As a 60 year old woman, who cuts up trees all the time, when you said lets get some logs, and you walked past with a couple of branches, had a real belly laugh, a twig is smaller than a pencil, branches up to thigh size, then logs.
I totally agree about pausing your original plot but I would sow a cover crop in your empty beds. Mustard, peas, just to push up the soil fertility. I'd also bring the polytunnel cover into your shed or it will become spideropolis. You can use it to make smaller covers for overwintering beds. Big job lass - get the chainsaw out and get those trees out of the way. Logs buried in raised beds. Leaves for leaf mould. (You can tell I love composting as much as gardening!😂)
Another great video Emma :-) Sweetcorn is ready when the whiskers are brown so you can pick it all now. The one you thought wasn't ready hasn't been fully pollinated so the kernels at the top didn't develop fully. Enjoy them while you can or freeze them. One thing you could pop in to grow over winter is garlic. That would only take a few minutes and it'll need no aftercare except for weeding next year. Good luck with your plot expansion!
Still so jealous of your pumpkin harvest. You are doing a great job with clearing two plots. I agree with one of the other comments, I’d put the cover in the shed too. So pleased you have some sweetcorn
I'd make a wooden frame around the base of your polytunnel. Sink it in the ground and anchor the poles to that. Then you could nail/screw the cover onto the wood as well although I would invest in some stronger proper polytunnel plastic as that green stuff gets brittle really quickly and frays and rips.
Hi Emma your sweetcorn is ready all that's happened is the top hasn't been pollinated so hasn't developed kernels. The way to check corn is on the plant. Pull back the outside to reveal the kernels and put your finger nail into a kernel if its ready it should release a milky juice if not leave it to ripen on the plant. Hope this helps. I would take uour corn off the plants before they go over and won't be nice and juicy
Emma get one of those large sucky bags that you fill up then use a vacuum cleaner to suck the air out. Put your greenhouse cover inside it suck out all the air . This will keep it clean. prevent damage.Stop light making it brittle and prevent bugs moving in en masse . It will reduce in size considerably and next spring just pull it out again for a new start.
Did you have your polytunnel door unziped? If its unzipped in the wind the wind gets in and blows it away from the inside. If its zipped up its more able to withstand the wind.
Emma you make me laugh, in a good way. ‘ I need to weigh down my poly tunnel cover to stop it flying away, oh I’ve got some logs, and comes back with a couple small branches’. Next heavy wind you may loose both. Wish you luck with your new plot, I would take care of the poly tunnel cover, may be able to save it for use next year, if not as a tunnel something else. Best wishes always enjoy your vlogs.
I was thinking that your love of pumpkins could work to your advantage on the new plot, if you grow an atlantic giant it will cover about a third of the plot and rid that part of weeds.
As others have said, the top part of that little sweetcorn is just an unpollinated section, so just chop the top off and cook the rest :) Sweetcorn is at it's best if you stick a nail into one of the yellow kernels and it has juice seeping out.
Soooo happy for you 🥳 have you thought about growing herbs, lavender, rosemary etc? Could give a great aroma to your plots. Also, I have a neighbour who grows mostly flowers, as they don't eat a lot of veg 😆 lovely looking plot, and free flowers all year 😀👍 another great vid btw 👍
This is the first year I’ve ever had a polytunnel. The frame is staked into the ground and I’ve put raised beds inside and screwed the cover from the outside with wooden battens to the raised beds. Before I put holes in the cover I used duct tape as extra strength.🤞JB has done this with his polytunnel in his recent video. I bet your sweetcorn was sweet and delicious.
Hurricane Nigel.....horrendous early this morning in Manchester. Did`nt we just know we would pay for recent hot weather. Pace yourself, Emma. Burn out is not good.
Emma you are doing amazingly 😍 these covers do not last anyway. I have bought some supertherm plastic from First tunnels to recover mine. Have a word with them for recovering in Spring. May be a blessing in disguise as you may want to move it to somewhere better now you have another plot. Keep up the great work!! ❤
that wind was something else the last 2 days. After my greenhouse blew away....... yup it blew away, i roped my poly with paracord and thats the only thing that saved it! i attached on one side to a fence the other to my potato grow bags, it was still bouncing.
My only other suggestion for the poly tunnel is to get some large poly tunnel stakes, they are like a corkscrew, and then you’ll be able to anchor some rope to them xx
Those kinda polytunnel are puny. I had one slightly more robust and it got mangled in autumn-winter. I bought a second one and replaced all the broken bits then made loads of cross braces from the leftover poles. It’s concreted in and all sorts now and I think it might just survive the winter but I wouldn’t put much money on that lol.
The sweet corn is wind pollinated, and that’s how all the niblets come all the way up on the cob. So it may not be that is immature. It may be that it didn’t get enough pollination and their wind pollinated so you were doing a good job with shaking them when you went by, but you could also just cut the top off of one of them once they get a little tacitly things going, and then tickle the silk
Hi Emma, I picked some of my sweetcorn today and they were a really good size but I noticed on a couple of them some of the kernels hadn’t popped. However, on googling it I found it to be down to them not being fully pollinated. Apparently every little tassel is attached to each kernel and needs to be pollinated before it pops. Still gorgeous to eat though. We live and learn. Can’t wait to see you transform the other plot. Deb
Emma I thought it was rats or mice but nope I was wrong its magpies eating my corn caught them in the act. Your doing great little bit at a time and by spring I'm sure it will be great . Pumpkins look great , I had a fair few of the baby boo on my pumpkin arches this year. See you friday x
I can’t believe how quickly this year has gone 😮 Think of all the lovely compost you will have next year after you have tidied up your plot. Already excited for next year ❤
Great clean-up of your plot, Emma. Your little pumpkins are so cute 😊 and the sweetcorn looks great. I would cover your empty beds with cardboard to prevent the weed from taking hold in them or the foxes digging. But put something heavy on the cardboard to weigh it down.
Lots of progress! I do understand the shut down/plot reset - but also whats the harm in wacking in a few seeds and see what happens. 🤷 😊 ❤ Great work - it's going to be phenomenal next spring!
Hi Emma l think you,ve done a great job the cover on the polytunnel may be ok just check it ,it could say you money and its a great time to put your plan into action its very exciting and well done for all your harvest this year 🎉🎉🎉
We have a similar poly tent and buried the ends in the ground which helps and as someone else suggested zipping up when bad weather, mind you this advice is all too late. All the best and keep going .
I admire ur drive, ambition and hard work Emma. That is a big plot u r going to end up with, good luck. Looking forward to watching how things develop.
Hi Emma, I had exactly the same problem. My green polytunnel cover only lasted two years then it disintegrated (sun damage). I renewed the cover with a UV resistant plastic sheet which is still going strong after four years.
Emma's OG plot +1 very much looking forward to seeing both plots progression, you've had a briiliant harvest this year, good luck in your new challenge 😊
With sweetcorn I always find i tend to get one big cob per plant and then 1 or 2 small ones that may or may not pollinate fully. Before pulling them off the plant just pull back the leaves a little to see if you can see the corn and if so out a nail into one kernel, if milky liquids comes out they are ready. I normally plant swift and once they are ripe get a couple of weeks to eat them before they go over. Sweetcorn is one of my favourite things to grow it is so tasty when fresh!
May have been the 2 hour storm we had on Sunday night. My sunflowers came down as well as tomatoes and left the place looking as if a bomb had hit it. I think I live near to you xx
I put my greenhouse with the same material as your Polly tunnel away in storage over the winter, but I did put it into a more protected area this year. & one of my runner bean construction took a hit with this wind, so took it down as it was finished anyway.
I think we're getting the tail end of the weather in the US as usual. Heavy rain and strong winds yesterday and today in Lincolnshire. Snapped my sunflowers in half as well. 🙄so I've cut them off and brought the flowers inside.
The weather today has been really bad windy and rainy my allotment will be flooded when I go back tomorrow hopefully it won't be hope to hear from you soon
keep an eye out for a free green house on the selling pages. I've had two freebies over the years. ppl move into houses and just have no interest in them
Hi Emma, I think you’ll do great things with 2 plots and grow wonderful plants. Maybe cut the tree back to 2, maybe 3 trunks? Clear out everything else under them, and it will look amazing. Can’t wait to see what you end up doing. But you are right, it’s a lot of hard work. xox 🇨🇦
I’ve had same issue bean arch blown over all my sweet corn thrashed sunflowers all over 2 got bk up but my 12 footer just Producing big flower snapped but it will go threw the mulcher and feed the garden 😂
Those covers are rubbish!!!! I had mine for 2 years and it literally started to disintegrate, bought a second hand glass greenhouse for £60 off Facebook and it's brilliant! 😊
I've been fighting the wind all day today, had to take down 2 of my greenhouses as they kept blowing over, and give up on picking up the tomato and celery plants that keep blowing over. Also found a dead rat on the lawn, if it was killed in my garden and not brought here by one of the cats, I'm thankful, but after spending over 3 hours, and as many attempts trying to bin the rat, the rat is still smack bang in the middle of my lawn, and I'm stressed that it's an actual rat, rather than mouse. I'm really hoping that a fox comes and gets it.
As a 60 year old woman, who cuts up trees all the time, when you said lets get some logs, and you walked past with a couple of branches, had a real belly laugh, a twig is smaller than a pencil, branches up to thigh size, then logs.
I totally agree about pausing your original plot but I would sow a cover crop in your empty beds. Mustard, peas, just to push up the soil fertility. I'd also bring the polytunnel cover into your shed or it will become spideropolis. You can use it to make smaller covers for overwintering beds. Big job lass - get the chainsaw out and get those trees out of the way. Logs buried in raised beds. Leaves for leaf mould. (You can tell I love composting as much as gardening!😂)
Another great video Emma :-) Sweetcorn is ready when the whiskers are brown so you can pick it all now. The one you thought wasn't ready hasn't been fully pollinated so the kernels at the top didn't develop fully. Enjoy them while you can or freeze them. One thing you could pop in to grow over winter is garlic. That would only take a few minutes and it'll need no aftercare except for weeding next year. Good luck with your plot expansion!
Also cima di rapa would do really well .pop it in and forget about it .and winter radish same pop in and leave it til it's ready
If you get sweetcorn that hasn't been fully pollinated and has a "bald area" - I assume the other corn on that cob is okay to eat?
@@chriseverest4380 Yes, that's correct.
Use some thin double sided foam tape on the frame to stick the polytunnel cover to it helps secure the cover because those velcro straps are useless
Still so jealous of your pumpkin harvest. You are doing a great job with clearing two plots. I agree with one of the other comments, I’d put the cover in the shed too. So pleased you have some sweetcorn
Dont throw your plastic away, you can buy tape to mend your cover with. I have used it and its very strong and weatherproof . Save your money
I'd make a wooden frame around the base of your polytunnel. Sink it in the ground and anchor the poles to that. Then you could nail/screw the cover onto the wood as well although I would invest in some stronger proper polytunnel plastic as that green stuff gets brittle really quickly and frays and rips.
Hi Emma your sweetcorn is ready all that's happened is the top hasn't been pollinated so hasn't developed kernels. The way to check corn is on the plant. Pull back the outside to reveal the kernels and put your finger nail into a kernel if its ready it should release a milky juice if not leave it to ripen on the plant. Hope this helps. I would take uour corn off the plants before they go over and won't be nice and juicy
Emma get one of those large sucky bags that you fill up then use a vacuum cleaner to suck the air out. Put your greenhouse cover inside it suck out all the air .
This will keep it clean. prevent damage.Stop light making it brittle and prevent bugs moving in en masse .
It will reduce in size considerably and next spring just pull it out again for a new start.
Love this channel, best gardening channel ever! TY
Did you have your polytunnel door unziped? If its unzipped in the wind the wind gets in and blows it away from the inside. If its zipped up its more able to withstand the wind.
Emma you make me laugh, in a good way. ‘ I need to weigh down my poly tunnel cover to stop it flying away, oh I’ve got some logs, and comes back with a couple small branches’. Next heavy wind you may loose both.
Wish you luck with your new plot, I would take care of the poly tunnel cover, may be able to save it for use next year, if not as a tunnel something else. Best wishes always enjoy your vlogs.
Emma your pumpkin harvest is brilliant!
Your face is a picture at the sweetcorn, bless ya ❤
I was thinking that your love of pumpkins could work to your advantage on the new plot, if you grow an atlantic giant it will cover about a third of the plot and rid that part of weeds.
As others have said, the top part of that little sweetcorn is just an unpollinated section, so just chop the top off and cook the rest :) Sweetcorn is at it's best if you stick a nail into one of the yellow kernels and it has juice seeping out.
The pumpkins & sweetcorn look great Emma well donexx
Soooo happy for you 🥳 have you thought about growing herbs, lavender, rosemary etc? Could give a great aroma to your plots. Also, I have a neighbour who grows mostly flowers, as they don't eat a lot of veg 😆 lovely looking plot, and free flowers all year 😀👍 another great vid btw 👍
Great pumpkins !
This is the first year I’ve ever had a polytunnel. The frame is staked into the ground and I’ve put raised beds inside and screwed the cover from the outside with wooden battens to the raised beds. Before I put holes in the cover I used duct tape as extra strength.🤞JB has done this with his polytunnel in his recent video. I bet your sweetcorn was sweet and delicious.
Hurricane Nigel.....horrendous early this morning in Manchester. Did`nt we just know we would pay for recent hot weather. Pace yourself, Emma. Burn out is not good.
Emma you are doing amazingly 😍 these covers do not last anyway. I have bought some supertherm plastic from First tunnels to recover mine. Have a word with them for recovering in Spring. May be a blessing in disguise as you may want to move it to somewhere better now you have another plot. Keep up the great work!! ❤
I've thrown a few ropes over my plastic greenhouse . I know a serious wind would just bend the poles but so far it's stayed up.
I recently bought a garden shredder to help things to compost quicker.
that wind was something else the last 2 days. After my greenhouse blew away....... yup it blew away, i roped my poly with paracord and thats the only thing that saved it! i attached on one side to a fence the other to my potato grow bags, it was still bouncing.
Your plan for the autumn/winter sounds good. Looking forward to seeing how the new plot develops.
Emma your allotment almost ready for next year you’ve done a lot of hard work
Attach it to wooden base,then anchor down with deep hole a rocks then fill up then replant
Use the sunflower seeds for the birds xx
My only other suggestion for the poly tunnel is to get some large poly tunnel stakes, they are like a corkscrew, and then you’ll be able to anchor some rope to them xx
Those kinda polytunnel are puny. I had one slightly more robust and it got mangled in autumn-winter. I bought a second one and replaced all the broken bits then made loads of cross braces from the leftover poles. It’s concreted in and all sorts now and I think it might just survive the winter but I wouldn’t put much money on that lol.
Hi did you remember to take the runner bean seeds for next year's crop before you composted them
I lost my sunflowers as well, uprooted. My bean frames are all dead too! Had to harvest my acocha as I couldn't put the frame up again.
The sweet corn is wind pollinated, and that’s how all the niblets come all the way up on the cob. So it may not be that is immature. It may be that it didn’t get enough pollination and their wind pollinated so you were doing a good job with shaking them when you went by, but you could also just cut the top off of one of them once they get a little tacitly things going, and then tickle the silk
I have just got an allotment and I've watched your mulching video which was so helpful!! Can't wait to get the weeds cleared for growing next year
Emma i have woken up to the exact same thing my greenhouse is made from the same metearial my greenhouse was blowing into next door 😅x
Hi Emma, I picked some of my sweetcorn today and they were a really good size but I noticed on a couple of them some of the kernels hadn’t popped. However, on googling it I found it to be down to them not being fully pollinated. Apparently every little tassel is attached to each kernel and needs to be pollinated before it pops. Still gorgeous to eat though. We live and learn. Can’t wait to see you transform the other plot. Deb
Put the bottom of the cover from the tunnel into the tunnel and cover with clay bricks 😊 instead of having it outside
It might be best to dismantle the frame. Strong winds over winter can buckle the frame. 😢
Emma I thought it was rats or mice but nope I was wrong its magpies eating my corn caught them in the act.
Your doing great little bit at a time and by spring I'm sure it will be great .
Pumpkins look great , I had a fair few of the baby boo on my pumpkin arches this year.
See you friday x
Do earwigs eat sweetcorn? I’ve noticed quite a few on them.
A lovely challenge ahead Emma can’t wait to see your progress x
I can’t believe how quickly this year has gone 😮
Think of all the lovely compost you will have next year after you have tidied up your plot.
Already excited for next year ❤
Great clean-up of your plot, Emma. Your little pumpkins are so cute 😊 and the sweetcorn looks great.
I would cover your empty beds with cardboard to prevent the weed from taking hold in them or the foxes digging. But put something heavy on the cardboard to weigh it down.
Lots of progress!
I do understand the shut down/plot reset - but also whats the harm in wacking in a few seeds and see what happens. 🤷 😊 ❤
Great work - it's going to be phenomenal next spring!
Hi Emma l think you,ve done a great job the cover on the polytunnel may be ok just check it ,it could say you money and its a great time to put your plan into action its very exciting and well done for all your harvest this year 🎉🎉🎉
Get a camera rigid up and see whot goes on the plot kids will love that
Yay, clear out this year, make room for next year!!! Great pumpkin harvest! 🍁
Sow some green manure, it doesn't need a lot of care and adds nutrients to your soil.
We have a similar poly tent and buried the ends in the ground which helps and as someone else suggested zipping up when bad weather, mind you this advice is all too late. All the best and keep going .
I admire ur drive, ambition and hard work Emma. That is a big plot u r going to end up with, good luck. Looking forward to watching how things develop.
Can’t wait for you t start planting in your new plot Emma well done on your sweetcorn take care xx
Hi Emma, I had exactly the same problem. My green polytunnel cover only lasted two years then it disintegrated (sun damage). I renewed the cover with a UV resistant plastic sheet which is still going strong after four years.
Badgers love sweet corn , they'll usually flatten the entire crop unless you put wire fencing around !
Emma's OG plot +1 very much looking forward to seeing both plots progression, you've had a briiliant harvest this year, good luck in your new challenge 😊
Plots do not stand up to winds gusting up to 70MPH which is what Storms ripping across England does.
With sweetcorn I always find i tend to get one big cob per plant and then 1 or 2 small ones that may or may not pollinate fully. Before pulling them off the plant just pull back the leaves a little to see if you can see the corn and if so out a nail into one kernel, if milky liquids comes out they are ready. I normally plant swift and once they are ripe get a couple of weeks to eat them before they go over. Sweetcorn is one of my favourite things to grow it is so tasty when fresh!
May have been the 2 hour storm we had on Sunday night. My sunflowers came down as well as tomatoes and left the place looking as if a bomb had hit it. I think I live near to you xx
It was blowing a hooley up here in Epping last night and today.
I put my greenhouse with the same material as your Polly tunnel away in storage over the winter, but I did put it into a more protected area this year. & one of my runner bean construction took a hit with this wind, so took it down as it was finished anyway.
What an amazing growing season it has been just fantastic to see how your plot has changed keep up the awesome work 🙂🙂
Great harvest of pumpkins! Looking forward to seeing the progress on the new part of the plot. x
I am wondering if you could make a wind break using plants to protect your poly tunnel.
I think we're getting the tail end of the weather in the US as usual. Heavy rain and strong winds yesterday and today in Lincolnshire. Snapped my sunflowers in half as well. 🙄so I've cut them off and brought the flowers inside.
same my sweet peas got wrecked and the sides on gazeeboo ripped , i was a sleep wtf haha , came from no where?
The weather has been horrendous here, not been able to get to the plot so far this week. Fabulous pumpkins.
The weather today has been really bad windy and rainy my allotment will be flooded when I go back tomorrow hopefully it won't be hope to hear from you soon
keep an eye out for a free green house on the selling pages. I've had two freebies over the years. ppl move into houses and just have no interest in them
Hi Emma, I think you’ll do great things with 2 plots and grow wonderful plants. Maybe cut the tree back to 2, maybe 3 trunks? Clear out everything else under them, and it will look amazing. Can’t wait to see what you end up doing. But you are right, it’s a lot of hard work. xox 🇨🇦
I’ve had same issue bean arch blown over all my sweet corn thrashed sunflowers all over 2 got bk up but my 12 footer just Producing big flower snapped but it will go threw the mulcher and feed the garden 😂
good plans you have about your plots
Last year the man next door found his plastic off hie greenhouse 5 doors down the street
You can tell your excited by your voice .
Keep your flower heads,or lay on ground for birds
Have you inherited that big old apple tree? 😮❤
Those covers are rubbish!!!! I had mine for 2 years and it literally started to disintegrate, bought a second hand glass greenhouse for £60 off Facebook and it's brilliant! 😊
I’m giving up my allotment. My this year has been a disaster. I lost three poly tunnels and three crops
I've been fighting the wind all day today, had to take down 2 of my greenhouses as they kept blowing over, and give up on picking up the tomato and celery plants that keep blowing over. Also found a dead rat on the lawn, if it was killed in my garden and not brought here by one of the cats, I'm thankful, but after spending over 3 hours, and as many attempts trying to bin the rat, the rat is still smack bang in the middle of my lawn, and I'm stressed that it's an actual rat, rather than mouse. I'm really hoping that a fox comes and gets it.
Hallo Emma's now good Regen thé wind wel good pompoenen thans te video fantastisch grootjes ❤🌻🎃💐🌽🙏
Do you have to leave that grass area behind the shed?
Those green covers don't last very well, all the little squares fell out of mine!
We have a waiting list of over 100 on our plots. Do you not have the same problem where you are?
Do you still have your pond?
Why don’t you recruit some volunteers to get your new plot winter ready, many hands make light work
Please don't cut down those trees Emma!
Put plastic bottles over your cobs to stop mice or rats eating them
Get the kids in at weekend to give you a hand
I see your sweetcorn has been attracted by some animal. Another allotment holder cover his corn with old socks to stop it being attacked
Possibly squirrel damage. Terry King rats vs sweetcorn is the video you mean.
emma why dont you ask first tunnels for a polytunnel i think you get discount for beoing a youtuber , dont quote me but a free people got free ones
Maby use the plastic for something else
It's happened to me twice 😮
It's soul destroying