CLEAR MY NEW ALLOTMENT PLOT WITH ME / ALLOTMENT GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS

do you just eat a spider? We have officially managed to fill one of our raised beds. Good morning everyone welcome back to my allotment diaries my name is Emma and here is another allotment diary for you so if you are new to my channel I would love you to hit the subscribe button every subscriber helps it helps my channel to grow it recommends my videos to more and more people who are hopefully taking on an allotment plot or thinking about it or maybe you just got a patch of earth in your garden that you want to grow some vegetables on whatever the case may be this might be the channel to follow if you want to see someone just getting stuck in and just doing it definitely not an expert but I'm sort of just doing it so if you just want to kind of get stuck in and do it or see maybe what not to do this might be a good one for you to follow something happened yesterday it was my worst nightmare as I was leaving the allotment plot I got all the way to the gate which is quite a walk from my plot actually the gate is probably four minute walk which doesn't sound long but what I'm trying to say is it's quite a way and when I got there I checked my pockets and I didn't have my allotment key with me and I couldn't find my allotment key and I was checking my bag I was checking everything literally lost it couldn't get out the allotment plot because if you have an allotment plot you'll know that they're really heavily guarded they've got like gates around the whole thing and they're padlocked shut they've got spikes up and barbed wire to stop people from breaking in what it means is that if you let yourself in using the padlock and the key you can't get out again unless you've got your key so I was in a situation where I was standing there I didn't know how to get out and I didn't know if I'd ever be able to get back in again because the council are terrible at getting back to you if you ever email them so I knew I'd never get another key came back to my allotment plot on the off chance that I could find it and I searched for about 10 minutes I didn't vlog any of this because I was in such a panic and by some miracle I actually found my key on the wood chip path it just fallen out my pocket at some point when I was vlogging what's really funny about that is that somebody told me I told this bit I said this in a previous video and I explained this fear of mine and someone said get one of those little bum bags like this right it's got a zip I think it was like 12 pound from Amazon or something really really cheap but obviously because it zips right up like that and just goes around me like that I can keep everything in it and it doesn't fall out so I had this with me I put my door key in there put my home door key in there put my phone in there and my camera but I put my flipping allotment key in my pocket didn't I so I had the bum bag I had a way of protecting it I did it but then I put my key in my pocket and it just fell out my pocket oh so that was the drama from last time so now my allotment key is in my bum bag zipped up so that it it won't fall out again fingers crossed I really hope it doesn't because that was a nightmare welcome back let's all the jobs that I said I was gonna do in the last vlog I'm not doing because I forgot I forgot what I said so so last time I was here I worked on my original plot and it was really nice actually to feel like I was doing some real gardening because I was like working on the Brussels sprouts and stuff and it was really good fun actually I really enjoyed that but today we're back to it on the new allotment plot I think I'm gonna work on this area here because it's stressing me out a little bit I mean I wouldn't say stressing me out as such but kind of like it's a problem that needs a solution so I want to remove this bed here because it's in my way I've just been dumping everything on top of it at the moment and then I want to start to clear around here and that's sort of where I want to start today that's what I want to be getting on with really and just try and clear that bit so that I've cleared it right up to the line of destruction that you can see that's an actual carpet that is it's got fleece on it everything some kind of rug or carpet what's this doing it's massive oh someone left me a comment the other day saying um as I was taking this ground sheet off they said oh the ground must be oh hi Einstein do you just eat a spider oh yes someone said the ground must be so happy like to be breathing again like the ground can breathe and now whenever I take this kind of ground cover off I just envision the ground like breathing like taking a nice deep breath I mean Einstein is absolutely loving it he's down here getting every insect you just ate a spider it's a bit weird but you know he is just loving it because this was all covered in like some kind of carpet and now look at it Einstein thinking now thinking you always come at the moment when I'm about to do something really big you rock up that's why I called you rocky you know cuz you keep rocking up yeah I don't really have a lot of time today I don't have a lot of time I've got other things to do a few jobs that I want to get done rocky I know you don't understand that but you should because you're an allotment cat I don't have any food either I'm really sorry so as I was saying before rocky very rudely interrupted this bed here is raised what do we reckon about the compost in here then do you reckon it's still good I mean the fact the weeds are growing and it shows that it's growable so what do we reckon do you reckon that's good compost because if it is what I'm gonna do is as I am digging out get rid of the weeds put it in my wheelbarrow and then use it to fill up some of my new raised beds we've got to be thinking about how to get my hands on compost and I need quite a lot for this allotment plot here so I was thinking of just buying some but if I can use any I think I will let's see what we can find be careful rocky it's not really safe around here yeah I'm what it's straight in a strawberry bed why cheeky cat I'll put the good stuff in and then we'll de-weed it what we'll do is we'll go through it and we'll get rid of all the weeds in there so it's kind of weedless compost I reckon that'd be fine in a raised bed I mean I might need to top it up with some better stuff try and get the weeds out give myself a head start put load of weeds in there a I've got move all these epoxy logs again again again yes that's the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result but the result is always I have to move it again I've just had a really good thought do you remember that I found that old like sieve thing and someone said oh you could use that for sieving compost why don't I just use that and the only thing is I don't like how long the legs are on it so what I'm going to do is I'm going to saw down the legs and make it smaller I'll show you what I'm doing don't worry Einstein is loving all that new compost now and the ground being exposed he's absolutely just loving it you're right you know the ground really is just breathing it's amazing this is the thing I'm talking about with the big grill on the top I think this would be good but the legs are very long I've never understood why the legs were so long I don't think it's necessary okay let's see if I cut that to size any bets anyone taking any bets I'm gonna bet no oh that is fantastic that is such good that is such good compost and I've got all the stones out it's minimal weeds in there now that is brilliant right guys it's been about an hour and I haven't filmed very much that's the thing about being an allotment vlogger is that sometimes you just need to put your head down and actually do the job and I have done that so are you ready to see what we've done today by we I mean me we have officially managed to fill one of our raised beds and it's the first raised bed that we filled and it's just from filtered they're not filtered it's gonna say filtered water I mean sieved compost that we just found and it's absolutely fantastic the quality of this is brilliant so I will top it up with something like a soil improver or something like that but I think that is an excellent start we've covered all the cardboard under there so brilliant and then the part that I'm actually so excited to show you I have cleared away that raised bed there flattened it all out and finished the and finished the pathway Einstein is absolutely thrilled with my efforts so I finished this pathway along there I'm gonna have a raised bed here I flattened that bit out there and cleared it and taken all the bindweed and the prickles and brambles out and the trees already looking so much better because it had all of this down all this car all this I think it's carpet it must be carpet it's just literally pulling apart it's horrendous and I've got a massive pile of it to get rid of now and I'm not entirely sure how to get rid of that or when I'll be able to so I have to put it somewhere in the meantime which is a shame because I hate having rubbish on my allotment plot but there we go that's all the bindweed and stuff that I pulled out but yeah this area is now looking so much better I think it will be my wildlife area over here with the apple tree and everything I'm really gonna properly tidy up I can just imagine now like those are crocus flowers and bluebells and stuff under the tree I think it's just gonna be absolutely fantastic I would like to get rid of this tree stump at some point but I think that's a very big job and I still have quite a lot of big jobs to do overall I say every time that I finish here but we are getting there I think it's just a slow slow process just got keep plodding it plodding along keep going keep making improvements where you can and eventually it will just become an allotment plot and that's just how it happens I really feel like we're just we're putting it all together and then as we're starting to come down into the messy bit of the plot I am actually starting to clear it and sort it out so this is just this is just great well I hope that you've enjoyed this little edition of my allotment diaries I will be back again on Friday so fingers crossed the weather holds out and I can get here because it is starting to pour now and if the weather holds up I will see you Friday see you then guys have a lovely rest of your week bye