THEY ARE ALL GONE! / ALLOTMENT GARDENING UK

[Music] good morning guys welcome back to the allotment Diaries my name's Emma these are my allotment Diaries what an absolutely beautiful stunning day it is this morning blue sky sun and I think we're predicted to have 3 or 4 days of really really nice warm sunny weather so I'm absolutely thrilled I'm actually ill so bleming typical um woke up with the sore throat a little bit shivery um but I'm not going to let it stop me from getting here because how could I not I mean this might be our only three days of summer so I'm not going to let that stop me yeah plot is just looking lovely there's one area of the plot that was completely unplanned really this year that I want to show you right now so this Archway here which is on my original allotment plot it's usually it usually holds my pumpkins but obviously I moved those this year to the new plot thinking i' do better silly old me um this Arch way is pretty much I would say 90% unplanned and it's the most beautiful thing on my lot right now I put in the runner beans and there should be some French climbing beans somewhere here as well so I actually planted those the nerian I put about two plants in this is all self-seeded from last year the borage is also completely self-seeded the rocket flowering was an accident because I put the rocket seeds in assume that they died and then they all sprung up and flowered straight away and the Sweet Peas I mean I put in one sweet PE plant I thought it had died and it's just come back to life and it looks absolutely beautiful that little pop of pink I mean look at that look at that we don't even need pumpkins to make this archo beautiful it is just stunning and to walk under it as well if we come under it like this it's just look at this it's just absolutely stunning beautiful here we go this is from the the other side of the arch I mean how stunning is it it's just funny how one of the most unplanned areas of my lotman plot this year and I really thought that would be like neglected I really didn't think much would come of it it's turned out to be one of the most absolutely stunning beautiful parts of my plot that I can't get enough of i l can't get enough of um it's just beautiful but can you see what I mean by planting the sturum underneath an archway it changes it because you it hides the bottom the ugly bit of the arch and it sort of covers it and it makes it look really magical [Music] so this is the other Archway on my new allotment plot and it is my old poly tunnel frame that I've just covered in sort of um Garden mesh it's not chicken wire it's Garden mesh cuz it's a little bit softer than chicken wire um and it's done okay it's done okay but you can see that the Nerium here are what's been planted this year there's been no self-seeding going on um because it's the first year they've been here so they're not quite as bushy and then the idea was to have pumpkins but unfortunately I've only really got one that's properly going over the arch I feel like there's a lot of lessons to be learned with this Archway because so much of it got eaten um I wonder if the soil maybe wasn't good enough because the soil over there has been replenished over and over again year after year this hasn't so there's a lot of lessons to learn and there's a lot of things I'm going to do differently next year but hopefully it feels out a little bit more I think runner beans become a bit more bushy and this one here and this is really trying to get to the top go Runner Bean [Music] [Music] go oh my God so right oh right so the first thing I'm going to do today is use that stinging nettle plant feed that we made um a few weeks ago to feed some of my tomatoes and pumpkins it absolutely reeks I can't even describe the smell of this it's like it's like rotted fruit or something it's like something that's gone really really rotted I mean that's pretty much what it's done it's just rotted stinging nettles but it's supposed to be really good for like nitrogen and stuff I can't tell you how much this stinks this is just absolutely disgusting but hopefully good for the plants so got um watering can filled up with um rain water and I've got my little pot so oh there so much of gardening it's just so so disgusting like slugs and bugs and dirt so much of it so gross so I think we're just going to get oh just horrible get a bit of it like that and just pour it in might do a little bit more just because I don't think it'll be as concentrated as like tomato fee cuz i' probably not done it right oh my gosh I got it on my hand and my hand absolutely RS what do I do what do I do what do I do what do I do what do I do oh my God my hand absolutely reeks I've got nothing to like wash it oh actually I've got this over here I might do this I don't think this water is much cleaner but what's that done yes a little bit better I'm I'm when I tell you that stinks I'm not kidding I just want to totally reinforce this to you so that you don't open it up and pass out [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] right so I've just been doing a few little bits and Bobs around the place so weeding deadheading stuff supporting things that are falling down it's just nice today it's just so peaceful and quiet and beautiful it's just nice to Potter about a little bit and do a few jobs there is one big job that I need to do though actually possibly two but one definitely that I'm going to do and that is this bed down here this bed in here has got my red onions in it and they have they have not done very well this year the garlic was here where this lettuce is um and that did fantastically but the onions have really really struggled so what I'm going to do now I'm going to pull it all up see if anything here is actually edible or looks remotely like an onion and then what we're going to do we're going to clear the bed up and weed it all over and get it ready for kale I've been growing kale plants at home and I really think this is a great bed for kale cuz I don't think kale mines a little bit of shade and this bed is quite Shady so that's what's going to go here and then what I'm going to do is start some new onion sets somewhere else on the new plot and start them now in July and see if they do better yeah for some reason I've just always started my onions and garlic in the Autumn time and it's never worked so let's change it up a bit and let's start the onions and garlic in the summertime and harvest it in the Autumn and just see if it works that way around instead we might as well give it a go I mean look at the peas I've never successfully grown peas again but I tried tried tried this year it's the year of the pee I've just got peas everywhere peas coming out of my ears at this a lopment at the moment so right let's pull up all the onion some of it some of it isn't looking too bad I have to admit some of it's looking all right so this could be and that one's not but you know it could be a good harvest oh that one's not very good all right it's fine it's okay still time oh that one's not doesn't look like an onion see let these ones just have not worked at all at all whatsoever not worked not worked not worked no may possibly looks a little bit more like an onion than the other ones oh dear right this is the one that looks like my best hope for an actual onion so I'm really hoping oh you know what you know what that is pretty good I've got an onion that's an onion oh it smells like an onion it looks like an onion it feels like an onion I think that might possibly be an onion right okay good that's one one in the bag I think that's going to be it I think that's going to be my only really successful onion here no none of these are looking I'm not saying they're not edible that might very well be edible but it's not like any onion I would you know Buy in a shop so that's a bit of a shame really oh hang on hang on a second where are you hiding mate oh yeah is looking all right you know that's a good onion all right so two well very very unsuccessful really except we did get these two we did get these two which I actually think are quite good so I'm going to brush them off now and just see what they look like underneath all this grime you know what they are not half bad actually that's as good as an onion I've ever grown they're shiny they're red they look and smell delicious I'm actually really really pleased with those and actually they're quite dry so I don't think I need to dry them out or anything I actually might take them home and use them straight away yeah I'm actually quite chuff with those honestly for my first ever onions I'm really Chu with them so half a success I would say right let's clear out this bed and get it ready for [Music] [Music] kale this thing here that I sort of risked my life chopping down has all grown back again which is very annoying I think it's going to be stronger because I've chopped it really hard back I think it thinks I've helped it out so I'm just going to chop that back a bit cuz I can't feed Einstein properly at the [Music] moment there we go I fed him but I haven't seen him around today I've seen him once but then he sort of flew off so I don't know if he's going to Einstein now he must be busy today busy doing bird things I don't know what he gets up to when he's not here seeing his girlfriend probably um I saw him about earlier but obviously I fed him too late today so no Einstein um I'm worried about the broad beans I think the broad beans might need to come out soon I've got some more cucumbers at home just to plant out and I've also got some what have I got Snapp peas which I need to make another structure for and these are looking very sad they're all flip-flopping all over the place I think I let them get too big and they're sort of flip-flopping everywhere um what I might do is pick some today and um get rid of them next time look at this they're sort of finished they're finished [Music] oh hello Rocky is that why Einstein's not about cuz you're here oh maybe we found the reason why Einstein won't come around he's noticed you about Mr Rocky hello Rocky hello oh it's your fault is it I haven't got my bird my bird to feed today just picking some broad beans what do you think of those yeah yeah I like them too actually there quite a few on this plant here [Music] rocks do you know what I think I might pick all of them take them home freeze them and then get rid of the plants cuz the plants are looking so sad and sorry for themselves do you know what I mean I think it might be time so I'm going to take all of these home I'm going to take all the plants out more plant murder today oh yes they can't live forever guys come on right it's a very um destructive day today I did not intend it to be so destructive but it's just turned out that way [Music] that's crazy that is that's like I've changed the landscape of the entire allotment plot actually that bed is massive absolutely massive So the plan in here is to have uh two more cucumbers and some um what they called snap peas as well so I need sort of two structures in here and I reckon I reckon I can pull that off I really do I think honestly I've just had enough of broad beans and they're all flopping over the place they don't look very they're not their best anymore do you know what I mean but yeah that is actually crazy how different the plot looks just taking out one plant isn't that amazing God Rocky you scared the absolute be Jee out of me just then where'd she come from skulling around aren't you skulling around anyway this is going to be exciting I think so we've got some more things to go into the plot very very soon just prolonging the Harvest this year and just trying to grow as much as I can I hope you've enjoyed the Vlog today if you have do subscribe to my channel I will see you again on Wednesday when we'll be finishing this job and hopefully building some structures how exciting see you then guys thanks for watching bye