Archive for June, 2008

First harvest.

June 9, 2008 at 3:18 pm · Filed under Allotment, Growing

Woohoo, my first piece of produce – Garlic.  I noticed one of the garlics was a lot smaller than the others so decided to dig it up to make sure there was nothing wrong.  There wasn’t, it’s just smaller!  I’m currently drying the garlic out in the garage as it was starting to stink the kitchen out!

 

I’ve done some more reading today and it appears that some of my potatoes are ready to be dug up as the foliage is dying back – I thought it was a watering issue.  Also I need to cut the heads off my garlic, this will force the garlic to put all of its growth into the bulb rather than the flower.

 

The broccoli is not looking its best at the moment due to the initial pigeon damage, but most of the other plants are coming on OK.  I’m hoping to plant my peas and beetroot today, we’ll have to see how much time I have.

 

For some reason I cannot post pictures today, I’ll try to update later.

 

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Looking good!

June 2, 2008 at 9:51 am · Filed under Allotment, Equipment, Growing, Wildlife

The plots looking good even if I do say so myself.  For the past few weeks we’ve managed to re-weed most of the plot and also add some more veg.  We’ve add some cabbage, brussel sprouts, broccoli and broad beans to the site and the pigeons had a field day!  We returned 4 days later to find the plants decimated – we knew something like this was going to happen but just tried to chance it.  We paid the price.  I had to replace 50% of the plants yesterday with new ones from the garden center.

I guess you live and learn.

I then purchased some netting for the plants and using some of my daughters ball pit ball’s made a nice little ‘cage’.

I’ve also added some Globe Artichoke and 2 Butternut Squash – we’ve now run out of space. 

Next year I’m going to plan the space a little better and hopefully take over the back part of the plot as it’s now severely over grown.  We’ll see I guess.

 

 

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