I'm watching this on New Years day 2022. You look so comfy and then every once in a while, you can see your breath. It's also great to look back and see how the shed looked compared to now
As you said, '' sounds really cheesy, doesn't it...?'', I'll gladly be cheesy, and say you are a more beautiful person than your garden could ever be. 'Lovely' doesn't quite do you justice. Adorable, enchanting, wonderful, intoxicating.... I sincerely hope life treats you well, that you'll find love and happiness. May God bless you...
Hello! I am from Puerto Rico and I find your Channel because I love gardening and Permaculture and follow other channels to learn more about gardening and farming. Now i live in Connecticut and have a garden too. So I understand how marvelous is having your own garden and farming space! Here in CT we are growing now cut flowers and vegetables because we wanted to stop buying from the supermarket a little bit. I begin with herbs and now we are cultivating some tomato varieties and lettuce and beans and so on. I enjoy very much your Channel. You are a smart and sweet person. Your garden Is a heavenly space and your videos are very enjoyable. I am trying to see all the videos now. Congratulations for your job and good health and happiness to you and family!
Hi Katrina, great video, Those allotments are beautiful, when I was a small lad we had an allotment at Henley mill lane in Coventry, it was like an adventure play ground for me, I loved going up there on Sunday mornings, I used to go up with my best friend Stephen who alas is no longer with us. The allotment society had a large shed up there were they sold produce, I can always remember the lovely smells in that shed. I am lucky enough to own a farm up in North Yorkshire with my own large allotment plot, when I’m out there doing my stuff I often recall those lovely days of my childhood. I’m glad you are enjoying your gardening/ landscaping job, it takes a lot of courage to do that, I left my job as a paramedic to start an Arboricultural contract company that been a great success. On the price of compost, do you have a local biomass regeneration centre? I buy our pasteurised compost from the @ £6 a tonne. They also sell it in bags. Keep up these great videos.
Wow, wish you a merry Xmas and a happy 2020 ! Greetz Paul from Holland! PS Never seen such a beautifull Santa ever!!!!! You should have your own garden show on the BBC!!!!! Would be a great succes!!!!
To write a book some day, start a journal today. Make notes of the pros and cons, the things you love about gardening and the things you find less enjoyable. You have done a lot it here in your Christmas show. Notes you did today for new beginners.
Recently found your channel and I am just catching up on your last few months of videos, finding them very inspirational. Love that you have as many flowers as fruit and veg plants on your allotment. For easy things to do with celeriac, try a celeriac remoulade (or a celeriac and carrot remoulade), it's like a French coleslaw, and probably easier to make (at least if you have a food processor that can grate) and imho much tastier. Even easier, if you are making mashed potatoes, just replace some of your potatoes with celeriac, just add a small knob of butter before mashing both together.
As far as the bindweed goes, my uncle who worked at Hilliers all his working life told me to mix weed killer with wallpaper paste and paste it on the leafs as this takes it down to the roots (pick a time when its not going to rain for a few days!). I did this in my garden in London and apart from getting funny looks from the neighbors it worked!, only garden in the street without any bindweed.
Another great video! Thank you so much or replying to my question on your celeriac. Mine seem a wee bit larger - perhaps 12.5 cm diameter. To use them, I usually cut them into chips or 1 cm cubes, blanch them for 2 minutes and then I can freeze them - or coat then in oil and honey and roast them like parsnips. Because they are less dense than parsnips you need a few more for a portion. Or try grating it, mixed with carrot and potato and roating. Just be wary - they tend to discolour quickly (like aubergines or apples) so peal and cut them up under water, and deal with them quickly. Cheers!
Celeriac salad :) Ingredients: 1 root celery - 500 g 1 medium apple - about 230 g a bit of lemon juice 1/3 cup orange juice a handful of walnuts a handful of parsley 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil tablespoon of sour cream a tablespoon of mayonnaise half a teaspoon of salt and pepper Wash and peel celeriac tuber. Peel an apple. Grate celery and apple on a grater on big or medium meshes. Rub the apple into the seed socket. Give it a splash of lemon juice to prevent apple from getting brown. Pour freshly squeezed orange juice and chopped parsley into the bowl. Add crushed walnuts, a tablespoon of mayonnaise and cream, 3 tablespoons of oil, salt and pepper. Mix everything well and try if you like it. Add more salt or pepper as needed. Celeriac bulb salad is juicy and tender. Salad can be served immediately or stored in the fridge. 20 minutes is enough to cool it down.
Merry Christmas from New Zealand Katrina. I had a plot on a great allotment site in Wolverhampton before moving here in 2010 and it's the thing I miss the most so enjoy watching your videos.
I enjoy you youtube very much. I like gardening also but don't do as much flowers as you do. I like your approach to different kind of foods and flowers. Keep enjoying and relaxing.
Appreciate your videos very much Katrina! They relax me and inspire me to do more in my own garden. Warm Greetings and blessings from sunny Barbados....by the way I also follow Charles Dowding's "No Dig" method.
You have the most sincere channel, really and we all indulge vicariously with you so what you’re doing is effective ! I guess you are a landscaper there ? I’m curious about your lifestyle in Nottingham and it would be cool to see a city tour when you’re out or hitting the pub or garden shop. Perch Hill , ( Beloved Sarah Raven’s ) near Folkestone , well Folkestone is the origin of my namesake and I’d love to see that area. Blessings , keep up the great work
Talking on using less plastic, using toilet rolls is good. I last used some for winter Broadbeans which are now in the ground and doing well. It's great because you can just plant the whole thing. I used them whole, but for some things with shorter roots, you can cut the toilet rolls in half. Gardeners world magazines twitter account recently (20th december) did a tweet on making pots from newspaper which I might try too. Like all things, these ideas suit certain plants better than others I'm sure, but every little bit helps stop the use of plastic and creating more. Like you I do a lot of walking / nature wanders and here in hampshire we have a lot of wildlife in walking distance from my flat, which I also film a lot, but sadly plastic is all over the place and even though in some places it keeps getting cleared, more just arrives within days. All the best for next year. P.S. I'd love to have a look around the shed and tools you have, would be interesting to some I think. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The begonias rant broke my heart lol, but I still love your channel. Thank you so much for the explanation of allotments and especially the history of your allotment. That’s so fascinating and you are so privileged to be able to garden there! I would love to see a tour of all the gardens there and especially to have you introduce some of the other gardeners there at the allotment. It’s fascinating! It makes me want to visit Nottingham some day just so I can see the oldest allotment in Europe 🥰Your boxwood looks so festive and your natural decorations are lovely. Merry Christmas!
They are all different. The allotments in my small town are all owned by the local landowner and they basically leave them alone which is nice. However, at the other end of the scale some council allotments employ someone to run them and you end up with hundreds of rules and complaints about weeds and so on.
Merry Christmas, looking forward to 2020 with you. I seen the soil blocks yrs ago here in the states on a garden show on Maryland public television. I was just recently trying to remember the name of the show, they lived in Maine and he showed how the roots stop growing when they hit the air outside of the soil, pretty cool. I made my own with an ice cube tray, drilled holes in each cube an used big nuts an screws to make the divot for the seed
Yey, just about to get an early night as we are travelling from Lincolnshire to Yorkshire to visit my mum, am sooooo glad this video popped up, know officially my favourite allotment channel on YT xxxx Andy, ill sit back and enjoy xxxx
I get so much from your channel , as a photographer and allotment lover you have inspired me on many occasions, thank you and a happy new year to you both.
Hello Katrina and this is my first video I’ve decided to see of yours as a means of getting to know you and I enjoyed it as you made it fun and relaxing and educational and I’ve seen a lot of your content on Instagram and I’m glad for you that you’ve recently surpassed 40k subscribers on RUclips and I’ll be watching more of your RUclips videos though I’ll have sit back relax have a bit of food and drink as I’m aware that your videos go on for 20mins to 30 or so mins but I’ll know it’ll be well worth it for entertainment and educational purposes so anyway that all said I thank you for reading my response message take care stay safe amidst the covid-19 and cheerio
very true what you said about the lack of Summer this year thankgoodness i bought 2 El Cheapo Polytunnels definately gave me better growing time my Sweetcorn Plants were amazing! growing huge Plantations next Summer
Hoping to get started on the RHS course myself this year. 6 months isn't long at all for an allotment; I'm on the list here and at the time I signed up was informed it's likely a 5 year wait. Wishing you all the best going forward!
If you can’t afford a soil blocker, get one of those little wooden devices to make little newspaper pots. You can plant them straight in the ground too. I’ve made myself some wooden seed trays. It was easier than I thought. I used featherboard to make tall ones for potting on. You can use any old wood really, with panel pins and wood glue. Then you collect odd panes of glass for lids.
Late to the party ... Celeriac rice: Peel and chop your root, put in blender to make rice like, Place in frying pan, two table spoons water, one taplepoon cumin seeds (more or less as you like). Lid, 10 mins whatever the size. Done. It's a great keto rice alt.
Merry Christmas to you and your boyfriend, Katrina. Have a lovely holiday. Looking forward to what the allotment grows for you in the new year. Cheers, Ardith
I so enjoy your videos and your garden. You have an eye for beauty of nature. May your Christmas be a very happy and joyful one with family and friends. God bless. :-)
Just found u and im loving your vlogs. i got my first allotment In Mansfield ,Notts its HUGE 70m x 15m . Never grown veg so u really inspire me ..THANK U 😘
Love the channel. Thanks for the content! One thing I have noticed is that it is becoming difficult to get gardening advice without being directed toward no-till. Zone 3 in MN-USA I must open the soil to warm and dry as early as possible. I have 100 day grow season (at best). Do your studies give advice for short growing seasons? I've abandoned groups because they insist no-till can resolve my issues.
Hi, love your channel! What size is your polytunnel and where did you get it from? Just watching your seed sowing ep from beginning of last year! Roll on spring! 🌸
Allotments are a great idea, I wished there were more here in the states. There are some community garden spaces but they aren't too common, unfortunately. There should be more. New plants I'm looking forward to this year.. more rhubarb! and a greater variety of peppers. Huh?? I wonder what rhubarb with peppers would taste like?
On the upside though, you have a lot more land in the States. I often see videos where people are homesteading on a few acres which in most parts of the U.K. would be very expensive.
That was fun! Julie Andrews actually wrote my favorite book 'Mandy' - so much like 'Secret Garden' since it has so many feelings in it and my nightly dream as a child was to have a little cottage in the woods on a stream that was all mine. I really want a white picket fence, also. But the book was quick and I got it to read to my granddaughter but was surprised that I enjoyed it so much. I don't read a lot but you may want to try it for a short, sweet read.
Fear innoculum was a great album this year but I think best album of the past few years was Prequelle by Ghost. Loved the video! Struggling here in Australia with the heat, so my garden is just surviving at the moment ( hit 47 degrees Celsius here this week) Also we don't have alotments here, as land is very expensive but I've been talking to my local council about starting a program and it's getting some momentum. Anyway, have a great Christmas!
I’m not sure which part of your Australia you are in but oh my gosh, my heart goes out to you all right now. The destruction of the fires is so heartbreaking to see 💔😢 Thanks for watching. Currently giving Prequelle a first listen! Thanks for the suggestion and for watching my video ☺️ Have a great Christmas and stay safe! 🎄
@@homegrowngarden It really is, I feel sorry for all the volunteer firefighters, especially the families of the ones killed recently. I'm in Newcastle, New South Wales. Extremely smokey here. Christmas was great, it was my son's first Christmas :) I hope yours was amazing! We love your videos and really enjoy everytime you put up content. Have a great new years and I hope 2020 is an amazing year for you. 🍺
hi happy holidays I am curious what the soil composition is in your garden? I think you have a good relationship between flowers and vegetable garden. best regards michel
Do you listen to your music with earbuds, bluetooth speakers, or ? You mentioned some interesting artists, but what about NIN. Anything from them? Happy gardening.
Hey Katrina brilliant q&a. May I asked did you draw the pictures behind you because there absolutely amazing if so. Absolutely love your plot looks so natural and looks amazing. Merry Christmas to you. All the best Sam is 🎅🍂🌞
Hey Sam, thanks for watching! The pictures and illustrations behind me are by different artists. I’ll give more details on them when I get round to doing a shed tour! 😁 Have a fab Christmas! 🎄
Not where I live. I do grow some salads and herbs in pots for convenience but there’s not really any open soil. We had a load of wildflowers pop up one year in the gravel but the landlord soon obliterated them with weedkillers 😢 It would be great to make some seed balls though to drop and throw here or there 😄🌱
Merry Christmas and A HAPPY NEWYEARS from BROOKLYN,NEWYORK zone 6b to you and your family.Katrina your allotments are huge.My communitygarden Floyd Bennett Gardens Association we are ORGANIC most of us 97%.FBGA our plots are 10 X 20 and we pay 50.00 dollars a year for each plot.I have two together and one by it self.You said you drink something christmas morning what was it.I love to drink hot REAL eggnog Organic Valley it is the BEST.I make on christmas morning I take 2- 2 inch slices of Panettone 1dozen organic eggs cinnamon or nutmeg butter organic eggnog no milk.let each slice of panettone soak in the mix.into the melted butter in the pan.Put them on the dish sprinkle some of my dryrub and REAL 100% maple syrup on them.The rest off the mix I put it in the pan and make a big crepe.With it I have hot eggnog i sprinkle my spicy dryrub on it.Did you ever think of modeling.Yes I do no dig.I tell new gardeners till it for the first time never again.Because you will kill everything you built up.I watch Charles Dowding to.
@@homegrowngarden yes it is usually a large piece of land (although the one local to me is really small alas) and each person has a small plot of their own.
22:40 I've grown Biquinho red - which has gone quite well, as well as Biquinho yellow, which didn't really fruit this year but I still have some plants overwintering. My Biquinho Red wasn't very mild, it was actually quite hot. I got the seeds off ebay: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/vonbondies I've made chilli jam with various different varieties.
A really interesting and entertaining video as always, thank you. One question. Did you manage to record the whole vid without spilling the coffee? It was very close at times. :)
If you are on a tight budget, the best time to get seeds is when the gardening season ends in the main stores, cSeptember-October. WIlkinsons for example sell their remaining seed packs at 10p each. I spent a fiver this time.....
Katrina I literally love everything about you. You are very intelligent and to me intelligence is sexy. Your knowledge covers many areas and I don't see that in many people anymore. Your humor is cute and you made me chuckle several times in this video. Your love for pigs in a blanket and chilis makes me wonder if you are half Texan lol. I have never had pigs in blankets at Christmas, but I do enjoy them for breakfast often and I always have several varieties of peppers.I love hot and spicy. One year I had an over abundance of Habaneros so I used some and made habanero jelly. A little went a long way it was so fiery hot but wow it was good stuff. Maybe I'll make more next year and fly a jar over to you. I think I told you before but when I lived in England I rented an allotment in Sheffield. Mine was about 1/3rd the size of yours, and wide open. I was so busy, I traveled all over Europe Monday through Friday most weeks so I just had weekends to spend at my allotment but like you, I would go there for respite. I used to have photographs of it but I lost all my photos - and everything else, in hurricane Harvey in 2017. I love all your videos and will watch them as long as you share them.
I'm watching this on New Years day 2022. You look so comfy and then every once in a while, you can see your breath. It's also great to look back and see how the shed looked compared to now
You are just my ideal kind of woman 🤣. Even your music taste is amazing. Keep being yourself and inspiring everyone to do the same 🤘.
As you said, '' sounds really cheesy, doesn't it...?'', I'll gladly be cheesy, and say you are a more beautiful person than your garden could ever be. 'Lovely' doesn't quite do you justice. Adorable, enchanting, wonderful, intoxicating.... I sincerely hope life treats you well, that you'll find love and happiness. May God bless you...
Nice to find a youngster who is so enthusiastic
Hello! I am from Puerto Rico and I find your Channel because I love gardening and Permaculture and follow other channels to learn more about gardening and farming. Now i live in Connecticut and have a garden too. So I understand how marvelous is having your own garden and farming space! Here in CT we are growing now cut flowers and vegetables because we wanted to stop buying from the supermarket a little bit. I begin with herbs and now we are cultivating some tomato varieties and lettuce and beans and so on. I enjoy very much your Channel. You are a smart and sweet person. Your garden Is a heavenly space and your videos are very enjoyable. I am trying to see all the videos now. Congratulations for your job and good health and happiness to you and family!
Hi Katrina, great video, Those allotments are beautiful, when I was a small lad we had an allotment at Henley mill lane in Coventry, it was like an adventure play ground for me, I loved going up there on Sunday mornings, I used to go up with my best friend Stephen who alas is no longer with us. The allotment society had a large shed up there were they sold produce, I can always remember the lovely smells in that shed.
I am lucky enough to own a farm up in North Yorkshire with my own large allotment plot, when I’m out there doing my stuff I often recall those lovely days of my childhood.
I’m glad you are enjoying your gardening/ landscaping job, it takes a lot of courage to do that, I left my job as a paramedic to start an Arboricultural contract company that been a great success.
On the price of compost, do you have a local biomass regeneration centre? I buy our pasteurised compost from the @ £6 a tonne. They also sell it in bags.
Keep up these great videos.
RUclips just suggested your channel and I'm obsessed. It's 1am now and I have to go to bed but can't wait to binge on it tomorrow.
Wow, wish you a merry Xmas and a happy 2020 ! Greetz Paul from Holland! PS Never seen such a beautifull Santa ever!!!!! You should have your own garden show on the BBC!!!!! Would be a great succes!!!!
To write a book some day, start a journal today. Make notes of the pros and cons, the things you love about gardening and the things you find less enjoyable. You have done a lot it here in your Christmas show. Notes you did today for new beginners.
Recently found your channel and I am just catching up on your last few months of videos, finding them very inspirational. Love that you have as many flowers as fruit and veg plants on your allotment. For easy things to do with celeriac, try a celeriac remoulade (or a celeriac and carrot remoulade), it's like a French coleslaw, and probably easier to make (at least if you have a food processor that can grate) and imho much tastier. Even easier, if you are making mashed potatoes, just replace some of your potatoes with celeriac, just add a small knob of butter before mashing both together.
Your sheds super cosy! Just keep showing us what your up too! Thanks for the videos and hope you have had a very merry Christmas 🤶
Jen
I learned about allotments when I visited Germany in the early 1970s. Fell in love with the gardens and tiny sheds.
As far as the bindweed goes, my uncle who worked at Hilliers all his working life told me to mix weed killer with wallpaper paste and paste it on the leafs as this takes it down to the roots (pick a time when its not going to rain for a few days!). I did this in my garden in London and apart from getting funny looks from the neighbors it worked!, only garden in the street without any bindweed.
You're such a beautiful soul in everyway. I adore you so much. I love watching your videos. Thank you.
...paws and pads. Love it, thanks for posting.
Very glad I've found another young woman tacking an allotment. I'm just starting out so it's great to have your tips and insight :)
Another great video! Thank you so much or replying to my question on your celeriac. Mine seem a wee bit larger - perhaps 12.5 cm diameter. To use them, I usually cut them into chips or 1 cm cubes, blanch them for 2 minutes and then I can freeze them - or coat then in oil and honey and roast them like parsnips. Because they are less dense than parsnips you need a few more for a portion. Or try grating it, mixed with carrot and potato and roating. Just be wary - they tend to discolour quickly (like aubergines or apples) so peal and cut them up under water, and deal with them quickly. Cheers!
Celeriac salad :)
Ingredients:
1 root celery - 500 g
1 medium apple - about 230 g
a bit of lemon juice
1/3 cup orange juice
a handful of walnuts
a handful of parsley
3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
tablespoon of sour cream
a tablespoon of mayonnaise
half a teaspoon of salt and pepper
Wash and peel celeriac tuber. Peel an apple. Grate celery and apple on a grater on big or medium meshes. Rub the apple into the seed socket. Give it a splash of lemon juice to prevent apple from getting brown.
Pour freshly squeezed orange juice and chopped parsley into the bowl. Add crushed walnuts, a tablespoon of mayonnaise and cream, 3 tablespoons of oil, salt and pepper. Mix everything well and try if you like it. Add more salt or pepper as needed. Celeriac bulb salad is juicy and tender.
Salad can be served immediately or stored in the fridge. 20 minutes is enough to cool it down.
Merry Christmas from New Zealand Katrina. I had a plot on a great allotment site in Wolverhampton before moving here in 2010 and it's the thing I miss the most so enjoy watching your videos.
I enjoy you youtube very much. I like gardening also but don't do as much flowers as you do. I like your approach to different kind of foods and flowers. Keep enjoying and relaxing.
Appreciate your videos very much Katrina! They relax me and inspire me to do more in my own garden. Warm Greetings and blessings from sunny Barbados....by the way I also follow Charles Dowding's "No Dig" method.
You have the most sincere channel, really and we all indulge vicariously with you so what you’re doing is effective !
I guess you are a landscaper there ? I’m curious about your lifestyle in Nottingham and it would be cool to see a city tour when you’re out or hitting the pub or garden shop.
Perch Hill , ( Beloved Sarah Raven’s ) near Folkestone , well Folkestone is the origin of my namesake and I’d love to see that area.
Blessings , keep up the great work
I would love to see you making things from your garden, all the best for 2020🦘
Talking on using less plastic, using toilet rolls is good. I last used some for winter Broadbeans which are now in the ground and doing well. It's great because you can just plant the whole thing. I used them whole, but for some things with shorter roots, you can cut the toilet rolls in half. Gardeners world magazines twitter account recently (20th december) did a tweet on making pots from newspaper which I might try too. Like all things, these ideas suit certain plants better than others I'm sure, but every little bit helps stop the use of plastic and creating more. Like you I do a lot of walking / nature wanders and here in hampshire we have a lot of wildlife in walking distance from my flat, which I also film a lot, but sadly plastic is all over the place and even though in some places it keeps getting cleared, more just arrives within days. All the best for next year. P.S. I'd love to have a look around the shed and tools you have, would be interesting to some I think. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The begonias rant broke my heart lol, but I still love your channel. Thank you so much for the explanation of allotments and especially the history of your allotment. That’s so fascinating and you are so privileged to be able to garden there! I would love to see a tour of all the gardens there and especially to have you introduce some of the other gardeners there at the allotment. It’s fascinating! It makes me want to visit Nottingham some day just so I can see the oldest allotment in Europe 🥰Your boxwood looks so festive and your natural decorations are lovely. Merry Christmas!
They are all different. The allotments in my small town are all owned by the local landowner and they basically leave them alone which is nice. However, at the other end of the scale some council allotments employ someone to run them and you end up with hundreds of rules and complaints about weeds and so on.
Merry Christmas, looking forward to 2020 with you. I seen the soil blocks yrs ago here in the states on a garden show on Maryland public television. I was just recently trying to remember the name of the show, they lived in Maine and he showed how the roots stop growing when they hit the air outside of the soil, pretty cool. I made my own with an ice cube tray, drilled holes in each cube an used big nuts an screws to make the divot for the seed
Yey, just about to get an early night as we are travelling from Lincolnshire to Yorkshire to visit my mum, am sooooo glad this video popped up, know officially my favourite allotment channel on YT xxxx Andy, ill sit back and enjoy xxxx
I get so much from your channel , as a photographer and allotment lover you have inspired me on many occasions, thank you and a happy new year to you both.
Hello Katrina and this is my first video I’ve decided to see of yours as a means of getting to know you and I enjoyed it as you made it fun and relaxing and educational and I’ve seen a lot of your content on Instagram and I’m glad for you that you’ve recently surpassed 40k subscribers on RUclips and I’ll be watching more of your RUclips videos though I’ll have sit back relax have a bit of food and drink as I’m aware that your videos go on for 20mins to 30 or so mins but I’ll know it’ll be well worth it for entertainment and educational purposes so anyway that all said I thank you for reading my response message take care stay safe amidst the covid-19 and cheerio
very true what you said about the lack of Summer this year thankgoodness i bought 2 El Cheapo Polytunnels definately gave me better growing time my Sweetcorn Plants were amazing! growing huge Plantations next Summer
Hello Katrina, come 2020 would love to see your indoor garden :) collection of houseplants etc xx
Hoping to get started on the RHS course myself this year. 6 months isn't long at all for an allotment; I'm on the list here and at the time I signed up was informed it's likely a 5 year wait. Wishing you all the best going forward!
If you can’t afford a soil blocker, get one of those little wooden devices to make little newspaper pots. You can plant them straight in the ground too.
I’ve made myself some wooden seed trays. It was easier than I thought. I used featherboard to make tall ones for potting on. You can use any old wood really, with panel pins and wood glue. Then you collect odd panes of glass for lids.
Fainites Barley good news, I got one on Christmas morning 😁🎄
homegrown.garden
Marvellous.
Late to the party ... Celeriac rice: Peel and chop your root, put in blender to make rice like, Place in frying pan, two table spoons water, one taplepoon cumin seeds (more or less as you like). Lid, 10 mins whatever the size. Done. It's a great keto rice alt.
Merry Christmas to you and your boyfriend, Katrina. Have a lovely holiday. Looking forward to what the allotment grows for you in the new year. Cheers, Ardith
Thank you and Merry Christmas 🎄
Our music tastes are exactly alike lol. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family and all your viewers.
If you're allowed, a garden tour of Barton Hall would be interesting to see.
Yes, RIP Keith, he was a good bloke, loved wildlife and his horses and dogs. Real shame.
Mashed celeriac with lamb is lovely. Happy Christmas.
I so enjoy your videos and your garden. You have an eye for beauty of nature. May your Christmas be a very happy and joyful one with family and friends. God bless. :-)
Happy Xmas Katrina love your gardening videos have fun .
I think a video on gardening podcasts is a great idea. Merry Christmas!
Just found u and im loving your vlogs. i got my first allotment In Mansfield ,Notts its HUGE 70m x 15m . Never grown veg so u really inspire me ..THANK U 😘
Love your video's Katrina. Steam your cubes of celeriac and mash with butter and lots of black pepper.! Merry Christmas. 🎄☃
Thank you! 🎄 Merry Christmas 🌟
Thank You for sharing your Q&A 💕
love your videos keep them coming , happy holidays from Arizona USA ,
Happy holidays and a brilliant New Year! Thank you for answering all our questions! 🎄🌱❄️
Confermed! they are colled "Pasteis de nata" fortunately I live in Lisbon there's many kinds of them 😋
Love the channel. Thanks for the content! One thing I have noticed is that it is becoming difficult to get gardening advice without being directed toward no-till. Zone 3 in MN-USA I must open the soil to warm and dry as early as possible. I have 100 day grow season (at best). Do your studies give advice for short growing seasons? I've abandoned groups because they insist no-till can resolve my issues.
Really enjoyed the videos over the year, looking forward to the coming year. Have a Happy Xmas and great new year :)
Hi, love your channel! What size is your polytunnel and where did you get it from? Just watching your seed sowing ep from beginning of last year! Roll on spring! 🌸
Congrats on 15k kristina. Have a great xmas to you both
Allotments are a great idea, I wished there were more here in the states. There are some community garden spaces but they aren't too common, unfortunately. There should be more.
New plants I'm looking forward to this year.. more rhubarb! and a greater variety of peppers. Huh?? I wonder what rhubarb with peppers would taste like?
On the upside though, you have a lot more land in the States. I often see videos where people are homesteading on a few acres which in most parts of the U.K. would be very expensive.
Merry Christmas!! Those are my favorite pastries, too!! They are Portuguese. Pasteis de Nata. So Good!
Honestly, I’m so addicted to them!
That was fun! Julie Andrews actually wrote my favorite book 'Mandy' - so much like 'Secret Garden' since it has so many feelings in it and my nightly dream as a child was to have a little cottage in the woods on a stream that was all mine. I really want a white picket fence, also. But the book was quick and I got it to read to my granddaughter but was surprised that I enjoyed it so much. I don't read a lot but you may want to try it for a short, sweet read.
Thank you Mary! I’ll check out the book ‘Mandy’, it sounds lovely!
What are the dimensions of your shed? It looks like such the perfect size !
Fear innoculum was a great album this year but I think best album of the past few years was Prequelle by Ghost.
Loved the video!
Struggling here in Australia with the heat, so my garden is just surviving at the moment ( hit 47 degrees Celsius here this week)
Also we don't have alotments here, as land is very expensive but I've been talking to my local council about starting a program and it's getting some momentum.
Anyway, have a great Christmas!
I’m not sure which part of your Australia you are in but oh my gosh, my heart goes out to you all right now. The destruction of the fires is so heartbreaking to see 💔😢
Thanks for watching. Currently giving Prequelle a first listen! Thanks for the suggestion and for watching my video ☺️
Have a great Christmas and stay safe! 🎄
@@homegrowngarden It really is, I feel sorry for all the volunteer firefighters, especially the families of the ones killed recently.
I'm in Newcastle, New South Wales. Extremely smokey here.
Christmas was great, it was my son's first Christmas :)
I hope yours was amazing!
We love your videos and really enjoy everytime you put up content.
Have a great new years and I hope 2020 is an amazing year for you. 🍺
My favorite book too ❤️
Merry Christmas Katrina, brilliant Q and A...
hi happy holidays
I am curious what the soil composition is in your garden?
I think you have a good relationship between flowers and vegetable garden.
best regards michel
You have got to be the cutest Santa ever
I AGREE.
Do you listen to your music with earbuds, bluetooth speakers, or ? You mentioned some interesting artists, but what about NIN. Anything from them? Happy gardening.
You had me on edge shaking that tea around 🙃
just found your channel. love what you're sharing!
Hey Katrina brilliant q&a. May I asked did you draw the pictures behind you because there absolutely amazing if so. Absolutely love your plot looks so natural and looks amazing.
Merry Christmas to you.
All the best Sam is 🎅🍂🌞
Hey Sam, thanks for watching! The pictures and illustrations behind me are by different artists. I’ll give more details on them when I get round to doing a shed tour! 😁 Have a fab Christmas! 🎄
I’m trying the fish pepper this next year too! Love your channel.
Merry Christmas and happy n blessed year ahea💛💜💚🎄.
Happy Christmas
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Merry Christmas! A great video! I was smiling all the way through! 😄
Cheers Alex! Thank you for your questions and have a fab Christmas 🎄
Good day and good video. 🌱🌱🌱👏
Have you considered guerrilla gardening at your flat or elsewhere? You seem to be the type that would enjoy spreading a little happiness.
Not where I live. I do grow some salads and herbs in pots for convenience but there’s not really any open soil. We had a load of wildflowers pop up one year in the gravel but the landlord soon obliterated them with weedkillers 😢 It would be great to make some seed balls though to drop and throw here or there 😄🌱
Merry Christmas Katrina!! 🎄🎄🎄
Happy Christmas 🎂🎁⛄🎄
I would recommend making a celeriac and potato gratin.
Now that sounds delicious! 😋
Merry Christmas and A HAPPY NEWYEARS from BROOKLYN,NEWYORK zone 6b to you and your family.Katrina your allotments are huge.My communitygarden Floyd Bennett Gardens Association we are ORGANIC most of us 97%.FBGA our plots are 10 X 20 and we pay 50.00 dollars a year for each plot.I have two together and one by it self.You said you drink something christmas morning what was it.I love to drink hot REAL eggnog Organic Valley it is the BEST.I make on christmas morning I take 2- 2 inch slices of Panettone 1dozen organic eggs cinnamon or nutmeg butter organic eggnog no milk.let each slice of panettone soak in the mix.into the melted butter in the pan.Put them on the dish sprinkle some of my dryrub and REAL 100% maple syrup on them.The rest off the mix I put it in the pan and make a big crepe.With it I have hot eggnog i sprinkle my spicy dryrub on it.Did you ever think of modeling.Yes I do no dig.I tell new gardeners till it for the first time never again.Because you will kill everything you built up.I watch Charles Dowding to.
Great video. Have you heard of Lacey? They're local to you and my favourite band. They're Alt Rock.
Dried flower videos please!
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BRILLIANT !!!
Yes, they are Portuguese.
12:30 You should try learning Latin on Duolingo for those plant names!
We in the States call allotments "community gardens" and many cities here have them.
I did wonder about those. Do the tenants have a plot each or is a a big open space that many people share?
@@homegrowngarden yes it is usually a large piece of land (although the one local to me is really small alas) and each person has a small plot of their own.
Happy Christmas Katrina 🌲🌲 my Mum has been asking where were you lol
Brian's Jersey Garden Nottingham! Slab bang in the middle of England but I was born and raised in Northamptonshire. ☺️
Great video! Merry Christmas to you! Nadolig llawen i chi!(Welsh)!😁😁
LOVELY video. What does it mean grade 2 listing?
Basically it’s protected by law that it cannot be changed by development. A lot of old buildings in the U.K. are protected by this.
lovely video have a great christmas
Steven Dowden thanks for watching Steve! Have a merry Christmas 🎄
22:40 I've grown Biquinho red - which has gone quite well, as well as Biquinho yellow, which didn't really fruit this year but I still have some plants overwintering. My Biquinho Red wasn't very mild, it was actually quite hot. I got the seeds off ebay: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/vonbondies I've made chilli jam with various different varieties.
i knew you had to be a metalhead lol, great vid as usual,
A really interesting and entertaining video as always, thank you. One question. Did you manage to record the whole vid without spilling the coffee? It was very close at times. :)
Haha, I have a habit of doing that but this time I managed to not spill my tea OR knock over the tree 😂
@@homegrowngarden I wouldn't worry, until you spill beetroot juice over your lounge carpet, now THAT makes a mess. Merry Christmas.
Hey i was waiting for your video👍👍👍
What a smashingly fit bird!
Merry xmas from thailand 🎄☺️
If you are on a tight budget, the best time to get seeds is when the gardening season ends in the main stores, cSeptember-October. WIlkinsons for example sell their remaining seed packs at 10p each. I spent a fiver this time.....
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What I mean I understand.
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Yr videos r brill . U look like your alottment BEAUTIFUL X
Katrina I literally love everything about you. You are very intelligent and to me intelligence is sexy. Your knowledge covers many areas and I don't see that in many people anymore.
Your humor is cute and you made me chuckle several times in this video. Your love for pigs in a blanket and chilis makes me wonder if you are half Texan lol. I have never had pigs in blankets at Christmas, but I do enjoy them for breakfast often and I always have several varieties of peppers.I love hot and spicy.
One year I had an over abundance of Habaneros so I used some and made habanero jelly. A little went a long way it was so fiery hot but wow it was good stuff. Maybe I'll make more next year and fly a jar over to you.
I think I told you before but when I lived in England I rented an allotment in Sheffield. Mine was about 1/3rd the size of yours, and wide open.
I was so busy, I traveled all over Europe Monday through Friday most weeks so I just had weekends to spend at my allotment but like you, I would go there for respite.
I used to have photographs of it but I lost all my photos - and everything else, in hurricane Harvey in 2017.
I love all your videos and will watch them as long as you share them.
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