Debbie finished topping the autumn hot bed yesterday, so that’s the October, November and December and hopefully January salad veg sorted. I popped down tonight to apply the slug nematodes to most of the beds, I didn’t bother with the brassica and asparagus beds as they look pretty slug resilient...
It’s rare for me to buy things for myself, but occasionally eBay presents me with a bargain that I can’t resist. A couple of weeks ago it was a brand new ThinkPad x230 (for Tessa), still my favourite laptop, for only £200, it’s as light as the very best machines...
Finished off the spring hot bed, that’s next to the greenhouse. This means that all of my early spring preparation work will be all in the same place. By early spring the hot bed will have cooled and will be ready to use as a cold frame for hardening off,...
While Mum weeded, I made a start on the autumn planting, salad veg that we will be eating in October and November, so everything was planted either into cold frames or mini poly tunnels. First in was Pak Choi, a red leafed oriental cabbage, that looks great and is quite...
I did a major tidy up of the shed and then re-skinned the mini poly tunnel, with UV stable polythene, in theory this is the same stuff they make full sized poly tunnels from so it should be robust, but I’m not convinced that it’s that good quality – still...
It’s been a very productive ‘project’ day down on the allotment today, we are now well on with phase 2, our – prepare for autumn/winter – project. Yesterday we put weed stop fabric down in the orchard area and built a couple of raised beds, these will probably be for...
I’m starting to prepare the allotment for Autumn now, clearing out the summer crops, thinning and removing rotten leaves etc. I pulled out every other red kale and planted them in pots hoping that they will survive and be moved to the garden at home, I also cleared a row...
Continuing my tidying up streak I finished trimming the primary kale and secondary kale/broccoli beds today, having done the primary beds yesterday. I have two of each because last year I lost most of my winter kale crop of mildew and I’m trying to repeat the same experience. Unfortunately I...
Today was all about tidying up. I started with the sprouts which were strongly pushing up against the tops of their netted cage. The was nothing for it but to take out the tops and while I was about it trim off the bottom half of the leaves, that were...
It’s been a hard week on the allotment, hardly any planting and a lot of building. The main project has been to make, two large cold frames for early winter veg growing and early crops in spring and a deep hot bed that’s sunk into the ground by about a...