hello peeps just found your forum and seems a nice place:)
I'm a 26 year old chap that has had an allotment now for about 8 months with my father.
we have spent ages making it a nice place to shelter from the wives ::)
got loads growing and all seems to be going well at the moment appart from our garlic crop that has failed miserably:/
anyhow its all about trial and error so i may well have many questions etc to ask
a bit about myself
i am a trained chef pyrotechnition and tree surgeon/landscap Gardner
an odd variety you may say but i have many passions in life so i try and master as many as i can hehe
i have had to give up the cheffing as 80 hour weeks were killing me so now i just enjoy cooking for the family and a few private events here and there.
the fireworks and tree surgery are my main professions now.
i have a very good knowledge of computer problems so i will be helping as much as i can in your PC section
knowledge should be shared i will be gleaming plant knowledge from all of you i hope so if you got a PC problem or need a special recipes for something look me up ill do my best to help :)
anyway must crack on trying to find somewhere to get some cheap 9ft ish poles from to make a large cage to cover the allotment any ideas hehe:D
ttfn
hi iggy. can we call your dad "iggys pop"?
i see you are of the old scghool of allotmenteering. i am of the new school - a wife who goes to the allotment to get some peace from home. only kidding. make yourself at home there will be plenty along to say hi soon.
is there much call for pyrotechnic chefs?
hehe depends how well cremated you like your steak :P
old school maybe but the ladies would rather be out swimming or walking the hounds so works quiet well hehe
welcome welcome welcome.
pull up a deckchair and have some fun.
;D
hello!
this is one of the friendliest forums around (and I've been on a few!) so ask away. Even questions you may think are too silly to ask are treated with respect here. We've all got to start somewhere (inc me) and it's a good place to do so.
What happened to your garlic?
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the garlic has failed totaly stems have died back yet there is literaly just nothing on the ends of em :/
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Hi iggy! Welcome aboard! Looking forward to loads of cheffy info, and if I need to set fire to anything/one, I have advice on tap...marvellous!
"iggy's pop" Love it lol
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;D iggy iggy iggy, ;D welcome to the mad house ;D
Hello Iggy, pleased you've found your way here. Have you met EJ, our Chutters Queen, over in Recipes, yet? ;) And can you please get loads of recipes for New Innovative Ways of Dealing with Courgette Gluts ready for us?
Wondering about your garlic too. Tell us what you planted and when and in what sort of soil, etc.? (quietly and modestly, I grow FAB garlic every year and my elephant garlic always registers about 8 on the Richter Scale when I get it up) 8)
My Top Tip for a tall permanent fruit cage? Friend erected the King of Cages with 3 of those cheapo garden arches from Home Bargains/Wilkos in his garden. Looks good, too.
Cheers! Lishka
How long have you had the plot? I finally dug over patch of wild raspberries last winter; I'd been putting it off for years. Yesterday I lifted my onions, and the ones on that patch were a fraction the size of the rest.
hiyas
we have had the plot for about 8/9 months when we took it over was in a right state broken glass all over the place asbestos strewn about and more bindweed and thgistles than you can imagine
so we gathered a army the size of Luxembourg ( ie my father his freind and myself)
and in one day we totaly cleaned the plot of all rubbish etc then dug the whole thing over rempoveing every trave of root etc that we could find.
thing we took out 11 crane bags of roots and weeds etc.
about a week later we layed the slabs on dry sand/cement for the shed and within a couple of days the sed was up and in place.
i manged to track about 40 meters of new 8ft chainlink down so we cut that in half and re fenced the whole site burying it about a foot in the deck
put a nice gate on and layed a path then put retaning boards along the boundry edge leaving a little walkway for us.
put 4 poly drums dottred about which we could fill up with water and sorted the guttering out on the sed into the main watter butt.
then planting began.
my father is the main one with the planting hehe when i see him next ill find out what type the garlic was etc .
Hi iggy! Like everybody says welcome to the Board! Looking forward to hearing more about your plot and to you giving us advice with our gluts of vegetables. Like Lishka I always seem to be caught out with courgettes - always think they all won't grow and then get masses! :D busy_lizzie
Quote from: Alishka_Maxwell on July 14, 2006, 08:29:16
My Top Tip for a tall permanent fruit cage? Friend erected the King of Cages with 3 of those cheapo garden arches from Home Bargains/Wilkos in his garden.
bl00dy good idea lish. asda have got them on sale for £6 atm (up a quid from last year mind), and i thought, well i don't need anymore, but i think i'll be back there crack of dawn tomorrow.
cheers mukka !
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Pleshr all mine, m'dear. From Home Bargains I got meself 3 @ (I think) £4.99 each & Richard me friend, 12 of the same ::)......an we woz robbed! Found em in Wilkos for a bit less. But this was a few weeks ago. Disappeared from HBs now (well, we bought the UK supply, didn't we?) For £6 you should expect the Super Deluxe version ;D
Richard erected some of his sort of half-on to each other, , so they formed a pergola thing? Classy 8)
Others he put in a straight line.
Neat idea, either way.
not got a wikos (i don't think) i'm thinking for up the lottie (nothing like being prepared eh ?). Just get me sewing machine out and make up a nicely fitted cover.
i really fancy the tunnel idea. three arches would give me enough space for at least a couple of each of goosies, blackies, reddies and blueies !
what did Richard use for his netting ?
Netting!
Sorry, was that green stuff, don't know any more. If I find out over the w/end I'll get back to you.
Cheers!
appreciated.
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Welcome to A4A iggy. I am sure you will find plenty on here to keep you wanting to come back for more. I am so glad I am retired, I would never have been able to spend so many hours looking at threads if I was still working.
Good luck with your plot.
Lorna
If my experience is anything to go by, it may take a year or two to get the soil into decent nick for producing veg. Keep putting in loads of organic matter, that's the key.
welcome iggy...as mr b said-plenty of muck-we mostly supplies our own majick! ;D
lish...and beforehand i WILL apologise for this...
Quotequietly and modestly, I grow FAB garlic every year and my elephant garlic always registers about 8 on the Richter Scale when I get it up)
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i'm afraid that qualifies for an 'oo-er missus' reply.
*sigh*
i know..i'll get me coat...
kitty
Big snigger/snorks, Kitty ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D