Just been to allotment this morning for a couple of hours , just to see what it was like Then reason is the amount of rain we have had , stream at side of garden has never been higher , didn’t come into our garden but other and centre of village flooded
Pleased to say , allotment was ok The pile of stuff for burning is now so wet bought 6 bags home for garden bin A bit of tidying up and o/h picked cabbage , leeks & carrots
I managed a couple of hours yesterday. I started clearing the greenhouse surprisingly both sweet peppers have produced a few more fruits and the red ones are beginning to colour up, I brought one home and it has more colour already, so I will bring the rest in. It was our society AGM today better attended than last year but still not that many, sadly few people are prepared to get involved so the same few get lumbered. I've been chairman in the past so I'm not going to do it again.
Nice day spent at allotment O/H Planted Garlic , shallots & winter onions and I put some broad beans & spring onions under cloches Also cut down runner beans and put in compost bin Cut down Autumn Raspberries for burning 🔥 Cleaned a couple of beds for over wintering
I have a bit to dig over but as it's too wet to dig at the moment I've been spot digging areas of weed out to make it easier to dig over when the ground dries a bit, 2/3rds of the potato bed needs digging/gleaning the bit that I have done is covered in plastic sheet as is an area that I didn't use this season due to i'll health. The only crop which I have growing at the moment is kale. Due to the wet ground holding up digging I intend to empty the shed so that it can be squared up and repaired with some pallets that I obtained from another alllotmenteer. I have two empty plots next to me at the moment I don't know what the previous tenants'situations were but no one seems to want to persevere with them for long. I had a good crop of potatoes this year they will keep us going until next spring and apples have been plentiful and are storing well although they will only last a couple of months before deteriorating. I will start sowing peas and broad beans at home to transplant in the spring at the end of December, I will sow twice as many broad beans as I usually do due to the fact that I found a way to freeze them with good results this year, I don't think that I will bother with onions or shallots again as they never seem to be any good for me.
@barry island , hello I’ve been to allotment this morning and dug over a bed that had squashes in , wasn’t to bad as my plot seem to drain quite well , got lots of horsetail roots out , will cover with weed membrane from Lidl next time I go up , hopefully Sunday Trimmed a lavender bush and cut some more buddleia back , so burning pile just got bigger
@GWRS My plot is very sticky in places and I don't really want to walk on it too much if I can help it although I sometimes dig perched on top of a plank. I use the sheets from lidl aldi too but found it better to weigh it down with plastic bottles filled with water rather than bricks or pieces of wood which tend to rip the material.
Far too wet for digging here, I still have some refitting in the shed to do, and the final removal of the tomatoes from the greenhouse enough to keep me occupied for now.
I went to the plot today with the intention of digging the rhubarb up to split and replant as it was getting tough and stringy, after watching Monty saying that he was moving his rhubarb to where his compost bins had been I decided to move my compost bins as over the years rats have been in them and they tend to dig compost out so that when I empty them I lose 25% to rat disturbance so that area has had plenty of compost added. Moving the compost bins was the easy bit, digging 10 year old rhubarb was far harder than I had imagined, still that's another of the winter jobs done.
Got to plots today. Still too wet to do much. I staked up the rest of the sprouts. Looking like a decent crop so should have plenty for the big day. Cut another cabbage but disc at how much I have to take off to get rid of the slugs and woodlice. I weeded round the leeks , they are small but at least they seem free from the moth, and whiterot. Couldn't do much else, I will dig parsnips and pick the sprouts next weekend so they are as fresh as possible.
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Then reason is the amount of rain we have had , stream at side of garden has never been higher , didn’t come into our garden but other and centre of village flooded
Pleased to say , allotment was ok
The pile of stuff for burning is now so wet bought 6 bags home for garden bin
A bit of tidying up and o/h picked cabbage , leeks & carrots
It was our society AGM today better attended than last year but still not that many, sadly few people are prepared to get involved so the same few get lumbered. I've been chairman in the past so I'm not going to do it again.
O/H Planted Garlic , shallots & winter onions and I put some broad beans & spring onions under cloches
Also cut down runner beans and put in compost bin
Cut down Autumn Raspberries for burning 🔥
Cleaned a couple of beds for over wintering
Trimmed a lavender bush and cut some more buddleia back , so burning pile just got bigger