SEEDS I'M SOWING IN MARCH 2025 FOR MY ALLOTMENT PLOT

good morning guys welcome back to my allotment Diaries my name is Emma these are the allotment Diaries and in today's video I'm going to be sharing all the seeds I'm going to start sewing in the month of March for my allotment plot so March is here yes that means that spring is around the corner not quite officially spring yet I think it starts the 22nd of March but it does mean that the days are getting longer um in terms of the sun being out for longer the ground is warming up and we're getting better weather hopefully fingers crossed you are too we're definitely getting more sun shine at the moment which is excellent it's making us all very excited to start sewing stuff and putting some stuff in the ground now I have an allotment plot in South London and I try my best to direct sew as much as I can because it's a space saer um it's much easier to do I enjoy it I'm at my allotment a lot so I can water them and protect them personally for me direct sewing is just where it's at it's what I'm all about but there are some things that I will start from a seed in pots at home I've also made the exec Ive decision as CEO of my own allotment plot to actually invest in more plug plants this year I think plug plants are an amazing resource that we just do not talk about enough it's all very well starting things from a seed and it's incredibly rewarding but it's also really difficult and it's timec consuming and it's heartbreaking when they either don't germinate or they get eaten straight away and actually plug plants are not that much money and you can find them anywhere I mean I've seen them being sold in like supermarkets and stuff and it's just such a great way of growing your own food without the stress of sewing from a seed so I am going to invest in more plug plants all of my brassers this year will be brought as a plug plant I'm not going to try sewing any of those not that they're difficult but they are they do take up a lot of space because they're such small seeds you have to scatter them and then prick them out and then pot them on and then grow them bigger and it's just I just do not have the space even though I've just got a new Greenhouse I am aware of that but I don't have shelving in it yet so but there are some vegetables I'm going to start from a seed in the month of March let's get into them number one ketes ketes are such a fantastic crop to grow this is called Primula F1 um and it's a Johnson Zed pack I'll tell you what the brand of seeds is as I do it but I went to a garden center and just picked out a variety of different um different brands just to try them out um ketes are great just a little word of warning and this is you genuinely have to listen to this do not plant more than two cette plants you do not need more than cette plants this is a note to myself as well they will give you a million cetes per plant like honestly if you get to the point where they're giv your cette they will not stop and you have to remember to pick them when they're the right size otherwise if you leave it 2 or 3 days it's like the size of a marrow so cett are a fantastic thing to grow just protect them from slugs and don't plant too many that is good advice listen to that advice I'm going to sew my spinach directly into a bed um spinach always does really well for me you can sew it anytime from February to April and you can succession sew it as well not that you need to cuz once it starts growing um it tends do really well and you just keep picking it and it just keeps delivering this is spinach Matador there we go also going to start some carrots I'm growing NS um I'm going to do some more spring onions and some more radishes and I'm just going to keep succession sewing them so they're already in the ground at the moment and I will succession sew them probably every 6 to 8 weeks um but not the spinach spinach is going in once pick and then pick again I'm a big pee lover peas do really well at my allotment plot so in the month of March I'm going to start some sugar snap peas these are a warm loving pee not too warm but they they will not work in the Colder Weather the same way that like early peas do so they're definitely a summer pee um I'm going to start them in March and then plant them out when it's a little bit warmer so probably April and just keep them inside in a nice toasty on a nice toasty window sill but these are great sugar snpp pees they're so amazing you can eat the whole thing um and they're absolutely delicious so I have to do these I have two different varieties of sweet corn that I'm going to grow this year and I'm going to grow them on my both of my plots so I've got um gold Crest F1 and I have also got F1 pot of gold these are both from Sutton seeds was that where the um other ones were from as well suton the spinach was from Verve which is a be Q range and I found that this is really really great um it they've always worked for me so if you've got B&Q near you go for the Verve seeds they're really good these are from suttin the thing with sweet corn is you're not supposed to plant different varieties near each other because they're not supposed to cross-pollinate if they cross-pollinate you get dodgy sweet corn I think they just go funny and you just get weird varieties and stuff but I haven't found that to be the case so I'm on an allotment plot everybody on the site is very close to each other and they all grow different varieties of sweet corn and we've NE I've never really had a problem with cross-pollination um I know that you shouldn't do it but I'm going to do it they're wind pollinated and that's the problem cuz if you plant them too close to each other the wind will blow and they'll pollinate each other which is not what you want them to do um I have a tree in between my two plots and I'm going to plant them so they can't sort of get to each other but I haven't found it to be a problem let me know if um it is a problem for you where you are and maybe people not to do it but for me on my allotment plot in South London cross pollination has never really been a problem so but you know stay tuned and I'll let you know maybe it will be maybe this will be the year where it's a problem that's the sweet cor I'm doing this year on to flowers you know what there's actually not that much I'm sewing in March this year it's quite funny I think most things are going to be directly sewn um it's just my new thing it's just my new thing right sunflowers we've got the giant single these are from Mr fathergill Mr fills cuz it have pretty pictures on the front and that's how I choose my C packets um this is the giant single absolutely love it going to do as many of these as I physically can like what what's the saying one for the one for me two for the slug no one for me two for the weather and 10 for the Slugs that's the saying with sunflowers so I'm going to plant a million of those I've also got um I've also got hallo hallo how you pronounce it again Mr for the gills and it's just um a multi-headed sunflower I'm going to do a few of these as well as many as I can to be honest I have a couple of varieties of Cosmos I love Cosmos for an allotment plot um it makes such a great pollinating friendly flower uh cuz they're so open and I mean they're a classic flower you got the yellow middle and all the petals around it and the pollinators go mad for it butterflies um all those little hoverfly things the bees they just love it so I have two varieties I've got the sensation mixed I've already done some of these but they haven't done very well I'm going to REO them in the month of March and I've also got these candy floss red which I think are like the classic deep pink fuchsia whatever you want to call it Cosmos absolutely stunning so excited for these again going to so a million because I expect the Slugs will get most of them so so a million you might get one also this year I have got some wild flowers so I picked these up on Amazon which I don't normally buy seeds that aren't from a brand on Amazon but I did did pick up these so these are wild flowers um I don't know who it's from dama I don't know it's got a little website on there if you want to have a look but I I just found these on Amazon it's a mixed wild flower mix so it's got lots of different wild flowers in here and I also picked up these little seed bombs I picked these up from Amazon too sorry not seed bombs they're seed seed balls and um they're so cute the packaging just it's just got me basically the packaging inside they're little balls and in the balls they've got um a mix of different wild flower seeds and then you just sort of plant the ball and I thought that's a really good idea to be a little bit more like specific with where you want your wild flowers just thought that was really clever and also again just the packaging got me to be honest cuz it's so beautiful um so it's got a cornflour cow slip musk mallow oxide Daisy um lots of different varieties of wild flour and I thought maybe it's quite good for a pot if you want to plant some in a pot maybe I will do that actually that's an excellent idea actually Emma well done let's do that today right and then the final thing that I'm going to start in the month of March um to get to get a head start on is my daers so I do already have some at the plot and they're going to go straight into the ground as soon as it warms up probably in April but I brought these the other day cuz I could not resist them I love daers this is um inspired by The Gardens of the National Trust and they're all kind of like a coral color aren't they gorgeous so the varieties in here are does it actually say it's an art deco mix doesn't actually tell me what varieties they are but there's the pictures of them I think it's more about the color isn't it daers definitely do not like any Frost whatsoever so do not put them out when it's still Frosty it says plant them from March to June don't plant them don't plant them in March trust me on that one just trust me they will not work um you got to wait till like May to put your daers out but it's a good idea to start them in pots cuz then um they grow bigger and the Slugs don't get so much of a chance to get to them so we're going to start our daers [Music] today right so to start our daily is we're going to get some pots so don't need to be massive um because we are just sort starting them off about that big I don't know how big that is exactly but it's about that it's a 3 L Pot there we go three lers I've got three of them I think we've got three tubers so what we're going to do it's just basically plant them into a pot and then the idea is that they'll start to grow and I'll get them to be as like as big as I can to be honest as big as I physically can and then I'll plant them outside when it's um all risk of frost is completely gone and the idea is that the Slugs and snails won't be able to completely destroy the plant though I do say that they will they will destroy the plant the plant will be gone there will be no daers but we can live in Hope gardening is 90% hope it's not an exact science all right let me show you what daia looks like here is your classic daily a chubba it looks a little bit like a weird kind of octopus squid-like creature H it's not it's a tuba and it will grow into a daia the way around it goes all these little dangly bits go down and this tall bit here that's that goes up like that so what I do normally is this I pop him in my pot right like that with the little tall bit sticking up okay so in he goes like that he's happy in there now see and then we get our compost and we fill all around him and I like to leave the little top bit just sticking out just a little bit like that and if I was planting this directly I'll do exactly the same way so I'd leave a little tiny bit of him sticking out the top like that so we Pat it around you've got to really push it down because that's a funny shaped bulb and the soil needs to be in contact with it so we sort of push it down a bit there we are all around like that right give that water and um wait for him to grow grow really big as big as I can get him and then he's going to go outside in about end of April beginning of [Music] may see girls you hear seag girls that's so weird right I'm also going to start my sunflowers I'm I'm going to start them in these little seed trays and then what I'm going to do is pop them on when they get bigger we're just going to do one seed per per compartment that is a risk that is a [Applause] risk gosh just love sunflowers it just reminds me of Summer funnily funnily enough in terms of which way to put these I just drop them in and whatever way they land they land some of them are up some of them are down some of them are sideways if ever in doubt as to which way to plant seed always plant it sideways like that it will find the [Music] light just while I have you guys on this Vlog I thought I'd just show you an update on my back Garden at home so I don't normally show this um it's normally about my lot Med plot but sometimes I have shown you it and you might notice the back is a little bit different at the moment I'm revamping it I'm redoing it because I just it got a bit messy it got a bit out of control so I'll show you what I've done so far so this is the current state of my back Garden so what I've basically done is I had a big planter there and I've moved it to here which is next to this lovely Claus which I'm trying to make climb up there but it's not cooperating at the moment this planter is now in my border and then I'm sort of end I've ended up with this sort of patch of dirt which I don't know what to do with in front of the wonky shed so I think the first job is to make the shed un wonky might paint it another color and decide what to do with this area here the trellis is now at this this side of the garden I need to put that in properly so it's actually straight we got the archway there but I think it's nicer here cuz it sort of disguises that horrible extension that we've got um and then there's lots of lovely flowers and a pear tree in front of it which should grow up really nicely disguise that whole area that will look really nice so I have this lovely flower bed here under this prunus this is a prunus this tree and it's absolutely gorgeous and I can't wait to see all of the um buds open you see it's got all buds on it and it will all Blossom so I had the flower bed underneath at the moment we have a pathway next to it and then next to that used to be like a wood chipped area but I've sort of destroyed it and I'm not entirely sure sure what my plan is for this area now I really don't know and then up here we've got a little patio patio area with a table and um My Little Greenhouse there which is just next to the shed so that's quite a nice seating area I'll just tidy this area up put some more pots in there I think that' be really [Music] nice yeah the whole Garden's sort of been ripped up at the moment and I'm all a bit over the all over the place with it I don't quite know what my plan is to be honest I sort of just knew I didn't like it as it was so I thought instead of getting a good plan I would just rip the whole thing out and then hopefully be inspired but it has opened up the garden more I don't know if you can see behind me but like it is more like open and it feels bigger which I really like um but this is a work in progress let me know if you want to see more of my home garden and um the design process and stuff as I do it I'm sort of just doing it at the moment because the weather's been so nice and I hate being in side so I've just sort of been doing it but let me know and let me know if you've got any ideas for this area I'm sort of thinking put sort of stones over it and then have like a potted area so lots and lots of pots and Planters and things cuz I do like pots and Planters sort of I'm getting into it a bit more and I'd like more space for pots yeah I'm undecided at the moment but this is the state this is the state of my garden don't know what to do with it don't know I hope you've enjoyed this video if you have do sub subscribe to my YouTube channel and I will see you again on Wednesday see you Wednesday guys thanks for watching bye