The Wonders of Leaf Mould! November on the Allotment. Ep189 || Plot 37 

Jessie you are a woman of many talents! Excellent veg grower, chef, chicken roof mender, plumber, wreath maker, connoisseur of wine and lager just to name a few. I can't wait for your next job!!! Loved the vlog as always. Cheers Jessie with a gin and tonic in my hand 😂

Nostalgia…brown paper bags on a hook…😀😀😀Jinxy

I’ve been watching while my new kitten, Bunny, naps by my side. 😊 I had several older pets pass away in the past 2 months, which is always heartbreaking. But on a donation delivery to the local shelter one kitten reached out of the cage refusing to let go. ❤ I guess she needed me as much as I needed her to heal my heart. Right now she’s finding all the lost toys under the couch and helping decorate the Christmas tree.

Jessy, i think Gardener’s World is really missing a presenter like you. What can we do to vote you in there? 😃

Loved seeing the girlies all come out of their little house in the beginning. 🥰

Seriously impressed with your all round skills Jessie, nothing seems to faze you. Still loving your vlogs 3 years later. 😊

There are holes in the sky where the rain gets in, but the holes are small, that’s why rain is thin. Spike Milligan. My introduction to the joys of poetry as a small child…I also particularly like; string is a very important thing, rope is thicker but string is quicker🤭

You are a very talented young lady. Nothing seems to be beyond you.

November cheers from western Canada. 🇨🇦👍❤️🍁🥰

In the Netherlands our plots have mostly flooded due to record-breaking rain. Our team mostly works with raised beds, so flooding is not much of a problem for us plantt-wise. Getting any kind of work done in these coniditions is a prolem.

Amazed at your skills Jessie! Thank you for the vlog and sharing your adventures 😊

Hi Jessie and your Mum, good job on finishing off the chicken pen roof, they will be much dryer in there through the winter. Well impressed with your DIY skills, too, and a brilliant job on putting your shower tray in 💪 we collected leaves from a local park last Sunday. Never used leaves before, so it will be interesting to see how it goes. I never put our Christmas tree up until December. it's early enough 😉 another great video update. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

My daughter worked in florist in the old Covent Garden. I would take her to Covent Garden in Nine Elms lane to get all the add on’s . People loved them but it’s very difficult to make a living. I worked for a commercial gardener 50 years ago . We would go to Holland and buy crocus bulbs by sack and wooden clogs to plant them in. We would stack them up in the autumn inside wooden fish boxes we got from the old billings gate market. In the spring we would place a few in a cold frame at a time and bring them on to show a small piece of colour. Then we would go around the markets in south lLondon selling on to venders.

Spike Milligan. There are holes in the sky where the rain gets in. The holes are very small. That's why rain is so thin. 🤣

❤&Mum❤

I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in - Beatles 😊

How do you keep mites out your coop and run? I’d love to see a chicken coop maintainable/clean video and go through what you feed, your routine with them, what you have in dust bath etc. basically all things chicken care 😂

Love watching you and your lovely mum, you have given me so much advise 👏

I like the dried lemons. Could you do a quick how to video?

always a pleasure to watch well done jessie

I’ve started watching your blogs from episode 1. I am enjoying them so much. You are very informative. I am just starting out, growing my own food. So you are relaxing evening watch. Thank you ❤

I am so impressed with your home handyman skills! You are lucky to have large amounts of leaves on the allotment. I drive around my neighbourhood in the fall and collect what other people put at the curb. LOL

I am so jealous. Here (Montréal, Canada) it's near 0 degrees, below that at night. I have some chard cowering under a wee short flimsy plastic polytunnel. I am literally picking frozen chard from another bed which isn't covered. I fear I must accept that growing is at an end. All I can "harvest" now is frozen sage and maybe, MAYBE the last of the chard, if it warms up... a bit.

Sadly tarps,are garbage these days, we used to be able to use them for years and now it’s lucky if they last 2 summers. 11:37 look at that pink chard 💖💖. Omg I am glad you didn’t get electrocuted with that water near the light. You’ve certainly had your issues with water this last 12 or so months. Good thing your so handy 💪. Have a super week ladies stay warm, Ali 🍁🥶🇨🇦

Put the hose on chicken roof and see if it leaks 😊

Fixing a Hole I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in And stops my mind from wandering Where it will go I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door And kept my mind from wandering Where it will go the lyrics from a Beatles song..

Instead of the towel to lower the shower tray (if you ever do it again) we used packing tape, the nylon stuff that comes crimped tight around large cardboard boxes. Slips out a lot easier 😊.

Lovely wreath Jessie, I love what can be done with seed heads & dried flower heads, a great inspiration. Drying sedums, nigella seed heads and some fennel stalks with flowers in my shed ready for Christmas wreath additions and to add to ivy, cornus stems etc for the vase. Love how it extends the appreciation of what we grow into Autumn & Winter. Anyway, I am going now I have said the C word! Thanks again!

A plumber and a gardener lol a woman of many talents, and you like a pint 👍, be nice to watch you go in loft again and put the tree up this year. Steve

Super Good video jessie you the best thé work Thans te video thans 🎧👍🎈❤🌞☕🌿🍂✔️🔥🧤

Lovely stuff..

I have successfully used beer traps after failing to control my slugs with nematodes or pellets. My friendly landlord supplies me with the contents of his drip trays.

Hole in the Sky is a song from Black Sabbath's "Sabotage" album. My mum says the poem is by Spike Milligan, though. Edit: which you found out later in the video.

Thanks for introducing me to the subject of lignin content in leaves! When you mentioned how great oak leaves were for your soil due to their high lignin content I was a bit dismayed since I have no oak trees, but a quick Google search showed me that maple leaves, which I have in abundance and are low in lignin, are actually the best for my heavy shale soil (maple leaves are quick to break down and higher in nitrogen). It makes sense that slow-to-break-down oak leaves are great for your sandy soil. There’s my ‘learn something new every day’ moment for today. 😀

Love your vlogs have been following for a long time now. Cannot think of any reason not to like Christmas, unless you have lost somebody at this time or are on your own. For us it’s always a family get together (11 of us), Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Eve , same as all Bank Holidays and Anniversary’s and family members birthdays. Thankfully we all live within 1O minutes of one another. Ps we have a leak in our kitchen ceiling that we have to put a bucket under every time it rains, fancy coming and fixing it for us, we only live in Essex, not to far.

time for the official U.K. not thanksgiving greeting: Happy warm, cozy, delicious fall gatherings with family and friends!!! : D

Spike Milligan, my lovely. They're ever so small that's why the rain is thin - haha, sorry wrote that bit before you said it 😁 Absolutely love Spike. He was such a genius! I have just moved my hens to a different place today, the mud was getting soooo bad. Now, we are going to have 5 dry days 🤣. Typical,

Thanks

I'm with mum on Christmas no tree or decorations before 20 December at the very earliest and all down by 12th night, like you I love wild life but I do use slug killer in the greenhouse etc were I can keep birds hedgehogs etc out

Consider swapping out the screws for cup hooks, less likely to damage yourself or clothing?

Loved this vlog. The chicks going out of there house was great. You cutting the lettuce off was so funny, your face. So fun, show us the finished wreath, please.

After your Xmas comment, I’m definitely a member of JMFC - (Jessie’s Mum Fan Club) , she ought to have her own little segment on the video as we see her but don’t hear her that much. Wow - where did you learn your plumbing skills - I need to go to that school, super I’m well impressed.

It doesn't seem 5 minutes since you were sweeping leaves from Last year ! Where did this year Go too !😵well done on the DIY! 🥳

I would make a hatch in the ceiling incase you ever need to get at the trap again, hinged so it drops down. I don't like not being able to get at things that may need getting at without agro.

Lovely wreath Jess ours comes out every year too but not yet. I havnt been to plot for a week as been poorly. Stanley has collected quite a lot of leaves for the bin. We have one bin which is a year old and this new one so looking forward to it in a years time hopefully be able to use it then. We have a lot of veg on plot too we havnt bought greens for about 3 years now. I still have some beds to mulch with compost but I will get there. Gotta get my field beans in too and aquadulce. I will sow peas and sweet peas in January my saved seeds. 👍🙋🏻‍♀️

Great update Jessie and what a great job you did on the shower , very talented lol 😂 Keep up the good work and say Hi to your mum for me xx

The Beatles - I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in And stops my mind from wandering Where it will goOOOOOoooo

Wow that wreath is amazing. Your very talented 👌

We have just had the same problem, bathroom raining through the kitchen ceiling…….. I totally sympathise

Fascinating start! The vanishing paper bags that were then discovered. Disappointed that the Eric Morecambe Paper Bag Gag wasn't done. Then the roof with light that used to be dark and the concept of opacity. Then a burst of poetry (I expect the full forgotten poem recited over a glass of cider later!). I love this vlog (no subtitles today though😢) ❤❤ will carry on watching now (while my stroke survivor wife snores in the background😂)

Jess your Christmas wreath looks great as it is.

My mind ran to Paul Young, watering the milk from a hoke in the roof where the tain comes through, what can you do. ❤ Awesome shower job. Cheers me dears x

Well you certainly got a shower at home at 16:16! lol You might like watching The Carpenters Daughter - Vikkie Lee. She has just bought a bungalow after several failed purchases and after already selling her house and living in a boathouse up North. Does running the lawnmower not speed up the process of breaking down the leaves? How do you spell the L thing Oak leaves have please? We have confifers, lilac and some various hedges like jasmine and wisteria that we just leave to fall in situ. I use my Dad's leaves for mulch where i can. He doesn't save much for us as he says he hates the slugs on the bags but the tree is about 3 healthy people wide. I can't complain but he only saves me about a bag or two of them and puts the rest in the green waste bin for the council. Talking of which, one tip i went to had a container of compost to collect and use. What are your thoughts on taking some or do you think it is too sus as in too many weeds and pests? I think it was from the green waste bins composted down and then they put it in the big storage container near the exit? You'll never know that lettuce stalk might grow stil.... I've seen some Christmas trees up already and plan to get the stuff out this weekend, with an aim for it to be up by Christmas! lol Thats a really pretty wreath. What was the fresh stuff you were cutting off the bush? Not brave enough to collect resources for a wreath to home make. We have a autumn wreath and mantlepice garland that i put up with lights. I normally take the autumn wreath off the door for halloween week and then put it back on. Christmas time, i replace the wreath and living room mantle piece garland with a winter themed ones, with led white lights. I put up green garland, with some white tips on the stairs and landing up to the loft with pine cones and red led lights. We have a tree and some ornaments that we collected over the years and some that was my mums from when i was little (she passed when i was 10). Some other cheap old ornaments that she used to put out as well as her late mum. Oh and we have a light up baby polar bear in the living room! Hehe for the kid in front of the tree but the amount of times i have injured myself on that bloody bear trying to lean over and turn the christmas tree lights on around the corner! We also have Fred the Elf who never knows how busy he will be or how much mischeif he gets up to over Dec.... Anyway, hope you get the shower screens up soon. Do you have a target of when you want to get it done by? We have a concrete ceiling and upstairs floor. It is not fun but keeps the heat in. The new loft is wood, etc, so moving the light placements were a lot easier. I can't speak for anyone else but having a mix of gardening, DIY and crafts all blend together nicely. Any tips on telling a squirrel to f off digging in my containers and checking it's stash daily would be great. No i don't want bread in a flower pot! lol Best wishes

Baking soda can be used to repel slugs and snails from your garden You can sprinkle baking soda lightly onto the soil around your garden beds or plants to stop them..

We had our Christmas trees 🎄 up a couple of weeks ago 😂. The main tree and the kids trees in their room. Other than that we have more trees (sometimes 9) that we put up 😂😂🙈 also my parents and brothers too so we LOVE Christmas here

You remind me of my single sister with your handywoman skills. I have a handy husband to help me and am wondering why the men in your lives are never there to help you and your mum.

I,ve grown park Choi for the first time this year…following your lead…but sadly…badly attacked by slugs…so get very few edible leaves per plannt. Never mind…a little extra green veg in tonight,s soup😀😀😀

There are holes in the sky where the rain gets in but they're ever so small, that's why rain is thin. Spike Milligan. I think that's how it goes anyway.

Whatever the weather, it's good for something. Rainy days are for indoor tasks. Celebrate Saturnalia at christmas time! 😂

Great video. Love your wreath. So detailed and intricate. I don't suppose that you have a link for teh npaper bags, do you Jess, or any one else reading this, please? Many thanks in advancea, guys :-) happy gardening x

Excellent vlog ❤ 😊 you're so inspiring ❤ cheers Jessie 🍻 and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours 😊

I've only just discovered your channel yesterday. I'm enjoying it quite a bit and started catching up on vids this past May. A couple or so questions: Do never let the chickens out to roam the garden? Have you thought about a wireless microphone. Sometimes its difficult to hear you, even when the camera seems close. Will you plant a cover crop on the empty beds for the winter?

I would love the large leave I have those small leaves and they get stuck everywhere.

How big is your plot and how much of a percentage of your own food would you say you grow and how many does it feed?

Greetings 🍷 Why did you decide to leave the bubble wrap up in the greenhouse? Cheers 🍷

Why does your mum hate Christmas? Awe...

I've just helped myself to half a dozen bags of leaves that the council street sweeper collected this morning and left by the roadside for collection. Should I feel guilty 😇

Did you have to vent the shower drain?

why don't you put the chicken in the greenhouse to get the slugs

There are holes in the sky Where the rain gets in But they're ever so small That's why the rain is thin. Spike Milligan

Where is link for bags?

Hi Christmas is for kids .

Looking for the bag link... please...

Is there anything you can't do?

Hey Jessie, I did not know you were a, pipey, How much do you charge per hour? Leaves I use the blower to move all the leaves to cover all the garden spaces so none are left exposed to air. Then in the spring I bag them up to make leaf mold. I am also looking for the best brown bag size options looking on amazon have not found the right on yet. I am probably way tooo picky and should just click one and be done with it already! However I do like the drama but only when it is all about me. This week I will be done with the garden and the snow will come and put everything to sleep for the winter. Take care see you next week

Water!! Electrics 😳😲

Hello My Jessie Babe.

jessie i have no volune to your video

The wreath is out! Does that mean I can pester the other half about the outside Christmas lights? Once again you amaze with your home Reno skills 💪🏻 🧰. The poor little girls, I have one who has molted and is miserable in the cold, poor girl had rough month already and I think the pinfeathers look so uncomfortable. 🥂🥂

Jessie....lovely bird,living in heart.i want to started integrated farm,need your assistance.i will meet you or invite you.shamim zahuri from bangladesh ✔💋❗🌹🎎👫🫂