Hobbit Allotment!

[horticultural_hobbit]

Possibly. Just thought. Could put the bark chippings on the top...but I do like your logic ^_^

[binley100]

pickled red cabbage or pickled green HH?

[horticultural_hobbit]

Red, my lovely. If mine aftually survive. I would love to grow a decent cabbage-either colour- and say "Nanaji, I grew this!"

I do think of you, Binley, everytime I go into the garden centre by school. One day, might think about finding you!

[snohare]

Come on young'un, if you can't get a good crop of stones in your very first year, when the crop should be greatest, you're really not trying !

[horticultural_hobbit]

What, keet and Mick?

Oh, I will. I got plenty of moves like jagger. Looks an awful like me Landing flat on me rump in the clay...

[binley100]

Red, my lovely. If mine aftually survive. I would love to grow a decent cabbage-either colour- and say "Nanaji, I grew this!"

I do think of you, Binley, everytime I go into the garden centre by school. One day, might think about finding you!

We'll arrange something for when you have time off for good behaviour .........

[snohare]

We'll arrange something for when you have time off for good behaviour .........

Never happen, Binley !

[Two_Sheds]

Right, some photos of my mulching for HH

some before and afters. I used whole newspapers, soaked in a bucket until thoroughly saturated. These can be torn to size if you want to go round individual plants for instance.

The mulch is leafmould, made from autumn leaves collected on my cycle route (I can carry one sack per journey, they soon add up). Leafmold takes 6-18 months to make. I'm quite happy to use the semi-rotted leaves for mulching, but save the well-rotted for use as seed compost

[horticultural_hobbit]

Thank you, two_sheds!

Was just about to head out. Only pops has already taken our great big heap of papers to the tip. My own fault for firstly not getting up earlier, second not asking for them to be kept. I have two from yesterday that have stayed.

My leaf mold is cooking away. It's only been cooking since kismet. Going to newspaper mulch the squash patch that is empty for the next fortnight. I'll then plant through it. Going to now weed heavily. I drew chastisement from Aunty VVG and our lovely curry sniffer.

[VirginVegGrower]

Go to the recycling unit and lift the lid on the paper/cardboard ones. They're not the council's until they pick them up!

[horticultural_hobbit]

Beetroot throwing out?

Afternoon, my lovelies,

Any advice about these?

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Currently sat in the 4TB. Would like to get them down the plot at some point.

Have just located all my carrot seeds, to try again. I felt awful, but was determined mind, this morning. Digging over the failed carrot, parsnip and what they called, turnip beds. had one carrot baby, and three parsnips! Sadly, for the greater good, they met their maker.

Turnip bed, will be remade as a raised one. Need to modularise those. Patch was half submerged with the rain. I put my welly straight in, one day, and did a funny left leg in, out, shake it all about thing to get it free.

I have noticed, that the only weedy areas-with the exception of the onion shallot garlic bed-are the borders between beds. Making me feel a bit more positive. I need to to do that properly, if I want to put in summer flowering bulbs.

The one major bed that needs digging over properly-rather than cack handed weeding where you do it delicately and like a wimp-is the bed where cukes, radishes and miscellany are going. Again, a raised bed is going there. So I can dig it over, and not worry too much about it.

There would appear to be logic to the madness, and a learning curve.

What else did I want to know ::Scratches head::

I've forgotten now. yes, I know now. Cover base of raised bed with black bags with holes in, to prevent weeds but aid draining. No, that wasn't it.

It'll come to me.

oh, wait. Winter pansies. Are fragrant, apparently. So if I were, to hypothetically, plant them in August, would that help bumble-y bees and therefore polllination?

[Sanjo]

Water filled squash bottles?
Tentpegs? (£1 shop had some the other day. Not very long but should be big enough
Short canes?

[snohare]

Depends if it s'warm weather or not !

[snohare]

Anything fragrant is usually pollinated by a moth - bees use polarised light and UV patterns to decide what they are going to visit. But from what I remember, pansies are highly visible under UV, so worth a try.

[Two_Sheds]

Cover base of raised bed with black bags with holes in, to prevent weeds but aid draining.

Please don't put plastic in the soil

Use layers of newspaper instead, which will actually improve your soil, not pollute it (save your own, ask on Freegle)

Winter pansies... would that help bumble-y bees and therefore polllination?

Viola are better than the big-flowered pansies. Mine self-seed around the allotment.

I have loads of flowers going on, and I let some veggies go to flower for the bees too (comfrey, chives, coriander & brassicas are good)