PLANTING OUT THE DAHLIAS! / ALLOTMENT GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Welcome to my allotment gardening channel. My name is Emma and these vlogs are my allotment diaries. 2024 is is my fIfth year on my plot. I'm learning as I go and would love for you to follow my allotment gardening journey by SUBSCRIBING to my channel!
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"The male robin sings loudly in the early spring, hoping to attract a mate into his territory. When a partner has been found, the male brings his mate tasty bits of food which she begs from him with quivering wings - this strengthens the pair bond."
Aww how sweet :D
Your grandmother would be so proud of you and all that you have achieved and as well as the plot you make wonderful videos, love the feeding of Einstein, well done Emma😁
“That fox… that bloody fox!” 😂. Admit it. You love him really.
P.S. Dahlia ‘Avignon’ is pronounced Av-in-yon (as in the town in southern France). You may well remember singing about it in year 7-8 French class. UK French teachers blimmen’ well love it ! 😂
“Sur le Pont d'Avignon
L'on y danse, l'on y danse
Sur le Pont d'Avignon
L'on y danse tous en rond.”
Mr & Mrs Einstein and their little red house ❤
Einstein is feeding his Mrs 🥰 she will be nesting soon. I googled it and anytime between April and August. Your going to be Auntie Emma 😊 so cute 🥰
You’re doing a great job on your plot Emma. I’ve been sowing tomatoes and cabbage and cauliflower that last few days. I’m determined to grow a cauliflower this year, pigeons and slugs got mine last year 😢
Pretty sure I’ve got Robins nesting in my hedge too ❤🪺 I’m feeding Mr Robin the very best for him to take back to his missus 😍 He sings the cutest thank you songs.
Good luck with your cauliflower, mine grew so well to a point last year then got killed off by the cold 🥶. I barricaded them with spiky twigs to protect from slimey ones, and used pop up net cage 👍. Just wish I’d harvested them when they were tiny but perfect 👌 instead of freezing them to death 😢
Boggy wet Northern Ireland is just too far North for early seed sewing but hopefully soon! We love to watch your vlogs and always remember if you didn’t have ‘down’ days you wouldn’t enjoy the happy ‘up’ days! We all have them and the sun is what I am waiting for 😀 Get your own compost bins on the go and you will reap the rewards xx
I always look forward to your videos, they always make me laugh and you give a gardening noob like me confidence that I can achieve something out in the garden when I really am clueless, let’s just give it a go hey
Emma, you are a star. I just enjoy watching your videos. Your sense of humour is great. I like your relationship with Einstein. You just finish me when you talk to him. You have a great personality.
Each time I look at those primroses by the tree I imagine lovely ferns offsetting those flowers! Leaves can act as foundation to bring out the colours x
Emma, ferns would love the shady boggy bit and they are woodland friendly so would do well in your treed wildlife area..... Lovely update! Enjoy your plot, Emma.
Hi Emma, ❤ what you're doing! Our family has recently got an allotment and we started a UA-cam channel to share our journey too. You've given us so much inspiration. Roll on Summer! ☀️ Take care 🍃
Emma, your vids make me smile on my dull lunchbreaks 😊
Really lovely, all the dullness will turn into summer gloryness now because of all the promise in those seeds. Flower power 🌺 go girl ❤️
Looking good, Emma! Hopefully your dahlias will thrive and make a nice feature.
You probably have a snail in your watering can, they block up the spout in mine quite often x
Or just a leaf.
Hi Emma lm loving your allotment plots and looking forward to the flowers and sqash 🎉🎉🎉😊
I'm so EXCITED to see it start really taking off with growth!! It's beautiful, Emma. You've done a fantastic job! Composting beds now will pay off for years to come - I agree.
Wow, it's so great! ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Emma stay being you!.....never change....your such a star 😁
Wow great sharing❤❤❤❤
I love your dahlias. And honestly I can't wait to see how both of your plots will look in summer.
Your love for cornflowers made me to do more research on them. I didn't know they are edable ( but that's not surprising as I am absolute Newby when it comes to gardening)
Did you know that the dried flowers are used to make medicine. People take cornflower tea to treat fever, constipation, water retention, and chest congestion. They also take it as a tonic, bitter, and liver and gallbladder stimulant.
I am going to buy cornflower seeds and seed them in my new alotment plot.
I love your series. You always cheer me up. And your plots looks fab. We'll done x
I love your attitude to planting.. A bit like me. Stick it in and fingers crossed... As you say. What is the worst that can happen. theres always another year.
Love the video thank you for the inspiration I to am running out of room for the seeds but on a good note all my tulips are starting to flower colour is coming xxx
Hi Em, if you cut the top of your compost bags you can reuse them and fill them with leaves from the trees around your plot in the autumn and produce leaf mulch for the following year much cheaper than compost from the store!😊 you're so funny..."he needs a satnav" 🤣 ❤ you're vlogs, keep up the great work! 👍 🤗
Fab idea .I watched an American chap he collected all his weeds dug a hole put the weeds in topped with soil planted tomato plants on top of that up to the first set of leaves pressed the earth down around the stems and watered them on. His tomatoes grew so abundantly
Dahlias are amazing the varieties are insane, happy growing! 💗
The tubers each year grow into double if not triple if you get then up and split them xx
You’ve inspired me to sow some cornflowers on my own allotment. With the demise of Wilko everything seems more expensive.
I love the dahlias too and can’t wait to see how they turn out, very exciting
Right Emma - French lesson
Cafe au lait = caffy oh lay
Avignon = Avvyneon
...daddy Einstein! Wonder where the nest is?
Great video. Still a bit worried myself about the last frost but London is warmer that Yorkshire!❤😂❤😂
Nerd Alert!! Robins are territorial that's why you only see one at a time! So when you see two that's because it's mating season. They most possibly have a best near by and will soon be feeding their young x
Flower power🌼💐🌸. Great video Emma 🤎
I was just thinking if you tied some twine around the mesh on your pumpkin archway you could then put a peg through the twine loop to pull it down. If that makes sense 😂 love your videos xxx
I love this so much!!! Einstein don’t look 👀 I feel the same when I sow seeds in the garden, very much oh here I go feeding the birds 😂
Ooooh, it’s all looking really exciting!! I can’t wait to see the new wild seed area when it starts growing (if Einstein leaves you any 😅)
Flower Friday it is! I challenge to find a few more flowers for next Friday.
I got some dahlias in the sale at the end of the summer last year, going to try them out shortly.
Regarding a greenhouse, have you reached out to the poly tunnel companies to see if they will give you one as a AD, I know some do that.
Love watching you, you make me laugh
Keep going Emma! So fun, great work!!♥️🩵💚
Hi Emma. Dead head your Primula/Primroses and they will keep flowering for you 😘
Dahlias if looked after can last for years, mine keep coming back when not expected. I just chucked mine in normal earth and forgot them, they seem pretty hardy plants.
It depends on how warm your climate is. They aren't typically perennials.
Always enjoy your content, so happy you have the lovely Robin who is such a part of the allotment, and those chickens too. All the best for the growing season
Lol love your humour. When you said the gang of birds in the sky were lost 😂 they were actually crows or similar, trying to get rid of a bird of prey. There was a bigger bird in the flock. Probably a buzzard. They gang up on them to get them to fly off.. Your wildlife area is looking fab. I put in a little wildlife pond in February at the bottom of my garden. All the pond plants are now growing and I'm building up the rockery area around it with plants. It's in a shaded area of the garden so going to put ferns around it also. I love going down there. I also have a pair of robins who sit on the logs around the pond. I too feed them mealworms. I love them 🥰
I'm watching your videos as I'm hungover today. You crack me up. 😂❤
Lovely update, sorry about the following essay, I'm looking forward to your squash video! I went... A lot crazy on squash varieties this year, fortunately my plot neighbours have offered to host a few plants or i wouldn't have room 😬💚 it is a little early but i set off one seed of each yesterday(i want to make sure i get at least one pumpkin off the bigger/longer growing varieties) plan to do the same at the beginning & end of april to make sure i get one of each, might even direct sow one next to each when I plant out at the end of May for good measure!
Have started some plants to double as chop & drop to help build soil without needing to spend so much on compost, globe artichoke, achillea, foxglove and comfrey wouldn't look out of place in your wildlife area, leaf tops of rhubarb too. My plan with these is to allow them to grow all season then cut back any bigger/old growth to chop up and much with in fall/winter so it can decompose & suppress weeds till spring 🤞🏻
Planting spare beans/peas/lupines in beds with compatible crops to cut off just above ground - leaving roots in to decompose & release nitrogen.
Some ideas I'm trying this year that may interest/be of use you 😊 my goal is aesthetic functionality 😁 so i have been looking into guild planting.
P.s. you could strulch/frost fleece your dalias if you're expecting any deeper freezes?
The plot is looking so nice!
🐝Thanks for the great video🌻
Those wild flower seeds are produced just down the road from me. They are great seeds and great family run business!
Good morning
Great job dear
Love your dahlias, they're one of my favourite plants. They're also edible but I haven't ever tried them!
Hi Emma you do a lot in your allotments and we're lucky to see 3 videos a week so thanks 🌷🪻🌻🏵🌼🌺😊
Lovely video
Love how you just do the dumping and sowing I'm sure it will all grow love your flower Friday 😊
Raining non stop in Midlands ground very boggy too. Too cold to put plants in as they are likely to rot! Good luck with your flowers!
I'm in West Midlands so cold wet and grey .my mum is near portsmouth and it was milder there in December and January whilst I was visiting her than it is here in mid March
Next time keep the compost in the shad. That what foxs do.lol😊
You feeded Einstein quite well so he should leave your seeds alone 😉 My neighbor was sowing grass seeds and then he was wondering why the grass didn't grow. The sparrows were having a party 💃🏻🕺🏼
You're lucky planting your dahlia tubers outside already. I live further South than you do but I plant my dahlias in pots first then put them in the greenhouse not planting out until May. Looking forward to seeing how they develop.
Supposed to be raining here today in Scotland but is lovely and sunny this afternoon. Got some seeds sown 😊
Those mixed seeds ur planting are lovely
Our council covered a field in them it was beautiful
A large bed of color
With the cornflower, maybe save some seeds for next year...?
I got 1tin of compost for £40 and it’s really good quality and they deliver it to you
Great video again Emma , it was great to see you more cheery
Lidl have 7 dahlia tubers for £2.49 lots of different options too
Finally first! 😎
Keep whackin' 'em in Emma 👍
Nooooooo !
Think the birds episode was crows mobbing a bird of prey in the sky. This happens here when a red kite starts circling above the garden. Flower Fridays sounds great!
When I buy Dahlias, if the tuber is big, I break some tubers of and get more plants. I agree with you they are expensive. I usually get mine from Farmer gracey because just before the summer bulbs come in they send me a €7 voucher. And yes you are planting them right the little bit sticks out from the soil, but I'm sure you knew that without taken a guess 😅.
Are you not going to do your own composition.
Reallt enjoyed this video i think flower friday would be a great idea as diversity is the key & i adore your robinsxx
Premier seeds direct is very reasonable for seeds.
Chuffed to see you in brighter spirits. Im attempting to lure into my new allotment my own little robin. You are inspiring Emma. Don’t know if you actually realise the affect you have on peoples lives. I’ve just come in from an evening out, no clubbing for me, “going home to Emma, she uploads on Fridays “ My non allotment friends 👀 who 🤷🏼♀️. Now happy with a cup of tea and a crumpet watching your vlog. Looking forward to a weekend on my allotment!
Been thinking of you. So happy to see you're having a better day.
Looking for some help… potatoes ! When where what ? I need all your info as mine never seem to work x thank you Emma
Thank you !
Did you said your primroses where dying off? I bought a tray of them yesterday to put in pots Hope they don’t die on me anytime soon :(
Really enjoy your videos ,if you keep dead heading the primroses they will flower all year
Fantastisch Good work Emma's hard work te moostiun planting Dahlias thans te video good weekend grootjes ✔️🤗🌺🌷👍☕🧤🎽🌱🌸💮🏵️
Emma, how about covering the newly sown seed with fleece until they sprout? I don't trust birds with seed. I scarted poppy seeds some weeks ago. Nothing in sight.
Those b and q compost bags are a 100l FairPlay to you but watch your back
Emma it’s a bit early to be planting either Dahlias or Potato’s outside, should not be planting either outside before any prospects of frost, in UK sometime in May, unless you protect them well against the frost. Dahlias are very susceptible to frost. Best to plant inside in containers until chances of frosts are over, boggy soil will not help, too expensive to waste your money. Hope you prove me wrong😳
See you too❤❤
Saludos desde vivero en la terraza España !
Hi Emma you may have had a snail in your watering can stopping the water coming out. I get so annoyed when that happens to me.
What compost are you using? It looks really good and I have bought some that's terrible this year! My first year with an allotment and still finding my way. I love your content!
I accidentally dug up my dahlias in autumn and have now lost😢 them. Really annoying as they were really pretty.
Put some fleece over those dahlias x
Super Good work Emmas you the best te moostuin thans te video Good weekend 👍🪻🌷🧤☕️🌸🌺
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You make me giggle, it’s pronounced like your saying cafe oh lay
Dahlias already?! When’s your last frost date?! 😱😱🤣🤣
Also, Avignon [Av-in-yon] 🤙🏻👍🏻
Agree far too early for Dahlias in the UK, especially outside.
She is in London so it's a bit warmer there. Online says 11th-20th March 🤞
@@Sunnycider1 ah, fairs. 👍🏻🤙🏻
Maybe he was fattening her up ready for eggs and now she's busy sitting on said eggs and he's now busy collecting food for her while she can't collect food?
😊🌞🍀💐
If einstein is feeding the other Robin, it means that it's a baby Robin, you can tell the way its flapping its wings
The spider is Araog not Aragon x
You may have snails in your watering can
Go to pound shop
That's another Male must be Einstiens son
Dahlias .
cafe o lay
Aveen yon