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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #120 on: December 24, 2010, 07:08:58 »
Greenhouse sounds great, a useful size  ;D
what do you mostly grow in there?
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #121 on: December 24, 2010, 19:08:47 »
This was my first season there and the greenhouse was built for me. Had tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peppers, hot peppers, chillies, melons and  butternut squash. ;D
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #122 on: December 24, 2010, 19:09:47 »
from cwmbran south wales

Whereabouts in Cwmbran Dai?
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #123 on: December 30, 2010, 19:25:48 »
This was my first season there and the greenhouse was built for me. Had tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peppers, hot peppers, chillies, melons and  butternut squash. ;D

Yum, Roll on summer  ;D
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #124 on: December 31, 2010, 14:24:07 »
I am in the borough of Caerphilly, a bit futher up the valley...plot on a slant!!!!

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #125 on: January 11, 2011, 21:22:58 »
Yes i am from Wales Pontypridd all members near me please keep in regular touck i have dozens above dozens of plants to give away every year i amm fed up most days traveling around allots to give them away flowers cabbage cauliflowers leeks lettice you can have them all  keep posting so i know you are out there Rugbypost
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #126 on: February 27, 2011, 23:13:39 »
Hi I'm in Swansea and am a relative newbie to veg growing. Any local knowledge would be more than welcome.

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #127 on: February 28, 2011, 09:16:51 »
Hi Annielou and welcome to A4A. My brother lives in Ammanford and manages the Oxfam shop in Swansea. feel free to ask as many questions as you want on here- someone will always have an answer and hopefully some people local to you will be along soon.

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #128 on: February 19, 2012, 22:31:19 »
I have a plot in Caerphilly, South Wales.......
Just started the plot this year so hoping to do some serious ground work before the end of March...?
Thankfully I do have one or two pairs of hands that can assist with the digging....  ;)
« Last Edit: February 19, 2012, 22:38:11 by DATA311 »

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #129 on: April 04, 2013, 19:25:59 »
I have a plot in Llanbradach -- looks like the Caerphilly/Rhymney Valley area is well represented

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #130 on: April 16, 2013, 22:31:33 »
Ello? our plot (please don't throw me out its not an allotment...it is just our back garden) is in Snowdonia (god its cold up this mountainside, wish I lived in a valley) National Park...the missus is a Welshy I am a displaced scot!
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #131 on: April 17, 2013, 06:54:28 »
Ello back, Welcome to the forum  :wave:

Lucky you, what a beautiful area your living in  :toothy10:
Like your blog.
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #132 on: April 17, 2013, 11:22:36 »
Thank you Jaybe...for the welcome, and liking my little blog! :wave:
I wanted to try to put some info out on the problems  (and pleasures) of growing stuff in Polytunnels and 'up here' in the mountains where the growing season is so much shorter than most other places (that is why the polytunnel is there).
Having been thrown off Inc Benefit and not able to claim ANY other, it has literally become a matter of survival to grow intensively here on out 1/32 of an acre...I am sure there are many in similar straits who have less to work with but it is my hope that some of them may find some hints and tips from my blog and perhaps avoid the downfalls I go through on the way. We just pray that we can keep the house and garden to do it with.
I look forward to finding LOTS of useful information out from the people on here, my 'quick' tour of last night showed that there is a HUGE amount of stuff to 'go at' and a lot of really good people here!!
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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #133 on: April 17, 2013, 12:28:50 »
I've got a couple of polytunnels here, they make a big difference, not as short a season as you but it's quite a wet and windy spot. Interesting looking at your blog (will have to go back for more of a read) I put up a temporary poly last year, using plastic ducting, for the tomato overspill, grew far too many! It worked well and I'm hoping to put it back together in the next few weeks, but I'll be adding wooden stakes to add some strength. How do you fix your plastic in place?  With my temporary one, the polythene isn't trenched in but held down with string, making it fairly easy to dismantle. I've also used a net tunnel with brassicas the last couple of years, not very pretty but works well good for keeping out the beasties and seems to provide a micro climate that the veggies love.

Do you grow everything under plastic?

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Re: Where exactly is your allotment? - Region - Wales
« Reply #134 on: April 17, 2013, 14:27:55 »
The Polytunnel was made as cheaply as I could whilst retaining the best of both worlds...the cover is 5 layer anti-drip polythene, from Premier Polytunnels. The base is made up out of Plastic Water pipe which is fixed (read pushed on to) square section STEEL , that is 4ft long and hammered into the soil to leave 2ft 6inches above ground level (gives a straightish sidewall) the 'hoops' are fixed to battens running the length of it and they in turn are held up by 4x2 ish timber....these timbers do the final tightening up of the sheet....so far it has worked very well, no complaints... the whole thing set me back around £300 and is 26ft x 12ft and just a shade under 7ft high in the apex...(any higher, and I would have needed planning permission and Snowdonia National Park approval for it, as it is below that they can just 'mind their own business'!)
I like the idea of the netting and will see if the pocket can stretch that far...enviromesh is just SO expensive (I do have some) but my beds are 6ft wide and the net on e.bay (I looked already, thanks to info found on here) is 2 metres at the widest...not much room for growing and that size is too rich for my pocket....HO HUM...

New post going up on the blog as soon as the video has uploaded, it has a little 'tour' of the Polytunnel on it for a better look around for you....
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