A WEEK IN MY SMALL LONDON GARDEN / ALLOTMENT GARDENING UK

Good morning, guys. Happy Sunday. My name is Emma. This is my a lotment gardening channel. Today's vlog is going to be all about what I've been getting up to in my home garden. So, I've sort of filmed some snippets throughout the week and put them together into this vlog. So, I really hope you enjoy it. There's a lot of planting going on. There's some garden maintenance, um, some ideas and things for the future, some garden finds, and a little bit of creativity as well. So, I hope you enjoy it and find some inspiration. I hope it brightens up your Sunday. If you are enjoying these vlogs, please subscribe to my channel. Um, give me a like. Let me know what else you would like to see from me. And without further ado, we're going to dive in. There's lots of mismatch kind of clips. I love watching vlogs like this. I hope you do, too. Let me know what you think of it, guys. This is the rambling rose that I put in only a couple of weeks ago. Look how beautifully it's doing. I think it's called a roselana. I think that's the name of it. But it's doing so well. It needs a bit of support now. Also, I'm not entirely sure how to train it to go the way I want it to go. Do you know what I mean? It seems to be coming out this way. And I don't want it to come this way. I want it to go that way. Anyway, I brought some wire and we're going to try and make a bit of a a structure for it to climb up. So, if I put wire between Oh my gosh, this is like a slinky. Oh gosh. Oh, I'm going to get it all tangled on. I can feel it now. I'm getting it tangled already. How am I already tangling it? I haven't even touched the stuff. Gardening is so fiddly, isn't it? Right. If we wrap our wire around there and then run it across there like that maybe. See, ideally I'd want to put this wire across the fence and train it up the fence. I sort of think maybe a structure slightly in front of the fence would be better. I sort of control it a bit more. I don't know why I think that. I just think it might be happier. I sort of think this might be easier to sort of control. That one's not really doing anything. Should this one be doing something? Yes, probably. Maybe they should be behind that one. Could you go around that way, mate? Is that okay? Are you going to die on me now? Are you? So, in terms of how I get this to grow the way I want it to grow, do I have to cut off the branches that are going the wrong way? I really hope that's not the answer. I really don't want to cut off like nice growing branches. Do you know what I mean? But I also do want it to go up against the fence. What do you think? Does this seem too temporary, though? I feel like it's a bit of a temporary structure, but hopefully when it gets going onto the fence, I won't really need to um tie it anymore. Do you know what I mean? It'll sort of grow on its own. Anyway, that's what we've done for now. So, let me know what you think. Please don't tell me I need to chop all the branches off. I'll be so sad. Right. I have a similar situation going on with this. This in here, this is a jasmine. And I dug it up from my archway cuz it wasn't doing very well. Now that he's in a pot, he's flying away. He's going for it. He's growing up and up, but he needs some sort of support. And also, I'm not sure this pot is big enough to keep a hold of him. I think it might need a bigger pot. Could I change him up with another pot? Right. I think what I'm going to do for now is leave him in that pot cuz he does seem quite happy in there. Um, and then transplant him to a bigger pot when I buy one. And for now, just put some support in ready to support him as he gets bigger. That's what we're going to do. But I'm gonna raise the pot. I think one of the keys to pots, and I'm not used to growing in pots. This is the first year I'm really going for like growing as much as I can in pots. But one of the keys is if it's on a flat surface like a concrete patio, you have to raise it off the ground so that water can drain through. because otherwise when it rains or when you water them, the water will just sit on the bottom of the pot like a puddle and it'll just flood the plant basically. So, they need to be sort of raised a little bit. That's pretty much where my knowledge of pots begins and ends. But, we're getting there. So, I've got these hooks that I'm going to put into the fence and then I'm going to put the wire between them. Of course, the idea of using wire is that you can tighten it quite easily. So, if it becomes loose, it's a lot easier to tighten. Oh, I've done that really well. I didn't even measure that across. And actually, it's quite straight. Quite straight. Not completely straight. Let's Let's not be silly here. It's still my garden. Cross this here. Right there. RC, another supported plant. Not in its ideal part at the moment, but you know what? I think that's going to work really well. So, what I'll do is I'll probably put one more bit of twine in across here just to make sure that he trains up it properly. And then what I could do is if he decides to get big enough, and I don't know if he will yet, but if he did decide to get really big, I could train it right along onto the back fence there, and it could just be a whole sort of corner of Jasmine. Wouldn't that be nice? What do you think? Would that be nice? Are you going to grow really big for me? Maybe. You know, maybe. Like I said, it does seem to like the pot better than it like like the ground. And I've got all these forget me knots in the bottom. Oh, look, another shoot. I didn't even see you. Would you mind awfully going that way, mate? Thank you. Right. I don't like this pot. I don't like the color of this pot. I like the size of it. I like that it's plastic as well. I don't know why. I just think it's easy to move around. Um, and it's quite big as well. So, I like the size of it, but I don't like the color. So, I'm going to paint it. I'm going to paint it with shed paint. I don't even know if you can do that, but you know what? I'm going to. So, we'll find out together. don't really want to waste the uh the shed paint that I got. It seems like such a waste. And I also don't like the color of the pot. It's a bit of a win-win. Let's give it a mix. It makes sense to me to paint a pot with shed paint because it's obviously waterproof, isn't it? I mean, it's got to be waterproof. It's outside. It's got to work. Yeah, it's got to work. Hey guys, it's a few days later. Um, I'm back in the garden. The weather was just sunny and lovely and it's just clouded over which is so annoying. I wanted to show these that I found. So on the way home from the a lotment I saw somebody was leaving these outside for anybody to take for free. So, I picked up two of these and it's really good quality trellis and it's free and I was so excited when I saw them. So, I picked up two. Like I said, one of them I've already put up in the garden somewhere. Um, but let me just show you. Always love a good freebie and these are such good quality. So, the guy who was getting rid of them said that he's had them in the garden for 15 years and they are still such excellent quality. So, the other one I've put here in this little planter. And I thought cuz I've got some sweet peas to plant out. Might put the sweet peas in front of them and have the sweet peas go up there at the back of the planter. So, I think we'll plant those out now. So, this is the other pot of sweet peas that I got from the garden center. They are the Spencer mix as well. $4.99. You get a lot of them, but they're in desperate need of going out now. Look at the state of them. The poor things. So, I think if I put them along the back here, they'll go up the trellis. I don't think I need to secure the trellis. It's quite secure there at the moment. And I don't think I'm going to paint it. I was going to, but I've changed my mind. I've changed my mind. Look, the roots have come through the pot now. They're not happy in here at all. So, we've really got to we got to help them out. I'm going to be a bit ruthless the way that I pull them apart, I think, just because I am. Also, they've all clung on to each other. It's what happens when you don't plant them out. for ages. They all cling on to each other like friends. Come on, guys. Away from your mates. Away from your mates. I'm still going to sort of plant them out in clumps cuz I think there is safety in numbers. And my other sweet peas that I planted out in clumps are all doing very, very well. So, we're sort of going to clump them like this. There you are, mate. I think I'm going to be brave and also plant out some of my dailers as well. So, these are the ones that I got from Where did I get these from? I think I got them from an RHS garden center and they were Yeah, that was it. They were a coral color and they didn't actually tell me what variety they were, but I do recognize them. It's the one with like the pom poms and then the other one which is like an open daisy style flower and the other one's got all the petals. So, I sort of recognize them, but I don't know what they're called. I've got three and they've done really well. thing is I've already put a dia in this planter. There's already a dia here which I dug up from the garden and put in. And this is pink. It's a really beautiful pink pink one. But that's going to be quite big there. Realistically, in terms of spacing, I think I could probably only get two more in here. Or could I just sort of squish it up a little bit and have three? The thing is, days get really big, don't they? And I want them to get big. So, I don't know. I feel like I'm going to put two more in here. So that' be one, two, three ders at the back. Sweet peas going up here. These lovely little flowers at the front. I don't know what these ones are called, but these escapers that I actually grew from a seed. So these are going to be really nice. Let's put those in. And then we're going to find another home for you, mate. Don't worry. There's a bit of a risk getting the ders out now. Not just because it's still quite early for a dalia to go outside. Though it should be okay. I think mainly because it's going to rain tonight. So the slugs will be out. But you know what? If they can survive that, they can survive anything. They got quite good roots. So I think that means they'll be okay. Oh, he needs to go a bit deeper than that. He's a big one. He is. I sort of hide him in the forget me knots. Maybe the slugs won't see him. And then the other thing is that I've got this sweet corn which actually germinated quite well and then I accidentally forgot about and it's half dyed. And what I thought I would do is plant it into my little vegetable planter at home because it's only 1 2 3 4 5 six. That one's probably not going to make it. So, six. So, you can see that my spinach at the front here and my radishes have germinated really well. And then I thought some sweet corn at the back might be really fun. I think it's a small variety. I think I know you can grow some sweet corn in pots. Oh, look at the roots. Look at the roots on that. He's got some roots. Yes, he has. Yeah, I know you can grow some varieties in pots. So, I just thought why not? Why not try it in a planter? So, we got six. So, I'll do one, two, three. One, two, three. That's what I'll do. Genuinely have no idea if it'll work in this planter, but that's part of the fun of it, I think. And otherwise, I don't know what I would do with six sweet corns at the aotment. It's just sort of not enough, you know. I'll whack it in here. There's also a few little baby nesters that sort of selfseeded in here. And if they do survive and grow big, that would be really pretty as well, having some nesters around all this, which is supposed to also protect against slugs. It's a bit of a companion plant. I don't know if that means that the slugs go for these over anything else or if it means they keep them away because I always find slugs in them. So maybe they sort of attract the slugs and the slugs go for these. I don't know. Let me know if you know why no stersium is a good deterrent for slugs cuz I can't work it out really. Right, once again, it's a few days later now. It's turning into a bit of a gardening week vlog, which I quite like, actually. I like the vibe. Um, this pot is now dry. What I'm going to do is put some masking tape on and do some crisscrosses and then paint it over with the pink paint, um, which is the paint from my shed at the aotment. So, I'm going to use my allotment paint shed on it as well. So, this is going to be quite a special pot, I think. Um, so let's make the pattern. I've never done this before. I hope it works. Okay, it's one. Oh dear. I think we're just going to do stripes. That's not working. I think we'll just do stripes on it. Stripes be nice. You can always change your plan. Right, we'll just stripe it. Sweet pea pink. Same color as my shed at the aotment. Right, it's a few hours later. The pot has dried and it's time to find out if my creative idea with the masking tape has worked. So, let's take the tape off. What do we think, guys? The yes or no? Yeah. Okay, let's keep going. This is great fun. I love doing creative things like this. I don't normally do this in the garden. Not normally this creative, guys, but it's not perfect, but it's not going to be. You know, I don't think you're going to be getting down up close and like studying the pot. Do you know what I mean? So, I think this is actually I think it's worked really well. I know it's not perfect and the stripes aren't all even and some of the paint has come off, but you know what? I really like it. That's something that I just made using a bit of shed paint. I really, really love it. What do you think of it? It matches the shed and everything. Right, let's get it planted up. Yes. brought this pot from TK Maxx. They got some lovely gardening bits in at the moment. Really reasonably priced. This was $6.99 and I saw it and I thought that is so pretty. It' be really nice on the table at the back here. So, when I brought myself some rosemary um just from the supermarket, from M&S, I'm going to plant it inside this pot. I love planting herbs that you get from the supermarket. Um it's just such a an easy way of growing on your own food and also getting more for your money. Often with supermarket herbs, what they will do is put loads of plants in one pot. So, I'm assuming they sort of do it from a seed, but you know, sometimes when you buy like basil in particular, like basil, chives, parsley, and it's really full and bushy in a little pot like that. Normally, it's lots of plants in one pot, and you can separate them. I think I'm going to plant this all together. You see that? How it's two plants that they stuff into one pot. And it's because, you know, people use it for cooking. So, you kind of want as much as as you can get, but you can pull it apart and have multiple plants. I'm just going to plant all of that in one go. That's going to look really pretty. Right. You can probably tell that I've decided to paint the trelluses the same color, same color as my shed at the a lotment plot, which is Sweet Pea by Cook. Um, and I think it looks really nice. I did have a bit of a disaster, though. This did not go without a hitch. Dropped the paint can out of my hand. Look, it's gone absolutely everywhere. All over myself, too. Um, but you know what? It wouldn't be a gardening job that I did if it didn't go wrong. So, everything I do seems to go wrong. But I still managed to do it somehow. And that's the point, isn't it? You managed to do it. Right. I'm going to get this back up and drill it in. That's it. That's all I wanted to do. Stay. That's it. That looks a lot better painted like that. I really like that actually. Um it's not as tall as I wanted it to be, but you know what? As soon as I finished with the sweet piece, I can sort of take it out and then I can put it long ways or wherever I want it cuz the whole thing is painted. I love that. Hope you enjoyed this little week in the life of my home garden here in London. Um, I will be back again on Monday at the allotment plot and every Sunday as well. My Sunday vlogs will either be me in my garden, my home garden here, sort of snippets throughout the week or it will be me taking you out somewhere um, gardening to show you show you some inspiration. So, I hope you enjoy them. If you do, please subscribe to my channel and I will see you again on Monday. See you tomorrow, guys. Thanks for watching.