Polytunnel Action! + Late June sowing, planting out and harvests Ep221 || Plot 37
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- Its finally happening!! The Polytunnel is getting its cover back on!
We are also harvesting Broad Beans and digging up potatoes. Even a turnip and some spring onions! The weather has been fantastic on the allotment the last week so we got loads done.
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totaly unrelated...please don't ever change the music on your vids. I'm watching and admire your journey and beeing myself a passionate veg grower, it is so amazing and soothing to watch you and your work. Btw. I live in hungary, and I hate to say it, but you are this time far behind. :) And there is another thing I want to point out. I have three childrens. None of them are gardeners, sadly. I am so envy your relationship with your mother. I wish, mine would be that close. Its a precious thing.
The same music over and over drives me bonkers! I actually just left a comment about it.
Thank you :) And yeah, we are SO behind this year.
Also... maybe one of your 3 will get into gardening a bit later in life!
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's tomatoes😂
It comes to a fine state when I watch gardening videos because France vs Belgium is just sooooo boring. ❤
I bought the garland premium cell trays (12s and 24s). They are hard plastic, like containerwise trays, but not as expensive. I then bought a step cone drill and drilled out the holes in the bottom to make them bigger, so you can easily get your finger in and push plants out. Works perfectly and will last for years. X
PS: You can buy the larger containerwise cell trays (used once) from Patch Potatoes at a much reduced price. 😉
Are they heat and UV stable? I’ve had loadsa hard plastic cell trays that just fall apart in only a couple of years
As far as I'm aware. I have both the containerwise (bought from Patch Potatoes) and the Garland cell trays and they are made from the same hard, injection moulded plastic. I've had and used the Garland premium trays for two years and they're as good as new. 👍
thats a good option!
Cover looks really good! Smart install, lots of good ideas.
I wish I still have my mama. Treasure every moments. Spend as much time as you can.
Across the pond in southern Wisconsin, we’ve had sooooooo much rain and drizzle, peppered with the most uncomfortable humidity & high heat. About 3 clear & wonderful days in June, which were “spoiled” by the sounds of nonstop lawnmowers, chainsaws, and weed whackers, lol. Followed by campfires and grilling! 👉SUMMER!
hahahahahaha! thats so annoying! I love the term 'weed-whacker' it really makes me smile. Much better than a boring old strimmer :D
Still cold and wet in Scotland plants are struggling 😢
so frustrating!
Love the inbuilt shower in the polytunnel 😂😂
hahahahah!
Wooo! Congratulations on getting your poly tunnel back in order. That was lots of work!
:D thanks!
At 19 seconds I was thinking Oh My Gosh this is my type of garden. SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I learned so much from you all and what a team you all make! Glad this popped up today. New subscriber. Take care.
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Jess if you've been thinking about writing a book filled with recipes, how to's, etc etc, you should create it. I know would be a smashing success. That is one book I'd buy for sure no matter the price.
thank you!! i think i'm not really at that point but i would love to one day. :)
I have 5 tomato plants outside this year they are half the size of last year this time, plenty of flowers so there is hope for a decent harvest. I only grew 5 this year because last year I had 15 super harvest I jarred 68 pints of pasta sauce to which I have about half remaining so I opted for more brassica plants this year, as well as peas and beans. 😊 love watching your vlogs 😍 Trying Kale for the first time those are tiny atm 😊
holy moley! Thats a dream tomato harvest :D
My tomatoes struggled early on as they went out earlier than normal due to space but they came back are over 6ft tall now cucumbers have not started well at all this yr 4me
glad they've caught up. i'm hoping mine will too
You are complaining about the heat with a cardi on????????? and hot jeans geez, your mum too??????? live here in Australia for awhile you learn to work very early morning Before the sun comes up and late afternoon after the sun has gone down
well mum is Australian, so she has no excuse!
Hi Jessie new to the channel and loving it! Been binging old episodes and just watched the 200 one. Love seeing the old photo's. Just wondering since in the videos I've seen it's just you and your mum does your dad not come to the plot anymore?
Nah, he was never really interested in growing things. He just liked building the beds! He hasn't been up since we had a BBQ in lockdown!
@@JessieatPlot37 ahhh I see just like my dad. Building the things but then me and my mum do the growing 💗
Jessie, you say you are so hot and wear jeans, boots and long sleeves non stop 😂🙂🙂
Loving your new polytunnel , brilliant craftmanship ! 🦋🦋🐝
:D thank you! Hopefully now the tomatoes are going to actually get some growing doing! :D
Not just you people are struggling this year the sun has been covered up with cloud.. Loved watching this week!
Been so grey hasn't it!
You have the most incredible eyes absolutely stunning
Yes I agree, wish I had them.
hahahaha, thanks
In Washington only have green tomatoes on cherry tomatoes. All my tomatoes are flowering but just sit there. Peppers not too happy and cucumbers and beans are refusing to grow. The weather is erratic, was 54f at 9:00am today.
erratic seems to be the word this year, all over the place! hopefully it will settle down!
Loved the poly-shower shot 😂 Yes I don't think it's just you at all - such a cool, wet season so far. Doesn't it seem like every year is a funny year now tho, for diff reasons 🤷♀️ Still, loads on your plot and maybe it'll be a warm, long autumn again 👍
every years a funny year as you say! We are going to have to become much more adaptable i think!
You look so nice with your hair up. I don't know why you don't put it up and leave it up. And I don't understand if it is so hot why you keep wearing your sweater?
Love your garden and all of your netting and cover systems.
i wear a cardigan most of the time because i have a problem with the skin on my shoulders and i play yoy-yo with my hair up and down because i never have a hair tie i just tye it in a knot and then it falls down again hahaha! I will pick up some hair bands!
As long as you don’t accidentally cut through the jute netting they should last at least a couple of years more. I used some for peas last year and still as good as new this year.
oh thats good to know!
Polytunnel is looking great! Looking forward to seeing all the tomatoes settled in to their fancy new tomato hotel xxx
:D i'm hoping they'll move in and grow like rockets and catch up hahaha!
It must great to see everything going out. The weather and physical pain have slowed us down this year and we needed to re make 2 long beds and poly cover the top half of our winter greens tunnel. Loads of toms flowering in tiny pots in the big polytunnel...argh!!!
its all over the place this year isn't it Lynn?!
Hi Jess! 👋🏼
I have two cherry and two plumb which are all about waist hight, but they are all quite leggy bar one of the cherry verity… all of my sweet millions and tumbling tigeress are dire!! - all of mine are planted outdoors - fingers crossed July and august has some promising weather solutions.
Ps - polly looks great x
Could I please have a link of where I could buy the same or similar netting please 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
I also bought the jute netting, they are a £1 off at the min 😊
even better :D
Jess, you are a marvel! The work you and your mum put in to your allotment amazes me! I'm a 3yrs in back garden grower with a small wooden greenhouse which is enough for me. And building your own polytunnel! Like I said, you amaze me, just wow!
Ahh, thanks Linda, thats really kind :D
Ive had about 10 tomatoes from my tomatoes plants. Not had any issue although I've grown 2 new once this year and so far not many tomatoes but there big plants. Maybe it where your from colder weather
Fairly rubbish tomatoes here in Gloucestershire, Jessie. Also this is the first year that slugs have attacked not only my tomatoes but also leeks and onions. Whaaaat?! Most definitely a weird year and not just you x
Hi Jess I have had the same problem this year on my plot with everything being late in going in likewise no parsnips .black or redcurrent at all another problem was the carrots I've had to sow three lots before they germinated.but the joys of gardening lol
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Bloody brilliant microphone 🎤 👏 😊
:) its an improvement isn't it :)
I am pinching the tops out of my tomatoes earliest I have ever had to do it and I’m up in South Yorkshire
It really is an odd year for gardening 100% many of my plants are stunted ( the survivors from Roly polys and slugs) because of weather issues and life-happening . The Good thing about tomatoes is they grow pretty fast when finally planted out. Your poly tunnel looks fab 👌 👏 👍 good job 🍻 ❤😊
thats what i'm counting on Tamara! They they will rocket and catch up :D
I did have a problem with stunted peppers, but I think a lot of it was solved when I put sevin in the container. Also, any container above ground needs extra water. It’s so hot it burns the leaves. A shade cloth is helpful. I’m learning that it’s important to put black plastic on the soil for a few days to kill bugs. That was the reason my peppers were slow and had leaf damage.
Time for those CD trays and a CD dibber Jessie .
get mum to plant choko vine over the chook pen 👍cheers from OZ
Hope you can write a book papers. Love to visit .
Hi Jessie and your Mum, what a great job you have both done putting on your polytunnel cover, well done 😊 plenty of planting done, love the netting on your arches too. Lovely video update & looking foward to the next one. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
Thanks Christine!
Congrats on the polytunnel!
My new favorite planting trays are silicone. You can squeeze the seedlings right out from the bottom and they slide right out.
I've even cheated and started using silicone muffin tins with slits cut in for drainage for the bigger seedlings 😉
That is a genius idea! I bet the muffin trays are so much cheaper too x
@@Anothervoiceinthecrowd They really are. And they work fabulously. Between them and winter sowing in plastic containers my gardening has gotten oodles simpler 😉
that really is a great idea.... and i have loads of silicone muffin trays from when i was casting glass!! (i used them to make the wax pucks) I must go and hunt them down in the garage!
@@JessieatPlot37 I think you'll like it and it's awesome that you have some handy. And they are near indestructible!
Happy days 😉
Hello Jessie, Great video the poly tunnel is complete so happy for you! You look so busy transplanting items in the garden. Looking forward to the tomatoes next week. I have lots of tomatoes starting next week. Have a great week bye for now, Steven
Its great to finally have that cover on! just in time really because its been so windy here ever since that day! hope you have a great week too
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All my plants including tomatoes are struggling, half the size they should be and not producing anything. But then again I'm growing outdoors in the northeast. I'm either optimistic or stupid, who knows!?! The one week of sun was just a tease, raining and cold again for the foreseeable. Maybe I need to move to edible aquatic plants?!?! 😂
the 'week of sun' was nice while it was here tho :D Watercress!! Lets all get into watercress :D
Well done on the polytunnel Jess and Mum. Let's hope the morons don't stab it this year!!! Looking forward to seeing all the tomatoes etc growing!
gah! yeah! Every day when i approach i'm nervous to see it its been stabbed hahaha! so far so good!
My pak choi bolted as well and my chickens loved it so not a complete waste, eggs in exchange.
its a good trade :D
Be very careful with your chicken coup. If there is the slightest weakness, then the foxes will find a way in.
I sadly learnt that a few years ago, when i kept chickens.
its pretty well protected. we have had our share of attacks over the years though sadley.
For the first time ever slugs even destroyed one of my potato plants. All the top leaves were eaten. Everything is 2 months behind. Let’s hope summer extends well into Autumn!
its really been a crazy slugfest hasn't it?! Yeah, fingers crossed for the fabled indian summer!
Well done, your polytunnel is looking fantastic 👏 I'm so far having a good tomato year, and yesterday, I harvested my first few tomatoes, which was absolutely delicious 😋
oh fantastic wendy!!
Could you share your artichoke prep and recipe please? For some strange reason mine grows fantastically well and I have not yet found a recipe that delivers a dish worth all the effort in preparing. Absent inspiration I’m thinking of moving it from my veg beds to the front garden for the bees ( it takes up too much space to leave it in my raised beds if I don’t eat them).
Well, that was my first one! and the prep was time consuming for not much.... but it was so exciting it was okay. Not sure i woukd want to do a whole load of them.
But i do buy artichokes and use them in lots of different things. Once cooked, Artichoke roughly chopped with lemon juice, olive oil and parsley on toast is amazing. Plus on pizza they are great. Baked in a bechamel sauce they are heaven too.
can send you a little cold and rain 8 - 10 degrees celsius and rain here most days ....can you send me a little heat and sun instead please with love to you and mom from Iceland 🥰
i would love to send you some but we've lost it again!!
Polytunnel looking great, my tomatoes don't seem to have as much fruit growing on them but the baby varieties in the greenhouse are flourishing although still green ❤
glad they are coming along!
Lol !!!!! I always have to google your temperatures to ours here in the States. 😅 is there a way to post celsius/fahrenheit together. 😊 if not, i totally understand.
hahahaha, i should get better at it but i have to look it up every time too hahaha!
Jess you are not the only one that's only just putting tomatoes out, The weather up here has been very bad and very cold and keeps p in it down.
been a right slow year so far hasn't it!
Ever thought about taking on the abandoned plot behind you Jess?
not an option unfortunately! there is a 9 year waiting list for plots so we aren't allowed. Its just that my neighbour hasn't given his up so its waiting to be handed over to the next tenant. Very annoying in the mean time!
Tomato very slow growing up here in Yorkshire. Too cold & wet. We’ve had 3 days of summer. Next 7 days not promising either with night temperatures dropping to 7/8celsius. It feels like April
its pants isn't it! Its still very warm down here, but grey and humid. Perfect blight weather :(
@@JessieatPlot37 that’s not good, last thing we want is the dreaded blight. I already lost half my swift potatoes crop with the extended cold & wet. Never happened to me before
I have Never had a problem with carrots under mesh until this year. 4 packets later, zilch . As soon as they come up they disappear, no silver trails so it's either flea beetle or earwigs, think it's the latter as they started to appear when in desperation I put a bonfire on the bed ! One more try 😮😅
I had earwigs eat almost all of my carrots. I spread DE but by the time I did it was too late. It did kill them though.
when in doubt - burn it hahaha! Hope packet no 5 works better!!
I’ve used jute netting on my arches and obelisks. Still going strong in the second season so far. Very jealous of your broad bean harvest, mine have been growing so slowly and only have a few pods so far, on the plus side they seem to be avoiding blackfly though, my climbing beans seem to be attracting all of those 😬 Well done for making the most of the good weather for getting the polytunnel done, would be much harder now Wimbledon weather has moved in 🌧️⛈️🌧️
Well done both, your plot is looking fab. 🤩
Thanks so much Helen! 😊
Same tomato problem in Belgium . The ones outside got blight as well, so did the potatoes . Beans corn and courgette were struggling for a long time. My ocra is just a stalk ( thanks slugs) . Just overall not a great year. I did have loads of sugersnaps and hopefully my second load of cabbage and PBS won`t get eaten ( i did not dear to plant them out yet) . Lots of love from Belgium
You Hi, this is my first year growing vegetables. I have planted out some chick pea and they seem to be doing well so I am looking forward to next weeks vlog where I hope you will talk about growing chick pea
Excellent video but really looking forward to the next one, we built our new tunnel this year & I was so desperate to plant it up, I’ve made a real dogs dinner of it 😂 next year I’ll plan better but it’s all learning. The tomato’s are really poor this year, everyone on our plot is saying the same…weather
I really like your videos but can you please, please, please use some different music? The same music over and over and over and over can get really annoying. Especially when there's a lot of it in the video like today. I know it probably makes editing much easier but for the love of all that's good in this world can you use some variety? Congrats on getting the polytunnel done!
hahahahah, you know there's like12 different pieces of music i use, in this video alone there was 6 totally different ones.
@@JessieatPlot37 Sorry but it always sounds like only 2 different songs. They all sound pretty much the same.
Well done Jessie and your mum, poly tunnel looks great.
thanks Linda!
💚💚💚Thank you for the video💚💚💚
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Great job on your polytunnel Jessie , really impressive, as for my tomatoes I have to plant the majority outside as I lost my polytunnel via the wind over my fence and down the road so totally frustrated, no option to plant the majority outside and hope lol keep up the good work and say Hi to your mum for me xx
Eugh, a dreaded escaped poly tunnel! thats so annoying! Did you have much growing in it already? I'll keep my fingers crossed for your toms braving the outside world!
@@JessieatPlot37 thankfully not Jessie , I was in the process of putting together my raised bed to plant out my Tom's, Peppers and cucumbers in there lol , but the air was blue if you know what I mean xx
Hi Jessie and mum , my tomatoes have been a real let down this year so have most of my crops 3ven my lettuce hasn't done well but there's always next year i hope lol its gutting though ,but t a nice crop of potatoes with a nice salad can't be beaten . Love your allotment .thankyou for your vids ,and by the way you have amazing eyes and hair .see you next time .
Beautiful eyes
The container wise ones are definitely worth it, I love them and have a few sizes now, I have a load of 10 cells for plugging gaps as I find they are best if you’re not starting loads in one go 😊
great to see tunnel up and running well done both
thansk Steven. now for the door!
Loved the vid as usual. A single tomato horn worm can defoliate an entire adult pepper plant overnight. I inspect my tomatoes and peppers almost daily for signs of them. Those turnip greens will be so good! We canned 17 pints of them earlier this season.
The netting is good as not to small for birds to get caught in
yeah, thats always a worry when its going over the arches!
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29 is not hot, try 40C plus!!@@
it was 40 here 2 years ago. We are absolutely not designed for that!!!
I imagine the pond is thriving now?
it is. It really needs a lot of work doing to it that we will be starting in the early autumn.
Holy crap, 12 quid is less than two pints? Wow, Jess, I'm sorry that's crazy!!! Two pints here is probably around 10 dollars... And people here complain about that price..
hahahaha depends where you go, of course but £7.50 isn't unusual to pay for a pint around here!
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I just recovered my polytunnel last weekend. It had a cheapie shaped cover and quickly degraded and showered my beds with little bits of plastic and leaked profusely. I got proper polytunnel plastic like yours this time. The frame is strengthened as per Steve greensideup (RIP) so hopefully will last 5-10 years now if the never-ending wet weather doesn’t rot the wood prematurely. So- my tomatoes are also just now transitioning from greenhouse to tunnel and having a bit of a sulk, but hopefully will settle in soon and grow well, otherwise it will be October before there are any fruit 😢.
:D fingers crossed for both our tomatoes. I'm optimistic they will catch up
Cheap crappy trays in HomeBargains. £1.25 for 5. Actually pretty good,better than other junk out there.
wow, that really is cheap!
I hadn't seen your polly tunnel fully done until now, watching how you pull it taught. I don't need anything that big, but it gives me an idea for a smaller version.
Erratic weather is going to be the norm now, so what "was" is no longer true. I know I have to adapt as I go, planning is scattered. 🥴
But, I got 7 of 8 seeds for purple sprouting broccoli up. 👍 So that will be babied until it gets planted out. Choy is doing fine, but it's not in full sun, semi-shaded and should grow.
Growing mini cukes. Tried pickling last year, complete bust with one or two fruits.
its exactly that isn't it. we are going to have to be adaptable every year and go with it! Not much else we can do!
😂 Same here. Heat wave for over a week now.
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Hahaha...you make me giggle Jess 😂 Here in Perth, in our last summer, we went through a THREE week heatwave with days of 42 degrees every day! Now that is HOT 🔥 😘
I know, i know! we are soft here. But its a different kind of heat, i swear. i've never had a problem with the summer in Australia or Southern Europe... but they are designed to be that hot and all the buildings a set up for it. We just aren;'t hahaah! Our roads melt at 30 and the trains stop running hahaha! 2 years ago it was 40 here too and we were all dying!
Love your videos🥰thanks for sharing and congrats on your poly🎉 my tomatos are small also and im from norway🇳🇴 really dont know why but we have got very shifting temps…but my sweet peas , parsley, basill,potatos, sunflower and all the other flowers are really loving it🎊🥰🐝
Glad all the other things are doing well! I'm sure our tomatoes will catch up at some point haha!
Really enjoying your content...I'm in SW Florida and managed to grow exactly 6 tomatoes this year...but lots of flowers too.
hope you're getting loads of fruit of the 6!
So exciting to see the poly tunnel coming together! Not having the best tomato year over here. I planted out around the May long weekend (May 20 was the holiday) but the night time temps were so cool they have only started to grow after the Solstice ! My sweet peppers are all pretty puny too, although the chili’s are happy ironically. 🥂🥂
hopefully now they've started growing they'll catch up Leanne! and how funny that the chilli's are happy!
Hey Jessie Great job on the polytunnel. Won't be long until the tomatoes, etc are in! How big is that is that again?
This years weather has been appalling and set a lot of projects back. One of the projects was to jet wash the front and back and give my car its annual jet wash. I did to the back patio first but then it got too hot too quickly for me to be able to do the front. Now the weather has been meh it has kinda put me in a meh mood again. Also all of the ginger growing in the front has been eaten! Hoping to dig it up and see if there is anything left, also there are some rogue volunteer potatoes growing there.
I have coriander envy! Ours normally just bolts, if it does germinate. Waiting until August to resow as well as pak choi and spinach as they have also bolted.
Great harvest for dinner there. Shame the weather has been crap this week but on that weather roller coaster, it should be better weather next week!
Growing yellow courgettes for the first time and definitely on the list for next year. Our child thought that there were mutant bananas! lol Just getting another two new's - Yellow Kentucky beans and Honeycomb tomatoes. Just waiting for them to start ripening.
If you are talking about tomato horn worms that is only in North American (i think mainly in the west) and thankfully not here!
Is that round thing your mic now? What one did you get in the end? It looks smart.
Yes I don't want to be that person but our tomatoes are about 5ft now, growing outside, no cover. Several trusses now, first truss about to ripen in a few weeks.
Our tomato spares are about 4ft now and flowering. Our other current spares include:
California Wonder sweet bell pepper, 2 x brussels sprouts, lots of basil, horse radish, aloe vera and sedum. I am propagating jade/money plant atm and also testing to see if I can propagate weigela, mints, rosemary and oregano.
Just down the road from you, if you are caught short.
Anyway, take care.
P.s. Re Potty Mouth - I wondered what that was when we were clearing out my late Mother in Law's kitchen. I didn't realise it was a runner bean slicer! Wish I had known as we had a mad bean harvest last year. Brother in law lives there now and not sure if it is still there or if he uses it. He isn't into gardening or traditional cooking. I did have to google and ask my older sister if she knew what half of the obscure stuff was as a lot of it was old kitchen tools and homesteading stuff. It is nice to rescue that stuff to keep it in the family and pass down one day and luckily enough to be able to use these things that we actually need and use!
Hello!
The Poly is 2m x 3m so not huge at all!
Hahha, going big on the yellow veg this year eh? And glad the tomato worm isn't an impending threat.
Yes, new mic! Finally bit the bullet and bought a decent one. was a dent in my pocket but i'm really happy with it. its this one: amzn.to/3RXMnlL the sound is SO much better. and the battery last for an age.
I hope your brother kept the bean slice :D they are great.
@@JessieatPlot37 Thanks Jessie. Our main bed is currently 1m x 6m, with the crazy paving slabs with half of it for tomatoes and garlic and in between growing season bits. Was looking into trying to make a canopy/ wind breaker for the area.
Yeah, once you go yellow fornah fornah! Two black beauty courgettes in the sandpit bed as well......
What with voting and football i picked a girthy 7inch x 2inch today, well happy! oi oi saveloy lol
Thanks for sharing the mic link. Does it make a mark on the clothes like pegs?
Have a great week Jessie! Hubby won 3 bottles of wine/ prosecco and a G&T can at the adult tombola at the school fair! £8 and not a bottle of shampoo in sight! lol x
In the U.K. also, but got lucky with the tomatoes. Not it the beginning, I had poor germination and had to reseed. However, my plants were cared for indoors until mid May, then went into my greenhouse in the garden where the snails, which I expelled everyday, were mostly busy eating old cabbage and kale from in ground beds. They are now around three foot ish, and I’ve my first tomato growing on one. We’ve also just eaten our first sweet pepper, not large, plant or fruit, but still happy.
oh thats fantastic Louise, glad your toms are going well. I'm hoping mine will catch up in the end!
You no Jess as you said it’s very strange I was trying to get tomatoes from since march this year I’m in B/dos all now I’m still at it trying my best to see what I could do to at least get a couple of them, but your garden is beautiful wish you luck with your planting, we just got over hurricane Beryl on Monday and now today is bad weather rain and wind hopefully my plants withstand the weather hi mum ❤❤
Hope Beryl hasn't caused you too much devastation and the garden is okay. Strange that you are having a dodgy tomato year too!
Here in the so called sunny southeast in Ireland we haven't got any good weather a few days of sun here and there , we are to get very bad stormy winds tonight. There's feck all growing compared to last year this time last year everything was in their second or 3rd flush of flowers this year now into July only a few things started to get flower buds. For the veg , onions not bulbing up they like a big overgrown spring onion / scallions. Beans are growing but no peas in the pods there's one here and there. Although the tomatoes are going great even the out door ones lots of baby tomatoes,well so far so good. I planted over 100 crocus blubs and not one came up a few days ago I dug around see what happened they hadn't even rooted looked the very same as the day I planted them back in November.
frustrating year Elaine! but glad your tomatoes are good. And what went wrong with the crocus, any idea? Pretty much all my bulbs were eaten but not just sat there!
In my Zone 3 garden, everything planted has just been sitting there. This is the first week that we have night time temps over 10C. Hopefully, since there has been a bit of rain, they will all explode.
fingers crossed, they all catch up!!
In New Zealand we had a bumper crop of tomatoes in January to May 2024 in summer to autumn but because of having a lot of sun and heat here which really helped. We didn’t have rain for most of the summer months at all, and we now have a really rainy winter with not much winter veg growing as it’s too wet.
shame about the winter veg but how lovely to have had great tomatoes!
It's been so far a barmy growing season here on the Wirral from never knowing from one day to the next if it's going to be sunny or at least warm or your constantly dodging showers and the veg and flowers seem to be reflecting that while some veg are loving the dullness like cabbages it's the flowers that are suffering no sunshine to burst them in to show ,I am hoping we will have a late summer to extend the season somewhat but then again this is England don't bank on it
I'm hoping for the late summer too William. But you're right, the brassicas that survived the slugfest are loving the weather!
Super - polytunnel is covered! That's great and yes it did look very hot in there. Hope you get your tomatoes in soon, they'll probably really take off when they are in there. 👍
oh i hope so Julie. I'm optimistic!
This has been one of my worse years for the garden in my 45 years of gardening. The leaf leg bugs has destroyed the tomatoes and just about everything in the garden. Also the rain has done its share also. We have had lots of rain in Louisiana.
sad to hear that Cathy. When we are hit with bad weather and bad bugs its hard to win isn't it!
12:19 Great close ups there. Ladybird larvae are such cool looking robot-machine-like creatures.
exactly that! Like little armoured vehicles!
I have volunteer tomatoes coming up late but growing fast. First year growing sweet potatoes but the vines are spreading fast. I find they grow faster the more water i give them. They seem to love my clay soil.
They grow like crazy those sweet potatoes don't they!
i used nets last season for the first time ... i used secondhand bail twine from the local chaff mill its free [ canowindra prduce'] tied my own nets its easy so i used the plants to keep the hot australian summer sun off the walls of the house ........ big mistake passion fruit has engulfed half the house and i dont have the heart to cut it back its such a work of art
hahahaha! its now a green house :D
Congratulations on the polytunnel! Let's hope this summer is at least halfway decent...
hopefully it gets better towards the end of the year Janet!
I just can't seem to shake of the spider mites from my little half wood, half perspex greenhouse. I fully cleaned out, swept, hoovered, fumigated (chemical smoke candle) at the start of the year and fumigated again when everything was at seedling stage with the natural garlic candle one (which ended up causing the majority of my tomatoes to get burnt leaves, so wont be doing that again!), and yet there are still spider mites more than ever and they have really mottled the leaves on all my tomatoes, Physalis, peppers, marigolds, even on my basil plants, which kind of puts me off wanting to pick it to eat. I just can't seem to get ride of them. In the end I just had to put most of my plants outside when it was warm enough which has helped. The few left in there I've sprayed with a pest spray, which is not my fave thing to do but at my wits end with them.
I'm confused a bit though - I get the spider mites that are like little white dotty looking on the plants (like you get on houseplants (also a recurring annoyance on my houseplants) but I also have the red ones crawling around over everything that stain when smooshed - are they one of the same thing or two different? We also get those red mites absolutely everywhere around our garden, out in the open, on any hard dry surfaces - rocks, the water butts, my water feature, pots etc...
Besides those though, My tomatoes are doing well now, most of them around 4ft and have they first fruits forming. I believe I have around 32 varieties. I had over 90 plants (lol!) but I sowed lots of extras as I have started doing an annual 'Plant Pick n' Mix' where I put all my extras out on our front wall for anyone in our village/local area to come and help themselves to. I enjoy it as I love sowing and growing lots from seed and helps me use up seed packets of things. This was my second year doing it and I did way more than last year but every single plant went, so super pleased :)
yeah, its the same red spider mite. The webbing and white dots and the actual red ones. the only way i know to get rid is by constantly misting the plants. they hate it. Glad your tomatoes are doing will though! And that you manged to spread the tomato love :D
@@JessieatPlot37 Ahh ok, just they seem very small spider mites compared to the larger fully bright red ones also crawling around everywhere as well. Maybe they are adult/mature ones? Will have to try get some pics.
You and your mother are so cute together ❤
Do you have the link to your broad bean slicer by chance?
Beautiful polytunnel!
Its this one! amzn.to/3xAPKIx