An INSANE HARVEST | Autumn Jobs on the Allotment Plot

Welcome to my allotment gardening channel. Thank you to everyone who likes, subscribes and leaves comments , My name is Graeme, This is Graeme's Lost the Plot! Come and join me on my allotment plot in the beautiful Warwickshire Countryside in the uk, where I escape this mad and crazy world through the ever evolving hobby of allotment gardening.

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[ChrisGardenAllotmentJour-pren]

Chop the beans at ground level, then add the rest to your compost heap. The roots will add nitrogen to the soil and improve it for next year. Keep making these videos as they are a joy to watch.

[johnbudd]

Compost the bean tops and leave the roots in the ground 👍

[petewestlake]

Don’t dump the carrot tops they are edible. I dry mine in an air drier 80degrees until they crumble in your hands into powder. Pop them in a herb bottle and use in stews etc during winter

[carltaylor]

Home grown vegetables the way forward, nice plot you have, well done 😊

[twelvesmylimit]

The back of your jumper with all the foliage stuck to you. 😂. I come back with mud and straw all over me. I won't tell you where I sometimes find straw when I come home to get changed. 😄

[fionaatbromleycottagenz]

Great haul there Graeme. Lots of lovely Sunday dinners. I grow Greek Gigantes and usually leave them on the plants to dry before picking but if the weather is against that I pick them off once the lovely big beans have formed and lay them out in the potting shed to dry off. Once that's done, I pod them and leave the beans to dry out completely before storing in jars. As for cooking I soak a handful or so overnight, drain, add fresh water (no salt - you can season once cooked) and boil them up until tender. Throw them in some soup or make a tasty sauce to go with them. Yum, a lovely creamy bean. We remove the plants at ground level, leaving the roots in the soil to regrow the following year, mow the stems and leaves and put in the compost bin.

[thifasmom]

For the borlotto and the greek gigantes, i would depod them and freeze the fresh beans, use like you would dried beans. in soups, stews, etc.

[cherylprice]

I pod the gigantes and put them straight into freezer bags. The beans must be fully fresh to do that. If they are starting to dry, they must be left to fully dry. Great harvest. Lovely update. We dig a trench and throw in the bean vines to die down then cover it ready for growing next years crop. I dont know how to preserve the borlotti.

[lynnegunns]

Graeme, if I have too many beans I pod them and just keep the actual beans freeze them and then add them to stews pies and one pot meals, the same can be done with your borlotti beans and also your Greek Gigantes. Also you can dry them out and put them in jars On the shelf, which look beautiful or put them in bags and put them in the freezer, that’s what I’m doing this afternoon. Cos some kind soul had left some runner beans in a carrier bag by the gate “Free to a good home” . My runner beans have been awful this year cause I’ve been in for two operations etc so not been around so much. So I’m just podding the tough beans which most of them are to be honest and composting all the greenery. Hope that helps a bit.. PS, you’ve done amazingly with your beans this year and yes I think you have grown a lot. I would just stick to a couple of varieties but it’s your allotment. Whatever floats your boat mate.. all the best x

[twelvesmylimit]

Put your bean plants into your compost!

[susanok]

Hello, Graeme! Don't throw your dried peppers away. Take them off the plants and continue to let them dry all the way, Remove the stems and some of the seeds if you think they'll make them too hot. Grind the dried peppers for seasonings. If you really enjoy the flavors, use the dried seeds to grow more next year.

[massriver]

Think leaving beans on to dry is a popular option. U can make huge pot stew with all vegetable and don't have to cook for days or keep feeding the pot.

[dyoung-gk]

Forget to mention. With the wilted pepper plants, you might be able to salvage them by watering heavy and see if they perk up so you can get the rest of pepper harvest. I've had mine wilted down like that and sometimes the watering works to bring them back fairly quickly.
I know what it's like to have too many things going on to keep up with everything.

[susiespearing]

No need to blanche beans at all .Ive been freezing direct for years and they still taste as good a year later 🙂I only grow Cobra and Cosse Violetta as we love them .Borletti you dry the beans preferably on the plant but just dry them in a warm place .Add to soups and stews like Greek Gigantes .Chard cop the stalks and then chop the leaves .Fry the stalks, then add the leaves and then add eggs beaten .Lovely tasty omelette .I add cheese 😋

[kimmcewan]

Your beloved beans need to harden up and go crisp, same as Greek gigantis, don't burn bean foliage, chop n drop in your beds as they are full of nitron

[ThatBritishHomestead]

Man I always struggle with carrots.. this year I manage to get just under 2kgs! 😅 I must have sowed a million seeds

[dyoung-gk]

Leave the chard in garden will grow in the cold

[essexnodig]

Great content. We pull all of our runner beans. We then mulch up with our old Faithfull Honda mower and add them to our mix compost heap.