Remember to hit SUBSCRIBE BUTTON and also BELL ICON to be notified when each new video is uploaded * Welcome to both old an new subscribers….many thanks for watching!!! 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻

I enjoy that time of morning with the birdsong, I dont always get up and about for it but when I do I'm grateful. Really enjoyed this, and I look forward to seeing those sweet peas doing their funky thing.

Lovel video Nigel thanks for sharing stay safe all my gardening friends 🤝

Lovely update Nigel and I will be looking forward to seeing the build, take care my friend and stay safe and healthy. ♻️Happy gardening, Terry King.

I, like you, enjoy the dawn chorus. The morning is the best part of the day. Enjoyed the plot tour. Crack on.

Hi Nigel nothing beats the dawn chorus I like to sit out on the decking and soak up the sound.

Beautiful music that! Or maybe I should say Birdiful music?

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Natures finest orchestra 😀 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

Good morning Nigel. I always enjoy the dawn chorus. Spring has finally given us the planting season. Things are looking good on your plot. Stay safe. Best wishes Bob.

Thank you for sharing Nigel

Hi Nigel, beautiful dawn chorus, the best orchestra. Great to see things going out into the garden. Great update, thanks for sharing :-)

Morning Nigel, absolutely stunning bird song 🐦🙆😁

@MuddyBootz

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Kevin and welcome to the channel 😀. I have always been an early riser and to be able to witness this first hand...many times is just PRICELESS!!! Many thanks for watching ! 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻

There's nothing like the sound of the birds,what a sad place it would be without them. I planted out my shallots this morning,and have just put my peas in to soak ready for planting tomorrow. Just put some supports up ready for the beans and peas. Your allotments looking really good and the plants are looking really healtthy,those lettuce should give you a good crop too. :)

Lovely video Nigel thanks for sharing.

Hi Nigel, I use plastic coated or bamboo canes, but I must admit that the rustic looks so so much easier on the eye, a man after my own heart best time of the day and some people never see or hear the DAWN CHORUS, that’s why I named my channel because of my love for that time of the day, I’m up at day break every day no matter what time of year, gosh there’s some good roots on them onions, , many thanks for sharing Nigel, stay safe my friend, kind regards alan🌿...............THE DAWN CHORUS PLOT

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Alan, like yourself, having the plot so nearby makes it even more special 😀 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

Thanks for that! It kind of hit me as I was watching today, that really good filming! I do love that early morning feeling, the birds singing, the stillness and to top it off a cup of tea (coffee)! Take care Klaus

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Klaus, this is the highlight of the growing season for me. It don't get any better 😀 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

my wife watched this video as i was also watching. i'll hear the dawn chorus once again when we eventually get an adapted property for us, she says. i tried to explain that an open space like an allotment site or the edge of woods is the best place to listen to a diverse variety of birds filling the air with their music. the inner cities give sound of sparrows coughing. lol. we do hear the lovely sound of a lonely cock blackbird. a blackbird does not a dawn chorus make. did you know these birds sing from 3am even through the worst of winter temperatures..................brian

im sure i spotted a jay as you was looking at the woodchip pile nigel nice video i wake up with lambs bleeting a few fields away amzing

Like you, I love the dawn chorus. It is a sign of life and hope. However, you're still a 'youngster' and I usually hear it on my second trek for a ….. It is still truly a lovely serenade.Peas (8 x 4ft rows)out in the garden today and I've got to fleece them over as the blackbirds even flew into the polytunnel to get at the shoots. My 'first earlies' have now gone into the open air and they look good. I'll look for some straw to cover the fully-filled buckets. Your seedling plants look enviable. Like the way you use your hands as the most useful tool in the garden. Keep 'em coming, dear bro'. Paul

What a lovely video mate keep safe

Awesome!

🤗🤗🤗thanks for sharing fantastic video take care and stay safe

Great to hear the dawn chorus, what a lovely sound. There does seem to be more birds around this year, I've just taken a close up video of a blackbird feeding it's young although the young one seemed every bit as large as bothe the male and female who were feeding it!

Great update pal, nice to see things doing well, it was windy for a few days but at least the weathers been good for a while and finally the rains have arrived so ive been down the garden dispaching slugs as they have come out in force, but the ground needed a good wetting through so i imagine things will rocket along now. All the best and stay safe Andy

Love that recording of the dawn chorus mate! I wish to have a big garden at the back of my house so I can wander around with a brew! (which is why I am looking to move elsewhere). your successional sowings look great, I planted out chard, onions, spinach and beetroot this morning. Nice frame for the sweet peas and I've done the colour trick with lettuce before - looks (and tastes) great! Cheers Mate Woody

Great update. I think I’ve transplanted my beetroot out too soon it’s just lying down and looks dead. No germination of carrots again just can’t seem to grow them. Back to the drawing board need to get some manure for later in year now that I’ll have somewhere to store the stuff cheers 🍻

Its all looking good there Nigel. I am also growing Swift. Im hoping for them to crop eight weeks after planting. Been really warm here and they are sitting in buckets in the polytunnel. Hope all is well with you.

Just found your channel, thanks for all the info, stay safe, YNWA

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hello John, welcome to the channel and many thanks for watching. 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

Hi Nigel love to hear the dawn chorus but i'm not up at that time 😄 i'm a night person not a morning person Lettuce looking good so are your shallots Looking forward to see your vegepod Take care stay safe Pam 🍰☕🌈

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Nigel, if you peel the bark off the bottom of the Willow branches, so that there is no inner bark in contact with soil or moisture, they will not root.

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

A good tip, thank you very much 😀 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

The Dawn chorus and light, totally magic.

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Peter, unless you experience it first hand, videos do not do it justice, but we can try 😀 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

We do like our beetroot at our house. Have you noticed with this Covert 19 wild life are enjoying it better than us. There seems to more insects about specially the hover flies or is it in my imagination? Take care Mike

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Mike, the most noticeable difference I've seen with Covid 19 impact is the crystal clear waters in the Venice canals 😀 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

I agree. The early mornings are something very special. The silence and sound of birdsong is really good for mind and soul. Lovely planting and great content. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for watching 😀 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

Very busy day today for me too and another planned for tomorrow 😊 . Great isn't it. Another four beds ready for planting 😁. Lovely weather even here in Manchester and no rain believe it or not. I sleep well every night 😴💤. Stay safe everyone and good luck with your growing.😘🤗.

New subscriber here. Not long taken on my first plot. Love the videos.

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Paul, welcome to the channel, good to see you on here 😀 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

Hi Nigel Great video really enjoyed the dawn chorus, i often sit out in my garden early in the morning & listen to the birds. Stay safe Marc

Great video as ever Nigel. I've finally bitten the bullet myself today and made my first growing update and uploaded it to my channel. Not the greatest quality but I'd love to know if you think I could have a future making KZread videos, all tips and help welcome! :-)

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Jimmy, and welcome to KZread vloggers 👍 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

Nice one Nigel. I am just doing the same with the Dawn Chorus (great minds etc) It woke me up at 4:30 a few days ago so I nipped outside and set up the Zoom F1. Stay safe mate

@DigwellGreenfingers

4 жыл бұрын

I was playing this video on my PC by the back door Nigel and the blackbirds outside were going mad LOL Almost like an echo.

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Steve, the lockdown does have its benefits for me, no traffic noise to interrupt the bird song 😀 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

always enjoyable video

Wonderful dawn chorus. I was just thinking this morning how much I’ll miss the birds this year. We’ve travelled to England in May or June for the last ten years. One of my favorite things to do is to get up early, go outside, and listen. Great video.

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Paul, welcome to the channel. The dawn chorus is one of my highlights for the season. What part of the world are you located? 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

@paulgentry4172

4 жыл бұрын

We live in Roy, Utah.

Great minds think alike, there’s some dawn chorus in my video going live in the morning. Good to see you’re well and the allotment is taking off 👍🏼

The earlier the better when it comes to mornings on the plot, especially when its warm like it has been this last few weeks. Really impressed with your soil Nigel. It looks to be in great condition. All the best Mike👍

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Mike, not so warm this morning, had to break to ice on the water baths 😱 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

@mikehurdiss226

4 жыл бұрын

@@MuddyBootz Cold here too. The tips of all my open ground sown potatoes are either limp or black. Luckily only a few inches of the plants had emerged so they should bounce back. Sat on the plot as I write finishing my cuppa👍

I love the sound of a blackbird. One of the pleasures of being up early. Nice shallots. Mine are not as advanced but they are the same variety. I always grow 'Golden Gourmet'. Glad to see most things are doing well. Unfortunately for me I'm recovering in hospital from an operation. I just hope everything in the greenhouse hasn't dried up and died when I get home.

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Steve, hope you are on the way to a full recovery. Since planting out the shallots seem to have taken a backward step. 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

Hi there Nigel I love the dawn chorus and with a big year outside our flats window we get a lot of birds going to the feeders and chirping away , we might not have a garden but we have the birds , Your shallots will grow and give you super harvest we have no onions or shallots or garlic this season as I was not well enough to get any , think your doing Brillant . STAY safe all best Bill and Val

I am normally up early enough tto hear the birds fart and cough before they do the song ;-) Yep the shallots were ready mate.. Blanched potatoes could be a thing. That bed I have done keeps lovely and damp. You know what I havent planted any spring onions what a plank.... I better get some in. Thanks for the reminder .. That I am a plank lol Cheers

Hello mate . It's lovely to hear the dawn chorus. Just watching your video on the my plot and then I heard the first cuckoo of the year😊. You are certainly getting on with all your planting out. Those potatoes certainly come up quick. Look forward to seeing your vegipod and what you grow in it. Keep up the good work and stay safe if. All the best Nic 👍

Hi Nigel, Great update, And a nice variety of lettuce, shallots, spring onions and of course the sweet peas, I made 2 acquisitions this year a vegepod and a diesel heater for the greenhouse both of which I'm chuffed to bits with, Stay safe and Take care.

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Ronald, I am interested in the diesel heater. Have you done a review/build video? if so do you have the link? All the best. 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

@ronaldandsusanshaws-growing

4 жыл бұрын

@@MuddyBootz Hi Nigel, No I don't usually do revues for anything, I'm not as good as you on that subject, I'm almost sure it came from Walsall, I'll dig out the name and address and pass it on, Now a lot of people have problems with them I think it is expecting too much from them, There is also a Chinese Diesel heater group I'll pass that on also, All I can say for definite is that my one has worked well, Take care

thank you very much for sharing this quiet breakfast in your allotment i am jealous of your shallots ; when did you saw them ? i am learning a lot from your video merci beaucoup Monsieur ; have a nice week

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hello, the shallots were planted in late January. Have a look at this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZpNk1qeDgq_Nn9o.html 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

Hi Nigel, love the bird song and plot tour. I planted out my lettuce and beetroot yesterday so hope for good results. I like cos lettuce as it’s usually crisp and long lasting, however the variety I sowed is a bit tough & tasteless, do you know a good variety I could try. (Had to use seed I already had as it’s had to get just now). Never seem to get much success with sweet peas, only had 3 out of 20 germinate, my neighbour also struggles with them. I’ve no idea why they’re a problem. Keep safe & well, cheers.

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Christine, Little Gem and Winter Density are two reliable varieties for me. Have you tried soaking the sweet pea seeds overnight before sowing? 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

@christine6878

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Nigel, thanks for your suggestions, I’m trying more sweet peas but I planted them before I saw your advice to soak the seed. I’ll hope for the best though. Now the shops are open I hope to get some little gem seeds too. Take care for now Christine

Hi mate, ive just found you with the help of Tony Smith's you tube site. Ive just got my hands on a small plot in Rugby, I was wondering where you are in west mids ??

Hi pal, your worm composter bin, did you drill holes in the bottom or is it still solid? Thanks.

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

10mm holes in the bottom and also just under lip of lid to allow some air flow 👍 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

Hi Nigel, Thanks for the videos, just a quick question, my major failing is labelling, what do you use as sticks and where can I get the yellow tape? Thanks in advance. Stay safe and keep up the good work. John

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

All revealed here John..... kzread.info/dash/bejne/q2ipr6tvcdqfl5M.html

@happyjohnwalks

4 жыл бұрын

Nigel, thank you very much! 😊

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@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Have a listen to your namesake 🤣👍

@ThedawnchorusPlot

4 жыл бұрын

MuddyBootz 😂🌿👍😉

Hi Nigel, my shallots went out in November, they did take a while to get going though, but they look good now, not quite as perky as yours given the drought! Is the lettuce Navara or - I think you spelled it - Navarna? I get my Navara from Kings and its a favourite of mine, never see it all green and bushy like yours though, it’s always nice and red by planting time. Also you might remember I started my Swift in January in the conservatory and they broke surface in 8 days: all the best - Steve

@MuddyBootz

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Steve, Yes the Oakleaf lettuce are from Kings Seeds. Originally the packets were marked incorrectly but Andrew at Kings sent new seed to me. Smile (Green) and Navara (red) are the varieties (must have been thinking about the band Navarna) Just done a fresh sowing with the new seed. Have you ever tried Lollo Bionde (green coral version of Rossa)? All the best 🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻

@SteveRichards27

4 жыл бұрын

@@MuddyBootz I've not tried it Nigel, but then I must be one of the few people who's not that keen on Lollo Rosso, I grew it last year and it was a bit dry for my taste, perhaps it was just the dry spring and not enough water. I'm looking forward to the Salanova lettuces making it over here, there are some great varieties in the US: All the best - Steve