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Allotment Stuff => The Basics => Topic started by: Sparkly on February 23, 2009, 19:36:00
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I am aiming to have our plot fully cultivated without using any weed fabric (except under the pumpkins). I am also hoping for better success with carrots!
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get my romanesco broccoli to grow better and have less onions bolting ;D
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sparkly,wont the fabric encourage the dreaded slugs?
im hoping to grow more than last year,got a quite a few new things to try.also want to make the best use of our space,am after some vine variaties of things so we can go up instead of along!
hopefully our new pond will be all set up and froggies will find it,even better newts,just cos we love them!
oh,and want to be totally dug over by november,im sure theres more but thats all i can think of off the top of me head
rach
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To grow more of each vegetable. (except for courgettes) :o Why did I only grow 8 leeks??!!!!! They were tasty though!!
Last year was my first having an allotment and vegetable growing was new to me.
Duke
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sparkly,wont the fabric encourage the dreaded slugs?
one bonus though, you lift up an edge an reveal all the slugs while you are working there and can scoop them all up or let the birds get them :)
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To grow less parsnips... I've still got enough to last till next Christmas, think I over compensated for the dismal failure last year.
Not to go away for the whole six week school holiday only to come home and find all my cabbages looking like dead, needless Christmas trees full of cabbage white caterpillars.
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My hope is to be given another 1/2 plot, failing that...plotting vile things against the person responsible for alloting the allotments. ;D ;)
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to grow some decent leeks
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to try loads of new stuff
and be self sufficient,
and have enough onions so i dont have to ue spring ones for half the year again
lbb
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Not to get any blight and get at least one tomato thats worth eating.
(I haven't had one for the last two years)
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1) I hope we have a nice warm summer, with adequate rain (but only at night)
2) I hope there is a mass emigration of slugs and snails to the park next door.
3) I hope I get around to clearing out my greenhouse which looks more like a shed than my shed does.
4) I hope that all the plotholders on the site get on with each other and a spirit of love and harmony prevails.
Okay, maybe I'll settle for 1 and 3. :)
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As it will be my first year i hope anything will grow especially for Christmas dinner :)
Neil
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With this being our second growing year on the plot we're just hoping to mainly learn from the mistakes of last year... Specifically...
Grow more onions, thought about 100 would have been enough, but nope, almost run out already...
Write down the variety of the spuds we grow so we don't end up stood at the Potato Day next year wondering which were the lovely ones we grew last year.
Get round to sowing the root veg rather than just talking about it.
Grow less courgettes, never again will we grow six plants.
Not go on holiday slap bang in the middle of August
Use black fabric rather than wood chippings for the paths. It may look nice but it's a bugger to keep weed free when it's not thick enough.
Dismantle and re-build the rickety fruit tunnell we inherited with the plot.
Build the 'seating' area complete with bench and flower tubs I promised myself when we took the plot on.
:)
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That it doesn't keep raining on my only day off. That all the plots are rented out to people who give it more than lip service. And the thieving git from last year breaks a leg if they come on the lottie this year. ;D ;D
The time and energy to plant and build all on my wish list. That him indoors gets the gardening bug (OK that might one wish to far).
Have a nice day :) ;) :D ;D
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this is my first year on my allotment so i will be happy if anything other then weeds grow.
would be nice to eat some spuds i have grown myself, lol
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To look after the plants once they're established - and watch out for the caterpillars before they reduce the brassicas to skeletons >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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I just hope to pull something edible out of the ground first year growing so I'm sure I'll get lots wrong!! Also my sister made a bet that i wont be growing in a years time that's going to be a easy £5 :P
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1) repair my dilapidated greenhouse and USE IT!
2) get a much better fruit crop than last year, with the help of my new fruit cage
3) grow bigger and better leeks and brussels sprouts
4) have enough spuds, onions and garlic to last all year round
P.S. I see I've made it to Hectare. Amazing!
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P.S. I see I've made it to Hectare. Amazing!
Congratulations on your extra land Hopalong ! What are you going to grow with the "new land" ::) :D
That I will have loads of broad beans
That I will have loads of peas for longer
I will store my garlic properly, unlike last year
The slugs and caterpillars will not get the better of the plants
And I won't have back ache getting rid of the remainig couch grass
AND A SHED ;D 8) ;D
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The weather to be back to normal; i.e.
its cold when you would expect it to be,
its hot when you would expect it to be,
it rains when you want it and
it is sunny when you want it.
Wishful thinking do you think ??? ::) ::) ::) ::)
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To raise a £1,000 for the NGS through the Open Days, we were well on target then we had that horrible weather for the second day... >:(
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To be able to grow outdoor toms again. To get a decent honey crop, requeen two beehives, and produce splits for two that died out. Apart from that, to carry on as normal, and get a bit more ground under cultivation.
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To grow plenty of decent sized carrots, have less onions bolt so they can last all year round along with the spuds, have much less slugs on the plot, Oh yes and catch the barstard who helped themselves to my Sweetcorn. >:( ;D ;D ;D
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Being my first season as a plot holder
My main aim and what i hope to achieve is not needing to buy veg out of the supermarket
for a couple of months.
hope it becomes a reality and not a pipe dream.................. :D :D
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Being my first season as a plot holder
My main aim and what i hope to achieve is not needing to buy veg out of the supermarket
for a couple of months.
hope it becomes a reality and not a pipe dream.................. :D :D
That is the best thing James. To walk past all the fruit and veg aisles. ;D
Welcome to you. ;)
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That is the best thing James. To walk past all the fruit and veg aisles. ;D
And when you get to the checkout, listening to the people behind you whispering to each other "Wow, look at all that meat, don't these people feed their children any vegetables?"
And the answer to that as we all know is very, very sweet... "Yes, but we let them sow it, grow it and dig it up themselves".
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Being my first season as a plot holder
My main aim and what i hope to achieve is not needing to buy veg out of the supermarket
for a couple of months.
hope it becomes a reality and not a pipe dream.................. :D :D
my centiments exactly ;D just hope all the hard work pays off
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We have made every effort to keep the dreaded leek moth of the onions and garlic this year.I just hope that it works so that we can get some edible ones. We also look forward to the first full year that we will be able to spend as much time as we want at the allotment without having to get home to look after me mom. So pleased that she has settled in her care home. We are planning to get most of the harvest in before November this year so that when we return after our 3 weeks in Tunisia we shouldn't have too much to do.
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Another holiday Shirl, :o I don't know, I bearly get out of the front door these days. ;D ;D ;D
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In answer to the question asked - that we get a summer this year so we get some sweetcorn.
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Cram every spare inch of my tiny garden with plants and get an allotment...no matter what it takes :P
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I'll keep my fingers crossed for you Sazhig ;D
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That my edible produce outnumbers the weeds
CC
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I'll keep my fingers crossed for you Sazhig ;D
Thanks saddad. I think I'm going to need it with the information I'm getting out of the council and the association atm. >:(
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To enjoy being at the allotment, get all the last bits of couch grass out, and to make the follwing breakthroughs ....
1) Manage to grow at least one parsnip! (ruddy things!!)
2) Eat some of the salad leaves before they bolt!
3) Have a first attempt at growing cauliflowers and celeriac
4) Grow more flowers for picking and fill the house with them!
Best of luck to you all - hope we get the weather right Tee Gee!
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Cram every spare inch of my tiny garden with plants and get an allotment...no matter what it takes :P
I see an article on TV no too long ago about Allotment Squating. People go around finding disused plots and then they just calmly start cultivating them and acting as if they've been allocated them. It was surprising the amount of people that get away with it.
Also the people who go out in the dead of night and plant up all the council beds with veg.
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1 - Have a proper summer
2 - Grow lots of veg and fruit
3 - Get to eat it before nature does.
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Cram every spare inch of my tiny garden with plants and get an allotment...no matter what it takes :P
I see an article on TV no too long ago about Allotment Squating. People go around finding disused plots and then they just calmly start cultivating them and acting as if they've been allocated them. It was surprising the amount of people that get away with it.
Also the people who go out in the dead of night and plant up all the council beds with veg.
It is very tempting to just go down there and start work on one of the overgrown plots...and if our council had any 'beds' I might try a spot of guerilla gardening...but they can't even cut grass properly so we don't have any ::)...there is a nice area over the road from me that could probably have some veg sowed in it's 'borders' (bits the mower can't get to basically)...but don't fancy having to wash my boots every time I go over there as the whole area is literally covered in dog poo >:(
But, I've decided that as they aren't playing fair they need showing up for the despots they are. I know I'm not the only one who's been badly treated over the last few years & if they are allowed to get away with it then they'll just carry on. Quite frankly I shall just carry on until they get fed up of me ;D
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My main ambition this year is get all the rest of my fruit bushes in and get my plot nice and tidy. Also to grow a bit more than I have so far.
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To finally put the netting on the fruit cage - perhaps even give it a door or two :)
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1) I hope all the new stuff I intend to try this year grows well.
2) We get more of our harvest than the local wildlife.
3) Fix the broken glass in the greenhouse.
4) Get the wife interested in the lottie life. ;D ;D
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i will finish the chicken run and put chickens in it
i will remember to sow little and often
i will remember to sow the brussels to have Christmas day
i will not buy any more seeds (this year)
i will remember where i put my trowel/fork
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i will remember that the allotment is good for my health
even when my back is killing me lol
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Don't do no.4 KT... mine has taken over three of mine... ::)