Ep91: Oh balls, things got weird! HUGE allotment transformation
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- We're back! Dorie and I have been super busy on the plot for the last couple of weeks and things are looking a lot different - and just a little bit odd! We've planted out loads and loads of stuff (#slugfood) and been building beds and structures all over the plot. And then (and I quote) 'a clown vomited on the plot' 🤣🤡
Mentions:
@Nicktgriefmy bean man
@TheFarmyardGardensee Clare's channel for how a loofah should look
@emmasallotmentdiariesthank you for the ball idea
@spudsandrosesthank you for the arch idea
@TheGrowUpChannel#jerusalemartichokesfail
Products:
The arches are wilkos finest, but the jute netting is Amazon: www.amazon.co.... (note it took me four orders to get two the right size, but customer service was fine and free returns!)
Produce bags are from Sainsburys (30p each) and Aldi (25p each).
Vlog: Gardening with my dog in the home kitchen vegetable garden and our UK allotment plot. I hope you enjoyed this week's video - please do like and subscribe if you did. Thank you for watching 💕😊
You can also find me on Instagram at / dogontheplot 🐶
#allotment #allotmentvlog #garden #gardening #allotmentuk
What do you think? A little bit mad, or all good fun? 🤣🤡
I love the colourful balls, what a great idea 💡. Jo Devon 🙂
A bit of both? Which is not a bad way to live your life. Plot looks great Kerry A+!
I like doing unusual or silly things in an outdoor space. It's great to see the flowers, etc but something whimsical makes it unique.
What a strange year for weather patterns. Unfortunately from reading up, this may be the coolest year we'll see from now onwards.
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@@ninemoonplanet Eek - but yeah, what a bizarre growing season so far. I'm thinking I might need some bunting between the two tunnels... 🤡
@@tony1kenobi468 Thank you Tony - yes the two do go hand in hand!!
Superbe vidéo 😊
Coucou. Merci 😊
Hurrah, you're back, and more importantly looking relaxed and happy. Plot looks great too.
Aw thank you Steve 🤗
Love the coloured balls .Now you just need bunting ! It's all looking great Kerry ,well done .Heres hoping the slugs depart 🫰
I may have been looking at bunting online Susie ... 🤣🤣
Lovely plot tour. I love the use of the tent poles on the raised beds. First tomatoes too. Amazing.
Thank you Emma. I hope the blight holds off until they ripen!! 🤞🤞
I love what you have achieved on the plot, I especially love the arches and the colourful balls. It's ingenious. Well done you x
Aw thank you Maggie. It certainly brightens things up while I wait for stuff to grow (although a lot of what I showed in the tour has now been slugged!)
Talking of slug damage, I have everything in containers with copper tape around them, which helps a bit ,but not completely. The other day I watched a snail climb up the bamboo cain which was supporting one of my tomato plants inside the polytunnel, it was nearly at the top (how do they do that!) They should have the decency to have vertigo or something, anyway, while watching this snail I was also screaming to my hubby to come and get it as I hate touching them. I am going to have to toughen up, or I'm not going to succeed at this game. Slugs and snails have been rife this year, wet, warm weather perfect. Best of luck to you and Dorie, still loving your videos ❤
@@user-maggiefindx oh I've had to get used to touching them, although they are gross! The slime really sticks! But yes I've seen them climb ridiculously high. I just found a snail sleeping in the petals of my rose!!
Fab update Kerry ❤
Love all the coloured balls on your bamboo canes. 😍
Tidying the shed could have taken up a whole video 😂 Nice tidy shed now. Plot coming along nicely 👍❤ x
Haha it could have yes!! It would have been 10mins of timelapse folding netting and untangling string 🤣🤣 Thank you Linda 🤗
Did you go to a children’s ball room and stuff a few in your bag 😂😂. I love the bean house that’s a great idea. Oddly enough the slugs left most of my beans alone and went for the tomato plants 🤦♀️. Will you hand pollinate the pumpkins 🎃. I have one apple the other one fell off 😢. I grew onions and beans in the same pots last year and they were fine. Tree cabbage looks amazing. Climbing nasturtium would love the trellises. Have a super day and weekend Kerry, Ali 🌞🥵🇨🇦 (only 28c today 🤦♀️)
Haha. They were honestly a gift! To be fair, I'd rather sacrifice beans than tomatoes so I'll stop complaining! 🤣 Ah yes I think I remember you saying the before about the beans and onions. You have a good week too. 28c here tomorrow!!
Lovely catch up and so nice to see you have had time to enjoy the allotment.
Hopefully after the rain and this heat wave things will begin to fill your space with natural colour 😆😉
Off to measure those glass pannels for you, although there are only a few.
☺️ keep smiling and having fun
Allie & Tricia
You'd think rain and then sun would be the perfect combo but it seems to mean DEATH to my crops 🤣🤣 hey ho - what will be will be!! Aw thank you. The panes are 61cm width I believe.
The things gardeners have to do to fight slugs! Thanks for the produce bag tip, that's a really good idea. I'll try it for my dahlias next spring. I think that even if there is a risk that aphids have a party inside the bags, the benefit of keeping the slugs and pigeons off makes it worthwhile. Your plot looks very productive, not mad at all. Fingers crossed, now that it's warmed up and we're having less rain, the squash and courgettes and beans can all start to get going properly. It's been such a slow start to the summer this year.
Such a slow start! I've had to give up on a few bits. I'm crushed about the squash - I grew so many last year and I loved it. Oh well. Yes, I had to put a bag over a dahlia last night as it was getting slug attacked. Hopefully it will recover. Thank you for watching 😊🌱
@@dogontheplot I lost all my cucumbers again this year. I waited until June to plant them out then we had that weird cold snap and they got slugged. I've lost so many beans too, the slugs just eat the growing tips. I sowed about 5 times as many beans as I needed and just about have enough left for a decent harvest. It's funny, I'm a perfectionist with so many things but gardening has taught me to go with the flow and focus on the things that do well and even in tough years like this year, there are things that'll grow well. I hope you still get a good harvest of squash from your remaining plants, this coming week looks hot and dry so hopefully the slugs will go and hide for a bit! We can hope!
@@EighteenandCloudy oh no! I have one cucumber outside that is getting slugged but luckily have undercover space at home for a few plants too. Yes - here's hoping they take a break and allow things to get to a slug resistant size!
If you want flowers in that area try hydrangeas you can buy one or two and take loads of cuttings they are super easy to propagate
As I said to Emma, I love the coloured plastic balls/ they look so happy and decorative. Great idea. Love the produce bag idea- maybe Emma will adopt your idea to protect her crops which are also getting badly slugged. Your plot is looking truly amazing. Well done Kerry. A plot to be proud of. Happy gardening. 🙂
Thank you Be. They certainly brighten up the plot! I think I need to just accept a 'what will be will be' philosophy for the plot this year! No use getting upset over every slugged plant - no doubt there will be SOMETHING to harvest eventually!
@@dogontheplot there will def be something, I'm sure. happy gardening🙂
Wow! Kerry, you really did a good job of charging those batteries. Love, love, love your plot, you are so ingenious ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜
Haha I think I just drained them even more 🤣🤣 but it feels soooo much better to have got almost everything out - even if it is immediately being eaten!!!
I think your plot looks BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
Aw thank you Amanda 🤗
@@dogontheplot You're very welcome!
Well done with your plot, you’ve done magnificently. Your break has done you good.
Things don’t have to look perfect, just practical. Thanks
Aw thank you Marilyn. Yes, totally - the important part is that stuff finally got in the ground (even if it has been immediately demolished by slugs!! 🙄🤣)
Whoop whoop Kerry you have been busy looks fab just wait till its all in bloom Awesome job xx❤🧡💛💚💙💜xx
Thank you Tina. I'm not sure much will get to the blooming stage 🙈 but it's all lessons learnt for next year!
Happy you did not choose black and blue balls and went for a variety of colour it brightens up the allotment. I was waiting in anticipationfor Coco the clown to appear out of nowhere, Great fun Kerry, just love watching your gardening journey.
Haha! Aw thank you 😊🌱
Nice view and good plants
Thank you 🤗
Amazing. You have worked so hard. Love it. ❤
Aw thank you Christine 🤗
Oh, what joy to see you and Dorie again. Dorie loves the balls, clearly. 😅 They are cool and funny. I've been trying to search the net for balls for pole ends, but didn't think of putting ball pit in the search field. You got so much done, did you get to watch any tennis? Good luck with all pumpkins and beans and everything. Will be interesting to see how things grow. I hope up your wonderful structures. I'm at the end of the season for cucumbers and patty pans, but still got lots of green tomatoes waiting to ripen. And I sowed beans recently, to take over for the peas. Not sure there is enough time left, hopefully some flowers at least. Those I have at work are growing, but very slowly. I know nothing about growing beans really, so it's all learning opportunities.
Aw thank you. I didn't watch as much of the tennis as I usually would, I have to say!! But pleased to have got so much done. Unfortunately, a lot of the pumpkins and beans have been eaten or just died - the brassicas still look ok though... I think it is a 'learning opportunity' year and I'll just take any harvest i can get as a win! Good luck with your beans 😊🤗🌱
Always wondered what was in that shipping container 😊 Most people would get excited about a tap being near their plot, but a shop??? My idea of heaven. Plot is looking fab. How about a huge patch of chickpeas growing on that front mound? Low growing, wouldn't block the front view of your plot...and fab crop! 🤗
Haha trouble is it's only open for 1 HR on a Sunday morning 🤣 - but yes it makes transporting 8ft bamboo canes really easy 🤣🤣 ohhh that's an interesting suggestion...is there still time to start chickpeas?
@@dogontheplot Guess you can only try...buy a big bag of organic chickpeas from the local organic shop and go crazy 🤪 In my experience you need to sow loads to get a crop 💚🌱
I've got loads of dried chickpeas (vegan innit 🤣) so it is certainly a possibility.
@@dogontheplot LOL...of course you do! 👍🤗
Brilliant ! I love all the balls they look so colourful ! When the eight foot child does arrive make sure u capture the footage 😂
You’ve worked very hard between the tennis 👌🏼now we just need the sun ☀️
Haha - will do! I did think that 8 foot child is probably me balancing on that wobbly stool trying to harvest runner beans in a couple of months!!
I sure missed your vlog! You seem happy again, so glad you got a much deserved vacation. In a few more weeks the plants will take over and fill in. You've got the best start ever!❤
Aw thank you Debbie. Love your optimism but everytime I go down there something else has been eaten!! I think any harvest this year will be a win, but it isn't going to be a bumper year. Onto the next!
Love how your plot is looking especially the coloured balls 🏀 great idea.
Aw thank you Sandra 🤗
Wow! You have achieved so much! You just needed some time. (Your grass paths look great btw - keep strimming) 😃
I know - I need to retire! 🤣
@@dogontheplot 🤣🤣🤣
I loved this video Kerry. Was a joy to watch.
Massive transformation. You have worked so hard and crammed in the tennis too! Legend!
Hope the slugs keep off your squash plants and everything romps away now.
If it’s any consolation, I don’t think I’m going to get any luffas either. They’re simply not germinating.
Archways, pea frames .. all of it.. just brilliant ❤❤
Aw thanks Clare. I honestly think this might be my last year of attempting loofas. They clearly don't like me!!
Hiya, I'm growing my Luffa in the polytunnel, I do think they need the heat. I thought you'd just been gifted the contents of a kids ball-pool lol 🤣🤣
Haha basically that's what happened! Yes I tried growing the indoors and outdoors last year - no luck either way. There's a lady on our plot grew super ones outside, but maybe that was the heatwave year!!!
Love this! Regarding your grass paths and the strumming situation - would a clover path be a good alternative? A bit of work to get it established but less maintenance perhaps in the long run? The allotment is looking great. ❤
Oh I would love that! Issue is in the winter it would just get trashed because of the flooding - the paths become a muddy health and safety nightmare in the winter ☹️ Thank you Maria 🤗
Arches are great.
So sad about the slug situation.
cane toppers are fun.
Slugs sending me mad, but hey ho! Not risking my garleeks and badger flame - they're going into the home garden where I can keep an eye on them!
Wow what a difference. I wish my maincrop pots in tubs looked as good as yours. We lost all our squash but have succeeded in creating a wild flower bed alongside the polytunnel which is very pretty.
Ah I'm sorry to hear that. My squash are reducing by the day - everytime I go down another has been slugged. Sigh. I've definitely learnt that 'spares' are a must. Wildflower bed sounds lovely and I'm inspired by your 'make the best of it' attitude!
I'm loving the plot, you have worked miracles over the past few few weeks. I love the coloured balls, such a good idea. I've used tennis balls in the past and the small yoghurt type bottles. Those coloured balls look like what you get in a children's ball pool, so if you know anyone who is wanting to dispose of them you will have a supply for future use. I'm wanting to do arches across the path between some of my beds, but our allotment site is under threat of being taken away by the land owners, we're trying to buy the land and are fund raising like mad but because the future is uncertain I'm not going to invest in the arches just yet. I'm really impressed with how your plot has come on though and even if things are slow this year you'll have the backbone in place for next year, and I think most of us are struggling this year so don't lose heart, I'm hoping we're going to get get an Indian Summer and everything will flourish but just a bit later than usual.
Aw thank you Liz and I'm so sorry to hear your site is under threat - good luck on the fundraising and I really hope it works out. I was feeling pretty positive when I filmed the tour on Monday - but every day I've been down this week another (and then another and then another) thing has been eaten. It is getting rather disheartening. I'm sure there'll be something to harvest eventually but boy, what a year!
What lengths we’ve gone to to overcome slug pressure!!!! It’s been a nightmare! I didn’t have a problem to start with as I put out beer traps at the very beginning to catch the first slugs before they had babies. Caught hundreds! Then I didn’t repeat because I didn’t follow my own advice to put fresh traps out when you think you solved the issue. Anyway, I tried your tip with sour dough starter. They caught sooooo many slugs the first night. And by the end of the week only the odd small slugs were left. I repeated a few weeks later and added Bicarbsoda. Caught a few large ones. Been under control ever since. But the starter is in the fridge ready to reboot!
Your plot looks fabulous. Loving the play pool balls. Well done with the shed. I did mine beginning 2020 and once I had a place for everything like you have now, it’s stayed relatively tidy other than when we’re curing onions. Which has surprised me. Hopefully, you’ll find yours will stay organised for a good few years.
I’m also finding a regular liquid feed for my greens, beans, peas and squashes/cukes has been necessary this year. It’s really helped give them a boost after the slow start. Just diluted comfrey/nettle/worm tea. 🌱💚
Mum and I were just saying this morning that the most effective slug control does seem like getting out and hunting them down. The shed is still tidy for now lol. Yeh I wonder if I should have been feeding but it kinda feels like that's throwing more money at the problem. My attitude now is if they want to live they better get on and live!! 🤣 Thank you for watching 🥰
Hello Kerry, I love the colored balls. I love the color and the whimsy they provide. For those that do not appreciate them just smile and say nice! there really is no better response. I just watched Emma's Allotment Diaries and she just did these also. and now you are the second person.
Cleaning the shed is massive to your ego, motivation and satisfaction level. We all need small wins, medium wins and big wins. I think your plot is coming along just fine and battling the slugs is a tremendous job. I am blessed to not have that problem here.
We have had 25 inches of rain already this year and I have lost many plants to drowning. I should have hired a lifeguard!! All the okra gone many peppers and tomatoes also. So as y'all say there Hey ho! We can focus on the negative or the positive and that choice drives our narrative for the year. I do truly feel if you stay busy enuf you will not have time to cry and whine. That is why I like your channel as you stay on the positive side and move on despite the losses and challenges. Thank you for the video today it was very lovely!! Steven
Ah you're so right although I feel very TESTED at the moment!! I think for everything that dies from slugs, floods or pigeons, I'll just add more balls!!! 🤣
@@dogontheplot yes
Nice to see you back! The growth has been really slow so far... but you have been busy!
Love yhe symmetry between the arches, and thanks for the shout-out 🤗
The jute netting suits really well! And the shed tidy! 💚🌿
I hope you actually got to enjoy a bit of time off, too 😊💚🌿
Thanks Maiju. Sooooooo slooooooow!!! I'm massively behind and half of what was there Monday when I was filming has now been slugged 🤣🤣 I gotta laugh or I'll cry!!!
@dogontheplot I'll cry with you, Kerry 😂🤗 it's the very same here! Don't worry, we're not market gardeners, once you get some joy and food out of the process rather than farming slugs 🤣🤣 all is gooooood 🥰🥂
front of your plot I would say Lupins and Delphiniums but with your national collection of Slugs I don't think they'd fare too well I'm just about to so some flowers for the wild life area at home . they grow from 3ft to 6ft ish if you're interested.
Can you imagine lupins 🤣🤣🤣 i'd put one in, look away to get the next, look back and it'd be gone!! 🤣🤣 The front strip will hopefully fill up with the self seeded cosmos and tree spinach but it's a big area so I would like a crop in that space.... Hmmm.
@@dogontheplot cardoons, globe artichokes and maybe sweet peasto give you a screen 😉
Looks great
Thank you Becky 😊
We used to leave a shallow dish full of cheap beer out which would attract the slugs and then they drowned in it, but I’m not sure how humane that was and it was gross to clear out! 😂 When I had them in my ground floor bedroom in Selly Oak I put talcum powder around the walls to keep them out but I don’t think that would work outside…
Hey Kerry.
2:00 look at the birdy feasting away 😂
Wow! That swing structure and canes look awesome. Love what you've done on the plot. Really taking shape now
Eric will be jealous. He's had an apple tree for 2 years now and it's never fruited 🫣
Where on earth did you source a trolley 😮😂 I'd line that and have herbs in it. Is it Tesco's? Cos Every little helps if it is 😂😂 🛒🌿🌿
Tomatoes are looking lovely in the greenhouse (frame)😂
I love the brassica bags! 😅
'Ahh has it been slugged?' 😢 glad you found the cosmos 👍🏽
😂 love all those balls. It's a happy little plot 💚😊
Aw thank you Rach. Yes I noticed that naughty little bird!! The trolley was abandoned on the plot so I just helped myself... I also have one in the home garden that was dumped on the local park. They're both a bit broken so assume not worth returning to the store 👀
Wow you've done so much hard work 🎉. Jo Devon 🙂
Thank you Jo 💕
Super like your video ❤❤❤❤
Thank you 🤗
At the very front of your plot you could put a frame up all the way along it and grow sweet peas up it - make a bit of a barrier 🌺🌸🏵️🌺🌸🏵️
Oh that would be so pretty!! Bit late for sweetpeas now but I have a load of dahlias with nowhere to go so have been toying with that idea...
You poor gardeners over there and your slugs-sigh.
We have sandy soil and the only place I see a few slugs is some clay soil I had delivered and they do gather around brassicas-mainly cabbage. I always hear every gardener over there speak of compost. Maybe a load of sand is needed. We have also had an over abundance of rain this year.
I would say I would trade some mosquitoes for slugs but I’ve seen the size of your slugs😂.
Hmm at least slugs don't bite... I think I'll let you keep the mozzies 🤣 Yeh it's been a bad year for them, for sure.
Wow you have been very busy on the plot. It looks amazing and love how you planned it out. Very creative. Great to see you back in love with it. The balls make me smile. I follow Emma as well as saw she added some balls as well. Thank you for sharing. ❤
Thank you Debra. Ah it's all good fun isn't it. If anything survives till harvest this season it'll be an almighty win 🤣🤣
With those balls ,they 'll be calling it the 'blackpool front' , plot .
Oh yes!! I love it. Someone said it was the funfair plot lol
@@dogontheplot if you ve got a local airport , the planes will be using your plot to align with the runway approach .
@@lordsuch5762 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wow .your allotment is amazing. You can do my garden for me.
I gotta do my garden now Linda 🤣🤣 - that's the problem, everytime I get one growing space sorted the other ones are neglected 🙈
We all know there is a dog on the plot. 😉❤️
But, I detect that there is a smoker on the plot, also. Ah, the veg plot thickens. I preferred that name. Maybe she’ll change it back. Not even 10 minutes into this vlog. Btw, welcome back! 😉❤️🥂
A smoker...? You'll have to explain that one to me Jimmy! Good to be back ,🤗☺️
@@dogontheplotI’m probably just seeing them as I smoked myself, years ago. But, I keep seeing lots of cigarette butts in your soil. I wonder if it how some of the wood chips look. 😂😂
Oh, was this the same cousin that came to visit your plot and gave out about the state of it?
I’m just at the ‘balls’ bit. 😉😂❤️
@@jimmyconnolly3461 oh Jimmy no no no. No smoking here. I'll have to look and see what's in the soil misrepresenting me! 🤣 Yes, same cousin - continues to support my dreams 🤣
@@dogontheplot we need to see ‘cousin’. Always fun to watch your vlogs. Clown. Circus and coloured balls. 😂😂
I had a sneaky watch of a few of your vlogs whilst you were taking time off. I was missing you. 😉👍❤️🥂
@@jimmyconnolly3461 aw bless 🤗
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BTW I did spy with my little eye several more colored balls on the floor in a bag of the shed. Yes, it is grammatically correct or acceptable to use three prepositional phrases in succession!
Oh yes there's A LOT more... I also now have a hankering for some bunting between the arches 🙈😂
Balls!?
Balls
Ow look ball BALLLLL BALLlll yheaaa happy dogs!! "30:49min Google Malva sylvestris" What a amazing allotment transformation! Time to make the shed into a sheshed 🤣🐝thanks for the great video🌻
Oo thank you for that. Good to have the variety. Such a lovely colour. Ah I'd love a 'sheshed' but I'd be so bad at keeping it tidy!! 🤣
@@dogontheplot Well it looks the same. Its a eddible but some flowers just nice to have for the love they give in the garden. And they dont grow that crazy tall as hollyhocks. All the same plantfam
Brilliant ! I love all the balls they look so colourful ! When the eight foot child does arrive make sure u capture the footage 😂
You’ve worked very hard between the tennis 👌🏼now we just need the sun ☀️
Absolutely