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When we run short of home potatoes we go to our local farm shop to but a 25 kg bag to which I save some of the smaller ones as they are a lot fresher than supermarkets and do the same as you I have been doing this for years now most the potatoes grow but but of course just like the farmers not all of them grow, you have helped a lot of people with your videos so keep up the good work, I’ve had to give my allotment because of heart and back problems so I grow potatoes and onions in the garden as half an hour at a time a few times a day is all I can do.

Thank you. Great video. Happy gardening 🙂

Hi James, I'm going to do the same, large egg size is perfect, great information of how to do this, hope you are all ok take care Steve

Very useful and informative video. Thanks for sharing. Just a quick question can they be stored in foil over winter instead of newspaper 🤔🤔

Really useful video, thanks!

Well thank you Jim for that information,I’ve always heard that you shouldn’t use your own potatoes because of disease,that’s what they say on garden programs. But I think you right,as long as they don’t have any diseases then it should be fine and like you say cheaper 😊.

to be expected, I knew 2 years ago when hunga tonga erupted we would be in for a terrible few years, you should probably expect next year to be pretty bad aswell.

I too choose large, egg size potatoes for seed, though I've used smaller with little or no discernible fall in yield. I store mine in the same compost & container they grew in, only fairly dry. 10cm layer of compost in the bottom, then a layer of seed potatoes, spaced 3-4cm apart, then another 5cm of compost, followed by another layer of seed potatoes. Repeat until container is full, then I put them under the floor in the front room, where it stays at 10-14°C all year round.

Please do this again this year! Love the Santa outfit! Funny video but gutted about your crop mate! Subbed btw as I love this sense of humour!

Great tips and tricks Jim. I hope the weather is kind to you as I’m sure you are going to be busy again all weekend, Ali 🌞☔️🇨🇦

Really great video this! I actually bought a single potato from Tesco's and managed to chit it this year. I cut in half and grew them in two old paint buckets with some super phosphate and slow feed pellets and got a decent yield out of it. I harvested them all and they are in a cardboard box right now. I am now thinking I wont eat them and instead make them into seeds for next years grow with your tips! Thanks a lot!

I had no idea that you needed to wrap them. Thanks, great video.

Thank you 😇👍

Thanks for the tip, i've got some king edwards i'll give it a try. 👍

Mine was in poor shape after one year. So, i condtructed wide timber framres for doorways. These are braced and the pokytunnel was so much stronger..the polyfilm edges need to be firmly attachef to the ground.

Is it rats or badgers going for the corn? Badgers are a menace Also my strawberries are only just fruiting?

Regarding your corn/rat problem, have you tried using those reusable mesh veg bags that they sell in the supermarket to buy veg in? They might be a better deterrent as animals don’t like the feel of the organza fabric

Rodents are becoming an increasing problem almost everywhere. I found a non-toxic way to get those gone. It's fairly simple. 1 bucket deep enough to hold 6 +innches of water, 1 rod (metal preferred but not necessary), a can/bottle (plastic). Drill slightly off centre holes top and bottom of can/bottle then two holes just below the rim of the bucket large enough for the rod. Opposite sides so rod runs across the bucket. What the design is, a can/bottle over the centre of the water in the bucket that can spin with weight on it. Assemble push rod through one bucket hole, through both holes in container, then through opposite side hole. Secure rod in place outside of the bucket. Take a scrap piece of wood or something else to make a ramp to where the rod shows. Dab peanut butter on one side of container. The rodent will smell the peanut butter, go up ramp, try to reach peanut butter and fall into water. Peanut butter works well dabbed slightly off to one side. These are safe around most animals, but watch for groundhogs, some birds. The rodents drown, so it's fairly simple to dispose.

Hi Jim I nearly gave up this year the slugs got the lot. Honestly I got nothing, I had to start again far too late in the season. I’m not far away from you I’m just outside Chorley , I’ve put everything in buckets or troughs in the poly tunnel. The only thing that is growing is a pumpkin up the pear tree. At least you got a harvest well done. Next year must be better thank you for your honesty. Take care

Was meant to say last time but I think it’s the tree rats that have taken your corn 🐿️🐿️🐿️

Great video. I think most of us gardeners are optimistic and learn from thing tht go wrong and enjoy the challenge. I grow my strawberries in hanging baskets. I had a great crop of celeriac last year but this year the slugs have been enjoying the crop :-( Happy gardening 🙂

😢...I loss all my 🌽 due to rats...plus second time with tomato blight

Jim, I can highly recommend a strawberry variety called delizz. They are ever bearing. The flowers grow above the foliage, making it easier to spot the strawberry. They're a great taste & size. Definitely one of my best this year 😊

I think it's very suspicious weather, especially the lockdown weather . It's been a bad year for gardeners, let's hope next year is better.

Similar issues here in Northern Ireland throughout the season. Would it be too much effort to make fine ckn wire covers for the corn? Just a thought! Thanks for sharing and best wishes as you prepare the plots for next year 👍

🐝thanks for the great video🌻

Is it possible that the socks on corn usually work as a deterrent because in a normal year, the rats would have enough other stuff to eat, but since this year was so hard for everyone, they probably had less food too, which is why they resorted to rat organised crime?

I love your honesty, makes the normal gardeners think they are not alone🙂

I feel for you with the sweetcorn. This is my first year with an allotment and i managed to grow 52 healthy sweetcorn plants. I was so happy until a badger came through and decimated 90% of them in one night 😔 love the videos 👍

As I watch I’m dehydrating kale and storing it in herb pots for winter. not a great garden year but we press on

The Grazon isn't used to control weeds in crops, it's used to terminate the crops early and evenly for harvest

Whoever sold the hay intended for cattle for horse feed was knowingly ignoring all the warnings & instructions regarding aminopyralids. I was disappointed with Ailsa Craig - too many split bases, doubles & thick necks. I'll stick with Santero next year. You're lucky with the peppers, as I'm only now starting to get a crop, both sweet & chilli & I had my first aubergine last week! I hate rats - when seen, they end up buried in the middle of my active compost bay. I've mostly only had Sungold tomatoes until the past fortnight. Thought I might have gone OTT with my polytunnel when I bought it 18 months ago, as I went for a First Tunnels 10x20 with the larger tubes extra storm bracing & roof bars. Last winter's storms changed my mind, as others on the site ended up like your mum's.

Like you said ‘we live and learn’. I won’t make the same mistakes next year, instead I’ll make new ones. Happy gardening. 👩‍🌾🤭😁

How far away from the tray do you keep your grow lights? Do the bulbs need to be warm to produce vegetative growth?

You have had some major problems Jim but you have come out the other side with a much better attitude and if you learn something from that then it’s always a win. Keep at it your doing amazing, Ali 🌦️🇨🇦

You have had some major problems Jim but you have come out the other side with a much better attitude and if you learn something from that then it’s always a win. Keep at it your doing amazing, Ali 🌦️🇨🇦

Collect manure from local organic horse keepers

Good idea with the pots for the strawberries. We are on solid clay and it’s taking years to turn it into something decent. We’ve found we have to net everything. We’re now using polytunnel frames and chucking bird netting over them. Our pest, amazingly, is flocks of peacocks. Mongrel things. Northern New Zealand . Rats with wings.

Herbicides can be in straw and hay as well as manure as I discovered. My hens are now on shavings which get composted before use.

Hi James, it has been a funny year for growing on the allotment, Ive had one parsnip germinate, 5 carrots, out of numerous cauliflower plants Ive had great leaf growth but only about 3 caulis 😠as for the fruit worm, next year try Bacillus Thuringiensis (think that's right) also called BT, parasitic wasps might work? or try products with spinosad, great video, take care Steve

It's been a hard year for everyone jim.Germination has been terrible for me this year so I was late with a lot of things because of this.What I have grown though has been awesome so I can't complain to much.Been growing for 4 years now and this was a learning year more than anything I think as we can't control the weather.Already planning for next season now👍👍

Bless you mate You’ve really been up against it. Keep on keeping on😇👍👍

I not long watched a video on how to keep about 90% of pests from your garden and 1 trick was use a pest net over your plants.

Onions are also sensitive to herbicide residue, sprayed a nasty weed out, then planted onions one year, my fail last year were tomatoes due to physild and onions due to planting in the autumn and them trying to go to seed, didn't get any tomatoes, but had to freeze all the onions with a flower stalk. They did grow bigger than a coffee cup.

Could be badgers eating the corn. My ou are doing great keep at it.

Too much moisture made a good environment for the slugs.

Sweet potatoes are interesting have been trying to grow them for years, called Kumara in New Zealand, but last year manged to get lots from 7 pots 5 were wonderful, one pot was too big, and another was too small. They need a restricted root growing environment, don't let the vine root out of the pot. But growing the tunnel house worked.

Tomatoes will ripen inside in a sunny room, you will lose the odd one, am so thankful that rats and slugs are not a major problem. But we do bait stations for rats and mice on our farm. Learnt my lesson about carpet, about 40 years ago they started using nylon thread in carpet manufacturing.

Good job my man show everyone how you grow on rocky ground… it’s a selling point if you ask me. I’m sure you will smash it mate