Our Allotment

[jackarmy]

some great looking caulis there

[Bigmallly]

Regarding slugs, if you wanted to go the eco friendly route you could make a small wildlife pond to hopefully attract frogs which in turn would help keep the slugs down. Personally any vulnerable crops would have a half dozen blue pellets round each plant then netted.

[Minimag]

Lol, Bigmally,
I normally am one for the nuclear approach, but have had my head turned. Nematodes worked far better in the garden than anything we had tried before, I am a believer, just want others experience of it,especially on the allotment

[veggiechicken]

There are lots of threads about using nematodes; here's a couple to start you off: -

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...hey_88145.html
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...des_89369.html
and one about making your own!
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ied_64107.html

[Minimag]

Lifted the Mypex on 4 more beds and roughly dug them


Put 6 80L bags of compost into the large bed



Plot is really coming on now, view from the top


View from the bottom



And finished the day off by sowing all the seeds I needed to sow in February

[Bigmallly]

As you are fond of taking pics, maybe you'd like to join out annual calendars:

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...dar_92116.html

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...dar_92113.html

[Minimag]

As you are fond of taking pics, maybe you'd like to join out annual calendars:

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...dar_92116.html

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...dar_92113.html

I might just do that Bigmally.

Meanwhile, I have been planning just what;s going in each bed, the current plan is:
Bed 1 - Sweetcorn Ovation/Cucumber
Bed 2 - Pea/Asparagus Pea then cauliflower
Bed 3 -Kohl Rabi
Bed 4 -Brussel Sprouts/Dwarf Bean
Bed 5 -Perpetual Onions
Bed 6 - Comfrey
Bed 7 - Melon/Strawberry
Bed 8 - Garlic/Shallots
Bed 9 - Butternut/Gem
Bed 10 - Brocolli
Bed 11 - Parsnip
Bed 12 - Runner Beans/Potato
Bed 13 - Onions Overwintered then Swede/Lettuce
Bed 14 - Onions Overwintered then Beetroot
Bed 15 - Strawberries
Bed 16 - Herbs
Bed 17 - Chrysanths
Bed 18 - Oriental Greens
Bed 19 - Asparugus
Bed 20 - Garlic
Bed 21 - Dahlia
Bed 22 - Leek
Bed 23 - Spinach
Bed 24 - Onion then beetroot/
Bed 25 - Sweetcorn/Cucumber/Melon
Bed 26 - Carrot then Radish
Bed 27 - Celeriac/Calabrese/Leek/Fennel

Seed has been purchased, and sowing program prepared. It is going to be a busy Spring and Summer!

[Minimag]

Update 26th May

I havent updated this in a while, I know how much you lot like pics, so here goes



Cabbage Bed



Onion Bed



Red Baron Onions



Sprouts



Strawberry Bed

[Minimag]

Sweetcorn



Garlic



Potato Crop



Walking Onions



Bit of an overview, difficult showing it all with 27 beds!

[Chris Hulme]

Looking good

[Minimag]

Couple more pics

We have decided we dont like the mypex look, so today I lifted the mypex in front of the shed, rotovated, levelled and sowed some grass


I covered most of it with debris netting to protect it from the birds. If this works we will replace all the mypex around the beds with grass paths.

I also rotovated the path between our allotment and the next one up. That allotment has become overgrown as the allotment holder started off keen, but went away for 2 weeks, and his allotment became covered in weeds. This disheartened him and he has now virtually given up. I need a barrier between our allotment and his, so I am creating a grass path and then will put up debris netting on poles to stop the weed seeds blowing into our allotment.

[chriswalker83]

The only problem with grass is you have to mow it making more work for yourself, lol

Personally I would go for gravel or mulch/wood chip for the paths (any the are good for weed supression, you could have just put it over the mypex too, but each too their own