Potatoes, Tomatoes & Preparation. So I get out of bed, get dressed in my allotment clothes, pack the car and make my way to a soggy allotment. PAULS ALLOTMENT DIARY This blog is to help me as a new veg exhibitor to keep a diary of my exploits and share the results with other likeminded people.

I've started to do some new works. My late potatoes are certainly living up to their name and are late! Lots of toms, a few more parsnips, finished off the carrots, loads of raspberries still, a few squashes now starting to be ready, loads and loads of beans.

Search This Blog. we pulled out some HUGE beetroots from the ground and squashes of all shapes and sizes are coming along nicely. After their slow start (damn you, slugs!) Search This Blog. Having cut seed potatoes that have been rather large and have an abundance of eyes (as we in the highlands call them) I have observed that indeed those with only one or two eyes produce fewer but larger tubers, this of course was in good fertile ground. Posted on Wednesday, 11th March, 2020 - 3 Comments ↓ We’re well into March and – in theory – the growing season is starting. The diary of a new allotment owner. It might have been mid summer, but it’s been pretty lousy weather.

A few courgettes still, but I'm sick of them. This diary style website follows our attempts to grow vegetables and fruit on our organic allotment. That means the house got cleaned from top to bottom, the gardening plans were fully revised and I got very wet, but we did manage to get out to plant and harvest a bit. ... Sunday, 25 April 2010. My Allotment Vegetable Growing Videos from the Yorkshire Dales plus a few Giant Exhibition Show Veg attempts . PAULS ALLOTMENT DIARY This blog is to help me as a new veg exhibitor to keep a diary of my exploits and share the results with other likeminded people. The site is also an online resource containing a wealth of information on growing your own vegetables, fruit and herbs - in fact a complete guide to allotment … Allotment Diary – 1st June 2014 – Potatoes, Peas And Weeds. Garlic – Germidour and Sativum. July 9, 2017 January 8, 2019 Shelly 0 Comments. It’s been a while since I posted an update. Growing Maris Piper and Charlotte potatoes on the allotment. Free Seeds worth £6.50 + when you buy Our Books. Growing runner beans on the allotment. Another entry in the allotment diary where I finally finish digging over and weeding the potato patch.

The Arran Victory potatoes are plentiful, but far too floury in consistency - wont grow them again. The potatoes, after lagging behind the rest, are now as high as others and looking healthy. Diary . Previous Small Allotment Diary; Tag: #potatoes ... I’m awake, there is no excuse! Onions – red, Japanese and some my Dad gave me! 23rd May 2019 / alex_ab / 0 Comments. No sign of the blight yet that brought our potato crop to a halt last July. July 11, 2017 January 8, ... bean seeds – the Armstrong variety – from Sutton Seeds and sowed. I will also be growing some Giant Exhibition Show Veg, Onions, Carrots etc, and this year I'm growing a Giant Marrow too,hoping to get one to 100 lbs. Things I have growing this year: Swift early potatoes, Desiree main crop potatoes. Garden Diary › Allotment Garden Diary › Potatoes, Tomatoes & Preparation. Visit the site regularly to pick up useful tips and advice. This year the allotment is looking much better, I am getting in the swing of it now – I hope! Diary . The first thing I grew this year were the potatoes and now they are the last thing to take up . There are plenty of jobs to do down at the plot! Welcome to my weekly updated vegetable growing diary blog, plus some veg growing videos from my allotment in the Yorkshire Dales. Videos uploaded frequently from my allotment. Share. Over … Home; To do list; About; Home; To do list; About; Things are planted and growing . After the mammoth weeding session I decided it was time to lift all the 1st and 2nd early potatoes and store them in sacks rather than the ground. That’s assuming the rain does stop for long enough and the land dries out enough! July 5, 2020. Read more.

... Tuesday, 10 August 2010. Tweet. the runner beans have been cropping well, our rhubarb plant continued to produce some fantastic stalks of rhubarb (more cordial straining as I type), .

The last few weeks have seen the allotment at Newington really take off.

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