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Thanks for this video. Can we buy the worms online.

Huw Edwards, love it. Huw's amazing, but I also appreciate something from nothing approach. I've got a small spot to compost/worm on the other side of my garage. I'll mos def check your wormery vid next. To me, vids on 5 best ways for making tomatoes smile is great, but I really need to rub sticks together and re-use soil. Thanks for posting! (sub'd)

I go to my allotment at 5.30 or 6am and at least can do a lot of work before it gets too hot

It's the incessant spraying that you see when you look up. Chemtrails, weather engineering to make their "climate change" so we can be taxed for carbon dioxide and so farmers get extra taxed for their cow's farts. It always has been them creating the problems so they can offer the solutions and make a profit out of the population that so happen to keep going along with the nonsense.

Thank you very much

You are making progress. I have heard people from many places in the world describing describing vagaries in their typical weather patterns. I too will not complain....we are still in a drought but have had some rain and the forests have not started burning and choking us with smoke yet....bonus! I doubt I will even harvest many tomatoes for preserving because it has been just too cool but anything is a gift. Good luck over the next weeks.

FANTASTIC VIDEO .Been there done it and messed up along the way its all part of the joys of gardening.The 4 thousand plus viewers who didnt give this a like are not gardeners.

Do you have to pay for the allotments? Are they technically public land? This is fascinating. I recently took over an overgrown plot of land in our parking lot. Someone must have dumped gravel there because it is insanely rocky, even by New England standards.

I used to spend so much time weeding like that. Now I mulch with hay, generally in autumn, might top up a bit in spring. Probably brings weed seeds in, but it keeps most of weed seeds from germinating, and I hardly spend anytime weeding at all. I never give time to weeding, it's just a few things to pull when I'm checking plants. Plastic leads to more trouble than it's worth. Hay breaks down and really improves soil, lovely dark rich soil now..... which means less weeds (don't know why better soil grows less weeds, it's counter intuitive). Slugs bad with hay, but no system is perfect. Stick with it, it gets way easier. (I would say keep it small to start... you'll get plenty of food from a small area... but you've already decided that's not for you!)

Today notice the chooks don't like kale!!! But are eating the tops of the swedes, New Zealand winter.

Garden in New Zealand, cut a very large Savoy Cabbage soaked it in a salty bath, 12 to 20 slugs went down the drain. Hate to think about how many there are in it.

Ha. We have a similar situation in Vancouver weather wise. Although it's quite expected and often referred to as Junuary. Thanks for the update, nice shed too. Regarding the slugs, would you consider encouraging ground beetles? They would help with the dirty work of keeping the slug population down.

Missed your videos! A lot of disheartening weather hits for sure, but wow! Compared to your first video the garden is great.

I'm in Illinois USA and we had the same kind of weather. Put me 1 month behind. But I always tell myself to just plant it or u get nothing😂❤ also ive been trying to put up my fence for like 3 months now 😢 too hot too cold or too rainy

great to see you back , no hori hori in situ i see 🤣

I've been trying to grow sweetcorn this year in my garden which have been half hammered by slugs. I thought I was being clever by integrating these into the general garden whereas I can now see why gardeners keep the vegetables separate: the slugs hide in the plants and long grass. On a positive note: it's a learning experience with various strategies such as deliberately creating hiding places for the slugs to congregate then removed later; using a more enticing outer sacrificial border etc to protect the inner one.

Just taken on a massively overgrown plot myself. First time allotmenter as well, really enjoying this series and seeing how someone else has approached similar challenges! Please do keep the videos coming :)

Completely understandable that you're struggling. I'm on the West Coast of the US, in the hills just north of California. I came from a cool, wet climate with a flat garden down to this spot... everything is on a 10° slope, the soil is hard clay, and it's regularly 37°C. Just hot and dry, no rain. I can't be in the garden from 12 to 6 because it's too exposed and hot, but the mosquitoes are out as soon as it cools down. And the wildlife - actually, no, the livestock first - THE COWS keep trying to push the fence in just to get the next bit of grass, the cat doesn't care about my plants and steps on them, one dog can't figure out how to get out of the fence and tramples plants, and the other dog goes squirrel hunting and digs holes in the beds as well as the pathways! Joke's on the squirrels, though, I'm filling their holes up with fresh cow pies while they're gone. Free fertilizer, hey? All that complaining to now say- the clay soil is nutrient rich, and my plants are super green. The peppers and tomatoes are loving the heat. All the plants the cows stepped on are still thriving. We have a well and a spring, so I have plenty of water. The ravens and crows aren't pulling up my maize. There are apples, walnuts, pears, grapes, and prunes that my husband's grandfather planted. The cows are reducing fire danger. The dogs are keeping the cows out of the garden. Uncle Jimmy (🔫), the cat, and the dogs are all reducing the squirrels. The many weeds are becoming chop-n-drop mulch. I have an awning to keep cool. I keep finding wildflowers to transplant into the beds. It's hot weather and hard work, but I am quite blessed.

I would fry those cardoon stems stems in olive oil, large stick size, not chopped into smaller pieces. taking off the lower leaves might force the bulbs a bit more. People put cardboard collars around the base of each plant here to deter cutworm, which are moth larvae, I think that might work with slugs, as they both eat the base of any ground plant, earlier in the season. People also use eggshells to stop slugs from reaching the plants in the soil.

🐝thanks for the great video🌻

First time hearing about cardoon. Neat. Weather has been weird in western canada too. Everyone was saying to bunker down for a bad drought year but its been cool and wet. I do some selective weeding chaos gardening and the wild brassica species are doing great. My planted kale (also brassica) are still tiny though. 🤷 Accepting that it's a weed eating year.

Yeah, the flippin' cabbage whites will be out in a minute....🥱

Hello, new subscriber here. Hope you get some good crops now the weather has shifted. Here in Wales I just started the 5th batch of runners and French. The slugs just take them over night as soon as they go in even when looking tall and strong.

lol pmsl you are refusing to complain that it’s too hot 😂😂😂 nice one

Jazzy are a salad potato don't get to big but taste lovely , There's a big difference since the last video I saw well done 👏

Yes but what’s the breakdown of the insects that were being studied as being generalist vs specialized pollinators? We need to focus on the specialized pollinators my g

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mate it's been a tough one innit

Yes but no. If you claim to be science based, you should have mentioned specialized pollinators and the native keystone plants they require.

Great video! And great to see I'm not the only one losing crops! Shame about the squashes, if you haven't got spare maybe a trip to a nursery to pick up some new ones 😊 I find with squashes planting them out when they're quite big is the best method to ensure their survival. Having said that I still lost one out of six, and another two got severely slug damaged! Best of luck!

I watched your very first video and despite the weather and the slugs, you have made such an incredible difference to a piece of land. Mare's tail is the worst ! Please keep posting when you have time. I live in South Wales and for 3 and half years have only had a tiny garden which I have managed to change from a barren waste of concrete, slate shale and barren ,cat- toxic ,flower beds into a green oasis. However, when I compare May and June's photos of 2023 and 2022 which are full of colour, this year it has been green and more green. This week, at last ,the flowers have dared to start blooming . I reckon we are over a month late with the growing season but I shall have some runnner beans in pots, hopefully a tomato plant and 3 kale plants which survived . Watch out for the price of home produced vegetables this autumn !

Hey! You're back! Thank you for the update & sorry about the slugs... We've not seen a single one here in my part of Australia & wondered where they went 😎 Thanks for the video, ups & downs but everything's looking great!

i was just wondering how that compost bins been doing, like have you been turning it or just letting it sit. i would also like to say i really like your videos< keep it up

Geoengineering is causing the weather problems. It’s only going to get worse, which means we have to get creative when gardening. I know I’m not going to let them win even if it means a ton more work helping things grow. Remember that every obstacle is really an opportunity in disguise.

I moved from 20+ years in London to Wales for better weather. It's lovely today, not too hot, not too cold.

all my peas got obliterated in May/June by the invasion of slugs and of course i an ecology garden so no slug pellets just nature .. oh well!

Slugs were extra bad this year too because the winter was so mild. So slugs didn't get frozen off either.

I have not really enjoyed my allotment this year. Too many slugs eating things they do not normally eat. Warmish winter. Late start to the warmer growing season. Too hot now. Mind you, not even the weeds are growing well and the plot looks neat, which is something. Fruit trees have been good. It would be so easy to turn the whole area into beds for growing soft fruit bushes and leave it to its own devices. There is almost always something that will grow though. Very weirdly, carrots have survived. Normally these get destroyed by pests. Parsnips are still reliable too. Ups and downs. I guess a diversity of crops is the key.

I think the globes get bigger next year when the plant is established

you need a snail barrier.

i always get complaints about my bean being too long.

I think you’re selling yourself short. I think there’s a big difference from now and the last video, it’s looking like an allotment now😂especially with the weird weather we’ve had. 🏅🏆nice one👍

Just curious, as to the reason you don't use slug pellets, I understand if you are against the use of them, not a criticism, just to help control the?.

June was a disaster for me also temps as low as 8C in my polytunnel during the hight of the day squash and courgette plants didn't like it some died and others are still on life support

I work at a primary school and I've built a big garden with vegetables and flowers next to the playground. It looks fantastic when everything's in bloom and teaches the children about plants and how they grow. It's basically like my own allotment plot, but because I'm there every day for work I can look after it and keep it maintained. I've been really fortunate with slugs and snails as they're virtually non-existent! Now that we've had some sun and hot weather, everything's exploded in size.

My backups and the backup, backups have been eaten by slugs this year. Dwarf French beans just failed to grow were super stunted, corn didn't germinate and even cucumbers said nope this year. Only crops to do well were peas and radish. fingers crossed we all see some fruiting plants before we get to the end of the season. BTW, if this sort of start to the growing season becomes more common do you think it is worth starting off plants indoors under grow lights to get a head start?

Don't get disheartened. As long as you keep turning up and doing some work each time. I think about how your plot looked when you took it on. You can see the graft you've put in. Don't eat things you're not sure about (well I wouldn't recommend) 🤢 We've all got a battle on with critters and the elements but everyone loves a potato reveal and whinge about the weather. Keep up the good work. Elaine 🌱

I've lost so many crops this year - the only areas that has been ok are the high raised beds - almost giant containers

It's only my third year gardening and it's reassuring hearing that the pros are struggling too, as I don't have enough experience to tell how unusual this season has been. Yesterday, I had to harvest a bed of potatoes early because all the leaves had been munched on by slugs, a wild definition of "when the leaves die down"

Hooray 🎉❤ The long awaited update! It's 25°C today and 27°C tomorrow.. I'll be feeding my small and struggling plants today. What isn't demotivating! It's either so hot that it runs to seed or so cold that nothing happens 😢 Not sure how often you pop by the allotment but would slug traps be of help to you? You have my deepest compassion about those slugs, all of our crops look about the same unfortunately, but I'm very grateful not to not have slugs! I DO have butterflies 🦋 Pretty little things, but not many brassicas plants left! I'm hoping to sow sone dianthus, foxglove and perhaos evhinacea seeds for next years flower borders. Perhaps go bananas with herbs too. And yay! A shed 👌🏼🦋🌻 You've committed to content now, don't leave us hanging 😊😂 well.. Life happens too..