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our allotment journey and we also like sharing tips and
advice on what we're doing. And in today's episode, as
I mentioned yesterday and yesterday's podcast, if you're not listening
to that, go and give it a listen to, we're
talking about everything that you can plant in November. Yes,
you can plant stuff in November. And we've certainly planted
a few stuff down at our allotment in the end
of October, so you can still plant them now in November.
We don't grow much through the winter periods, but I
like to have a few things in so that I
can see stuff growing. So what sort of stuff can
we plant in November? And as I always say, is
is that have a notebook or anything like that so
they can make notes of all the things that you
can do and feel free to try and plant some
of them. We planted quite a few of these vegetables,
so hopefully you can grow along with me and let
me know how you get on down at your allotment
or the garden. So usually we talk about what vegetables
you can plant, what flowers you can plant, and what
food you can plant. So first off, we're going to
talk about what vegetables you can plant during November, and
the first off is autumn onions. Now we have got
our autumn onions in. We've got some yellow ones, we've
got some red ones, and we've netted them all over
to stop the pigeons and the birds pinching them. And yeah,
they like to eat the green tops off and once
to shoot start popping through. But once you get big enough,
we take the netted off and usually they can withstand themselves.
So get your autumn onions in. The ones that are
in the garden centers now are the autumn onions, not
the summer ones. So go and get autum onions and
give them a try, and just fill one of your
beds in and they'll have been ready around during the
July time. And yeah, obviously you can be planting stuff
more stuff out once you've harvested them. So fill a
bed in and you might as well. So if someone
get some planted and see how well you get on garlic,
now is the time to plant garlic. You don't want
to plant it in March time, you want to plant
it now. The reason why we plant garlic now is
because it needs to cold weather to crack the clothes
to form the garlic. Without the cold weather, the garlic
WoT form into the bulb that it makes. So if
you're wanting to grow some garlic, grow from now. We
have got absolutely loads in at my alotment. I must
have planted about fifty plants. I've got absolutely loads and
we've got loads of different varieties. We've labeled them all
up so that we can feedback on which ones do well.
And yeah, we've got some sent to us and we've
got some off Amazon. Now, if you're wanting to grow
some garlic, you can grow from the supermarket, but make
sure it's either from the UK or from Europe because
it's used to the climates that we have. Don't grow
the garlic what's from China because it will be used
to hotter climates, So try and stick to European ones.
The best way to get some is from the garden
center because it'll be the right garlic to grow peace.
I've never grown peas before in the winter, but you
can grow a variety of peas called meteor which can
tolerate the cold. These peas are perfect for winter grow
and they'll be ready to harvest in the early springtime.
Planting them now in shures, they'll survive winter's chill and
give you an early crop in springtime. So again, obviously,
if you're start in peas, you can either start them
off in the ground or you can start them off
in the greenhouse in pots and stuff like that. Just
be careful because my some maps will enjoy them because
there's not much around for them to eat at the moment,
so just be careful and make sure they keep them protected.
The same grows for broad beans, not much around for
them to eat at the moment. But if you're wanting
to grow some broad beans, it's good time to grow
them now because rather than through the summer varieties, because
when they're ready to harvest, it'll be before the blackfly emerge.
And obviously when you've grown them in Marching, they're ready
around June July time they're covered in black fly, which
is not usually very nice, is it. They'd never harm
the crop, but obviously they never look nice with all
the black flying them. So so some now and they'll
be ready for before the blackfly i appear. Sparagus. Exparagus
is so expensive in the supermarket to purchase, but why
not try planting some crowns now and in a few
years time you'll be harvesting lots of asparagus and saving
absolutely loads of money. Spring onions obviously where they get
the names from, so if you plant them now, they'll
be ready for springtime. Now. I usually plant them in
clumps so that they rather than rows, because they've formed
better when they in a clump rather than planting them
or individual like very tiny. So you can just start
a few off in a plant pot and then months
have started growing, just transfer the full plant pot into
the ground rather than separate them, or just plant them
all straight in and let them grow in a little
clump and they should do absolutely amazing. So that is
all the vegetables what you can plant this month for November.
So next up we're going to talk about all the
fruit that you can plant during November. Now, November is
the best plant time to plant fruit, not in the summertime.
You want to be planting fruit in the wintertime. The
reason for this is that the plants are dormant and
they focus on growing the roots. They get all the
water they need to help them root, and they'll grow
fantastic rather than planting them in summer, when they're concentrated
on growing the fruit rather than growing the roots, it's
harder to keep them going. So plant any fruit that
you want to grow, and your allotment are guarded during
the winter months. Blackberries are the first things on our list,
and if you've never grown, if you've got normal blackberries
that are forney, get rid of them and replace them
with formless blackberries. Trust me, it's a game changer. The
size of my whips have come out from my blackberries
are absolutely massive, and the size of the black briries
I've been amazing, and they're a life changer. Obviously, I
grew mine. I bought two plants, and the amount of
blackberries I've had often that go all the way down
the side of my plot. They're absolutely huge, and me
and my neighbor absolutely love them, and I just keep
trying them up and fastening them up, and yeah, absolutely amazing.
So if you've never grown formless blackberries, I definitely do
recommend purchasing some. So next up is raspberries. Obviously there's
two varieties of raspberries you can get, you some of rice,
you can get your autumn varieties. Why not try grow
growing both to extend your season so that you get
some in summer and some in autumn. But make sure
you plant away from each other so that you know
which varieties are which. And just watch out with raspberry
because they do grow worth some weeds. They send loads
of roots out and then all the canes start popping
up everywhere. Obviously, if you've got an allotment, it doesn't
really matter where they're popping up, but just watch out
with raspberries because the canes will be intrusive. Next up
is strawberries. As you heard on my podcast yesterday, I
planted two hundred strawberry plants this year ready for next year.
For my runners. Now, even if you just planted like ten,
they'll send out some runners that end a year, and
they'll probably send about three or four out from each plant.
So then you'll double them every single year and you'll
get absolutely loads. And I grow in mind through black
membrane to keep them moist and to keep the weeds
down and to protect the strawberries because they'll sit on
top of the black matting as well. So if you're
wanting to grow some strawberries, now is the time to
plant them, rhubarb. Now, if you're wanting to grow rhubarb,
it's so expensive to buying the supermarkets, so expensive. But
if you grow rhubarb, you plant the crown now, but
you don't harvest it for a year. You need to
leave the crown in the ground to take route, get
going and form its spot where it's going to grow.
I know it might be tempting to harvest some if
you're seeing plenty of rubib on it in its first year,
but don't harvest it. You need it to take real
and get going. Blueberries now, blueberries you need to grow
them in ericacious compost. If you're wanting to grow blueberries
nice and easy, just plant them in a pot with
ericacious composting then rather than in the ground, and then
they're easier to feed with ericacious feed or to fill
up with fresh composts each year and look after them.
So if you want in some blueberries, grow them in
some pots this year. Currents, whether you prefer black, white, red,
all different varieties of currents. It's also a good time
to plant them now. Obviously they send out. You can
get some massive, impressive yields on currents. But the thing
is with them is that they're usually hard to pull
out all the ends on them once you're harvesting them.
I know that's annoying, but it's up to you whether
you want to grow currents or not. But they will
produce a lot of currants, usually a fantastic cropper, and
you can get some brilliant harvests from them. Next up,
we're going to talk about what flowers you can plant
during November. Yes, there is plenty of flowers that you
can be planted in November, as now is the time
to be planting all the spring bulbs. Yes, I talk
about the spring bulbs all the time. The reason why
I love the spring bulbs is because it helps the bees.
When the bees wake up from hibernation in the springtime,
there's not many fours around, so the spring bulbs help
feed the bees. It helps give them the energy for
the year ahead, and it gives them the kickstart that
they need. So planting spring bulbs in the allotment and
in the garden will encourage the bees to come and
it will help with pollination because your fruit trees will
be starting to blossom as well, so encouraging in the
bees to come down to the flowers will help with
pollination on the fruit trees as well, so it's a
win win situation. So I encourage everybody to plant some
spring bulbs in their allotments. If you've got an allotment,
let me know, send me a message saying I'm going
to plant some spring bulbs just for you. Ben. I
would love to hear from you all saying that, because
the more people I can encourage the plants spring bulbs,
the better. Yes, they'll look absolutely gorgeous, but they look
after our bees. So what spring bulbs can we plant
this mom? Obviously we can plant as tulips. Now is
the time to plant them because now it's getting colder.
It's better for the tulips to grow because they do
say if you plant them earlier you can get tulip fire,
so you've got to be careful. Daffodils, you can still
plant them, higher sims, blue bells, alliums, snowdrops, crocuses. All
the spring bulbs can be planted now. Now I've planted
absolutely loads of spring bulbs b alotment. Again, every year,
plant more and more. My allotments just can be full
of spring bulbs eventually. But I planted so many and
I want to plant a load more, so I'm probably
going to wait until they go on sale at the
end of November. Hopefully they will do again this year.
They did last year and I purchased absolutely loads. Fingers
crossed we get another good load of spring bulbs again
this year. So obviously high sims are one of the
best spring bulbs because they smell fantastic, but they're expensive
to buy, so if you can get them on offer,
why not a roses. Now is the time to plant
roses as well. I want to get some more roses
down at my allotments, so hopefully we might get some
more different colored ones because we've got some gold ones,
we've got some red ones, so I need to have
a look at some other colors. So if anyone's got
any suggestions off some cheap roses that are come to
my allotment. Obviously they don't need to be poshphritis. We
just want some nice color and to attract the bees
as well. So if you're planning on adding roses to
eat garden, November it is a great time to plant them.
Ensure you enrich the soil with plant food before planting,
and your roses will bloom year after year, roses add
elegance and a timeless charm to any garden and the
flower year after year you can get success from your roses.
Pans is now I've grown absolutely loads of pansies. I've
grown them all from seed. I planted them around end
of July beginning in August, and they've done fantastic. It's
so easy to grow and from seed. I didn't realize
how easy it is to grow. But obviously now is
the time to plant the plants, set flat plants i'd
like from the garden Center, stuff like that, rather than
growing from seed. It you won't be able to grow
from seed at this time of you You'll need to
plant the plant actual plants. So if you wanted to
add some color all the way through winter, pansies are
an ideal thing to add to your garden. So I
hope you've enjoyed this podcast for today. A little funny
fact is this is the second time I've recorded this
episode because I recorded it and then I listened to
the sound quality and it was absolutely atrocious, so I
ended up recording it all again. So the time I've
spent recording this one, I could have been recording another one.
But oh well, I know all about what planting novement
now because I've done it twice. But yeah, I hope
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