PUMPKIN DRAMA!! / ALLOTMENT GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS

[Music] hey guys welcome back to my lopment channel so this is the first time that I'm walking to my lopment plot since planting out all of my pumpkins and squashes oh look at that spiderweb what do I do what do I do why did they do that right in my path they know I'm coming here they just know this is the first time I'm walking here since planting the out I'm absolutely terrified that I'm going to find nothing here oh gosh please be some pumpkins left please please I think I can see some plants think I can see some plants okay so the fact that these ones are alive and they're not really that protected is a good sign these ones seem to be alive as well but they are kind of hidden within a load of weeds that was a secret plan secret plan to hide them all within some weeds so that the Slugs and snails got confused I don't know if you can confuse them fly on me animals are just attracted to me I don't know why I really don't know why um right we're going to go over and see if they're alive I film it through my eyes here I am except that you you're probably seeing is clearer cuz I haven't got my glasses on so I have to get quite close to see oh yes yes it looks like they're alive they're all alive oh my goodness they're all alive not just alive I mean thriving look at that he is happy happy happy yeah all of them still alive it's only been 2 days but I'm happy is it me or is he looking a little bit yellowy I think he's looking a bit yellowy I know his new leaves are quite green I might feed them then I might give them a good old feed I think I'll give them their first feed today cuz they have been cooped up in those little pots for a very long time are the sunflowers still alive I can't believe it they're still alive alive and thriving I want to say look how big they are fantastic and then this one is also still alive what is happening what is going on there has been a little bit of slug damage has been a little bit but not enough I think that the entire plant is dead yet I mean to be honest I did sort of think a couple might die um I think they're still okay I am shocked I'm in a State of Shock right now I the amount of slugs that we've had this year in snails and everybody in the plot just moaning about them and not moaning but you know being upset about them as I am as well um I really just thought they'd all be dead but lo and behold they're all alive so I did bring some more plants with me today because I was feeling a little bit confident after last time I came here um I've got some beans and I got some more sunflowers it's all alive I mean the reason why how how you doing by the way Hello nice to see you again I just sort of got straight into it today cuz I was just feeling so stressed and anxious when I got here I really wanted to just go straight to the pumpkins and but now that I know they're okay how are you all hope you're having a lovely gardening week hope you have some nice plans for the weekend um the weather is sort of holding up a little bit it's not bright Sunshine but um the temperature hasn't really dropped so we're sort of in the 192° kind of level which is really nice actually and also no rain over the last few days which might have something to do with why the pumpkins have survived anyway the allotment is looking really good today I think I've got a few jobs so I've got some things to plant out um I want to check on a few things do a little bit weeding and then obviously first job is to feed the pumpkins so let's do that first [Music] right so I'm going to use a liquid tomato feed I think liquid seaweed is probably my favorite thing to put onto pumpkins but I don't have any so I'm going to have to get some going to give a little Swig in there I think this will do the job just as well to be honest until I get some more seaweed oh God [Music] right what have I what goodies have I brought with me today in an M&S bag I always bring like the most craziest like carrier bag and nobody ever comments on it but I wonder if that's because everybody brings their plants in just whatever sort of paper bag you can find at home right so I've got sunflowers in here and these all been sewn from seed a little while ago been sitting in my little mini Botanical compact Greenhouse thing at home and um these are like a um a smaller variety so like a a miniature variety I want to say I actually can't remember what they are cuz didn't label them but I did that on purpose I actually did that on purpose this time it was a conscious decision not to label them because um I know that these are the dwarf ones and they're all different varieties so you can see this has got darker leaves in the middle that's like lighter so they are different but it's like pick AIX sunflowers pick AIX sunflowers that's my idea the thing is I just want sunflowers I know they're all a smaller variety so I was just going to sort of dot them all together have like a little yeah just a surprise basically I also have got I planted these beans these are the same beans that I planted up this Archway they are the purple french beans the climbing French beans the purple ones but I've sewn them at home in modules they were so heavy in in like the whole the whole thing was too heavy so what I've done is I've just I've just sort of pulled them out the module and brought them like that they're so big they're so long so these need to go out straight away also really annoyingly they were doing so well they were doing literally so well and they've got their first bit of slug damage from last night which is so annoying and it was I thought it was like a sign to get them out today um because it's the first time they've been attacked by anything by anything so let's get them uh in the ground they're going to go on this Arch Ray which is supposed to be my bean Arch Ray this year but has sort of turned into an accidental overspill of the squash and pumpkin Archway unless I planted cett there in which case it' be a cette Archway which I don't think work but hey ho right so you might think there's quite a lot going up this Archway but um I am s taking advice from that Amy on Instagram who grows a lot up her archways like so much and it doesn't seem to be a problem so I'm just going to keep whacking as much stuff on as I can really look how tall that one is already look I just like brought a makeshift Archway it's amazing you probably won't be able to see what I'm doing here but I'm just sort of trying to push things out the way just get another Bean in let's get another one in the thing is is Amy on her Instagram she has quite a small garden so she sort of has to pack it all in but her archways are incredible every year and the plants they just kind of cope I don't know if maybe the plants just kind of enjoy the competition that they find themselves in maybe it just gives them a bit of excitement in their slightly dull lives you know I don't I don't really know but whatever the reason they do do quite well definitely snap that one that's really annoying cuz he's really tall [Music] so as I've been busy at this Archway planting those in I have noticed there's quite a bit of borage coming up now um borage is a lovely flour you can buy the seeds for it once you buy one pack of seeds you'll never need to Reed it again in your life because it self seeds itself all around the garden um and you're essentially what what I'm going to do is dig the small plants up and redistribute them where I want them to grow cuz they are a bit weedy they do kind of come up wherever they want um and they do grow very very quickly when they get going so that's that's why I sort of see them as a little bit weedy but fabulous plants pollinators love borage um and you can eat it as well you can actually eat the flowers for instance this borage here right in the middle isn't really going to do much good there's another one there it's going to get big they're big plants so I need to sort of move them about I've got another one here actually that one can stay you can stay um got one over there I think that one can stay right so that's borage just there what we going to do dig him up coming with me mate it's a bit there too this is too close to the archway so that's going to have to come up yeah right so I just got to think about where I'm going to put these sunflowers and I think the borage should be nice around them as well so should they go on the new alotment feel like somewhere on my old one would be better what have I got growing over here charred but it's flowering so this won't last forever if this is flowering then so maybe it should go in this bed my Chard is flowering I think a lot of people's Chard is flowering this year because I think it was just the temperatures and stuff it's just not worked for chard um very very beautiful crop and I really like it but I reckon some sunflowers along [Music] here this feels like a little bit of a risk than going here I don't know why I think maybe because of all the Slugs and snails but then at the same time I think the Hedgehog is eating them cuz they all seem to be empty shells you know what we'll find out [Music] right let's stick the borage on my new alotment plot because I don't think I have any coming up naturally yet so if I plant a little bit I reckon it'll just come up every year I'm going to put it in my little Wildlife Area over here Wildlife like wild planted area um with the tree stump and the apple tree just in here I think so this is the apple tree is there and then we got this awkward sort of tree tree stump and then I've got Salvia and the two um lavenders growing there and lots of spring bulbs are already under the ground in there and I'm just going to start like trying to plant things that look pretty so that it doesn't just get covered in Weeds [Music] [Applause] [Music] right well it doesn't look very much like right now maybe it won't become very much ever but the point is it's in there the Salvia is doing absolutely beautifully it's just loving life in here and I'm loving the colors as well so I think I'm going to I'm going to go for more perennial sort of um what's it habous perennial flowers and then the lavender is doing really well it's loving life in here the other lavender I moved and that's doing really well now as well um but yeah I'm going to build up lots of lovely flowers here it's very much looking like it's going to rain they did not say it would rain today but it's it looks like it's going to rain and that stresses me out because rain equals slugs that's all equals in my head now I would rather I would rather have it really hot and scorching sun and have to water twice a day every day than to have rain right now um when I've just planted out all this new stuff so anyway there's one more thing that I want to plant out before I go spring onions I don't feel like I've had much luck with them uh this year and usually they're very easy to grow um this is the red toga ones I'm going to plant in between my onion sets obviously the cauliflower I planted in between here was all eaten it was a bit of an experiment because somebody said that slugs don't like um onions and so planting things in between onions disguises a smell blah blah blah unfortunately they've eaten all the onions as well so that's just really not worked [Music] yeah it feels nice to keep getting stuff in the ground and utilizing as much space as I can before I go I just want to say something to you so we're halfway through the year now it's June can't believe it myself I know insane but I know that a lot of us have had so much trouble this year with slugs and snails and the terrible spring that we had in the wet weather and the cold and I just want to say hang in there if you can um it might be that your allotment is not going to thrive the way that you thought it would in your head this year you might not get half the amount of crops that you thought you were going to that you hoped you would and you know what sometimes that is just the way it is in my 5 years of having an allotment plot this has been the worst year um in terms of the weather in terms of slugs and snails so I feel your pain it's not great year if it's your first year you must be thinking oh my gosh this is so hard like it's not normally this hard and like just try not to give up on it like if you've had entire beds that have been destroyed by slugs and snails and the whole crop's gone try whacking in some main crop potatoes you know they don't tend to go to th go for those really um try some rhubarb put some um fruit bushes in instead you know just sort of change your plans be flexible with it you can't control the weather you can't control the Slugs and snails you can't control if your crops are going to live or die when you're not here um and I hope that kind of helps because I've had to change a lot of my plans throughout the years to be more flexible when when crops have just been destroyed you know and that's the only way I can get through it really but I hope that's some advice that you can take away from that just know that you're not alone I think it's just the main bullet point of this uh this little chat you're not alone we're all suffering this year we're all suffering together [Music] I hope you've enjoyed my Vlogs this week if you have do subscribe to my YouTube channel I will be back again next week on Monday so for me and the allotment plot have a lovely gardening weekend bye