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I really enjoyed this video and am enjoying your journey. I felt I was with you on your leisurely stroll around the plots and always enjoy the chance to get lots of ideas.
Thankyou for your comment. We have 151 plots and have never been busier! This is the first year in the nearly 10 years I have been here that the car park is choc a bloc on the weekends!!!! Tilly x
Fascinating! Have always wondered what an "allotment area" looks like. We don't have them here in Ohio. We do have some community gardens though... quite a bit different than yours and not as large. Lovely tour... gained some great ideas as well. Thank you! Blessings on your growing season!🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿
Thank you for the polytunnel envy LOL took me a while putting them up love your videos my second year been taking helpful tips from your posts. keep them coming great work. i will be growing a variety of chillies and peppers in the polytunnel.
I think it’s fantastic how much you have accomplished and I for one an thrilled you have taken us all along. Keep up the fab family fun and stay safe, Ali 🌦️🇨🇦
This was a perfect video for someone who is snoopy and wants to get ideas. Me! Also, I think a chicken coop is in the works. If not, it should be. What a view, and what a video!
REALLY REALLY loved this, I hope you go ahead with a summer follow-up tour! Allotments fascinate a lot of us American gardeners because they simply don't exist here, at least not at the level in which they exist in the UK... perhaps because even city homes in the US generally come with a workable/sizeable back yard? My suburban city has a small (about the size of a double allotment plot) "community garden" in which one can rent a single bed for $15/year. It's rather intended for apartment dweller's use, though there are no actual rules regarding that. I so enjoyed seeing the entire site and getting a feel for the allotment community life. I have a back yard in which I've created a pseudo-allotment but it lacks the allotment friendships!
Thanks for the site tour. It's nice to nosey around other peoples plots. I've only had my current plot for two years and the council here raised this years price by 6.1% so it is now gone from 82p to 87p sqm. But I do know it went up by 50% in 2009 due to the credit crunch and austerity measures. ( street lights are still turned off in my town at midnight)
It’s disgraceful really. Our compost toilet has been out of use for months now as they haven’t emptied it! Rents are crazy, I dread to think what the cost of veg will be this year on the High Street. 😀
Tom is going to scan it with his plant app soon. It could well be. We’ll see what the leaves are like . I have met lots of lovely people of all nationalities since I joined almost 10 years ago and love it up here.😀
That was another lovely video. I enjoyed that it was longer. The rainbow showed up perfect timing 😁. I was just wondering how many chickens were allowed and your mom asked! Can you have roosters? Are you only allowed certain breeds? Thanks for sharing your time with us.
Brilliant vid, new to your UA-cam, I'm now hooked 😂. I have a question for you or anyone else who can answer it for me. I have 2 baby rhubarb plants, will they be OK to plant out or should I wait until they are somewhat bigger. Thank you.
Thankyou for your comments, we really appreciate and value them. Rhubarb is quite hardy and when I (Tilly) took over my plot nearly 10 years ago, we found random rhubarb plants dotted around the area. I had set aside an area in my fruit garden and after digging and adding good peat free compost chose the best 3 to plant. This was around September time and the plants grew really well and are still growing. If they are really tiny it wouldn’t hurt to pot them up and grow them on for a couple of months but if they are looking quite robust I would get them in once the frosts have gone. We force a rhubarb plant every year in rotation. This involves covering 1 plant with an upside down dustbin in the Autumn and then in the spring you will be rewarded with a lovely tender pink crop of rhubarb to enjoy. I would wait for a year or so though until your new plants are established. Be careful as if you remove the cover too soon their growth will change as once they find the light they stop and will get a bit ropey. We have mentioned this process in a recent blog. X
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A lovely calming tour. Loved this one
Tysm ☺️
I really enjoyed this video and am enjoying your journey. I felt I was with you on your leisurely stroll around the plots and always enjoy the chance to get lots of ideas.
Yes, I’m looking forward to a summer tour when everything is colourful and plots are full of veg etc.😀
Lovely seeing another allotment area, ours is in Sussex . Our water troughs are 1/4 of your size. We get bark delivered too.
Thankyou for your comment. We have 151 plots and have never been busier! This is the first year in the nearly 10 years I have been here that the car park is choc a bloc on the weekends!!!! Tilly x
Fascinating! Have always wondered what an "allotment area" looks like. We don't have them here in Ohio. We do have some community gardens though... quite a bit different than yours and not as large. Lovely tour... gained some great ideas as well. Thank you! Blessings on your growing season!🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿
Tysm for watching, Carolyn. Would love to see what the community gardens look like. So glad you found some good ideas 🙂
🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔? 😊 Thanks for the nice video! 💐
Thankyou . We have just finalised our surprise!!!
Thank you for the polytunnel envy LOL took me a while putting them up love your videos my second year been taking helpful tips from your posts. keep them coming great work. i will be growing a variety of chillies and peppers in the polytunnel.
Tom is growing chilled as well so happy polytunneling!
Thanks for your lovely comments.😊
Loved the site tour.
Thankyou, glad you enjoyed it 😀
I got loads of ideas and pleasure from watching this, thank you!
Really appreciate your comments, thankyou 😀
I think it’s fantastic how much you have accomplished and I for one an thrilled you have taken us all along. Keep up the fab family fun and stay safe, Ali 🌦️🇨🇦
That is so kind of you, thankyou.😀
This was a perfect video for someone who is snoopy and wants to get ideas. Me! Also, I think a chicken coop is in the works. If not, it should be. What a view, and what a video!
Yes the view is amazing, can’t comment on the coup though!!!😀
Thanks for sharing this video and the garden tour. Have a wonderful day
Thankyou very much for your comment. 😀
REALLY REALLY loved this, I hope you go ahead with a summer follow-up tour! Allotments fascinate a lot of us American gardeners because they simply don't exist here, at least not at the level in which they exist in the UK... perhaps because even city homes in the US generally come with a workable/sizeable back yard? My suburban city has a small (about the size of a double allotment plot) "community garden" in which one can rent a single bed for $15/year. It's rather intended for apartment dweller's use, though there are no actual rules regarding that.
I so enjoyed seeing the entire site and getting a feel for the allotment community life. I have a back yard in which I've created a pseudo-allotment but it lacks the allotment friendships!
Thankyou, we hope to film the site again again when the weather is better and the plots are ifull of flowers and veg! 😀
Lovely video 😊
Thankyou. It means a lot to have people take the time to comment.
Tilly x
Thanks for the site tour. It's nice to nosey around other peoples plots. I've only had my current plot for two years and the council here raised this years price by 6.1% so it is now gone from 82p to 87p sqm. But I do know it went up by 50% in 2009 due to the credit crunch and austerity measures. ( street lights are still turned off in my town at midnight)
It’s disgraceful really. Our compost toilet has been out of use for months now as they haven’t emptied it!
Rents are crazy, I dread to think what the cost of veg will be this year on the High Street. 😀
I find allottments fascinating places. They seem a special type of community. TY for the lovely tour 💚. Could the tree be curly willow?
Tom is going to scan it with his plant app soon. It could well be. We’ll see what the leaves are like . I have met lots of lovely people of all nationalities since I joined almost 10 years ago and love it up here.😀
Thank you for the tour lovely to see
@@sandrasparkes4501 Tysm for watching ☺️
That was another lovely video. I enjoyed that it was longer. The rainbow showed up perfect timing 😁. I was just wondering how many chickens were allowed and your mom asked! Can you have roosters? Are you only allowed certain breeds? Thanks for sharing your time with us.
We are allowed 10 chickens on plots but no roosters. You can have any breeds.
Hope to post more about this in the future.
😀
thanks for the tour. what a nice site. it is huge compared to mine
Tysm. We are very blessed 😇
Brilliant vid, new to your UA-cam, I'm now hooked 😂.
I have a question for you or anyone else who can answer it for me.
I have 2 baby rhubarb plants, will they be OK to plant out or should I wait until they are somewhat bigger.
Thank you.
Thankyou for your comments, we really appreciate and value them.
Rhubarb is quite hardy and when I (Tilly) took over my plot nearly 10 years ago, we found random rhubarb plants dotted around the area.
I had set aside an area in my fruit garden and after digging and adding good peat free compost chose the best 3 to plant.
This was around September time and the plants grew really well and are still growing.
If they are really tiny it wouldn’t hurt to pot them up and grow them on for a couple of months but if they are looking quite robust I would get them in once the frosts have gone.
We force a rhubarb plant every year in rotation. This involves covering 1 plant with an upside down dustbin in the Autumn and then in the spring you will be rewarded with a lovely tender pink crop of rhubarb to enjoy.
I would wait for a year or so though until your new plants are established.
Be careful as if you remove the cover too soon their growth will change as once they find the light they stop and will get a bit ropey.
We have mentioned this process in a recent blog.
X
@@AllotmentFamilyDiary Thank you so much, extremely helpful. I think I will upsize the pots and wait a few more months.😊.