Official allotment thread.

[AmexRuislip]

Photos from 2015.

Photos June 2016
Still a lot to grow

 

[knocky1]

They are the shots. Great photos. I'll get mine on in a day or two.

 

[Surf's Up]

I note that all your tender leaves are whole, untrammelled by slugs and snails .........your secret is

 

[AmexRuislip]

I note that all your tender leaves are whole, untrammelled by slugs and snails .........your secret is

I read somewhere that slugs lay eggs in the ground over winter.
I take great delight in raking and digging over the beds in the winter months.
Hence the eggs come to the surface, get eaten by the birds, whilst keeping me warm in the winter.
Occasional slug pellets also.

 

[Mr Putdown]

Those pictures show probably the best allotment I've seen in years.

I'm seriously impressed. (And a wee but jealousy, mine has never looked like that even in a good year. )

 

[AmexRuislip]

Those pictures show probably the best allotment I've seen in years.

I'm seriously impressed. (And a wee but jealousy, mine has never looked like that even in a good year. )

Cheers chap, it's taken a few back breaking years of clearing couch grass and double digging to clear decent drainage for the soil, especially the abundance of London clay.

 

[Shy Talk]

Longing for retirement? What will it look like then?

 

[BN9 BHA]

Every time I go past some allotments I see sheds like these.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Cheers chap, it's taken a few back breaking years of clearing couch grass and double digging to clear decent drainage for the soil, especially the abundance of London clay.

Some good use of blue water main pipe in your photos.
Where's your shed made out of doors ?

 

[AmexRuislip]

Every time I go past some allotments I see sheds like these.

I wondered who was taking photos of my house

 

[Notters]

Are those of us who grow veg in our gardens allowed on this thread?

 

[AmexRuislip]

Some good use of blue water main pipe in your photos.
Where's your shed made out of doors ?

Shed was claimed from a nearby garden, which was not being used (5x8)

 

[The Albion Roar]

Do Community Gardens count?

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Are those of us who grow veg in our gardens allowed on this thread?

I definitely think yes. I only grow soft fruit and rhubarb amongst my palms and hedychiums but I'll be having an opinion
Seriously tidy allotment OP, a joy to look at.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I wondered who was taking photos of my house

My dad had an allotment near where I grew up in Brighton, he had a shed made out of various doors and scraps of wood.
He also had a greenhouse made of old windows and frames, he used to take me to the allotment to ' help ' or my mum probably told him to take me, to get some peace, one day I dug a series of trenches in and around the greenhouse because I was bored and it nearly collapsed.
Don't think he took me again.

 

[AmexRuislip]

My dad had an allotment near where I grew up in Brighton, he had a shed made out of various doors and scraps of wood.
He also had a greenhouse made of old windows and frames, he used to take me to the allotment to ' help ' or my mum probably told him to take me, to get some peace, one day I dug a series of trenches in and around the greenhouse because I was bored and it nearly collapsed.
Don't think he took me again.

The greenfingers skipped a generation, my grandad was great in the garden, especially runner beans.
My wife is the green expert, I know enough to get by, but mainly build things and dig holes

 

[rogersix]

Cheers chap, it's taken a few back breaking years of clearing couch grass and double digging to clear decent drainage for the soil, especially the abundance of London clay.

good effort fella, nice delphiniums, you obviously know your onions

 

[AmexRuislip]

good effort fella, nice delphiniums, you obviously know your onions

Thank you, I thought that too(delphiniums I mean), but my wife says she planted Fox gloves

 

[rogersix]

Thank you, I thought that too(delphiniums I mean), but my wife says she planted Fox gloves

so im the fool and your wife does the magic

 

[AmexRuislip]

so im the fool and your wife does the magic

No fool sir