Hahaha YOUVE HAD MY PEES

We posted at the same time well kinda i posted a video 8 minutes ago and it has good editing

I love Honeycomb as less prone to splitting than Sungold. Need to find a nice red so might give red cherry a go. Super Sauce first time growing, they’re massive, other new varieties this year for me are, Riesling F1 a baby plum, Garnet and Vivacious F1. Also growing Shimmer (lovely), Tigrella & Black Russian (giving them a miss next year), then San Marzano for sauces & Costoluto Fiorentino & Marmande as beef steaks…phew 🎉

Happy Birthday.

Hi great video. Will you be sharing the results of your using a new shop brought compost every month? I’d love to know which compost was best 😊 thanks

Hi Barry & Mrs W. Sorry to trouble you as this has nothing to do with this video. Not sure if you have covered this before or not but have you grown chinese cabbage before? If yes when is the best time to grow this as I'm not having much luck and we love this in our salads instead of normal lettuce. Thanks Bev

I put my compost down when a bed becomes empty x

I get a delivery of organic compost and spread it first part of November before the snow flies. In between I use my own compost.

Don't forget to sieve some of your own compost for seed starting, I'm getting much better germination rates with my own compost

I multisowed my Zebrune Shallots, had a great harvest this year.

At my allotment we get deliveries of wood chip. I’ve made some paths with it but also put some in my compost bays. I’ve also collected grass clippings from a local green space where the council cut the grass and know someone with a horse, so have been able to get horse manure. Added to all this I obviously get kitchen veg scraps and gardening scraps and some hedge clippings, so I’m hoping to be able to have most of my compost home made next year. It definitely helps to keep the cost down.

I do my main compost spreading in autumn but usually replenish a bed in between crops. I've ordered a pile of manure for the end of August which will go on my plot.You are a great planner. I've got winter brassicas sorted this year but not much else. I plan to grow spinach and other leaves in the greenhouse too. Just about to order my garlic for planting.

This week I acquired 36 red bell peppers I gave some to my daughter for her family, I put 4 in the fridge for fresh use with salads, I cut and froze half and cut and made Pete’s Pickled Peppers with the rest. Not a lot from my allotment this week a few courgettes and some potatoes. The beast is doing its job and I have bags of compost waiting. I’ve use one on the old potato bed and will be liming it and putting in more brassicas. I’ve made pickled beetroot but the re,wining plants seem too small to harvest yet. I put compost all over my rhubarb to feed it for next year I’ve had half a dozen tomatoes there’s loads just waiting to go red or yellow. Another busy week but I’m following your advice best I can. I’m torn between putting compost on the poor soil areas which produced nothing this year so I might get something next year, or bulking up the areas where I get some return already for greater success Thoughts All the best Pete

Good evening Barry and Mrs w been at the Allotment all day been busy picking Tom's and pulling onions and colliflowers and broccoli and beetroot picked the beetroot and blanched colliflowers and broccoli six bags each got more brassica to go in and son started more colliflowers of well mate hade long day worn out so bye for now Barry and Mrs w stay safe.

Like you I top my beds up once a year Barry.The time varies but always after two crops have been harvested.

My husband shakes his head at me, I shred everything in sight, i love an amazon box when it has miles and miles of the brown paper in!! It goes down quickly! Take care

Just added some grass clippings to my active pile. Hopeing to have 3 finished or nearly finished piles by the autumn to feed my garden beds.

Oh my gosh, Barry, it is much too hot here to be digging compost at the moment, lol! I will wait until the weather cools a bit before doing mine. I have just re-mulched a cleared bed of potatoes to plant in brassicas and beetroot. I havr beans, courgettes, salad crops, onions, swiss chard, blackberries and calabrese currently, later this year there is swede turnip, kohl rabi, winter squash, plus cabbage, calabrese, kale and sprouts,apples and pears, after Christmas there will be caulis, kale, sprouting broccoli, cabbage. Thank you for a great video. Happy gardening 🙂

Im waiting for Brandi wine, they are massive can't wait to try them they look delicious. Your tomatoes look amazing. Know come on! How have U grown such wonderful carrots??. Also I'm doing no dig, but my compost seems so dry doesn't matter how much I water, what am I doing wrong??

Also living in Norfolk have eaten two lovely ripe cantaloupe so far. Unheated greenhouse in 30 litre pots grown in a spiral around tripod of canes.

Good show Barry, I've only got 1 decent size mellon, 1/2 a dozen golf balls, from 6 plants, got my fingers crossed for a new tom I was trying 'Berkely Tie Die' it won a blind taste test at some US homesteading show 5 yrs ago from hundreds of varieties and thousands of tasters, took me 5 rs to get some seeds to the UK, thought it was a regular size tom but mine came out beefsteak size, no toms ripe yet tho!

I must thin out my carrots too. I've sown some more lettuce and radish to fill spaces like you said, thanks for that reminder. I have also sown some Pak Choi and swede. My Romanesco plants are growing well, as are my cabbage and cauliflower plants that I grew from seed 🙂

Great stuff

Good afternoon, great videos, we're growing Honeycomb tomatoes this year, which do you prefer between those and sun gold?

I would recommend "Alice,s Dream" tomatoes Barry and Mrs W.I think you both will be blown away by the taste ! Honeycomb have been prolific for me this year but very tiny. Super taste though . I grew "Marathon" on your recommendation and they've been amazing ! Sounds like an amazing birthday Barry 🎉

Had a green cabbage this week which I shredded (half) and fried with onion Wonderful. I had some beets too, spuds and bottled some shallots I planted out some brassicas but Very few. PSB sprouted I transplanted chicory (which sulked) never grown that before I have total bean failure but my allotment club has oodles of them in a poly tunnel so I’ve had a share! I made 9 jars of jam blackberry and apple, gooseberries from frozen fruit and more rhubarb from frozen. Managed to give a jar of each to our daughter &kids My carrots on the ibc tank are growing nicely just like yours. I’ve got kale and I used a peg to close the leaves over a cauliflower that is quite small just 3 tomatoes so far but otherwise.Its a time of abundance my freezer is full of soft fruit! Any tips on storing red bell peppers? I have been offered a carrier bag full and just can’t say no! Love your videos Thank you Pete

Harvests are coming steady now here in Chicagoland. I pulled all the Borlotto Beans and shelled them. YUM. Tomatoes are coming in strong, unfortunately blight has arrived and that's something I've never experienced before. Cucumbers ar and peppers have been amazing too. Almost all the onions are in now. A few fails but nothing big otherwise. Great video!

I grow in containers so it would be difficult to grow multi sewn onions.

You are getting such a great variety of food from your garden right now. And everything looks so perfect. I know the UK is good place to grow with your maritime climate but you guys are good gardeners. And you use greenhouses to help with the heat loving plants. Good luck with those melons! We are finally getting some cooler rainy weather here which is much needed after all the heat. I don't have a lot of brassicas for the fall but some and they look ok and just put some kale in yesterday. Just trying to maintain the pests. And my winter carrots germinated well along with a final bean crop so the fall looks promising. I will be putting my winter spinach in at the end of the month. Meanwhile I'm going to take a little vacation next week at the beach and hope the garden survives without me watering every day.

I grew Cuor de Bue last year and saved seed for this year. I sowed them this year and am just picking my first tomatoes today.I had one for my lunch with a Halloumi steak- delicious. Last year I made passata with them. I am not mad about the flavour but they are useful for me as they have very few seeds. They don't seem to be as big as they were last year. I am also growing San Marzano but I may try Roma next year. I have Emir and sugar baby melons growing in my little greenhouse- \|I'm very excited! Quite a few squash growing on my plants too. Still using squash that I harvested and stored last year. Most of my onions are harvested now- just a few left to harvest later this week. I am so grateful for you introducing us to marathon calabrese- such an amazing variety. I am still harvesting side shoots from my March sowing- super value plant. Also for your recommendation of Passandra cucumber. Perfect size for my husband for 2 days lunches- no more waste- fantastic. Happy gardening ot you both 🙂

Great video. You sharing your life events sets you apart from other YT producers. It makes me feel involved and wanting to know more. Well done. We're eating from our garden every meal at the moment. We have a courgette glut, no surprise, and our tomtoes are prolific this year.

I had some extra mini cucumbers so I made a jar of cucumber and dill relish.

When your radish bolt they produce seed pods are taste amazing aswell

Try cooking sweetcorn in the husk in microwave 4to6 minutes. Peel off husk lashings of butter 😇😂

Whats the best shear's for pruning 😊

Have realised our gardens are in the same Zone, just different parts of the world. England being 6 months behind New Zealand😅

Most prolific in my garden this year has been the courgette plants, over 5 kilos already and more to come

Only recently started following you both. Love the videos, always look forward to the next one. 👏👏👍

Have you tried Long Red Florence, shallots.

Happy birthday for yesterday! I’ve never grown shallots successfully but I’m growing Japanese onions for the first time, which I’ve just planted.