Quote: Originally posted by Tigermouse on 02/3/2009
Also what would anyone recommend as a growing aid? The allotments there get free horse manure from the stables next door but it's not really much good (a) because it's too fresh and (b) it's full of grass seed etc which obviously grows weeds. OH could get a trailer load of slurry from the farm where we keep our tractors but if he spread that on the allotment I don't think he'd be very popular with the neighbours!
Free manure, lovely. Stack it for a year under cover and it will be perfect.
And make compost. I have three bins made of pallets ie three cubic meteres. I can easily fill two bins a year. It goes a long way. I also have two leaf mould bins and a wormery, plus manure and seaweed when I can get it.
First time UKCS post...and typically for me it is on bloomin' veggies!
Just a quickie comment on garlic planting in March - If anyone does have spare garlic cloves knocking about. Don't be afraid to plant, but do really quite close, say 2'' to 3'' apart. What you'll get is "garlic greens" - "spring onion" type offerings with a bit of a kick.
In the long run perpetual garlic chives are a better way forward for the same result, but waste not want not an' all that.
I have nearly finished my chicken run and should be looking at chooks within the next week or so.
once I have finished getting all my seeds in the greenhouse and sorted out the plot I will get some pics on the website.
I have just used a long length of guttering to sow my peas in and hung it in the roof space of the green house so the mice cant get at em, then when they are ready I dig the furrow in the box and gently slide the full row of peas into the ground. works a treat to.
Just got my first allotment today - hurray!! I've been waiting a couple of years for one behind my house and have just come to the top of the list. It's a half plot on a small site and I'm so excited I can't wait to start digging!! My kids (girls 6 and 3) are excited too.
Just got my first allotment today - hurray!! I've been waiting a couple of years for one behind my house and have just come to the top of the list. It's a half plot on a small site and I'm so excited I can't wait to start digging!! My kids (girls 6 and 3) are excited too.
Any good book recommendations?
Nicola x
The Hessayon "Expert" guide to veg growing is a must. It's cheap, availible in most garden centes and it gives all the sowing and harvesting times, soacing info, planting depths etc for all the common vegetables.
Statley Homes use to allow people to create allotments during world war 2.I wonder if Guy Richie,Robbie Williams,Davina Mccall or the Osbournes will ever allow the use of their thousands of acres of idle land,to be used to help the masses grow food and feed themselves?
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No allotment as such (tho i did have one years ago), but now ive given all the side garden over to veg. Its like a small allotment - only nearer! You cannot beat stepping out the door at mealtimes, and pulling your own veg out of the soil ten minutes before its needed.
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Topic: allotments
