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How I’m Doing My Allotment Planting Plan in 2018
In this video I take you through the approach that I’ve taken to planning the allotments this year. Last year I invested in a fancy online planning app, but it was too complex, inflexible and...
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Allotment Hotbed – Filling and Planting
Today’s video shows the process of emptying last years hot bed and then filling it again and also filling the new hotbed. The process is fairly simple to describe: First I fill the empty hotbed with...
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January Allotment Tour (Steve’s Plot)
I’m taking advantage of a few good days to do a quick tour of my plot, but more importantly I’m also working with a couple of friends to take down my old cooking apples trees and a very poor eater....
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January Tour of Debbie’s Plot
Everything is as it should be on Debbie’s plot. She’s mulching the beds with her excellent home made compost, pruning the apple trees and training them to their support wires, and continuing to...
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Big Plans For My Little Allotment
Last weekend I enlisted the help of some – wood burner owning – friends and we took down the old – unproductive – apples trees on my plot. I was a big job that’s left me exhausted for a few days but...
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January Tour of Jennie’s Allotment Plot
This is a short video showing the progress on Jennie’s plot. It’s taken a while to film it because the weather has just been too windy to get decent audio, but today it’s finally bearable. There’s not...
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Weekly update/tour – early strawberries, planting, reducing our workload and...
In today’s video I provide an update on what’s happened over the last few days. The focus continues to be on reducing our spring and summer workload, preparing for spring and getting ready for the...
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Allotment Smoothies
Today’s video is in response to a viewer’s request. Apparently I’m always mentioning smoothie’s on the videos and so a video of making them was a good idea too. Smoothie’s are particularly important...
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Weekly Allotment Update – Polytunnel Prep, Mulching, Potatoes and a Quick Tour
It’s been a busy week on the allotments, spurred on by pretty great weather! I’ve done a lot of work on Jennie’s plot, forking and mulching the potato bed with well rotted manure and preparing the...
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This is what self-sufficiency – in seasonal veg – looks like in February!
Here’s a quick video to show what self-sufficiency in most seasonal veg looks like on the allotment today. I take a quick walk around the plots and do a typical February harvest, then I take a few...
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5 Questions, 5 Answers and 5 YouTuber’s
Amanda from AJ’s Allotment asked me to answer 5 questions and then tag 5 additional people who I’d like to see answer the same questions. There’s no obligation to answer of course, but if you fancy...
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Weekly Allotment Update and Tour
The harvests are really starting to pick up now. I’ve just picked 20 litres of veg, that’s a respectable £20 worth, and it’s the second harvest of the week. It’s a tricky time of year though, picking...
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Weekly Update – new big beds, pea and bean frames, and a wind break
I’m still waiting for the stump grinder and as a result ‘project polytunnel’ is stalled for another week. I’ve taken the opportunity to disassemble two raised beds and associated mesh frames that I...
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Seed planting chaos and update from the Kitchen Garden
Here’s a quick tour of the kitchen garden, not much ready to harvest – just beets and carrots – but loads of veg in the store and freezer. We also have a chaos of seed planting and potato chitting on...
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Stumps Gone And Dealing With The Worst Weather This Winter
After a couple of weeks wait, we finally got the stumps ground out on the plot. The whole process took about half an hour, saving we a week of back breaking work doing it manually. It’s been really...
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Spring Finally Arrives At The Allotments
Well it’s been a challenging end to winter, with the coldest weather anyone around here can remember. The wind chill has been particularly challenging, so anything tender that’s not under cover has...
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Full polytunnel Tour, a walk around the plots, and a harvest!
It’s been another challenging week on the allotment. Hail, sleet, light frosts and plenty of rain and wind. As a result we’ve had a bit of downy mildew rearing it’s ugly head on some of the lettuce;...
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Big Allotment Potato Update
Big update on the progress of my super early potatoes and how I’ve planted in the ground this year. I’ve planted lots of Charlotte and Arran Pilot in tubs on the patio at home and on Jennie’s plot....
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Full Allotment Tour and a Quick Update On The Kitchen Garden
In this video I do a full tour of the three allotments, the polytunnel and the kitchen garden and store. It’s a long video, but it’s worth it because it finally feels like not only has spring arrived,...
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Allotment Self-sufficiency and successional growing
This is a long video, but then it’s on an important topic. I explore my approach to self-sufficiency and then spend quite a while illustrating how I put it into practice through successional sowing,...
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