Big Allotment Challenge: Voted off in Week 1
We speak with the first contestant to be voted off the BBC series The Big Allotment Challenge – Shaun Gagie from Manchester.
Sean's Allotment Garden
Spring Heatwave | April (EP10/Y2) | Sean’s Allotment Garden
This Spring has been so hot it’s difficult to keep everything cool. Time to plant the broad beans, shallots and erect the bean poles.
Cleaning & Spring Glamour | April (EP9/Y2) | Sean’s Allotment Garden
Spring colour fills the garden as Sean sets about to clean the space ready for a busy year ahead. Vivi, Ky and Geoff attend their plots and Sean visits the shed of up-and-coming celebrities from the new BBC series, The Big Allotment Challenge.
Edible Garden | April wk1 (EP8/Y2) | Sean’s Allotment Garden
Join our ‘Members Shed’ http://members.thehorticulturalchannel.info/ Sean and Graham head to The Edible Garden Show to recreate Sean’s allotment garden at Alexandra Palace.
Titli's Busy Garden
Titli’s Busy Garden: Week 15 – Hyacinth Rescue
This week I rescue the hyacinths from around my garden and put them into a single container. Some weeding happens too…
Titli’s Busy Garden: Week 14 – Sowing Parsnips in Boxes
After pricking out yet more seeds this week I sow my parsnip seeds in boxes.
Titli’s Busy Garden: Week 13 – Sowing Beetroot & Spinach
This week I sow some beetroot and spinach in my raised vegetable beds. Two butternut squash plants also venture outdoors!
Dan's Allotment Diary
Dan’s Allotment Garden: How to grow / plant Potatoes for Shows
I use 20 litre polypots and simply half fill with compost and mix 2 oz of fertilizer to this, then place one seed potato reduced to just 2 chits or sprouts in the bag about 2″ above the bottom of it.
Dan’s Allotment Diary: Planting out the gutter Peas
I decided to plant out the peas that I’d sowed and grown on until the first leaves had emerged in the guttering into the garden bed. It would have been easier to transplant them if I had shorter lengths of the gutter but they still came out in 6-9 ” lengths pretty easily into the […]
Dan’s Allotment Diary: Making Homemade Chilli Flakes
I still had loads of chillies drying on last years plants so I decided to have a go at making some chilli flakes. Dead easy to do, just removed the dried chillies then either remove or leave the seeds in, dry out completely in a cool oven for as few minutes and then crush them […]
Jack Shilley - Young Gardener
Jack’s Allotment Project: Raspberries
Today I continue to progress with work on the new allotment, as I plant out my raspberry canes. I have two varieties an autumn fruiting variety and a summer fruiting variety. Not enough allotment project!? Follow my progress off-video by using this hashtag – #theallotmentproject – on Facebook & Twitter!! YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/jackshilley FB: https://www.facebook.com/JackShilleyG… Business […]
Jack Shilley: Planting Tree Lilies In Containers
In this episode, I am planting up my very exciting, new, Tree Lily bulbs from Thomson & Morgan. These amazing plants can grow 8-10ft tall in just two years and have masses of large trumpet blooms, with the same exquisite scent of regular lilies. If you do buy some of these bulbs from Thompson & […]
Jack Shilley: Sowing Seeds Part 1
I am sowing my first seeds of the year – Cucumber ‘Mini Munch F1′, Chilli ‘Naga Jolokia’ and Tomato ‘Sweet Aperitif’.
thehortchanneltv
Social Counter