Oh my goodness, you can watch a thousand channels ranging from bad to passable but it’s a rare day when you find an absolute gem like this. You are so naturally funny Emma and don’t make me feel like an absolute duffus for not knowing everything. I feel like I can go into my garden for the first time since I abandoned everything when life hit me so very hard 6 years ago and my interest in it went away and feel hope x
Staple some thick plastic sheeting against the shed to prevent the compost rotting the side of the shed away. Take it under the compost and anchor in place with some bricks to keep it all in place
So refreshing. New subscriber. I started growing 3 years ago too. I love that your videos are real with disasters and little trips, it makes it so relatable. There's a lot to admire, just getting on with it and having a go. The little tree stump - I've got a one of those coming up through concrete, a nightmare to get rid of it just won't die and I won't use chemicals so just keep cutting down. Looking forward to seeing more. Love that your trying seeds in February that say April on the packet. I'm gonna try that too.
Just discovered your channel recently and love it. The tree growing in your patio is probably a Sycamore, a pernicious weed! It has the helicopter blade type seed which gets everywhere and once established difficult to remove as you demonstrated. Cut the tough stuff (compost) into small pieces, bag it and throw away. Keep the good work up and I'm looking forward to your next video.
Hi Emma, just found your channel and am watching all your videos ! Love how you make it look so easy and fun ! You inspired me to make a start on my overgrown garden and get out in the sun today !! 🤗😊🤗
Hi Emma, your coir will need more water, I find it best to leave for 30 minutes or more in a heap of water, then strain out. With the Blueberries they love a High Acid soil to thrive - best planted in an Azelea potting mix only and they will thrive and give you a good harvest. I have 5 plants in pots and when in season can pick a heap daily.
Happy Birthday Emma. I personally would not put the compost against the shed, as when it starts to rot down, so will your shed. I had that with a previous neighbour, which ruined my summer house. Get some loppers for the tree branches, you will not regret it.
You need some loppers or a saw for the tough branches in the heap. Love your phrase "Wack em in", it makes me laugh. I've got a new allotment so I'm finding your enthusiasm infective. Great inspiration.
Fab video Emma. When you grow verbena, they take ages to germinate, don’t lose hope. 🙂 Put them in a big group a few inches from each other in all directions. This is the best bit…. Every February chop them right down to about 6” and they always come back stronger than ever each year. I LOVE them and so do the bees and butterflies. Mine get to 5 ft.❤️❤️🌻🌷
Another year around the sun Emma, we love the sun here, have another great year around this lovely sun (when it decides to come out!) As for feedback on today's VLOG - it's one of your best ones yet, natural, fun (i chuckled aloud at least half a dozen times) and informative. Make sure you re-label those seeds in the cellophaned tray in the outdoor greenhouse as the paper will rot down and then you'll have to play the old "what the heck did i plant here game" I've been cutting up some strips from old plastic bottles and using a marker pen - cheap as chips for labelling stuff and less for landfill. So grab that camera more often, the best vids are the spontaneous ones!
I have just used coir for first time today aswell I made it up in a basin then added water and swirled it around with my hand and repotted my Christmas cactus plant. I might do the same as you as I bought cosmos seed from Wilkos today 🌈
Great vid. You have me cracking up with the seed starting coir?? And the seeds all looking the same and going everywhere!!! I can absolutely relate!!! Thanks for making me smile and have a great day!!! 😊
"Am I really going to want to look after that many plants?" 😂😂 I am new to your channel and find you so relatable, I am also very indecisive and forever talking to myself or plants 😂💚 currently binge watching you videos while sowing seeds, love you channel 🥰
Many happy returns! Spend the day on my balcony in Rotterdam: cleaning up (rearranging pots basically), sowing lathyrus and spinach. Planted my violets a few weeks ago. Your garden looks lovely, I can imagine it all in bloom. Glad I found your channel!
Hiya Emma Happy Birthday fellow Aquarian. Truly enjoyed visit with you today all sorts of lovely things happening. As I have mentioned in past comments noo advice from me so I like the comments from others it’s all about sharing and learning. Blessings luv southern Ontario Canada Thankyou 🐝🇨🇦
I love your channel Emma ... so honest and refreshing ... and hilarious, really cheers me up. Have gone back and started watching all your vids from the start ... bloody fox (or is it the cat) 😃
Happy birthday, love your videos, just one thing to consider the compost heap might rot the shed and fence, I am not sure but my pallets never last long.
Many herbs are perennial: the mints, thyme, rosemary, sage, and a bunch of others. Parsley, basil, dill, cilantro, the delicate leafy ones usually due back. I was surprised your parsley survived since you had such low temps. Keep up the great work
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Emma! Yes to roses....one of my favorite - well...one among my many favorites. Love your backyard garden too! There's always 'bits' of interest in your vlogs Emma, especially your humor! Things will take a bit longer to germinate when there's no additional warmth but those plants will be super hardy. Enjoyed the video - thanks for sharing! Be well - many blessings! Cheers...
Don't let your compost heap dry out, keep moist in dry spells and maybe keep covered, old carpet is good, also a good plan to turn it out occasionally putting the top back in first, hard work but rewarding
Regarding that brown spongy thing - when I use those pressed and dried bricks of turf, I'd soak them in water for at least half an hour or up to an hour and then there is no need to smash them - you can just stir it and use like a liquid fertilizer (not really a compost because it's liquid then). And happy birthday 🎂 (it's my birthday also this week 😊). And about blueberries 🫐 there are really variety of them - I can't promise the proper names of them but there are larger and smaller fruit, later or earlier crop, sweet or tart by the taste. There is to choose from. I hadn't big success yet - I did plant it on my allotment but it doesn't feel doing well. I've researched conditions and stuff. They say easy to grow but still not my case..
Hi Emma. I hope youhad a lovely birthday. You will find your blueberry will do better with some ericaceous or slightly acid compost or soil with a slightly lower PH. Good luck with it. I had a pub lunch for my birthday today xx.
1.Oregano? 2.Cosmos are the best! 🌺🌺🌼🌸🌸🌸💐💐💐 3. Coco-Coir - just go and have a cuppa and it will be done. Yes it wanted x2 water. I mix it 50/50 with multipurpose compost for seeds as I overwater. Be warned it drains freely, not much goodness in it but good enough for starting seeds.
Love your videos, so inspiring! I might have a herniated disc but I'm still going to be out in my garden making a mini paradise! Thanks for all the humour and happiness you bring.
Hiya Your name made me lol BettyBoop was a nickname from others in high school a long time ago. Re apparently was my laugh?! Lol blessings luv Ontario Canada 🐝🇨🇦
Happy belated birthday Emma. I always enjoy watching you. Remember none of us knew anything when we started gardening. We just did "trial and error" and figured it out. :)
Great video. Always look in Poundland, Home Bargains, Wilko, Aldi, Lidl and B&M for plants. I got 6 roses this year from Home Bargains for £1.99 each plus 2 gooseberries and a raspberry.
To expand the coir add twice the amount of water warm water seems to work best. Your garden is looking ready for spring, I stopped planting tulips after the squirrels kept eating them.
Happy birthday Emma, am new to your channel and am hooked already,such fun, love how you talk to everything. I've been gardening for yrs now and you have the kind of wonderment (is that even a word?) That i still have .looking forward to the next installment. 😁
Yeah I def feel you on the coir. I find it best to put warm ish water than cold and leave it for 10 min (make sure there’s plenty of water) but there’sno wrong way of doing it. Love your methods!
I was going to say the same thing. I had three in my tiny yard, different varieties, and had loads of blueberries this year. Although the evil frost before Christmas murdered one of them. At my community well-being garden I also have three and they do well. All in pots with ericaceous compost. Xxx
Chop your herbs down to about 4,, they always grow back but thicker and stronger,had mine for years.Wish l new it was your Birthday 🎂 l would love to have got you something.
I live in a colder zone z6 in US) with a freezing and snowy long winter - for me the parsley, thyme, sage and oregano all come back 😊 But it's too cold in winter for my rosemary - they die here, unless really well protected.
The bendy tree 🤭🤣🤣🤣. The garden waste may rot your shed and fence quicker than it makes compost. Some councils have free compost bins available. Bring you garden shears home, cut up what’s in the corner and place in bin with rest of garden waste. Like you have done on allotment.
I spread my chunky garden waste out on the lawn and use my electric lawn mower that cuts it up small in no time. I use to take it to rhe allotment when I had one The council collect some of our garden waste costs £50 a year. This week I did rhe cutting a big bag of chopped up tough twigs half the size of a wheeley bin I am going to use it in my flower tubs so I have 2/3rds of chopped up twigs and 1/3rd diy compost a 66% saving. worked a treat in previous years. Re CATS the pollen from lillies is also dangerous for many animals when they lick it boff their fur. Website for Cats/Lillies are full of warnings. Cheers one happy birthday from a fellow acquarian to another.
I've just found your channel and love your 'can do attitude' but PLEASE move your compost/dumping place as your shed will rot with the moisture. You could think about putting a barrier between it and the shed.
Tulip bulbs are highly toxic which is why when planting you should keep dogs and especially a puppy away, until they are firmly planted. Cats keep away from them and will not eat them. If ingested they will cause vomiting diarrhoea and if not taken to a vet in time possibly death.
My favourite channel....who else just loves Emma 💞 she always makes me happy 😊 Put your tools away missus or they will rust 😆😘😉🤗💐
Emma, please don’t keep your compost up against your shed, the shed boards will rot away.
Yes...u might line those with some unrotted material like plastic
Oh my goodness, you can watch a thousand channels ranging from bad to passable but it’s a rare day when you find an absolute gem like this. You are so naturally funny Emma and don’t make me feel like an absolute duffus for not knowing everything. I feel like I can go into my garden for the first time since I abandoned everything when life hit me so very hard 6 years ago and my interest in it went away and feel hope x
I agree, we don't know what we are doing, but we ain't stupid. It can be done, just whack stuff in.
Oh my do you think that compost pile behind the shed may rot out the shed wall?
I
can see Gardeners world as competition never change Emma your awesome
Staple some thick plastic sheeting against the shed to prevent the compost rotting the side of the shed away. Take it under the compost and anchor in place with some bricks to keep it all in place
Great plan, thank you! X
So refreshing. New subscriber. I started growing 3 years ago too. I love that your videos are real with disasters and little trips, it makes it so relatable. There's a lot to admire, just getting on with it and having a go. The little tree stump - I've got a one of those coming up through concrete, a nightmare to get rid of it just won't die and I won't use chemicals so just keep cutting down. Looking forward to seeing more. Love that your trying seeds in February that say April on the packet. I'm gonna try that too.
And this is why we love watching your channel Emma! 😆
Just discovered your channel recently and love it.
The tree growing in your patio is probably a Sycamore, a pernicious weed! It has the helicopter blade type seed which gets everywhere and once established difficult to remove as you demonstrated.
Cut the tough stuff (compost) into small pieces, bag it and throw away.
Keep the good work up and I'm looking forward to your next video.
Hi Emma, just found your channel and am watching all your videos ! Love how you make it look so easy and fun ! You inspired me to make a start on my overgrown garden and get out in the sun today !! 🤗😊🤗
Hi Emma, your coir will need more water, I find it best to leave for 30 minutes or more in a heap of water, then strain out. With the Blueberries they love a High Acid soil to thrive - best planted in an Azelea potting mix only and they will thrive and give you a good harvest. I have 5 plants in pots and when in season can pick a heap daily.
Happy Birthday Emma. I personally would not put the compost against the shed, as when it starts to rot down, so will your shed. I had that with a previous neighbour, which ruined my summer house. Get some loppers for the tree branches, you will not regret it.
I always sowed my seeds early so they get more growth on them great video as always
I've watched 3 of your videos today and laughed out loud at every one. Trouble is you're stopping me from gardening! 😂
Im new 2 your channel . I love your content . Gardening is a learning curve . X
I love your vlog! You seem very resourceful, ready to try new things. Thanks for making me laugh.
You need some loppers or a saw for the tough branches in the heap. Love your phrase "Wack em in", it makes me laugh. I've got a new allotment so I'm finding your enthusiasm infective. Great inspiration.
Oh i love this channel. Emma you have me laughing out loud on the bus 😂
Fab video Emma. When you grow verbena, they take ages to germinate, don’t lose hope. 🙂 Put them in a big group a few inches from each other in all directions. This is the best bit…. Every February chop them right down to about 6” and they always come back stronger than ever each year. I LOVE them and so do the bees and butterflies. Mine get to 5 ft.❤️❤️🌻🌷
Emma, I'm finding your Vlog a joy to watch. Keep on Growing..................>
watching you potter always makes me giggle keep going
Hope you had a wonderful birthday!! Great way to spend birthday money!!!
I love this channel so much!
Always a joy, love your attitude to this gardening lark 🌱🌱🙂
Hi Emma HAPPY 🎉BIRTHDAY 🎉love your video lv Irene 😘 xx
Another year around the sun Emma, we love the sun here, have another great year around this lovely sun (when it decides to come out!)
As for feedback on today's VLOG - it's one of your best ones yet, natural, fun (i chuckled aloud at least half a dozen times) and informative.
Make sure you re-label those seeds in the cellophaned tray in the outdoor greenhouse as the paper will rot down and then you'll have to play the old "what the heck did i plant here game"
I've been cutting up some strips from old plastic bottles and using a marker pen - cheap as chips for labelling stuff and less for landfill.
So grab that camera more often, the best vids are the spontaneous ones!
PS ammend your description when you get a moment as it says "2022 is my third year on my plot"
It's 2023 Emma - get with the times ;)
I love how you talk to your plants, I do the same! You talking to that ivy in your window box had me laughing! New follower from Canada! 🌱
Lol, yes I am always nattering away to my plants! Haha! Thanks for following x
Great vlog Emma,
Thank you,x
I’m new to your channel and am really enjoying your honesty and joyful content. Keep doing what you do how you do it 🤗🌱💐
We use the coir, it needs about half an hour soaking in warmish water to get it all rehydrated 😊
I have just used coir for first time today aswell I made it up in a basin then added water and swirled it around with my hand and repotted my Christmas cactus plant. I might do the same as you as I bought cosmos seed from Wilkos today 🌈
May I suggest an electric chipper for your compost pile, it's not that big, easily storable. Things compost so much faster chopped into little pieces.
Great vid. You have me cracking up with the seed starting coir?? And the seeds all looking the same and going everywhere!!! I can absolutely relate!!! Thanks for making me smile and have a great day!!! 😊
Have you thought about using plastic containers strips and markers for labels on your seedlings?
Happy belated birthday! I love listening/watching you garden while I garden or nursing a sick child. So glad I found your vlog.
From one Emma to another - organised chaos is how we roll 😂 keep going! I’m winging it as much as you ❤️
"Am I really going to want to look after that many plants?" 😂😂 I am new to your channel and find you so relatable, I am also very indecisive and forever talking to myself or plants 😂💚 currently binge watching you videos while sowing seeds, love you channel 🥰
Oh so glad you enjoy my videos! x
I think blueberry plants are like apple trees, you need at least two near each other for pollination x
Many happy returns! Spend the day on my balcony in Rotterdam: cleaning up (rearranging pots basically), sowing lathyrus and spinach. Planted my violets a few weeks ago. Your garden looks lovely, I can imagine it all in bloom. Glad I found your channel!
Hiya Emma Happy Birthday fellow Aquarian. Truly enjoyed visit with you today all sorts of lovely things happening. As I have mentioned in past comments noo advice from me so I like the comments from others it’s all about sharing and learning. Blessings luv southern Ontario Canada Thankyou 🐝🇨🇦
Hi Emma, you have a wonderful garden I'm surprised you need an allotment to be honest, but good luck to you and the fun you're having!
I love your channel Emma ... so honest and refreshing ... and hilarious, really cheers me up. Have gone back and started watching all your vids from the start ... bloody fox (or is it the cat) 😃
Hello Emma...from USA. You are such a delight! I Love your channel. 👍❤️
South west Canada, my herbs are alive too. Total surprise to me. Just left in 1 gallon pots for the winter 🤷♀️
Yes! Pottering around and less structured videos are great too!
Happy birthday, love your videos, just one thing to consider the compost heap might rot the shed and fence, I am not sure but my pallets never last long.
You have become my new favorite channel. Thanks for all you do!
Happy Birthday Emma 🎂🎉🎊You have a nice little greenhouse in your backyard 👍
Happy belated birthday Emma, and welcome to rose club, let me know how you get on with your rose's please :D
Happy Birthday Emma 🎈 🎉 🎊 🎂 🥳 🎁
Love from Ireland 🇮🇪 xx
Although blueberries are self fertile, they do better if there are a couple of them together.
Many herbs are perennial: the mints, thyme, rosemary, sage, and a bunch of others.
Parsley, basil, dill, cilantro, the delicate leafy ones usually due back. I was surprised your parsley survived since you had such low temps. Keep up the great work
My parsley is still going strong and it’s been in about 14 hard frosts since November 🙈 love it!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Emma! Yes to roses....one of my favorite - well...one among my many favorites. Love your backyard garden too! There's always 'bits' of interest in your vlogs Emma, especially your humor! Things will take a bit longer to germinate when there's no additional warmth but those plants will be super hardy. Enjoyed the video - thanks for sharing! Be well - many blessings! Cheers...
Don't let your compost heap dry out, keep moist in dry spells and maybe keep covered, old carpet is good, also a good plan to turn it out occasionally putting the top back in first, hard work but rewarding
Emma, I absolutely adore your videos. I live in South Africa. You’re so lucky to have an allotment. I envy you. Don’t stop your quirkiness. Love it ❤
Ah thank you so much! X
Regarding that brown spongy thing - when I use those pressed and dried bricks of turf, I'd soak them in water for at least half an hour or up to an hour and then there is no need to smash them - you can just stir it and use like a liquid fertilizer (not really a compost because it's liquid then).
And happy birthday 🎂 (it's my birthday also this week 😊).
And about blueberries 🫐 there are really variety of them - I can't promise the proper names of them but there are larger and smaller fruit, later or earlier crop, sweet or tart by the taste. There is to choose from. I hadn't big success yet - I did plant it on my allotment but it doesn't feel doing well. I've researched conditions and stuff. They say easy to grow but still not my case..
Hi Emma. I hope youhad a lovely birthday. You will find your blueberry will do better with some ericaceous or slightly acid compost or soil with a slightly lower PH. Good luck with it. I had a pub lunch for my birthday today xx.
I laughed so much with this blog 😅 you’re so much fun. I like your videos
1.Oregano?
2.Cosmos are the best! 🌺🌺🌼🌸🌸🌸💐💐💐
3. Coco-Coir - just go and have a cuppa and it will be done. Yes it wanted x2 water. I mix it 50/50 with multipurpose compost for seeds as I overwater. Be warned it drains freely, not much goodness in it but good enough for starting seeds.
Yes herbs will winter over here in Michigan too. Not rosemary though, I have to bring mine in.
The Tesco near me has been selling fruit bushes and roses so cheap recently. Worth a look.
Happy birthday Emma.
Thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you Emma, good work!🎉
Love your videos, so inspiring! I might have a herniated disc but I'm still going to be out in my garden making a mini paradise! Thanks for all the humour and happiness you bring.
Happy belated birthday 🎂🎂
Happy belated birthday, you remind me of myself in my younger days...nothing ever goes as planned❤️🌷🌻
Hiya Your name made me lol BettyBoop was a nickname from others in high school a long time ago. Re apparently was my laugh?! Lol blessings luv Ontario Canada 🐝🇨🇦
Happy belated birthday Emma. I always enjoy watching you. Remember none of us knew anything when we started gardening. We just did "trial and error" and figured it out. :)
I use warm and those disks will expand easier x
Happy Birthday Emma finally 21🎂🍾
Great video. Always look in Poundland, Home Bargains, Wilko, Aldi, Lidl and B&M for plants. I got 6 roses this year from Home Bargains for £1.99 each plus 2 gooseberries and a raspberry.
Yes I’ve seen a few raspberry plants in wilko. Just need to find a place for them! X
To expand the coir add twice the amount of water warm water seems to work best. Your garden is looking ready for spring, I stopped planting tulips after the squirrels kept eating them.
Oh no! The squirrels used to get mine too but they’ve left the newer ones alone x
Girl your a hoot. Keep up the good work
Happy birthday Emma, am new to your channel and am hooked already,such fun, love how you talk to everything. I've been gardening for yrs now and you have the kind of wonderment (is that even a word?) That i still have .looking forward to the next installment. 😁
Amazing, so glad you enjoy them so much. I like to keep things real! X
Hope you had a lovely Birthday! Loving your videos :)
happy b-day! you just funny thank you for that :)
The herb you couldn't recall is oregano 😊
Yeah I def feel you on the coir. I find it best to put warm ish water than cold and leave it for 10 min (make sure there’s plenty of water) but there’sno wrong way of doing it.
Love your methods!
Thanks for the tip!
I think your blueberry plant needs a mate to produce better, depending on the type of plant. You might want research that. Great videos
I was going to say the same thing. I had three in my tiny yard, different varieties, and had loads of blueberries this year. Although the evil frost before Christmas murdered one of them. At my community well-being garden I also have three and they do well. All in pots with ericaceous compost. Xxx
Hi, I was thinking the same, why not plant the new one next to the old one at the alotment? They will hjelp polinate eachother 😊
Chop your herbs down to about 4,, they always grow back but thicker and stronger,had mine for years.Wish l new it was your Birthday 🎂 l would love to have got you something.
Oh thanks for the tip! Your support over the past few years has been more than enough, thank you! Xx
I live in a colder zone z6 in US) with a freezing and snowy long winter - for me the parsley, thyme, sage and oregano all come back 😊 But it's too cold in winter for my rosemary - they die here, unless really well protected.
Great price on your blueberry, I paid nearly three times that. They prefer ericaceous soil, but you know that.
Yes I looked that up! I’ll buy an ericaceous feed I think. x
Hi Emma. You really cheer me up each day, keep up the gardening. Hope you planted your blueberry in Ericaceous compost?
No I haven’t but I’ll buy an ericaceous feed for it! X
And grow your blueberries together as they need the cross pollination.
They used to eat tulip bulbs during WW2 as there was no food. So even humans can eat tulips. 😂 love your channel. ❤
Oh wow that’s amazing! X
Happy birthday ❤
You do make me laugh Emma. Keep up the good work 👏
The bendy tree 🤭🤣🤣🤣. The garden waste may rot your shed and fence quicker than it makes compost. Some councils have free compost bins available. Bring you garden shears home, cut up what’s in the corner and place in bin with rest of garden waste. Like you have done on allotment.
I spread my chunky garden waste out on the lawn and use my electric lawn mower that cuts it up small in no time. I use to take it to rhe allotment when I had one The council collect some of our garden waste costs £50 a year. This week I did rhe cutting a big bag of chopped up tough twigs half the size of a wheeley bin I am going to use it in my flower tubs so I have 2/3rds of chopped up twigs and 1/3rd diy compost a 66% saving. worked a treat in previous years. Re CATS the pollen from lillies is also dangerous for many animals when they lick it boff their fur. Website for Cats/Lillies are full of warnings. Cheers one happy birthday from a fellow acquarian to another.
Happy bday! Can you link the shoes you're wearing? They are cute
Hi Emma , I'm a plot holder last 3 years 🥒🍅🥦🌽
Can I ask where you got your blue cardigan from? Love it!
It’s from m&s! Xx
Invest in some pruners and shears for your home garden……
Sad to hear Rosemary is indestructible. I have just got an allotment at the weekend, and I've inherited THREE hu-uge bushes of the stuff!
Haha! I’m afraid mine have survived everything so far. Even my gardening techniques! Lol x
Hi Emma,when can't I start sowing my veg seeds,can I start growing in the house
I think blueberries might need 2 plants in order to produce so it might be better to put it with your other one
I have heard this too! A good excuse to go back for more plants! Haha! X
@@emmasallotmentdiaries and by the way please keep doing what you are doing. One of the mō entertaining channels i watch and you really do cheer me up
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I've just found your channel and love your 'can do attitude' but PLEASE move your compost/dumping place as your shed will rot with the moisture. You could think about putting a barrier between it and the shed.
Will do! Thanks for the tip! x
why didn’t you use a saw for the tree
Emma you are hilarious
Tulip bulbs are highly toxic which is why when planting you should keep dogs and especially a puppy away, until they are firmly planted. Cats keep away from them and will not eat them. If ingested they will cause vomiting diarrhoea and if not taken to a vet in time possibly death.
you need to hire a chipper for the day
The coir just let it expand 5 time in water before smash it