Amazing job Gina! Mine is being dug out from scratch after having been left overgrown for a couple of years. I’m more than half way and dreaming of the season to come. Been down every weekend (even in snow) to do something since - last August! Loving every minute. Hope mine looks half as good as yours in years to come. Here is my progress so far...
Excited I am! Have a lovely greenhouse at home and can’t wait to get started sowing some seeds! Holding off though for a bit but doing a lot of reading and planning!
still a few more beds to do and the back is being turned into a wild life flower area with pond and bench eventually! Will be looking for lots of advice from all you experience fellow allotmenteer in the very near future......
Ginagibbs that looks fab - how long from before to after?
Caroline117 Yours looks really good too
Hello GWRS and Scroggin
Went to the plot and done something today, started building the compost bins, have some bits of pallet screwed together and getting there with that, nice to be able to get to the allotment as have been ill with cold/ flu-ey last few weeks
Another great bit of news we now have line markings a H bar outside the allotment gate thanks to the form me and my mum filled in, back in October with peoples reg numbers on - so no more cars parking in gateway goodie
It's produced by a chap, now in his early 80s who's been running a couple of plots on a site near Huddersfield for decades. It includes advice on what to do and when - soil prep, sowing, pricking out etc. Just tweak the timings according to where you are in the country.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Gina , cracking job , must be very proud of what you have achieved
Got to plot today , air damp and started to rain as I left at 3-00
Dug up some leeks , Picked some sprouts and dug up the rest of golden beetroot
Started the pruning
If weather permits will pop up tomrow for a couple of hours
Amazing job Gina! Mine is being dug out from scratch after having been left overgrown for a couple of years. I’m more than half way and dreaming of the season to come. Been down every weekend (even in snow) to do something since - last August! Loving every minute. Hope mine looks half as good as yours in years to come. Here is my progress so far...
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from this to........
Caroline , coming on well
Excited I am! Have a lovely greenhouse at home and can’t wait to get started sowing some seeds! Holding off though for a bit but doing a lot of reading and planning!
still a few more beds to do and the back is being turned into a wild life flower area with pond and bench eventually! Will be looking for lots of advice from all you experience fellow allotmenteer in the very near future......
Ginagibbs that looks fab - how long from before to after?
Caroline117 Yours looks really good too
Hello GWRS and Scroggin
Went to the plot and done something today, started building the compost bins, have some bits of pallet screwed together and getting there with that, nice to be able to get to the allotment as have been ill with cold/ flu-ey last few weeks
Another great bit of news we now have line markings a H bar outside the allotment gate thanks to the form me and my mum filled in, back in October with peoples reg numbers on - so no more cars parking in gateway goodie
You could do worse than check out this almanac - http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/index.htm
It's produced by a chap, now in his early 80s who's been running a couple of plots on a site near Huddersfield for decades. It includes advice on what to do and when - soil prep, sowing, pricking out etc. Just tweak the timings according to where you are in the country.
Oberlix , saved site to look at later
Yes good news Gardengirl
Tee Gee posts on the A4A forum but knows I share his almanac on here when appropriate. Lovely chap.