Topic: New Allotment............Maybe

[Digeroo]

It is so nice to hear of farmers breeding more allotments.  There are so many small towns and villages which have no allotments.  They get subsidies for all sorts of things but not for having allotments.  

 I have been trying to use more mulch.  It has been very very dry here.  Any crops I have mulched have done so much better.  Some people seem to use a lot of water and then the wind just dries it off again.  

Hedge of tomatoes sounds good but I like to put a hedge of early peas to keep the W and NW wind at bay.  I think it gets the courgettes, swet corn and other delicates off to an early start.  

[betula]

Spent the whole day on the lottie yesterday.

Put in jap onions and Garlic,will be interesting to see if they survive the winter,are you supposed to protect them ?

My runner beans are on a silly wicker tripod,it has fell over in the wind ,my own fault.

Spent ages pinning down the runners on the strawbs.

I like the idea of a hedge of early peas................

[lincsyokel2]

Thers some allotments in Lincoln no one will take, because they are next to the River Witham. The ground is sodden twelve inches down at it frequently floods in winter. The other problem is the high humidity of the soil at the surface, under the grass is so high the slugs moove about in vast armies demolishing anything planted.

HERE

SO if its near a canal, you probably will get  alot of slugs.

[betula]

Not seen any so far but sure they are around.....the winter will tell.

Nice sandy loam so very free drainiong soil.

[Digeroo]

Presume that the canal with be lined to prevent leakage of water.

The ground is sodden twelve inches down

Think of all that lovely celeriac. ;D

Saw a program about how some people had floating veg gardens on a lake or river.  There were two sets of them on Monty Don's round the world in 80 gardens.  One set were in Mexico and the others down the Amazon.