SPIDER SHED ROUND TWO! / ALLOTMENT GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS

[Music] good morning everyone happy Monday welcome back to my allotment Diaries my name is Emma the the allotment Diaries if you're not already subscribed to my YouTube channel as always I would love you to hit the Subscribe button um we are getting close to 34,000 subscribers which is insane when I started I think I had well I had none um but I had about a th subscribers when I started doing allotment videos so it's quite a big jump and it's amazing to see so many people enjoying my alotment garden and my lotman content as well because I love allotment plots I love allotment gardening I'm so passionate about it and I just want to share it with as many people as I can so thank you so much if you've already subscribed it means the world to me it's actually quite um a lovely day on the allotment plot all the bunting up and everything looks like it's growing I'm Stein's already out and singing away um the only thing that's not that nice is the weather I am wearing three layers so I've got two Jumpers in a t-shirt I've got two leggings on two pairs of socks my big thick Wellies and my coat on because the weather is just absolutely awful like where is Spring I feel like spring has just disappeared like we've seen little glimpses of it but then it's just not been consistent at all I think actually when you're watching this the weather should be better but I'm filming it the week before I'm filming it last week and it's cold it's not the quietest day on the alotment I'm sure you can can hear all the power tools going off but that's okay we can cope um as you can see the plot is looking very much alive very nice very beautiful the bunting the bunting has just completely changed the plot I feel like it looks alive now looks like we got stuff going on yeah it's looking good I'm pretty sure all that sound in the background is them cutting the the grass in the park and we've got a park next to the allotments and I think they're cut in the grass I think that's what it is so it shouldn't be too long um you'll be happy to know maybe maybe you won't care I don't know that all of my brassers have survived and they are alive I think I have just done a much better job at protecting them this time round and also they are bigger plants so even if they were to get some damage I don't think it would kill them because they are a little bit more substantial but yeah they're all doing really really well the netting as well has made a difference it goes all the way down to the ground um so it really it really hasn't left any openings at all for bird attack or anything and yeah I just think it's just doing really well I've also I've used um slugas on this not strch and I think that's made a difference as well can you hear me it really is not a peaceful day today um but yeah I've used slugas instead of strch and I think it's worked better than strch actually and that's unusual for me to say cuz you know how much I love my strch but I really think slugas has worked more broad beans are doing really well as well they they are alive and they are getting taller and that is excellent I have planted some more beans in between where the gaps are and the gaps are just where the slugs have actually got to them again I've used stro on this and I've actually had quite a bit of slug damage not as much as like it hasn't destroyed the whole crop but some of them are dead so this is a predominantly stro bed I have got some brambles in here as well which has worked a bit I think I assume but you can see even the healthy ones oh even the healthier looking ones have got some slug damage on um and as opposed to like the brassicas which have got absolutely none and that one's dead that one's sort of dying that one's dead I have planted more beans in between but they are alive and they are getting bigger and that is good this here is a salad bed that I planted out with you a little while ago now granted it was very early in the year I did have to cover it with fleece I sort of said to you I think it'll be okay because it was only things like radishes lettuce um and spring onions that we were sort putting in here well unfortunately nothing's come up I mean this row has I think this is uh spinach or something or lettuce something like that I can't actually remember what it was this row come up okay um but these rows see I got the little sticks in place you might not be able to see that very clearly but I do have little sticks to see where I put the rose in but I can't see anything at all coming up in 1 2 3 four rows here I think it was clangula spring onion and radishes don't really know what happened to be honest I would have expected to see even like two or three germinate you know but there was nothing NADA dead dead as a donut so I have brought some more seeds with me today I thought we' just REO it maybe it was just too early in the year maybe I was just being a little bit ambitious I don't know I've rewn the carrots last time so we're going to REO spring onions some of the red lettuce and radishes as well so let's do that just sew it again for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] communicate with him [Music] [Music] I am surprised that the radishes and the spring onions did not germinate at all um cuz they are so easy to grow like you can drop a packet of radishes and it will grow into a radish you could drop a packet like on your bed and they would probably Sprout into radish is like that's how easy they are it makes me think that maybe what happened is that they dried out because this bed's been mulched over with some uh cardboard and then compost on the top but it hasn't rotted down like the cardboards taken a while to rot down I reckon they might have dried out and I didn't water them enough because we did I know we had a lot of rain but the thing is is it doesn't matter cuz if your seeds dry out in between the rain showers they're dead do you know what I mean like it just a couple of days of like warm sun where I didn't water them that's enough for a seed to dry out and die when it's really tiny so perhaps I just need to water these more but there we go attempt number two of the salad bed um these are all just dead I don't know why the Slugs aren't eating these cuz they're welcome to them they really are um but this is the beauty of this time of year guys you can just reso stuff anything that you sewed earlier that didn't work there's still time just whack it in now [Music] [Music] right I've also brought some more peas and I thought I would just whack in a few more um pea seeds is that what they're called pea seeds that sound why does that sound so weird pea seeds I they are just peas they're literally just dried peas that you put in the ground they don't feel like seeds but I guess they are um but the peas are doing really well so I've got two varieties here I thought I'd try in succession so them would be really fancy seeing as um seeing as they're still alive and they're still growing I thought I'd push my luck a little bit why not why not sometimes you got to just push your luck a little bit and so the varieties that I brought with me to sew directly into the ground are purple Magnolia and green something green something now I ripped the label so I can't see what the end of the label says um it looks like there's an h e n and then a letter in front of that so four letters there's four letters green something green something h e en Shen Fen Shen I don't know I don't know that doesn't sound right though I don't know what Shen would be but anyway that's um that's a little cross word clue for you but yeah the peas are still alive guys I tell you what no one is ever more surprised than me to find that my plants are still alive I cannot believe it and they're actually doing really well they're really getting very tall they're loving this uh this structure so because I've got some gaps um where the snails did get to a few of them you can see particularly down here they seem to like the ones on the end I thought I'd direct sew them maybe I'll accidentally succession s them how fantastic would that be take my coat off it's cold but I feel like the coat is making me a bit bulky it's quite difficult to do fiddly jobs I don't know why doesn't really make sense but that's how I feel right right so we'll just whacka peeing one of each we'll alternate them oh gosh that's quite a lot I didn't want that many yeah look they're just like little dried shriveled up peas aren't they weird so we're just sort of going to stick them in there there one in between there let's try and get those back in the bag will I get them back in the bag that's the question no can tell you the answer the answer is no just go for it oh everywhere everywhere and then the purple Magnolia ones oh look they're actually more purple the peas that is so strange I don't know why it seems obvious now we'll just alternate those ones like that I'm only putting one in the hole cuz I'm not expecting anything to grow I'm not wasting two seeds per hole go for it no didn't work it's all right like a challenge [Music] [Music] [Music] I want to reclaim my shed back guys so I've done all that work um I still haven't gone to the dump by the way but I will I will B that in soon I've done all the work of kind of cleaning up everything and kind of like I don't know just making it less of an absolute dump site to be honest but the spiders have officially moved in and I hate it I need to get rid of them so someone said just to be brave I've got a couple of um ideas firstly someone said to keep disturbing them so I'm going to get a big stick in a minute and I'm just going to disturb them all and hopefully they'll bug her off um but if that doesn't work someone also said peppermint so I've got some peppermint oil that was just going to kind of scatter around oh God that was M giant one but the first thing we're going to do is trying to stir them with a big stick now I mean a very big stick because I'm not going near them cuz I am sick of them I am sick I need to get my shed back I was thinking this sck it's big it's robust I think it could stand up against the spider let's it got it it on there what do I do with it it's like a disgusting candy floss what do I do with it what do I do with it [Music] [Music] the webs oh God please don't jump at me please don't jump at me oh my God is that snail the snails in there oh my God are you sitting in there please don't sit in there can you please leave oh please can you just go live somewhere else please please can you just live somewhere else all right we could just never go to that section of the shed again that's fine okay that's all right just please can you just all leave eat them how am I supposed to do the bit by the door cuz I'm not going to be able to get out the shed so I have to do it around the corner right later this is the bit I don't want to do cuz I can't see him God shed his skin is's massive that that that ain't right burn this stick after oh my God I can't keep [Applause] this it's just a stick but not anymore stressful stressful I just hate them so much I get so scared but I actually don't think there's many spiders left in here I think it's like the webs and stuff and like old where they shedded their skin and everything I think they've moved on I think they've got the memo but what we're going to do is we're going to just throw around some peppermint oil now and hope that really finishes them off so apparently gosh that's really strong it's like a proper essential oil apparently they don't like the smell of peppermint so I don't know how to get it around I was just going to kind of spray like throw it around so we're just going to do that is that coming out no it's not coming out be gone be gone it's like holy water be gone leave this place go The Rake keep doing that the rake go away go away go away take your essential peppermint oil go leave oh my God it's so ridiculous hey I now declared the shed covered in peppermint oil so hopefully that gets rid of a little buggers we'll find out if anything it just smells nice in there now actually it doesn't smell nice it actually smells a bit like sambuka if you've ever drunk R like a shot of sambuka actually makes it feel a little bit drunk being in there can you get drunk on peppermint oil I don't know feel a little bit lightheaded that was an entire bottle was it supposed to be an entire bottle yep it smells of sambuka so it's bringing back all the uh all the early naughties memories I hope they don't like sambuka [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so one of the ways that people said to get rid of slugs and snils in your garden is to lay down wooden boards and then turn them over in the morning or whenever you go down there and you'll find them all and you can kind of dispose of them and by dispose I mean um but I'm probably just going to toss them into the communal path someone also said they can find their way back home up to like 20 km that's insane that I couldn't find my way home within 2 km if I went the wrong way from my house 2 km I wouldn't have a clue how to get back home so the the fact that slugs and snails can do that is absolutely insane um but anyway I've got a board here so I'm going to turn it over and I'm going to do just that I think it's a great idea I'm sort of doing it accidentally do you know what I mean so if I turn this board over look at all these slugs what the hell do I do with them now I kill them with my bare hands that's what I'm saying is this a good slug here I have a feeling that's a good Slug and what I mean by good slug is that he eats the other slugs so why is he not eating the other slugs cuz there's loads of food for him here there's loads of food for him but he's not eating them I'm confused I think that's his baby be so I'll leave those two slugs but I think the rest of them I'm going to just like get rid of in theory it's a great idea when the reality comes down and you are literally picking up slugs and removing them by hand it just feels a bit different you know it's like this was a great idea now I have to actually do it oh my God there's loads of them they're under the ground I knew they could live under the ground I knew they could live under the ground I had a feeling that they could like burrow down under the soil that's impossible then we're doomed that's it we're doomed as gardeners if they can go under the ground we're doomed that's like finding out that mice and rats can fly you'd be like no that's it we're doomed they can just fly away there's nothing we can do oh God I can't there's no way I can just murder all of those in one go that just feels like um that's just I just I can't do that I can't like killing a few slugs with pellets or like I don't know putting some stro down or stepping on one is fine but this is a whole group you know they probably got friendship group they probably got kids they probably got you know they go to school slug school there's no way I can do it I just can't do it so what I'm going to do is walk down the path a bit and Chuck them in here I think for a slug this is about 20 kmet I reckon for a slug distance that is a long way for a slug R now that is a long way if that can find its way back it can have them seriously I don't understand how it can go from there and go oh she's moved us come on guys this way come all the way down here what do they use landmarks what are they how are they directing themselves how are they using directions I I can't understand they're amazing animals if they can do that they're amazing if not then you know everyone's just having me on I don't believe where's their brain how big is their brain how can they navigate that I I just don't understand what they're using the Sun the Stars the tree I can't understand it guys it's so confusing to me but apparently they can find their way back so we'll find out I'll let you know I'll let you know oh yeah guys I forgot I brought this it's about to wrap up and I forgot this is in my bag cinnamon somebody said that slugs SNS do not like cinnamon so I'm going to put it around my daers cuz I don't want to keep using those pellets and like stro and everything you know I just want to use something more natural I know that's all natural but yeah I think you know what I mean something like cinnamon just feels more eco-friendly I could drop a cinnamon swirl on the ground and it would keep slugs and snails away that feels quite natural to me you know cinnamon swrl you drop it happens it just happens this is my little daer growing so we just think some of that oh my gosh that came out like crazy I did not expect that much to come out oh my God all right cool I'm in a second it rains in a minute that get washed away but um let's try the cinnamon trick let's go for it these haven't been touched yet I don't think maybe they've been a little bit munched no they haven't they're fine um so we'll try cinnamon oh smells lovely oh smells lovely one one of my hands smells of peppermint the other hand now smells of cinnamon I don't know if that's a good combination but it's very christmy it's very christmy on this plot right now that's all we're going to get done today I think because I just don't have any other jobs to do I just wanted to get down here and Potter about a little bit next time I'm going to plant out my second lot of main cro potato I've got two lots going in and then I've also got some more earlies left and I'm going to whack those in as well because apparently early potato don't mean you sew them early in the year it's the length of time it takes for them to grow and develop so you can start your early potatoes anytime now I don't know from when to when but like they just they develop quickly that's why they're called earlies uh so that I'm just going to whack in some more earlies and see what happens I've never done that before so that'll be exciting as exciting as whacking potatoes in in some mud can be I hope you've enjoyed my Vlog today if you have subscribe to my channel and I will see you again on Wednesday have a lovely gardening week everyone see you then bye