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  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267

    GWRS, grow mangetout likes pea's, if not picked whilst flat though the pea's inside will start growing and then they turn into pea pods. You can still eat the pea's but not the podsimage

    I'm trying small pumkins(free from a mag) and butternut squash for the first time.

    Some vegs I find grow really well but other's which are surposed to be easy pezzie don't grow at all...I can't grow carrots, spring onions or lettuce...carrots no top growth and slugs tuck into spring onions and lettuce for fun... image

     

  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Butter squash for first time last year , only 2plants and loads of squashes in fact last one used last week , probably beginners luck

    Total failure was Raddish , riddled with holes , previous year didn't grow , have to have a rethink image

    Thats the fun of Gardening image

    Winter definaetly here , cold , sleet & snow

  • RGRG Posts: 56

    Hope to grow some peas this year .Bought a new book yesterday "Allotment Handbook" says dig a 12in trench in autumn and put in compost , kitchen waste and newspaper.I haven't done that. Would digging the trench now and putting in compost work. GG - after all the digging (only one day left hopefully) I have to grow something ,anything .

  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Roy I thought you did that for runner beans not peas !

    I would have thought that only well rotted manure would do now , other I would just put some on top of soil then dig it in , in the spring 

    Doing to try and put in shredded newspaper in a trench for one set of potatoes 

    If the ground is not frozen or water logged you could put in some onions and garlic , I have some early broad beans growing under couches image

    best of luck

  • FruitcakeFruitcake Posts: 810

    Aldi have soft fruit bushes for £2.49- autumn amd summer raspberries, blackcurrants and gooseberries were what I picked up but they have thornless blackberries and redcurrants too 

     

    next Thursday they will have fruit trees too 

  • Gardengirl..Gardengirl.. Posts: 4,171

    My large peach tree came from Lidl

    That sounds good fruitcake are they going to your allotment?

    Roy that is good glad you are keeping your plot - peas are good I sowed mine in large row trays about begin of April last year and they did really well, Runner beans are good to grow - I am getting new seeds of those on the weekend they do them cheap for a lot at the Hampshire potato day   

    GWRS I will keep in touch with the council even just to find out if I have moved on the list

    Hampshire Gardener
  • FruitcakeFruitcake Posts: 810

    GG my dad had them for his garden but I've got another blackcurrant plant to stop my one at the allotment from getting lonely image

     

    Roy I will be growing runner beans this year but haven't dug a trench, at either plot. A lot of the guys at one of my sites have done so though

  • RGRG Posts: 56

    Just received potato delivery Nadine and Sarpo Axona. GW-I did manure and dug in a few weeks ago can't vouch for quality of manure GC bought.Suppose it's try it and see.                 With the amount of unwanted wildlife on the plot I plan to sow as much as possible in coir pots then plant them.Got a cloche yesterday don't know what I'l do with it yet. Finished my heavy digging today started to put down my wood edging.very pleased with myself.

  • FruitcakeFruitcake Posts: 810

    one of my plot neighbours hasn't been anywhere near her plot since june or July time. My understanding is that she's gonna get kicked off next month because she's way past the three months for turning it into a workable plot. All she's done is cut the couch grass down, once.

    My plot was in a worse mess when I took it on in May. I had the choice of both plots and know exactly what she has, or hasn't done. The one time I saw her there she was using a scythe to cut it all back and was wearing flip flops image my name is still on the list for another plot at that site so hopefully I'll get offered itimage 

  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Personally I don't bother with a " runner bean trench " even when I grow them in the garden , always do a wigwham and always get a good crop 

    but everybody to there own way of doing things image

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