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Allotment Saturdays: The Joy of Harvesting Peas | Gardening Tips & Allotment Advice Podcast
Nov 15, 2024
🌱 Allotment Saturdays: The Joy of Harvesting Peas! There’s something truly special about picking fresh peas on a sunny Saturday — crisp pods, sweet flavour, and that unbeatable homegrown pride! 🌞🫛 In this episode, I’m sharing the magic of pea harvesting, tips for picking at the perfect time, and how to keep your crop going strong. Have your peas started popping yet? #AllotmentSaturdays #HarvestJoy #GrowYourOwn #PeaHarvest #GardeningPodcast #AllotmentLife #UKGardener
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while you're out in the garden in the
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another episode and today it's Saturday
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and I really do wish summer would
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come I think we're we're all wishing
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that at the moment one week it's
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absolutely boiling and then the rest
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it's back to raining miserable UK
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weather which we'd expect in winter time
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but it's still quite warm and we're
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still getting lots of produce off to be
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honest with you we've been down at the
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allotment today and yeah I've had a busy
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day down there and today's job has
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mainly been weeding as per
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usual always lots of weeding to be done
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and watering yes watering it's not
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rained here much in Sheffield so I've
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had to water it like when I've been
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digging and stuff it's been quite damp
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on top top but really bone dry
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underneath so we've been giving plenty
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of water to the crops
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today and also I've been harvesting I've
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been harvesting my Peas My peas are
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absolutely getting ready and we're
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picking loads of those off at the moment
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and they taste absolutely delicious I'm
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so happy with how well we've done with
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the peas this year this has probably
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been the best crop that I've ever had on
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my allotment site and more often than
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not I've had them eaten in the past by
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mice Birds pigeons you name it they've
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all been eaten but this year we've had a
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fantastic crop and I think it's all down
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to how well I protected them this year
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from the animals and the elements I
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started them off in my shed in seed
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trays to grew them to a decent height
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and then once they were ready I
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transplanted them all outside into the
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ground and we made sure we covered them
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with plenty of netting so that nothing
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could attack him and it worked really
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well and I've had a fantastic crop and
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I've got loads more left to pick like
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this is the second picking I've had and
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yeah we've still got loads more on there
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and obviously if we keep picking them
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hopefully they'll keep flowering and
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they'll keep harvesting but we have
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planted a late crop as well the other
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week so hopefully we'll get a late
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croper piece towards the end of the year
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fingers crossed and again we've given
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them plenty of protection to stop them
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from getting eaten and nibbled away
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hopefully the mice and the Rats don't
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find them and eat them but touch wood
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they're still growing pretty well at the
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moment and we keeping them watered and
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not we're keeping them a bit Weed Free
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obviously we get quite a lot of weeds
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growing but we're keeping them uh plenty
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of weed free and you need some weeds as
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well anyway because it deters the slugs
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from eating them all if it will
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completely Weed Free the Slugs that go
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for them so that's my excuse anyway and
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that's what I'm sticking to we've also
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been
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Delights of having an allotment and yeah
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that got posted on MSN uh the other day
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working hard on that at the moment and
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hopefully lots more stuff will be coming
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onto it so what else are we getting up
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to this weekend well tomorrow I might do
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some more harvesting I've got some
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lettuce ready for harvesting as it's
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starting to get to the end of it now and
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it's starting to turn so we need to get
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that lettuce harvested and eaten we've
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also got some beetroot to harvest
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they're looking quite big at the moment
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so we're going to harvest some beetroot
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I'm going to try them in my air fryer uh
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I'm going to be looking up recipes and
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seeing how I can actually try cooking
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them in the air fryer I'm also going to
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try and cook some potatoes in the air
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fryer as like really thin slices as well
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so hopefully we'll see how well they get
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on and I'll be sharing a picture with
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you how well we get on with them we've
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also got some more loganberries to
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harvest I noticed quite a lot of red
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ones on there as well so make sure I get
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all them pck because every time I go
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down to the alotment the black bird
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flies off so I know it's hanging around
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eating stuff at the moment so that black
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bird must be getting absolutely fat off
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all my fruit and everything at the
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moment and I see it around my fuches a
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lot as well so I don't know if they like
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eating fuches so I'm keeping an eye on
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Mr Blackbird uh obviously I don't mind
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him being there eating some of the fruit
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so he can help himself to some of it but
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I'd best pick some for my own self as
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well but I have got to watch him next
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year because he ate all my gooseberries
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so we need to make sure that our gooseb
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are well protected next year from Mr
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blackbird so that he doesn't eat them
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all and I want some next year yeah every
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single one of them he must like gooseb
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black birds must like them so if you
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wanted to feed your black birds get some
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gooseb cuz they'll absolutely love them
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so yeah that is one thing I do need to
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make sure of next year
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but yeah hopefully we're going to get
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some tomato plants sorted out tomorrow I
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we looking at them outside in my garden
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and they
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are getting quite big now they're not
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growing as fast as what they grow in my
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Greenhouse or the poly tunnel but they
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are getting quite big now so we need to
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start supporting them we need to put
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some canes up them we need to nip off
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all the little shoots off them to make
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them grow nice and tall and focus on
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growing the fruit as well there's lots
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of flowers coming on them so they are
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doing pretty well but like I said
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they're not growing as fast as what they
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would do inside a poly tunnel or
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Greenhouse but the reason why I grow
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them outside is so that they keep
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watered if they're in my poly tunnel
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they'd soon dry out and I'd probably
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risk getting the Tomato split and stuff
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like that through un uneven watering so
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that's one of the reasons why I grew all
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my tomatoes outside so that we do get a
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good crop of
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them so we've got all them to do
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tomorrow we've also got to have a look
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at what other seeds we're going to start
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planting we're going to carry on
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planting some more seeds so that we get
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a long Harvest of produce we'll probably
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look into growing some beetroot some Mal
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Lattis I want to get some Mal ltis in
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we'll probably plant some spring onions
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possibly some carrots some more carrots
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so we need to look into that and we need
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to look into planting some more potatoes
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as well as I'm starting to harvest all
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my early potatoes now so we need to get
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some more potatoes in so that we get
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another crop later on in the year and
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hopefully these will be ready by
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possibly beginning of October something
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like that and if it gets colder then
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we'll move them into the poly tunnel so
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that they don't get killed off by the
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frost or anything so hopefully we're
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going to get some more potatoes in so if
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you wanted to grow some more potatoes
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now is a good time to start planting so
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that you get a lat crop
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obviously they won't sell seed potatoes
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and stuff like that in the garden
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centers now so if you wanted to grow
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potatoes I'm going to be growing them
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from the supermarket ones yes people do
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say that they can cause issues but my
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dad has grown them from the supermarket
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for years and years and he's had never
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had a single issue growing them so we're
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going to have a look into growing some
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more so yeah that has been what we've
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been up to down at the allotment
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tomorrow hopefully we'll get another
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episode for you tomorrow it'll probably
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