Tunnel Progress | Problems With My Plums | Hotbin Tinkering
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Sterling work with the video titles - we've had your wood, your turnip and now your plums. Superb. Excited to see what comes next (not a euphemism)
hahahahaha and here I was worried it was too subtle 😂
@@JBNat Tony is just as bad with his 'enormous turnip' - it's like Carry On Gardening
These jobs can take an age JB but when its done it makes it all worth while
Ha... was sitting and shredding compost cardboard with my shredder while watching this 😄
Coffe grounds are a source of greens for your compost bin and most coffee shops are happy to get rid of theirs for free. I add a big bag about once a fortnight from my local one to my cold compost bins. Also smells pretty good too once you add them.
Clearin* that back area is a good job jobbed. I can see a mini orchard of dwarf fruit trees under planted with spring bulbs there. It would look amazing. Very Monty Don stylee 😊
Whatever you do, look after your plums 🤭😉😂😎
Personally I don’t put any food waste in my compost as it attracts vermin, but then I don’t have an allotment mine is our back garden. Last spring I started my first compost bin, by putting my waste garden material mixture of greens and browns in a 120 litre green plastic garden waste bag, made a few holes in the base to let out moisture, turned it a couple of times and by October I had 100 litres of lovely compost, enough to top up 5x30 litre containers which each already contained 10 litres of spent potato compost.
That pollytunnel is going to look great when your done moving it around 😂😂
Hahahahaha these things take time okay!!
It's refreshing to see a messy part still being cleared. 😊 Honesty makes it more relatable.
Take care, Jane
Doing a bang up job JB and the hot composter will be a game changer. If there’s a farm or produce store near you I’m sure they’d be glad to contribute as any waste they have most likely cost them to have it removed. Poly is looking great and oh what a super grow space for 2024. Have an awesome week and Merry Christmas 🤶, Ali 🎄
You can try asking for the used coffee grounds from a local café. One of our local places has little boxes of used coffee grounds on a table with a "Please take one" sign.
Our independent coffee shop next to work does the same. I get a kilo bag or two each week and throw it over beds and in the compost. It's black gold!
Hi jb there is a guy on TH-cam geoff forman he put honey on his fruit tree cutting he says gardeners have been using it for thousands of years it's a great great disinfectant for fruit trees love your videos jb
I pick up coffee grounds once a week from a local gas station. I bring a 5 gallon bucket and trade it with the one they have there.
I think you need to bite the bullet and get rid of those trees and be very careful about what you plant there as the fungi spores will remain on the old roots and in the soil . Merry Christmas 🎄 to you Jess and the families, here's to a happy healthy and prosperous New Year ❤
i asked my neighbour for his grass cuttings jb haha he looked at me like i was crazy hehe but i dont have any grass !! i said its gold to me is that hahaha . he says its like living next door to the good life with margo hahaha , i do cut up leafs etc with the lawn mower be fore composting
Great video. I was reading one of the comments that you should build the shed at the back where the plum trees are, which is a fantastic idea. It would then allow you to maybe put Espalier fruit trees where the shed is now and where you have the compost bins to create more privacy. I have them in my small back garden and love them.
Good job today JB on the compost bin just need some green grass, and question shouldn’t you have wet it also
I have a plot that had about 50 plum trees on. No matter how brutally i chop them, they always grow back and have a fantastic grow rate.. Plums are indestructable.
I like the sound of that!
Local councils here in New Zealand often have wood chip for free when they’ve had to chop trees in parks down. Cafes here offer free coffee grounds and you just pop by and pick up as much of the coffee ground as you need.
Oh wow JB, you got through a lot of work 🙌...the hotbin is a bit tricky to get it right, but you're correct to have everything as small as possible in it. Plenty of clearing and tidying ahead of you 💪 great video 💚🌿
Thanks Maiju!
JB that back area is like mine a bit. I have sown grass seed and keep it mowed. This year I am doing what Monty D does and putting spent bulbs from last year amongst the grass and sow drops and also sowing wild flower seeds in. I’ll just keep a pathway through mowed to get to my new compost area. Fingers crossed.
I grow tons of chard to mix in with leaves for winter composting.
I throw local coffee grounds straight onto the beds all year round. Keeps slugs at bay. 👍🏻
Doing well with your hot bin and the polytunnel is looking good 👍
Thanks Loraine!
Once you've got your plums out JB ( trees man trees ), seems the perfect spot to build your new shed, then you won't need to empty your old one til the new one's built...
Now there's a very interesting idea!! That's given me something to think about for sure. I kind of like the idea of having the shed in a slightly more private part of the plot 🤔
I should add that I hope your plums are feeling better soon lol!
Looking at your polly tunnel,why don’t you cut the scaffolding boards to fit in between the u clips so it would still protect the tunnel boards
Poor plums!! Of with there heads!!!
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I prune my stone fruit trees in the summer or early autumn, but definitely when it's dry and is staying dry. I have really good crops of greengages and opal plums.
My small peach and apricot trees are dragged into the polytunnel to keep them away from the worse of the wet, which they really don't like, not necessarily the cold. I hand pollinate each tree in the spring and keep them under cover until I am sure the wet and winds of spring are settling, thus preserving their pollinated blossom.
I have a hotbin too. By experience, I have found that it does better with 1:1 green/brown. Which is more than the website says.
I can keep my hotbin going with the 2 of us, but you are right, they are hungry and need a good feed at least a couple of times a week or the temperature drops dramatically. I have resorted to digging up weeds at times to increase how much I had to feed the bin, it is a constant consideration, you cannot ignore the hotbin!
Great tips, thank you! I do wonder if it's too wet for the Plums too. The plot just behind them is competely flooded.
Hi JB, you could try any local Costa Coffee shops for their used coffee grounds, also ask tony to send you some boxes 😂😂. My friend is a manageress of the local university cafe and i get bag fulls from her.
Yayyy, hooray for the new paper shredder! ❤ And look at that, the fork was where it ought to be! 😂 Well done, JB. ❤️ Coffee shops give free coffee grinds. I don’t know if shops give old veggies though. Wow, I hadn’t heard of Silver leaf fungus before. Interesting. 🤔 Live and learn. 😅
There's actually a greengrocer I found nearby which gave me a load of their discards! Hopefully I can make it a regular thing.
there's an old wives tale which I regard as true, that says not to make cuts into plum trees when rain is forecasted in the next week or sp. As the wounds will let in the spores that comes down in the rain like potatoe blight. I think 10-14 days of dry weather is ideal. that;s why we prune for fruit in summer and for shape in winter. I don't think my pear is liking the heavy clauy though so they still die ;-) cardboard chipper sounds ideal
JB, if any of your neighbors at your home don’t compost ask if they will same there kitchen scraps for you. One of my neighbors does a lot of juicing so get a lot kitchen scraps from her. Happy Gardening 🧑🌾 from Southern California.
Great idea with the shredder for the cardboard.
My neighbour gives me his shredded paper for our chicken's bedding and that then goes on the compost. Only trouble was when he stared giving it to us he had shredded a load of old photos too and, being plastic coated, my compost ended up with loads of plastic confetti in it!
We have a Costa Coffee machine where I work so I get more grounds than I should probably use. Can you overdose the compost on too much coffee grounds?
Oooh no photo nightmare!!! I do think you have to be quite careful with coffee grounds, they're quite acidic, I think they're also quite nitrogen rich which is funny because they're the brownest brown of all the compost ingredients!
Try local market veg stall or the greengrocers for veg waste
Hi JB, as a new subscriber im loving the content in your channel. Any chance of adding a link were you got the cardboard shredder please? 😊👍
Sure! It's this one - amzn.to/48k9EnF. Not technically rated for cardboard and you do have to be careful with these that they don't overheat. But if you don't overload it it works really well!
80-90% of most live material that one puts in the compost, is water! Then there's the air space between the pieces. So it takes up one tenth the volume once composted.
The browns, like dry straw and cardboard, has very little water.
WRT to chip or to burn, I would think it would be a profitable business for someone to have wood chippers for rent.
Does the cardboard shredder do paper too?
Ha yes it's a ten sheet paper shredder! It's not actually rated for cardboard but worked fine and all the reviews said it was good for it. I don't think it could handle the proper chunky stuff though!
fruiting body might not be silverleaf but probably means tree is a goner. wouldn't feel bad mate, heard orchard plums are pretty short lived. my allotment is full of pathetic looking stone fruit trees lol
My plums have leaf curl and this is the ONLY time I am going to use a chemical on my trees... copper fungicide... there is no alternative I've seen and I've done a LOT of research :/
Sometimes we have to resort to extreme measures when it's worthwhile!
Hi, can you please let me know where I can get a cardboard shredder like you’ve got. - £40.00 ??
There's a bit more info on it in today's video! :)
Why are so many allotments filled with junk? Is it a usual thing?
Haha basically unfortunately yes. A lot of people ha e good intentions to use things but they get left around and become junk for the next person
Very interested in the cardboard shredder - doing it by hand makes my hands hurt. Can we see it or know what it is, thanks.
Yeah it's painful isn't it! My wrists were complaining. I got this one - amzn.to/48k9EnF it's not technically rated for cardboard but the reviews said it worked. I've found it's okay you just have to be careful to not overload it.
@@JBNat Thank you so much, my hands will be thanking you 🎉
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Check out Charles Dowding s hotbed. It's brilliant.
Yes he's got the big pallet set up in his greenhouse doesn't he? It's slightly different from what I want to do. Once the material has composted down nicely I'm hoping to leave it in-situ and grow plants straight into the ground later on :)
@@JBNat ah, ok. I see what you mean. Good idea.
Get rid
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If you are short of green materials for the hotbin in winter then seaweed collected from the beach is good for getting compost working and it also has loads of minerals etc.
Don’t think you have silver leaf. I’d suggest maybe aphid damage to leaves but does look like you possibly have canker (brown stain and bark splits) probably also Brown Rot affecting the fruit (high humidity/lack of airflow/fruit needs thinned) and Pocket Plum disease (misshapen fruit that needs to be removed). Don’t forget plums fruit on two and three year old wood so pruning hard at the wrong time can affect fruit production. Better to prune and thin fruit at the same time late spring/early summer. Oh and watch out for rootstock suckers which can start popping up all over if the tree is stressed/dying. I make them sound a lot of trouble and hard work but once you’ve got the knack they’re a great crop! Keep walking, talking and thinking. You’re definitely inspiring me to get back out there to get some winter work done! 😊
There’s obviously a right way and time of year to prune various fruit tree species. Our damsons/plums/greengages, apples, pears and peaches are over 100 years old. Some 200. All diseased. We used to call the fungus God’s pudding and eat it when we were kids hiding from our parents. 🤭.
All trimmed and tidied after a storm whatever the time of year. All fruit when it suits them.
These modern varieties? No idea what I’d do with them. 😳. I’ve grafted compatible specie modern varieties onto older tree varieties. Maybe that helps or hinders. No idea. But we stopped doing that when an ancient fruit tree researcher came round to take cuttings and told us we must preserve our trees for future generations.
Basically, we leave pruning up to the climate/nature. When we’re blessed, it’s wonderful. And we’ve stopped grafting now to appease the most recent generation of planet savers. 👍🏻
Re your hot compost bin
- I think I'm correct in saying that you can put cooked food scraps in a hotbin composter that you shouldn't add to a cold composter
- that been said do you have a small local café who would be willing to save there scraps as well as there coffee grounds
- keep up with weeding and strimming during winter as in mild winter weeds/grass still actively grows
- I think I'm right in saying that you are not keen on kale/chard but you could grow a crop to feed the hot composter through the winter months 😂😂
- a trip down to the local beach especially after a storm usually produces plenty of seaweed but I'm sure it can only harvested it above the high tide mark
- do you have a friendly green grocer for a supple of greens
- offer to cut a neighbours lawn
- contact a lawn care company/golf/football/lawn tennis/croquet/lacrosse clubs for grass clippings
I hope this helps 🤞🤞
Hi JB, why don't you copy Steve and lay down brick instead of wooden planks...
Hi JB, if you feel uncomfy about the plum trees, maybe ask the old plot owners if they can take a look, they might say it's silverleaf and tell you to cut them down, you won't feel bad then.
My plum tree has silver leaf. It looks quite different from the leaves you showed. I planted a climbing hydrangea to cover it up. BUT some branches are recovering and i got quite a good crop this year.
Ahh that's great to hear Sue. I agree about the leaves for sure. They looked sickly but not like silver leaf. And when I looked more closely at the fungal fruit it didn't look so much like silver leaf as I first thought
The 'healthy' plum tree looks like it has thorns, suggesting it has come up from the root stock. I'd be whipping it out and browsing for new varieties.
Hmm 🤔 I think they're all quite thorny!
Can you tell me which cardboard shredder you have, looking at getting one myself as I'm no good a ripping it up small! Thanks, great video today
Yes there's a little more info in today's video on it!
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Ooooh, the hot composter looks awesome JB! For extra compost freebies, I gave my local cafe a 5L bucket & they happily fill it up with coffee grounds for me, which has been handy! I have two buckets & drop off an empty one when the first is filled & just rotate. They are generally happy to do it because it’s just waste otherwise!
I would definitely recommend burning any diseased prunings, having a bonfire once a year is in my view totally acceptable. Great to see you clearing that area, what a big space to have a fruit guild and more raised beds! I also have neglected plots next to me on the allotment very frustrating. Great to see your winter work on your plots very good idea to get all this work done before the growing season in spring. I really look forward to seeing your progress in each video.
You could talk to the neighbours and ask their advice about the plum trees,, they might suggest you cut them down and then you wouldn't feel too bad
Hi JB, Stone fruiting trees get pruned in late Winter/early Spring, Just as they are coming into leaf bud. Seed fruiting trees, like Apples get pruined in winter when dormant.
Find a local greengrocer and ask for their discards….
JB if your workplace has a canteen then chat with the manager and see if they would be willing to give you all the raw veg scraps. If they say yes provide them with buckets with sealable lids
also cafes are always happy to give away coffee grounds 😊. tell the previous owner they are diseased 😂 you are so considerate but it’s not necessary
p.s isn’t it great that the afternoon work helped you burn off some of the sausage rolls and banana bread 😊😁
Brilliant thinking about the cafe, but unfortunately I work from home so our kitchen is the canteen 😅
@@JBNat despite its lack of opportunity i envy those able to work from home
Doesn't a hotbed need to be at least a cubic metre 1m x 1m x 1m??
No not at all! Jack First in his book says you can do it with as little as 30cm, especially in a polytunnel.
that's optimal for thermal mass if it's free standing / left uncovered
@@JBNat I'm not sure that will have the mass to produce the thermal heat,, as with your hot compost bin,, same principle,, just a different source of heat,,
@@phirst55 well I was planning on going a bit deeper than that but it will be a fun experiment!
No supposed to prune more than 25% of fruit trees
Problems with my plums.. love it
JB! Saving foods scraps from the bin! YOU MEAN YOU DON'T COMPOST AT HOME???!!! 🌏💚💙🤎🪱🌱
Hahaha no we have always saved scraps but now I'm extra scavengey. And the hotbin can take a lot of things which can't go in the normal bins 😊
@@JBNat Phew 😇 Saving the planet one food scrap at a time. I have my family well trained ... they even bring home food scraps from packed lunches, and we have a carbon caddy in the kitchen for every scrap of compostable paper. Watching progress with the hot bin eagerly.