I’ve put radishes and turnips straight in the ground and then started Pak Choi, Lettuce, Chinese Cabbage and Chinese Broccoli to plant out in September once I have some more space. I hadn’t thought of Christmas Potatoes, thanks for the idea!
I didn't want this video to end. You are really coming into your own now Jim. The video editing is coming along leaps and bounds but it is really just how much more comfortable you appear on camera these days. I watch your channel grow with interest because you derserve it my good man. The content is great, you are informative and speak from experience and that added to your dry sense of humour at times, for me it's a good time watching your videos. Didn't want this one to end, could have listened to you chatting away for another hour. Keep up the great work Jim. 4,110 subscribers - let's hit that 5K goal by end of summer September 21st!
It's kind comments like yours that keep me motivated to carry on making these videos. It's not easy at times especially when life is so busy. Tending to the allotment, working my day job, having a family, and then allocating time to film videos and edit those videos too, I don't know how I find the time 😂 Your comment put a smile on my face and I really appreciate it, thank you! I will keep on going.
That potato unboxing interlude had me in tears! You might wish to add a few more potatoes in each bag for next season :) Make sure to add some brown material to the mix, at least 20% mulch. Potatoes like really fluffy conditions. They also like mulch toping once they sprout. If the soil gets compacted from repeated rain, your potatoes will struggle to expand, the growth will be diverted to the leaves, and you will get bushy and potentially diseased leaves. A carbon rich environment (as opposed to nitrogen-dominant) that is loose and retains moisture is ideal. Potatoes also really like to be watered regularly which encourages soil movement and allows potatoes to fill up with water and grow. Hope you found something useful here!
Here in NE Spain we plant whole garlic heads for the shoots. They grow like a bunch of Spring onions through late autumn and winter and are fantastic in scrambled eggs with prawns or salmon. Later in September we plant the individual garlic cloves to produce heads of garlic in late Spring.
Just got my first allotment yesterday so lots to learn but this was great thank you! When you say over winter does this mean not in the ground outside? Eg in a greenhouse?!
First year growing purple sprouting broccoli. I have no luck with cabbages, cauliflower. It's likely a combination of wrong type and wrong planting time. I have to move in early spring so anything growing gets eaten, thrown out of given away.
Thanks for your inspiration! I've just come in from my allotment as it's getting dark! Have planted out cabbage, pak choi & lettuces & sown radish, beetroot, carrot & rocket today! Will try some of your other suggestions next. Glad I've discovered your channel! 😄🌱🌱
Great video, when you say sow now & over winter, when do actually plant the brassicas out, or can i direct sow, cabbage & I'm trying cauliflower again, thanks ..
Always nice to see what you are doing. Here in the USA I am harvesting apples and pears. Might be able to put in a fall garden of basically what you are recommending except for the potatoes.
Potatoes can be tricky this time of year if you've got blight problems like I have. Lovely apples and pears! My apples haven't produced a good crop this year probably because of the wet weather
Great suggestions Jim, I’ll give some things a try but I had such a bad experience last winter with a rat 🐀 that ate all my winter veg in the poly. Plus no matter how much fleece is used things froze in the minus 14c extremes. Have a marvellous and hopefully sunny week, Ali 🥵🌞🇨🇦
Oh no! I've had the same problem with rats, they seem to be worse lately.. even digging up potatoes now. I lost some brassicas in previous winters in hard freezes but I've noticed its the plants that are smaller that don't make it. You have a great week too! I think we are expecting a heatwave late weekend/early next week. Finally things are growing now it's warmed up!
my winter crops will be split between the polytunnel and the deep beds. that should extend my winter - spring season. i used to sow august but now it's july. as you said, using the light levels to my advantage................brian
I must admit the light levels get very low on my plot in winter with the trees shading my plot. So it's a challenge for me to grow in the poly in the winter sometimes
Great tips and nice varieties of veg to sow now James, radishes are a great veg seed to sow to get youngsters involved in gardening as sowing to picking is about 4 weeks, take care Steve
Hi Steve. Cheers! I sowed many of these today. Hopefully going to overwinter many of them in the poly/greenhouse in my potato buckets once I've harvested the spuds. How are your spuds doing? Mine have blight - had to cut them right back to the ground
@@downtoearthwithjim Hi James my potatoes in the 30L tubs are doing great, no issue 🤞I planted spare tubers in ground and they are doing ok, healthy growth.
Hey Jim, you have more than 4000 subscribers... not such a small channel anymore!! ! LOL 👍❤️🥰 My potatoes had blight too ... wondering, can you eat potatoes if the plant had blight? 🤔 One variety had brown spots on the potatoes, but the other variety looked fine ... for the most part.
Those spots could be scab its very common check Google you can peel scab off and have a good potato to eat but blight makes them rot I belive so wouldn't eat then
Hi Jim thanks for that information I needed to know,just wondering can I plant cauliflowers in my buckets,in my greenhouse,as I haven’t room in my garden. I’m growing sprouts and cabbages in them at the moment and there doing really good. But I could get some more buckets. What do you think.😊
@@sandrawoodall6545 hi Sandra. Yes you can plant cauliflower in your buckets and overwinter them in the greenhouse. That's what I'm doing with the variety 'all year round'. I'm glad to hear your cabbages and sprouts are doing good! My sprouts are still in 9cm pots and I don't even think they'll give us a crop for Christmas 😂 go ahead and get more buckets why not 😊
@@downtoearthwithjim hi Jim thanks for that information,we have just found out after seeing holes in our sprouts that we have lots of caterpillars,how annoying is that,we now have to go out every evening picking them off. Have you had this problem?
They can go both outside and in a polytunnel or greenhouse. They'll do better under cover and grow quicker. I'm growing many of these under cover through the winter
Yes. Kale can be sown, too. I've got some Kale - Black Tuscany variety, seedlings which I sowed at the same time as the cabbages. Just didn't show them in the video
They're often sold in garden centres around this time, and are usually varieties like Desiree, Charlotte, and I think I've seen Maris peer or Maris piper as well. I tried Desiree and Charlotte last year and they grew really well initially.. the blight destroyed them September/ October though so I ended up with pretty much nothing. It's okay if you don't have issues with blight though
I’ve put radishes and turnips straight in the ground and then started Pak Choi, Lettuce, Chinese Cabbage and Chinese Broccoli to plant out in September once I have some more space. I hadn’t thought of Christmas Potatoes, thanks for the idea!
I didn't want this video to end. You are really coming into your own now Jim. The video editing is coming along leaps and bounds but it is really just how much more comfortable you appear on camera these days.
I watch your channel grow with interest because you derserve it my good man.
The content is great, you are informative and speak from experience and that added to your dry sense of humour at times, for me it's a good time watching your videos.
Didn't want this one to end, could have listened to you chatting away for another hour.
Keep up the great work Jim. 4,110 subscribers - let's hit that 5K goal by end of summer September 21st!
It's kind comments like yours that keep me motivated to carry on making these videos. It's not easy at times especially when life is so busy. Tending to the allotment, working my day job, having a family, and then allocating time to film videos and edit those videos too, I don't know how I find the time 😂
Your comment put a smile on my face and I really appreciate it, thank you! I will keep on going.
That potato unboxing interlude had me in tears! You might wish to add a few more potatoes in each bag for next season :) Make sure to add some brown material to the mix, at least 20% mulch. Potatoes like really fluffy conditions. They also like mulch toping once they sprout. If the soil gets compacted from repeated rain, your potatoes will struggle to expand, the growth will be diverted to the leaves, and you will get bushy and potentially diseased leaves. A carbon rich environment (as opposed to nitrogen-dominant) that is loose and retains moisture is ideal. Potatoes also really like to be watered regularly which encourages soil movement and allows potatoes to fill up with water and grow. Hope you found something useful here!
I think I might give cauliflower another try.
I really enjoy your channel, glad to see specific Lancashire advice.
Thanks for the very informative video.I do miss Wilkinson for seeds.
Thank you for sharing your videos ❤
Here in NE Spain we plant whole garlic heads for the shoots. They grow like a bunch of Spring onions through late autumn and winter and are fantastic in scrambled eggs with prawns or salmon. Later in September we plant the individual garlic cloves to produce heads of garlic in late Spring.
Just got my first allotment yesterday so lots to learn but this was great thank you! When you say over winter does this mean not in the ground outside? Eg in a greenhouse?!
First year growing purple sprouting broccoli. I have no luck with cabbages, cauliflower. It's likely a combination of wrong type and wrong planting time.
I have to move in early spring so anything growing gets eaten, thrown out of given away.
Thanks for your inspiration! I've just come in from my allotment as it's getting dark! Have planted out cabbage, pak choi & lettuces & sown radish, beetroot, carrot & rocket today!
Will try some of your other suggestions next. Glad I've discovered your channel! 😄🌱🌱
Great video, when you say sow now & over winter, when do actually plant the brassicas out, or can i direct sow, cabbage & I'm trying cauliflower again, thanks ..
Always nice to see what you are doing. Here in the USA I am harvesting apples and pears. Might be able to put in a fall garden of basically what you are recommending except for the potatoes.
Potatoes can be tricky this time of year if you've got blight problems like I have. Lovely apples and pears! My apples haven't produced a good crop this year probably because of the wet weather
@@downtoearthwithjim Potatoes will be put out in the 2-3 week of April
Winter purslane is a nice salad green for over winter too
Thanks for the suggestion! 🙂
Great suggestions Jim, I’ll give some things a try but I had such a bad experience last winter with a rat 🐀 that ate all my winter veg in the poly. Plus no matter how much fleece is used things froze in the minus 14c extremes. Have a marvellous and hopefully sunny week, Ali 🥵🌞🇨🇦
Oh no! I've had the same problem with rats, they seem to be worse lately.. even digging up potatoes now. I lost some brassicas in previous winters in hard freezes but I've noticed its the plants that are smaller that don't make it. You have a great week too! I think we are expecting a heatwave late weekend/early next week. Finally things are growing now it's warmed up!
my winter crops will be split between the polytunnel and the deep beds. that should extend my winter - spring season. i used to sow august but now it's july. as you said, using the light levels to my advantage................brian
I must admit the light levels get very low on my plot in winter with the trees shading my plot. So it's a challenge for me to grow in the poly in the winter sometimes
Thankyou for all your knowledge, very helpful video as always ❤
Great tips and nice varieties of veg to sow now James, radishes are a great veg seed to sow to get youngsters involved in gardening as sowing to picking is about 4 weeks, take care Steve
Hi Steve. Cheers! I sowed many of these today. Hopefully going to overwinter many of them in the poly/greenhouse in my potato buckets once I've harvested the spuds. How are your spuds doing? Mine have blight - had to cut them right back to the ground
@@downtoearthwithjim Hi James my potatoes in the 30L tubs are doing great, no issue 🤞I planted spare tubers in ground and they are doing ok, healthy growth.
@@Stephen474 that's good! Gutted mine got the blight. They're blight resistant varieties too! I feel scammed 😂
Great video Jim, I’ll try some of those seeds this month 🌱
Awesome vid
Like it 👍
Hey Jim, you have more than 4000 subscribers... not such a small channel anymore!! ! LOL 👍❤️🥰 My potatoes had blight too ... wondering, can you eat potatoes if the plant had blight? 🤔 One variety had brown spots on the potatoes, but the other variety looked fine ... for the most part.
Those spots could be scab its very common check Google you can peel scab off and have a good potato to eat but blight makes them rot I belive so wouldn't eat then
You can eat any potatoes that look fine Moira.
Hi Jim thanks for that information I needed to know,just wondering can I plant cauliflowers in my buckets,in my greenhouse,as I haven’t room in my garden. I’m growing sprouts and cabbages in them at the moment and there doing really good. But I could get some more buckets. What do you think.😊
@@sandrawoodall6545 hi Sandra. Yes you can plant cauliflower in your buckets and overwinter them in the greenhouse. That's what I'm doing with the variety 'all year round'. I'm glad to hear your cabbages and sprouts are doing good! My sprouts are still in 9cm pots and I don't even think they'll give us a crop for Christmas 😂 go ahead and get more buckets why not 😊
@@downtoearthwithjim hi Jim thanks for that information,we have just found out after seeing holes in our sprouts that we have lots of caterpillars,how annoying is that,we now have to go out every evening picking them off. Have you had this problem?
Hi do all these vdg go outsidd of in polytunnel
They can go both outside and in a polytunnel or greenhouse. They'll do better under cover and grow quicker. I'm growing many of these under cover through the winter
Kale?
Yes. Kale can be sown, too. I've got some Kale - Black Tuscany variety, seedlings which I sowed at the same time as the cabbages. Just didn't show them in the video
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How come you've still got Wilko seeds ?😮
If you have The Range, they sell all wilko seeds.
The Range. They bought out Wilko's gardening stock
Muzak! ☹️
I take it you aren't a fan of background music? 🎶
What varieties of potato could i sow in August? Are they called Christmas Potatoes? Never heard of doing this, but would love to try it!
They're often sold in garden centres around this time, and are usually varieties like Desiree, Charlotte, and I think I've seen Maris peer or Maris piper as well. I tried Desiree and Charlotte last year and they grew really well initially.. the blight destroyed them September/ October though so I ended up with pretty much nothing. It's okay if you don't have issues with blight though
Ohhh Christmas potatoes!!!!!