Allotments 4 All

Finally had a good session at the allotment this morning.Got all my onion and shallot sets in, plus my early spuds. Aching but satisfied!

bet you're feeling great,caroline  :)
really upset, haven't been since monday, due to family commitments and doctors appointments, I'll have to go tomorrow to water everything..luckily nothing's too big yet in pots  ;D

Decided to start sorting my garden raised beds, as they are in a very weedy state after a winter left uncovered. Loads of flower seedlings! Dug over half of one bed, nice soft earth underneath, will be great with a top up of home made compost.....turned my back to go to the polytunnel, and found one of my cats sitting happily in the newly dug bit doing a poo! I had to laugh, he must have been watching and waiting......cleared that up, and now covered the whole lot with a tarp......that will do the trick! ;D

Also potted on my brassicas, cucumbers and melons...all now out in the cold greenhouse. Time for a cuppa.... ;D

I had a very sucessful day at the lottie today.
First thing I did was spray black a little pot bellie stove I inherited. I'm going to plant it up with some flowers.

Managed to sieve yet another of my raised beds (that's three done, three to go) before the rain came.

I sowed boltardy beets, mini finger carrots and tender & true parsnips and red baron onion sets.

I'm very pleased with my progress so far.

Lauren  8)

My oh managed to redig first lottie over again, we have decided to mulch it with fresh horse manure till winter planting so that it will condition the soil, I then completed another 4 raised beds on our second dite ( right next to first one), filled them with soil and fresh manure and covered them up so that the worms do all the work.  At home I managed to plant some white cucumber, beans and some watermelon and melons for the kitchen windowsill and some more toms.  So good day overall

Finished planting out Red Baron Onion plants which I had in my cold frame

Finally received comfirmation of what the exact position of my plot is by the council(very helpful young lady) so had a good dig this morning :) :)

really pleased managed to get all my spuds planted before the hale hit.

Disapointed my onions have disapeared and my april cabbage looks like its bolted but the plots not looking 2 bad. My leeks have even bulked up thanks to some late trenching.  And the bed i planted up in late feb of carrots and leek seed tape which i had though had not germinated because of the weather looks like its actualy worked ;)

Checked my mini greenhouse and my tomatos, courgettes and pumpkins look like they have survived tranplantation. And my peas & beans have all popped there heads though the ground. So i have given them all a nice drink and will check on them again tomorrow when i plant up the next lot of seeds.

I have brought back some more trays from the plot to plant up another layer of the mini greenhouse just have to work out what else i need to sow other than more seed onion and chillis what are other people planting?

Just come in from planting sweetcorn!

As well as running in and out of the shed dodging the rain, hail and sleet I have finally finished erecting my "freecycle" greenhouse.

Also been pottering about in my smaller greenhouse planting up cauli's and sprouts into individual pots so they go some more before they go out.

Now Im hoping for some dryer weather so I can get something other than onions and shallots in the ground!

Quote from: Biscombe on April 12, 2008, 15:43:16
Just come in from planting sweetcorn!

Show off!     ;D

Back from the lotty after completing the extra digging because of the council blasl up and with a bit of luck I will have the rotovator on it this week and by the weekend I should be planting in it, by the way called at Focus for a 'Chillington'wheelbarrow for £24.99 :)

how do you all find the time to do you littie l am finding it hard to find the time to get there   oh well will get there in the end

We got quite a bit done today. Finished the levelling and laying the slab path. Dug 3 more potato trenches and lined with manure and straw and turned over a large area we had weeded pre-winter. The plan is to finish this main planting area and get the raised beds in over the next week or so.

sparky l envy you getting all that work done

I cleared out the greenhouse, planted sweet peas, cauliflower, swedes, pak choi and spinach. (last two in the greenhouse.) I also sowed the last of my broad bean seeds. Peas and mangetout are chitting in trays.

Dug 5 rods

Planted a bed of onions, shifted fifteen barrowloads of grass cuttings and mulched three besd. Planted three varieties of pea. Put the parsnip seeds to pre-germinate, at home.

Went to the stables and collected lots of well rotted manure 50p a bag.

Will be making lots more visits as hopefully my raised beds will be completed soon.

Hoed the beds as annual weeds beginning to show.

Sheared the grass.

Admired my garlic.

Am cream crackered.

Did a load of seed sowing all morning, then down to lottie. Dug over 3 raised beds, uncovered small compacted bit of soil by 'new' shed that was very couch grass ridden but has been covered with tarp overwinter, dug that over, hardly any nasties left now.

Made two peas wigwams and wound one around with jute string. Then OH came down to work on the 'new' shed (which has been under construction since last May!) and finished the doors, so I can lock and actually use it! So, madcap emptying of contents of old (cut in half) shed into new one, OH then demolishes old shed (very rotten) and we have a massive bonfire to clear the lot. Plot looks odd with the new space, now I just have to work out what I'm going to plant there...... ;D