TOMATOES ARE A DISASTER! / EMMA'S ALLOTMENT DIARIES

Good morning guys, welcome back to my allotment diaries, my name's Emma, these are the allotment diaries. A little bit of an emergency this morning when I arrived, walked into my greenhouse. Yesterday it was really really windy so I couldn't get down here but it was clear skies and sunshine the whole day. Technically, technically the weather was about 20 degrees but it felt much cooler because the wind was so strong but obviously in here the temperature must have got very high because a lot of the tomato plants that I bought have started to seriously wilt which is really really frustrating. Some of them are okay but some of them have just really started to droop so I've just given them a really quick water and I will give them another water but I really want to plant them out today. They need to go in the ground because at least when they're in the ground they'll have more of a chance because the roots will be able to get some kind of moisture in the ground but in these tiny little pots they just dry out so quick so that's been a little bit, oh no this one, oh you poor thing. I actually don't know if that one will come back, it might do. Luckily I've got two of these ones. That is just the the problem with keeping plants in pots at this time of year. Everything's doing well, it needs a bit of a water so that's the first thing that we're going to do. Also Einstein has already like flown over my head three times and since literally just walking onto the plot so I think he's waiting eagerly for me to find him some worms so I think we'll fill up the watering can, water in here and then we'll just water as much as we can out there just because I think it'll bring all the worms up and Einstein will be happy. Let's do that. It's like a tsunami. Wow I really just went for that, I really did. All right as you can see these fell down in the wind and these are my turnips that have actually flowered. They look so beautiful and stunning, the pollinators love them. I'm trying to keep them alive for as long as possible so I've just tied them in and they're all standing upright. As long as we don't get even the smallest gust of wind I think they should be okay. Why is everything so complicated today? These sweet peas are doing absolutely beautifully. I'm just going to tie in some of them on this side that just flopped over in the wind but most of them are now sort of holding on themselves even in strong winds because they are so big and strong. I think I will always get my sweet peas out end of Feb now. Was it end of Feb or beginning of March I got them out? It was quite early but I think I think it's worth it. They're doing amazing and we seem to have missed all the slug and snail damage so they've just grown away. They are so healthy and happy. Right somebody did message to let me know that I can still feed Einstein but I have to soak the worms first to soften them up so it's okay to sort of feed them soft worms. Because they're feeding their nest now and I know for sure, I know a hundred percent he's got a nest, or she, he, whatever it is, the non-binary bird and because his feeding is young he needs the mealworms to be softened. I think they're not mealworms they're calci worms or something but they're similar things, just worms basically. So I've got an old container I'm just gonna put them in and then soak them I suppose just until they go soft and then we'll feed him a little bit later. Because he's hovering around me and I feel so guilty, he's like waiting for his food, he's like following me around and stuff so I really want to give him something you know he's my mate. Mates help out mates. Right we'll just sort of wait for them to sort of soften a bit I don't know how long it's gonna take I don't think it's like a tutorial or anything on this but maybe this is the tutorial that you have been waiting for in which case come back soon and find out. Okay right I've got one beautiful broccoli growing in here absolutely stunning I'm gonna harvest that today and leave this broccoli because he's got lots of side shoots coming off but how fantastic is that so we're leaving this one but I've been very ruthless and I have taken the other ones out. I've got to get my tomatoes in today because you know like I showed you before they are sort of dying I think they have a chance of coming back to life so I'm gonna stick them all in to the greenhouse today and also the marigolds which again are looking a little bit worse for wear but I think with a good water they will come back so let me show you what varieties I went for they're not going to be that exciting because they're shop-bought so it's only what's available in the shop if you sow from a seed you can be a lot more exciting with your varieties but these look good we've got the grafted super sweet which look really nice I've got a couple of moneymakers I think I've grown those before they've always done well I've got a Roma tomato I've definitely grown that before fantastic and I've also got a gold one and I like the golden tomatoes but I always forget that they're the golden ones and I wait too long to pick them so I'm gonna put him at the end so I remember that it's a golden variety and I don't sit there like a Wally waiting for him to go red but these are my tomatoes not looking the healthiest now they've been in pots but let's whack them out they might surprise us so we'll put the golden one on the end here so what we'll do we'll just dig a big hole it's very good soil in here so I think they will be really happy and the thing about tomatoes is they can sprout roots and pretty much any part of them except the leaves and so any part of the stem they can sprout roots so when we plant them we take off those bottom leaves I'm gonna plant him right up to his first first bit the stems are really really deep and that will help it to root down because they do get really big these plants and he can sprout more roots from his from his stem there we go doesn't look like much now but that's gonna be an absolute beast I'm telling you it's gonna get massive stick another one about yeah again I don't know where my trowel is I really don't I've got my hoe though so I really want to break up the soil a little bit so that the roots have got something to sort of stretch through and it's not too compact in there right that looks good stick in a very sad looking Roma never fear guys I have a good feeling this is gonna come bouncing back to life aren't you mate I'm sure he will oh he looks so sad mate come on looks worse out the part of God just looks like a dead plant doesn't he have faith guys have faith I have faith in him I think he's gonna spring back to life come on mate you can do it such a random pea growing here and also it's a sweet pea I think and it's growing upright look well it was it was standing up on its own that's so weird I'm just gonna leave him because I just I don't want to just pull him out like he's grown so I just feel like he gets a chance you know yeah I'll just leave him there he's taken initiative you know to grow on his own and I appreciate people who take who are plants that take initiative and people you know just figure it out come on take initiative and he's done that right we've got the grafted super sweets going in here it's quite a deep big one this one this is the most unhealthy looking bunch of tomatoes that were put in but you know what if they just don't if they don't make it we'll just get new ones there's still time we might as well whack them in I'm gonna stick my moneymaker in just behind the broccoli because I think the broccoli won't be there forever and it's gonna be a bit of a wasted space if I don't stick something in there I have a big gap and I don't like that so I'm gonna stick him in just behind the broccoli maybe the broccoli help him out a little bit or maybe there'll be enemies mortal enemies either way it gives them a bit of an interest to start an interesting start to their life you know I can start life with a mortal enemy and I think that's good motivation you look like the healthiest one that I've got I don't know how that survived but well done mate well done and then we'll just whack the marigolds along the front like I did last year and they did really well they looked pretty and they also I think they help with whitefly marigolds marigolds are a good companion plant to tomatoes that just means that they're friends it means that they complement each other in the plant world and a companion plant is it either helps one of the plants out so in this case a marigold is supposed to keep whitefly away from your tomatoes or they sort of help each other in terms of the soil and so like sweet corn runner beans and what's the other thing you plant courgettes and they all sort of help each other out in the soil by giving the soil something different that the other plant needs but basically it just means they're friends and they like to live together so keep them with their mates if you can in the same way that we like to sit with our mates in school you know plants aren't much different really all right what they really need is support pretty much straight away and then maybe some sort of strut around him or something to stop any insect I don't think snails really go for them but I'd say what we're actually gonna do we're gonna monitor them just for a few days and see if they come back to life and if they do then we'll stake them and we'll start looking after them but to be honest if that dies I'm gonna have to just take everything out on I say it's sort of up to them now you know I've done my bit oh my god it's like a million degrees in here it's like a bazillion degrees no wonder they all dried out so quickly honestly poor things I think we'll check on the state of the worms state of the worms yeah they do seem they seem so clicky now do they should we go and feed these to Einstein then all right let's go give him some worms all right they're a bit different today Einstein cuz I had to dump them I've been watching him going in and out of that blue shed all morning feeding his nest it's got some little babies in there in and out all morning so busy I was a little bit worried about him yesterday because it was so windy it's worried he didn't get any food for them so I really want to give him something today help him out a bit do you remember the other day or in another vlog I asked em do you know any other crops that when they bolt and flower they're not yellow well my radishes have bolted now and they've got the most beautiful purpley flowers how utterly stunning are these so beautiful I have to say I really like and the flowers on vegetables that bolt I think they're the most beautiful dainty little flowers and the pollinators go crazy for them so I'm just gonna leave these to flower I think like everything on my plot is just gonna bolt and flower this year but I'm just loving it I'm just going with it this year I think I've got some germination on my runner beans that is amazing I tell you what I can do now I can weed along here because now I can see what the runner beans are what they look like so I'm gonna weed along here sort it out a little bit so that we can see where our runner beans are aren't they lovely when they start to to germinate oh look a couple of them have been eaten I didn't realize anything in my garden was actually getting eaten this year because I've got so much growing I tell you what I'll stick a few more seeds in anyway do you hope you've enjoyed the vlog today and it's very sunny here in the UK at the moment I couldn't hardly stand being in my greenhouse for too long so it's definitely a really good time to start planting things out I might actually get my squash my pumpkins out onto the archway soon I haven't planted my jacobi little yet but the seeds are on the way I'm gonna start those and this week's the beginning of May still plenty of time I always start my pumpkins slightly too early my jacobi littles and I end up harvesting them sort of the beginning of August or sort of mid August and actually I really want to harvest them sort of through September to October so I'm starting them a little bit later this year just to try and get a later harvest but I've still got lots of other pumpkins and squash here and that can go out earlier so hopefully it'll work this year but I'm trying to hold off a bit you know me I'm not the most patient person in the world and but I'm trying really hard this year to be a little bit more patient so we'll see if it pays off anyway hope you enjoyed the vlog today I'll see you next time thanks for watching