Busy few days with Allotment Flowers and New Projects. Ep 213 || Plot 37 

The lady who runs my allotment shop posted yesterday that she had sweet potatoes in stock today. I had no intention of attempting to grow sweet potatoes this year, so I'm placing the blame 100% at yours and JB's feet!

NEVER go to garden centre just to browse, gotta have a hit list or it's fatal - unless you are a millionaire

I love your cute little laugh Jessie .

Ann in derby here... My daughter told me about your chanell and i've watched most of the episodes during a fortnight's illenss.. I'm on the mend now and getting back to my allotment. (Also numberd 37). I fan trained a gooseberry once and discovered that as soon as the fruit is set you can make a regular task of clipping back any growth that comes after the fruit. so you don't let it make long scratchy branches. these little fruit spurs will get a bit bigger over the years, til you decide to replace the whole branch. New ones from the bottom can be removed as soon as seen, if you don't need a replacement branch. Thanks for sharing your joy.

You’re the best looking Bricky ever. New flower bed a great addition. I love this time of year , it’s all go . Plot 37 looking fabulous. Cheers both.🤗🐝✅

HD or what 😲😲😲the quality of your videos has improved 10 fold with your new iPhone! The colours are vibrant, the detailing are sharp, it’s as if I got new glasses 😂😂😂

Grow the trom for a bit of winter treat for girlies mine love them

You have been such an inspiration & such a find over the last 4 years 😻 I truly find your blog’s inspirational 🥰.

You have no idea how much I envy you those magnificent garden centres. Here in Poland it's very hard to find any vegetable seedlings. It's easier to buy them online, but it's just not the same 😢

I love your enthusiasm and wonder how the hell you can afford to pay for all this. My root trainers are ex toilet roll holders. Keep up the good work.

I’m gonna call that the ‘Jessie shuffle’! 😂 love it! Good shout on the yellow climbing courgette - I have a small plot so anything that climbs is a great use of space!

A joyous time with Jessie, as always, nice to have a break from mine, thanks Jessie 😊

Cheers to you too😄🤓😄Jinxy

Have grown early cucumbers in conservatory for second year running and have been picking since early April. passandra. Got the idea from you last year and I’m very grateful!

There’s an old Spanish song/ dance called La cucaracha. Maybe it will give you better association for your lattices 😅

I'd love to have a courgette glut! I don't know what I'm doing wrong with my courgettes but I'm lucky if I get half a dozen from 5 plants

You and ur videos are so real Jessie which is why I enjoy watching u so much plz don’t change I get a bit put off when people start plugging random stuff on their channel

Hi Jessie and your Mum, good job building the new bed & planting it up too. Had the same problem with our new Samsung phones last year, no USB connection. So, o wrnt to our local mobile phone shop & he had a plug with USB & the new Samsung connection turned. Maybe worth looking for a plug that connects to the new wire for your iphone. It's awful as they should of supplied the necessary wire/plug you can charge your phone 🙄 nightmare. I found it very successful sowing my cucumber seeds along with you. They are now planted in the greenhouse with small cucumbers on 😊 I'm with your Dad on the courgettes, I have tried them, but no. Maybe donate surplus veg to a food bank. Another great video. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

Well done Jessie I love the bed you made from the bbq. I hope you catch the tulip destroyer 😊 on video have a great week, Tracy

Thanks! For the great video I hope every little helps ❤

Jessie-I am from the south and sweet potatoes grow in literally sand. They will not produce in rich soil. So find the worst place on your plot plant away. I think tomatoes need too many amendments for them to do well.

The barbecue was the highlight of this week. I was hugely impressed.

Hi Jessie. Great video. I love the way you have a plan for the day and then go off at a tangent! I’m the same! We are just a bit further south than you (in between you and JB). We have an amazing allotment association - coffee and cakes every Sunday, regular plant sales with all proceeds going to charity. Take care and have a great week - let’s hope for those days with 25 degrees!

Coucou J'ai adoré regarder, merci pour ce beau moment 😊 A bientôt

Hiya Jessie Thankyou for the visit,yay for more flowers and diy, I’m sure it will look fab. Cheers Luv Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝

Did you notice beside the poor dead plants was a sign saying "Please protect these plants from frost"😂😂

Pets can be pants with seeds & seedlings watch out cos seeds can be toxic. Just trying to make people aware x

High five 🖐 fellow skip dipper! Skills handed down from parents are gold indeed. You are a champion DIYer! Mum's tulips........BUGGER! Another great vlog thanks. 🌿🌱🌷🌼

Audio sounds fine Jess. Sorry about mum's white tulips, bummer! She is such a cutie! Nice job on building the new flower bed. Can't wait to see the jumble of flowers there this summer. We need to see Halley kitten! ❤😊

I'm still using toilet roll tubes

So enjoy your videos Jess. Thanks for the trials Of the Tulips to the Triumph of the new bed. Cheers 🥂

Loving the way you involve mum

Last year I started shredding my zucchini/courgettes and measuring out the amount I need for 2 loaves of zucchini bread because my family LOVES it so much. We keep a couple out for sautéd onion, mushroom, zucchini and all the rest get shred and thrown into the freezer for the bread. I got a crap harvest last year so hopefully this year is much better and I'm going to do more plants than last year. I think we only had zucchini bread about 5 times last year which was very sad. Year before was much better.

Just finished in my orchard in Devon grabbed bottle cider and bath , Cheers gal 🍻❤

Who the hell is shouting in the background? Noisey buggers! Your allotment is super nice. So neat and symmetrical. Very pleasing to the eye 👁‍🗨

Hey jess, i have sown ocra also for the first time. I´ve only eaten them once, pure snot, but the seeds were almost free and the flowers are beautifull so i thought what the heck. I laughed when you looked serieus in the camera telling us you won´t plant out more than one of those little white courgette. I tought; lies!!! But after that you admitted you are like all us garderners i suppose. Unable to toss seedlings. Or just plant extra because "some might fail" 😂😂😂 I promise myself every year to not fall for that trap so if we remind you, will you remind me? 😅 lots of lovefrom Belgium

If you have squirrels they will definitely eat tulip 🌷 bulbs they decimated half my garden this year 😢😢. Wish we could burn all year but alas March and November only. Flowers will be lovely next to the swing. Have a fab week, Ali 🌧️🌤️🇨🇦

Great

Hi Jessie, I have just made some cuttings of Taunton Deane. I think you are South London? I'm in Ilford. Let me know if you are interested because you did mention that you wanted a Taunton Deane if anyone has them. X

Sweet potatoes grow up vertically if you allow. String them up like your tomatoes. Otherwise they are running around everywhere. I grow mine vertically. Saves space but I grow them for the leaves ( stir fry, etc.) which are reportedly more nutrious than the actual potato. NC is one of the leading states that produce and export sweet potatoes so it is easy to find organically grown ones around here.

Love an ad hoc new bed build! It'll be lovely by the fire pit and swing seat. It's definitely the time for long to do lists. That's a shame about the cucumbers 🙈

another lovely video jessie look forward to the next one

I’ve had a squirrel dancing across my garden they’re cute ☺️. I’m now thinking it’s pants 🤪. They need to live eh right 😻

Made the same error in my quest for the healthiest looking grafted plant a few weeks ago at Hilliers and ended up with one I’ve never heard of😂. Note to self… check the label!🤪

Smashing video, so much going on 😀👍 so sorry about your 🌷 tulips, that’s so gutting. It’s awful when you wait and wait and then some little devil wipes them out literally overnight😢

Love watching you and your mom in your garden. Thanks for sharing. Watching from North Carolina.

Hi Fiona here I just wanted to show you the courgettes I grew earlier this year in New Zealand

Good timing with the plants you got from the garden centre. Every time i get some theyre well past their best.

You're good, snapping the root trainers back together again. I just throw them back in the box 😂

I grew sweet potatoes in a large 110L pot. Full sun, in the south UK. It was an ok crop but they really need higher temps for longer than we have for summer.

I can't grow tulips. The deer nip the flowers off, leaving flowerless stems and leaves, if I'm lucky.

Cheers Jessie 🍷 Happy Gardening!

💚💚💚I love beans. I grow a lot of them. Thanks for the video, Jessie!💚💚💚

Bless you Jessie. I'm absolutely filthy mucking about in my garden after getting back from spending the last ten days of April in Spain. Planting out my peas, mulching my beds and finally enjoying the aboundant sprouting of seeds in my bougie greenhouse. Finally, the weather's warmed up here in Bristol! Busy sowing seeds with my Missy cat and enjoying the fact that I have the same old plastic cold frames that you've placed over your peas. I've been on a go slow approach this year and greatly reduced the usual amount of sowing that I usually would. Just as well considering how bloody cold it's been. You're a regular part of my Tuesdays and I find myself setting garden tasks alongside yours. Cheers for the inspiration babe.😊❤ Keep on Keeping on. X

I missed you, Jess. My fault, not yours... thanks for the vid and give my regards to Beau!

Clever decision on new flower bed 👍 ❤ 🍻

Sweet potatoes were a nice find, I'm still trying to grow some slips 😂 Always love garden centre visit ❤

I bought some dark blue flower seeds called "Sea Holly" which have germinated well. They're so unique. Spiky cones for flowers, foliage is blue also. First time trying them. I loved the look of them because they are so unique. Then went for flowers called "Blue Eyes". I was given some cucumbers you would call lunchbox, so they're down and I will grow them up a trellis made from willow branches. It's hard to sort out what I can grow, everything must be in containers.

Hiya Jess…hard work is paying off; everything looks fabulous. Q? for you what are the root trainers you are using?? I have been looking for the type you are using, but have not been able to find them 🥂cheers

Blooming rats got a lot of my tulips. If they didn't dig the bulbs up they got the tops as they came through. We got them on the wildlife camera. I did put netting on top of the pots, but next year I'm getting fine chicken wire and see if that helps. However I think if those little beasties want to get them....they will!!

Totally sympathise with your tulip devastation. I covered my tulip pots with chicken wire over winter to stop the squirrels getting to them but thought they’d be safe once they were up and thriving but ohh noo! Then pigeons (I assume) started nipping the tops off them leaving me with pots full of leaves 😣 Same thing happened to some of them in the beds. I’ve never had this problem before

The Nasturtiums will look brilliant tumbling over those brick edges in big cushiony patches. Your bbq bed is perfect for them. Looking forward to seeing the cornflowers and zinnias too. Zinnias, like Dahlias seem to be addictive, at least for me. So many lovely colours; so little time and space!

I actually caught a mouse helping itself to some potted tulip bulbs the other day. If I hadn't seen the perpetrator I would have assumed it was squirrels. 😢

I deliver boxes and bags of zuchinni, yellow squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes to our family doctor's office, our dentist's office, and our allergist's office every summer. They love getting our excesses...........so I plant a lot more than we can use.

It's worth letting a few trombocinos go to full size and cure them just because you can make snake jack-o-lanterns out of them at Halloween!

We pickle courgettes for winter ( as salat with onions and peppers) Yummy.

Go to car boots for ya plants,get an old washer drum to BBQ on,need mesh to BBQ on top

I waited for your chickens to go immediately for the peas! LOL As soon as you took the BBQ down, I thought "MORE DAHLIAS"!! That would be such a great location to enjoy them from the swing. I have read and tried a great option for asparagus. If you leave everything smaller than a pencil size to grow on and feed the plant while you harvest larger spears. It reportedly will prolong the harvest by a few weeks.

I go vertical with my sugar baby watermelon. I have an 8ft obelisk that they grow up. Works great, you just need some sort of support you can tie off to hole the melon up in the trellis. I also grow them in a grow bag as well.

Got well behind on my garden/allotment and not watched you for a while. Finally got round to putting some seeds in this morning (fingers crossed they germinate), which just put me back in that perfect mood, this video could not have dropped at a better time :) P.S. I gre trombocinno 3 years back thinkin they were Courgettes and they were unbelievable. Have found some more seeds this year and really look forward to them!

I had success in July planting my early cucumbers here in New Zealand and kept them inside the house as July is our middle of winter. Many people here would not plant until October which is spring time. I still will plant again this year in July as cucumbers are too expensive for me to buy in the shops!

😂😂😂😂Just look. We all say that and end up with a trolley full even grab a bigger trolley

Nice garden center. Fun.

Tulip bulbs are edible so squirrels eat bulbs. Some people use chicken wire to protect the bulbs. I had loads of tulips but they all gone because of squirrels. I got tired of wasting money lol.

Stand up talking in front of camera is perfect for cinematic! I hope everything else is working nicely with the phone, the image seems very snazzy.

The only reason they keep changing things is to get us to buy more poorer quality, more expensive stuff from them

Ohhh a QUESTION: What are the things you wish you knew when starting out? For me it's onions, and rocket - My rocket always bolts and my onions are tiny - given up on both

I have one plant of courgettes that are just giving me female flowers, the first male flowers were totally eaten and now for a long time I don’t have any male flowers… And it’s getting difficult to germinate a second plant, I’m trying male flowers from other types of courgettes, but it’s not working, and all the fruit is dying for the lack of pollination. 😓

Hi Jessie thanks for great video as always. Like you we live down south (sussex) so thought I would sow Socrates cues indoors as an experiment in February. Worked really well until I got fed up with them on the kitchen window cill and put them in unheated greenhouse in April. That was last of them😢😢. Will try burpless, too late do you think??

Love the bbq bed. Will be gorgeous with flowers in ❤

I am very curious as to what you cook with all your produce.

Ordered some of those root trainers just waiting for them to arrive.

Take care and thanks for educating me

Any tips for necker gold germination!!! Completely failed

Hello Jessie, The phone and chargers should all be the same and upgradeable. Sugar snap peas you should look for Sugar Magnolia Peas they are purple and just as good as the green ones. I saw Katrina growing them I now I grow them ever since. Here is the hysterical part: no matter how many we grow they never make their way into the house. My wife is not much for vegetables but she will eat as many as she can find so why not grow them? OK no drinking game for every time Jessie says Beauregard! lol I compare my weather the next 14 days with your weather and this time it was almost identical esp the temperatures. So I think we are past our last frost day unless there is a freak of nature. Have a great week I am already looking forward to next Tuesday. Bye for now

Just to say I enjoy your videos very muchx

Did I spy you walking round with a kiwi plant ? I have just planted one on my plot and can not wait not just for the fruit but the flowers are so pretty😊

Fantastisch Good work Jessie you the best te moostiun te Greenhouse thans te video Top 👍🏵️🍹⛅🧤🌱🥦🐔🥚

Hello Jessi, I do find the yellow ones very mild and prefer those Zucchini to the other one. Otherwise than the yellow courgettes, how you call them, I will sow round ones. My peppers were sown in January and I pampered them, they really grew marvellously and then....Nearly all of them were eaten by slugs, when I put them outside. I really do hate those awfull slugs. greetings from Cologne Germany Lydia PS. Our weather here is not better than yours, cold, wet and awfull.

Can you try twin scaling the half eaten tulip bulbs.

Constantly changing iPhone port ? Last change was circa 10 years ago

Thanks for the video!

Hi jessie the root trainer's done a lovely job I shall put them on my want list Also you sounded fine to me 👍🫛

Ive tried cucumbers but don't like the taste of them, always taste to pepperier ( if that a word) your plot coming along lovely. Seed sowing been differcult this year then weather hasn't helped

Cheers 🍻

Those phones pick up the sound from far away. One time I was filming something in an very quiet environment and later when I watched the video I found out that it picked up voices from very far away and it sounded as if those people that I did not even see were standing right next to the phone 🤔

Where did you get water melon seeds from?

I can't keep up with all your recommendations! Could you add the link for the root trainers please.

which garden centre is this?

Hi Jessie...the root trainers look a great bit of kit. Did you mention a discount code as I can't find one? Karen