What to plant now!!!

[Tori]

I'm hoping to get the keys to my new allotment soon - so after some hard labour I am eager to 'get a plantin'.

What can I plant now or soon? I have a few ideas but I want to hear everyone elses before I decide.

Thank you

[Hans Mum]

congrats on your new plots, if youre quick you can get garlic, onion sets, broad beans planted. Also this is a good time of year to put in fruit trees and bushes if you intend growing fruits

[Snadger]

Cripes.........you just reminded me I forgot to put my broad beans in this weekend.......bugger!

Ah well, it looks like I'll be planting them in the dark during the week after work! I can see the headlines now:-

STOP PRESS "There have been unconfirmed reports of a man wandering around an allotment plot with a tilly lamp in one hand and stooping down every so often pushing things into the soil.
Could this be some sort of fertility rite we wonder?"

[piskieinboots]

Tori - if your lottie soil is good condition and free draining/not too wet then get onions/garlic/leeks in (plant not sow!) but if it is wet/heavy I would wait until Spring now and concentrate on getting the soil improved.

Any work done on improving soil now will pay huge rewards and get you well ahead for Spring

[Tori]

Yes - sadly soil is clay and wet - it won't stop raining! I think I am better off pottering in my greenhouse until after xmas.

Ha Ha! Snadger- just make sure you're planting them on your own lottie!

[Kayt]

Cripes.........you just reminded me I forgot to put my broad beans in this weekend.......bugger!

Ah well, it looks like I'll be planting them in the dark during the week after work! I can see the headlines now:-

STOP PRESS "There have been unconfirmed reports of a man wandering around an allotment plot with a tilly lamp in one hand and stooping down every so often pushing things into the soil.
Could this be some sort of fertility rite we wonder?"

I didn't get mine in until late on Sunday when it was begining to get dark. As the ground was very wet I used boards between the rows to walk on. I suffer with vertigo and had a bit of a dizzy weekend so wonder what I looked like trying to balance on the boards