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Hi, love love love your videos! can you please suggest the best fruit and veg to grow + harvest for each month. As a newbie gardener, Im not sure whats the best thing to grow and when in Manchester. Thank you in advance.

Hi, I’m in Manchester too. ❤

Great video great tips keep them coming

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I have that weed too and thought it looked sort of related to Geums but really have no idea, and it is annoying!

My friend Tracy at @OurSmallholdingAdventure has had trouble with bind weed this year.

The weed that you didn’t know the name of is called creeping buttercup it is so invasive, it has deep roots and sends out runners like strawberries and also self seeds it will take you a couple of years now to get rid of it but am sure you will. Good luck.

Is that weed creeping charlie? I hate the stuff 😢 and it's way to hard to get rid of. I planted 3 thornless blackberry bushes, so we will have to wait until next spring to see if they make it or not.

I want to grow large onions. Im enthused. Thanks for this

That is to many plants for the size of the container. You will still get a large yield but they will be small. I would not have more than 2 or 3 plants in there and the Yield will be almost the same but the tubers will be bigger.

Hi, can you explain the difference between hardwood and softwood for the beginners here😂

I did this with a Northland Blueberry plant and a Pink Lemonade. Except I did not use Rooting powder just used about a cup of water and stuck them in it until I seen the small fibrous roots.

Thank you for your very helpful videos. In Australia we have a problem with buying jars for canning. Learning about the Jars and bottle companies helped me find a couple of companies here. You have some very helpful ideas, this helps us learn new ways of doing things, eg. Mash potatoes prepared in the freezer and the frozen ready roast dinner frozen FABULOUS! Our son lives an hours journey away, we often get home 4pm from a day visiting him, a ready prepared dinner will be very helpful!

Hello friends how are you,

Can you show is how you prepare all these things from pick to pack to store please. I'm a show and do learner and can't figure it from a book.... I failed miserably. But I'm good at following along

And would be good to see how you rotate your produce

Would be good to see an update with what you do now and your journey

How big is your poly tunnel? Also, beautiful allotment, well done!

Those onions are brilliant

Hi Rachel, I didn't manage to make it to the allotment fete, I only live in Rowland Ave, but I had done my back in, I could hear the band playing and everything, but I couldn't have walked round the corner, so sorry I didn't get to meet you, I have got a tomato glut at the moment, I'm going to make chutney at weekend, I still can't walk too far but I'm getting there, the weather has been quite wet this year and it's been a job just keeping the weeds down, I've only done tomatoes and strawberries this year, I get the foxes too they have dug holes at the bottom of the garden, and they have taken one or two wood pigeons, but I have to say I do love them they are beautiful creatures, although the dog might disagree, love the vlogs xxx

Your plots look really productive 😊

Beautiful ❤

Your plots look amazing, so abundant. Please tell me your secret for the blueberries and how you get them to crop so much! Mine are in tubs, in a greenhouse, and although tasty, nowhere near as many berries as yours.

ok bare with me this ended up a bit longer than intended but wanted to share this…. As you mentioned you gain very little benefits from using compost until the plant is rooted , which you are better off having low nutrients so the roots will SEARCH and get out there and ready to explode with life once you water it with compost. If you wanna skip my longwinded rambles…. I suggest cocofibre with various ammounts of vermiculite/perlite and peat depending upon the moisture and drainage needs of specific plants for rooting. And use a willow extract if concerned about chemistry, you can make your OWN willow based tea but it needs to be used. One thing I do is I soak my cuttings IN a willow tea I made by BLENDING willow in a BLENDER, then using a french press to get a clean clear tea, this seems to work better than anything else. Also, be damn careful with concentrating seaweed based products, SADLY they can introduce all the micro nutrients you need yes, alongside giant ammounts of alllllll the heavy metals and depending upon your location many other pollutants. one alternative is stinging nettle as long as you are not smoking anything grown in silica enriched soil…. ☠☠☠☠ Im not sure blueberry needs as much as other faster plants like Tomatoes, strawberry, potatoes, pumpkins.. the soil where they grow is not so rich , it is quite low, hence why they have evolved to grow slower. Plants like Tomatoes are growing in busier places where the nutrient cycle is able to cycle faster and dump more nutes into the soil…. Near or in partnership with nitrogen fixing plants…. Imagine seeing a lupine and belladonna in the same place as a blueberry? Nope, you are more likely to see MUSHROOMS, moss, and tree droppings, which contributes to nice soil for tomatoes IF you add some chalk and organic material…. Regarding rooting hormone and nutrient concoctions Most governments allow companies to get away with fraudulent claims on gardening products much like they do with “health supplements” often worse. if it is missing the HORMONE from the ingredients it is NOT HORMONE and if they had some magic substance that doubles as a hormone and does the same thing then this discovery would be published and well documented , it is like using homeopathic remedies , they don’t do a single thing for you but cost the same or more than the things that are evidence based.

Question, do you top up the compost in your Charlotte container?

I'm looking forward to using your tips. My root starter came in the mail this week.

We put brass cup hooks into the sides of the raised beds, pointing downwards and then we just hooked the net onto the hooks. It worked for us even on pretty windy days.

Thank you for explaining this, I have cut mine back as there is still some new leaves growing, but it was not blight, so I’m lucky it was just natural die back. I’m going to leave mine now and see what happens.

Thank you for the information. I am going to do this today!

Love this Rachel! So encouraging to see this preserving set up in the UK. I'm Urmston born and raised (now in NWales) and I've a feeling I met you at an allotment open day yeaaaars ago when you enjoyed making blackcurrant Cassis for Christmas (was that you?) - we've not been able to find any blackcurrants at all this year but have planted almost 90 edible hedges in the garden so it will happen one year! Thanks for the inspo... Will follow with interest. Nic

Super informative video. I struggled to get any info on dried beans in the uk! Great stuff!

How many seed potatoes did you put in each pot?

Thank you so much for your video its the best and most straight forward i have seen. Brilliant.

Is it still worth a try even if I don’t have rooting powder? How did these do? 🫐🌱

You may have a video already, but I would love to see how you use each type of feed, comfrey/nettle/seaweed/chicken, and on which plants they are best suited.

you dont sterilize lids. you put them in hot water so the linig in he lid caled seal would get softer so then you close jar it would make better seal . happy canning .all the best.

Great video. Ive watched it twice now over a couple of years. Would jave been great to see an update on these cuttings.

if you have a willow tree around, crush some younger branches and use as rooting hormone. its free and it works like a charm 🙂

Nice after harvesting and occasionally wasting gluts from my home grown food this is just what I’m thinking of doing with my garage project

I've planted garlic for the past 5 years in autumn and always have bad rust bulds small medium, elephant garlic looks to be going the distance this year. But I think I'm going to plant in spring next year they look very good. I'm also in NW ENG

Awesome Rachel, Ali 🥵🌞🇨🇦

those garlics look great, cheers, mine are still growing , big thumbs up :)

Starting my own crop tomorrow. Very helpful pointers, thank you.

They look fantastic Rachel. I planted 2 small batches of spuds, 14 each of Casablanca and Cara, outside on April 11th and 14th. Really looking forward to the first harvest as not having a big garden this year.

Oh wow, those potatoes look great , my potatoes are still a while from harvest , but they are better than last years, last year blight got to them , hopefully this years harvest will be better , cheers and good farming :)

thanks for the tour grest garden take care henry

Oh my god thank you! I know this is an old video. But ive been debating on whether my potatoes have blight or are dying back, your video has just shown me it's dying back. Thank you xx

My one blue berry bush arrived with half of the bush slightly yellow. I thought it would perk up after being planted. I learned toda that my soul needed a 5-5.5 pH. Something has been eating the plant. I have used diatomaceous powder & Neem oil to no avail. The only blue berry that turned blue disappeared over night. I covered the plant with netting. What else would you suggest? I am ordering supplied to made an acidic dirt. Am I too late to save this plant?

Are there other diseases that cause speckled patterns? I've never had speckles of any kind, before, but this year, my potatoes looked like green cheetahs. It started way too early for dying back, and they underperformed, to say the least, but there never was that silvery white part you showed underneath. The way mine usually die back is from the bottom. This year, they kinda just gave up. No dying back, just dead. It was almost that time, but the spuds were small and weird. The skins are like scales

Thanks for the very interesting and informative tour Rachel.