Had a trip up this evening with rain threatening. Hammered some posts in on bed 4 where my brassicas are and managed to cover them with the Wondermesh I had on the strawberries to keep the pesky Cabbage White Butterfly off. There was quite a few white fly on the underside of some of the leaves - will have to lookup some organic method to control it!
Got a load of spicy salad for me, the rabbits and the guinea pig!
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Sunday, 10 July 2011
July 10th 2011
Managed 2.5 hours on the plot on Saturday. Got there 06.45. Funnily enough there was no-one else there until 7.30!
Had a 2 hour weeding session on top allotment followed by a strawberry and raspberry picking session. Got first courgette too and some more early potatoes.
Had a 2 hour weeding session on top allotment followed by a strawberry and raspberry picking session. Got first courgette too and some more early potatoes.
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Mid June - First Earlies
Went up to allotment for 06:40 on my bike to get some potatoes - dug about 4 roots of earlies up, got a reasonable crop - and was confronted with loads of weeds.
The recent rain has done them wonders! I hoed for about an hour round the runner beans and maincrop potatoes to try and control them and pulled a load up by hand from the shallots, onions and carrots. I also raked some soil up my maincrop potatoes on top allotment to tidy up the ridges.
Sweetcorn is coming on and I've got a fair bit of blackfly on my broad beans (even though I pinched the tops out).
My peas aren't doing very well this year - I'll have to bung some more in and hope they come quick aenough.
The recent rain has done them wonders! I hoed for about an hour round the runner beans and maincrop potatoes to try and control them and pulled a load up by hand from the shallots, onions and carrots. I also raked some soil up my maincrop potatoes on top allotment to tidy up the ridges.
Sweetcorn is coming on and I've got a fair bit of blackfly on my broad beans (even though I pinched the tops out).My peas aren't doing very well this year - I'll have to bung some more in and hope they come quick aenough.
Monday, 16 May 2011
15 May
Dwarf and French beans planted at allotment - front bed of bottom lottie.
Greenhouse - planted 3 Aubergines in a grow bag at far end.
Picked second ripe strawberry - delicious.
Tomato plants now about 4 - 5 feet high!
Front of house - planted 5 tomatoes and an aubergine in grow bags.
Greenhouse - planted 3 Aubergines in a grow bag at far end.
Picked second ripe strawberry - delicious.
Tomato plants now about 4 - 5 feet high!
Front of house - planted 5 tomatoes and an aubergine in grow bags.
14 May 2011 - Planting Session
Got up to the allotment at 06:45 ready for a planting session.
Put in:
14 Runner Beans (not doing as many as lasy year - overrun with them)
2 Giant Pumpkins
29 Sweetcorn (most of them in bed 2 of bottom allotment, rest at bottom of top allotment next to beans)
5 Butternut Squash (2 with the sweetcorn, other 3 with the pumpkins. Used a good dollop of well rotted manure in the planting hole).
3 Courgettes
Planted bed 3 with pea and mangetout plants and filled rest of bed with a row of seeds
Took 2 of the 3 panes of glass off the potatoes in bed 8, left fleece on. Looking good - loads of flowers.
Bottom Allotment
Top Allotment
Put in:
14 Runner Beans (not doing as many as lasy year - overrun with them)
2 Giant Pumpkins
29 Sweetcorn (most of them in bed 2 of bottom allotment, rest at bottom of top allotment next to beans)
5 Butternut Squash (2 with the sweetcorn, other 3 with the pumpkins. Used a good dollop of well rotted manure in the planting hole).
3 Courgettes
Planted bed 3 with pea and mangetout plants and filled rest of bed with a row of seeds
Took 2 of the 3 panes of glass off the potatoes in bed 8, left fleece on. Looking good - loads of flowers.
Bottom Allotment
Top Allotment
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
2 May 2011
Had 4 days off so went up to lottie on Fri, Sat, Sun and Mon at around 7:30 for a couple of hours each time.
Have nearly bottomed all the weeds on both top and bottom 1/2 allotments in preparation for planting later this month.
I have put fleece all round the first earlies I have under glass as I can't earth these up any more, they are around 18 inches high! I earthed up the other bed of earlies that went in later.
At home awaiting planting I have:
In greenhouse -
Peas, Sweetcorn and loads of different flowers.
Runner Beans
In conservatory -
Peppers (Cayenne and Tabasco)
Courgettes
Butternut Squash
Giant Pumpkins
Dwarf and French Beans
Aubergines (these will go in the greenhouse)
I put a small row of beetroot in (Chioggia Pink - apparently it's orange-pink on the outside with an appealing bullseye combination of rosy-red and white on the inside, which fades to soft pink when cooked).
Also put a row of spicy salad leaves in.
Pulled up the remaining leeks (sauted some of them last night and froze). I put 1 row of new leeks in (2 rows was too many last year! I used some plastic piping for some of the leeks and it worked really well at blanching the stems - some of them were about 9 inches of white.
Put some sweet peas in on a wigwam.
The parsnips and carrots have started.
The shallots are doing really well and all the onions seem to have taken.
In the greenhouse at home the tomatoes are doing well - all have first sets of flowers and I have planted the 2 cucumber plants on mounds.
Had some rhubarb that I had forced under a bucket and it was lovely - not sour at all
Have nearly bottomed all the weeds on both top and bottom 1/2 allotments in preparation for planting later this month.
I have put fleece all round the first earlies I have under glass as I can't earth these up any more, they are around 18 inches high! I earthed up the other bed of earlies that went in later.
At home awaiting planting I have:
In greenhouse -
Peas, Sweetcorn and loads of different flowers.
Runner Beans
In conservatory -
Peppers (Cayenne and Tabasco)
Courgettes
Butternut Squash
Giant Pumpkins
Dwarf and French Beans
Aubergines (these will go in the greenhouse)
I put a small row of beetroot in (Chioggia Pink - apparently it's orange-pink on the outside with an appealing bullseye combination of rosy-red and white on the inside, which fades to soft pink when cooked).
Also put a row of spicy salad leaves in.
Pulled up the remaining leeks (sauted some of them last night and froze). I put 1 row of new leeks in (2 rows was too many last year! I used some plastic piping for some of the leeks and it worked really well at blanching the stems - some of them were about 9 inches of white.
Put some sweet peas in on a wigwam.
The parsnips and carrots have started.
The shallots are doing really well and all the onions seem to have taken.
In the greenhouse at home the tomatoes are doing well - all have first sets of flowers and I have planted the 2 cucumber plants on mounds.
Had some rhubarb that I had forced under a bucket and it was lovely - not sour at all
Sunday, 24 April 2011
20 April 2011
Put rest of potatoes in - Cara, Vales Emerald & King Edward. Had to lose the parking area as didn't have enought room!
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