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- Mon May 05, 2008 5:02 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Allotments on TV
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2412
Dear Old H, I love 'what have you got in your shed' as a line of enquiry. Lordy! Lots of kettles and gas rings, lots of rat droppings, erm, ancient and forgotten bottles of stuff I never use, erm, bits of string that I will never use again all rolled up nicely. Erm, a neat row of Asda's cereal boxes...
- Mon May 05, 2008 4:55 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Bag-In-Bucket Spuds
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1840
Bag-In-Bucket Spuds
On Sunday we had quite a few visitors to our allotment site who were all fascinated by the bag-in-bucket spud growing techniques adopted by many of our plot-holders. It is a system, originally devised by a couple of our old-timers, now adopted by about half the tenants of our site for achieving soun...
- Sun May 04, 2008 12:42 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Where shall I put nasturtiums?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2521
- Sun May 04, 2008 12:39 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Row covers
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5283
- Sun May 04, 2008 12:32 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Birds' nests everywhere
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2392
It looks like being a good year for birds at our allotments too, all very busy. In the last week or so I've seen a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a nuthatch on my fat-ball feeders for the first time, as well as the usual gang of tits, finches, robins et al. More thrushes than usual too. All good news.
- Sun May 04, 2008 12:28 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Allotments on TV
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2412
Allotments on TV
As I mentioned on a previous thread, our allotment site is among several to take part in filming for a pilot episode of what we hope will be a new TV series following a year on allotment sites. This is real gardeners and real plots, who grows what, why and how. I've suggested the producer has a look...
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:40 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Was Peter Seabrook right?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5060
An independant film production company has been working on our allotment site recently (they're visiting quite a few) with a view to making a gardening series for TV based around a year on the allotments, but using REAL plot-holders and progressing the whole trend for veg-growing programmes a step b...
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:32 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: allotments help
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6058
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:37 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: coriander from seed
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3797
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:58 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: Slugs awake
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2545
Slugs awake
Yep, the slugs are awake and munching already on our Liverpool plot - you have been warned! It seems a bit early to me but there they were, feasting on my precious young tarragon plants and leavy tiny, baby slug trails.
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:56 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Terra preta
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2844
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:52 pm
- Forum: Seasonal tips
- Topic: soil temperature
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6445
If we're testing whether the soil is ready to receive its first spring sowings, here's a tip my grand-dad was taught by the head gardener who trained him as a boy in the 1920's - the oldies are often the best. Here goes... when you think it's nearing time to make some early sowings, sow a test patch...
- Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:14 pm
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: PURPLE SPROUTING
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3057
I've had purple sprouting that didn't start anything meaningful until the middle of April, which is tiresome if you want the space for spring plantings. Some late-season varieties are very late indeed - we had some purple sprouting that was still doing its thing in early June one year. At least I ho...
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:13 pm
- Forum: Technical Data
- Topic: Chinese Cabbage / Chinese leaves
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7453
I find all the oriental greens tricky to grow to maturity with any success, just too many bugs like 'em! I tend to grow them a cut and come again subjects so I can snatch a taste before slugs, flea beetles, caterpillars and who knows what else chomps through them. The only one that seems fairly easy...
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:09 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: How do allotments contribute to the community
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4131
Allotment sites benefit the community around them if they want to - and frankly if they want to survive, its a must. I know of sites which have devoted plots to schemes for young offenders (several of whom have graduated to becoming plot holders and one is even on the committee now).. we have a plot...