It’ll be interesting to see a progress update on the composter if you don’t mind Sandy. You’ll not be caught short by all the predicted shortages. Tastes totally different when you’ve grown your own too.
The only channel where leeks get stolen, gun powder can be made and composters appear from polystyrene. It’s as diverse as it gets which is why we love it 😉♥️👍😊
The co-op in old town is selling seed potatoes cheap 10 for £2.50 they have the best varieties rocket Maris piper and Charlotte. Also if you want fortify your bed or hot composter lotmead farm are still selling their spent strawberry coconut soir grow bags for 5p each a total steal, folks on my plot grew tomatoes straight of them last year
Wow 5p each, the only problem is my car is off the road at the moment, but I may cycle up to the Oldtown Coop and get some seed potatoes. Thats a good price. I shall be growing potatoes in 50 litre buckets this year
I don't know if you have heard of the Living Traditions channel but they are an American couple who are self sufficient on a farm, They are always talking about the best ways to grow and maintain a productive garden and they do really well every year. :)
Hi Sandy,always something to do in the garden,a fine balance is what’s required to juggle it with other activities,or a bit like weeds the garden can take over,an interesting video none the less,hope your wife feels better soon,give her plenty of hot lemon drinks with Manuka honey,£5 49 a jar Aldi👍,atb Colin P.
Thank you for your videos very helpful. Regards the allotment theft I also had an allotment where they would steal my produce and also the compost from my bins and these were other allotment holders I know this as there was a very good gate and locking system and you could only get in through the gate. I gave it up eventually and I would not have another.
Awesome to see, I like the idea of having your own fertilizer type product for your garden. I’m sure it’s going to produce for you and make you feel satisfied about it. I hope the love of your life gets better,sooner than later. She is in good hands sir all the best. Thanks for sharing. Tony.
That’s great Sandy. I’m in my 2nd year of having an allotment. I’ve had great success with root vegetables but anything more delicate not so. I lost a lot due to the extremely hot dry summer we had. I’m sorry you were a victim to someone pinching the leeks. All the best to Mandy, hope she’s better soon.
Hi Wiltshire man, I have a Hotbin mk1 from the company and it's very good. My only criitque with it is the size. I think it needs to be around 2-2.5 ft square for better aeration. I hope you have great success. I'm going to produce another using Kingspan with pallets.
I remember my father’s massive garden on the farm and in the Vilage I grew up in. He grew everything. We never bought any veg from a shop - always home grown and seasonal.
Hi Sandy. By the state of the supermarket shelves today,hardly anything veg and salad crops..you better get going you’d make a fortune..used to love growing our own veg etc…but not able to do it all by myself now…hope Mandy feels better soon
That was interesting Sandy. I’ve got a wormery composter which produces lots of nice liquid fertiliser. It will be good to see how you get on with the hotbox. Thanks for showing us.
Bless Mandy, get well soon. I just had it, it knocked me off my feet, I slept for 5 days pretty much all the time. The garden will soon come on now. Lets hope the talk of 'the beast from the east' is their usual rubbish....
It's a cold easterly up here in Swindon this morning Bry, just got back from a dog walk and my fingers are frozen and there's an easterly breeze and no sign of Mr Solar face either.
Spot on ✔️ Very well done, you're travelling the correct path. Lots of love to Mandy, I hope she gets better soon, there is a lot of really rotten colds going around. And they take some getting over. All the best to you xXx
I think becoming a little more self reliant has to be the way forward for those who can, although my garden isn't large I have enough space to atleast grow probably quite a lot of what we will need. And it will be much better and tastier than the plastic food that comes out of supermarkets and I won't have to eat ze bugz
Nice one Sandy, you are well ahead of us up here in Scotland as far as the growing season is concerned. Was a nice dry day today, so took the bike out for a spin, only to be confronted by gritters throwing salt on the roads as if there was no tomorrow. Grrrr. !!!!
Hope Mandy gets well soon! We look forward to hearing how that gets on! Compost is a fantastic science. I won a competition on it years ago haha, we won a pear tree!
Composting is really interesting, my bin is now starting to warm up, looked at it a few moments ago and is now running at 15C, outside air temp is only 2C
A nice video again and I hope Mandy is well again soon. I may try to make my own version of the hot bin on my allotment as I have plenty of perennial weeds which would be great to recycle rather than take to the tip or burn. I can relate to your frustration with having your allotment produce stolen as the same thing happened to me. I foolishly left my onions out to dry in the sun and the local kids used them as cricket balls in the local park.
Loved this video on your veg growing and your interesting compost. We had an allotment in the 90s we had all our carrot tops cut off , WHY!! Sorry your wife is unwell I hope she recovers quickly. Thank you Sandy, looking forward to seeing how your compost and garden come on.
Great innovation that composter. Can't get over the fact that some scrote nicked your leeks though! Bloody cheek of some people, and on Xmas Day too! Watching your cycling videos recently inspired me to buy a bike. I sold my old BTwin when I got the Himalayan, thinking cycling would be a thing of the past, but had to rethink that strategy, won a full suspension mountain bike off ebay for £30, happy days 🙂
First time I have seen a composter like that, we have a couple of large plastic drums for ours that work well. Garden compost is cheap enough in the shops here also. Must get the garden sorted with new plants as the cyclone decimated quite a number of areas where the supermarkets get their produce from. Could be months or years before back to normal. Anyway great video bro. Safe travels
as an autumn / winter / spring composter, great idea to have it in your greenhouse, summertime, it can get very hot inside a greenhouse, and polystyrene hates extreme heat, so might be an idea to move it outside during the summer months
Interesting video. I do a bit no-dig gardening myself and get some great veg from it, most of the time... lol! I might have a go at building a hot bin at some point as I built my current compost out of pallets and is 4 foot square! Maybe a bit over kill for my three one metre squared raised beds.
Should be a lot better than my conventional plastic compost bin, which works in summer when it's warm but doesn't break down the waste in winter. Interestingly, I've seen a couple of TH-cam videos that advocate burying the material (garden/kitchen waste) 6 to 12 inches deep then planting crops on top. Might have to try this. Hope Mandy recovers quickly.
The hot bin is something our local gardening group use, a big one 6x6x4 ft they all bring there kitchen waste etc, they take off as much as a gallon of fluid at a time in the summer. they stopped putting meat and chicken waste into it because of a issue with rats.
It seems to be working well Gaz, I hope you give it a try. Someone said it will fall apart but mine seems OK at the moment. I would however site it out of the wind maybe in a greenhouse and do your best to keep the area clean so no vermin like rats and mice will be attracted
Yes it is disappointing when your crops get stolen off your allotment. Someone or some animal kepts taking my gooseberries from inside my fruit cage. The composter looks interesting, good luck with the new garden plot. Hope Mandy gets better soon, atb Simon
Very interesting mate, I have a common homemade compost bin but your one is a good idea so I'm going to try a similar one myself now ,I guess the heat is the key to the process. Thanks for the information.
They have to be loaded with the correct ratios otherwise can become anaerobic and smelly, but if done properly you can get compost in as little as 30 days and good liquid leachate plant food too
I would recommend a worm bin Sandy, we put all our kitchen waste in ours and it gives us lovely compost and worm tea is brilliant stuff, I got mine off free cycle, we are still eating veg from last years crops that we froze or dehydrated, we found radish freezes very well but it loses its colour when thawing.
All this bother about no salads , tomatoes in supermarkets etc,etc; I'm pretty sure we will all survive 😂 Pretty sure people back in the day either grew or bought "seasonal" plants to eat. Is it just me (becoming an old gripe, just call me Mr Grumpy 😁) or is there a crazy reliance on supermarkets and a must have it now attitude. anyway gripe over,blah,blah,blah, and it's great seeing another bod getting back into gardening 👍
Hi Sandy 👋 a very interesting video making the hot bin..look forward to seeing vids from your kitchen garden ,we need to grow our own salad crops as very poor in shops.Give Many a hug from me and tell her to get well soon !🥰💗xxxShaz
@@WiltshireMan Hi Sandy ,when a man brings a humble lettece or some potatoes or runnerbeans ,radish to his family he is providing a very special gift 🙏Blessings xxxShaz 🥔🥕🍅🥒🥬
Sandy have you come across Pendon museum (they have a TH-cam), a model railway museum that is modelled on Wanborough, Bishopstone,Ashbury. It would make a good ride out to it and as you have the above villages in your videos I thought you may find it interesting.
It's a shame people have to take from allotments, I have friends that have given up allotments in chiseldon shrivenham and stratton because of theft, we have a small field which we shall be growing from this year just like my dad and grandfather did. All the best.
I think it was the same for a lot of country and village folk and even towns folk back a few years would keep a vegatable patch. I feel sorry for those who are trapped in "new builds" with tiny gardens
Good on ya Sandy, a wise move getting your own little veg & salad patch underway mate, especially with latest new on certain food imports like cucumbers, tomatoes, etc having limits put on them in supper markets. And will undoubtedly save you some of your hard earnt cash mate. Send Mandy my regards and I hope she sake that flue/ cold thing off soon. Regards to One all in the house of the Wiltshire Man. Moose.
I have grown tomatoes and veg in the past as was amazed at the super abundance I got at some times of the year, hearing lots of bad news about possible food rationing etc so becoming a little more self reliant is a good thing
Nice garden, it's a shame someone would steal someone else's vegetables though. We had an "aerial" view of a couple of your antennas there. A wire/dipole and a hex?
Fascinating, especially as I put aside a small area of my own garden last winter to grow a bit of fruit and veg! I have made a “square foot garden” (Home Grown Veg channel on YT). Looking forward to more of your kitchen garden this year please! 👍🏻😁 Best wishes to you and your good lady (and gorgeous Carmen!)
I tried that , it cost about £80 , but was very short lived because there is no inherent strength it simply bowed as the material congregated at the bottom. Could have shored it with plywood I suppose, but that was an expensive option, I bought a second hand hotbin for £100 in the end. They definitely are a game changer you,ll need waste from your neighbours to keep it going.
👍Thanks Sandy, very interesting, ive got some older type (pink) polystyrene insulation sheets laying about so i might have a go at knocking something up, possibly using plywood or tongue & groove for the outer casing to improve rigidity? like you im not keen on spending £300 odd quid or so if i can find other methods, in any case its more satisfying and fun to do stuff yourself as youve often shown ,hope the Mrs is better soon.
Sandy, Only just found this video when browsing your cycling content. I've just got an allotment after a long wait and will be adopting a no dig method for it next year so making lots of compost using rows of scavenged compost bins. Looks like a Dalek invasion (ha ha). On a large scale the hot bin method would be too expensive for me. Any chance that tall metal structure near your growing area is an amateur radio mast? Just wondering. Cheers. Stephen M0OMO.
Yes it is a home made mast, my callsign is G0VQW As for no dig it hasn't worked so well for me, I found the ground became quite compacted and have since forked over the beds
@@WiltshireMan ahhh, good point. There's too many rats in the inner city for me to try that. I've been looking at using old discarded fridge/freezers because they're insulated, strong, have a lid. I've seen a few sources online where other people have done that.
Well done. My greenhouse will reach temperatures of destroy the thermometer during the summer and fry anything growing in there, but this Hot Bin could be useful during the winter months. I've been practising No Dig gardening for a few years and it goes back way before your Charles whatever. I adopt the originator who was called Ruth Stout. The gardening in buckets is a great way to garden in a small space - I also subscribe to someone up North with a Geordie accent, forget his Channel name now, but he is well known for his bucket gardening. Save your Gardener's Urine for April Fools Day as no way am I going to try to translate that. I started out 3 videos back with your permission woods camp and followed the links back here.
Hi Robert, Thats right Ruth Stout was the person whome I believe started off Charles Dowding. Ruth used straw a lot as a mulch but that doesn't quite work in our climate as it attracted a lot of slugs but the principle is the same. The hotbin is easily hitting 60 Centigrade even when the weather is below freezing. I reckon to get usable compost in around 60 days compared to two years that a cold bin will take
❤❤Well, why does a channel has to be about a spesifikk thing? My channel is about everything. I prefer to se channels that is about everything. Life so to speak. Than I am not getting tierd of watching, as next time I can se something else! And now I have watched your channel almost from the beginning so It's the man I am following!
Good on ya Sandy bringing your love of self reliance home 🙌 those Allotments certainly attract more than midges ( thieving ba$tards ) I'd probably clad that polystyrene in some ply wood for a bit of longevity , and with it being in the greenhouse it'll certainly ramp up the temp 😡 I hope mandy is feeling a lot better soon 😍 sending very best wishes 🙏🥃👌
Thanks Martin, I'll see how it gors. Mandy is much better this morning. Becoming more self reliant is a wise move and so is getting away from supermarket produce too
th-cam.com/video/a9c77fJFCfA/w-d-xo.html FYI. Looks like 2 stone circles just to the east of Coate Wate. Just in case you’ve not come across these before
Hi Steve, I was aware of part of one stone circle at Coate which was discovered for what it was by local author Richard Jefferies but didn't know there was possibly two of them. I have never actually seen the stones but have cycled past them many times. There was also a large stone circle at Moredon North Swindon. The stones were discovered when they were building the road to Sparcells and they now line the road on two sides. If you go to What 3 words location ///tripled.signature.timing then put the little man down on the road you can look around and you'll see the stones. It must have been a very impressive stone circle
It beggars belief that someone would steal your leeks!! You are going down the road of Tom and Barbara off The Good Life. Come to think of it, in one episode someone stole their leeks!
you'll have to start making Hori Hori knives now Sandy 😂. if you want any seeds drop me an email and I'll let you know what I've got . Saving your own seed is great fun. I was only wondering the other day about your allotment. I've just taken on a new plot as we had trouble with break ins at the old one. Being charitable I'd think it was folks who were struggling but my head says they were just tw@ts sadly. you hot bin you could encase in a wooden jacket to make it last a bit longer or try painting it with masonry paint that might help. Enjoy your garden Nick G8SYE
It’ll be interesting to see a progress update on the composter if you don’t mind Sandy. You’ll not be caught short by all the predicted shortages. Tastes totally different when you’ve grown your own too.
Yes, I will post an update on the garden and the composter in a few weeks, I think it will work quite well:)
The only channel where leeks get stolen, gun powder can be made and composters appear from polystyrene. It’s as diverse as it gets which is why we love it 😉♥️👍😊
Haaha:) Just need some potasium nitrate (saltpeter) and some sulphur and then I can re enact the gunpowder plot and blow them up
The co-op in old town is selling seed potatoes cheap 10 for £2.50 they have the best varieties rocket Maris piper and Charlotte. Also if you want fortify your bed or hot composter lotmead farm are still selling their spent strawberry coconut soir grow bags for 5p each a total steal, folks on my plot grew tomatoes straight of them last year
Wow 5p each, the only problem is my car is off the road at the moment, but I may cycle up to the Oldtown Coop and get some seed potatoes. Thats a good price. I shall be growing potatoes in 50 litre buckets this year
I don't know if you have heard of the Living Traditions channel but they are an American couple who are self sufficient on a farm, They are always talking about the best ways to grow and maintain a productive garden and they do really well every year. :)
Hi Sandy,always something to do in the garden,a fine balance is what’s required to juggle it with other activities,or a bit like weeds the garden can take over,an interesting video none the less,hope your wife feels better soon,give her plenty of hot lemon drinks with Manuka honey,£5 49 a jar Aldi👍,atb Colin P.
Thank you for your videos very helpful. Regards the allotment theft I also had an allotment where they would steal my produce and also the compost from my bins and these were other allotment holders I know this as there was a very good gate and locking system and you could only get in through the gate. I gave it up eventually and I would not have another.
A great hobby, especialy when you can eat the end result.
Awesome to see, I like the idea of having your own fertilizer type product for your garden. I’m sure it’s going to produce for you and make you feel satisfied about it. I hope the love of your life gets better,sooner than later. She is in good hands sir all the best. Thanks for sharing. Tony.
Can't wait to see this grow! Tell Mandy to hang in there!
And for you, stay safe and healthy!!
Mandy is a lot better today Dan. Thanks
That’s great Sandy. I’m in my 2nd year of having an allotment. I’ve had great success with root vegetables but anything more delicate not so. I lost a lot due to the extremely hot dry summer we had. I’m sorry you were a victim to someone pinching the leeks. All the best to Mandy, hope she’s better soon.
Yes a hard year last year Andy, lets hope things are better all round this year
Hi Wiltshire man, I have a Hotbin mk1 from the company and it's very good. My only criitque with it is the size. I think it needs to be around 2-2.5 ft square for better aeration. I hope you have great success. I'm going to produce another using Kingspan with pallets.
I remember my father’s massive garden on the farm and in the Vilage I grew up in. He grew everything. We never bought any veg from a shop - always home grown and seasonal.
Thats the way it should be, the supermarkets are too artificial and the food is almost like plastic
Hi Sandy. By the state of the supermarket shelves today,hardly anything veg and salad crops..you better get going you’d make a fortune..used to love growing our own veg etc…but not able to do it all by myself now…hope Mandy feels better soon
That was interesting Sandy. I’ve got a wormery composter which produces lots of nice liquid fertiliser. It will be good to see how you get on with the hotbox. Thanks for showing us.
G’day sandy, I enjoyed your video. Good on ya mate 😊 I love the no dig method of gardening, I’ve also used that method here in Australia
Cheer mate 👍🍻
I hope your wife gets to feeling better soon. Not much of a gardener myself, but the fruits of the labour usually taste pretty good. 😁
Good morning Mr. Wiltshire man have a great day and greetings from California 👍
Just bought the panels AP delivering Monday. Saving kitchen scraps now.
Bless Mandy, get well soon. I just had it, it knocked me off my feet, I slept for 5 days pretty much all the time. The garden will soon come on now. Lets hope the talk of 'the beast from the east' is their usual rubbish....
It's a cold easterly up here in Swindon this morning Bry, just got back from a dog walk and my fingers are frozen and there's an easterly breeze and no sign of Mr Solar face either.
Glad you going to grow you own veg loads better for you and definitely no dig it's it works much better
Spot on ✔️ Very well done, you're travelling the correct path.
Lots of love to Mandy, I hope she gets better soon, there is a lot of really rotten colds going around. And they take some getting over.
All the best to you xXx
I think becoming a little more self reliant has to be the way forward for those who can, although my garden isn't large I have enough space to atleast grow probably quite a lot of what we will need. And it will be much better and tastier than the plastic food that comes out of supermarkets and I won't have to eat ze bugz
@@WiltshireMan keep fighting brother and sharing your journey ❤️
Love a bit of ct1 and a brew.
Thank you dear for excellent information
Hi Sandy, very interesting video, looking forward to seeing how you get on with the garden, hope you are all doing ok, all the best Terry.
Hopefully it will be a good year for the veg growing Terry, I have a feeling we will be glad of our gardens soon
Nice one Sandy, you are well ahead of us up here in Scotland as far as the growing season is concerned. Was a nice dry day today, so took the bike out for a spin, only to be confronted by gritters throwing salt on the roads as if there was no tomorrow. Grrrr. !!!!
Very good. Thank you Sandy. I hope your bride gets well soon.
Hope Mandy gets well soon! We look forward to hearing how that gets on! Compost is a fantastic science. I won a competition on it years ago haha, we won a pear tree!
Composting is really interesting, my bin is now starting to warm up, looked at it a few moments ago and is now running at 15C, outside air temp is only 2C
A nice video again and I hope Mandy is well again soon. I may try to make my own version of the hot bin on my allotment as I have plenty of perennial weeds which would be great to recycle rather than take to the tip or burn. I can relate to your frustration with having your allotment produce stolen as the same thing happened to me. I foolishly left my onions out to dry in the sun and the local kids used them as cricket balls in the local park.
Thats a shame Chris, I bet they exploded when they hit them with the bat
Loved this video on your veg growing and your interesting compost. We had an allotment in the 90s we had all our carrot tops cut off , WHY!! Sorry your wife is unwell I hope she recovers quickly. Thank you Sandy, looking forward to seeing how your compost and garden come on.
Thanks Anne my wife Mandy is a lot better this morning
Very interesting Sandy, I use a plastic bin composter with mixed results, your way looks good.
That's brilliant Sandy, light weight and efficient.
Love it Mr W, good clean living. I hope your dogs don’t dig up your veg by burying their bones though. 👍👌
Great innovation that composter. Can't get over the fact that some scrote nicked your leeks though! Bloody cheek of some people, and on Xmas Day too! Watching your cycling videos recently inspired me to buy a bike. I sold my old BTwin when I got the Himalayan, thinking cycling would be a thing of the past, but had to rethink that strategy, won a full suspension mountain bike off ebay for £30, happy days 🙂
Welldone on the bike Oscar, now you have to build some fitness
It might not be a gardening channel. But it was bloody interesting cheers Sandy.
Glad your enjoying the videos Colin
First time I have seen a composter like that, we have a couple of large plastic drums for ours that work well. Garden compost is cheap enough in the shops here also. Must get the garden sorted with new plants as the cyclone decimated quite a number of areas where the supermarkets get their produce from. Could be months or years before back to normal. Anyway great video bro. Safe travels
as an autumn / winter / spring composter, great idea to have it in your greenhouse, summertime, it can get very hot inside a greenhouse, and polystyrene hates extreme heat, so might be an idea to move it outside during the summer months
Interesting video. I do a bit no-dig gardening myself and get some great veg from it, most of the time... lol!
I might have a go at building a hot bin at some point as I built my current compost out of pallets and is 4 foot square! Maybe a bit over kill for my three one metre squared raised beds.
Good thoughts heading your way for your significant other to get on the mend
Should be a lot better than my conventional plastic compost bin, which works in summer when it's warm but doesn't break down the waste in winter. Interestingly, I've seen a couple of TH-cam videos that advocate burying the material (garden/kitchen waste) 6 to 12 inches deep then planting crops on top. Might have to try this. Hope Mandy recovers quickly.
The bin is starting to build in temps Steve, now at 15C which is 10C warmer than average air temperature
Thank you. Appreciate you
I hope Mrs Wilshire Woman gets better. 😊
The hot bin is something our local gardening group use, a big one 6x6x4 ft they all bring there
kitchen waste etc, they take off as much as a gallon of fluid at a time in the summer. they stopped putting meat and chicken waste into it because of a issue with rats.
Thanks for sharing I been waning to build one myself 👍👍👍
It seems to be working well Gaz, I hope you give it a try. Someone said it will fall apart but mine seems OK at the moment. I would however site it out of the wind maybe in a greenhouse and do your best to keep the area clean so no vermin like rats and mice will be attracted
Yes it is disappointing when your crops get stolen off your allotment. Someone or some animal kepts taking my gooseberries from inside my fruit cage.
The composter looks interesting, good luck with the new garden plot. Hope Mandy gets better soon, atb Simon
Excellent mate. Thanks
Very interesting mate, I have a common homemade compost bin but your one is a good idea so I'm going to try a similar one myself now ,I guess the heat is the key to the process. Thanks for the information.
They have to be loaded with the correct ratios otherwise can become anaerobic and smelly, but if done properly you can get compost in as little as 30 days and good liquid leachate plant food too
I would recommend a worm bin Sandy, we put all our kitchen waste in ours and it gives us lovely compost and worm tea is brilliant stuff, I got mine off free cycle, we are still eating veg from last years crops that we froze or dehydrated, we found radish freezes very well but it loses its colour when thawing.
You could make a ply liner for the outside for durability.
All this bother about no salads , tomatoes in supermarkets etc,etc; I'm pretty sure we will all survive 😂
Pretty sure people back in the day either grew or bought "seasonal" plants to eat.
Is it just me (becoming an old gripe, just call me Mr Grumpy 😁) or is there a crazy reliance on supermarkets and a must have it now attitude.
anyway gripe over,blah,blah,blah, and it's great seeing another bod getting back into gardening 👍
We have become too dependant on the system Oscar. Supermarket food is also inferior
Hi Sandy 👋 a very interesting video making the hot bin..look forward to seeing vids from your kitchen garden ,we need to grow our own salad crops as very poor in shops.Give Many a hug from me and tell her to get well soon !🥰💗xxxShaz
Can't rely on shops going forward for good wholesome food Shaz, best to grow our own food I think
@@WiltshireMan Hi Sandy ,when a man brings a humble lettece or some potatoes or runnerbeans ,radish to his family he is providing a very special gift 🙏Blessings xxxShaz 🥔🥕🍅🥒🥬
That is interesting I’ve never had much success with composting.
You could build a plywood box around it for strength .
Yup and to stop mice and rats!
Snakes 🐍
Sandy have you come across Pendon museum (they have a TH-cam), a model railway museum that is modelled on Wanborough, Bishopstone,Ashbury. It would make a good ride out to it and as you have the above villages in your videos I thought you may find it interesting.
Yes I know about it, it is based on the village/Hamlet of Badbury
It's a shame people have to take from allotments, I have friends that have given up allotments in chiseldon shrivenham and stratton because of theft, we have a small field which we shall be growing from this year just like my dad and grandfather did. All the best.
I think it was the same for a lot of country and village folk and even towns folk back a few years would keep a vegatable patch. I feel sorry for those who are trapped in "new builds" with tiny gardens
Good on ya Sandy, a wise move getting your own little veg & salad patch underway mate, especially with latest new on certain food imports like cucumbers, tomatoes, etc having limits put on them in supper markets. And will undoubtedly save you some of your hard earnt cash mate.
Send Mandy my regards and I hope she sake that flue/ cold thing off soon. Regards to One all in the house of the Wiltshire Man.
Moose.
I have grown tomatoes and veg in the past as was amazed at the super abundance I got at some times of the year, hearing lots of bad news about possible food rationing etc so becoming a little more self reliant is a good thing
Nice garden, it's a shame someone would steal someone else's vegetables though. We had an "aerial" view of a couple of your antennas there. A wire/dipole and a hex?
Fascinating, especially as I put aside a small area of my own garden last winter to grow a bit of fruit and veg! I have made a “square foot garden” (Home Grown Veg channel on YT). Looking forward to more of your kitchen garden this year please!
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Best wishes to you and your good lady (and gorgeous Carmen!)
I meant “square BUCKET garden” not foot!
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I tried that , it cost about £80 , but was very short lived because there is no inherent strength it simply bowed as the material congregated at the bottom. Could have shored it with plywood I suppose, but that was an expensive option, I bought a second hand hotbin for £100 in the end. They definitely are a game changer you,ll need waste from your neighbours to keep it going.
Sofar mine has been OK, if it falls to bits I will consider buying a proper hot bin or atleast strengthen this one up a bit
👍Thanks Sandy, very interesting, ive got some older type (pink) polystyrene insulation sheets laying about so i might have a go at knocking something up, possibly using plywood or tongue & groove for the outer casing to improve rigidity? like you im not keen on spending £300 odd quid or so if i can find other methods, in any case its more satisfying and fun to do stuff yourself as youve often shown ,hope the Mrs is better soon.
Sandy, Only just found this video when browsing your cycling content. I've just got an allotment after a long wait and will be adopting a no dig method for it next year so making lots of compost using rows of scavenged compost bins. Looks like a Dalek invasion (ha ha). On a large scale the hot bin method would be too expensive for me. Any chance that tall metal structure near your growing area is an amateur radio mast? Just wondering. Cheers. Stephen M0OMO.
Yes it is a home made mast, my callsign is G0VQW
As for no dig it hasn't worked so well for me, I found the ground became quite compacted and have since forked over the beds
Why not just wrap loft insulation around a cone/plastic composter?
That will work too but it could also make a nice home for mice
@@WiltshireMan ahhh, good point. There's too many rats in the inner city for me to try that. I've been looking at using old discarded fridge/freezers because they're insulated, strong, have a lid. I've seen a few sources online where other people have done that.
Well done. My greenhouse will reach temperatures of destroy the thermometer during the summer and fry anything growing in there, but this Hot Bin could be useful during the winter months. I've been practising No Dig gardening for a few years and it goes back way before your Charles whatever. I adopt the originator who was called Ruth Stout. The gardening in buckets is a great way to garden in a small space - I also subscribe to someone up North with a Geordie accent, forget his Channel name now, but he is well known for his bucket gardening. Save your Gardener's Urine for April Fools Day as no way am I going to try to translate that. I started out 3 videos back with your permission woods camp and followed the links back here.
Hi Robert, Thats right Ruth Stout was the person whome I believe started off Charles Dowding. Ruth used straw a lot as a mulch but that doesn't quite work in our climate as it attracted a lot of slugs but the principle is the same.
The hotbin is easily hitting 60 Centigrade even when the weather is below freezing. I reckon to get usable compost in around 60 days compared to two years that a cold bin will take
Sandy that’s my camping ⛺️ spot gone …… 😮
Still enough grass for a tent pitch Alan:)
good vid
❤❤Well, why does a channel has to be about a spesifikk thing? My channel is about everything. I prefer to se channels that is about everything. Life so to speak. Than I am not getting tierd of watching, as next time I can se something else! And now I have watched your channel almost from the beginning so It's the man I am following!
Thanks Bolle:) Glad your enjoying the varied content
Inspired by that Sandy
It's starting to work Ken, The hotbin is currently running at just over 30 Celcius with the amient air temps having been close to freezing most days
Good on ya Sandy bringing your love of self reliance home 🙌 those Allotments certainly attract more than midges ( thieving ba$tards ) I'd probably clad that polystyrene in some ply wood for a bit of longevity , and with it being in the greenhouse it'll certainly ramp up the temp 😡 I hope mandy is feeling a lot better soon 😍 sending very best wishes 🙏🥃👌
Thanks Martin, I'll see how it gors. Mandy is much better this morning. Becoming more self reliant is a wise move and so is getting away from supermarket produce too
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FYI. Looks like 2 stone circles just to the east of Coate Wate. Just in case you’ve not come across these before
Hi Steve, I was aware of part of one stone circle at Coate which was discovered for what it was by local author Richard Jefferies but didn't know there was possibly two of them. I have never actually seen the stones but have cycled past them many times. There was also a large stone circle at Moredon North Swindon. The stones were discovered when they were building the road to Sparcells and they now line the road on two sides. If you go to What 3 words location ///tripled.signature.timing then put the little man down on the road you can look around and you'll see the stones. It must have been a very impressive stone circle
It beggars belief that someone would steal your leeks!! You are going down the road of Tom and Barbara off The Good Life. Come to think of it, in one episode someone stole their leeks!
you'll have to start making Hori Hori knives now Sandy 😂. if you want any seeds drop me an email and I'll let you know what I've got . Saving your own seed is great fun.
I was only wondering the other day about your allotment. I've just taken on a new plot as we had trouble with break ins at the old one. Being charitable I'd think it was folks who were struggling but my head says they were just tw@ts sadly.
you hot bin you could encase in a wooden jacket to make it last a bit longer or try painting it with masonry paint that might help.
Enjoy your garden
Nick
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Thanks for the seed offer Nick but I've got everything I'm growing this year, very kind of you to offer though. Thanks