IT'S LIKE HAVING A NEW ALLOTMENT PLOT! / ALLOTMENT GARDENING UK

[Music] no morning guys welcome back to my allotment Diaries my name's Emma these are the allotment Diaries going to be doing lots of a loty things today but I thought I'd just update you quickly on the tap situation it is still broken so I don't really know what else to say about this bleeding tap put that on no it's not going to work it's still broken I've contacted about four different people I've tried phoning I've left an answer phone message um it doesn't seem like the allotment is working in January like no one seems to be here it is quite frustrating so I have done a little bit of a quick fix on it the other day it does seem stemmed the flow of water a little bit I would urge all plumbers out there to look away now um but this is just some like plumbers tape and then that blue thing that blue water pipe I cut off as you can see is still leaking quite significantly wasting a lot of water so that's a little bit annoying I'm wondering now if maybe I should just order a new tap and just try and replace the tap myself because it is a bit ridiculous somebody said to look for the Stop tap like the stop valve to turn all the water turn the site off normally the water in the allotment site is turned off over winter to stop um Taps from freezing and splitting and for this for this very reason but for some reason it's not been turned off uh yeah so I would just have to keep you updated on um on the tap situation what's going on really but what can I do I might have to just order a new tap myself we'll see morning einin hello I can't work out if this is a fox or a cat I think it's a cat I've never seen this cat before I've never seen this cat before oh wow you're very beautiful cat you coming no that's okay sort of wants to uh come closer but he's a bit scared keeps sort stopping and sitting and sort staring at me I think he's just getting used to me how funny is that it's like it's a new year new allotment Diaries and I'm adding new characters to the to the Vlogs without even meaning to it's like these are all paid actors just turning up so weird what you think of that Einstein Einstein's been sitting up in the tree while he's been around though we don't know this new cat we don't trust it do we do you want some food let's feed Einstein I just touch that poo oh Einstein I just touched poo for you hope you appreciate these M worms now even more yeah just touched the mo for [Music] you I've actually signed up for the RSP EBS the Royal Society prevention Birds preventing Birds the Royal Society preventing birds that doesn't sound right the Royal Society protecting Birds something like that the rspb's and bird watch which is coming up next week and you're um I don't know if you're too late now actually let me check the date when this is going up no you're not too late to sign up so it's um if you sign up now online it's completely free just go to the rspb's website it's the um the bird watch that they do between the 24th and the 2 7th I think and you get a pack with all the different birds in it and stuff and you have to put your address in and then you mark down how many birds you see over the weekend and um it just goes into a big data thing of just seeing where the birds are what birds are around and stuff but I thought it sounded really fun I am a little bit worried that all I'm going to see are Robbins and parakeets but I'm going to do my best to see as many birds as I can and to document them all down which is very very exciting so if you like birds if you like if you hate birds that's very unexciting you know in every way possible um but if you do like birds that might be quite fun so today before I get on with um some actual allotment work um I just wanted to say I um told you a few Vlogs ago I think three Vlogs ago last week that I am releasing an allotment handbook on Amazon um this is what the cover is going to look like Emma's allotment handbook there we go um now got snazzy thing on the back you won't have this strip across cuz it's for resale I've gone through the book I've double checked everything I can I can't promise there won't be one or two spelling mistakes in there um all the images in here are handdrawn by me so there's basically no copyright in here that's what I was worried about getting sued or something but yeah they're all by me all the drawings by me in here this will be up on the 20th of January the 20th of January when the hell is the 20th of January oh my gosh it's today is that today it's up today it's up today it's up you can go and buy it now it's up now on Amazon to purchase uh so you can go and buy my lot handbook now and what's really exciting is after my last video somebody actually left me a little review about my book before they'd even seen it or anything and I will read it out to you now I've no doubt your book will flop the market is a wash with gardening books and you should have accepted professional advice before proceeding with your self-indulgent Escapade happy gardening so thank you so much Trevor I think it was for your Charming review I think I'm going to use it actually to uh to market the book it's going to be called my self-indulgent Escapade a self-indulgent Escapade by wannabe a lotman writer um it is an absolute guarantee flop the uh the market is a wash with gardening books but if you fancy one more and you think oh I quite like the sport this channel I've been making videos for 5 years um I've got all my knowledge in here it's quite a beautiful book no lisher would publish it if you think you know what stuff you Trevor stuff you Trevor um and you just want to stick it to him and say you know what I'm going to prove you wrong go and buy my book that's a good reason to buy it isn't it so thank you Trevor thank you Trevor you're wonderful free marketing advice okay I don't know what to say anymore these days the comments are mental right now in the last video I was talking about getting overwhelmed with um certain areas of the plot So today we're going to work on the back of the plot and I'm going to clear it and that's what we're going to get on with now let's do [Music] it a signicant just where it was meting yeah cling night CL just in the nobody is losing faces Merchant change but your face remain the same shs will be here by D when we're finally sober they'll be [Music] gone the trees will Bloom the night will melt always right guys spin oh my gosh where did he come from I if you saw that Crow then he's absolutely massive oh I'll be a to add him to my little bird watching thing oh it's so muddy today but it's definitely not that cold which is making this a little bit easier marginally easier for me um I am half an hour in we're clearing it I think what I'm going to do is do this properly dig it out and put a fence up as a proper barrier I'm not sure what kind of fence I actually think maybe a normal fence maybe I should buy a normal fence and I don't know how to put fence up so maybe I'll just use palettes I have a thing think about it really but I think what I need to do is dig it all out properly put border up proper border here yeah I think that'd be a good idea so we are getting through it I'm feeling better I'm feeling better doing this I think sometimes when you're worried about something taking action and doing something even if it's just a small thing towards solving it actually makes you feel times better and that's just what's happening to me right now so I'm getting through it I'm going to do a little bit more work I think and then I'm going to do something else [Music] just checking on the onions I planted these just before Christmas I think maybe it was November they went in the ground the onion sets um of them have moved as well like this one have moved he looks like he's rotting a little bit he is rotting he might come back though we never know a lot of them are doing quite well they've all germinated now they've all got green no I'm lying you haven't what's wrong with you then you just haven't grown yeah he's not grown at all he might have rotted he feels like he's rooted he's not sprouted anything at all oh gosh hang on a second he sprouted some Roots but he's got a lot of white he's got a lot of white stuff in the uh in the soil around him I'm really wondering if that's white rot in fact I'm not even going to take the chance you're gone see you I'm not having that yeah look look at the soil here look how white it is in the soil that doesn't look right to me yeah I've just done a quick Google on that white stuff around the soil around your onions it says white stuff in the soil around onions could be a sign of onion white rot a fungal disease that causes a white fluffy growth on the base of the bulb um causes the soil born fungus stor matina sepor cool wet Summers or warm warm soil temperatures above 10° I think what it is is that this soil has been too warm and it's caused white rot which is so annoying um I think that's definitely what it is so that is what that is then that is white rot that is 100% because look in the soil I dig around the soil look look at all the white stuff look at that all the white stuff in the soil that's white rot oh gosh it's everywhere here no it's not actually it's only around this one can I just dig it all out oh it goes really deep can you see it all these white this white stuff in the soil see all the white not the binder ignore that but as I'm digging it's like white po in the soil that's what it is I dig around him have you got it yeah look oh that is such a shame yeah look white white rck that is white rot oh I can't believe that that is so annoying that is so annoying that is actually so annoying um I will just leave the onions in there because you never know they might come back maybe it' be cold enough to kill the fungus I don't know I've got more onions on my other plot I'm going to go check them you can come with me too right this is my other row of onions that I planted in here cuz I had some left over I'm using my other glove so this glove has not touched that soil um so that I don't spread the infection if it isn't here I have a feeling it's going to be here though should I show dig so you can see here oh no I don't see any I don't see any there I don't see any there I can't see any white rot all fantastic thank God I used the other glove otherwise they'd have it now yeah no there's none there's none at all right good okay so these ones are safe so I can't use that glove on these ones anymore because otherwise you might spread the infection it can also also spread I think to garlic so I'm just going to have a dig around the garlic and have a look how that's doing please garlic please right this garlic looks pretty happy but are you oh no oh no I see a little bit of it there oh I see it I see it straight away I can see exactly what I'm looking for now I mean in the plus side that's a good thing that I know what I'm looking for yeah these have all got it and the leaves are already starting to go yellow which is another sure sign that they've got white rot yeah they've got it yeah it's in the soil you'll really see it around this one here as I'm digging can you see the white the white coming up it's just Flex of I don't know if you can see it actually it's Flex of white in the soil like I said it looks like a bird's pooed here I think that's probably what I used to think I can just see it I can just see it right let's check the other ones I expect these have got it too in fact I can already see it on the surface which is not a good sign no he's all right he's all right yeah it's here it's here I can see it little white specks all around them yeah so gosh that is so annoying some of them might survive it I have to wait and see I think that is so annoying cuz I was literally about about to say oh I think onions and garlics do really well on my plots um the Slugs don't get them the birds don't get them they're just growing really well I think I'll just grow that obviously not obviously not Mother Nature had other ideas for me this year so it looks like they've all got white rot we don't know we don't know how many might get out of them it's worth keeping them in for now because nothing else is growing there but if they do will come out with proper white rot and they die I Won't Grow any aliums in either plot again there'll be no point I'll just grow them in pots at home I think it'd be so much easier I've got so much space now at the back of my new allotment plot I don't quite know what to do with it I think I'm going to have to redesign the entire space which is very exciting I think I remember last year I got a bit overwhelmed with the back cuz I had all this new space this year I feel a little bit more together so I'm going to design it properly and uh sort that out which is exciting stuff anyway don't forget to pick up my uh self-indulgent Escapade on Amazon now you can go and pick this up absolutely no professional advice and um an absolute flop of a book so enjoy that um and thank you so much for watching I will be back again on Wednesday so I will see you then guys happy gardening till then see you then bye