Allotment

[PaulaSB12]

I have just become the proud renter of an allotment, its half a plot because the woman said she couldn't manage the whole plot so I have the other half. I even got a crop, while weeding I got a row of beetroot then pointed out that one of the chickens in the run near my allotment had got out and was given 3 fresh eggs.

 

[Tinks1984]

Brilliant My Mum's been after an allotment for a while now, she'd love one. What are you planning on growing in there? Least you've only got half, which I guess it much easier to manage and maintain.

Well done on getting one!

 

[Goofyish]

Good luck - what are you planning on growing?

I have just removed our old garden shed to make way for some raised vegetable beds. Seems a good way to grow veg as you don't walk on the soil and conpact it and it easier to manage weeds.

We have got trays of french and runner beans and sweetcorn growing in our conservatory and packets of radish seed to plant out once I've built the beds (hopefully this weekend weather permitting - although I have a feeling DW will force me outside even if it's chucking it down LOL).

 

[PaulaSB12]

Strawberries and raspberries and vegetables, broccoli, onions and carrots. There are chickens in a run near my little plot and the one that got out has already been over to see what I am up to!!!!!!!!!

 

[Trilli-magic]

Thats great Ihave always liked the idea of growing your own veggies.
I have got some strawberries in the garden but thats about it!! I'm not very green fingered!!!

 

[Tinks1984]

Strawberries and raspberries and vegetables, broccoli, onions and carrots. There are chickens in a run near my little plot and the one that got out has already been over to see what I am up to!!!!!!!!!

Awwww, you'll have chicken's visiting to see what you're up to each time you're there My Mum's growing Stawberries, raspberries and some veg in the large bags that you can get from the garden centres these days. She's hoping for a potato barrel shortly too so that we can give those a go too It's good fun growing your own foods, a real sense of achievement when tucking into them.

 

[PoppyAnna]

All sounds lovely, I cant wait until the girls get older and I can get into gardening a bit more - I just dont seem to have the time with them still being young. We try to grow our salad leaves, strawberries and carrots each year and last summer we did really well. It all tastes so much better.
Good luck with your growing

 

[PaulaSB12]

I just thought I would update this. I have weeded the plot and am 3/4 of the way digging it over it looks like an allotment rather than a dry weedy bit of land. Just deciding whether to dig it over again and dig in some manure then I can start planting things. It is fun but some of my muscles don't like me at the moment!!!!!

 

[Danauk]

Cool, is it one of the ones in Kettering?

 

[emily1982]

Sounds good, allotments are hard to come by these days. I'm growing peas and potatoes in tubs at the mo

 

[PaulaSB12]

Cool, is it one of the ones in Kettering?

No Rothwell that is where I live.

 

[tony64]

I hope you don't mind me posting this on your thread, I hope you guys may be able to help.
DW wants a veggie patch and the only place in the garden that gets enough sun is where there used to be a very established bamboo. I'm working my way through the roots with a pickaxe and it's way hard work. are there any weed killers that I could use to kill of the bamboo roots but leave the soil fit to grow veggies or have I just got to keep going with the hard labour?

 

[Goofyish]

I hope you don't mind me posting this on your thread, I hope you guys may be able to help.
DW wants a veggie patch and the only place in the garden that gets enough sun is where there used to be a very established bamboo. I'm working my way through the roots with a pickaxe and it's way hard work. are there any weed killers that I could use to kill of the bamboo roots but leave the soil fit to grow veggies or have I just got to keep going with the hard labour?

You could put in a raised bed Tony. You can have quite a deep one made from 2m x 150mm gravel boards (£3.19 from Wickes). If you made it two boards deep you will have nearly a foor of soil to grow you veg in and then you wouldn't need to dig down so far

 

[tony64]

Thanks Tim, my other problem is everything has to come through the house as I have no other acess to the back garden, so I'm not sure that bringing several tons of topsoil through is going to go down well with Theresa. Would the bamboo not find it's way up through anyway?

 

[PaulaSB12]

I was working on my allotment yesterday, nearly finished digging it over (oh my aching muscles) when the woman who rents the one next to mine (she is 87!!!!!) said something interesting. She looked at my nicely dug plot and looked at the weedy other half and said you will be wanting the other half soon won't you, so it looks up for grabs!

 

[tony64]

I was working on my allotment yesterday, nearly finished digging it over (oh my aching muscles) when the woman who rents the one next to mine (she is 87!!!!!) said something interesting. She looked at my nicely dug plot and looked at the weedy other half and said you will be wanting the other half soon won't you, so it looks up for grabs!

Fingers crossed you get it.