SOWING SEEDS DIRECT / ALLOTMENT GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS

thin thin thin stop it Emma stop it stop it stop it stop it God damn it what are you saying you can just switch off whenever you want I'm stuck with me morning guys welcome back to my lot Diaries my my name's Emma these are my allotment Diaries where I just Vlog all about my allotment progress and my journey growing my own food basically and flowers lots of flowers are going to grow this year I think um because I've got twice the amount of space now that I've got both of these plots and I think flowers are going to be a must to be honest to kind of fill up some spaces as well this is the original allotment plot that I have had for oh this is my fifth year of having this plot now but I've taken on this one recently and if you're a longtime follower you'll know this already but um I've now got all of this space as well so there's a lot more to fill I think today I'm actually going to be spending most of my time in my original allotment plot which has been ever so slightly neglected but also not because I did mulch over the beds last Autumn and to be honest the plot kind of hibernates over the winter time so it's the first time I've sort of left this plot over winter and it's done really really well actually minimal weeds because of all the mulching that I've done and everything seems to be pretty much in good order um yeah it's looking okay I just wanted to show you around quickly we have got a lot of new things coming up now which is quite exciting for spring so I thought i' would do a little little tour to start with still got a lot of the Sprouts growing here I might have to remove them today um and clear up this bed and then I've got this bed here not entirely sure what to put in these this year then behind that we've got my original pumpkin Archway which this year I'm going to have beans growing up and kind of um French beans maybe runner beans all different kinds of beans basically it's going to be Bean Arch you can see I've got some tulips coming up there some little daffodils and then down here lots more tulips coming up these ones are really beautiful and they don't look unwell at the moment I had to take up most of the Tulips at the front of the allotment plot last year because they got tulip fire which is like a fungal infection I think it's a fungal infection that tulips can get and it kind of spreads throughout the bulbs um and infects the Tulips and means that they they kind of turned all weird colors and stuff but then they started like looking like they were on fire it's kind of got like a fire like a burnt pattern on them so I had to pull them all up and I was really hoping the rest of my tulips on the plot wouldn't be affected I don't think they are these ones here look very very healthy I've got so many tulips and daffodils and things coming up I just love spring bulbs this is the bed we're going to be using today to plant we're going to do par Snips and maybe a couple of other things I brought some other things with me I can't remember what I brought because I'm AB absolutely blooming useless but pnps for sure this bread this bed I was going to say this bread this bed has got my purple sprouting broccoli in a little tiny kale plant that I rescued from my poly tunnel and I might put some more kale in here cuz I really like kale at the moment um and then here I've got my chard and my per um I can't remember what it's called sunic spinach sunic spinach but in between look got tulips coming up and I completely forgot that I planted tulips in here ages ago so I don't know what's going to happen to them now I might just leave it and just see what happens cuz I'm pretty sure they'll just fight their way to the surface but yeah lots of tulips in there then we sort of got a bit of a miscellaneous bed here not sure nothing ever really works in this bed so I really don't know what to do with it this year it's quite confusing um I was a little blueberry plant there which is always dying um and then we got some raspberries in here but again that doesn't look very healthy or very good neglected that we've got the flower bed here which that needs to be fixed today properly cuz that's driving me insane um it's got loads of fresh horse manure I mean well rotted Down horse manure now I put that in sort of October time so that' be well rotted down now so that's great that's my cornflour and flower bed then we've got the lovely Archway here for sweet peas and at the back you can see we've got all of our fruit bushes which is still alive I accidentally stepped on this one and snapped him does that surprise you at all no but um the rest of them have been pretty much untouched and they look okay so this is my like original allotment plot my first plot and you can see there's just a bit of work to be done basically I mean if this was my only plot this would be absolutely pristine right now and perfect but I mean it doesn't have to be perfect but yeah we're going to work on it today and then there's a few areas so for example here that I don't really know what to do with and I actually thought potatoes cuz this ground is quite bad and hasn't been sort planted in for years and years and years I thought big old potato bed there whacking a load of potatoes and hopefully that just help out the soil and stuff but I want to do something with it you know and the other area is just within this tree here um it's just sorting it out and cleaning it up and making it look a little bit nicer really and now that I've kind of said all of those jobs that need to be done it feels too much for today so we'll work our way through some of those jobs to do and and then we'll come back and we'll finish the rest another day um we'll just do as much as we can do today so I think what we'll do is we'll work our way from the front of the plot down to the back and we'll just tidy it up fix anything it needs fixing take it step by step basically and uh yeah let's get going right little pit stopped because Einstein's decided to show up ready for his grub you hungry that seems like a lot of worms but oh there you are C no you don't wait anymore do you can't take cable Tire cuz the cable Tire doesn't fit so I have to think of something else I think maybe right because it keeps falling forward if I put something in front of it stand it up might fall forward anymore maybe not that no not that I found a perfect thing right this that must be the most annoying thing ever to watch okay we're just going to stick this in God damn it FY thing if you ever find it infuriating watching me do things like this either just don't watch or just think imagine being me cuz I'm stuck with me forever I'm really like this you can just switch off whenever you want I'm stuck with me Jesus good yes that's better yes yeah fixed it last properly just a bit of a mess here isn't it just a bit of a mess don't really know what it is or what it isn't what it could be you know that's how much of a mess it is I don't know what it is what it isn't or was it what it could be would it surprise you if I told you that I've lost my rake I can't find it anywhere so annoying and whenever I lose it I always get really panicky that someone's stolen it and then I think why would someone steal a rake why would someone steal a rake but you'd be surprised people stole really weird things someone stole all my pumpkins one year I don't know where it could be I don't know where I was last using it it's in my shed unless someone's broken on into my shed and put my tools away I don't know how it's in my shed I never put my tools in my shed it's terrible I know I really need to start doing it but that is really weird to find it where it should be really weird right whenever I find myself with an area like this that looks absolutely awful I always just start by raking it raking it is just a great thing to do it's just great if in doubt rake see until you find bits that are unbreakable and then it's not so amazing but most of the time things are rable always remember that guys on Fire come on come on no all right fine stay there stay there stay there forever on your own that's fine bit of a fiddly job that is trying to get rid of all those branches that I've just cut off but you can see that's looking a lot neater now a lot better so that area there just needs clearing and sorting out and then we're going to do some planting in there maybe a little bench actually be nice to have a little bench in there um and make it just part of the wildlife area right bit bored of that now um if I get Bor of a job like that then I don't do it properly and I start cutting Corners so I'm going to walk away from that now um we made a really good start in that area and we're going to go and do some planting I think I'm going to sew some seeds let's go and do that right so we're going to whx some seeds in today which is very exciting it's towards the end of February now so I think it's um okay to sew a few seeds I think the weather is going to drop next week though so I'm going to cover it with a CL on once I've sewn them and but hopefully they get off to a good start so I'm going to start with some beach root this is the golden eye Beach root beach roots never really worked for me very well it worked in my first year but ever since then I've never really been able to grow it but I keep whacking it in just in case cuz you never know one day it might decide to grow then I've got a couple from seed craft I've talked about seed craft a lot um they're like a subscription service for seeds that you just get a box of seeds every month and the seeds that you get you can actually start that month whether that be indoors or Outdoors these are two that I got in my February box that you can start straight away like in February and it is spinach Renegade whack that in is what happens and parsnips and these are the Gladiator F1 and that's the only parsnips I've ever seen really but I really like them and they always work for me so we're going to put them into this bed here this bed has never had parsnip spinach or Beach root in it before so I'm hoping it will do quite well I don't know where the logic is in that but there's logic somewhere there's logic in there somewhere I don't know where it is but if you look hard enough there's some logic there really really great soil in here because I mulched this over the um Autumn time so it's just fantastic it's also got cardboard as a layer which is why you can see the Lac of weeds because I've got great loads and loads of cardboard down in here so there's only a couple of weeds and these would have just been the seeds are sort blown on top of the soil um so I can remove those easily right we somewh passing it first I'm going to do it sort of vertically rows like smaller rows if you know what I mean that makes any sense whatsoever so what we'll do is we'll just make a drill in the soil there just like that right we're going to try and sew these thinly the thinner you sew it the better if you don't sew it thinly just prick them out right we're just going to thinly thinly thinly thinly thinly if you just say it it will happen thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin stop it Emma stop it stop it stop it stop it right definitely not thin definitely not thin what we'll do is make the next row so we know where this one is cuz I always forget where the rows are always always always SE my past nips in February and they've always always always done really really well every single year they do well so go figure no it's just not thin it's just not going thin it's just not going thin and I've got loes in my hand I don't know what to do with them so I'm going to do another row of bluming pths now didn't want another road but we doing one that'll do cuz I say it will do therefore it will do that's the most unline line I've ever seen in my life it's an anti line I would do two rows of beetroot because no one needs that much beetroot in their life do they weird seeds beetroot seeds oh I've just clumped them cuz my hands are wet Chuck those ones they like that it's like a little ride for them Chuck them wait where's the them where's the clump there's no Clump they've un clumped good cool all right I will put spinach at the at the end do one I wonder if I will avoid slugs doing it this time of year as well I wonder I wonder because I don't know I have no idea I think they're probably out because they're hungry oh these are bigger seeds this is good oh I do love bigger SE seeds they're so much easier to scatter no clumping them stop clumping them Emma what is God my seed game is just not good you are supposed to sew them thinly and that's just because it's just easier but if you do sew them thickly you can just thin them out later but make sure you do thin them out um except beetroot which apparently you don't have to thin out anymore cuz they can just push each other out the way that's what I like plants that can kind of do the job for you you know right our first rows of seeds are in the ground so we've got our spinach Renegade we've got our beach root the Golden Beach root in the middle and we've got our par Snips Gladiator F1 at the end how beautiful does that look what I'm going to do quickly is put some sticks in the front of the Rose so I know where I planted them uh so I just need to find some sticks oh it's just like stick City around here right I won't know what they are but hopefully I'll remember I never remember but one one day I might good luck good luck my little seeds please don't die please don't die please you'll love it here it's such a lovely garden please don't die please don't get eaten just tell those slugs to bug her off for you please please right okay it's not begging don't Begg you plants I've closed it over but it's not just about keeping the cold out it's actually about keeping the animals out cuz I think the fox was digging in one of my beds he hasn't dug in this one um I haven't seen Rocky for a while a lot of people asking about Rocky I haven't seen him um but yeah this should hopefully keep them from digging in there I don't always bother to Clos over stuff in February but hopefully I mean I think that will that'll do the job I think it'll all grow to be honest this is my garlic coming up on my new allotment plot look how beautifully it's all coming up now and I thought it was I forgot about it to be honest I whacked it in and then I forgot about it but it's actually coming up so so beautifully really hope I get some garlic this year no sign of the broad beans yet but I wouldn't expect expect them to come up so quickly but um nothing's dug in here which is just amazing brilliant blueberry plants look very much alive they're getting little buds on them so I've kept these alive they're going to look so beautiful if they Bush out either side of the arch Ray they're going to look lovely and I know you can probably just see weeds but there are quite a few bulbs coming up here so I've got all the crocus flowers and a lot of those are coming up and then over here look all of those tulips I planted starting to come up so this area it's going to look really nice I think I hope and I'll just keep adding flowers here someone said about Cosmos think Cosmos look lovely anyway I hope you enjoyed my Vlog today it was really nice to get something done in my original lopment plot um and to get some seeds Z I hope you enjoyed it if you did subscribe to my YouTube channel and I will see you again in my next Vlog thanks for watching guys bye