Chickens needed webbed feet at one point a couple of weeks ago - they got flooded out, twice thankfully, the local pet shop sells straw so they've done quite well out of me recently lol. It's quite easy to change the straw every couple of days and the girLS love scrabbling about in it
i bought oca today. Never tried it before so it'll be a new experience, hopefully it will be worth the long wait to try it! Apparently you dont harvest it until October/November time
Poor chooks fruitcake, my neighbours chicken run is very muddy now. Have you thought of buying a bale of straw from a farm Fruitcake, it would save you a lot of money as they only charge about £2-3.00 for a bale, lasts for ages and its are also useful to spread under your strawberry's etc?
Got a metal filing drawer from work that has very slim drawers, perfect for my seeds and bits and bobs. Its now in my shed, it was a good excuse to give the shed a really good tidy up and organize what seeds I need for this year. Great job done!
Still harvesting spinach, kale and the last of my parsnips. I pl;an to do more of this sort of veg for next winter. Still have'nt got round to getting my spuds yet, you all seem ahead of me!
Fruitcake, hope your chooks are ok, lets hope we get dryer weather.
I like the idea of growing oca, and am envious you have parsnips ginagibbs.
Started to work out a growing plan this evening. I've loads of seeds left from last year plus new ones.
The plan this year is to sow more of everything and plant seedlings closer together....
To slow down the weeds under fruit trees and bushes, was going to plant either nasturgum, courgettes, pumkins and gourds to cover the ground, big leaves mean weeds have no light. There's also a new strawberry patch under a couple of apple tree's.
I've mini pop with 'jack be little' pumkins planned, wnding their way through the corn with dwarf beans or pea's round the edges, not quite what the Indians did but this version of The three sisters worked well last year
All good plans change no doubt it maybe different come Spring... I need to sit on my hands and not sow too early...
I get inspiration from what other growers are doing. The guy on the neighbouiring plot still has cabbage and sprouts for picking. Anyone else been thinking of a planting plan for this year...
Zoomer don't forget squashes , they can produce loads of leaves , runs and fruit , always grew a couple just eat the last one last week , grow them in my Aparagus bed
Don't get me started on the aspargus bed ......I've asparagus roots being delivered in March and did dug over the area for them but found it is littered with bits of plastic, flacky white paint and other non recycable rubbish just under the surface...clearing the rubbish is now on my jobs to do over winter...
just waiting for phone call to apply for one of the 3 nearest to us, whichever has the shortest waiting list! Decided I may be able to manage half a plot now littlies are 2 and 4
Gina I'd love to get a bale of straw but I've got no way of getting it to the plot as we wouldnt be able to get it up the path to the gate then along to the plot
I had a similar problem at my original plot a couple of years ago - we were taking up the original wooden compost "bay" which was hanging beyond repair and once we got towards the bottom we saw that they'd used a painted door and the painted door was on the inside took an absolute age to get rid of all the flecky bits
I picked the last of my sprouts and cabbage last week. It looks so bare there now but on the upside, I have a completely blank canvas to work with for this year
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Fruitcake , always good to try different things , you will have to let us known how you get on
frustrating with shed leaking , hope chickens are ok , do they need water wings
Chickens needed webbed feet at one point a couple of weeks ago - they got flooded out, twice
thankfully, the local pet shop sells straw so they've done quite well out of me recently lol. It's quite easy to change the straw every couple of days and the girLS love scrabbling about in it 
i bought oca today. Never tried it before so it'll be a new experience, hopefully it will be worth the long wait to try it! Apparently you dont harvest it until October/November time
Poor chooks fruitcake, my neighbours chicken run is very muddy now. Have you thought of buying a bale of straw from a farm Fruitcake, it would save you a lot of money as they only charge about £2-3.00 for a bale, lasts for ages and its are also useful to spread under your strawberry's etc?
Got a metal filing drawer from work that has very slim drawers, perfect for my seeds and bits and bobs. Its now in my shed, it was a good excuse to give the shed a really good tidy up and organize what seeds I need for this year. Great job done!
Still harvesting spinach, kale and the last of my parsnips. I pl;an to do more of this sort of veg for next winter. Still have'nt got round to getting my spuds yet, you all seem ahead of me!
Fruitcake, hope your chooks are ok, lets hope we get dryer weather.
I like the idea of growing oca, and am envious you have parsnips ginagibbs.
Started to work out a growing plan this evening. I've loads of seeds left from last year plus new ones.
The plan this year is to sow more of everything and plant seedlings closer together...
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To slow down the weeds under fruit trees and bushes, was going to plant either nasturgum, courgettes, pumkins and gourds to cover the ground, big leaves mean weeds have no light
. There's also a new strawberry patch under a couple of apple tree's.
I've mini pop with 'jack be little' pumkins planned, wnding their way through the corn with dwarf beans or pea's round the edges, not quite what the Indians did but this version of The three sisters worked well last year
All good plans change
no doubt it maybe different come Spring... I need to sit on my hands and not sow too early...
I get inspiration from what other growers are doing. The guy on the neighbouiring plot still has cabbage and sprouts for picking. Anyone else been thinking of a planting plan for this year...
Zoomer don't forget squashes , they can produce loads of leaves , runs and fruit , always grew a couple just eat the last one last week , grow them in my Aparagus bed
QWRS-thanks for the tip, about squash.
Don't get me started on the aspargus bed ...
...I've asparagus roots being delivered in March and did dug over the area for them but found it is littered with bits of plastic, flacky white paint and other non recycable rubbish just under the surface...clearing the rubbish is now on my jobs to do over winter...
Zoomer , sorry to hear about all that rubbish in the ground , makes you wonder what you will find ?
nice and sunny so off to allottment
have a good day
just waiting for phone call to apply for one of the 3 nearest to us, whichever has the shortest waiting list! Decided I may be able to manage half a plot now littlies are 2 and 4
Gina I'd love to get a bale of straw but I've got no way of getting it to the plot as we wouldnt be able to get it up the path to the gate then along to the plot
I had a similar problem at my original plot a couple of years ago - we were taking up the original wooden compost "bay" which was hanging beyond repair and once we got towards the bottom we saw that they'd used a painted door and the painted door was on the inside
took an absolute age to get rid of all the flecky bits
I picked the last of my sprouts and cabbage last week. It looks so bare there now but on the upside, I have a completely blank canvas to work with for this year
Good luck rosemummy, hope you don't wait to long for a plot.
The weather forcast is looking dry for the weekend so I'm going to try to get to the plot both mornings.