Neglected Allotment Part 5 - Protecting Plants and Eating a First Crop
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Battling again with bad weather this week and I was short on time.
However I did manage to get tot he plot and keep up the momentum. I made some hoops and used some fleece to protect the onions.
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The "grit" in the Equisetum is from the large amounts of silica that build up in it, fine to eat but it dulls mower / sickle blades really quickly when you try and clear it from a plot.
We always cut our seed potatoes. Baffles me when I see people plant the whole potato when they could double or triple their crop but cutting up the seed potatoes.
Those rolling skies are just hypnotic. The progress is awesome, but the clouds 🤩.
They’re so much fun to watch 😍
Hey! You're using chopsticks by choice! 😂🎉
They were the best suited tool for this by far 😁
You're doing so well mate most people would have gave up after the third carrier bag covering the the onions is a good idea keeps the allium leave minor away good video
Thank you! That means a lot. I’ve made it public so I can’t give up now 😝
How many is too many with those things u cooked?😂😂(butter makes everything better❤😂) Doing great. I'm so invested in this now😂😂❤😊
I don’t know tbh but I’m still alive so I kept within the limit 😂
You're doing well. I'm still digging weeds. I decided to totally clear the plot, and then I'm going to use nematodes on the soil for slug protection. Hopefully, planting out will happen before may.
what camera are you using? your friend made me curious 😅 I love all the progress you are making definitely keep updating us
I was using an Osmo Action 3 that day. Thank you! I need some motivation to get back down there and keep going 😁
'I just cooked 'em in a little bit of butter and well.. they've gone soft'.
'I think probably most of the nice flavour is from the butter'.
I laughed out loud. Glad I subscribed a few mins ago. (compost fan / nerd). Keep doing what you're doing. Only slightly jealous.
[sidebar: is it just me, or are your ads a lot better. No more greg secker, childish gaming, food in a box. what a relief. time will tell i suppose]
The main tuber of potatoes are just an energy store. As long as you have enough energy to get foliage up and out into the sun, then yield should be similar. What WILL be affected is a) failure rate as the smallest ones will struggle to get above soil level before running out of juice, and duration to harvest - smaller ones will spend the first few weeks of energy from photosynthesis into building more top before then funnelling energy into the stolons. Bigger spuds use stored energy from the tuber to build all the top growth, and start producing new tubers quicker.
That explanation makes a whole lot of sense. Thank you 🙏
Hreat work especially in the realy horrid weather. Most of the work im doing still is fighting off the weeds. The potato idea is good. I will follow and watch how you do with the spuds.
The bird song is just delightful
Your allotment is looking great, Tom Real nice and steady progress! Is that the same bloke who greeted you in the first video, was it?
You could add some concrete slabs or stone to absorb some of the heat from the sun.
What is the state of the shed there? Is it possible to make a lean to to make a little shelter? And some string light? 🤭 Perhaps some pest deterrents could be useful too, if the land has been unused for a while.
Also those piles of nettles is looking really lush, perhaps you could do a "free harvest of fresh nettles" on Gum Tree 😁 You could do a really delicious nettle soup with parsnips, it's the best combination, sprinkled with a bit of nutmeg.
My peas went in late, still not supported them. My soil blocking seeds are strugling due to sowing them in carbon-havy leafmould.
The wind forced me home from the plot the other day, couldn't stand the buffeting.
Rain still causing problems, soil still pretty cold, more chilly weather on the way! Good times. So far behind. All pretty standard for gardening in the UK. Still love it.
I started growing things before i had any advice or expertise...
I twist the sprouts off of the potatoes (or cut) and stick them in a tray of wet sand until they have roots showing. I eat the potato!
Later, i plant them in plastic cups with soil to establish themselves.
Then, i get the garden ready. I have clay soil, so i loosen it up about 2" deep. Then pile up grass / clippings and oak leaves (the stilt grass is invasive but rips right up from the ground, there is an endless amount of oak leaves).
When I'm ready to plant, i just spread open a hole in the leaves, sit the plant in there, put some soil around it in a little mound to make sure it holds some water and doesn't dry up..and then pull the leaves back over everything so only the potatoes stalk is sticking out.
I pretty much just leave them alone from there and then harvest in the fall. It's really easy to slide the leaf mulch aside and barely dig in the soil to get potatoes.
Side note: wet sand is great for growing and propagating a whole host of things, like peppers!
Also, if you have access to cattle panel, i highly recommend it for growing on. Instead of metal fence posts to stake it into the ground, i use rebar (cheaper for me).
wow look at the chit on that
Chitty chitty bang bang 😆
Flying along mate when I first had a plot I spent one weekend strimming and building compost bins filled them with all the crap I’d strimmer and the covered the plot for six months with thick black plastic I then uncovered and dug over areas as and when needed. It went well until til my neighbouring plot was left to go to weeds and me being in the corner collected all the weed seeds making my plot a constant pain to keep weed free. Eventually I gave up, one day I’ll have a small plot again but for now I’m happy tinkering with shrubs and perennials. Keep up the good work as it seems to be paying off 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I'm loving this journey - thank you
Amazing difference from your first video!
you can use rebar or canes to raise the hoops, instead of pushing blue pipe into ground , push pipe over the rebar..
Yeah I would have done that if I had rebar for sure
Great vid
Amazing progress ! Can't believe you've got so far .🥇🙂
I’ll be chuffed when I get a good crop off it too ❤️ thank you
Love it! Those artichokes get *big* so you might want to space them out a bit more :)
They’re currently about 3 ft apart. Is that too close? I’ll have to take some of the little offshoots and pot them up 😏
For the Algorithm marra 😁 .....
Thanks
The amount of progress you’ve made on this is truly remarkable! I just hope you’re not burning yourself out too badly or forgetting to take care of yourself 🫶🏽
That worries me that you’re not supposed to eat “too many” of them. How many is “too many”? And what happens if you do eat too many? Yikes!
I don’t know tbh but I’d heard it so I thought I’d pass on the warning. And I didn’t want anyone thinking I knew much about it and giving a false sense of confidence. The link I left in the description goes into much greater detail
@@tecmow4399 Thank you. I’ll check it out. I garden in NC, USA. I’ve never seen or heard of this stuff. But if the issue is silica, silica is also abundant in green beans and is necessary for hair growth. . .so maybe just a bite or two.
Is it much of a drive from home to allotment?
No it’s not even a mile. I will start cycling/walking once I have a shed and tunnel to plant seedlings and keep tools there
Great progress