It's brick built, I just need an extension from the house side door to join it all together. Many of the other houses in the street have had it done so shouldn't be a massive issue (hopefully)...
I used old net curtains and made tubes with drawstring compartments so.I could store my onion and garlic in the shed. By keeping them separate I am.hoping that if one rots then it won't contaminate the others. This year have all my nets hanging up on a hook inside the kitchen as shed too damp and they rot. Cupboard under the stairs has my potato sack and apples wrapped in paper in a tray. When I had my kitchen done arranged to put cupboard around boiler and under the boiler which has allmy jars etc in.
I think my shed, as it is, is too dank for storage of foods, and liable to pest ingress. I've tried to reorganise the kitchen cupboards but it's not ideal. Have other work to be done in the house before the preserving and utility room but it's on the Save For list.
Took some of the potted plant collection up to the plot today. Having a silverhouse is really handy for stuff like that. It's more the rotting over winter that I'm more bothered about and hence want to keep undercover, nothing tender. Took the cell raspberries, 3 newish eryngium, Heleniums and the little lupin seedlings. I've left other seedlings outside for now but will put in at some point.
Forgot to take the standard gooseberry but I also have some horse poo to take up at some point. Stood the goose next to the car so hopefully I won't forget.
Crumbled up some pieces of clay, all chunks relatively small now. However after this phase comes the silt layer which will set, so may not be able to dig in before next back end. We'll see
Still got loads of tasks to do up the lotment, will take up til end of Nov at least.
I store pots in g/h over winter Snap , lots to do at allotment and I want to try and get most of it done before December Bought Shallots, Onions and Garlic yesterday for planting
I've never tried growing shallots, are they easy? Not sure I've ever eaten one either...
I'm not doing winter onions or garlic due to having the clay drying out everywhere. Am still using this year's produce too. Some of my onions are tiny but immensely powerful, a couple nearly blinded me when chopping them up to cook.
Want to spend some time at the lotment tomorrow, job list has the following:
level waterbutts and reattach
put up fence for tayberry and a new blackberry I want
weed area I'm moving two currants and a goose to over winter and dig in some poo
bury hyacinth bulbs from last year's pots
dig up a few weeds
crumble some clay
turn over some of the stuff in the water storage sump I dug as weeds I chucked in are starting to root
VIC , that’s a big list hope you get it all done Shallots , really easy to grow , can cook them like onions or pickle them , o/h is pickling them , some jars will have chilli 🌶 in as well to spice them up Hoping to spend Friday & Sunday at plot
Took 4 trays of seedlings to the lotment today, to put in the greenhouse although I want the plants for the garden: verbascum Phoenician, hollyhock, sidalcea and campanula, poss latifolia, I'm not sure, all seeds collected from the garden although the latter have not germinated.
Moved a tayberry to the blackberry line, I didn't give it enough space when I originally planted it, then weeded the area for some summer raspberries currently in pots. Moved blackberry Reuben to create space for autumn rasps and tried to move a piece of rhubarb I moved last year but it was already settled in and I ended up splitting it again.
Prepped some ground for planting, a sticky old business with all the clay. Think it'll be next back end before all the ground is workable again. Makes everything difficult, having to prize the chunks apart to pull weeds out and having to pick chunks off the fork every 2 mins...
Only job I didn't get done today was collapsing the sweet peas to weed along the rasp fence, still some flowers hanging on.
Hello , Noticed today I need to tidy up my rhubard bed Also frost has effected Dalias , so another job to do Sorting out ready for winter going well Dug up a couple of parsnips today looking good Have sorted out and cleaned g/h at home , pots for over wintering are in there , will need to bubble rap it soon Always some thing , Happy Gardening 😉
Took some soil conditioner up today, sprinkled it along the areas I've prepped for planting some rasps and fruit bushes, nothing new, stuff I've already got but ground is a bit too sticky for them at present.
Collapsed the sweet pea fence, some flowers still, but I wanted to get some weeding done.
Bought a couple of bargain shelf rasps from B&Q, £1.50 each, a Veten and a Golden Queen. Never heard of them before but have potted them up and left in greenhouse for now.
The standard goose that I bought a bit back has started shooting so it can't have mattered that I took the root wrap off it and unfolded the roots. Or maybe it helped.
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Could you move shed to allotment?
When I had my kitchen done arranged to put cupboard around boiler and under the boiler which has allmy jars etc in.
Took some of the potted plant collection up to the plot today. Having a silverhouse is really handy for stuff like that. It's more the rotting over winter that I'm more bothered about and hence want to keep undercover, nothing tender. Took the cell raspberries, 3 newish eryngium, Heleniums and the little lupin seedlings. I've left other seedlings outside for now but will put in at some point.
Forgot to take the standard gooseberry but I also have some horse poo to take up at some point. Stood the goose next to the car so hopefully I won't forget.
Crumbled up some pieces of clay, all chunks relatively small now. However after this phase comes the silt layer which will set, so may not be able to dig in before next back end. We'll see
Still got loads of tasks to do up the lotment, will take up til end of Nov at least.
Snap , lots to do at allotment and I want to try and get most of it done before December
Bought Shallots, Onions and Garlic yesterday for planting
I'm not doing winter onions or garlic due to having the clay drying out everywhere. Am still using this year's produce too. Some of my onions are tiny but immensely powerful, a couple nearly blinded me when chopping them up to cook.
Want to spend some time at the lotment tomorrow, job list has the following:
Shallots , really easy to grow , can cook them like onions or pickle them , o/h is pickling them , some jars will have chilli 🌶 in as well to spice them up
Hoping to spend Friday & Sunday at plot
Moved a tayberry to the blackberry line, I didn't give it enough space when I originally planted it, then weeded the area for some summer raspberries currently in pots. Moved blackberry Reuben to create space for autumn rasps and tried to move a piece of rhubarb I moved last year but it was already settled in and I ended up splitting it again.
Prepped some ground for planting, a sticky old business with all the clay. Think it'll be next back end before all the ground is workable again. Makes everything difficult, having to prize the chunks apart to pull weeds out and having to pick chunks off the fork every 2 mins...
Only job I didn't get done today was collapsing the sweet peas to weed along the rasp fence, still some flowers hanging on.
Also frost has effected Dalias , so another job to do
Sorting out ready for winter going well
Dug up a couple of parsnips today looking good
Have sorted out and cleaned g/h at home , pots for over wintering are in there , will need to bubble rap it soon
Always some thing , Happy Gardening 😉
Collapsed the sweet pea fence, some flowers still, but I wanted to get some weeding done.
Bought a couple of bargain shelf rasps from B&Q, £1.50 each, a Veten and a Golden Queen. Never heard of them before but have potted them up and left in greenhouse for now.
The standard goose that I bought a bit back has started shooting so it can't have mattered that I took the root wrap off it and unfolded the roots. Or maybe it helped.