Overgrown Allotment Progress: Planting
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- On this overgrown allotment site I managed to get some crops in the ground. I planted some seed potatoes. Desiree as a main crop, indeterminate potato and Jazzy - a second early determinate variety, I managed to get some globe artichokes too as well as some Jerusalem artichokes or sunchokes. I also put in some of the broad beans I had at home.
This could all be a bit premature but who cares? There’s stuff I can now look forward to.
I still need to sort the water issue out which I plan to do with a pond and some sort of drainage swale.
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You’re too kind 🙏😊
Loving this series of allotment videos so far. I'm slowly developing my heavy clay soil for vegetables and (mostly) wildlife garden space, and it's encouraging to see someone else tackling an uncollabroative plot of land.
Thank you so much! That sounds like a hard but very rewarding project too. Glad we can share it 😊
My daughter is waiting for a new allotment space in her village. The parish have acquired some ex grazing land. Can’t effing wait to help her get started. Hope my back holds out!!
That’s wonderful news! And I really hope your back holds up too ❤️
I was thinking about you as I was looking at my new allotment last Sunday. Just bits of plastic sheeting all broken up, everywhere!
It’s relentless! Such tiny pieces that snap as soon as you what appears to be a big piece. Does my nut in 😅
It’s such a nice feeling getting things planted in the ground. The globe artichokes have amazing flowers and add some structure. I’m a big fan of multi sowing as well, you can pick as and when and let others grow on. 😊🌱👍
It’s such an amazing feeling! Thanks Amir 🙏😊 What stuff have you multi sown so far?
@@tecmow4399, I have multi sown, lettuce, beetroot, spring onion, even whole garlic cloves to use as green garlic 😁👍
Try mulching around your new plants to keep the weeds down whilst you clear more areas 😊
I came to this channel to get motivation for myself, (community planter boxes... some ok, some needed soil prep, some needed seeding or planting) and someone else who has a horror-plot. Which they have abandoned after a couple garbage-removal sessions for this year. They found another space within walking distance and are now waiting for the previous land-holder to clear out. Don't know if it is worth suggesting they look here and elsewhere online for solutions. They have an over-grown, sloped allotment on a hillside, lots of plastic, somewhat water-logged. I think I'll wait until a few weeks have passed and they have positive results in their new spot. For the record, they also became disenchanted with no-dig.
Đất nhìn rất màu mỡ ,rất tốt .
Let’s hope so 😊
Great vid
I have just got my plot last week, it was originally a full plot but the council has split it. It was over grown and have been making progress slowly
That’s great! Did you want a full plot? Good luck with it. Little and often has been the key for me ❤️
Looks so good! I'm about to start my own garden in a place with decades of small bits of garbage. Wire, glass, crumbled yogurt tubs, flat oil cans, broken spoons, baling twine...
At least the cows have eaten the weeds.
Good luck with it! It’ll make it worth all the effort. Glad the cows have helped out too 😁
Nice to get stuff in the ground. I also took on a nightmare plot nearly 4 years ago now and I'm still finding crazy stuff today.
I've also got an abundance of mares tail and bindweed. I got a load of horse manure for free off my father in law and I think it came from that somehow.
That’s annoying about getting it in the manure!
Always nice to get stuff in the ground. It’s such a hopeful feeling 😊
Tôi rất thích cách bạn làm vườn,tôi rất vui được đồng hành cùng bạn ❤🤝.
If you’re ever in the area give me a shout 🤙
Have been a gardener for 40 odd years , a great all round potato i swear by is arran pilot, never lets me down, i always buy onion sets , i find modern varieties much more reliable thesedays, pot leeks also quick crop , interplant leek and onion rows with carrots to deter carrot fly, dwarf fruit trees will soak up all that water in no time , just remember to put a mound of gravel under roots to raise em up a bit, you're doing great but i would have double dug patch for potatoes incorporating manure as i went , then planting tubers 18 ins apart 24 ins between rows,keep the faith, mick
I’ll have a look at arran pilot. Yeah I should’ve dug in a bit of manure while I was at it tbh.
Great idea with the fruit trees. I might put a load in bare root in the autumn hopefully before it’s waterlogged again 😅. It’s draining properly now that I’ve got most of the ditches in so should be a bit easier with any luck. Thanks for the tips - I really value them 😊🙏
Nice! Are you sitting on a spring ? Don't step in the deep spot, could be sinking sand. Not kidding. Farmer had a cow stuck in the sand over his spring and had to get the tractor to save her.
Yes i think it is a spring or there’s definitely one nearby. Poor cow! Must’ve been traumatic
Nice idea choosing plants for shading out and competing with the weeds, also from my engineering days we always favoured a ton of grass clippings over a ton of feathers to weigh things down as we all knew a ton of grass clippings weigh more than a ton of feathers. Also I’ll take six bottles of the Peckham spring water please! 🤣
😂 yeah a ton of grass clippings is particularly heavy. A ton of spring water is going for a bargain right now. I’ll set up a link for a delivery
I generally put out beer traps for the slugs and snails, it works effectively hear in Tamworth 👍
I’ll definitely give that a try too! Thanks
@@tecmow4399 you have to get your hands dirty,
That's why I love your work 👍
@@tecmow4399 weirdly marigolds don't work on my patch, so I'd probably look towards garlic or onions 👍
@@tecmow4399 It's going to be a good season and we plant in regard of that 👍
Its coming along nicely! My plot is only half the size of yours but the whole plot was covered in mares tail, took a lot of digging out & now only get the odd one coming up! Good idea for the pond, get the wildlife in!
good stuff man! no better feeling than bringing back life into land that has been left for years. I have used activated biochar and EM1 before if that helps! (EM1 can be sprayed so its much easier on the back)
No better feeling indeed! I had no idea you could spray biochar!
🐝Thanks for the great video🌻 I hear a bizznizz upgrade 🤣 Shop!! Bottled spring plot water! Fressly taped between the weeds
😂 Flourescent water will be on sale in no time and I’ll be at the Brighton Grand Hotel
@@tecmow4399 🤣
Potatoes are probably the best first crop you can use in new ground, it's what my gran, aunt and uncle always told me to plant first year. The digging them out at the end of the season helps break up the soil so much along with the potatoes growing into the compact soil
Wow you’ve done loads, well done! That’s a lot of hard work! Lovely to see crops going in already. I’m sure it’s encouraging you to carry on. Lovely to see the progress you’ve made!
It’s encouraged me no end! All the kind comments have also helped with that so thank you 😊
It's looking good mate,
We generally grow to our allotted space, so anything beyond that's a bonus 👍
A big bonus for sure! 😊
I can really relate this. When I first gogglebox my allotment I was full of hope and planx like you. Nature will let you know what you can and can't do. I hope your onions are successful, for me in 20 years I've never had an onion crop, carrots the same. Potatoes are more forgiving but never give a plentiful result. Fight slugs from day one! Nematodes, beer traps, planks between rows use everything! And I really wish you the best of luck with everything.
I have a feeling I may experience a similar fate! I’ve had decent crops of potatoes before but I’ve also had so many things fail in my garden. It’s disappointing but the unhindered feeling of hope is always worth it IMO
what a beautiful sight it will energise you even more seeing veg growing ❤
I’ll be so excited when the spuds start rearing their first shoots above the soil. 😊❤️
@@tecmow4399 it will be fantastic 😁
With the spacing you have there, you can easily leave 2 or 3 onions in each spot. Nevertheless, great idea to pull the surplus as spring onions.
Thank you - I hadn’t thought to do that. Do they just push each other apart a bit? I’ll definitely try leaving more in if they have space and they’re growing well
@@tecmow4399 Yeah, they'll do just fine. And when you need a fresh onion to cook you can pull the biggest from a bunch.
Have you considered growing pumpkins? The big leafs and creeping nature does a lot to hold down weeds. Especially when you plant big varieties like Atlantic Giant.
Yes!!! I’ve been thinking about it a lot for exactly that reason. Excited to get some seeds 😁
I'll second the recommendation of pumpkins/winter squash, a few years ago two Waltham Butternuts swamped the lawn and made it difficult to get into the shed. New Zealand spinach can be a good ground cover too, as well as trailing nasturtiums.
I love growing onions from seed. Like you, I pick some as springers. What don't get used as bigger onions, I leave to flower...pretty and insecty things love em! I'd leave more in each clump if you can. Plot is looking really good, so satisfying when it starts of as a s**t tip!!
I’ll leave a few in each clump (hopefully they make it that far 😆). Thanks for the tip. So satisfying indeed. Are their flowers similar to decorative alliums? Leeks have a nice flower too that I left on in my garden last year. I just couldn’t eat the leeks by that point 😂
@@tecmow4399 yes, the flowers are just like leeks. If you only let one variety flower, as long as they're not F1's and leave them to fall over in the autumn, you should get some seedlings the following spring...they just keep giving!
Brilliant! You are going good guns there. A small area here, a pond there, and before you know it the plot will be all done!
I’ll miss it all by then 😅 But ill soon get over it cus I’ll have a nice garden to be in 😊 Thank you 🙏
Following you avidly. Wishing you all the very best!!! I’m willing you on. Keep your pecker up…… as they say! 👍🏼
The pecker is standing to attention! Thank you 😊
@@tecmow4399 Excellent! 😉
For the onions, I have done 3 per cell and they come out at a good size. That way you'd only need to thin 3 of the 6 per clump.
Someone else was saying that they leave quite a few in too. If they look like they’re developing well I’ll do the same and leave about 3 in per cell too. Thanks for the tip 🙏
I would make all those overgrown unused areas into straw making area so you can use that straw to cover your potatoes.
So grow a crop of wheat/barley or something? That’s an interesting idea!
Tamworth grower mate, always looking for inspiration 👍
Only round the corner! If I can get an inspiring amount of produce I’ll be over the moon!
@@tecmow4399 I've generally worked the ground and the rewards are self evident mate 👍
@@tecmow4399 Jerusalem artichokes are an abundant propagator, but a given taste, I'm looking into cover cropping at the moment, so it's fairly diverse 👍
@@tecmow4399 you have to expect a certain amount of loss,
But the benefits out way that 👍
If you take it as Gospel. Most gardening lore is based on the Growing conditions in Southern England. Like Sutton seeds.
Helo bạn yêu quý ,chúc bạn một ngày vui vẻ hạnh phúc bên người thân và gia đình ❤❤❤🤝.
Thank you so much ❤️
Those Fartichokes are never leaving the plot.
Right now the idea of that doesn’t upset me. Ask me again in 5 years 😂
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The joy that you get from planting, is the whole point. I would be itching to get planting already and I would probably do the exact same thing. Getting things in the ground will give you the most motivating visual progress 😍 Brave of you to put the Jerusalem artichokes in the ground! I still haven't dared, I have them i a bathtub with my apple mint 😂 A tub doesn't yield too many fartichokes to be honest. A tub could be a good choice for your worm farming though.. 🤔 What flowers will you be planting/sowing for borders and pollinators?
I'm looking forward to see this pond of yours! Maybe you could plant rice just for the aesthetics 🤭 Or you could look at the water chestnuts seriously!
The grass here has yet to become green, and there's still a ton of snow to come apparently.. And I still haven't sorted out a sunny spot for my onions.. But seeds have been sown, both indoors and outdoors. Multisown beets and chard is by far the most satisfying so far.
PS: there seems to be some clipping issues at 5:20.
I’m looking into the water chestnuts definitely. I absolutely love them but we can normally only get them tinned so it would be great to try them fresh!
I can’t help myself. Maybe we’re too impatient but who cares? It feels so good I’ll take the consequences.
Thanks for pointing that out with the clipping. I’ll see what I can do now it’s been posted 😂
I've never seen a water chestnut plant either, Norway is too cold! It would be a lot of fun if you get a harvest. Water chestnuts and lots of frogs. Better put up some birdboxes on the shed (mosquitos), and some bug hotels!
We're not impatient, we're optimistic. Pessimism doesn't get anyone anywhere. ✌And you're not blindly optimistic, let's just be grateful we're even aware of the consequences 🤭 It's trial and error study 👍I was just talking about the grass actually turning green, and it started snowing yesterday, another 20 cm! I'm just about hopping on a plane, I mean the grass in England has always had another shade of green. Well worth the debt.
Just look at the little clipping blip as character 😂 Keep on posting! @@tecmow4399
Waxy potatoes to the win 😁
I wax lyrical about them
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Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday...
How can someone still have a plot when they are not using it? I would have got a warning letter from the council.
They do but there seem to have been a few that have been vacant for a while. I’ve not really been here long enough to understand tbh
Was wondering if that's why the ground was covered in so much plastic /weed membrane to try to prevent the mairs tail. Then they were going to do no dog over the top but realised how much that amount of compost would cost them.
Almost certainly they tried to use the plastic for that. A lot of woodchip and leaves were dumped on top which composted I think. And then the nettles and brambles grew in that
@@tecmow4399 keep going and it will all be worth it. I believe you get out what you put in x
Are you allowed to cover the area with pallets and burn it all away, then hire a cultivator and mash it all up, or are fires banned on allotments
You can have small ones in November. It’s in the middle of a city so they’re not keen on loads of the extra local pollution
For the Algorithm kidda 😁😁.....
Thanks