Terrible harvests and a bird's eye view ...

Today the tomatoes are taking off in the polytunnel and Mike has been busy with a 'sweet' experiment. The overwintering onions need to come out of the raised beds to make way for some King Tut peas, but the harvest is small to say the least - matched only by an equally poor bag of potatoes! The red onions are looking really good though and it won't be long before they and the elephant garlic are lifted. A real treat this week has been having our plots filmed from above and, if you've ever wondered what size and shape they are, here's your chance to find out. Thank you so much to Andrew and Sarah - links to their Facebook pages are below. And a final message about the mic - I'm working on it!
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[GardenofEmma]

Lovely drone footage and those red onions look great.

[ericandrachallotmenteers]

Hey Jane. Fab drone shot 👏🏽

Great update, have a fab week 🫶🏽🌱🌼

[marksallotmentplot]

Great video Jane.
Those onions look fantastic!!!
Loved the drone footage at the end as well. Great seeing the allotments from above ✈️✈️✈️

[christinebrooks]

Hi Jane, your white onions Spring, are a good size & your red onions are good too. Nice potato harvest. The, sweet potatoes seem to be growing well. What a lovely shot of your allotment site. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

[freckles]

I grow Shakespeare onion sets over winter and have done for the last 5 years, fantastic harvest, they never let me down. I do feed as soon as they start growing with high nitrogen liquid feed. Lovely update and great drone shots. Jo Devon 🙂

[tennesseenana]

I only had one pea plant that produced any peas this year, but that's more than I got last year. It's just been too hot here for them. Think I'll just start planting them for a fall crop and not worry about them in the spring. Cherry tomatoes are my favorite and I'll freeze them to use in the winter months.

[simplifygardening]

Its great being able to film drone footage but even though I have the drone I rarely do it

[stevendowden]

lovely drone footage and some nice allotments there well done all

[jane]

Really love ariel photography especially old trees from above they are majestic and statuesque in our green landscape. Thanks for sharing, beautiful. 🐞🌻🌱

[TheGrowUpChannel]

oh thats an interesting experiment for the sweet potatoes. Ill look forward to seeing how this gets on! Thanks Jane and Mike. Thanks for the mention Jane. Glad the Kingtut peas have grown well, Yes beautiful blue and purple flowers. Beautiful Drone shots!! LOVED THAT! Danny

[mygardenanddinosaurs]

Love the aerial footage Jane. I’ve never had much success with overwintering onions - but I foolishly keep on trying 🥴. Those tomatoes look like they will be really proliferous. I just found blight on some of my potatoes - gutted. It’s been this nightmare muggy damp weather I think. I hope I have stopped it in its tracks by taking all affected tops off. On a brighter note, my peas are doing great. Ne Plus Ultra are eight foot tall with loads of pods forming. I’ve already had Oregon sugar pod mange-tout and have another planting of them and hurst greenshaft coming on. It’s been a funny old year. Hope we finally get some Summer weather but none on the horizon. Have a great week.

[Tamsins_Potager]

Wow. Your allotment site is beautiful. 💚

[latebloomerdiaries]

The potato looked like some sort of scab to me too, Jane. That onion harvest seemed half-decent to me. As you said, no rot, so that counts for something. The only thing I've harvested so far are my broadbeans and it was pitiful. Black fly got them. Also I don't think they liked growing in a pot. Your tomato plants look lush and excitingly full of blossoms!

[honoregale]

Lovely to see the plots from above and yes I spotted you weeding. Oh what a miserable year we are having - over winter onions good, some white rot but a good crop, no gooseberries or blackcurrants! Last year 15lb of gooseberries. Courgette leaves turning yellow in the cold, beetroot wonderful top growth but bulbs very small. What a year!

[jennyjohnson]

My Shenshu onions are exactly the same Jane. We can only blame the weird weather we've had. I had beautiful ones last year. My peas have long pods but the actual peas are tiny. The variety is Rondo and someone said they're late ones....even my Broad Beans are really slow. Big pods but not a lot of bean inside. Ah well, onward and upwards !!

[suemowat]

My peas have been a bit pathetic too. I grow tall varieties ( Champion of England and Telephone) and they've only grown to about half the usual height. Sweet peas aren't as good as usual either

[Lynne-plotb-b]

The Birds Eye view looks great Jane. Im not doing any over wintering onions again. They never amount to much on my plot. Your spring sets look good. I’ve been on holiday for a week and have lots to do but just can’t get myself motivated this weekend.

[vanessawilkinson]

Great footage, you really get to see what a task Mike has there… this season is really hit n miss. The summer crops are really slow. Need some sunshine, been constant rain in Norfolk. Looking at your tunnel I’m tempted to get hubby to move a door over winter as both mine are inwards as per the instructions but I see you’ve got one & one. Need to rethink the layout next year but it’s all new & still learning 🎉

[paulberry]

Mike, don't let Jane play with the drone. It'll end up in the canal.

[trold]

The areal footage was interesting. Mike's new plot looks huge. Hope this sweet potato experiment works. The other harvest - well, it could be worse. Hope it tasted nice.