So, Tell Us, What Are Ye All At In The Veg Garden?

[terryd 8,401]

Have you checked out landshare Liam in the mean time you might be able to get some thing

http://www.landshare.net/

[BS40liam 203]

There's allotments not to far from me but tbh I'm being a lazy fecker and want one that's right next to my house lol. I would take the one up the road but I do t want it to become a chore and end up resenting goo g up there everyday ?at least if I get one next to my house the misses will be willing to get stuck in aswell lol. Ill take a look at that website tho bud cheers

[terryd 8,401]

There's allotments not to far from me but tbh I'm being a lazy fecker and want one that's right next to my house lol. I would take the one up the road but I do t want it to become a chore and end up resenting goo g up there everyday at least if I get one next to my house the misses will be willing to get stuck in aswell lol. Ill take a look at that website tho bud cheers

 

Mine is 9 miles up the road so either go straight from work or jump on the bicycle. Mind you with that cabbage my mate gave me took 10 hours to get home with the drag it

gave me

You could take one up the road then have two the space soon goes. You could all ways give up the furthest one then if you felt like it

Edited August 12, 2013 by terryd

[BS40liam 203]

 

 

There's allotments not to far from me but tbh I'm being a lazy fecker and want one that's right next to my house lol. I would take the one up the road but I do t want it to become a chore and end up resenting goo g up there everyday at least if I get one next to my house the misses will be willing to get stuck in aswell lol. Ill take a look at that website tho bud cheers

Mine is 9 miles up the road so either go straight from work or jump on the bicycle. Mind you with that cabbage my mate gave me took 10 hours to get home with the drag it

gave me

You could take one up the road then have two the space soon goes. You could all ways give up the furthest one then if you felt like it

?9 miles! That's some dedication there, yea me and the misses is chatting about just going for one up the road just wants to get doing something now!

[terryd 8,401]

Few more goodies today

 

Plenty of blanching going on at the moment

 

[BS40liam 203]

I was in helping the old boy again today, he gave us a carrier bag full of beans 2 courgettes and a couple of toms, the toms are doing rubbish tho this year so looks like the rest In the green house will be used for green chutney, absolutely piss poor result with the broccoli it went straight to seed! And the rats have been at the spuds! Apart from that the rest are Doing ok. I've just been up to look at the other allotments up the road and there's plenty of spare allotments up there it's brand new plots set on the old primary school field. Nice and flat a d there's only 5 plots taken Up out of 12 so think I'm gonna take one of these, going to go have a chat with the woman from parish council. Nice haul you have there terry ?

[terryd 8,401]

Good luck then Liam look forward to the pictures

[Tiercel 6,986]

I was in helping the old boy again today, he gave us a carrier bag full of beans 2 courgettes and a couple of toms, the toms are doing rubbish tho this year so looks like the rest In the green house will be used for green chutney, absolutely piss poor result with the broccoli it went straight to seed! And the rats have been at the spuds! Apart from that the rest are Doing ok. I've just been up to look at the other allotments up the road and there's plenty of spare allotments up there it's brand new plots set on the old primary school field. Nice and flat a d there's only 5 plots taken Up out of 12 so think I'm gonna take one of these, going to go have a chat with the woman from parish council. Nice haul you have there terry

I would bite someones hand off for a new plot where no one had grown veg before. No white rot for the onions, no club root for the brassicas, no scab for the potatoes. A clean sheet just get a good rotation going and you will be fine. Grab one while you can.

 

One chap on the allotment always had good brassicas, while the rest of us had clubroot. While talking to him one day I asked about how he was able to grow good cabbage cauli swedes etc; and the rest of us struggled with the clubroot that was in the soil of all the plots on the allotment .

 

He told me that he was given a tip by a RHS gardener. Add a bit of washing up liquid to the hole that you are planting in. Apparently the spores that cause club root absorb the fairy and it litererly makes them swell and explode It worked for me the next year.

 

TC

Edited August 14, 2013 by tiercel

[terryd 8,401]

Plenty of harvesting going on at the moment more runners today, pulled a row of turnips and dug few new spuds. Also a couple of small cucumbers. For dinner we had nice bass fillet new spuds and runners covered in butter. Nice self sufficient meal very tasty

[darbo 4,774]

Onions drying out.

 

[darbo 4,774]

More onions.

[darbo 4,774]

Toms nearly finished now.

 

[darbo 4,774]

A couple of cucumbers.

 

[terryd 8,401]

Onions look so appetising laying like that. People down the allotments have them laying around drying out looks great.

I like that green house too nice old wooden frame.

Is that broccoli hiding in the bottom corner ?

[darbo 4,774]

Onions look so appetising laying like that. People down the allotments have them laying around drying out looks great.

I like that green house too nice old wooden frame.

Is that broccoli hiding in the bottom corner ?

yes terry some more purple sprouting broccoli ready to go in soon.