Jayne Hickling MCI Hort

What can you be doing now in your garden spaces? Prepare for a bumper year and healthy plants #fruit YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

Whilst the fruit bushes are asleep… I’m giving them a trim!!! Here’s a spot of pruning! 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #allotment #pruning #gyo

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What can you be doing in your grow spaces now? A few slow growers to get started #celery #celeriac YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

A nice little GYO Short on a Sunday morning… I am definitely in the “don’t sow too early” camp… but (in addition to the basics most are sowing now) here are two you may not have thought of! 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #allotment #veggrower

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What can you be growing now? sweet potatoes- don’t need to be a faff! #growyourown #allotment YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

Finally getting back to it for 2026… and what you could be doing now in your veg patch!
🌱🌿💚 #vegpatch #gardening
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After three weeks of flu resulting in my being MIA- getting better and just popping on to say happy new year with a little revue of 2025. Have a good one!

Check out this week’s recipe card…
What can you get cooking from the plot? More winter warmers and using our parsnips after a frost gives a real hit of flavour!
Because parsnips cook down so easily, this soup is possibly one of the quickest to make!
#recipe #vegetarian #parsnip #soupseason 🌱🌿💚 👩‍🍳

If you have hedges and bushes- You have until around March to get trimming! #hedge @StigaGardenCare YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

What can you be doing in your growing spaces now?
Here’s an idea… and only a little bit of innuendo! It’s all about the bushes!
🌿💚🌱#gardening #growyourown
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Here’s what we can be doing now! GYO Onion Sets #allotments #gardening #gyo @thompsonmorgan YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

What could you be sorting now in your growing spaces?

It’s not too late to get your onions sorted- and this time I’m reclaiming a little bit of my dramatic side! Here’s what we can be doing now!

#allotments #gardening #gyo #gardenexpert 🌱🌿💚

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What can you get cooking from the plot? Ramen- great if you love a fake away! #recipe #ramen #vegan YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

Continuing my weekly series on what to cook Wednesday- veggies from the plot as the main ingredients. Winter is about warming bowls- but it doesn’t need to be stodgy. This veggie ramen bowl is so refreshing. Check out the recipe card, screen shot and cook.
🍜🌱🌿💚 #recipe
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What could you be doing now in your garden?
Introducing my new series of GYO Shorts, for a quick burst of what you can be doing in your allotment or garden- there’s always something to do. So let’s not forget our gardening friends! #allotmentuk #allotments #garden #gardening #gyo #hedgehogs 🌱🌿💚 🦔

I need to get some shell on earth for the soil gnats too

All change at this time of the year… and it’s time to get clearing out the polytunnel and facing exciting growing futures! It’s been a muddy one! Gloriously mucky! #peatfree #sustainability #growyourown #polytunnel #allotment #sponsored Heart of Eden (AHS Ltd) 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #allotment #polytunnel

It’s glorious isn’t it?!

Check out my recipe card… Yesterday was technically “Apple day”, but with this year’s fruit trees falling into their mast year/ there’s plenty to get harvesting and plenty of recipes. This one’s a beauty! 🍎🌱🌿💚 🧑‍🍳
#recipe #apple #appleday #recipecards #applerecipes #applecake

Green Manure- Field Beans YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

It may be autumn… but for me this is the true start to the gardening year! Although… I have a cautionary confession this week… which proves that even experienced gardeners can do silly things!! 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #allotment #growyourown #gardener #sustainablegarden

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It should certainly keep me going! (Confession I have three more likes dotted around ready to go into different areas too!) 🤣🤣🤣

4 plots,teach 4 days,run a business, lead community gardening,a trustee + brand ambassador +family? 1 person! (my fab family enabling me!) getting winter ready with a compost delivery. But shifting well over 5000L of pure gold is hoofty! I hurt! But I’m happy! #sponsored @heartofeden_ahs 🌱🌿💚 #garden

Propagation - Basil YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

Crazy weather- but still needing a gardening fix… here’s a great one for this time of the year… a spot of cuttings and propagation!
🌱🌿💚 #gardening #garden #propagating #allotmentuk
#sponsored
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Garden Spaces- Shade Planting YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

Sorting out a job which I’ve been needing to do in my own back garden. If something isn’t working- it’s time for a change. Which includes some of my favourite non- edibles (although technically one is edible- but you know?!?
#garden 🌱🌿💚 #plants #hostas #ferns #heuchera
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Looks beautiful xxx

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It’s been a crazy few weeks- and I’ve been a bit AWOL on here, but if you’ve missed out on my weekly films… there’s three for you to “binge” watch! Seed saving- science of pectin and a bit of structure building for the perennial veg 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #allotments #gyo

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National Allotment Week 2025 YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

Celebrating a double! It’s National Allotment Week in the U.K. and the focus is on wellbeing. I’m also celebrating 100 sponsored how to grow films for Heart of Eden Peatfree Compost. So this is more of my one to one view of allotment spaces 🌱🌿💚 #nationalallotmentweek #garden
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A fabulous day- I would have happily stayed!!

#PR inspirational visit to @MrFothergillsSeedLtd exciting times. #everyonecangrow @SonilaTroka YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

A fabulous day exploring the trial fields at @fothergills seeds this week at their media press day. So many exciting things to come in 2026!
#pr 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #seeds #fothergills
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Container Growing- Salad Leaves YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

Snippet on Sunday- it’s August- and I’m going to say it.. the weather is PANTS!! But- some of our homegrown produce rather likes it!! 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #growfood #salad
#sponsored @heartofeden
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Looking very smart

Seed Saving- Beth’s Sunflowers YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

Somehow we’re back into seed saving marathons- but this week I’m focusing on my very special Beth’s Sunflowers Charity Sunflowers. The happy flowers, brilliant seeds and the amazing things which can be done with them! #seedsaving #gardening #sunflowers 🌱🌿💚 #garden
#slonsored
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If you can- I’d strongly suggest a quality one such as from Northern or Premier Polytunnels. Not cheap- but they’re definitely more robust and the clearer covers work much better!

Trimming Tomatoes- Polytunnel Growing YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

Not my usual Sunday thanks to a slight medical situation of insect allergies (not great for a gardener!!? But at least this was one I had filmed (not edited) earlier! All about those tomatoes- and not stripping all of the leaves off!! Not yet!! 🌱🌿💚 #gardening

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Polytunnel Growing/ Cucumbers & Melons YouTube video by The Allotment Cook

So scorchio- even the cucumbers are feeling the heat… but- there’s something to be done about that!!
🌱🌿💚 #gardening #growyourown #veggiegrower #communitygrowing
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Excellent…. They are so cool! Although… I’ve yet to really find a recipe I like with them… I’m sure there’s one out there… I’ve tried a fair few recipes!