Welcome to my allotment gardening channel. My name is Emma and these vlogs are my allotment diaries. 2022 is is my third year on my plot. I’m learning as I go and would love for you to follow my allotment gardening journey by SUBSCRIBING to my channel!
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Very delightful video once again!
I love this channel and I’ve just bought your book on Amazon. Keep up the good work!
Them seeds are quite expensive go to premier seeds ,I go for the organic range 99% are 99p and postage is 89p and seeds and plentiful,what more could you want ?
I'm going to sow my tomatoes next month, I've sown my peas and will be sowing chillies and aubergines. Desiree is a really nice potato grew them last year and one of the varieties I'm growing this year.
Nice selection Emma. I am about 6 to 8 weeks away from sowing Tomatoes here in the North. If we get a very cold March and April you may find you have trouble keeping them alive but good luck Emma. I agree Kohl Rabi are great veggies.
Did rhubarb grow well in containers?
Just whack it in and no playing games 🙂 😛
Hi Emma nice video what is the name of the compost you are using for your seeds.
We did peas in guttering last season. They were amazing and so easy to transplant.
Wait on your Cosmos Emma .I have sowed now and in late March and the later ones were far far better .Sturdy and out grew the leggy earlier ones .
The Johnsons ones are F1 and some wilkos are f1 variety- so they have a higher success rate, which is why you get less seeds x
Rhubarb does best in well manured ground, horse muck or cow if you can get it, keep well watered
You can chit your peas if you leave them under a damp paper towel
Weekend blessingZ, thanks for a great vlog Emma,
I'm chitting 2 different varieties of potatoes atm on my windowsill, I've also sown some tomatoes, cauliflower, calendula,alpine strawberries, chillies ,round carrots,
Hoping for a better year on my plot this year,I have mine on windowsill and then going to transplant out,
As I have mice and rats on my plot so thanks for toure advice, x
I found a Sun Baby tomatoes are specially good for UK summer. There are sweetest one and quick to ripen. Good luck
Hi Emma loved your video & I love wikos too lv Irene xx 😘
i will grow my tomato seeds 6 to 8 weeks before my last frost date i have already sown my aubergines and chilli's and sweet peppers already because last year i did them a bit late 😆
Hello Emma. Have you got a video showing your allotment planner please?
Very nice sharing 👍
YOU ARE SO HAPPY!!!😁😁😁 Loving the enthusiasm as always. This year I am trying seeds from Real Seeds in Pembrokeshire. I usually grow F1 hybrids for reliability, but this company grow seeds that they know perform well in the UK. That means I will try to save seeds for next year. Something I’ve never done before. I hope you see your peas poking up soon! 🤞😁
Hi Emma, just found your channel and I will be following you this year. Have you tried D T Brown on line they have some good seed offers. I am just growing main crop potatoes but from ones that I saved from eating over winter as we still had some left in the sacks that we bought. They worked well last year so doing the same again. Which compost do you use? It's like cucumber you only get 6 seeds
Thank you for adding this – starting to sow and chit a few bits this year and had no idea how to start, thank you!
It's always interesting to see what's being sowed in different areas of the UK at the same time.
I envy you your radishes,I have never had a harvest as since starting two years ago, slugs have gnawed EVERY single one of them.
Love your presentation style, you plain explanation of things and your ramblings when you were planting the peas.
Do you put anything outdoor yet? Or is this all kept indoor? Love your channel. All the best from the Netherlands!
I sowed rhubarb about two years ago, with good results. Best to plant several seeds as not every plant S
Survives until it time to plant in the ground 😅 think I had about 30 and ended up with ten in the end
i did in my bed in october ,they came up lovely ,i had 2 lovely rows of shoots covered ,then wind blew it off and pigeons had an all you can eat buffet,gutted.x
I’ve bought Desree and Maris piper from Wilko also. You get loads in the bag. This will be the first time I’m growing them in big buckets as I have no room in the ground or my raised beds for them. Fingers crossed we both get a good harvest. ❤ The Range also have a huge range of seeds. Well worth a visit. 👍
Great selection of plants to grow but please do not sow your tomatoes in February in the UK. Unless you have a heat source in your greenhouse or polytunnel you will have troubles if the weather takes a sudden turn for the worse. In previous years we have had cold snaps in April. Tomatoes are vulnerable when young and sowing should be late March at the earliest. They grow so fast that sowing them in February will mean that they will be ready for moving out from your home windows or grow rooms into your polytunnel or greenhouse in a short space of time. I aim to be planting mine up in mid May after sowing when warmer spring weather arrives…..and that is regarding being in Northern Britain. Even in the south the last frost and below 0c nights can be as late as mid to late April. And in the North the frosts can last into May on a cold spring.
Also chitting main crop potatoes in February is far too early. Main crops should be planted in April or May when the soil has warmed. April in the south for mains May be possible but in the North its May. If you plant potatoes when the soils are cold then the harvest will be modest or poor. Patience is the key. It is still 6 weeks till spring and even then snow could come.
I always start my peas in some water shooting, cut to the length that suits you and when they have come through you can make a nice trench and just slide the peas out of the shooting straight into the trench, east peasy.
I tend to wait till the middle of the month of my lovely tomatoes! I can’t wait I LOVE LoVE tomatoes
I grow crimson crush they are blight resistant, and you get a good crop.
Compost in wilko is £7 per 50 litres
Laughing at the teenager comparison!!! 😂
How are you finding your Polytunnel? we are feeling like we can do our allotment thanks to your videos. We have no idea either! first year going to see what we can do. Were just a bit worried that a Polytunnel will fall apart with the UK frost, did yours survive?
Rats/mice dug up my corn seeds, ate the greens of my beets, DEFINITELY always eat my poppies, and they actually ate the growth/vine of peas we grew last year also !!! BTW, I totally agree with you about the ALL-PURPOSE-ness of most formulations of soil. I get lots of coconut coir regularly, and every soil/compost mixture that I prepare for anything (groundscaping as well as containers of any size or plant) is based on a high proportion of coconut coir (often 50% and up to nearly 100% in some cases, like more for seeds and rooting) mixed with whatever active, organic compost I can procure, plus whatever other organic goodies I want to include, like more potent granular/powdered nutritious materials (i.e. crab, kelp, seed-meals, minerals, etc…). There is great overlap on how most of the mixtures are composed, just some extreme outliers for, say, cacti where I will use a higher ratio of "sharp sand" or grit, or like, seed starting, where I will use almost purely coconut coir with just some worm castings and maybe some powdered organics. Other than those kinds of outliers, most of my mixtures are essentially the same thing… coir for porous, propped-open, permeable and breathing/draining structure… organic matter in active decomposition fostering living "soil" microbes (i.e. "compost)… whatever other organic nutritious goodies I want to add. Great video Emma, happy Springtime !🌷🌷🌷🐛🦋
What’s your grow zone? Watching from zone 6b, Nova Scotia canada
At 16:41 in the video there’s a box with your address on it that you can see 😬 You may want to blur it out.
New to growing my own veg and so glad that i have found your channel, i am so excited !
Loving the new grown up posh voice 😉
good time to start peppers and chillies, the early start really helps.
Plant your Rhubarb in a pot otherwise it will spread everywhere.
Hi Emma. What a refreshing video thank you for your tips. Sadly I don’t have an allotment only containers in my back yard. Here in Rossendale our cold winters are very cold and this leads me to ask “do you have a outside thermometer.
I also like the fact that you shop at Wilco for your seeds etc.
Thank you for your original lovely video
I went for the sun baby and supersteak f1 too.
Thanks for sharing!
I had one khol Rabbi last year and it was delish . Rhubarb is very productive once established. Roasted with a bit of sugar is lovely. I have just down some sweet peas they come every day for weeks and weeks and smell lovely. You can use peas from the dried peas packet from the supermarket if you want a cheap alternative. You need to soak them first.
Emma, do you rate heirloom seeds, non GM, organic? Or do you not mind?
Hi yes Wilco and great get seed a coconut compost to with mixed up with other compost ok I Ms Caroline from Hucknall outsiders Nottingham ok
2020, and 2021 my Kohlrabi did great, last year not a single one worth eating 🙁
Where can I buy your book please?
Hi Emma, try to avoid the F1 hybrid seeds and go for heirloom varieties. You can save yourself money and save the seeds for growing the following year, which you can’t do with the hybrid varieties. There are some amazing heirloom tomatoes you’d love growing for taste and their unusual colours.