Allotment update

Plenty of things on on the Allotment. Potatoes and onions plus garlic planted out a couple of months ago. Unfortunately this week we had frost and all my potatoes gave currently perished. However apparently they my grow back. Not the case for the broccoli thatI planted as small seedling there gone. Rainbow chars and cauliflower seedlings still living, however quite small. Time will tell.Its a case of trial and error as I have only had the allotment 12 months and still learning. Success has occurred for my Jerusalem potatoes that I planted last year which I didn’t pick last year so have double the amount this year. Onions are also growing good. Due to corona virus I grew my broad beans peas and runner beans at home in pots and long planters. 

New mini bed frames for raspberries, wood given too me for fire wood, seemed to good to burn.Will hopefully build more.Also considering a couple of tunnels to help with frost and birds.

Allotment news

The time is right to start to grow your own veg, having an allotment can make this easier, however growing in home made garden boxes can be just as efficient.

Firstly growing from seed and putting them in little seedling pots and then planting out when they are big enough.

Making paper seedling pots can help prevent climate change, waste can reduce natural landscapes and can in hand effect our environment. A lack of natural resources can effect the planets viable sustainability.

Seedlings of Rainbow chard

Cauliflower seedlings these are needing to be re potted into bigger pots.

Beds have been prepared for seeds and will hopefully become seedlings

Trimming the grass using a trimmer makes live easier and also prevents weeds and green fly. The pond has new frogs in which help prevent insects damaging crops.
Ponds within an Allotment helps prevent insect damage and also helps with pollination, visiting bees can drink from the pond and helps with wildlife.