Jayne Hickling MCI Hort

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

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

YouTube video by The Allotment Cook Green Manure- Field Beans

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

YouTube video by The Allotment Cook Propagation - Basil

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
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YouTube video by The Allotment Cook Garden Spaces- Shade Planting

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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YouTube video by The Allotment Cook National Allotment Week 2025

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!!

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

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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YouTube video by The Allotment Cook Container Growing- Salad Leaves

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

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

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!

YouTube video by The Allotment Cook Trimming Tomatoes- Polytunnel Growing

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

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!

YouTube video by The Allotment Cook Successional Planting- Aubergines - Eggplants

Eggplant or aubergine, when it comes to successional planting- these are very timely to get out in the ground now! Snippet on Sunday- just keep growing! 🌱🌿💚 #allotment #aubergine #eggplant #veggrower #gardening

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YouTube video by The Allotment Cook Pollinator Bed- Dead Heading

Just in case you thought I was just about the edibles… here’s something a bit more floral and how to keep them going (tbh- for the pollinators to pollinate the fruit and veg.. but- you know!) 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #pollinators #deadheading #allotment #cottageflowers

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An incredible loss of an absolutely phenomenally inspirational lady xxx

YouTube video by The Allotment Cook Community Growing Edible Bristol

I replaced my usual snippet on Sunday this week to honour @saralimback.bsky.social For those of you not on Instagram- you maybe unaware of the loss of this absolute hero of community gardening & horticulture. A massive loss to all 🌱🌿💚 privileged to have filmed her last year
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It’s a film I’ve not uploaded to my YouTube yet… but it is on my instagram- absolutely beautiful.

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I was there on the Saturday hosting on the Greenfingers Charity show garden… but I also filmed for one if the other gardens- The Nectory. It was stunning

YouTube video by The Allotment Cook BBC Gardeners World Live- Nick Bailey interview

It has been a crazy week and a half- with so much to catch up on… if you missed BBC Gardener’s World Live at the NEC- here’s the link to my interview with headline gardener Nick Bailey, talking about his design, ahead of the build, mixed with film from the end product!
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