WHAT HAVE THEY DONE?! / EMMA'S ALLOTMENT DIARIES
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Welcome to my allotment gardening channel. My name is Emma and these vlogs are my allotment diaries. 2023 is is my forth year on my plot. I'm learning as I go and would love for you to follow my allotment gardening journey by SUBSCRIBING to my channel!
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Apologies for the slight sound problems with this vlog. Rain and cameras do not mix! Thankfully the camera is ok. 😂
Hello Emma for some reason your comments are turned off.
But just to warn you keeping the bird feed like that without a sealed container will attract mice or rats to your shed. Get yourself an old biscuit tin to store it in
This girl's optimism and enthusiasm lifts my spirits. Every single video. Thank you Emma.
Ok, Emma's husband...you did a great job! It was so good to see how happy your help made her. Yay Emma...you finally got your wood chip for your paths. 👏💚
It is so refreshing to see a more realistic experience of gardening/allotmenting. Not everyone has the budget to put together proper raised beds etc from the get go. You are absolutely showing how it can be done and how we should just get after it and not worry about "perfection" and just enjoy the process. So nice to see your husband lending a hand.
Lovely to see you have help! He looked like he was really enjoying himself. I hope he tells you how proud he is of you. Shame about the birdhouse, pesky squirrels.
I’m sorry but I did laugh at the state of the bird feeder! Bloody hooligan squirrels!!!😆🐿️ It’s all looking amazing. So excited to follow the journey with you🤓😁
Well done to Dave a little help when Emma needed it just the job the allotment looks so good take care the two of you 😊😊
Fabulous start to the week! Thank you for bringing a ray of sunshine ☀️
You have to name the squirrels now Emma
Grinch and Ebenezer.
Bodgit and Scarper 🐿️🐿️
Great video!!! You really show what dedication and hard work can do and you keep me encouraged and laughing, glad u got some wood chips ,if you rent a wood chipper with all that wood on your plot you could fill your walkways and get rid of all the debri ! A Win Win! Thanks so much for all your videos happy gardening & God Bless yall
God bless you God bless you! Yep those are the squirrels that got your sweet birdhouse. Einstein will love the freeze dried worms. It’s looking great you’re getting both of those plots together how exciting I’m so glad you’re very happy and it’s nice to see your husband helping you what a good team you are!
You are so impressive we get wood chips deliveres regulary. We also have a skip provided now and again. Couldnt you ask the council to provide one worth a phone call or two!!! What an achievement never thought you would have got this much done already.
Hi Emma Fantastic progress. Sorry for possibly causing you a lot of extra work but there was a chap on Gardeners world last Friday the did something quite interesting with old logs. He made low walls of sawn up logs as boundaries and wild life habitats. which I thought was a good idea however would mean a lot of sawing for you if you went for it!
Emma! How lovely your Dave came to lend a hand! Great job both of you!
I just love seeing you working along with your sweet husband!! 🙌🏻🦋🙏🏻 Blessings & Merry Christmas 🎄🇺🇸
Great update as always. Glad to see your husband mucking in. Things taking shape.
At my old address there was a Christmas tree planted by someone in the late 50s. It was about 40 feet tall and had a gorgeous clematis growing up through it, beautiful when it flowered!
Just cut some sticks to about 30cm and hammer in either side of your boards, that will stop them falling over
You are making amazing progress with your new plot, you should be proud 😊
Emma to keep the wood upright on your beds if you use 2 foot (or there abouts ) lengths off the tree branches and hammer one on the inside of the bed at one end and one on the outside at the other end and repeat that on all four sides it will keep the surrounds in place without having to use nails
I’m so glad that you have some help and you got the woodchip you needed, lifted your spirits and mine.
Your are an inspiration to anyone starting out.
If Lidl or Aldi are close to you should have gone there for compost and bark chip, less than half the price of B&Q etc. The top soil is used to top up a lawn or dig it in to rubbish soil in your garden or fill pots.
It was nice of Dave to give a hand and he is nice looking. Your plots look great. You have worked hard.
Great progress Emma! This video you can really see the new plot is taking shape! 🎉
WOW! It all looks great! Its so much better when you have a little helping hand! I have the same obsession with wood chip and cant get enough of it!!! Take care xx
Just did a wee jig for you and the woodchip haul!
Great bonus video and great to see you got a bit help even what you got done was a big help and yes plans have to be changed when you get free delivery of wood chip or manure as take it when you can as it's a total random bonus
Sorry about the bird feeder 😢 . As regards the Topsoil, I mix it in equal parts with compost and well rotted manure for raised beds 😊
I finally saw the Mister! He seems quite handy to have around! 😉 Sorry about the bird house. We have some brash squirrels here, too, who will take almost anything apart if they like the bird food. We even bought a squirrel-proof bird feeder which - while lovely - was quite a waste of money as the squirrels figured it out. But yay for all the free wood chip! Looking GOOD!
Hi, Emma. I have an idea that I want to give you, what you do next is entirely up to you and what you think. If you stand closest to the fence, where you have the most shade, and look into your new plot. The big bed you have the closest if you extend it a little more to the right, in the same direction as you have the two composts, then you can have the path from the beginning of your plot down to the polytunnel and then you don't lose so much space. The huge bed you can then make into a brassica cage. The bed/ cage is then large enough for all your brassicas, you can have some stepping stones or a small path in it if you want. This is just a suggestion and I hope you understand what I mean, trying to explain as best I can, I'm not good at explaining things. Have a nice evening and i like your vlog.
I chopped up bits of wood to create dowels, and then I hammered them into my boards before putting them into the ground. Just thought that that information might help. Your plot looks amazing!
It’s good to see your Hubby is with you, you get a little help you need it you work so hard but we love it that’s why
Hello Emma! This year I've taken on your 'whack it in' attitude and am pleased to say I've just harvested 6 lovely parsnips from a planter! (no garden as such, just a large gravel patch!) xxx
Hi Emma. If you knock in some small bits of stick upright like pegs at either side of your wood on your raised beds it will keep them up. Great use of your spare twigs! I did it on my edging. So glad you got some wood chip! The bird feeder will definitely have been the squirrel that you just saw as you walked towards your plot. We have them at home and they've pinched bird food and all my tulip bulbs!
I suspect there was a squabble over food!😊
So glad you got some free wood chip Emma 😀
My partner is the equivalent of Dave the rave lol. I get him to help me with a lot of the lifting. I'm never aloud a Belfast sink or patio slabs in the car again tho 😅😅😅
Yes, we have many squirrels, and yes they can be terrible for dismantling things like the bird house 🏠
Thank you Emma its lovely for you to get the work done in December 😊
you could try contacting local tree surgeons, they all look for somewhere to get rid of their waste chippings
It's so nice.to see your allockments 😢
i really enjoy your videos, just down to earth honest vlogging
Incredible Emma you are doing extremely well. Looking fabulous.
Hi Emma adding some top soil to your beds is good give it some structure adding just compost all the time eventually just turns to a dusty mess in my experience
Well done Dave, helping out. Would have been easier picking up woodchip with a spade😅. Love the excitement over woodchip . ❤
I recommend large metal tent pegs to secure the sides of the raised beds. Not perfect but has held up our narrow palette wood beds even after soil was added. Nice to see hubby lending a hand. Your allotment will be golden when spring comes 🎉🎉🎉
Loving how it's all coming together Emma, you have done so well. ❤
emma you should mix top soil and compost together it makes a big difference
Hi Emma…I don’t know how your allotments work but when we need woodchip at our plots we just call a few local tree surgeons and they just drop us a load off..they are usually happy to drop it off for free as well..
The Xmas tree pine will take over your whole allotment, they grow Massive. When the pine needles drop nothing can grow under them. I wouldn’t plant the Xmas tree. Grow a native or a fruit tree x
Could also be rats destroying your house - we had some for a while (live next to farmland so unavoidable) and they nearly destroyed a nut feeder, almost got all the staples out so they could remove the steel mesh to get at the nuts
Lovely bit of wood chip looks great, bless your husband for helping you, fab vlog Emma 🥰
brilliant vlog emma progress you have made is fab great work efforts are paying off big time
Wow Emma you are doing an amazing job, I love your bird house ❤
"Just a border" that's what I have. Permanent beds with wood borders. After a few years, it gets a nice settled in look.😊
Thank you Emma love your Videos x
Well done Emma it's taking shape and looking good.
I love watching your posts and very helpful
Nice Vlog Emma. Shame about the bird feeder.
Nice to see your husband on the plot......good work Dave.
Naturally JB and Jesse on Plot 37 have both gone down the Trail Cam route so you need to catch those naughty squirrels in the act. Tell them how disappointed Tufty would be and if they don't behave you will have to tell their parents😂
Do they have wood chippers for rent there? We can rent those in the US. I saw there were a lot of branches that could be chipped up right there.
Rain water is very good for your hair. Mine often gets wet on the allotment but I don’t then wash it I just dry it instead. Your plot is looking really good now.
I am of an earlier generation, whenever we washed our hair we would get the water from the water butt and boil it, we had no hot water all the water had to be heated on the stove.
My beds aren’t proper ‘raised’ beds either (except the carrot bed which is two pallet collars tall filled with top soil and sand). I call my beds ‘edged’ beds, just to mark them out really, cos my brain works better like that.
Sorry about the bird feeder, it might be better hung in a tree, although squirrels can be real little buggers!!!
Excellent wood chip haul. X
My parents used to get potted Christmas trees every year and plant them in our front garden after Christmas. Most of them died, but two of them got to about 30 feet tall before the council made us take them down because they were causing a hazard for passersby. 🤣 So be aware that that cute little Christmas tree won't stop growing once it's reached a proper Christmas tree size!
Great news on the wood chip,and blame the squirrels for the break in.
Soil is very composted material, top soil is the best, brought soil in a bag has been sieve and no stones.
Wood chips and help on the same day? It’s like winning the lottery! I bought compost and worked at my plot Saturday (rain forecast for Sunday, so I knew I had to go). I am still planting garlic. It is my first time and I think I bought too much. I still have 6 heads to plant! I think a squirrel was digging in the beds where I planted garlic cloves. I can’t imagine they would taste good, so I don’t know why they are digging there. I think I would not put too much food in the feeder since it will all get eaten by those unruly bandits.
YOU GO GIRL LOVE YOU VIDEOS
"Chip in" a little bit :D I wish we got free woodchip :(
So sorry 😢 .xxxx
About the squirrels
Fantastisch Good work Emma's you the best te moostiun hammer ❤️👍☕🎄👍🧤🔥🔨✔️🌃💫
Emma please read the reviews for that compost .if it is the same as the one I bought from b and q last year you'll find it is absolute rubbish.i will say however that the top soil I got there was of a much better quality.so on a lighter note thanks for all the videos and a merry Christmas to you and your family
Was your husband impressed with your progress, Emma?...I know I am 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
We need to see Dave a bit more, he looks like he can be fun.
Garden fork for Xmas?
I was expecting Emma to appear in a santa suit but instead we were greeted by an umbrella and wellies.
Could have sworn I heard Dave muttering "how the heck did I get myself into this "
Why did you put the woodchips on the plastic ?
it prevents weeds coming though.
To suppress the weeds, simples.
Sadly but I think I would cover those bags you bought of compost with the plastic so they don't magically walk off. 👀
when u planting winter crops?
I think Emma is having enough to do getting ready next year. My plot is clear but I don't grow any winter crops except board beans garlic.
being big into regenerative methods permaculture,soil web requires covering with plants/weeds at all time.I am surprised no cover crops❤@@paulinebyrne1321
Einstein is not amused with his new pad 😂😂
Probably a cat leaping at the birds that tore up the bird feeder.
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It was prop magpies not squirrles, they've destroyed my neighbors squirrel feeder, and try to break in my bedroom window while I'm sleeping. They're thugs.
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Could you hire a woodchipper and chip the branches for your paths?
All looks fab,except the house 😢
That it you get him working y you got him .lol😂😂
I don’t think you get the point it’s Emma s space if she wants help she will ask for it
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I’m sorry to say squirrels are bloody pests and they’re the culprit of breaking and entering Einstein’s house 😢
What A great job you have done it sounds like you have a cold glad to see you have some help sorry for the robin's house