Early June on the Allotment. Ep 218 || Plot 37 

I live in Indiana, USA, which is corn field heaven. Our corn here is planted about eight inches apart because the stalks hold one another up. If we were to plant them eighteen inches apart they would go down in wind or with corn weight before they were mature. I adore your videos…and so glad you are getting your beautiful kitchen back!

100% germination with your sweetcorn!! I had 4/20 😂😂

Fairly new to your channel. I love your relationship with your Mom, treasure her 🥰

Can't wait to see the sweetcorn.

Your laugh is soo cute and love the knowledge you have about all those plants. Those eyes I can watch for the whole episode 😂and the kitchen looks marvellous. Good job you and mom

To prevent slug damage I save my egg shells and crush them. I then scatter them around the plants. The slugs are too soft for the hard sharp shells and they die. It’s a slug murder zone!😂

Thanks!

Another lovely vlog Jessie but I'd go easy on the blood fish and bone if I were you as your carnivorous excavators will find it fascinating ! When I first had a plot in nineteen hundred and frozen to death , I sprinkled bone meal over the infill when I planted the spuds and when I visited the next morning it looked like a scene from the battle of the Somme where the local foxes had furiously dug looking for the dead animal that they were sure was hiding somewhere . Keep up the good work !😊

copper tape is good to protect from slugs.... i put it round the pots, you could try it along the edge of you table in the glasshouse or put some beer traps on the floor. another idea is to put a dish under each leg and fill it with salt water

🎉 congrats on the floor!

💚💚💚In order for the corn to grow well and be productive, I hill it up like potatoes. This way it produces additional roots and bears fruit better. I am a collector of corn and bean seeds, I have been growing them for more than 20 years, so I decided to talk about my experience. Best regards.💚💚💚

Jess ya dunt know how much an inspiration you are you AND ya mam xx love you both so much bin followin u both now for 3 yrs but a lots happened in our lives since ..... your so helpin me carry on xx

Wild flowers look stunning

Great job

Great video

Well done mum I keep asking the staff in Aldi what they are saying when they are talking over their headsets to eachother or the office

Silver sand and egg shells has always kept my greenhouse good for growing in.

Hi Jessie and your Mum, your kitchen floor is lovely, exciting times ahead. Hopefully, your sink will be plumbed in asap. You have done a lot of sowing seeds, planting out too. Oh that was sooo funny when your Mum was chatting to oblivious to the fact you were talking to the camera 😂 aww, your cat is gorgeous ❤ hope you get your kitchen units fitted & kitchen finished. Lovely video update. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

lovely video jessie loved the flowers

Those seeds from the brassica could be harvested for microgreens. It is quite a job but is worth it Jess.

Maybe a beer trap for the greenhouse ?

Jess, Corn in the field is planted about 4 to 6" apart and the rows are about 18-24" apart. I base may corn planting on the square foot method which is 4" apart or 9 plants to a square foot. This reduces the need to support them as they support themselves and improves pollination.

I love how your paths are beautiful grass, could not even imagine how I could get that on mine!!

Wild fleurs look so beautiful 💕🥂

Hi there Jessie. The Kitten was so cute going after the shadow your hand was making on the shed door!!! So nice to end your vlog with Halley. You and your mom gave me a giggle on the plot. Love the new chicken your friend made, I'd love to buy a few from her, but would the shipping cost to the states be astronomical? Your flowers are gorgeous and love the colors. I miss seeing Lily. I'm so happy that you have a kitchen floor again!!!!!! Would you be inclined to making more cooking videos? I'm always at a loss for what to make with the food I grow, and looking for new recipes all the time. Also, have you made the foxes move on, or are they still there on your plot? Have a great week and thank you for the video.

Your mum outtakes are great.. always smiling! Say hi to her from Aus!

So chuffed you've got a kitchen floor at last and stove looks great - you've got a helluva lot of pies to catch up on though! 😄 See you in Birmingham x

You should have heard the whining when I planned a lunch date with my aunt & cousin, then realized I would have to wait to see your video! 😂 Great lunch with fellow gardeners, came home with herbs to pot up and plans to meet up again in 2 weeks to help amend beds for my 87 year old aunt plus dig out a few perennials from my cousins yard. Glad to see Haley’s collar, she’s an adventurous lady. Yes, need to plant more seeds as the broccoli is starting to pop up in cells for my autumn garden plans. 😊

I direct sow most things that I can. I live adjacent to wilderness so the animals are not hungry enough to be digging up my peas and beans. Crows and Ravens are intelligent though. They could learn to pull up things in any garden just for fun or because it tastes good. I haven't had a problem.

35:33 😂 I'm glad you left that bit in. Made me laugh.

Love the little monster! We have a little monster too. Love the kitchen floor, that stove is a loverly beast!

Hey Jess, You should direct sow your Okra. Take it from someone in the Southeast of the US, where Okra is king, it loves heat and sun. Oh, and we pronounce that with a the long vowel "O"🥰 Love, Love, your channel. Floor looks great by the way.

Luck! That's what it's all about. I love watching the Girlies scratching and pecking while you're sowing.

It's always nice to see you planting out.

Hope your sugar snap peas do well. Here in South Central Alabama, I never start early enough to get any. It is in the 90's already..no sweaters needed. Silver Queen corn is the BEST

I am so excited for you that the renovations on the kitchen are almost done. It all looks so very lovely in the garden looks wonderful ❤

Im learning loads from your videos and relaxing too. Thanks.

Good Morning or Afternoon 😂❤

Fantastisch Good work jessie you the best te moostuin te planting te zaailing Top thans te video Top week 👍🫘🌱🌾🌽🍹🌤☘️🥒

The floor is beautiful.

Fab update Jess ❤ Have a great weekend x

Oh oh 😬. My first year growing sweetcorn and my plants are twice the size of yours. I have them in the Garland root trainers. Hope they aren't going to be root bound. I've just been holding off planting them out because of the rubbish weather.

The floor is lovely Jess .

Your hens will Love the cabbage seeds !😊

Thanks Jessica! Enjoyed my Tuesday dose 😍

Beautiful floor.

Hi jessie what lovely wild flowers you have mine are only just starting to bud ❤

Was that a ‘F*** sake’ at 12:19 ? 🤣🤣

🐝thanks for the great video🌻

Thanks for the video!

Your plot is massive, what size is it. Its also beautiful

Oh, sugar snap now? I just soaked some in hope but thought I was a bit late. Its so flippin' cold so many days I thought I would chance more peas and spinach.

Missed you on Potty Mouth, Jess. Great vid. Keep them coming.

Fantastisch Good work Jessie you the best te moostiun te planting te zaailing thans te video Top week 🌺🧤🍹🌱☘️🌿⛅💐🥒🌽

Can I just suggest a brilliant sugar snap variety of pea? Cascadia ... unbelievably robust and reliable and heavy cropping. I have to do mine under nets here due to every pest under the sun ... but try Cascadia.

I missed the squash request but you have one I would have suggested anyway although I don't plant the sweet dumpling, I do plant a bush type delicata squash that is good either roasted and sauteed with an edible skin. No fox update?

Halley. 🥰 Her collar matches your sweater!

Not heard you mention growing okra before. Now you have your kitchen back would you consider doing an okra recipe vid? I've not eaten okra since my Mum cooked some when I was a kid. I can't recall liking it much then but my tastes have probably changed since then. But every time I've seen people talking about okra they alway bring up the over-cooking slimy texture which has always put me off cooking with it. Agretti is a new one on me too. Is it similar to samphire? (Edit: Oh you mention this later in the vid.😊)

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Jessie, what are the beautiful purple flowers with the silvery stems behind you at 14:14 in the video? I want them in my garden if they'll grow in Alaska.

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Thanks!

It always takes me so long to watch your videos because I always pause and do something you inspire me to do. Today it was re-sow the cucumber seeds (because the chipmunks keep finding them & eating them). I was ready to live without cucumbers, but you nudged me to "solve" the problem -- I'm putting a tin can with both top & bottom removed securely over the sites with a stone on top! I only need 6 stations, dammit I WILL have cucumbers!!

Thank you for the idea of using upside flower pots to raise stuff up higher. I have flower boxes like the gredn one in the back of you. I have a hard time bending over and raising them up would be so helpful. I have seen people use bricks but i don't have any bricks. But i do have a lot of extra pots that i could use. I am older and i garden from my chair, a folding lawn chair that is easy to move around. I could sit in my chair and plant and weed my planters when they are raised up. Thanks.

Ps. I love the gentle piano music. Who is it ?

I was thinking I was really late planting yhings this year so its good to see you still sowing and planting too. Slugs have eaten three lots of french beans plus a lot of other plants so I've found it my kost challenging growing season. But I keep sowing, potting on and planting out, I'm detetmined to get some sort of harvest this year!

Your sweaty, sweaty! It’s bloody freezing in Yorkshire 11 degrees during the day and 6 at night. It’s Jumper and central heating weather. My poor squash and beans have just given up😩

Im new to you're channel jessie but love it already im just about to get my first allotment so exiting times ahead and look forward to more videos 😄

Hiya Jess, thanks for sharing I’m just catching up with some of your videos. Take care Luv. Hi to Muma blessings from Ontario Canada 🐝🇨🇦

Curious if your nice greenhouse flooring is providing good slug habitat underneath.

foxes and polytunnel???❤

Throw your "seeded" old plants to your chickens...they will eat the seeds, then you can throw whats left onto compost. My chooks love them.

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Hey Jessie so happy to see the house kitchen finally coming along. Lotsa things being pulled to make room for the next crop. That first day was a marathon or did you wear the same clothes for 3-4 days in a row lol. You have a lot of flowers right now we are just barely getting there. I am already excited about next weeks video. I love field trips!! Cya next thyme, Steven

I’m in Birmingham tonight ready for Gardeners World tomorrow 🎉looking forward to seeing the garden

Hope to see you on Thursday. I'm excited for Gardens world!

I lost a lot of plants this year. Thought I was too late to regrow, but due to you I have just planted more. Thank you

don't you let the chickens pick the seeds from the brassica

Loving the cat playing with your shadow 😂.

You can save the nigella seeds for a black pepper quirky substitute !😊

Trombone for the girlies they love em I grow just for my hens as they store

Here in the southern US, we pronounce it “ow-krah.”

Hi Jessie did you get rid of the foxes 🦊lv Irene 😘 xx

I'm at the NEC on Thursday I do hope I get to see you both x

Ay up question when you 1st get chickens do you have to leave them inside the coop for a while please I know totally irrelevant to this video lol happy gardening Richardx

I have to ask ... what job do you do that allows you to put this amount of time in to your allotment? I consider myself lucky with my job that I can spend a lot of time on mine, but I am no-where near able to keep mine anywhere near as kempt as yours.

Jessie is it just me...the sound feels like you are sitting in a tin shed these last few videos...headache 🤯