You Must Sow These in November 

Maybe clear a bit, & sow some beans or onions. Then clear the next bit. If you have some strawberries all ready there, onions can go between as companions.

You're an allotmenteer now, life will never be the same

Best of luck, I’m sure you will fall in love with it

Doing this on a bamboo field.. so many roooots

That is wonderful. The adventure begins! Very best of luck with your new allotment. And don’t forget to enjoy it. :-)

It really is true. Hope the Maine community is pulling together after recent events. My thoughts are with you guys.

Do you plant garlic round your roses? I heard it helps repel aphids and each makes the others' scent stronger.

No, I just pick wild ones. Hips too. They’re everywhere @@carolineowen7846

That’s great to hear. :-)

Wow, that's very fresh already!

Thanks for the rook ID! :-)

Thanks so much. We had dropped down to one every two weeks but are now back to a video every week. :-)

I would imagine in Spain you can grow veg year round, but you have the opposite problem to the UK, boiling hot summers

@@ScoreGuru123 Depends where exactly but yes, I can eat from my plot year round.

Love the idea of tender garlic suits. Totally delicious!

Do you break up the ones you planted in Sept, or plant new cloves?

@@bmiles4131 During September, whole heads are planted and pulled up with their shoots from November to February/March for the tender shoots. The partly consumed cloves aren't of much use, although those from this month were sufficiently whole to save in olive oil. This not only conserves the peeled cloves but also flavours the oil which can then be used for cooking... Completely seperately, in November/December, individual cloves are planted to produce new whole garlic heads in Spring.

Thanks for watching. :-)

Yes, I think we have different types of onions. Funny how we are in the same zone I agree. Frosts may be around the same date, but our winters are probably a little bit more severe. And obviously a lot, lot cooler in the summer!

Brilliant stuff! :-)

Lots to be sowing now it's a touch cooler. :-)

Thanks for this reminder. I do look at container gardening from time to time, but you're right - this is something that needs looking at perhaps more often. Please do check out this playlist in the meantime: ru-vid.com/group/PL3VEy0_tuFgQhuPkhdjRZKB4CpzqDGKUl&si=2MFvkw_bbLso6Yqw

To right Antonia! ;-)

Great job. :-)

Wow, that is a lot to you have started just now. Great job!

Interesting to have potatoes growing so late. Hope you manage to get a good harvest from these. :-)

Fabulous, thank you for letting me know. :-)

Super job! 😀🌱

You plant garlic in November? I'm in zone 7 and wondering what I could plant. Do you sprout them first or just plant a garlic clove?

@@carolinapatriot9651 I just put the garlic cloves in the ground.

@jaytoney3007. I’m in for the same first frost/freeze dates as you and I’m 870 miles north of you in Pennsylvania. That seems crazy!

@@sandram5664 Yes, it does. I would expect the frost/freeze dates to be at least two weeks earlier up north.

@@jaytoney3007 Our first freeze here in Idaho (Boise Mountains) was in September. It's been mid September for at least 20 years that I know of. Doesn't usually last long, and then we go into indian summer for 2 weeks to a month.

@@sage0925 My first average frost date is Halloween. After that it usually alternates with a week of warm weather followed by a few days of cold. What is surprising this year is the rapid cool down. Today's high is forecasted to be 83F, with a low of 60F. Tomorrow's high is 78F, then it drops to 60F with three days of frost. I am glad to see a slight warming trend in the forecast, so I may try covering the pepper plants to get a couple more weeks out of them. If nothing else, they will feed the deer. They are already venturing into the garden. I'm using cat netting to protect my cool weather crops; it will keep them safe from deer too.

Lots growing there. Great stuff! :-)

Lovely lots of garlic started there. Great stuff!

Hello Maine i grew up in Portland before i joined the army. Never moved back but wish i could visit i have only a few family left there. Winter 🥶 was why i joined the army. I settled in north central Texas and now northern Arizona where we get 4 seasons but milder winters. I miss the ocean and the lobster and clams though. 😊❤

Hi Therese, winters can definitely be brutal here. I like the changing seasons but would like even better if winters were a bit milder and more predictable. Not a big fan of lobster here. I always find the hype more exciting than the actual experience of it. 🙂@@theresekirkpatrick3337

I know - the mice are rather adorable aren't they! :-)

Great job. :-)

Definitely worth getting them a little bit deeper for that reason. :-)

It will definitely help. :-)

That's incredibly kind of you to say, thank you. Happy holidays to you also! :-)

Thanks for the identification of the raven. And yes, toilet rolls can sometimes go a touch slimy. I hope your veggies have made it through the hard freeze ok.

@@GrowVeg Any chance you know a supplier of Meteor seeds that ships to the States? They may be called something else here though. I've noticed that some nurseries seem to do that. Change the name so you think they have something unique, that nobody else has. Peas are so-so, but I couldn't give them a double cover, as they're on strings. Everything else made it through with flying colors. Double hoops worked fantastic. We got down to 14F, and everything else made it, with no supplemental heat. But we did have sunny days to warm them up during the day. I lifted a corner of each "bubble" to let the heat out every day.

Could you ask about newspapers on freecycle? Or buy one at the weekend? If you don't get a free one. The tv guide is the perfect size for lining a mushroom tray, & using a few pages doubled over folded in half lengthways, (bit tucked under the centre -base)- round the edges like how you line a cake tin :) You can also use kitchen roll tubes as well as toilet roll tubes cut down to the correct length, a grape punnet works well (for deeper tubes) or the shallower punnets / trays for the short 'seed tubes' to contain them. It makes moving them, watering & stacking easier. Some toilet rolls have a much bigger diameter tube than others ... I fold the tubes in half lengthways, (make a good crease!) then match the folds and crease again making a square tube, you can score a cm or so in, on one edge, & snip the crease and fold in to form a base with a hole in the base (9-14mm holes works best) then the square tubes sit neat together and support each other in the punnet / tray. You can measure it all so they all sit the same height etc, it's a nice get ahead job when the weather is rubbish, if you have no seed trays, or no idea how many you will need. (As you can see I've been completely skint ... & needed to do this as I had seeds planted in my 3 seed trays) It also doesn't waste any potting mix either & they stack. I make them up once I have enough tubes to sow what I'm going to plant next. Although always good to be ahead ... The newspaper pots go well in mushroom trays, (12 or 20) or make some seed trays from pallets. You can also use thin corrugated brown cardboard for the paper pots, like the sleeves off coffee cups.

Hope your peas manage to successfully overwinter. And great suggestion about sourcing newspapers. :-)

Where I live in Oklahoma, in the U.S., the libraries have free special-interest newspapers targeted to seniors, families, vegetarians, etc., in their lobbies. You could pick up 1 or 2 copies of these and use them for making newspaper pots. Good luck!

Thank you so much for watching. :-)

Wow, you have been busy! Great stuff! :-)

@@GrowVeg - thanks. I don’t know that I would have been so successful if I hadn’t watched your videos. 🇨🇦👍🥰👩‍🌾

How exciting - the best Christmas present!

Alpine desert sounds rather delightful - but I'm sure it's full of it's share of challenges! :-)

Hi, I didn't loose audio completely but it went very quiet I also used the captions. So I don't think it was just you 😊

Oh crikey, thank you so much for letting me know! I will look into this.

Great job! :-)

Thanks for watching. :-)

Brilliant - that's a healthy number of garlic.

Thank you. :-)

Fingers crossed they will be okay. :-)

Sounds like you have been very busy. I love starting onions from seed also. They always produce good, reliable bulbs from seed.

Hope you have better success this time round - I'm sure you will. :-)

Thanks so much for watching. You can relax for the winter now. 😀

So pleased to hear this. And thank you so much for subscribing. Happy gardening!

Yes indeed! Hope you don’t take offence to the northern hemisphere focused titles of these videos. Obviously just add six months onto them! :-)

Great recommendations! :-)

Just leave the garlic as they are - no trimming needed. For watering, just push a finger into the soil/potting mix to check soil moisture from time to time. Water if dry, leave if not. I check conditions every few days in warmer weather and maybe once a week once it gets cold. I would say plants in the greenhouse need watering more often than those outside, simply because it is warmer in the greenhouse and, of course, doesn't rain in there.

Stay warm also. Very mild this side of the pond currently, but cold weather soon to come I'm sure. Yes, you can grow peas in the same bed as tomatoes, so long as both will have enough space.

That’s very fresh already! Great to be getting the garlic in at least. 😀

Thank you so much for letting me know. Someone else has mentioned a slight issue with the sound. Will look into this. Appreciate it. :-)

I think your garlic may well do just fine. They may just be a little bit smaller that’s all.

@@GrowVeg Thank you, I hope they do. I'll be keeping my eye on them.

Great stuff - a warm welcome to you! :-)

I still don't know what ate all of my carrot tops. Rest of garden unscathed!

Hi Sherri, Our season was off to a terrible start this year but my husband was tireless in setting have a heart traps. FINALLY, the critters seemed to be gone and I was able to grow some things out of doors in the garden. Never give up! 🙂@@sherriianiro747

Always good if you can get multiple harvests. :-)

Thank you for watching. Hope your weather cools down soon. Must be tough dealing with warm temperatures so late in the year like this.

@@GrowVeg Thank you Ben. Indeed it is, today will be 82°F and climbing, even though yesterday it was a nice 76°. Oh well. 🤷‍♀️ lol

We do both, changing them to the season name once the month is done for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere.

@@GrowVeg yes and I get your emails at the right time of year too. Very clever and helpful, thank you!

Great to have saved your own pea seeds. :-)

@@GrowVeg I was very selective only choose pods that were full with 10 peas, and threw away the ones that weren’t full or didn’t have the right number of peas.

Bless you - that's very kind of you to say. Well, a very warm welcome to the channel to you! :-)

I agree - winter can be a stunning time of year. :-)

I think the main thing to avoid blight/mildews is good airflow between plants. Peas in the open, with plenty of air around them, will definitely help to avoid this. More on veggie diseases here: www.growveg.com/plant-diseases/us-and-canada/

Lots started off there - great job! I suspect the roots of parsley are indeed edible, as they are related to parsnips and carrots anyhow. I've never tried them myself - I wonder if they'd be a bit tough. But on the other hand could be very delicious! Gardening is very much a steep learning curve, but I guess that's half the fun!

Sounds like winter is just about with you already. Time to make plans for next season :-)

I’ve seen baby rabbits get through poultry wire and then get stuck in the garden eating everything!

Great to have a polytunnel to keep the harvests coming. Hope you have a fantastic start to the growing season next spring. :-)

@@GrowVegThank you Ben, and right back at you. I saved up for my polytunnel for more than a year and am glad I did, it makes so much difference to my growing abilities. I have two mini greenhouses in it (the cheap types you get from Aldi) which I use as propagators. They work really well at speeding up germination. The polytunnel also doubles up as a home for a stray cat. He has a little house there and a cat flap so he can go in and out as he pleases. My own cats love sleeping there too.

Zone 4 is quite fresh, so many of the things started here you may be better off waiting till spring to start off. So, to prepare for spring, I would concentrate on adding plenty of organic matter to empty beds and generally getting things in order for spring. If you're keen to get a good head start, you could start things off under grow lights indoors from late winter, ready to go out in early spring.

I think they should do in a greenhouse. Enjoy!

You could certainly just wait till spring. The advantage of sowing in November is the slightly earlier start this brings - but it won't be a massively early start, so it may be easier just to wait till spring. I guess it's really for those who are absolutely itching to just sow something now! The idea of sowing in November, though, is that the seeds germinate but then pretty much stop growing till late winter - or grow very slowly. This way they shouldn't get too leggy or nutrient starved.

How fab to have a proper cellar for storing veggies - that's great!

@@GrowVeg yup just very lucky !!

Haha, cheers!

I'm not sure why they wouldn't have flowered. They can sometimes take a while to get going. They need plenty of sunshine - so if it was heavily shaded then this may have had a part to play. Hope next summer's sweet peas bloom profusely for you.

Great to have your garlic and peas in already - should be on to a lovely early harvest next summer. :-)

Feels good! I just picked up a handful of Austrian Field peas. While they are mostly used as a cover crop to fix nitrogen, their leaves and shoots can be used as tasty salad and braising greens! I sorted through my seeds and pulled out the cover crop/ winter seeds and have winter radish and both cover crop and big seeded broad beans, and have Babington Leek Sets in several pots. I had those 10 years, at my old house - just getting them started here.

Thanks so much for your kind words. I do indeed have a book out: www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx

Brilliant, I will check it out, thanks.@@GrowVeg

If it’s any help, I grow Genovese Basil under lights all winter using the very simple Kratky passive hydroponic method and they do fantastically well. They’re usually ready to start harvesting 6 weeks after sowing.

I am in the Cotswolds. So you probably have a similar climate to mine. Potentially even just a tiny touch warmer. Basil should be fine under grow lights. :-)

I will definitely try again, the current lot damped off! @@GrowVeg

I will look up the system as I've never heard of it. Anything to keep me busy this winter!@@sandram5664

Thanks so much - have a good day also.

Thanks so much. :-)

Thanks for that Jeremy. We found out the audio plug had got disconnected a bit. We will ensure this doesn’t happen again. Cheers for your input though, really appreciate that. Top man! 😀

You may be right. Or possibly not… ;-)

Great question.

So I just check the potting mix or soil every few days initially and then maybe once a week during the winter. If it is dry, then they get a water. So important to still keep them watered over the winter

I know what you mean about cutting them back. They seem like old friends after a long growing season don’t they. :-)

They sound like determined little blighters!

Watch out for our December sowing video, when I'll be including some ideas for sowing indoors. :-)

Thanks for the suggestion Anthony. Having a polytunnel is a great asset to have - a perfect place to potter on a chilly/wet day.

I was in a past life befor medical retirement from a government as foreman of works on and Army barracks. I trained as Stonemason but to change as the autoimmune arthritis finished me off. I can use my wheelchair. I have alway garden since I was able to hold a small spade. Tony