Lovely new post Emma. When you open a compost bag, open it at the end so you have a usable bag to store your home made compost in, once you've put it through the riddle. Your compost is looking so much better now, nice job!
If you open your compost at the top you can save the bag to reuse eg when your own compost is ready it could go in bags until you are ready to it, or you could cut up the bag into squares and cut a slit in them to make cabbage collars to stop cabbage fly/larvae
Emma that's Pak Choy in your poly tunnel lol 😆😆😆😆 always look forward to seeing your videos pop up,no matter what they are about.Your just such a lovely person that puts a smile on my face thankyou 🤗🌱🌱🌱🌱💞
Fun video! Methinks you watch the no dig expert on UA-cam, Charles Dowding? My twopenneth - keep some labels and pencil in a jam with a good lid, a few around the beds means you always have a label to hand. Likewise, I keep a trowel and fork in each bed, so you can deal with the odd weed etc.
Hi Emma. As others have previously commented about your opening of compost bags, consider this. Open from the top, turn them inside as most are black. Put your more tougher weeds in here, seal and put them in the greenhouse. This way, everything will fry and kill off all pathogen's, seeds and hardy plants. When its a mush, you can put this in your compost or better still, worm bin.
Looking forward to your videos this year. I was very sorry when I saw yours for the first time and you were sad, so lovely to see you cheerful and positive. I'm old and retired with a small garden but still manage to grow vegetables as well as flowers, so I need all the help I can get!! Thank you for these, and have a good season .
Great video as always Emma. I've just done my latest vid chopping back a sycamore tree using a pruning saw.... would definitely recommend. Keep up the good work 👏
My 'starfish' ancestors say hello Emma! Anyhoo...that 'plant' in your poly tunnel looks to me like it be purple bok choy instead of kale...just saying. It's still a bit cold for me to do any serious work in my garden...and besides...vampires lurk about in cold weather [just kidding]. Enjoyed the video - thanks for sharing. Be well - many blessings! Cheers...
And you need to use fallen leaves, twigs and scraps and garden waste to make your own soil too with a large compost heap 1m water square ideally. Good luck!
Hello Emma,leave some wooden board's,the Slug's love hiding under it and you know where to find them .This help's to get rid of some of the slug's.I do the same in my Garden! Greeting's from Germany😊
Hi Emma, your composting methods are getting better, chop, chop, that's the way. The smaller the pieces the quicker it'll rot down. If your riddle was for drying onions etc, it would probably have larger squares or slats. Your allotment is coming along nicely. If you can get a hold of some pallets, you could replace your borders for free.
thank you for the new video. Very inventive with the tools. I have to try the saw on the compost bag. For your weeder I thought you were holding a shovel backwards and using the handle at first.
Your compost looks alive again, well done. As for bags of compost, moving them is what wheelbarrows were made for, you can move two at a time too and save your legs.
@@emmasallotmentdiaries I do love it! I've bought all my seeds for the year and planned out when everything is getting sewn. So much better than last year, when I lost track of what I was doing when hehe! I can tell you've worked really hard on it and it really works well! Xxx
The rack is probably a root vegetable cleaner rack! You dig up your potatoes, carrots parsnips and whatever, put them in the rack and clean them of with the hose 😁 Then they can lay there and dry afterwards. I use a plastic rack at my cabin. 😁👍
If you put an onion from last season in the ground you will obtain 2 or more onions, eventually it will rot but you will have green onion.And that onion was just fine...you can cut green leaves...not all of them and it will grow other leaves but it will not form big bulb onion like last season.If it's an onion how do think it will smell?
I would love to tally how many times you said garlic in this one 😂 really enjoying your videos (I have to got an allotment) so looking at how other people have done theirs
@@emmasallotmentdiaries ask them for some help and am sure you can help them out too with their allotments. Just a few small hits here and there will help you do less work and more efficiently snd make some really good soil and done really good compost and a few tips from those more experienced or who have the time to spend their whole day at their allotment will go a long way for you then you’ll enjoy more too
What’s going on with that huge square “slightly-raised bed”?! It’s huge but so shallow? Breeze blocks with the holes in them or chunkier lengths of wood or sleepers (sorry yes I said that awful word) or a small higelkulture. Something, anything would be better than that massive square ……… Drainage looks poor in your garden too if your plants are rotting like that. (Get someone in to help you - fellow allotmenteers will help you if you say you’ll give them something in return like soil or compost or your time or some plants etc). Many would be happy to help with nothing in return as you need a bit of a hand otherwise you’ll not get good crops nor good returns. Good luck though as you’re keen and just need a bit of an old hand to help you out with a few bits here and there and you’ll be happy as anything in what you grow after some sound advice!
Woow Emma, Glad to see you are still there. The last vid of you I saw was when your neighbor dumped their trash on your plot. You cried and I thought you would give up and leave. Paris.
I was going to suggest that every time you plant something that you tag it with one of those little white labels, so you can remember. But I won't as you are having so much fun when plants you've forgotten about start to come up - You must like surprises 🧄🥕🌽🌼🏵🌿💮🌸?
14:40 just straight up facts. Plants tend to know what they want, otherwise we wouldn’t have trees older than some civilisations.
Lovely new post Emma. When you open a compost bag, open it at the end so you have a usable bag to store your home made compost in, once you've put it through the riddle.
Your compost is looking so much better now, nice job!
If you open your compost at the top you can save the bag to reuse eg when your own compost is ready it could go in bags until you are ready to it, or you could cut up the bag into squares and cut a slit in them to make cabbage collars to stop cabbage fly/larvae
I got loads of compost bags down my plot I might make some collars
Emma that's Pak Choy in your poly tunnel lol 😆😆😆😆 always look forward to seeing your videos pop up,no matter what they are about.Your just such a lovely person that puts a smile on my face thankyou 🤗🌱🌱🌱🌱💞
Fun video! Methinks you watch the no dig expert on UA-cam, Charles Dowding? My twopenneth - keep some labels and pencil in a jam with a good lid, a few around the beds means you always have a label to hand. Likewise, I keep a trowel and fork in each bed, so you can deal with the odd weed etc.
Hi Emma. As others have previously commented about your opening of compost bags, consider this. Open from the top, turn them inside as most are black. Put your more tougher weeds in here, seal and put them in the greenhouse. This way, everything will fry and kill off all pathogen's, seeds and hardy plants. When its a mush, you can put this in your compost or better still, worm bin.
We are still on Winter time Emma if this was 3 weeks ago as depicted. And your right about the Garlic pointy end upwards .
Emma you need to put some labels on sticks so you know what you have planted there
Put a sock over the lock if hard frost is forecast
Have you ever dehydrated the green leaf part of onions and then blend it to create an onion powder. It's a good way to utilise the whole plant.
Looking forward to your videos this year. I was very sorry when I saw yours for the first time and you were sad, so lovely to see you cheerful and positive. I'm old and retired with a small garden but still manage to grow vegetables as well as flowers, so I need all the help I can get!! Thank you for these, and have a good season .
I’m looking forward to the spring time, can’t wait to get growing again. I’m feeling positive, it’s gonna be a good year! X
I don’t think poeple know how much work an allotment is! It really is
You plant whenever. Nobody can predict the weather, so it can bring bonus plants
I think the rack you have could be a sieve for your compost. Park a barrow under it and put your home made compost through it
Emma you are gas! I love that you are talking us through your thoughts. Adorable x love from ireland.
Great video as always Emma. I've just done my latest vid chopping back a sycamore tree using a pruning saw.... would definitely recommend. Keep up the good work 👏
My 'starfish' ancestors say hello Emma! Anyhoo...that 'plant' in your poly tunnel looks to me like it be purple bok choy instead of kale...just saying. It's still a bit cold for me to do any serious work in my garden...and besides...vampires lurk about in cold weather [just kidding]. Enjoyed the video - thanks for sharing. Be well - many blessings! Cheers...
When you cut the bags with the saw 😂 I knew a lot of comments coming 😅😅 good advice though 😅😅
And you need to use fallen leaves, twigs and scraps and garden waste to make your own soil too with a large compost heap 1m water square ideally. Good luck!
Glad you got that flippin tree down now you'll have more sunshine ☀
Yes fingers crossed! X
Love it! Loving the sunshine, so good to have the sun on my face when I’m at the plot, even if it is still a bit chilly!
Yes it feels so good to get some sunshine and fresh air! X
Have you ever thought about just cutting the compost bag at the top so you can re-use it for rubbish collection?
Emma, tulips know what they are doing. Love your vlogs
Lovely video Emma you seem much more confident this year go Emma x
I think the plant in the tunnel that you think is kale, is a pac choi
Yeah definitely looks like a Red Pak Choi, that's one of the things that has survived all the frosts in my polytunnel too
I think you’re right! X
Hello Emma,leave some wooden board's,the Slug's love hiding under it and you know where to find them .This help's to get rid of some of the slug's.I do the same in my Garden!
Greeting's from Germany😊
U can just eat the tops of the onions. The drying tray is used for laying crops on top of the he wire to dry off.
Oh great to know, thank you! X
Hi Emma, your composting methods are getting better, chop, chop, that's the way. The smaller the pieces the quicker it'll rot down. If your riddle was for drying onions etc, it would probably have larger squares or slats. Your allotment is coming along nicely. If you can get a hold of some pallets, you could replace your borders for free.
Yes Emma the bigger the garlic clove the bigger bulb it can grow. Bigger cloves have more growing energy in them 🌻
Oh wow, amazing! Thought I was talking rubbish 😂
Strultch is a great mulch, it smells funky but it's soooo good and keeping pests and weeds away!
thank you for the new video. Very inventive with the tools. I have to try the saw on the compost bag. For your weeder I thought you were holding a shovel backwards and using the handle at first.
Don't give Emma any more ideas lol 😂
Omg when she cut the bag open with a saw., I pushed back until the sofa and curled my toes into the Axminster 😂😂😂
Haha! Sorry! I should have added a warning at the beginning! Lol x
Love your videos Emma
Your compost looks alive again, well done. As for bags of compost, moving them is what wheelbarrows were made for, you can move two at a time too and save your legs.
Great job keep up the good work
Thank you , nice video and great advices👍
Think of your back, let your wheelbarrow take the strain when moving the compost bags.
Just bought your planner and I'm sooooo excited to get my allotment planning done for the year ahead hehe! xxx
Oh amazing! Hope you love it! Thank you so much for buying one ☺️
@@emmasallotmentdiaries I do love it! I've bought all my seeds for the year and planned out when everything is getting sewn. So much better than last year, when I lost track of what I was doing when hehe! I can tell you've worked really hard on it and it really works well! Xxx
Glad to see that you can get at it. -20 this morning for me, going to be a few days before I can get to doing too much with the soil.
Oh my goodness! Yes I can imagine it’s pretty frozen where you are! X
The rack is probably a root vegetable cleaner rack! You dig up your potatoes, carrots parsnips and whatever, put them in the rack and clean them of with the hose 😁 Then they can lay there and dry afterwards. I use a plastic rack at my cabin. 😁👍
Oh yes, it would be perfect for potatoes! X
Use a barrow to move heavy stuff around!
If you put an onion from last season in the ground you will obtain 2 or more onions, eventually it will rot but you will have green onion.And that onion was just fine...you can cut green leaves...not all of them and it will grow other leaves but it will not form big bulb onion like last season.If it's an onion how do think it will smell?
hi Emma, do you bring your uncooked food waste down for your compost bin? that would be good organic material. We save ours at home
I don’t no. I will start bringing my rabbits litter though, I’ve heard that’s good for compost! X
I would love to tally how many times you said garlic in this one 😂 really enjoying your videos (I have to got an allotment) so looking at how other people have done theirs
Oh no, did I say it a lot? lol! 😂😂
When you get a delivery of poop 💩 grab a barrow full and add to your compost bin….will heat it up and accelerate the process
Amazing advice, thank you! X
I would of thought it was more of a compost seive
Your new find is to tip pots of potatoes in and sieve the soil through then hose them off. Very useful piece of kit :)
Even that bird that you zoomed in on was like what are you up to messing around on this allotment?! No clue!
They are always laughing at me! X
@@emmasallotmentdiaries ask them for some help and am sure you can help them out too with their allotments. Just a few small hits here and there will help you do less work and more efficiently snd make some really good soil and done really good compost and a few tips from those more experienced or who have the time to spend their whole day at their allotment will go a long way for you then you’ll enjoy more too
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Hi Emma. What South London Borough are you in I am in Greenwich.
Hi John I’m in the next borough from you I’m in Bexley (Belvedere)
String up your onions. Easy peasy, check it out on youtube
I’m def going to try that this year if I get any decent onions! X
What’s going on with that huge square “slightly-raised bed”?! It’s huge but so shallow? Breeze blocks with the holes in them or chunkier lengths of wood or sleepers (sorry yes I said that awful word) or a small higelkulture. Something, anything would be better than that massive square ……… Drainage looks poor in your garden too if your plants are rotting like that. (Get someone in to help you - fellow allotmenteers will help you if you say you’ll give them something in return like soil or compost or your time or some plants etc). Many would be happy to help with nothing in return as you need a bit of a hand otherwise you’ll not get good crops nor good returns. Good luck though as you’re keen and just need a bit of an old hand to help you out with a few bits here and there and you’ll be happy as anything in what you grow after some sound advice!
Emma is doing fine.x
Woow Emma,
Glad to see you are still there. The last vid of you I saw was when your neighbor dumped their trash on your plot. You cried and I thought you would give up and leave. Paris.
Oh no, it would take much more than that to get me away from my allotment plot! lol! X
I was going to suggest that every time you plant something that you tag it with one of those little white labels, so you can remember. But I won't as you are having so much fun when plants you've forgotten about start to come up - You must like surprises 🧄🥕🌽🌼🏵🌿💮🌸?
I think I do. It’s like a bonus harvest, lol! X