The Hen House – Making sure it’s safe and secure for the New Chickens || Plot 37 ( Vlog Episode 71)

The Hen House – Making sure it’s safe and secure for the New Chickens || Plot 37 ( Vlog Episode 71)

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The Hen House – Making sure it’s safe and secure for the New Chickens || Plot 37 (Vlog Episode 71)

DATE: 17th of August 2021

This week of vlooging has been almost entirely taken up with the final fixing up of the hen house. Having a DIY, home-made chicken house means endless adjustments but this is the first time we have been able to really do any major works since we first built it. The priority has been making sure the whole chicken cage is safe and secure for the new hens! We put on a new roof – an extra thick tarpaulin to keep the birds sheltered from the weather. I have fixed the bottom half of the door by sandwiching the old wood between two new parts – Battons and Featherboard. And installed new hinges, bolts at the top and bottom on the door and flashing at the back so it can’t push through. I have also used the feather board to go around the base of the hen house in order to help with strength and so we can raise the internal floor hight a little with out the chickens kicking it all out the sides. We also make a visit to The Curve Garden in Hackney for a drink. The Curve Garden is a lovely outdoor bar in a garden/veg patch where they grow lots of edible plants and its just a lovely space to sit around and have a drink with friends.

What’s in this Episode:

+ Fixing the Hen House

+ Putting up Perches for the chickens

+ Bark Chips going down

+ The Curve Garden Dalston

+ Covering the Hen House

+ Fixing the Door to the Coup

 

Episode TWO

Episode TWO

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The Plot 37 Allotment Vlog:

EPISODE TWO

DATE: 21/04/2020

  • Sowing French Beans
  • Sowing Herbs – Dill and Chervil
  • Planting out Peas and Mangetout
  • Measuring Raised Beds
  • Building Polytunnel raised beds
  • Planting Out Chard

YouTube BLURB

The second in my lockdown vlog instalments… this one sees a bit of planting, some sowing, some building… VLOG TWO 14th – 21st of April 2020

In more normal times, i can’t usually get up to the plot every day and so a weekly vlog would be a bit scanty but nothing is normal right now and I’m able to take my State Sanctioned Exercise up there every single day… so i figure I might as well film whats going on! These weekly Vlogs will be running Tuesday to Tuesday, for no other reason than that i started on that day.

LINKS:

ROOT TRAINER POTS – https://amzn.to/3Cr58EL

 

Episode ONE

Episode ONE

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The Plot 37 Allotment Vlog:

EPISODE ONE

DATE: 14/04/2020

  • Potting Up Brassicas
  • Turning Compost
  • Fixing the hole in the Pond
  • Direct Sowing Spinach and Chard
  • Potting on Chillies
  • Planting out Spring Onions
  • Building the Bean Arches

YouTube BLURB

We are just entering the 4th week of lockdown here in London and I’ve done nothing/been anywhere other than the garden and the allotment!

VLOG ONE 6th – 13th of April 2020 In more normal times, i can’t usually get up to the plot every day and so a weekly vlog would be a bit scanty but nothing is normal right now and I’m able to take my State Sanctioned Exercise up there every single day… so i figure I might as well film whats going on!

These weekly Vlogs will be running Tuesday to Tuesday, for no other reason than that i started on that day.

LINKS

Lilia Spring Onions: https://amzn.to/3jFuQOK

Bean Arches: https://amzn.to/3CniH8d

 

Seeds to Sow in July

Seeds to Sow in July

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Seeds to Sow in July

Seeds to sow in July to keep you harvesting all year round. There are masses of things to sow in the vegetable garden at this time of year; a mix of continued successional sowing, new things to get started and also a few things that you have a last chance to sow! Below is a list of all the varieties mentioned in the video. Where possible i have included a link but some varieties i couldn’t find.

Fennel – Di Firenze https://amzn.to/3xncYw4

Radicchio – Rossa Di Verona https://amzn.to/3AfSYxn

Rossa Di Precoce https://amzn.to/2UMjQEX

Celeriac – Monarch https://amzn.to/3AmjlC6

Cima Di Rapa –

40 https://amzn.to/2UYD5LK

60 https://amzn.to/3jLxumv

90 https://amzn.to/3qCHrE9

Spring Cabbage –

Greyhound https://amzn.to/3dR0tBB April https://amzn.to/2Th2obv

Cabbage –

Primo https://amzn.to/3ycJAce Purple Sprouting Broccoli –

Early Purple https://amzn.to/3haDBPk

Kohl Rabi –

Azur https://amzn.to/2Uei6nJ

Romanesco cauliflower https://amzn.to/3AtbwKS

Kale –

Cavolo Nero https://amzn.to/3AhF4e5

Dwarf Green https://amzn.to/2V1whNz

Scarlet https://amzn.to/2SG1Sn3 Courgettes –

All Green Bush https://amzn.to/2UXf8o5

Green tiger (can’t find)

Sunstripe (can’t find)

De Nice A Fruit Rond https://amzn.to/3hFQFLR

Beans/Peas –

Hursts Greenshaft https://amzn.to/3w8xKyf

Sonesta https://amzn.to/3AiS6In

Carrots –

Touchon https://amzn.to/3x6rzMq

Jaune Obtuse (can’t find)

Beetroot –

Chioggia https://amzn.to/3ybejGl

Boldor https://amzn.to/3wcwZnT

Crimson Globe https://amzn.to/3yaLgCW

Rubridus https://amzn.to/3h73Mqc

Turnips –

Snow Ball https://amzn.to/3h9ceFc

Petrowski https://amzn.to/3dx4aMz

Purple Top Milan https://amzn.to/3jsUhmO

Swede –

Tweed https://amzn.to/3dx4kUb

Spring onions –

Lilia https://amzn.to/3jFuQOK

Pompeii https://amzn.to/2UhOEx0

Chard –

Bright Lights https://amzn.to/2UejTJt

Lucullus https://amzn.to/2V1yqc5

Fordhook Giant https://amzn.to/3dygj3J

Perpetual https://amzn.to/3wbdrA4

Radish –

Alba https://amzn.to/3dyf0Sg

French Breakfast https://amzn.to/3hmtPZu

Lettuce –

Cuor D’Oro https://amzn.to/3dxvKcC

Little Gem https://amzn.to/3ydnQgd

Valmaine https://amzn.to/3yflQEq

Red Salad Bowl https://amzn.to/3waVphE

Rossa Di Trento https://amzn.to/3yai4vS

Mazure https://amzn.to/3AdPNXf

Dragons Tongue

Herbs –

Dill https://amzn.to/3hFTBYT

Chives https://amzn.to/3htLvm1

Lisette Parsley https://amzn.to/3juiRDT

Giant Italia Parsley https://amzn.to/365kkZl

Genovese Basil https://amzn.to/3ycbxAH

Thai Basil https://amzn.to/3qGqxUQ

Chervill https://amzn.to/3y9DtW3

GROWTH Collective

GROWTH Collective

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GROWTH Collective

I am an Ambassador for GROWTH Collective UK

Gardeners for the Removal of Weedkillers and Toxic Herbicides

http://www.growthcollectiveuk.org

We are campaigning to have AMINOPYRALID based herbicides banned in the UK.

Twitter – https://twitter.com/GROWTH_Col_UK

Instagram – http://www.instagram.com/growthcollectiveuk

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If you have had problems with Aminopyralid contamination, it would be so helpful if you could share your experience here –

https://www.growthcollectiveuk.org/share-your-story