allotment update from gunners

ina · Post: # 16700Post **ina** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:54 am

I still have to dig my potato plot! Yesterday morning we were all covered in snow again, ground frozen solid. Looking better today, but cold...

gunners71uk · Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:34 pm

been to the allotment today done some forking over of a path id been using like concrete but done now, its getting competitive one old boy put in 8 rows of spuds and started and 5.30 am!!!. others putting loads of stuff in im just doing a bit at a time its pleasure not work for me i put two rows of earlies in with a trowel where i have already dug.probably put maincrop in next week maybe.aboutmiddle april be time to set french beans runner beans etc in pots toilet roll inserts still not sure about using toilet roll inserts though.then end od april marrow plants or earlier what you reckon?

ina · Post: # 16733Post **ina** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:22 pm

Well, I've got loo rolls all over the house!

And I'm putting all sorts of things in already, marrow and pumpkins, too, beans should be going in soon; my house is quite cold so it'll take a long time to get started anyway.

gunners71uk · Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:22 am

forking or digging last paych today hooray i have almost dug or forked allotment over in 9 months ,arn some old boys on allotment stirrers lol

glenniedragon · Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:33 am

Good work gunners!

kind thoughts
Deb

gunners71uk · Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:47 pm

been today and put 3 20ft rows in
all together so far i have

2 rows of maris baird 1st earlies
1 row kestrel 2nd early(did that today)
2 rows main crop cara(did today)

2 more rows to do soon

oh i will sleep well tonight. lol

gunners71uk · Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:59 pm

oh andy sorry i did not read the early post about two raised beds
putting two courgette plants in. each raised bed.

gunners71uk · Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:24 am

i did my spuds in trenches and put them in.i think i knocked the odd shoot of me spuds i have put them in a bit deeper, but the old boys put theres in deeper 8-10 ins and just lob the soil on top and they get a great crop every year as i was around last year to see it lol.
they said to me dont worry there grow more shoots nature sees to herself lol.

ina · Post: # 17374Post **ina** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:32 pm

You should get plenty of tatties from that to see you through the year! I had 3x7ft rows last year, and still have a few left... Ok, I don't eat lots of them, and the rest now look rather sorry for themselves. But I only bought half a pound once, at a farmers' market (pink fir apple, because they taste rather special).
Actually, that's an idea - maybe I can get a few of them to plant - don't know where to plant them, though... HELP, MY GARDEN IS TOO SMALL!

Millymollymandy · Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:43 pm

That's cos the goats ate it!

As for spuds, I've got as far as digging out one trench........

ina · Post: # 17382Post **ina** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:50 pm

Well, yes - there might be some truth in it... At the moment the poor little beasties are confined to their shed. They ate the cables of the electric fence thingybob (you know, the thing that gives the electric current... it does have a proper name!

). At first they were ok with a fence without current, but once they discovered that it was all a sham, they had to be tethered. If I tether them, they protest loudly all day long - they seem to prefer being in their little cubbyhole. It does give the ground an opportunity to recover, too - the backgarden (formerly "lawn"

) is terribly poached.

One of these days I'll get round to fixing their fence, too.

ina · Post: # 17384Post **ina** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:51 pm

Btw, I also managed to dig the space reserved for potatoes today! Weather is actually springlike since this morning (wonder how long that will last for...)

Millymollymandy · Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:58 pm

Battery? Anyway I know what thingy you mean! But didn't they electrocute themselves whilst eating it?

Well done on the digging today! I managed to find some gen purpose ORGANIC

fertiliser but it is brown in colour so it was somewhat harder to apply than blue granules! And there must really be a more sensible option for spreading it around than carrying a 10 or 20kg sack under one arm whilst doing it ..........

ina · Post: # 17393Post **ina** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:36 pm

No, they didn't electrocute themselves... I'd forgotten to turn it on!

I remember one time when we spread fertiliser by hand we had the stuff in flattish pails, or bags hung on one side at tummy height.

gunners71uk · Wed Apr 12, 2006 2:09 pm

well last two rows in that means i have 7 20ft rows of spuds
5 done in the trench method it was hard work .got given 5 brussel sprout plants which iwill nett and put in soon..got given some onion sets will put in soon.