Hell Emma! Little tip , when you get ready to put out your tomatoes put a banana peel or whole banana in with your plants in fact you can do it with most of your plants, happy gardening!😀🍌🍌
Just started wanting to grow things and came across your channel. I am a completely newbie when it comes to planting and growing and your videos are really helping so just wanted to say thank you!
It's always interesting to see what's being sowed in different areas of the UK at the same time. I envy you your radishes,I have never had a harvest as since starting two years ago, slugs have gnawed EVERY single one of them. Love your presentation style, you plain explanation of things and your ramblings when you were planting the peas.
Hi Emma, i just saw a Tube train pass the back of your home garden, Wow. You made me so laugh when your own Scare Crow though so cute caught you out and scared you. You thought it was someone watching you in your own Allotment. I’ve been watching your flogs for a few days now, I love the Camera work, the Music and the Editing it’s so perfect. Inspired, thanks. Roy.
Got a tonne of rhubarb in my garden, it lasts for years and years, the rhubarb i have was actually pulled from my mothers garden and she has had rhubarb in her garden my whole life. The same plants i was eating when i was 4 years old are the same ones we have today. They are awesome, very hardy and the best thing is, you dont really have to do much with them. Thin them about a bit when they get too leafy and make sure all the stems arent getting crowded, but other than that, you can leave them to die off at the end of the season, you dont even have to pick the dying bits out, leave them there, they'll naturally compost, and then by the time spring comes around, they'll start sprouting up again. Mine have started to sprout again now.
The finer texture of seed compost makes pricking out seedlings from small seeds easier because there is less woody material and fewer lumps for the roots to wrap around.
New viewer here, in NW UK. Thanks for your lovely video. This is my second year at growing home produce, just preparing for this year, so the information given is very helpful. I have converted my back lawn into an 8' x 18' veg patch, dug in some well-rotted manure (free, from the local farm/livery) and am ready to go, Onions and shallots, soaked in saline water overnight, are going in tomorrow down the middle, lightly covered in straw for frost/bird protection, each side to be flanked with a row of 1st Earlies, once chitted next month. From experience, I too, thought they sprouted best in our normal potato-storage pot but will follow advice on light exposure. I also bought my seeds (some like yours) at Wilco today, with some small/large pocketed seed trays and Perlite. Being over-ambitious, I have about 50 different type of new/old vegetable plant seeds, so I can try some of each for success (corn having failed last year), Mrs E. P thinking me crazy. I have a raised bed and been given a nice 6' x 8' aluminium greenhouse, with vine, now insulated with bubble wrap, so will grow what I can. Some self-sufficiency (food-wise), fresh, healthy and tasty fruit/veg, some fresh air, sun and exercise, it will also be therapeutic for this mid-70's pensioner. Thanks. Liked and subbed. 🙂👍
Thank you for subscribing! Yes there are so many benefits to growing your own food. For me, it just forces me to get outside into nature even when I don't feel like it! Being outdoors is just so good for you and in the UK it's often cold and grey so easy to stay indoors all day long! I'm sure your veg garden is going to be amazing this year! x
Great video Emma enjoy them so much lol IV seen Jess put peas in a old bit of guttering and when they are ready she just diggs a trench out and slides it out the guttering in to the trench in one go x
I watched jessie at Plot 37 do this too.Ive watched all Jessie's videos now and I'm always sad as each one finishes but tonight I found Emma ...Happy days .bliss
Yes I spotted that mistake in the planner Lol and there's another one have you spotted it yet Emma, I like to plant peas in plastic guttering when they are ready to plant out I just dig a small trench and slide them into it no disturbance of the peas.
Ast year I took a chance on growing tomatoes outside for the first time in years. I picked Sunstripe and Crimson Crush .......what a great decision!! Both were so strong, resistant to moulds bugs, blight. The Crimson Crush are not full flavoured but lovely and huge and prolific. Good luck for 2023 Emma xxx
Emma, love your videos, they’re so calming. I love Wilko too- bought a lot seeds in their autumn clearance, many of them literally just for 10-20p! For cheap seeds I shop also in premier seeds direct shop- horrible website navigation but love them for their prices and speedy delivery. Only disadvantage, no instruction on packaging, only online so I need to screenshot all pages lol
YOU ARE SO HAPPY!!!😁😁😁 Loving the enthusiasm as always. This year I am trying seeds from Real Seeds in Pembrokeshire. I usually grow F1 hybrids for reliability, but this company grow seeds that they know perform well in the UK. That means I will try to save seeds for next year. Something I’ve never done before. I hope you see your peas poking up soon! 🤞😁
Hi! Just found your channel- I love growing tomatoes and tried Gardener’s Delight last year. They were lovely - grew well and lovely flavour. My other favourite is Alisa Craig. I’m going to try Black Russian if I can find some seeds, as a trial - I usually grow some plants in the greenhouse and some outside. Happy growing!!
Brilliant explanation, let us know how it goes. Just turned over a small allotment and have seeds for the polytunnel but I wanted to plant direct, I now have a lead to start with, THANKYOU will follow your lead. Happy growing from Essex.
One tip for Tomatoes, you can grow them from a tomato bought from a shop. Last year I had a couple of old cherry tomatoes in the fridge, I quartered them and planted, just had to thing a load out as i got about 10 seedlings in each tray, but a good and cheaper way to make sure you get enough seeds!
Hi Emma I also love Wilko for gardening, good prices I grew the yellow Tom's last year they were so sweet and loads of them also just put some radish in to try , and started the same peas as you also put some Cosmos in and 🍅 seeds it's just so good to get out , climbing the walls inside but it's been pretty kind the weather here in Shropshire this week. Really enjoyed your video always do you make me laugh when you curse. Hugs 🌼
Hi Emma I was devastated when you talked about giving up you’re Allotment Plot, I hope that’s not too much pressure, lol. I just found you on TH-cam but you have inspired me so much to garden. My partner loves gardening and I so want to get involved with her. I have tried and had flops like you but you persevere. Love ya, many thanks I’m gonna try again thank you. Roy.
Hi there Emma, just came across your video, thanks for all the tips, keep it up you doing a great job, I wish there's a lot more young people doing what you doing, I loved your sense of humour too, 😂, bye & good luck for now, ;
Forgot to mention your rubarb you can plant up in a deep container but leave for the first year On the second year you can force rubard by putting a large container over it now you find you get smaller stems but sweeter in taste. Plus you can only force every it her year. Also next year you did the rubsrb up and split the plant with a spade so from crown you could get two or three plants. Water rubarb well in dry weather and give a feed well rotted horse C..p. blood fish and bone the plant establised for the first year remember don't pick any stems this first year as testing as nay be just take off and dead leaves or dryed stems. Sorry fir going on 😆
Hi Emma, try to avoid the F1 hybrid seeds and go for heirloom varieties. You can save yourself money and save the seeds for growing the following year, which you can’t do with the hybrid varieties. There are some amazing heirloom tomatoes you’d love growing for taste and their unusual colours.
Thank you Emma. I have just found your channel and it is exactly what I need. I particularly enjoyed your young plant/teenager analogy, very funny! Congratulations and I look forward to enjoying the journey with you.
Hi Emma, you have an interesting selection for February. Two tomatoes I will recommend are: Kelloggs Breakfast (beefsteak) and Sweet Apertiff (cherry). You will love them
I had one khol Rabbi last year and it was delish . Rhubarb is very productive once established. Roasted with a bit of sugar is lovely. I have just down some sweet peas they come every day for weeks and weeks and smell lovely. You can use peas from the dried peas packet from the supermarket if you want a cheap alternative. You need to soak them first.
That will teach you to look at the seed packet to see how many seeds are in the pack lol, They do seem to have cut down on seeds especially tomato. Nice vid by the way
Emma the beef stake toms are called that because there a bigger tom. I grow them to make pastar sauces from them and tom and 🥕 soup. Just beware starting toms now is OK if going in a grenhouse but if your planting out on the plot try and put sowing till march. I to get most if my seeds from good old wilkos like you said price great choice and good germination rate. I sure I think its kings seeds who supply the seeds to wilkos that's why there so good. All the best 💘 your vids takes care emma
I always start my peas in some water shooting, cut to the length that suits you and when they have come through you can make a nice trench and just slide the peas out of the shooting straight into the trench, east peasy.
nice guide got some really useful tips. I'm a total beginner I plan on growing some veg this year I order a load of different seeds from amazon that I should get on Monday. Also need to make a veg patch in my garden.
I love Desiree ,,a good all rounder that is quite disease resistant,, I grow Charlotte as well,, very nice indeed,, I save some of mine from last years harvest ,,same with garlic ,, save a few pennies,, it’s great to see the next generation into growing their own food,, well done Emma ,, 👏👏👏, best wishes, Lisa
I'm going to sow my tomatoes next month, I've sown my peas and will be sowing chillies and aubergines. Desiree is a really nice potato grew them last year and one of the varieties I'm growing this year.
Love your vids xxx sow peas in piece of guttering n when ready slide into place....peach n nectarine long plastics tray...they work 😋 as not disturbing roots xx
Emma, you can sow your peas in a plastic gutter which you can simply slide out into the growing spot once they are big enough to be uninteresting to mice or pidgeons.
Weekend blessingZ, thanks for a great vlog Emma, I'm chitting 2 different varieties of potatoes atm on my windowsill, I've also sown some tomatoes, cauliflower, calendula,alpine strawberries, chillies ,round carrots, Hoping for a better year on my plot this year,I have mine on windowsill and then going to transplant out, As I have mice and rats on my plot so thanks for toure advice, x
Omg where have you been hiding! Looking to make our household more sustainable as I have lost my job and your video is amazing! Can't wait to get started on my food growing journey x
Hi Emma. What a refreshing video thank you for your tips. Sadly I don’t have an allotment only containers in my back yard. Here in Rossendale our cold winters are very cold and this leads me to ask “do you have a outside thermometer. I also like the fact that you shop at Wilco for your seeds etc. Thank you for your original lovely video
I sow peas in mid February, in cell trays in the polytunnel, then plant them out as soon as they start to grow. I'm in a very different climate to you, on an alpine mountainside in Italy, and I find that things grow like crazy. I plant about 300 peas and they're ready to harvest in late May. Tomatoes are already growing, germinated in the house on a warm mat, so they'll be potted on and out into the tunnel next month ( grow them for the neighbours, so I've got 120 at the moment). peppers and chillies are already to pot on. The summer heat here stops me from growing radishes, spinach, salad etc in the summer as it all goes straight to seed so they go in the tunnel in the winter, along with herbs like dill and coriander. Desiree potatoes are good main crop, they're well flavoured and they store really well. And make excellent chips!
i did in my bed in october ,they came up lovely ,i had 2 lovely rows of shoots covered ,then wind blew it off and pigeons had an all you can eat buffet,gutted.x
Hi! Thanks for this video it was so helpful for a beginner like me ! Just wondering, I have sown my peas like you did.. when you put them into the ground, will you put each compartment into the ground with the soil and plants from that compartment where they might be two plants together or would you separate them all (even the plants that grow together in one of the compartments) ?
My ruhbarb is growing in large pots from last year and are already shooting up quite big. My potatoes are growing in a tonnage bag so they aren't taking up too much room and can just be moved out of the way if needed 😊
Rats/mice dug up my corn seeds, ate the greens of my beets, DEFINITELY always eat my poppies, and they actually ate the growth/vine of peas we grew last year also !!! BTW, I totally agree with you about the ALL-PURPOSE-ness of most formulations of soil. I get lots of coconut coir regularly, and every soil/compost mixture that I prepare for anything (groundscaping as well as containers of any size or plant) is based on a high proportion of coconut coir (often 50% and up to nearly 100% in some cases, like more for seeds and rooting) mixed with whatever active, organic compost I can procure, plus whatever other organic goodies I want to include, like more potent granular/powdered nutritious materials (i.e. crab, kelp, seed-meals, minerals, etc...). There is great overlap on how most of the mixtures are composed, just some extreme outliers for, say, cacti where I will use a higher ratio of "sharp sand" or grit, or like, seed starting, where I will use almost purely coconut coir with just some worm castings and maybe some powdered organics. Other than those kinds of outliers, most of my mixtures are essentially the same thing... coir for porous, propped-open, permeable and breathing/draining structure... organic matter in active decomposition fostering living "soil" microbes (i.e. "compost)... whatever other organic nutritious goodies I want to add. Great video Emma, happy Springtime !🌷🌷🌷🐛🦋
Crimson Crush is very blight resistant. Have grown them next to plants that got blight and they were OK. Very late in the season they get blight in my experience, however this is a month or two after all the other tomatoes have already died due to blight.
We can get frost through until may in Uk, I lost a number of pea plants by planting out too early. Personally I wont be starting my peas until late march (inside) as they fare better and everything catches up as the weather gets much warmer.
Love the video . First one I seen if urs 👏. In the past when I’ve chitted my potatoes they’ve gone green have you got any advice to stop this happening pls ?
Loved this video, you're so funny and natural with the teenagers comment and chit chit chit, I agree great word! Do you have a 2023 planner for sale? We had rhubarb in my last rental garden - so brilliant once it's going & grows so fast. Great for giving to friends & family ☺️ I've just sewed spinach seeds into mini pots and put in my Aldi greenhouse. Nice to know I can get started on some other things too!
I really wanted to have a go at growing peas but I was afraid of attracting mice. So as long as I start them indoors, should be ok? Can't entirely rule out attracting mice if you're growing food I suppose, but I don't want to actively encourage them.
Wait on your Cosmos Emma .I have sowed now and in late March and the later ones were far far better .Sturdy and out grew the leggy earlier ones .
Hell Emma! Little tip , when you get ready to put out your tomatoes put a banana peel or whole banana in with your plants in fact you can do it with most of your plants, happy gardening!😀🍌🍌
Just started wanting to grow things and came across your channel. I am a completely newbie when it comes to planting and growing and your videos are really helping so just wanted to say thank you!
It's always interesting to see what's being sowed in different areas of the UK at the same time.
I envy you your radishes,I have never had a harvest as since starting two years ago, slugs have gnawed EVERY single one of them.
Love your presentation style, you plain explanation of things and your ramblings when you were planting the peas.
Hi there have you tried growing them in pots?🌶️
I've planted a few hundred and only harvested about 4.
Hi Emma, i just saw a Tube train pass the back of your home garden, Wow. You made me so laugh when your own Scare Crow though so cute caught you out and scared you. You thought it was someone watching you in your own Allotment. I’ve been watching your flogs for a few days now, I love the Camera work, the Music and the Editing it’s so perfect. Inspired, thanks. Roy.
I went up my allotment for the first time today and videoed it to keep a record of the progress. You really inspire me Emma
Got a tonne of rhubarb in my garden, it lasts for years and years, the rhubarb i have was actually pulled from my mothers garden and she has had rhubarb in her garden my whole life. The same plants i was eating when i was 4 years old are the same ones we have today.
They are awesome, very hardy and the best thing is, you dont really have to do much with them. Thin them about a bit when they get too leafy and make sure all the stems arent getting crowded, but other than that, you can leave them to die off at the end of the season, you dont even have to pick the dying bits out, leave them there, they'll naturally compost, and then by the time spring comes around, they'll start sprouting up again. Mine have started to sprout again now.
The finer texture of seed compost makes pricking out seedlings from small seeds easier because there is less woody material and fewer lumps for the roots to wrap around.
New viewer here, in NW UK. Thanks for your lovely video. This is my second year at growing home produce, just preparing for this year, so the information given is very helpful. I have converted my back lawn into an 8' x 18' veg patch, dug in some well-rotted manure (free, from the local farm/livery) and am ready to go, Onions and shallots, soaked in saline water overnight, are going in tomorrow down the middle, lightly covered in straw for frost/bird protection, each side to be flanked with a row of 1st Earlies, once chitted next month. From experience, I too, thought they sprouted best in our normal potato-storage pot but will follow advice on light exposure.
I also bought my seeds (some like yours) at Wilco today, with some small/large pocketed seed trays and Perlite. Being over-ambitious, I have about 50 different type of new/old vegetable plant seeds, so I can try some of each for success (corn having failed last year), Mrs E. P thinking me crazy. I have a raised bed and been given a nice 6' x 8' aluminium greenhouse, with vine, now insulated with bubble wrap, so will grow what I can. Some self-sufficiency (food-wise), fresh, healthy and tasty fruit/veg, some fresh air, sun and exercise, it will also be therapeutic for this mid-70's pensioner. Thanks. Liked and subbed. 🙂👍
Thank you for subscribing! Yes there are so many benefits to growing your own food. For me, it just forces me to get outside into nature even when I don't feel like it! Being outdoors is just so good for you and in the UK it's often cold and grey so easy to stay indoors all day long! I'm sure your veg garden is going to be amazing this year! x
Lovely video I love growing vegetables and I’ve got strawberry plants and mint I’ve got autism but I love gardening x
Great video Emma, thanks for ideas around getting things started.
You won’t regret Desiree spuds. They’re my favourite
I’ve watched many gardening videos, but I ,love your relaxed delivery. Having just got an allotment all info is appreciated. Subscribed.
Loved the video
Just discovered your channel this morning. I'm a newbie to gardening and loved this easy to follow video. Many thanks.
Great video Emma enjoy them so much lol IV seen Jess put peas in a old bit of guttering and when they are ready she just diggs a trench out and slides it out the guttering in to the trench in one go x
I watched jessie at Plot 37 do this too.Ive watched all Jessie's videos now and I'm always sad as each one finishes but tonight I found Emma ...Happy days .bliss
Thank you I got some cucumber seeds and tomatos I'm hoping to attempt to grow a few things .I tried so many last year they died but only a few grew x
Yes I spotted that mistake in the planner Lol and there's another one have you spotted it yet Emma, I like to plant peas in plastic guttering when they are ready to plant out I just dig a small trench and slide them into it no disturbance of the peas.
You're lovely!! Great video....I shall subscribe instantly
Hi my potatoes are on the back of the bath chitting nicely ready for planting in April king Edwards that's what I'm doing this year
Ast year I took a chance on growing tomatoes outside for the first time in years. I picked Sunstripe and Crimson Crush .......what a great decision!! Both were so strong, resistant to moulds bugs, blight. The Crimson Crush are not full flavoured but lovely and huge and prolific. Good luck for 2023 Emma xxx
Emma, love your videos, they’re so calming. I love Wilko too- bought a lot seeds in their autumn clearance, many of them literally just for 10-20p! For cheap seeds I shop also in premier seeds direct shop- horrible website navigation but love them for their prices and speedy delivery. Only disadvantage, no instruction on packaging, only online so I need to screenshot all pages lol
YOU ARE SO HAPPY!!!😁😁😁 Loving the enthusiasm as always. This year I am trying seeds from Real Seeds in Pembrokeshire. I usually grow F1 hybrids for reliability, but this company grow seeds that they know perform well in the UK. That means I will try to save seeds for next year. Something I’ve never done before. I hope you see your peas poking up soon! 🤞😁
GREAT video Emma - thoroughly enjoy your gardening enthusiasm! Be well - many blessings. Cheers...
Hi! Just found your channel- I love growing tomatoes and tried Gardener’s Delight last year. They were lovely - grew well and lovely flavour. My other favourite is Alisa Craig. I’m going to try Black Russian if I can find some seeds, as a trial - I usually grow some plants in the greenhouse and some outside. Happy growing!!
Brilliant explanation, let us know how it goes. Just turned over a small allotment and have seeds for the polytunnel but I wanted to plant direct, I now have a lead to start with, THANKYOU will follow your lead. Happy growing from Essex.
One tip for Tomatoes, you can grow them from a tomato bought from a shop. Last year I had a couple of old cherry tomatoes in the fridge, I quartered them and planted, just had to thing a load out as i got about 10 seedlings in each tray, but a good and cheaper way to make sure you get enough seeds!
Works well for heritage varieties like Piccolo, but for hybrids you will get something more like the parent plant, which may well be inferior.
@@derbyshirebirdwatcher6054 Ah thanks for the knowledge. It was Piccolo I had last year, shame the were taken by the blight!
I’ve always do that
Hi Emma I also love Wilko for gardening, good prices I grew the yellow Tom's last year they were so sweet and loads of them also just put some radish in to try , and started the same peas as you also put some Cosmos in and 🍅 seeds it's just so good to get out , climbing the walls inside but it's been pretty kind the weather here in Shropshire this week. Really enjoyed your video always do you make me laugh when you curse. Hugs 🌼
WILKO is the best!
I grow crimson crush they are blight resistant, and you get a good crop.
Hi Emma I was devastated when you talked about giving up you’re Allotment Plot, I hope that’s not too much pressure, lol. I just found you on TH-cam but you have inspired me so much to garden. My partner loves gardening and I so want to get involved with her. I have tried and had flops like you but you persevere. Love ya, many thanks I’m gonna try again thank you. Roy.
good time to start peppers and chillies, the early start really helps.
Hi there Emma, just came across your video, thanks for all the tips, keep it up you doing a great job, I wish there's a lot more young people doing what you doing, I loved your sense of humour too, 😂, bye & good luck for now, ;
I am also looking at sewing the following in pots, and indoors. Chilli seeds, Tomatillo, and Cucamelon.
amazing video 😍😍😍😍
Forgot to mention your rubarb you can plant up in a deep container but leave for the first year
On the second year you can force rubard by putting a large container over it now you find you get smaller stems but sweeter in taste. Plus you can only force every it her year. Also next year you did the rubsrb up and split the plant with a spade so from crown you could get two or three plants.
Water rubarb well in dry weather and give a feed well rotted horse
C..p. blood fish and bone the plant establised for the first year remember don't pick any stems this first year as testing as nay be just take off and dead leaves or dryed stems. Sorry fir going on 😆
Very delightful video once again!
Thanks for sharing!
Hi Emma, try to avoid the F1 hybrid seeds and go for heirloom varieties. You can save yourself money and save the seeds for growing the following year, which you can’t do with the hybrid varieties. There are some amazing heirloom tomatoes you’d love growing for taste and their unusual colours.
Thank you Emma. I have just found your channel and it is exactly what I need. I particularly enjoyed your young plant/teenager analogy, very funny! Congratulations and I look forward to enjoying the journey with you.
Thank you so much, so glad you enjoy my channel. I like to keep things real over here! 😂
Hi Emma, you have an interesting selection for February. Two tomatoes I will recommend are: Kelloggs Breakfast (beefsteak) and Sweet Apertiff (cherry). You will love them
What a delightful young lady
I've got the very same pea packet from Wilkinson's & today put some in the porch in little pots
I had one khol Rabbi last year and it was delish . Rhubarb is very productive once established. Roasted with a bit of sugar is lovely. I have just down some sweet peas they come every day for weeks and weeks and smell lovely. You can use peas from the dried peas packet from the supermarket if you want a cheap alternative. You need to soak them first.
Great video Emma...I luv the chit chit chit haha 😄
Hello Emma. Have you got a video showing your allotment planner please?
That will teach you to look at the seed packet to see how many seeds are in the pack lol, They do seem to have cut down on seeds especially tomato. Nice vid by the way
Very nice sharing 👍
Loved your video very informative I have liked and subscribed to show support for your channel.....best wishes and hugs from Scotland 🙂🤗
Emma the beef stake toms are called that because there a bigger tom.
I grow them to make pastar sauces from them and tom and 🥕 soup.
Just beware starting toms now is OK if going in a grenhouse but if your planting out on the plot try and put sowing till march.
I to get most if my seeds from good old wilkos like you said price great choice and good germination rate. I sure I think its kings seeds who supply the seeds to wilkos that's why there so good. All the best 💘 your vids takes care emma
I always start my peas in some water shooting, cut to the length that suits you and when they have come through you can make a nice trench and just slide the peas out of the shooting straight into the trench, east peasy.
I tend to wait till the middle of the month of my lovely tomatoes! I can’t wait I LOVE LoVE tomatoes
nice guide got some really useful tips. I'm a total beginner I plan on growing some veg this year I order a load of different seeds from amazon that I should get on Monday. Also need to make a veg patch in my garden.
Thanks for the Wilko tip seeds are now astronomically priced.
I love Desiree ,,a good all rounder that is quite disease resistant,, I grow Charlotte as well,, very nice indeed,, I save some of mine from last years harvest ,,same with garlic ,, save a few pennies,, it’s great to see the next generation into growing their own food,, well done Emma ,, 👏👏👏, best wishes, Lisa
We did peas in guttering last season. They were amazing and so easy to transplant.
I'm going to sow my tomatoes next month, I've sown my peas and will be sowing chillies and aubergines. Desiree is a really nice potato grew them last year and one of the varieties I'm growing this year.
I buy jacks magic and sieve it for seedlings think your better off soaking the peas over night, beefy toms refer to size I think,
I started my pepper plants already in the house on the window still and yes i must agree with you with reddish i always get better corps early sowing
Love your vids xxx sow peas in piece of guttering n when ready slide into place....peach n nectarine long plastics tray...they work 😋 as not disturbing roots xx
Emma, you can sow your peas in a plastic gutter which you can simply slide out into the growing spot once they are big enough to be uninteresting to mice or pidgeons.
Is this a perforated tube in the ground? Or an actual gutter you keep on the sill?
Weekend blessingZ, thanks for a great vlog Emma,
I'm chitting 2 different varieties of potatoes atm on my windowsill, I've also sown some tomatoes, cauliflower, calendula,alpine strawberries, chillies ,round carrots,
Hoping for a better year on my plot this year,I have mine on windowsill and then going to transplant out,
As I have mice and rats on my plot so thanks for toure advice, x
Omg where have you been hiding! Looking to make our household more sustainable as I have lost my job and your video is amazing! Can't wait to get started on my food growing journey x
Oh wow, that's amazing!! So happy to hear this and best of luck. Just start whacking stuff out, you'll get the hang on it! x
@@emmasallotmentdiaries aww thanks for replying hun that means a lot. Just about to go spend my last paycheck on some seeds so fingers crossed! X
I grew rhubarb from seed in a pot last year it’s regrowing already I may transplant it in my allotment
Top tip buy your Wilko seeds for next year in the middle of August.... 75% off
Emma, hold the seed packet still! How can we read it when you shake it about!
Hi Emma. What a refreshing video thank you for your tips. Sadly I don’t have an allotment only containers in my back yard. Here in Rossendale our cold winters are very cold and this leads me to ask “do you have a outside thermometer.
I also like the fact that you shop at Wilco for your seeds etc.
Thank you for your original lovely video
I sow peas in mid February, in cell trays in the polytunnel, then plant them out as soon as they start to grow. I'm in a very different climate to you, on an alpine mountainside in Italy, and I find that things grow like crazy. I plant about 300 peas and they're ready to harvest in late May. Tomatoes are already growing, germinated in the house on a warm mat, so they'll be potted on and out into the tunnel next month ( grow them for the neighbours, so I've got 120 at the moment). peppers and chillies are already to pot on. The summer heat here stops me from growing radishes, spinach, salad etc in the summer as it all goes straight to seed so they go in the tunnel in the winter, along with herbs like dill and coriander. Desiree potatoes are good main crop, they're well flavoured and they store really well. And make excellent chips!
i did in my bed in october ,they came up lovely ,i had 2 lovely rows of shoots covered ,then wind blew it off and pigeons had an all you can eat buffet,gutted.x
Thank you very useful information and add inspiration to my farm
I love growing rhubarb but I tend to love to grow anything that doesn't require any yearly sowing. ;)
Emma you are smashing, I wish you every success with the channel.
My rhubarb just comes up every year without me doing anything, I love it!
I agree, Wilko is good for seeds👍👍
I found a Sun Baby tomatoes are specially good for UK summer. There are sweetest one and quick to ripen. Good luck
Hi! Thanks for this video it was so helpful for a beginner like me ! Just wondering, I have sown my peas like you did.. when you put them into the ground, will you put each compartment into the ground with the soil and plants from that compartment where they might be two plants together or would you separate them all (even the plants that grow together in one of the compartments) ?
Hello I could be wrong but i understand that you put seed potatoes in a light place out of 'direct' sunlight
My ruhbarb is growing in large pots from last year and are already shooting up quite big. My potatoes are growing in a tonnage bag so they aren't taking up too much room and can just be moved out of the way if needed 😊
Rhubarb grows so easily from seed. It's so much fun.
Just come across your videos, you're very inspiring. I can't wait to get stuck into gardening this year. Looking forward to more videos 🍅🌿
Thanks so much, so glad you enjoy my channel. Can’t wait to get started myself! Come one spring! X
I went for the sun baby and supersteak f1 too.
WRT just a few seeds in the packet.... See..... That's why we save seeds! Never know when you'll get a surprise like that!
Rats/mice dug up my corn seeds, ate the greens of my beets, DEFINITELY always eat my poppies, and they actually ate the growth/vine of peas we grew last year also !!! BTW, I totally agree with you about the ALL-PURPOSE-ness of most formulations of soil. I get lots of coconut coir regularly, and every soil/compost mixture that I prepare for anything (groundscaping as well as containers of any size or plant) is based on a high proportion of coconut coir (often 50% and up to nearly 100% in some cases, like more for seeds and rooting) mixed with whatever active, organic compost I can procure, plus whatever other organic goodies I want to include, like more potent granular/powdered nutritious materials (i.e. crab, kelp, seed-meals, minerals, etc...). There is great overlap on how most of the mixtures are composed, just some extreme outliers for, say, cacti where I will use a higher ratio of "sharp sand" or grit, or like, seed starting, where I will use almost purely coconut coir with just some worm castings and maybe some powdered organics. Other than those kinds of outliers, most of my mixtures are essentially the same thing... coir for porous, propped-open, permeable and breathing/draining structure... organic matter in active decomposition fostering living "soil" microbes (i.e. "compost)... whatever other organic nutritious goodies I want to add. Great video Emma, happy Springtime !🌷🌷🌷🐛🦋
I was told by one of the old timers on my allotment that Crimson Crush tomatoes are very good in terms of resisting blight.
Thank you for adding this - starting to sow and chit a few bits this year and had no idea how to start, thank you!
I started early last year but many plants perished in late frosts and since they keep banging on about the beast from the east
I grew Crimson Crush last year. They were really tasty and I had loads of tomatoes from four plants.
Hi Emma loved your video & I love wikos too lv Irene xx 😘
My rhubarb is over 50 years old. Once you've got one it basically lasts forever just like strawberries;)
Love your videos Emma! Ive planted tomatoes and cosmos too 😊!
How do we know the seeds aren’t genetically modified? Great video. Thanks
Crimson Crush is very blight resistant. Have grown them next to plants that got blight and they were OK. Very late in the season they get blight in my experience, however this is a month or two after all the other tomatoes have already died due to blight.
I will be purchasing your planner, eventually. I think it’s a very good, user friendly planner. 👍🏻
We can get frost through until may in Uk, I lost a number of pea plants by planting out too early. Personally I wont be starting my peas until late march (inside) as they fare better and everything catches up as the weather gets much warmer.
Hi yes Wilco and great get seed a coconut compost to with mixed up with other compost ok I Ms Caroline from Hucknall outsiders Nottingham ok
Love the video . First one I seen if urs 👏. In the past when I’ve chitted my potatoes they’ve gone green have you got any advice to stop this happening pls ?
I expect feb to may covers different regions as it’s warmer in the south.
Rhubarb does best in well manured ground, horse muck or cow if you can get it, keep well watered
Loved this video, you're so funny and natural with the teenagers comment and chit chit chit, I agree great word! Do you have a 2023 planner for sale? We had rhubarb in my last rental garden - so brilliant once it's going & grows so fast. Great for giving to friends & family ☺️ I've just sewed spinach seeds into mini pots and put in my Aldi greenhouse. Nice to know I can get started on some other things too!
I really wanted to have a go at growing peas but I was afraid of attracting mice. So as long as I start them indoors, should be ok?
Can't entirely rule out attracting mice if you're growing food I suppose, but I don't want to actively encourage them.
I love this channel and I’ve just bought your book on Amazon. Keep up the good work!