DOES THIS WORK AGAINST SLUGS? / ALLOTMENT GARDENING UK

[Music] God that's all you've got mate yes get my mysterious digging device normally I don't use this stuff in my lot I thought yeah that work really [Music] well this is the cat I've been saying good morning to every morning oh what's going on today absolutely categorically not interested in me today both of them just ran away that's actually very unusual usual cuz normally they'll stay there and let me say good morning to them there you are good morning good morning [Music] guys I just realized I still got my Christmas wreath up on the door which cannot be okay in March so we're going to take it down good morning everyone welcome back to my allotment Diaries my name is Emma these are the allotment Diaries I hope hope you're enjoying watching them if you are why not subscribe to my YouTube channel so the weather has dramatically changed today I'm talking to you from within the shed because it is quite windy outside there is a bit of Blue Sky though which is quite nice to see but the temperature has dropped from yesterday being 15 to today being 9° so it's almost so it's like a 6 7° drop it actually feels a bit colder because of that wind as well so it's definitely just sort of come out of nowhere you know this sort of Colder Weather but like I said we have got some blue sky and some sunshine which sort of makes up for it a little bit I mean it's it's nicer than yesterday yesterday was just so gray and cloudy um and it really just it's really hard to get in a good mood when it's so gray and cloudy out you know it feels like it's night time the whole day so things are looking up in that sense and I'm quite happy about that right I said in my last Vlog that I have two or three jobs to do a day so today I've got three jobs to do um and I'm sticking with the plan the plan of action is is going quite well I'm feeling a little bit less overwhelmed with my allotment plot and I would definitely urge you if you are feeling overwhelmed with your plot and thinking gosh there's just too much to do and you can't do it and you know you're stressing out about it I definitely would recommend planning out your week planning two or three jobs a day even if there're smaller jobs um take a look at the weather in the week as well and plan the days you're going to go and stick to those jobs and if you you don't get distracted if you just stick stick with those jobs that you've literally planned um you will get through them and it will feel more manageable by the end of the week I promise you it's a great little hack no sign of Einstein yet or his little mates the Einstein we should call them um so we're going to get straight on with the first job which is going to be to reso my bleeding carrots it's a job I didn't want to redo it's a job I'm forced to redo because something dug it up so that's the first job of the day [Music] right so obviously something really enjoyed digging in this bed something had the time of its life because there was a great big hole in it so potentially some of the carrots might have survived they were NS so maybe they're quite strong I don't know but the point is we need to sew some more to make sure so the variety that I'm sewing is a different variety because seed craft sent these to me um which is a seed subscription box they send me a free box every month and basically the seeds that they send you um can be sewn straight away which is just excellent It's just so much easier to be able to sew them straight away these are Red Samurai F1 so different variety of carrot but you know what carrot is Carrot right I sort of hoped that all carrots get along together cuz I know some crops don't get along with each other but I'm hoping that different varieties of carrots kind of get along with each other I don't think they'd like fight each other or anything right again carrot seeds teeny teeny tiny so pull them in your hand scatter probably best not to do this on a windy day like I am yeah I need to cover these this is oh no we're done right I'm scattering some seed compost over the top and the problem with carrot seeds is they're very very small which means that they can fly away which I don't want them to do so put that over them seed compost is quite fine you know it's not got any big horrible lumps in it and stuff so it should be okay over carrots they should be able to push through that so that's good [Music] [Applause] [Music] so I will cover that over this time with some netting or some wire I have a look what I've got but before I do that I am thinking a lot about Slug protection at the moment and I've got this this this is copper tape um which is really good apparently at repelling slugs they don't like this cuz they get a little electric shock or something doesn't actually sound very nice when I say that but you got to keep them away somehow normally I don't use this stuff at my allotment because I've got so many raised beds and they're always falling apart so it wouldn't be worth me putting this around all of my raised beds but because this is sort of a little raised little raised planter I thought yeah that work really well I think this would be an interesting experiment at the very least how do I oh that's my shed door my God I'll secure that in a minute I don't know if it'll work or not there's a lot of opinions on this sort of uh Slug and snail defense people sort of think it works and other people will say it doesn't and at the end of the day like I said you've just got to try you just got to try if it even sticks to it yet is sort of sticking to it that's quite good oh look talking of the Little Devils there's a little empty snail shell here that might be a hedgehog doing that I wonder if I've got a hedgehog in my hedgehog house now that would be excellent slug protection [Music] there we [Music] go right carrots reone protected from slugs hopefully fingers crossed and netting over the top I've held the netting with sticks and I know I always go on and on about this but I was genuinely genuinely just thinking how do I keep that netting to stay and then I thought sticks of course it's sticks it's always sticks there's just a million brazillion uses for sticks honestly everyone needs good quality sticks at their allotment plot it's amazing they're so versatile you can do everything with them just make sure you've got some sticks at your allotment plot okay ask not what you can do for sticks but what sticks can do for you [Music] [Music] oh there you are decided to turn up yeah I'm just going to do this and then I'll come feed you okay it's not going to be okay with that right so I'm going to put my sweet peas in around this new teee I made I think it's going to look really nice it's some more of those Mammoth large flowered sweet peas that I got from the garden center um early flowering gigant gigant type of sweet peeas they produce very large good quality flowers and strong stems perfect for training up supports and using as cut flowers for bouquet so that sounds perfect for going up my TP to be honest you hear that it's a naughty's car what's going on can't find my digging device still so I'm still using this it is here somewhere guys I just haven't been able to find it I think it's called a is it TR um but this is like a bulb planting one it's got like a hook at the end um which is quite useful in some of my soil but a little bit annoying when you're trying to dig down so is he really noisy he stop when I look at him he stops isn't that weird like he knows anyway I haven't been able to find my TR but I don't think I think this will work fine so what we're going to do take them out the pot like this look at those roots stunning and we're just going to separate them and like I said before in my last last time I did this don't panic too much about separating them just sort of tease them apart come on you know like you can't stay together anymore you're not friends he said this about you she said that about you and you just pull them apart and they just sort of come apart like that and then plant them out little clumps if you brought any shop brought ones like this and they plant like a million seeds in their pot plant them in little clumps like that more likely to survive safety in numbers and all that malaky right let's get them in the ground right let's get them in the ground yeah it's not a bad digging device this it's just not what I want you know I want my TR back where is it Clump and goes our little Clump we may have to tie these ones in they've got quite tall and the problem is when they're really little like this they snap quite easily in the wind so it's a good idea to tie them in if they're really little but they're quite spindly and long like that I might tie a couple in right yeah you right there you'll be fine [Music] [Music] I can't tie them in today I can't do it it's too cold my hands are freezing cold and I just cannot tie them like few fiddly jobs today so that is my excuse for not tying them in I think they'll be okay for a few days and then as they get a little bit bigger I might need to tie them in so we'll find out that is a big mistake together um I've got one more pot left so I was thinking I might put them where I put the other sweet peas um and just add to it and have more there um or make another row maybe yeah let's do that but first first we're going to feed that little birdie cuz he's sitting there singing away aren you he's like where's my dinner where is my dinner yes okay it's coming [Music] there yeah thinking about it there he is it's our favorite Robin Einstein come on in he's like where's the M worms that's all you've got mate yes then apparently I did some research on robins and apparently they can recognize a human face isn't that amazing though so apparently Robins they can recognize a human face and they recognize the face of someone who feeds them um and probably I reckon they can recognize your voice as well cuz whenever I come here and start chatting away to you guys um he always comes down straight away I think he hears my voice and he recognizes who I am I just love them I think Robins are just my favorite bird now of all time [Music] so what I'm going to do is I'm going to tie another um bamboo cane across here and I have two rows of sweet of uh sweet peas I think we might as well just have another whole row of them I mean you can't have too many sweet peas they are absolutely beautiful gorgeous gorgeous flower I just love them I just love them right I'm not going to do all the twine up and down today cuz it's just too windy and it's just silly I'm going to plant them all along here leave it of that how are you guys doing yeah doing okay right I think I might plant them on the inside of pole I don't think it would make too much of a difference if they were on the outside or the inside really cuz when they get going yeah I think that' be fine so get my mysterious digging device dig some little holes might as well use more up otherwise what's the point of them just going to flop down like that are you and protest great that's great yeah right you protest guys see where that gets you they were on my plot [Music] [Music] feel like they're protesting they're all just flopping over the other ones didn't do this I feel like these ones are going to cause me trouble these are the troublemakers these are I don't know why though what's wrong with them kept them all with their mates this time and everything honestly what's wrong with you all H up [Music] you're out now good [Music] luck oh my goodness I've just come into my Greenhouse to try and warm up a little bit wow it is very very chilly out there today you really feel it when you're like outside doing loads of jobs um yes freeze and cold out there so it's so warm in here I can't get over how warm it is oh what's this oh someone's left me a little a little present in here that's so nice em I hope this helps if your Greenhouse keep on vlogging what did they leave me o I think it's a thermometer is it a temperature check Checker thingy that would be good oh my goodness so nice this is so cool let's stick it to the greenhouse somewhere where should where's a good place to put it on a greenhouse then I'm not sure feel like I should stick it at the back because this is always going to be the warmest sort of area isn't it so if I stick it here cool look at that 18.3 de C in here 56% I think that might mean humidity I'm not sure but that is really warm oh my goodness how lovely that is just so unbelievably kind thank you so so so much um I'm going to enjoy that seeing what temperature it is in here um it definitely feels warm my hands are warmed up 18° lovely I actually have one more job to do and I really don't I don't want to go out there and do it it's so cold do I dare to do this last job you know what let's do it let's do it let's just do it oh we've just got to come on come [Music] on oh God God you know when you think the last job of the day is going to be super easy take you 2 minutes and you'll be home with a cup of tea and then suddenly you realize that is not the case okay come on Emma how H can it be [Music] goodness W is all good and useful when it bends as long as it bends in the right way if it bends in the wrong way it's the most annoying thing isn't it oh he likes it likes it linging to it good well done where's those things gone oh no there they are these here picked up the other day this is paper wire so they're little bits of like paper you just put them out like that but they've got wire in them they're all bendy and they kind of feel like tying in your plants but so much easier than twine for something like this which is already fiddly enough for my liking but so much easier to do that and then just tie the wire like that and that's really good that's on really tight I love these These are great [Music] [Music] right guys I'm going to love you and leave you there I hope you've enjoyed my Vlog today I'm absolutely freezing they weren't lying when they said the temperature was going to absolutely drop today it has it feels like a different country to be honest it's crazy cold on Friday I'm going to be doing greenhouse jobs it's going to be getting even colder so I thought it'd be a good time to get into the greenhouse and do some jobs in there so Friday we're going to be spending in the greenhouse um and I hope to see you there so I will see you Friday have a lovely rest of your gardening week and thank you so much for watching see you then bye