Sowing Carrots, Sweetcorn and Herbs! + Planting a Kiwi. Ep214 || Plot 37 

you might find this funny jessie , my nephew came in from checking his green house before school and told his mum there was a homeless snail in there ..... he ment a slug , truely cutest thing ever

You never fail to motivate me to get garden chores done 😊❤ 🍻

It took my partner and I roughly two years, but we finally caught up. Having been able to watch a handful of episodes each week it is now an odd experience counting down the days until a new one comes around. We have absolutely loved following along each week. Last year, we took on a small allotment ourselves. This year we're aiming for a variety of beans, a few potatoes and herbs, as well as looking forward to seeing if our strawberries have survived. As we live quite far north, the snows have only just about melted. Stay healthy, and a huge thank you for sharing these amazing videos!

kudos on all the work you have done on that allotment over the years - looks lovely

Congratulations! I am so happy for you! I love following your channel and learning many things from you both!🌺🌷🌼😍

Must be so satisfying growing your own veg 😊

The Rhubarb Cake is Episode 53. Can't wait to make it!

I find those videos without mic so funny, the random noises that the phone is picking up are hilarious. ❤

Coucou 👋🏻 👋🏻 👋🏻 Merci pour ce partage 😊 À bientôt

she sows seeds on the seashaw is now humming in my head hahaha , plot looks blumming fabulous hun always love your videos x

Thank you Jessie, I sit in my conservatory, looking out at my raised veg beds with a glass of wine in my hand and enjoy every minute of your exploits, even sometimes as I meander round my own small piece of paradise in the sunshine I hear your piano music and wonder at the miracles around us, hope you have an outstanding year x

The best years I’ve had sweetcorn were when I’ve absolutely packed the bed with manure and chicken pellets lol I’m sure I nearly grew a few inches with my hands in that 😂 I started mine off a month ago on damp paper towels in a sealed sandwich bag on the heated propagator this year as germination was bloody aweful. I think it’s a veg that likes a lot of affection early on. That said there’s barely a year I can harvest it before the badgers and anything else that seam to obliterate it when near ripe for the picking. It’s a battle I won’t lose this year. Fingers crossed hahah

Where I live, there are tons of farmers that plant corn. They heavily fertilize the ground before planting and they direct sow. I don't know if that will be of any help to you, but the corn is out of this world sweet and delish

:You did so well with all your garden projects on the to do list! The kitten is getting so big and she looks so happy out in the garden. I wish we would get some warm weather. Seems unseasonably cool and rainy

Love your allotment, there’s so much care and progress, and it’s so so green❤️❤️❤️

Hi Jessie We have been doing our own compost test and thought you would be interested in the results. The peat free, and many tried, in varying degrees either looked like Shoddy or had twigs of varying sizes in them etc ., So we went for 100 litre Clover 100% peat. Brilliant. My first vegetable seeds took off after two previous failed or miserable attempts with the peat free ones. So, as much as I hate doing this, we have purchased several bags of clover. Lovely programme this week as always. Jasmine

When are you writing a cookbook to include all your allotment recipes? 😊

Hi Jessie ,lovely video nice to hear some guitar music instead of that old piano 😀 new mic seems fine x

Hi Jessie and your Mum, the weather has been so hot good job planting spring onions. I have been so hotunable to germinate a single sweetcorn this year, the first time ever! So, I had to take a trip to the garden centre to buy plug plants 🙄 it is a great feeling when you actually finish a to-do list! Great video update. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

Yay! Tuesday. Also before I got my minestra nera seeds (ebay if anyone wants to know!) I did some research and spigarello is a less curled variant of minestra nera but used in the same way. Still curly but less so! The pic on the Sarah Raven site of spigarello looks quite curly to me. Who knows what I've actually got growing but I'm sure that it will be delicious either way 😋 xxx

Hello Jessie! When I get hot, I put my long hair in a ponytail, and then pull it out the "hole" of the baseball cap. Takes the hair off the neck and I feel cooler instantly. Also helps the cap stay put and looks really cute & sporty! Perfect for your youthful and happy personality

I love lettuce leaf basil and grow it every year, along with many other types. In California I can direct sow seeds, so I'm able to toss many types of basil seeds everywhere. But lettuce leaf is absolutely delicious. Especially when one can take only two flavorful leaves to cover wonderful sandwiches....tomato, cheese, Italian cured meats, goat cheese, grilled veggies. And the list goes on and on! I'm thinking you'll get hooked.

I sow Sweet Candle every year & they never fail. Lovely sweet carrot 🥕 Follow them with Autumn King, bit more robust for through Autumn & Winter. Hope you get great germination :)

Love your channel and always look forward to it coming out on Tuesdays. Halley is super cute, love black and black and white cats, have a black and white little female myself.

Planted Alice's Dream and Sart Rolaise out yesterday. They are the best looking of the tomatoes I started this year. Lovely bluegreen leaves.

Hi Jess, I love “Lime Basil”, as someone originally from Southeast Asia. We use this type of basil in most Indonesia & Malay dishes. I managed to grow them in my back garden last year and this year i am sowing tons of them and sprinkle them around the toms 😊😊

I love black nebula carrots. They are really hardy and have survived hot and dry where other carrot varieties have died. They are also so juicy and very purple. They will colour your tongue.

Another fab video Jessie ❤ Well done on completing everything on your blackboard list 👋👋👋what a great idea, I should do something like that with a bigger blackboard like yours. 👍I do have a little blackboard that I started to use earlier on in the year or was it last year 🙈 maybe I should start doing it again so I keep on track 😊 😂

Hi Jess, I’m having a go at sweetcorn this year too, having foregone it for a few years due to muntjac, rabbits, rats and badgers etc..getting to it first. A piranha and crocodile infested moat comes to mind to try and stop them 😊. Btw love your choice of music, especially the piano piece at your blackboard triumph bit. You can’t beat a good arpeggio!

I have whacked my kale back to the nubs (leaving only a 2 inch stalk) and in a few weeks of looking naked it sprouts the tenderest small perfect leaves.

Your gate and the garden is looking beautiful. Have a good week.

Kids and phones lol in my day we had string and 2 tin cans

❤ Haley!!! 😂 Sorry no Lily, but understandable if she’s off hunting as wildlife think they own the gardens. We’re officially passed frost here and it’s GO TIME! I’m so excited to pop sunflower seeds into various places as surprise blooms.

Hi Jessie, I can't see the link to the rhubarb cake. Could you let me know where to find it please

Hi Jessie, I’ve had a Jenny kiwi for 21yrs, covers my whole back fence now and grows like a triffid with lush greenery and beautiful flowers every year but, never had any fruit mature on the plant, tried male kiwis to help but no joy, to lush to chop down so beware, when it takes off you will have to keep on top of it.

Fantastisch Good work Jessie zaailingen te planting Top thans te video groenten ✔️🌱🧢🌞🧤☘️🏵️🍹🥝🥕

I grew purple ball last year and doing some this year too, it grew very well.

Hi Jessie. Love your vlogs. You planted basil on your last vlog. I am in Spain. Andalucía. Basil tends to Bolt or shrivel in the heat. Here, I grow Albahaca. Have you heard of it,Or tried it. It's like a strong basil flavour slightly aniseed. Love to send you some seeds.

Hi Jessie, watched a new kind of vlog this morning, a commercial tom grower is trialing a new way of growing toms, you leave the first sucker on the plant and then grow on as a second plant, so you will need two strings per plant. Something i trialed last year was to take a 1 foot long cane and tie your string to that, at the end of the season you just wrap up your string/cane and secure it to the overhead wire and fix with a clothes peg my jute string will never wear out, it might be worth while talking on potty mouth

Thought I'd try out some of those Franchi seeds, a couple of varieties of courgettes and some herbs. Never been very successful with Basil, but will see how their "napoletano" works out 😂. Glass of red wine 🍷 to finish 😁.

I managed to get some minestra nera seed on eBay. I sowed them last week and they have just popped up today.

Little miss fickle Lily. I had missed her this week. 😊

Any chance of a copy of your Chard lasagna recipe , also any tips on what to do with garlic chives - thanks

You'll love the lettuce leaf basil ... it's got an amazing scent and strength even though the leaves are so big! Slightly more sweet and almost clove like than the regular basil.

Isn't it just the best time of the year... Marestail aside 🤨.

Listening to you say 'Boy is it hot!' makes me wonder how the Victorians coped in their walled gardens on a sunny day. Would love to know if there was any tricks or tips they used

Rhubarb cake is on vlog 53 folks xxxx

Good luck with Jenny. I had it as well but 2 years ago the winter was too hard. You might be in a better hardiness zone than we're here in Berlin.

fel sorry for you about the noisy kids.

I have that same colour aquilegia so pretty

Everywhere looking very green and lush! Great list ticking ✔ Could you do a walk and talk down the communal ath to your plot sometime? It would be lovely to see what's growing there....wild oats, elderberry, bramble etc and see what's edible too.

Ive grown the small purple basil before, its delish, but the curly leaf not as yet, i watched a guy the other week who had grown it, as far as leaf size goes think more little gem as a guide

Miss Halley is too sweet scampering around in the garden 🥰. I have the same luck with dill but trying yet another location this year. 🥂

🐝thanks for the great video🌻

U been busy bee again, plot coming along really nicely now.

Hi there, whereabouts is the link for the rhubarb cake? 🤤

Anther fab video Jessie. I started watching earlier today but you were so inspirational with your blinking list I ditched watching and went to my allotment to put my tomatoes in. (First year using string)😊. Anyway I’m back now this evening watching and I’m wandering…🤔🤔🤔 what’s in the boxes int he shed????

Sweet Candle looks like a Napoli carrot. Do the slugs bother the red pac choi less than the green? The garden is looking beeeeautiful!

Sometimes to help my sweetcorn on a little I snap off a tassle from the top and stroke the pollen all over the silks. Does it help? Maybe. I always seem to get excellent pollination though. I don't do it all the time, but I do routinely give them a little shake as I walk by them.

Dill need scattering in the place you want them to grow. Some are low growing and some grow tall ( to be used in marinades )

Badgers yes, i had an issue last week, 2 mornings in a row my beds were ruined, lost so much veg, anyway, it wasnt badgers it was wild boar, but i treated for both, male urine deters badgers , and washing powder around but not on the beds plus black pepper deters wild boar, just in case you get the odd herd or two in leafy Richmond 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Jessie do you use chard in place of pasta sheets in your chard lasagna ? Great episode this week and loved the crochet 🥰🥰

hi I wonder if the black floor is making your glasshouse hold heat

Link for rhubarb cake?? Can't find it?? Senior moment?

Great work

Spigariello I grow has curly leaves

Lovely video x

Jess can I ask how you make your chard lasagne please. I only grow this chard because of you 😂 it's a delicious chard but I only put it in a past bake as I'm not sure what else to do with it 😂😂 Maybe we could see you in your kitchen making this lasagna 😊

25c is newfie boiling point. But we'd still have 75%+ humidity at that temperature.

Where’s the rhubarb cake recipe? I would love to make it with my rhubarb.

You forgot to put on the wildcam video ( and i say this because i know what´s on it 😂😂😂) Does loganberry taste better then tayberry ? Lots of love from Belgium

lovely video jessie

Greetings 🍷, What brand of watch do you have? I like that it is not square or round. Cheers, Upstate NY

Fantastisch Good work jessie zaailing te planting Top thans te video 🧢🧤👍🪁🌸💐🐝🪴🌱🥕groente 🍹❤🥝

Well done with the job list,, when is the polytunnel going on the list? Didn't you say on pottymouth you wanted to get it finished by the end of May??

Where have you managed to get seeds for the minestra as I can’t find any xx

Where would I get minestra seeds Jessie, it looks such a Lovley plant I wouldn't care if the broccoli didn't appear😂... I bought the spigarelo but it doesn't want to germinate 😂

Have I missed the link to the root trainers again? Lovely video☺️

Been raining here in mid-MO, USA for several days now.

I Love You , My Jessie Babe.

I planted a kiwi about four years ago. It grows brilliantly lunch foliage many flowers and for the first two years lots of baby kiwis. which I have to admit are 🤢 so bitter full of seeds and hardly any flesh. They were only the size of marbles so really not good for anything at all. I have to admit the bush looks good against my fence but otherwise useless. Hope yours is the normal size fruit which I might try next year.

It triggers me that you put the seeds back in the packet after you've put them in your hand hahaha! I just had to get that off my chest. Love your videos :)

We want to know how you make a chard lasagna Jessie xx

What is the name of the white flower on your right hand side of the bed you sowed the carrots in.

Why are your blueberries at home? Just wondering if there's a specific reason as I just got a couple of blueberry bushes and am planning on putting them on the plot (in containers). I thought the new cheap mic was fine.

I guess you know Jessie that kiwi fruit need both a male and female plant !! From a Kiwi

When will you be doing your polly tunnel Jessie, it’s already mid May?

Never mind you explained it will be next week so sorry about asking.

I have grown Incredable sweetcorn and it's really sweet. My sweetcorn this year is ready to go out, it's about a foot tall now, but it's bloody raining again!. I am getting the onions out now, I am hedging my bets this year after the total fail last year.Some are going in the ground where I have never grown them before, some are in window boxes that I bought from Lidl's, these are really nice quality with a water tank underneath a platform and they have a filling spout with a float guage built in, and some will go in these flexible 30 litre garden tubs also from Lidl.I am not being sponsord by Lidl, however? I just like some of their stuff. My spuds are in 30 or 40 litre tubs, Lidl and Aldi, sounds like an advert now, everything else will go in the no dig beds. Oh Peas are in the pea cage, hurst green shaft, telephone and American dwarf, in err tubs from errr well you know. Oh oh I bought a couple of those root trainers that you put the link for, they are really good, I hope you get some comission from the company. Done now.

Thanks for another great video ❤

Would really appreciate any link to the Minestra Nero Jess.Would love to give it a try 🙂

Missed little Lily too this week. As for the spigarello and your Minestra Nera Jessie they are I believe one and the same. I have seen many articles about them online. I can send you what I have found if you’re interested. They do look slightly different on the pack I will agree but from everything I can come across they appear to be the same. I have also seen they sold as “salad broccoli” I have both types so I guess I’ll know soon enough 🤣🤣 if the slugs don’t beat me to it that is 😒 super weather here too last week and weekend! Like November today 🤪

can we have recipe for chard lasagne

It’s not cheating 😊

What mic is that please so we know not to buy it?! Hehe. It sounded ok but yeah rocking connection sounds like it was made for android and not ios. I wonder if a small rubber washer might help? Hubby has a vape and i think they have small washers. That fruit cage is coming along nicely. Anything else you might want to plant in there? It is going to be great come harvesting times. Weather has been very gorgeous hasn't it!? My older sister picked a great time to come here for a surprise birthday visit from the Netherlands with her young adult kids. Not seen my Nephew since Aug 2019 when he was still a teen, so that was lovely! She got me some lovely big butterfly solar lights. Hubby got me a much needed compost thermometer and a larger bee and insect hotel. I also am getting some canning stuff for my birthday but i have to order it. My sister was staying in Kingston and went to this place called incognito? They had some interesting but expensive cocktails (£17 each i think). One was served in an old water diving helmet and you get to wear hats! lol Our perpetual spinach and pak choi also bolted so have some replacement spinach and sowed some more directly. We also moved the crate so it is in a shady area now. Might move it back now the temps have settled down again for now. Didn't know about the May fair in Richmond. Our new borough is crap compared to Wandsworth council in terms of keeping people informed of stuff. We do have a local voluntary group that produces a monthly guide magazine for £3/year. The council is so unorganised as there is a big church fair plus a big allotment fair on the same day. Singfest last Saturday was a great success and our child's choir club got to perform at the church and didn't get Nil Point! Anyway, hope you are well and take care! I'm off to churn my rhubarb ice cream before i add the crumble! 900g makes 2.5 ltrs of ice cream btw! No ice cream maker machine required!

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Okay…. Chard lasagne? Are you using it instead of pasta? I adore chard but am the only one so interesting recipes are great. 😊

Please, please turn down the music!!!

Sorry, but the sound is horrible, I'd prefer you not having a mic on above this one.