THE WORST WEED EVER! / ALLOTMENT GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS

morning guys welcome back to my lot Diaries my name's Emma these are my lot Diaries I'm just walking to my lot plot and now that all the flowers are out and everything's sort of become green again got the cow parsley the blue bells I can't believe that this is in South London and like I'm not in the middle of a Countryside it's actually insane The View on my way in I mean you can probably hear the building work that's probably the only giveaway that we're in London still see amount of building work but this you and this is like my walk up to the allotment plot and it just feels like I'm in a different world like you just leave London and all of a sudden I'm here it's just magical [Music] [Music] and then just like magic we emerge into the allotment plots it's like a little secret slice of paradise hidden behind these B Gates and it's just amazing remember the first time I came here and I was just like amazed when I walked through the gates and saw all the space all this stuff growing it's like you just you'd never know it was here unless you knew it was here do you know what I mean cuz it's just so concealed and so hidden but here it is and it's just magical it's just as magical now as when I first got my [Music] plot well anyway I was just feeling super grateful this morning when I was walking through because it is temperature has dropped it is quite cold um we've had a lot of rain and it does just feel significantly colder in the UK at the moments I'm just trying to be really grateful for everything and that Walkin at this time of year is just something to be grateful for so um we do have a little bit of sun today you see the sun is out a little bit so we're going to enjoy every second of it cuz I don't think we'll do much of it I hope you had a lovely weekend I feel really tired today I feel really run down exhausted um a little bit anxious all the above basically so I thought coming down here this morning and just doing a little bit of a look around doing a little a few little bitty jobs might sort perk me up a little bit plot is looking stunning but there's two things we need to check on isn't there two things we need to check on so number one we need to check on our new brassas so let's go see if they're still alive right so at the moment I'm going to say alive they're all looking pretty much as I left them um which doesn't say much because it takes a few days for the Slugs and snails to get their hands on them but but we're going to hope we're going to live in hope that these are just going to live right let's go check on the other [Music] things he not going to scare anyone away if he's looking all weird or is he maybe that's better I don't know so the gladioli that I planted in here are all coming up so beautifully all exactly where I planted them as well just quite unusual for them they tend to pop up anywhere whenever I plant them um but yeah they're doing fantastic and we do have some growth on our daers as well so that is really really good news excellent news yes definitely there is growth on the daer the broad beans are green and they are looking alive so I'm going to take that as a win and I'm just going to sort of let them do their thing I might buy a few plug plants in a shop and just fill in the gaps where the slugs have got to them but on the whole they're okay [Music] so this bed here is going to have sweet corn in it and I have sewn my sweet corn at home I've actually sewn two or three different varieties um and I've succession sewn them so we should have quite a bit of sweet corn going on in here and the whole bed I want to be just sweet corn next to that we've got the um Sweet Pea te pee and I I don't it's not doing as well as I wanted it to do I mean I have SE them out very very early they are flip-flopping all over the place some of them have snapped some have been eaten but they are still alive there is a lot of green here and I do think if we just get some warmer weather they will just sort of get going and be okay this is my apple tree that I found on the plot and it's alive it's still alive so I chopped off that massive branch which I'm actually really aggressive now cuz somebody said why didn't you just put an archery over here and train it over the archery how beautiful would that been but I didn't think of that I just chopped him off but he is still alive he's coming [Music] back lovely so this is my flower bed I put corn flowers in it absolutely ages ago and it all got eaten so I resoed all the corn flowers again and I'm really happy to say they are all coming up somebody said how do I know these are the corn flowers I just know I just I can't I think I've seen them before but I just know that these are corn flowers this is some kind of Rogue grass which I need to get rid of and these are corn flowers and that's just what I know that's just what I know but yeah they're all coming up fantastic I just know that these are corn flowers I think this might be Cosmos that looks like a cosmos seed Ling coming up that's what they look like at home and here too these little grassy ones they look like Cosmos so I think this bed's doing quite well I think the slug list has really helped I'm not sure if you guys have helped but you look quite pretty so then we come down here a bit to the peas now I was absolutely determined to get peas this year so I did put down pellet slugas um bulbed wire I mean whatever I put down it's like it's half worked there are a couple of peas that have disappeared as you can see just been completely eaten but there are quite a few peas that are doing significantly well so I think what I need to do today is tighten up the the structure on this and make sure that they have something significant to climb up but they seem to be doing okay I really hope these ones survive I just really hope they do because I've never managed to grow peeves before successfully I think I grew like three Peeves in my first year and I never managed to do it again so hopefully we'll um we'll have some peas oh this bed here last time I was here I quickly whacked in some lettuce it doesn't look very healthy I don't think I've done a very good job at it um but it is like red lettuce basically it's like a red variety of lettuce I I don't know I think I might have killed quite a few of them when I just pulled them out pulled them apart we have got the old what's it called the parsnips coming up nicely there there is some beach roots coming up in this row here then we got some more lettuce and then this is the spinach coming up it it does all seem to be growing it's taking its sweet time this bed but there's definitely some life in it this bed is alive I have total faith in that bed total Faith um the rocket seeds are doing well they're all coming up here we have rocket we have rocket we have rocket over there these are dying these chips now these are finished um but yeah the rocket is doing fantastic um no sign of run of beans yet but I'm sure they'll come up soon and then just finally over here all of my early potatoes are just doing absolutely fantastically um and we're still waiting for the main crop to rear its head come on main crop you can do it that's just my little overview of the plots I hope you enjoyed that I haven't sort of gone around and shown you what's actually growing everywhere for a while um but yeah hope hope you liked that let's get on with some jobs so the job I'm going to do today is actually get on with some weeding uh I can see some weed starting to pop up but in particular Weirs that I haven't sort of pulled out when I did the plots up I sort of left to see what they would do and come back to another time well now they're becoming a problem so for example I never dug these giant brambl out these Blackberry canes out and they are going to cause a problem cuz they are just going to absolutely overtake this likewise there seems to be quite a few brambles here and also some bind weed as well which I do want to get rid of because that's just going to swarm this area and it's going to turn into an absolute weedy mess at the the moment we can get away with it being quite I don't know Whimsical and pretty but it's going to get out of hand over here too is going to get quite out of hand so we're just going to tackle as much of that as we can so let's get going [Music] [Music] oh my God it's Absolut in [Music] there I can't even begin to move it look my god oh my god that's literally ridiculous [Music] that's the only way I can get rid of that fixing it [Music] [Music] bind weed is this this is bindweed um this is what it does you see this here this is a sort of finished dead tulip can you see how the bindweed is wrapped itself around the Tulip that's what bindweed does that's why we call it bindweed cuz it binds itself to other plants it wraps itself around to try and get higher and higher and higher to get up to the sunlight and by doing that it starves the plant of sunlight um resources it strangles it and it's just evil it's just absolutely evil um it is so hard to rid your plot completely of bind weed so I inherited a plot so my last plot was absolutely full of bind weed this plot is also full of bind weed and all inhaled my hair all I've done to keep it under control is to keep doing no digs so keep layering up your beds with more more organic material and don't dig it so it doesn't disturb the roots um but also just keep pulling it out just keep pulling it out every time you see it don't let it get really big eventually it will start to die it can't survive forever guys so just keep attacking it keep pulling it up keep smothering it keep doing whatever you're doing and um if eventually eventually you'll get on top of it but it does take time don't get frustrated it's an absolute Survivor it's an absolute surviv [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] right okay what's going on under here what's going on under here guys not much do we have any carrot we have like two carrots and a potato don't want a potato there and we got potatoes there which is so Random okay this is where I sewed two rows of carrots very early in the year you can see I've got 1 two three there four five six seven is not even in a row I feel like it was probably far too early for carrots when I sewed them out I was being very optimistic so I'm going to sew in a couple of new rows of carrot cover them over again and see how they do we can only just keep whacking stuff in but let's do it just exactly the same Rose I think we just re REO them really so scoot around you scoot around you stick them in there mooth Str the thing with carrot seeds is they're so small they dry out so quickly and if they dry out they die they're just dead seeds in the ground basically so you really got to make sure they do not dry out and the way to do that the way that I do that is to cover them cover them with cl or something or fleece just literally killed the only carrots I've actually got growing but it's okay it's not enough it's just not enough stro it all right let's get some water I'm covering them because obviously of the cold but mainly just to keep them like moist stop them from drying out I don't really want them to dry out that down right let's have a little look at this PE structure then cuz it's a little bit too flimsy for peas to to grow up I think so what we're going to do first of all I need to attach this and I thought I'd use some cable tires cuz this keeps blowing around in the Wind the wrong way it's okay I will learn one day what the right way is no that was the right way oh my goodness it's that way okay it doesn't tighten there we are right now these are a bit flimsy so what we're going to do well I don't know what are we going to do well I think we should add some horizontal some horizontal structure to it let's do that should I go in and out no it's not necessary it's not necessary through this way sorry sorry sorry PE sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry yeah I think that's going to to work I think that's what it needed I think it needs the horizontal structure I don't think the vertical ones are working very well so I'm going to just make my way up [Music] really just think it so complicated don't [Music] I just by adding that bit of horizontal structure the P's are so much more supported I actually think the crisscross is so much better I just wish I hadn't used this twine cuz it is so flimsy and it just unravels whereas this one's got a bit more of a plasticky plasticky kind of material and it's just so much better it's so much tighter um yeah oh the peas are alive that is excellent maybe I will actually get peas this year that would be incredible also if they do work I'm going to plant some snap peas in there as well and try those up the same up same structure this is my um Perpetual spinach and it's actually flowering and I am so excited to see what the flowers look like I'm just going to leave them to do their thing but they just look stunning absolutely stunning this is going to be flowers at the top but yeah look how tall it gets as well it's just crazy I absolutely love allowing crops to flower um at home I've got my parsnips that I didn't pick last year and they are about to flower as well and I can't wait to see parip flowers so beautiful when we arrived the weather oh my gosh the weather was so sunny and now it's just like becoming cloudy windy rainy cold welcome to Spring in Britain you never know what the weather's going to do from moment to moment you have to wear a t-shirt a bikini um three layers of jumpers a coat a rain hat and and take Sun cream as well just in case that's what you have to do in Britain at the moment right one last job before I go is I'm just going to gosh I don't get trapped in my shed I'm just going to use some more little pellets around where I can see they sort disappeared um just to keep on top of it really I don't love doing this guys it's not something I want to be doing but somebody just send me a message and said the slugs are in full force this year cuz of the weather that we've had like all the the wet weather um so it's just brought them all out so there's nothing I can do I've just got to battle them [Music] like I said not my favorite job Einstein's having to go at me I know I don't want to do at Einstein but I've got to cuz you don't eat them all that's why cuz you don't eat them all help me out a bit anyway I hope you've enjoyed my Vlog today I don't know if I've got quite a full one here but um just fancy popping down doing a few little odd jobs if you are enjoying my videos I'd love for you to subscribe to my channel and I will see you again with Einstein hopefully on Wednesday day have a lovely gardening week see you Wednesday guys thanks for watching bye