Salad days plot Videos

do you reccomend starting seeds in the green house over the garden? what kind of compost do you use? thanks!

Loving Bet's shocking pink dressing gown and lime green hairnet, sets off the sherbet lemon hairpiece a treat! Oh to wake up of a morning with such sartorial style!

Great video Aaron, loving the garlic and onions :)

great harvest and update

You did better than me with the onions. I like the white radish I did some too.

Enjoy the fruits of your labor, Aaron. You've earned it! :-)

Good luck with the weeds Aaron. It is the one thing that scares me about an allotment, when I consider the amount of time I spend in my tiny plot/garden keeping it weed free. Keep up the energy and enthusiasm! Mossy

Delighted Aaron for you that you finally got some decent Onions and Garlic. I lost most of my Garlic through rot. The courgettes will soon be up and those Radishes are superb and tasty looking. You've got a good strimmer and it's going to make your work easier and the plot tidier too.. Like all allotment people I too will miss Rick. I used his royalty free music for several years and watched nearly all his videos. Whatever he does I wish him well.

Lovely Harvest Aaron and your courgette is looking swell. The product in your hand looked very light - £70 for that is a bargain. Nice to see you happy and satisfied with your harvest - congrats mate - take care - see soon

Wonderful! After all the crazy weather, I had been wondering if anyone would get a single thing out of our gardens this year. I see you are doing really well considering the climate we have all had. I started some of my plants late this year, and it's the only reason I have any at all. I also like your strimmer ? (weed eater here) looks like it really took care of the weeds. I can tell you one thing, if you cover that ground at least 4-6 inches with straw or hay, you will not deal with weeds ever again. I've done it, and it works perfectly. It also softens the ground, and you just make an opening in it next year, plant, and let it go. No weeds, no hard soil, and no tilling at all. It really does work. Have you ever watched the video "Back to Eden"? it's fantastic, and is amazing. You can see it here. //www.backtoedenfilm.com/ The film is down the page. Make it full screen, you will enjoy it. It's long, but fantastic. Weeds will never be a problem again, and no tilling again either. I love your videos, and now maybe we can have a "Cupa" next time too. Bless, Sheila PS can you show the tea pot? I need one that size. Amazon??? I like that one more than others I have looked at. Thank you!

When scape comes, it's 28 days AFTER the first scape shows. So maybe you should have left out to bulb up further after taking scrapes off and frying them in butter and add to steak, or salad or eat with a dip.

I'm pretty sure they're not seeds in your pumpkins,seeds aren't made untill the fruit is more mature they're proberbly bits of broken stigma. I pinch a small hole in both male and female flowers to let the rain out. Squash plants will polinate pumpkins and courgettes will polinate marrows but they can't polinate each other(different number of chromasomes) this won't effect the fruit size or charictaristics but the seeds from the fruit will produce a random mixture of both parents as in humans.

Garrison Keillor a Storyteller master will be remembered for ages.

Dan its really coming along now. Its funny how that happens, it seems for months there is just a mess and then all of a sudden things start coming together. Ive sown loads lately but like you are way behind with brassicas. will do an update tomorrow. gd luck those large onions looking fantastic already mate Tony

Awesome tour, any chance you could do a 'how to build' on those netted cages with the blue hoops?

Absolutely wonderful Dan, you are an inspiration to all of us. I sit there and dream that one day I might know a fraction of what you do and on that day I will be well pleased. All the best and I hope your carrots and onions are the best ever.

Just a quick question.... It may be a daft one...... Your lovely show onions and carrots... do they retain the flavour when they are forced for size ?....10lb onion would make some lovely soup methinks ! 

Awesome update as always thank you for sharing

Hi Dan, last year you used Nematodes for the slugs, did it work? I'm giving them a try today. All the best, Ken

Hello potatoes days are good, there is a video that I have uploaded if you look at my channel , I really like the coloured ones and those beans and peas are good great video - your second day looks like the same people that do the one we went to

Awesome update Laura i never been to a potato day so much thanks for sharing have a blessed day

Thanks for sharing Laura. Sounds like a good outing especially in poor weather. Unfortunately we do not have anything like that around here. Best wishes Bob.

I've never heard of potato days, but looks interesting. Forgive what is probably a stupid question, but are the potatoes there only for planting (rather than to take home and eat straight away?) thanks :-)

I went to the Harper Adams Potato Day. Fantastic day out! I'm an allotment newbie, so picked four each of eight varieties. The booklet really helped to make sure I had a good spread of textures and types. Does 32 plants sound too many then..?! I do like potatoes so hope not.

First year growing potatoes for me and I put two Red Pontiac seed potatoes in a 20 litre pot. Today I emptied the pot to see if I had any early potatoes, I planted them on April 30th so about 70 days growing and I got 1lb 10oz. I am quite pleased with my first attempt - thank you for your wonderful tips. btw - I am in Canada.

100 Days for me today Dan, One seed potato per bag. Just pulled my 1st bag, got 2kg (4.5lbs)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! one spud was like a jacket size and 1lbs himself!! Jesus these rockets really have lived up to there name!!!! would have pulled them at 90 days if i knew the size. Same compost as i used last year just stuck some BFB and chicken pellets in (when i say some i really mean a ton by your standard :P) just had to share my excitement with someone! the pots boiling, cant wait to try them :D -The1ndnly

Wish I could remember when I planted mine in the small pots :o( Great crop though fella - I've got some in a 30ltr pot that are flowering so not be long till I'm tipping them out \0/ All the best. Chris.

Very nice haul, especially from such a small pot. Yay!

That's an ingenious way to dry your string vests on that pole in the poly tunnel ?! It's gonna catch on !!!

Can't wait to see your next pot video!!!!!!

Awesome work Dan! I always eagerly await your videos - the spud reveals are great!! John

Awesome, I will be trying this early next spring...early spuds would be a real treat!!!

Nice harvest especially from such a small pot. I'm going to try your method this year to see how they do. Thanks for sharing. Rick