Winter projects

[pigletwillie]

Its quite scarey that I am talking about winter projects but having finished hanging a gate on our first plot at 8.30pm in the near dark its only too obvious that autumn a cometh.

We have just expanded our allotment area to incorporate an additional half plot and intend to use part of it to make a large strawberry bed. This will entail moving some 50 crowns out of two raised beds (freeing them up for all year round crops) onto the new plot.

Our main winter project (amongst others) then is to transform one of the raised beds into a large herb bed with lots of variety.

Do you have any projects or improvements planned for the winter months?

[mandyballantyne]

The main or major task for me this winter is to remove all brambles, weeds etc from the bottom of my plot and continue this down the hill to the canal as far as I can.

This will then allow me to find the greenhouse in the spring! Hopfully reduce the amount of seeds from nettles etc blowing onto the raised beds and allow more planting area and a wild flower patch.

This area (like my plot until last year) has be growing wild for over 8o years so lots of sore backs for me

Mandy

[shirlthegirl43]

I hope to conquer a bit more bramble patch and see if I can get more ground to plant next year.

[yoanbob]

thats some work mandy good luck.
I am going to raise my beds, and put up wires for the new raspberry plants i want to get, clear the fruit area of weeds move the anderson shelter and pull down a shed.

[Winged one]

I need to clear the weeds and dig over the back half of my half plot (well, it's a quarter plot really, but pretty much all of the plots have been halved, so it's seen more as a half one).

And if we manage that, and have spare time between work, writing a thesis and building an extension, I want to put in a few raised beds and a support system for raspberry canes.

The piece de resistance would be to build proper compost heaps (the dalek just ain't big enough) and a shed/shelter of some sort at the back of the plot, and some kind of a plastic tunnel/shelter type job for tomatoese and peppers (but buildings and permenant structures are frowned on, as the site is due to be made into a road sometime in the next 20 years).

[HappyMouffe]

Remove weed roots, piece by tiny piece in the hope that it will make life easier next year

[momol]

I have problems with my black berry bushes too ( evergreen thornless type ), they are getting bigger and bigger and breeder and I will have to move them to the front garden where he has more room to grow. As we will be having the front garden pavement done this coming september, we will have to dig out several types of berry bushes... It will be alot of digging...

Momol

[Cutecumber]

I have to re-build sides of a raised bed.

They lasted about five years before degrading, but now they are in a sorry state.

I'm considering whether to go for wood again, or a plastic equivalent.

[skegblade]

Going to dig out some more beds, weeding by hand as I go. I also want to make a couple of cold frames from the pallets I've acquired over the summer and if I can scrounge the wood, make a fruit cage.

Phil

[OverWyreGrower]

Conquor my weed problem (Fire! ha ha ha!)
Make 3 more compost bins
Finish the paths off
Construct a path to the chicken enclosure
Finish the path down the side of the garden
Move the hundreds of reclaimed bricks we have out of the sightline of the house

Oh yes, hold down a full time job, look after 2 dogs, a rabbit and 4 chickens...

I love multi-tasking!

[veg4681]

No heavy or tedious work for me as my garden veggie bed is small. I hope to get the right veggies sorted for overwintering (for which I'm a total novice). Hope to make some decent cuttings of trailing flowers for next year's hanging basket.

[scared55]

Not too much here. 500 square metres of meadow to convert to the south potager (veggie patch). Scarey55 has to increase the north patch from 160sq m to 220sq m. More fruit trees to be acquired and planted in the orchard area and fast growing trees for firewood to be planted in the wild area. The old oak needs some lopping doing and one of the ash trees is in quite a bad state - seriously strangled by ivy and looking barely alive.
Then we might think about getting some chickens ...

[carlseawolf]

• build new shed
• convert old shed to coldframe / mini greenhouse
• seive some more beds

[Flummery]

Remove the last bit of grass in the front garden and convert it into a path. I started before The Rains came and the darned stuff has started growing again. I need a concerted effort. Not good at those!
Oh yes, and make more quilts!

[moggssue]

Reclaim the small bed under the lounge window from the grass and weeds and (hopefully) turn it into a second small veg plot, raise the existing (but still new) veg plot a little more and add manure etc etc - and catch up on all those books I haven't read all summer! Oh, and create a cross stitch sampler for a wedding present ... hmmm ....