The plants are finally out! Allotment Vlog 🌸 Ep.24 🌸

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  • @BetsyCaldwell
    @BetsyCaldwell 5 місяців тому +1

    Those sweet peas are really pretty!!!🩷

  • @julieg1270
    @julieg1270 5 місяців тому +9

    Hi Seren
    I couldn't get over how much that little robin was hanging around you in this video. I just love the European robin. They have so much character. Your plot is looking amazing, and your plans for the front of your plot sound amazing. I can't wait to see your sunflower hedge next year 😊

  • @PaulRobison-kw2ce
    @PaulRobison-kw2ce 5 місяців тому +14

    Fill the empty bed with the mound of soil next to it. Let it settle, then cardboard on top and compost? Two bird’s with one stone. BTW it’s looking great 👍

    • @serensgarden
      @serensgarden  5 місяців тому +1

      Thanks so much Paul! ☺️🌻🌸

  • @sarahsallotmentjourney
    @sarahsallotmentjourney 5 місяців тому

    I love the little birds .we have so many magpies here I had to make a magpie proof feeder just for the little birds . Don’t set me off about the weather either lol . Lovely video thanks

  • @elizabethjames1053
    @elizabethjames1053 5 місяців тому +3

    Robin is getting closer 😊 ,
    Pink fur apple is an elongated knobbly potatoe they taste beautiful , all coming along great 👍 your potatoes are looking good too

  • @grayuk3356
    @grayuk3356 5 місяців тому +9

    Aw its been lovely going on your journey with you, i hope you feel very proud of yourself bless you, oh and enjoy your sweet peas. x

  • @Sylvie_M
    @Sylvie_M 5 місяців тому +3

    When onions flower and bolt, that central stalk gets thick and hard right through the bulb making the onion pretty much useless for consumption. I either pull those ones right away and use them or let them continue growing for seed only. Give your pumpkins lots of space each. Overcrowding reduces airflow and promotes the development of powdery mildew, unless you plan on pruning out old leaves. The sweet peas are lovely and if you want them to keep developing blooms, you must continue to pick. Otherwise, they just stop producing bloom and go to seed. You are doing such a great job! Congratulations!

  • @ninemoonplanet
    @ninemoonplanet 5 місяців тому +4

    Could you put a cloche on the pumpkins? That should keep the soil warmer, the wind damage less. I can't grow gourds here of any kind because I don't get enough sun. Alternative might be a dark ground cover, weed suppression fabric to keep the soil warm, weeds down.
    From where you started I'm amazed at how much you have done. 👍🇨🇦

  • @mySergeology007
    @mySergeology007 5 місяців тому +3

    Such progress Seren, looking great 🌻🌼 Best tip for weeding, when you pull a weed out, don’t just dump it in the walk way or beside you, remember weeds have micro seeds and spores which spread. So when weeding, keep an empty bucket next/around you for dumping it in, once full/end of day add it in compost. 🤔☀️

  • @Mr_Gray_Sky
    @Mr_Gray_Sky 5 місяців тому +1

    You must make friends with the Crow!

    • @talex1625
      @talex1625 5 місяців тому

      Crows are magical ✨️

  • @kieronwatts2885
    @kieronwatts2885 5 місяців тому +20

    I'm so jealous of your bird friends. All I have on my allotment is a chunky wood pigeon who brazenly eats all my blackcurrants whilst maintaining perfect eye contact.

    • @PatienceMarie88
      @PatienceMarie88 5 місяців тому +5

      Hahaha you must be it's best friend, because eating all your food while looking you dead in your eyes is DEFINITELY BFF behavior 😂.

    • @serensgarden
      @serensgarden  5 місяців тому +3

      Omgosh no 🥲 definitely your best friend 🤣

    • @twelvesmylimit
      @twelvesmylimit 5 місяців тому +1

      😂

  • @boldpicturesgardeners
    @boldpicturesgardeners 5 місяців тому

    Wow beautiful progress and the gadern is doing well. I love the onions ❤❤

  • @amy1790
    @amy1790 5 місяців тому

    Thank you for your videos! We picked up the keys to our allotment plot in Nottingham a week ago, after waiting just over 3 years. It’s very overgrown as yours was (albeit with a different mix of weeds!) It’s exciting seeing how much progress you’ve made in such a short time. Looking forward to following your journey, while we embark on our own 😊

  • @paulgoldsworthy5971
    @paulgoldsworthy5971 5 місяців тому +7

    Nice to watch the garden fairy and her friends do their magic. well done take care. ✨✨👍

  • @shellylockhart1506
    @shellylockhart1506 5 місяців тому +4

    Looks wonderful . Your garden will benefit from the rain this week , especially the new seedlings . Great job on the garden and your channel .

  • @ritafoster4958
    @ritafoster4958 5 місяців тому +6

    I love sweet peas, too! Lovely! Great episode, Seren! ❤️

  • @cragglesharvey2774
    @cragglesharvey2774 5 місяців тому +3

    That little Robin loves being around you. So lovely to see them bobbing around the garden.

  • @NevadaGoats
    @NevadaGoats 5 місяців тому +3

    My Kuri squash vines get 20 feet long. Think about how your squash will spread (including pumpkins).

  • @astraaj435
    @astraaj435 5 місяців тому

    Most heat that the pumpkins need would be from the ground i.e. soil - that's why they are doing so well when planted on the top of compost heap. So you shouldn't be worried now in June. If there are some days and nights warmer and some colder this wouldn't affect the pumpkins so much as long as the ground is warm. And down there in the soil temperature is much less jumping. That means the soil in June is warm enough and no any concerns at all.

  • @rolandhirons1940
    @rolandhirons1940 5 місяців тому

    fab fab fab xxx

  • @sandyward6236
    @sandyward6236 5 місяців тому +4

    Love to see all those beds filling up with plants and flowers! So fun to watch the progress. I am puttingbin my last 4 raised beds this week and getting ready to add the last of the seedlings!

  • @ssgmymslife
    @ssgmymslife 5 місяців тому

    ❤❤ so cute all those new pets you have. ADVICE use comfrey leaves as mulch in your beds it’s a super food for plants soil and animals including salves for humans. Good luck

  • @tstrong7910
    @tstrong7910 5 місяців тому +2

    I love the way you lay out your beds and plant spacing. It's looks so calming❤

  • @andyc972
    @andyc972 5 місяців тому

    It's been a particularly tricky year this year, we have taken to planting our courgettes and squash out under net tunnels until they are established as we are on a very exposed site, it's more the scorching from wind and sun that I'm concerned about, my neighbour planted his squash out a couple of weeks ago and has lost the lot ! How wonderful to have bunch of freshly picked Sweet Peas their scent is divine !

  • @tanyas.4849
    @tanyas.4849 5 місяців тому +7

    Yay!!! Everything looks great. Now for sunny days. I love your music choice! ❤

    • @serensgarden
      @serensgarden  5 місяців тому +1

      Thank you so much!! It’s looking like it’s going to be a sunny week so hopefully everything will put on some growth 🥲💖🌸

  • @Edward-turtle
    @Edward-turtle 5 місяців тому +1

    Never seen as many rooks/ ravens as i have this year????
    dont know why,,,, love the music as well . lovely

  • @zumbawithcathya
    @zumbawithcathya 5 місяців тому

    The sweatpeas are gorgeous 🤩👏👏👏👏

  • @sandrawoodall6545
    @sandrawoodall6545 5 місяців тому

    Hi I have been gardening for a very long time and I suggest to you to put your pumpkins out the weather is not going to get much better,and if you leave them to long they will not have enough time to ripening.😊

  • @skipper7216
    @skipper7216 5 місяців тому +2

    Where we are in western canada it snowed yesterday..will replant our garden again but not holding out much hope for a harvest as its been so cold and wet , and by august we can have frost . Thank you for allowing me to watch your beautiful garden grow !

  • @andrewwilkinson3766
    @andrewwilkinson3766 5 місяців тому

    Thats about the same size bunch of sweet peas that I normally walk home with 2 or 3 times a week. Although haven't had any yet with everything stating so late.
    You've done amazing with your allotment. I've been watching since the beginning and impressed how quickly your subscribers grew.

  • @shellmcphee971
    @shellmcphee971 5 місяців тому +3

    Cheeky little bird friends! 🐦 They are so fun to watch 😆

  • @janeb3024
    @janeb3024 5 місяців тому +1

    It is 34, feeling 39, here in southern Ontario🇨🇦 at the moment and will be hotter tomorrow. If I could send you some of the heat for your garden, I would!❤

  • @PatienceMarie88
    @PatienceMarie88 5 місяців тому +4

    Your garden has come so far!! I did my first garden this year, and my plants went through a slight transplant shock. They are finally coming around. Watching you really reminds me to just keep faith, that the plants will come around in their own time ❤.

  • @fbjewels
    @fbjewels 5 місяців тому +2

    I would LOVE a few cold days. It’s 33 here!

  • @susiespearing6165
    @susiespearing6165 5 місяців тому +2

    Yep Seren pick the sweetpeas and keep picking ,lovely posie .You need those pumpkins in or your going to run out of time for them to mature .Happy Gardening 🪻

  • @MrsGisawesome
    @MrsGisawesome 5 місяців тому

    Another great video! You've come so far! The allotment looks amazing

  • @doras.allotment
    @doras.allotment 5 місяців тому +1

    Still so envious of your onions!! They’ve done SO well 😍
    I’m pleased your ‘watered in’ leeks have done ok previously. As I’ve yapped on about in my recent video, I need to try again AND remember to trim the roots (third time lucky) and compare results if the others of mine survive 😃

  • @AlexaLyra
    @AlexaLyra 5 місяців тому +3

    I think those dahlias might be ok. The multiple shoots have to be quite deformed. But I'll see too as I have some like it!

    • @zoe-9
      @zoe-9 5 місяців тому +2

      Hi! I would agree too. I thought dahlia gall had to be really deformed and tiny clusters of unwell looking growth on the tuber...

    • @AlexaLyra
      @AlexaLyra 5 місяців тому +1

      @@zoe-9oh no! I later saw them getting dug up to be thrown away and I felt sick, hoping I was wrong!!

    • @lobodo988
      @lobodo988 5 місяців тому +1

      I just watched a video about dahlia gall, and her dahlias don't have it. I'm paused at 2:38, I hope she figures it out that they're doing GREAT and are very nice new dahlia plants. My dahlias are all in pots because I'm too lazy to dig them up every fall, lol. I cut them down & put them in the basement & don't water them til March, when it's time for them to wake up again & get going. Evidently that's smart! So far so good - 4 yrs!

    • @serensgarden
      @serensgarden  5 місяців тому +3

      Dont worry, I dug them up and have kept them 😅 I’m going to put them in pots and see how they do. The tubers had white clusters on them… but after doing some MORE research it could have ‘swollen eyes’ and not have gall.. although I’m not too sure 🥲

    • @AlexaLyra
      @AlexaLyra 5 місяців тому

      @@serensgardengreat news Seren :)

  • @suemowat222
    @suemowat222 5 місяців тому +1

    Pink Fir Apple potatoes are totaĺly different from any other kind. Long, knobbly and very firm-fleshed. The knobblyness makes them prsctically impossible to peel. You can cut them in chunks and boil them, use them for potato wedges in the oven or bake big ones whole. I have read that you can use them for chips but have never tried it.

  • @TanglemireGardens-ni8vz
    @TanglemireGardens-ni8vz 5 місяців тому +1

    I would love to grow some sweet peas. Well done.

  • @ajourneythroughbooks2311
    @ajourneythroughbooks2311 5 місяців тому +3

    Your garden is really looking beautiful. I love the combo of flowers and vegies. I'm looking forward to seeing you cosmos do well. It is such a lovely flower. Your sweetpeas are also gorgeous (a fun watercolour project). Funnily enough, where I live, I have to plant them in winter if I hope to have any success.
    Don't be scared of vegies with a bite out here or there. That is the joy of home gardening - it is pesticide free, which means every now and again (or sometimes far more often), something will enjoy a nibble. Cut the nibbled spot off and enjoy your chemical free homegrown produce. The veg we buy in the shops, which is untouched by nature, is untouched for a reason. Ii don't know about you, but I would rather take my chances with what I grow as I know what went into the soil (and on the leaves etc.) Last year, I harvested 10kgs of less than perfect tomatoes, and they made the most amazing chutney.

    • @PatienceMarie88
      @PatienceMarie88 5 місяців тому +1

      Oooo do share your chutney recipe!!

    • @blumblam4813
      @blumblam4813 5 місяців тому

      I heard that some leafy plants that have bite holes in actually taste better than perfect ones. Something to do with the plant reacting and producing something to protect itself that made it sweeter? Something like that…

  • @maureenmoran5465
    @maureenmoran5465 5 місяців тому +1

    Your little robin friend seemed happy you were there 😊

  • @cranefly23
    @cranefly23 5 місяців тому

    It’s amazing how much you’ve done and how far you’ve come - especially given the rather challenging weather this year. Looking good!

  • @thewitch69
    @thewitch69 5 місяців тому

    looking so good youve worked so hard in a few months , think if I had your plot id push the new flower bed to the side to have a more secluded seating area but I'm so jeally of you're lottie its fab

  • @juliesykes6121
    @juliesykes6121 5 місяців тому +6

    The garden is looking great. I use a thin plank of wood. Marked with different sowing distances. 10 inches, 12inches, 15 inches. Saves me loads of time when sowing or planting.

  • @Ragt0p
    @Ragt0p 5 місяців тому

    I love the idea to have meal-goals for your crops! I have a few potatoes and a few leeks, but giving them a purpose really spoke to me. Now, I’m going to spend my coffee break to think up meals to make with the rest of my small kitchen garden 🤩 Thanks for the inspiration!

  • @chriseverest4380
    @chriseverest4380 5 місяців тому +5

    No don't put the pumpkins in till it's warmer.
    Yes. Need compost bins going.
    Brilliant sweet peas.
    Jealous of your carrots.
    Never heard of dahlia gall. Oh good summat else to worry about😂😂😂

  • @Crystal-il3jl
    @Crystal-il3jl 5 місяців тому +1

    Its all looking beautiful!

  • @sarab3960
    @sarab3960 5 місяців тому

    Hi 👋🏼 your onions are about to bolt! To stop it bend the stem at the bottom just above the bulb. Let it be on the ground and they will get larger. I did the same to mine last month.

  • @cragglesharvey2774
    @cragglesharvey2774 5 місяців тому

    Keep the onion blooms after they flower collect the seeds and sow them next year, obviously they take a bit longer than onion sets but they’re free. Your plot is coming along beautifully. 🍀👍🏼🍓🌱🐝

  • @helenstewart2085
    @helenstewart2085 5 місяців тому

    Had a old broom handle, it by a fluke the same length as my vegetable beds are wide, marked 1 inch gaps across it, which off coure are 25mm spaings as well, it even had a handy hook on one end. Pusthe handle into the garden instant straight line!!!

  • @rachelstark2391
    @rachelstark2391 5 місяців тому

    Greetings,
    Send that cooler weather to Upstate NY! 100° today with humidity and poor air quality...2 more days of this @#%* 🥵

  • @KittyInTheGarden
    @KittyInTheGarden 5 місяців тому +1

    It's looking great!

  • @lindajones3015
    @lindajones3015 5 місяців тому +1

    Hi Seren, your plot is looking fabulous! I can understand your reticence in planting out your pumpkins 🎃 it's very daunting. I planted mine out about 5 weeks ago and they are doing amazing, so far. I only have a garden, so planted 2 and a spare for my grandsons for Halloween. Fingers crossed they'll all grow. Keep up the good work.

  • @myrustygarden
    @myrustygarden 5 місяців тому +5

    Wow sweet peas are looking gorgeous Seren. I put chilli flakes around my squash so far so good. Lovely update 👍 I hope your sunny days stick around, Ali 🌧️🌞🇨🇦

    • @kathycottrill4650
      @kathycottrill4650 5 місяців тому +1

      That robin is getting really close now.

    • @PatienceMarie88
      @PatienceMarie88 5 місяців тому +2

      What does the chili flakes do? I'm new to gardening, my apologies if it's a rather silly question.

    • @myrustygarden
      @myrustygarden 5 місяців тому +1

      @@PatienceMarie88 repels mice and critters from eating the stems etc (mostly 🤞)

    • @serensgarden
      @serensgarden  5 місяців тому +2

      Thank you Ali! 🥰🌸🌱 I will have to try the chilli flake hack! 😅 hopefully with the sun out this week I won’t have so much of a slug problem though 🤦🏼‍♀️😅💖

    • @serensgarden
      @serensgarden  5 місяців тому

      @@kathycottrill4650 it is!! 🥲💖

  • @amandar7719
    @amandar7719 5 місяців тому +1

    You probably have the pumpkins out now. I planted half mine out two weeks ago rather than potting them up and placed them under covers. They still stalled. Planting out the rest this coming weekend.
    Your garden is now poised to fly! Testimony to your hard work and dedication. Can’t wait until your late June garden tour! 🌹💐🌸🌺🌷🌻

  • @tracycox2102
    @tracycox2102 5 місяців тому +2

    It’s taking shape yay! Can’t wait to see what you do with back, a little shed for tools would look great. ❤

    • @serensgarden
      @serensgarden  5 місяців тому +1

      Thank you so much! 💖 I cant wait to have a shed one day! 🤣

  • @DianaRausch-bi2tc
    @DianaRausch-bi2tc 5 місяців тому +1

    Try putting chili pepper flafes around plants to help with slug and snail damage

  • @TheCornishCottageGarden-bs5lf
    @TheCornishCottageGarden-bs5lf 5 місяців тому +1

    Haha that crow is a bit gobby 😂

  • @danvers-p7y
    @danvers-p7y 5 місяців тому +1

    Looks great Seren

  • @justinp4996
    @justinp4996 5 місяців тому +3

    Things are coming along nicely. Where I am in Canada we have had double usual rainfall this year, my allotment finally dried enough a week ago to plant and we have since had 2 huge rains and 30% of my plot is under water so I am watching your plot with envy.

  • @juliewilliams793
    @juliewilliams793 5 місяців тому +1

    Looking great 😀

  • @jamiemittermuller6470
    @jamiemittermuller6470 5 місяців тому +1

    I grew fir apple pink potatoes last year. You can’t peel them due to their size, make really good skin on chips. I have struggled to get a lot of my dahlia going this year. I think I may have lost my cafe au lait dahlia, nothing coming up.☹️

  • @Marw123
    @Marw123 5 місяців тому +1

    Great job, nice following your progress!

  • @susanbailey5231
    @susanbailey5231 5 місяців тому +1

    Its looking so good, all your hard work has definately been worth it. Well done🎉

    • @serensgarden
      @serensgarden  5 місяців тому +1

      Thank you so much Susan! 🥲💖

  • @Toni-rp3hs
    @Toni-rp3hs 5 місяців тому

    Hi from Australia 🇦🇺
    I would be so proud of you if you were my daughter you know your plants 👍
    Great work 😊

  • @edstevens701
    @edstevens701 5 місяців тому +4

    those radishes looked good to me, eaten a lot worse. would be good for radish soup if nothing else, can use the young leaves in soup as well. if you leave them to flower you can eat the seed pods when they young, i actually prefer the seed pods, flavour is very similar but a different texture.

    • @serensgarden
      @serensgarden  5 місяців тому +2

      I was thinking this! I should have taken them home and tried to do something with them 🥲 oh well! They will feed my compost pile and hopefully next time I will be a bit more successful 🥲

    • @ChrisWijtmans
      @ChrisWijtmans 5 місяців тому +2

      @@serensgarden yep wash them well with baking soda and then its soup time

  • @juliebaker3307
    @juliebaker3307 5 місяців тому +1

    The whole allotment looks great and I love the sweetpeas…….which variety are they?

  • @fionabaran7954
    @fionabaran7954 5 місяців тому

    Just a friendly note your plants and seedlings are suffering from a really bad case of nitrogen deficiency giving them a feed will help but get some really good liquid feed to help them grow

  • @blumblam4813
    @blumblam4813 5 місяців тому

    That’s the first I’ve heard of leafy gall. Just googled it and It doesn’t look like your dahlias. Yours looked fine and healthy to me? Maybe others know better than me? X

  • @CarryOnPlotting
    @CarryOnPlotting 5 місяців тому

    It's Pink Fir Apple. I'm growing them for the first time this year too. Although I'm also growing Blue Danube and Cara for main crops. I think Pink Fir Apple is more like an early in terms of how to cook the potatoes.
    Not sure why you think you can't use earlies for Leek and Potato soup? I think that would taste fine. Or did you just mean because all your earlies will have long been eaten before the leeks are ready?

  • @mogensdanielsen
    @mogensdanielsen 5 місяців тому +1

    👍👍👍👍❤

  • @nitelite78
    @nitelite78 5 місяців тому

    Your sweet peas have very long stems. What variety are they again?

  • @jaynekennedy8469
    @jaynekennedy8469 5 місяців тому +1

    You can let one onion flower and go to seed, so that you can use the seeds next year.

    • @tommeltje1
      @tommeltje1 5 місяців тому +1

      And the bees love it! 😊

    • @serensgarden
      @serensgarden  5 місяців тому +1

      Yes! I will leave one to flower 🙂🌸 interested to see what it’ll look like 🥰

  • @threerosesjournals
    @threerosesjournals 5 місяців тому

    You see mess. I see abundance. The allotment looks amazing considering where you started. You should give yourself a pat on the back.

  • @CarryOnPlotting
    @CarryOnPlotting 5 місяців тому

    It's my first time growing leeks and I used the dibbed hole method and just watered the hole too. I had the same issue with the holes filling up but my soil isn't as fluffy as yours and my holes were pretty deep. I'm slightly worried that all the soil will have gotten in between the layers of the leeks and it will be all gritty inside the leeks. Maybe you won't have that issue given your soil is fluffy compost. I'm guessing mine are going to be hard to pull out too. I'm also wondering if my soil is too hard which may restrict the growth. Well, too late now anyway and it's my first year growing them anyway so I'll learn for next year.

  • @christinephillips2069
    @christinephillips2069 5 місяців тому +1

    Get either beer trap or nematodes

  • @kathyalsteen3579
    @kathyalsteen3579 5 місяців тому

    Will your trellises hold the weight of the pumpkins?

  • @danvers-p7y
    @danvers-p7y 5 місяців тому

    Will the leeks , go into the ground below the compost to ? As i'm sure you need deep beds for leeks ?

  • @ChrisWijtmans
    @ChrisWijtmans 5 місяців тому +1

    if you look closely they have beautiful blue feathers not black.

  • @davidwoods7720
    @davidwoods7720 5 місяців тому

    somebody sent you a raven from Kings Landing lol

    • @serensgarden
      @serensgarden  5 місяців тому

      I wonder what the message was 😅🤣

    • @davidwoods7720
      @davidwoods7720 5 місяців тому

      @@serensgarden 😆😆😆😆

  • @annayounie537
    @annayounie537 5 місяців тому

    Hi. I love your videos but they are so quiet. Can hardly hear you.