Gardening doesn’t always go to plan | Allotment Gardening UK | Gardening Gadgets
**🌱 Allotment Tour June 2025 | IBC Tank Setup, Poly Tunnel Updates & Harvesting Shallots 🌿**
In today’s allotment vlog, I’m back on the plot after a wild morning of storms and rain! 🌧️ But even the weather couldn’t stop progress—come along as I update you on the latest developments, including:
✅ **IBC tank installation** and how I’m connecting them to collect rainwater efficiently
✅ Handy tips for **water storage**, tank covers & avoiding common fitment mistakes
✅ An early **shallot harvest** – including some beautiful banana shallots 🧅
✅ **Fruit cage update** – red gooseberries, white currants & golden raspberries coming in!
✅ **Sweet peas, blauhilde beans, borlotti beans, and more** – plus a few setbacks 😅
✅ **Chilli peppers, snow white strawberries & winter cabbages** in the works
✅ A peek at my new **DJI drone** for improved footage & plot tours! 🚁
✅ How to take **rose cuttings** (The Generous Gardener) – get free plants the easy way 🌹
I also share my process of succession planting, using my autopot system, adding drip lines, and how I deal with heavy clay soil and unpredictable UK weather..
Timestamps
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:25 Connecting IBC Tanks
0:03:05 Autopots
0:03:30 Connecting a tap to the IBC tanks
0:05:35 Epic Banana Shallot Harvest
0:07:29 June Plot Tour
0:013:35 Planting Sweet potato slips
0:017:00 Connecting tomato supports in the polytunnel
0:21:02 DJI Neo Drone
0:24:20 Taking rose cuttings
0:28:55 Sowing French beans
Credit to : GrowUp
