Steve! You are the Allium King!

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Hardly, but I will take it for now, now, where did I leave my crown?...Steve...🙂

Great update as usual Steve 👌

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks Jim, much appreciated...Steve...🙂

Thank's Steve!

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome Annica!...Steve...🙂

Thank you! The barrier for the corn is brilliant! New subscriber here.

Wonderful video as always Steve. Can you do an elephant garlic planting guide please? 😊

Loved your editing going back to the sowing stages compared to now. Brilliant idea 💡good reminder for us who follow regularly. Great timing too as I’m planting out my leeks tomorrow. Did all the pumpkins & squash today. Your plot really is bursting with food now. It’s looking great Steve 👍🏻

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Its not all good here Jo, but I am getting some harvests now so on the up...Steve...🙂

Not really digging more poking 😂😂. Lots to harvest now 👍👍. Thank you for sharing Steve have a great week 🐝 safe ps the sweet pea wall looks fantastic

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

I am delighted with my Sweet Peas this year, I have too many blooms, but can you have too many?...Steve...🙂

@myrustygarden

Жыл бұрын

@@GreenSideUp 😂😂 never apparently

Great video Steve, like the editing where you go back to show the seed sowing. That's going to be a lovely harvest of garlic. Jealous as lost three quarters of mine to white rot. Not sure where I am going to be able to grow alliums next year. Weather is extremely challenging here too and the ground is ridiculously dry. Took me ages to get a stake in the rock hard ground yesterday.

Great Vid Steve. I got a Fantastic Crop of Garlic this year. Good sized bulbs👍👍

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

That is good to hear, I love it when I hear other gardeners suceeding...Steve...🙂

Great garlic 🙂 like you and being in the same County near Penrith mine are ready to come out too now....so I am going to pull them up at the end of the week ..then my leeks are going in once I have mulched the bed as I am a no dig gardener too 🙂

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

One in and one out, that the way to do it...Steve...🙂

I have leeks, shallots, red onion, spanish onion, bunching onion and garlic growing. Pulled 3 garlic to check and they can come out soon. It’s the first time I did the shallots from seed. Way behind my normal with bulbs planted in the fall...however they are healthy and growing. Weekly fertilizer is what helped me with growing great onions. I like the idea of letting the leeks grow on in clumps/trench longer like you have, before planting out... This would give me more space for other things.

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Like me, you have a lot going on Robin!...Steve...🙂

Great video, Steve. Lots of good allium info. Your garlic looks wonderful! All the best, Audrey

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Audrey, nice harvest to get stored away for later use, see you on Monday!...Steve...🙂

Another brilliant video Steve and love seeing the stages of growth.

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks !...Steve...🙂

Thank you for doing your videos, they help me so much learning how to grow crops.

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome Stephanie...Steve...🙂

I lifted my garlic on Sunday top growth wasn't fantastic and badly hit with rust but was amazed by the bulbs brilliant definitely the best I've every grown and the smell of garlic must have carried for miles lol looking forward to the live show cu there

@MrCobbsalad

Жыл бұрын

Nice job. My garlics still haven't formed bulbs yet, planted in December.. Praying they bulb up soon

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Great that you go a crop out Lawrence, I can almost smell them from here!...Steve...🙂

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

@@MrCobbsalad I hope they do Zod...Steve...🙂

Hi Steve, great video, your garlic looks great. Thanks for sharing and take care 🙂

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks Christine !...Steve...🙂

Wow lots of garlic and the onions, those leeks look amazing already your have lots by winter

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

WE get through them so qickly though, that always surprises me...Steve...🙂

@markshaw5835

Жыл бұрын

@@GreenSideUp to be fair I had so many onions my yself this year but I've got through most of them

Enjoyed your video very informative thanks BA94

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks William!...Steve...🙂

Thanks, great video. I've been growing leeks for a couple of years now and each year they're a little less pitiful 🙂. Hopefully after watching this they'll be a bit better next year. My onions are equally as pitiful but I think they are going to do OK this year.

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Its all about the little victories Denise, string a few of those together !...Steve...🙂

Great video Steve👍decent size garlic 🧄 👏👏

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks Mark!...Steve...🙂

My garlic covered with rust !!! Lifted them not bad ,had better in the past. Elephant garlic so small hard to tell the difference ☺️ yours looks great well done 👍👍👍

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Gloria, every year something is poor for all of us...Steve...🙂

Cheers Steve ,You have reminded me to do my leeks 👍

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Nice one Lee, with your name I would have thought it hard to forget your lee-ks!...Steve...🙂

@leewozzashomeveggiegarden

Жыл бұрын

@@GreenSideUp Like yours mate stuck in the back of the green house lol

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

@@leewozzashomeveggiegarden Plants hiding behind plants, who'd a thunk it ... Steve...😁

cracking update Steve, the garlic looks awesome mate well done! Tony eat your hear out...... Only joking Tony 😁

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

No Tony, he is not Joking ...Steve...😁😁

Looking lovely all those alliums Steve. I'm growing a few leeks in a polystyrene box like yours all spaced out to grow to maturity and they're coming along nicely. That elephant garlic is very impressive, I haven't been able to get any decent sized cloves in my local area thus far but I'll keep looking for some as I'd love to grow some whoppers like yours 😁🌱🐛☀️

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

It is expensive to buy so rather than source it locally, better to find a nursery that grows their own stock, buy however many you can afford. I bought a whole bulb about 10-12 years ago when I wanted to renew my stock. I always save the biggest cloves to grow for next year and make sure I save enough to increase my stock. It will take a few years but eventually you will get there and it is well worth doing too...Steve...🙂

Great video Steve thank you but if you think weathers bad down there try it in south west Scotland lol great results n glad your garlics good mines absolutely ravaged by rust but no allium leaf miner so far thank god. Good luck.

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

HI James, I'm practically in South West Scotland here so probably similar weather...Steve...🙂

Good vidio Steve might have ago at leeks in the near future, still have my sweet corn in the polly tunnel at the moment not doing to bad,l looking forward to your next vidio

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

They are a brilliant veg, you must give them a try soon...Steve...🙂

Interesting as always, Steve. Noted you don't cover your leaks. Here in the South East without protection of Veggie Mesh crops are decimated by the leak moth.

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

I think they are also inflicted by the leek moth in the midlands too...Steve...🙂

Hello Steve ,like your show. I have a question, what do you regard as a mild winter. I'm in Australia, Melbourne. We are in winter and usually 10/ 15 *C here

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Hi Michael, well we are having a terrible summer here in the North of England, your winter temps are the same as what we have right now. A mild winter is temperatures above freezing for the most of it...Steve...🙂

Steve, thanks for the tips and insight. First time I've grown elephant garlic, doesn't seem like it has a "tell" for when to harvest it. How do you know when to harvest? Thanks again.

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jeffrey, when the foliage has gone yellowy in colour it is no longer supporting the plant or doing much for it, some like to wait until the foliage has turned brown and crinkly but there is a danger there that the whole bulb can start to "open up" and once this starts it will not store as well as a completely closed bulb...Steve...🙂

Practical vid as always Steve. Thanks. May I ask what would you feed leeks with. I’m keen to know because I planted mine in very poor soil.?

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

When I used to grow in soil I used blood fish and bone Pat, it is a good longer term fertiliser which suits the longer season of Leeks. Now that I am growing them in no dig beds I feed the soil once every one or two years with another inch or two of compost and I dont directly feed the Leeks...Steve...🙂

@patjoyce7247

Жыл бұрын

@@GreenSideUp thanks Steve

Leeks are amazing! Harvested my rusty garlic, a little disappointed some have hardly grown but also harvested a small white egg second year it has happened have no idea how the egg got there?

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

I have heard about this before and most think it is Foxes, but then some people it has happened too have secure plots so Foxes are rulled out. It could be Rats storing food for later...Steve...🙂

What do you feed your Leeks with Steve please?

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Hi Anita. They are all "No Dig", the soil itself feeds them, then I feed to soil with layers of compost once a year or even every two...Steve...🙂

I've had no luck with my leeks this year with no germinating the first batch and Foxes and Moles destroying the beds.

@harrybrown3657

Жыл бұрын

In your case I would germinate at home and then get some old darlek type composter bins. Turn them upside down and bury them about 45 cm in the ground. Fill them with sticks at the bottom and then good homemade compost. I grow leeks this way with no pest damage. ☺

@ibrstellar1080

Жыл бұрын

@@harrybrown3657 I'll have increase my compost cappacity as I've added more raise beds but leeks was always my best crops but this year has been poor.

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

I dont have Foxes on my plot but they do visit the site for the chickens, I do have Moles and Mice though...Steve...🙂

What do you feed them on

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

They are all "No Dig", the soil itself feeds them, then I feed to soil with layers of compost once a year or even every two...Steve...🙂

@micktacey3596

Жыл бұрын

@@GreenSideUp thank you Steve

Hi Steve what garlic variety are your growing please

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

The garlic I grew this time round was called Solent Wight...Steve...🙂

butternut squash and indeed the pumpkin are the most under rated veg ever,,,,,roasted they are both great.....yet whilst the world starves we as a country cut silly faces into veg.....and then chuck em in the bin....maybe this halloween eat the pumpkin pie or soup or roasted pumpkin with the witch....

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I used to do that myself with the giant pumpkins I used to grow, a lot of the flesh I cut out from those was donated locally, but still always some waste. I no longer grow giants or carve them...Steve...🙂

does the no dig garden exist in reality?.....you cant pull a gladiator parsnip ......its like having a tug of wall with the england rugby team.......

@GreenSideUp

Жыл бұрын

I have seen charles dowding lifting a parsnip, he puts a fork in next to the root and gently loosens the soil whilst pulling, that works okay I guess. I wont dig my parsnips up but do similar to Charles but I am not overly concerned if I have to dig them out, I just keep t to a minimum. I will dig over or through a no dig bed if I feel I have to, I am not precious about it...Steve...🙂