Allotments 4 All

I have to clean and store all my pots and trays.....sad i know but I can't rest until it's done.

Duke ;)

sort my 2 sheds out ,tidy the g'house, get the plots dug etc . :D

Clean pots and trays? Mine will get a quick brush next year if they are lucky!

Turned my back for a few weeks and my plot has gone feral. Polytunnel (cheap Ebay cr@p) has fallen apart after less than one year, and I've got nowhere to put the stuff inside it.  I think the site tidiness police may call if I dont at least try to bend it back into polytunnel shape. Beetroot the size of footballs, and some mutant courgettes need culling. The shed has been taken over by spiders and unplanted garlic and onion sets. The willow tree has grown a few feet and is almost dangling in the incinerator.. bonfires have been banned all summer and theres a backlog of soaking wet tomato and sunflower plants. Arghh!

Lewic  ;D  too funny! there must be something you are on top of (gardening wise!!) that is ???

I am more or less ready to go into hibernation!

Winter digging more or less done a couple of hours will see it complete.

The 4 greenhouses and tunnel have been cleaned out but not washed. See no point in doing that until I am about ready to use them again.

So my visits will only be to harvest when I pick a weeks supply to save me going down daily!

Its our Plot holders Xmas dinner on the 26th of Nov so once that is over so is 2010 for me so far a the allotment is concerned!

Seeds, composts & fertilisers all on order (due any day now)

My planting plan is done and my seeds are boxed in alphabetical order.

Will put them in to sowing order when my new seeds arrive.

Then I will get my feet up for the next three months!

find a garden fairy to help spread 4 bags of manure! What with my knee and my back - I'm too fragile these days.

Tricia

QuoteIts our Plot holders Xmas dinner on the 26th of Nov so once that is over so is 2010 for me so far a the allotment is concerned!

That's funny, I'd been wondering whether we ought to think about a plot holders' Christmas dinner. Maybe next year I'll suggest it!

Chores: Try and organise regular communal manure delivery for our site, as I said I would have a go at it. My deadline is to get the first delivery in early spring.

Build a proper raspberry frame, and get that up soon, to protect them against winter storms. I've planned it and costed the timber and wire. Got to get round to actually doing it!  ::)

Tricia - what a shame. If I was there I would help you!

need to prune the other two bramble bushes, dig a hole for fresh peelings etc (for runner beans), tidy the asparagus bed and throw on some seaweed, and that's about it really....

Need to finish digging and spread manure if it ever dries out ! Make some adjustments to compost bins and build two more raised beds.

Straighten up plot edges to make it look pretty, dig all of it, including the bit that I never got around to this year, make a cold frame and eat the lovely things left growing!

Finish the last section of my grass path (replacing slabs), dig over the wilderness where my little shed used to be, move the blackcurrants and goosegogs to the new fruit bed.

Oh and barrow manure and mushroom compost on to my plot.

If it ever stops raining........

what a shame. If I was there I would help you!

Thanks for the thought PS. It's too wet just now anyway, but I think my neighbour will give me a hand if I ask her.

Tricia

Having been unable to do a lot in the garden for the past two years - one hell of a lot of weeding. ??? :-[

valmarg

Quote from: Tee Gee on November 17, 2010, 19:35:38

My planting plan is done and my seeds are boxed in alphabetical order.

:D LOL!  That'll never be the day here!   I'm still laughing!

there must be something you are on top of (gardening wise!!)

The flower beds are fairly tidy. And I have loads of butternut squash!

I quite like winter (when it isnt raining) as I can get into building things and landscaping, without being distracted by harvesting or watering, or drinking wine under the pergola!

My vegetable garden is divided up into 6 plots.  The chickens are in one and 4 were used for vegetables and fruit this year.  The 6th plot though is full of nettles and I want to get them out by next season.  It is a mammoth chore.

I also still have the greenhouse to clear out and one of the vegetable patches to weed. 

Two other plots need a bit of attention as they have some weeds but it is much too wet out there at the moment to go treading on the soil.

We are doing quite well this year to be honest and on top of most things, think its because we keep putting off digging over the bed i want for cut flowers, nothing has been done with it for 2 years and its very heavy and wet, so that will be done on a day when the OH is there because he does it faster than me!

I have too many to list. Is this because I spend too much time on here?? ;)

sooo, sooo many  ;D
Pauline, can't you let your chickens onto the beds, they're do your weeding for you  :)

Ive got to put the panels back into the greenhouse for the second time in 10 days, ugh.

and then theres still the clearing of the beds to do, need more manure, plant the last of the tulips, tidy the shed, move the compost heap, put some new posts in,  make a new gate.

think id best put me wellies back on.  :(
x sunloving