Mulching Fruit Trees and Keeping Busy When It’s Freezing!
A quick update on how we are mulching the fruit trees this year. Info on how I challenged the bind weed and ground elder on Jennie’s plot and a quick polytunnel update. If you are new to my allotment...
View ArticleGrowing Super Early Potatoes for the Hungry Gap
This is part of a series of videos covering ways to make the hungry gaps quite a lot more abundant. This video covers early/late potatoes. I’m growing all of my potatoes in tubs this year! These are...
View ArticleGrowing Early Carrots for the Hungry Gap
A quick video talking about growing early and late carrots. The focus though is on making sure you have plenty of carrots for the hungry gap. The key to success is to get enough heat for the carrots to...
View ArticleGrowing Perennial Kale for the Hungry Gap
I’m growing two types of perennial kale this year and they make an excellent complement to the annuals. They are especially useful in the hungry gap, when annual kale is exhausted or going to seed the...
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Allotment Diary (February – week 2)
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £365 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £275 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a ‘grand’ total...
View ArticleGrowing Calabrese For The Hungry Gap
Calabrese is one of my favourite brassicas and it’s a particular treat early in the season when last year’s kale is going to seed, the sprouts have gone, the cauliflower’s aren’t ready and all you have...
View ArticleWhy I Make YouTube Videos
In this video I accept a challenge posed by Mike and Jan of the Bookend Allotment Channel to explain the 5 reasons why I make youtube videos, which are all very positive. I also take the opportunity...
View ArticleUpdate on my ‘crazy’ allotment growing experiments
For a variety of reasons I’ve ended up with a batch of really well advanced brassica’s, according to the authorities some of these over-winter ok, but other’s like Broccolini and Romanesco are never...
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Allotment Diary (February – week 3)
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £448 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £289 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £83...
View ArticleIs it really worth growing veg over winter?
In this video I explore the big benefits of continuing to harvest over winter. Click to view slideshow. These are the main points: Always harvesting makes for nice clean beds A fully stocked...
View ArticleThe allotment transitions from winter sufficiency to spring abundance
It’s a wonderful time of year, when for a few days at a time we get to enjoy spring weather, often punctuated by short reminders that winter’s not fully over. The transition has started though and it...
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Venting cold-frames, low-tunnels and polytunnels in spring
In this qiuck video I talk about how I’m venting all of the structures on the allotment now that we are experiencing spring weather If you want to see more videos on the subject of cold-frames and...
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Allotment Diary (February – week 4)
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £560 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £312 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £80...
View ArticleOrganic Slug Control With Nematodes
In this video I talk about how and why I use nematodes for organic slug control. I’m using Nemaslug, which is environmentally friendly and is 100% safe for children, cats, dogs, other pets and...
View ArticleHow I Sow Seeds – The ‘Definitive’ Guide
This post is slightly tongue in cheek as I don’t profess to be an accomplished seed sower. If you want to learn the fine details of seed sowing and lots of hints and tips then I always suggest that...
View ArticleHow much profit does your allotment make? Winter finances update
In this video I do a full update on the allotment finances. I start with how we look at spending money on the allotment and what our objectives are. I then dive into the figures, how much we’ve...
View ArticleWhat I’m Sowing and Growing In March
March is my busiest sowing month and a lot of my sowing decisions are driven by having enough space to germinate and pot on seeds/seedlings. In this video I show you the progress of my January and...
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Allotment Diary (March- week 1)
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £667 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £385 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £135...
View ArticleUpdate on the allotment and home rain water capture and storage project
I’ve made a lot of improvement to the water capture and storage on all three plots with the aim to be self-sufficient until the water is switched on in April and after the water is switched off in...
View ArticleFoul Weather Allotment Harvest – it’s not always sunshine and smiles!
Usually when I made a video the sun’s shining, there’s not much wind and I’m all smiles: full of the joys of spring! I thought I’d just make this video to provide a bit of balance. When you’re...
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