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Martyn Garrett
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2024-09-07-Our worst ever tomato crop - only produced tiny tomatoes
This video was taken over a couple of days during the last week. Something strange has happened with our tomato crop this year. The tomatoes that have been produced are unlike the ones I'd normally expect to be produced by varieties I've grown for many years. I think it's probably our worst crop of tomatoes ever!
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2024-08-18 The "pièce de résistance" of this year's potato crop-a fantastic crop of Sagitta Potatoes
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This year has been very good for potatoes. I'm not sure why I'm assuming conditions were just right when they needed to do most of their growing. I've including some weather details during the time they were growing. The crop was also free of any pest damage.
2024-08-21-Know your onions and shallots - garlic failure
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We've had a good year for onions and shallots but strangely our garlic has been a complete failure. our onions were grown both from sets and seeds. our shallots were also grown from sets and seed and we experimented with Zebrune shallots by planting one of last year's shallots to see what would happen.
202-08-25-Storm Lillian - Friday 23 August 2024 Damage at the plot & Rothwell Park
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A look at the damage caused by storm Lillian which brought some gale force winds much higher than normal for late August. It was the windiest August weather I've recorded over the last 15 years.
2024-08-12- Ruby's day - games, allotment & Nostell Priory
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Ruby's day starts about 08:00 in the morning to 23:30 in the evening. It was a busy day with a trip to the allotment in the morning and a walk at Nostell Priory in the afternoon.
2024-08-16-Lifting a brilliant crop of Nicola potatoes (I thought they were Sagitta)
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I continued lifting potato out of our very hard nd dry ground. I was sure that these potatoes were Sagitta but they weren't. If I'd check my plan first I would have known that they were Nicola so my apologies for the confusion in the video. However it was an extremely good crop despite the ground conditions.
2024-08-13- A morning walk at Temple Newsam with Ruby
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We took Ruby on one of her regular walks at Temple Newsam in the morning as we’ve been experiencing some very warm afternoons. Of course Ruby wanted to play at chasing a ball and pestered us until we gave in.
2024-08-09-Clumber Park - a tour of the walled kitchen garden
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We had a day out at Clumber Park. We were surprised to find out that dogs were allowed into the kitchen garden as a few years ago this wasn't the case and we had stayed well clear of the kitchen garden ever since. It was nice to find that Ruby was allowed in so we took the opportunity to have a look around.
2024-08-03-Orla potato reveal from a weed infested bed. How will they have done?
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I got round to lifting the first of our main crop potatoes. The weeds didn't seem too bad until the potato tops began to die down. Suddenly the weeds took over. The ground is also very dry after almost a month without rain so digging the potatoes was going to be a challenge.
2024-07-30-has it really been a wet July? We’ve had one wet day and some weather charts
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The weather forecaster I heard seemed to suggest that we’d had a wet July. I’m not at all sure we have. July has had one wet day although it was the wettest July day in the 15 years I’ve been keeping records. Other than that one wet day it’s been very dry.
2024-07-18-Our visit to Lyme Park, Cheshire - A National Trust Property
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A video of our trip to Lyme Park in Cheshire.
2024-07-28- I managed to finally finish lifting this bed of Elfe potatoes
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I started lifting a small bed of Elfe potatoes a couple of weeks ago. I’d only just started when it started to rain and had to stop. I don’t think it’s rained since. I’ve been busy getting on with other jobs since but decided to lift the remaining potatoes. The results were very good. A few potatoes have been damaged by slugs but the crop is generally very good and has produced some nice sized ...
2024-07-25-Ruby goes to pick gladioli, dahlias and sweet peas at the allotment
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We took Ruby to the allotment to help us pick some flowers. Our spring sown sweet peas are now beginning to flower as our autumn ones begin to fade. Our dahlias are in full bloom and we had some gladioli to pick as well. The tomatoes in the greenhouse got a watering while we were at the plot. We also had a look at our annual flower bed which has turned out to be a big disappointment.
2024-7-23-early brassica bed cleared - cutting and using hazel pea sticks
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Our last row of peas has been left uncovered and we are hoping the wood pigeons leave them alone. The peas needed some support and I had to cut the hazel supports from the hazels coppiced in winter.
2024-07-18-Ruby ignores the spectacular view for a game of chase
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we had a day out to Lyme Park in Cheshire. After a walk around the gardens we took Ruby on a walk in the parkland. Despite the spectacular views Ruby just wanted to play a game of chase.
2024-07-12-Lifting our first early potatoes - Ulster Prince & International Kidney
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2024-07-12-Lifting our first early potatoes - Ulster Prince & International Kidney
2024-07-11-A tranquil few minutes at Nostell Priory
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2024-07-11-A tranquil few minutes at Nostell Priory
2024-07-05-gale force winds in July?
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2024-07-05-gale force winds in July?
2024-06-30-International Kidney early potato reveal - will they be as big as Ulster Prince?
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2024-06-30-International Kidney early potato reveal - will they be as big as Ulster Prince?
2024-6-30-They’re poised to attack - will our peas survive until our next visit?
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2024-6-30-They’re poised to attack - will our peas survive until our next visit?
2024-06-20-our day out to Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
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2024-06-20-our day out to Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
2024-06-22-Ulster Prince early potato reveal and some calabrese
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2024-06-22-Ulster Prince early potato reveal and some calabrese
2024-06-16- Allotment update - Almost planted up
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2024-06-16- Allotment update - Almost planted up
2024-06-13-Bald as a coot - which are the cutest cygnets or cootlings - Nostell Priory
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2024-06-13-Bald as a coot - which are the cutest cygnets or cootlings - Nostell Priory
2024-06-06- Ruby goes strawberry picking and a morning walk around our plots
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2024-06-06- Ruby goes strawberry picking and a morning walk around our plots
2024-06-06-The best of this week's wildlife videos
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2024-06-06-The best of this week's wildlife videos
2024-06-03 Morning tour of our plots with Ruby
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2024-06-03 Morning tour of our plots with Ruby
2024-05-27-What’s been eating our peas? Wood pigeons maybe!
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2024-05-27-What’s been eating our peas? Wood pigeons maybe!
2024-05-23 New life at Nostell Priory
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2024-05-23 New life at Nostell Priory
The significantly colder & more overcast start to the growing season seems to be the problem. I usually pick my first tomatoes (Sungold) in the last week in May but this year, it was the third week in July & small too. I'm only just now getting ripe, larger tomatoes (Moneymaker, Roma, Shirley & Red Zebra). Blight's been showing too of late.
The odd thing about our tomatoes is that the ones grown outside and presumably in colder conditions than our greenhouse tomatoes have produced a better crop. I take your point though that June and July were cool and must have had something to do with the crop.
Our outside tomatoes been total rubbish took ages to get going and produced much smaller fruits than normal, ones in greenhouse doing far better but found the skins tougher this year
Hi you two, we are the opposite way around to you. Our outdoor tomatoes have done better although I wouldn't say they've done very well.
Same here with smaller than normal tomatoes. I'm convinced it is something to do with the compost that I used . Hopefully next year will be better . I noticed a beautiful fuchsia there in your garden . White outer petals and purply blue under petals ...that's a beauty ! Give Ruby a cuddle from me 🐶🩷
I used the same compost as previous years so I'm not sure why we had such a poor crop. The fuchsia is growing in a large tub but it has grown very large this year taking over part of the lawn. Ruby will be pleased to get an extra cuddle.
Our tomatoes were poor this year as well. Ours was due to the early heat and dry, warm summer we had. Even with watering to keep them alive they didn't set much fruit.
Sorry to hear that. At least you have some idea on what caused your poor crop. Ours didn't set fruit either or not very much and that's when I just left them to grow as they wanted. I just kept them watered.
Everything seems to be very late this year. Mine are only just coming into fruit now. In complete contrast the beefstake plants have been amazing so far. Do you not thin and de-leaf at all?
Normally I remove any side shoots but don't remove any lower leaves. I tended to give up looking after the plants this year when the flowers didn't set any fruit. I've used more or less the same growing method for the last 40 years without any problems.
Jinty: oh bother and now I'm stuck in the turntable
Hi Martyn Sue and Ruby that is a brilliant result, saying that about the pongo bean our first two lots were dwarf but last batch has for some reason gone taller same seed from our saved seed so strange 🤔 but we gave some of the plants to our plot friends from last batch and theres stay dwarf i dont understand why
Hi you two, it's our best crop of potatoes for a good number of years. Will have to give some away! A bit odd to see the Pongo beans climbing through the sweetcorn. I don't know why either it must just be the way we grow them or the growing conditions that affect them. It's gardening there doesn't seem to be any hard and fast rules otherwise it would be easy. They still produce beans though.
Hi Martyn Sue and Ruby that storm done bit damage down here as well we lost our beans first time the wind ever blown frame down. Loads of the green pollytunels sent flying and sweet corn flattered.
Hi you two, much the same as here then. Amazingly we didn't get any rain other than a few drops which didn't do anything to improve our dry ground. I've decided to leave our sweetcorn flat to see what happens. I think trying to stand it back up will do more harm than good. Checked it today and it's not ready to pick
Hi there Martyn Sue and Ruby, like you we grow zebrune and long red Florence shallots val prefer them over globe onions,
Hi you two, I'm pleased to say that you introduced us to Zebrune shallots. I was a bit dubious about growing from seed but they seem to do well. We haven't tried Long Red Florence shallots but I'll keep an eye out to see if I can find some.
Greetings Mr. and Mrs. GreenThumbs, that is a high praise here in Virginia zone 8, state side. Another great harvest, thank you for filming and posting. You two are my green hero's, I dream to grow like you two. What kind of fert. program do you use for your potatoes? N-P-K? Did you have a cooler and wetter than normal spring, what ever normal is these days? I've been growing in zone 7 my whole life, last year the Dept. of Ag. updated our grow zones, I'm now listed as zone 8, warmer. I know that potatoes are a cool weather crop so I guess I have to start spring planting earlier. Thanks again!
I don't particularly use any special fertiliser for our potatoes. Since the UK energy crisis fertiliser became difficult to buy and very expensive. I've used a fertiliser called Growmore which is general fertiliser to use on all our crops. I think our hardiness zone is 9a as our winter temperatures don't normally fall below -6 degrees centigrade. Our spring and early summer was wet and cool his year and the potatoes seemed to love the conditions. It's certainly been one of our best potato harvests.
That's a great potato harvest! Thanks for filming and posting. Are you a take all the "eyes" off but 1 or leave all the eyes alone kind of guy? You Brits are really good at growing things! I would love to have your harvests. I'm in the States, Virginia grow zone 8a.
I'd like to say that we take a lot of care about the number of eyes we live on potatoes at planting time but the truth is we don't bother at all. The potatoes just get planted with the number of shoots they have decided to produce. I'm not sure what grow zone we are in but I'm betting it is much cooler than you have through summer. I'll see what I can find out.
Looks like a pretty fair batch of potatoes from a weed patch. My husband invested a lot of time, sweat and money keeping weeds out. No chemicals though. This look like a decent plan.
The weeds took over late on in the growing cycle once I'd stopped earthing the potatoes up. I was still a bit surprised by how good the potatoes were given we've had a dry spell of weather. Our potatoes don't get watered as we just haven't got the time.
Oh bless ! She is such a good girl ! 🐕🦺💚
Not tonight when she pinched some treats from the table.
Just the packer though , she didn’t eat any
I love these videos of our Ruby she is such a treasurer plus she has a wonderful couple looking after her bless you both.
Hi you two, Ruby wasn't impressed about us today. She's just had a shower ready for trim up with the groomer tomorrow.
@@greenfingers41 oh bless her she a beauty for sure
Hi Martyn Sue and Ruby , that's a splendid harvest of potatoes there best one yet for you I think .
Hi you two, I think you are right that's the best lot of potatoes I've lifted this year. However, having actually lifted the Sagitta potatoes from that bed I've been pleasantly surprised. Video coming soon.
What is a weed? Nice clean potatoes there sharing the ground with an array of wildflowers and edible leaves (Good King Henry). The main problem I have on my allotment is the committee wanting plots to be excessively "clean" whatever that means.
Our plots are supposed to be "weed free" at all times. Rules obviously thought up by a none gardener.
Hi Ruby you know your route there i see Sue can keep up with you. You have some lovely places to walk up there ,
I've decided Ruby has an inbuilt GPS system and knows the walks we do and the places where we might have a game with a ball. We are lucky to have some nice walks so close to home.
Hi Martyn Sue and Ruby Thank you so very very much for this video we enjoyed every second of it When you think how it looks now and what it would of been like back in the day with all the staff working away absolutely amazing, Would of been a real community there all working for the same goal.
Glad you enjoyed it. I thought about you when we were walking round. I had a sneaky feeling that you might enjoy it. I noticed that they had a little hut where they sold off produce grown in the kitchen garden. Just an honesty box for a donation to the garden. Everything had gone by lunchtime. I bet some of the apples are really tasty. Might have to make a return visit. Only trouble is Ruby expects a walk around the lake after the kitchen garden tour. It's about 3 or 4 miles!!
@@greenfingers41 you are both fit people so not a problem and having Ruby makes it fun
Wow!! What an amazing place. And those apples and figs! Very neat to see. Tfs! 👍👍
I thought the figs were good too. We have a fig small fig tree in the garden but it doesn't ever have figs.
I like them both but the seed bulbs are bigger and easier to make use of. Longor were insurance in case the seeds didn’t grow.
Hi Martyn Sue and Ruby You did well there for potatoes but did look very hard ground Martyn, I thought you were going to get Sue to dig them out at one point 😅😅, Sue you grew some zebrune which we find have a great flavour which do you prefer seed sown ones or the sets that clump , val likes your sweet peas as keeps reminding me that I didn't sow any 😢
I'm waiting for some rain before I set Sue off digging over the beds. We've got some sweet Williams almost ready for planting but I'm not sure how we prepare any ground for them at the minute. We really need a good days rain. I've some more potatoes to dig out of rock hard ground. watch this space!
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🎉very nice🎉
Good potato harvest!
Yes, thank you
Hi Martyn you done well there good looking spuds , I take it you have sue digging over for you now 😅, tomatoes been slow this year even down here on South Coast,
Hi Bill, glad you reminded me about Sue digging over the bed or I would have forgotten and done it myself. The bed the spuds were in had had lavender in it for a good number of years and I put the spuds in as a "clearing the ground crop" so didn't expect much off them. Hope they haven't outperformed our main crop potatoes.
Hello there Martyn Sue and Ruby Sue I think you had a shadow there in Ruby wish I has shadow like her but not long now before I retire and have time then, Seeing your lovely dahlias last season and this I went and got Val some new ones forgot with more flowers comes more vases so had to buy them as well 😂
Hi you two, our dahlias seemed to take an age to get going this year but are doing well now. It's been the same with the sweet peas. Ruby really enjoys visits to the allotment so many things to investigate.
Another good harvest .........rhubarb crumble for tea !
I’m thinking we might have to try courgette crumble.🍿🍿
Ruby you made my day seeing you have fun there .
Ruby says it made her day too.
Hi Martyn Sue and Ruby. Those spuds are a size the rain has helped swell them up nicely and great news no slug damage, Cauliflower lovely we found Clapton has out performed Boris both in size and flavor what is your appiinon.
Ah cauliflowers aren't they awkward. It's been just the opposite for us and Boris has outperformed Clapton. Clapton haven't produced at all so a taste test is not an option for us. I think I have a later batch of both Clapton and Boris coming along so Clapton has a chance to redeem itself. Clapton has normally done well for us so I'm not sure what has gone wrong this year.
Hi Martyn Sue and Ruby The swans on the river by work have 6 cygnets and are doing fine .
Glad your cygnets are doing okay. Our pair lost one cygnet when they were very small but the remaining ones are growing very quickly now.
It's definitely not Summer down here in Cornwall either ! ⛈🌧I'm envious of your potato haul , well done you two !
I think we are due a couple of days of summer over next weekend. Got rained off at the allotment today (Tuesday)
Nice allotment site where exactly is it sotuated
Near Wakefield in West Yorkshire
Everything looks nice but those potatoes are awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Might have to try the same ones again next year. Must have been a good year for potatoes.
I am jealous of your Broccoli mine got eaten by slugs I'm on my second attempt now lol
They've devastated a few of our cauliflowers and left the broccoli. Happy gardening.
@@greenfingers41 you too
It’s been rough here too, lots of damage and yields are slow. Especially cucumbers and pepper harvests are slow
I don't think our peppers will manage a crop this tear. Still waiting for summer to begin.
@@greenfingers41 ours have just started to ripen a few days ago
Sorry about the damage to your garden.
We don’t eat any part of our cardoons but the bees will miss out on the flowers
Thank you for your support my friend.
No problem
Oh no ! What a shame ! I love the Cardoons as well ....just for the majestic beauty of them and for the bees .🐝🐝🐝 They''ll come up again though . We've had some proper rain at last down here in Cornwall and another lot tomorrow , the garden needs it 🌦🌦🌧🌧 x
We got plenty of rain today (Tuesday) so we can put the watering cans away for a week or so. I left the cardoons laid across the compost heap in the hope the flowers will come out for the bees.
Hi Martyn Sue and Ruby Like you we got gales overnight here calmed down a bit now to be replaced by rain , where has the summer Got to Our site had some of the green pollytunel go for a flight and sweetcorn bent over Our plot seemed to be ok , hope your peas get left alone for you.
The gales have thankfully calmed down here as well although we've missed any sort of wet weather. The plot and garden really need a good drop of rain now. Fortunately or not some cold nights have slowed down our sweetcorn so its not very high and escaped any wind damage. So far the uncovered peas have not been noticed by the wood pigeons, they're too busy scoffing berries. Like you we are still waiting for summer to begin.
Your Garden is looking fabulous, nice size potatos.. New friend here from Growing My Own.
Thanks and 🤗
Hi Martyn Sue and Ruby Thats a great return there and some big ones nice and clean , Like you we have tried them I the past no good but our daughter gave us four of them she had spare and had two in a bucket , and blow me did they produce well , and if I was to grow more next season who's to say they be as good , and like you we try a few new ones each year just a few of each never know if one will become a firm favourite.
Hi you two, we thought International Kidney were rather prone to slugs so haven’t tried them for a while. However, the ground is very dry so perhaps that has had an effect on the slugs. I’d better get them dug up before we get any wet weather. Cold, lots of showers and windy here. Would be nice if summer could begin.
Oh it's absolutely heart breaking isn't it ! The pigeons here were landing on my nets and the weight of them pushing the net down and eating my kale through the netting ! They figured out how to do this ! I have now made my netting higher with blue water pipe tubing . I didn't know they'd go for the peas either ...with peas it's mice ! It's quite a battle isn't it ! Good luck 🍀
We’ve spotted them weighing nets down to get at brassicas. Having eaten virtually all our fruit it’s becoming more difficult to find ways of protecting our vegetables.
Hi Martyn Sue and Ruby this is the year of the wood pigeons there are so many this year, we have had to net our peas or they will strip them by landing on them and flatting them and eat everything
Our plot neighbours peas have been decimated and he’s given up on them. Waiting to see what happens to the ones we’ve uncovered. We need a gigantic net to cover the whole plot.
If the potatoes came out so big why not pull rest? They are already much larger than most early potatoes i have seen. Wont they just split at some point?
I’ve never had a problem with potatoes splitting. I always leave our potatoes in the ground until the skins have set before lifting and storing them. I’ll probably lift the rest over the next few weeks.
Oh my those potatoes grew a size didn't they and with all the slug problems we all been having they came out lovely and clean ,
Hi you two, I was surprised at how dry the ground was. I’m guessing that was the reason they were slug free. Perhaps all the slugs have headed to our strawberry patch where they’ve damaged lots of the crop. It will be interesting to see if all the other roots of Ulster Prince produce big potatoes. Luckily the ones we harvested cooked well and tasted very nice.
Maybe you know it but I'll mention anyway - If you cut down those broad beans that have no beans on them (due poor pollination) and leave a stump, they will usually grow new shoots pretty fast and will flower again.
That’s an idea. I’ve noticed that our beans normally send up new shoots from the base if we leave them in the ground. Thanks for the tip.
Hi Martyn Sue and Ruby even down here sweetcorn is struggling as you say down to the cooler days and light , strange your pongo's not doing so well as they dont mind the cooler conditions normally, we had our first new potatoes yesterday along with cauliflower and calabrese very nice , are you growing flaky carrots this season .
Hi you two, I’m going to try some new potatoes at the end of the week. Some of our Pongos are doing better than others. I’ve got some seeds left so I might try another sowing for a late crop. I’ve not got much to lose. It would be nice to visit the plot and not have to rush to the shed to escape yet another heavy shower.
Oh Ruby you look so nice after going the hair dresser , very kind of you showing Martyn where the best strawberries are in the container 😂😂
Hi you two, we thought from last year that Ruby liked strawberries and were careful to make sure she wasn't snaffling any as we picked them. She's a very good snaffler. Then later when we tried her with one she turned her nose up at it. Luckily the slugs and snails have left us a few untouched berries.
Hi Martyn Sue and Ruby so nice to see the different birds , not seen the swans in the river by me this year 😢
Hi you two, it was bit of a treat for us to see both the young cormorant and heron on the same visit. I just missed the heron catching the fish.
Wonderful! I love all the birds around the waters. Thanks for reminding us how beautiful nature is.
Not very often that we see a cormorant and heron on the lake at the same time.