Allotments 4 All
Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: GardnerJ on September 02, 2004, 17:55:36
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just wondering guys and gals what people do planning wise?
do you draw up a bed scheme or just plant stuff where it falls?
i am hoping to do a rough drawing of where i need to put stuff but i was thinking that some of you may have very detailed planting plans with measurements and stuff to help you? is there a special technique?
Jem x
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Hi gardner,I prefer to draw up a fairly detailed cropping area plan,without one I forget to sow things,also it makes for easier crop rotation plans(important).When you own a comp,It's easypeasy :D.....Alan
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No permanent plan. I know where my onions, spuds and brassicas will be going, oh, and the beans as they are permanent, then other things just have to fit in accordingly, wherever I have room at the ready really.
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hi,
i do a basic crop rotation over 3 years, but a detailed plan of when to plant and sow. I've not been growing veggies for more than 3 years, but the first year I kind of made one sowing-and that was it, so it was ready all at once with nothing to follow on. Last winter I got myself organised and with the help of my computer whizz other half did a spreadsheet of staggered sowing and growing times, and planned the crops so that when one finished the other could follow on.
particularly pleased with how this worked for the beans and salads, some of the other crops seemed to 'catch up' the earlier sowings though. I find also that I don't forget what seeds I've got if they're written down!
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Fraid I just bung it in where I can! ;D But I do manage to rotate stuff as I plant in small blocks and remember where it all was the previous year!
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Jem
I have have the same problem, but have found some ace books with planning advice. They are at home so I will have to look up the names etc but also look on the link entitled 'the bible' cant remember which heading its under but that should give you some ideas.
I think for our first year its going to be alot of hit and miss and annoying these guys ;)
Sam
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Yeah pixie i know what you mean this site is great for advice, a godsend really! I have drawn up a detailed plan now on the PC which runs from spring to winter so i know what i have to plant and when but i haven't got round to doing a plan yet as i view my plot on sunday! i can't wait, i was up at 1am thinking about it!
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Complete godsend Jem ;D I love A4A
Good luck with your plot on Sunday. I know what you mean about the late nights, my lover is getting quite knowledgeable about veg because he keeps finding books every where - the lounge - the kitchen - the bedroom - the loo etc and when I was doing my plan he even reminded me that marigolds planted near toms are a good thing because he had been reading my companion gardening book!
Sam
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Not much of a plan here. My veg bed is 50cm x four meters, so there's not much to plan really! I did have a plan for this year, but it all went out the window when my snips failed to do anything. I have a rough idea for next year, but it mostly involves not planting things in certain places as they went there this year. And next year I'm doign a major extension on the veg patch, so I don't even know how much room I will have.
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Hi all :D,
Now that I have dug all my plot (only got it in April ) I will have 14, 10 foot by 4 foot beds, ;D So I have tried to plan what goes where for next year. Otherwise i shall forget when it comes to crop rotation the year after. Problem is i have just ordered some autumn planting onions that were not in the original plan ::) so i guess I shall have to start the plan all over again. ::)
Adrian.
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Thats the trouble I found with having a plan, I always found something else that needed to go in, thats why I don't have one! ;D
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I do a rotation crop plan and a planting plan with dates type of seed and how well they do. I've got diaries going back 10 years, the problem is the wife usually tidies up and tries to throw them out.
Peter
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Peter - how organised are you! I aim to keep a diary, any suggestions on how best to lay it out?
Sam
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Peter where you been?
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i am keeping a diary aswell! i am reading a gardening yearbook the name of the author has slipped my mind but it has inspired me to do the same! it is good to look back on when things were planted and how well they did etc.
i guess i will just have to wait to see my plot before i can plan where everything will go! i would like 10 poles but the old boys have said to start with half? i have such big plans i really do want a whole plot!
i will tell all on monday (when back at work!) as to what happened!
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Can't wait Jem ;D
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Hi sam, what i do is make a drawing of the allotment with the raised beds and greenhouses. I number the beds 1 to 10 and the greenhouses 1 to 3.
On the other page I put Bed 1- potatos, 'kestrel' planted
April, harvested August.
and so on till i have completed all the beds and greenhouses. I also have a foot note at the botom of the page to say if everything was ok.
Hi D-P, well i've been a busy lad (as usual) so i haven't been able to get on this site as much as i want to. I've been in the garage trying out new things ;) my latest project was to build a fire-gun for the weeds, unfortunately it back fired (literally) so i'm sitting here with no eye lashes, eye brows and some hair ;D ;D, luckily there ws no damage to my brain so i'll continue on till i get it right hahahaha. Note to self get fire proof clothing ;) .
Peter
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I start a diary each year -generally doesn't make it through May, Samuel Pepys I ain't ???
Jeremy
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I started a diary, but it has well,.... by June/July. I also wanted to weigh the harvest, but that doesn't seem to have happened (apart from my near on 5lb cauli, and the first earlies).
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I started a diary this year, went really well until about March/April when I was too busy in the garden to actually have time to complete it anymore.
Or at least that's my excuse. I think I was all enthusiastic about it to begin with as there wasn't much gardening to do, so my gardening enthusiasm went into it. When there was lots to do in the garden, I suddenly couldn't be bothered anymore.
But I've learnt this year that it really would've been useful, so next year I vow to do it properly!
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Aqui,
I said that last year ---and the year before ::)
Jeremy
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I Use excel on my plan and everything looks so nice and blooming its so easy to move where i want them and each yr is all so copieable and movable all the careful notes for each variety and type and costs all laid out on there own page gardening on paper has never been so easy !!!!! lololol
i just hope it works in the soil plan too lolol as moving the green house from ones house to the allotment took a little longer than a few seconds and the building of the poly tunnel is certainly on overrun lolol but come hell or high water itll be ready ish
right im showing enthusiasm and other than that ive enjoyed every min so far
carl
ps if i have a 1/4 of the success some of you have had this yr i will be well impressed and pleased !
any tipps of peppers and chillis appreaciated
any down falls of gooseberrys rasberrys and strawberrys appreciated
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I made detailed plans on graph paper(a 5x5 Sq being a Sq Ft. layed it all out how it was gonna be and then put stuff somewhere else as we planted it all. First year and a right mixture. Have an idea for next year on 1st plot as divided onto 4 with rope paths making a cross.
Need to be aware of some type of crop rotation, saying that... everyone seems to bung the runners in the same place. But pleased with first years crop and did try hard to remember to weigh it all to give a guide to next years stuff. Spuds 177lb Onions55lb Rhubarb12.5lb Raspberries15lb15oz Peas 28lb Beetroot 21lb pickled 12 jars Gooseberries15lb 19 jars jam Parsley 1 jar Marrows10 40lb Runners 102lb9oz Cabbage 18.5lb Toms 37lb Sweetcorn 66 cobs 5 leeks(2.5lb) Kohl Rabi 1lb Celery 11heads Carrots 11.5lb
Great fun all this and was getting impatient waiting for stuff to grow then BANG, stuff everywhere, couldn`t believe how much stuff we got from a few packs of seeds, well a few million packs of seeds!!! Becky never seems to stop buying them!