Helloo, How's it growing? Here is my monthly collection of what to sow videos from my favourite YouTube garden growers. There is STILL so much to sow, some things are reaching their last sowing times of the year like dwarf beans, beetroot, kholrabi, carrot, purple sprouting broccoli and dwarf peas (if you are quick) and some lettuce and some are JUST STARTING like the Chinese cabbages, pak choi, mustard salads which have a tendency to bolt if sown too early but for planting

For newbee gardeners who have just taken over a plot I wish I'd have watched these videos: How to make fertiliser with weeds - Erica's Little Welsh Garden Weeds improve your crops - Huw Richards For first year and second year growers like me - you may find useful: Charles Dowding what can go in hot compost Huw's last video on making plant specific foods especially good to start now for next year particularly if you are gardening on a super tight budget. For the total first ti

Top tips on: Successional sowing Growing tomatoes and strawberries When to harvest garlic, carrots and beetroot

Wow what a difference a month makes! For my friends who have been following - here is the monthly walk round. I tried to do a few lottie plot tours but the wind just made everything sound too crackly. Finally had a wind free day yesterday. By the way - the peas turned out to be peas! Hurrah and what I call lovage is really sorrel - I keep mixing them up - sorry sorrel. Here we have a before and after of the new pollytunnel which has been the main change and game changer t

In our Facebook allotment group people have been asking about slugs having had these pesky pests gobble their greens. I know how brutal that feels when you have nurtured something from a seed to bring it on only for it to be there - gone! - right into the tummy of a slug. Do they have tummies? Anyhoo, munched by a muncher. I do have slugs - and snails (no puppy dog tails but the lottie cat or "Supervisor" as we call her comes for a regular inspection - I digress). Slugs

Here is my monthly collection of what to sow videos from my favourite YouTube garden growers.