Gone to Bed

[Tee Gee]

Well thats another season more or less over, the beds are dug and mucked, the paths repaired so all that remains to do is to harvest my winter greens as and when I need them.

Thought you might to have a look at my two plots before I go into hibernation for the winter.

Usually I do not return until around April time, when I will prepare the beds that currently have winter greens in.

Plot 19:

Looking up Plot 19



Looking Down Plot 19



Plot 20:

Looking Down Plot 20



Looking Up Plot 20



Looking Across Plot 20



The Fruit Bed



Compost heap ready for the Pumpkins



12'x8' Greenhouse emptied



28'x8' Benched ready for hardening off next years plants



Winter Veg:

Parsnips



Savoys



Swedes, Leeks & Sprouts



Spring Greens



Jap Onions have just surfaced

[Tee Gee]

[caroline7758]

Beautiful- something for me to aspire to but never achieve!

[small]

As ever, Tee Gee, wonderful pictures, you are a model vegetable grower. Well done, I'll never live up to it but I can keep trying!

[sparrow]

That's a show-class plot if ever I saw one. Mine is a shambles in comparison.

[Big Gee]

What a glowing example of what a plot should look like in autumn. You should be proud of yourself Tee Gee!

Wonderful - give yourself a pat on the back! I only wish that half the plots on our site were only half as good as yours!

[gray1720]

Wow - that is one of the tidiest plots I've ever seen!

Love the ex-Anderson Shelter compost heap - not quite swords to ploughshares, but close.

Adrian

[jimc]

TG you have been busy. My garden would never look like that. I always have something growing in my soil.
I would have 4-5 crops of lettuce in the same ground in a year or even a couple of crops of carrots.
If it isn't something to eat then it is a green manure crop to help the soil or deter bugs.
This is my potato patch which has produced 4 crops in 2 years, plant in August and harvest in December then plant again in January/February for a winter harvest (I am in southern hemisphere).

[jimc]

This is green manure of wheat and canola in August (with a rocket plant on the rhs).
The canola is to deter nematodes.

[jimc]

Sorry I can't get good big pics like TG

[jimc]

A week or so later and it was all slashed down and being covered by a new layer of mulch after potatoes were planted at each dripper point and chook manure added.

[Digeroo]

Amazing.  Brilliant.  Though not sure that I like bare soil during the winter, worried about the nutrients leaching out.

You have rather inspired me to have a tidy up, though I do still have loads of weeds and green manure.   I like the parsnips in buckets, are they open at the bottom.  Might try some carrots like that.                                                     

[ACE]

I expect mine is as tidy as it will ever be. Only had it a couple of months and three quarters rough dug so the weather can do its bit. The top quarter has been treated with well rotted and planted with onions, a few spring cabbage and broad beans, plus a bit in hand in case something interesting comes along to plant. So now it can be also put to sleep for what is left of our southern winter, which has not quite started yet. It seems as if it is going to be a wet plot so keeping off of it makes sense.

Next year will be different. I doubt it will be as tidy as it is now, once it starts getting used in earnest. Next job is to get a small greenhouse up at home to get an early start with next years seed after the festive season.

Well done to all the tidy people

[French-Dream]

What a glowing example of what a plot should look like in autumn. You should be proud of yourself Tee Gee!
I only wish that half the plots on our site were only half as good as yours!

That's a show-class plot if ever I saw one. Mine is a shambles in comparison.

WOW....I concur with both....any chance you've got a spare hour or two to pop down to Warwickshire....

[gazza1960]

A credit to you sir...........top piccies too.............after you've finished in Warwickshire......carry on darn scarf to Dorset.......I've been laid up with Bronchitus for 3 weeks and my growing area in the garden
Needs some of that yorkshiremans toil before the rains arrive and turn it into a bog.

I'll trade your sweat for a few warming suppers,if I can get my arrse outa bed.

Gazza