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Double digging and tenching
This is how I've prepared my winter onion bed. It's a method called double digging. You dig a trench a spade's depth then fork and dig deep into the next level. I do it to unlock the yellow clay to create loam.
I use other methods as well depending on what veg I'm preparing the beds for.
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Видео

How to harvest and cure sweet potatoes
Просмотров 199Месяц назад
This is how I grow, harvest and cure Sweet potatoes in the UK Sweet potatoes are starchy when you harvest them so they need to be 'cured' to bring on the sweetness. This is not a cost effective method but I've yet to find a cheaper one that works. If you grow sweet potatoes let me know in the comments how you cure them #gardening #allotmentlife #allotmentlifeuk #allotment #garden #growyourownfo...
August plot tour
Просмотров 402 месяца назад
This is August's plot tour, lots of things harvested and lots more to come. I'm hoping to return from my holiday to lots of ripe tomatoes and only a few very small courgettes, hmmm. How's your growing season, let me know in the comments #gardening #allotment #allotmentgardening #growfood #growyourownfood #allotmentlife #allotmentlifeuk #permaculture #organic #organicgardening
July's Plot tour
Просмотров 1533 месяца назад
Lots of things to show you since my last tour. Some have gone well, some haven't plus a few handy tips that you may take away. Let me know in the comments if you find anything useful ir you do differently #gardening #allotment #gardening #allotmentgardening #allotmentlove #allotmentgarden #garden #growyourownfood #allotmentlife #farming growingveg #gardeningtips #gardeningforbeginners
May's plot tour- Challenge Anneka style
Просмотров 405 месяцев назад
Here's a walkthrough 'Challenge Anneka' style! of the plot. Most things are planted out, I'm just waiting for the courgettes and pumpkin #gardeninginspiration #gardening #allotmentlife #garden #allotmentgardening #allotment
Peat free compost
Просмотров 766 месяцев назад
This video highlights the need to change to peat free, and provides advice on how to use it. #gardening #allotment #allotmentgarden #allotmentuk #garden #gardeninginspiration #growyourown #organic #compost #peatfree #howtousepeatfree
I'm a digger and I'm ok!
Просмотров 1158 месяцев назад
I'm a digger and I'm ok!
Plot tour- January
Просмотров 389 месяцев назад
Plot tour- January
My Brassica cage - Netting recommendation
Просмотров 919 месяцев назад
My Brassica cage - Netting recommendation
December's plot tour
Просмотров 4210 месяцев назад
December's plot tour
My Homemade Slug traps, They work!!
Просмотров 54210 месяцев назад
My Homemade Slug traps, They work!!
Update on my homegrown Samphire
Просмотров 16410 месяцев назад
Update on my homegrown Samphire
This is a trial on dealing with Whitefly on my Brassicas
Просмотров 19Год назад
This is a trial on dealing with Whitefly on my Brassicas
Plot tour-August
Просмотров 43Год назад
Plot tour-August
Home garden tour
Просмотров 48Год назад
Home garden tour
Blight watch!
Просмотров 52Год назад
Blight watch!
Onion harvest 2023
Просмотров 210Год назад
Onion harvest 2023
Plot tour- July
Просмотров 39Год назад
Plot tour- July
How to prevent Tomato Blight!
Просмотров 503Год назад
How to prevent Tomato Blight!
June's plot tour
Просмотров 47Год назад
June's plot tour
It's #WORLDREFILLDAY!
Просмотров 11Год назад
It's #WORLDREFILLDAY!
How to deal with Asparagus beetle
Просмотров 909Год назад
How to deal with Asparagus beetle
May's Plot tour! "Everything's out"!
Просмотров 49Год назад
May's Plot tour! "Everything's out"!
Homemade Beer traps and Copper rings to prevent Slugs
Просмотров 174Год назад
Homemade Beer traps and Copper rings to prevent Slugs
Plot tour on a very wet day
Просмотров 30Год назад
Plot tour on a very wet day
How to grow Strong, healthy tomatoes
Просмотров 24Год назад
How to grow Strong, healthy tomatoes
Planting out my onion seedlings
Просмотров 42Год назад
Planting out my onion seedlings
Every day items I recycle to use for gardening
Просмотров 46Год назад
Every day items I recycle to use for gardening
Plot tour April 23
Просмотров 50Год назад
Plot tour April 23
How to repair insect mesh
Просмотров 36Год назад
How to repair insect mesh

Комментарии

  • @michaelsplot
    @michaelsplot 2 дня назад

    👍👍👍

  • @Beherenow473
    @Beherenow473 2 месяца назад

    Can I grow from a cutting do you know or does it have to be seeds?😊

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens 2 месяца назад

      @@Beherenow473 I think you can, I tried it once and failed. Maybe you have to wait for it to go woody. I think Andy at Andys herbs over on Instagram propagates them

  • @flex85
    @flex85 2 месяца назад

    I like how you've just cracked on with the relevant info and not added loads of tripe around it to bulk the video up, thank you! Just received first plug plants and this is just what I wanted to know for having them next year too.

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens 2 месяца назад

      @@flex85 let me know how you get on

  • @deethompson3592
    @deethompson3592 2 месяца назад

    I love that - Build it and they will come 🦔🙏✨️❤️.

  • @DUDETE9
    @DUDETE9 3 месяца назад

    I decided to leave all of my suckers on and cut fully leafed branches instead. My tomatoes are yielding like crazy this year...just one simple change.

  • @Kellyfamilyadventures
    @Kellyfamilyadventures 3 месяца назад

    Hi we're new to your channel and recently taken on an allotment so we are looking forward to hearing your tips were also vlogging our process looks forward to seeing more :)

  • @mekashealingjourney
    @mekashealingjourney 3 месяца назад

    Your plot is looking so good well done Dave

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens 3 месяца назад

      @@mekashealingjourney thanks Meka 🫶

  • @cowboyblacksmith
    @cowboyblacksmith 4 месяца назад

    I make all of the compost I use in my garden, and nearly have enough. I doubt you could ever have too much😀 I use a lot of leaves for my carbon. In the Fall people rake and bag them in huge paper bags for town collection. I take them and have a big pen for them to store and make leaf mold. Here peat is expensive so I rarely use it. Seaweed makes my best compost and it's a never ending totally sustainable resource chock full of micro nutrients and minerals. I experimented with a few grow bag potatoes with seaweed and leaf mold (organic granular fertilizer too) and they did really well. No soil at all. Seaweed and leaves are magic.

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens 4 месяца назад

      @@cowboyblacksmith do you live near the coast then? I'm in Buckinghamshire so too far from the coast. Peat is possibly being banned this year in the UK but not sure now with the change of government. I'm too impatient for leaf mould I just add it straight to my compost

  • @cowboyblacksmith
    @cowboyblacksmith 4 месяца назад

    Oh boy I'm going to borrow that idea for sure. My pumpkins and butternut squash spread like crazy and no way could I find the original spot. The milk jug is so cool to funnel it right to the roots instead of leaves splashing it everywhere. Thanks mate. I hand water everything so this will help greatly, appreciate it.

  • @cowboyblacksmith
    @cowboyblacksmith 4 месяца назад

    That's quite the large allotment yet you have it so organized and full of so much, very impressive.

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens 4 месяца назад

      @@cowboyblacksmith thanks pal, I will do an update next week when I have a day off

    • @cowboyblacksmith
      @cowboyblacksmith 4 месяца назад

      @@greedy_gardens You're ahead of me here across the pond (New Hampshire USA) but I get a good glimpse from you of where my garden will be in about two months. I'm fortunate to own my house with 1/2 acre of land to garden in so I make good use of it; harvested 165 heads of garlic today and onions, and loads of potatoes as well. Now I'm on to what else can I plant to fill in empty beds. There's always beans as a cover crop/green manure.

  • @lemagreengreen
    @lemagreengreen 5 месяцев назад

    Bovril... interesting. Wonder if Marmite works?

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens 5 месяцев назад

      Marmite works the best! Stinks though after a few weeks

  • @ghengis430
    @ghengis430 5 месяцев назад

    Can you cut holes big enough for monster sized snails?

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens 5 месяцев назад

      You could use the top of a larger bottle to cover to be able to cut larger holes. I've never had any snails though, even small ones so maybecit just works with slugs

    • @ghengis430
      @ghengis430 5 месяцев назад

      @@greedy_gardens they'd survive a nuclear war! 😂

    • @helnyson4694
      @helnyson4694 Месяц назад

      Has your garden/food growing space a damp area or perhaps someplace to put a small pond/amphibian habitat? South, s/w facing so full sun in different areas of our woodland food forest at one point everyplace throughout the day. We've an area that is trees separating us from a group of houses/flats far from us so later on in the day that will be shaded.. We've put a metal shed at the bottom half way along to provide shade to a wooden upturned empty slab pallet a couple of yards away, placed slabs underneath upturned pallet making gaps/spaces created for small creatures to take shelter.. bucket is quite deep so we've chucked some different sized boulders & slabs & is covered in some spaces with other wood; very dark & lower temperature underneath, with geranium poking out the very front by a pathway, a couple of bog beauties & some natural hideaway plants are dotted around underneath (you see them when you look down/shine a torch to put whatever molluscs you find as a treat for the toads that lurk/shelter in the coolest area from the heat of the day. At night we see them at work.. astonishing just knowing from the growth of plants since we did that is 85-90% superior.. all food has had much more of a chance since we introduced some new friends to our own lil bit of biodiverse woodland joy. Leave stones and bricks around *of course, away from walkways* and amphibians shelter in those areas when they've come out from their protected space. A lot of cats visit, so the toads & frogs have to be instinctively *tuned-in belly/gut* smarter! Also, we use some thick copper tape, rolls of it around many beds, that is not so great at remaining *stuck* on wooden beds... hopefully we'll be reinforcing the beds in next few weeks with bolted on heavy duty galvanised steel. (Still lightweight) these beds been down over 15 year & they're life-span almost through 😂 Been creating good organic produce for decades & now.. from heritage seeds! Interesting video 😊 yet often is hard for us to kill something if we realise it will feed something else in a way that all of nature thrives, not just our family or those who present to us the privilege to share freely this bounty of wellbeing.. 🌟🌸✌🏾

  • @ukisa3rdworld586
    @ukisa3rdworld586 6 месяцев назад

    Same thing goes in Eastern Europe. Poland. Wow. My nan used swear at them, sometimes they used to freeze apple trees

  • @annucoco6830
    @annucoco6830 6 месяцев назад

    were is you allotment I am digging still

  • @KathyWieland
    @KathyWieland 6 месяцев назад

    Sooo cool😮

  • @seansweeney3265
    @seansweeney3265 6 месяцев назад

    These things are everywhere in South Africa

  • @lilcardsforlovedones
    @lilcardsforlovedones 8 месяцев назад

    ??????

  • @YehoodToob
    @YehoodToob 8 месяцев назад

    Who knew slugs loved Marmite!

    • @Natta44
      @Natta44 3 месяца назад

      It's the yeast they love.

  • @cowboyblacksmith
    @cowboyblacksmith 8 месяцев назад

    Banana peels are so great in compost for the potassium. I feed banana to my red wiggler worms and they love it. Cut in half long ways cut side down and they flock to it and I know their poop will have plant available potassium in it. It's still February here in New Hampshire US and below freezing most days and every night, but I did turn my "compost", huge icebergs of frozen solid stuff but hey-I'm ready whether Mother Nature is or not.👍🏻🌱🪴

  • @cowboyblacksmith
    @cowboyblacksmith 8 месяцев назад

    Gotta have some fun, great concept.🥳

  • @bigtitan27
    @bigtitan27 8 месяцев назад

    Im pro dig/ till as well. Your experience with no dig mirrors mine. I see so many new gardeners buy into all the promises of no dig only to have less than ideal results. Digging/tilling has worked since the beginning of agriculture.

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens 8 месяцев назад

      Good stuff, thanks for the comment. At my allotment I haven't seen any no diggers, probably because they aren't on social media

  • @angelasimonini7795
    @angelasimonini7795 8 месяцев назад

    Great🍀🌸🌼🌱🍀☀️

  • @GardeningWithCoffee
    @GardeningWithCoffee 9 месяцев назад

    Great video 👏🏼 🌱

  • @DigDaveDig
    @DigDaveDig 9 месяцев назад

    You're all good to go once the weather warms up - roll on spring, it won't be long now before its suddenly very busy. Cheers

  • @DigDaveDig
    @DigDaveDig 9 месяцев назад

    Nice one!

  • @TRguy64
    @TRguy64 10 месяцев назад

    Terrible flooding occurring in so many regions, I hope you've been spared!

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens 10 месяцев назад

      Yes my plot is ok thanks, it slopes down but I double dug it before winter so the water drained nicely

    • @TRguy64
      @TRguy64 10 месяцев назад

      @@greedy_gardens My garden is on a large slope, though some years the veggie production is affected by just too much rain, last summer was awful, awful wet here, miserable mosquitoes and high humidity that barely could I manage the uncomfortable unpleasant conditions, this coming summer it probably won't rain at all, no longer seems to be a balance as there once was.

  • @genevajoseco6928
    @genevajoseco6928 10 месяцев назад

    That good keep on going.its good for our health.

  • @kinghenry238
    @kinghenry238 10 месяцев назад

    Year or two 💀💀 no wonder I just buy them.

  • @TRguy64
    @TRguy64 10 месяцев назад

    Looking forward to the progress of these ...

  • @GardeningWithCoffee
    @GardeningWithCoffee 10 месяцев назад

    Great tour 😊

  • @gardentothekitchenwithtracy
    @gardentothekitchenwithtracy 10 месяцев назад

    Good plan,can’t wait to see what it looks like in the future 😊

  • @Joalexlees
    @Joalexlees 10 месяцев назад

    Great video! Do you not get rats eating all your sweetcorn? That's what happened to ours last year 😢What variety do you grow? Jx

  • @gardentothekitchenwithtracy
    @gardentothekitchenwithtracy 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you for sharing. All my kale and chard in my pollytunnel is being eaten by slugs and snails so will give this a go, thank you

  • @skyelillian1077
    @skyelillian1077 Год назад

    'promosm'

  • @cowboyblacksmith
    @cowboyblacksmith Год назад

    That's a great crop of onions, well done!

  • @gardentothekitchenwithtracy
    @gardentothekitchenwithtracy Год назад

    Fingers crossed for you 😮

  • @mekashealingjourney
    @mekashealingjourney Год назад

    Oh no hopefully with the sunshine predicted this week you should have these ripen

  • @cowboyblacksmith
    @cowboyblacksmith Год назад

    Slugs are really bad for me this year, probably because we have had so so much rain, I hand picked 103 one night at dusk off my potatoes and my cabbages, under netting mind you, look like Swiss cheese. I'll try that plastic bottle trap with beer. I really like the simplicity and ease of making it, and it having a covered top to keep the rain out, well done.👍🏻

  • @cowboyblacksmith
    @cowboyblacksmith Год назад

    I pulled my onions yesterday and have them hanging up to dry in my kitchen. It's a miracle they did so well, we've had so much rain. Everything seems to be maturing early this year. I just harvested 130 big heads of garlic too-been a good year so far. I love your onion drying rack setup, that's pretty much ideal. Is it better to have them upside down to cure? It looks like it would be better at keeping all that moisture from the leaves from dropping down into the bulb.

  • @cowboyblacksmith
    @cowboyblacksmith Год назад

    That's such an oasis of serenity to see such lush growth and variety, I can admire the amount of work. To think in Spring it's all flat and look at it now. Slugs and snails are brutal for me this year, like nothing I've ever witnessed. Love the haircut.👍🏻

  • @cowboyblacksmith
    @cowboyblacksmith Год назад

    Those are some huge onions, well done!

  • @mekashealingjourney
    @mekashealingjourney Год назад

    Things are picking up Dave this year most things have been slower than last year. I actually say my last years May plot tour and things were definitely blooming. My garlic at the allotment is also looking sad. The ones at home are much happier. Interesting thing you’ve done with the samphire. Neat bug hotel 🐝

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens Год назад

      Yes lack of sunshine has held everything back but should catch up like you said. I did a video on my bee hotel, I basically had alot of dead bees from mites due to my lack of knowledge. Got to clean them which is why those large bug/bee hotels aren't good for them

  • @cowboyblacksmith
    @cowboyblacksmith Год назад

    I love your tours, well done! I' m behind you in the states but things are growing now. The garden is the most restful spot to just be. I am lucky to own my. house and have 1/2 acre so I can go "on tour" many times in a day, and I do.❤️👍🏻

  • @AmirsAllotment
    @AmirsAllotment Год назад

    It has been very wet. At least the veg is thriving 😊🌱

  • @mekashealingjourney
    @mekashealingjourney Год назад

    Your plot is looking so neat and beautiful. My garlic and onions look way better at home than on the plot will try your method for my garlic bulbs. Thank you for sharing your plot with us.

  • @billvalsallotments5915
    @billvalsallotments5915 Год назад

    Hi I do like how your children have there own growing space Also won't be long before delicious asparagus ready Your plot is nice and ready for the season.

  • @greedy_gardens
    @greedy_gardens Год назад

    Not Epic hot sauce!!! 😂😂 Epicotyl!

  • @waili3214
    @waili3214 Год назад

    Great idea What size or litres are these buckets?

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens Год назад

      The tall one is a 25 litre brewing bucket and the smaller was a 7kg bucket of chicken manure pellets

    • @waili3214
      @waili3214 Год назад

      @@greedy_gardens thank you I’m on the hunt as I don’t have these to Hand I’m scouring the internet lol I know if I passed a skip they would just be there! Thank you do you too your big compost pile with worms?

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens Год назад

      Yes my compost is full of red tiger worms. I'll shoot a video of it in the next few days as it needs turning. Are you in the UK or elsewhere?

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens Год назад

      Also have a look at my first videos about 3 years ago. I used a cheaper method involving plastic storage boxes

    • @waili3214
      @waili3214 Год назад

      @@greedy_gardens thank you so much will make it and tag you on insta :)

  • @idjary
    @idjary Год назад

    Nice work

  • @nickthegardener.1120
    @nickthegardener.1120 Год назад

    I’m going to turn my compost today! 👍🏻💪

    • @greedy_gardens
      @greedy_gardens Год назад

      Rock n roll! 😁

    • @nickthegardener.1120
      @nickthegardener.1120 Год назад

      @@greedy_gardens literally just got back, I turned because I thought it was too dry but it was too wet!🥲👍🏻💪🤠🪱