May Allotment Garden Tour 2023
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2023
- May is such a beautiful month on the allotment. The foxgloves, lupins, alliums and flowers are all out in bloom! Join me on a tour of my allotment garden to see all the latest developments and watch me plant out my peas with stick supports. I also give my sedum the 'Chelsea chop'.
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Everything is lush and beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful. Allotment isn't bad either.
And most important:
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Your videos have taught me so much to appreciate nature and diversity. Absolutely no stress at all about weed, dandelions, aphids etc
Think we need some appreciation for those lovely leather boots you wear at the allotment.
Sorry to learn of the loss of your mosquito fish. Gardening is often a series of experiments, and it appears that despite your sincere efforts to nurture them, Mother Nature decided to intervene. I'm reminded of the quote from British scientist Richard Dawkins: "Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent".
That’s truly amazing! Let’s stay in touch!
Soon everything Will be full of life! May has so much pertental, its been so try this year, im sure the wild life are very thankful to have the wildlife pond!
Oh my goodness those foxgloves! I suddenly want to grow so many.
its rare that i am truly impressed by an allotment gardening video, but this is one of them. everything you are growing is thriving, my jaw was on the ground for most of this video
🥰 oh gosh, thank you for such a lovely comment!
Loved your spring garden , fab foxgloves! Looking good overall. Yes the weather is cold and dry here in Sussex, too dry now. Mind you last year was hotter and dryer by now! The runner beans that Ive planted out are looking"a bit shocked"!
maybe the secrets in home made compost? i`m guesing lol. but i`m making my own this year.......
Ronald Dahl is a beauty. Mine is on its second season.
Foxgloves were the first flower to grab my interest as a child, always a favourite 🤩 ❤
Everything is looking so healthy, lush and flowering so beautifully. Thank you for sharing with us all. Keep growing :-)
Gorgeous Garden ,I heard You can make a Pesto with the sticky weed and is so good for You! I can almost smell the Roses x While I love living IN the WOODS , when I see Your Garden I just want to have some land with Sunshine ...thank You for letting me Dream ...one day we will get a piece of land x ps I wonder what those Brick Flowers look like ...will keep an eye out for the next video LOL x We are in New Zealand and has been a very wet few months so it is such a treat to see Your allotment and Granny's border so lovely indeed x
Great work Katrina
It's all looking stunning!
It is your excitement in how you do things, I find so appealing . It is the one website I automatically open .
I did a chop and drop in place of my sedum last year and to my surprise this Spring I have many many little sedums coming up everywhere! I've been transplanting them into an Autumn Joy hedge 😁 Happy accident!
Everything looks so beautiful and lush. I'm so sorry about your fish. Our solution to birds and cats liking our fish, is to securely fasten small guage chicken wire around the whole tub [they're in a concrete laundry tub.] We did lose one to a fishy illness, but havn't had the pond predated since and plants actually grow up though the holes in the mesh, and I even sit bromeliads on a corner of it.
Those foxgloves and alliums are gorgeous! Everything looks so lush and healthy. Here in my part of the US it has been such a cool spring, all my veg are waiting for some real heat to start growing.
Foxgloves dry really well if you want to save some for your wedding 😊 I harvest them when they start to go to seed but are still green. They are amazing for adding structure to floral arrangements
I said exactly the same this year, I’ve never seen so much sticky weed… it was everywhere & very thick. Pleased to say it’s all died off now at end of June 😊
Peas are looking much better then mine, think I need to invest in some root training trays, fox gloves are also my favorite too, your garden plants and beautiful and green..good video tour and tips
I was just sitting here wondering if you knew every single plant in your plot and how much you don't know you have!! LOL!! But then there's "always room for more"!! LOL!!
Hello Katrina, I really do enjoy watching your garden tours because you get so excited and it is so fun to see your reactions. I am very happy your plot looks like it is off to a great start. Thank you for this video. Now I am going to be looking into the Alliums were showing today. Bye for now
What a coincidence; I too have Wollerton Old Hall rose by David Austin.
I bought it in a pot,(pricey as I'm sure you know), last year for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee and planned to plant it on the day itself to climb over the front of my cottage. Those plans were thwarted by the discovery of concrete and rubble just a few inches under the soil which is a bit of a mystery considering the age of the cottage.
Anyway I'm ashamed to say it's still in the original pot, but seems to be thriving and is covered in buds.
My plan now is to plant and train it up my garden shed once I've relocated that later in the year.
Oh it flowered well last year too. Very nice blooms with an unusual but not unpleasant scent.
I'm very impressed with your Foxgloves, but seeing them suddenly made me realize that there are non in my garden this year despite me annually shaking the seed heads as you do.
Your allotment is looking amazing. Thanks for the great video.
Oh and I've a confession to make: I corrected you when you said Geranium instead of Pelargonium only to be made to eat humble pie when you then said "Pelargonium" lol.
Your spring foxgloves are always spectacular but they are stunnning this year. I would just want to sit out there and see them all day. I'm so jealous how yours re-seed... mine never want to so I'm constantly planting new ones!
Echo the comments re temperature. I am just out side Nottingham on the SE side and it was 4.5 C in my polytunnel last night. Thankfully greenhouse is 3-4 degrees warmer. I had to move peppers and chillis out of the house a week ago and they are sulking! Agree re weeds going bonkers, sticky goose grass, white bryony and blue alkanet plus nettles all in supercharged growth. Dratted stuff.
I will start some sedum cuttings today!! Thank you for the tip!
You have done such a great job in your allotment. I'm sad about your fish too. Maybe just a couple gold fish to get rid of the mosquitos larvae? And secure the mesh to the tank so the birds can't get in.
Sorry to hear about your fish, nature can be cruel !
Plot looks great though, Foxgloves are just beautiful at the moment, we always have to weed some out but leave them where we can !
If you can get some duckweed to cover the surface of the ex-ricefish pond that will stop the mosquito larvae reaching the surface for air. Duckweed is good for converting any water ammonia [fish poop & any melting plants] into more duckweed. It's apparently also great for feeding to chickens and for adding to compost.
If I get duck weed i won’t be able to see in it 😆 I do love it but it’s taken over my wildlife pond.
Wow those foxgloves!!! ❤
Sad to hear your remaining 2 Medaka fish have disappeared. I hope you get some more fish and try again as I love the mini pond updates. 🐟🐟🐟
Thanks
what a lovely tour sorry about your fish
I seem to have lost my foxgloves and lupins to ast year's drought. Maybe the seed is still around. Yours are stunning...
nice
Plot is looking the business!
Looks like you are going to get a boster tatoe harvest. Can’t wait to see how it goes.
Your lemon tree is doing better than mine. I planted it at the same time as yours and it’s still sulking. I planted a big carp under it last month so I’m hoping it gets a wriggle on in spring.
Can you grow passion fruit in Notnum? If you can it would look great on your climber frame.
Midwinter in Aus now - freezing cold, hammering down and gales. So nice to see your lovely spring weather.
I love your allotment tours! ❤️
what a difference a few hours of sunlight make. i'm well south of Nottingham, thought I had a pretty well sunlit garden but my plants are no where near as advanced as the plants shown here.
Well that knocks my theory that green sheeted greenhouse filter out beneficial spectrum of light.
Your channel is so wonderful and inspiring. I'm on my second year of gardening and hoping to get veggies this year.
did you get some? i have some beans growing, but my peas after some success, all died off......had a few varieties too
Those foxglove are stunning!
Hi Katrina , thanks for the inspirational l tour .
The lemon tree reminded me of that old song from the sixties by Peter, Paul and Mary . " Lemon tree ,very pretty , and the lemon flower is sweet. But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat ."
Now I can't get it out of my head and its all your fault.
Lovely :)
My foxgloves are still tight buds can't wait for them to open after seeing your amazing display. It's a beautiful allotment that I love seeing.
Your allotment is looking great. This year I have a good crop of weeds. With the occasional flower coming up !!!. Still the bees are enjoying them.. 😀
It is so lovely at your allotment. ❤ I saved your video for the evening so I could enjoy it to the fullest. I find you do such wonderful garden tours because you show the veggies but also the beauty of the flowers with so much love. I am looking forward to your wedding flower planting video already!
P.S.: What I am most excited about this year is that my peach trees put on many fruits! I usually loose them to late frosts. But not this year! Yaaay! 🎉
Thank you so much 🥰 Yay for your peach! Hope you get lots of fruits 🧡
It’s all go in your allotment and our gardens just now. I’ve just spent a happy 6 hours or so sowing, dividing, planting up hiking boots, taking cutting s from my bush and trailing fuchsias (Just b cause I can😅), taking bits of pot bound mints and chucking out the rest etc…oh yes and LOTS of 💦 Bird protection(and squirrels ) is a good reminder. Maybe a balloon or rattle bottle on a pole…I have some old long playing records so 🤔. Thanks for your advice and encouragement.
Love it!
Lovely garden you have! Those showy foxglove and allium are wonderful things. Here spring has been fairly kind. Warmth for the fruit blossoms and enough rain recently to keep things growing at an astonishing rate. I've got 120 dahlias in the ground, up and growing, along with all my other flowers, like lupins and peonies. As well a good amount of vegetable that I hope to eat. Best of luck with all your flowers and plants. My fairly large garden is always a space where there is work to be done. I do try to take some time though, like you, to just enjoy all those spectacular and beautiful plants growing here at least once a day. Cheers for gardening and gardeners!
Love your channel!!! I am in Arkansas...it's supposed to be 90 degrees Fahrenheit today, partly cloudy, but it's not too humid this year so far. My tomato plants are doing really well, and the sweet potatoes. I am new to this gardening thing, and my girls (twin daughters) and I are really having fun with it. So far...no pests yet! Yay! We also have a pumpkin plant which we planted in February, I think it was, which is so HUGE!!! It is from a stray pumpkin seed that missed getting toasted with butter and salt last October. I put it away into the cupboard with plans to plant it. Wow! It has big, beautiful blooms on it now!
Baby robins yeahhhhhh🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks!
Foxglove are my absolute favorites, I love lupines too, honestly tall has me, but ya can’t ever have too many foxglove. Looked like some near ripe strawberries under all that pretty foliage and flowers. Can’t help myself, have to mention how much I like the grass, hope it’s helping to have less ants.
Poor fishies. I am a bit reluctant to put much water in my yard bc of mosquitoes. I feel like gardeners on UA-cam never discuss this but i already have a billion mosquitoes.
In Atlanta it's "cold" for us which is ironic bc i made a point of buying extremely heat/drought tolerant annuals for this year 😅. I need to grow foxgloves. It looks like you're in a magical fairy garden
We are in Central California in high desert....we were zone 7 , but now they say zone 8..Mattia poppies are growing, my climbing rose which the deer keep eating off the flowers... (We are just coming out of years of drought, so they love them and believe it or not, they have even been eating our geranium flowers and sometimes alstrimaria (spelling). Daffodils have come and gone....Oleanders are budding up and just about to open. We have been having cooler weather, but as soon as it warms up again in a few days they will be full of flowers😊
Maybe use some carrot fly netting as a cover for the pond. 👍
brilliant
Thank you again. So beautiful. My peonies are always covered with ants (I'm in a very sandy area), but bloom big and beautiful regardless.
Install a solar fountain, as mosquito's don't like moving water..
I feel for you, I'm also having an aphid problem. My Czar plum looks like a Savoy cabbage right now. There's virtually no normal leaves, and they're now starting on the Victoria Plum. Last year ladybird larvae made short work of the aphids on my green gage but that was July. I've only seen one ladybird this year and the problem needs taking care of now! I've had to resort to ordering some larvae to sort it out ASAP. The leaves on the Czar are a lost cause this year but there's no shortage of fruit 😁
Halo Katrina one of my faves are the foxgloves I only have seedlings from last year this year unless they grow up pretty quickly. I have a lot of aqualigia which are beautiful. Yes it’s very cold in evenings and during the night and everything growing so slowly apart from my early potatoes we harvested our first lot yesterday. You have 45 dahlias I have 3 and only 2 have shoots so I don’t think the other one will have any now. It’s my first time of growing them aswell. I tried straw flowers but didn’t germinate will have another go next year. I have lots of cosmos and some peonies which are amazing and Siberian irises lots of veg in ground too peas beans brassicas beetroot anc salad leaves and herbs. Quite a lot of things really. My sister and 2 of her daughters are florists and my sister grew flowers and sent to Covent Garden years ago even I grew statice and sent there too. Years ago you could make good money but was hard work. My sister made dried flower arrangements from the helichrysum and statice in baskets hearts rings etc. they last for a very long time. I can’t wait for your wedding and to see all your flowers. Autumn is my fave time of year I love all those reds oranges yellows and burnt orangey browns. The trees in autumn are magnificent. Anyway we still have summer to come yet. 🥲so sorry about your fish I bet it was a heron they love ponds in gardens. And their beaks are long and thin especially for picking out fish. Take care see you next time🙋🏻
It's supposed to be late autumn here (South Island, New Zealand) so it should have been relatively cold the last 3 weeks but that's not really been the case so my broccoli & cauliflowers are still growing quite well. Apparently daffodils are starting to bloom only 4 months ahead of schedule.
What a beautiful garden you have Cat…love it…and I’m so sad you’ve lost the fish..Blackbird had some of mine..he was flipping them out of the pond…it was netted over the top but not at the sides so being a small bird it snook underneath and killed several fish…had to fully enclose the pond to stop it….I love the foxgloves too…mine are tiny…only recently planted so have some catching up to do…xx
Blackbirds go fishing?! 😲 Thanks for the warning. I’ll definitely enclose the whole thing in future.
Hiya Katrina Thankyou for sharing a day at your allotment soo much happy sights. Too many to mention lol. I do have a question, do the allium’s bulbs multiply through the years? Oh sad news for your wee fish. Take care Luv Southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
Hey, I love your channel! I've been a regular viewer for a few years now!
I've recently started a channel and I'm wanting to invest in a microphone. Any suggestions just while I'm in the amateur stages? 😅
Keep it going, love watching your channel grow as much as your garden 🌱🌱
Thanks for watching over the years. For a long time I got by using a lapel microphone attached to my phone that had a 6ft long cable.
Hi I ask you lots of people saying foxglove is very bad when you teched that gives you Hart problem but I don't no way thanks anyway 🎉 and injoy you beautiful garden
Just look and them, don’t eat them!
Hey loving the plot! Seeing all your flowers has made me decide to grow more myself, as I usually concentrate mainly on food crops. Question: how do you keep your lemon and lime trees alive during the winter months, do you move them inside or fleece them in your poly tunnel?
I miss your rubberboots ❤❤❤
Your allotment is looking amazing. I have a little question about the Chelsea chop. I have a sedum telephium seduction hot rose, does the variety affect the success of the Chelsea chop? It has grown out like a bowl, so stems in a circle but with a hollow centre where you can see right down to the base of the plant. By doing the Chelsea chop will it encourage it to bush out to make it more full looking? Thanks
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Love your vids, just one question. Whst camera you using as I noticed the quality of recodings are slightly blurry
So sorry abyour fish! 😢 Maybe somewhat of a cage top (similar to strawberry beds) would not allow anything to reach the water
Did you get the ‘Wollaton old hall’ from their courtyard shop? I’d love to get one for my allotment.
Nope! Cold front going through here! 7c 😅
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I’m in Yorkshire and would you mind telling me how much to water my Dahlia please,my first time growing them ,they are in pots and look like yours…thankyou 😊
Good to hear they’re growing well! Soon be time to get them in the ground. Just keep them damp but not soaking wet. Use your finger to check the soil and lift the pot to see how heavy/light it is.
Do you suppose that you get more pests on an allotment than the average backyard? Your garden is gorgeous!
The more diverse a garden the better. Without the ‘pests’ you won’t have any birds.
@@homegrowngarden Of course! And I'm willing to let some things slide, but I was thinking more of carrot fly and things that will kill a crop. Can't wait for the video about your wedding flowers!
What was the weed you pulled off the tree? I was trimming my new allotment back border and found this. Not seen it before..
It’s called Bryony. My apologies I did mention it in the video but I had to cut it out due to my intermittent sound issues. Hack it back before the berries appear else it will spread like mad.
@@homegrowngarden no worries and thanks so much!
P.s I have the biggest girl crush on you xoxo
Have you tried Hollyhocks? Just curious if you have, what the outcome was.
I did a long time ago. Not a huge fan to be honest. They’re very prone to getting rust. Which isn’t helped by how dense I plant!
@homegrown.garden ok that makes sense. Thank you. I've been interested but I prefer dense planting as well.
Bet the cat had the fish
I dont understand the allotment system do they not allow u to plant in your backyard?
Some people don't have large gardens or no garden at all so allotments allow you to have a fair size plot rented from the local council for a small annual rent to grow your own veg. or flowers.
Or the other reason is that at home you want it all beautiful and neat and at the allotment, you can dig away and go crazy to your heart's content!
That’s right. I live in a flat so I don’t have a space to garden.
My sister’s garden has beautiful fox gloves as well as my daughter-in-law garden. I have tried, but they don’t like my garden. Katrina your garden is a reflection of your efforts and passion. Thanks for sharing with us. 👍❤️😊
I’ve seen SM videos of urban animal lovers feeding visiting “wild” otters in their gardens. Maybe your local river is one of those the local sewage works has destroyed…. 😬 #Otterlookingforfood
Fire! Hit me up bruh.