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

[Music] Good morning everyone. Welcome back to my alotment diaries. My name is Emma. These are the alotment diaries. I would love for you to subscribe to my channel if you haven't already. I vlog all about my a lotment plot and also my home garden as well. So, I hope you're enjoying those vlogs, too. It's gorgeous today. It's so warm. Uh it's 10 to 9 in the morning. It feels really hot. I mean, I don't know what the temperature actually is. It's already 16°. It's getting up to 25 today. Um 9:00 in the morning, 16°. Brilliant blue sky sunshine. It's going to be a scorcher basically. Brought a couple of bits with me today to sew. Um, but it's mainly going to be tidying up, looking after everything. Little bit of weeding, little bit of sort of plot maintenance really, but did bring my snap peas with me. I sewed some snap peas here in my greenhouse, but I don't think the seeds are very good. Or maybe I just didn't water them enough because they didn't germinate. At the same time, I was sewing them at home as well. and I've managed to look after them a lot better at home because I'm just always around them there. So, I'm going to get these out today. These, like I said, are snap peas. It means that you can eat the whole pee, which I love about them. They're one of my favorite peas to grow. The rest of the peas are doing incredibly. I'll show you in a minute. [Applause] Also brought some chundula seed with me. I actually sewed this at home as well in a tray. They were doing okay, but then they all suddenly died. And I don't quite know why cuz I was looking after them. I promise. I promise I was, but I sort of think I don't really know why I bothered to start them in a tray because actually the weather's been so good that I think they'd be fine in the ground. So, I think I'm just going to stick them out today and hope for the best. I mean, so far so good, guys. So far so good. And I've also brought a little present for Einstein. Actually, it's more of an experiment that I want to do of Einstein that I'm very interested in. So, I thought we would do this first. Let me show you what I got. Saw this online and I was like, I have to have it for Einstein. I just have to. Why does it come in bits? Why do they always come in bits? Amazon. I don't understand why they always have to send stuff in bits. Do you know what I mean? Like, why can't it just be in one piece? So, that goes Gosh. In there. What is happening? They just sent it all together. I mean, it would fit in the box. Surely just put it in a bigger box. I'm basically interested in his reaction to seeing himself in a mirror. Oh my gosh. We're about to get the reaction immediately. Whoa. What did you think of that? What did you think of it? Did you see that? I just want to know what his reaction is going to be to the mirror. Oh. Right. If I just put this food down. Okay, this is going to be fascinating. A fascinating experiment. Einstein, who's that in the mirror? Doesn't really care at the moment. Who's that in the mirror? Just didn't care. Are you joking? Do you care at all? You don't care at all. It doesn't It's not even noticed the mirror. Not even noticed it. Just no reaction. Look behind you. Einstein, look, there's another bird behind you. No. Oh my god. No rea. What? I thought this would be so like interesting. Einstein, look behind you. For the love of God, Einstein, look behind you. Who's that behind you? It's another Robin. Look. Oh my god. Are you kidding me? $12.99 I spent on this mirror. Just absolutely no interest whatsoever in the mirror. Really, really believed that would be a fascinating experiment for us all to witness today. And I'm so sorry that Einstein has not cooperated and clearly not read the script. Didn't read the script I sent him at all, did he? So, he's just not reacted in any way whatsoever. Einstein, that is very disappointing. Right. Who's ready for temperature check today? Are you ready? 31.1° and 56% humidity. No face. No face. No face at all. What does it mean? What does it mean when he has no face? What does it mean? We don't know what it means, but it doesn't mean anything good because nothing without a face is ever good. It's all thriving. It's all thriving. If only re labeled it so we knew what it was. No, I'm joking. I know what it is. That is melons. That is melons. That is onions. Not sure what to do with these onions, to be honest, but they're still growing, so I'll leave them. These are pumpkins. That's a dead tomato that we tried to grow. That has not grown. And these are cosmos, which are getting lovely and big now. And these down here, these are snapdragons that I'm growing from a seed. And these are doing, some of them are doing okay, some of them have died. So, it's a mix. is mix. But everything else in here is absolutely thriving. We've got the tomatoes. I mean, you can smell the tomato plant, and I think you know what I mean. Um, by that, if you've ever smelled tomato plant, I mean, there's no going back from that. You will smell of tomato plant in your dreams once you smell tomato plant. Um, it is unmistakable and it's gorgeous and it reminds me of summer. And then the cucumbers. We've got a cucumber. We have got a cucumber. This is not a drill. That my friend with a little flower on the end. That there that is a cucumber. That is a cucumber. I can't believe it. And this this is the one that we've fixed with duct tape. Fixed it with duct tape. Got a flipping cucumber growing. Can you believe it? I can't. And then the other ones. Yeah, they're doing really well. They need a bit of tying up really. That's okay. That's all right. Oh, we got another Got another cucumber there. Oh my gosh, we've got a cucumber there. Oh my gosh, at the size of this one. It's got some girth on him. Fantastic. The melons. The melons do need a place to go out very soon. I mean, they're still quite small, so I have a bit of time. Um, but we do need to sort the back of the of the greenhouse out. I do need to sort that out. So, that is a job for the next couple of days. Hopefully, it'll cool down a little bit and then I can get on with it because at the moment, I don't think I can do strenuous work in here in 31°. I just can't do it. So, the melons are going to have to wait a little bit longer, but I will sort those out. Don't worry, melons. You're being sorted out. Right. Let's sort out these snappies. Um, so I know where they're going. We need to weed it. We need to sort it out. Let's go. And we'll run around. Has anyone figured out how to actually turn a wheelbarrow around without having to do a 15-point turn in a tight spot? Is there some kind of wheelbarrow driving lesson that I could take? Let me know. [Music] Right. This structure here that I sort of planned to grow my snap peas over was one of the structures that was sadly sort of destroyed when the vandals came around and they've taken the stick from it. I had a little stick in here and the stick is now gone. So, what I need to do is find another stick, try and fix it. It's a little bit frustrating, but I do have a lot of sticks. It's just that have I got a stick that I can sort of sacrifice for the greater good. Ask myself, that garlic is massive. That garlic is massive. My god, just got distracted by the size of my garlic. It's never been that tall before. It's absolutely amazing. Never seen it that tall. And look, the um the rhubarb. This is rhubarb I planted this year. It's gone crazy. It's massive. I can't believe how big this is. This is absolutely insane. It's going to be as tall as me soon. Oh, yeah. It might be just long enough. Yeah, I think that'll be okay. Actually, that's okay. Right, we need some my paper wire. I can't find my paper wire, but my scissors have turned up and the twine has turned up as well. So, when I lose one thing, I seem to find another. And when I lose the other thing, I find the other thing. You know, they sort of tag team it. All my equipment tag teams it. It's like, who's going to who's going to deal with that nutty lady today? Oh, go on scissors. It's your turn. That's what all my stuff is like, right? We're just tying on the netting so it's got something to climb up. I'm just making it quite tight across. [Music] Right. What I've done is I've made a trench along here and I'm just going to plant the peas into the trench and then fill them in. Just a bit of an easier way of planting them all. Aren't they happy? Lovely little plants. Look at these bouncy, happy little plants. Love [Music] them. There we go. Just fill them all in together like this. So much easier. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I was just wondering if I've managed to cool it down at all in here. And the answer is no. It's now 34.4° in here. And um what was the humidity? 42% humidity and still no face. Still no face. Will we ever see his face again? We don't know. Um where are my chenula seed? Oh, they're over by the shed. Right. We're going to sew some chenula out. We're going to sew the chundula, but I don't know where to sew it. So, let's have a little look. It's one of those sort of miscellaneous flower crops that I think can kind of slot into any bed. It's just where do I want them? That's the question. Where do I want them? I don't know. Thinking maybe on the bottom here next to the sunflower. That might be a nice place for them. Or potentially in this bed over here. Um maybe in front. But then I normally get nesters coming up randomly though I haven't seen any this year. Oh yeah, there's one. These are my selfseeding nesters. There's one there. Um, oh, look, there's another one. They do just selfseed. You could just move them as well. If you see them selfseeding, you can just dig them up as a little mini plant and just plant them somewhere else. Don't see any coming up on this side, though. So, perhaps I could stick in the colundula along the front here. That might be quite nice. Let's give it a little weed. Right. I'll be careful not to pull up any nostiums. Oh, yeah. I see a baby one. There's a little baby nostian there cuz I do quite like them. What they do? Oh, look. There's loads of them. They're all along here. Sorry. There are no sters. They're growing in the pathway, not the bed. All right, that's fine. That's fine. And that there, that's boridge. And I'm sort of happy for them to Oh, hello Herbert. What you doing there? Would you mind moving? I'm scared that you're going to eat my chundula. That's all right, mate. Yeah, I really like the nosters and the borage when it all comes up. So, I will try my best not to pull any of that up. Ladybird. Hello. Look at the little ladybird. He's gorgeous. Where did you come from? Where did you come from? Me? Where'd you come from [Music] [Music] then? Right, Kendula. I really do not know why I did not sew this from a seed the first time. It really does work really well directly when there aren't many slugs about. So, I'm just going to scatter them along [Music] here. Then we'll just them in like this. They're covered. In [Music] These are my other peas. These are like an early pea variety. And aren't they doing fantastically? The peas did really well last year as well. So, I'm not too surprised. Getting some lovely little flowers on them now as well. And they're just getting taller and they're all gripping on themselves and it's just great. I mean, peas are just such a fantastic crop to grow and they tend to do well at my plot. And then just in front of that, oh, there's me. Hello. Got my spinach and I've also got a few other things coming up in Here. I think there's a rogue parnip. And there's also some Californiaifornian poppies coming up, which I'm just going to allow. I'm just going to allow it all to come up on its own. [Music] Right, I'm actually exhausted. I think it's just so so hot today and I'm trying to do quite strenuous jobs and um there's a lot to do and I'm getting a little bit overwhelmed. So, what I'm going to do is leave it. I'm gonna walk away. Even if the vlog's a little bit shorter, it doesn't matter because the worst thing that can happen is that I get burnt out and then I just won't want to come and then I'll just be overwhelmed and it'd be awful. And that's all the excuses I can think of. Next time I come, I'm going to do some more planting out, more weeding, more watering. I might actually bring my strimmer battery and do a little bit of strimming as well. Just make sure that it's all staying under control at this time of year. I'm trying to stop the net from going over the camera here. The brassacica bed behind just under where you're sitting is absolutely phenomenal this year. I cannot tell you how much better things are growing this year than they ever were last year. It's insane the difference. This kale is stunning. Not one slug mark on it. Not one bite of a slug. And actually, I think it might be ready to start harvesting some of that very, very soon. And then you can see behind we got cauliflowers and we've got and all sorts of things in here. Cabbages. How is it all still alive, guys? Explain it. Make it make sense. So, I'm going to leave it there today. I hope you've enjoyed watching my little diary entry for my a lotment plot. And I will be back again in my next video planting out and still here working on the a lotment. So, I will see you next time, guys. Thank you for watching. Bye.