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That's really pretty. I am sure they will love it!

How do you keep slugs off the squashes

I love this and I’m defo a girl that loves to use recycled material where I can Do you have a list of the materials you used including sizes and where you got it from like the polythene. Looking to make my own polytunnel

Hi Helen I grew Uchiki Kiri ast year which made great wine. I am growing Small Sugar again (roasting and marmalade) and trying Butterbush. Let's hope the slugs let them grow.

Did you try to chit the spaghetti squash Helen I did it was so much easier as you can see what they are doing. We prefer croquettes to winter squash. It I did sow a Uchiki Red this year. I put straw all around the strawberry pots in the poly and the sparrows got in and made a mess 😂. Hope your squash all do well, happy gardening 👩‍🌾, Ali 🌧️🌧️🇨🇦

Hello there, a fab vlog again. My back garden in South Yorkshire is very small and I try to cram in as much veg as I can. My squashes are grown in 30ltr buckets. This year they will be Patti Pan, Jack be little, Uchki Kuri ( my fav) and a new one for me is Butterbush ( a bush veriety of the Butternut). Hope we are getting a lot of sunshine soon. I am so sick of the rain now.

Another fab vlog. I'll be growing just butternut squash this year. I will have to be brave and try a different variety in future. TBH I'm a little nervous, I've only ever grown and eaten butternut.

There is a lot going on at the plot .

I'm having a nightmare this year and about a month behind in planting but I'm trying Arava melon an F1 galia type. Just watched you last melon video for some tip and looks like I'll be giving them some extra space than was planning.

So much goin on!

Oh lord I put straw in my strawberry 🍓 pots in the poly and I think the birds find it fabulous for nesting 🤦🏼‍♀️. I have had them scattering it twice now. Hopefully it’s not a rat 🐀. Slugs ate all my tomatoes outside first time ever 😢😢. Plots looking awesome Helen and should be a very productive season. Have a marvellous week, Ali 🌧️🌥️🇨🇦

Your plot looks great. And the poly tunnel, wow. This has so far been a very productive year, must have been the early spring

I really like your way of gardening and I watch every video. But I wonder: what's the matter with your voice? You sound really exhausted and tired: is that the case of is this just your voice? Sorry for this but I always feel a little sorry for you. But maybe that is not necessary 🤷🏼‍♀️

Great Video as usual, can I just ask what do you do with the currants, I have red and white inherited and I don’t do anything with them. I’ve had the same with corn. 9 out of 25 of swift and 3 out of 25 Bantum and they were all in the greenhouse to germinate.

I know the critters and those weeds are something else this season. I wish you the best of luck my friend. Finger's crossed for you. Have a blessed day

Very good

My worst weed is lily of the valley! I have a peony I buried 6 feet down and it returned😂 and I have a geranium I allow to party in the spaces I'm not using😂

Thank you for sharing this I have marestail and bindweed amongst others especially on my new plot. I picked a whole bucketful today on my first plot I think with all the rain it’s doubled this year . On my new no dig allotment it’s popped up everywhere including other weeds I’m so disappointed but I’ll keep pulling and digging them out 😢

Oh my days the weeds are so bad at mine, I keep saying every one I pull is one less next year lol

Mares tail is a nightmare it was around when the dinosaurs were around and the only way to try stop it is keep pulling it up as soon as you see it and in about 30 years you wont see as many of them, And make sure you pick up every piece of it of the ground, Dock leaf comes in handy if you run out of you know what Lol lol lol 😁😊

We have mares tail but my biggest pet peeve is the cottonwood seed it blows like snow every where 🤬🤬. Great job Helen hope you have a super weekend, Ali 🌞🇨🇦

Mares tail roots could go down 1 metre (3ft) its an awful weed, the more you take out the more you weaken it, I always keep on top of them, my no dig raised beds have one or two coming through easily picked out, see a weed take it out. Steve

I was horrified to see those horrid weeds coming through the cardboard. But it is indeed easier to weed,and I can tell they are weaker than the weeds that come out of the none cardboarded areas. Thank you for sharing your experiences with weeds. Happy plotting 😀

Chickeeeeeens!!!!

Often grow tom from seedling in the compost heap, all grow well if a bit behind the others. Nearly all tend to be 'Gardeners delight' which I used to grow a lot of but decided were too susceptible to blight. Alas no new super strain has yet emerged but I live in hope.

I try and do what you do and weed areas when I’m down at the plot and try not to stress about it

We moved into our house 15 years ago. We have a small garden, maybe 5 x 10m. It was covered in 10 foot high Japanese knotweed along with nettles. It took a lot of patience and persistence to clear it. Every time a head poked up I cut it off as far into the ground I could go. Now we have no nettles and when the odd knotweed pokes it's head up its lopped off. To be honest my biggest problem is the neighbours sycamore tree, every spring my harden is literally covered like a lawn in tiny sycamores.😢 It's a good job we all love gardening 😊

Snowball spekes blushbrow

Hey chicks how’s it going 👍 hanging out at the chick bar. Eat shit repeat 😂😂, but should be Fort chick Knox 💪💪. Happy ladies lots of eggs it’s a given. Have a stupendous week, Ali 🌞🇨🇦

Great job on the coup! Snowy, snow drop, lily, or salt for the white ones. Maybe pepper for the speckled or even 10 (cockney is speckled hen! lol). Zebra. Blue bell. Thistle or winner (as in winner winner) for the boss hen! Foxy, Egbert, aubergine (as it's egg plant in the US). Winnifred, Doris or Geraldine. I could go on! lol I am sure the tarp will be fine as it will offer some shade too on the hot days. Have a great week and take care!

If I was a chicken I'd be very happy living there. Awesome job. 👌 😊 🐔 🥚

Looks fantastic, they’ll love it 😊

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I have only grown a few chillies this year, moved them to the greenhouse this week and repotted them. All well so far. Loved seeing your full poly tunnel.

As long as they have been harden off you should be fine. It is going to rain next week but the met office suggested that temps will still be higher but not as high as later this week. I was lead to believe that chilli's don't have as big of a root system compared to tomatoes so you could get away with them being closer. I previously have been growing chilli's indoors in 25cm pots and they did go ok. Going to plant 3 peppers in a big builders bucket size container in the garden. I was told that it will be tight but ok. My old chilli's are pretty much tired after 3 years of growth but i have 3 more this year that are slowly getting there. I have up potted them all and have been sticking them out for a few hours to harden off the peppers and give the chilli's a boost! I don't have a greenhouse or poly. Finally getting around to planting out the tomatoes in the new trellis and i am going to put some clear plastic sheet over the top, like a lid to try and keep the leaves a bit dryer than in past years. We have 14 in bed, 4 in containers and we are going to put the last one out the front to get the morning sun as kind of a test. The rest of the spares will hopefully get donated. Like you said, they can't stay indoors like a jungle any longer! I also planted out courgettes, beans and sweetcorn but i am based in London. We are going to move our crate with spinach, pak choi and beetroot into the shade as some of them have already started to bolt! I have re sown some more but i am thinking of getting shade cloth for the garden Hope you enjoy the lovely weather this week! Take care!

I put out 90% of my tomatoes 🍅 yep outside oh my giddy aunt the night temps tanked 😮. It was 2c this morning and now 20c afternoon but other than a bit of slug damage they seem ok. I hope your peppers are happy they will love the warmth. Have a marvellous week Helen and happiness is a full greenhouse ❤, Ali 🌞🇨🇦

Watermelon is grown outdoors in Ukraine 🇺🇦 where the climate is colder and winters longer, so for the first time I am growing one watermelon plant outside in a tub. In my mini potted fruit garden( i have no actual garden), two sides of the fruit garden have brick walls and is SW facing so I’m hoping the fruit garden will create a micro climate and the walls act as a thermal mass. Here’s hoping! If it doesn’t work out I will try the cold hardy ‘’imere’’ (?not sure of spelling) next year.

2 types of Blue Lake bush beans , a Fava bean, Tenderettes and a Kentucky wonder Pole Growing this year. 12+ melon varieties on a new backyard mega trellis ( was a major project with grow bags and a solar run drip irrigation line.) 2 or 3 types of watermelons ( once we set up the mounds loaded with compost ). 2 types of seed potatoes, artichokes, watermelon radish, Dark red beets, 3 rows ( 36 count ) of Bi-licious sweet corn. 8 to 10 types of tomatoes ( I forgot to label ) <- Lazy gardener and 3 types of eggplants. 5 types of peppers ( also unlabeled ) , Pumpkins, summer squash, zucchini, peas, and 3 types of lettuce. Next year we are clearing more of the property. Goal is a market style garden. Love and Abundance, "The WickerShire Project" offgrid 7a West Central Tennessee USA

I only plan on ever growing climbing beans. Just two varieties. The popular Cobra which I grew last year which I thought were fantastic. And a yellow climbing variety called 'Sunshine'. Just for some nice contrast on the dinner plate. I only got my allotment last year and wouldn't mind growing some runner beans and maybe something like a greek gigantes but will probably wait until next year for those now.

Me again 😂 Blue Lake (annoyed at myself as usually grow Cobra & picked the wrong packet up), Firestorm Runners (prolific last year) and Climbing Borlotti for the first time. Will be over my arches. Grown Sunshine before very tasty yellow version of Cobra and Blauhilde Purple but disappointed they went green when cooked.

My purple pod beans turn green when cooked 😢 I was excited about have purple 😅. I’m doing lots of hanging basket bush beans 🫘 as a try it makes them easy to harvest. But also doing pole French beans, Pongo and some yard long ones. Hope your beans do well thank you for these little videos very cool. Have a great weekend Helen, Ali 🌤️🇨🇦

According to Maria Thun I'm sawing my beans next Tuesday.

Hi, thank you for your videos. Finding them so helpful. It is my first year of having an allotment and greenhouse. I really wanted to grow melons, so I have started growing Hales Best Jumbo Cantaloupe. I have 2 plants which are growing nicely. I'm praying I can keep them alive and enjoy some tasty melon in the summer 😊

Found it to be real hit and miss. Superb Borlitti crop a couple of years ago, last years one a complete washout. Broad beans last year and french beans both fab, but the year before.... disaster.

Planted 3 days ago. Just 2 varieties.... Scarlet Emperor and French Bean called Cobra 👍👌

Do you know how long the borlotti beans keep for once dried?

Loving these ideosx

Honeydew, water melon and Brazilian for me this year 😊

Thank you so much for your videos, you are inspire me.! I have an allotment in London. This year I will try (once again) to grow melon Melba in a large barrel outside. Good luck ! Xx