Plot 79 – The website and blog…
Posted in Food & Cooking, Growing on Aug 31st, 2009
For quite a few weeks now we have been picking and eating runner beans from the allotment. Very nice! There are still signs of a lot more to come and we may end up freezing a load if we end up with too many to eat.
I know that we need to plant a lot more [...]
It is the question that a lot of people ask and very rarely get a useful response to. There is the old trick of using washing up liquid or chilli powder and soaking sponges in vinegar to deter most pests. Do they really work?
From experience I can safely say… No!
The only way I found of [...]
Posted in General, Growing, Poultry, Sowing on Aug 11th, 2009
Everyday has been another working day… Hardly any allotment time although it doesn’t look too bad!
We’re starting to get a few runner beans on the plants, not many sadly but that teaches me for buying seed from a man in a shed! I’ve learnt and will buy seed from a garden centre next year.
The carrots [...]
Posted in General, Greenhouse, Growing on Jul 5th, 2009
With a mix of non stop work (the wonders of being self employed!) and ridiculously hot temperatures, I have been unable to do pretty much nothing down the allotments for the past couple of weeks. Plants are dying and weeds are growing!
Out of the 5 tomato plants in the greenhouse, only 3 have survived. The other [...]
Posted in General, Greenhouse, Growing, Sowing on Jun 8th, 2009
Nearly halfway through the year already…
I have got carrot, beetroot and radish seeds outside now in rows spanning the whole plot along with various brassica plants in the old chicken run and more outside that need covering. The cucumbers and courgettes have also been planted out.
We are digging the new potatoes that are supplying an [...]
So that’s another month nearly gone. It makes me wonder what I’ve actually done!
Hopefully today or tomorrow I’ll be putting out the first lot of runner beans from the greenhouse ( a little late but the plants are rather large). I’ll then follow on by planting some seed directly in the ground for a slightly [...]
With demand for allotments at an all-time high, some people are digging up their gardens, others covering concrete with containers. Rightly so too! Re-creating the 70’s sitcom The Good Life has been fuelled by the ever-rising price of fresh vegetables.
The price of traditional British veg including carrots, onions, beans, peas, lettuce and tomatoes should be [...]
Posted in Greenhouse, Growing, Sowing on Apr 28th, 2009
Various plants on the windowsill are getting larger day by day and the tomato plants in the greenhouse are going on fine. Once the cold temperatures have finally gone, they will all be dumped into their final planting positions.
The radish died in the greenhouse. I don’t think they liked the rich compost they were planted in or [...]
Posted in General, Greenhouse, Growing, Poultry, Sowing on Apr 15th, 2009
I haven’t been near a computer long enough to be able to write any new posts for ages
So, we had 9 of the Cochin eggs hatch. 2 died a few days later but a week and a half on we have 7 happy and healthy chicks. I didn’t see anything from the Maran [...]
Posted in Greenhouse, Growing, Poultry, Sowing on Mar 24th, 2009
Everything is all go now down the allotment. 90% is ready for planting in, the other 10% just needs rotavating. I am digging a trench 1 spit deep and wide so the weeds from the ’shared footpaths’ do not keep coming underground back onto the plot. The plan is that I’ll see the weeds and they’ll [...]