My name is Lucia and this is my allotment journey. I’m still very new to the allotment,and am still learning what and what not to do! So join me while I continue to transform my plot and try to grow some amazing veg along the way.
It's all looking wonderful Lucia 🎉 I have serious bench envy .Thats exactly what I'm looking for ! Where did you get those silver hanging pots Lucia ? Super for my strawberries .
Thank you susie. I honestly still can’t get over the fact I got them, and for free! I got the pots from primark, they are £1 each (bargain!) and they have a selection on colours. I just drilled some holes in the bottoms for drainage.😩
Hi Lucia enjoyable vid as always, and it's always great when you can eat your own fruit and veg that you have grown from seed, just something special about that, also for your pumpkins, marrows, and courgettes in fact any veg that grows along the ground, to stop them from rotting, put some straw underneath them to keep them clear of the ground, and after you've harvested them the straw can go into the compost heap to rot down ready for next year.
Hello Lucia, I do enjoy your channel. You have such an infectious happy attitude and fun excitement level. Your plot is so tidy and well organized. I am so excited by the free finds and the DIY fix-ups!! I am 61 year old man in the US Minnesota zone 4. I grew up from the age of 10 bringing home bicycles and lawn mowers that I found on the curb broken not working. I had no father and the neighbor man help me learn about fixing bikes and school taught me small engine class. I started fixing them up with parts I would buy or use from one onto another and then sell them all in the spring I was 12 then. Later I found a love of old vintage and antique items esp furniture. I began to look for free furniture items and bought some at garage sales and auctions and such. Vintage chairs, bedroom sets, end tables, coffee tables dining room hutches display cases ect. I would refinish them, or paint them or paint and distress them. Eventually I had my own shop and had the best time ever. Now I just do one or two at a time and sell them on market place or craigslist ect. So for me to see your wonder and excitement does make me so happy and hopeful to know folks in the future will share my passion and find their own successes. I am enjoying how you mix in a bit of this into your gardening channel. Thank you for this video peace and blessings, Steven
Garden is looking beautiful Lucia and the additional flowers will make it even more so. It’s extremely productive and harvesting will be fabulous, thank you for sharing with us. Have a marvellous week, Ali ☁️🌞🇨🇦
For the crumble topping: 250g plain flour 150g Butter ( I do salted or unsalted, as depend what I have in at the time.) 50g Caster sugar Filling: 3 apples peeked and cored A small tub or blackberries, around 150-200g Half a juice of lemon 1 tea spoon of vanilla extract 2 teaspoons of caster sugar I simmer in a pan for about 5 mins max. Once added to a dish and crumble mix on top, I finish off with a good sprinkle of brown sugar. Preheat the oven and cook on 180 oC /gas mark 4 for 25 mins.
Wonderful video today, Lucia. Your garden looks so lovely. I think your pre-loved table and bench set will be great. You can't beat the price! Have a lovely day. So sorry about the rain. ❤😊
It’s a rose Starlight Express, and yes it does have thorns. It’s a Strong, vigorous climbing rose to about 2.4m tall with healthy, glossy green foliage, and fragrant, dark pink, fully double blooms, repeat-flowering through summer and into autumn
It’s a rose Starlight Express, and yes it does have thorns. It’s a Strong, vigorous climbing rose to about 2.4m tall with healthy, glossy green foliage, and fragrant, dark pink, fully double blooms, repeat-flowering through summer and into autumn
Hi Lucia recently found your channel and enjoying your journey on the allotment, I don't have an allotment as my house was built during the forties so has what's known as an allotment garden, so the back garden is 175ft long and 25ft wide, so plenty of room to grow my own fruit n veg, but if I wanted an allotment the waiting list of the village I live in, in Oxfordshire is so long I'd probably be in my 70s before I got a plot, As for the uploads its your channel so upload as much or as little as you want, also just wondering if you are able to upload in 1080P hd, or is your camera not able to record in HD, if not it's fine as still enjoying your vlogs.
Hi Mark, thank you for your comment. I’m still very new to the whole video editing and uploading on here from a camera.🤦🏻♀️ so I need to maybe keep reading up and hopefully I get there….one day 🤣🤞🏼.
Fantastic job on the fire pit, we can only with local government permission burn in March and Oct and only for 5 weeks 😢. All your hard work is really paying off Lucia it looks amazing. If the onions are a good size for you to,use then I’d take them up. I would do the same just cut off the damaged leaves Lucia and let them get on with it. Mine are just the same they are trying though so I’ll give them a chance. Perhaps they just assume you’ll keep doing it😢😢. Happy face 🙂 and have fun, Ali ☔️🇨🇦
Thank you! I’m so please with how it’s really come up looking just like new. The weather has really picked up here, finally! So I will leave the onions in another week at least, then freshen up the bed and pop my seed potato for Xmas in.😁🧅 I’d love to be able to have my own Xmas potatoes.🥰 How is your garden getting on?
@@LuciasAllotmentJourney we have had some lovely rain for a few days so everything is happier, but now it’s time to like you start making space and planning for fall and winter growing 👍
@@LuciasAllotmentJourney I may do potatoes because I can grow in pots in the poly 🤞, I’ll do some brassicas but I may just do what can go in pots or the vegepod. Last year I babied cabbages and broccoli in the poly tunnel and a rat 🐀 moved in and ate them all 🤦♀️, but don’t be afraid to try things you may get a late summer and mild winter 👍
I’ve just stumbled upon your channel and really enjoyed seeing your tidy organised Plot. The sound was muffled in several segments. It’s been such a weird season weather wise here in Devon, too much cold early on and now sporadic raging heat. Kind of you to help out messy neighbours as I do in the hope they’ll pay it forward at some point. Have a good week.
Hi Linda, thank you for your comment. I don’t have the best of cameras, and still new to the whole editing thing. I was down Devon/Dorset way last month. It rained on the way down, but from the second day we were blessed with sun for the rest of the week. Then came home to rain!🤦🏻♀️ I honestly think it’s been a strange one this year for everyone, and it’s more a fingers crossed growing season. We have path checks every months to make sure they are cleared and maintained, me being me can’t help doing it for the girls. 🥰
Thank you! It’s been a lot of hard work, and still ongoing. But it’s all be worth it! It’s helped me so much with my mental health, that you can see it’s well loved for it.
Oh lord Lucia a coat again 🤦♀️, we got a tiny abs I do mean tiny bit of rain so I’m watering. Awesome lettuce, if you don’t need the space I’d just leave the corguette plants they may still come with some sunshine. I don’t grow pumpkins but by say end of Aug I’d just cut the end of the vine off and let the remaining pumpkins get bigger. You may have deer in the area can you borrow a trail cam? We have deer but they are kept out of my garden but a big fence. I love nigella and have loads it self seeds everywhere 👍👍. Fab update as always and ask away that is what the community is her for, Ali 🌤️☔️🇨🇦
The weather is so up and down here! Not July for sure! Yesterday it was cloudy and raining all morning (the night before was worse!) and then the sun came out late afternoon. Followed by another day of rain!🤦🏻♀️ I’ve only had to water once in just under 2 weeks. I know we have deer, I had lots over winter which I caught on my trail cam. They moved on for a while, so it looks like they are babk again. But I refuse to pay out to put a fence up…..yet!! I that to be the very last job I do, and an only if I really have too. Regarding pumpkins I would love one each for the girls to come and pick, so I really want size over quantity. I went down yesterday evening and the pumpkin plants along with the corn are looking stunning! They seem to be loving all this rain. 🎃
Hello Love, I do get a kick outta your channel. You always have a very positive outlook. You know even when we fail miserably we are still learning and growing so I always take experience as a win. The garden is all about today at one level but then for us that take yesterdays failure and reapproach it in the next effort looking for improvement is also important. Yesterday I was telling someone that all of a sudden a few plants in one spot were all being scalded by the sun and died they had been there for years doing quite well. Later in the winter as I was thinking about the problem I remembered an important causation I had overlooked. That spring two large maple trees were brought down in a storm. Without those trees to provide some relief from the sun these plants just burned up. I planted a couple bushes there and Bob's your uncle problem solved. I do enjoy your channel I was really into your reaction to your decision to plant the tri colored beans and the borlotti style beans. I was thinking to say just whack em in and then you said it. That is the mantra of Emma's Allotment Diaries I do not know if you watch her or that is your own comment. Anyway thank you for this video today Cya next thyme, Steven
Thank you Steven. I’ve learnt over the years due to other areas of my life to always try and see the positives in life, and keep myself up beat. Haha and if I can save myself £40 on not having to take my nieces to a pumpkin farm this year, and bring the to the allotment instead…..That’s one massive bonus this year.🤞🏼 I’m a massive Charles Dowding watcher, he’s my david attenborough of gardening, I really enjoy learning from him. whack em in is something I’ve picked up from my dad, we say it a lot when cooking us i involved. What’s Emma’s channel? Be nice to watch a female gardener also.
I think you have a deer problem , probably have to build a wire cage you can just place over your boxes . Something easy to get off there . im sure a nice feller there could help with that !
100% I had a problem with them round winter, even got them on my trail cam! They enjoyed my kale and celery very much!! I’ve been meaning to make those boxes, the wood has been sat in my shed for months now and my dad has a roll of chicken wire for me. I think it’s my own fault for putting it off and thinking they had moved on 🤦🏻♀️🤣
