By Phil, on August 11th, 2013% Harvested french and runner beans, one courgette, two lettuce, a carrier bag of chard and a couple of plants worth of both types of potatoes and a few more carrots.
Second and third sowing of carrots are coming up (nantes 2 and berlicum, from late June) Don’t know if there will be time for them to mature, though they are only a couple of weeks behind last year’s.
Summer rasps and strawberries are over, as are broad beans. Grubbed up second row of broad beans.
Sowed 2 rows Spring Hero cabbage where broad beans were (bed C) and a second row of chard next to the other two rows of radish (one of rudi one of french breakfast) and a row of valor lettuce where garlick was (all bed D)
Watered sweetcorn and squash especially, put cardboard tubes on musselburgh leeks to blanch the stems. Strimmed all grass.
By Phil, on July 21st, 2013% First visit after about 3 weeks due to holiday, during which time there has been lots of sun and not much rain. We weren’t expecting good things, but were very pleasantly surprised. For one thing, looks like a friendly neighbour had been doing some watering for us. Thanks! We did lots more today.
Pretty much everything looks good. Potatoes are healthy and flowering.
Most of the beans are looking OK (though the dwarf beans haven’t really got going), and the lettuce is ready.
The garlick is ready, the leeks OK (thinned out the musselburgh that we started on windowsill, the last lot sowed direct into the ground failed), radishes were ready a week or two back, but still (just) OK, the spinach is heading to seed but still (just) OK, chard, turnips and beetroot looking good.
The brassica and parsnips are looking good, but needed weeding.
Berries and currants looking good, though we should have tied up the raspberries as some of them have keeled over. Sweetcorn, squashes and first lot of carrots all good (but later sowing of carrot have failed)
Brought home loads of lovely red currants (4.5lb!), strawberries and raspberries. Lots of broadbeans, a courgette on its way to being a marrow, baby leeks and small carrots (thinnings), and giant radishes, some garlick, and a couple of lettuces.
Big difference to last year.
           
By Phil, on June 16th, 2013% Planted out all the brassica we had sown indoors, in bed E. Also planted out courgettes, squashes and sweetcorn in bed I. Were given sprout plants which we also planted. Of all the brassicas the red cabbage which were planted direct in April are looking the strongest
Were given some lettuce plants which we planted under bean wigwams.
Sowed Musselburgh leeks direct into ground next to other leeks in bed D. Also sowed radishes, spinach, chard, beetroot and turnips to fill bed.
Caged the fruit. Which are looking rather good.
Thinned out the carrots and sowed a second tub of Nantes 2. These are planted in some sandy soil I got from the excavations to bury a power line through the car park, with some leaf mould at the bottom, and mixed with ashes.
Earthed up potatoes and weeded. Bought a strimmer, so now (after a few frustrating false starts) the allotment is a bit more photogenic.
 Currants coming along nicely  The fruit side  The veg side 
By Phil, on June 24th, 2012% No, not the first time back since the ‘reset’ post a month ago, but sadly not far off. The weather’s been ‘orrible.
Anyway, the plot was massively over grown, so did a lot of weed-pulling and grass chopping. The sweetcorn in bed B has pretty much all failed and no sign of any drawf beans in bed E. The climbing and runner beans are OK but not great. Broad beans are just flowering but not too impressive. A smattering of beetroot and parsnips in bed D, no perp. spinach. Leeks are holding on, potatoes are OK. Some donated cabbage plants we put in bed A are looking good.
Harvested some mouse-nibbled radish from between bean rows, and some really good looking rhubarb.
Planted sunflowers by the shed which have been struggling in pots at home. Planted squash and courgette plants in Bed B, a mix of bought from Henri’s and grown from seed in pots. Sowed more beetroot and a couple of rows of turnips in bed D. Sowed loads of lettuce and rocket between beans.
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Beans
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Not much by way of parsnip, beetroot etc.
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Potatoes looking OK
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No sweetcorn. Leeks holding on, newly planted squash & courgette
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Four fine cabbages
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More potatoes
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Strawberries
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The pile of weeds and grass we pulled today.
By Phil, on May 27th, 2012% I suppose I could just post new stuff and maybe no-one would notice the one-year hiatus… but no.
Last year fizzled out, bad weather, lots of stuff didn’t grow, what did grow got blight / white rot / whatever, motivation left me.
Over the winter I dug over most plots and covered with leaf mold. We decided to make life easier by planting half the plot with fruit bushes that don’t need too much doing each year. Didn’t quite it ready in time to get them in before the growing season started, but maybe the opportunity to be sure that all the perennials are dug out from that side is a good one.
Here’s the plan for 2012:
As of May 27 we have planted the potatoes (beds C&G), strawberries (bed G/H), beans (broad, runner and dwarf & climbing French) (bed E — along with lettuce and raddish), parsnips, perpetual spinach, & beetroot (bed D). On May 27th we planted leeks (edge of bed C) and sweetcorn (bed B) from pots that we had started at home. We have some courgettes, red cabbage and sunflowers at home. Also sowed some sunflower seeds at along the road at bed A and nasturtiums along the side near the public path.
The pots are just showing in bed G; the broad beans are up, but small; the runners and climbers are just showing, but no sign of the drawfs, so sowed one more at each station; the strawbs are flowering. Too early to tell about the others.
By Phil, on April 18th, 2011% Planted 2 rows red cabbage in bed B with radishes as catch crop; 1 row parsnip and 1 row beetroot in bed C; lettuces between broad beans on bed A.
Harvested purple sprouting broccoli, perpetual spinach, and rhubarb. Rhubarb this year has thrown up a lot of flower stems.
By Phil, on January 29th, 2011%
| 1 x |
POTATO Nicola 1.5kg |
£4.52 |
| 1 x |
CLIMBING BEAN Neckar Queen |
£1.90 |
| 1 x |
CLIMBING BEAN Fasold |
£1.81 |
| 1 x |
BROAD BEAN Super Aquadulce |
£2.79 |
| 1 x |
SHALLOTS Longor 500g |
£4.45 |
| 1 x |
ONION SETS Sturon Globe |
£3.60 |
| 1 x |
POTATO (non-organic) Anya 2kg |
£6.45 |
| 1 x |
RADISH French Breakfast |
£1.34 |
| 1 x |
SWEETCORN Early Extra Sweet F1 |
£1.68 |
| 1 x |
FRENCH BEAN Cannellino |
£1.90 |
| 1 x |
LEEK Pandora |
£1.99 |
| 1 x |
CABBAGE Marner Lagerrot (Storing Red) |
£1.47 |
| 1 x |
COURGETTE Nero di Milan |
£1.47 |
| 1 x |
PARSNIP Turga |
£1.68 |
From Organic Garden Catalogue
By Phil, on June 12th, 2010% Bed E: Only 2 red cabbage and no sign of white cabbage; sure there was more last time–I blame pigeons. SO grubbed up where white cabbage should have been and sowed more red. Some purple sprouting broccoli and calabrese broccoli showing, should be enough. Catch crops of radish and spring onions looking good. Hoed thoroughly and netted to keep pigeons off.
Beds G & H, Nicola showing; hoed/earthed up.
Plot D: sowed parsnips between turnips and carrots.
Bed C: looks like sweet corn has failed, was a long shot anyway. Rearranged glass so that the courgette Jules sowed are protected.
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Looking down from the shed
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Netted brassicas and fruit
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Bed D (carrots under fleece) to fruit
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Looking up from bed B to shed
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Beds A and B, aliums and beans
By Phil, on May 9th, 2010% Soil quite dry. Frost/snow(!) predicted
 Maja from Maja's kleine Garten? Planted in bed E: two rows of broccoli (calabrese) with spring onion catch crop in between, and two rows of purple sprouting broccoli with radishes as catch crop.
In bed B: one row butter crunch lettuce between peas.
Also dug compost trench for beans in bed B: buried grass cuttings and compost about 18in deep.
Few small potato leaves showing (anya), earthed up to cover them.
Pruned dead bramble and tied rest up.
Harvested rhubarb.
By Phil, on May 1st, 2010% Planted potatoes in beds G and H, 3 rows of 9. All potatoes planted in leaf mould with chicken poo.
Sowed two rows of leek (mostly monstero) next to Garlic in bed A
Sowed double row of beetroot in bed D.
Peas, B beans, radish, parsnips sown in March are all showing.
Harvested purple sprouting broccoli and rhubarb. Lots of both.
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