THIS WENT SO WRONG!! / ALLOTMENT GARDENING UK

I've siliconed myself you know like in school when you got to sit with your friends and it was just such a better lesson because you got to sit next to your friends that's what it's like with plants I think I'd imagine I don't [Music] know I'm not going to lie guys I didn't think i' mut that up as much as I mucked it up [Music] [Music] morning everyone welcome back to my alotment Diaries my name is Emma these are the allotment Diaries and I'm so happy to say it's literally a day later than the last Vlog I filmed and the weather is totally different we've got blue sky we've got sun coming out there's no wind and actually it feels okay today it doesn't feel as warm as it has been but it does definitely feel better so I'm very excited about that um I wasn't expecting it to feel this nice and this warm today so it's it's quite nice it's a nice happy surprise so Einstein is sitting there waiting for me he puts me off so much now cuz he hears my voice and he comes straight down yeah I hear you I hear you I will I will I will come and feed you so like I've said this week is all about doing two or three set jobs a day and trying to sort of keep on top of things and actually it's working really well cuz my anxiety level for the allotment plot has definitely dropped and I do feel like I'm more in control and things are getting done and the jobs I'm working through the jobs nice and calmly um knowing that if I've missed a job it's in it's it's imminent I'm going to do it another day so it's working really well basically so today I have three jobs that I've set myself number one have another look at the compost um somebody did mention in my last compost Vlog that it's looking a bit heavy and stodgy and there's too much sort of weight on the top so I'm going to try and break it up turn it a little bit mix it together um a lot of you don't like me doing that but I'm going to do it anyway I'm just trying to figure out how to make compost guys and this is the only way I know how to do it so we will figure it out together um second job is to tie in my sweet peas that I sewed yesterday or I planted out yesterday cuz they are flip-flopping all over the place they need some more support that's fine and a third job is quite a big job so a lot of you said cuz I've duct taped all of my windows around my Greenhouse to stop them from popping out in any wind cuz that's the last thing I want to happen if a window pops out in your greenhouse and it's quite windy the wind can get into the greenhouse and lift it up and fly fly it away somewhere and I haven't yet secured it down properly cuz um I just have so um you suggested instead of duct tape which can come up in the in the wet when it rains um to use silicone so I've got this stuff it's multi-purpose it's for internal and external use waterproof and mold resistant and it's clear so I thought that's the best one I can get right never used this stuff before but I thought we'd figure it out together might be fun so this is what we're doing today this is the main big job but I'm going to do the other jobs first because they sound easier to be honest and um I'd like do a job that I know how to do before I do the job I don't know how to do it's just the way I roll it builds my confidence before it comes crashing down again you want food yes okay right let's feed the birdies cuz there's quite a few Robins sitting around surrounding me right try and get some meal worms for you Einstein CU I know you're fussy about [Music] that I will get you some more me worms it's just I want use this up cuz otherwi I wouldn't use it there's a big M worm there hang on there's a big one on the top see if he find that in going in yes going [Music] in these are my onions that I sewed from a seed you remember when I planted these from a seed um when it was really raining some of them have started to germinate I can't believe it I better put these in the greenhouse let's do that [Music] first it's saying it's 11° in here 85% humidity and it's got a sad face like that's not good so should I open the windows [Music] then I think it is the humidity it's showing so obviously 85% is too high and also if I got silicone in here don't want it to be wet do I so want to do it is dry so what I do is I'll leave that open for a bit do some other jobs and then hopefully it'll dry off right that's good okay [Music] excellent so we planted the sweet peas out you can one snapped already that is so annoying that's actually snapped yeah okay so they desperately need sort of tying in a little bit just to just to stop them snapping again in the in the wind I've got this thinner twine which I don't really like cuz it's more plasticky um and I keep finding this around my plot and I don't like it K so I got the Woolen one which I thought might be a bit better is it wool I don't think it's wool um whatever it is the the softer one but I don't think it's quite thin enough to tie little crops in like this so I'm using some of this stuff if you know a more natural alternative to like a thinner twine please let me know so I'm not a huge fan of these like plasticky ones gosh this is so fiddly this is why I couldn't do this yesterday day look how fiddly oh but they really do need doing um so I think you could reach up there mate come on dream big get yourself right up there oh this is this is this is not the one this is not a relaxing Friday job for me no no no I'm really really not tying them too tight at all I can't tie that one cuz it's too small just Loosely going to group you like the group of friends you are you better be friends guys you're going together now that's it you can reach up there can't you I do reuse a lot of my twine as well I find it all around the place and I do cut bits off and reuse it everywhere um but like I said I just don't like the material [Music] and this this was the other new row sweet peas that we put in yesterday that I just whacked in and left to their own devices and and of course they've all just flopped down so they're going to need some help as well right we're going to tie them in in clumps hopefully up like that so going to try and tie them together in a sort of Clump mainly because I can't be bothered to do them individually but also I want to keep them with their mates I think they'll just be happier you know like in school when you got to sit with your friends and it was just such a better lesson cuz you got to sit next to your friends that's what it's like with plants I think I'd imagine I don't know yeah it is so much easier just to do it in clumps you can quite reach right I think these ones I could sort of pull up that that right across there like that oh just drops it okay cool I think that's about okay [Music] [Music] so once again using the crushed crushed wel shells these are so like Seaside shells and for protection but if you do do that you must leave no gaps and also make sure it's a really thick layer cuz otherwise they will find a way through it also do not let this happen this is a genuine mistake that I've allowed to happen a few times with crops so I've protected them all around and then what will happen is one will flop over like that right over the shells or whatever I put down and the Slugs will use that as a bridge and they will just come straight over up they are in your crops and then they're jumping from crop to crop all your crops are gone and the line is still there so like the leaves you must make sure the leaves don't flop over you got to keep it all within or make it bigger make the boundary bigger but I've run out of them now yeah that's a really important tip also fallen leaves Fallen leaves like fall from a tree or something like that again that's a little bridge for them so you must not let that happen you've got to keep your defense strong [Music] ah so the last time I did my compost it seems that I layered up loads of thick cardboard which is probably not helping things I mean it's probably stopping potatoes from growing in there to be honest which is always a good thing because I don't really want potatoes to grow in my compost um I think I might start by ripping this up smaller pieces I think might be better also it's really dry so I don't know [Music] did I catch that on camera just flung a slug at my face I just flung a slug at my face oh my God I had a bleeding heart attack then how I didn't scream louder I don't know I'm aware there's a lot of people here today a lot of people who are listening to my Antics just threw a slug up my face welcome to alotment life that is really interesting so you come a bit nearer I've got something to show you two important discoveries that I've just made firstly my potatoes are still growing I think that means that potatoes are officially the easiest crop in the world to grow this is a a potato that's sort of rotted a bit on the side so I threw it into the compost tape it's been covered over honestly for weeks and weeks it's growing It's Got Roots if you can't grow anything you can grow a potato just trust me just throw a potato out into the garden just anywhere and you'll get a potato plant honestly secondly more more exciting than a potato growing in my compost I scarp it away I mean firstly there are tons and tons oh go sorry mate oh my God that's a gigantic spider they holy smoking I can't stay down there anymore but there are um I hate spiders so much there are loads of worms in here but I actually just found a few of the compost worms which are like bright red they're very thin I wonder if I can find it again hang on CU I want to show you if you've never seen a compos worm before they exciting I mean there's so many worms in here like Absol hundreds of them but the compost worm is oh are you a compost worm are you a compost worm may I just borrow you for a second please thank you so much I believe that might be one cuz he quite red compost worms are a type of worm that appear in your compost tap and they are fantastic that is basically what compost is it's worm poo and your compost worms are the worms that give you the good worm poo oh yes there's one right come here there he is that is officially compost worm in my compost fantastic right so really really these are great signs that the compost is working and going to plan so I think I'm just going to cover it over should I give it a bit of a water cuz the cardboard is very dry I think I'll do that [Music] [Music] right notice how I've been putting this job off for as long as possible cuz I'm just I just don't know how to do it and I'm really nervous I'm going to get it wrong so are the windows dry enough I think they are yeah they are dry enough so I am aware that to use one of these you need to use one of these this is what my husband gave me this morning it looks like an instrument of torture for a Victorian child it looks scary but apparently this is how you you do it so this is what we're going to use um I need to puncture this so I don't know scissors scissors with that puncture it I don't know how to do any of this to maybe I have to sore it off or something how do I open it I see I just have to puncture the top but it's not puncturing very well how do I open it how do you open it right guys don't be too mad at me I don't know how to do this stuff but I accidentally broke the top when I cut this open um so I'm going to have to duct tape it on to make sure it stays [Music] on I know this must be so frustrating to watch but honestly I don't know what I'm doing um I'm just going to duct tape around it I think right there we go right okay well now that I've duct taped this around here I thought I'm not good at DIY and stuff like this I don't know what I'm doing and there's never any blooming instructions on the things that you buy they just expect you to know how to do it and I don't really understand that so we got to put it into this which I think is fairly easy I don't think it's too hard sounded quite easy yes cool now what was it that I had to do oh squeeze the trigger squeeze the trigger is that yeah oh it's coming out it's coming out it's coming out I knew this would be a nightmare right okay let's try on this window okay it's pretty good is it still coming out stop stop does that look right to you is that it is that is that right I've sort of done it down the window like this it's a bit wonky and wobbly and like there's a few little breaks in it and stuff does that matter that was awful that bit that was awful oh my God that was so bad oh no oh no oh no the Top's broken off and it was silicon come come out through the the duct tape oh God I'm not going to lie guys I didn't think i' mut that up as much as I mucked it up I completely completely mucked it up I mucked it up from the moment I cut it open with shears so frustrating cuz normally I figure stuff out and I figure out how to do it but this time that is completely broken I can't do it I can see how it's going to work though I'm going to have to call it day I've also got it all over my hands if this is toxic I'm dead I know why I felt that I didn't need gloves I think cuz I didn't think I'd be touching this stuff you know I didn't think I'd be touching it guys I've just been trying to wash my hands and they're waterproof guys my hands are waterproof look at that my hand has gone waterproof is that okay I look I look like I've got small pox I've got so much silicone over my hands I don't know what to do I can't wash it off it's just like I've siliconed myself am I going to be okay I don't know what to do what would be the benefit of this it's like the lamest superpower in the world isn't it um okay right we're just going to leave that JW for now cool [Music] right so that's all I'm going to do today just because I'm in a panic now that my hands are ruined forever I'm sure they'll be fine guys um I'm going to leave it there today it feels like it's going to rain now um the cold air is coming in it feels like the temperature's dropped so I'm glad I got here this morning and actually got to see some lovely Sunshine whenever it's sunny in the UK at the moment I'm just straight down to the allotment because you never know when the weather's going to change um and we could get like 10 days of cloud so it's always good just to take in the sun whenever you can that's what I think anyway right I'm going to see you again on Monday guys have a lovely gardening weekend um and join me again on Monday so I'll see you then thanks for watching bye