Thanks for sharing your garden and allotment with us, here on one of the more northern islands of Scotland we are suffering the giddy highs of 12 C with wind and rain to go with it!!. So enjoy your videos so thought it about time i commented on them. Enjoy what you harvest and the pleasure it brings. The Selkie.
I’m delighted that you’ve been enjoying my videos and thank you ever so much for commenting ☺️ Wow, that is quite the heat wave 🙃 Hopefully it will warm up with you soon, I bet it’s gorgeous where you are though - even in the thrashing rain! The temp has dropped here today, and is cold and rainy. Thank you again, have a lovely day 🌞
Thanks for another relaxing update Dora, the weather is always part ally part enemy it seems, although welcome the heat is quite extreme considering the temperatures a few short weeks ago and the plants as well as us are struggling to adapt ! I think your potatoes tell a story they are both individually quite large and also part eaten which is probably a result of the wet spring - increased watering but more slug damage ! At the end of the day you got more out than you put in so all is good, perhaps continue doing a bit of both as insurance and I bet your soil grown crop will improve as you develop and improve your plot further in the coming years !
& thank you for your kind and helpful comment Andy 🌞 Totally agree that I got more out than I put in so it wasn't as bad as it felt on the day haha! I think I'll do just that and great point about improvement over the years 🥔 Have a lovely day!
Thank you ☺️ do you mean more natural in the garden vs the allotment, or just in general? I used my phone throughout this video to record but of course there’s less background noise at home, so I’m intrigued to know what you think. Thanks for the kind comment 🌞
Hi Dora. Lovely, relaxing episode. A shame about the green potatoes but the Charlotte looked lovely - one was a whopper! I've been making elderflower kombucha this year and it is delicious. Love love love elderflower. Plot is looking great 👍🌱☺️
Chilles take a long time to grow, and the habanero/scotch bonnet family (so including ghost peppers, Carolina reaper etc...) will only ripen around September in most of the European climates. And other chilles are usually red in late July/early August but it varies depending on the year. Some chilles are good when green anyway, like jalapeños and serranos. For recipes, well it depends... Scotch bonnets are really hot, they make good hot sauce, or you can make jerk chicken. In my opinion the best thing to make from chilles is paprika. Grow parika varieties (like paprika Boldog chilles), dry them, and grind them into a spice grinder to make your own paprika, it tastes amazing, very sweet and fragrant compared to store bought paprika. You can do the same with piment d'Espelette, which is used in Basque cuisine, but I find that we don't have enough rain in my climate to make it mild enough, it's way hotter (they have more than a meter of rain every year near Espelette, we only have half of that in my parisian climate). FYI a thing that will help immensely against pests and diseases is simply feeding your soil which you're already doing. A good living soil full of organic matter will have plants that are healthy and ready to fight off pests and diseases. So, just compost and wood chips every year is an easy way of doing that, but it can be grass clippings and straw, whatever you can get your hands on. At some point I was using spent barley from a brewery, it is amazing stuff, better than manure, sadly the brewery closed so I'm back to compost. With wood chips on top of course. BUT there is a caveat with that : some crops don't want so much nitrogen, and so for broad beans, peas and beans, you might want to just put wood chips and no compost/manure. I once had broad beans right next to my composting bins, and they were covered in aphids (still survived) while all the other broad beans scattered in the garden did fine... I suspect it was coz of next to my composting bins the soil was way too rich. This year I put tomatoes there and they love it.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, very interesting and helpful! Great idea with the paprika and jerk seasoning! I think I'll try a small sauce and some of the paprika to start. You're right, I'm hoping my soil feeding will help in the long run 😊 Ahh I wonder if my broad beans would do better in the cage, where other crops are struggling - for that very reason. I may put the late summer variety (the Sutton) in there now you've said this. Happy gardening!
Oh, so kind of you to leave the pok choy flowers for the pollinators, even for a couple more days. Just curious, what does the elderflower, grapefruit, lemon cordial taste like ? Thank you in advance !
Thank you for your lovely comment ☺️ You can definitely taste the grapefruit through it, I suggest the recipe with the 2 oranges and 3 lemons if you're not a fan of grapefruit, as you can't necessarily taste the orange/lemon in the other recipe - it's just a freshness. Have you made any this year?
Yes, I'll try with oranges and lemons. For I really want to taste/smell the elderberry blossoms. I went to forage for some blossoms yesterday, in a nearby park. I recall seeing them in 2020. Unfortunately, they were all removed 😔
@@SpringNotes Oh no! Maybe you can wait for the elderberry's to come out and make some cordial with those instead... should you be able to find some 🙂 Good luck with the foraging
Hello lovely! You're cordial looked so nice I really enjoyed watching you make that! I absolutely LOVE your tee pees I am so jealous they look so good and natural, gutted I used bamboo now 😂 I try my best to help as much as I can! I have the total opposite problem to you I am to loud 🔊 so I have the gain turned down. Have you done a little mic test into the transmitter wireless and not connected to the phone to see if the sound is any different? I also pop the mic no more than 6 inches from my collar bone, the closer it is if found the better it will pick you up! Honestly it has taken me the bones for a year to figure it out. Keep at it Dora ❤ your videos are a joy to watch! X
Aww thank you so much, I'm so pleased you enjoyed 🥰 I do love the hazel! I have had to use bamboo in other areas but need to get some more of mother's hazel. Haha I sound like a mouse in this - that's a good idea of trying without the phone - I'll give that a whirl today. Thanks so much for your lovely feedback, I really appreciate it 💕
your voice sounds more natural in the garden now when you forgot your microphone that is my opinion👍 Do you want big potatoes? then you have to grab a pear (poop) then you will get big potatoes but you have to be careful you must wear gloves or you must have a syringe must tetanus
Thanks for sharing your garden and allotment with us, here on one of the more northern islands of Scotland we are suffering the giddy highs of 12 C with wind and rain to go with it!!. So enjoy your videos so thought it about time i commented on them. Enjoy what you harvest and the pleasure it brings. The Selkie.
I’m delighted that you’ve been enjoying my videos and thank you ever so much for commenting ☺️ Wow, that is quite the heat wave 🙃 Hopefully it will warm up with you soon, I bet it’s gorgeous where you are though - even in the thrashing rain! The temp has dropped here today, and is cold and rainy. Thank you again, have a lovely day 🌞
Thanks for another relaxing update Dora, the weather is always part ally part enemy it seems, although welcome the heat is quite extreme considering the temperatures a few short weeks ago and the plants as well as us are struggling to adapt ! I think your potatoes tell a story they are both individually quite large and also part eaten which is probably a result of the wet spring - increased watering but more slug damage ! At the end of the day you got more out than you put in so all is good, perhaps continue doing a bit of both as insurance and I bet your soil grown crop will improve as you develop and improve your plot further in the coming years !
& thank you for your kind and helpful comment Andy 🌞 Totally agree that I got more out than I put in so it wasn't as bad as it felt on the day haha! I think I'll do just that and great point about improvement over the years 🥔 Have a lovely day!
A wonderful update Dora have a marvellous day and happy gardening and growing, Ali 🥵🌞🇨🇦
Many thanks Ali, it sure was a toasty one. Have a lovely day too 🌞
"it's so hot, it's 25 degrees!" - *laughs in Australian* 😂😂😂
😂😂 classic Brit, it’s because it’s been so bloomin cold here it was a shock to the system! 🌞
Best line I heard last week in game chat, "You Poms wilt under a crescent moon" 🙂
Thanks for another lovely episode Dora . I keep any green potatoes to use as seed next year carefully forgetting to mark what variety they were .
Oh wow! I didn’t know they could be used - thank you George
Awesome 👍❤️❤️❤️
Thanks 🤗
Dora ..your voice sounds more natural in the garden.Very nice video.I watch your video.Your work is amazing,very nice.
Thank you ☺️ do you mean more natural in the garden vs the allotment, or just in general? I used my phone throughout this video to record but of course there’s less background noise at home, so I’m intrigued to know what you think. Thanks for the kind comment 🌞
Heel leuke video Doras Grapefruit en the moostuin oogsten Good work Top week 🪴🥦🌶🥤🌻👍🌤🥔
Thank you!! 🌶️🥔🌞
Hi Dora. Lovely, relaxing episode. A shame about the green potatoes but the Charlotte looked lovely - one was a whopper! I've been making elderflower kombucha this year and it is delicious. Love love love elderflower. Plot is looking great 👍🌱☺️
Thank you 🥰 wasn’t it just!! 🥔 Wow that sounds so delicious, is it relatively easy to make? I must try it!
@@doras.allotment well you need a SCOBY and starter, but once you have those then yes, very easy to make 👍
Oh golly, I’ll have to do some more research but sounds wonderful!
Chilles take a long time to grow, and the habanero/scotch bonnet family (so including ghost peppers, Carolina reaper etc...) will only ripen around September in most of the European climates. And other chilles are usually red in late July/early August but it varies depending on the year. Some chilles are good when green anyway, like jalapeños and serranos.
For recipes, well it depends... Scotch bonnets are really hot, they make good hot sauce, or you can make jerk chicken. In my opinion the best thing to make from chilles is paprika. Grow parika varieties (like paprika Boldog chilles), dry them, and grind them into a spice grinder to make your own paprika, it tastes amazing, very sweet and fragrant compared to store bought paprika. You can do the same with piment d'Espelette, which is used in Basque cuisine, but I find that we don't have enough rain in my climate to make it mild enough, it's way hotter (they have more than a meter of rain every year near Espelette, we only have half of that in my parisian climate).
FYI a thing that will help immensely against pests and diseases is simply feeding your soil which you're already doing. A good living soil full of organic matter will have plants that are healthy and ready to fight off pests and diseases. So, just compost and wood chips every year is an easy way of doing that, but it can be grass clippings and straw, whatever you can get your hands on. At some point I was using spent barley from a brewery, it is amazing stuff, better than manure, sadly the brewery closed so I'm back to compost. With wood chips on top of course.
BUT there is a caveat with that : some crops don't want so much nitrogen, and so for broad beans, peas and beans, you might want to just put wood chips and no compost/manure. I once had broad beans right next to my composting bins, and they were covered in aphids (still survived) while all the other broad beans scattered in the garden did fine... I suspect it was coz of next to my composting bins the soil was way too rich. This year I put tomatoes there and they love it.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, very interesting and helpful! Great idea with the paprika and jerk seasoning! I think I'll try a small sauce and some of the paprika to start.
You're right, I'm hoping my soil feeding will help in the long run 😊
Ahh I wonder if my broad beans would do better in the cage, where other crops are struggling - for that very reason. I may put the late summer variety (the Sutton) in there now you've said this.
Happy gardening!
Oh, so kind of you to leave the pok choy flowers for the pollinators, even for a couple more days.
Just curious, what does the elderflower, grapefruit, lemon cordial taste like ? Thank you in advance !
Thank you for your lovely comment ☺️ You can definitely taste the grapefruit through it, I suggest the recipe with the 2 oranges and 3 lemons if you're not a fan of grapefruit, as you can't necessarily taste the orange/lemon in the other recipe - it's just a freshness. Have you made any this year?
Yes, I'll try with oranges and lemons. For I really want to taste/smell the elderberry blossoms.
I went to forage for some blossoms yesterday, in a nearby park. I recall seeing them in 2020. Unfortunately, they were all removed 😔
@@SpringNotes Oh no! Maybe you can wait for the elderberry's to come out and make some cordial with those instead... should you be able to find some 🙂 Good luck with the foraging
@@doras.allotmentThank you for the words of encouragement.
Very high risk of cutting your foot digging in trainers told you off as always happy gardening Richardx
Consider me told off 🤣 Thanks Richard, happy gardening to you too 👩🏼🌾
Can you use the green ones as seed potatoes for next planting?
Apparently so! I hadn’t realised this before so if I have any more I’ll save them if they’re large enough - silver lining 😃
Hello lovely! You're cordial looked so nice I really enjoyed watching you make that! I absolutely LOVE your tee pees I am so jealous they look so good and natural, gutted I used bamboo now 😂
I try my best to help as much as I can! I have the total opposite problem to you I am to loud 🔊 so I have the gain turned down. Have you done a little mic test into the transmitter wireless and not connected to the phone to see if the sound is any different? I also pop the mic no more than 6 inches from my collar bone, the closer it is if found the better it will pick you up! Honestly it has taken me the bones for a year to figure it out. Keep at it Dora ❤ your videos are a joy to watch! X
Aww thank you so much, I'm so pleased you enjoyed 🥰 I do love the hazel! I have had to use bamboo in other areas but need to get some more of mother's hazel.
Haha I sound like a mouse in this - that's a good idea of trying without the phone - I'll give that a whirl today.
Thanks so much for your lovely feedback, I really appreciate it 💕
your voice sounds more natural in the garden
now when you forgot your microphone
that is my opinion👍
Do you want big potatoes?
then you have to grab a pear (poop)
then you will get big potatoes
but you have to be careful
you must wear gloves
or you must have a syringe must tetanus
That's good to know, thank you for commenting and have a lovely day 🌞