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Greedy Gardens
Великобритания
Добавлен 4 июл 2013
Proper allotmenteering- thrifty and resourceful!
August plot tour
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
How's your growing season, let me know in the comments
#gardening #allotment #allotmentgardening #growfood #growyourownfood #allotmentlife #allotmentlifeuk #permaculture #organic #organicgardening
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July's Plot tour
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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
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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
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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!
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This video talks about my experience of digging and the no dig method. It's not aimed at disregarding no dig, it's purely my experience, my preferences and the reasons why #growyourown #gardening #allotment #allotmentgarden #garden #allotmentuk #organic #gardeninginspiration #nodig #digging #growingveg #growingforbeginners
My Brassica cage - Netting recommendation
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My Brassica cage - Netting recommendation
This is a trial on dealing with Whitefly on my Brassicas
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This is a trial on dealing with Whitefly on my Brassicas
Homemade Beer traps and Copper rings to prevent Slugs
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Homemade Beer traps and Copper rings to prevent Slugs
Every day items I recycle to use for gardening
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Every day items I recycle to use for gardening
Can I grow from a cutting do you know or does it have to be seeds?😊
@@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
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.
@@flex85 let me know how you get on
I love that - Build it and they will come 🦔🙏✨️❤️.
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.
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 :)
Your plot is looking so good well done Dave
@@mekashealingjourney thanks Meka 🫶
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.
@@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
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.
That's quite the large allotment yet you have it so organized and full of so much, very impressive.
@@cowboyblacksmith thanks pal, I will do an update next week when I have a day off
@@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.
Bovril... interesting. Wonder if Marmite works?
Marmite works the best! Stinks though after a few weeks
Can you cut holes big enough for monster sized snails?
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
@@greedy_gardens they'd survive a nuclear war! 😂
Same thing goes in Eastern Europe. Poland. Wow. My nan used swear at them, sometimes they used to freeze apple trees
were is you allotment I am digging still
Bucks
Sooo cool😮
These things are everywhere in South Africa
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Who knew slugs loved Marmite!
It's the yeast they love.
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.👍🏻🌱🪴
Gotta have some fun, great concept.🥳
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.
Good stuff, thanks for the comment. At my allotment I haven't seen any no diggers, probably because they aren't on social media
Great🍀🌸🌼🌱🍀☀️
Great video 👏🏼 🌱
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
Nice one!
Terrible flooding occurring in so many regions, I hope you've been spared!
Yes my plot is ok thanks, it slopes down but I double dug it before winter so the water drained nicely
@@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.
That good keep on going.its good for our health.
Year or two 💀💀 no wonder I just buy them.
Looking forward to the progress of these ...
Great tour 😊
Good plan,can’t wait to see what it looks like in the future 😊
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
No rats! I grow incredible!
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
Let me know how you get on
@@greedy_gardens I will do,thanks
'promosm'
That's a great crop of onions, well done!
Fingers crossed for you 😮
Oh no hopefully with the sunshine predicted this week you should have these ripen
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.👍🏻
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.
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.👍🏻
Haha I forgot my cap! Thanks
Those are some huge onions, well done!
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 🐝
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
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.❤️👍🏻
Thanks Paul, happy growing 👍
It has been very wet. At least the veg is thriving 😊🌱
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.
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.
Thank you 😁
Not Epic hot sauce!!! 😂😂 Epicotyl!
Great idea What size or litres are these buckets?
The tall one is a 25 litre brewing bucket and the smaller was a 7kg bucket of chicken manure pellets
@@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?
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?
Also have a look at my first videos about 3 years ago. I used a cheaper method involving plastic storage boxes
@@greedy_gardens thank you so much will make it and tag you on insta :)
Nice work
Thanks
I’m going to turn my compost today! 👍🏻💪
Rock n roll! 😁
@@greedy_gardens literally just got back, I turned because I thought it was too dry but it was too wet!🥲👍🏻💪🤠🪱
Sorry to sound stupid when you say plants only is that potted seedlings or house plants🙈? With growing fruit & vegetables?
I say houseplants only as that's all I've tested and they've been fine. I haven't tested on fruit or veg so I can't advise. I would prefer to use organic methods