Zoomer. Sounds like a rainy day in the shed job.I'ts a rainy day in S\E today so going to Homebase for wood preserver thinking autumn gold .Might not get anything to grow but the place should look nice. Scroggin anchor bolts don't know them will look on amazon . The local allotmenteers ( is that a word) tell me to anchor the shed , looked around no one else is anchored do you think there winding up the new guy. Watched AC last night didn't learn much about potatoes . A couple growing in bags, that's the way for me this year I Think.
Hello Roy , although I grow potatoes at the Allottment , I also have 2 potatoes sacks that I grow at home using bought compost which produces nice clean and even sized spuds not very big but ideal for the local Village show . Start them off in a cold greenhouse , then outside , then depending on the weather back in the G/H
Talking spuds , in AC last night they mentioned putting shredded newspaper in trench , anybody out there tried that ?
Hi All, Happy New Year and hope you all had lovely Christmas's. I have been off work
since the 19th dec. and have had some very productive days at the plot. Finally got my skip find trellis painted and have installed it as a low fence at both ends of my plot. I think I have now finally got the structure and digging finished (will still keep putting muck on though, my soil is so sticky.) cant wait to get growing now as I didnt get much in last year. Still need to get a polytunnel for the seedlings etc. Christmas pressies included some new tools and cloches. very useful.
Here is a list off the potato day website for Hampshire it has mainly dates for 2014 but 2015 dates are appearing - see if you can find any near you -there are also websites that you can go off to
I watched the AC last night like the info on zinnias and the way they all planed there plots so differently even with the same things that they have to grow on the list they were given
GWRS not done the shredded paper maybe it help retain moisture under the potatoes
Hello Scroggin and Ginagibbs you sound as though your plots is getting going nicely in time for the growing season
I watched AC earlier and thought it was a bit lame really it just went from them getting their empty plots to them being fully working, and nothing in between. I reckon the world is lacking a weekly allotment thing where they show the hard reality of allotmenting, the resourcefulness in getting materials, the cunning in deterring various pests and everything else allotmenty
programmes like GW and beach grove (I think that's what it's called) are good but they aren't aimed specifically at allotmenting
It is more like the bake off show but I knew that from last time - more tricky this time only 9 gardeners 1 to each plot last years one had a pair to the plot
Fruitcake that would be a good allotment show reality on tv I watch Sean on youtube for that and others only place to find it - think they try videos that show the allotment styles
me not so keen on the cooking bit and her and I would not know where to start but guess they do research before
Iike the part where they go back to when they started there growing of plants each time
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Zoomer. Sounds like a rainy day in the shed job.I'ts a rainy day in S\E today so going to Homebase for wood preserver thinking autumn gold .Might not get anything to grow but the place should look nice. Scroggin anchor bolts don't know them will look on amazon . The local allotmenteers ( is that a word)
tell me to anchor the shed , looked around no one else is anchored do you think there winding up the new guy. Watched AC last night didn't learn much about potatoes . A couple growing in bags, that's the way for me this year I Think.
Hello Roy , although I grow potatoes at the Allottment , I also have 2 potatoes sacks that I grow at home using bought compost which produces nice clean and even sized spuds not very big but ideal for the local Village show . Start them off in a cold greenhouse , then outside , then depending on the weather back in the G/H
Talking spuds , in AC last night they mentioned putting shredded newspaper in trench , anybody out there tried that
?
Hi All, Happy New Year and hope you all had lovely Christmas's. I have been off work
since the 19th dec. and have had some very productive days at the plot.
Finally got my skip find trellis painted and have installed it as a low fence at both ends of my plot. I think I have now finally got the structure and digging finished (will still keep putting muck on though, my soil is so sticky.) cant wait to get growing now as I didnt get much in last year. Still need to get a polytunnel for the seedlings etc. Christmas pressies included some new tools and cloches. very useful.
Here is a list off the potato day website for Hampshire it has mainly dates for 2014 but 2015 dates are appearing - see if you can find any near you -there are also websites that you can go off to
http://www.potatoday.org/potatodays.htm
I watched the AC last night like the info on zinnias and the way they all planed there plots so differently even with the same things that they have to grow on the list they were given
GWRS not done the shredded paper maybe it help retain moisture under the potatoes
Hello Scroggin and Ginagibbs you sound as though your plots is getting going nicely in time for the growing season
I watched AC earlier and thought it was a bit lame really
it just went from them getting their empty plots to them being fully working, and nothing in between. I reckon the world is lacking a weekly allotment thing where they show the hard reality of allotmenting, the resourcefulness in getting materials, the cunning in deterring various pests and everything else allotmenty
programmes like GW and beach grove (I think that's what it's called) are good but they aren't aimed specifically at allotmenting
It is more like the bake off show but I knew that from last time - more tricky this time only 9 gardeners 1 to each plot last years one had a pair to the plot
Fruitcake that would be a good allotment show reality on tv I watch Sean on youtube for that and others only place to find it - think they try videos that show the allotment styles
me not so keen on the cooking bit and her and I would not know where to start but guess they do research before
Iike the part where they go back to when they started there growing of plants each time
Garden girl , what's " Sean on YouTube " ?
What I found really freakish was the way the cooking lady put her fork in her mouth, oh so carefully. It really was proper freakish
There are a couple of good allotment things on youtube, but there needs to be something on mainstream telly
*goes off to google local telly channel*
GWRS here is a link https://www.youtube.com/user/thehortchanneltv