POLYCARBONATE GREENHOUSE UPDATE / ALLOTMENT GARDENING UK

again. Good morning everyone. Welcome back to my a lotment diaries. My name is Emma. These are the a lotment diaries. If you are not subscribed to my YouTube channel, please hit the subscribe button. Um I've got 43,000 of you here now, which is absolutely insane. A lot of you have come over from Tik Tok as well. So, if you're from Tik Tok, hello. Welcome to my channel. Um, this is I've been doing this for a lot longer than Tik Tok. I just vlog about my a lotment plot, my a lotment life, my a lotment journey. Just growing stuff, trying to grow stuff, trying to fend off the slugs, stuff like that, basically. But yeah, just um Oh gosh, you're back again. They won't leave me alone. Every time I turn up, they turn up now. Crazy Einstein's back. Crows love me. I just brought you into the shed of doom because it's getting a little bit windy out there. It's not a great day weatherwise today. Um it's a little bit windy, a little bit overcast, but the sun is poking through and that is excellent. It's what we want to see. Apparently, I'm now best mates with all the crows. Um somebody wrote me a comment and said that if you make friends with a crow, you're friends with that crow for life. I don't remember making friends with him, but apparently we're now bestest buddies. So, I guess you can't have too many friends, can you? Let's be honest. Anyway, I had one heck of a morning. I've had a cry. I've cried about four times this morning and I'm sick to death of crying. Um, it's just been really stress. I just get very overwhelmed sometimes. It's been very, very stressful. So, I'm just so thrilled to be here right now and I can just potter around and do some stuff in the garden. I think it'll make me feel a lot better. So, that's exactly what I intend on doing today. Pottering around, doing those little jobs around the place, cheering myself up in my favorite place in the world. Does that work? No. Okay, I'm all over the place today. But you know what? Come and have a look at my clemetus. I planted this last year against my shed cuz I really wanted something nice against my shed. Um, a lot of you said I should get a real plant to go up my shed. So, I got this clemetus last year and look how well it's done. It's done just fantastically and it's coming all back this year. Last year it grew quite big as well. What I want to try and do is train it to go around the windows, but I don't think it's going to cooperate. just got a bit of a mind of its own this one. But it is beautiful. I might have to sort of tie it in a little bit, make sure it goes the right way. But yeah, it's going to be a stunner. warm in here. 18 18° baby. Oh, it looks neater in here and tidier. God, did I tidy it last time? Amazing. God, I love forgetting that I've tidied and then coming back and being like, "Oh, it's so nice and tidy in here." Um, I've got a few sunflowers that I've repotted that do need to go out. I think I might get them out today. Um, the weather's looking up next week. I mean, proper up, like 20s. 20s. Uh, sunshine, 20°. Fantastical. Not seeing much life from these ders yet. One of them's grown, but the rest of them haven't yet. But maybe they just need more time. This one grown a little bit. Little tiny bit. So, I think there is hope for them. So, we'll leave those. Ra beans. Good. Melons. Melons. Don't know where these are going to go now because obviously we've got the red ants in here. Bit of a situation. Oh, it's coming through. I better repot those. I'll do that later today. Tomatoes, are you all alive? Cucumbers, are you alive? And by sort of, I mean not dead, still growing, but sort of the bottom leaves very, very yellow looking. Just not really happy. And again, this tomato not happy. It might be the humidity in here that he's not happy with. I don't know. I wish they could talk sometimes and I could just ask them, you know, like what's wrong? What's wrong there? Right. Got a couple of things that I brought from home. Um, these have been sitting in my house for a very long time. This is a shelving unit. And that one's like a planter sort of thing. So, I'm going to build the shelves first and then see where I'm going to put them. Either in my shed or in here. I think maybe in here cuz they're sort of see-through. So, I think I might be quite good for seeds to grow on cuz the light can still get to them all. So, let's build it. So, if I have to suffer doing this, you have to suffer with me. Right. Many, many parts. That's what we like. Not. All right. We need scissors. We need scissors. Can't find my bleeding scissors. So, we'll just use what's the hand. Actually worked exactly the same as scissors. So, success. Go. Oh, there's another one. Come back. No, I don't think I need instructions for this. Why is it saying a drill? I don't need a drill. Do I need a drill? Oh, we don't need a drill for this. It's metal. I'm sorry. I just don't believe it. I just don't believe it. That just do that. Where's the instructions? Oh, bloody hell. I'll just use the instructions for a bit of a clue. Would it surprise you if I said I don't really understand this? I don't understand how that firstly these don't click together properly. That's supposed to go right around it and it doesn't. It doesn't go around it. It doesn't do it. It doesn't. If it says it should connect up. It should just connect up. I don't know why it has to be a mystery all the time. I didn't ask for a mystery. I just asked for shelving, you know. Side down. Did it go like that? Oh, can you stay, please? Please. Can you just stay? Thank you. Stay, stay, stay, stay. Please, just do your job. Things. I don't even know where these are. I don't even know what they are. Where do they go? Why is that got things on it? And that one happened. How are they different? Yes. Yes. Yes, yes, it's working. Right, there we go. It is sort of built. It doesn't look as good as I thought it would because it's a bit rickety. Some of the shelves are slightly unlevel, but I'm not sure how to get them level. Um, and there's a lot of parts over and a lot of plastic to get rid of. But, you know what? It's built. So, we're going to take them into the greenhouse, I think. Right. Hopefully, this goes without hitch. Excuse me. Excuse me. Right. I'm thinking over here. Oh, okay. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse us pots. Excuse us right here. Heavy. That's not good. Why is it Why is it wonky then? Oh, is it because of this? No, it's just because it's wonky. Okay, great. Brilliant. Will that stay up though? What if I put something heavy at the bottom? That might actually help to level it. It's an excellent idea, Emma. Yeah, that's an excellent idea. Oh god, finally I've had a good idea. Brilliant. Right, should we dare to put some seeds on this now then? Oh god. God, I don't know if I dare. But you know what? We've brought it and we've made it. So, we may as well use it. God, if it crashes down in a minute, I'm going to cry. I don't even know what they are, but they can go in. No, I don't like them being there. I just don't like them being there. I just don't feel comfortable. I don't feel safe. Okay. Yeah. Right. There we go. I just don't know how long Just don't know how long realistically this is going to stay up for. Um, oh my gosh, what an absolute nightmare building this, especially today when I'm not I'm really not feeling it. But you know what? It's up and I've got some seeds on it. Feel like I've invited something into my greenhouse that I don't like and I don't trust. I have no trust in it whatsoever, but hopefully it will stay up. Maybe it needs some more like weight at the bottom or something. I mean, it's metal. The thing I liked about it when I saw it online, and it was only cheap. It was 20 quid from Amazon, so what do you expect? Um, is that the shelving is like see-through. So, it's like metal shelving. So, when you put your seeds on it, each shelf gets enough light. And the ones I've got at home don't get that because it's like a board for the shelf. So, the ones at home that I've got in my back room will go into the shed cuz I think it's great shed storage. And these ones will stay in here if they survive, if they stay up. Fingers crossed they do. E. Anyway, that was the slog. Let's get out into the garden. I think. I think these tulips have had it. I think they've got to go. They still haven't flowered. They haven't shown any signs of flowering. And if anything, they're all just dying. Yeah. I think I'm going to dig up the whole lot. a whole lot of tulips because they don't look happy at all. They're just not doing well. And every time I pull up a bulb, it looks like that. I don't know if the camera's going to focus on that, but basically, it's rotted. It's falling apart. It's got like these little holes in it and stuff. They're not happy tulips, and they're very small. I'm going to dig them up just to make sure I get all of the bulb out as well, cuz I want the whole thing out. If it's any kind of infection that could spread to my other tulips, I want it gone. So, that's what we're going to do. We're going to dig it. Hey, you don't think it is? Well, you don't really get an opinion, Einstein. Eh, no. You could come and get the worms after. Yeah. Is that what you want? The worms? Yeah, you can come and get them. That's fine. There's loads here, Einstein. There's loads. Look, there's one. That's a stick. Sorry, that's a stick. In all my years of gardening, I still think worms are sticks sometimes. I still think sticks are worms. Oh, there you are. Hello. Right. There is something that actually I didn't even noticed this. It was some of you guys who picked it out on a previous video of my tulips and I didn't really believe you and I forgot and I forgot to check but I've just seen it for myself and I didn't know this existed but I've grown multi-headed tulips. Have you ever heard or seen multi-headed tulips before? Cuz I have never seen it and I didn't even know that's what I' grown until it grew. Let me show you. Sort of didn't notice cuz I wasn't really looking for it. But this here, this tulip is one tulip, right? It's, let me see, it's got one stem here and then it goes to three tulip heads. How insane is that? And it's not just this one that I've grown. This is not a freak of nature. I mean, it might be a freak of nature, but it's not alone in being a freak of nature. Look, there's another one here. There's more here. This is just one tulip with multi heads. I mean, very obviously this is obviously a type of tulip that you can buy, but I've never seen it before. And I cannot believe that this tulip has got multiple flowerheads. It's absolutely stunning. And I mean, imagine putting these in pots. You only need to put a few bulbs and you would get hundreds of tulips. Just something that I've genuinely never seen before. Never ever seen that. And I didn't even know I'd grown it until you guys pointed it out. So, thank you so much. Um, yeah. Let me know if you've ever seen multi-headed tulips before. I would love to know. I think they are beautiful and I wish I knew what they were. I think I just picked them all up from a random garden center, but I will try and find out what they are and share it. Right guys, that's all I've got time for today because I need to get going. Um, I hope you've enjoyed my a lotment diary today, my little diary entry that I do. If you are new to my channel and you haven't yet subscribed, please do. It makes such a big difference to the algorithm. Um, and it's so nice just having more people watching these videos and enjoying a lotment gardening. So many people have gone and got an a lotment plot off the back of watching these vlogs without meaning to sound sort of bigheaded about it, but um, I just think that's just fantastic. And the more people that are growing, the better cuz honestly it has changed my life. It's changed my entire life in every single way. And hopefully it will change some of your guys' lives for the better. And anyway, um Oh yeah, I'm working on my 2026 planner, my a lotment garden planner at the moment. I'm making some changes to it like I do every single year. But if there's anything that you want to see in next year's planner, anything that will help your gardening journey to be more organized, um please let me know. Please leave me a comment and let me know and I will include it in the diary for next year. And once again, thank you so much. 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