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Your "Green Zebra" probably isn't Green Zebra. Yours is much bigger than what is normally known as Green Zebra. The variety makes normally 100 to 150 g fruits, a salad tomato, not a beefsteak!

Lovely harvest Chris. I found the Tumbling Tom's dried out too much in a hanging basket so always grow outside in pots raised off the ground. So pleased with Sungold loads of tomatoes. First time I have grown them. Unfortunately my Alice's Dream has blossom end rot. Just came back from hols so must ensure regular wateringfrom now on. Have already harvestedlots of French beans, peas and Charlotte potatoes😊

thats a fine harvest

I think pine needles are a great acid mulch for blueberries.

I can't believe how the birds left your Blueberries alone as my sparrows, Blackbirds and Bull finches clean up.

Apparently there is a massive genocide of the Honey bee population to eradicate mites but there seems to be a common theme with all por food production.

Some people have solar fans in their tunnel to help air flow and the small wind turbine is another option though a self opening side window is probably the cheapest option.

The polytunnel looks fantastic and far better than most in a very poor growing season.

Fab harvest. Things are shaping up. The only fruit I have left to harvest are the blackberries. They are full up, not as much as last year but, it will be a nice harvest for the next 2-3 months. I planted Lucid Gem at your recommendation. What pretty tomatoes. Can't wait to taste them.

I'll be really interested to see how the sungold select go. I've sourced some seeds in Australia and I'll be sowing them soon. Also found some sungold f1 which I've never grown before. 🧡🍅

The weather here in cork awful

Lovely harvest 🤩

Hallo there. Could you let me know where you got your outdoor metal trellising from? Did you make or buy the arches? The greenhouse metal trellising is also interesting. Many thanks. Nuka. PS. Blackcurrants make marvellous fail proof jam

You didn't say what variety of tomato that you had in the greenhouse which was so prolific. Would love to know out of curiosity. My tomatoes are about at the same stage as yours in my polytunnel. My outdoor tomato crops are several weeks behind, even being in the SE, we have suffered cold and wet conditions as everyone else has. I am growing aubergines, chillies and peppers outside, fruit has set, I just need some warmer days. My sweetcorn is huge and starting to 'feather up' nicely. This year, the pumpkin patch has benefited from the rain and looks fantastic and on investigation I seem to have a lot of pumpkins growing too. Enjoying great crops of raspberries, blackberries and strawberries, so life isn't bad. 😊

Mines picking up struggled early on with slugs thought my onions had had it but they have picked up nicely

Let me know how your season is panning out this year, I’m here for an hour or so 👍🏻

Hi what compost do you use ?? Take care cheers konrad

Re labels. I saw someone using strips from plastic milk bottles. Takes a felt tip perfectly, and a good re use of waste.

The peppermint chard wouldn't look out of place in a flower border.

I only have a super dwarf apple tree 😂 fierce three years it has produced one apple a year. So in other words I’m no expert. I feel repetitive when I comment simply saying it’s just too,not here to do anything much outside. I hope you get some summer sun soon, Ali 🌞🥵🇨🇦

Hi Chris I don’t know what is wrong with your plum but I have heard that multiple grafted trees are not as healthy. You’re better off planting two individual varieties of same species about 18 inches apart in the same hole and pruning them as one. Apparently they are healthier on their own roots. I’ve done this with all my pome and stone fruit trees.

HI Chris, Unfortunately, I'm unable to offer any advice regarding the plum. But the wet weather and cool temperatures has certainly posed the biggest challenge this year, so it could be a combination of issues?. Despite that your plot is looking great! Have a great week, Take care, Annie 🐞 🐝 🌱

Hi Chris if you see "Bethans Garden" she planted three grafted trees with two varieties and does not recommend them as she has had the same problems as you .

Hi Mate, had similar problem with pink lady apple tree that I got number of years ago as a small twig. I thought either one or the other, fungus or insect damage. So applied scotts bug spray stuff. Worked a treat. I think what happens in nature fungus gets a hold in the wind, then bugs attack when plant is down and then plant has no time to recover. If an issue still, then use rose clear, but not really for fruit, but just don't eat them this year.

I planted 3 new Gooseberry trees earlier this and want to add some Cherry trees next as the more perennials the better it will be in the long-term as the older I get the harder it will be to keep on top of growing enough food especially with all the farm land going to rewilding and carbon offset I expect food prices to rocket.

Hi Chris, your garden is romping away nicely 😍 Verbena is stunning! I love to help you with the plum, but I haven't come across this issue before. My Plums are not looking that healthy this year either, but I don't have any multi-crafted varieties.... Gosh, the weather is still cool, really crazy 🙈 Have a great week!💚🌿

Thank you for your advice brilliant help.

I plant my corn 8 inches apart. It's what square foot gardening suggests and it has worked well for me with great pollination.

Great info Chris 🤗 tomatoes looking mighty fine!!

great update Chris. You've reminded me to check my calendar and ive missed feeding my beds by 6 days!! lovely to see you still planting out!! Danny

I want to try those turtle beans......just ran out of room and time this year.

i have a load of flowers on a few of my tomatoes plants but no fruit .as of yet .the weather here in cork aful it is wet and cool

great vlog

great vid that view

Wonderful views Chris.🌻

It is so calm and quiet on this allotment, I find it really relaxing. It is nice to not have an interruption of loud music. It looks good too of course.

The allotment looks very rural and a beautiful spot, have tried getting manure from a local farmer as it would be far cheaper or possibly A local horse stables?

Fantastic video - lots of great ideas. Thankyou.

for a non smelly easily storable comfrey extract, fill a wheely bin/bin/barrel with comfrey (50/50 with nettle for a balanced high mineral feed) put some scrunched up chicken wire in the bottom to act as a filter, add a tap/drain, weight the material down with a rock/bricks, collect runoff, bottle it, I dilute 16:1 feed fornightly; other dynamic accumilators (i.e. high in minerals) that landowners will be happy for you to take include willow herb (fire weed) and himalayan balsam, which also makes excellent high mineral compost!

That's a decent potato harvest and I normally put Dwarf beans into my buckets stratight after each potato harvest or carrots.

The Squash looks amazing and I made a low tunnell for my Squash and pumkins and growing far better with some extra heat.

I'm having hopless germination with my Dwarf French beans and out of 3 packets and 2 sowings I've only got 5 plants.

The drip feed is working well and the polytunnel looks amazing.

I've never been able to grow so many tomatoe plants so close as I always get blight and normally by August I start losing plants, I pull all the stems below 18 inches but it still returns every year.

I chop comfrey into small pieces and use it as mulch for my tomatoes and other plants. It decomposes when watered, providing them with nutrients, and it doesn't produce any smell.

😂😂 so just a short list Chris. You’re having a fab season so far and a wonderful harvest in the making. Have a lovely weekend, Ali 🌞☔️🇨🇦

Excellent and very useful video, well done!

That was a full value and professional video from start to finish so thank you. I so enjoy your vlogs.

Nice new spud Harvest and I see you have almost ready tomatoes, it's a great time of year.