A RELAXING DAY ON THE ALLOTMENT / ALLOTMENT GARDENING UK

[Music] good morning guys welcome back to the allotment Diaries my name's Emma these are my allotment Diaries I would love for you to hit the Subscribe button if you are new to my channel and just over here today feeding Einstein some Gourmet robin bird mix um so it's got like things like raisins in it which I think you might quite like lots of bird seed and there's also something I can't remember what it is in here but something it's in the shape of hearts and that's why I brought it cuz that's the kind of person I am very swayed by things like shapes so there we go so he's got little bird mix there it's very foggy here today and it's actually it's quite beautiful but it's also a little bit like creepy which I guess is quite good for October it being Halloween at the end of the month and everything so it's definitely got a kind of vibe to it today here brought a um a job to do I don't know if I'm going to get much done today just because it's a bit gray and murky and I never feel like staying here that long when it's like this and that's okay I mean I don't have any major jobs this time last year I was clearing my new allotment plot and I kind of had this sense of urgency and motivation and this kind of this need to get it done before the springtime so I was very like focused and every time I came here I stay for hours now that the plot's done I'm just kind of enjoying a little bit of a quieter Autumn and kind of relaxing I mean I do have a few bigger jobs to do I want to sort out the compost and I want to um maybe build a bench a bench area and stuff but other than that you know it's it's I'm trying to keep it chill so I hope you're still enjoying the Vlogs let me know if you are and also let me know if you have purchased an allotment planner yet the link is below in my description if you haven't and um I hope that it does help you out a lot of you are receiving them now so uh let me know what you think of them hopefully you like them and you're going to enjoy using it um and thank you so much if you have already brought one it means the world right we're going to get on with the first job so you might remember that I said um on my last Vlog that I have ordered um 150 crocus bulbs well when I ordered it and it I saw the number 150 I was expecting Carnage you know I was expecting like trucks and lorries to be clogging up my street delivering delivering them all um and this is what's arrived completely forgot how tiny crocus bulbs are so no Carnage at all didn't need to be delivered in a lorry no lores down my street I mean that could be delivered by hand you know someone could just Chuck it someone could just throw that and it' be delivered so we're going to plant these out around the pond I'm thinking around this area cuz this is my little Wildlife Area and the thing about um crocus flowers is that they they flower quite early which is great for pollinators this is what they look like when they flower all different colors very very beautiful very small but just great for bees and early pollinators that just woken up so we're going to whack these in [Music] you might notice that the way I'm planting these is not individually because with 150 teeny tiny bulbs it just seems ridiculous to plant them all individually so what I'm doing is I'm digging little holes and I'm sort of tipping them in and then covering them over so firstly with any bulb you should really be planting it I think it's it's at least twice as deep but ideally three times as deep as the bulb is as the the height of the bulb but secondly you can see which way up it should go so that's obviously the top that's the bottom where the roots will come out but you know what with bulbs they can just turn themselves around under the soil so if you really got it the wrong way it'll sort yourself out and also another little quick tip here cuz I'm full of them if you're ever unsure of which way to plant something plant it on its side like sideways I suppose you're thinking well how would you know if it's sideways I don't I don't know that's a very good point I don't think of that but if you could figure out which way sideways and you don't know what's the top and bottom just put it on its side it will twist itself around plants are very ingenious things they've thought of all these problems long before we we have you know they're aware of their own limitations and they've done things over the years to help themselves survive so we have to trust them a little bit have to right there we are they're covered over they're in the ground good luck hello Einstein [Music] [Applause] hello right I've just remembered that I've got this lovely pot here my neighbor found this and she brought it over and said do you want it I was just like yeah how can I how can I say no to a nice pot you know but um I I don't tend to grow things in pots here just because I can't seem to look after them very well I think these are some pansies in here they might come back to life so we'll leave those but we'll just put the a few crocus bulbs in here this is making me feel so excited for the springtime I absolutely love this time of year I really do I actually think I like this time of year better than I do actual spring when spring comes around there's something about the anticipation of spring and the planning of it and thinking about it it's kind of that sense of like hope you know like it's on its way it's coming I just that's that's the feeling that I like I chase after in gardening it's just that feeling of Hope Spring is coming right there we go pot done excellent that's nice oh I've got a little label people always asking me to label my things there you go got a little crocus label okay sorted [Music] absolutely ruin these are I was just thinking if I could use these maybe for my compost Bay that I'm going to make they're absolutely rotted through we'll leave that for the [Music] Wildlife right so over the next few weeks I'm going to be working really hard on a compost area a proper compost area where I can actually compost things wouldn't that be great wouldn't that be the dream uh 5 years later but here we are we're making it I'm going to do the old pette where you get the pallets like that and I'm going to make three bays and I'm going to put them right here at the front of the plot it's going to be right at the front where I can see it and I can work on it I'm not going to hide it at the back when i' when I've hidden the compost at the back I've forgotten about it I've let it get overgrown I've just not concentrated on it do you know what I mean so I'm going to put it right at the front here it's going to be the the glory The Shining glory of the plot I'm trying to get together some palettes now and think about the materials that I need but I want to have a little look around and see if there are any pettes that have been dumped that I can just sort of use cuz it's such a headache having to bring more stuff to the plot I think there's enough stuff on the site that's not being used so let's go and have a little look I tell you what it still pains me when I see sites like this that are just completely unused it's been unused the entire time that I've had my plot which is 5 years just makes me feel so sad got some logs here not sure I'll be have to do anything much with them fence panels was tempting but um no cuz I'm just not sure what I'd do with them now these people these have got a lot of pets on their site which don't look like they're being used but at the same time it's on someone's plot so I cannot take it I've just found a swing I'm just going to give it a quick go make sure it's safe for the kids you know it's my duty it's not safe it's not there lots of wood about at the moment and again on this plot over here more pallets that I really am tempted to take but again it's on someone's plot you just cannot take it if it's on someone's plot yeah I think like the sort of Unwritten rule of the alotment is that if it's on the communal pathway and someone sort of jumped it there it's for anyone to take but if it's on somebody's actual plot it's their property and you're not allowed to take it it's stealing it's a little bit complicated the palletes that were at the front they were they did belong to someone else so I'm glad I sent the email because I was tempted just to take them um okay right so I'm going to have to pick up some pallets so we can't start that today so instead what we're going to do is a little bit more tidying up and clearing so let's get on with that [Music] [Music] all [Music] n [Music] where's my [Music] shovel mate [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] right so I've just been moving a few fruit bush is this is a great time of year to move any fruit bushes that you want to move cuz they're in dormant growth which basically means they're not in active growth so they're not actively growing yes so fruit bushes kind of go to sleep over the winter time so you can kind of move them about but you can move them about before that if you want to I've moved quite a few of mine around this year you've seen me do it they tend to bounce back that was a crow that looks just like a seag girl but he's making a crow noise that was very weird and disconcerting oh no it's you it's you you are crow that Crow there look why he's watching me what anyway I've moved a raspberry into the raspberry area don't you start and I've also moved um a black current and a red current and the reason I've done it is because I don't know what to do with the back of my alotment here and I'm really struggling with it I struggle with it every year it was the fruit bush area it was a poly tunnel it was a potato bed and now it's just a Dumping Ground so I really need to think about this area and what to do with it for next year [Music] [Music] [Music] so guys I hope you enjoyed my Vlog today what we're going to do over the next um few days I'm going to start making the compost Bay Area and start my compost Diaries which should be really interesting if you've never made compost before you can come on the journey with me and we can all learn how to make compost together so that's coming up I've also got a few more areas to clear um and I want to build some kind of bench so we've got a lot of projects you know on the go ready to ready to start just haven't quite got my butt into gear yet to start it I think I'm just quite enjoying the slower pace of autumn because I just didn't get it last year but I hope you're still enjoying the Vlogs if you are do subscribe to my channel leave me a comment below let me know what you're getting up to on your plots and I will see you again on Wednesday thanks for watching guys see you Wednesday bye