EMMA'S ALLOTMENT DIARIES / MAY 2020 / SLUGS AND SNAIL ATTACK!

Morning guys, welcome back to my channel. If you're new around here, my name's Emma. This is my first ever allotment plot and I'm just documenting it for YouTube. It's just me and Alice today at the plot and we're just here to water everything really and make sure it doesn't die. Believe it or not we are actually forecast frost tomorrow night, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday so I'm gonna have to cover everything up at some point but not today, I'll do that tomorrow. Yeah, that's pretty much all we're gonna do to be honest because it's such a nice day. We just wanted to get out didn't we Ali? Just wanted to get out in peace and quiet. Right Ali, I've got something really exciting to show you. Come with me, come with me. It's what I found yesterday at the plot. Look at this, it's a pea. Oh my god. It's a pea. Oh my god. It's, oh I know, it's our first pea. Also, what's this? Snails and slugs. Uh-oh. Worming their way up trying to get my peas. Oh no, that's a disaster. Oh no, I don't want slugs and snails around these peas. They've left them alone till now. What about the new baby ones? Isn't that the ones that they're after? Oh yeah, they have. Oh, they've nibbled them. I don't think they've been this side yet. Oh crap, that's annoying. Up until now the peas have kind of been safe from slugs and snails and everything really. Nothing's really bothered them too much but now, now they're on to them. Oh no, look they've been back here again as well. Oh god, oh that's all this one needs. I've just transplanted them. Oh for god's sakes. See that bird then? Oh the battle has begun, Alice. The battle of the slugs has begun and we are not prepared. We knew this was coming and we were not prepared. Who does that remind you of? Here too, completely undeterred by the flipping eggs. Oh that looks dead, doesn't it? I'd better pull that one off. Can't see any damage in here but look how big, look how big the spinach is getting. It's huge. It's doing really well now. I wonder if I have to actually thin it a little bit more than that because that one's sort of being overshadowed now. Wow, spinach is doing really well. I re-sowed some more carrots in these holes here. I noticed that there were some gaps in the carrots so I've sort of sown some new ones in the gaps. So I'm hoping they come up fairly quickly but the carrots are looking quite good. Looking quite strong I think. All this is looking fine. I also put some new chard in and I put a few more beetroots in as well over there just to make sure that we've got enough coming up. Also there's a really random carrot in the spinach. I don't know if you can see him there so I'm not sure how that ended up in there but I'll leave him alone because he's happy. That's the point. What are you doing? Oh right, okay. I'll come and find it. Let's Some of them are looking better than others I have to admit. The iris looks okay. This one is the one I actually thought was fine and it's actually the one that's doing the worst I think. That shows you what I know about it. That one seems to be coming back to life because you can see that they're kind of sticking up a bit. Oh sorry, this one. Forget-me-not's doing really well because there's some more flowers on him. I wonder if anything's in my frog house. I wonder if anything's in there. Let me just stick the camera in and have a look. I don't think so. I think it's quite good though. It's quite covered, quite sheltered. Something might want to go in there. A mouse or something. I don't know. I don't bloody know. I don't bloody know. Mouse? Frog? Rabbit? It's probably too small for a rabbit. I don't know. Something. Something might like to go in there. It's taken me five trips to the water thing to fill up my watering can just to water these beds and I haven't even done the spring but the summer bulbs. I've just basically done anything that's tiny. It's taken me five trips just to do that and I still need to go back and get some more to fill up the pond as well. So I really need to come up with like a more permanent water situation, watering situation. I need Dave to put some guttering on my shed and have like a water thing on my plot but in the meantime what I'm going to do is I'm going to buy a hose hose pipe from B&Q I think and use that but I'm absolutely knackered. It's just literally, I've literally just done the living bed, the pumpkins, the zinnias, sunflowers, the peas, the lettuce which is really coming up. I'll show you in a minute and the strawberries and the rocket. Literally just done that. It's taken me five cans of water just to do that so I'm gonna break now because I'm knackered. You join me again guys sitting by the pond waiting for a bloody bird to take a bath so I can watch him take a bath. Riveting content. This time I put some bread down around the pond which I know you're not supposed to feed birds. I haven't got anything else and so I gave him a bit of my sandwich in the hope to lure him into the pond so I can film him having a bath. Not cooperating again. Bloody birds. Apparently Alice just saw two in the pond. Two. Don't come down for me. Wonder why. Yes everyone has this weird special connection with nature except me. It doesn't seem to like me. I don't know why. Maybe because I try and kill it all the time and moan about it. Maybe it can sense it. I'm gonna hang some bird feeders. I don't know if I told you in my last vlog but my neighbour wants to cut the tree down. I'm sure I did moan about it a little bit. I don't know. I haven't edited that vlog yet. I'm sure I was talking really quietly but she wants to cut this tree down and I decided I now like the birds. I do like birds. I want to buy a bird watching book because we've got some really nice pretty birds around here and I want to hang bird feeders. I think there's a few branches up here that I can sort of hang them from which I think would be really nice and maybe I can attract some birds. Maybe the birds will eat the slugs and snails. We need birds and we need frogs. Birds and frogs. Birds and frogs. I've got a frog house now. I don't know if that counts. I think it does. I'm not sure. Birds and frogs. I'm going to have a little look at all the covering stuff that I've got because obviously if there is a frost most of what I've planted out is quite tender and it's going to die so I've got the fleece which I can cut, sort that out and then I've got all these things here so I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to go around and just cover stuff and just see what it looks like when it's covered. That's it. Are you okay? Yeah. I'm going to test it and see and make sure we've got enough coverage. I'll get some more bottles today. I think that works. Pumpkins I'm thinking. Fit these under here like that. I don't know if you can fit in there. I think I can squeeze them in. I don't think any of that needs covering because that is carrot, spinach, chard and beetroot and that can tolerate frost I think. I think that's all okay for frost and I think the summer bulbs must be okay for frost because they've been out since February so they must be. I know that you can't get strawberry flowers need covering. Rocket I think is fine out of that cope. I think there's a dead snail in here guys. Oh what's that? I think that's a dead snail. I don't really want to touch it. It's a slug I think. I think that's a dead slug. I think I've got one guys. Unintentionally Pond of Doom took care of it for me. That's good news. That's one down. 50 million to go. This stuff's dead isn't it? That's dead. I don't know. I don't bloody know. I didn't read the instructions. I really should have. Oh well. Whatever survives survives. Right guys. Absolutely sweating now. All I've done is water and wander around the plot and just rape up a little bit and absolutely sweating. So I'm gonna love you and leave you there. I hope you enjoyed the vlogs. If you're enjoying the daily vlogs do give me a thumbs up, leave me a comment, subscribe to my channel if you're new or if you're a regular viewer and you're not subscribed and I will see you tomorrow in my next vlog. Thank you so much for watching guys. Bye.