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I nearly forgot dont put the garlic eith white rot in the compost where your fown the plot next fish them out and put in the dustbin by addingbto the compost you coukd possibly spread the white rot in where your going to use the compost i bive white rot is a fingal disease and could spread .
N Nitrogen, P phosphorus, K potassium. 😊 all help
Hello Emma, watching your bird swallow the worm today reminded me of when I went fishing a few years ago and a robin kept jumping into my bait box eating my maggots. I love watching your vlog – I had to give up my allotment a year ago because of my osteoarthritis. Reminds me of happy days. 😁
"Wack in as much as I can and hopefully some of it grows"
You realize that's what nature does right? That's why one plant produces thousands of seeds.😊
Phosphorus from banana peels.
Potassium from wood ash.
I think😂
Potassium you get from banana skins
Great video Emma. On the broad beans you can eat the pods. I cut the whole lot up and put in stews. They are delicious! Enjoy.
Wonderful kohlrabis! And your cornflowers are gorgeous! My newly sown zinnias are already sprouted. So exciting! Harvested endives and lettuce again today. Starting to get a bit sick of them 😂 My tomatoes and cucumbers are growing on horse dung (spread out last October) so no food needed. Thank you for another great vid! 😊
It always makes me laugh when you fling a snail 🐌 lol 😂
Sorry to say this, especially after the murder comments, but you are best killing the snails. If you and all your neighbours chuck them to the edges, that is the same density overall. They will be back in no time. And while they are in the dark hedge with all the other snails they are likely to get down to it and increase the snail population.
I grind up egg shells and put a handful or so in with my tomatoes, squash, and peppers when I plant them. The are other ways to add calcium but that is my preferred method. Haven't had blossom in rot since I started doing this. All three plants need the calcium to help cell growth in the fruiting parts of the plant.
I live in America, the Nebraska panhandle, it's vastly different growing conditions. We don't have allotments as far as I know, but some of your struggles remind me of HOA, home owner associations, I've heard about in the states. (The plot next door) I love your channel and enjoy watching your garden grow and sometimes wish we got the kind of rain you get.
Thank you for the reminder…I haven't fed mine at all this year either!!!xxx
Emma, comfrey feed for everything. Amazing! Have you heard of Super Soil? We are trying it now x
You made me laugh re the female blackbird and the worm, ours blackbirds follow me around the garden whenever I dig to either eat or regurgitate the worms for their young. I daily feed our blackbirds and robins dried mealworms, I have one who follows me everywhere even tells me ( by a loud chirping) when the food bowls empty. We are lucky in that our garden has a number of different species of birds visiting throughout the day. First thing I do every morning is makes sure the bird feeders are replenished.
Chempack do a great variety of soluble plant foods, made up of the 3 elements you mention, they have a choice of packs depending on which of the 3 trace elements you wish to contain the highest element.
Yes I was screaming at the screen.
My allotment is 25-30 min walk away too, I know how you feel about being hot and sticky getting there, but it feels great once I get there
Aww Emma, there are soooooo many cool varieties of tomatoes to have a go at growing, I find that makes it really interesting every year I've grown them (I only started in 2020). I absolutely love tomatoes because they are so versatile, you can use them in so many things, from eating fresh, to making soups and sauces etc… I count my tom plants yesterday.. I have 48! (all in pots) plus 3 potted up side shoots haha!
P.S. Also wow, did you see all those wood lice when you pulled that weed out.
Emma, not sure if you heard this before, but rain actually pulls nitrogen from the air and that is why rain water is so good for your garden. Nature is so amazing! Oh and BTW, I am really jealous of your corn flowers.
Another great vid. Where are your dungarees from? I love them.
Great kohlrabi !! Beautiful sweet peas glad you stood your ground lol !!
Different fertilizers contain different proportions of three macro-elements NPK. If that's tomato feed then it's obviously is best for tomatoes and might be same good for potatoes as they are the same family. But other plants – they may have this one too but they may be somewhat happier with different proportions of NPK. I'd believe that potassium comes from wood ashes. Phosphorus are in fish – my great grandmother always planted tomatoes on fresh Baltic herring – one fish under one plant.
Sow your garlic outside in October it needs the frost n cold to form the bulbs xx
We did scream! good job remembering to burn them or ditch them 🙂
I’m sure someone else has commented already but on the off chance they haven’t, you can get potassium from banana peels. Either let them compost in situ in the garden or you can make a banana peel tea like you did with the stinging nettles and that works too. I’m a new subscriber to your channel but have enjoyed your videos immensely. Your cornflowers (I call them bachelor button) and sweet peas are lovely! I already do cornflowers but I am looking forward to trying sweet peas next spring!
Hiya Emma oh my golly goodness I had a giggle throughout video! Lol I will like below so as my comment won’t be an essay. Lol blessings luv take care southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
Banana peel water is so good for plants. Creative explained has some good gardening hacks 😊
Worm police proper lol you come out with some things happy gardening Richard x
get a container, add dirt, old leaves, and add water, let sit for a week, stir… it makes a awesome fertilizer no need for fancy stuff. i use ground up eggshells for the tom's. love your humor, if we werent so far apart (calif) i would ask for some nail shells 🙂
Love your sweet peas, they look so nice
I'm laughing so hard right now, because I just spent the afternoon a few days ago arguing with birds eating worms out of my garden…useless act on my part. I love your videos.
Plants also need copper, cobalt, boron, etc etc but in trace amounts for proper sustained health. Nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus are the biggest needs by far but not the only ones which is why some plants start to fail once soil nutrition starts to run low.
Great video Emma i love being shown the successes and failures as it is so true to life not everything works, looking fwd to knowing what you do with the kohl rabixx
That bird calling is a Wren.
Hi Emma Baily hope I spelled it right basically I watched your video with the snail experiment I would love it if you could experiment with nettle mulch around your plants bigger than the leave span I’ve been gardening since 3 years old putting newspaper on my grandads beds nobody believes an old gardener so im reaching out to you to help me get this old gardeners trick out there cheers Emma happy gardening Richard x
Like most of the comments I love watching your videos as well, the successes, failures and especially the humour, cracked me up that you just witnessed a murder and was thinking of reporting it to the worm police 😂 you’re just like the girl next door which in a way I suppose you are as I’m from south London! Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Try burying an egg in the ground near your tomatoes when you plant them…..
Lol I was shouting no!!!
Hi Emma, Tomorite is good for any fruiting plant… tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, etc. Not potatoes, or root crops. Nettle liquid feed is good for leafy veg, such as brassicas, lettuce, etc. the reason is that, as you say, nettle feed is high in nitrogen. Nitrogen promotes leaf growth. Feeding nitrogen to fruiting and root crops as they near maturity will lead to too much leaf and poor crops.
General fertilisers have a ratio of 7:7:7, or thereabouts. Fertilisers for fruit are high in potassium, whereas high phosphate fertiliser is great for rout crops.
Happy gardening.
Hi Emma I love your channel so thanks for the videos! I really like these as opposed to the so called ‘pro’ videos which are most of the time a bit disheartening as they are too perfect! I also have an allotment in south east London 🙂
I wanted you to know that I tried your pumpkin arch idea! My pumpkin plants are still very small but fingers crossed it will work! Thank you 😊
Where abouts in South London is your plot Emma? Born an d raised in Catford but moved up to Newcastle 20 years ago.
Thanks for the reminder pinch top of my beans iv got mine growing up my porch there up to the roof so up the ladder quick pinch all done love your allotment Banana skins soak them for Pitasium