Topic: Got the plot

[Flighty]

This article in yesterday's Telegraph may be of interest, especially to new allotmenteers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/6122649/Allotments-got-the-plot.html

[small]

Thanks for the link, I always enjoy reading Helen Yemm because it's clear she is actually a 'real' gardener. Query from that article: don't you have to net Autumn raspberries, then? Do blackbirds lose the taste for soft fruit after August?

[saddad]

I never have to net mine... there'll be some to pick again on Sunday...  :)

[small]

Sunday? Is there a chance to see your raspberries on Sunday, then?

[saddad]

or eat some...  ;D

[Kea]

I don't net my summer raspberries either...don't seem to have a bird problem on the raspberries they're too busy eating the other fruit if they can ::).

[shirlton]

We never net our summer or autumn raspberries. Its not the birds its the maggots that we have to contend with