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Welcome to my allotment gardening channel. My name is Emma and these vlogs are my allotment diaries. 2023 is is my forth 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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32 Comments
Hiya Emma oh my golly goodness I had a giggle throughout video! Lol I will like below so as my comment won’t be an essay. Lol blessings luv take care southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
Banana peel water is so good for plants. Creative explained has some good gardening hacks 😊
Worm police proper lol you come out with some things happy gardening Richard x
get a container, add dirt, old leaves, and add water, let sit for a week, stir… it makes a awesome fertilizer no need for fancy stuff. i use ground up eggshells for the tom's. love your humor, if we werent so far apart (calif) i would ask for some nail shells 🙂
Love your sweet peas, they look so nice
I'm laughing so hard right now, because I just spent the afternoon a few days ago arguing with birds eating worms out of my garden…useless act on my part. I love your videos.
Plants also need copper, cobalt, boron, etc etc but in trace amounts for proper sustained health. Nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus are the biggest needs by far but not the only ones which is why some plants start to fail once soil nutrition starts to run low.
Great video Emma i love being shown the successes and failures as it is so true to life not everything works, looking fwd to knowing what you do with the kohl rabixx
That bird calling is a Wren.
Hi Emma Baily hope I spelled it right basically I watched your video with the snail experiment I would love it if you could experiment with nettle mulch around your plants bigger than the leave span I’ve been gardening since 3 years old putting newspaper on my grandads beds nobody believes an old gardener so im reaching out to you to help me get this old gardeners trick out there cheers Emma happy gardening Richard x
Like most of the comments I love watching your videos as well, the successes, failures and especially the humour, cracked me up that you just witnessed a murder and was thinking of reporting it to the worm police 😂 you’re just like the girl next door which in a way I suppose you are as I’m from south London! Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Try burying an egg in the ground near your tomatoes when you plant them…..
Lol I was shouting no!!!
Hi Emma, Tomorite is good for any fruiting plant… tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, etc. Not potatoes, or root crops. Nettle liquid feed is good for leafy veg, such as brassicas, lettuce, etc. the reason is that, as you say, nettle feed is high in nitrogen. Nitrogen promotes leaf growth. Feeding nitrogen to fruiting and root crops as they near maturity will lead to too much leaf and poor crops.
General fertilisers have a ratio of 7:7:7, or thereabouts. Fertilisers for fruit are high in potassium, whereas high phosphate fertiliser is great for rout crops.
Happy gardening.
Hi Emma I love your channel so thanks for the videos! I really like these as opposed to the so called ‘pro’ videos which are most of the time a bit disheartening as they are too perfect! I also have an allotment in south east London 🙂
I wanted you to know that I tried your pumpkin arch idea! My pumpkin plants are still very small but fingers crossed it will work! Thank you 😊
Where abouts in South London is your plot Emma? Born an d raised in Catford but moved up to Newcastle 20 years ago.
Thanks for the reminder pinch top of my beans iv got mine growing up my porch there up to the roof so up the ladder quick pinch all done love your allotment Banana skins soak them for Pitasium
I wonder adding the white rotted garlic to your compost will spread it more around your plot. Isn't it better to burn diseased vegetation to stop it being spread…?
Probably should have watched the rest of the vid before my comment. Well done Emma for remembering!🎉
Thank you
Hi Emma. I am brand new to the channel. I have to say great job. I really appreciate and enjoy watching you. So much so I got myself an allotment!
When I was a child, I used to help my parents in the garden a lot. One thing that stuck with me is my dad telling me tomatoes and cucumbers don't like each other and should be grown separately. I have no idea if this was his preference or if there was some science behind it. I am looking forward to seeing how your tomatoes and cucumbers do.
As always, another great video. Thanks, Emma. If you have a wood burner, you can collect the wood ash from that and put that on your garden and that is potassium.
Seaweed is more Potassium than Nitrogen
I think the garlic with white rot should go straight into the dustbin , it’s a fungal infection so may not be destroyed in a home composting system, you risk spreading it around your plot. ❤
Hi Emma, lovely video as always, you make me smile 😊. You look so happy amongst your flowers and veg…this is what it's all about and you captured it right there 😊
Got to admit my stomach dropped when you put the garlic in the compost 😮😅 so happy you took it back out. Phew!
Liquid seaweed is SELDOM purely nitrogen. It contains very useful amounts of phosphorus and potassium as well.
You have changed your style of vlogging and I love this
You can't grow onion family i that part of the garden for about 8 years or they will also get whiterot.
You may find your rainwater from the sky tank, is a mains water tank from the water works. Most peoples water butts or tanks due to the lack of rain are nearly dry this one you use never goes down it’s allways full probably an automatic filler from the mains. Rain water is best for plants but especially near big city’s can be full of pollutants it picks up from the atmosphere as it falls so not as clean as we would like to think.
Hi Emma, love your videos. I’ve just got an allotment and want a poly tunnel like yours, does yours stay up in the winter months? I’m concerned mine will blow down, how have you supported yours so well? Thanks 😊
I say the exact same things to the bugs in my greenhouse!! "The door is open guys why are you getting stuck on the ceiling the opposite side" 😂😂