine are still little 😂. It’s been insanely hot 🥵 here it’s 32c right now at 1:30 in the afternoon. Tues could reach mid 30’s and all I seem to do is water. I’m glad there are people there you can ask about things it’s nice to have that option. Have a marvellous week ahead, Ali 🌞🥵🫠🇨🇦
Hey Ali 👋 so lovely to hear from you!! Such a shame and such hard work 😅 Thank you so much, it's looking like a vegetable garden nearly! I cant get over those temperatures, I would literally melt 🫠 I dont know how you do it. Water, water, water, it's amazing how you keep your pots looking so healthy with that heat. I am blessed with my plot neighbours, I am just sad I don't get to see them as much as I would like, I tend to go to the plot at the end of the day and I miss a lot of them! They are so helpful 🤗💖 have a lovely week and stay hydrated in that heat 🥵xx
Looking great lovely harvest's 👍 potatoes look like they're ready one of my beds is exactly the same dug a few up and they where lovely , funny thing is they where second early's first early 's planted the same day are still growing fine 🤔
Hey Elizabeth 👋 oh interesting is that about your potatoes 🧐!! I do miss not having first earliest this year, I was eating spuds in around May /June last year so I think will do them again next season for the earlier harvest! Home grown so taste so much better! 🤗
@@thetinygarden_ I do some salad potatoes in buckets they are pretty early well I start them off early and leave them in the g/house or tunnel until frost has gone they where gorgeous did jazzy and Gwennie still have a few buckets to harvest I've just cut the tops off and put the buckets in the tunnel until I want them 👍
Those teepee trellises are sooo gorgeous. Everything looks so healthy. Isn't it the best when you can harvest an abundance...well and overwhelming too. I can't believe you're in a coat and I can't even think about heavy clothing at the moment. How do you like to prepare your turnips? I stopped growing them because we really like lots of things more. They were good roasted with onions and honey. Glad to see your channel is really growing.🥰
The teepees really make it feel like a real allotment 😍 so overwhelming! It's like how do I cook this or how can I squeeze this into the weekly meal plan 😅🤣 I am in a coat yes 🤭 sadly only highs of 15 (59f) today, the season has been very cold, night time temps rarely get over 9 degrees (48.2f) I like to roast them, but I heard the white ones can be thinly sliced and added to a salad. I also saw a gorgeous recipe for turnip gratin, I am going to give it a go! I plan to sow a few more this week to have over autumn for stews! Given the weather I could probably have the crock pot on the go right now 🤣🤭 Thank you Robin I took a short break life got so busy but glad to be back filming and chatting to everyone ♥️
Amazing progress laura, iv not even got one cucumber on any of my 3 plants so well done ❤ Not sure if you do this but when you pulled the whole green lettuce i leave the roots on and when i get home i keep it in a bowl of water just covering the roots it stops it wilting and seems to last longer 😊 Potatos looks brilliant ❤ we harvested ours on friday. Some alug damage but loads of good ones and they were delicious on yesterdays dinner. Have a great week ahead 😊
Hey Tracey 👋 thank you!! That's a great idea on the lettuce I've never tried that, I am using an air tight box at the minute but that sounds like a good alternative! I saw your potatos harvest! Looking goooood! ♥️
Thank you Anne! It's the first cucumber I've grown like that! I usually grow the small ridge outdoor ones but none germinated this year 🥺 since picking it it has started to flower again 🤞🥒
I have heard jobs at the council are really good if you can get one! I will likely stay with my current employer but move into a new department, I will share the update with you once everything is finalised 🤞🤭
Great to see you back Laura, plot is looking fab and the fennel is beautiful. Had the same potato scare on a bucket of Charlotte’s next to the greenhouse at the start of June and quickly harvested them and disposed of the tops pronto! I had just put my 16 tomato plants in the greenhouse and they appear to have got it too.🙁. I’m guessing a fungus and removing lower leaves as it appears and spraying hydrogen peroxide weekly…. The joys of living on the wet and wild SE Coast of England🤪
Thank you Kaz 🤗 good to be back filming! Oh honestly it is so sad when the potatoes and tomatoes get blight I was gutted last year, so far my toms are okay 🤞haha certainly the joys of a wet climate! I will try blight resistant tomatoes next year i think. I have the blight resistant potatoes for my main crop in containers at home, so I will try and find a first and second early that are resistant for next year! X
@@thetinygarden_ Ive been lucky over the years and never got blight/leaf spot before. I think mines a fungal leaf spot with the late wet humid weather that we now get🫣. I have purchased the JBA blight guard and just downloaded blight map app in readiness 😬. Hopefully yours will be fine and I’ve arrested whatever I’ve got? Good to have you back👍
@@katebettesworth2638 Hi Kate, I hope none of us get it. My area on the app today was fine. I’m literally 10 minutes walk from the seafront and got some kind of leaf spot end of May. Not surprised, my roses have never been so bad with black spot and have powdery mildew on some courgettes too. Maybe some areas have more vulnerable microclimates than some others? Wishing you a blight free season!
Oh everything looks so good Laura. I'm so chuffed you cucs have grown so well, all mine died 😅 the weather turned down here and I don't think I've seen more than three sunny days since you posted last! Ohh that tap will make such a difference. Fennels looking really good. Oh it's all looking fab!!
Oh no not the cucumbers 🥺 the weather is sooo unpredictable! It's sunny right now but due to rain from 2pm and I am not debating whether to pop to the allotment or not 😅 Thrilled with the tap now fixed I cannot wait to pick that fennel! How are your potatoes going?
@@thetinygarden_ I have only six bags left as I've eaten them all 😂😂. I underestimated my voracity for them once they were readily available to me 😂🙈. I have four just started for winter spuds but I now know I need to double my spuds next year. That'll be 50 spud tubs for one 4"11 woman 😂. I am trying my best to put weight on though so I'm not mad at it. It'll even out eventually when I'm not on such a high carb diet lol. I'm eating carrots daily raw to snack too 😅. The carrots have actually done really well. Far better than I'd expected tbh. Both free sown and the seed tape ones I tried out.
I love that so much Lorna! Isn't it amazing thought to tip out and bucket and eat them, so rewarding and so helpful for the high carbs too! 50 tubs of spuds sounds good to me and a great use of space!! 🙌🙌 Raw veggies are a regular allotment snack for me too! Raddish has been my veg of choice so far (literally because it's the only thing ready!) I head to the plot after work 2-3 times a week and I get so carried away and then before I know it it's 8pm and the hunger hits 🤣
@@thetinygarden_ oh the time goes so quickly out there doesn't it! And yes, spuds are the jewels of the garden to me lol. A real treasure. And lol I tried three or four times to get radishes going but I got a grand total of three 😅. I'm so glad they've done well for you and that they are ready to eat too! Nom nom ❤️
It must be so frustrating having to use your time to deal with someone else's mess! Always the case with allotments, digging up rubbish and rubble someone else buried there. That shredded plastic looks like a nightmare. Good luck!
There have been so many surprises under the grass and soil of this plot! I don't mind so much the rubble, I can get that out relatively easy, not sure how I will get every small bit of plastic but I'll try!!! 😅
Hey Lorna ♥️ I am sorry for the lack up updates!! Life has taken over!! I had family fly over and visit that I haven't seen in so long, I became an aunty for the second time and of course I am still making my way through my university dissertation! But I'll be back to more regular updates very soon ♥️
Congratulations on the extended family!!❤ And no need to apologise, I'm just on worry mode ATM as pots and petals has dropped off the face of the earth after a health conversation via email and I'm worried about him and it's making me nervous when others disappear @@thetinygarden_ 🙈.I'm very, very relieved you're still around 🤗
Wow Amazing every thing is fantastic I sure have missed u I haven't been on a while myself As been so poorly Doc wanted me in hospital but I refused Any way 2 lots of antibiotics 2 lots of steroids I'm allmost there I have agreed to go pulmonary T9 see what next move is I'm so pleased for u and ur allotment ,its thriving Take care x
Hey Janet 👋 I have missed chatting to you! Life got a bit busy 🤭 seeing family and university work and the day job! I ran out of hours very quickly! Loving the allotment still and the harvests are coming now which is great! Hospital, gosh that doesn't sound good 🥺 pulmonary? They sounds like your lungs are at you again. I hope you feel better soon, sending big hugs 🤗 please take care of yourself Janet x
@@thetinygarden_ hi Yes I bet u run out of hours in a day But it's paying off So makes u wanna go on Yes my lungs are in a bad way ,and getting worse So we're just planting fruit bushes now Don't need much looking after And we have the fruit trees Tomatoes Rhubarb ,strawberrys so that enough now I carnt manage any thing else , We have had nothing but horid weather ,and today I'd Rain ,thunder a lightening Take care ,looking forward to ur next vid x
Omg it’s looking amazing!! ❤ I bet all the rubble was under what was the chicken run? They might of put it under to stop foxes? But my nemesis were bricks from an old greenhouse base… there were hundreds of the pesky things😢 x
Oh Pammie I think your are on the money there, that is exactly where the chicken side of the shed was 🥴 slow and steady wins the race right? 🤣 Every couple of days I go up and dig a few more! It's starting to look like a real allotment at long last! 🙌 ♥️x
@@thetinygarden_you are doing it the right way! Loads would cover with cardboard add compost then wonder why it’s failing… you’re taking the time to dig out the nasties and look how it’s rewarding you with amazing produce! It’s looking remarkable considering how it looked before 😊 you must be so so proud there Laura it’s phenomenal 🥰
Hey Sabrina ☺️ thrilled with the progress so far and there is lots more space to developed over the next few months! I need to paint the shed and change out that blue tarp! 😆Hope you have been keeping well!!
Thank you Susie 🤗 I didn't realise how much it had changed until I looked back at the old footage when putting the no dig beds in! As you correctly predicted the French and runner beans didn't need that wig wam! I'll save myself some time next season 😀
your fennel looks fab its bulbing so much more then mine and mine are romenessa /neso what ever you call it lol x but i do need to thin couple , what a whopper of a cucumber too !!
@@thetinygarden_ yeah its usual bulbing type but mine look well scrawny to your bulbous beast lol , they are in containers also so might use this week to po them in the ground , n hope they don't immediately seed , they arent bad but nowt like yours mines more taller n , doesnt matter how it grows to me bulb is a bonus i use mainly for salad tea and seed
@@thetinygarden_ im useless at replys i put them anywhere but my fave thing gone to seed this year was coriander , pow those seeds are pop of spice in your mouth m cant wait to dry and grind to powder i have loads too , for winter cooking its comfort in a curry xx
Welcome back Laura. Your plot is looking great apart from the lumps of concrete and plastic. The potatoes seem to be at the digging stage unlikely to have blight.
Thank you George, feels good to be back filming! ☺️ Haha yes small hicup with th concrete blocks and plastic but I'll get there! That's good news on the potatoes so! 😁
Nice to see another vlog again😊
Thanks Conny ☺️ always so lovely to hear from you! Life took over a little I had family visit from England and I haven't seen them in years, I became an aunty for the second time and I have the university thesis deadline on the horizon 😆 soon I will be back to more regular uploads!! Thank you for tuning in and watching 🥰
Hi Laura! 🙋🏻♀️ Your produce are fantastic-looking. Thanks for catching us up. Take care my friend! Cindy from America
Hey Cindy 👋 thank you so much it's starting to feel like a real allotment! Hope you have been keeping well, take good care, till next time 🤗
I have to admit that I had to watch the video twice. First time was just to see all the news and the second time was to enjoy the video. Good job and thank you. G
Thank you so much 🥰 it was a quick snappy update! The allotment really feels like a real growing space, but lots of projects to keep me going too!
Your plot looks amazing. Hard to believe this is your first year there. Lush and gorgeous already.
Thank you so much 🥰 it's starting to look like a real allotment now! There is a fair but if space left to developed but pleased so far!
Perfect Laura 😊 lovely to see you at your plot.. Looks great, well done... You have achieved so much 😊
Thank you so much Kerrie! I hope you are doing good and getting time for yourself in the garden. Fingers crossed the weather picks up and I get some nice sweetcorn
What a lovely update. Sorry I’m so delayed, but with two weekends away I’ve struggled to keep up.
The plot is looking productive. Loving the new tap set up. Looks fab!
That looks hard work with the broken concrete and plastic. Really is a gift that keeps on giving isn’t it?! 😫
Potatoes looked good that you pulled. Impressive
Hey Clare 👋😁 I am the exact same juggling life at the minute I have so much to catch up on TH-cam 🤣 it's a nifty new tap set up and no more leaks!
I spent the day with a pick ⛏️ going at the stones the more I remove the more I find 😭
What a lovely update. Sorry I’m so delayed, but with two weekends away I’ve struggled to keep up.
The plot is looking productive. Loving the new tap set up. Looks fab!
That looks hard work with the broken concrete and plastic. Really is a gift that keeps on giving isn’t it?! 😫
Potatoes looked good that you pulled. Impressive and the cucumber is massive!! 😱❤️
It was a mighty cucumber 🥒🥒 the rest are coming slowly 😁 ♥️x
Ugh. Concrete chunks and shredded plastic 😣 the bane of gardeners everywhere!
I live in a windy suburb, and my garden seems to be a catch-all for people's rubbish that blows in. I'm constantly having to tread into my garden beds to pull rubbish out. Very frustrating, especially if the plastic disintegrates! When it gets to that point, I usually shovel it into a garbage bag, because I don't want it hanging around in my garden soil.
Your allotment is looking amazing! Same with your Tiny Garden. I'm so envious! Everything is full of vibrant green and bright colours 💚
Here on the other side of the world, it's still overcast, grey, and looking mostly bare. I think only my daphne is flowering, but it smells divine, so that's nice!
You said how I felt in own word ugh! 😩 I am trying the same tactic, shoveling it up but there is a lot of it 🫣
The plot is starting to feel like a real grow space nice, keeping on top of the grass and weeds is a little challenge but I hope to buy an electric battery operated mower and strimmer..maybe the same brand and my drill because all the batteries will be interchangeable!
Has your winter finished yet? 🤔Xx
@@thetinygarden_ we have winter until end of August. 1 September is the official start of spring here, so only just over halfway through our miserable winter 😅 August is usually the coldest month, but usually by then there's daffodils popping up optimistically. Although that said, a lot of bulbs are up earlier than expected. I think they might be confused about where we are in the season! We had several nights that dipped into the minuses, so it's possible that they think we're past the worst of the cold 😂
You are amazing and love your videos. Thank you so much ❤
Thank you so much Joanne, soon as university finishes I'll be back to more regular uploads 🤞 so glad you enjoy watching them! 💖
I truly hope you are so proud, you have achieved a lot in this space in such a short amount of time . With radish pods, pick them when they're tender, you can just add them to salads. If you have a bunch, they make a great pickle or ferment. I make gallons of half sour fermented pickles (mainly cucumbers, Im in South Texas) and I add my radish pods and garlic scapes to the brine. Also, I started making "radish chips" from the leaves, in a low slow oven, barely rubbed with s&p&chili and they're shockingly good with an ice cold beer or crisp white wine.
Hey Bird ☺️ oh wow I love a crunchy snack with a crisp beer 😋 I like white wine and red wine too 🤭 I have never heard of raddish chips they sound amazing, thank you!
I am chuffed with it to be honest, there is still lots of unused space but I will get to that over time!
I need to get learning how to ferment things!!
Yay for an allotment update! That cucumber looked marvellous, you must have quite a sun trap there for that and the red pepper (especially this year) ☔ Your plot is looking fabulous, especially knowing how busy you have been/are!!
The cuke tasted Devine too! Thank you so much it's getting there and quite a bit more to do up there! ♥️
@@thetinygarden_ There's always lots to do isn't there, but what you have been doing has paid off 💚
Wow that cucumber , mine are tiny still . Plot is looking great
Thank you Ceylon 🤗I loved the cucumber 🥒 I've never grown one like that before, I usually go for the ridge ones but none of them germinated this year! I hope I get more like this 🤞🤞
Great tour again, Laura. I love this time of the year! Your potatoes have Septoria Leaf Spot - often mistaken for blight but it is harmless. I've seen some channels lift their spuds early because of it!!
@@DigwellGreenfingers thanks Steve 👋 that's good to know!! I think it's something I might get every year by the looks of it! I am so glad I had a few people to ask up at the plot they were all very confident it wasn't blight! It's a great time of year, finally the hard work is paying off!
Take it easy now on that new plot yours!
Wow looks like a completely different plot Laura, well done, your rewards are paying off now. You must be thrilled 😊 I direct sown some turnips last week & they're already germinating, I've got to thin them out next. Enjoyed watching as usual, have a lovely weekend xx
Hey Carol 👋 small harvest wins! Some of the veggies like the raddish have a few marks on them but I guess I have to take that with it being organic 🤭
I didn't think mine I really should have, and my carrots 🫣 so glad you enjoyed it! Have a lovely weekend I hope you get to harvest the potatoes soon with your granddaughter 💖xx
Hey Laura great to see you,its been some time and you have been missed.lts all looking fantastic,all your ha4d work is definitely paying off 🍓🥒🍅🥦🌶👋👋 for now.
Hey Joyce 👋 so lovely to hear from you! My broad beans at home are almost ready I picked a few but inside they were mixed sizes! Still can't get over how early your harvest was!
It has been a little while since the last video life took over 🤭😅 as soon as university finishes I can get better at my uploads!
Hope you are getting lots of harvests, take care 🤗till next time x
@@thetinygarden_ Laura the broad beans got planted in February to miss the Black fly invasion and it worked 100% so I'll do the same next year.
Wow that cucumber 👏👏 mine are forming but still dinky 😆.
Plots looking great 👍😍. Think everyone is having bit of a time with weeds, it's never ending here and I really need to get put a good hoeing session in, dreading it after this rain 🫣😆.
My potatoes are also looking a bit worrisome, been having palpitations at the thought of blight coming in so considering a total chop myself but dithering over it so don't know 😂.
And no worries, nice to support a lovely channel 🌱🌱
Hey Joe 👋 after I chopped off the fruit the plant put on loads of flowers so I hope I get lots more cucumbers because my outdoor cukes never germinated! 🥺🥒
The potatoes are a funny one aren't they, chop or not to chop! It's so damp again this season the brown spot is having a whale of a time! There was something else as well as brown spot on those potatoes though, I just cant put my finger on what it is 🤔
Fingers crossed you can hold off on your spuds 🤞 take care, till next time! 🤗
Welcome back, Laura 🤗🤗🌻
Your plants are thriving, they're all so big and that cucumbers plus already red pepper.....we had hail yesterday, and the temperatures have been coolish.... sry to see the rubble pile coming out 🙄 not a great find.....and the potato worries....we're having a blight warning daily nearly now 😕
Mind yourself and take care in the meanwhile 🥰💚🌿
Hey lovely 👋 hail in July oh no..the weather is very unpredictable at the minute! The rubble and plastic is a really annoying 🫣 but I'll get there with it!
The pepper is from my over wintered plant small bit still a red pepper in Ireland in July! Wahoo! 🎉
Lovely to hear from you, take care and talk soon 💖x
Your doing a great job. 😊
Thank you Mags getting there bit by bit ☺️
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ just love it
Thank you ♥️♥️
fantastic work on the allotment ❤all is looking good 👍🏾
@@StellasVegetablegardens thank you Stella ♥️🥰
So good to see your progress Laura, the plot is looking fantastic 😊 Isn't it exciting when you start to harvest your hard work 😊 That cucumber looked amazing, mine are doing well but not as large as the one you harvested 😁 my sweet dumpling has flowers on it now, so excited to see fruits on it soon. Your new tap setup looks great. Water is such an important part of the garden. Looking forward to your next video Laura, have a wonderful weekend 😊 xx
@@julieg1270 hey Julie 👋 it's so exciting to harvest! On my drive up and I think to myself I wonder what I can pick today 🤭 that is my only cucumber 🥒 and since I harvested it loads of flowers have started to grow, fingers crossed some more cukes to come!
I am nearly sure I planted 2 sweet dumplings at the plot and I am not sure where they are now, possibly one on the end of the teepee bed I'll have to wait to see what it looks like as the season goes along 🤣😅 I can't believe you have flowers already!!
So pleased with the tap, with it leaking the way it was, really started to bother me! So far all the pipe fixings have stayed out 🤭
Looking forward to filming the next one, see you really soon, take care ♥️xx
Hi Laura. If you let the fennel grow to seeds, they are lovely and tasty gently roasted. Insects love the flowers and burds love the seeds too. But maybe you will just harvestvthe bulb?
The seeds are full of natural oestrogen for those older woman that might need it, but hopefully butvyiu just yet 🤔. Sending love, light and Summer blessings 🐝🏵🐞🌹 xx
Hey Veronica 👋 oh wow I didn't know that about the fennel seeds!! Wow that is so interesting! Haha I hope not just yet either 😅I will definitely harvest the one I showed in the video as a bulb but I might leave a couple to go to seed, if I can resist temptation 🤭 thank you for that! Take care, till next time 💖x
Nice to see you again, sometimes life gets in the way . The plastic look like video tape , what a pain . Allotment looking good and growing well, my green beans are still struggling. Waiting for rain here in Stafford not had any for weeks. 😢. The fennel look amazing . Tfs till next time :) Marina
Hey Marina ☺️ 👋 life certainly got in the way! The plastic is a bit of a problem 😔 I wonder if it not the year for green beans 🫛 it might be too cold. You are waiting for rain 🥺 It has been raining since 7am this morning, I am waiting for the sunshine 🌞😆
Birds keep stealing my labels too, very annoying. Lovely to see you back.
@@MarianWalsh-vz9fy Hey Marian 👋 ah it's good to be back filming! Life got a little busy! The birds are so cheeky, I had all my raspberries netted and they still perched on the canes and snapped them 🤣 some battles you can't win! 😅X
Hi Laura it's me 😂six weeks where have you been? what has happened now? Have i fallen asleep😴and woke up six weeks later?🤔🤣
As for your Plot wow and wow again everything is looking super great you have done amazingly well, in fact brilliantly should be the word considering we were once deciding which plot was the better one for you to pick.
You finally fixed that tap with new fittings so well done and a treat as well.
That rocky plastic shredded area, could you get away with putting in a small Wildlife Pond or something that doesn't involve picking rocks or bits of plastic out?
Anyway well done again for what you have achieved on the plot i knew you could do it, see you were that good you didn't need me to fly out afterall 😂
Take Care.
Barry (the Wirral, ENG) xx
😅😅 Hi Barry! It's been 6 weeks since I showed the allotment and 3/4 weeks since I uploaded a video so your weren't asleep for as long as you thought 🤣
Its funny you mention that, I was trying to figure out how long I had the allotment for, 27th January is when I took it on, so just over 5 months!
Thrilled with the tap now hopefully the back of the plot is no longer a bog! I was thinking about putting in a wildlife pond area, I'd like to get frogs to control the slugs, decisions decisions!!
Thank you so much Barry, you are always so kind and helpful! Take care till next time x
Hi Laura, sorry i havent been around for a while, but now i am catching up. You are looking really well, as is the plot. You have done a great job with the post, tap and fittings. Salad bed looks really good and that cucumber is awesome. Your potatoes looks more like septoria leaf spot than blight. All in all plots looking great, you have plenty growing and took home a nice harvest, well done x
Hey Jimmy 👋 I am the very same its hard to keep up! I have so much to catch up on. Thank you so much, thrilled with the new tap and I think you could be right on the potatoes, they don't seem to have deteriorated the stems look perfectly fine! Lovely to hear from you, hope you are doing good, take care x
@@thetinygarden_ I am doing well thank you Laura, although i must be honest and say i have neglected the plot over the last few weeks. But onwards and upwards as they say x
Such a shame about the plastic and rubble 😢 but you have simply done an incredible job with the space. Oh I love the cucumber 🥒 mine are still little 😂. It’s been insanely hot 🥵 here it’s 32c right now at 1:30 in the afternoon. Tues could reach mid 30’s and all I seem to do is water. I’m glad there are people there you can ask about things it’s nice to have that option. Have a marvellous week ahead, Ali 🌞🥵🫠🇨🇦
Hey Ali 👋 so lovely to hear from you!! Such a shame and such hard work 😅
Thank you so much, it's looking like a vegetable garden nearly! I cant get over those temperatures, I would literally melt 🫠 I dont know how you do it. Water, water, water, it's amazing how you keep your pots looking so healthy with that heat.
I am blessed with my plot neighbours, I am just sad I don't get to see them as much as I would like, I tend to go to the plot at the end of the day and I miss a lot of them! They are so helpful 🤗💖 have a lovely week and stay hydrated in that heat 🥵xx
You've done such an amazing job with the plot, I love how everything is looking!
Thank you Laitae ♥️ I need to work on a few flower beds and a seating area next!
@@thetinygarden_ which flowers are you thinking of growing?
I am not 100% sure at the minute! At the back of the shed I'd love to make a shady boarder to start with! But I need to research that 🤔🧐
Looking great lovely harvest's 👍 potatoes look like they're ready one of my beds is exactly the same dug a few up and they where lovely , funny thing is they where second early's first early 's planted the same day are still growing fine 🤔
Hey Elizabeth 👋 oh interesting is that about your potatoes 🧐!! I do miss not having first earliest this year, I was eating spuds in around May /June last year so I think will do them again next season for the earlier harvest! Home grown so taste so much better! 🤗
@@thetinygarden_ I do some salad potatoes in buckets they are pretty early well I start them off early and leave them in the g/house or tunnel until frost has gone they where gorgeous did jazzy and Gwennie still have a few buckets to harvest I've just cut the tops off and put the buckets in the tunnel until I want them 👍
Those teepee trellises are sooo gorgeous.
Everything looks so healthy. Isn't it the best when you can harvest an abundance...well and overwhelming too.
I can't believe you're in a coat and I can't even think about heavy clothing at the moment.
How do you like to prepare your turnips? I stopped growing them because we really like lots of things more. They were good roasted with onions and honey.
Glad to see your channel is really growing.🥰
The teepees really make it feel like a real allotment 😍 so overwhelming! It's like how do I cook this or how can I squeeze this into the weekly meal plan 😅🤣
I am in a coat yes 🤭 sadly only highs of 15 (59f) today, the season has been very cold, night time temps rarely get over 9 degrees (48.2f)
I like to roast them, but I heard the white ones can be thinly sliced and added to a salad. I also saw a gorgeous recipe for turnip gratin, I am going to give it a go! I plan to sow a few more this week to have over autumn for stews! Given the weather I could probably have the crock pot on the go right now 🤣🤭
Thank you Robin I took a short break life got so busy but glad to be back filming and chatting to everyone ♥️
@@thetinygarden_ Let me know how you like them raw. I've not done the white ones only the purple top.
Amazing progress laura, iv not even got one cucumber on any of my 3 plants so well done ❤
Not sure if you do this but when you pulled the whole green lettuce i leave the roots on and when i get home i keep it in a bowl of water just covering the roots it stops it wilting and seems to last longer 😊
Potatos looks brilliant ❤ we harvested ours on friday. Some alug damage but loads of good ones and they were delicious on yesterdays dinner.
Have a great week ahead 😊
Hey Tracey 👋 thank you!! That's a great idea on the lettuce I've never tried that, I am using an air tight box at the minute but that sounds like a good alternative!
I saw your potatos harvest! Looking goooood! ♥️
@@thetinygarden_ give it a try 😄 mine lasts ages I just keep putting fresh water in so it doesn't go stale but works for me 😊 x
Wow! That is one long cucumber! Lovely garden for sure!☺
Thank you Anne! It's the first cucumber I've grown like that! I usually grow the small ridge outdoor ones but none germinated this year 🥺 since picking it it has started to flower again 🤞🥒
Hello Laura..catching up now 😊
Thank you, great vlog xxxx
Hope you enjoyed it! Appreciate your continued support Lynn 🥰xx
@@thetinygarden_ hope your exams go well. What are you studying?
@@lynnpurfield9430 thank you 🥰 not long left now! I am doing a Master's in Project management 🤭
@@thetinygarden_ wow. So you could work for a council? Only project manager I met was when I was a secretary for a local council.
I have heard jobs at the council are really good if you can get one! I will likely stay with my current employer but move into a new department, I will share the update with you once everything is finalised 🤞🤭
Great to see you back Laura, plot is looking fab and the fennel is beautiful. Had the same potato scare on a bucket of Charlotte’s next to the greenhouse at the start of June and quickly harvested them and disposed of the tops pronto! I had just put my 16 tomato plants in the greenhouse and they appear to have got it too.🙁. I’m guessing a fungus and removing lower leaves as it appears and spraying hydrogen peroxide weekly…. The joys of living on the wet and wild SE Coast of England🤪
Thank you Kaz 🤗 good to be back filming! Oh honestly it is so sad when the potatoes and tomatoes get blight I was gutted last year, so far my toms are okay 🤞haha certainly the joys of a wet climate!
I will try blight resistant tomatoes next year i think. I have the blight resistant potatoes for my main crop in containers at home, so I will try and find a first and second early that are resistant for next year! X
@@thetinygarden_ Ive been lucky over the years and never got blight/leaf spot before. I think mines a fungal leaf spot with the late wet humid weather that we now get🫣. I have purchased the JBA blight guard and just downloaded blight map app in readiness 😬. Hopefully yours will be fine and I’ve arrested whatever I’ve got? Good to have you back👍
Hi Kaz. I'm in the Dartford area. Not seen anything on my spuds yet. Fingers crossed I won't. 🤞
@@katebettesworth2638 Hi Kate, I hope none of us get it. My area on the app today was fine. I’m literally 10 minutes walk from the seafront and got some kind of leaf spot end of May. Not surprised, my roses have never been so bad with black spot and have powdery mildew on some courgettes too. Maybe some areas have more vulnerable microclimates than some others?
Wishing you a blight free season!
Oh everything looks so good Laura. I'm so chuffed you cucs have grown so well, all mine died 😅 the weather turned down here and I don't think I've seen more than three sunny days since you posted last!
Ohh that tap will make such a difference. Fennels looking really good.
Oh it's all looking fab!!
Oh no not the cucumbers 🥺 the weather is sooo unpredictable! It's sunny right now but due to rain from 2pm and I am not debating whether to pop to the allotment or not 😅
Thrilled with the tap now fixed I cannot wait to pick that fennel! How are your potatoes going?
@@thetinygarden_ I have only six bags left as I've eaten them all 😂😂. I underestimated my voracity for them once they were readily available to me 😂🙈. I have four just started for winter spuds but I now know I need to double my spuds next year. That'll be 50 spud tubs for one 4"11 woman 😂. I am trying my best to put weight on though so I'm not mad at it. It'll even out eventually when I'm not on such a high carb diet lol. I'm eating carrots daily raw to snack too 😅. The carrots have actually done really well. Far better than I'd expected tbh. Both free sown and the seed tape ones I tried out.
@@thetinygarden_ but it does mean that literally half my 155sqf will be bloody spuds next year 😅. Roll on the space of an allotment!
I love that so much Lorna! Isn't it amazing thought to tip out and bucket and eat them, so rewarding and so helpful for the high carbs too!
50 tubs of spuds sounds good to me and a great use of space!! 🙌🙌
Raw veggies are a regular allotment snack for me too! Raddish has been my veg of choice so far (literally because it's the only thing ready!) I head to the plot after work 2-3 times a week and I get so carried away and then before I know it it's 8pm and the hunger hits 🤣
@@thetinygarden_ oh the time goes so quickly out there doesn't it! And yes, spuds are the jewels of the garden to me lol. A real treasure.
And lol I tried three or four times to get radishes going but I got a grand total of three 😅. I'm so glad they've done well for you and that they are ready to eat too! Nom nom ❤️
It must be so frustrating having to use your time to deal with someone else's mess! Always the case with allotments, digging up rubbish and rubble someone else buried there. That shredded plastic looks like a nightmare. Good luck!
There have been so many surprises under the grass and soil of this plot! I don't mind so much the rubble, I can get that out relatively easy, not sure how I will get every small bit of plastic but I'll try!!! 😅
Yey, been wondering where you went ❤
Hey Lorna ♥️ I am sorry for the lack up updates!! Life has taken over!! I had family fly over and visit that I haven't seen in so long, I became an aunty for the second time and of course I am still making my way through my university dissertation! But I'll be back to more regular updates very soon ♥️
Congratulations on the extended family!!❤
And no need to apologise, I'm just on worry mode ATM as pots and petals has dropped off the face of the earth after a health conversation via email and I'm worried about him and it's making me nervous when others disappear @@thetinygarden_ 🙈.I'm very, very relieved you're still around 🤗
Wow
Amazing every thing is fantastic
I sure have missed u
I haven't been on a while myself
As been so poorly
Doc wanted me in hospital but I refused
Any way 2 lots of antibiotics
2 lots of steroids I'm allmost there
I have agreed to go pulmonary
T9 see what next move is
I'm so pleased for u and ur allotment ,its thriving
Take care x
Hey Janet 👋 I have missed chatting to you! Life got a bit busy 🤭 seeing family and university work and the day job! I ran out of hours very quickly! Loving the allotment still and the harvests are coming now which is great!
Hospital, gosh that doesn't sound good 🥺 pulmonary? They sounds like your lungs are at you again. I hope you feel better soon, sending big hugs 🤗 please take care of yourself Janet x
@@thetinygarden_ hi
Yes I bet u run out of hours in a day
But it's paying off
So makes u wanna go on
Yes my lungs are in a bad way ,and getting worse
So we're just planting fruit bushes now
Don't need much looking after
And we have the fruit trees
Tomatoes
Rhubarb ,strawberrys so that enough now
I carnt manage any thing else ,
We have had nothing but horid weather ,and today I'd
Rain ,thunder a lightening
Take care ,looking forward to ur next vid x
Omg it’s looking amazing!! ❤ I bet all the rubble was under what was the chicken run? They might of put it under to stop foxes? But my nemesis were bricks from an old greenhouse base… there were hundreds of the pesky things😢 x
Oh Pammie I think your are on the money there, that is exactly where the chicken side of the shed was 🥴 slow and steady wins the race right? 🤣 Every couple of days I go up and dig a few more!
It's starting to look like a real allotment at long last! 🙌 ♥️x
@@thetinygarden_you are doing it the right way! Loads would cover with cardboard add compost then wonder why it’s failing… you’re taking the time to dig out the nasties and look how it’s rewarding you with amazing produce! It’s looking remarkable considering how it looked before 😊 you must be so so proud there Laura it’s phenomenal 🥰
My goodness you really have transformed your allotment.
Hey Sabrina ☺️ thrilled with the progress so far and there is lots more space to developed over the next few months! I need to paint the shed and change out that blue tarp! 😆Hope you have been keeping well!!
Wow,super progress .So glad your reaping the harvests 🍓🌻
Thank you Susie 🤗 I didn't realise how much it had changed until I looked back at the old footage when putting the no dig beds in! As you correctly predicted the French and runner beans didn't need that wig wam! I'll save myself some time next season 😀
your fennel looks fab its bulbing so much more then mine and mine are romenessa /neso what ever you call it lol x but i do need to thin couple , what a whopper of a cucumber too !!
I think mine is romeseco fennel 🧐I'll have the check the seed packet, I am 99% sure! I hope I get more cukes that was the only good looking one 🤭😅
@@thetinygarden_ yeah its usual bulbing type but mine look well scrawny to your bulbous beast lol , they are in containers also so might use this week to po them in the ground , n hope they don't immediately seed , they arent bad but nowt like yours mines more taller n , doesnt matter how it grows to me bulb is a bonus i use mainly for salad tea and seed
i think ive a pic up of mine on instagram , if not i will pop one on this week x
@@thetinygarden_ im useless at replys i put them anywhere but my fave thing gone to seed this year was coriander , pow those seeds are pop of spice in your mouth m cant wait to dry and grind to powder i have loads too , for winter cooking its comfort in a curry xx
Hi Laura 👋
Wow your plot looks fantastic thank you for sharing. Take care Louise X
Thank you Louise 💖 there is a lot of space that I can add beds to but I am chuffed with what I have so far, I've never grown so much in my life 😅x
Welcome back Laura. Your plot is looking great apart from the lumps of concrete and plastic. The potatoes seem to be at the digging stage unlikely to have blight.
Thank you George, feels good to be back filming! ☺️ Haha yes small hicup with th concrete blocks and plastic but I'll get there!
That's good news on the potatoes so! 😁
Could you use the stines to build a rockery ?
Hey Ann 👋 that's an idea! Would it be something for little bugs to live in?
@@thetinygarden_ I'm sure it could be designed in a way that bugs would benefit from. X