Video

What a lovely song sung Helen. One of my favourite songs. All looked fab! Too hot for any greenhouse. Great update! Danny 🌱

How lovely to be able to sing in such a big choir, I hope the day was fun for you.

Beautiful song for the PRIDE parade, Helen, and the rainbow effect worked great! Thanks so much for sharing! Very cool vibe! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 (Sorry the slugs are getting to your cabbage.😥)

Yes, it's easy to get disheartened when one puts in all the work, goes away for a few days and comes back to a jungle of weeds. You'll just have to do it in steps and reward yourself with chocolate when you reach milestones.

Things look good, consider the weather. Our squashes, corn and outside tomatoes refuse to get going because of the cold but it's been great for lettuces.

Hi There just come across your channel we also have an allotment in Bristol we have had it 2-3 weeks now and we are making good progress we also film our allotment adventures so this time next year we can sit back and see all our hard work :) look forward to seeing you work on your plot more and get some hints and tips that will help us along the way :)

Cabbages are looking fantastic

I think you work very hard on your allotment, and garden at home, i should think. And you are so organized. Even weeding the road gutters. I this year have pulled a few weeds on the easement because we have had so much rain they are running riot. You're an inspiration

Me too Helen I’m like you I prefer plants to pants 😂😂. I think sadly it was a bad year to take on an allotment. People watch CZcams or other social media and think it’s easy 🤦‍♀️ but we know ow better. I am the opposite I’m watering constantly, it’s too early to be this hot and no rain in sight. You have done a great job and like the saying goes you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink. Well you can show a person an allotment but you can’t make them grow stuff. Chin up your doing fab, Ali 🌞 31c 🇨🇦🥵🥵

It is an aspect of allotments that few talk about. That is to say the frustration and demoralisation of weather, pests etc! Don’t worry Helen, you have the work ethic to succeed! If it isn’t hard work, it ain’t worth doing. And as for idle allotment neighbours, I am totally with you!

My plot was awful a few weeks back and needed a good sort out, bit by bit you'll get there, I know it. Good luck and don't be too hard on yourself

I love discovering cool plants in the "reduced" area! Pineapple Sage and Lemon Verbena are awesome! Hmmmm... I've never heard of Black Currant Sage... 🤔 Might need to look into that! Your lavender looks gorgeous! 💜💜💜 Good job with all the weeding! I need to cut back my Swiss Chard, too, because it's decided to try to flower yet again. 🙄😂 It's pretty though. You're right - a garden is a lot of ongoing work. 😊 I hope your fellow plot tenants get on the ball and start actually gardening. (I mean, that's why they took on allotments, right? Because they *wanted* to garden? 🤔🤨😣) And you did more weeding at home - yay for you! Excellent! 👏👏👏

That cracked carrot bed looks like the super dry clay soil on the easement below my driveway. But you're right - a bunch of compost will help it tremendously. Your son did a good job in the greenhouse! 👏👏👏 Your cabbages at 4:50 look amazing, and your runner bean blossoms at 8:10 are gorgeous! I think you got off very well for a whole week away! 😊 I never go on any trips until at least the end of September because no one else in my (nearby) family gardens at all. 😂

I am sorry that you feel disheartened , I expect that should your plot neighbours engage in their plots you would feel much happier! 🤗

Oh those cabbage Helen look fabulous. Few warmer days and everything will pick up. I only water 2 times a week the greenhouse tomatoes and they are doing amazing. Wow I have not seen anyone else with runner beans yet, well done you 👍 Enjoy and keep smiling 😊 Allie & Tricia 🤗

There is no doubt this is the most challenging year I’ve experienced for weather,but in one way, it’s the same as every year - some crops thrive, and others don’t. It is the best year by a long shot for my peas. That shot of the runner bean flowers shows beautifully why they were initially imported as decorative plants!

The brassicas are looking particularly healthy and we need warmth and sun!!!😢

Luckily we don’t go away in the midst of summer because well it’s too hot it’s too busy (kids off school) and we can’t leave the garden 😂😂. Not looking too bad Helen and cabbages look fab. Hopefully things will perk up with some warm days ahead. Have a super weekend, Ali 🥵36c 🇨🇦

🎉🎉❤

Wow Very Nice Video

Hi Helen shed and plant stand look nice and sharp grand job

Great jog Helen your braver than me it’s 30c here and I’m hiding on the house. Good on sharing the plants it’s what gardeners do 👍. Have a cool day, Ali 🥵🌞🫠🇨🇦

I like the colour! In our contract we have to paint all sheds green, which is a shame because it stifles individual flair!

The shed looks great, and the idea of filling the bed with tomatoes is splendid! 😊

Guess the ants worked that soil for you, Helen. ☺️ I feel your pain weedeating in the heat. 🔥🔥🔥 Love that paint color! The shed looks so pretty now, and I like the trellis, too. Great choice! I'm the same way when I have battery life remaining. 😁 What else can I take care of right now?!?! Don't work *too* hard though!

The shed looks great. Stay cool in some shade Helen! 😎

That’s a good looking garden! Well done on managing a productive garden and plot.

The flower garden looks wonderful, and i suppose for the potatoes the phase planting is going as you planned it. Sympathise with need to spend more time planting out brassica, cosmos Is the pink bush beside the white rose Lavatera ? Which variety is the white rose ? Like your idea for the hedge. I planted some morning glory and pushed the stems into a large overgrown box wood to give it some colour. I called the project Magenta Wave

Your back garden is very pretty, I am not a fan of gardens being too tidy anyway, nature prefers abundant and scruffy😊. So many potatoes!

Your garden may not be "perfect," Helen, but it sure is pretty! 😊 I love all the flowers packed together making a beautiful perimeter hedge. Those yellow roses at 3:46 are gorgeous! ❤❤ I wouldn't have cut them back either. 😊 Also, the hydrangeas at the end (mix of cream and dusty rose colors) - those are stunning! Thanks for sharing your back garden!

I don’t have anything to put out but I do have some successional showings to do. It’s been such odd weather though here we have gone from 17 rain to 30+ heatwave 😮. Have a good week Helen and hope it all goes well, Ali 🌧️🥵🇨🇦

Your plot looks great Helen, I am in the same boat with the weather and not being fully planted up yet, I'm sure the plants will catch up 😁

Allotments always look better when framed by a blue sky! The brassica cage is a great idea.

Your brassicas are looking terrific Helen. Very healthy strawberry plants too.

Steadily filling up Helen, you will get there🤗😎

Your backyard garden looks beautiful. So many lovely flowers. And berries!! Yum. I'm patiently waiting for my strawberries.

That looks like a mole's work to me. Rats and mice leave a visible hole as the entrance to their tunnels but moles push up soil as they excavate their tunnels.

So nice when we get a chance to get things cleaned up around the garden. 😊 Even if it's just a few minutes here and there, it can really make a difference. Onion bed is looking great! 👍 Seems like walks always take longer than we think they will. 🤔😂 But you're right, good exercise - upbeat way to look at it. 😊

What a good idea for recycling and repurposing those plastic bottles, it is the traditional allotment way😅. Your back garden is looking lovely, things seem to be bouncing back after such a difficult spring😊

Flowers look lovely Helen is the white one a mock orange we have one similar. Here we have an amazing bottle recycling system, all containers when you buy have a .10 cent deposit but you can take back in bags and get .10 back on each. I have over time been reimbursed hundreds of dollars. Sad about the tipping again 😢. Getting the list cleared 👍👍. Have a super week, Ali 🌞🇨🇦

👍👍👍👍🙏

Hello Helen, just think all those weeds can become compost… still a real pain but maybe a small compensation

You must be thrilled with your berries, strawberries, tayberries, raspberries.

Great idea to use up all those plastic bottles. We have an ok recycling program where I live, but not too far away, in another province they are very progressive. I like your lists, and re-lists. Good way to avoid weed meltdown etc

Well done for collecting other people’s bottles. You must have looked like a homeless vagrant walking down the road rummaging through the recycling!😂

List goes up list goes down 😂😂, but you are definitely getting it done Helen. So glad the new people are sticking with it after all your work getting them ready and let. I found plastic in my coco coir 😮😮. Great job Helen and digging is sometimes totally necessary. Have a great weekend, Ali 🥵🥵🌞🇨🇦 12:40

That noise eraser makes a huge difference! Very clever. Good to see some of the new plotters getting stuck in.

Your plot is looking beautiful, amazing what a bit of sun and a ton of hard work can do! The pink rose on your plot is stunning! Glad you have enthusiastic neighbours👍

Mmmmm, I see scope for some concurrent activity! If you turned the blackboard around, you could write the list whilst sat on your throne! Perfect! You’re welcome! 😂

You need a trail cam Helen 😅. Looks like it may be a mole they like pushing soil up along hard edges. It’s amazing how big the mounds they push up can get. Good job done Helen 👍, relax a bit and have a great night, Ali 🌧️🌞🇨🇦