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well thats one 20+20 bed put to sleep for winter spread manure over then covered with a tarpaulin until spring one more to do and keeping one open with sprouts ,spring cabage ,kale and winter onions and garlic in
I still have quite a few beds in use, but not all of them. If you follow crop rotation or 'crop swapping' like I do, I think it makes it hard to use all the beds all the time. Unless you're an ace planner. So Crannman, Bramley eh? That The Grange or Wadsworth rd?
Ah yes, every year I leave it too late. I did actually sow some this year though, so that's an improvement, though not much of it's come up. Next year I'm deffo going to get on top of that...
My allotment is green all over today, not a scrap of brown soil to be seen. The Committee of Doom think it's weeds
& thats brilliant if you keep on top of it before it goes to seed, someone on our site grew Good King Henry as a green crop let it go to seed and now we've all got it in places we'd rather not have it.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies ...
Spent the last two mornings clearing up, weeding, digging the empty bits of the allotment ready for winter. Had thought of sowing some green manure (winter rye) but it might be too late. Still got parsnips, carrots and Brussels to harvest over the next two or three months and some brassica seeds sprouting in the greenhouse ready for early-Spring planting. Need to dig out a short row of raspberries - we've been swamped with them this autumn, can't even give them away fast enough and we've abandoned picking them with lots still on (though mostly over-ripe now). Tomatoes were rubbish! Too big and watery and split even though I hadn't watered them once during the hot summer. The ground never dried out where they were: seems there's a constant trickle of water through my plot at that point (it's on a slope). There's another spot where this happens - could play havoc with planned crop rotation!
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