Variety of crops in lotties

[goodlife]

Other evening I had leasurely stroll around allotments just to see how others were doing..yes snooping... ::)
It was noticeable that last couple years more and more lotties are growing more than just the basics..
My lottie neighbour..was telling me in great state of excitement that they are growing garlic this year..bless.. ::) as so far it has been runners, potatoes, cabbage and brussels..oh and few onions ..year by year..nothing else.. ::)
For me it would be easier to list crops that I do not grow..
I love to see that most of the lotties have now some fruit trees..ahh...the blossom is soo...beautiful ;D
How is your neighbourhood doing?

[goodlife]

[antipodes]

I am pleased to see that for once I am not so far behind the others! Many of course are still completely pristine, not a weed or a blade of grass to be seen.
I think I do grow things that many others do not, mostly the others stick to onions, spuds, lettuce, cabbage, peas are quite popular and french beans (no one grows Runner beans here, which is a shame as the flowers are so pretty). I grow crazy things like gooseberries, pumpkins that are grey  ;D rocket, yellow courgettes, parsnips.
My favourite bits of our plot are : Christine's fig tree which gets bigger every year and her lovely poppies that seed onto my plot too, Raymond's beautiful dahlias and his grapevine, Therese's giant onions, her spuds raked into perfectly symmetrical pyramidal rows and her little trays of seedlings sheltered by a big shrub (she is 80 this year and says she will give up after the summer), Roland's lovely arum lilies and the big rosemary bush of the nice man that showed me how to grow carrots successfully...

[goodlife]

We have "garlic" John..well he grows LOTS of garlic ::).."flower man"..lottie full of seasonal flower bulbs...not a veg on site ;D "Chrysanth-man"..yes, you quessed...
Oh we have plenty of those who's lotties are pristine, not a weed on site,,everything on straight rows,hedges cut with ruler... ::)
But I love to see those were is a bit of everything growing,,here and there... ;D
I've got lots of growing..here and there... ;D..and I love it..next door is not too happy though..she likes everybody to follow her lead..like "Chelsea flower show display garden"..not a thing growing out of line...not a weed..A SNAIL! :o..shower them with slug pellets! :o ::)

[Deb P]

I love our allotments, there is such a diversity of things grown. Some have exotics such as grape vines and fig trees, some grow daliahs for showing on a massive scale, others grow the more usual veg. Of course, being opposite one of Saddad's plots means I never know what weird and wonderful new thing is going to be grown over there....... ::) ;D 8)

[saddad]

Who me? That one tends to be boring stuff....  :)

[Deb P]

Oh I dunno, Sharks Fin squash, strawberries in tyres, mile high corn or whatever it was........keeps me entertained! ;D ;)

[Jayb]

I sometimes wonder how much fun and ideas I miss not having a lottie.

[amphibian]

We have a few old boys that just grow potatoes, ten rod of potatoes. Every year.

[goodlife]

We have a few old boys that just grow potatoes, ten rod of potatoes. Every year.

;D ;D...I wonder if those old boys grow variety of potatoes..or are they all same stuff? ;D ;D

[antipodes]

Now, I have figured something out - many of the people that grow massive veg have CHEATED on our site. I have seen the labels and realised that they just buy plug plants from the local nursery! No wonder they never seem to have pots, trays, coldframes etc. And here am I struggling to get  broccoli seedlings up, lettuces to germinate etc, and in fact these things are all ready to go! Some even buy beetroot seedlings!!
So now I feel quite virtuous, for looking for my seeds and searching out new varieties. The veg may be smaller and lower yield but it's DIY from start to finish!  8) 8)

We have a few old boys that just grow potatoes, ten rod of potatoes. Every year.

I think I grow more spuds than anyone else! But I just love new potatoes and it leaves me time to grow the other things I like, without having to weed too  much  ;D

[elhuerto]

We have a few old boys that just grow potatoes, ten rod of potatoes. Every year.

That would be considered exotic here  ;)

It's difficult to find an allotment here with much more than tomatoes and onions. I see one younger guy has an artichoke but no doubt he'll be driven out of town as a communist.

[Digeroo]

I am growing a large variety of things on my allotment.  Small quanitities of about 14 varieities of potatoes, goji, globe artichokes, lots of varieties of beans, golden beetroot, squashes etc etc.   As well as the normal suspects - carrots, parsnips, onions, garlic, cabbage, brocolli, lelttuce, peas, celer, leeks,  tomatoes  courgettes. Red currants, raspberries, strawberries.

I do not grow many potatoes I prefer them freshly washed and put in a nice plastic bag. 

My biggest wish is to grow a proper cauliflower.   Last year I also had aubergines and chillies but had a bit of a disaster with these so hope to get some in a plant sale. 

[Mrs Gumboot]

Sounds a bit like my grandad. The most exotic thing he manages is beetroot & we have trouble getting him to crop them at anything smaller than the size of a football. Since he only pickles them in his book the bigger the better.  ::)