Neglected Allotment 4 Months Later. Bean Too Long
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- The weather has been so odd this year. Everywhere in the world seems to have the wrong amount of water. Floods or drought and not much in between. A cold and wet start to June meant the slugs were eating everything! So I'm starting a lot of stuff again.
How have your allotments/gardens been coming along? What's done well and what's been a struggle?
Don't get disheartened. As long as you keep turning up and doing some work each time. I think about how your plot looked when you took it on. You can see the graft you've put in. Don't eat things you're not sure about (well I wouldn't recommend) 🤢 We've all got a battle on with critters and the elements but everyone loves a potato reveal and whinge about the weather. Keep up the good work. Elaine 🌱
I watched your very first video and despite the weather and the slugs, you have made such an incredible difference to a piece of land. Mare's tail is the worst ! Please keep posting when you have time.
I live in South Wales and for 3 and half years have only had a tiny garden which I have managed to change from a barren waste of concrete, slate shale and barren ,cat- toxic ,flower beds into a green oasis. However, when I compare May and June's photos of 2023 and 2022 which are full of colour, this year it has been green and more green.
This week, at last ,the flowers have dared to start blooming . I reckon we are over a month late with the growing season but I shall have some runnner beans in pots, hopefully a tomato plant and 3 kale plants which survived .
Watch out for the price of home produced vegetables this autumn !
It's only my third year gardening and it's reassuring hearing that the pros are struggling too, as I don't have enough experience to tell how unusual this season has been. Yesterday, I had to harvest a bed of potatoes early because all the leaves had been munched on by slugs, a wild definition of "when the leaves die down"
Thank you very much
I work at a primary school and I've built a big garden with vegetables and flowers next to the playground. It looks fantastic when everything's in bloom and teaches the children about plants and how they grow. It's basically like my own allotment plot, but because I'm there every day for work I can look after it and keep it maintained. I've been really fortunate with slugs and snails as they're virtually non-existent! Now that we've had some sun and hot weather, everything's exploded in size.
Oooh, you could also try building a willow hut! Just... far away from the water pipes 😅
I think the globes get bigger next year when the plant is established
I moved from 20+ years in London to Wales for better weather. It's lovely today, not too hot, not too cold.
I've never been less enthused by my allotment than I have this year! I've still got main crop potatoes to plant lol
Yeah it’s been challenging for sure! Any further with the spuds now? 😆
Jazzy are a salad potato don't get to big but taste lovely ,
There's a big difference since the last video I saw well done 👏
''bean too long'' -- that's a great title! Sounds like we had the exact same weather -- we've never had slugs this bad.
I've been trying to grow sweetcorn this year in my garden which have been half hammered by slugs. I thought I was being clever by integrating these into the general garden whereas I can now see why gardeners keep the vegetables separate: the slugs hide in the plants and long grass.
On a positive note: it's a learning experience with various strategies such as deliberately creating hiding places for the slugs to congregate then removed later; using a more enticing outer sacrificial border etc to protect the inner one.
Just taken on a massively overgrown plot myself. First time allotmenter as well, really enjoying this series and seeing how someone else has approached similar challenges! Please do keep the videos coming :)
You are making progress. I have heard people from many places in the world describing describing vagaries in their typical weather patterns. I too will not complain....we are still in a drought but have had some rain and the forests have not started burning and choking us with smoke yet....bonus! I doubt I will even harvest many tomatoes for preserving because it has been just too cool but anything is a gift. Good luck over the next weeks.
Great video! And great to see I'm not the only one losing crops!
Shame about the squashes, if you haven't got spare maybe a trip to a nursery to pick up some new ones 😊
I find with squashes planting them out when they're quite big is the best method to ensure their survival. Having said that I still lost one out of six, and another two got severely slug damaged! Best of luck!
I’ve had a look at a few places near me and couldn’t find any but I’ve started some more. I reckon it’ll stay warm into the autumn so hopefully they’ll ripen 🤞 that’s a great tip too. I think I’ll let them get bigger this time. Thanks for the encouragement and glad it’s not just me either 😅🙏
I've lost so many crops this year - the only areas that has been ok are the high raised beds - almost giant containers
I seem to have something chewing holes in my Fava bean leaves. No idea which insect, either!
Oh, I could kick myself. I just Googled "bean leaf bug" and there's an insect NAMED 'Bean leaf beetle!' These cute yellow beetles I've been seeing aren't like ladybugs, they're pests! 😂
I think you’re selling yourself short. I think there’s a big difference from now and the last video, it’s looking like an allotment now😂especially with the weird weather we’ve had. 🏅🏆nice one👍
Completely understandable that you're struggling. I'm on the West Coast of the US, in the hills just north of California.
I came from a cool, wet climate with a flat garden down to this spot... everything is on a 10° slope, the soil is hard clay, and it's regularly 37°C. Just hot and dry, no rain. I can't be in the garden from 12 to 6 because it's too exposed and hot, but the mosquitoes are out as soon as it cools down.
And the wildlife - actually, no, the livestock first - THE COWS keep trying to push the fence in just to get the next bit of grass, the cat doesn't care about my plants and steps on them, one dog can't figure out how to get out of the fence and tramples plants, and the other dog goes squirrel hunting and digs holes in the beds as well as the pathways!
Joke's on the squirrels, though, I'm filling their holes up with fresh cow pies while they're gone. Free fertilizer, hey?
All that complaining to now say- the clay soil is nutrient rich, and my plants are super green. The peppers and tomatoes are loving the heat. All the plants the cows stepped on are still thriving. We have a well and a spring, so I have plenty of water. The ravens and crows aren't pulling up my maize. There are apples, walnuts, pears, grapes, and prunes that my husband's grandfather planted. The cows are reducing fire danger. The dogs are keeping the cows out of the garden. Uncle Jimmy (🔫), the cat, and the dogs are all reducing the squirrels. The many weeds are becoming chop-n-drop mulch. I have an awning to keep cool. I keep finding wildflowers to transplant into the beds.
It's hot weather and hard work, but I am quite blessed.
June was a disaster for me also temps as low as 8C in my polytunnel during the hight of the day squash and courgette plants didn't like it some died and others are still on life support
Missed your videos! A lot of disheartening weather hits for sure, but wow! Compared to your first video the garden is great.
Love the Silence of the Lambs reference, I thought that too!
Looking great Masha'Allah
Thank you 😊
I have not really enjoyed my allotment this year. Too many slugs eating things they do not normally eat. Warmish winter. Late start to the warmer growing season. Too hot now. Mind you, not even the weeds are growing well and the plot looks neat, which is something. Fruit trees have been good. It would be so easy to turn the whole area into beds for growing soft fruit bushes and leave it to its own devices. There is almost always something that will grow though. Very weirdly, carrots have survived. Normally these get destroyed by pests. Parsnips are still reliable too. Ups and downs. I guess a diversity of crops is the key.
Have you tried beer traps for the slugs? I've heard it works wonders.
@@CWorgen5732 Yes. We have four large ones. The slugs initially loved them. But a certain subset was not tempted. There were so many slugs that the subset that did not go into the traps ravaged everything else they could reach.
Hi ! It's in every garden the same story , I saw the same disappointed things in Dave's allotment garden , me in Belgium the same , I covered my beds with leaves and twigs so the soil biology not is disabled by the hot sun . Also : I fighting a cancer ( prostate ) and I'm very tired because of the radiation. So : long story short ; no garden this year. Greetings jp
Prayers
@@delphine88313 hi Delphine , thank you , the cancer is very good traeteble , and no woriries about my surviving this , only ; i am very tired because of the radiation , my bad cels in my body are constantly shanging by good new cels and that give a lot of fatigement . probably in fall i start a fall garden , if i am not to tired all the time .
thanks for the prayers , i believe in God ( Jehowahs witness ) but everithing going to change for the better normaly . greetings from Belgium jean - pierre :)
@jean-pierreposman7282 😊 You probably know this, but lower or omit sugar when doing treatment. I have learned cancer LOVES sugar, and if you can FAST before treatment .The bad cells come forward and get zapped, and the good cells drop back.prayers
@@delphine88313 oops ! I didn't now that at all ! The doctor don't talk about using Sugar during the radiation treatment. But it was stricktly forbidden after the radiation I had to endure . I'm using all the time a lot of sugar. Now I started a vegan diet and I think I going to keep doing that because of the fact I feel a lot stronger in the first place , and more ; on Facebook and other social media passing me all the time pictures of animals I terrible conditions in the farm
industry and slaughter houses and I won't anymore being a part of it .
Good that you say this sugar , I ask my doctor next week and in that case I have to reduce a big part because I'm highly enslaved on sugar . Thank you for the Info .
@jean-pierreposman7282 You are so welcome. I hope your doctor tells you because a lot of doctors won't.I can't say it works for everyone because it depends on the degree of the disease. I know there are GOOD pure sugars out there, but I stay away from too much sugar .I'm a label reader now, lol. As a senior citizen and female. I THINK I'm not supposed to have only 25/26 grams of sugar per day.If I want something sugary, I have to watch everything .As you know, foods and fruits have natural sugar so watch that as well.Very healthy and active people don't have to worry much because they burn theirs off.Im a senior with health problems but I walk for exercise and work in my yard.Yet I don't burn a huge amount of fat so I have to be careful. Sorry for the long reply, but I want people to know.
Hooray 🎉❤ The long awaited update!
It's 25°C today and 27°C tomorrow.. I'll be feeding my small and struggling plants today. What isn't demotivating! It's either so hot that it runs to seed or so cold that nothing happens 😢
Not sure how often you pop by the allotment but would slug traps be of help to you? You have my deepest compassion about those slugs, all of our crops look about the same unfortunately, but I'm very grateful not to not have slugs! I DO have butterflies 🦋 Pretty little things, but not many brassicas plants left!
I'm hoping to sow sone dianthus, foxglove and perhaos evhinacea seeds for next years flower borders. Perhaps go bananas with herbs too.
And yay! A shed 👌🏼🦋🌻 You've committed to content now, don't leave us hanging 😊😂 well.. Life happens too..
great to see you back , no hori hori in situ i see 🤣
🐝thanks for the great video🌻
I would fry those cardoon stems stems in olive oil, large stick size, not chopped into smaller pieces. taking off the lower leaves might force the bulbs a bit more. People put cardboard collars around the base of each plant here to deter cutworm, which are moth larvae, I think that might work with slugs, as they both eat the base of any ground plant, earlier in the season. People also use eggshells to stop slugs from reaching the plants in the soil.
Garden in New Zealand, cut a very large Savoy Cabbage soaked it in a salty bath, 12 to 20 slugs went down the drain. Hate to think about how many there are in it.
Globe Artichokes are not supposed to be cropped in their first year. Cut off the flower heads, and leave the plant to put all of its energy into its root stock. I have learnt this by buying my first ones this year. But I am growing mine in flower borders.😊
I'm in Illinois USA and we had the same kind of weather. Put me 1 month behind. But I always tell myself to just plant it or u get nothing😂❤ also ive been trying to put up my fence for like 3 months now 😢 too hot too cold or too rainy
Today notice the chooks don't like kale!!! But are eating the tops of the swedes, New Zealand winter.
Hey! You're back! Thank you for the update & sorry about the slugs... We've not seen a single one here in my part of Australia & wondered where they went 😎
Thanks for the video, ups & downs but everything's looking great!
Hello, new subscriber here. Hope you get some good crops now the weather has shifted. Here in Wales I just started the 5th batch of runners and French. The slugs just take them over night as soon as they go in even when looking tall and strong.
I feel your pain! They’re ravenous aren’t they? I’m genuinely surprised this batch has survived. Good luck now that it’s dried up a bit. But they’d probably eat a mature plant all the way to the top of the cane if they’re like the slugs here 😅
mate it's been a tough one innit
100% it’s been challenging 😅 And I haven’t even had floods/drought extreme heat like a lot of places! How have you been getting on?
@@tecmow4399 getting there now, first lot of plants got eaten / damped off, but finally filling up the plot, cheers.
My backups and the backup, backups have been eaten by slugs this year. Dwarf French beans just failed to grow were super stunted, corn didn't germinate and even cucumbers said nope this year. Only crops to do well were peas and radish. fingers crossed we all see some fruiting plants before we get to the end of the season. BTW, if this sort of start to the growing season becomes more common do you think it is worth starting off plants indoors under grow lights to get a head start?
Slugs were extra bad this year too because the winter was so mild. So slugs didn't get frozen off either.
lol pmsl you are refusing to complain that it’s too hot 😂😂😂 nice one
I think it probably counts as a complaint but I’m still pretending to refuse 😂
@@tecmow4399 absolutely 👍🏾
I go to my allotment at 5.30 or 6am and at least can do a lot of work before it gets too hot
I love being there early too when I can. The birds chirping is the only sound 😊
Ha. We have a similar situation in Vancouver weather wise. Although it's quite expected and often referred to as Junuary. Thanks for the update, nice shed too.
Regarding the slugs, would you consider encouraging ground beetles? They would help with the dirty work of keeping the slug population down.
How does one encourage ground beetles? Willing to try that!
@@tecmow4399 1. Create log piles
2. Provide open compost heaps
3. Build bug hotels
4. Plant diverse and ecological planting
5. Mulch garden borders
6. Grow dense ground cover plants
7. Create a wildflower meadow
8. Rock piles
9. Create a woodland garden
10. Create a wildlife pond
from: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LANDSCAPE GARDENERS. How to encourage ground beetles to your garden
He elaborates on each of those points. Best of luck!
i was just wondering how that compost bins been doing, like have you been turning it or just letting it sit. i would also like to say i really like your videos< keep it up
all my peas got obliterated in May/June by the invasion of slugs and of course i an ecology garden so no slug pellets just nature .. oh well!
i always get complaints about my bean being too long.
Just curious, as to the reason you don't use slug pellets, I understand if you are against the use of them, not a criticism, just to help control the?.
@@callmebob9895 I haven’t used them because I’m not sure they’re safe for other wildlife that eat the slugs
@@tecmow4399 If you can get Ortho Slug-BGon Eco by Scott, it is non toxic to other species as it is only an iron (ferric phosphate) compound but I can tell you that sparrows love it, it has become quite expensive and needs to be reapplied after rain. If it is a short shower, the pellets are still visible but I don't know how effective they are. A heavy rain will dissolve them all. I don't know if this product is only available in North America.
I recently read an article (not the whole study) from the University of Oregon, USA that showed the following:
Research shows that using a 1% to 2% solution mixed with water as a soil drench caused 100% of slugs to leave the treated soil and subsequently die of caffeine poisoning. A 2% solution of caffeine applied to the growing medium of orchids killed 95% of orchid snails and gave better control than a liquid metaldehyde product - the common slug bait.
To make a 1% to 2% soil drench add 1-part water to 2-parts strong brewed coffee. For example, use 1 cup water to 2 cups of coffee. To reduce slug feeding on foliage, add 9-parts water to 1-part brewed coffee and apply as a spray.
“A sensible approach would be to apply diluted coffee to a sample of leaves and wait for a few hot and sunny days to watch for leaf burn or other damage,” Brewer said. “If there’s no damage, go ahead with spraying.”
extension.oregonstate.edu/news/used-appropriately-coffee-grounds-improve-soil-kill-slugs#:~:text=Although%20coffee%20grounds%20provide%20some,it%20to%20grow%20and%20reproduce.
They aren't safe for other animals, they have chemicals that the companies say it's not bad for anything else other than slugs and snails, but they want to sell it so they aren't going to tell you the truth.
you need a snail barrier.
3:54 butterfly netting... unsure, but it might be cheaper to buy tulle by the yard... you can see through it better, probably more sunlight, but it can be fragile if you're too rough with it.
This is where i learned about it (robbie & gary), otherwise i just used it for sewing. projects. ruclips.net/video/vWlfcYOEfnM/видео.html
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Thanks
Geoengineering is causing the weather problems. It’s only going to get worse, which means we have to get creative when gardening. I know I’m not going to let them win even if it means a ton more work helping things grow. Remember that every obstacle is really an opportunity in disguise.
“Misogynistic builder”? Jesus mate, do get a grip.