I absolutely love Alys Fowler's series on gardening. Very inspiring and useful to me, as a gardening professional who uses quality video material to teach others.
Absolutely grand! So unlike North American shows, so clean, tidy, fake. This lady gets her hands dirty! And makes gardening look accessible without magical tools or chemicals. Bravo!
Lovely to see Alys again. If Monty decides to step down from Gardeners World I do hope that the gardening gauntlet is passed on to the ever entertaining and well informed Alys Fowler!
First, i love Alys Fowler! She is true inspiration! Second, to all haters or Roundup lovers... If you have nothing more polite or at least, less stupid to say, please, say nothing! You kill your own land and your health... and the worst part in the story is that you are proud to promote your destructive techniques! So if you don't like 'wildflowers' of organic gardening.... Just don't put your nose in it....
I love Isabelle! She is so cute! Lots of good information. I love to listen to and watch your videos Alys Fowler. Gardening in mid-Florida is a challenge but you inspire me to never give up. Keep making more videos, you and Isabelle.
Nice to meet you Alys..... and a pleasure to watch you in your allotment.. I will now go and grow garlic..... Oh.....and you have such a lovely voice ....I could listen to you giving me advice without tiring.... Thank you :-)
That's a brilliant kettle. I can highly recommend nettles brewed down into a smelly soup, despite the stink it does make very good feed, as does seaweed but rinse it first.
Brilliant idea with the weeds! So happy to see someone making excellent use of that biomass. Don't throw it away, people! Make compost. Good helpful weed identification. Perennial weeds are so much worse than annual weeds.
Love AF book. Appreciate how you teach. Thanks, stay safe. And BTW, if I was Bewitched, I would twinkle twinkle my nose and get Alys Fowler to help for a day in my tiny yard and help me decide the best way to design it. I am horrible at design and I think of advice you give in your book, but I just can't make it right here. I keep plugging away at it, but I can't find gardeners of my type gardening here in my town. Alas, I don't have magic. LOL.
I can't wait for the snow to melt to do exactly as she's doing with tthe weeds! And I can't wait!!!! So fun with a nice cup of tea or coffee and the fresh air of Spring ;)
They do vary. I had one in Potters Bar which was £8 per year plus £2 key (2006) which was full size but gave that up after some flytippers decided to dump chemicals in the road next to it. A council one I have which is small, is slightly more than a semi private site at £6.50 per pole but they are graded A or B. My council one is B probably because it is next to the local secure unit but the fencing is very good... it has to be. I do not stay after dark though.
Nw subscriber. So happy to have found you. I came to you from Lavender and Leeks, which presents wonderful (and in my view under-subscribed) videos about a pretty allotment cared for by Katie Lane who is a fan of your books.
I took on a council allotment 3 months ago in S. Wales, it costs me £10 per year ...!- absolute bargain. I had a private allotment for a short while previously which was costing a fortune.
You just get the plot in whatever state it’s in with whatever’s on it usually. I got a rotting but usable shed but also 3 years worth of weed growth and piles of chicken wire and broken glass.
Robbie RDBL Guy it's called a ghillie kettle. Lots of manufactures online uk based ones the best. I've two but an ionised or coated one is better than straight aluminium will last longer.
Yep. Cardboard. Four inches of compost. I put unrotted horse straw/manure on in autumn and by spring it’s perfect for planting. Never stand on it or dig it. Just a little light hoeing! More compost in autumn.
I used to use it I'm sorry to say but not now. A decent hoe, regular use of it and weed membrane if you are that fussy are good alternatives. Also it is a waste of money at forty quid a pop for the concentrate.
not understanding your comment - I have an allotment to grow huge amounts of vegetables. I also have a large garden for flowers. Allotments are wonderful. They are part of a community. You are missing the pleasure of having your own allotment.
My apologies. My post was short and left a lot to interpretation. I dread living in the city where you are crammed in with your neighbors and have tiny little yards, if you have yards at all, and can hear your neighbors start up their cars in the morning, or play loud music, or become nosy about your business. And to have to travel to a spot of land that apparently you rent? or are allowed to use for a certain amount of time? I'd imagine it's the latter since it's an "allotment" and who knows what state the previous grower left it in, let alone all the rules that come with such a thing. I don't want to have to drive a car or ride a bike to get my food, I have it all within 400 feet of my kitchen door. And the soil you build is yours to have year after year while the trees produce more and more fruit. I have lived in the city, apartments and housing tracts.. Then I moved to the country on 40 acres and found comfort in the silence filled with nature for 20 years.. Then I found a place somewhere in the middle, with an acre of flat land weedy and overgrown, but with rich loamy clay just begging for piles of compost and heavy mulching and old growth nut trees lining the edges. This is what I dream it could be for everyone. If you can grow huge amounts of veggies on a small allotment just imagine what you can do with some space. Imagine what it could be like in 5 years.. 10 years when your trees are producing 8 5 gallon buckets of fruit each tree! And you realize you probably shouldn't have planted 150 different kinds of trees but your neighbors love you for it, and all the people that expect to see you each week at the farmers market. But I digress. What I meant is it just doesn't seem right to live crammed in a city, a food wasteland, with tiny square homes with no yards, and then have to drive away from it just to have a tiny square garden.. It just seems... backward somehow.
Thankyou for your response. Can I move in? I presume you are in America where land is still quite cheap. Living in the UK we are indeed crammed together but I thank heavens for my lovely long and largeish garden - it gives me such pleasure. If you are very rich in the UK you can have what you have - space and quiet. Most cannot. I have a friend in Texas in the USA who has acres of land - and a house of course - and what she paid for it or what it is worth - is half of what I have in the UK. In a tiny island space is golden. The new houses being built have postage stamp size gardens. Yes, I do have issues with neighbours - but I like knowing that people are around with me. And yes, I do drive to my allotment but I find it such a pleasure. Once I get there I am just there to enjoy, digging my plot and seeing my allotmenteer friends as they do as I do. I would hate to be alone in the wilderness. But that is me. Yes, I rent my allotment and it is mine as long as I keep it up as long as I can. When I am too old to dig and maintain my plot it will go back to others who can enjoy as I enjoy it. The rules are quite simple - keep it tidy! I provide enough food for my family and with a glut - many familes. There is pickling and freezing raspberries etc. It is enough. The five apple trees in the allotment and in the garden provide ample fruit for pies and juicing for a year. It is all enough and I thank heavens I have my own allotment. Not all can afford to live in acres and acres of land. Especially in small countries like mine. I thank god to live in a safe and stable country. I thank god I have a place to call home. I am not in a city - but am close to a beautiful and historic city called Canterbury in Kent. It is small. Look it up on Google. I am close to the sea for swimming in the summer. I can go to the 11th century cathedral in Canterbury to contemplate and enjoy. I think I am very lucky where I live. I think I have everything I need where I am. Though I would love to see your place! Where are you in the USA?
We have both so does Alys. I grow flowers and shrubs at home fruit and veg on the allotment it's far far from awful there's a whole community of fellow gardeners there. It's great really like a whole separate world to escape to. I agree that it would be horrible to have a tiny or no garden though.
Great presenter & gardener. I wish we had more of her shows in the near future.
I absolutely love Alys Fowler's series on gardening. Very inspiring and useful to me, as a gardening professional who uses quality video material to teach others.
Absolutely grand! So unlike North American shows, so clean, tidy, fake. This lady gets her hands dirty! And makes gardening look accessible without magical tools or chemicals. Bravo!
Lovely to see Alys again. If Monty decides to step down from Gardeners World I do hope that the gardening gauntlet is passed on to the ever entertaining and well informed Alys Fowler!
Just totally brilliant! Can't wait to get down my allotment. She a absolute inspiration!
After a long wait we have finally got out allotment in Bracknell. This winter episode is really helpful and encouraging. Thanks a lot....
First, i love Alys Fowler! She is true inspiration!
Second, to all haters or Roundup lovers... If you have nothing more polite or at least, less stupid to say, please, say nothing! You kill your own land and your health... and the worst part in the story is that you are proud to promote your destructive techniques!
So if you don't like 'wildflowers' of organic gardening.... Just don't put your nose in it....
I love Isabelle! She is so cute! Lots of good information. I love to listen to and watch your videos Alys Fowler. Gardening in mid-Florida is a challenge but you inspire me to never give up. Keep making more videos, you and Isabelle.
Nice to meet you Alys..... and a pleasure to watch you in your allotment.. I will now go and grow garlic..... Oh.....and you have such a lovely voice ....I could listen to you giving me advice without tiring.... Thank you :-)
I have just taken on a small allotent, and started work on it today. I recon I can learn from these videos ! Great John
That's a brilliant kettle. I can highly recommend nettles brewed down into a smelly soup, despite the stink it does make very good feed, as does seaweed but rinse it first.
We miss all your garden series videos. Can we have them back please
Tony Smith
Ditto my fav gardener.
Nice to watch..The shed is the fun part..and the tea...and the lady is pretty..
Inspiring and heart warming. Thank you xo
Brilliant idea with the weeds! So happy to see someone making excellent use of that biomass. Don't throw it away, people! Make compost. Good helpful weed identification. Perennial weeds are so much worse than annual weeds.
Thank you, have just started a plot, you are wonderful:-)
That was nice. I learned quite a lot and enjoyed your insights.
Love AF book. Appreciate how you teach. Thanks, stay safe. And BTW, if I was Bewitched, I would twinkle twinkle my nose and get Alys Fowler to help for a day in my tiny yard and help me decide the best way to design it. I am horrible at design and I think of advice you give in your book, but I just can't make it right here. I keep plugging away at it, but I can't find gardeners of my type gardening here in my town. Alas, I don't have magic. LOL.
I can't wait for the snow to melt to do exactly as she's doing with tthe weeds! And I can't wait!!!! So fun with a nice cup of tea or coffee and the fresh air of Spring ;)
They do vary. I had one in Potters Bar which was £8 per year plus £2 key (2006) which was full size but gave that up after some flytippers decided to dump chemicals in the road next to it. A council one I have which is small, is slightly more than a semi private site at £6.50 per pole but they are graded A or B. My council one is B probably because it is next to the local secure unit but the fencing is very good... it has to be. I do not stay after dark though.
you are awesome. And gorgeous! I got an allotment last week!
Nw subscriber. So happy to have found you. I came to you from Lavender and Leeks, which presents wonderful (and in my view under-subscribed) videos about a pretty allotment cared for by Katie Lane who is a fan of your books.
I miss your edible gardening video too...! I loved it and can't find it anymore.
Thank you
I put my weeds in a dustbin and cover with water. In the summer is turns to slime in about 3 weeks, I put it on my compost heap.
You can tell it's winter cos the dog's got his jacket on
originally called a storm kettle i think
sure in dublin at can cost you euro 285 for a 20 x6 mtr plot for the year thats private, the council arnt far from that either
got to love the kelly kettle
thats the trouble, the council, think they should charge the same as private..its all wrong..
Love it
The worms feed on microorganisms which decompose that cardboard. Personally I bring out vermicompost with worms inside.
Sticks in the kettle and weeds for lunch...you go girl...
I took on a council allotment 3 months ago in S. Wales, it costs me £10 per year ...!- absolute bargain. I had a private allotment for a short while previously which was costing a fortune.
Nice show, I am interested to know what is the thing you burned twigs in and pour hot water out another end?
Storm Kettle
What is that little pot? You have fire and water in the same pot? What is it called, and where do you get one?
Your edible garden videos disappeared:( the one you filmed in your house
+Isabella Colantonio Yes! I've been searching for them, I can't even find them for sale on DVD. PLEASE let us watch them again!
Allotments are an alien concept here in Canada. To me at any rate. Is each allotment given a shed or do you have to build your own?
You just get the plot in whatever state it’s in with whatever’s on it usually. I got a rotting but usable shed but also 3 years worth of weed growth and piles of chicken wire and broken glass.
That tea pot is awesome. Does it have a name?
Storm kettle
Cheers I was wondering what the name was.... Amazon time
Trench digging does a good and easier job just shovel dirt on to the next part how a plow works but deeper
Does Alys still have her plot, how did she get on, does anyone know?
A dog on a lotment? Marvelous!
May I ask where u can buy the storm kettle
Robbie RDBL Guy I would love one too ☕
Robbie RDBL Guy it's called a ghillie kettle. Lots of manufactures online uk based ones the best. I've two but an ionised or coated one is better than straight aluminium will last longer.
Nowt like a good mug of tea!
No dig gardening?
That bottle she is using to make a fire at the start to boil water. What is that actually called?
Samovar Charcoal Water Heater, Storm Kettle, Kelly Kettle Large Stainless Steel Base Camp Basic Kit.
got to provide your own unless you're lucky enough to inherit one from the previous plot holder...
What about the no dig method? Dose it work?
Yep. Cardboard. Four inches of compost. I put unrotted horse straw/manure on in autumn and by spring it’s perfect for planting. Never stand on it or dig it. Just a little light hoeing! More compost in autumn.
Try No-Dig Alice, makes life much easier.
Does anyone know what the intro is?
what is the music?
I used to use it I'm sorry to say but not now. A decent hoe, regular use of it and weed membrane if you are that fussy are good alternatives. Also it is a waste of money at forty quid a pop for the concentrate.
Please tell me she has a youtube channel that looks like this
Why get rid of the dock leaves? They're great for nettle stings.
i dont read snooze papers!!
What is the "allotment" thing and how does it work?
@xrayzulu51 I know it's great!!! I think you could get one online. Do a search for storm kettle =)
Thought she lived in London?
Birmingham I think.
muy lindo, y hermosa mujer eres, lo digo de verdad, muy interesante todo, y es parte de la buena comida
Dogs got its coat on but Alys took her cloves off
She`s lady after my own heart Start off with a hot cuppa
muy lindo, y hermosa mujer eres, lo digo de verdad
Vile human being
A kelly kettle
Stig of the dump
@telemarker77 and you should obey the restraining order!!!!! fekin daily mail reader
this girls hot !!!!
Save Tommy Robinson from unfair prisonment and no I dont support everything he says.
Девушке дома бы сидеть и ногти красить, а не чеснок сажать на холоде ....
Anton Gazetov ii
Must be awful to live where you have an allotment, and not a back yard. Not worth it.
not understanding your comment - I have an allotment to grow huge amounts of vegetables. I also have a large garden for flowers. Allotments are wonderful. They are part of a community. You are missing the pleasure of having your own allotment.
My apologies. My post was short and left a lot to interpretation.
I dread living in the city where you are crammed in with your neighbors and have tiny little yards, if you have yards at all, and can hear your neighbors start up their cars in the morning, or play loud music, or become nosy about your business.
And to have to travel to a spot of land that apparently you rent? or are allowed to use for a certain amount of time? I'd imagine it's the latter since it's an "allotment" and who knows what state the previous grower left it in, let alone all the rules that come with such a thing.
I don't want to have to drive a car or ride a bike to get my food, I have it all within 400 feet of my kitchen door. And the soil you build is yours to have year after year while the trees produce more and more fruit.
I have lived in the city, apartments and housing tracts.. Then I moved to the country on 40 acres and found comfort in the silence filled with nature for 20 years.. Then I found a place somewhere in the middle, with an acre of flat land weedy and overgrown, but with rich loamy clay just begging for piles of compost and heavy mulching and old growth nut trees lining the edges. This is what I dream it could be for everyone. If you can grow huge amounts of veggies on a small allotment just imagine what you can do with some space.
Imagine what it could be like in 5 years.. 10 years when your trees are producing 8 5 gallon buckets of fruit each tree! And you realize you probably shouldn't have planted 150 different kinds of trees but your neighbors love you for it, and all the people that expect to see you each week at the farmers market.
But I digress.
What I meant is it just doesn't seem right to live crammed in a city, a food wasteland, with tiny square homes with no yards, and then have to drive away from it just to have a tiny square garden.. It just seems... backward somehow.
Thankyou for your response. Can I move in? I presume you are in America
where land is still quite cheap. Living in the UK we are indeed crammed
together but I thank heavens for my lovely long and largeish garden -
it gives me such pleasure.
If you are very rich in the UK you can have what you have - space and quiet. Most cannot. I have a friend in Texas in the USA who has acres of land - and a house of course - and what she paid for it or what it is worth - is half of what I have in the UK. In a tiny island space is golden.
The new houses being built have postage stamp size gardens. Yes, I do have issues with neighbours - but I like knowing that people are around with me. And yes, I do drive to my allotment but I find it such a pleasure. Once I get there I am just there to enjoy, digging my plot and seeing my allotmenteer friends as they do as I do. I would hate to be alone in the wilderness. But that is me. Yes, I rent my allotment and it is mine as long as I keep it up as long as I can. When I am too old to dig and maintain my plot it will go back to others who can enjoy as I enjoy it. The rules are quite simple - keep it tidy!
I provide enough food for my family and with a glut - many familes.
There is pickling and freezing raspberries etc. It is enough. The five
apple trees in the allotment and in the garden provide ample fruit for
pies and juicing for a year. It is all enough and I thank heavens I
have my own allotment. Not all can afford to live in acres and acres of
land. Especially in small countries like mine. I thank god to live in
a safe and stable country. I thank god I have a place to call home.
I am not in a city - but am close to a beautiful and historic city called Canterbury in Kent. It is small. Look it up on Google. I am close to the sea for swimming in the summer. I can go to the 11th century cathedral in Canterbury to contemplate and enjoy. I think I am very lucky where I live. I think I have everything I need where I am. Though I would love to see your place! Where are you in the USA?
We have both so does Alys. I grow flowers and shrubs at home fruit and veg on the allotment it's far far from awful there's a whole community of fellow gardeners there. It's great really like a whole separate world to escape to. I agree that it would be horrible to have a tiny or no garden though.
You can tell it's winter cos the dog's got his jacket on
muy lindo, y hermosa mujer eres, lo digo de verdad, muy interesante todo, y es parte de la buena comida
muy lindo, y hermosa mujer eres, lo digo de verdad