PLANTING BARE ROOT FRUIT BUSHES / ALLOTMENT GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS

I wasn't mentally prepared for structure building today that's all it is guys normally i'm much better at this good morning guys so i've come all the way back here to try and get away from the noise i think someone is chopping down their new allotment plot with power tools it's so noisy i mean there's nothing wrong with doing it if you if that's the way you want to do it but my gosh the noise just gets to me i don't think i like loud noises actually i think it was like when i was a kid i used to be quite scared of loud noises so maybe it's something to do with that but anyway that's what they're doing right now so i popped down and i have just noticed blooming squirrels have done it again this is becoming a real problem now a real problem they are just not going to let me have this are they is there some kind of deterrent i can do for squirrels because that is ridiculous and the thing is they're actually knocking out the pane of glass here i don't know how they're doing it they've figured out how to do it it just slots back in like this hang on i did it just now hang on oh it's there it just slots back in but they managed to like pull it up which is quite remarkable really for a squirrel anyway sorry einstein anyway i'm going to be planting out some bare root fruit bushes today which is very exciting um but the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to go and get some more wood chip from the original wood chip pile hopefully i can gather some together um but that's the first thing i'm going to do before everyone arrives and sees me like scavenging the ends stick on my cool job gloves oh no that's not it it's a dirty one oh look at this nice clean new ones they fit why i do this by hand i don't bring like a shovel down it's because it's such a long walk if i had to balance a shovel as well and i have tried to do it before it just takes too much time it's just too much effort i find it so much easier just to do it by hand and then i've only got to take the wheelbarrow back and this gets quite heavy wood chip is heavy remember i used to be a tree so i'm taking a bit of a tree back am i going to grab one more now i always do it to myself don't i right one more do not let me go and get more wood chip because i am knackered i did find a secret little spot of it though so there's quite a bit there um for me to grab do you remember i was so close to saying that i'm gonna have to buy wood chip and then i've just found a load of free stuff so patience you know patience all right there we go there's a bit of wood chip down it's never as much as you think it is is it it was two filled wheelbarrows and it's barely covered the back it probably needs another another one on the back and then probably another two down here but we will get there and it feels good to be getting this bit done it gets overgrown every year i did promise my neighbors that i would get on top of it this year so i'm really glad that i am doing that it feels good feel productive right in this bed at the back here i know i said ages ago potatoes were going to go in i've changed my mind i'm going to put some bare root fruit bushes in and it's a great time of year to do that in the winter time it's not growing so you can transplant them into places and they can get away in the summer it's also a good time of year to move fruit bushes as well so if you've got any fruit bushes that you want to move now's the time to do it when it's not actively growing uh this is the bed they're all going to go in so i think we'll give it a rake over and clean it up a little bit and then we'll get um planting i tell you what though there's a lot of rocks on here i don't know where they've come from but these would be really good around my pond where had these come from why is there like a little thing of them it's a bit weird isn't it nice then where'd they come from so so here are all the sticks they look a bit scary don't they when they come like this as bare root plants because you just think how on earth is that going to grow into anything but they do they really do so what have i ordered i've got we've got raspberries these ones here which look like little bags of weeds are actually rhubarb so that's a rhubarb raspberry one that's a rhubarb early and that is a rhubarb victoria they literally just like look like roots like little weeds sent in bags but um they will grow they will grow into rhubarb very exciting these are the two i'm most excited about some reason because i've just never had them before and never grown them and it's red currant and um black currant so these two are going to go in this bed first i think and then i'm going to put those near the back um the other ones i actually think might need support so the raspberries will definitely need some kind of support this here is a gooseberry i'm excited to try gooseberries as well um again i think that might need some kind of support so i have to build that in a later date um because i'm not prepared today i'm not mentally prepared this is a loganberry i have a feeling that probably might need support as well let me have a look actually online yes they do need support they grow a bit like raspberries so that's going to need support as well so maybe what i'll do is i'll put the ones that don't need support so the red currant and black currant at the front and then i'll build the support for the back and put them in the back um i don't know if i can do that today because i wasn't mentally prepared for this maybe i will let's get the two in at the front and then let's have a look and see how what i feel like doing i'm not gonna lie it's december guys i want some time off you can plant out these out right until like january february because it's still winter and i think they'll be fine but i'd rather get them in the ground earlier rather than later right okay we'll see let's just whack these ones in so the general rule of thumb when you're planting bare root fruit bushes is to bury it twice as deep as the roots and three times as wide and i guess that's just to help it get going a bit and make sure that it's really in the ground and that it's got room to wiggle about and spread its roots out but twice as deep three times as wide that's all you really need to know about them just whack them in right this is the black currant going in here you go so that's twice as deep three times as wide that's not really twice as deep but i think it's right anyway around that all goes weeds we've got to really push it down so it's really stuck in there now mate have a drink have a drink have a drink relax enjoy your new home we are going to see if we can build a super quick structure the thing is is i've got so many big logs and stuff and big tree trunks it would be rude not to you know i've got to use them for something and this seems like the ideal thing i'm not sure what to put across but then i won't need to worry about that just yet will i because they're not going to grow till the spring right let's see if i can find two not the biggest space some maybe sort of slightly thinner ones i think right i didn't know i'd be structure making today so i'm not quite mentally prepared for this i want two of a similar can i just say while i'm over here how much better does this plot now look with the wood chip like especially this bit here where it's like joining both the plots together gosh it's just looking amazing but this this is for another day today we're working on this one so oh my god right we're not going to make things harder than they need to be it's just going to be a structure of two sticks it's going to be a tail of two two sticks and some wire in between so it's so weird isn't it it's like a bit of flagpole maybe if i put the other one in it'll look all right it's actually small though like two not wide enough apart bloody hell i don't know i wasn't mentally prepared for structure building today that's all it is guys normally i'm much better at this right it doesn't look as weird now like on a scale of one to ten i'd say that's probably a four now of weirdness which is pretty good right it just looks like i've started to make a structure it's very tall isn't it oh well better tall than short don't know why it just is i think i need one more structure in front of it oh god i'll do it to myself right let's find two more sticks let's do it again let's just do it again every time i come down here with just a couple of jobs in my mind it ends up being a couple of hundred jobs just happens every time and i really don't have time for this today as well got so much to do but here i am looking for sticks to make structure for raspberries right these two sticks are not quite as long so whatever grows here is just going to have to not grow very tall i'm just going to have to tell it you know right okay same process really in fact exactly the same process chaos that i think i buried the scissors i think the scissors are under one of these pathways i just made i was just cutting it with the scissors wasn't i where are my scissors gone i was literally just using them oh god have i buried them have i buried them i think they might be under here somewhere i think i've buried my flipping scissors what a twassic why would i oh there they are i thought because i'm getting tired because i'm getting tired right so i just looked up about the gooseberry a gooseberry is a bush so i think that can go into my new allotment plot somewhere and have like a separate bed for that so that's great the loganberry and raspberries need support so they're going to go on here they've given me quite a lot i've got like five canes of each so i think i'm just going to put two canes of raspberry and one one loganberry in which is like a raspberry apparently so i'm quite excited to see that i've never really heard of a loganberry before but now i've got one so lucky lucky me right the raspberries that are going into the glen ample that's what i've gone for i know nothing about them but that it just makes it more exciting to me when i don't know about it i don't know what it is i don't know what it tastes like i don't know when it will be harvested that's part of the fun of gardening though racking stuff in and not knowing what it might become there we are all right there we go two raspberries going in what's the use of this i'm a banana if i try and dig with the banana let's dig with our hands i will see you with raspberries on if not it was nice knowing you goodbye right okay my camera battery is flashing at me which usually means i've been here too long whenever i've run out of battery on my camera i know that i've just like been here for hours i think it's like 12 o'clock now and i had so much to do today but instead what we did was we built a fruit bush structure for raspberries and a loganberry which i'm very very proud of so i'm going to show you the finished result now of what all that kerfuffle was about behold my new fruit bush area so at the front here we have got our red current and black current very exciting they're more like bushy so i'll see how big they grow that'd be interesting then as you can see what i've done is i've made little pathways between these um which is going to be where the loganberry is and the raspberries and i will add wire across as they grow and i think that will work really well and then i've got a nice little area here for fruit and for picking and that's what we did today in the mud um it was actually really good fun i'm glad i did it all of those um bare root fruit bushes are from a company called roots and i'm working with them over on instagram so i just have to disclose that they gave them to me for free to advertise on instagram um so i'm very fortunate that they did that and i feel very grateful and they're really great quality stuff but i wasn't strictly asked to advertise on here i just planted them out um so i'm going to put a little ad in the box just because just to cover my back basically because they were gifted for free um but if you want to see more information about them head over to my instagram it's at emma's allotment diaries um and you will see a reel all about them on there and it will give you lots more information about the company as well so i hope you enjoyed the vlog today if you did do subscribe to my channel as always i'll see you next time thank you so much for watching guys bye