Not a great deal is happening

Well, the weather is so crap, and not having a car i haven't had a great time to get to the allotment. It is driving me bonkers - really want to get down there and weed, harvest my potatos, carrots and beets, need to get rid of the peas, need to plant my green manure, need to tie in my strawberries, need to feed my toms and tie them in, and pinch out the side shoots, - JUST STOP RAINING!!!!!!!

time to catch up

Well wha with holidays and car breakdowns and looking for a new car i haven't had chance to get down to the allotment int he last three wekks or so, zso today i got yup early and was down there by 9.15!!! On a sunday too!!

I hoed everywhere - fed the tomaotes, weeded the strawberry patch, dug the onions, planted my leeks, fed and slug pelleted my brasicas, and generally sorted. harvested beetroot, carrots, lettuces, and radishes too. All looking good now.

18th June

Well I helped out in the shop again today and earned my big boy stripes.... And i have officially joined the big boy club too! Roy offered to water the green house whilst i was on holiday! Check me. I'm old and i am  a man now.

Picked my first decent harvest of peas. Yum Yum forzen a load of them and am looking forward to throwing them down with some sausage mash and gravey later this week! Ate a few more raspberries, and strawberries. Will be loosening the onions soon and the garlic too, potatoes aren't too far off being ready, and it is all getting very excitable now! Woo Hoo!!!

Must hoe and tidy up, viv and paul are coming down for a viewing on Monday.

Mid June

Wow - almost everything in now, jus a few bits to get sorted. Now i jsut have to keep the weeds down!

Updates

Well where are we..... oh yeah in the bloody thick of it, 4kg of strawberries later, all my brassicas are in, apart from PSB and next springs cauliflowers. Peas are getting there and my raspberries are looking good. will update further after the weekend.
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Woo Hoo - Space problem all sorted! I am going to jab my leeks in around my few parsnips and acrrots, use the space i was saving for my leeks for my sweetcorn, use the space i was going to use for my sweetcorn for the rest of my brassicas, wait for my peas to finish and put in my over winter brassicas  there and then the onions will be ready for harvest and ill green manure there! Few - glad i got that sorted!!!

bank holiday weekend.

8lb of starwberries picked yesterday! so home made jam here we come.....
as for the plot, i spent most of my time luggin around 360lts of compost and picking strawberries! will update later.

this weekend!

Got loads done this weekend...sown runner and borlotti beans, harvested strawberries (yumyum!) planted up greyhound cabbage, draker cauliflower and autum sprouting broccoli, planted toms in to their pots in the green house, sown three little rows of swede, sown a small row of raddish, and a small row of spring onions, sown some rocket and....

....RUN OUT OF SPACE AT THE ALLOTMENT! Whats that all about Alfie?

Sorry -

I've just worked out why i haven't been able to post for ages - technical difficulites sorted now on with the veggies! I won't bore you with everything that is doing well (smug smug woman!!!) I'll just list may failures.

1st lot of beetroot didn't do a great deal, raddishs have been munched on by flea beetle (but the raddish bit tastes GOOOOOOD) spring onions just hate me - its official. Parsnips - only got patchy germination, might just get enough for a couple of meal fulls. Carrots - well carrots like light sandy stone free soil so i am screwed.

Had to fight zach off the strawberry patch the other day and plan to do something with my brassicas on saturday, should prbably plant my runner beans and borlotti beans too! oh yeah - need to buy more canes and put them up before i can do that.

And i have a session at the shop coming up soon too!! whoo hoooooo

YAY! my tomatos are coming up!

Well all of the afore mentioned seeds have sprouted and are doing well, i have also sown some lettuce seeds too which are coming along very nicely. Thanks to nic nic for the Dill, and the two pepers, they are currently sitting on my windowsill. Tomoatoes have gone in too, cherry, beef and plum! woo hoo! On the plot i have sown some parsnip - lets home i get more than one for every rown and a half i sow like i did last year... - some carrots, some peas (thank you michelle for being the manual labour) Soem beetsroot, raddish, spring onions (red and whit types) and thats about it, have started to dig the bit under my apple tree, and have prepared a lettuce bed for when the seedlings are ready to plant out, and have some space put asside for a few cucumber plants (soemthing else sitting on my window sill waiting to germinate, two types, salad and gherkin type) so things are coming along very nicley so far - have designated an area for my brasicas, and i shall not be rotovating that bit (thank god) all i nee dot do lis level it off a bit, dig out the big perenial weeds and dust a bit of lime and growmore around!

End of March

Tatties in - Lady Chrystl and Charlotte. Brassica's sown, lettuce sown, leeks, rosemary, thyme, sage, chives and Parsnips in the ground too. Yay! also tidied up my raspberries, and my strawberries, hoed my onions, and round uped my weeds. I'm so good.

2011 - Third Year

Yay! in my third year - i am a seasoned pro!

This year i promise to post more.

honest