Welcome to my allotment gardening channel. My name is Emma and these vlogs are my allotment diaries. 2024 is is my fIfth year on my plot. I’m learning as I go and would love for you to follow my allotment gardening journey by SUBSCRIBING to my channel!
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Emma if you peg down, your nets with tent pegs or pegs for weed suppressing materials, straight after mulching and planting ..and peg it down tight in several places inside your raised bed walls, the slugs and snails will not easily get in or at all.. it works for me 🙂
I really want to come to your plot and clear away all the rubbish 😂
Hi Emma, I am impressed with your brassicas, my garden centre does not sell them this time of year, where can I buy them?
"😊Down here, down here". "Are you pollinated now?" ❤ Lovely 😅
Lovely 🫛🫛🫛🫛🫛🫛
What sort of pea is that?
Try removing leaves around flowers to expose male and female flowers . It gives easy access to flowers for the bees ❤
If it is Einstein, he is probably weary of the chance Rocky could be around.
Hi Emma, I enjoy watching your channel, you have a nice sense of humour and you never give up. As a fellow gardener, I was going to ask if you are planning to thin down your trees? I know you said in one of your videos that you like them, but with more sunlight you would have less slugs and much better harvests because the plants would be stronger. Growing in shade/semi shade is very hard. I am based in South Stoke and am part of a group who are setting up a community garden with individual plots (allotments). It's been a great journey.
Great video Emma, can't wait for the planner to be released!
I know what you mean about a newly composted bed, I get the same feeling, then when planted up, I feel smug that I've got winter veg!!
Another wonderful video!!! I totally agree with you about how a freshly composted or mulched garden bed makes you feel when you see it. I cleaned out my tiny greenhouse this weekend and added compost to 2 beds and just sat in the chair and looked at them for awhile…what an incredible feeling! Then I direct sowed some lettuce seeds and collard greens. This will be my first year trying to grow greens from seeds in the greenhouse through fall and winter. My question is, even though I am in the US, is the bug cloth you just added to your garden bed thinner than frost cloth like we have here?
Love your channel. Emma. Will it be possible to order your Planner from the Republic of Ireland ?
Hi Emma, I would love to know if you actually ever use home made compost, I see you put stuff on compost heap but do you actually get any, could save you some money if you concentrate on producing your own. I have five plastic bins , however that is never enough. Love all you do, your camping holiday was just couple miles from me . Keep going love seeing what you harvest too.
Love watching you sweet 🌷🤞🙏
Enjoy watching your videos. You bring a touch of whimsy to the garden that no one else does and it’s wonderful!
Hiya Emma, Sunflowers look great and the variety of Nasturtiums. I keep meaning to mention a wee trick , put a used cork atop those screws that stick out here and there as not to get cut etc. Blessings luv southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
Open the roots up a bit before you plant, ..just pull them apart a little so they have a start to be able to spread out and grow nicely. Love watching your videos from here in Ohio!
What variety of peas did you plant for an autumn crop?
Love watching your videos from New Zealand, even if I don't have an allotment. By the way, you could bring a cotton swab (Q tip) or a small paint brush as that makes collecting and transferring pollen easier 😊
Hi Emma, I bought, and used, your planner for this year, it’s been so useful for noting down the names , dates etc of seeds sown , so will definitely be buying next years. The graph pages also huge thumbs up 👍 What I found less useful were the notes pages for day/weekly tasks, for me, some these would have been more useful if they were just blank pages then I could have jotted down random notes or ideas regardless of the day or week. Even so looking forward to next years.
Love your vlogs, they're how I wind down the day whilst waiting for an allotment garden of my own ☺🥬🌽 Would love to hear more about what you've learned from past years and what you'll do differently next season – I often find these little tips & insights from gardeners super helpful!
I got curious and looked up the lifespan of Robins, which is sadly rather short. If they survive the first year they live between 2 to 5 years only. Einstein may right now be in bird heaven, bless him. Maybe its his offspring that is now visiting you, creating a family tradition 🙂
Watching from Australia, have started my summer seedlings now and planted the potatoes
Morning Emma. Your peas look amazing. Tiny tip is to "pop" the pod at the bottom the pod then opens!
Just a tip – close the female’s flower petals after you’ve hand pollinated to prevent bees etc cross pollinating and/or taking away the pollen you added and leaving the incorrect pollen from another completely different plant. I usually secure it closed with string or a clip
Yey, that one I'm getting myself this year as a christmas gift 😀 thanks for the info! There's netting that protect against white fly as well … I net all my cabages the moment I get them into the ground, we regrettably don't have time to pass by the allotment plot every day. Which is why I don't grow potatoes anymore either… you got tips to protect potatoes against the bug different than picking them and eggs by hand (we don't want to use chemicals)? I'm gonna try growing them home in a bag next year but they won't be so many than off course. We have a robin in our garden at home, it's so cute ain't it 😀 So nice to see your vlogs, thank you Emma! Greetings, Kitty.
I would plant your brassicas deeper(up to the first seed leaves) to give the roots a chance to establish themselves. firm them well in as brassicas don't like loose soil. and keep well watered.
Great video Emma keep the great videos coming 😀
Emma enjoying you blogs. Some advice with planting brasacas firm them in more. Use a heal of your shoe. Or even a hammer.
Just went out to my garden to drink coffee and watch your video, immediately spotted a cabbage white butterfly hanging out underneath the netting on my brassicas… no time to fix it right now but it's going to be a massacre…
Your peas really do look delicious .
Love ya blog Emma. After a dismal 18 months neglecting my beautiful plot, I have perspired much and prepared it again! Can I still put some potatoes and Brussels in when I get back from holiday mid September?
Where did you get your netting from please?
Thanks for all your lovely videos Emma. A lot of work goes into the production week in week out and is appreciated by us all .
Keep whacking.
Do you ever make your own compost Emma?
My bins have been sinking for a year now and I think I’ll try and sieve it in winter… I’m hoping for a cheap way to mulch my beds other than grass cuttings!
Ohnooo Emma you were doing it the other way around for a bit 😂😂 happy you figured it out. A few weeks ago I was also literally cheering on the bees to go into the right flower and then did some hand pollinating too just to be sure 😂
Hi Emma, I have just been outside and the slugs and snails are on their march! Check your garden by torch this evening.
Your dedication to producing content is appreciated. Love all your videos. Question on your shop products. Can I get those in the US?
This is something I have experienced myself and read about the scientific effects it has.
Whenever you're out in your Garden, ALWAYS be totally barefoot because our soles love and deserve that freedom. They love to feel various textures of soil between their toes. Apart from n it's very healthy to be barefoot outside.
Take for example two plants, one grown inside a pot and tge other grown in Nature. However much you water and use fertilizer, it never looks as healthy as the latter. This is simply because the roots have a limited space to stread and the Nurishment too is the same.
The soles of our feet are like the roots of a tree.When you're not barefoot that natural process is obstructed. Our soles are designs to absorb things which are essential to lead a healthy lifestyle. However, use of footwear deprives this process. Apaurt from that there are a large number of Sensors / Nerve endings on the soles of our feet, which connects from head to toe. When we walk on Sand, Gravel and Tiny Stones /Pebbles,our entire body gets stimulated through these sensors. Once again Footwear deprives this natural process.
So, go barefoot always for good health and happy feet and soles.
i wonder if male flowers taste savoury and female flowers sweet or some incentive for bees to visit them in order
My peas have all been pecked to death. Had high hopes for the succession seeded planter…but that got pecked as well. What is the point of having bird feeders around everywhere if the birds go for the veg instead 😢
I really need to grow actual peas 🫛 next year. I have great memories of podding them at my grandads and eating A LOT of them. What variety did you sow? My mangetouts have done superbly (well the second/ third sowing of them that is ! 😝) I’m picking a handful a few times a week.
Ps I think the Tomatoes that look plummy that you tried in the last video were Romas, if I remember right you sowed them at a similar time to me. 💚
Hi Emma, i just came across your channel and after watching this video subscribed straightaway! Loving the way you talk to your plants the birds and the fact you take such joy from nature❤❤❤ I must have smiled or laughed through most of the video rsp watching you hand pollinate the plants😂. Its so great to see such a revivavl in gardening, diy and crafts ……honestly in this age of technology its a sign of hope that people are getting out there and being practical. Ive finally decided to get back into my garden and grow this year and a few years of neglect, ill definitly be watching your videos for ideas…….keep up the good work and do let us know if the flowers pollinated 😂
Any plans to grow garlic?