down at the allotment and in the garden what are you up to

[gunners71uk]

come on every body u can post on ere wot u all doing ?????

[Merry]

Hiya - finished digging me broad bean bed. I planted them in pots this year but thought they were looking a bit lanky so I`ve put them into the ground now. Weeded the leek bed and picked some pesky snails off my savoy cabbages. Asparagus bed will soon be ready to cut down. Slashed a wild bramble to the ground but I know it will think I`ve pruned it and be just as rampant next year! One of nature`s great survivors!

[gunners71uk]

put in 100 broad bean seed, 30 solent wight garlic.24 shallots,and 80 radar onions all done just before the rain. might put a few peas in then its digggggging lol.

[gunners71uk]

checked on broad beans garlic etc there fine no water logging from the rain its dry here and sat sun look good for digging etc.harvested some leeks,bag beetroot for pickling a couple of parsnips and a big tundra cabbage was ther for 8 am and home at 9.45,think i will take a flask tomorrow i have a couple of weedy grot spots so will dig them over first will probably make an apple pie later as there being given to me from kind people who i gave stuff too

[Chocobed]

Just been down the plot and had the spirit of Allotmenteers reinforced. Went to help fill a skip with my rubbish(well, previous tenants) and old friend who has one of my very previous plots offered me currant bushes and raspberry canes! Luckily I'd delayed ordering my canes from the catalogue!
The skip was for all the site's tenants so will be full before dusk!
Brought home some wallflowers and sweet williams for the garden and one of my last iceberg lettuce for the year. Still have a few beetroot left and all my brassicas, complete with whitefly.

[gunners71uk]

wed digging coffee drinking
thurs weeding found 3 butternut squash more digging more coffee

fri more digging saved some helda seed french bean. more coffeee
dave gunners

[Chocobed]

Went to plot thursday to see if frost had made any inroads. Carlingford special xmas new potatoes limp and withered from frost snap. Dug one up to see if any damage as its early(for these), found about a pound of nice egg sized spuds. Lovely!
Other than that, late sown lettuce iceberg collapsed and brassicas still fruitless so to speak. Onions Swift shooting nicely and oriental brassicas forming good heads.
Dug beds already crumbling. Clay based soil like mine needs a good frost occasionally.Shame you can't pick and choose where it hits!

[gunners71uk]

did some more digging waiting for my onions etc to come through

[Merry]

Did some weeding round the asparagus bed and leek bed. Dug and weeded an empty bed where the last caulis had been.
Mended the shed door Grrrr!

[Chocobed]

Down relatively early,dug some of the frost hit Carlingford xmas potatoes
and found they were a perfect eggsize, though not plentiful. Have tried earthing more over the remaining ones.Cut tops (leaves) off three rows of chard and lifted the roots. Grew about five rows and haven't really used much, so left two rows for giving to a friend at work who loves it.
Planted a few wallflowers at the base of James Grieve apple.
Frosts look good but means there's not a lot to do, at least on my plot.

[gunners71uk]

had the day off chilling sleeping and fireworks tonight
regards dave

[Millymollymandy]

Weeding, weeding and weeding.

[the.fee.fairy]

Planted 6 garlic cloves in tubs yesterday, and i repotted a bell pepper plant. For some reason instead of being dormant its decided to flower

Got loads of seeds from Ebay too...don't know where i'm going to plant them all next year!

[gunners71uk]

digggggggggginnnnnng leek pulling coffffeeee

regards dave

[gunners71uk]

digging and collected some ruuner beans and got the seed from them.and of course drank coffee
regards dave