Full day at plot , 6 hrs , lots to do for next few weeks Today moved 2 Blue Berry bushes into fruit cage Composted paisley plus a few other jobs Hoping to have another full day on Tuesday Havested a load of cherry toms Hope all’s well with everybody
Hello , spend morning at plot , sorted out Apragus bed Also o/h emptied grow bags yesterday into boxes which I took to plot to put in compost bins , break all the green / brown stuff down really well Afternoon tieding / cleaning g/h and took shading down Grew a Cape gooseberry , had the fruit today I am going to try and over winter it ! Chilli 🌶 still growing , tried them in a grow bag , worked ok
We had a bar-b-cue at the weekend, it was a lovely sunny day, about twenty plot holders attended in all, coming and going throughout the afternoon.
I've done a lot of clearing over a few weeks and am looking forward to some winter veg. Kale has been a real trooper, cropped all summer and still growing well.
I grew a cuemelon, this year, I think that is what it was called and plan to over winter it, I've also some chilli plants indoors.
Hi, GWRS - I bought the cuemelon plant in the spring and grew it on in the GH, it produced masses of small fruit most of the summer about the size of cherry tomatoes, and it really does taste like melon with a hint of cucumber. I've got seeds to grow extra plants next year. The plant though is a periennual. It dies back in the autumn and reappears in the spring.
I have grown cucamelons really liked them still growing a plant have not had any off it yet as sown really late and think the other plants got eaton by something, they dont overwinter outside as never come back
Went to plot today - been on hoilday - so does look different, sweet peas still in flower, harvested peas, beans french, potatoes, tomatoes and small courgette, pumpkin looks as though it got frost and had to cover shed plastic back up as storm took it off, my spinach I sowed few weeks ago is up
Zoomer nice you had a allotment bar-b- cue don't do that on my site
Hello everybody , another full day at plot , peas , beans and courgettes finished ages ago Still picking tomatoes thou and a lovely red cabbage Lots done , main jobs was cutting down sunflowers 🌻, stems like small tree trunks , left to dry for burning , heads left on bed for birds and self setting Gave one of my budlias a major prune , also pruned Roses & Clemtias Used the fire dustbin and burnt loads Was going to cut some kale but it was covered in white fly so didn’t bother , considering I have sprayed it a couple times The green house , we have decided not to glaze it and turn it into another fruit cage
We had a BQ a couple of yrs ago went well , Will surgest we have another next year Hope your all keeping well
Hello all went to a pumpkin festival today and saw the biggest pumkins going, the British record was beaten from last year to this year -one the two brothers grew for the largest heavest pumpkin, went around the show ground got some apple juice one pink as the apples are pink right though the middle and some pumpkin rolls so will try that soon
I have been going though a good list of fundraising ideas for allotment after we went to the AGM last Monday the shop loses a bit of money after admin costs and needs more fundraising - found some interesting ones will let the committee know as we will have a grass area 1/2 plot near shop next year once the grass seeds have been sown and grown - also will use the ideas for the volunteering gardening Three Rivers Rail projects
Think the community area will be more like a committee area - as sometimes they are meanies on my site
Went to an Apple 🍎 day to try and ID small apples from an Apple tree in garden but the que was huge , so went to library and managed to get a book on apples Fund raising is difficult Lots to do at Allotment before winter but going well
I've lots to do on the plot before winter too. It's been too wet and windy though to go this weekend.
I want to move my strawberry patch and extend the raspberry beds. I've started to plant one up with new runners from this year but will also move some of the established strawberry plants.
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Today moved 2 Blue Berry bushes into fruit cage
Composted paisley plus a few other jobs
Hoping to have another full day on Tuesday
Havested a load of cherry toms
Hope all’s well with everybody
Also o/h emptied grow bags yesterday into boxes which I took to plot to put in compost bins , break all the green / brown stuff down really well
Afternoon tieding / cleaning g/h and took shading down
Grew a Cape gooseberry , had the fruit today I am going to try and over winter it !
Chilli 🌶 still growing , tried them in a grow bag , worked ok
Hope you are all keeping well
We had a bar-b-cue at the weekend, it was a lovely sunny day, about twenty plot holders attended in all, coming and going throughout the afternoon.
I've done a lot of clearing over a few weeks and am looking forward to some winter veg. Kale has been a real trooper, cropped all summer and still growing well.
I grew a cuemelon, this year, I think that is what it was called and plan to over winter it, I've also some chilli plants indoors.
Still picking tomatoes thou and a lovely red cabbage
Lots done , main jobs was cutting down sunflowers 🌻, stems like small tree trunks , left to dry for burning , heads left on bed for birds and self setting
Gave one of my budlias a major prune , also pruned Roses & Clemtias
Used the fire dustbin and burnt loads
Was going to cut some kale but it was covered in white fly so didn’t bother , considering I have sprayed it a couple times
The green house , we have decided not to glaze it and turn it into another fruit cage
We had a BQ a couple of yrs ago went well , Will surgest we have another next year
Hope your all keeping well
Fund raising is difficult
Lots to do at Allotment before winter but going well
I want to move my strawberry patch and extend the raspberry beds. I've started to plant one up with new runners from this year but will also move some of the established strawberry plants.
Good luck with fund raising.