Allotments, do you have one?

[graysalchemy]

I do remember V now you mention it.

You are excused. :grin: :grin:

 

[Megaross]

I was on the waiting list for years, then I went off to university and had to take my name off, now I'm back and my name is back on the list.

Good fruit and veg round here is difficult to come by unless you drive down to cricklade. The grocers are ok but they aren't amazing.

 

[fbsf]

We've just managed to get our allotment - lucky in that it was a newish site (local farmer had opened up a corner of one of his fields as allotments) and we managed to get one of the last available. The municipal ones near us have a 5+yr waiting list. :shock:

It's very fertile as before being an allotment it was a working farm field. We got it in mid-May and have since cleared it and planted tomatoes, onions, potatoes, runner beans, broccoli, cabbage, sprouts, sweetcorn and giant pumpkins.

Oh, and a bramling cross plant

All seem to be growing well, thank goodness!

 

[Tim_Crowhurst]

Your plot it looking much better than mine, Vossy. None of my parsnips have come up, and only a handful of my beetroot have made an appearance, but it's looking like it'll be a good year for spuds, squash, courgettes and salad veg, and a phenomenal one for black & redcurrants.

 

[Vossy1]

Bloody weeds are driving me mad :x ...On a plus note todays visit revealed my Ebony black currants are ripening fast...must have eaten half a kilo of the bushes today :party: the Wellington have a way to go and the inherited BC's are an unknown.
The chap who had the plot before me has had it since 1956 :shock: and he's still got 3 of equal size and digs em by hand at 88 years old :hat: ...they don't make em like they used too. He can trace the BC bushes back to the early 1900 from his dads garden. I also have a pink currant this year, wil be interested to see how it turns out :hmm: The Sovereign strawberries are pretty delish, though a small crop this year as year 1, can't wait for next year. The 1st courgette has been picked along with the 1st lot of broad beans.
Swimbo presently making a curry with home grown onions/coriander and mint....all in all a good day at lotty.

We've just managed to get our allotment - lucky in that it was a newish site (local farmer had opened up a corner of one of his fields as allotments) and we managed to get one of the last available. The municipal ones near us have a 5+yr waiting list.

Same here, like gold dust...I got the present one through recommendation ...very very lucky :pray:

We got it in mid-May and have since cleared it and planted tomatoes, onions, potatoes, runner beans, broccoli, cabbage, sprouts, sweetcorn and giant pumpkins.

Doing well considering it was bare earth. I think you always work harder when pushed for time..otherwise you just end up gassing to the neighbours :lol:

None of my parsnips have come up, and only a handful of my beetroot have made an appearance, but it's looking like it'll be a good year for spuds, squash, courgettes and salad veg, and a phenomenal one for black & redcurrants.

Parsnips can be funny buggers, beetroot...why you sruggling they're usually a doddle :hmm:

 

[Vossy1]

Well it's the end of the year growing wise, it's been a good year with a new personal best onion and pumpkin, I don't take these things too seriously, more a bit of fun. New pb pumpkin, last year 75lb, this year I vowed to do better but didn't get it planted until June, still managed a 92lber though :party:

As for onion, never tried the bigger varieties before, so quite hapy with 1.5kg for a 1st attempt

It's all clearing up now and preparing...joy...will this rain ever stop

 

[Grotzilla]

Im picking up the keys to my 1st ever allotment tonight! hopefully ill have some photos for you guys over the weekend

 

[Vossy1]

Im picking up the keys to my 1st ever allotment tonight!

:party: meant to be good weather the next few days...might give us the chance to do something

 

[graysalchemy]

A lot of soup there V. :lol: :lol:

 

[Grotzilla]

Im picking up the keys to my 1st ever allotment tonight!

:party: meant to be good weather the next few days...might give us the chance to do something

Unfortunately not for me im at work during the day and its the mrs' s birthday this weekend so wont have much time to myself

 

[Vossy1]

The question is, would you prefer to be ankle deep in mud :lol:

 

[Grotzilla]

I think I'd be neck deep if I missed her birthday! :P

 

[Tim_Crowhurst]

I share an allotment with two friends. We have quite a bit of fruit (two bramleys, two redcurrants, four red gooseberries, four blackcurrants) and are planning to add more (quince, rhubarb, green gooseberries, strawberries). We're part way through ripping out the current three rows of raspberry canes, which are diseased, and will replace them with new canes in a different part of the allotment.

This year we grew butternut and potimarron squashes, and I recommend growing both as they ripen at different times - the potimarrons are ready first - giving you a longer cropping. Potimarron taste slightly of chestnuts (marron in French) which they also resemble slightly, and they are good in stir-fries, roasted with garlic and sage, or in soup with garlic, bacon and sage.

We also get a good crop of nettles during the spring - a sure sign of good soil.