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A Week at the Plot

My weekly video series 'A Week at the Plot' shows what I've been up to at our allotment each week, showing how allotmenteering, growing and gardening can be a 52-week a year joy and task.  It's all about little and often; preparation, what's growing, being sown, harvested, enjoyed and much more - mainly postive and always honest.

'A Week at the Plot' is not necessarily daily vlogs, though regular short ones that are strung together, topped and tailed, and posted on YouTube on a Monday.

The full playlist of over 200 weekly videos can be found on A Week at the Plot - Playlist.

Brassicas & Perennial Kale, Kew Palace Gardens & Precosum Garlic Update

5-11 May '25
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​Getting Stuff Done, Verbena Bonariensis & NemaKnights Nematodes Biological Slug Control

21-27 April '25
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​Bindweed & Couch Grass Weeding, Germination Updates
& Planting Out
​Bas & Mary

​14-20 Apr '25
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Stinging Nettle Feed, Dry Weather,
Watering &
​Sowing Seeds
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​7-13 Apr '25
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Neglected Front
​Area Sorted, Planting Out Perennial &
​Much More

​31 Mar - 6 Apr '25
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Planting Out Modular Sown Broad Beans, Sowing Candelabra Primulas & Chat

​24-30 Mar '25
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Sowing Salads & Spring Onions, Tidying & Keeping On Top of Things at the Plot

​17-23 Mar '25
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​How Potatoes Grow, Planting Early &
​Late Potatoes
& Work at the Plot

​10-16 Mar '25
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Planning Plot Work, Reclaiming Neglected End Beds, Squirrel Theft & A Strim

​3-9 Mar '25
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Top Dressing a Soft Fruit Bed, and Sowing Brassicas & Parsley
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​24 Feb - 2 Mar '25
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Broad Bean & Garlic Update, Another Soft Fruit Bed Sorted & Allotment Chat

​17-23 Feb '25
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​Preparing Beds with Old Compost, Woodchip & Prepping a Soft Fruit Bed

​10-16 Feb '25
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Removing Dead Ivy, Pruning Autumn Raspberries & Planting Jersey ​Royal Potatoes

​3 - 9 Feb '25
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Pruning Old Roses, Aston Rowant Nature Reserve & Modular Sown Broad Beans

​27 Jan - 2 Feb '25
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Pottering, Kew Gardens Dogwood & Compost,
​& Clearing a Bed of Bindweed

​20-26 Jan '25
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What Will Grow Where, Work Social Jobs, Synchronicity & Chat
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​13-19 Jan '25
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Woodchip Delivery & Uses, Frozen Ground Stops Bed Prep & Jobs List Chat

​6-12 Jan '25
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Pruning Tree Honeysuckle, Preparing Beds, Frozen Ground & Chat

​30 Dec '24 - 5 Jan '25
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Mice Damage, Tidying Pathways, Cutting Back Shrubs & Chat
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​23-29 Dec '24
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Germination,
Garden Work at Home, Acca Cuttings & Chat



​16-22 Dec '24
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Poppies Resited, Potting on a
​Cannon Hall Grape & Christmas Cactus Cuttings

​9-15 Dec '24
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Unblocking Paths - Physically & Mentally, Willow Arch, Ivy & Christmas Cactus Cuttings

​2-8 Dec '24
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Cold Weather Chat, Cutting Back Sycamore Growth & Wet Sunday Work

Frost & Cold, Coombe Hill Tree Work, Sowing Broad Beans in the Rain

Strimming, Site Water Off, West Wycombe Yews, Guernsey Grape, Bed Prep & Chat

​25 Nov - 1 Dec '24
18-24 Nov '24
​11-17 Nov '24
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Weeding & Waffling, Greenwich Visit, A Dry Spell & Blue Pipe Brassica Netting

Weeding, Harvesting Potatoes, Bonfire Cleanup & Sowing Everlasting Peavine

Beetroot Harvest, Everlasting Sweet Peas, Kew Gardens, Lettuce, Cuttings & Chat

4-10 Nov '24
​28 Oct - 3 Nov '24
​21-27 Oct '24
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Catty Cuddles, Bed Prep, Osterley House & Gardens, & Waffling

Compost Delivery, Harvesting, Skywatching, Boston Manor Park & Chat

Harvesting Beetroot, Planting Precosum Garlic & Chat

​14-20 Oct '24
​7 - 13 Oct '24
​30 Sept - 6 Oct '24
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Mawddach Trail, Allotment Flooding, Loose Pepper Seeds & Precosum Garlic

​23-29 Sept '24

Beds for Garlic & Broad Beans, So Little Growing & Cutting Back Lavender

​16-22 Sept '24

Gifts, A Very Early Frost, Horses Galloping, Pruning Buddleia & Taking Cuttings

​9-15 Sept '24
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Late Tomato Blight, Waterlogged Troughs, Lidl Roses &
​A Bits & Bobs Sunday

Neglected Beds, Sorting Cinquefoil, Sowing Fast Growing Brassicas & Jobs Chat

Self-seeding Wild Flowers, Wildlife... Sorting the Tomatoes, Harvests & Chat

​2 - 8 Sept '24
​26 Aug - 1 Sept '24
​19-25 Aug '24
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Harvests Down 90%, Gifted & Shamed Toms, Netting Brassicas & Plantings Out

A Tad Deflated, Cardboard on Beds, Lettuce Update & Perennial Kale Cuttings

A Foxy Waffle, Carrot Harvest & Splitting our Lettuce to Plant Out

​12-18 August '24
​5-11 August '24
​29 July - 4 August '24
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Herb Bed, Mulling Woodchip Paths, Potato Harvest & A Wildlife Drinking Station

Pollinators, General Plot Update, Sowing Chard, Turnip & Beetroot, & Chat

Early Morning Water & Waffle, Seed Compost, Sowing Salads, Tidying & Chat

​22-28 July '24
​15-21 July '24
​8-14 July '24
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Rookie Error, Rain, Allotment Waffling, Lettuce & Cardboard for Compost

​Kew Palace Gardens & Kew Gardens'
​Kitchen Garden

Lack of Butterflies, Sowing Lettuce & Potting Up Lidl Miniature Roses

​1-7 July '24
​24-30 June '24
24-30 June '24, Wed & Sat
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​Sowing Autumn King Carrots, Seeds in Perennial Weed Compost & Chat

Avebury, Composting, Frustrations & Allotment Gate Sale

Planting Out Brassicas, Radish & Broad Bean Harvest & Chat

​24-30 June '24, Mon & Tue
​17-23 June '24
​10 - 16 June '24
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Planting Saved-Seed Lettuce Out, Lidl
​Basil Cuttings, Kew &
Going with the Flow

Can't Grow Radish Club, Planting Tomatoes, Conspiring Nature & Dwarf Beans

Harvesting Garlic, White Rot, Radish Issues & Challenging Year Chat

​3-9 June '24
​27 May - 2 Jun '24
​20-26 May '24
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Perennial Weed Bin Compost, Germination, Munched Seedlings & Chat

Garlic Update,
Earthing Potatoes, Planting Out Butternut Squash & Chat:

Clearing Brassicas & Long Grasses,
​Lidl Basil Seeds Discs, Plot Prep & Chat

​13-19 May '24
​6-12 May '24
​29 Apr-5 May '24
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Realisations, Potting Up Lidl 'Trio Lettuce' Rootball, Further Basil Sowing & Chat

Kew Gardens Visit, Moving Slabs, Planting Up Lettuce, Sowing Radish & Basil, & Chat 

Potting Up Buddleia Cuttings, Street Finds, Gravel Tray Swap,
​Bed Tidying & Chat

22 - 28 April '24
​15-21 April '24
​8-14 April '24
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Planting Out Broad Beans, Germination, Gifts, Further Rain & Chat

Rain, Sun, Pricking-out Brassicas, Strimming & Chat

Seed Sowing,
Failed Cuttings, Gifts, Changing Weather & Chat

1-7 April '24
​25-31 March '24
​18-24 March '24
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Planting Charlotte Potatoes, Seedlings & Germination &
​A Spring Tidy

Sowing Brassicas, Sorting a Potato Bed, Seedlings Care & Chat

​First Strim, Cuttings, High River Level & Neolithic Arrowhead

​11-17 March '24
​4-10 March '24
​26 Feb - 3 Mar 24
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Rose Cuttings from Prunings,
Clearing a Pathway & General Update

Skip, Tidying,
Planting Oxeye Daisy, Lidl Sage Plant & Chat

Pulling Grasses,
​Micro-weeding & Trying to Get Ahead

​19-25 Feb '24
​12-18 Feb '24
​5-11 Feb '24
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Undercover Weed Growth, Sowing Replacement Broad Beans & Update Chat

Autumn Fruiting Raspberry Care,
​Couch Grass Removal & Bed Prep

Shed Bed Tidy, Rose Planting, Frost Damage & Clearing Feverfew

​29 Jan - 4 Feb '24
​22-28 Jan '24
​15-21 Jan '24
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Cold Weather, Planning Our Work Party, Moving a Weeping Willow & Staking, & Chat! 

Micro-weeding,
Storm Henk Damage &
Why I'm Not Sowing
Seed Yet!

​Christmas Harvest,
Bed Prep,
Forcing Rhubarb & Festive Waffle

​8-14 Jan '24
​1-7 Jan '24
​25-31 Dec '23
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Germination,
General Waffling & Holes Appearing
​Across the Site

Growing Overwinter, Sowing Seeds & Cider Orchard Pruning

Germination, Gifts in the Shed, Pigeons & Thinking What to Grow

​18-24 Dec '23
​11-17 Dec '23
​4-10 Dec '23
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Planting Mizuna, Orchard Thoughts, Propagating Lidl Roses

Getting Stuff Done, Further Beds Prepped & Unexpected Challenges

Liberating Time, Slabs, Compost Delivery & Sowing Sweet Peas

​27 Nov - 3 Dec '23
​20-26 Nov '23
​13-19 Nov '23
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'New' Greenhouse, Overwintering Peas, Updates & Plot Chat

Planting Garlic,
​Pruning Buddleia, Moving Lavender & Chat

Greenhouse Opportunity, Switching Gravel Trays &
Garlic Thoughts

6-12 Nov '23
​30 Oct-5 Nov '23
​23-29 Oct '23
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Winter Bed Prep, Work Party & Sowing Overwintering Broad Beans

Garlic, Broad Beans & Winter Peas, Squash & Clearing Beds​

​Rookie Error!, Blighted Tomato Prevention
​& Bed Prep

​16-22 Oct '23
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9-15 Oct '23
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​2-8 Oct '23
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Planting Perpetual Spinach Out, Clearing
& Compost

Mum's Death, New Life, Harvesting Bean Pods & Bean Canes Down

Planting Out Modular Sown Turnips & Allotment Renewal Chat

​25 Sept - 1 Oct '23
​18-24 Sept '23 (Tue, Fri & Sat)
​11-17 Sept '23 (Sun)
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Pruning Winter Squash & Seed Saving Madeira Maroon French Beans

Planting Out Brassicas & Seed Saving Beans

Planting Iris
Rhizomes in a Trough
​& Leeks into Holes

​11-17 Sept '23 (Mon & Wed)
4-10 Sept '23 (Fri & Sat)
​4-10 Sept '23 (Mon & Wed)
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Tidying Benches, Potting On Roses & Blight Takes Hold... 

Planting Modular Swede, BLIGHT & Sowing Perpetual Spinach 

​Squash Update - Male & Female Flowers, Tidying & Feeding Beds

​28 Aug-3 Sept '23 (Sat & Sun)
​28 Aug - 3 Sept '23 (Mon & Thur)
21-27 August '23 (Fri & Sun)
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First Tomato Harvest, Seedings Update & Brassica Positioning

​Yellow Courgette Harvest, Sunflowers & Saving Brassica Seeds

Grumpy Frog, Volunteer vs Sown Seedlings & Further Sowings

​21-27 August '23 (Tue & Thur)
14-20 August '23 (Sat & Sun)
​14-20 August '23 (Tue & Wed)
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​Fatigued, Being Honest & Getting Jobs Done

Lurgy, Assessing the Plot & Harvests

Mulching Blueberries with Woodchip

7-13 August '23 (Wed, Thur, Fri)
 ​30 July - 6 August '23 (Sun)
​24-30 July '23 (Fri)
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Sowing Carrots, Fennel & Swede, & Pricking Out Lettuce

​Weeding & Pruning re Blight, Harvests & Poly Bed Tidy

Erecting Tomato Frames, Stringing Tomatoes & Chat

​24-30 July '23 (Tue & Wed)
​​17 - 23 July '23 (Thur & Sun)
​17 - 23 July '23 (Tue)
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Saving Broad Bean Seed & Tomato Frames Going Up!

Planting Up Peppers, Sowing Brassicas, Weather & Chat

Liquid Fertiliser, Tomato Cares,
​Weeding & Chat

​​10 - 16 July '23 (Fri & Sun)
​10 - 16 July '23 (Wed & Thur)
3 - 9 July '23 (Fri & Sun)
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Scattering Fertiliser, Sowing Lettuce, Kew Gardens & Chat

Planting Out Tomatoes, 'Bung It In' Time & Chat

Harvesting, Planting Out, Gate Sale & Chat

​3-9 July '23 (Wed & Thur)
​26 June - 2 July '23
19 - 25 June '23
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June Plot Tour
​(warts and all) & Torrential Rain!!

Poly Tidy, Volunteer Toms, Garlic White Rot & Broad Bean Saving

​Garlic Scapes, Bean Germination & Sowing Dwarf Beans

​12 - 18 June '23
​5 - 11 June '23
29 May - 4 June '23
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Bean Frames, Sowing Climbing Beans, Planting & Weeding

​Clearing Beds, Planting Courgettes & Cucumbers, & Potting-Up Oaks!

​Frogs, Hardening Off Plants, Tomatoes, & Grass!

​22 - 28 May '23
15 - 21 May '23
8- 14 May '23
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Water, Working with Wildlife & Poly Chat

​Bonfire Survey Results, Strimming, Swarms & Planting Turnips

​Primula & Potatoes, Watering and Planting out Brassicas

1 - 7 May '23
24 - 30 April '23
​17 - 23 Apr '23
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Chat in a Wet Poly, Pegging Out New Plots & Sowing Seeds

Planting Spring Cabbage, Weeding, Compost & a Mooch
​about the Plot

Jostaberry Cuttings, Community Buying & Broad Bean Update

10 - 16 Apr '23
​3 - 9 Apr '23
27 March - 2 April 2023
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Planning our Move, Slug Pellets, Community & Tidying

Odd Jobs, Watering the Poly, & Planting Arran Early Potatoes

Paddock Plots, Sowing Lettuce & Parsley, & Shed Tidy

20 - 26 Mar '23
13 - 19 March '23
6 - 12 March '23
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​Fruit Tree Holes, Spring Blossom, Dead-hedging & Watering​

Pruning, Sowing Turnips & Beetroot, & Direct Sowing Flowers

​Pruning Buddleia, Soft Fruit & Roses & Dead Hedging​

27 February - 5 March '23
20 - 26 February '23
13 - 19 February '23
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Weeding, Poly Update & our Cider Orchard and new Orchard Group​

My Plan for the Year & Perennial Weed Bin Compost

Hawthorn Cuttings, Pruning Buddleia & Weeding​

6 - 12 February '23
30 January - 5 February '23
23 - 29 January '23
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Another Cold & Frosty Spell, & Frozen Fog...

​Urban Growing, Woodchip on Paths, Autumn Fruiting Raspberries

​Precious Seed Chat, Weeding for Wildlife & the Soft Fruit Bed​

16 - 22 January '23
9 - 15 January '23
2 - 8 January '23
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Harvesting Beetroot & Turnips, Cold Damage, & Chat

A Year at the Plot - Sights & Sounds!

26 December '22 - 1 January '23
January - December '22
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​The full playlist of over 150 weekly videos can be found on A Week at the Plot - Playlist.
  
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