COVERING OVER BEDS FOR AUTUMN / ALLOTMENT GARDENING UK

[@miracudrag]

"I reckon I can make that"... That should be a T-shirt.

[@jecskid8]

Great vlog as usual x

[@coralgardens.official]

I rewatched the bit with Einstein sitting on the camera. His little song is so cute!

[@twelvesmylimit]

Emma, every one of your video helps me and as an added extra, you always manage to make me laugh and smile. 😊You're awesome.

[@countrygardensns9262]

Hello Emma. You don’t need net for your raspberries. I’ve been growing them for over 30 years, and have never used netting. Just wire or twine for support. One at about 2 foot mark, second at about the 3 foot mark. Both sides of your support stakes. Raspberries grow in the middle, but have support on both sides to keep them up. Hope that makes sense. Good luck! xox 🇨🇦

[@z.mushtaq457]

Crap is definitely the word to describe the weather recently 😂😂😂. Absolutely love your blog, so glad i found your channel. You have such a fresh approach to gardening and i love how you talk to the plants, the birds the insects.....nice to know im not the only one who does that😅

[@lucybarnard3954]

Totally agree digging deep holes is hard work I’ve put in raised beds to hide all the bodies 😂

[@Petetrenouth]

Emma, around the end of February, you could buy some willow whips and plant a living willow arch, each year it will become stronger and more beautiful. You could then plant at the bottom (sweet peas) in my case and you’ll have the best of both worlds, a beautiful structure and full of colour. Just an idea for the future. Take care Pete. 🧑‍🌾👍

[@jennyb473]

Using your trainers to backfill is so relatable, I love it 😂

[@CindyOrangeNeely]

Emma, your garden looks beautiful!!!! You do such an amazing job!!! Oh, and my daughter said to tell you it's "Spider Season" here in the US, too! LOL🕷🕸

[@jennyb473]

Oh you’ve just given me an idea for a loganberry structure!! Thanks Em ❤

[@clarefoskett9959]

Lovely vlog, I adore this time of year. Love to Einstein 😅😊

[@jennyhayler7553]

@clarefoskett9959 yes love to Einstein, foxy Loxy ,& Rocky.

[@zuzauramek9850]

Remove that bindweed from newly planted raspberry because next year you will have only bindweed, not fruits.👍

[@charlotterydz6343]

I was worried there was some bindweed caught up with the bush too. I suspect Emma dealt with it off camera.

[@elfmaart8083]

Love your thought processes, for they end up in lines like "remove them (the slugs) from the situation" and "If i've committed murder and was trying to dig a grave, i'd given up by now" 😂

[@Collette665]

The "buried in a shallow grave" comment actually made me lol 😆. I HATE digging anything for this exact reason (so no dig all the way for me). Also I've had raspberries in my garden for donkeys years and never had supports, they just grow like blackberries (weeds with free fruit). I've been trying to reduce mine as they come up everywhere, so keep on top of them when they get established! Love your content ✨️ 💕 xx

[@terrypatterson1481]

Emma the spaces you've covered you should be growing winter crops to sustain you until spring - winter cabbages, cauliflower - broccoli, onions, potatoes and turnip.

[@charlotterydz6343]

Emma’s got these already growing in different spots on her plots. I imagine she wants to keep these ones weed free for the early spring bits and bobs 💚

[@jecskid8]

Emma, if you have lots of, or any, green tomatoes then think about making chutney; it's fabulous !

[@rosieglow9217]

I have read you can mulch your raised beds with a top dressing off grass clippings /straw and leaves and let it rot down over winter. Cardboard is also good. Let's hope for good crumbly soil come spring 😊

[@robinroseberry]

Thank you !

[@suemcdonagh7650]

There are several parks in my area of SE London and we also have those noisy Parakeet’s!! I also have crows following me when I walk my dog in the park, they’re waiting for me to throw them some sausages 🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛ Love the vlogs keep up the good work 👍🏻

[@KatieToft-wv5pe]

We have lots in Sheffield amd in Derbyshire x I love seeing them x

[@KraftyKaren-7]

hello Emma, you can pick the green tomatoes they will all eventually turn red. I love raspberries as well, I had the thornless type they sold here in the states not sure if they would be available in the UK. hope you have a great rest of your day see you on Monday.

[@Gardenofglory-l6v]

Hi Emma have a wonderful weekend ❤

[@cindisinkula4271]

Wonderful as always ❤

[@sheroncrisp8644]

I saw a tip for keeping berries fresher for longer….put them in glass jars! Tried it and it actually works! 😊

[@Gardenhues]

Great vid emma

[@susanambler-yh9lq]

You make me smile .

[@somethingseasonal7435]

I was told years ago that the parakeets were let go after the making of the movie cleopatra and since then they have been breeding loads! My mum did a petition to save them as they were culling them in east London and managed to stop the cull! X

[@amandasmith3177]

Thankyou❤

[@PatrickKazmierczak-j6i]

I use cardboard all the time for various things. I even shred it for the compost bin

[@charlotterydz6343]

Me too 💚 my compost is pretty good aswell, it’s really done well on my veggie patch this year

[@laviniasey]

They are ring neck parrots. Excellent speakers. I would love to see them here on South Coast

[@lucrom1097]

Fantastisch Good work emmas you the best te moostiun te onkruid te karton te beds thans te video Top weekend 👍✔️🌾🌞💐🧤🍅

[@irenedoyle3421]

The reason why your cucumbers are late is because you planted them very late, im in northwest UK which is much colder than london and i put my cucumbers out the 2nd week of june, i think yours would be fine planted out at the end of may 😁👍 hope this helps. Ps. Your allotment is amazing 😊

[@mrsmunchin]

We have few parakeets in Greater Manchester too 😊

[@TheSnuffy1994]

Yup, same happened here with a type of parrot/parakeet I believe it is. Amsterdam is full of these loud ass yellow birds

[@annsfrench]

How funny! We have those birds in Southern California, Orange County! They are quite noisy and so strange to see. 😮

[@LucRom-kz5uw]

Fantastisch Good work Emmas you the best te moostuin te onkruid karton tegen gras te beds Tomatoes oogsten thans te video Top weekend 🌤🍅🪴🧤☕️👍🌾📦🫐

[@jacquelinewhittaker4651]

Diagonals make a structure more windproof. And 3D is more solid than 2D.

[@OrkWarbossThrakka]

There’s metre wide square beds for £80-£120 but luckily at work there’s some posts with joints to easily assemble into beds

[@irenesmith5676]

Hi Emma have you looked at your compost bin ? I’ve looked at mine & took all the dying garden stuff off & at the bottom was fabulous compost ? I’ve put the compost in bags & put the garden compost back to rot down I’m so pleased lv Irene 😘 xx

[@jennyb473]

I thought I was imagining the parakeets 😂

[@mrsmunchin]

❤❤❤

[@mogensdanielsen]

👍👍👍👍

[@williamhamblin1585]

❤❤❤🌻🌻🌻🌻🌼

[@JenniMBE]

I'd buy an auger to help you dig holes. You must have thick clay like me. It's like digging into concrete when its dry.

[@walkswimeatrepeat]

Hi Emma. Do you put anything on top of the cardboard to keep it in place? Just about to take over my first allotment and want to start clearing some of the weed filled beds!

[@beatricethomas-fn9bb]

Fill empty milk bottles filled with water to use as weights to hold down the cardboard

[@aussieallrounder6018]

@@beatricethomas-fn9bb Thank you for answering this question.

[@zannasfoto]

You need a sharper, pointier shovel I think. And a pointy steel thing to make holes with... I have no idea what they are called in english 🙈 Its heavy and about 150 cm long, used to make holes for fence posts and such. 😳 Then you can make really good and deep holes for your structures. ❤️ I have the same nightmareish hard ground here in Sweden. 😂

[@markhildred2456]

drain spade\shovel

[@jennyhayler7553]

Crowbar

[@zannasfoto]

Found a translation! 😁 “ a wedge point crowbar, an iron-bar lever (heavy and c. 60 inches long, for punching holes in the ground)“

[@jennyhayler7553]

@zannasfoto when younger dad used one in the garden very heavy it was king of the Garden lol

[@zannasfoto]

They work so good, but man they are heavy. 😂 I use it, then I put the pole or stick in, place a piece of wood on top and whack the hell of it with a mallet. 😂 Got a few I can't move, they are stuck in the ground 😂😂😂​@jennyhayler7553

[@astraaj435]

Why would you think that this is wrong time for moving raspberries?.. There's no better time than September to move them. Just go for it! Move all the raspberries now when it is getting enough rain for a better settle and still some warmth left in the first part of the autumn. They will do great if moved now. Don't worry about the fruit. It is not actively growing when there's fruit. Active growth happens in late spring and early summer when there are new leaves and branches coming on and on. Once planted in their new place, then give them a good deal of food - I'd do either well rotted manure of shrub compost. And then woodchip them over. Repeat food and woodchip every autumn.

[@siobhanpainter802]

You don't net the raspberries, you just tie them to the wire as they grow upwards, they don't have anything ( tendrils) to hold on to the netting.

[@ritazimmermann2918]

All those birds are eating the slugs and snails.

[@RawLondonGardener]

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@linasjostrand4034]

Wait, so u have "wild" parrots now? What do they eat? How do they survive the winter? I have so many questions! 😅

[@annsfrench]

You are so hilarious! Burying bodies!!!😅 I hope you covered the cardboard with some soil or compost. Won’t it just blow away?

[@beatricethomas-fn9bb]

Fill empty milk bottles with water to use as weights to hold down the cardboard

[@tonypino2858]

Wouw waar komen al die Parkieten vandaan dan opeens

[@nineteenninetyfive]

I don't understand raspberry supports. They send runners in all directions. Don't look too closely at the raspberries you pick. Raspberry beetle 🪲 Brown Amazon boxes are totally fine for use in the garden. The glue holding the fibres and ink is totally biodegradable.

[@susiea1419]

You just need wire Emma not netting for raspberries. Just tie them on

[@aname5267]

Does anyone else have to skip forward when gardeners start eating, so they don’t have to listen to sloppy eating noises? 😩

[@ElizabethShaw-h9z]

Don’t know how this women has a gardening blog when she has no idea.

[@debbieendall8057]

I love emma

[@grahammorris311]

Who are you? The end of the world??

[@CharlotteChowdhry]

She doesn’t proclaim to be an expert just someone who enjoys gardening. I suggest you find someone more aligned with what you are looking for.

[@twelvesmylimit]

It's not a blog, Elizabeth. A blog is the written form. Emma states often that she's not an expert. We love Emma and if you've nothing nice to say, we suggest you move on to something you prefer. Happy Friday!

[@ClareOvaltine]

Oh @ElizabethShaw why so mean? Emma's not forcing you to watch her content. You know you can just move on without saying anything if you don't enjoy what you're watching and the world would be a better place for it.

[@FoodThymeAndGarden]