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- 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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Hi Emma your little Robin loves you bless him lv Irene 😘 xx
For your tomatoes I would also cut off the tops so the plant puts more energy into the tomatoes than growing up and really tall
When I was little, we used to pick the green tomatoes, and wrap them in newspaper. In a few days they began to turn red. That was long before I saw the great film "Fried Green Tomatoes" ! 🍅🍅🍅
Gosh I re all that
Thank you for the tomato ripening method. I had forgotten
I would say that the cabbage that is balling up is ready but you could also always let it get bigger It’s good seeing a kid gardening since I am a gardening TH-camr myself love the channel ❤
I’m so sorry you’re having to dealing with break ins! I planted my tomatoes outside this year and I couldn’t believe how well they did! I only did it because I didn’t get the polytunnel up in time 😅 but I think I’ll be doing it again next year 👍
It really is wonderful to see how far you've come since you first started the plot Emma. Your determination and perseverance is incredible. And it's joyous to see you interacting with the wildlife and being so cheerful. Gone are the "bloody fox" days but fondly remembered. And after the tomato incident here, I still think you're the Bridget Jones of gardening! Fingers crossed they live and change colour soon. Brassica's doing great. How's the pond?
I started to rewatch some of the first vlogs as a reminder for what I can do on my newish plot. I totally agree with you. Emma has done a fantastic job and her confidence has grown impeccably esp with nature. Best wishes.
Good to also see Tom growing and interested in the plot.
This was a lovely vlog to watch Emma 😊❤ spending quality memory building time with your son and not forgetting Mr Robin ♥️
Feel with your hand whether the head of cabbage is tight and solid. A really hard/tight feeling head of cabbage is ready to harvest.
Possibly reduce watering the tomatoes a little, the theory is that this stresses the plant a little to “hurry up” and ripen it’s fruit for seeds (in case there’s a drought) but don’t stop watering altogether.
Lovely video. Thank you. Feel for those who’ve had their plots vandalised. So frustrating.
Cut the tomato support lol. Robyn is marking his territory and try a few loud, claping of the hands and the sound vibration is a preditor to the bee and should make the bee leave. I remember leaving tomatoes to rippen, like a another person stated. Thankyou for a wonderful vidio.
Amazing video Emma, we had our plots broken into last week 😔 even though the gates locked they somehow got in, thankfully ours was left alone but was very worrying going down there to check, keep doing what you're doing great work!
Unluck . unfortunately it happens a lot in the allotments. That's why no one keeps anything valuable in the sheds .
Lovely to see UK summer weather especially from here in the 35 deg Med where it’s survival mode until hopefully some September rains. Keeping the peppers, kale and garlic going.
On another TH-cam allotmenteer site he said tomatoes rely not only on sunshine but do need heat but I noticed your poly tunnel is left open so will obviously not retain heat. Furthermore, the picked tomatoes will only ripen say in a brown paper bag if already started to ripen on the plant.
i love these, so nice to see someone giving things a go, make me try growing things i've never done and my pumpkins are growing up a small support :D love the Robin and such a shame about the break - in so sad x
Sorry for your allotment neighbours, I just don’t understand mindless vandalism. You look very beautiful today I love your clothes x
A cabbage /cauliflower is ready when it’s the size you want to use without waste :)
You can use the frame to hang your tomatoes on
I had that in my poly as well, so this year I took the cover off and its much better
I'd recommend getting a trail camera
I have trail cameras and when i got broken in, I had the intruder was caught on my camera
Tom is such a wonderful child,so so sweet and a super helper a gold ⭐️ for Tom.Your Tomatoes are fine be patient Emma,we are all in the same boat.Mine have just started to blush.They look very healthy so let them get on with it...there fine.Hope you found a worm for Robbin...its a real privilege to have him xso near.
Love watching the robin on your plot
🍅You can harvest the tomatoes when they’re green. It’s a myth that they need to be ripened on the vine, they’ll happily ripen on your windowsill at home. As long as they’ve fully grown 🍅
I like your plot
Catch all the slugs you can after- Acquiring a 5 gallon tub (a basic food grade plastic tub with pin hole perforated lid is ideal). Place a dodgy cabbage or similar inside and fill the tub up until half the cabbage is covered. Put all your collected slugs on the cabbage island. Stand this in a cool shaded spot and supply daily with food and slugs Do this for one month and yes it stinks but use the water around the cabbage (replace) and continue. Takes a few years however your slug problem will be no more as the natural nematodes that target slugs increase, giving you a slug free environment. Start now and keep going.
Pick the tomatoes put them in a sunny window sill
Just pick green toms put them out on the kitchen bench they always go red
Hi Emma lovely pleasant blog as usual. Fabulous to see ya so Tom involves its finest thing for kids... my best memories with dad were up at lottie. I agree with others bout ya tomatoes.. dad used to pick em green n pop em in a brown paper bag or in a drawer they'll turn eventually ... happy days 😊😊
Hi I’m new to your channel and loving it 😊 I’ve been growing tomatoes outside for years now and this year they are taking a long time to ripen. Pick them when they are green and you know they will not grow anymore and put them in a bowl, tomatoes release gases which help them ripen. Gather them altogether and they will soon turn red 😊 good luck
I put banana skins around stem at the base of tomato plants...go yellow in about 4 days and then red in a week or so...no sun here in Manchester....ever!
I really enjoy watching your allotment diaries. Very true to life and entertaining. This is my first year of keeping an allotment and I am so far loving it. I hope you don't mind me asking where you got your waistcoat from? It is beautiful, you wore it in another of your vlogs and I meant to ask you then. Thanks in advance, Kay xx
I think the best thing is not to lock the shed. Just makes them think you’ve got expensive things inside and they’re more likely to smash their way in.
Hiya,i only grow cherry tomatoes now, like you i have a lot of shade
We just use the brussels sprout leaves like we would cabbage leaves. To us, they taste the same.
Love the channel Emma doing a great job xx
your outfit in this is soooooo cute, i love it!
I just love the waistcoat. So pretty
The other cabbage is a savoy hun. I am growing cabbage, brussel sprouots in my backyard garden.
Take the tops off the Toms Emma, it will concentrate on the ones already there... Alternatively they will ripen in a cardboard box, or on your window sills.
Sorry to hear about the vandalism at the plots☹️ but once again another fantastic video keep up the amazing work on your garden 🪴
Glad you escaped the vandals Emma. Seeing those abandoned plots is testament to the fact that keeping an allotment is hard work which many of us non-gardeners fail to appreciate. Also nice to see the kids having a go as well, who knows, you could be sowing the seeds for the next Alan Titchmarsh!
Take care, don't leave anything valuable there and enjoy the fruits of your labor with all those lovely harvests...especially the apples 🍎 😉
What a shame unfortunately we do let it go these days our neighbourhood is terrorised by kids who love to run in and out of our houses so no courier arrangements if u work a couple of feet away tied to a computer sigh once again not surprised if they abandon plots lovely video glad yes was ok
The smaller cabbage (Primo)looks ready ,the Savoy will stand and has the potential to reach the size of an armchair! I had to buy some tomatoes and tie them alongside the green ones to get them going 👍Mindless vandalism -a re -occurring problem.
Emma, I sent you an email a few months ago about this exact problem and some clever geekery I am developing to try and help alert plot holders early when thieves are breaking into sheds. Let me know your thoughts, if you like I can send you a free door sensor for you to play with on your shed door.
Thats very good of you and good luck with it
Thank you.
Cabbage are ready to harvest we had the same problem with people breaking into our sheds as well and we have high fences all round the plots also helped their selfs to the vegetables aswell tried to get more people intestate in the plots or you could have the chance of them saying not being used and then sold to a developer like they did around here those who were using them move to a allotment like the saying goes used or loss it
Thank you Emma enjoyed your Vlog x
Sorry Emma I had a little chuckle when you cut the support string no lasting damage done I hope at least you have some tomatoes I've not had one set this year I'll give them a couple more weeks but I don't hold out much hope,❤
Enjoyed your vlog as ever. Glad you escaped the little vandals!! 😊x
Got loads of plots getting broken into, I'm lucky I'm over looked, and the CCTV next door at the scouts.
It’s so sad that people feel the need to destroy what someone else has built , pleased your plot escaped those moronic vandals , it was nice seeing your son getting involved on you plot , maybe he’ll develop an interest in growing food in the future, I would take the hard cabbage it would make a nice meal before the slugs eat any more of it. With regards to your tomatoes if you put them on a sunny window sill with a ripe banana they will ripen, but also at this stage of growth cut back on watering to stress them a little and now you’ve opened up the plants to let more light in that should speed them up, I still have some green ones on my indoor plants but the outdoor plants have ripened faster , could be because the had to deal with more challenges.
With tomatoes I'd double check that fertilizer is enough. Tomatoes are greedy plants for potassium - they won't get ready without potassium. Wood ash also would help. And sometimes a tiny scar on the stem below the fruit make the plant rush into finishing the fruit before the plant dies.
And also banana peal is rich with potassium. You can do peal "tea" and water them every time you come along.
Hi it is a shame about the break in , but you need a locked gate if possible, regarding the plots the committee need to have a social event to keep the plot holders keen, once a year and award winners with a trophy that is what we are now doing after Covid at Countesthorpe Garden and Allotment Society we also have a website ,
you are doing a great job Emma
A cabbage is ready when the heart (main ball of cabbage) feels firm!...... If you leave them too long they split it looks like wildlife have taken bites out, but they haven't
When I saw the title I was worried they had broken into yours. So glad it wasn’t.
Of all the vegetable growers I know and utubers, they all say your cutting tools must be clean and sharp, not rusty . I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses an old dirty scissors to cut my plants back. 😅
Thank you Emma lm so sorry about the break ins,l hope they don't bother with your 😊 xxx
We got boys yobs trying to break in to are allotment, I cought them in the act shouting at them but they will be back.
So sorry to hear this Emma. You’ll get back to normal soon
I have had the same problem.
Here in Denmark, the tomatoes also has taken way too long time to ripen. I think we have had almost the same weather as you during summer. And now they turn red, and don't taste of anything. It's a very bad year for tomatoes
Put banana skins in the poly tunnel.
Hi Emma, have you ever tried cardboard as a weed suppressant? I am moving and the garden is huge, I have made several borders but the weeds are everywhere
It's not the Sun that ripens the tomatoes it's a chemical that's released, it needs heat to release that but when it gets to over 80 degrees like it has done in the uk it stops the ripening process so I was told to snip the tops off and cut off a lot of excess leaves and pinch out some of the flowers then it will stop wasting it's energy on that start releasing the chemical etheline and start ripening. It works as my tomato plants are all ripening now.
A cabbage is ready when the head feels firm.
Can you swap the hoops around to put the bigger one at the end?
I'm having a bad health day.
But the garden is growing gangbusters!
I think your tomatoes need some tomato food 🍅
Hi Emma, can you switch the blue arches? I guess you can. For the cabbage I am not sure of that variety but they are usually way bigger.
We had our allotment broken a couple of times. We put it down a homeless person as they only took the gas cooker,gas and food
Birds poo very often, a budgie every 15 minutes
Still waiting to be allowed to start mine
Some cabbage dont ball, you just pick off the leaves and eat them.
I lost 4 tomato plants to blight. I have more but I don't know if they will be alright.
Could be local scumbags, but it could also have been police 'agent provocotuers'.
Yep. It's a real thing.
Green tomato chutney?
The kids were bored, right!
It’s so sad that someone would do that just for the hell of it 🙁.
Kids getting bored. Time for them to get back to school. 🙄
What can I get ride of snail pauline
Cant believe you have a grown son..I thought you were about 18 .
Here Emma regards ur cabbage I found a link for u .. th-cam.com/video/B9_LH8juCyg/w-d-xo.html
It isn't good it's so wrong
It's so strange you look like Lucy letby 😅 But sucks that all happens to you guys
For cabbage 🥬 I'd check if the ball feels thight enough. Then it's ready. Loose or small still have to grow more.