Allotments 4 All

Fennel finally sprouted, thought I had lost them, planted seeds 6 weeks ago :) parsley, corriander and cabbage seeds going great guns and watered and watered now looking to planting more courgette and beetroot seeds.  oooh and this weekend I will be weeding weeding and more weeding.

All I am doing at the mo is watering babies and pots.  It's so dry I can't risk planting things out in the veg plot or flower beds.   We have had one good downpour - 10 days ago - since mid march and no showers.  This last weekend Belgium was the warmest place in Europe with temps in the high 20s.

Established plants are doing OK but I'll have to water the soft fruits if we're to get a crop this year.

Meanwhile, I just keep watering and doing a spot of weeding but will have to pot on various babies as they outgrow their wee pots.  At least the drought is helping suppress the slugs and snails but my natural pond is just mud so no good for this year's crop of frog, toad and newt tadpoles.

transplanted romanesco broccoli, planted out mange tout and celeriac, watered all the stuff in the poly that needed it  :)

Planted out some cosse violette beans, romanesco broccoli and sowed carrots, all on plot 2. Dug up the potatoes from the hot bed, picked some radish, spring onions and a spring cabbage for tea  ;D

Dug, watered, planted a few extra spinach to fill the gaps in the row. Didn't have much time, unfortunately.

turned the water on at the lottie  weeded,watered and had a really good tidy up,just been and turned water off, about 4 hours spent at the plot today very satisfying  ;D

Staked Tomatoes in the greenhouse, ran strings over and above Gherkins. In the garden I staked my Sunflowers.

On the allotment had a big fore of dumped trees and shrubs, took away two dumped bicycles, rescued a wheelbarrow and cut some Hazel for poles and walking sticks.

Oh and sowed Cauli "All year round." in trays.

We tied up the tall cabbages to stakes, planted out some celeriac, planted up the last of the inside sweetcorn, dug up some very early potatoes, cut some oakleaf lettuce, red mustard and red mizuna for lunch  :)
oh, forgot, I also transplanted the jack o' lanterns that Callum sowed into larger pots  ;D

Knackered myself! ::)

Spend 5 hours at the plot today, weeding sunflower and borage seedlings out from my allium beds, they have gone mad n the past week. Planted out all the brqassicas, then realised I hadn't sown the swedes yet! Netted them all up nicely to keep the birds off.

Tomorrow I intend to put plant out more peas, the first lot of dwarf beans under cloches, and the first lot of CFB's. Hope we don't get a late frost now!

Watered and watered this morning
Then back later to transplant some Primo Cabbages
Harvested 3 Onions and ate a small Strawberry
:D

Looked at the seed trays again........ I think something may be happening ! 
The staring and willing them to grow method is working  ;)

Just finished for a while after sowing some more runner beans and then onto the planting out.
So far there has been plenty to plant, Nasturtiums, Cornflower, Kochia, Cosmos, Tomatoes(tumbler and cherry gold) and finally the Brassicas are going in.
Lastly, those darn weeds have been at it again. Spreading themselves sround the place with no concern for others. Just like humans  ;D

Weeded, weeded and weeded, thined out the beetroots, pricked out some cabbages, checked on my leeks - I have 5!   ??? mmmm I'm sure that there were more, this week going to get some flowers too as Landimad has inspired me.  ;D

transplanted some more morning glory, planted some more Roma toms and yolo peppers, planted another couple of self seeded sunflowers outside, transplanted lots of self seeded verbena bonsariaris  ?sp  ;D

Just going and we have sun.. real non rainy day.. whoopee  can't believe it.

XX Jeannine

 ;D..You can ditch now all the plans for the rice field...what about drought resistant varieties of veg.. :o ;) ;D

Made my new border for annuals in the main, laid more old carpet on my allotment and had a meeting with the Council about the state of other peoples plots and H&S  issues. Tied up my Gherkins, Tomatoes, and sowed some Winter Cauliflowers.

A good days work.

Weeded
Watered
Put home compost in the dalek
:D

Seems like no ones done much for a while
I sowed runners and blue lake beans
Weeded and watered and soaked up the sunshine
8) 8) 8)

Had hoped to get my calabrese out and my debris netting/blue pipe cloches built but it was very windy so spent the afternoon in the greenhouse, potting toms into grobags, aubergines into black buckets and moving lots of stuff out to the coldframe to make room for the latter. Also sowed more french beans as only got 3 out of 15 from the last lot. Just hope the coldframe doesn't blow away now!