Hello friends!! Today we are harvesting some strange potatoes, some lovely leeks, and have a slight carrot disaster…
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🌷 This was filmed on October 2nd
🌷 The plot is 4 perches, around 5.5m x 12.5m and the greenhouse is 8×6 ft
🌷 I’m based in South Wales, growing zone 9a
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Hello everyone, hope you’re all well and have had a good month so far!! Apologies for the lack of uploads recently! (no I haven’t given up with YouTube or given up the allotment plot lol!) I’ve been so busy with work & my business lately I haven’t had the time to edit & upload anything! 🥲
Short video for you today, but promise we’ll have a proper catch up in the next one! (I actually filmed this one on October 2nd, a lot has changed since then 🫣). Longer video & October tour coming up on Monday 👀
Hope you have a good weekend! See you next week! 🥰💖✨
Small container = smaller potatoes. But that's a good harvest I think. Pink Fir Apple are a great potato (assuming that's what they are) – main crop but eats like a new potato. Apparently they store well too without sprouting so you can save a few for next year. I think a 30 litre container or bigger is best if you are going to grow potatoes in containers.
For me my pink fir apple were easily the best of my potato harvest this year.
You need to make friends with someone who has Guinea pigs – trade dodgy veges for poop
boil the carrots and they would be fine…..such a waste
You mentioned your tomato plants were blighted, that might explain your tomatoes going mouldy next to bananas
I too went to harvest 2 carrots and ended up pulling all of them. 🙂 So satisfying. I loved seeing yours all in a row.
I watched someone make a green tomato pie recently. She said it tasted just like an apple pie. It might be worth checking out.
Great job
Peppermint oil for spiders
I’m with you on the spiders that are out this time of year….desperately need to get in the garden to tidy up but there are sooo many I just can’t bring myself to go out there at the moment! 😂
I was once given green tomato jam, and it was SO good! I think I will try make some of that with my green tomato.
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You can overwinter your peppers!
https://youtube.com/shorts/aG8zN9mpH1Q?si=bC8QZJd6nkuCVo3n
Just use gloves and harvest what is ripe. The spiders can't touch your hands that way. They are eating nasty stuff.
I just saw a video where they turned an old compost bin in to a raised bed for carrots. They dug a hole, put the narrow end of the bin in the ground so that only a couple of feet were above ground and filled it up. They said carrot flies cannot fly higher than 18 inches so having such a tall bed for them could help prevent.
Dunno if you still have all those old bins, but I wanted to share 😊
Disappointing to see how much of your allotment produce is damaged or inedible. All the hard work for nothing. As you say, lessons learned for next year.
Seren if there's someone nearby that is raising chickens, those carrots will be a good addition to the chicken feed.
Some people make a pesto out of the carrot leaves. Haven't tried it myself but some people love it.
The parsnip leaves, dried, are good for making veggie stock or flavouring soups.
I have made green tomato relishes, some with hot peppers added.
That manure looks quite "green" so I suggest you put it somewhere to decompose more before adding it to the beds. First thing is to plant a few bean seeds in it to test for "Grazon" which is an herbicide that ruins veg plants.
You can tell by the leaves that curl up very tightly.
I have had success just hanging the tomato vines in the greenhouse when I removed the plants. For next year I have bought some Longkeeper variety, will be interesting
Next season bury the carrot seeds with radishes and chives. The chives help keep away the carrot root fly and the radish is in and out in 4 weeks giving the carrots a hole to grow in to. Great work on your plot too. From NZ.
Hello! I've always found with tomatoes that they need to have a little bit of 'blush' on them before taking them from the vine in order for them to ripen at home. I don't think I've ever seen a totally green tomato ripen after being picked! I've loved seeing your journey with the allotment so far and I've just gotten my own (very overgrown) allotment 🙂 xx
It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Oh my the cabbage is being eaten badly. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey.😊
You are very pretty and your garden is wonderful
Potatoes are the best
Those carrots looked beautiful on camera. Such a shame they were affected by carrot root fly.
Those dahlias have been spectacular for you. The yellow one particular, it’s just stunning.
Seren, as the Nettle Queen 👑🌿 you may know this already, but if not: nettles are super healthy to eat as they're very high in vitamins and minerals, most notably iron! 💪 Their young growth also goes BRILLIANTLY into autumnal soups – leek & potato & nettle soup is next level 🤤 Defo something to take advantage of! 💚
Toms will ripen off the plant slowly without a banana, when I use a banana to speed the process I us a fresh one and put the toms in a fruit net/bag on top to keep the circulation of air.
Those mushrooms appear to be Honey Fungus but never accept an internet identification.