Just been reading through your thread baza - fantastic results - you must be spending a great deal of time and effort on it all.
Re the sunflowers - I had the same issue as Hazel but once I gave my potted sunflowers a tomato feed they seemed to respond well as the top foot of the plants has quite lush leaves. I put the loss of the lower leaves down to 'natural causes'. I can only grow them in pots as my garden appears to be some sort of slug zoo/sanctuary!
Thanks for looking through our thread and yes spend a lot of our time there .I would live in the shed in the summer if it was big enough he he.
We have the same problem in our allotment with slugs and especially snails so I have to use slug pellets from time to time which seems to keep them under control
Our sunflowers are starting to get the flower heads so it should be a great sight when they flower I'll post more photos of how they progress
I live in France and I buy the weed suppressant fabric in rolls in the supermarket garden section or the DIY place or the Garden Centre (which is the most expensive!) Weeds grow like mad here, especially when there is heavy rain followed by hot weather. But it is a fiddle doing the planting. I cut crosses in it for onion sets. Weeds still manage to grow in the gaps though!
I remove the fabric in the winter to dig in the manure and prepare the ground. I replace it before planting, but in different places to rotate the crops. The fabric lasts about 3 years, then it gets too tatty and frayed. Fraying is the most awkward thing about it.
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Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I have been busy with the decking this weekend i have been lucky enough to get some wood that has come off racks out of a warehouse .They were on the scrap pallet heap and i grabbed them for our garden.Started to put them down and they look great.
I just have the end one to do and screw them down and then paint them .
Your allotment would be perfectly at home in Germany as they all have either wooden huts or stone ones on them including all mod coms inside like water and electricity!
I love everything you have done with the pallets! Brilliant!
I can't believe how large your allotment is! I asked at our local allotment about waiting lists. The woman there wasn't able to offer up much help but did tell me that a lot of patches had been divided up into quarters which meant that you'd not fit a water butt on much less a shed and decking if you wanted any space for plants too!
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Just been reading through your thread baza - fantastic results - you must be spending a great deal of time and effort on it all.
Re the sunflowers - I had the same issue as Hazel but once I gave my potted sunflowers a tomato feed they seemed to respond well as the top foot of the plants has quite lush leaves. I put the loss of the lower leaves down to 'natural causes'. I can only grow them in pots as my garden appears to be some sort of slug zoo/sanctuary!
Hello Auntyrach
Thanks for looking through our thread and yes spend a lot of our time there .I would live in the shed in the summer if it was big enough he he.
We have the same problem in our allotment with slugs and especially snails so I have to use slug pellets from time to time which seems to keep them under control
Our sunflowers are starting to get the flower heads so it should be a great sight when they flower I'll post more photos of how they progress
Thank s Baz n Hels
I live in France and I buy the weed suppressant fabric in rolls in the supermarket garden section or the DIY place or the Garden Centre (which is the most expensive!) Weeds grow like mad here, especially when there is heavy rain followed by hot weather. But it is a fiddle doing the planting. I cut crosses in it for onion sets. Weeds still manage to grow in the gaps though!
I remove the fabric in the winter to dig in the manure and prepare the ground. I replace it before planting, but in different places to rotate the crops. The fabric lasts about 3 years, then it gets too tatty and frayed. Fraying is the most awkward thing about it.
Last edited: 13 July 2016 22:23:32
Hello Everyone
I have been busy with the decking this weekend i have been lucky enough to get some wood that has come off racks out of a warehouse .They were on the scrap pallet heap and i grabbed them for our garden.Started to put them down and they look great.
I just have the end one to do and screw them down and then paint them .
Sunflowers have now topped 7ft and still growing
Thanks
Baz n Hels
Baza and Hel it is looking great nice to have a new bit of decking
Thanks GG by the time i get it screwed down it will make it a lot stronger aswell and it will look better
Thanks
Baz n Hels
Hello Everyone
Decking is down and painted just need trim around the edges
Xena has photo bombed he he
Flowers are really coming on now
Finally strawberries growing don't know why they have taken so long
First sunflower is on its way
Thanks
Baz n Hels
Hello Everyone
Here are the latest photo's
The sunflowers are huge now possibly 9ft
Hels and Xena and Harvey
Thanks
Baz n Hels
Your allotment would be perfectly at home in Germany as they all have either wooden huts or stone ones on them including all mod coms inside like water and electricity!
I love everything you have done with the pallets! Brilliant!
I can't believe how large your allotment is! I asked at our local allotment about waiting lists. The woman there wasn't able to offer up much help but did tell me that a lot of patches had been divided up into quarters which meant that you'd not fit a water butt on much less a shed and decking if you wanted any space for plants too!