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I have never grown big mama's outside. Only have 1 inside. Its very tall and I think only one truss on it. As for white rot. Horrible thing. Just to say I don't put weeds in the compost bin or at least chop off the roots (and burn), if they were in a 'white rot bed' just in case passed over to the compost bin. You could put garlic powder over the bed. That is supposed to confuse the fungus, and then it dies off. Would be a few years before you can grow alliums in that bed. I have too, and after 6 years still chop roots off before I put stems in the compost and or just burn them all. Take care Tracy

The yellowing probably needs a feed seaweed or tom feed should turn them around. I've tried pinching out the tops but the side shoots increase. What you can do is allow a lower side shoots to grow being in the greenhouse you'll be able to get a later harvest Re bindweed in the compost, make sure you turn it, plenty of carbon, cardboard, hot straw etc and some day or 2 old gass mowings (to stop the matting and smell should get the temperature up. Putting a lid on can also help such cardboard but it will need turning monthly or if you get a soil thermometer if it gets too hot. Future bindweed and other weeds that have loads of seeds or difficult for you to compost down, in a separate bucket/ bag no added water in year then add to compost heap

I’m relatively new to making compost so this might be a stupid idea but wondered if there’s any merit in adding some of your fresh horse manure to the pile? Might that bring the heat up enough to kill any bindweed in there? Enjoying the catch ups as always 😊 What are your recommend for using the tomatillos? We are just back from a week away on holiday and not been up to the allotment yet - dread to think what sort of jungle I might be facing 🙈🙈🙈

Morning Rodney 👍. Oh what was all that noise 😂😂 sounded like either a giant squeaky wheel or chicken torture 😅😅. Rain what’s that we had literally 5 drops yeah 5 yesterday. Not familiar with white rot either but there is some good information out there, I have heard chopping onions and or garlic and making a wash to soak the soil 🤞🤞. I don’t think it will be hot enough either to kill weed. It’s interesting the bindweed isn’t growing in the compost bin. I was just saying that to the screen such tiny roots on the onions. Yes I do because I do to my height it’s a gauge is all. I always over water my peppers 🫑 but they are crap to be honest this year, too hot out. California winder are huge 🫑. Check under the pots in the crevices those pots are famous for hiding slugs. 23:58 spray with an epsom salt mild spray. Sorry novel, it’s like walking around talking with you 💕, have a super day, Ali 🌤️🇨🇦

Your garden is wonderful with a variety of fruits and vegetables. Very happy to receive a like and subscribe channel. Wishing the channel to grow.

Big Mama is the main variety I’ve grown for years now. This year I’ve noticed really terrible pollination. I have 1 plant, 6ft, bushy, healthy, 5 trusses and it’s only set 4 fruits. Don’t suppose you’ve noticed similar issues?

If we dont have an "Indian Summer" to make up for the complete shite excuse of a "summer" weve had so far im going to write a strongly worded letter to someone lol Its ridiculous this yr ive got toms but hardly any set fruit my cucs are the same as yours that weird yellow i thought it was lack of nutrients but other plants in same soil are really green so i think its just the temperatures and lack of sun honestly. The joys of growing veg lol great vid as always :)

Tracy, Geoff says just to pinch out the top bit from where it joins the stem. (He is more proficient with tomatoes than I am). Taking the tops out should encourage better fruit rather than the energy going into having more leaves. If it gets to the point where the fruits are not ripening quick enough, remove the leaves from around the fruits. You will have bare stems, but you want the fruit. The only ones you do not nip the top out of is cherry tomatoes. Hope it helps. Tricia x

I spotted blight on one of my potato patches yesterday 😩 I’ve never had it on my potato’s. I’m gutted. I need to work out what to do. I don’t normally suffer with the mole in my garden in summer but guess what? I have this year! It must be so wet at the bottom of the hill still. So yes up in my garden. Not eating the whoppa slugs though 🤦🏻‍♀️ why don’t these slugs have any predators?! This last week, we’ve finally had more bees and butterflies but it’s a strange old year for everything. Lovely vlog as usual ❤

I,m very impressed with your outdoor tomatoes. I think blight has hit us. A couple of plants have the dreaded brown patches. They’re about to flower so I’m happy to cut back and leave the spuds in the ground for now. We’re the same re the insects. Hardly any about and I’ve only found a handful of eggs on my cabbages 😢nice in one way but very sad ink another as we need them. My overwintering Japanese onions are amazing this year. First time I’ve successfully grown them and will definitely be sowing them again this year but not just yet. I’m wondering if there’s a shortage and that’s why the garden centres/online people are already marketing them? What variety are your over winter carrots? I’ve sown Eskimo this year. Have a good week.

Love love your videos❤. When did you plant your onions, they're huge

Hey Treacy. How do you know when your squash is ready.. I have 1. It's big, but I'm not sure what to check? Eekk tks

It looks like being another bummer crop this year Tracy , despite the rotten weather . Yes the insects, was telling my wife earlier, I cannot remember the last time I washed flies and midges of the radiator grill and windscreen on my car , very strange .

I am so sorry you have bindweed in it’s a B to get rid of. I have been trying and the key word is trying to keep my tomatoes pruned but the heat limits my outdoor work. Don’t grow jalapeños but lots of great advice here already 👍👍. You should be proud those onions look fantastic. If you don’t pinch out the beans they will attach to each other and probably move over to the beans next to them, beans find a way 😂. 16:17 mole 🤬🤬🤬. I have one bee on my borage and I had one on my tomato plant. Your right world wide there is a lack of bees 🐝 its way too hot for them, what is worrying is we live in an area full of huge garden centres and blueberry farms and are inundated with bees normally. Cabbage whites some but not as many may be a good thing 😂. Can you clip the chickens wings? 😂😂 well it is whine 🍷 Friday so all good. Have a simply awesome week guys thanks as always for the walk about, Ali 🌞🇨🇦 Ps yes leave the seed pods on sweet peas they will dry out but don’t leave too long they will get mildew 👍👍

Great video. I loved walking round with you especially when Mervyn Mole turned up 🤣 The garden is looking really good even with the weeds which I know you'll soon dispose of. I agree about the bees. I have a huge lavender Bush and it's usually covered in bees but this year I've hardly seen any here in the South East.

Garden looks fantastic. Was this filmed a week ago? We’ve had a week of sunshine further south of you. Hope you managed to process all those lovely currants. Your onions look amazing! I think we sowed onion seeds around the same time as you. Ours were finished over three weeks ago. We only had red baron, Sturon, Walla Walla and Beds Champion (and banana shallots) properly (eventually) germinate and complete to harvest. Bedfordshire Champion and shallots did the best in size and cured well. Others are fine but took longer to cure well enough to store. Very few small ones this year which was a first. No idea why. Didn’t do anything different. But, yep. They were definitely ready to pull by late June. Leaves browning and necks bent or softened. I’d definitely pull any that are ready, better they’re out of the ground to use or cure, really. People have discovered onion fly grubs in the roots this year. We don’t get onion fly but it can happen at any time. That said, we cover anyway against allium leaf miner so maybe the covers prevent the onion fly too. Dead envious of your gigantes. Hopefully all those flowers produce a fantastic harvest for you. We only have about 40 left (after sowing 20 for this year) for our summer Greek gigante marinade we look forward to eating every year for Al fresco nibbles. Pretentiously pretending we’re island hopping in Greece! 😂 Our pods only produce two seeds and the vines are never prolific like yours. Have you ever tried canning them? We’ve never had enough to fill the PC and daren’t try until we get a bumper harvest. I do like them in stews but never remember to soak them overnight! 🥴

Butterflies, moths, and bees are definitely missing. Here in North shropshire, we had bees and butterflies on the wing in march, way too early in the year. It's been a very good year for strawberries. You're veg and fruit is looking good.

Jalapeños look ready. They have the shiny bloom. I’d pick them. They freeze well whole until you have enough to process, or eat fresh, ferment or pickle. I leave the best producing plants to go red to make fermented sriracha. I throw a red thai chilli in the mix too. It’s a favourite in our family. I like it too but prefer sweet chilli sauce.

Afternoon :) I harvest my jalapenos green so that the plant will carry on producing then towards the end of the season i let them fully ripen to red (there at there hottest when they are red with crackle effect on skin) Great vid as always Trace a girl after my own heart gardening with alcohol lol

I might be wrong but I think jb told Tony on potty mouth that the jalapeños will turn red if you leave them. Can't remember if it was the most recent or the one before.

The daisy looking plant looks like chamomile or may weed.if you cut the flower down the middle and its hollow, it's chamomile. Chamomile has a distinctive smell as well . Loving your garden, it's looking fabulous .we've had very few pollinators and butterflies this year 😢, but thousands of ants 😬

Wow, Steve. I didn't know you did these videos until Neil sent a link. Awesome buddy. Dave Dabs

Fab receipe...thanks Tracy will def give it a go!!

That's my kind of pot/kettle! I love making jams! I can take some of those off your hands if you want my address...

This s the video I have been waiting for! I have been drying , freezing and pickling for years. Canning is the one thing I have always found too complicated and expensive to try. I had heard of these instant pots with a canning function but with mixed reviews. Now I have seen you do it I feel inspired to get one of these for my birthday and give it a go. Great video and so nice to find uk preserving content. I will be checking out all your other videos now!

That looks so yummy cant wait for more strawberry’s to ripen so i can try making it, can i just ask how you sterilise your jars in the instant pot it would be so much easier to do it that way

Strawberry jam is one of my favs! I made 4lbs last weekend as I found some strawberries from last year in the freezer and topped it up with some that I’d been freezing from this years crop. And being completely frivolous I bought myself some fancy strawberry kilner jars for it! I’m a stirrer too 😂 You needed a scone to try your jam on 😊

Lovely! I did mine last week but we had to go to a pick your own farm because something ate ALL of mine 😢

I haven’t had much luck with strawberries this year, the slugs got them and possibly a squirrel as the netting had been ripped open. But the plants are sending off runners so next year I should get loads. And I will figure out a butter way of protecting them. Luckily I have loads of jam left over from last year.

Mmmmmm!😋

knob of butter gets rid of foam

Looking forward to the jam making and I like the strawberry powder idea, will definitely be giving that a go! Your place looks amazing, you never stop! I can't believe how much you have got done so far this year!

Love the new chicken set up, they look fantastic. Our chickens like to play a version of Chase me Charlie, every time we make a fence higher to stop them they take on the challenge 😂. Strawberry vodka looks great, I wonder if I could do similar with cherries?

Glad you caught that chicken/duck situation so they don’t get in the veg plots. They are a huge bird 🐓. How’s the little horse doing these days? What an amazing harvest of fruits 🍓 and you had me at gin 😂😂. Have a fab weekend guys hope the weather is great, Ali 🌞30c 🇨🇦

The microphones are working spectacular

Fab looking forward to the jam making.

Is that a burping thing on jar at back when doing strawberry vodka xx I’m going to try elderflower champagne need to find something that burps or bottles can explode 😮

Is that a burping thing on jar at back when doing strawberry vodka xx I’m going to try elderflower champagne x

Fab video, chic. Always feels funny saying that when irn chickens are involved!🤣 The birds al look super happy now.x

Boot trays from ikea or home bargains 😊

I love Mossy Bottom too. I have an Ikea visit on my list, but the problem is you go in for something cheap and end up being in there 5 hours and ££££’s lighter 😂

Yes, bind weed. It's a nightmare. Found in my compost bin. Thick tendrils. So another job to get rid of it. Broad beans you could make a hummus with it. I use bread baskets (free) and plastic inside. For tomatoes I can get 2 buckets in. Chillies 2 or 3 depending on the chilli plant..

Rehoming snails…love it! 😂 Thank you for persisting in getting these vids up - well worth it from our perspective but I’m sure it does your head in, taking so long to upload. 😱 xx

Those trays are such a good idea!! I’ve been rehoming sooooo many snails from the garden but I’m never at the allotment at the right time to get them there! 😂

The gro bag trays are £2.80 in B&q at the moment Tracey .Deep and sturdy .I pop three canes in each pepper bucket and twine round them as it stops the weight of the peppers snapping the branches .Lovely update 🙂You need to build an outside cold frame Tracey.Everything I sow in summer goes in my outside cold frame ,brassicas,lettuce,everything that won't like the greenhouse .We used an old shower door as a lid 😊

Hi, don't think its feverfew that you've moved the leaves and flowers look wrong. I believe it might be pineapple weed. Smells and tastes just like pineapple 🍍

Tracy, you can add capillary matting ( cheap bulk roll on scamazon) to trays to reduce rot. If you have some heavy duty plastic sheet Steven could make a shallow trays for the greenhouse shelves lined with capillary mat for all year use

i brought loads of them trays in Morrisons,someone had put the wrong price on £1 each lol needless to say i brought every one they had :) i love a bargain :) :)

Oh Tracey, I feel your pain with the bind weed - we have it creeping in from next door’s garden on both sides so impossible for us to get rid entirely. The good thing is that it is generally easy to pull out so whilst it does keep coming back, if you stay on top of your weeding, it doesn’t get enough of a hold to strangle anything. Hopefully if you are just limited to that one bed you have a good chance to eradicate it! Hubby found a slug inside one of our peppers yesterday so I wonder if it’s those blighters putting holes in yours? I love the long form videos but what a pain for you that they take so long to upload… ❤❤

I love when you teach the snails and slugs to fly! I wish I had chickens to feed the "extra bonuses" to. Tracey, you crack me up!!! Shout out to @MossyBottom Thanks for taking care of our friends