I’m growing two types of perennial kale this year and they make an excellent complement to the annuals. They are especially useful in the hungry gap, when annual kale is exhausted or going to seed the perennials are in their youthful resurgence and growing strong. That lasts well into the...
A quick video talking about growing early and late carrots. The focus though is on making sure you have plenty of carrots for the hungry gap. The key to success is to get enough heat for the carrots to germinate in a reasonable time. There are four ways to do...
This is part of a series of videos covering ways to make the hungry gaps quite a lot more abundant. This video covers early/late potatoes. I’m growing all of my potatoes in tubs this year! These are the steps I follow: Save your own potatoes (Swift and Charlotte in my...
A quick update on how we are mulching the fruit trees this year. Info on how I challenged the bind weed and ground elder on Jennie’s plot and a quick polytunnel update. If you are new to my allotment videos you might find a bit of context useful. We live...
What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £70 worth of veg this week, excluding anything from the store. We had over 40 meals with ingredients from the allotment and contributed to two other families. Here’s a photo of one of the harvests. We picked new potatoes, broccoli,...
This video provides an overview of everything that I’m growing – but not harvesting – in January and everything that I’m sowing in Feburay. If you want to see what I’m harvesting in January you can check out the following video: The video shows several databases that I’m using to...
What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a ‘grand’ total of £75 worth of veg this week, excluding anything from the store. We had 35 meals with ingredients from the allotment and fed two other families. Here’s a photo of one of the harvests. We picked new potatoes, broccoli, sprouts,...
Note: sorry about the slight camera shake in this video, I’m not very well and the medication I’m on is giving me the shakes, it’s not too bad though and I should be better soon. In this quick weekly update I plant two new apple trees (Braeburn and Red Devil)...
NOTE: I have a big update to these databases that will be available in March If you want to get a copy of the tools that I demonstrate in this video please click on this link and create an account: https://airtable.com/invite/r/WzGlQnBX If you just want to browse the tools first...
What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a ‘grand’ total of £65 worth of veg this week, excluding anything from the store. We had 28 meals with ingredients from the allotment. Here’s a photo of one of the harvests. We picked new potatoes, broccoli, sprouts, brocollini, lots of types...