PLANTING PEAS IN GUTTERING / ALLOTMENT GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS

[Music] there he is there's my oh look there's the other one not going to lie this feels a little bit [Music] strange good morning guys welcome back to my lot Diaries my name is Emma these are my allotment Diaries and this is my allotment plot in South London uh if you are new to my channel I'd love you to subscribe because we are going to be vlogging about everything to do with allotment gardening over this year today is the 1st of March happy happy March don't get too ahead of yourself there because we still get some quite cold weather in March but there definitely is more gardening that we can do in the month of March um as to what there has been before basically I hope that makes some sort of sense um not everything I say on this channel channel will make sense but hopefully the gist of it you will kind of get so because it is the 1st of March technically it's not the beginning of Spring but I think like meteor meteor meteor meteorologically oh my gosh why can't I say that meteorologically do you know what I'm trying to say when I say that Weatherly Weatherly um Weatherly it is officially kind of spring like from a science point of view it is now spring so we are going to do some planting today because spring equals planting that's what we do in Spring that's just how we behave um as gardeners so we are going to do some planting it's quite exciting I've got some onion sets to go in which are quite late um a lot of people like to put their onions in December January time I've waited till March because I think they've never worked for me I've always done it over the Autumn winter and overwintered them and they've never worked so I'm going to try my luck this year doing it later on in the year and I think maybe it's to do with like the bugginess of the soil is why it wasn't working before but we'll find out together I've also got some carrots to go in and I think I brought something else as well hang on what did I bring Peas I brought peas with me so the onions I've got the red baronss um and they're just onion sets that I think I picked up from be C or somewhere and you just put them in they're like mini Little Onion bulbs so we'll try those and then I've got the carrots which are early NS um these are a fast developing crop basically early NS grow quite quickly um when I say quickly I mean like 3 months um so we got some early NS to go in and then I also brought some peas um petite provent provinal can you read that or is that going to be backwards that'll probably be backwards to you won't it or anyway whatever it says it's peas basically normally what I do is sew my peas in advance and then put them out but I do have some guttering maybe I'll just whack them in the guttering and see how it goes yeah we'll sew some peas and some guttering and try and protect it from mousy mousy right let's get going with some some jobs then let's just get stuck in I think that's what we need to do morning Einstein looking a bit ominous up there looking a bit ominous in the tree coming it's still [Music] coming there he is there's my oh look there's the other one two of you anyway yeah I found this Tik Tok account at this guy who feeds robins and his whole Tik Tok is just feeding Robins if I can find it I'll link it below but it just tends to come up on my feed cuz I watch a lot of Bird videos and stuff on Tik Tok that's all I do really it's watch Birds watch Birds in real life watch Birds on Tik Tok watch Birds on TV just Birds everywhere in my life yeah he feeds them like live worms like little Wiggly ones they're still alive and he gets them out with sardine tin I just think oh no I love you Einstein but I just I just couldn't do that imagine carrying them in your pocket oh no no no no right I know you'd love it but I just can't do it Einstein sorry mate this is where we planted the garlic um and so this is where the onions are going to go as well actually I didn't realize that you have to cover garlic and onion because there's some kind of bug that comes and eats it I mean it's a bug for everything there always a bug for everything but it's quite good that I've got these hoops up so what I'll do is I will I actually oh I left the I brought some more fleece stuff to go over and I left it at home so what I'll do is I'll plant them today next time I come down I'll cover it cover it with like a fleece or like a netting or something um just to stop the onion and garlic bug whatever bug that is it's some kind of bug so we're going to whack in the red onion [Music] here L of that tree above seems to fall in here but I think it's I think it's all right weeds are growing so I'm sure onions can grow weeds can grow right okay let's do this I think it's easier to make a row onions I shouldn't do it that way actually I change my mind immediately change my mind that's okay no damage done we'll do the lines this way that way the thing I do know about onions and garlic is that they don't like to sit in moisture they don't like to sit in boggy conditions and this has got like freshh layer of compost over it so I think it should be happy here and if it's not I can just write it a questionnaire and ask it to fill it out and let me know what I can do different cuz these plants right they've got to start helping me out a little bit you know I can't keep guessing what they need they've got to help me out wow it's a lot of onions to kill 50 one two three four five yeah five per [Music] row so there are my onion sets all in their neat little rows and just poking out of the soil I'm just going to cover it just a little bit do it like that and have the top just sticking out a bit just like [Music] that right I think I've SE 35 I think there's 35 there that seems like quite a lot of onions doesn't it I feel like nobody needs 35 onions in their life do you know what I mean if they all grew I think that' be a lot but then you have to do the gardening Mass you know the gardener Mass which is 10na die 10 to get pulled up and eaten by something or other 10 will probably get some kind of fungal infection two your accidentally forgets there and step on it two will get you know destroyed by a storm and then that's one onion so out of 35 we've grown one onion hopefully fingers crossed and that's if you're lucky so you've always got to do The Gardener's maths you know 35 equals about [Music] one [Music] right so that's the red onions in um with lots over for when we destroy it I want to put in the carrots now but I just want to double check on this bed here cuz this is where we planted the parsnips and all the the other malake the spinach and the beach rat and I want to see if anything's coming up um which is very very early it would be insane if it was but I also want to make sure that it's not been dug out or anything the CL has stayed on we had some really really windy weather the other day but luckily the CL has stayed on which is excellent news um we do need this on just to stop things digging in and also to stop the frost we've had some Frosty nights as well so let's have a look I highly doubt we've got anything at all germinating yet no no no I don't think so but I do think nothing's dug in here and everything looks pretty good to be honest everything's looking good terrible awful ridiculous doesn't work at all you go I have to admit I was also having a sneaky look to see if I could put a row of carrots in there but I don't think I can I don't think I can so what I'm going to do is I think I'm going to put the carrots here potatoes have been here and what potatoes do is they kind of help with the structure of the soil they like break it up a little bit and stuff and put goodness in into the soil some people disagree with that whenever I say that there are people who come on and say oh no that's not true but I've had potatoes here a few times and if that is true then this will be a very good bed for carrots because it would would have really broken up the structure of the soil it's also been topped up recently as well with some fresh [Music] compost what we'll do is we'll succession sew them so we'll do two rows now and in about 3 weeks time we'll do another two rows behind it providing that Row's not been eaten so we're we're we're planting the early NS early NS [Music] [Music] too [Music] so that's two rows of carrots in there at the front and then what we'll do is we'll succession sew them so I've left some room at the back in 3 weeks time hopefully fingers crossed when these start to come up our succession so two more rows there and we'll have continuous carrots but I think I do need some slug protection down always good to get the protection in early I've ordered some stro stro I live by stro I absolutely love stuff so I've ordered some it's coming Thursday and I'll be able to put it all down right [Music] peace right so just to explain just in case you're sitting here watching going what an earth is she doing putting soil into guttering the idea is that you sew peas into guttering like this like a long piece of guttering I actually sew the seeds into here and so the roots develop in here and then when we come to plant them out it's basically a continuous row that we just sort of like shift into the soil apparently it's really really effective the only reason I'm doing it is cuz I think I'll be able to protect it from mice which like to dig up my pea seeds um so I'm going to sew them in here and try and protect them and then transfer them into the garden wherever they're going to go maybe over the archway or something I haven't decided yet but we're going to whack our pea seeds into this I'll let you know if it works or not so not going to lie this feels a little bit strange but I've always wanted to do this properly and I think this is the year so we just put some little holes in isn't it strange that to get peas you actually put peas into the ground isn't that weird I say that every year isn't it [Music] weird I have plenty more seeds if these don't work so it's all good don't worry guys if you don't grow Don't Panic you w't let me down you've let yourself down but you haven't let me down anyway that's worse isn't it right just close them all up what's he up to it's far too big for my plot no no no mate this is a little plot this is Robin's yeah look Einstein's look he's looking he's like what are you doing here this is my space god he's massive isn't he is he going to cause me a problem I think that walk says it all yes he is look at him swaggering around like he owns the place right the only thing I can think to protect these from um the mousy mousy is to use some netting I still think it might get in but I think it's better to put it on than to not put anything on at all do you know what I mean so yeah we'll just put some netting over it wrap it around bit like a duvet cover you [Music] knowne right so we've wrapped The netting right around it I'm hoping that that would keep the mous mouses out mice out um because I know they can get through really small things they might still be able to get in there but hopefully it will just deter H them a little bit maybe they'll get one or two and hopefully just sort give up and think nah there's better things to eat but anyway it's all in the in the uh guttering now and we'll see how these peas play out I'll let you know I'm just going to fleece the carrots this is as good good of fleece as I've got it's all broken and torn and stuff it's all I've got but I need to put sunning over it cuz I think we are going to get some Frosty nights so you do need to keep fleecing everything if you can let's whack this over the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] top I think it's just one of those things that it doesn't look great but at least it will keep the frost off I'll get a new one um and then I can replace it and make it look better but at least it won't get Frosty and they they won't just all die best to keep them alive if I can I think that's sort of the attitude I'm going to go into this year that it's better better to keep it alive and for it not to look perfect than to try and make it look good but everything dies you know always probably should have been my motto from the start to be honest when was that not my motto [Music] well I hope you enjoyed this little spring edition of my alotment gardening Journey we planted lots and lots out now I think direct planting is the way I'm going to go this year as much as I can is going to go directly into my plot just because I don't have the room at home and also it's just I don't know I just feel like planting into stuff this year it's just how I feel um the wildlife area I will continue with next time I hope you've enjoyed the Vlog today if you have subscribed to my channel and I will see you again next week have a lovely gardening weekend see you next week guys bye