COURGETTE DISASTER!! / MAY 2023 / EMMA'S ALLOTMENT DIARIES 

I grow my courgettes at home in pots until they are quite big then I plant them out in my allotment and they don’t need protection!!

You should throw all the pond muck into a 5 gallon bucket with water and let it sit a while. Turn it into liquid fertilzer for your garden.

get one of them cheap sun driven fountains for the pond, more oxygen will help with the algae problem

Garlic planted in autumn is usually ready in july when 3 bottom leaves have died off.

Add neem oil to your bottle of garlic. Sold in health food store and together are a tremendous help with keeping the slugs and snails off.

Can’t wait for your posts Emma. You’re so entertaining and happy. Good luck with all your plants in your allotment. ❤

Love watching your gardening videos Emma always make me smile you and the rude cat 🐈 😂

Hi Emma looking forward to the clear out of the poly tunnel love your videos! Glad to see you are better lv sis 😘 xx

We have a raised pond in our garden and we've found using a net makes it much easier to scoop weed out. Just like one of those long handled fish tank nets.

Emma you need to move your rhubarb. It needs loads more space than you've given it when it starts growing like mad. It will dwarf all the things you've planted next to it and shade them out. You could just leave it there but you'll possibly lose the things you've planted around it. When established the rhubarb will cover a square metre + with huge leaves that will block light to anything under them. Good luck though. 👍

As always, good information and fun!

You might want to leave your garlic a few more months till the leaves turn yellowy, with having such a wet winter needs some sun for a mint or most things harvest nearer june time

You said trifle....tut!! Happy coronation Emma and family xxxxx

Hi Emma hold your sprayer up straight it will spray perfect woohoo xx

You have to wait for the radish flowers to turn into a seed pod

Love watching your videos and Rocky. ❤ Yes, the raddish flowers have to go over and form seed pods, when the seed pods are full and plump - but still green (not brown and dried) you can eat it fresh! I think they taste better than the raddish! 🎉

Don’t ever stop your videos, am brand new to gardening no clue what am doing, just learning along the way, I look forward to your videos each week, you have me proper howling, keep up the good work 😁

I've just ordered some gloves. Thank you for the discount code 😍🙌

Love your videos. They always brighten my day 😊

I use a child’s beach net to scoop the leaves of my small pond it helps to keep the algae down, if I get some I use a twig to twist the algae round and round it gets it out easily.

Rocky looks like a Devon rex he's definitely a pure breed cat and very expensive I'm surprised he's not a house cat , I love your videos, I only found you yesterday and have been binge watching ❤️

I watch with cc on was creasing when you told rock only my husband does that 😂😂 forgot to mention on last vlog digging ground cover get a hori hoiri knife you wont regret it after you stop being scarec to use it, all lokging alive ish i like that game, fab vlog Emma have a fab bank holiday 🥰

A garden cane and twiddle it around will get the pond weed x

Pond weed makes excellent liquid fertilizer.

Lol i thought it looked like slime! On the pond weed. Loving seeing the ❤ for rocky! I wonder if his owners know he has a youtube fanbase! Happy Coronation weekend.

Love your Dungarees ❤

Hi Emma it’s algae in your pond which is a good fertiliser for your beds

you can sprinkle neem leaf powder as well , its very effective against slugs and good for plants too

Hi enjoy the upcoming weekend stay safe have fun

Emma the end is missing on your spray bottle that's why it's not spraying so you need a new bottle so will spray much better than also that in your pond is not pond weed it's algae if you get yourself some pond snails they will help eat the algae and keep it down

When the radish flower turns into a seed pod you can eat it yummy

Emma Its really enjoyable watching you in your allotment, All the best

Dig in eggshells into the soil, there has been loads of egg shells in my homemade compost this year and I've no slug issues, slugs seem to hide down in the soil I think.

Hi Emma, your galic and the shallots should be left for another four to six week before you think of lifting them. There ars two types of garlic hard neck and soft neck, if your galic is the hard neck type it will produce a flower spike (in that time) called a scape , (and these can also be picked and used in things like stir frys) after the scapes appear hard neck garlic is usually ready to harvest.

Ordered some 🧤 thanks for the discount code 👍🏻🌿green slimy spirogyra should settle eventually once ponds finds balance naturally. 🐸Great video,Rocky upstaged you 😹

The husband comment had me honking with laughter Emma 😅

Hi Emma, I really enjoy your posts. I was just wondering what the music is that you are using. It’s really wonderful and calming.

Marigolds are good for pest control green fly black fly and maybe many more it’s a host plant that attracts them and keeps you crops from being eaten x

Hi I think you my need to change the name of your blog to the Rocky and Emma show😃😃 but if not again another wonderful video have a fantastic weekend . Go to your local pet store and see if there maybe some type of fish you can add to your pond that will eat the slime 🤔

I’m thinking the pond weed is loving your tomatofeed as well ;)

Rocky looks like a Devon Rex cat. Congratulations you’ve been chosen to his owner LOL

Garlic spray against snails 🐌 🤔 I use it for the fruit trees against aphids.

You can eat the young green seed pods of the Radish

It's the radish seed pods that people eat, which I'm sure come after the flowers are done. They're long and skinny like small bean pods. Enjoy your garden vlog!

I love your allotment diaries they are fantastic , mistakes happen you got time to grow a few more

I love watching your videos. I am fortunate to have a vegetable patch in my garden. I am having problems with my poly tunnel. I have moved position, buried it in the ground with bricks and dirt and still the wind keeps lifting off the cover. Any advice welcome. Thank you

I always use tomato feed for all my plants and know so many people that do the same. I don't have roses, but people say it's also great for them

I’m sure someone has commented on this already Emma, but just incase they haven’t… The radish flowers will finish & turn into pods. They will look like small pea or bean pods. So you just need to leave them for a bit longer, but if you can hold out it’s definitely worth it because they probably LOADS of pods 🙌🏻

Rocky wanted some camera time 😂 your plot is looking good

17:04 I have somewhat doubts about tree and sun having a massive impact on the pond weed... My pond is far from trees and stays in full sun all the time (when sun is out) and there is still a massive growth of pond weed. I would catch it out here and then. And I'm using a recommendation from my plot neighbour - put some buchweat straws in the pond to slow down the growth. I'd buy it in the "PetsAtHome" - put one in and it floats there for a while. When it is completely under water then it is time to change it. And why one would catch the pond weed out with gloves when you can use a small fishnet..

Have you never heard that cats choose people? It seems clear to me that this one has chosen you. And by the way, *licking* another being is a way cats show affection, particularly when they lick a human no matter how rude we may find their choice of location for the licking to be. This cat reminds me of one who twice lost his owner (same owner, and I am not certain *why* the owner had to surrender the pet he was so close with) and who was desperate to become *somebody's* cat; he was staying with my next door neighbor who did a lot of cat fosterage work and the twice-lost kitty would "claim" any human who would tolerate her or was kind to her. Frequently that one climbed all over me---literally. It's not true that cats are naturally aloof (I say this for the benefit of those people who still believe that they are) or neurotic or inveterate loners; we make them that way by treating them as if they are. Your Rocky is acting very much like a cat who needs to find his "belonging" arrangement and I'm betting that if you give him/her some time for "just we two," with jaw rubs (very gentle ones!) and forehead and between-ear pets, you'll find he's less frantic for attention once he's learned he'll get it and that he can afford to wait a minute or two. He appears to be very affectionate and in need of loving. Garlic. There's a garlic grower (I want to say professional, but I'm not sure I'm recalling that correctly) who rather than gauging the percent of yellowing of the leaves counts the number of still-green leaves remaining to determine when a garlic of a given category (porcelain, rocambole, artichoke, turban/Asiatic, etc.) is ready to harvest and claims it's more reliable. I know this half-bit of information isn't terribly helpful; if you ask it, I'll see if I can't find the reference on it.

Get a cheap shallow bowl and put the Rocky's treats in that before you leave the shed, if Rocky then shows up just put the bowl on the floor for him/her, will save you the stress of him/her pestering you when you are trying to open the packet. Rocky clearly loves you lol.

Oh I Love Rocky is so cute and I think he loves to be with you 😅 he adopted you!!

I have a cat who comes to see me ( or does he come for the treats) I call him Dyson as he hoovers them up.

I think rocky is a rex.

Hi Emma Though few, there are some plants that actually suffer when planted near garlic. Be sure to keep asparagus, peas, beans, sage, and parsley far away from it, as their growth can be stunted. Hope this helps x

Great vlog Emma

You could of used a rake to gently pull the pond weed off so you didn't have to touch it

Hiya Emma oh lol you and Rocky your comments re your bottom lol.Anywhoo luv it’s all looking great. Enjoy your Coronation . Blessings luv Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝

I love Rocky! ❤❤❤

I love Rocky he is a cool buddy to have❤❤❤

Wild garlic. Marigolds. Compost tea. Best weed and pest control you will ever need!. A little solar powered pump will get rid of all that pond snot too.

I think Rocky is now your cat whether you like it or not. 😅

You dont eat the flowers on the radish, but wait for the seedpods that comes after the flower. Will be a green 3-4 cm long pod.

Miss Emma, good rocky is a rare cat. He has Egyptian cat in him.

Hi Emma don't know if I told you i got my allotment I had it for two weeks we made three raised beds today and got polytunnel up your garden is looking very good green fingers Emma

Thank you miss emma

A beautiful cornish rex so affectionate miss mine they have an insatiable appetite a part of their natural instinct

Emma when removing the snails from your poly tunnel dont chuck them right outside they will go straight back in or to you other veg.Take them far far away far away.Give you courgettes a good water they'll be fine. ❤

the slugs are just such a pain this time of year!

😀 Another great update. Have you/do you collect seeds from any of your crops for next year? I'm not very knowledgeable on the subject, but would be great to hear if you do, or don't, and why 😀👍thanks

Get yourself some netting to keep birds off

Put your pond weed on a stick in case there is a small animal that needs the water….

Where the courgettes hardened off to sun? The new leaves will have developed their own UV protection but if you didn't gradually introduce the plants to sunlight then the cotyledons and first leaves may have not have had enough UV protection.

I think it’s the buds😊

I'm so pleased you have carrots. I literally have tried for two years now and cannot seem to get carrots to even germinate! Any tips Emma? That cat is so beautiful. Did he enjoy his treats? 🐈‍⬛🖤

Oh rocky loves you ❤

He will never go as you gave him treats, I did that to a cat but they just want a bit of love and cuddles. He may not have an owner and them few treats may be the only good thing he has bless him / he x

It will form a long pod looks like a bean shape

If you buy a pack of watercress from your local supermarket, throw it in the pond it will grow roots and grow in the pond. It flowers nicely too.

Oh rocky is trying to take over the show lol 🐾🐈

Hi Emma loving all your allotment diaries. Myself and my hubby have just recently got an allotment do you mind me asking what is the blue coil that you cut to cover you raised bed. Thanks Jen

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Where did you get your dungas from they are gorgeous?!

I'd chop off those scorched limp leaves and net the row and mulch. Then fresh air can get in but not the birds and deter the slugs where you can! I've laughed so much at this vid with Rocky. It'll be Emma and Rocky's allotment diaries soon!!

You need a small spray bottle for Rocky to shoo away…

When I find a slug or snail in my garden, it never comes back..

Hi.. New to your chanel & really enjoying them, I'm a newbie to growing.. it's the actual flower you eat.. Radish flowers have a mild flavor that allows them to be used on all sorts of dishes. However, because they are ever so faintly radish-y, they are best used on savory dishes instead of sweet ones. Try using them as a garnish for seafood, salads, meat dishes and more.

Let the radish flowers finish and you then eat the seed pod. It taste like a radish.

Sweet cherry pie love u ❤😂

Rocky is a legend 😂❤

Rocky is the best. He has adopted you

Where do you remove the slugs and snails to? Throwing them a couple metres away they just come back. I’d rather not kill them. At home can you put them in a garden waste bin?

Rocky looks like (s)he could be a Cornish or Devon Rex. (S)he isa very vocal, affectionate cat too.

My disaster this week was ,brussels ,kale ,brocelli ,lettuce plants -- wiped out by rabbits

What was in the hole at the side of your courgettes at 7:15?

Would the garlic water trick work if you put some garlic in a water butt???

Don't know what you're talking about, I water my plants with propane every year and they do just fine

Can you move the pond away from the trees