okay welcome to barry's allotment i'm barry and this is my allotment it's the first of
september right here right now so i thought i'd give you a plot tour we just had the
august bank holiday weekend here in england and it's a bitter sweet holiday because
although it's normally carnival weekend here in town here in london
and um it's a three-day weekend for many bittersweet because it also
as i was saying it's bittersweet because it also marks the end of summer and not necessarily the
beginning of autumn but we will transition into it i'd like to say we'll have some more
summer sunny summers days but most of august has been like this cloudy grey and overcast so
fingers crossed we get summer but yeah i'll give you a quick plot tour because with the weather
ultimately going to change for the worst we are
this is definitely the best it's going to look until spring
so here at the front of the plot i've got a row of lavender plants lavender bushes and behind that
was a whole row of jerusalem artichokes but most didn't make it and what's remaining a tiny
this is a plum tree it's self-seeded in the pathway so i had to remove it but rather than
just remove it and compost it i moved it to there it might not look like it but i think
it's going to be okay globe artichokes here which are tiny my pear tree my pear tree's
done really well this year and hopefully it'll put on a lot more timber next year
my globe artichokes i mulched halfway through summer and they seem to have picked up after that
blueberry bushes here i've got a little row of blueberry bushes that are planted earlier in there
i made a video about that i've got pink blueberry bushes and blue blueberry bushes this is going to
be a blueberry hedge and then there was a rogue one that's going to be a standalone bush on the
other side of this quince tree my queen's tree looked like it was doing really well at the start
of summer but then it rained most of the way through august and i've got a terrible crop and
most of them are rotten in some way so yeah disappointing year for for the quince tree
i don't think i'm going to get anywhere near enough to warrant making membranilo
this is the rogue blueberry bush which should grow much bigger than all the others
some herbs rosemary there one of my apple trees i think this this apple tree i'm going to have to
spray next year pull some horseradish out there yeah i think that one's gonna need
spraying next year it's just something not right with it and it's it's not recovering
sage this is a green gauge tree that i planted when i thought the fig tree was uh no longer
with us but the fig trees made a miraculous recovery ever since yeah the fig tree looks pretty
good these are more jerusalem artichokes that are planted at the same time as the ones at the front
and these ones have done really well and i don't know what happens to the others
so
this one at least is looking pretty tall when you compare it to the uh the midgets
at the front of the plot most of those are well at least half of them are over six foot tall now
as in the taller than me
so here i have a small patch of horseradish and two of my apple trees these apple trees
are still very young so they did produce a handful of apples this year
but they're not big enough to support them so most fell off there's a couple still clinging on
okay this tree is now a few inches two or three inches taller than me now hopefully
it will get um i don't know how big he's gonna be when his full size but hopefully next year
he'll get even bigger and this one probably about a foot taller than me now the tallest part
so here at the back we have my bosch battery-powered mower because i've
just finished cutting the grass a shed and then right at the back this
blue plastic sheeting with all these pots and bricks to hold the blue plastic sheeting
down there was a big patch of i planted blackberries they became completely out
overgrown they're uncontrollable so i cut them back i've covered them with sheeting
they're still there they're still popping out next to the river and next the apple tree i'd hope to
remove that this year and let it go to grass but they're gonna have to stay down till at least
next year hopefully i can remove the sheets next year and let it go to grass and start mowing it
so i hope you enjoyed this quick september plot tour september the first plot tour
still got some uh hopefully still got some crops to crop um it's very much dependent on the weather
now and that's not looking good but yeah hopefully um
get at least another few weeks of warm weather warm weather will do and i can get my
jerusalem artichokes out of the ground
actually that's it so i see we have got other jobs to do other than dig those up
there is a few other tasks that i need to take care of before the weather changes into winter
so i'll see you next time Toodles