You can't plant much right now. I'd sow seeds of a green manure, such as red clover, now, which will stop the nutrients leaching from the soil and add plenty of nitrogen, phosphates and potassium too (essential for healthy plant growth). If you let the clocver flower before digging it into the soil, you'll provide plenty of flowers for bees, which will keep coming back to pollinate your crops. In september you can plant onions and garlic, and you could try sowing broad beans in autumn too. Good luck, Kate
We have had an allotment for nearly two years, each year we try really hard to grow vegetables, but the soil is clay soil and its either rock hard or so wet there's more on your wellies than in the allotment, any idea to improve soil
we have started to dig up our earlies and mids and have noticed some of them have purple spots on them but not all. Are they still edible or should we throw the ones away that have the spots on them. Please advise. Thank you.
Good to see such enthusiasm! You could sow oriental salad leaves like mizuna & mibuna, Winter Density lettuce,mustard greens or corn salad (lambs lettuce) You will probably need to get these from a catalogue. Good luck to you and the children. Enjoy your garden!
I would love some advice on storing my amazing yieled of potatoes from my allotment. Do you wash or clean them and store in any type of container. I do have a garage they can be left it.
This is my first year planting potatoes, planted them at the start of May and started digging them up, but most of the potatoes were really small and had little look alike warts on them. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong?
Hello Alan! My lovely crop of Rockets will not need to be stored after all because the later liftings have all got regular sized holes in them. It is not wireworms as holes are bigger so I think it is millipedes. There are no beasties inside but most end up in compost. How can I avoid this disappointment next year?
I bought some patio potatoes from a garden centre the information states that after the plants have flowered the potatoes can be harvetsted - my plants havent flowered but the leaves have turned yellow and started to die I can see some potatoes should I lift them now or leave them a little longer?
I have just got my first allotment, its never been used before, read so many books but not sure where to start, fair bit of clay about a foot down, should I add grit? manure or compost? to help this?
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