October Allotment Garden Update 2023 

Congratulations, we have missed you though! 🥂🎉❤Your Ginkgo tree is looking so beautiful. Thank you for another great video and take your time to ease back in and enjoy your lovely plot 👩‍🌾

Here in Ontario I am often joined by our black capped chickadees. They are unafraid, and will often land a few inches away from me as I fill the bird feeder. If I've forgotten to refill it, they can also be persuaded to eat from my hand - but the only ever take one seed, fly away to eat it, and then return for more.

I don't think I've ever seen such a tame robin! What a lovely harvest. Katrina, I don't think anyone who follows you judges the state of your plot. We just enjoy you enjoying it and living part of your life while letting us watch. See you next time!

Our feathered Australian garden visitors are King Parrots which are so curious and they come up so close, Black Cockatoos, Crimson Rosella's and Kookaburras, Blue fairy wrens, Silvereyes and I even had a Powerful owl fly over my head the other morning.

Well done Katrina, great harvest... No harm to let things go in the garden once in a while, it will all come right in time. The wildlife prefers it that way and so should we....

In our garden we have white brested robins, a tiny bird with karki coloured body and small streaks of silver around their eyes that are known locally as silver eyes. Small honey eaters, blue wrens, wood pigeons, doves and a small bird called a fly catcher which makes a noise like electrical cable shorting out. We love living in our country town with so many small birds. Most of them are insect eaters so we do not put out bird seed. Instead we enjoy their company. 😊😁

Congrats on your nuptials. Hope you had a great day. Good to see you back.

I’m in NC, USA and here we have hummingbirds that join in in the garden and beautiful goldfinches that are unafraid. The goldfinches love to eat the seeds from my lavender.

Lovely to have you back 🥰 and those potatoes are amazing so vibrant 🥰 I love my Robin’s

Congratulations, best wishes to you both. Really appreciate the knowledge i gain from you wonderful channel.

Congratulations to you and yor Husband, may you have many happy years together.I feel sorry for all the allotments which have been flooded,all their hard work . And dont worry, you have another life outside your allotment, and im sure your make it look beautifull again .

Hiya Katrina Thankyou for the visit. Great harvest very colourful. Looking forward to watching upcoming video re wedding. You and Yours looked lovely. Blessings to your new life together. Southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝

Here in Perth Western Australia we have willy wagtails that follow us around the garden same as your robins! My wagtail sits on me as I wander around :)

Congratulations on you wedding and a life of happiness to come 🥂. Time to prune back the old and plan for the future..

Welcome Home! Absolutely gorgeous Bride & Groom!

Florence is my favorite too (and surrounding areas)

Congratulations..I wish you many many happiness, joy, peace and love..enjoy your marriage life🎉❤

Beautiful wedding dress. Looking forward to seeing more of it.

It's good to be self-sufficient, especially now!

I live in Southeastern NC and all winter I have Canadian Geese on my patio! Fun for me and the granddaughters to watch, but drives my hound, Macey Reese, crazy. Their poop also looks like I'm raising a gaggle of puppies. ❤

So nice to see you're back, and had a lovely wedding...Italy, how wonderful. Your wedding photo so just gorgeous, I don't do social media, just YT, so happy you shared it here. Look forward to your upcoming posts. Your autumn harvest looks a feast for the eyes, so colorful. Love your robins, here in the states ours are not lovely little birds, just black and red. I have friendly dragonflies that hang out when I'm in the garden, I've had them land on me too.

Congratulations and welcome back. I think your Robin friend missed you.😄

Congratulations to you both, you look beautiful in that picture you showed.

So glad to know that you had a beautiful time in Italy 😊

Amazing sharing 🌷🌷

greetings and Congratz from the Netherlands. Nice harvest of potatoes (been a good year for us as well ) sparrows, robins, finch, starling, koolmeesjes are the most common birds in my garden (beside the doves, crows.... and many many others)...

Congratulations to you both ❤️🥂 hope you had a wonderful day ! Lovely to have you back

Congratulations and lovely to see you back! Lots to do but I'm sure you'll get it all done! Can't wait for the wedding video, the "snippet" we've seen so far looks gorgeous!

Congratulations and we wish you happiness. May Allah give You have a long lasting marriage!

If everything was immaculate I very much doubt I would be following ;) Relatable is encouraging for people like me ❤

I didn’t see the wedding pic and I have been eagerly waiting and watching I don’t know how I missed it

Lovley to see you back, you looked beautiful on your wedding day.. Those tatties look amazing 😘

So wonderful to see you and many congratulations on your wedding 🎉

awww the robin loves you

Congratulations on your wedding, your photo is absolutely gorgeous. I love your channel and loved the flowers you were growing and still growing Your plot is really lovely, flowers are my favourite but enjoying growing vedge this year. Only took on our plot in June this year and we're really pleased with what we've achieved so far. Still growing and planting and using polytunnel to grow carrots, sprouts spring cabbage, lettuce and other plants also looking after some flower cuttings and storing vulnerable plants. My husband has been putting up a new shed as the old one was leaking and falling apart.Phew still loads to do as always but enjoying it. Danny@Thegrapevinegarden persuaded me to start a RU-vid channel so I did only a couple of weeks into it so still learning but having great fun at The Feel Good Garden. Congratulations on your RU-vid channel achievement 👏 Best wishes Linda

Great to see you back and congratulations on the wedding. I'd love your squash curry recipe if you're happy to share?

Hiii kat I'm so happy to see your back 😊 Congratulations to both of you 🎉❤

Clocks Spring Forward, Fall Back. What a beautiful bride! So looking forward to seeing your wedding pix.

Absolutely delightful video Cheered me up 😊

Congratulations and can't wait to watch the wedding videos

Congrats Darling. Soo happy for you in your new adventure in life as a Mrs Looking forward to many more beautiful days with you, Robin and the garden 🌻🐾🐾🌻

Live in Michigan, the robin is our state bird. It looks a little different then your robin. Can’t wait see the flowers and wedding decorations 🌼🐝

In New Zealand the piwakawaka (fantail) hangs around close to us, they are really lovely little birds 😊

Big congratulations! I'm catching up with your episodes now :)

Welcome back & huge congrats! Re the garlic - why not use the empty 20L potato buckets and spent potato compost to grow the garlic in buckets in the polytunnel? Add some fish blood & bone to re-vitalize the compost. Should be fine... 👍

Lovely potatoes & pumpkins! 😃

Congrats on the marriage. Glad you’re back! X

My favorite bird that we get here in Colorado USA are the goldfinches. All my flowers were blooming until yesterday when we got about 8 inches of snow. I did get to dig my dahlias dug before I got too much snow. I have garlic to plant but I might have to put it in starting pots and growing it for a bit until it clears enough to plant it out.

Nice to see you again..congratulations for your married ❤❤..here in IRAQ Autumn season is begin..it is season for harvest many many kinds of Dates and plant barley and after one month plant wheat.. actually because unique climate in Iraq..there are no off season ever ❤

Firstly, Massive Congratulations on your wedding. The colour of those potatoes is amazing, so vibrant. Good to see your Medaka fish are still doing well, they look nice and plump ready to slow down for the winter. Robins are my absolute favourite native bird.

Lovely to see you back Katrina, it's great to see you reconnecting with your allotment, you've got a good harvest there. I understand that feeling of overwhelm and sadness after a break from the allotment. It will all be fine, the winter and the wildlife will take care and so will you, step by step. You have had a busy and productive year well worth celebrating. Congratulations Mr and Mrs Foy! Wishing you both a lifetime of joy, blessed with all that your heart's desire.

Welcome Back , I missed you , Yes Florence is a beautiful place. As an Australian from Melbourne the country is not dissimilar to areas about 60 km NE of here.

Wonderful harvest! Here in Manitoba we have small Finches that can be grey/black multi or a lovely bright yellow and can be friendly near our feeders. Our Robins are quite a bit larger than yours, more aloof and only similarity is the red breast. 🇨🇦

Congratulations 🎉❣️from Poland I love your canal in YT 👍

I'm watching this on the 29th of October. I'm in the southeast of Ireland, and mine are still going strong I always leave them in the ground unless I'm splitting them. My garden thinks it's spring again , I cut so much back the end of August because I was / had a hip replacement and thoughtI'dget the gardens cleanedup , then 2 weeks ago I started getting the garden ready for planting spring bulbs added compost, feed and mulched everything, now everything is growing again I even have a second lot of sweet peas that are in flower after cutting them right back in August ( i nev6take the roots out as its good for the soil ) Next year, I won't b cutting anything back or putting the garden furniture away so early . I'm going to plant my garlic in long window boxs during the week it does very well for me.

Wow !! That wedding pic . can' t wait to see more and the wedding flowers !! You and the flowers look gorgeous 🧡💛

Aww, your robin pal is adorable. It looked like it was welcoming you back to the allotment ❤ what a beautifully autumnal veg and flower haul too, what an amazing colour those potatoes were

HOT TIP: There is a Worldwide Garlic Shortage. Grow Garlic it will do well in pots. Mulch it because it doesn’t like weeds or competition so not too close together.

At least you had a small dry spell. Here in Huddersfield it’s still raining.

Wow amazing 😮 👏 thanks for sharing ❤

Our Robins in the Pacific Northwest of USA are big and ugly and annoying LOL. Wish ours were like yours.

Here on the Westcoast of BC Canada we have very friendly Chickadees

Hi Katrina have been looking out for you as keen to see the wedding photos. We grew Picasso first time for main crop potatoes and they were huge but unfortunately lost half at least to slugs and early on rats but what we did have were amazing so will give them another go next year. Can’t wait for the photos.

Here in Nova Scotia, Canada I get a lot of Bluejays. They're usually fighting with the red squirrels.

I love your robin 🥰

Congratulations on your nuptials, you and your husband look lovely! Looking forward to see more of the flower arrangements, they look good in the pictures. I also look forward to see how much of the garden you clean in autumn, and what you leave for spring.

It's great to have you back Katrina or should I call you Mrs Foy . Congratulations on your marriage and best wishes for the future to you both. I'm gonna get me some of them there Java potatoes for next year they look so distinctive. Hope you managed to sneak home some nice packets of seeds from Italy. Welcome back .

I think that Robin missed you!! :-)!!

Congratulations to you both x

Here in barrie Ontario Canada we have robins also, they love to make their nest under the roof of my swing.

Mockingbirds, doves and scrub jays, keep me company in the garden.

Great to see you back and can’t wait to see the wedding video. My own allotment is overwhelming me at the moment and you have made me feel so much better about that.

Congratulations to you both 🎉 ❤

Hello ❤. Congratulations on your wedding 💒. We have Dunnocks and blackbirds in our garden. They bring us both great joy.❤😊❤.

Thanks!

So happy for you! Glad to see you back on your allotment!❤

Beautiful,!❤

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In Eastern Canada I often find chickadees get quite tame. In the West I've seen WhiskeyJacks, or Canada Jays quite tame

Congrats & best wishes 🍀💜🌸

What a wonderful film. And it's heartening to know that when life takes you away for a while (congratulations, by the way!), a plot, despite the weeds and temporary neglect, can still turn up such wonderful veg. Thanks for sharing, and I'm sure you'll be back on top of things before long.

Congratulations 🌷🌸💐🌺🌹

In canada, the tame bird is the grey jay. They always come to talk to me. Especially if I'm picking berries.

Congratulations 🥂

Congratulations , I am pleased for you and look forward to your wedding videos! 🎊, Hope you manage to buy your own home ,with huge garden and a cellar , very soon. Greetings from Zimbabwe !

We have fantail in new Zealand that are real friendly to the point that if you leave a door open they fly in side the house 🥰

Nice to see you back Katrina, somehow I knew you must have been busy the last couple of months ! The plot doesn't look too bad considering, I'm sure you'll get caught up in time, but as you said it does get harder as the days get shorter, our site closes it's gates before dusk so we've been unable to go after work since September despite there still being many courgettes, beans and tomatoes to pick ! Your Dahlias look Fab, ours are looking a little tired now especially those being dug up by our resident manic squirrel !

Awesome spud harvest Kat. We don’t get access to the varieties you have but I’ll definitely keep an eye out for them. I’ve been growing Charlottes and King Edward and I’ve had my best crops ever this year. I’ve spaced each pot out by two weeks so I haven’t had a glut. Squash curry - ooeer that sounds the business. I’ve planted some pumpkins and squash (other than courgettes) for the first time this year. It looks like I might need to practice. They don’t seem to enjoy transplanting and are sulking. Still, summer is not over yet. My favourite bird in our garden (in South Australia) is a Superb Fairy Wren. They are not as tame as your Robin but they are lovely to see in the garden. BTW i think the Robin was quite sensible leaving that worm - I reckon it could have constricted it death… 😊. Looking forward to the wedding episode.

Congratulations 🎊 👏 ❤

Your Robins are much cuter than the North American ones ❤

Congrats Wilko is on line again.

Hi from the east coast of Australia. the tame birds in my garden are the superb fairy wrens, Willie Wagtails, and magpies. There are lots of others but not as tame as these - galahs, eastern rosellas, top knot pigeons. Love your allotment Katrina and how much you can grow in it.

Congrats for your marriage!

Congratulations on your wedding! The allotment still looks colourful.. ❤️ love the pink theme with the potatos❤️

Squash curry?! I'll have to look into that! I do look forward each year to a pot of squash stew as the weather gets colder. Nice to see you back in the garden and best wishes. Just harvested the last of the apples (Pink Ladies) and the squash (Red Kuri, Fiesta Acorn) and found something was eating the acorn squash but not the kuri, huh. I'm guessing small furry mammals of some variety but I've never had this problem so I'm not sure which. I appreciate the nice view of your Ginkgo, I love fall color and it looks like it's just getting started.

hi, I have paused the video to answer your question about bird friends in the garden here on wardandi boodja, in west aus, because they’re some of my favourite little visitors and I love talking about them! im located in suburbia, but opposite bushland and very near the ocean, so we’ve got coastal scrub and dunes alongside a few pockets of remnant tuart forest (our big local eucalypts) which makes for a big mix of fauna (and flora and fungi!). it’s a biodiversity hotspot here, which is such a privilege to live amongst. we’ve turned our ornamental front garden into a raised bed kitchen garden, the grass verge is now planted with local flowering natives for the nectar feeding (and pollinating!) birds and insects and our back garden that used to be grass is a young food forest system, and we’re visited by djidi-djidi, or willy wagtail, a breeding pair I think who are sassy as anything, very chatty and chase and swoop our dog, we also have beautiful olive green migratory silvereyes nesting in the lilly-pilly hedge, a pair of beautiful bronzewing pigeons who come and enjoy the food flicked around by the rescue chickens, a little flock of new holland honeyeaters who come and enjoy the nectar from the callistemon, the noisy wattlebirds who chase them off, and the little brown honeyeaters who favour the banksias. Thanks for asking the question so I had the opportunity to write all of that out, it made me smile and feel even more grateful for my visiting friends. I love watching your videos, i learn so much, and it’s so lovely to be able to follow the seasons in the uk from a gardeners perspective, as I was born there and moved here when I was 8, (I’m 23) and most of my family still live there and my great grandparents were market gardeners, so it’s really special to gain that insight and knowledge alongside gardening in this vastly different climate and landscape. I also love growing edible native plants from this land, and learning the traditional uses and names and language through lessons and books by local elders, im so grateful for their generosity. Oh I i recently installed our second diy pond, this one is specifically for the motorbike frogs that live in our kitchen garden, as they eat the mosquitos and garden pests too, and i adore them! so they’re garden visiting friends too. Oh and i almost forgot about the very very naughty sunflower-beheading doornarts, or 28 parrots! they’re so mischievous, but I love them and their noisy calls and bright colours. Have a lovely day, thankyou for sharing what you do!

Our robins, so-called, in Pennsylvania, differ greatly from this chap!

It's lovely yo have you back. The Bluebury bush looks fantastic .

So nice to see you back in the allotment. Gardening has its highs & lows that’s the lifecycle. Your dalia’s look beautiful even as they reach the end of the season. Such a great potato harvest. Our common garden birds are black birds, magpies, crows, the spotted turtle dove.

i love roast beetroot 😋