Hi Emma I hope your Dave tells you how proud he is of you and what you have achieved on your plot it looks amazing but I think you need a seating area to look over the beds when it all starts to grow could you start a Emma fund to help you out with the seeds and plants plus help to get you a few more tools that you will need plus make the pond larger the birds could come and drink and bath
Do you have a seating area on your plot? I wonder if that area under the tree, surrounded by cornflowers and sweet peas, overlooking the wildlife patch would be a nice spot to sit and chill....😊
Hi Emma. I have been watching your channel since you started and I must say, I am so amazed by you. I am 66 years old and grew up in the vegetable garden with my dad. I have always grown food and also love other plants -- just about all plants. But I have always had one problem. I look out at a big job that needs to be done and I become so overwhelmed that I just go back inside and say it can't be done, or I can't ever get that done. You, on the other hand, tackle a big job a little bit at a time and have accomplished all that in just 4 months! I went back and looked at the first video of your new allotment after watching this one. Oh my goodness! You have done all that by yourself with basically a shovel, a rake, and a pair of shears. I am so inspired by you. I am going to approach my garden in a whole different light this year! And I will keep watching your videos. You go girl!
It's amazing how much you have achieved in the winter months from taking over an abandoned plot to what you have now,, well done!! I think if you invest in a digging fork you would be able to tackle the roots much easier than using a spade that tends to chop through the root systems
Hi Emma, I think you shouldn’t put beds in your new area. You have tripled in size this year and you are already going to have so much more work to do in spring. Your back bit would make a perfect play area, maybe a swing and few things for the kids and a table and chairs for you to rest, and maybe enjoy a freshly picked salad! If the kids can help design this area for themselves, they maybe more inclined to come down more in the spring and help, and as a fellow allotmenteer, I know how valuable that is! You’re doing a great job Emma, is look forward to your videos. Keep being yourself, you’re a fantastic ray of sunshine ❤
that kind of plastic membrane lasts for many years I wouldn't worry much about definitely the right choice to reuse it, the non permeable ground sheets I see on allotments are much worse they break down in a couple of years and disitinegrate into the soil, you've really worked wonders on that new plot
Hi Emma I think you are doing a brilliant job you have work so hard 👏👏👏👏 recycling the plastic is great 👍 that’s what I would’ve have done ? lv Irene 😘 xx
I think it's amazing that your reusing the plastic. Better than just chucking it in landfill. Please could you cover your water butts though. My sister had an awful experience last year. A Wood Pigeon drowned in hers 😞 I had gone for a drink or maybe a cool off and couldn't get back out. It was so upsetting for her and obviously the poor bird didn't make it. Wouldn't want you to have that happen in your wildlife area 🥰🥰
You are doing a great job. Love watching your journey. I am starting my first allotment and am enjoying it immensely. Not enjoying the slugs though. Dont listen about the plastic, don't feel guilty you are recycling and stopping the weeds. So less slugs!!1
Hi Emma love your videos and your lovely personality make it a pleasure to watch ....I was reading the comments from others and now I'm worried about Einstein falling in the water butt😢 he is a cutie 💓
My dear Emma….get yourself a fork!! It will make digging so much easier and the prongs will pull up the long roots much better, also better for your back! X
Love your vlogs Emma, have you thought about mushrooms for the log pile at the back? You could buy one innoculated log to lay on top of the pile or a bag of grain spore to cumble into the cracks & it could collonise the whole pile & start breaking everything down. Food & function 😁 I will be planning an area for mushrooms next year 🤞🏻
Your plot is amazing. I like the way you have reused the ground sheets. If you have extra, perhaps your neighbors could use some. Love the use of sticks to lay out your beds.
I think behind the arch should be a winding path, to a hidden seating nook along one edge of the path build a fence by weaving all of the branches etc you have, laying around to create the hidden oasis.
Another lovely video. I like the idea of the 3 beds at the back. I had the same thought when you said you were unsure what to do with the back. And I also thought a sweet pea tepee. Maybe a nasturtium teepee too near the pumpkins 🤎 Well done hun
You've reached the end of all that digging!!!! You should feel so blimin proud Emma! What will you plant in that back part apart from the planned cornflowers? Will they be your spud spaces? Are you going to try spuds this year at all? You've got three beds, you could do your first earlies, second earlies and your main crops in them. They get so much sun in that bit as you noted and that'll increase as the year goes on. A thought to ponder.
Emma I like your three beds for teepee, corn and salad area and then along the back flowers. ❤ It is looking great. Remember you don't have to plant in all your beds at once. You could keep some open to compost and settle in or put a green crop like Buckwheat to enrich the soil and when it flowers in autumn the bees love it
Hi Emma just need to tell u how much of an inspiration u are to me u make me so proud feel like we need an end of the plot party 🥳 u even have a personal coat hanger xx can't wait to do mine u gave me so much ideas xxx
If this doesn’t feature in a garden mag this year I’ll be amazed! You’ve worked your backside off and it’s looking bloomin amazing! Can’t wait to see it all in full bloom and full of lovely crops! Can’t wait to get to my plot tomorrow! ❤
Another great video, thanks Emma. I've finally been offered a half plot after waiting on the allotment list for almost 3 years and will be viewing it on Saturday. I'm so excited but also incredibly daunted by the fact I'll be taking it on by myself and without the benefit of a car to haul things to and from the site. Have been watching your videos for a while now and have learned a tonne from you Emma, so thank you for sharing your highs and lows with us all x
Hi Emma, I just wanted to comment and say the work that you have put into your allotment is incredible, it looks amazing! I’ve loved watching the progress you’ve made and seeing Einstein in each vlog x
Emma this is such amazing progress, I reckon a good idea for the back of your plot would be to dedicate the one square bed that you can see through the pumpkin archway entirely to your wildflowers, would make a really good viewpoint when looking from the front of the plot and through the archway to see all that colour, then agree with other commenters who have suggested scrambling clematis and rambling roses along the pile at the very back
That’s true for me most of the time. Jobs always take longer than I think. Currently repositioning three raised beds. Turns out it was way easier than I thought it would be. At least taking the biggest one apart and reassembling it was. What’s hard is shifting the soil over. It’s heavy because it’s quite wet from the rains and I mixed a lot of my Adobe soil into the compost when I set them up. You’re making great progress on your allotment.
Emma have you thought about 2 long beds along the back with path down the centre to get to the back bad or one long bed with 2 long beds Infront with maybe a path in the centre from the pumpkin archi don't think 3 or 4 beds is a good idea with tiny little paths make 2 better size beds be much more useful
I was blown away by how much work you've put in to get the plot ready for spring. But now I'm flabbergasted as to how you'll have the time and energy for planting and maintaining all that space through summer! I hope your friends and family are ingratiating themselves, because they're about to get a lot of surplus produce!
I know what you mean it does really feel like spring. I'm watching this on the 9th and I have been out cleaning the gardens and sowing seeds and it actually felt like April. Then last night the heavens opened all night it was unbelievable raining all day today but very mild. O I'm in Ireland 😊. The sunny southeast 😅 Your Robin is looking a little fat.
I truly enjoy your channel. I only found you around December, I think it was the one when you talked your husband into helping you. Any way you are really talented, and you always stay so clean. The 2 plots are looking awesome. I really enjoy the music you have in the background. Take care and garden on. Have a blessed weekend.
Your progress is inspiring. Depending on how the sun moves across the plot, that back area would be perfect for fruit trees, if the shadows dont fall on to the rest of the plot. it will create a little more privacy along the back fence as well
Amazing work Emma! All credit to you for doing all this hard work! 👏 Can't wait to see what your plot looks like in the summer...hopefully mine is half way towards yours and I'd be happy! 😂
My new plot is full of plastic sheet and I’m recycling as much of it as I can into paths like you. Plastic isn’t great, but taking it to the tip instead of using it seems very wasteful to me.
plot looks great well done , i cant get anything done in my garden its just been pouring down every single day ,if it were just a bit of drizzle i,d be out but its not .just have to hope for a nice day soon .
Wow Emma what an amazing job you are doing, i love your idea of the sweetpea teepee, i may have to do one in my garden as well, i am ordering all my bark and compost for my vegetable beds, i cant wait for the warmer weather x
I can only dream of a sunny day but I live in wales where the rain lives most of the year the wether forecast in wales winter rain spring rain summer rain and autumn rain lot of work done there and it’s looking good
I love your idea for a narrower path with the wildflowers it will look beautiful. The sun always rises in the east and yes the earth spins, hence we have day and night but east is always east otherwise east anglia would sometimes be west anglia 😂
great place to get large plastic sheets is a local timber merchant. timber is delivered and wrapped in huge thick plastic sheeting..im sure if you ask nicely they'll cut the sheeting off so its in perfect condition for covering ground. they're usually 16ft x 12ft.
after 43 years on aotments Ive learned not to feed the birds unless the seed cant reach the ground as you will atract the rats and when you get enough of them breeding they will start to eat your crops
Having been on this planet for over 80+ years, bird seed does not attract rats unless you feed them fat balls, what does attract rats is the vegetables.
Glad you had some sunshine here in Middlesbrough it rained all night and most of the day hope you have a great weekend and I wish you made A blog every day
on our allotments we get a lot of children visiting and I woud not like to give them a lung full of polution or any one on the ajoing plot@@dereknash3638
Personally would have found the boundaries, worked out how much room, write a list of what, want to grow fruit included, plus what perennial vegetables as well, then do a nine year planting plan for all the areas. This will keep you on track. As some fruit trees take time to produce fruit.
It's looking amazing.I think it's great that you reuse the plastic sheets . The plots look enormous now 👌 can't wait to see what you plant.
Hi Emma I hope your Dave tells you how proud he is of you and what you have achieved on your plot it looks amazing but I think you need a seating area to look over the beds when it all starts to grow could you start a Emma fund to help you out with the seeds and plants plus help to get you a few more tools that you will need plus make the pond larger the birds could come and drink and bath
Do you have a seating area on your plot? I wonder if that area under the tree, surrounded by cornflowers and sweet peas, overlooking the wildlife patch would be a nice spot to sit and chill....😊
I’ve never seen her sit down on any chair.. a little bench or swing would be cute
Hi Emma. I have been watching your channel since you started and I must say, I am so amazed by you. I am 66 years old and grew up in the vegetable garden with my dad. I have always grown food and also love other plants -- just about all plants. But I have always had one problem. I look out at a big job that needs to be done and I become so overwhelmed that I just go back inside and say it can't be done, or I can't ever get that done. You, on the other hand, tackle a big job a little bit at a time and have accomplished all that in just 4 months! I went back and looked at the first video of your new allotment after watching this one. Oh my goodness! You have done all that by yourself with basically a shovel, a rake, and a pair of shears. I am so inspired by you. I am going to approach my garden in a whole different light this year! And I will keep watching your videos. You go girl!
It's amazing how much you have achieved in the winter months from taking over an abandoned plot to what you have now,, well done!!
I think if you invest in a digging fork you would be able to tackle the roots much easier than using a spade that tends to chop through the root systems
Hi Emma, I think you shouldn’t put beds in your new area. You have tripled in size this year and you are already going to have so much more work to do in spring. Your back bit would make a perfect play area, maybe a swing and few things for the kids and a table and chairs for you to rest, and maybe enjoy a freshly picked salad! If the kids can help design this area for themselves, they maybe more inclined to come down more in the spring and help, and as a fellow allotmenteer, I know how valuable that is! You’re doing a great job Emma, is look forward to your videos. Keep being yourself, you’re a fantastic ray of sunshine ❤
What a fantastic idea 🏡
You could have a wild flower meadow at the back. It’s looking great!
I can’t believe how well you’ve done Emma! Well done. I think you could scramble clematis and rambling roses over that pile at the back.
Please don't plant Rose's and clematis through blackberries, will drive you crazy, have a blackberry germinated in the middle of a planting.
that kind of plastic membrane lasts for many years I wouldn't worry much about definitely the right choice to reuse it, the non permeable ground sheets I see on allotments are much worse they break down in a couple of years and disitinegrate into the soil, you've really worked wonders on that new plot
It's amazing the transformation you have done and alot of hard work Happy growing this year
Hi Emma I think you are doing a brilliant job you have work so hard 👏👏👏👏 recycling the plastic is great 👍 that’s what I would’ve have done ? lv Irene 😘 xx
Succession planting is a good way to not get overwhelmed. A little often 🌿
I think it's amazing that your reusing the plastic. Better than just chucking it in landfill.
Please could you cover your water butts though. My sister had an awful experience last year. A Wood Pigeon drowned in hers 😞 I had gone for a drink or maybe a cool off and couldn't get back out. It was so upsetting for her and obviously the poor bird didn't make it. Wouldn't want you to have that happen in your wildlife area 🥰🥰
'It becomes east as the world moves!' 😅 Love you, Emma!❤
You've done really well Emma its looking really good can't waitto see it planted upx
You are doing a great job. Love watching your journey. I am starting my first allotment and am enjoying it immensely. Not enjoying the slugs though. Dont listen about the plastic, don't feel guilty you are recycling and stopping the weeds. So less slugs!!1
Hi Emma love your videos and your lovely personality make it a pleasure to watch ....I was reading the comments from others and now I'm worried about Einstein falling in the water butt😢 he is a cutie 💓
Robins are very territorial so Einsteins chirping is to warn other robins to keep away 😊
Super Good work Emmas you the best te moostuin thans te video Top Good weekend 💞👍🧣🧢🎇🍹🌾🌿✅️💌🧤
My dear Emma….get yourself a fork!! It will make digging so much easier and the prongs will pull up the long roots much better, also better for your back! X
Love your vlogs Emma, have you thought about mushrooms for the log pile at the back? You could buy one innoculated log to lay on top of the pile or a bag of grain spore to cumble into the cracks & it could collonise the whole pile & start breaking everything down. Food & function 😁 I will be planning an area for mushrooms next year 🤞🏻
You do make me laugh ..you say some funny things ..x
Great progress Emma .What abut putting al! the black bins in the corner at the back by the three beds ?
Emma, I think the wobbly track should be named 'The Tipsy Trail' 😂 xx
Hello Emma it is a lively day but what about those Chem Trail over your head spreading chemicals down on us
Your plot is amazing. I like the way you have reused the ground sheets. If you have extra, perhaps your neighbors could use some. Love the use of sticks to lay out your beds.
Hi Emma 👋
Your plot looks amazing happy gardening X
You doing great
I think behind the arch should be a winding path, to a hidden seating nook along one edge of the path build a fence by weaving all of the branches etc you have, laying around to create the hidden oasis.
Two layers of it black plastic how many pathways at work better
My god how much hard work you’ve done on your plot , you deserve a medal xx Claire Bristol uk
Another lovely video. I like the idea of the 3 beds at the back. I had the same thought when you said you were unsure what to do with the back. And I also thought a sweet pea tepee.
Maybe a nasturtium teepee too near the pumpkins 🤎
Well done hun
Looking great! And i love the happy new music
the sun rises in the east & sets in the west as the year goes on the sun gets higher in the sky so daylight is longer but still travels east to west !
You’ve done so much,well done it looks amazing.x
Why not 2 rectangle beds not so small but big enough to plant in x
You've reached the end of all that digging!!!! You should feel so blimin proud Emma!
What will you plant in that back part apart from the planned cornflowers? Will they be your spud spaces? Are you going to try spuds this year at all?
You've got three beds, you could do your first earlies, second earlies and your main crops in them. They get so much sun in that bit as you noted and that'll increase as the year goes on. A thought to ponder.
Emma
I like your three beds for teepee, corn and salad area and then along the back flowers. ❤ It is looking great. Remember you don't have to plant in all your beds at once. You could keep some open to compost and settle in or put a green crop like Buckwheat to enrich the soil and when it flowers in autumn the bees love it
Thanks Emma! Have a good weekend 😊 x
Hi Emma just need to tell u how much of an inspiration u are to me u make me so proud feel like we need an end of the plot party 🥳 u even have a personal coat hanger xx can't wait to do mine u gave me so much ideas xxx
If this doesn’t feature in a garden mag this year I’ll be amazed! You’ve worked your backside off and it’s looking bloomin amazing! Can’t wait to see it all in full bloom and full of lovely crops! Can’t wait to get to my plot tomorrow! ❤
Great progress, keep it up!
Great work, it’s looking so tidy now x
Have a little seating area in the corner
You're so wholesome Emma! Totally inspiring me to get on with my garden this year!🥰🌱
The plot looks great! 😊
I think the back beds look great!
Going well 😊
Put rose bushes at the back
EXCELLENT. how about a BIG SUNFLOWER Bed. Love the flower plan
Hiya Emma, I m sure you will get lots of suggestions. Hope you have a nice 🎂🎉BIRTHDAY on Sunday, mine was today. 🎊🎁🥂 blessings luv Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
Another great video, thanks Emma. I've finally been offered a half plot after waiting on the allotment list for almost 3 years and will be viewing it on Saturday. I'm so excited but also incredibly daunted by the fact I'll be taking it on by myself and without the benefit of a car to haul things to and from the site. Have been watching your videos for a while now and have learned a tonne from you Emma, so thank you for sharing your highs and lows with us all x
Hi Emma, I just wanted to comment and say the work that you have put into your allotment is incredible, it looks amazing! I’ve loved watching the progress you’ve made and seeing Einstein in each vlog x
Emma this is such amazing progress, I reckon a good idea for the back of your plot would be to dedicate the one square bed that you can see through the pumpkin archway entirely to your wildflowers, would make a really good viewpoint when looking from the front of the plot and through the archway to see all that colour, then agree with other commenters who have suggested scrambling clematis and rambling roses along the pile at the very back
That’s true for me most of the time. Jobs always take longer than I think. Currently repositioning three raised beds. Turns out it was way easier than I thought it would be. At least taking the biggest one apart and reassembling it was. What’s hard is shifting the soil over. It’s heavy because it’s quite wet from the rains and I mixed a lot of my Adobe soil into the compost when I set them up. You’re making great progress on your allotment.
Emma have you thought about 2 long beds along the back with path down the centre to get to the back bad or one long bed with 2 long beds Infront with maybe a path in the centre from the pumpkin archi don't think 3 or 4 beds is a good idea with tiny little paths make 2 better size beds be much more useful
I was blown away by how much work you've put in to get the plot ready for spring. But now I'm flabbergasted as to how you'll have the time and energy for planting and maintaining all that space through summer! I hope your friends and family are ingratiating themselves, because they're about to get a lot of surplus produce!
you have worked so hard on your new garden. It looks amazing. My 3 year old grandson would say GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!
I know what you mean it does really feel like spring. I'm watching this on the 9th and I have been out cleaning the gardens and sowing seeds and it actually felt like April. Then last night the heavens opened all night it was unbelievable raining all day today but very mild. O I'm in Ireland 😊. The sunny southeast 😅
Your Robin is looking a little fat.
Super Good work Emma's you the best te moostiun thans te video good weekend thans te vlog ❤️🧤🧢🌿🌾✔️🎽☕👍
Have you heard of a dead fence? You have so many limbs it might be a cool addition? As you need more projects 😂 Your plot is amazing 🎉
I truly enjoy your channel. I only found you around December, I think it was the one when you talked your husband into helping you. Any way you are really talented, and you always stay so clean. The 2 plots are looking awesome. I really enjoy the music you have in the background. Take care and garden on. Have a blessed weekend.
Your progress is inspiring. Depending on how the sun moves across the plot, that back area would be perfect for fruit trees, if the shadows dont fall on to the rest of the plot. it will create a little more privacy along the back fence as well
Amazing work Emma! All credit to you for doing all this hard work! 👏 Can't wait to see what your plot looks like in the summer...hopefully mine is half way towards yours and I'd be happy! 😂
My new plot is full of plastic sheet and I’m recycling as much of it as I can into paths like you. Plastic isn’t great, but taking it to the tip instead of using it seems very wasteful to me.
Plot is looking amazing! Well done 🥰 I can’t wait until you start sowing, you’re going to need thousands to fill all those beds 😂
plot looks great well done , i cant get anything done in my garden its just been pouring down every single day ,if it were just a bit of drizzle i,d be out but its not .just have to hope for a nice day soon .
Wow Emma what an amazing job you are doing, i love your idea of the sweetpea teepee, i may have to do one in my garden as well, i am ordering all my bark and compost for my vegetable beds, i cant wait for the warmer weather x
I can only dream of a sunny day but I live in wales where the rain lives most of the year the wether forecast in wales winter rain spring rain summer rain and autumn rain lot of work done there and it’s looking good
I love your idea for a narrower path with the wildflowers it will look beautiful. The sun always rises in the east and yes the earth spins, hence we have day and night but east is always east otherwise east anglia would sometimes be west anglia 😂
hi emma i think your set up is really good, have you think to have a bed of perenials like asparagus or artichoke?
It will work Emma! Great ideas, perfect....🤩
Get some onions,garlic and broad beans in most brassicas only need 6 hours of sun happy gardening Richard x
Instead of having four beds at the back I’d have two longer bigger beds with a path in the middle and then the cornflower bed at the back
Why not use the area to put in a nice seating area for you and the family to sit and enjoy the allotment?
The new plot is looking great, I know there’s more to do😊
great place to get large plastic sheets is a local timber merchant. timber is delivered and wrapped in huge thick plastic sheeting..im sure if you ask nicely they'll cut the sheeting off so its in perfect condition for covering ground. they're usually 16ft x 12ft.
Plot looks fab Emma well done ❤
I love that Emma!
after 43 years on aotments Ive learned not to feed the birds unless the seed cant reach the ground as you will atract the rats and when you get enough of them breeding they will start to eat your crops
Having been on this planet for over 80+ years, bird seed does not attract rats unless you feed them fat balls, what does attract rats is the vegetables.
Let’s call a spade a spade
Do you think Einstein had a name for Emma? What might it be? Plot is looking so good. You’ve done an amazing job 👍
Worm Lady
Glad you had some sunshine here in Middlesbrough it rained all night and most of the day hope you have a great weekend and I wish you made A blog every day
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Could I please ask why you don't work on the allotment a lot longer has the light is getting longer
You just gotta be a man to ask this😃 Emma has a young family and a job and there are only 24 hours in a day.
Thanks for the reply and I didn't know that she had a family and I bet she is a really good mother
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Emma, I think you would be able to feed Einstein out of your hand by now. Just a thought 😁
Thanks for yet another fantastic video.
3.33 😂❤
You ever think about putting a gate around your plot, that would keep it safe from your neighbors.
You need two small plots of those sweet peas. To get enough for a meal at once, you know, it would help. I went hard on them this year.
one thing you have not mentioned yet are flowers for the bees
I do hope your not going to use that incinerator as I do like to watch your blog
Why would you not watch if she uses the incinerator 🤔
on our allotments we get a lot of children visiting and I woud not like to give them a lung full of polution or any one on the ajoing plot@@dereknash3638
Personally would have found the boundaries, worked out how much room, write a list of what, want to grow fruit included, plus what perennial vegetables as well, then do a nine year planting plan for all the areas. This will keep you on track. As some fruit trees take time to produce fruit.
Great video emma, i love what you’ve done on your new plot and you have a great ass, well done x