Potager allotment anyone?

[Two_Sheds]

as a Canadian I'm only guessing at what you call an allottment. Can you please inform me?

Hello! First Canadian on the Grapevine?

Allotment: allotted garden. For the dispossessed peasants to grow food on, after the landowners had stolen their land off them and ringfenced it as their own.

(sorry, past my bedtime)

[Two_Sheds]

nice plot

Hey Snadger, lovely pix, and what a lovely ordered plot you have. Still, I rebel against straight lines! Maybe its a man/woman thing...there ain't no straight lines in (mother) Nature

[Snadger]

Hey Snadger, lovely pix, and what a lovely ordered plot you have. Still, I rebel against straight lines! Maybe its a man/woman thing...there ain't no straight lines in (mother) Nature

Yours is a nice plot also!

There are geometric patterns in nature though, have you ever looked at a snowflake for instance?

[Two_Sheds]

Snow, wassat? Global warming here mate! (actually it snowed today, but it melted before I could get a look at a snowflake)

[Snadger]

Snow, wassat? Global warming here mate! (actually it snowed today, but it melted before I could get a look at a snowflake)

Just look at the frost on the car window tomorrow morning then!

[Two_Sheds]

Wassa car?
Gotta bike, me. (2 wheels good...blah blah blah)

[wellie]

Snadger,
Having turned our garden into a Potager, from a weedy and aquilegia-infested mess, totally redesigning it too, I can appreciate what hard work it's taken you from the first photo stage to the last one! Absolutely fantastic, and no wonder you're as pleased as punch.

I'm not quite sure what you meant by 'half sinking the water-butts' into the ground, but why not wrap them in plastic trellis and grow annual climbers like sweetpeas, Cobaea, Black-Eyed Susan, Purple-Bell-Vine etc. around them to disguise them, and attract beneficial insects too? Would look really pretty.
Even a wigwam of something like Borlotti beans that won't be picked until the Autumn, would give you a really attractive and productive feature to take away the 'blues'!

[mrskp]

but why not wrap them in plastic trellis and grow annual climbers like sweetpeas, Cobaea, Black-Eyed Susan, Purple-Bell-Vine etc. around them to disguise them, and attract beneficial insects too? Would look really pretty.

nice !

filed in the hopefully soon to be used Lottie file !

[*Feather*]

Snadger,

I'm not quite sure what you meant by 'half sinking the water-butts' into the ground, but why not wrap them in plastic trellis and grow annual climbers like sweetpeas, Cobaea, Black-Eyed Susan, Purple-Bell-Vine etc. around them to disguise them, and attract beneficial insects too? Would look really pretty.
Even a wigwam of something like Borlotti beans that won't be picked until the Autumn, would give you a really attractive and productive feature to take away the 'blues'!

Wellie,

You've just given me a great idea for the centre of my herb wheel. I think I might grow some clematis or even sweet peas on an obelisk. Thanks!!

[Strepsy]

Wow, what an achievement, it looks great! I now want a herb-wheel.

[HeyWayne]

I want a herb wheel too, but must learn to walk before I run. Very impressive Snadger, hat's off to ya!

[zazen999]

Just came back to this from a link on another thread; and thanks Wellie - you're a GENUIS.

So many new ideas. Or are they old ideas??? Anyway they are top ideas, and I'm going to rescue another water butt from a patch on the lottie that hasn't been allocated yet - I saw it the other day but it's amongst trees and now I've got my guttering up, I'm going to link it to the other butt halfway up the lottie.

And hello ManicOrganic; I'm originally from Ontario Canada [born in Cooksville, Ont]...

[di]

Zazzen!!You're a Star!!Was prepared to spend many a while searching this thread having read I assume the same thread you read & being curious!!However not so sure how grateful Andi'll be as I already had lots of "building" designs in my head for him to achieve over the winter months!!

[tootles]

Having dug this post out earlier this week, I am reinvigorated! - I need 30 potager beds so am itching to get digging......
Snadger, have you any more recent photos of the plot???

[zazen999]

Well, I went to Ryton Garden Organic today and am totally inspired...If you can get there - it's lovely. 50 mins from here on a saturday as well.

I have 9 long beds at the lottie, but am going to break them into lots of smaller beds - which I sort of did anyway just not formally - and I'm going to use various herbs to make the breaks. I did use garlic and onions last year to separate areas of the beds - so I'm adding to that this year Garlic Chives. The flowers on these are wonderful.

I did dig out the water butt, but it was only half a butt - so I'm working out designs for capturing water and growing dwarf beans around it.

So many ideas, and so little daylight in the evenings!!!