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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2011 17:50:56 GMT
yes! best money we've ever spent! ;D
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Post by wildlifefriendly on May 13, 2011 18:15:48 GMT
I have an electric rotovator (inherited from my dad). It is not powerful enough to rotovate without digging the ground first but it is fantastic at breaking down the soil and mixing in compost.
Your plot is looking so productive in such a short time.
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Post by esther on May 15, 2011 17:04:55 GMT
Your allotment is looking really good
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2011 21:48:37 GMT
thankyou, really kind comments tomorrows plan is that we are finishing off our path, and starting on the other half of the plot. this is going to have a fruit cage,[blackcurrants, rasps, goji's, honeys, redcurrants] and a rhubarb patch, then rows of herbs, edible flowers, and rows of things like celery, more peas, and some carrots, and hopefully a nice block of sweetcorn. in GH today, sowed more red brussels, violet caulis, greyhound and primo ll cabbage, peas, violet artichokes, and rainbow chard..... absolutely loving it
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Post by Lou78W on May 16, 2011 15:52:14 GMT
;DGood stuff!!! ;D
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Post by wildlifefriendly on May 16, 2011 18:37:40 GMT
Your plot is going to look very colourful. I've tried some different coloured veg, but I prefer my caulies white, tomatoes red and sprouts green. I know it is all in my head but they just don't taste right unless they are the right colour ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2011 21:41:50 GMT
haha youre probably right, but im french descent with italian family so im afraid the tastes and colours of the med are woven through me ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2011 20:12:18 GMT
have been a busy bee this week, the plot is all totally cultivated now, one half is completely planted up and sown, hoop tunnels are now netted as everything has settled in nicely, hubby helping me with a fruit cage early next week, then a couple of rows of wigwams going up and planting a a riot of summer flowering plants eg, cosmos, scabious, calendulas, cornflowers etc for some added loveliness have a big patch of sweetcorn done, along with varoious rows of herbs and have areas prepared for when my pumpkins and squashes go in at the start of the month, they are growing well in the GH. lots of other people on our site have now turned up to say they have been offered the other derelict plots. it seems i started a revolution in my council allotment department after getting things moving. everyone seems very friendly though, and i have given a spare pumpkins to them as a welcome. all in all, i am very pleased with my progress in just 3 weeks ;D
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Post by steve on May 20, 2011 20:43:05 GMT
Well on track
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Post by Geranium on May 20, 2011 20:45:04 GMT
Good for you, Bluebell!
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Post by grindle on May 21, 2011 5:11:22 GMT
you've been working hard
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Post by Rosie on May 23, 2011 11:26:41 GMT
You have really taken to your allotment BB, you both must be really pleased with it now. We would love to see more pictures of it too ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 18:12:16 GMT
well, because of this terrible wind, i am having to rethink the set-up on my allotment. its now obvious that i will need a wind break of some sort all the way down two sides of my plot if any of my plants are going to survive. i have lost a whole row of january kings that i took fleece off of yesterday as they had settled in so well. today i went to water, and they have pretty much perished in this relentless wind. just standing on the plot i was almost blown away, so have told hubby thats it, i am going to construct windbreaks. they will only be 3ft high, and of the green coated wire on a roll type thing you get out the garden centre, attached to posts along the edge. they will at least buffer some of the gusts and it will diffuse alot of the speed of the wind hopefully, as a solid barrier would make it worse and also thats not allowed on our site. i was going to be posting some more pics, but once i had moved a few more things out, and constructed fruit cage etc, and wigwams, so they will now be the end of the week if this wind settles down and we get things sorted. meanwhile, am busy re-sowing january kings hoping they germinate quickly so i dont lose too much time on them, but in reality i dont think i will have any to plant until end of june now unless i buy them, and thats not really my point they will just be harvested alot later haha! ;D everything else planted out is middling along, but again, not as good as it could be due to getting no respite after at least 10 days of winds, today being the worst so far.
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Post by wildlifefriendly on May 23, 2011 18:34:27 GMT
I did hear on the news that Scotland was going to get the wind. It is a shame it had taken out some of your hard work. A windbreak sounds like a good idea. Do others on your site have them? I ask because you don't want to go to all that expense if this wind was a one off.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 18:43:45 GMT
hi WF, well where my plot is situated is at the end of a row of three, two of them being derelict, and then the plots move back into the larger longer plots of the others, which are all established of many years and a couple of derelicts now being started. they have the luxury of a shelter of big houses and large trees and hedging, so yes, unfortunately for me now i will have to put in the windbreaks to make the plot workable. am starting to realise thats why the other two along side me have been abandoned some time! in better news though, i have got an interview at the royal botanic gardens in edinburgh on thursday to start a degree in horticulture with plantsmanship ;D have wanted to do it for years, but circumstances now dictate it is possible
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