FIGHTING THE WHITE FLY / ALLOTMENT GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS

[Music] good morning guys welcome back to my allotment Diaries and thank you to everyone who is still watching me is still enjoying my little allotment diaries that I'm putting up three times a week um if you are one of those people and you haven't subscribed to my channel yet every single subscriber makes such a huge difference to the algorithm means that more people will find me and can watch these lovely alotment videos um and I want to share them with as many people as possible so if you're not subscribed do consider hitting the Subscribe button it would mean the world wow the weather has really changed in the UK it is like full on Autumn mode now we' have had thunderstorms we've had torrential downpour now we've just got this kind of like gray sky I mean it looks like summer but it does feel a little bit cooler let's be honest this was our summer too you know we don't have any Four Seasons anymore we've just got one season and it's just gray cloud but there we go Archway is looking very dead now gosh it's so it's crazy to me how quickly like the allotment Garden can change like so so quickly just in a few days it just looks completely different it's just all died back still looking very nice and and grown and you know things are growing we've got the pumpkin at the top there which is still alive and stuff but just allog together looking a little bit finished do you know what I mean it's just like the end of the season is in sight I say that we still had this lovely New Growth here on this round random pumpkin uh I think we got pumpkin in here somewhere yeah we do so this little guy here is definitely going to need some additional support I'm going to have to put a little like hammock or something in here to keep him up because he's going to fall down also I'm referring to it as he I understand yes I always refer to my fruit and vegetable and most of my plants as he him it um the he I don't know why maybe I just feel like because I'm a woman I'm just in charge of all these men here I don't know I don't know why refer to them as he it annoys a few of you but it's not really an intentional thing I think maybe I'm just like being in charge of men look at this poor guy here oh my goodness he's tried so hard to flower see he again he it's tried so hard to flower but it's all bent over look at this you're doing so well I'm so proud of you you're very tiny but I'm very proud of you well done [Music] right so a lot of you noticed that I do have a little bit of a white fly situation going on and a lot of my brassic is got it all on my kale they literally come it's literally like it's snowing if I run my hand over the kale it's like it's snowing so there's a serious problem going on there and a lot of you got in touch and said it's a really easy fix what I need is a spray bottle this is just an old rabbit one but I have cleaned it out properly um I put some water in here and some washing up liquid and then what what I need is garlic so I've got lots of garlic here thought I'd use one of these um so I'm going to put some garlic in here and apparently you just spray it on and then it like um gets rid of all the white flies so I thought well let's let's do that today because that's that's an easy hack isn't it it's an easy thing to do so I'll pop some clothes garlic in and then at the end of the Vlog we'll go and spray it all so that it's infused with garlic but let's try it so don't know how many of these to add I just add a few even smell yeah it does smell of garlic it is garlic it should smell of bleeding garlic shouldn't smell of strawberries then it should it come on sort your life out girl stuff all that in sure I should have making it right I'm going to leave this just for a little bit to infuse with the garlic and then we'll spray all of the brassicas with this while that's infusing I'll get almost some weeding and gardening maintenance jobs let's do that [Music] [Music] yes that's it this should be a raspberry bed get off my camera don't poo on it no you're not going to sit on my camera and pull down the front again just had a thought I've just had a really good thought so this bed here this was my flower bed for a few years actually but it's just not performing anymore as a flower bed I'm going to turn it into a raspberry bed and then what going to do is I'm going to contain the raspberries to this bed get them all structures to climb up and stuff and protect the entire thing with like a little um fruit cage thing what do you think I think that work really well it's a nice little contained raspberry section I can walk down and pick some raspberries I love that I think that's great so I've got two raspberry bushes over this Archway but they are not working they're not growing over the archway big surprise there um and I have a raspberry bush at the back there I think that's a bleming genius idea I really J [Music] [Music] right this is seavoy cabbage it's one of my absolute favorite cabbages of all time I always have this at Christmas time I like red red cabbage but it takes a really long time to cook and it's not quite as good as seavo cabbage this is just my absolute all-time favorite so I always grow it every year um I brought this a couple of weeks ago forgot about it left at the back of the garden it's been quite munched I think this is the work of slugs and snails though not caterpillars but the way to check is to look for the caterpillars and also look for any eggs the Cabbage White butterfly will come along and She lays eggs in like groups and they're really disgusting they're yellow usually I think they're yellow and they're like in Little clusters you just rub them off with your hand I can't see any I can't see any so I think this is the work of slugs but um my seavo cabbages have always been munched to some degree and they always tend to do quite well once again I'm just being a I'm living in a daydream I'm like look they're like half dead and I'm like they're going to be fine they're fine but I really just I believe they're fine so they're going to go into this bed here I think we'll plant them in and then we're going to use our spray over them all prevent any white fly right in they go [Music] [Music] [Music] where do you think you all going [Music] [Music] right it's time to check for white fly let's have a look and see if any of these are harboring any of the little white flies just another way was saying let's check for white flies any white flies here oh yeah hundreds oh my goodness look at them fly look at them fly any white flies here yeah a few there they are right let's get rid of these little buggers it certainly does appear here to be working and I tell you what they actually smell very nice it's like I've washed all my plants they smell lovely lovely I think and I'm just guessing now cuz no one told me this but I think the idea is to get underneath the leaves cuz that's where they are that's where they're all living so you got to go like under like that [Music] all right here we go they're all here oh look at them though they're scattering like flies excellent yes go go leave this place this is not for you here part is over [Music] guys well so far the experiment is a half success now you can see they have all sort of relocated to the ground around them but they are starting to come back on and sit on the plant again so that potentially means it was not a success and what I've essentially done is just washed my plants of washing up liquid and garlic look they're back they're back there's someone there they're back it's coming back go away why do you like washing up Liquid I thought all creatures hated washing up Liquid anything that you ever make like this it always has washing up Liquid in it I just assume that they all hate washing up Liquid look they're just not interested at all [Music] [Music] so in my last Vlog I was talking about sieg craft which are a Siege Subscription Service you sign up and you get sent seeds every month but the seeds you get sent you actually sew that month so you don't have to think about what to sew when or whatever you just get the seeds you whack them in the ground they grow that's it they all come with inst instructions as well um and I got sent recently Chinese broccoli which is also known as Chinese kale I've never heard of this before I've never grown it never tried to grow it before um you can sew it outside directly now in thin rows um it says that it's similar to a calab only with sweet and more succulent flavor the leaves stalks and flits can be steamed or stir fried um and substituted for broccoli in loads of dishes so it looks amazing but also um when you thin out the seedlings you can just eat the seedlings kind of like the way you do with peases you know you can grow peases and then just pick the shoots and eat them um just that's how you eat like that but yeah I thought this would be really exciting so I've never grown Chinese kale before Chinese broccoli kale let's give it a go where are we going to put it now I've said all that where is it going Emma where is it going we've got to the time of year where I'm not very organized not very practical I just s whack stuff in now wherever there's space cuz I just want to extend the growing period as long as I can I think it's going to go in here you know I think what we'll do is we're going to take out the charge if we take out the charge then we can sew a row of it next to the col Rie which has been absolutely eaten maybe I should take that out actually no it's still growing isn't it yeah we'll do it here [Music] see that is such a nice little Growing Place like I couldn't not grow something here I think I'm going to do two rows but only because I think one row will now you know what I'm not going to do two rows I'm going to do zigzag I'm going to do it I'm going to s a zigzag all that yeah I am yeah I am Breaking All the Rules today yeah why not why not do a zigzag let's have some fun right these seeds are going to be tiny yep tiny teeny tiny all Brassica seeds are so small but the plants are so big just goes to show doesn't matter how big your seed is plant can still be quite big something like that it's terrible actually doesn't matter how small your seed starts you can still grow into a great big plant yeah that is fun doing it like that that's way more fun it's official guys growing in a zigzag is way more fun than growing in a straight line far less practical but much more fun you're can you feel me in right I'm going to totally forget that I've done that now wonder what an earth is coming up are this is this white fly are you here too oh Unstoppable [Music] oh my God why is he made his web there you definitely cannot see this but there's a giant spider would there and one of those horrible spiders the horrible ones the ones with that like um Brown you know the brown ones oh they're the worst I hate them they're everywhere right now and they're driving me crazy I don't know which way he went I have a feeling he on my pea plant and I was just going to pick some peas as well why do I do this to me why right I'm going to pick some peas but I'm going to be very careful not to get the spider bloody spider season I tell you what it is a thing it is happening glorious peace oh why have you made your web there why it's unnecessary My Autumn peas have done so unbelievably well this year like honestly I'm so proud of them I can't God they're massive look at that m oh my goodness these will not make it home they are just absolutely just done insane this year and I can't really tell you why I think the main answer is because they didn't die and they didn't get eaten I didn't really protect them very well I just put them in and they just didn't get eaten I don't think the bugs around here like peas so that's good cuz I do I'm wondering if there's a carrot in here there is supposedly a row of beetroot and carrots in here I can see a carrot oh stuff is just get it oh I shouldn't have done that I shouldn't have done that I mean if you want to be technical about it I've grown a carrot that's a carrot that is an orange that's an actual carrot I've grown it it's mine I was a nice person I'd leave this to my rabbit at home but you know what he's got got enough carrots in his life I'm so gutted my carrots did not work this year cuz that is unbelievable it tastes so much like a carrot I know I always say this and people laugh at me but until you grow your own vegetables you don't understand how a vegetable tastes when it's like literally fresh out the ground like just pulled that out the ground to put it straight into my mouth and eaten it it tastes more like a carrot than any carrot I've ever tasted before cuz it's like pure carrot this cannot be any more carrot it's not been frozen it's not been transported anywhere it's not been sprayed with any pesticides it's not been modified in any way it's not been put into a plastic bag it's literally just out the ground out the dirt into my mouth this is the most carrot carrot you'll ever taste oh and it is just glorious if you can grow anything anything from scratch from a seed in your own garden and just eat it you'll know exactly what I'm talking about and it's so worth it and you will never go back you will be bitten by the gardening bug and you will do this forever cuz you you you'll miss the taste you'll just miss it and if that's not inspiring enough I don't know what is right hope you've enjoyed my Vlog today it's just starting to rain so that's my cue to get out of here um I will be back again on Friday have a lovely rest of your gardeners week and I will see you on Friday thanks for watching bye bye bye bye