What Happened to our Crops?! | Allotment Vlog 🥕 Ep. 27 🐛
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- Nature teaches the Allotment Family that it is never to be underestimated as we deal with tomato blight, pests and strange crops as a result of the weather.
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Bored of the usual vanilla, ‘Pollyanna-esque’ allotment/gardening vlog formats that saturate UA-cam, we decided to start our own, unique channel in 2023. Follow the adventures of our family as we navigate life on two allotment plots based in Devon in the UK. The Allotment Family Diary offers a light-hearted, realistic and informative look at the daily running of two large allotment plots. Chocked with dry-wit and lovingly edited, we film hours of footage each month to bring you weekly episodes that document life at our allotment plots, and sometimes outside of them.
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Tilly and Nick have maintained their plot for almost ten years now, and Tom (their son), Han (Tom's wife), and Flo (Tom and Han's daughter) acquired theirs in May 2023, with a plot extension in Feb 2024. Look forward to seeing Alfie (an elderly lurcher) and Tor (a young Romanian rescue dog) joining us in our diaries, as well as our 6 chickens (new additions to the Allotment Family), and various stray cats and other wildlife that call the allotment their home.
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Thank you for bringing us along for the plot adventures! Blessings on everyone and your growing season Kiddos! 🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕
Our pleasure! Ty for watching ☺️
i think people need to appreciate your channel more . the most genuine an wholesome approach in this field . it is very nice to see a channel that shows the good and bad an turns it in to watchable content that keeps me wondering what the family is up to even when you are not making films . very blessed that i found this channel and all the best to your family
@@mitchelrobs Thankyou so much for your kind comments. We are so pleased that we appeal to gardeners who are beginning their journey and very experienced as well. Thankyou
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great vlog, thank you. Also 2 yrs are never the same.
So true! Thank you for watching ☺️
Great episode. I especially liked the potato skewering bit. Jealous of the tomatoes.
Tysm for watching! I don't think I can be trusted to dig up potatoes anymore. Might have to leave that to Han! :)
I've always found the longer I leave potatoes in the ground the more they get damaged Tom.I now sack them up and store for months in the shed .Cant believe the carrots got attacked under the mesh 😔 Tomatoes look brilliant !
Yes, we’ve decided to dig up the lot and keep them in storage now. Tysm for watching ☺️
Another great vlog! Funny, informative and wholesome as ever. Sometimes nature throws a curve ball, but you guys did all the right things as I have seen from your other videos. I bet the veg was still very tasty ❤
Yes, Peter. Nature certainly likes to challenge us gardeners! The veg was still very tasty despite the nibbles. TY for watching :)
Still a harvest to be proud of. That looks like wireworm to me. I cannot wait to see the pepper and chilli harvest! Thanks all for another amazing and informative look at real life allotment gardening 💪
I'm REALLY looking forward to that harvest too. Tried one of the hot lemon chillies that wasn't even ripe yet and it tasted fantastic. TY for watching :)
I just pulled my peas yesterday! It's that time of year.
Tom thanks for taking us along with you. Sharing the changing season and harvests. My corn is done, I'm slowly trimming it down and it's free chicken feed! Did the same with the watermelon vines. Cut it up small and watch the Chicken Drama! I've started harvesting my tomatoes once they get a nice blush on them. Let them finish ripening in doors away from the critters! I need to see if I can get seeds for the moon tomatoes you have. So interesting. Loved Han's hair!
I've told Tilly off for giving last year's corn to the chickens. It's too tasty for them to eat! But seriously, it is funny watching them bundle in and hustle each other for the good bits! Would certainly recommend giving the Black Moon a go. It's not as sweet as some varieties, but oh so juicy, and looks great too! Tysm for watching :)
@@AllotmentFamilyDiary I chop up the whole stock. We ate the corn lol. The dogs played with the cobs and then the chickens ate them also
@@deedrahburgoynesearfoss6280 Ahh! I will let Tilly know for when her corn is done this year. Thanks for the tip! I bet the dogs loved playing with those ☺️
I watched an another UA-cam saying we should chop the peas and broad beans plants and leave the roots in the soil because they have these tiny bubbles in their roots which is very good for the soil….🤷♀️
@@vesiletekas5927 Interesting! I’ve not of this until now, but will certainly read up on it. Although I didn’t show it, fortunately I dug all the roots in with the soil that was left anyway. So if this is correct I’ve inadvertently done the right thing hehe. Tysm for watching ☺️
I am always cutting stems when I think I’m pruning 🤦♀️, especially the squash they look so alike. Sorry the blight has arrived 😢, we are very lucky so far we have not had it for years 🤞🤞🤞. 😮 blight toes 😂😂.
August is my time to track what did well and what I won’t grow again. Plus removing plants and making changes for the season ahead. Fab update sorry about the camera necessity it is a changing world and not always for the better. Have a simply awesome day and happy growing, Ali 🌞🇨🇦
Somehow Tilly has managed to stop the blight spread by cutting back the plants, although we feel it may just have slowed the spread. Time will tell I guess. We’ve invested in more cameras, which is extremely sad but I guess necessary nowadays, but I feel for people that aren’t as tech savvy and simply have to put up with it. I hope we catch them to benefit everyone at the site. Tysm for watching, Ali and have a great week ☺️
You now have pea straw, compost or cut and drop, my thief or thieves are sparrow's, it's still winter here in New Zealand, they are coming through the vents of my tunnel house and eating the spinach and lettuce, thought it was slugs, bar the sparrow's are defecating everywhere, have to push shade material into the top vents each day. Dug some yams up and mice damage, dug them all up.
Oh no. So sorry to hear that. Yams so tasty too! I do hope you managed to get it under control. Tysm for watching ☺️
Plenty of highs and lows when growing….im growing some good heritage tomatoes this year…like you I’ve got a UA-cam ..IM IN THE SHED…great to be able to look back for the years you’ve been on the allotment
Totally agree. Even watching back on videos we did a few months ago, it's fantastic to see the growth on the plot in what is really a very short amount of time. I'd love to get some heirloom tomatoes on the grow one day, perhaps even next year. Any advice for fruits with a distinctive flavour? Tysm for watching :)
@@AllotmentFamilyDiary well there’s a tomato I grew last year..orange type ..from BAKER CREEK SEEDS/RARE SEEDS..from USA ..called Dr wyches..amazing texture..sweet…fleshy…this year I’m growing a strange one called DRAGON…CHEROKEE PURPLE ( baker creek )…I’ve been gifted so many new ones off pages on Facebook…for a stamp envelope… I did the norm when I started but then wanted to try and grow some with a history behind them…growing 8 varieties this year..about 30 plants..trying to go for 1 of each once I build a good collection up… luckily I bought a 25x12 polytunnel in 2017..best thing I ever bought to extend the season
Those beef tomatoes look delicious.. 👍
They are exceptionally tasty! Tysm for watching ☺️
I sieved my compost I made with a 5mm …in 30ltr buckets I use for my potatoes…took me 7 years to crack it growing carrots…
Would like to give the bucket method a go someday. I've seen some good results. Generally I've been doing it the way the old veterans do at our site, following their advice of course, but as we become more accustomed to growing, I'd like to think we'll try some new methods down the line. Tilly has always been great with growing monster carrots, so I'm leaving them for her to rustle up for us now haha. Ty for watching and commenting :)
@@AllotmentFamilyDiary I’ve actually just sown more this week…I find the purple carrots are bigger seed so easier to individually sow in the bucket instead of thinning out…problem I had was I was growing then transferring..not relizing I was disturbing the tap root…this year I did 3 buckets ..one Half homemade compost/half sand…one just homemade compost..one peat compost…peat compost kept drying out to quick to allow germination so got chucked…other 2 germinated the same ..so the new ones I’ve done is just pure homemade compost…hopefully I’ll have some for Xmas dinner
Great tomatoes you harvested, i hate thieves- just lazy buggers is what they are, the carrots are not too bad- edible still♥ Although the majority of the 10,000 known species of millipedes are beneficial, certain species are pests of crops, including potatoes, sugar beet, carrots, sweet potato, cole crops, strawberries and peas and beans. Yours looked like young millipedes - not worms.
Ty, Anne! I had my suspicions about millipedes as have read they too like to have a good old munch on carrots. Managed to peel a few carrots and get the good bits in a pie. Went down well with the family! TY for watching :)