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Thanks, Wendy yep hit luck with the grass I put some water feed on it last week and just caught it right with this rain as it's been so dry here two weeks ago that the grass looked dead in patches just shows how it picks up The Lobelia is Crystal Palace a very old variety I always grow from seed as it will germinate I find in a lower temp for me and does not suffer from damping off to badly for me Many thanks for your super kind comment. It's been a slow year here quite a dry cool spring so as you say some plants have not got going that quickly this summer to flower freely we need a bit more warmth again like a couple of weeks ago. Trouble is it watering every day then Oh, well you never win at gardening do you. All the best Kev.

Thanks, Clem, yep every year I say I'm going to cut down on growing all these plants! Yet every year I seem to end up growing more but it does cheer one up to see so much colour when you walk out the front door. But you can see why this type of gardening has gone out of fashion here in the UK as it's very labour-intensive. Thanks as I always so love getting your so kind comments. Hope life goes well and it's not too hot over there. All good wishes Kev.

Oh, glad you found that a help this is indeed a lovely tree it will take a lot of stick if they need cutting back never seem to mind and comes back strong as they get old they do suffer a bit from die back so I prune some of the older dead wood out of mine each autumn time. Many thanks, Kev.

No, I don't seem to think it has a mulch feature! Plus this couple are having problems with this mower it will not re start now easily when it is warm I have to take a look at it for them later this month. So maybe you get what you pay for in life! Often these cheap things can be problematical I may well update this video when I have a look at the mower to see if I can sort the problem out later this month. thanks, Kev.

Just love to keep busy Wendy. I must be honest I was urged on by a family relative who has also taken on one of these new allotment plots also. I do wonder sometimes why! But I am loving it to be honest. Thanks, Kev.

Thanks, Wendy early days yet but I am very much enjoying it all if it is hard work. I can see its going to take some getting around "BindWeed City parts of the plot! But well we will see how it goes. Thanks hope you are beating the slugs! Thanks as always Kev.

Yes, no worries came close twice to getting married but things just never worked out my first love right from meeting at 19 moved abroad to work after she finished at Oxford Uni Exeter College she got a fantastic job a few years on and I did not fancy moving to another country. I love the UK very much. and we drifted apart but still keep in touch 40 years on! So I put all my efforts in to work and hobbies thereafter. Then in the last 10 years. I gave another super close relationship up to come home to care for my mother who had dementia and I now care for my 93-year-old father. So married or not I have had a fantastic life and have loved every minute of it. Thanks hope that answers this for you. All the best Kev.

@@bramleygarden.8647 Cheers Kev, you are an angel to your parents. I am a 50 year old man, I live near Heathrow. I have followed your excellent vids for a long time and I loved your boat vids. I hope you do more. I am in a very similar situation, I never married (yet) and I care for my 85 year old mum, hopefully she continues to keep well. Best wishes Dave

@@dlb9283 Thanks for your kind words lovely to hear you help look after and care for your mum. I think with so little help re social care these days it's going to be down family to care for older family members. So many seem to wash their hands and think someone else should be doing this care in later life. The problem is being a career you really can't have or start any relationships it is just not fair on the other person as your time can be somewhat limited and very hit-and-miss when you can get out and about. One reason I started a RUclips channel was life can get so very lovely being a career, particularly in that crazy pandemic time. And like so many caring for older people we just did not dare go out so it was weeks often before I saw someone in person so RUclips seemed a good way around this. You do miss having that close person around for sure! But who knows what's just around the next corner in life? Thanks again for your very kind words Best wishes Kev.

Thanks, Clem must email you with an up date life has been so busy trust you keep well over there enjoying that sun and heat! Best wishes Kev.

Thansk Wendy yes it's hard going this time of year I don't know which way to turn. Mind we have had a lovely rain here late this afternoon and evening so that will bring more slugs and snails out! Sorry to hear about your plants. Just the same here I told you about the Daffodils around here where so many of the flowers were eaten by small snails and slugs never known a year like it for sure. Sounds like you are very busy as well. But in a few short weeks hopefully, we can settle back and enjoy the garden in the summer weather thanks for your so lovely comment as always Kev.

Thansk yep growing annuals from seed has been a passion for me for too many years now something about the colourful seed packets I used to see in the shops like Woolworths that used to sell Cuthbert's seeds! As a child and then turning that seed packet in to colour into your garden! Mind it does not always work when the slugs and snails attack! Thansk for the super comment. Kev.

Thanks yes it is a bit of a passion all that you can grow from a few packets of seeds and a little heat and compost and the biggest thing of all Time! Thanks for your super comment. Kev.

Thanks, I do so agree its amazing water does indeed bring another dimension to a garden for sure. Thanks for your most kind comment Kev.

Thanks yep I do so agree I have tow rows of potatoes set already more to set in next week's video! Thanks for the great comment and good to get your thoughts. Thansk Kev.

Yes, I took an allotment 30-odd years ago and had trouble with these as that was grass but after a few years of work, the problem did get less but a very good point you make about this issue. Veg like potatoes can be ruined etc. But you have to live with this. Thanks, for that great comment Kev.

Thank you. That is very kind of you to say that so many thanks Kev.

I do so agree without water for me it would be a non-starter! As for 20 years, I had a local town council plot and we had great water there each plot had a big cattle-type trough on it which had a ball valve and filled up quickly as it was 28mm pipe fed so you could dip 100s of watering cans in and take as much as you liked and it filled up so quick. These new village allotments where I am now are going to get water later this summer in the form of a piped supply to a couple of big tanks. Thanks for your most kind comment. Kev.

​@@bramleygarden.8647 that sounds like heaven right now, currently I drag my water there on a trailer about 50-60ltrs a time, only live 10 mins away but still a pain, thats why we have so many empty plots too, council wont add water It's nice to see new locations being setup though, good luck with it ✌️😊

Thank Yes, steady and sure that is the way forward having had allotments in the past I have seen so many people go mad at it and then hurt themselves or just get fed up with the hard work and hence lose interest so that is the way I will go steady and sure! Thanks so much for the super comment. Kev.

Thats what I do with mine.... spread top manure after harvest, cover for winter, then I'll rotovate that in in spring, add my compost till it in and plant away Got years of neglect to undo, very clay heavy with little humus added, its also scary how many of my fellow allotmenteers don't have compost piles and take all their green waste to the tip 😢

@@hamoostaffat Thanks so lovely to read you own thoughts on this and your ideas but like I said above we can't do this system! Thanks for the kind comment Kev.

Hiy. My new allotment is 18m x 5m (60ft x 16ft). Where is your allotment? I'm in North Yorkshire, UK.

@@TheBeginnerGardener Yes that's about like these new plots I am on I think they are 20m x6m or thereabouts. The old allotment size was always a plot of 10 poles which was a very old measurement Thanks and good look with your new plot. Kev.

Hi Clem Oh, you know me too well you know I have to have some stylish gardening boots! He says laughing the grass was very wet that morning and you know I hate Wellington boots! Hope life goes well for you thanks as always Kev.

Thanks, Clem you are too kind. Yep should have a bit more time now to roll a bit more video out! Mind I don't want to bore people to death! He says laughing I can ramble on a bit! All the best Kev.

Yes, funny enough one of my Nieces would not come near the garden if I told her we had even just a harmless Grass Snake in the garden she hates snakes. Mind I am the same with Rats they give me the shudders I was once working in the roof of a very old thatch cottage and I kept feeling something around my trouser leg and then I suddenly realised it was a dam great Rat! I got out of that loft in record time! LOL, Thanks Kev.

Hiy. My new allotment is heavy clay so I'm going for the no-dig method.

Thanks Wendy, and yep better than any gym membership two hours up there in the early morning gets me feeling so much fitter already And yes Clay soil can be tricky to work for sure but like you rightly say it is a question of soil improvement slowly. I have to say some of the soil there is very good so it's not as bad as maybe I first thought. I now have two rows whole with of the plot set in early Potatoes. Thanks for your super comment Kev.

@@TheBeginnerGardener Yes I say go for whatever works for you best. And I never knock these new ideas that is what gardening is all about sharing ideas and thoughts good luck with your own plot and the no-dig system you are using and thanks for the comment. Kev.

Many thanks for your very kind comment. Kev.

Thanks, Wendy yes they have turned out splendidly as they were brought in a J Parkers bulb sale and planted quite late due to the weather so there you go that's gardening you never do really know how things will turn out and it has been so wet as well. Thanks, Kev.

Thanks, Clem hope life goes well for you in sunny climes over there! We could do with some of your sun over here I must email you thanks as always for your super supportive comments. Kev.

Thanks, I had quickly put this on as I had just got back as I had cycled 5 miles trying to keep fitter this spring by running or cycling every day! Not easy in all the wet! I have to say the seeds have come up so well as of today's date thanks as always love your super comments Kev.

Hope you also had a very happy Easter not the best weather here very wet still I bet you have warm sun with you! Lucky old you! Thanks as always love reading your super kind comments Kev.

This was my Great Grans Bedroom water jug I have the bowel to match as well. And even have the marble-topped washstand still! Where the flowers were at the end was her bedroom mirror and chest of draws built by a local joiner in 1908! Thank you for the super comment. Kev.

Oh, Clem, you are too kind I'm no expert! Hope life goes well for you thanks Kev.

Yes, thanks we are moving on in the right direction. But having been so wet here in Feb it has slowed the process up somewhat. But I'm going up on the 4th of April to help mark the plots out so it's getting very real now thanks. Hope you are keeping well. I bet you have also had a very wet winter there? Thanks, Kev.

The rain/sleet etc continues in Snowdonia Kev!!

@@tonyworrall7379 Yes we had another deluge here last night as it had started to dry up with those stiff North winds at the end of last week/weekend! You can bet your life it will set in dry when I get going on the Alottment! I know all too well from many holidays to the Snowdonia area when it rains up there with you it sure does rain!! Thanks, Kev.

Many thanks, Wendy that lovely when people say that! You would not believe some of the comments you get on RUclips! I just delete rude comments these days. Still raining again today here so the pond gets even fuller and I can't get out to finish the job. But never mind. Thanks as always for your super comments they are very much appreciated. Kev.

New subscriber. Great video. Thanks for sharing 👍.

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