I adore your vlogs and clothes! Your gardening style is so relatable. I don't have many in my life that share my love of gardening. I love playing in the garden (that's what I call it). Thanks for taking us along. Sending love to you, Einstein, Rocky and Mr. Fox. ❤️🐈⬛❤🦊❤🐦❤️
Emma , why don't you put the bowl of the balloon ( filled with meal worms ) on the wood where you feed him so he sees and gets used to the bowl, then when he is ok with it hang it up in the tree. Xx k
I’m glad I’m not the only one with loads of logs etc being swamped by weeds. I’m making a dead hedge and need all that material. I might put a cover over the whole thing and see what happens
The baby cucumbers are (for now) only the base of the female flowers, they will only start growing if theyre pollinated by a male flower, so i dont want to discourage you but theres a good chance they will fall off still 🙈🙈 i think i have the same variety and i actually ate one of them today and yeah i can reccomend peeling them first, the skin was kind of hard to eat lol. But it was so lovely!! It only had a very small watery/seedy inside which is the part i like the least so that was great. It was all crunch and it was quite sweet!
So many years ago I went to a school to learn gardening, and the school has a big greenhouse and grew cucumbers. All of them had spikes on them, so when we picked them, we ran our gloves hand up and down it to break them off. ( no naughty thoughts now) and then we got them set in plastic sleeves. But if there are prickly cucumbers that isn’t meant to be eaten, with the outside on, I’ve never heard, I must do some searching .
most of the weeds u have growing at the bottom is bindweed u need to keep pulling it out and burn it or drown it and make a feed out of it like u do with the nettles
Hope Einstein is ok. Well done for painting the balloon, I'm sure he'll appreciate it 👍 Your face eating sour fruit...so funny 🤣. Build a cage around it for next year. That's what I did and I haven't regretted it... loads of fruit! Have a great holiday but be prepared it will be wild when you return.
You can compost all the green weeds - you can build a gigantic log pile with branches - or burn them in the incinerator and put the ashes and charcoal on yours beds and compost heaps❤ Then when it's empty put the weed fabric down. That's Winter taken care of😂
Poundland do a packet of green clips which are very useful to help keep crops upright their growing, such as tomatoes and beans etc; and may be of use for your berries on the netting.
Need the male flowers on the cucumber plant to pollinate the female ones. Also they are all rather prickly but when u pick the cucumber when it’s ready the prickles with brush off
Thanks Emma for the cheerful video, your two plots are blooming in the summer sunshine . I preferred the original balloon colours, but if it makes Einstein come off his hunger strike then I'm all for it .
I loosely tied the stem of my cucumber seedlings to the supports at the beginning. Kinda shows them which way you want them go. As they got bigger I repeated this further up the trellis , mainly for support, as the stems are a bit flimsy and cucumbers can get heavy and drag the stem down. And loganberries are not self climbing.You have to tie them to the support structure. Which is a bit of pain because they grow very fast and the canes can get super long if left unchecked. Got to do mine. Thought it was dead after this spring but it just started sprouting new canes again.
Hi Emma I think the cooler colours of the hot air balloon are more of a good blend in with your plot. Hopefully Einstein will feel comfortable with the new feeder soon 😊 Have fun on your holiday, it's always nice to get away. Looking forward to your next video xx
Thank you Emma your plot is looking really lovely I love the colour of the hot air balloon green and white are perfect l hope you get some cucumber s 😊🎉🎉
Hello Emma, I enjoy your vlogs & your care free gardening style. One way to support your Loganberry would be to put up a trellis structure and try growing it up that. Another way is to fix up some strong garden wire to either a fence or wall and train it along that. This method is how I've got mine. It is well established though, as it was planted over 10 years ago by my late father. I don't have an allotment but just grow some runner beans. If you'd like any advice or tips on how to prune your Loganberry let me know.. P.S. You only pick the berries when they turn completely black, RED berries are NOT ripe.
Let’s hope your female cucumber flowers will get fertilized! 😊 Have you ever used cardboard to suppress weeds? If you start collecting cardboard now, you could use it in the autumn/winter once you get your weeds pulled out. It’s a good no-cost solution.
Would it not be possible to invest in a strimmer, would save you so much time and effort keeping the grass down and help with the weeds. Love your enthusiasm, you always make me smi!e..
I dont know who told you red and yellow are scary for birds but they are wrong. Birds are attracted to flowers, and red and yellow are big in flowers. That said, I like the green and white.
I was told if you overwater fruit bushes they don't taste sweet. They need to be a bit stressed out to taste sweet. No idea if there's any truth to it though
I'm sure I read somewhere that it's better to cut back weeds right down at the base and that trimming them encourages more growth. I'm sure you'll get on top of the weeds over the winter.
Emma, you are eating the fruit too early. The loganberry must be dark red, almost purple, and they’ll be sweet. The blackcurrant needs to be soft. And no it doesn’t taste like Robinsons because it’s not full of refined sugar.
not sure about the red warning colour idea, I mean berries are red and many birds eat them I know the blackbird wasn't scared of my strawberries lol, blue/green and white looks nice as well though come on Einstein show some appreciation
