I DESTROYED THE DAHLIAS!! / ALLOTMENT GARDENING UK

[Music] good morning guys welcome back to my allotment Diaries my name's Emma these are the allotment Diaries just come down this morning to do a few bits and Bobs but look who's waiting for me it's Einstein up in the tree not sure if you can see him here but he that is definitely Einstein he's waiting for his morning breakfast so we better get that ready for him [Music] [Music] thought I would start this Vlog by looking for my Scissors because believe it or not and this is like not like me at all but I have misplaced my scissors so I have no idea where they are they could be anywhere on the plot so I thought I'd just have a wonderand around see what need's doing and and see if I can find them I actually don't remember what I was doing the last time I Ed scissors here did I even use scissors here probably right my shears are over there that's not very good right blueberries are oh look what's happening to the blueberry plant it's turning very autumnal getting these beautiful red leaves and we've got lots look at these lots of blueberries absolutely delicious blueberries are done so well this year oh what's happened on my Archway I seem to have had a bit of a tumble setion is a little bit bare what's going on it's all sort of starting to die back a bit now it's very sad actually oh look this is one of the pumpkins that I tried to pollinate and it's uh actually growing a pumpkin I hope we get one out of this that would be so amazing to actually get another pumpkin out of this got my lovely knobbly pumpkin growing at the top here he's still alive no sign of the scissors there okay we'll move on the weather has definitely changed um in the UK so we actually had a mini Heat Wave yesterday and it got up to 28 degre in London it was bright Sunshine all day beautiful glorious amazing and then today you wake up and it's all clouded over threatening to rain all looking very autumnal everywhere I mean I'm not gamest it I love autumn but um it's just such a STK contrast from yesterday to today you know just feels like Autumn's just come like that right where would I put those bleeding scissors no had a good look around can't find the scissors but don't worry it's okay there's more than one way to cut a piece of twine well what's that saying there's more than one way to skin a cat what is that saying why is that why does that saying exist my dad used to say that all the time there's more than one way to skin a cat why would you want to skin a cat for what purpose right the first job of the day first job of the day guys we are going to tackle this very sad very neglected looking flower bed so we've got dailies in here and some old gladioli and weeds and all sorts so we're just going to get to work [Music] Off With Their Heads [Music] [Applause] [Music] right we are now on Project rescue the daers so these daers here that have like fallen over and flip-flopped everywhere they need to be supported upright deadheaded and they should in theory they should be able to keep flowering through to like November time I've had daers before that have been flowering in December before so they are perfectly capable of continuing to flower for a very long time over the Autumn if we look after them that's the key if if I don't let them just die now you know I think what we're going to do him up I do a tripod of sticks and then tie some twine around I think there oh no SN damn it I can't get it in the ground I can't get it in I go in oh God why is this ground rock solid what the heck bluming heck okay once again what should be a really simple job is turning into an absolute nightmare sticks sticks always sticks sorry it's fun [Music] stins you're just a stupid stupid stick stupid stick I hate you stick not your friend anymore stick look you SN a s SN that [Music] off yes thank you stick thank you stick for setting an example for the other sticks I've never had this much trouble with sticks before in my life it's like the sticks are rebelling I don't know why they're doing this this Garden is not Union guys you cannot go on strike it's a dictator ship here it's it's my oh dicks right okay that's going to have to do for the sticky sticks oh just broken the flipping Dan just snapped it oh God snatch this great big bit off the blowing da so annoying I mean I can take him home now and put in Nas but at the same time I didn't want to do that it looks stupid I've just broken another one oh God please don't please just stay there please [Music] well I've now got a massive great big bunch of daers to take home I mean this is not the end of the world it's not the end of the world and actually when you pick dailies you are supposed to pick them with Buds and stuff and like quite far down and the plant so that they survive for longer it's just that I didn't want to take them home I wanted to keep them on the plant and I wanted the plant to look really beautiful in this section I don't know why I'm getting tearful about it but that was just an absolute disaster what's happened let me explain now I've calmed down a little bit what's happened is that the plant fell over when it was growing and started to grow horizontally it started to grow horizontally I've come along weeks and weeks later and decided no you need to go upright the plant is just not happy and the stems are now very very firm and very big so when I'm pulling the plant up it's at risk of snapping and the same with this one as well so what I'm going to do now is leave them stood up like this and hope the plant kind of corrects itself because plants do want to generally grow up towards the Sun so fingers crossed fingers and toes crossed uh that it will just start to grow up now and the the stems will kind of correct themselves and then I'll be able to support it even more until then we're just going to leave it now because I'm I'm going to keep snapping it by accident so I'm just getting myself in a right little pickle here you know but the the bed as a whole is looking better on the positive news this bed is now very much cleared it's looking good yeah I'm happy the only thing I could do actually is dead head a few of the old da plants see if they come back to life this is why I needed scissors really right got try and get rid of the Dead ones [Music] a new butt there that's good gives him a chance you know gives him a chance look an old daia tuber there there an old daia tuba there that started to grow kept getting eaten and now it's been dug up by a fox or something so excellent that's that's pretty much sums up my daers this year apart from like a couple that have done a little something [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh no oh no it's done something can you see that it's not it's not clicking together what do I do oh man did I do that did I break that how how have I broken it do I have to push it back together I don't understand why my tools keep breaking I'm just using them like a human I'm just a human using a all if it breaks it breaks like that's just not made for humans then is it look doesn't go together anymore stamp it together a little bit I apologize guys I am in a weird mood today I'm feeling a little bit emotional a little bit I'm getting very like wound up by things that I should not be getting wound up by and I don't really know why to be honest I don't really know why so um I'm going to move on now we're going to clear this little section over here make sure it's all tidied up and everything um yeah we we'll just sort we'll just work through it oh I tell you what I can do now I can collect these seeds so this is a sweet pea flower plant and um these are the seeds and you know the seeds are ready to pick when they rattle you can kind of hear the seeds inside rattling about they go very Brown and then it's got sweet pee they're ready to pick now so we'll pick these for next year they probably won't all work and they won't all be good and that's what I find when you collect your own seeds it's not like a a seed packet where it's been filtered and some experts looked at it all you will get a few that don't work so you have to pick more than you think you need that's just the trick of picking your own seeds that I found pick more than you think you need also and I'm full of advice today full of it absolutely full to the brim of it another good thing about collecting your own seeds if a plant on your allotment or your garden has done particularly well and you collect the seeds the chances are I've just thrown one don't worry about it the chances are that these seeds will prod use plants that will also do really well in your garden or your plot because they are perfectly adapted to the environment in which they lived and they were created does that make any sense so because the plant did well the seeds will do well they are like perfectly in tune with your garden so it's a really good idea if something's done particularly well to collect the seeds and plant it again where did that one go we've lost it it's gone don't worry about it just forget about it we've got loads we got oh we've lost another one we've lost loing them put them down Emma put them down we're losing them it's disaster gardening today [Music] [Music] right we've sort of done a lot of um killing and destroying and pulling things up and accidentally killing things today so I thought it'd be quite nice to end the Vlog by actually harvesting something and proving that I am capable of growing something and that thing is tomatoes because they have gone crazy you see I can see lots of red on these now so these are cherry tomatoes these ones here I think are Roma tomatoes I think they're Roma they're absolutely stunning aren't they these ones here I have no idea but they're sort of yellow a yellow tomato and we've got some more Roma tomatoes down there also got some little luses here which I can't believe actually survived that's amazing so I might pick some of these as well I might actually pick a whole lettuce and take it home cuz I don't think they'll survive too much longer um so we got lce and tomatoes lovely take some these time [Music] [Music] [Music] right it is just starting to rain which is perfect timing actually cuz I'm sort of about finished here but this is my little Harvest of the day we got a little little variety of different tomatoes and I picked one of the lettuce a whole lettuce cuz I really just think if I don't start doing this they'll turn into all the flower flowering lettuce because I'm not very good at picking this and this looks absolutely delicious and it's really small so I reckon it's going to be really tasty let's see how much of this ends up actually at home and how much I eat on the way home delicious right I hope you've enjoyed the Vlog today I will be back again on Friday have a lovely rest of your gardening week and I will see you then thanks for watching guys bye