All the hard work is starting to pay off as the harvesting starts. So satisfying!
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2023
- The spinach is bolting; rocket is getting planted; comfrey is being chopped down for mulch; beetroot is getting planted and the first courgettes are picked! Today's haul includes, onions, beetroot, mange tout , redcurrants, broad beans, courgettes and flower petals for herbal teas.
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Hi Fiona just found your channel. Love your accent, I’m a northern lass myself but lived in the south for 30 years. Your allotment is amazing. Peace 🧚🏻♀️
Hi Linda, thanks for watching 😊.
Your garden looks really nice, obvious you like what you are doing.
Thank you! I do love my garden, it’s true😊
Hi Fiona great machete skills! Impressive onions, good job.👍🏻💗🤠🙏
I think it was blunt!😂.
Hey Fiona! Your garden is soooo lovely! Thanks for sharing 😊 - Taryn
Thanks so much Taryn!😊
Your garden is flourishing now
Thank you Sadie😊. This is the time of year when all the hard work pays off!
Hi there Fiona your doing fantastic there those onoins I can only dream of beautiful harvest .
Well, they ended up rotten on the outside! Almost all of them. Not sure why. I can’t identify a disease so I think it was all the rain we had. I should maybe have pulled them before hand. Anyway, I managed to save the majority. I’ve had to peel off the outer rotten bit and chop and freeze the rest. My freezer is very full and smelly!
Turn the comfrey in to a fertilizer, Soak it in water for 3-4 weeks in a drum with a lid.
It’s a great idea, I did that last year and intended to do it again this year but I haven’t gotten round to it so far. 😊
Hiya Fiona. Brilliant onions. I aspire to grow onions like that. Mine look as good as I have ever grown but not to this caliber. Your harvest looks great. I really love seeing the fruits of everyone’s labour. Your girls were loving the spinach. They look very happy. Have a great week. Mags 🌻
Well I shouldn’t have counted my chickens before they hatched because when I went back to the onions they had all started to rot ! I was so mad.I picked them all and as there’s no way they would store I’ve had to chop them and freeze the whole lot. In the end it was just the outer layer that was nasty on most of them so I saved the majority. Gardening…..it’s full of ups and downs!
Hi Fiona , I will go to my allotment tomorrow , your onions amazing ❤
It’s really windy here and is set to be windy for the next few days. I hate it, I worry about my plants the whole time. I hope you’re missing the wind.
Lovely ❤
Thank you Stella!😊
You have the right tool for your secret jungle 🌱👍 Your zuchini is far ahead. Ours is still very small but our poppies have been blooming last month 🤔 Nice harvest that you can take home as a reward for your hard work and congratulations 🎊that you've managed to get more than 1000 subscribers 👏🏼 🎉
Our zucchini seemed to start early this year and has been giving us loads! It’s having a little rest at the minute but I’m sure there will be many more to come!
great onions ours are better than last year but still quite small will keep trying, good idea with the teas not tried drying them yet just just used fresh will have to have a go
My onions turned out to be a bit rotten on the outside. Gutted! I had to pick them all, chop and freeze. I didn’t lose too much but they would never have stored. Maybe big isn’t always better? I’ve gone mad drying petals. The spare room is very fragrant as I’ve got petals everywhere. Seems to be easy and the tea is as good as the stuff you can buy.
Hi Fiona , those Onions look good what was the name of them ? the plot is looking green and healthy i bet you was glad on the rain. a nice little haul of veg at the end, well done 👍
I think it was Sturon onions. Just the bog standard sets from wilkos that I always get. I harvested all the onions a couple of days after filming this and I was gutted to find they all seemed to be rotting from the outside in. No allium root miner and no white root rot so I think I just left them too long and all the rain was too much. I’ve saved them by chopping them all up minus the rot and freezing them . The freezer reeks!
Already yanked out my spinach and endive and a couple of lettuce. I've got some nasturtium to throw in instead. I'll be resowing spinach soon as we're now past the longest day and the day length is shortening so it shouldn't bolt.
Onions look great. Still waiting for my first courgette here.
You could put a couple of dalek compost bins or similar out in the space beyond the fence so you can stuff in all the weeds and it will eventually save you having to carry the compost over the ladders for planting. Seeing that stand of nettles behind you it looks as if you have plenty of material.
I’ve never had any luck with a late sowing of spinach. Maybe I’ll give it another try as it’s my favourite salad green. My courgettes are firing away on all cylinders! It would be a good idea to have a dedicated compost bin in the secret garden but it’s a bit iffy with it just being public/no man’s land.
@fionagrows1848 If you can get one off free cycle then you'd have nothing to loose. How accessible is it to everyone else?
@@jasons-jungle It’s pretty inaccessible unless you’ve got a really good reason for wanting to get there, so I’m not really worried about someone pinching it. It’s more if someone sees what I’m up to and takes issue with it. (You know what people are like sometimes). But nonetheless I think I’ll have a look on freecycle. I also want another water butt so maybe I’ll get lucky!
Hi Fiona, what’s this stuff rain that you mentioned? We haven’t had any since the middle of last month. Those onions are looking really good. We have to cover lettuce or the dreaded wood pigeons clear the lot. I managed to kill off our comfrey although it lasted a good few years. Pity about the spinach, it’s something I never have much luck with.
I hope you start getting more rain soon. We haven’t been doing bad at all lately for rain. At least every week we’re getting a good downpour. I haven’t needed to water the garden for a long while. I’m not sure what the trick with spinach is. I plant it every year and usually it’s pretty rubbish, but this year I did well🤷♀️.
Hi Fiona your plot looks brilliant!! Your onions are amazing were they sets overwintered or did you grow them from seed? Xxxx
Hi Lorraine, they were sets from wilkos, the same one I use every year, so I don’t know why they did so well this year. That said, I realised later that they were all starting to rot! I had to harvest them all and chop and freeze them. I didn’t end up losing too much but I now have a freezer that is very full of onions and stinks to high heaven!!
@@fionagrows1848 they were brilliant I’d be over the moon with them well done 👍xxx
I would just eat it as the spinach is small and a wee bit flowery. But yes so much is bolting, I’m trying a bolt resistant variety. Bush whacking through the African safari 😂😂. But lovely to start getting harvests Fiona. Have a superb week, Ali 🌞🇨🇦
I might try and sow some more spinach and see how I go with it although I’ve never had any luck before with later sowings of spinach. The path to get to the secret garden is so overgrown now I really do feel like I’m in the jungle!😂
@@fionagrows1848 I grow a New Zealand spinach it’s a cooking one but once it gets going it’s prolific
@@myrustygarden I haven’t heard of that. I’ll have to look out for it. I’ve got a perpetual spinach which is more like chard. But I must say, I prefer the baby spinach leaves raw in a salad best of all.
@@fionagrows1848 well I only eat them cooked but they can I’m sure be harvested early