Thank you Cerri! Your crab apples are lovely! It had to be painful to cut the broken limbs off though. I know how it feels when one of our lovely plants or trees takes a beating! It happens to my garden when we have bad storms! Good luck with your crab apple jelly!❤
Hi Cerri, thanks for another great garden & greenhouse tour. I hope you are successful with your crabapple jelly, I made Rowanberry jelly back in September & I used jam sugar which gave a great setting. I am envious of the number of nasturtiums as I pickled the seeds to use in place of capers. Unfortunately I no longer have a garden. I loved your upside down pepper! The cat certainly did look at home in the greenhouse. Oh lucky you to have a fox visiting your plot, I love them too. I love your attitude towards growing things - if things grow that’s great, if they don’t well at least you had a go. I’m a great believer in Make Do & Mend, a great way to reuse & recycle. How very true it is to say everyone goes through things & we need to try to recognise what we can change & recognise that we can’t always do everything we want to. Blessings to you & Damh💚✌️🍂🍁
Wow! That is a huge space to garden! But I love your attitude towards chaos. I wish I still had something growing, our early freeze took care of my garden. Now it's all maintenance before next spring.
Cerri wowsers! The allotment has undergone something of a renaissance since first you posted. It's looking fab and I feel very inspired! Thanks for sharing successes and stuff-to-do-differently-next-time alike. I think more people would grow food and garden if they realised it's okay to get stuff wrong. I constantly meet people terrified of picking up a pair of snips or sowing some seeds in case they make mistakes. Monty Don has a huge team of gardeners making it all look so easy for him on telly but it is a constant learning curve. I love how the allotment is nestled among the houses - it must have a great little microclimate in there. Hope the fresh air and musings lifted your spirits, your video certainly lifted mine. Love to you and Damh, and hope to see you in Glasto next month! x
Cerri, these videos of yours are so cathartic to watch, I absolutely lovely them. I have a busy day in the classroom, and then I watch your video and it just relaxes me. I love and miss Sussex and this certainly helps. Thank you. Blessings /|\
I honestly really want to spend a day with you in your allotment, chatting and keeping busy. Thanks for these videos, I feel as though I have someone with me while I'm typing away at my computer every day!
Cerri, on difficult days try to be kind to yourself as you would to a friend. The honesty and empathy you show in your videos, is powerful. Keep going x
Ooh, how did I miss this one? I've been watching the day trip vids, but this one somehow passed me by! Had to laugh at the 'love planning possibly more than the gardening' comment - I could happily be an armchair gardener watching Monty do all the hard work! Plus it's also why half of my plot is still sitting fallow in the 2 years I've had it - the plans keep changing as new ideas pop up!
Cerri the garden looks amazing. It's always a work in progress. Mine has gone to bed for the year. Waiting for more snow any day it's been staying about minus 1 to minus 6 at night way to warm. I wish I was there in uour garden with you I'd pull weeds any day. Loved this Thank you 🌳 for sharing ❤️ 🐇🐇🐇
Catching up with this on a lazy morning - your lottie is amazing. I have the same crabapple tree and had the same problem. The fruit is so huge and plentiful that the tree's not strong enough to bear it. I managed to gaffer tape a split branch together and it's holding so far, if a little inelegant for a front garden 😂 Well done though, for an amazing plot and another lovely video. ❤
I'm making acerola jelly tomorrow.. I reckon it's like crab apple jam :) And nasturtiums are taking over my garden again, after i just pulled her quite insistently in large bundles just months ago :-o The Green House is a success... Definitely! We've just been learning of the need for hand pollinating our zuccinis, too. And all your other plants.. at a pinch we have food, yes? :D Even the Kale!! We have a wonderful Perennial Spinach, more like a softer-leaved chard, and excellent grower.. it's a keeper, and the welsh onions are some of my favourites. I leave the self-sown dandelions in our wicking beds (ie prime real estate) My fellow garden person isn't pleased, but i like making medicine from the roots :) Oh, I want Oca, it has the cute while spirally tuber, doesn't it? Oh, yours aren't spirally.. :D I like having protein and starch stashed in plants like that and sweet potatoes, as there'll always be something filling.. Your wildlife area looks a little too much like much of my garden :-0 but I'm sure that's part of the permaculture moments.. thriving wildlife.. yes!! :) Slack leads to self-sown is happy dance material :) You are my sought of gardener.. Can't find a saw, can't use compost bin until other things are sorted.. That just means we are gardeners with lots of exciting projects.. :) Yes you do need to try things, and keep trying.. :) We do the opposite.. planning for the summer.. get shade cloth ready.. and structures for laden tomato vines and beans and etc otherwise they are on the ground, like a huge length of them are at the moment.. still fruiting, so just trying to support the heaviest bits.. Planning better would have been good :D My way of coping always involves plants!! :) "Do epic shit and don't be a twat!" I think I'll have to adopt that.. full credit given to Kris.. :)b What an excellent job you did there.. It's months ago now so you'll be well passed it, but well done you.. I'll get back into the garden tyomorrow with a new attitude and plan to do epic things! xx
Allotment looking v abundant for November Cerri! I've given the chop & drop a go, & it's working well, & has saved alot of time too! Interested to hear how you get along with the skerrit, I grew it for a few years but found the roots always disappointingly thin & v hard to prepare, more went into the compost than in the pot! Have you grown salsify? You can eat the leaves & buds as well as the roots, it over winters & self seeds with beautiful purple daisy like flowers, insects also love it, the seed heads are like giant Dandelions! All the best for the coming winter 🐝/|\🐝
Thank you. :) I have a packet of Salsify seeds and will be giving them a go next year for sure. I am looking forward to trying the Skerrit, I do have similar concerns that it will be more fiddly than my patience can handle :D Very best to you and let's hope next year's growing season is kinder to us all. :)
Love the allotment and all your ideas.🤗 I am anxious to learn more about Oca and how it's prepared. Thank you Cerri for your wisdom. After watching one of your videos, life always seems more peaceful. There's magic in that I think.💜
I love that you leave your wildlife area very wild, and it was very cool to see Mr or Mrs Fox 😍🦊
Thank you Cerri! Your crab apples are lovely! It had to be painful to cut the broken limbs off though. I know how it feels when one of our lovely plants or trees takes a beating! It happens to my garden when we have bad storms! Good luck with your crab apple jelly!❤
Hi Cerri, thanks for another great garden & greenhouse tour. I hope you are successful with your crabapple jelly, I made Rowanberry jelly back in September & I used jam sugar which gave a great setting. I am envious of the number of nasturtiums as I pickled the seeds to use in place of capers. Unfortunately I no longer have a garden. I loved your upside down pepper! The cat certainly did look at home in the greenhouse. Oh lucky you to have a fox visiting your plot, I love them too. I love your attitude towards growing things - if things grow that’s great, if they don’t well at least you had a go. I’m a great believer in Make Do & Mend, a great way to reuse & recycle. How very true it is to say everyone goes through things & we need to try to recognise what we can change & recognise that we can’t always do everything we want to. Blessings to you & Damh💚✌️🍂🍁
Wow! That is a huge space to garden! But I love your attitude towards chaos. I wish I still had something growing, our early freeze took care of my garden. Now it's all maintenance before next spring.
Cerri wowsers! The allotment has undergone something of a renaissance since first you posted. It's looking fab and I feel very inspired! Thanks for sharing successes and stuff-to-do-differently-next-time alike. I think more people would grow food and garden if they realised it's okay to get stuff wrong. I constantly meet people terrified of picking up a pair of snips or sowing some seeds in case they make mistakes. Monty Don has a huge team of gardeners making it all look so easy for him on telly but it is a constant learning curve. I love how the allotment is nestled among the houses - it must have a great little microclimate in there. Hope the fresh air and musings lifted your spirits, your video certainly lifted mine. Love to you and Damh, and hope to see you in Glasto next month! x
Cerri, these videos of yours are so cathartic to watch, I absolutely lovely them. I have a busy day in the classroom, and then I watch your video and it just relaxes me. I love and miss Sussex and this certainly helps. Thank you. Blessings /|\
I honestly really want to spend a day with you in your allotment, chatting and keeping busy. Thanks for these videos, I feel as though I have someone with me while I'm typing away at my computer every day!
Cerri, on difficult days try to be kind to yourself as you would to a friend. The honesty and empathy you show in your videos, is powerful. Keep going x
Ooh, how did I miss this one? I've been watching the day trip vids, but this one somehow passed me by!
Had to laugh at the 'love planning possibly more than the gardening' comment - I could happily be an armchair gardener watching Monty do all the hard work! Plus it's also why half of my plot is still sitting fallow in the 2 years I've had it - the plans keep changing as new ideas pop up!
Cerri the garden looks amazing. It's always a work in progress. Mine has gone to bed for the year. Waiting for more snow any day it's been staying about minus 1 to minus 6 at night way to warm. I wish I was there in uour garden with you I'd pull weeds any day. Loved this Thank you 🌳 for sharing ❤️ 🐇🐇🐇
Catching up with this on a lazy morning - your lottie is amazing. I have the same crabapple tree and had the same problem. The fruit is so huge and plentiful that the tree's not strong enough to bear it. I managed to gaffer tape a split branch together and it's holding so far, if a little inelegant for a front garden 😂
Well done though, for an amazing plot and another lovely video. ❤
I'm quite envious, my garden in the west coast of Scotland is covered in frost this morning! The toms, chili's and peppers were killed off weeks ago.
I'm making acerola jelly tomorrow.. I reckon it's like crab apple jam :) And nasturtiums are taking over my garden again, after i just pulled her quite insistently in large bundles just months ago :-o The Green House is a success... Definitely! We've just been learning of the need for hand pollinating our zuccinis, too. And all your other plants.. at a pinch we have food, yes? :D Even the Kale!! We have a wonderful Perennial Spinach, more like a softer-leaved chard, and excellent grower.. it's a keeper, and the welsh onions are some of my favourites. I leave the self-sown dandelions in our wicking beds (ie prime real estate) My fellow garden person isn't pleased, but i like making medicine from the roots :) Oh, I want Oca, it has the cute while spirally tuber, doesn't it? Oh, yours aren't spirally.. :D I like having protein and starch stashed in plants like that and sweet potatoes, as there'll always be something filling.. Your wildlife area looks a little too much like much of my garden :-0 but I'm sure that's part of the permaculture moments.. thriving wildlife.. yes!! :) Slack leads to self-sown is happy dance material :) You are my sought of gardener.. Can't find a saw, can't use compost bin until other things are sorted.. That just means we are gardeners with lots of exciting projects.. :) Yes you do need to try things, and keep trying.. :) We do the opposite.. planning for the summer.. get shade cloth ready.. and structures for laden tomato vines and beans and etc otherwise they are on the ground, like a huge length of them are at the moment.. still fruiting, so just trying to support the heaviest bits.. Planning better would have been good :D My way of coping always involves plants!! :) "Do epic shit and don't be a twat!" I think I'll have to adopt that.. full credit given to Kris.. :)b What an excellent job you did there.. It's months ago now so you'll be well passed it, but well done you.. I'll get back into the garden tyomorrow with a new attitude and plan to do epic things! xx
Maybe the purring of the cat pollinated the peppers 😊
I love gardening, but I never plan it
Definitely Epic!!!
My nasturtium went mad last summer, but didn't even bother to sprout until mid-October this year. Nasturtium is a mood, I think.
Allotment looking v abundant for November Cerri! I've given the chop & drop a go, & it's working well, & has saved alot of time too! Interested to hear how you get along with the skerrit, I grew it for a few years but found the roots always disappointingly thin & v hard to prepare, more went into the compost than in the pot! Have you grown salsify? You can eat the leaves & buds as well as the roots, it over winters & self seeds with beautiful purple daisy like flowers, insects also love it, the seed heads are like giant Dandelions! All the best for the coming winter 🐝/|\🐝
Thank you. :) I have a packet of Salsify seeds and will be giving them a go next year for sure. I am looking forward to trying the Skerrit, I do have similar concerns that it will be more fiddly than my patience can handle :D Very best to you and let's hope next year's growing season is kinder to us all. :)
Love the allotment and all your ideas.🤗 I am anxious to learn more about Oca and how it's prepared. Thank you Cerri for your wisdom. After watching one of your videos, life always seems more peaceful. There's magic in that I think.💜