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Allotment Gardening

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  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    @Allotment Boy best of luck , certainly looks like a big job 
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    I emptied the compost bins today ready for the growing season hopefully I won't have to buy compost for the allotment this year hooray!
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Finished off posts & fencing that we replaced on Saturday , this morning, about 50 feet 

    O/H planted seeds in greenhouse at home ,  yellow tomatoes , courgettes and butternut squash 


  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    edited May 2023
    I have been getting to plots on alternate days for a while now. Finally finished the marathon , bindweed dig.  The space now has spuds, onions,  and a little salad at the front. 
    I  managed to finish the annual brassica cage move, and get some cabbage in the ground.  I am taking the easy option this year and buying in plants so I have a clubroot resistant collection on order from one of the seed catalogues. That will give me broccoli,  cauliflower,  and sprouts.  I  will add some kale and red cabbage raised from seed later in the year when there is less pressure on the greenhouse to start them off. 
    AB Still learning

  • Gardengirl..Gardengirl.. Posts: 4,172
    Hello all
    Missed you all have read a few posts, went to the allotment got a few plants as they had a plant sale - cauliflower seedlings - so dug over a bit of a bed and planted them out.

     Got a few daffs in flower look really nice few veg and a few flower plants for not too much money and help out allotment. 

    New neighbours both sides of my plot - one of them did get a digger bash all away and flatten it out 
    Still lots to do on my plot,  got to see a butterfly today red admiral butterfly about
    Hampshire Gardener
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Well it may not be as new, clean or tidy as @Sheps greenhouse 😆 , but after two days it is done! 

    Now to keep it going after this strange spell of weather! I do have spares in the conservatory,  in case of casualties,  but I think the night temperatures will be ok now. 🤞
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    @purplerallim that's looking really good. What size did you say it is ? 
    AB Still learning

  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    It looks great @purplerallim and the layout does too.

    Without side staging you have so much more room for planting.

    I'll guess a size of 12 x 8
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    It's a 12×10, inherited, and is about 25 years old.😁
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I have now planted the French beans and lettuce, the latter netted to stop the pigeons!
    The summer Raspberries are in flower, and there is a mass of strawberry flowers too, I'm not sure if they are earlier than usual but the number of flowers open seem more.
    The cucumbers have been in the greenhouse half a week and have doubled in size, they are even in flower. Everything seems in a rush!
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