EXCITING ALLOTMENT FIND! / EMMA'S ALLOTMENT DIARIES

[Music] it's just something I've just got to put my back into a little bit [Music] more good morning guys welcome to another allotment Vlog on this beautiful January day I've woken up again to Blue Skies hi Einstein just fed Einstein so he's happy chirping away um yeah such a lovely gorgeous day so I couldn't resist getting down here again and just doing a few jobs and just working on the plot um I just wanted to quickly add here that if you're not feeling up to go into your lotman and you're taking it slow in January that is absolutely fine like I don't want you to watch these videos and feel like stress that you're behind or anything that is absolutely not the case and if you are just taking things slow in January and just having a really slow relaxed start then that's absolutely great there's not much you can plant at this time there's not much to do other than clearing and just sort of building your plot and if you've already done that take a break chill yeah just um you know take it slow like Einstein does every day of his life um but yeah I'm down here today I can't believe what I did last time I'm actually super impressed with myself that Christmas break must have done me so much good because I seem to have done quite a lot so I think what I'm going to do is go and grab some wood chip and just start wood chipping those new Pathways because why not I mean we're halfway there with them let's finish them and then I think the rest of the plan is going to be just to start clearing some of the back of the uh the plot down there because like I said there's not much else to do um before we get into it I just wanted to show you quickly my purple sprouting broccoli because it's the one thing that's been planted here that hasn't done anything like in the year 2023 we're now in the next year um and it's still very much alive the storm didn't damage it um it's a little bit fallen over but it's all right it is just it's just such a beautiful crop um I remember growing this in my first year I just whacked them in didn't expect anything I haven't grown them since until now um so the broccoli should come well any week now really and with purple sprouting broccoli it kind of sprouts into little broccoli heads everywhere and but these plants are so gorgeous and they've stayed standing throughout the storm and look how vibrant and green they are they just make me feel so happy at this time of year they're fantastic plant what I'll do when they start producing broccoli is I'll pick some and eat it and I'll probably leave a couple of plants to sprout into flowers and because the pollinators love it and it makes a great early flower for them um and that keep them happy but look how lovely and vibrant and green they are know it's just nice to see something green on the plot you know just something green and growing um and alive uh right okay let's go on with the uh the wood chip before everyone arrives SE is my dodgy wool [Music] Barrow I think this pathway is going under that isn't it so I need to pull it up so if you move that way for a second this is what I mean about the pathways being really good to make like this because you can change them so you just move it over and then all you have to do is pull up the ground sheet pull the pegs out and then we sort of fold the ground sheet shorter and make the path a little bit shorter so how much shorter are we [Applause] making just fold it over and redo it right I didn't actually film that because it's a little bit boring but I basically cut a bit ground sheet filled this bit here so now we can use the wood chip around here it should make a big difference as you can see it's made a difference over there so logic says if it's made a difference over there it'll make a difference over here um it always just makes it look a bit more put together do you know what I mean so I'm going to get my rake for this cuz it's a bit wet and um not dry it's a bit wet not dry oh it's been a long break guys I don't know what I'm saying [Music] anymore what is that bit string oh my gosh where's the r from where in Earth did that come from it's the longest bit of [Music] [Laughter] rope [Music] right that felt pretty good actually getting those Pathways in and stuff um it's always good to get some more Pathways in and some more wood chip down because it just makes the plot come together a bit more it's time to do the job but I don't really want to do which is to start tackling the back I think I'll start by collecting all the rubbish and putting it in a pile and then we're just going to tackle it we're just going to dive in sometimes when you don't know where to start or what to do best thing to do is just to dive in Just Do It um so rubbish first I think I'll make a pile over there right let's just dive in like I literally just said the rubbish situation is becoming a real stress in my life right now I'm really I hate it [Music] right we're just going to dive in how do you dive into that I don't know I don't know either [Music] [Music] do it's a Paving slab oh it's a Paving slab that is [Music] useful to cut it [Music] out oh my God it's just stuck to the ground cuz all of the stuff all of the bralls are grown through it so I'm left with these roots that's just rooting into the ground and they seem to have like double rooted probably because they're so desperate to survive so it's just a nightmare right it's just something I've just got to put my back into a little bit more um right I'm going to get this up this is going to make a huge difference I know [Music] it [Music] I have to stop because I'm so exhausted I did find these which is a very exciting discovery not every Discovery I make is ex in but these are I think they are like not I want to say tiles you know like the patio slabs but they're thinner they're sort of supposed to go over the top of patio slabs but these would be really useful um I did Smash one of them but the rest of them are okay so this is a really interesting [Music] discovery [Music] this is how far we got so the ground sheets all up up to there and then this is starting to be cleared now you can see there's a clear difference in what I've done but the ground sheet here is like cemented to the ground it's just really difficult to get it up but luckily now I've got my Spade I'll be able to dig out all of these and um all of those canes there and hopefully start to just yeah just make it really clear and then there's going to be raised beds here and I was thinking in front of that bit there you see where that little ground sheet is I might build a fence along there and kind of have like the wildli kind of like like compost the area behind it cuz I don't know what else to do with all that to be honest that is a lot of stuff to get rid of think a nice fence there and then maybe some like chicken wire across it or something and then you kind of put all the sticks behind the chicken wire it'd be quite nice like Wildlife Area like a bug area um do you know what I mean so it's just along the back of my plot here probably losing maybe like a meter just along this line we build a fence with chicken wire and they just everything there s goes over the top so it becomes like this but it won't fall down or anything that's the best I can think to do with that that's the best that my brain can come up with to be honest I mean I do have an awful lot of plot to work with so I'm not worried about losing that little bit of space and it will rot down over time anyway so in a few years it' be mine again um I hope you enjoyed my Vlog today if you have subscribed to my channel I'll be back again on Friday so have a lovely rest of your gardening week see you later see you next time bye so tired