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Hey everyone welcome back we are kicking off today’s video with a seed sewing special these are the first seeds that I’m going to be sewing for the 2024 season with exception from the sweet peas and chilies that I did a couple of weeks back they are kind of special

Seeds that obviously I would have completely missed the bat if I hadn’t sewn them but today’s video is the first bulk seed sewing for the season ahead I plan to grow my whole alotment and hom garden vegetables and flowers from seed as much as I can so today I’m going to

Be setting off 22 individual varieties of vegetable seed so stay tuned for that as with any seed Zone project I’ve got a few pieces of equipment I’ve got some sell trays to obviously sew into I have some individual trays that I’ve already started off and that all my warm

Seasoned stuff so I’m going to actually sew my tomatoes into there going to do some pricking out cuz I need to give my little pansies some more space and yeah just some various little pots and some just allpurpose compost and the obligatory cup of tea to keep me going

So out of the 22 varieties I have 10 tomatoes and then the rest are just general sort of veggies that I cannot wait to start sewing so I’m going to be sewing a few of these actually when I get back home which are better off direct sewn which which is why I’m not

Going to do them up here today because if you’ve ever has anyone ever like obviously gone to the Garden Center seen a pack of carrots on sale like obviously germinated in a little sale pack get them home plant them up have the best hope for the best tomato Harvest and

Then only to find out that they forked and then they didn’t grow and that’s literally because they can’t be transplanted it’s very rare that they work out so definitely something to bear in mind if you’re looking to grow carrots this year they like loose free draining soil and they need to be direct

Sewn and then you obviously thin them out to the distance that you need so I can’t do up at the lot yet because the ground isn’t quite ready but I am going to be sewing Early N 5 into my pet collar bed when I finish up here today

And when I get back home so they are a great beautiful sweet variety early cropping ones which are great and I grew them last year and then obviously if any of you knew from last year I thought they had bolted because we had such a hot May

But actually it was a weed and I ended up pulling up the whole crop I ended up eating them they they’re just like little finger carrots they didn’t get to obviously maturity but yeah um we all got a little laugh off of that video If

Any you were here from that time so I won’t be making that mistake this year that’s early n 5 really reliable really enjoyed that last season and then I’m going to be trying a parsnip which is called a ramata now I do usually grow true and tender but the seeds that I

Have sewn already were actually 2 years old so I’m going to get fresh seeds because I have heard that parsnip seeds do not work very well after the first year of having them you need fresh seeds every year so I’m going to do a second sewing of parsnips with this variety

Which it’s supposed to be a Uniquely Sweet flavor which is supposed to be firm and juicy and the leaves of this variety are also edible but I think that’s true about parip leaves anyway but basically it’s a zero waste crop but they looked when I picked them out off the so

Diverse website they looked just like real like meaty substantial pass Snips which is definitely what I want and I missed them off of my Christmas dinner last year so an absolute must and I’m going to be sewing in both home and up here so the other varieties that I have

Let’s talk up let’s talk about brassas so I grew so many brassas in my little tiny garden last year and I’m actually not going to be growing them in the tiny garden this year because of just how big and bushy they are you absolutely can

Give it a go but maybe just pick one or two like I think I had six brussel sprouts all in the raised bed the massive raised bed that I’ve obviously taken out and I think three of them grew perfectly but I am going to be going with the same

Variety as last year which is IG or F1 so prolific very productive and just did so so well really really enjoyed the variety it’s supposed to be a compact plant but mine grew really really big most of my brasas do it must be like what I have in the soil I have obviously

A lot of bought in compost at home so it’ be interesting to see now how this variety does up here I do plan to have a dedicated Brassica bed up here which I’m going to show you a whole layout of my garden plan when we get into obviously

Sewing the seeds I’m going to talk to you a little bit about how the allotment might look and what beds are going where so stay tuned for that because I am dying to share with you the plans I’m going to give a cauliflower a grow this

Is supposed to be a compact tight headed sort of cauliflower variety it’s called all the year round uh haven’t grown cauliflower before so I’m super looking forward to giving that a go cuz it’s one of my favorite vegetables and as you know anything with cheese I am a super

Duper fan of and the other brassa that I’m going to be sewing is called a Red Bull and that’s another variety of brussel sprout so obviously I think from the name that it’s going to be a slightly different color so I’m really looking forward to trying that it was

Sent to me from my friend who has literally just started her YouTube channel she’s called two pop posies and she’s Another Irish grower so if anybody’s looking for anybody else in Ireland to follow or you’re interested in following more gardeners she’s literally only just started her YouTube

Channel uh she may have a new video up now I’m not too sure but she only upload loaded one video there a couple of weeks back and she’s primarily into growing flowers she has a beautiful story about how the whole thing came about on her YouTube channel at the minute so I’ll

Give her a link below but she’s a good friend in the gardening Community to me she was my secret Santa she sent me some amazing things of which I’m showing you this I’m actually sewing another thing from her next week and she sent me a cool tomato variety that I’m also going

To sew but yeah if you’re into flowers she does also grow veg but primarily her Hobby and her passion is flowers so I’m absolutely thrilled to that she started her YouTube channel because I have so much to learn about growing flowers so go check her out it’s two pop posies and

Her name is Sandra so head over there after you finish this video and go and check her out I’ll leave a little Link in the description below so you can go and check her out so that’s the last of the brassas that I’m actually going to

Be sewing before we get on to the tomatoes tomato tomato tomato tomato so as we are coming into spring it’s a great time of year for core season crops that don’t particularly then grow very well later in the year towards like May and June when it gets a little bit

Warmer so I’m going to be concentrating on a few salad items so I’m going to go with the radish crunchy mix this is a beautiful like gives you an amazing range of colors you don’t quite know what you’re going to get when you pull it out of the soil grew this actually

Under my tomatoes last year cuz I always felt the space underneath the tomatoes was always such a waste so I did that as a bumper crop sort of thing underneath the tomatoes and it did really well I think I sewed them possibly a little bit too thickly but

Really reliable super tasty Chuck them into salads you can even cook with them they’re really nice sauteed up so are really and they crop really quickly I think it’s only like 30 days for these to crop so I’m going to be going in with the radish I’m going to be doing some

Moon red lettuce so I was find that slugs go after everything that’s green but they don’t tend to go after purple crops so cuz it’s obviously still quite damp in the run up to Spring I’m going to be sewing this purple variety of lettuce which is called moon red and

It’s a cotile lettuce and it grows these beautiful deep dark purple veiny leaves and it was just a thrill to have that in a salad CU obviously you have loads of greens don’t you like rocket Mauna just your normal cos lettuce but when you get another color through it it’s just so

Much more appetizing and pleasing to the eye when it’s on your plate so that’s the reason I’m going to grow that and I absolutely love Co lettuce like if there’s any small space gardeners out there like that’s obviously all I really know is how to grow in a small space and

Cos luses are really like little gem and obviously this moon red they grow really small and compact so you can fit a load in and then you can succession so and then fit a load more in so you get quite a high yielding amount of lettuce from a

Really small amount of space rather than loose leaf lettuce which I also love too which I will be growing but I think the CA and the like the little gem and the moon red type varieties grow really quick and they’re just like a quick win in a really small space and they help

You manage like a really limited area you could probably even grow them in a window box they’re that small I’m obviously going to be going in then with a slightly larger Co type lettuce which is winter density did grow this last year and because we had such a warm

September it bolted so I didn’t get too much off of them but this should obviously I love cut cutting into like um an iceberg type lettuce so this kind of REM reminds me of Iceberg a little bit it’s going to be slightly bigger than little gem and it’s going to kind

Of bulb up and round so looking forward to that I am then going to go for a spinach which is a Mika F1 bunching variety and this variety of specifically bought because it’s resistant to bolting so I think if I sew it on now it’ll get

Like a good cropping season off of it so when the weather heats up it won’t go to flour it should continue cropping for me and I absolutely love growing spinach I think so versatile you can add it to the salad and also cook with it so I just

Think it’s such a little versatile little plant if I could have beds and beds and beds of baby leaf spinach and bunching types of spinach then I would but I can’t dedicate all the space just to spinach but it is really lovely I actually grew spinach under my tomatoes

Before the radish went in and that worked out really well as well so I might do that again this year and then going onto more leafy greens I’ve got some pack Choy Canton white now I don’t know if it’s because I transplant it and that Pat Choy doesn’t like transplanting

Properly or if it’s just I’ve had bad luck with it but I always find that this grows really really big leaves at the tip but not much of like a white sort of stocky heart so I’m going to give it another go because I love to make things

Like like Ramen and like stir fried noodles I’ve been eating Ramen like every week now for like the last 3 weeks cuz it has been obviously chil so I just go home and it’s so quick to knock it up and then I just love like Chinese style

Cabbages in those type of dishes and they’re just so like nutritious and warming for you so that’s why I’m growing that because I think I’d get so much use of that in the kitchen and to date I haven’t really had great success with it so I want to really kind of up

My game in terms of that because it’s just so versatile and then I’ve got a couple of warmer season crops here which are basil so I’m actually going to put this on the propagator when I get home I’m going to sew it into the tray that’s

Here in front of me which has got all my other warm season crops in it so that they’re all together but I’ll take you through what’s actually in this little planter very very shortly this is purple Ruffles basil so it looks a bit different it has kind of like jagg tooth

Jagged edges on it um which I thought was kind of interesting I think it would give a little bit of um like diversity to the Garden I just think it would just give it a little bit more shape and I grew purple Basel last year and it was very resistant to kind

Of the damp and humid climate it grew better than the green Basel so that’s why I’ve picked that one and I think the it’ll just give nice texture with that tooth edged Leaf that’s on there and then the last thing that I’m going to sew which I’m going to actually direct

Sew when I get home is an Asian Green Mix so in this mix I have com katuna katuna never heard of that one before actually but it’s got Mauna and Mauna in it and am soy so that’s the reason I picked that because I love Mauna and I

Love Mauna so I thought I might as well just get a whole mix and grow that um comat comat soona I think that’s how you say it yeah comat soona yeah I’m literally just going to sprinkle this onto the surface of the raised palette collor bed when I get

Home and that is going to be literally cropping they’re really really quick to crop these type of mix leeve sort of selections so I think that’ be a really nice like early spring salad type variety so I’m really looking forward to just like getting going now and actually

Seeing all the seeds germinate because it’s just been like so cold the last few weeks and nothing’s really growing obviously other than the stuff that I’ve got in the house which is my chilies and peppers which I have in front of me here so in here I’ve got all my chilies which

Are looking good I need to actually get some bigger containers so I can pop these up but I have here are my was it Coro Doro or people calling them Red Bulls horns is that what they’re called and that’s these three here so I have

Three of those going I have my Ahi mango I’ve got three of those here and then I have my two Mini Chocolate peppers and then I have these here are bell peppers I also have like two containers of bell peppers at home that I’ve obviously

Don’t have the heart to get rid of this is the problem so I love to sew seeds and I love to grow everything and I think like I can grow more than a have space for but I also went really thickly you remember on those pepper plants so I was unsure I’d

Saved them from a hom grown home bought pepper from the shop so I was like oh they were like 2 years old the seeds I thought oh look I’ll just wing it throw a load in and obviously they’ve all popped up out of the soil so I’m like I

Didn’t have the heart to get rid of them so I’m going to pop them all up and I’m just going to give them away because I didn’t have any faith that they would germinate cuz you always hear like stories of like using fresh seed and things like that but you would really be

Surprised what will grow from an old seed packet or just something that’s laying around that you think’s old other than the exception of P nips because my par Snips definitely haven’t come up and I do genuinely think that’s true with parsnips so the other bits that I

Actually have in here are some OB jeans um which is this row here I actually have great germination on those OB jeans I’ve heard historically that OB jeans aren’t that great at germinating I sewed 2 4 6 8 10 12 did I sew 12 I think I

Only had six seeds did I there’s more than six plants there well anyway I have 1 2 3 4 five six one two I have five that look good and then I’ve got another two that look like they’re poking up out of the soil so I’ve never grown obene

Before super excited for that because I love making L stuff like babagan and I love like putting into like um you know like into an oven tray loads of like peppers onions tomatoes over jeans and roasting it and just having like Mediterranean mixed veg with like olive

Oil and a few like oregano herbs and things like that so like it would be amazing to get them now I don’t know how many I’m going to grow and I don’t actually know where they’re going to go yet I do have them on my tiny garden

Plan that I will show you I’ll probably show you that one next week but yeah I’m conscious that they’re a warm season crop and they can be quite temperamental I’ve seen from obviously following other other gardening channels that they can be difficult to obviously crop and yield

A big amount of produce from them so I just need to do a bit more research on that cuz it’s a very new plant to me and then I have some cucumbers here which I don’t typically sew this early cuz I usually grow an outdoor variety of

Cucumber which is called Market more but this this is called Louis are F1 and I got no success of it last year so I just thought oh there’s three seeds left in the pack I’ll just pop them in and I’m telling you that propagator is the best

Thing I ever bought it like yes it was €100 yes it was a big investment but I’ve had unbelievable germination on my warm season crops so I just cannot recommend it enough so I think yeah it’s the Garland four top propagator and thrilled with it and the quality of the

Trays these are the trays are just abs absolutely love them they’re a little bit more sturdier than these ones and yeah just cannot recommend it enough and my electric bill hasn’t gone up either really so I just think it’s negligible it doesn’t really cost anything really

To run so thrilled with that and then I have just a few bits of Basel in here but this um coming back to the Cucumber get sidetracked again coming back to the Cucumber this will be a smooth skin cucumber and I normally grow Market more

Which has got kind of prickly so I would love to have like a proper smooth skin salad cucumber cuz I do love the market more ones but my ones last year like I did end up having to keep peeling them because they were that quite that

Prickly on the outside I mean you can brush them off but when they’ve grown so big sometimes they get really like their skin gets a bit tougher and it’s not as kind of smooth and kind of as thin to cut through so it’s the mouth texture on

It can be just a little bit more like tough so yeah thrilled with those and they’re looking good and they’re just literally starting to put on their second set of true leaves so yes whilst this is the first bulk seed sewing I have had a few things on the go

But that is literally it that and a few flowers um now I’m going to jump into my 10 seeds of tomatoes that I’m going to grow and you know what I don’t even know where they’re going yet because obviously I have told you I want to get

The greenhouse but like the 10 varieties that I’ve got are definitely not going to fit into a teeny tiny Greenhouse that’s going to fit in my size Garden so I may need to come up with a solution into the allotment for some many overflow warm season crops but like the

Garden plan that I’m about to share with you is full to the brim so like I don’t know I need your help where am I going to put it what am I going to do with them because I have to grow them I’ve sent some unbelievable varieties that

I’ve been only dreaming of growing and I just I’ve ran out of space the season hasn’t even started and I’ve ran out of space basically so out of the 10 Vari I I’m going to sew two or three seeds of each cuz I only want maximum

Two plants that I’ll keep growing on and then I only really want to be planting out one of each crop but obviously I’ll sew more than one seed in case I have germination problems so my usuals let’s start with the basic ones that I grow

Every year so I have red cherry this is a really reliable Cropper it is prolific and it’s a really early cropping variety so it’s great in a small space cuz obviously you can control the height of it does need steaking but you get a really early cropping variety if you

Want to grow them outside and you’re worried about blight and things like that you will typically get a crop off of this if you sew it early enough in the season so if you want to grow them outside um get yourself some of these seeds you haven’t grown tomatoes before

Give these a try they will ripen up pretty much quicker than any other variety that I’ve ever sewn and yeah they’re just a joy and they grow on these beautiful long Vines you could get like 20 on a v Vine they’re just they look like you know the fancy ones that

You buy from the shop that are usually more expensive so they’re just so fabulous and then you just like I had some of these in a window box as well so if you’re really stuck on Space you can grow them in a container and I grew them

On an in inside window and they were so sweet the ones I grew inside were actually nicer than the ones I grew outside I have no idea why they grew in less soil they probably had less water I probably looked after them less but what

I did is like when I start editing my videos or I’m replying to comments this is a great little snacking tomato that I just had on the windowsill next to me in my office then I have two more that I grew last year that I actually started

Off really late in the season so it is still early if you can’t get around to getting your tomato seeds until April there’s still plenty of time I actually grew these in May and I got crops off them now allbe it it was less than a pet

Of tomato pet of tomatoes is that what it’s called like a tray like less than five so I have tomato later which is a bushing variety so that means it’s a determinant variety so it will grow to a determined height and length and it will just sprawl it’s a bushy one so you

Don’t prune this it’s not Vining or Cordon but it grows beautiful salad variety tomatoes and it’s a really really early cropping variety I’ll put the amount of days on screen that it takes I don’t think it’s written here but it hasn’t it’s like one of the earliest cropping tomatoes that you can

Have so I’ll pop that on screen for you and yeah I grew it last year beautiful size salad Tomatoes which is nice alternative to the cherry tomatoes cuz obviously sometimes it’s nice to have a slightly bigger one that you can slice obviously these weren’t be big massive

Slices but it’s just nice to have the variation from the Cherry which is why I grew that so the Other Tomato that I’m looking to grow is a costoluto Florentino I grew this last year and just the shape alone just brings me so much joy it has these really like deep

Indents and like it just looks like a miniature pumpkin for all the world with like the big sort of like wedges the whole way around and you cut into it it’s kind of less watery than a cherry tomato and a salad type tomato it’s quite meaty inside and it’s really good

For slicing putting in tomato sandwiches that kind of thing um but I get so I didn’t get that much off this last year because we had such an early blight and I grew them all outside which is the whole reason why I want a greenhouse at home because I actually saw so many

People growing their Tomatoes obviously all the outside ones were completely done for but most people kept like their poly tunnels and Green Houses closed and their Tomatoes actually lasted the season so that’s the whole reason behind getting a greenhouse but also coming on to the really fun varieties after this

Costoluto but that generally has slightly quicker time as well for the costoluto sort of chunkier tomatoes it’s kind of a quicker cropping one and I grw it last year and I loved it and I really want to give it another go this year starting it earlier

CU I think it will give it a better time in the season than what I did last year cuz I only obviously started them in May which is pretty pretty late in my area to be gr Tomatoes if you want to yield of red tomatoes and don’t want to be

Left with a glut of green tomatoes but you know what green tomatoes are actually all right I made so much Chutney and I did fried green tomatoes and I would actually just grow green tomatoes I need to probably get a tomao I think maybe next year because there is

So much you can actually do with them and I really really enjoyed it and I made beautiful Chutney that I had at Christmas on my cheeseboards and I just like just harnessing that little bit of like what you’ve made and putting on the table just like I don’t know it just

Gets me like so even if you get green tomatoes this year look up some recipes if you like Chutney if you like cheese if you like cheeseboards it’s definitely the way to go and obviously fried green tomatoes as well I was given that recommendation from a friend in America

Cuz it seems to be quite popular over there and they were also super tasty so don’t think that you can’t use Croc in certain ways if it doesn’t go to plan that’s one of my main learnings I think from last year and now I move on to some

Really really cool varieties now I feel like I definitely need to give these people a shout out but I kind of want to wait until their Gardens are looking nice because I feel like I’m going to give people a shout out people are going to go over to their channels and it’s

Going to be Barren so I want to give these people an opportunity to obviously have their Gardens looking plush before I go shouting them out so I will shout everybody out that has given me a tomato um and all other seeds as well but I just want to wait until your Gardens are

Just looking like 1010 because it’s all just you know I have a different shade of brown soil to your shade of brown soil at the minute so I will obviously go into bigger depth when these are growing but I’m just going to run through the varieties there now so I

Have a pink bumblebee cherry tomato I had a look through the internet just to see what this looked like cuz I don’t actually know and it seems to be like a pale sort of orange with kind of little tigery type stripes on it so that looks really interesting it’s a cherry variety

And I think obviously this was sent to me before got the allotment so I think it was a really really beautiful thing because it’s like suited to my growing space like a small type variety which is why I picked the cherry tomato originally and it’s just a slightly

Different variety so I think that’ll give great color which I think will be wonderful I have a tomato pink B no idea what it looks like I’ll have a little Google when I get home actually and see what that looks like but sounds really really cool I have a Tim’s Taste of

Paradise if there was one tomato I wished I had grown last year it was this because everybody was going on about how amazing this tomato actually tastes and I didn’t have it and I felt very left out so I’m so grateful that I sent this because it’s supposed to be

One of the nicest tasting tomatoes I think it’s a yellow tomato from I can remember when I saw this being harvested and they’re quite small and believe it or not everyone is saying it lives up to the name so I cannot wait to give that a try and then I have orange accordion

It’s very similar to the costoluto but it is actually bigger so it’s a big multi sort of not it’s l like multi-seeded but it’s like this big looks like looks like literally an accordion I know that sounds stupid but it’s like just big wedges of tomato and

It’s just like huge so really looking forward to trying that because it’s just so different like you just don’t see those in the shop do you they’re a really different thing so I also have a Brad’s Atomic grape which is supposed to be like a multicolored type tomato and

When I was doing my research on this it is supposed to have a different taste so it’s a very unique taste in tomato the Brad’s Tomic grape it’s supposed to be a little bit like a hop it has kind of a slight beer sort of like taste profile

To it which I thought was interesting but I think the thing would be really cool about this is obviously it doesn’t turn red so you obviously not that you’ll be unsure whether it’s ripe or not but obviously just give it a little squeeze and know that it’s ready but I just think that

Would be so cool just to try and I don’t think it grows too big I think they’re kind of cherry tomato sized so again suitable for my small space at home and cannot wait to try that and then I also have black shadow which is two tiny seeds and I

Actually don’t know what it looks like but my um friend Sandra sent me this one as well who I mentioned earlier so she sent me two tiny seeds hopefully I’ll plant both of those and they’ll grow and then the last ones that I have in the Tomato section are a mini maano tomato

Which are just beautiful aren’t they kind of like Plum type ones I buy them from the shop anyway so to be able to grow those would be amazing and these actually these two that I’m talking about now so I’ve got the M mini misano and they have the barries crazy Cherry

Both of these come from Wild Bo farms in America right and I have been watching so many Americans on YouTube sewing all of these amazing variety tomatoes and they all come from this world boil Farms place so I’m very very grateful to Robin to sending me these because I would

Never have been able to have the opportunity to have these seeds without her sending them to me obviously you guys know Robin I’ve shouted her out before on the channel but I just want to say a big thank you to her because I would never have them so I’m I’m really

Grateful and I feel so like inspired by watching other YouTubers grow these types of tomatoes but I’ve never seen them in an Irish Seed Catalog so it means a lot to have these and there was a fun story last year on the channel when I grew the cherry tomato and a lot

Of the seeds I grew ended up growing a lot bigger plants than had been advertised on the packet so I was convinced this cherry tomato that I had last year was a Bar’s crazy Cherry but obviously it wasn’t because I think they’re yellow and um I just had this

Massive like like I don’t know like Mega Bloom of miniature tomatoes that were growing off one of the cherries cherry tomatoes plants last year so I always always telling everyone this is my version of a Barry’s crazy Cherry but actually I have the seeds here that I

Get to so so I’m so excited for that and then obviously the Masano that I was talking to you about before I got sidetracked with the berries crazy Cherry the Masano I just beautiful beautiful plants um beautiful shaped fruits they’re kind of like little plum tomatoes and they’ll just be so super

Sweet and beautiful and I get to grow something from Wild Bo Farms because I just think that’s just so cool I’ve been watching a lot of YouTubers that use that seed company and I’m so grateful to have the seeds that I’m able to sew myself because I would never have them

Otherwise if I didn’t have these friends the last two seeds that I’m going to be sewing are herbs I’m just going to sew them into little pots like little ELO pots like this and I hope to actually make a dedicated herb plant out of a barrel later in the season I just need

To maneuver a few things around to obviously release the barrel that I have for them but I’m going to grow some coriander and some parsley I grow parsley all the time and I love coriander I love making things like Mexican food like guacamole and nachos and obviously Ramen you can stick that

On Ramen and I love making Oriental type foods where celery coriander is obviously used I get so much enjoyment out of cooking and I always feel like the herbs is actually something in my tiny kitchen Garden at home but I’m running out of the most so

So I need to up my herb game and get an abundance of herbs that I have loads because I never quite seem to have enough and obviously the parsley that I have is it’s still in the ground and I’m still harvesting little bits of it but

It’s going to obviously go to seed this year cuz it’s a banal so if flowers in its second year and then it will like Reed itself so I might actually take some seeds off of that cuz this packet is getting old now I’ve had this packet

For about three or four years now so that is a summary of everything that I’m going to grab I’m going to little Potter around here now I’m going to prick out some of these flowers and I’m going to talk to you about my plans for the allotment I’ve

Done up a beautiful variety of plans I’ve colored it all in I’ve where possible done it to scale and I’m really looking for Shar forward to sharing with you so I’m just going to clear down the desk pull in some compost and I will meet you back here

So I’m literally just going to fill up this tray how many trays is this 1 2 3 4 5 6 12 18 54 60 my math my quick maths is getting good guys right so I have a 60 cell tray that I’m going to prick out these I’m

Pricking out literally all that means is just like taking it out of the multi-one bed that you’ve got there of compost and then putting that into individual sale trays so that they can obviously grow on and then there’ll be perfect little pants that I can then

Pop out but 60 wild pansies I’ve never grown like anybody that knows me from the while that I’ve had the channel will know that like flowers are not my 4te and I’ve gone and gone and grown myself 60 well I hope they’re 60 well I have

Space for 60 so I actually do need to get myself one of those potting trays so that I can mix in some vermiculite I think that will help me this growing season to um have better drainage and stuff with my seedlings I haven’t had a massive

Problem with damping off this year as I did to last year I think propagator definitely definitely helped with that but I do think if I get some vermiculite I think it will definitely increase my success with seed sewing but I just love this now a so I’m just going

To just going to get over the other tray just so I can push those down probably didn’t need to do as much as I did and I’m going to pre moisten the soil actually as well on these just making some indents there just making sure that they’re fully

Down that’s easy with my fingers just to get rid of any air pockets so it doesn’t all sink then when I get it wet but I’m just going to there we are don’t they look beautiful I love the little patterns on the leaves little baby pansies those were a wild pansy

From seeds Island great germination on them and I’m probably going to set off a few more of these as well because I’ve got so much so many plans for the flowers this year I’ll pull up the plan of the allotment that I’ve put together and I’ll talk you through everything

There in just a second I’m going to go and fill this up water and I’ll be back so I just filled up this container and I didn’t have a watering can so I just used to propagate a lid dunked it in some water and just let it trickle

Across the top um the water and cans are at home cuz obviously I have Main’s water here but I have a bucket out of the back of the the shed just to collect some of the runoff from the repair that I did the other day so that was super

Handy so it’s fresh rain rain water that’s gone into there um so yeah so I must get the um the plans of the garden up I did a little like like digital drawing can you call it that I have no idea I’ve never done it before I just thought it might be

Easier than my scribbles on on a page so I just spent like maybe like half an hour or so putting this together I’m just going to throw it up there now and I’m going to talk you through it so as you can see like the last few weeks I

Have been putting up my ra like raised beds my INR beds and I have put on like what have I got out there at the moment too So the plan is is I have think I’ve got room for 1 2 3 4 5 six beds all in

All and what I’m going to do is dedicate one bed to like one or two crops say like facing from the shed out the way that’s the left and rights I’m going to do then I should be able to fit five beds down the left hand side and then

That will be I’ll come on to the crops that I’m in a minute and then as you come up to the shed obviously you’ll have the shed is going to stay where it is cuz it’s going to be too big to obviously move and then what I’m going

To do is I’m not going to have chickens this year because I feel like with the chickens it’s going to be a lot of dedication with me coming up here being available to have time and space for them and that sort of thing so I think I

Would love to have them and I’m definitely not writing it out but I don’t think it’s the right move this year just considering like I’m still trying to finish my masters obviously get the allotment up and running rubo is a handful in in itself anyway so I think

I’m going to use the front end of the shed which is where the roosting perches were as a little storage area for there a stone in that a little storage area for a large water container now I was given some great calculations on how to calculate the runoff of the water from

The roof so I do need to obviously get a new water butt for that and maybe some extra additional storage that fills up in tandem as it goes along so I think I’m going to stick a water butt there install some guttering along the left hand side and that should then be the

Final sort of semi- repair on the shed and also there’s nothing better than water a plants with fresh rain water the plants love it so much more than tap water and it would be such a privilege to have that up here now we do obviously have Main’s water up here that you saw

Last week with all the stuff plumbed in around the back but I was told when I took on the plot that in the summer it can be quite challenging I think we share the water with a farmer and obviously he’ be feeling up the troughs for the cattle and what other animals

That he has so you have to be here super early in the morning which shouldn’t be a problem I could probably do it on the way into work um or quite later in the evening so just to have a little reserve of water wouldn’t be a bad idea I don’t think so

I have a storage unit at the back that I have all the wood in that I showed you there in a previous video and that’s going to stay as a little storage unit for now cuz I just found it so useful actually I cleared down this whole

Potting bench before I went in and did this today and I was like I don’t even know why I dumped all of the cardboard onto this potting bench because I have all of that storage around the back so when I go to do the

Rest of the beds I will be able to just nip in get the comp compost the cardboard and it will be ready for me so and it keeps this area free which means I can just come in drop down my cup of tea drop down my plants it keeps this

Area free and clutter free so that’s the idea for those two spaces and then as you come around obviously the shed will stay the same I will obviously do some more work on this towards the end of this season but I’m just very much trying to concentrate on getting the

Growing space ready because I have big plans as you would have seen from my big list of seeds that I’ve just shared with you so then with that what I’m hoping to do is move the flag Stones around the very back so that it will allow it’s obviously it’s wet around there the

Flagstones will be able to mean that I’m able to walk around there and not feel like I’m a space man cuz all the W the mud gets stuck to the bottom of my feet and I find it very hard to walk around I know obviously it will dry up in the

Summer but I’ll be able to go around there it’ll be an area that I’m able to store stuff away canes that kind of thing that’ll be super handy and then I will bring up my shed from the tiny garden at home and then what that will

Do is that will go to the end of the shed like it’ll be in line with this corner of the shed and then obviously the flagstones will be up the way from that and what it’ll do is it will close off this area for one reason that I’ll

Get to in a little minute so flagstones and then as we come up flag stones will be all along here and then we’re coming up to this corner here so I spoke to you about it last week I’m going to put in a little bed it’ll probably be a raised

Bed given the amount of trees and stuff that are there I think I’m going to need my own supply of like additional nutrients just given that I think this Laurel that’s behind and then there’s some goozer bushes from the neighbor there so I think I need to make sure

That there’s plenty nutrients and water that’s not getting taken from the trees and shrubs that are here and I might either going to do or probably do a mixture is flowers and lettuces and salad type bits because I anticipate that that bit will be a shady spot I think but I won’t

Obviously know until the seasons in full swing so with that then means that this area will be kind of a chill space for me I’ll put in like a little table little chair so I can just obviously get some rest and actually when most of the work’s done you know yourself when it

Gets to the summertime most of your stuff’s done when all your plants are in you’re just waiting for your crops to reduce so it’ be nice just to come up here and en enjoy the space and sit and enjoy what I did and all the hard work that went into

It and it’ll be a nice space to rest but it also is going to be a perfect spot for Rue to be so obviously I feel like like it’s a really friendly Community up here lots of people pop by they want to say hi come on to the plot which is

Absolutely fine but Rue can be a little bit reactive obviously we got her um when everything was in lockdown so she wasn’t massively socialized and she’s a guardian breed anyway so she does air on the side of caution particularly um when she’s in areas that she doesn’t know or

If she’s at home trying to guard the house obviously that’s her territory so I feel like it’ll be a nice little spot for her cuz other people do bring their dogs up there’s like a little three-legged dog there’s a little is it like a Golden Retriever and then a

Couple of plots up there’s a beautiful he did tell me the breed of it I can’t remember the miniature sort of like German Shepherd but like crossed with something I’m not too sure anyway but she roams around they’re all really really well behaved compared to R so

They can all go around and socialize together but she can’t so I feel like when people want to come in the plot or there’s other dogs around particular in the peak of the season when I anticipate loads of people to be around I’ll be able to close off this area here with

Like a little gate so this could be like a little pen then for Rue when I need her to just behave cuz we all know Rue does not like to behave so that’s this end of the plot I’m going to finish putting up these and I’m going to show you what’s going on

With the next bit of the plot and I’m also going to show you the vegetable planned layout that I have for the area here so I’m over halfway through this tray and I actually think I’m going to have more pansies then I realized I should have bought two trays with me not

To worry I’ll pop the rest up when I get in cuz I’ve only got one of these trays and then the other tray half that’s left is for my warm season crops so I absolutely love pansies I think they crop for a really long time um I’ve never actually done them from seed

Before so this is a first time for me and they are looking super healthy so I literally just use like a spoon to push everything down nothing fancy and then just back fill it with a tiny bit of compost and then literally the weather’s next week is supposed to

Warm up so much so we’re still getting kind of lows of about 3 to 5° which is a little bit chilly but I think from next week the lows are around 8 to 10° this there’s definitely significant rise for the next 10day forecast for nice um evening nighttime temperatures and

Daytime temperatures are going to be significantly warmer which means I will be able to start sewing a few more things and there’s a big plan out for me next weekend which I will film because it is going to be the St Patrick’s Day bank holiday weekend and and if anybody knows

That’s the weekend everybody in Ireland plants out their potatoes so I have a good bit of work to do on the very first well actually it’ll be the second bed from the map that I’ve shown you of the plot or the plans of the plot so the

First bed is obviously going to be where all that rubbish is at the minute that I need to obviously figure out how to get rid of it I’m probably going to have to rent a van to get rid of most of it I’m probably going to be able to take the

Electricals that are broken down to the recycling center so then that will be the first bed and then up from there then is going to be the second bed which is then going to be my my potatoes so it’s riddled with weeds so I’m going to need to go in and

Obviously clear all of those out but I am going to do the potatoes in drills which is the traditional way I was taught by my father and I’m really looking forward to doing that and I plant potato those every year on Patrick’s weekend cuz it’s tradition and

You know what it’s nice to do things that are tradition it gives you something to look forward to and I had great spuds last year even with the bad weather that we had I did them in containers but I did obviously potatoes up at my mother and father’s

House and they did great harvests and I do think it’s the drill method is how they got the better Harvest that they did so whilst I’m doing mostly no dig beds heads with the cardboard and putting mulch on top the spuds I’m doing slightly different um I may I may try no

Dig ones in the future but for this year I’ve got to do it traditionally the way my family taught me so there’s a good bit of work involved in that it’s going to be a lot of tiring work so I may even if the light is still good tonight I might

Actually go out and just start getting some of them up my neighbor still left me the pickaxe so I should be able to maybe get a head start on that and if I do get some more time cuz the lights getting a bit better isn’t it like the

Evenings are getting a little bit a little bit longer so I may even grab some of the cardboard that’s out the back and put that down for the next bed cuz I feel like I have a lot to do in time for spring now I know obviously everyone’s saying it’s not a marathon

It’s not a race but I have big plans I have really big plans I’ve got all of these seeds um I’m here to sew them and I’m here to watch them grow and I’m here to see this space transform in a matter of literally months so I think

Although I might not get enough time to top it up with all the mulch there’s a massive mulch pile that actually was delivered um but it’s a little bit good further walk away from the one that I did the last time so even if I think I

Got maybe a head start and put down say the cardboard for one of these ra beds then it gives me a head start then doesn’t it like it will start suppressing the weeds and then all I have to do is come in and then top it with a bit of mulch

Is what I’m thinking so that’s the plan anyway if I get enough time cuz it’s everything time’s everything and then obviously as the season gets in the evenings get longer so it’s probably not getting dark now until about 7:00 and we are currently on about halfast 4

And I still just want to enjoy my seed sewing like I find this so therapeutic pricking out little seedlings I could do this all day I really could although I ran out of tea and I haven’t figured out how to do an outside like kettle situation I do need to also figure that

Out I know I can get like those what are they called they’re not called Mega boils or what they called you know those camping boil instant jet boil things I could use that but I do like the idea of having a nice um like open fire just with like a

Little grate on top and a little camping stove I did try and make a fire the other day which actually was okay but I didn’t leave enough air vents in the bottom of that galvanized sort of container so I think I might use some of the wire that’s kicking around the plot cuz

We know I have plenty chicken wire on this plot and what I might do is put that as a bow in the bottom of the galvanized container for now and then just get like a little gray to go on top and then I could be able to heat up a

Cup of tea because my tea ran out and I could drink about six cups of tea and coffee a day probably not good for me but it’s what keeps me going you all wondering where I get the energy from to do this plot and this alotment uh caffeine caffeine is the source um

But I think it’ll be really cool as well like to actually set up a little cooking station as well whil I’m up here like I could smell it the other day when I was up here um the guy behind me I think it is he he just comes up of a morning and

Then obviously sets up the fire you can smell the rashes and the Sausages like cooking away and it smells unbelievable so um I’m really wanting to jump on that and I felt very left out I’m sure if I went around there he would have offered

Me some but I wasn’t going to be cheeky and I’d already had my breakfast before I come up here but I think it would just be that lovely sort of like outdoory sort of experience so I’m just literally generally prizing these apart I’ve got literally my last row I have a few

Left and then just popping them in um so literally have never sewn so many flowers in my entire life I am feeling super proud of myself I’ll give these a good drink and I’m going to pop them outside cuz it’s still sunny and give them a little bit of sunlight cuz

They’ve been in the house mostly so I do need to start hardening them off doing the little seed shuffle I did plenty seed shuffling last year in out in out down that little tiny bit of patio in the home Garden Rue was always there I remember I dropped my

Cucumbers last year and I was devastated cuz I took so long for my cucumbers to germinate and the Louisa F1 that has germinated now didn’t germinate for me so I was really panicking that I wasn’t going to have like any cucumbers and they were one of my successful most

Successful crops in the early years I was like oh I can’t have can’t have a kitchen Garden without a cucumber can you so I remember I dropped the whole tray of 10 they all survived I think maybe one might not have so I just need

To slow down a little bit and um take it a little bit slower with the whole harden off thing and not not drop my trains on the floor that’s why I invested in the um the green trays there’s a big big long green tray there’s a fly in

Here um big green um like Reservoir that these sit into so it means I’m going to be able to just pick them up and move them out rather than like balancing them like this out the door cuz obviously that’s how they fall on the floor okay so on to the rest of the

Seeds so 22 seeds going in today what’s the date today just so I know the 10th of March so just coming into mid-march and we’re going to have 22 seeds going in it’s very exciting I cannot wait so where did I get to in terms of the plans

Me pull the plans up so yeah explained five beds flagstones what I’m doing with the side of the shed in terms of the um water but and then I have little ruse little corner just to keep her out of trouble it means as well like I don’t have to be watching her the

Whole time and usually she just kind of she started to settle here a little bit she’s um she’s starting to like lay down a little bit and like watch over me now like what she would do at home I think she’s kind of getting her bearings which

Is really nice I do need to get like a nice little space for her as well so like when I put the stuff down like I I might bring up like a little bed for her cuz I feel like she’s missing her Creature Comforts cuz I have so many

Blankets for her at home that I don’t really have up here and the ones I did do have they just get really muddy so it might obviously get easier for me to find her a little Nook or when the Grass Grows she might feel a bit more comfortable but um what am I

Like accommodating the allotment for R but I wouldn’t I wouldn’t have her not up here she’s not here today because she’d only be crying all you’d hear is her crying so I left her at home today God only knows what I’m going to go home to because she we all know that she

Likes to uh protest when I leave her at home so that’ll be exciting and then um yeah so I’ll get a nice little gate there for the front don’t know what style gate yet whether to go for like a car stying gate or maybe a wooden gate

I’m not too sure but I think that’ll be so nice and then that kind of Tides up the left hand side of the garden and then I have a little Border in front of the first bed that goes the whole way up the length and that’s going to be a wood

Chip border and then I’m going to put flowers the whole way around so my little wild pansies and I have some Cula and I have some posy posies uh what are they called poppies and I have some other stuff that I’m going to obviously sew to put in there

That I might direct so and what I’m going to do there is I’m going to do a massive long Brassica bed now I do obviously need to net the bed keep it contained as best I can because of the Cabbage White Butterflies they absolutely love the cabbages so I don’t know whether I’m

Going to be able to this season build a whole system on a hinge that I can then lift the lid up to be able to get to the brasas or am I going to have to just use some netting with some hooping systems for the meantime so ideally I’d like to

Build the one with the cage on top but I don’t know if I’m going to be able to it’s in the plans if I get enough time I obviously will do that and we’ll just see how the season goes because I have so many big plans and I can only imagine

My plans are going to change so that’s the idea to start with so I’m really really looking forward to that because whilst I did have successful brassas in the home Garden they are not ideal to grow in a small space even though you can so I’m just going to label up some

Of these things so that I have some labels already written from last year that’s my purple Basel one so yeah that’s the overall plan and then I do have an idea in terms of what veg is going into what so I’m going to show you that plan

Now and I had so much fun making this little plan even put little ruse little paws on that plan which I’m so happy about and yeah so there are a few new varieties in terms of what I’m growing I think I went a little bit mad and was

Like I have so much space so I get to grow everything and then I realized when I was writing this plan that actually I don’t know where I’m going to put my over jeans I don’t know where I’m going to put my fennel and I have no idea if

It’s a good idea or not to grow corn cuz I do want to grow corn so I’m going to throw up on the screen there now the new plan and what I have is in the first bed I have put in that I’m going to be growing corn in a grid

Cuz I know do know you have to grow it in a grid but I’ll be honest with you I don’t know if corn is the best thing for a grower to actually be growing that’s only kind of new to Growing obviously this is my third year in growing and

Obviously my first year a lot went growing so I have no idea if that’s beginner friendly or even if that’s a good idea so I’m open to interpretation and some advice on that one and then I was going to split the bed then with a cette because I really missed my cette

Last year and then I think I definitely want it like that’s just I feel like what my summer harvests were missing so I really want to do that and then on my next bed I’ve obviously explained to you already I will be doing my potatoes I have two varieties of potato

And then I have a little salad potato as well that I can grow and then I have the bed up from that is leaks I do typically put my leaks in before just drying these labels oh no it snapped um just drying the labels cuz I can’t

Actually get my pen to work on them but with my leaks I typically put them in after my potatoes are in but with that like I feel like they don’t get enough time in the soil to grow so like the leaks that I put in after my spuds this year now albeit they

Were in containers so they are more challenging to grow they didn’t do that well so I think I’m just going to dedicate a whole bed to them this season and go from there and that’s what I’m going to do because I don’t I want big big leaks like I love at winter time

To make um like stews and things like that like I just and leak is just like the perfect ACC compliment and I love making soups and stuff in the winter so leak and potato soup is a must and I didn’t really get to do this year because I didn’t have that many leaks

Like the leaks that I did Harvest I did did obviously use but I didn’t get the most out of them so I think if I dedicate a bed put them in early in the season then I should get some big like stocky leaks which I’ll be super happy with they’re

Really like Treasure of mine I absolutely love cooking with leaks so that’s why I’ve decided to do that I haven’t quite got round to actually thinking what goes in after say like the likes of the potatoes and stuff come out like obviously I’ll be sewing in a second early so from planting them

Within 12 weeks of that second early going in I’m pretty much going to be looking for another crop to go in to replace it which I haven’t got quite around to and then I also plan to do a winter Winter Garden so like with cabbages and and things like that

So I think those plans are to come and learning how to garden in the winter is definitely something that I tried to start learning last year but obviously now I have the space to be able to put stuff in over winter maybe this time next year I’ll be harvesting stuff so

We’ll see about that um so yeah in terms of that successional planting other than lettuce and spring onions haven’t quite got a plan for that so I’d love to know actually with me doing a dedicated leak bed other than leaks what else could I put in after the spuds come out because

I’ll only have one main crop variety row going in which is my own saved seed and I only have maybe 10 so I’ll probably only have like one row of those to go in and then the rest is literally going to be the second Hy it’s really hard to

Multitask and do this um so yeah that’s what I’m thinking just putting in these are the brassers I’m just putting in so just put in the cauliflower the brussel sprouts and that was it yeah qualifer the two varieties of rust Sprouts so they’ve just going in so if anyone has any

Helpful tips and advice for that potato bed and any other bed actually once it’s harvested what could go in I’d love to know so then moving up from that bed I have the it’s like a misk salad bed at the minute I just haven’t got my glasses

On so I can’t actually see it so I have like onions celery beetroot and lettuce now obviously I’m conscious that when it gets to Winter the lettuces aren’t going to do that great because of the weather depending on obviously um how well the summer goes so I may change

That bed up that bed is kind of not set in stone now none of these plans are actually set in stone at all it’s just my first sort of wish list in terms of what I’m growing I think I’ve pretty much captured every vegetable on that

Plan that I want to harvest and grow this year everything is what I would be buying from the supermarket regularly anyway so it’s definitely all food that I like to eat and then up from that is some carrots and parsnips now obviously I have some dedicated space already to carrots and

Parsnips in my home Garden but I can never have enough carrots and parsnips and I didn’t have any parsnips last year and I need a place to successionally sew as well so once they’re picked and they’re growing and I’ve got loads of carrot varieties I think I four or five carrot varieties so

I think that will be super beneficial but that bed isn’t quite ready yet um I need to obviously dig over the soil and make sure it’s like no dig friendly and loosen it up so I don’t get forked carrots and all that so there’s a bit of working before that

Bed goes in then the closest Bed to the shed what I’m want to do is my pumpkins so I have an umine amount of pumpkin seeds at home that I want to plant all of them I need a few archways but there’s only so many projects I can

Do at one time and I think I need to prioritize getting my Greenhouse over the archways so I think it will be so cool to grow them I can maybe let them go wild or if I get time and resources to actually do them up archways then I will do that but I’ve

Got three varieties I think I definitely want I’ve got I was obsessed with the crown prints last year and I have an open they’re an F1 variety but I actually got myself a Queen New Zealand version which is an open pollinated heirloom variety that looks very similar has like

Dense um flesh sweet meaty type thing so I think it’s very similar so I’m going to grow that looks very similar and then I’m going to grow that one I have a Kucha which I tried to go last year and obviously decapitated in the process and then I also have

A what other one do I have I can’t remember the variety but I put an orange picture up on the bed so I can’t remember what variety it was I’ll have to put the name up on screen for what variety that is and they’re my pumpkins because they are great roasted they are

Great in soups and I really really really enjoyed the soup and the little cake that I made last year cuz I do love to obviously eat everything that I grow I grow it for fun but I also grow it to eat it so that’s the beds on the left hand side

And then obviously my brassas on the opposite side I’ve just got a mixture of all sort of brassas col rabie cabbage that will go in at different stages I’m just not ready to put them in yet so I haven’t sewn them yet so I won’t be doing any spring cabbages or summer

Cabbages I’ll probably be prepping that in the summer for winter cropping type varieties I will be seing kale and obviously I’ve sewn the Sprouts so that will give me a bit of like a a kick to get that bras caped done but obviously I’ve got a lot of debris down that side

I’ve got the trailer down there I’ve got bits of wood that I cleared from last week all down that side that I need to clear out in order to get that space someway ready and then obviously I have all the junk that’s at the front that I

Also need to get rid of so I probably need to hire a van and I don’t know if he doesn’t collect his trailer have I inherited a trailer like I I wouldn’t want anybody I wouldn’t want it to go missing like on my watch so like it does

Worry me a little bit that he hasn’t come to collect it so I wouldn’t and as you know I don’t even know how to use a trailer because I don’t even know how to move it um you got a few of you got a bit of a laugh off me moving the trailer

There a few times tell and then you you were kind enough to tell me that I was pulling the trailer from the wrong end and it would made it so much easier for me to pull it from the front end the bit that’s like laying into the ground so a

Lot with this allotment journey is I haven’t a clue what I’m doing I just go in guns blazing and just like hope it works out but it’s been so much fun so far and it feels so nice to actually like take a step back today and like not

Have to be like lifting and lumping although it’s been good fun I’ve really enjoyed it it’s nice just to take a slow weekend as well because it can all happen really really fast so I feel like it’s nice just to take a moment and just like even

Being up here looking out on the plot today just like I know there’s not much going on and I’ve only got two little raised beds there raised beds I keep calling rais beds in ground no B beds um I think it’s cuz I’m so used to saying

Raised beds from my home Garden I just feel like it’s a really peaceful place to be I’ve really enjoyed being up here with the birds tweeting it’s just like my little tranquil space just I didn’t think I would love it as much as I do which is

So nice and then to share all the experiences and the knowledge I’m learning from people telling me about their spaces and you know even people telling me that they’ve put their name down for allotments and things like and then like then mon like a couple of

Months go by and then I get the update that they they’re getting their allotment space and it just fills me with so much joy it sounds like a little bit cliche but I genuinely genuinely just really love it and hearing about everybody’s plans what they’re growing

What they plan to grow even down to like what weather people are having I just I find it genuinely fascinating um but yeah it’s good space got fill the rest of these up with water and then get on to my tomatoes so I just filled up my two pots

Of water for my herbs and then I just labeled everything because I found it really hard to write the labels down of what I’m doing and talk at the same time and I want to make sure that my tomato labels are perfect because I need to keep track of all of the Tomato

Varieties that I’ve have because I think most of them are actually heirloom variey so if I save a tomato from each plant I should be able to then save the seed from them cuz now I have the space I’m hoping to take a little bit more effort to do

That I say effort I never really had the space before to be able to do it um but this year I might be able to and even say like my sweet peas even if I can do those that would be a massive win because I only got like 15 seeds in that

Packet and it was like a little bit pricey for 15 seeds and I think only 10 of them germinated so I ran out of labels so I’m using some more masking tape and I’ll just stick those around the very base of this container so just going to fill in

Some of these holes and and I’m going to do two or three seeds of each of the tomatoes so bit of a different style video for me today I am everything’s usually action-packed and me like lifting things and nearly knocking myself out with bits of things that are

Around the allotment so do let me know if you do like this style of video maybe I should have done it as like a live so it could have been interactive with you guys cuz I feel like I have just sat here for the last like hour chatting to

You about my plans and stuff it probably would have been nice to be able to interact with a few of you I’m not sure if I have the full setup to be able to do a live but it’s it’s an option I’d be really nervous I think you know I’ve

Never done it before and filming in general is is quite new to me um but I very much enjoying it I I get very excited to come out and and film in the um in the allotment and the garden and I think since having the allotment I have had a little bit more

Freedom which has been really really nice so do let me know if you do like this style of video it’s a lot of information I know and less music and things but maybe it’s an opportunity for you to get to know me a little bit better so I’m going to

Finish up sewing all of these seeds um I hope you enjoyed this video I hope you enjoyed the plan that I shared with you I will show you the plans of the tiny garden next week cuz there are a plethora of crops missed off of the list

From what I’ve shown you here so a lot of those you will see in next in maybe next week maybe the week after this video um but yeah it’s been really fun to hang out and um I will see you all very very soon bye shake off the stress shake off the

Stress oh just have fun just have fun this is the pep talks St I have to do to myself okay we’re all on we’re all on that the other way camera’s on Lovely H