I am so glad Steve sent me over to watch. He was right, you do have a nice way of presenting.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

😊😊😊😊😊😊 Thank you so much

I’ve been on a waiting list for a long time and just wonder how many neglected plots there are out there! It was hard work for you and I’m in total admiration of your results!

Just stumbled apon your channel and I have to say what a lovely presenters voice you have, you sound so professional in your speaking and at ease on camera. Looking forward to viewing your other videos on your plot, enthusiasm for gardening is always infectious. Still waiting for our snow to melt in Ontario, Canada. Always nice to see green and dream of spring. Take care from across the pond. Jenn

@JBNat

2 жыл бұрын

Ahh thank you so much for such a lovely comment - really glad you enjoyed!

Well done! I'm a plotter too, it's a challenge but it's very sociable too when you get to know people. Most are supportive, there's always one but hey, that's life! Worth the effort for lovely tasty veg and if you're lucky like me, got mature Cherry and Plum Trees , and now an Apple Tree that's done really well. Rotting carpet and plastic sheeting is a pain, doesn't break down! Good luck, we need to keep allotments going, or they get taken away and built on.

A bit late to the party but love watching your videos they’re so relaxing and motivating. You are such a natural presenter 🤩

the hard work pays off , keep at it

My first time watching and I really enjoyed it.

Best of luck. I smiled all the way through this. Empathy smiles!

@JBNat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!

That allotment certainly was a mess before Naturally JB got his hands on it. Mine was a mess too. Great video and good to see the progress on the plot JB and it's a improvement compared to what it was like previously. It is good that we have been able to get down to our allotments despite the COVID pandemic restrictions/lock downs.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks David! 👍 You're so right about being lucky to have our plots throughout Covid.

Wow, what a transformation! We've just done a 2 year update on ours. It's lovely to look back and see what you've achieved. 💚

Just came across your vids, You have done well and from the sounds of it, you're getting sound advice from other KZreadrs you mentioned ( I also have watched them). Keep going and hopefully this year you will have a fantastic harvest and food that is 1000% better than you get from a supermarket, I do my allotment for the taste you can not beat fresh food for taste. All the best for this year and I will watch your progress.

@JBNat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much David!!

What A Hard Worker! Love The Videos!

That was fascinating.😊👍

It never ceases to amaze me how many folks put down that useless black 'weed barrier'. It only works for a year or so and then get full of weeds and is very to get out.

Well done mate (and to any helpers you got). Keep up the great work.👏👍

Ah what a lovely video, and so nice to see the progress you have made after so much hard work. I just inherited my plot at the start of winter and I love seeing progress people made when setting theirs up. I'll be back :)

Lovelyyyyyyyy tour!!! So much done in a year! So proud of you ❤

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

new phone who dis

Fantastic transformation 👏 We have demolished house bits on ours like windows and bricks which we've had to dig out but then underneath all that there's remains of allotments from decades ago, its hard work so well done!

Lots of work .....good job. I read Steve's comment to check out your channel...... keep up the good work.

Very nice vid, made me think of Sonnet 29’s couplet.

Oh my goodness, that little bee at the end! 🐝... fantastic to have a look back and see the rewards for all your hard work 😊

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Yess!! I knew someone would enjoy the bee. Thanks so much Willow 😀

A great video. Good to see how you have progressed!

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! So much! Always more to improve 😃

hard work plus great reward.....you cant beat that! great transformation!

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! 😊

Happy KZreadrversary, and well done for turning that plot around into something productive. I look forward to next year’s anniversary video.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Andrew! Been great to have you along, one of my earliest watchers 😄😄 Really appreciate your support & hope you're having a good start to the year.

Such an incredible transformation JB! Especially with what was thrown at us the last 12 months!! So impressed with how much the plot and your channel have grown! 💕

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🥰🥰

Awww loving following your journey and it gives me hope as I’ve just been given my plot last weds and it’s hard to know where to start! Hoping to move a crappy old compost heap today and lay loads of card to start a no dig bed, managed to pick up a giant free tarp to kill some grass and need some flags so I can put up the shed that’s waiting for me. Easy to get overwhelmed but have to remember to take it slow and enjoy it. I have some raised beds and a brassica patch manured, limed and caged ready for the sprouts and cabbages going in soon at home so no need to rush the allotment but it’s hard seeing all the lovely ones on social media! 😊 looking forward to seeing your progress this year!

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Ahh that is fantastic news Clare! Congratulations on getting a plot! My main advice is to TAKE PICTURES. Take all the pictures you think you'll ever need and then multiply that by 3. I so wish I had more 'before' pictures of the plot. Good luck with the no-dig bed! Make sure you try and get some good quality compost for it that's free of weed seed if possible. Do it little and often and don't worry if you can only use a little bit of the plot this year. Spring is a tricky time to take on a new one - I had the whole of winter to convert mine first! Good luck!!

@clareellam1615

3 жыл бұрын

@@JBNat good advice! I got 12 bags of new horizon peat free to do the one bed I made today and it’s amazing how far it *doesnt* go! Found a toad in the compost heap too and discovered I had a comfrey plant that had grown out of the bottom of the pot with roots so huge it was almost welded to the ground but it’s out now, divided and potted on and brought a load of root home to try and propagate. It’s been quite an abandoned site for a while but since lockdown quite a few plots are occupied and hoping the site will go from strength to strength now. Even met a lady who lives at the back of my neighbours plot who was so happy it’s in use again as she’s been there 30 years and seen it all pristine when the old boys used to have it and derelict and overgrown after so it’s nice to know someone else is getting enjoyment from us working them too!

I had my complete scrap yard of an allotment on 1st March this year. So nice to see someone elses journey to turn an abandoned plot into a growing space. All the best mate Nige

Lovely video, thanks for sharing it.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Well done Jono! Motivation for us to get up and out to our own plot and crack on with work there!! Cannot wait to see your face trying out some of those crazy chillies ;)

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! Cheers Piotr, hope you had a good day down your plot!

Hi JB I randomly came across your channel and would like to thank you for sharing your project. I am from the UK and now living in Cyprus and will be starting a project this year hopefully growing various fruit and vegetables on a small plot. Take care, Bill

Just at the start of your journey myself, its good to see how it comes along! Well done, you have done a great job.

@JBNat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Hope it gave you some ideas 😊

This is very inspiring! I’m tackling some of these issues on my plot so can relate 👍

@JBNat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! It can be a real mission can't it? But so great to look back on it afterwards 😊 good luck!

Absolutely loved this - looking back over the last year has shown so clearly the amount of work you’ve put in and transformation of the plot! Just brilliant! Who knows what next year’s video will be like with everything more you’ll achieve over the next 12 months!

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Really glad you enjoyed it! I was a bit nervous about whether the before/after shots would come together or not and my GOD it was cold filming this. Had to keep rushing into the greenhouse to warm up so I didn't have very long to get the takes 😅

Lot of hard work there!!

@JBNat

Жыл бұрын

oh you betcha! I love looking back over these videos, it's so easy to forget how far it's come!

Great to see you've turned it around. I got my new plot end of May beginning of June but its my 3rd plot, so have some experience , apart from being on clay it seems not too bad. I feel your pain I had a plot that was over foundations of an old scout hut that was terrible! I excavated huge boulders ect. Then next plot flooded worse than Glastonbury! . The woes we face lol but like you say it's rewarding hobby.😀

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Debbie! Sounds like you know how difficult but how rewarding it can be

That was a lovely wee trip down memory lane. I remember you fighting to clear all that 😁😁

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

It was a helluva lot of work, but I must say if I was given the chance to do it all over again I would consider it. So rewarding.

You can stop the polycarbonate flying off by adding a cross brace and taping it to the sheets, that stops them flexing and popping out of the runners. My entire greenhouse is polycarbonate and we've had no panel losses since we did this.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

They're currently held in with a couple of bricks resting in the gutter 😂 Sorting them out is on the to do list though, and this does sound like a great method, thank you!

Well done! You have done a terrific job. It is rewarding, especially for your health and the vegetables taste superior to the ones you get at the supermarket. Keep at it, loving your vlogs...

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much - you're bang on about the varieties you can grow! And it's cheaper than a gym membership!

Interesting following your gardening journey and your successes, it takes some hard work but the results were worth it 👍

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Janet!

Loved the before and after shots. I’m too new here on your channel to have seen the transformation, but delighted by your growing audience. Must admit I was thinking, “dead body!” as you hauled that carpet out. I use a lot of pots here to make up for a lack of planting space, so when I see all of those stones I just think they’re an ideal material for the bottom of the pots, to provide a drainage layer. I simply don’t have enough ‘chuckies' or 'crocks' for that purpose either. Can only imagine how much time an allotment consumes. My garden here at McTavish Manor absorbs a lot of effort, so an allotment is just an aspiration as yet.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! Thank GOD we didn't find a body in the carpet!! I have a nice big bag of stones kicking about on the plot somewhere - I'll often find a fair few when digging or weeding and they often find a use somewhere! McTavish Manor sounds wonderful 😆 Thanks for your support 😊

Fantastic transformation! I am just starting my journey with a gardening, but the allotment will need lots of work to bring it to some sort of shape 🤨

Lovely, I feel our allotment is my Happy Place, just love it, only been going just under a year also. Continue to enjoy... I know I will 😀👍.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I love being able to visit sometimes and just enjoy it instead of doing too much work.

What a daunting task you took on after seeing the first pictures, but you've been very successful and have grown some really great crops, Congrats on the first year, onwards and upwards

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Stephen!

Fantastic! My plot is a overgrown paddock covered in Docks, but getting there a bed at a time.....it’s so satisfying seeing it develop. Well done ! 👍👏👏

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you're making good progress! Simplify Gardening always has a great tip - "Garden Backwards" Make sure you turn your back on the 'to do' and only look at the 'already done' 😆

@lynnrushton7458

3 жыл бұрын

Naturally JB haha, sounds good to me! 👍

Great content 👍👍👍

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍

Great what your achieving Regular attendance is a big factor with allotment life as I took one on March 2019 much like yours it had been used as a dumping ground but we turned it around and took amazing yields for to beginners but work started up for us both and we haven’t been there for many months so 2022 we have to start all over again So will be watching and learning from you and others

@JBNat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter! I always think it's important to keep it in context, at the end of the day there are so often going to be things in life that get in the way and are way more important than your allotment. Can be tricky to balance but the important thing is to just try and enjoy the time you can get on the plot!

Hi I had the same experience on our allotment just like yourself, carpets galore, plastic under the soil, rubbish galore, took me a year to get rid of it all so I know how you felt, were into out 2nd year and feel like the plot finally able to concentrate on planting and creating our allotment to our peaceful place, what I like about your channel is your honesty and telling it as it is, well done with the plot and the future.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on managing to clear your plot!! Like you say, I know exactly how difficult it can be. It's so demoralizing when you're working your way through and find ANOTHER huge job. But the satisfaction as you start to harvest makes it all worthwhile 😊 All the best!

Well done 👍 and keep safe

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, you too!

Omg that was literally my plot 🤣

What a lovely video, a good insight into what was and what is. I am constantly reminding myself of what it was in my allotment.Its good to see what wonderful work you have done. That greenhouse is a additional bonus, something i strive to have one day. The hard work put in, is so worth the effort when you produce wonderful vegetables. Well done.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for a lovely comment - it can be difficult sometimes to stop and remember the 'before' but it's so worth doing!

@LorraineG123

3 жыл бұрын

@@JBNat one doesn't realise the changes unless you document it some how. People who have been on the hard slog journey can definitely see what you have done,i see similar with Nialls Gardens,its great to watch it all unfold.

It was a mess when you took it on! Looks great now!

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! It was great making this and looking back on the before/afters!

Well done. I have had the same,maybe worse. Literally tons of rock dug out.It is very rewarding! The rock is very nice to have. Nice to look at and useful too.This is what we as human beings are meant to do. Grow our own food and make things around us better.We can do it. : )

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

I agree! Something very primal about growing our own food.

OH WOW ! I'm just slowly converting part of our backyard and I've found it hard enough but my challenges are TEENY TINY compared to yours! Mind you, I'm old enough to be your mother! I've been lucky too to tap into free resources like timber - here in Australia, the timber frames they use to transport plastic water pipes are a disposal problem for plumbing places so they're happy for me to take as many as I want - which is great, as any mistakes on my learning curve as I build raised beds are no big deal! I'm lucky too as I have access to free wood chip both fresh and decomposed so that's how I cover my paths and fill my beds (after doggedly sifting the decomposed stuff!). Yes it's hard work but it's so rewarding! Thanks for this video - it's made me see everyone has challenges but tenacity and a thoughtful approach gets you a long way! Cheers from Sydney.

@JBNat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for sharing! Good luck with your back yard!

very fortunate on my allotment site - the "committee" will cut all the big stuff down before handing a plot over to a "newbie" My plot just looked like a lawn - until I got onto it and found that it was all weeds, but their hard work had made mine so much easier. The only real problem I have is small pieces of glass from a previous greenhouse.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Oh gosh the glass!! Previous holder definitely lost a few panes on my plot, I'm always finding it. I know a lot of committees will make sure everything is order before a plot is taken on and I'm very jealous! Feel like i could have at least got a discount on the rent for this plot!

My goodness , you certainly had your work cut out there, good job you are young and strong and now after all that hard work you can start reaping the rewards.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you ever so much, it was so wonderful having so much produce throughout summer!

Lovely views on this video 🔥

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

We love to see it

Nice vlog. I am impressed at the progress you have made. I really find it difficult to understand how someone can leave a plot in such a state, but luckily for the plot you took it over! I also get a great sense of the personal satisfaction you get from it, which is terrific.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

I think there's a bit of a sad backstory to this one, which is unfortunately true for most plots like this. It actually used to belong to the site 'warden' and was apparently immaculate for a decade. But when his health started failing he stayed on as warden but couldn't keep up the plot, and then after it was left I think the council were reluctant to give it away. Hopefully over time I will do it justice!

@GordonjSmith1

3 жыл бұрын

@@JBNat So sorry to hear the 'back story', hopefully it will have a brighter future now.

@katec9893

2 жыл бұрын

@@JBNat That's a sad story, but it's also positive how you've revived it. I'm sure he'd be delighted to see your progress if he's still alive. It would be great if there was some kind of record of all allotment plots and their owners throughout the years, with notes on the plot that each new owner got a copy of. I've just taken on a similarly overgrown plot. I think the previous tenant must have cared for it as it has a good big shed that is organised plus some nice fruit trees. I'm really intrigued to find out what's underneath all the weeds, hopefully there will be some good finds like bricks etc that I can reuse on the plot.

urine is an excellent source of nitrogen and phosphorus. Use it diluted 10:1 as a compost accelerator and fertiliser. The beauty of it, it's totally free

Can't wait to see all your chillies 😁

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so excited to get them in the greenhouse in a couple of weeks (hopefully)!!!

@LetsGrowHome

3 жыл бұрын

@@JBNat the temps are meant to go up this week and stay up so fingers crossed you can 😊

Check out Home Grown Veg and his solution to the greenhouse panels flying off. The plot is looking great, so much work to clear it! My yard is much the same with thickets of bramble, jewel weed, grape and bittersweet vine; it's going to take a long time to wrestle it into shape. Wonder why the carpet was there.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Good luck with your garden! Old carpet is sometimes used in the same way that plastic sheeting is - to cover over beds and prevent weed growth. It's very common for it to be left and forgotten though, and is the bane of many allotment holders!!

A glut of chillis can be de seeded and stored in ziplock bags in the freezer.

Very interesting, I'm now on my 4 year on my plot, always new things to learn. I'm a new sub from Tony c Smith btw.

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks and welcome!!

that was me with my allotment

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

They're rarely easy when you take them on are they!

You've made brilliant progress in just one year JB. I wish I had a camcorder when I started on my current plot nearly 25 years ago! It's seen so many changes over that time. Lovely looking compost btw - how do you control the rainfall on it? ATB Woody 👍

@JBNat

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Woody! I would love to have seen your plot 25 years ago as well! It must be incredible to have been on one plot for so long. It's so rare people are able to hold on to them for that long in my experience. The compost is usually covered over with the old carpets that we dug up funnily enough, so it was nice to find some kind of use for them! It's definitely not perfect but I've not had an issue with the piles getting too wet in the past. For a few months over winter I did put some plastic sheeting under the carpet to keep the worst of it off, and the carpet acted as a nice weight!

@cumbrianhomestead

3 жыл бұрын

@@JBNat Yes, I've seen many people come and go over the years, but our site does have a few veterans LOL 😁

Proper strange weather indeed

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Why so people treat allotments like that!! It's so hard for the next person 😩

@JBNat

2 жыл бұрын

I've been told the lad who had this had long term health problems so it was neglected for a long time before he let go of it. And then it takes so long to get a new person in! Very sad when people can't look after their plots but I wish the process was a bit faster

Why do so many of these allotment plots look like 3rd world rubbish tips? Nothing tidy about them at all, with bits and pieces of crap laying about. At least stack/pile it up neatly.🤢

Looks a mess