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Your melons are not Amir.

Well done. A great video and a great harvest. 👍

Great cabbage 😍

What variety of spring greens were they? Thinking I may go the same root as you

Silver lining brassicas love the cool and damp weather 👍. Love the sprout tops and savoy too 🥬, yes I really enjoy leaf cabbage too like lettuces you can lick as many leaves as needed. Last year my carrots were eaten by caterpillars not slugs 😢 so I mostly do them in raised covered boxes. Some amazing harvests Helen good job, have a super week, Ali 🌞🥵36c 🇨🇦

Them demon chilies i grew last year that got pollinated with them reapers, I got 4 baby reaper demons growing, Them at work said they will never eat one of them again, Lmao they said they could eat any of them hot chilies 😁😆

I want see you eat some of them chilies Ill send you some of mine they are hot hot hot, They burn twice 🌶🥵🌶

Thank you for another great vlog. You are one of my favourite vloggers, down to earth gardening, warts and all.

Caigua (kai-wa) is great. Climbing vine with small fruits that taste like cucumber capsicum. Can eat cooked or raw. Pollinators love it, no pests, quick growing. From South America.

Honestly my chillis have hardly grown this year.. Ughh Manchester is so wet and gloomy this year.

Give it a few years in there and it will be good with all of that new organic matter. Chilli's and pepper don't tend to like too much water but i guess with the heat as well, it might have stressed them into flowering early. Got some great harvests there though! Can't wait to see what happens with the taro! Take care,

wow my chillies just started flowering... very late

😢 shame Helen but we know you’ll sort it 👍. Yikes 🥵🥵 that’s crazy, great in the winter for growing not so good in heat of summer. Have a super week Helen keep chill, Ali 🌞🇨🇦

Helen Tree cabbage is a perennial but slugs and snails and white butterfly love them as iv found out this year, Its a nightmare trying get all the caterpillars of them.

Experiment with some cover crops

Oh lord your skies look like our up til today now it back to 28c 🥵. WOW Helen your sweet peas 🫛 look amazing 😻. 😂😂 I don’t have a lot of raspberry bushes so most never make it inside. I agree it’s a balance of what is fun to grow and what works. I need to make a list of what I’m not doing again. Poor plants don’t what day it is so everything is bolting. A fab update Helen, have a wonderful weekend, Ali ☔️🌞🇨🇦

What about artisjokes?

I'd sow more carrots

OMG !!!! All your sweet peas look absolutely stunning 😍 ❤ You could try Celtuse/ Asparagus lettuce which is grown for the stem that will be prepared like Asparagus. You also can harvest the leaves for salads. It is not very well known in the UK but grown a lot on the continent.

You have taken it so well,I would have been in tears 😢

I spent such a lot of time pulling those damn mares tails😮

😂😂 I knew you were comedic but this even though tragic was you keeping your sense of humour. Because if we didn’t we’d cry 😢. Trials and tribulation this year for everyone. My beans are small my tomatoes are eaten but hey no I got a fab few news spuds. Keep smiling Helen it’s part of what makes you who you are ❤, Ali 🌞🇨🇦

The trials and tribulations of being a horticulturalist in Britain are so real. When is it not too wet, too dry, too warm or too cold. I put off sowing most things this year due to the late spring/summer. We had 5 mins of hale stones that dashed my lettuce to pieces last week, My toms are doing well as are my tree raspberries and cherry trees. At least your sweet peas look healthy! I love the scent they give off. Hope the rest of the season goes better for you!

I know the pain of losing hours and hours of gardening work. ☹ I hope you can work things out.

I can see you are trying to be philosophical about the damage done by slugs and snails but I can also see how it has upset you as it has done to all growers. I just hope we have some drier weather to save all our crops and your lovely plot starts bursting with food to repay all your hard work.

Its been a very strange year and all this slug damage is since they banned slug pellets and combined with the mild winter there population has exploded ! I feel for you 😔

Hi there I'm Bonita from Cape Town South Africa for snails and slugs you need to put a bowl with beer in your garden they will drown in it

Really sorry to see they have done that much damage. I can understand how much it is both frustrating and heartbreaking for you. I have seen a lot of people talk about squash and cucurbits either not germinating or being eaten. I have also re-sown many a times to get what we have in the beds. Once out, one of the cucumbers died in the cold snap and one courgette had been eaten in the garden. I just up potted a Thai dragon that i keep indoors and now it is all droopy and at deaths door! I am just a bit worried as the chilli plants these are from and i over wintered for 3 yrs have died. Only one of our red hot chilli peppers have survived. I have put it on the morning sun side for now and not going to water it for a bit. Our overwinter ginger plants have been eaten since planting out so i need to dig it up to either save or use. Given up on lemon grass this season. Our hard neck garlic is looking like spring onions but i pulled up the soft neck we sowed from saved cloves and it is mostly ok but small. The sprout have aphids but i haven't seen any cabbage moths this year nor wasps. No butterflies. We had a few ladybirds and bees but that was before the cold snap in June. It's like we are a month late on things this year. We don't grow broad beans but are you not meant to remove the tops in May or something before the blackfly gets in? Do they taste better home grown? I have never been a fan, like with butter beans. Jane's Growing Garden learnt that if the beans are pointing down that they are ready to harvest. Does airing them out of foliage and beans at the bottom help out with the slugs? Our strawberries and raspberries are doing well this year. Since we saw a half eaten strawberry, we have been more vigilant about picking the fruit. We have some blue tits make a nest in our old cold frame pipe hole and can hear the babies. I think we had rats or maybe a squrrel, which is rare make hole tunnels around the sprouts but i think we have scared them off now. Something is still digging in the hanging baskets. Can birds do this like a dust bath? I don't like to get apolitical but the middle east have admitted to cloud seeding now and i feel somewhat annoyed that there isn't a class action going on as surely that is technically classed as bio warfare. It would have conveyed better if you put your segment from the end in the middle before going on to the good stuff going on in the garden as it could be construed as everything has failed imo. Not a nag but would have flowed better and lifted the mood of the negatives. Anyway, take care and love to see an update on the things you are sowing and a weeding update. You got this!

Barking mad isn it? Some things that we've tried to grow over the last 3-4 seasons that just havent taken that this year have gone BANG and gone racing away - petit pois, carrots, garlic, onion sets, spuds - and yet others that we've assiduously learned about and look after.... squashes, cucumbers, fennel, some of the brassicas - either stunted, or the seeds didnt take or the bloody slugs had them. And with the tomatoes, boatloads of greenery but not that much fruit. Its mystifying. I wouldnt mind so much if I could put it down to "well, i screwed that up because I did/didnt do x/y/z", but thats not always the case. Drives me mad it does, but just makes me more determined to push on and go for it.

I feel you. I gathered around 2 thousand slugs over the last 2 months.Next Year I will test out nematodes: I only won the battle, because its my garden and not an alotment and I was out every time when it rained and also in the evenings doing rounds like in one of those old arcarde computer games farming enemy invader spots. When I was closing my eyes I saw those brown naked slugs.

GRAPES!!!!🍇

I have one in my garden also. The little red grapes are sweet. Great to sit under in hot weather. Well!! Here's hoping 😅.

Our neighbor has a grape vine in their hedge so they give us grapes each year but they are tiny. Assuming they don’t tend it much 🤷‍♀️. Hope your new one does well, hope it also warm up for you, Ali 🌧️🌞🇨🇦

Thank you but bending over and digging in trainers ouch look after your self happy gardening Richardx

Many thanks for sharing your pond construction. I love it ❤

I think im going get a sunbed just for me so i can get a tan 🙂😁😃

The weather has been very bad and Thursday morning at about 02:30 am i was putting fleece over all my chillies and toms in my greenhouse.

Glad you’re feeling better, missed your videos. Ive had melons, cucs, chillies and luffas completely wiped out by slugs in my poly tunnel; Outside isn’t doing much better either! 😅 My Jerusalem artichokes are doing really well though 😊

slugs have been driving us mad this year. Brassicas, Kale, Chard, even spud leaves, all have been attacked by the damn things.

Glad you’re feeling better Helen. It is cold again here and raining on and off 🤦‍♀️ of course it is because we are going in a camping trip. 😮😮 2 degrees in June is insane here lowest was around 7c so peas it is 🤭. Have a great weekend and hope it warms up, Ali 🌦️🌞🇨🇦

We all really need the sun and some higher temperatures 🤞🏼 Here, in Holland, it's awful cold and my pepper and tomato plants are less smaller than yours. Let's hope it's going to be warmer the next weeks.

I purchased 6 different types of melon seed this year hoping to grow them. I held off sowing till I knew there was an extended period of warmth but unfortunately that warm spell still hasnt come so it looks as though melons are off the list for me this year. How are yours coming along? Good I hope!.

Hey there, was seeking reassurance was doing ok with my wildlife pond at allotment. Thanks. Yes, it has been a major point to have added this. The entire site. Is home to newts slowworms lizards, I even have glow in the dark centipedes,! And my lonely male frog finally has a mate in my pond. So I am sure there’s a battle between the newts and the frogs, toads but at least I have given them a fair battle field :-) may creative force of new life begin!

So many sparrows!!! Ask them to help Out…

SLUGS!!!! 🐌

Great idea, looks like you did a good job.

It looks great & didn't cost too much xx

We have huge ponds next door and behind us but I am still going to use beer traps and cinnamon around plants 🤞🤞. Oh lord it took me 3 years to get rid of creeping Jenny. Have a great week Helen, Ali 🌧️🌧️🌧️🇨🇦

What a fabulous pond!

Will introduce insects, but slugs may creep into your greenhouse underground as they only come out at night.