I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THIS! / ALLOTMENT GARDENING UK

[Music] I cannot explain to you how warm it is in this greenhouse this morning. Let's check the temperature together. Already 28.2 54% but he's not happy. What's going on? It was about 50% yesterday. It must be a combination of temperature and this together. He doesn't even have a face today. That can't be good, can it? If he doesn't even have a face. Anyway, hi everyone. Welcome back to my alotment diaries. My name's Emma. These are the a lotment diaries. And it's blooming hot today. Uh it's going to be the hottest day of the year so far. I think it's going to be like 29° in London, so come prepared in the most inappropriate a lotment outfit. But it's so cool, this dress. Like cool as in thin. Um it's just it's from uh a website called Nobody's Child and I got it in the sale. They always put all their dresses and stuff in the sale and I always pick them up really cheap from there and they're just beautiful. It's um like a loose cotton and it's just so breathable and nice and I can just move in it and stuff. Just have to be careful the way that I crouch down. Right, I'm going to start by giving everything in here a really good water. I wasn't here yesterday and it was still quite hot. Um, I've left the windows open and the greenhouse is still standing which is incredible. So, it didn't blow away. Good news. The cosmos is doing so well. Look at this cosmos. That is doing amazing. That is fantastic. He's getting really lots of leaves. A lot of you might say to pinch them out. I wonder if I should pinch him out. Pinching them out is supposed to make more flowers, but at the same time, I'm a little bit worried about doing that because No, you know what? Don't overthink it, Emma. Pinch him out. Oh my god, I can't believe I just did that. There you go. I didn't overthink it. We pinched him out. It's because you get flowers on the side shoots of most flowers. Actually, the flowers on the side shoots. The idea is is that if you pinch out the middle growing bit, I don't think I can pinch those out. They're a little bit early. Oh no, maybe I can. Yeah, if you pinch out the top, it will force the plant to grow outwards. What basically happens, guys, I'm going to tell you the science behind this. Now, what basically happens is the plant is growing up, right? He wants to grow up and up and up. He wants to grow up towards the light. He wants to go up towards the sky. He's going up. He's going up. I then suddenly come along and pinch him out. And he thinks, "Oh no, danger. Danger. I can't go up. If I can't go up, where can I go? I can go out." So then they start throwing shoots out to try and avoid the danger. The danger being me and my little fingers pinching them out. And then they throw out more side shoots and then you get more flowers. And that is why I'm not on gardeners world because that is the extent of my explanations on stuff to do with plants. But hopefully you found it helpful. Right, I'm going to feed everything in here. I'm going to water it and feed it at the same time. So let's do that first before we melt. [Music] [Music] water. Right. And then we're using a plant food. This is again the Andamat one. Um, grow pure fruit and vegetable. It is 100% organic, made for plants, by plants, has a really good mix of lots of good stuff in it. We're just going to pour it in because I think everything just really needs feeding. All needs some [Music] goodness, right? So, in really warm weather like this, like really hot weather, it's a good idea to water twice. So, what I've done is I've watered it all now. And what that will do is basically wet the soil, but the water might not get through to the roots how I want it to cuz it might evaporate before then cuz it's too blooming hot. So, what we'll do is we'll leave that for a little bit, come back to it a bit later, and water it all again. And the second water hopefully, fingers crossed, will go through to the roots of the plant. And then that will make sure the plant gets a really good drink, which is what it needs. I am getting I didn't even notice I've got tomatoes. How's this happening, guys? It's mate. I was going to say I've got some flowers, but behind the flowers, I've got a little tomato already. I can't believe it. Yeah, most of them are getting flowers now. This is amazing. This is just incredible. It's so early. [Music] Right. Broad beans doing absolutely incredibly. I mean, do I have any yet? I don't have any yet, but I've got lots and lots of flowers. And they're huge. I mean, they're absolutely huge. I know they're like a smaller variety, but for a smaller variety, they've done incredibly. They're they're really big. Can't tell you how weird it is to be saying this, to be saying like my broad beans are doing great. I feel like this year, everything I'm planting is actually growing. Every seed that I'm sewing is actually coming up and then staying up. Like this did not happen last year. Last year was just an an what's it called? An anonym an anonym an an anonym. What is that word? Last year was an anonyomy. Is that the word? Anonyomy. You know it's like a weird offputting crazy strange year that just came out of nowhere and bits all in the bum. That's how last year was. It was an anonyomy. That's not the right word. I sound really stupid. Um, also these don't have any bugs on them. They don't have any blackfly. So, normally with broad beans, you have like quite a big blackfly infestation on them, or I always do because I planted these in the autumn time, the bugs haven't got to them, so there's no bugs on them for me to do anything. So, I'm just going to leave them. I might just give them a bit more support cuz they are falling down a little bit. Yeah, let's just tie them in a bit more just in case a little weird gust of wind decides to turn up and ruin our parade. ruin our parade. You know, ruin the party. You know what wind can be like. Always wants to get involved. Right. I'm going to feed all of my sweet corn that I planted out as well. This is a Gold Crest variety of sweet corn. I remember that. See, every time I mention my sweet corn, I will tell you the variety because it's the only plant that I've remembered the variety that I've sewn. So, going to milk it. I'm going to give it a feed cuz it is looking a little bit sad. I don't think it's because of nutrients, though. I think it's because I took it straight from the greenhouse and put it straight outside and plants don't normally like that. Normally you have to do something called harden hardening out. So you take your plants out of the greenhouse, put them outside for the day, take them back in at night, do that for a week or so, then you put them in a sheltered place. You kind of like ease them into their new environment. I didn't do that. I just I just took them all from the sanctuary or the greenhouse and bunged them straight outside into the wild and just said, "Fend for yourself." So they are they are still alive. Like I haven't totally killed them. They're doing okay. They will bounce back from this, but obviously they are just I mean it's been a bit of a shock. It's been a shock, hasn't it, mate? It's been a shock. So, all of them have sort of had a bit of a bit of a shock. So, we'll see if we can perk them up a little bit. [Music] [Music] darling. Stunning. Haven't seen him today, but might turn up. some of these. Oh my gosh, you're sitting right there staring at me. He's literally sitting in the tree staring at me. That's so creepy, Einstein. That's so creepy. I didn't know you were [Music] there. Came out of nowhere. Einstein came out nowhere. [Music] thinks I'm telling him off. I'm not telling you off. It's just that you really scared me. Came out of nowhere. [Music] Right, it is a little bit of a flouncy around day in the a lotment today. I wouldn't normally film on a day like this cuz I don't have tons and tons to do, but you guys say that you enjoy watching anything I do. Somebody left a comment and said that they would watch me just sitting in my a lotment doing nothing. So, I don't know why I'm bothering. Yeah, not sure why I'm bothering to do all these camera angles and make all this content. You just watch me sitting here. I mean, that's so easy. Anyway, I did bring a swing with me today. It's a crazy Amazon purchase that I made really late at night and I just thought, you know what, I really want to swing and um I don't know if I'm going to be able to get it up today cuz there's a lot of people here and I don't want them staring at me and sort of being like, what is she doing? But there's the perfect branch for a swing. It's that one. It's that one there. It's really strong and it's the perfect branch for a swing. And I just thought, you know what? I could really, really have a swing there just hanging down. Light today is insane. I can't find anywhere to stay where you can see me properly. But hopefully you can see this. The end of the rope is basically a loop. So, you just loop it over a branch and then you got swing. And I just thought, how brilliant. I'm going to do that. Might give it a go. Yeah, let's let's do it. Right. Nobody's watching me. Nobody cares. Come on, we can do it. We need a chair. It's a bit high. Oh no. I must have not done the measurements right. Actually, I didn't do the measurements at all. I don't think I'm going to be able to sit on that. But I will give it a good go. [Music] I mean, I'm not going to lie, it's not very relaxing sitting on that. In fact, it's probably the opposite of relaxing. It's actually very, very scary. I sort of quite like the way it looks. I wonder if Einstein would use it if I put some bird food on there. Anyway, it's too high. It's too high. The rope is too short. So I need to uh revisit the swing idea. Still we [Music] [Music] tried. Right. This is my sort of random sweet pea teepee. Basically, I had extra sweet peas left over, and I decided to make a little teepee here to grow them up. We thought they were dead. They're not dead. They're actually doing fantastically. This is just a message to myself not to pull up sweet peas when I think they're dying again. I'm never going to do that again. I'm just going to leave them because these have all bounced back. It needs a bit of TLC. So, we're going to start by giving it a bit of a weed because the weeds have really gone crazy around this sweet PTP and they just love it here. And it's really hard for me to get in and weed. So, it sort of requires specialist attention. That's what it requires. Which I do not mind doing as long as the plant survives. Like, they have to give something back. You know, if the plants were dying, I'll be like, "No, you're on your own. Sorry. It's your own fault." But because they're they're thriving, they get my help. It's their reward. [Music] Oh my god. Just stood in a red ants nest. God, they were all on my trainer. Just I just throw my trainer across the a lotment. Oh my [Music] god. Oh my god. Why do I never see anyone else throwing their trainers across the a lotment plot in a panic? Why is it just me? Surely one of you out there is the same as me. Please tell me you are. Einstein, what do you think? Just came over to check I was all right. You just sat right next to me. Then you worried about me or you just worried that you won't get your breakfast anymore? [Music] Still can't find my [Music] scissors. There we go. So, we're making it bigger now. So, we're just adding more twine to it. We'll use another bit of twine around the bottom here to tie them all in together. So, I'm not going to go around tying them all in individually because that would just take me hours. So, I'm just going to wrap them in the twine. Not being very cooperative, are they? Not sort of going the way I want them to go. I don't know why they're being so Well, let's not insult them too much, eh? Because they might stop growing. It's all right. I didn't mean it, guys. Didn't mean it. You're lovely. You're amazing. Risking my life for red ants now. And I got a skirt on. Oh god. Nice combination. Red ants and a skirt. Right. That should keep them all going the way I want them to go, hopefully. Are you going to Yeah. Right, there we go. Sweet PTP sorted. Excellent. Also, I've just noticed got loads of bites on my wrist here. Does anybody know where these bites are from or what creature might have done this? I know it could be like so many different creatures. They're like little red dots and they're really itchy and then they disappear and they sort of come back again. It's very frustrating, but I am used to being bitten and scratched in the garden. But it it would just be nice to know what's biting me. Right. This is my Clemetus that goes over my shed as you can see. I'm just wondering if I can manipulate him to not go over the windows. I sort of want him to go around them. I don't know if that's possible, but we're going to try. We're going to try. So, I don't want to hurt him or anything. I just want to, you know, go this way. That's it. Go that way. These plants, they tend to go where they want to go, don't they? They don't tend to listen to us all the time. So, I've just snapped him off. I've just killed him. So, he can't go up the middle now. But he could still go up the middle if you just go that way. That's it. Yeah, sort of. I think this is going to be uncontrollable to be honest. Even though I've bent it, I think it'll just send shoots out this way cuz he wants to go up, doesn't he? Doesn't want to go sideways. But maybe we could sort of avoid the middle bit of the window. Or I don't know. Maybe I should just leave him alone. I've ordered some Zenia seeds. I really wanted to grow Zenia flowers last year and they just kept dying. Like they kept getting wiped out by slugs and snails, but I think this year they might do better because obviously the weather's better. So, I've ordered some. They are arriving soon and I'm going to sew them directly. Um probably in my flower bed to be honest. Might pot on and then put them around a bit randomly. But um I've ordered those this year which I wasn't going to do which is quite a nice little surprise cuz the weather's just doing its thing, isn't it? It's just so good. I've got so many strawberry flowers at the moment. It's insane. Everything's doing really well. So, I'm going to leave it there today. I hope you've enjoyed it. If you have, do subscribe to my channel. See you next time, guys. Thanks for watching. Bye.