Allotment Stuff > The Basics
This may sound silly...
Ceri:
seed catalogues are gardener's porn! Some of us just can't get enough (seed catalogues that is!)
The lottie holder next to mine has had a lottie since he was 10! His only 3 bits of advice -
1. do a little, and often.
2. get one bit right before you move on. And
3. Seeds want to grow, they are programmed to grow, you are just helping the process a bit.
(He is last year's leek show winner, with four plots, racing pigeons, chickens and registered blind bloke I've mentioned before)
tim:
Nice one! = Tim
ina:
Keeping notes! I never have, tried to and forgot again. What I do have and regard as my lottie bible is an address book.
Yes, you read correctly, an address book and when I learned something about carrots for example I write it under C for carrots. Things like time to sow, manure or fertilize or not, what are good companion plants, can the thinned out seedlings be transplanted (no for carrots) and anything that might be useful for a particular crop.
I keep the book in my 'lottie bag' so I always have it with me in the lottie for a quick reference and at home for when I read something useful on this board or found on internet. For me this works very, very well.
Tenuse:
Good idea Ina! I have something similar that I made this winter, lots of A5 pages with the week of the year (1 - 52) at the top, a section for "things to do" and a section for "jobs done". Like a perpetual diary. Then some blank pages at the back to make notes about particular things e.g. a page for each apple tree. Made me feel better when I could not go out and dig this winter!
Crickett if you are like me you think "oh it will only take a few hours and I'll have done 2 or 3 beds", if your allotment is anything like mine it takes a few hours to do 2 or 3 FEET!!!
Ten x
Hugh_Jones:
But Tenuse, why bother with all that paper (which usually gets dog eared or lost) when you have a computer? All you need is a separate page on Notepad for each plant or variety and you can log everything, from which bed (for rotation), soil treatment, sowing date, crop returns, whose seeds you used, what date you pruned your gooseberries, or whatever, and simply stuff them all in a folder called Garden
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