IT DIDN'T WORK AT ALL!! / ALLOTMENT GARDENING UK

[Music] there's a mammal over [Music] there all [Music] [Music] right okay really need to bring those shelves here so I can sort that out up here spiders on them all everything's got a spider on it everything Everything has got a spider on it this whole shed needs to be fumigated from spiders i have to hang it outside oh god a spider shed good morning everyone how you all doing welcome back to my lotment diaries my name is Emma these are my a lotment diaries um Oh what are you doing in here you shouldn't be in here you should be outside right we'll find a place for you just wait there a second okay okay so how you all doing um I hope you're enjoying the lovely weather we've been having i think it's um going to change a little bit next week and but the temperatures are still going to stay okay i think the sun's disappearing for a bit which is a bit of a shame but you know what we have had so much sun and blue skies i mean I really don't feel like I can complain very much because the weather has just been insane sorry I'm like ducking down um right there's a few things I need in here today the thing I was going to try and find don't know why I still have you is I had snappy seeds in here somewhere and I don't know where they are ah no oh god no don't do that don't do that my gosh do that stay oh there they are sugar snap peas there we go we're going to sew some of these today so that's what I needed um okay no something's not right something's not right something is not right in here something's been in here something's been in my shed someone stolen something from my shed what would they steal though nothing's been stolen the shed is a little bit of a mess like I know it's always a mess haha but I mean it's like really been disheveled and Oh oh oh something's tried to get in my shed maybe it's succeeded maybe it's an animal or something something's tried to get in here they've broken all the window and it's coming out here which is it wasn't doing before oh that's really weird i feel like something's tried to break in but then how would it with that netting now I put all this garden mesh on the outside um and that was just sort of stop people from breaking in and also so I'd know they've broken in not that that's going to stop him but do you know what I mean i mean it's not been moved so how would they have done that unless something's on the inside trying to get out oh god don't say that i think it probably just all needs replacing and sorting out to be honest um okay right einstein is sitting there waiting for me so we're going to start the day by feeding the bird um and then we're going to go to the greenhouse and see if everything's died cuz I haven't been here for a couple of days uh so we don't know if everything's died or not so let's go and find out together [Music] morning good morning good morning there you go [Music] [Music] there's a little fox over there just watching me can you see him i feel like he wants to come this way but he's seen me now he doesn't want to is it a fox or a cat i think it's fox could be a cat it's an animal let's just agree on that it's a mammal there's a mammal over there okay so we are still living everything is still living excellent looking very strong looking very healthy and happy yeah absolutely is still alive cucumbers hm not sure actually having said that he has got taller cuz he's going over the the twine now so that's really good are you Are you still okay are you all alive i think they are you know I actually think they're doing really well yeah they're fantastic sweet corn amazing this is going to make such a beautiful bed um as long as you all still stay alive please stay alive excellent you're doing great you're doing great and then my concoction of different plants on here fantastic these are all sunflowers yeah doing really well you see their little first leaves these are their seed leaves here you see these leaves here these are their seed leaves so these would have been the first leaves that showed on the plant they're going yellow and then what they'll do is they'll fall off and that is quite typical of seed leaves not all plants lose lose their seed leaves but most of them do so they will eventually go yellow and fall off these up here these are the plant's true leaves so these are the leaves that will stay and photosynthesis and keep the plant going but they're little seed leaves they've done their job now and they can they can go they can you know die basically right so before I um go and water everything I brought these at the weekend picked them up from Robert Das they're um seed trays and I thought I'd put the seeds the seedlings the pots in here and then when I water it won't go all over the table and everything they are actually a bit small when I picked them up they felt really big and now they're here and I see the seeds they feel really small why is that discuss anyway um we put as many pots into them as we can probably put these ones on the floor actually yeah you can join your friends on the floor it'll be all right calm down try and keep this desk table little bit neater i think I'm not very good at keeping things tidy i don't know if you've noticed that actually i might have hidden it really well but um I'm actually quite a messy person it's just my brain is so scattery all the time i just can't I find it really hard to keep things clean and tidy and organized right okay that that is actually better uh could you move a little bit that's it great thank you that over the top like that i don't know why that will make a difference though but maybe it will make a difference and I just can't see it yet what is this oh this is snapdragons okay cool see I remembered sometimes I do right everything needs a really good water particularly this poor little cucumber which I think might be dead but he does still look quite good at the end so we never know right okay i'm trying to leave i'm trying to leave okay water [Music] okay that was that That was not a lesson in how to water that was appalling it just sort of I don't know just threw like a bucket of water over him then that was not good you go mate oh god oh no oh no somebody did leave me a comment and say I can't wait for you to see see you water that cuz that is going to fall down right okay no not a chance okay well what we'll do is um Oh that was clever just hooked it into the into the side that's really clever there you go i fixed it i've just hooked the bar into here so it's got something to lean on anyway what I need to do is get a proper a proper pole to hold the hanging basket up because you were right it is going to fall down but I still like the idea of having some hanging baskets in here cuz you get more growing space you know I'm always looking up always looking to grow stuff up um and also I am going to sort out the back of the greenhouse and have more growing space but not today i think it's a big job so I'm not going to do that today but I'm going to go around and water new seedlings in so I've sewed a lot of new seeds and we've had no rain and even though the weather's not been that hot you know we are sort of looking at 17 18° new seedlings can dry out very very quickly so they do need constant watering and looking after so I'm going to go around give everything a bit of a bit of a was looking for another word for water then but I'm just going to say water drizzle shower replenishment refreshment yeah that sounds good refreshment i'm going to refresh everything cool [Music] [Music] right so snap peas sugar snap peas absolutely delicious peas and you can eat the whole thing as well i absolutely love them they don't grow very tall this is all coming from my own personal experience they don't grow very tall so they don't need a huge structure because by the time they sort of get to 3 or 4 foot tall they start giving you peas so they're not like um other peas which sort of want to take over the world and they just keep getting taller and taller and taller and you think "My goodness are you trying to get to the moon?" Snap peas are a little bit more demure about growing you know they're like "I don't need to be the tallest i will be the tastiest." So we'll do two peas per module giving us 20 i mean 20 will be quite a lot of plants if they will germinate so that would be excellent uh how do I open this establishment oh okay this they are little snapies fabulous so what we'll do is we'll just put two on each you see what I'm doing here no not really right so we just place two on the top always looks a bit funny when you do this just two like this the idea of course as always is to pick out the weaker one and keep the stronger one however I rarely do that what I end up doing is keeping all of them cuz I always feel so sorry for them i think you've taken the time to germinate for me i'm not going to reward you by you know ending your life so we just push them in with our finger like that in you go in you go in you go in you go what I really should have done these are quite hard these seeds so I could have soaked them what I could have done is I could have wrapped them in like kitchen towel and then wet it and sort of soaked them overnight or maybe even longer than that until they started to sprout a little bit but I didn't so the key will be to keep these wet in a tray oh there's a hair band there oh that's very useful right pop you in a tray like that i'm going to drown you now guys so be careful [Music] careful careful careful oh drowning it i need to get a smaller smaller watering can i'll keep saying that this whole year and I won't get one till next year now wo let you all soak in okay that's the snappies done this is my snappy structure all ready to go you can see it's quite small um I brought this a while ago i've had to replace bits of it cuz it keeps breaking it's just got netting over it but that's about how tall I think I need it to be for snappies i'll just give it a bit of a weed i'm going to look after this bed so that they're ready to go out as soon as uh as soon as they're ready they can go straight out is what I mean [Music] this is just another area of the a lotment I'm trying to keep on top of when it comes to weeding and that's because all my sweet corn is going to go out here so by the time it comes round to the time when I'm supposed to plant my sweet corn out the last thing I want is for this to be a weedy mess so I'm really trying to keep on top of it i would imagine my sweet corn will be going out next month probably near the end of next month maybe mid mid to late May um it's looking great at the moment i've got another variety on the go at home which will go somewhere else in the a lotment i don't know where yet i don't know where yet but this is going to be sweet corn and potentially corettes if the slugs will let me have corettes I'd love to have corettes but it's up to them really will they let me have them [Music] Right guys somehow for some reason unknown to me we are in the shed again oh what a wonderful place i love being in here not but we come to get the daily achievers so last year it's not a spider it's just a bit grass last year I wrapped up the daily achievers in newspaper i dug them all up because I really wanted to grow them basically and they keep dying in my soil because it's just too wet and boggy over the winter time so dug them all up put them in here put them all in here and now it's time to find out if they survived the winter in my shed so what we'll do is we'll take them out and we'll go and investigate them so immediately with this one I can see that it's got fungus growing on it and a lot of the tubers are rotted i wonder if there's a bit I could save i don't know if there's any of that I can save okay fine it's the same with this one seems to have rotted really bad yeah it's not good right let's try these okay that's fed a bit better no it feels like a soggy mess this one my last hope mate oh crap oh crap every single one of them none of these survived in my shed unfortunately if Id had the greenhouse I think they would have i think I could have protected them better but oh no it's just completely rotted the whole thing it looks like old apples or squishy absolutely none of them have survived so what I will do is throw these in the compost that is such a shame oh dear never mind you know what it doesn't always work but at the end of the day At the end of the day you can only give it a good go can't you and it just didn't work if I'd had the greenhouse it would have anyway I'm going to buy some more daily tubers and then in the next video I will pot them on i'm going to grow them into pots in my greenhouse for as long as physically possible because the slugs and snails love ders here so I'm going to grow them on as big as I can and then plant them out and then hopefully they have more chance of surviving but we will find out together never mind guys i can't not talk about my tulip bed any longer i keep walking past it and showing you sort of snippets of it but I have to just talk about it properly because how gorgeous how amazing has this bed worked out it's incredible um and what's really beautiful about it and the thing that I love the most is that the tulips flower at different times so these are all the early ones you can see flowering but there's a lot of them that haven't even got going yet they've just got their foliage still and they still got like buds really closed up so when these all die back there'll be new tulips coming and flowering so it's just going to be a continuous flower which is amazing and in between it all I've scattered wild flower seeds which are also growing thanks to the lovely weather we're having and the lack of slugs at the moment um it's all doing quite well but it's just gorgeous isn't it lovely [Music] [Laughter] [Music] right anyway guys that is it for today um I think next time I come I am going to have to bite the bullet and rearrange my greenhouse a little bit uh I'm actually devastated at how messy it's got in here so quickly but also on the same time not too surprised i am quite a messy disorganized person so I think I'm going to have to just do it and redo the back of it so I've got more growing space I think sooner rather than later for that so that will be my job in the next vlog have a lovely rest of your gardening week and I will see you Wednesday thank you so much for watching bye