Really enjoy your videos !! Keep them coming. In January I started my new garden in Strathalbyn in South Australia - it was an Almond orchard. Apart from clearing up some scrub and cutting down a few old almond trees I'll be building a compost heap and planting lemon, peach, fig and pomegranate trees. Looking forward to February video....
Listen, as creative gardeners we tend to be too hard on ourselves. The negative self talk we use on ourselves would never be used on someone else. We need to stop it! Your videos are very good!!
Love all your videos, I took notes of everything you planted in the different months as a personal guide as I believe I'm in a similar hardiness zone. God bless!
I have moved from Manchester to a village in south Leicestershire, and for once in my life, I have a big garden to play with, you have inspired me, and you are so lovely too, I will keep following you, lots of love.
Great plot tour and I am a new subscriber. I am busy developing my allotment in Scotland and have prepared 2 vegetable beds and the bed's for the strawberries and rhubarb. I plan to plant my shallot sets and garlic cloves today and the broadbean seeds to start off my sowing and planting season and also to start preparing the other 2 vegetable beds this week.
I use coconut coir for starting seeds. Renewable, and pretty easy to use. I do add diluted fish emulsion after a few weeks to give added nutrients. I'm so jealous of your allotment, I have a 4x10 plot in a community garden, it's no where near as nice as the beautiful garden you have!!
For someone who says she didn't have any idea how to do DIY you did a fantastic job of the sieve Katrina, It will certainly make it easier for the seeds. Great job and video :) You can help the blueberries along with some sulfur this will reduce the soil to acidic
My gardening aim is the same as yours, making the most of the growing space that I have! I don’t have an allotment,but I do have a front and back garden, both areas are difficult, but I am determined to grow as much as I can. Slowly buying some power tools so that I can make my own planters, etc. I have several pallets that I’ve had since last year, looking forward to transforming them! Loved watching your video, and seeing your allotment! 😊
I feel exactly the same, energized, longing for the weekend to come around so I can spend a day at my plot with my little dog. I’ve never started sorting and planning so early. I’ve just built a raised bed out of stone inspired by yours to grow my carrots and parsnips in. I need a new / 2ndhand tweed blazer for my scarecrow and to fill my plot potager style. So loads of sunflowers, zinnia and just to not get too worried about the odd weed or tuft of grass. I love your plot and your plot tours help immensely. Xx
Glad you're really optimistic for this year! I'm trying to manage work and a 1 year old and stay motivated with my garden at the moment. My blueberry bushes fruited alot in their first year, so I hope yours do too. My new years resolution this year is to focus more on my soil health instead of just trying to grow anything and everything :P Can't wait for the next video!
Welcome back, really happy to hear all your positive energy for your garden. I’m still looking at snow, our gardening starts the end of May. I planted sweet peas last year but it was far to late, so now I’m determined to be ready for a earlier and successful 2020. Always learning more about gardening. Thanks for sharing and your positivity. 👍❤️😊
A pleasure to watch as always xxx Cannot wait to get stuck into my allotment this coming season. Just finished my design for my 3.2M wide 8M long polytunnel!!! It never ends does it, managed to rebuild a massive 4 bay composting bay area across my entire end of my plot over the christmas holiday season, all raised beds are weeded and top dressed (No dig as it works so much better) garlic is flying, onions in the grow room, kale in the grow room, shallots in the grow room also. 2KG of sturon onion sets ready to plant as storing onions and 15KG of saved Sarpo Mira seed potatoes ready for my spuds in tubs :-) Plus a ton of sweet peas are well up already indoors xxx
Hello from Ontario Canada just found your channel so subscribed just after a few episodes.Looking forward to the bug hotel tutorial.I agree keep some kind of journal notebook whatever you care to call it helps get all that stuff out that’s flying around in your head, find it helps.Great idea for the garden communal area will bring you together what a fun space for all sorts of picnics etc how many people share the space?Thanx for an interesting video take care🐝
Lovely to see you back. Love the coveralls and soil blocker. Presently my gardens are still under snow and cold but all the ideas in my head are going on paper. Thank you for sharing. 👍🇨🇦💝
Katrina, another super cinematic session for the series, I have just built and filled to raised beds in the zone 1 close to the house, planted over dozen fruit and nut bushes. The seeds for the chillies are showing a leaf, and you reminded me to start some basil. I have been here 3 years with a mature (read neglected) orchard, with permaculture beds and perennial fruit n veg plus a bed of garlic, shallots, onions and broad beans over wintering; I have followed Charles Dowding methods and have two of his books. I have two noisy geese that live in the orchard to keep the grass short, the trees and beds are mulched with woodchip al la Paul Gaucie (Back to Eden Garden). TH-cam is a real mine of information and entertainment.. This weekend I have been watching an Asian channel of videos on building/making things with natural products, where the young man after finishing his project then proceeds to cook marvellous meals using a various wood burning devices. Anyway great videos have a great 2020 and beyond.
I am excited about getting started in what we call a community garden plot. It seems a bit overwhelming, so I will start small and expand as I am able.
I very much enjoy your allotment tours and you sharing your plans. My gardening resolution this year is to prune and space my tomatoes better. Last year I had nice crops but it was difficult to manage and harvest with too much waste. I'm also focusing on chiles, especially some varieties for Mexican cooking.
My dahlias were beautiful last year so I am investing more in dahlias. I am also going to experiment with the no dig system - i have already put a layer of compost on the garden. I too can't wait for the spring!
I was delighted by you talking about your Timperley and Victoria rhubarb fruiting. My father teased me and my siblings asking by if we wanted fruit or vegetables for pudding/desert with custard. If we said fruit we were given tomatoes, if we said vegetables we were given stewed rhubarb. Actually, a little thought shows the fruit/vegetable sweet/savoury use is much more complicated - ie aubergine in goulash, carrots and beetroots in cake etc
OMG, just like you I ended up succumbing to journaling but could not keep up. For this year I am looking forward to several projects for my conservancy (butterfly flowers, nodding wild onions) and I chose ten new veggies for this year, things like Malabar Spinach, Strawberry spinach New Zealand Spinach (none of them are actual spinach!) and several varieties of tomatoes and herbs. Gardening is a lovely addiction! Here in Canada, though, at this time of the year I can only plan and dream, unlike you, who has your hands into dirt and trees!!
I've never seriously thought about applying for an allotment; I've been moving around to much. It's interesting to see someone tking their own allotment on and all the learning that comes with it. I might watch some fo your early videos! I'm growing in containers in my shared house's garden this year. The days are getting longer now thankfully.
If you consider applying for an allotment depending on where in your area, the waiting list could vary. I applied in my area of the country and it took 4 years before I was offered one. I am now busy developing the plot and hopefully I will have a productive season.
@@davidthescottishvegan Thanks for the insight. Thinking back on it, one of the reasons for never giving it more than a passing thought is because I've been moving around too often these past years. If it could take as long as 4 years in some places, I think I'm better off sticking to my containers and pots for now! Best of luck with your site. I suspect developing the site and improving its fertility can be as satisfying as growing the plants at times!
Hey Carolyn, I’m so pleased that you enjoyed the video! We’re having an incredibly mild winter so far with hardly any frosts. It’s unusual but I’m worried that we’ll have a late winter just when we think that spring has arrived! Sending you all the best wishes and hope that the white stuff soon disappears ☀️🌱💚🌿
That's a fantastic idea about adding the mesh to your beds. Loved the video, and the overalls look so cool, might have to check out some mens ones, saves wrecking all of my Jean's!
I think it's great that you are thinking of making use of your outside space at home. What about growing veg and flowers in pots, that way you don't have to worry about permanent structures. I'm really excited to try some chilis in my garden and I'm even going to give up a flower bed to try them in the ground this year!
Note.... Used scaffold boards for raised beds ! At home an at the allotment. It's soooooooo easy to build ? Imagine a big oblong box with four corner post.... Done !!! Just line the insides with thick cut down rubble sacks (stapled on) to help protect if you really want. And they can just lay on the shingle of your front home garden. I've done two, one for the polytunnel an one over a concrete path against the fence for peas
If it were me I would get rid of the whole wild area by taming it and organizing it into a well maintained flower garden. One could intermix some edibles in the area to take the burden off the main growing areas. I often plant peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, and even onions that I allow to bloom in flower beds. The onion blossoms make my gardens smell like a taco. I built a rotating screen because I go through cubic yards per year. I used to sift it with a screen like you made. It took days to do it, but I found it relaxing. Even though a person tries to plan things; nature often has other ideas.
It already is a flower garden! Have you seen it in spring or summer? I’m not planning on changing it, only adding to it with wildflowers and removing some brambles. I think it’s important to dedicate a small space, especially in the corner of the garden just for the wildlife. There will be n abundance of flowers there soon and I get to watch the birds visit the bird bath and they nest in the ivy and take shelter in the hedging. I may not look pretty at this time of the year but one of my favourite areas of the garden.
New Subscriber Here, Hello! We Garden as well, and we found your channel through searching Garden Vlog. We've been looking for some good channels that showcase magical spaces and a passion for gardening. We immediately found your space to be so enchanting, and we love how you explain everything. So Wonderful! Thank you for this video. We look forward to your future videos to come!
This year I want to make my front garden amazing and work on my vegetable garden I want to grow some beans and tomatoes.. for the rest I'm going to plan soon... Lots of love from the Netherlands
Hi Katrina good to see you back.Did you pinch holes in the compost bag in side the container.Save the apple,cherry wood for your bbq.Iam build got for Christmas a Ryobi 40 volt leaf mulcher.i got it from homedepot.works great.
Really curious how your winter bedding and bulbs are going to look in spring. I have a winterbed too, might consider adding some spring bulbs next fall.
loved the video, omg you are so full of enthusiasm, great tips for the bulb planters with the mesh loved it double layered too even better, looking forward the next one you are so full of ideas this year its great to see.
If you add legs to your sieve long ones at the front and shorter at the back just lift and shake you can put a sheet down to catch the good stuff and it will stop all the noise you may need extra mesh get the plastic coated it lasts longer
i have been growing throughout the dark months with a small hydroponics kit in the kitchen, it has produced some really nice tasty peppers and tons of leaf salad, i think i will transfer the idea outside for the summer months into a tube system i can attach to the garden fence, pump water around using a small solar pump, and hopefully use my raised beds for some corn and potato. great video as usual, looking forward to the next pepper challenge ,
I am so excited to get my new garden started, we moved into our house last year and the garden is just grass front to back. I'm documenting it on my channel and I'm just itching to get out there.
Hi. Usually I have lists and ideas. This year for the garden/yard I think I will be adding in more structure I really want to do an allee. Can I do an allee with only 4 trees? Ideally I will want 6 I shall see. I'm scaling back a bit. Last year I had grand plans and a lot of my seeds did not come up so I think I'll be doing Dahlia's again this year instead of relying on seeds Dahlia's are almost a sure thing. Actually this is the first year that I don't have lots of lists and plans I'm wondering if this could be a good thing or a bad thing? We shall see. Can't wait to see your future projects. Oh and a few months ago I commented about critters eating my tulips as well I have a lot in containers this year. And the deer hopped my fence and ate 2 arborvite that I had there's nothing but 2 sticks left. So sad I had planted them so I could look out of my kitchen window and see some green during the winter...sigh. Have a great night.
Great video... Thanks for reminding me I can soon visit the plot after work... I've missed that the most this winter. (I'm NOT an early morning allotmenteer!)
Great tour I love watching Ur video's so much great info I am looking forward to having blueberry as well but one has started to flower so fingers crossed and getting back down to fangorn plot as I done everything I needed to I am a bit bored knowing it all done I might start to create a kid's area as I have two small children and they get bored abit to quickly so may buy/build a picnic table with a sand pit and water pit for them. Fangorn plot
a set of 'lppers' might be easier to prune with rather than hand saw - also can be used insted of handpruners . apple trimming good for fire > very fragant ; new outfit VERY fashionable , lol ! great time of year for tidying up & moving stuff around > good job ! for 'green manure/wintercover crop' that about 'winter rye' or 'buckwheat' next time ; can also just throw down annual grass seed late in season before fall gets too cold - covers soil & dies in winter , leave & plant into Brilliant as always , thank you much !
The birds here seem to like my overwintered chard. They've only left a few scraggly leaf veins sticking up. I don't hold a grudge against them though, they gotta eat too. Besides it's amusing to see them jump up and claim a beak full. I can plant more.
This year i decided to just have my work calendar (keep in my home office), a garden journal planner (keep in my gardens space next to my art projects on my messy 8X8 kitchen table) and a cooking recipe journal with notes in my kitchen area where i prepare food...All of them i write my thoughts based each topic since i work from home its much easier for me and less of a failure rate..
Not sure where you are in the UK but I hope your allotment is doing okay! The streets are starting to flood near where I am and my back garden is looking pretty waterlogged (heavy soil though so it happens allot)
Hi kate and happy New year ,ya allotment is coming on leaps now mate ..loving the soil blocker and compost shaker ...the chillies have all come through and looking forward to getting them in my tunnel...sad thing is some kind person decided to break in my shed and steal a lot of my stuff ,but it's strange as they took all my pasta pots .a blanket and pillow but trashed everything else so gutted 😣
Hey Neil. I’m so sorry to hear that your shed was broken into. That sounds like it could be a rough sleeper. They’ve been known to shelter in people’s sheds before 😔 Great to heat that you chillies are growing well! 🌱
In Belgium we currently have unusually mild temperatures: 10 degrees Celcius and more. The Christmas roses have been flowering for a while now. The crocuses are also starting to bloom since a week or so. I haven't sown anything so far. I find it a bit early with the little amount of light there is. I also prune the Apple Trees only in the growing season after flowering so as not to stimulate growth (without fruits). Can you keep chickens on your allotment to provide manure, for example, or is that not allowed? What I would like to grow more this year is feed for my animals: sunflowers, peas, etc. Greetings.
Another great video, thank you. You may be able to get a grant to start your communal garden where you live, from the Lottery Fund, worth a try, good luck
WRT journaling, I plan to do regular walkabouts starting this year. And write down any observations of note. Wither that will be once a day or once a week, I don't know.
I'm renting as well. With our house belonging to someone else, how do you get past the " temporary " mindset ,and plant long-term plants ,like berries, and roses , knowing if you move ,they have to remain ? I long to plant and establish perennials, but it's hard knowing what to do. Any suggestions ?
Like you I'm determined to make the most of my space, have no stress. Also, I'm going to invite the birds to take care of ridding my garden of the pesky, destructive insects and to compost in place thus saving money on soil nutrients and expensive amended soil ( both ideas inspired by Robbie and Gary Gardening Easy channel). I love your plot!💕
Is the poly tunnel plastic green or is it just the reinforcement? Because green light is the only wave length that plants don't use, and keeping plants in this poly tunnel may be almost like keeping them in the dark.
Do you have access to coco core blocks there and are they reasonably priced? They are $3 for a block that expands quite a bit in California. I like mixing it my starter mix. Also, is your peat only coming from Europe? I know many peat bogs have been lost there (over harvest and lack of time for regeneration) and that is why peat gets a bad rap. The US gets it from Canada and it is actually renewable when the wetlands are managed properly which there has been a strong push, research and effort to do for many years.
Glad you got the Christmas presents you wanted 💕
Gardening is good therapy. It helped me cope with my brother’s passing.
Sounds like 2020 is going to be a great year for your allotment! 🌿
Fingers crossed! I just hope the weather doesn’t have any tricks up it’s sleeve! 🌱
Go Katrina! Comments from the big man
Joe Cashman I had no idea that this was even a thing! 😅🤯
Really enjoy your videos !! Keep them coming.
In January I started my new garden in Strathalbyn in South Australia - it was an Almond orchard. Apart from clearing up some scrub and cutting down a few old almond trees I'll be building a compost heap and planting lemon, peach, fig and pomegranate trees.
Looking forward to February video....
Listen, as creative gardeners we tend to be too hard on ourselves. The negative self talk we use on ourselves would never be used on someone else. We need to stop it! Your videos are very good!!
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You’re so beautiful. Your face is like sunshine; always happy.
Love all your videos, I took notes of everything you planted in the different months as a personal guide as I believe I'm in a similar hardiness zone. God bless!
I have moved from Manchester to a village in south Leicestershire, and for once in my life, I have a big garden to play with, you have inspired me, and you are so lovely too, I will keep following you, lots of love.
Great plot tour and I am a new subscriber. I am busy developing my allotment in Scotland and have prepared 2 vegetable beds and the bed's for the strawberries and rhubarb. I plan to plant my shallot sets and garlic cloves today and the broadbean seeds to start off my sowing and planting season and also to start preparing the other 2 vegetable beds this week.
I am really looking forward to having a rest this winter!
I use coconut coir for starting seeds. Renewable, and pretty easy to use. I do add diluted fish emulsion after a few weeks to give added nutrients. I'm so jealous of your allotment, I have a 4x10 plot in a community garden, it's no where near as nice as the beautiful garden you have!!
For someone who says she didn't have any idea how to do DIY you did a fantastic job of the sieve Katrina, It will certainly make it easier for the seeds. Great job and video :) You can help the blueberries along with some sulfur this will reduce the soil to acidic
Your relaxed way of bringing what you love to us, who love the same things, is a delight. I really want to make a compost sieve now :)
I am subscribing now because of the positive vibes coming from your smile.
Just one question, how you do to keep always your pretty smile ?. 😀
My gardening aim is the same as yours, making the most of the growing space that I have! I don’t have an allotment,but I do have a front and back garden, both areas are difficult, but I am determined to grow as much as I can. Slowly buying some power tools so that I can make my own planters, etc. I have several pallets that I’ve had since last year, looking forward to transforming them! Loved watching your video, and seeing your allotment! 😊
I feel exactly the same, energized, longing for the weekend to come around so I can spend a day at my plot with my little dog. I’ve never started sorting and planning so early.
I’ve just built a raised bed out of stone inspired by yours to grow my carrots and parsnips in. I need a new / 2ndhand tweed blazer for my scarecrow and to fill my plot potager style. So loads of sunflowers, zinnia and just to not get too worried about the odd weed or tuft of grass.
I love your plot and your plot tours help immensely. Xx
Glad you're really optimistic for this year!
I'm trying to manage work and a 1 year old and stay motivated with my garden at the moment.
My blueberry bushes fruited alot in their first year, so I hope yours do too.
My new years resolution this year is to focus more on my soil health instead of just trying to grow anything and everything :P
Can't wait for the next video!
Welcome back, really happy to hear all your positive energy for your garden. I’m still looking at snow, our gardening starts the end of May. I planted sweet peas last year but it was far to late, so now I’m determined to be ready for a earlier and successful 2020. Always learning more about gardening. Thanks for sharing and your positivity. 👍❤️😊
A pleasure to watch as always xxx Cannot wait to get stuck into my allotment this coming season. Just finished my design for my 3.2M wide 8M long polytunnel!!! It never ends does it, managed to rebuild a massive 4 bay composting bay area across my entire end of my plot over the christmas holiday season, all raised beds are weeded and top dressed (No dig as it works so much better) garlic is flying, onions in the grow room, kale in the grow room, shallots in the grow room also. 2KG of sturon onion sets ready to plant as storing onions and 15KG of saved Sarpo Mira seed potatoes ready for my spuds in tubs :-) Plus a ton of sweet peas are well up already indoors xxx
Hello from Ontario Canada just found your channel so subscribed just after a few episodes.Looking forward to the bug hotel tutorial.I agree keep some kind of journal notebook whatever you care to call it helps get all that stuff out that’s flying around in your head, find it helps.Great idea for the garden communal area will bring you together what a fun space for all sorts of picnics etc how many people share the space?Thanx for an interesting video take care🐝
Lovely to see you back. Love the coveralls and soil blocker. Presently my gardens are still under snow and cold but all the ideas in my head are going on paper. Thank you for sharing. 👍🇨🇦💝
Another great allotment tour! And well done for shouting out the calendar! Thanks for taking part! The Essex Allotment
It was great fun! Thanks for organising it 😁
Haven't grown veg for precisely 10 years and this year I'm mostly looking forward to new potatos, first thing I ever grew and so it sticks with me.
Katrina, another super cinematic session for the series, I have just built and filled to raised beds in the zone 1 close to the house, planted over dozen fruit and nut bushes. The seeds for the chillies are showing a leaf, and you reminded me to start some basil.
I have been here 3 years with a mature (read neglected) orchard, with permaculture beds and perennial fruit n veg plus a bed of garlic, shallots, onions and broad beans over wintering; I have followed Charles Dowding methods and have two of his books.
I have two noisy geese that live in the orchard to keep the grass short, the trees and beds are mulched with woodchip al la Paul Gaucie (Back to Eden Garden).
TH-cam is a real mine of information and entertainment..
This weekend I have been watching an Asian channel of videos on building/making things with natural products, where the young man after finishing his project then proceeds to cook marvellous meals using a various wood burning devices. Anyway great videos have a great 2020 and beyond.
I am excited about getting started in what we call a community garden plot. It seems a bit overwhelming, so I will start small and expand as I am able.
If you stick the twiggy tops of the hazel in the ground and plant your sweet peas under they will grow up through really nicely....
Love your smile, what a happy face
I very much enjoy your allotment tours and you sharing your plans. My gardening resolution this year is to prune and space my tomatoes better. Last year I had nice crops but it was difficult to manage and harvest with too much waste. I'm also focusing on chiles, especially some varieties for Mexican cooking.
My dahlias were beautiful last year so I am investing more in dahlias. I am also going to experiment with the no dig system - i have already put a layer of compost on the garden. I too can't wait for the spring!
I was delighted by you talking about your Timperley and Victoria rhubarb fruiting. My father teased me and my siblings asking by if we wanted fruit or vegetables for pudding/desert with custard. If we said fruit we were given tomatoes, if we said vegetables we were given stewed rhubarb. Actually, a little thought shows the fruit/vegetable sweet/savoury use is much more complicated - ie aubergine in goulash, carrots and beetroots in cake etc
Neilhuny that’s so funny! 😄 I love adding courgettes to cake. 🧁
OMG, just like you I ended up succumbing to journaling but could not keep up. For this year I am looking forward to several projects for my conservancy (butterfly flowers, nodding wild onions) and I chose ten new veggies for this year, things like Malabar Spinach, Strawberry spinach New Zealand Spinach (none of them are actual spinach!) and several varieties of tomatoes and herbs. Gardening is a lovely addiction! Here in Canada, though, at this time of the year I can only plan and dream, unlike you, who has your hands into dirt and trees!!
I've never seriously thought about applying for an allotment; I've been moving around to much. It's interesting to see someone tking their own allotment on and all the learning that comes with it. I might watch some fo your early videos! I'm growing in containers in my shared house's garden this year. The days are getting longer now thankfully.
If you consider applying for an allotment depending on where in your area, the waiting list could vary. I applied in my area of the country and it took 4 years before I was offered one. I am now busy developing the plot and hopefully I will have a productive season.
@@davidthescottishvegan Thanks for the insight. Thinking back on it, one of the reasons for never giving it more than a passing thought is because I've been moving around too often these past years. If it could take as long as 4 years in some places, I think I'm better off sticking to my containers and pots for now!
Best of luck with your site. I suspect developing the site and improving its fertility can be as satisfying as growing the plants at times!
Happy new year from Italy Katrina! Happy gardening! Ciaoo
I am so delighted to see a new video from you! I am buried in snow because I live in Minnesota in the US so I am yearning for garden videos.
Carolyn Marie I know your pain...I’m in Wisconsin! Love to watch videos for ideas and a taste of gardening in winter. This one is exceptional!
Hey Carolyn, I’m so pleased that you enjoyed the video! We’re having an incredibly mild winter so far with hardly any frosts. It’s unusual but I’m worried that we’ll have a late winter just when we think that spring has arrived! Sending you all the best wishes and hope that the white stuff soon disappears ☀️🌱💚🌿
That's a fantastic idea about adding the mesh to your beds. Loved the video, and the overalls look so cool, might have to check out some mens ones, saves wrecking all of my Jean's!
I think it's great that you are thinking of making use of your outside space at home. What about growing veg and flowers in pots, that way you don't have to worry about permanent structures. I'm really excited to try some chilis in my garden and I'm even going to give up a flower bed to try them in the ground this year!
Note.... Used scaffold boards for raised beds ! At home an at the allotment. It's soooooooo easy to build ? Imagine a big oblong box with four corner post.... Done !!! Just line the insides with thick cut down rubble sacks (stapled on) to help protect if you really want. And they can just lay on the shingle of your front home garden.
I've done two, one for the polytunnel an one over a concrete path against the fence for peas
If it were me I would get rid of the whole wild area by taming it and organizing it into a well maintained flower garden. One could intermix some edibles in the area to take the burden off the main growing areas. I often plant peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, and even onions that I allow to bloom in flower beds. The onion blossoms make my gardens smell like a taco. I built a rotating screen because I go through cubic yards per year. I used to sift it with a screen like you made. It took days to do it, but I found it relaxing. Even though a person tries to plan things; nature often has other ideas.
It already is a flower garden! Have you seen it in spring or summer? I’m not planning on changing it, only adding to it with wildflowers and removing some brambles. I think it’s important to dedicate a small space, especially in the corner of the garden just for the wildlife. There will be n abundance of flowers there soon and I get to watch the birds visit the bird bath and they nest in the ivy and take shelter in the hedging. I may not look pretty at this time of the year but one of my favourite areas of the garden.
New Subscriber Here, Hello! We Garden as well, and we found your channel through searching Garden Vlog. We've been looking for some good channels that showcase magical spaces and a passion for gardening. We immediately found your space to be so enchanting, and we love how you explain everything. So Wonderful! Thank you for this video. We look forward to your future videos to come!
This year I want to make my front garden amazing and work on my vegetable garden I want to grow some beans and tomatoes.. for the rest I'm going to plan soon... Lots of love from the Netherlands
great to see that the soil blocks are working for you!
I really love watching your videos
Hi Katrina good to see you back.Did you pinch holes in the compost bag in side the container.Save the apple,cherry wood for your bbq.Iam build got for Christmas a Ryobi 40 volt leaf mulcher.i got it from homedepot.works great.
Really curious how your winter bedding and bulbs are going to look in spring. I have a winterbed too, might consider adding some spring bulbs next fall.
Great! I get to give the first comment.
I love your allotment tours, your doing a fab job. Love from London 🤗
My new trial for this year is going to be Butter-nut squash (butterfly) and patty pan sqaush (sunburst}. Like the wild life area,s in your allotment.
loved the video, omg you are so full of enthusiasm, great tips for the bulb planters with the mesh loved it double layered too even better, looking forward the next one you are so full of ideas this year its great to see.
If you add legs to your sieve long ones at the front and shorter at the back just lift and shake you can put a sheet down to catch the good stuff and it will stop all the noise you may need extra mesh get the plastic coated it lasts longer
i have been growing throughout the dark months with a small hydroponics kit in the kitchen, it has produced some really nice tasty peppers and tons of leaf salad, i think i will transfer the idea outside for the summer months into a tube system i can attach to the garden fence, pump water around using a small solar pump, and hopefully use my raised beds for some corn and potato. great video as usual, looking forward to the next pepper challenge ,
rooster neck that sounds like a great project! I have my houseplant collection to keep me growing and green-fingered over the winter months 🌿
I am so excited to get my new garden started, we moved into our house last year and the garden is just grass front to back. I'm documenting it on my channel and I'm just itching to get out there.
So glad you journal🌸I'm doing it this year and a gratitude journal🌼🌸💙
You're back! Happy Christmas! I discovered your videos over my Christmas break and they are amazing. Sooo jelly of your shed
You always smile, very nice.
Hi. Usually I have lists and ideas. This year for the garden/yard I think I will be adding in more structure I really want to do an allee. Can I do an allee with only 4 trees? Ideally I will want 6 I shall see. I'm scaling back a bit. Last year I had grand plans and a lot of my seeds did not come up so I think I'll be doing Dahlia's again this year instead of relying on seeds Dahlia's are almost a sure thing. Actually this is the first year that I don't have lots of lists and plans I'm wondering if this could be a good thing or a bad thing? We shall see. Can't wait to see your future projects. Oh and a few months ago I commented about critters eating my tulips as well I have a lot in containers this year. And the deer hopped my fence and ate 2 arborvite that I had there's nothing but 2 sticks left. So sad I had planted them so I could look out of my kitchen window and see some green during the winter...sigh. Have a great night.
All that guesturing energy put that tea in real danger of spilling - a few close moments! Haha
Great video... Thanks for reminding me I can soon visit the plot after work... I've missed that the most this winter. (I'm NOT an early morning allotmenteer!)
Soooon! I can’t wait for the day that I can spend just an hour there after work!
Yes Winter is a sort of admin , construction and planning period for the allotment isn't it .
Great tour I love watching Ur video's so much great info I am looking forward to having blueberry as well but one has started to flower so fingers crossed and getting back down to fangorn plot as I done everything I needed to I am a bit bored knowing it all done I might start to create a kid's area as I have two small children and they get bored abit to quickly so may buy/build a picnic table with a sand pit and water pit for them.
Fangorn plot
a set of 'lppers' might be easier to prune with rather than hand saw - also can be used insted of handpruners . apple trimming good for fire > very fragant ; new outfit VERY fashionable , lol !
great time of year for tidying up & moving stuff around > good job ! for 'green manure/wintercover crop' that about 'winter rye' or 'buckwheat' next time ; can also just throw down annual grass seed late in season before fall gets too cold - covers soil & dies in winter , leave & plant into
Brilliant as always , thank you much !
Very glad to have found your channel. I just got me and my sons overalls too, love them.
The birds here seem to like my overwintered chard. They've only left a few scraggly leaf veins sticking up. I don't hold a grudge against them though, they gotta eat too. Besides it's amusing to see them jump up and claim a beak full. I can plant more.
This year i decided to just have my work calendar (keep in my home office), a garden journal planner (keep in my gardens space next to my art projects on my messy 8X8 kitchen table) and a cooking recipe journal with notes in my kitchen area where i prepare food...All of them i write my thoughts based each topic since i work from home its much easier for me and less of a failure rate..
It’s great that you have found a planning system that works for you 😁
It looks like stuffed full of potential - how exciting. Loved this video.
I do enjoy your channel. I hope you can keep at this. Thanks.
Not sure where you are in the UK but I hope your allotment is doing okay! The streets are starting to flood near where I am and my back garden is looking pretty waterlogged (heavy soil though so it happens allot)
You and your garden are so beautiful 😍
Best wishes for 2020! Hope to visit the allotment soon!
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Hi kate and happy New year ,ya allotment is coming on leaps now mate ..loving the soil blocker and compost shaker ...the chillies have all come through and looking forward to getting them in my tunnel...sad thing is some kind person decided to break in my shed and steal a lot of my stuff ,but it's strange as they took all my pasta pots .a blanket and pillow but trashed everything else so gutted 😣
Hey Neil. I’m so sorry to hear that your shed was broken into. That sounds like it could be a rough sleeper. They’ve been known to shelter in people’s sheds before 😔 Great to heat that you chillies are growing well! 🌱
I love your beautiful garden
Hay calendar girl. Happy April showers
@4:23 - man that bunting really ties the garden together...
Hello, I'm a fairly new subscriber. Really love your allotment and inspired to try some things you suggested for myself.
We use the same compost! :) Excited to see the Spring bulbs
Lovely...lovely garden & lovely lady ☺️☺️
Can't wait to see your allotment bloom this year :) x
In Belgium we currently have unusually mild temperatures: 10 degrees Celcius and more. The Christmas roses have been flowering for a while now. The crocuses are also starting to bloom since a week or so. I haven't sown anything so far. I find it a bit early with the little amount of light there is. I also prune the Apple Trees only in the growing season after flowering so as not to stimulate growth (without fruits). Can you keep chickens on your allotment to provide manure, for example, or is that not allowed? What I would like to grow more this year is feed for my animals: sunflowers, peas, etc. Greetings.
Can't wait to see it in a few months!! All that work will pay off
Another great video, thank you. You may be able to get a grant to start your communal garden where you live, from the Lottery Fund, worth a try, good luck
WRT journaling, I plan to do regular walkabouts starting this year. And write down any observations of note. Wither that will be once a day or once a week, I don't know.
I'm renting as well. With our house belonging to someone else, how do you get past the " temporary " mindset ,and plant long-term plants ,like berries, and roses , knowing if you move ,they have to remain ? I long to plant and establish perennials, but it's hard knowing what to do. Any suggestions ?
Good morning
I do hope you escaped any damage from the storm that has devastated parts of the country?
I bought three Blueberries last year ready for this year too, they're in individual large pots, I love Blueberry smoothies.
Nice one, happy new year from Somerset, here's to a productive year
What’s your final plan to keep creatures away? I’m going to start raised beds soon and worry that squirrels will eat it all up
Like you I'm determined to make the most of my space, have no stress. Also, I'm going to invite the birds to take care of ridding my garden of the pesky, destructive insects and to compost in place thus saving money on soil nutrients and expensive amended soil ( both ideas inspired by Robbie and Gary Gardening Easy channel). I love your plot!💕
Good job on the sieve, kiddo!
Is the poly tunnel plastic green or is it just the reinforcement? Because green light is the only wave length that plants don't use, and keeping plants in this poly tunnel may be almost like keeping them in the dark.
hello how big is your garden ? it seems big but not sure.
I love your tomato mug!!!!
You can use coconut coir instead of peat in your seed starting blocks.
Yay. Thanks for the tour.
Do you have access to coco core blocks there and are they reasonably priced? They are $3 for a block that expands quite a bit in California. I like mixing it my starter mix. Also, is your peat only coming from Europe? I know many peat bogs have been lost there (over harvest and lack of time for regeneration) and that is why peat gets a bad rap. The US gets it from Canada and it is actually renewable when the wetlands are managed properly which there has been a strong push, research and effort to do for many years.
What makes you think peat moss is non-renewable? Peat grows constantly.
Yes it does but over hundreds and thousands of years. It’s being removed from the landscape at a faster rate than it can grow and recover.
Love the mug with tomatoes!
JayneMarie isn’t it fab? I got it for Christmas from my boss 😁🍅👩🏻🌾
Set some traps for the rodents? I understand if you don’t want to do that...but otherwise they’re going to continue to eat the flowers 💐
I need to move to Nottingham
Awesome, our rhubarb is shooting like mad too. 🙂
Hi I like watching your videos homegrown garden
What are the overalls you mentioned please? I love it and would love to get one
Maite Gonzalez they’re from Lucy and Yak 😃
homegrown.garden did you get them online ? if yes please pass me the website if no enjoy 😉
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