I prefer to collect the seeds and grow them as annuals,with crop rotation. If they're grown in the same bed every year,there's a chance that the same pests will build up.
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Thank you. I've recently ordered Egyptian walking onions and I'm about to order welsh onions. I'm excited to add them to my perrinal garden 💜 Happy growing 💜
Hi. Wondering how you slit the small blue tubes, I've tried various scissors and secateurs but with no luck. What tool is it that you are using please? Thanks 😊
I put them in a vice and use a saw to cut them. I've also found that making 2 saw cuts and taking about a 5mm strip out makes them easier to get on but still have the gripping power. The rounded off bits at the end I used my tinsnips which are great - I happen to also play around with jewellery so I had these to hand, I expect if you are using a small hand saw you could also "nibble" at the edges to make them roundish.
This is interesting! I have some Egyptian walking onions on order, they are a cross of Welsh onions and shallots, the don’t have seeds because they are diploid! I’m planning to grow them like garlic to get maximum bulb size.
They don't give me a massive bulb - it splits into smaller ones instead. The best use I have for then is spring onion sets - as the mother clump grown and produces more top sets I plant out the top sets and they quickly give a crop of scallions.
Nope the hose clips are still going strong. The cover is shredded though (or more specifically it's been turned to a net where all the little plastic bits were knocked out by the rain).
As I'm not a canning expert I like to follow instructions that have been tested to be safe. The potatoes might cook, but that might take out some of the heat meaning that it doesn't get hot enough for long enough to kill off the botulism spoors. As botulism is a soil dwelling bacteria and potatoes are a root veg there's a good chance that if its around they may have come into touch with it. OK, they are peeled and washed but that doesn't mean that the spoors couldn't have transferred to them when prepping them.
Thank you for posting this - not many videos about 3 cornered leek, but I am going to plant it and give it a try. I used to live where these grew wild, and they were great to eat!
@@jasons-jungle That's a shame, I hope they're just late blooming this year. I planted mine and put 12 inches of leaf mulch on top for the winter. The plant is native to the Mediterranean and don't like the freezing temps that I get here in central USA.
@@jasons-jungleThey grow wild here in northeast London, having escaped from gardens near the forest. Have yours come up by now? That should have unless the frost killed them?
@@wemuk5170 Only a couple of plants came up - over harvesting probably. I think my mam harvested almost all the bulbs and forgot to leave some in. I'll give it a year and I should have enough bulbs to replant from the plants that were left.
Well, the clamps are free and that has benefits for me. they are still going strong from the first batch. Need to make more hoops to combat the onion fly now.
@@jasons-jungle When I had a plot at DD allotments I grew a really good crop of PFA. Mine were grown in well mucked ground and the foliage grew 5 foot high. I had to stake the foliage in the end to stop it topplig over..I've never been able to grow such a good crop since.
Nice one Jason. I found that they did not store for very long, or rather I should say, the longer I stored them the squidgyer the potatoes became. I wonder if it may be best not to cook them at all before canning as they are being pressure cooked for 30 mins?
Thanks for this video, at last some clear advice! Having just moved to central Portugal I have a garden containing several of these and have been at a bit of a loss as to whether to cut them after flowering (as you say, the bees love them!) and my Portuguese isn't good enough yet to ask my neighbours. Now I know i can give them a good haircut and they'll be fine. I think I have some self sown seedlings around the bases too, to re-site!
Looking good Jason. You once grew Austurian Tree cabbage which I was jealous of so I grew some last year and I am having a bit of success at perennialing it. If I remember correctly you had perennial kales growing at the time and I was wondering whether you still have them? Keep up the good work.
I discovered one surviving Tree Cabbage plant that the pigeons havent destroyed, not sure about the kale, those feathered pest are darned efficient at strip[ping brassicas. Of course that plant could be gone by tomorrow.
Basically what I said, although I missed out implicitly saying that they have live offspring instead of laying eggs like other insects. And NO MALES ARE NEEDED!!
Your tomatoes are so impressive, nicely done! I have a similar set up, but I'm in zone 4 and we are still getting nights down to around 5C so there's only been slow growing and 1 truss so far. Keep rocking!
Thanks, I'm further ahead this year than I have ever been - down to my growtent in the garage which let me start my toms off at the end of February this year.
Hi Jason. I've just stumbled on your site. I hope you and your Mam are well. I sse you are still mad keen on veg growing. I am wondering how your cordon gooseberries are doing now, and also your outdoor grapevines.Lovely to see and hear you again, keep up the good work!
Yeah, Until late May I always worry about a snap frost getting my plants. I need to start taking my toms down to the green house but worrying if they'll catch cold
This is ingenious! I’m a beginner but the video is so easy to follow. I’ve found a source for the blue pipe but I’m unsure about the dimensions and weight/ thickness of the netting - do you have any suggestions? Many thanks 🌻🌷
I got a 3m wide roll of netting off ebay. If you have any construction work in your area using scaffold, you can ask them what they do with the netting and ask if you could have it. Often they will bin it but they may let you have it for free of for a small charge. I have green netting that came with my plot and blue netting which I bought (because i think i get better results with blue)
Good job. I’ve got some Minnesota midget melon seeds to sow this year. I’ve never grown melons before so I’m a bit nervous about it. I’m really wanting it to warm up a bit before I start.
I've been hit and miss with melons - with more misses than hits. I had a couple of minnesota midgets a couple of years ago, which were tasty, but I've not had any success with watermelons yet.
I definitely enjoyed seeing you pot up your tomatoes. They look beautiful. Soon we will all be getting outside in the garden again. Thank you my friend for sharing. ❤
Sneaky and misleading, they appear to be cashing in on the growing vegan / organic market with this sort of labelling, I think it's not acceptable what it boils down to is dishonesty. I'm not a strict vegan but I'm slowly moving in that direction have been vegatarian for many years but still use manure / poultry pellets and would like to find alternatives.
The seabirds that produce Guano are fish eaters. With vegans they can't use anything produced by animals, even plant eating animals, so can't use any animal manures
They would flower late spring early summer. I don't have them now - I use a combination od regular spring onions and walking onions to cover my scallion needs through the year
