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Allotment life.... Largely images and information about our successes and failures from our allotments in the centre of England. Mostly no dig, mostly raised beds apart from the fruit and potatoes which are in tubs. We keep chickens too and even though we have been doing this for a number of years we learn something new every week. It can be hard and exhausting but at the same time it can be rewarding and fascinating. We love it…

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Greenhouse changes 😎 One of the reasons we accepted this allotment a few years ago was the greenhouse 🤔 We knew that we could fix the issues with the structure and state of the plot 🫣 Here a a couple of before and after images

Greenhouse the day we first saw it a few years ago
The front was restored first then some of the glass replaced
Last to be done were the raised beds inside the greenhouse

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Tomato time 🍅 We have planted the vine tomatoes this morning 🌅 6 Honey Comb and 11 Black Moon. Both exhausting and exciting 😎 Just 8 Summerlast bush tomatoes left to plant 👍 We have also planted marigolds and basil in front of the watering pots 😎

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One more task completed 👍 Brassicas planted out and the aubergine bed 🍆 ready to plant up soon 😎

Brassicas planted in two beds under netting
Bed clear in the polytunnel ready to plant aubergines

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This year we’re following a YouTuber called Chilli Chump and his recommendations for soil preparation when planting chillies 🌶️ and peppers 🫑 in pots. Here’s hoping for success 👍 For every 10 parts of compost add 1 part of vermiculite,1 part of perlite, 1/2 a part of fish blood & bone, 1/10th of epsom salts and 1/100th of mycorrhizal fungi 😎 The planting pots will be 11 litre pots, a little larger than the pots that he uses but that’s what we have here❗️

Preparing for the new layout and using the large tray for mixing everything
New pots filled and ready for planting

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Flower time this morning 🌅 Moved a tray of twelve lupins outside 🤓 and started to collect everything needed to pot up a floribunda red rose called eternity 🌹

A red rose called eternity is going into this 60 litre tub

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We’re off into the wild and warm weather 🌦️ So down to the plot came the cucumber 🥒 plants and out came the squash and courgettes to harden off 🤞

Out for the squash and courgettes

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Once the next three days of cold weather 🥶 has passed we have to get these brassicas out and planted 👍 All looking healthy😎 The Kale & Chard will be first as they are getting bigger by the day 🤓

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Absolutely beautiful blossom on the dwarf Granny Smith apple tree 🍏

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Made some wild garlic butter 🧈 A few of the white petals of the wild garlic 🧄 flowers and a block of butter 🤓Whizzed together and pasted into nine squares of an ice cube tray ready to freeze😜 So nice 👍

Garlic butter and pasted into nine ice cube tray squares ready to freeze

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May seem excessive but if we don’t eat them fast enough we have the chickens 🐓 who love cucumbers 🥒 Four of each: Mini Munch, Passandra and Picolino (and a couple spare to give away to plot neighbours 👍)

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Brassica plants doing well and will be planted out next week 👍 the corn 🌽 is popping through and the coriander clumps are speeding along 😎

Corn seeds showing signs of life
Clumps of coriander in small pots

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Maybe it’s just the ways things go but we always seem to miss putting seeds in one cell in a tray far to often these days 😎‼️😎 Basil in five of the six cells 🤣

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That’s the onions 🧅 moved outside 👍 For the next three weeks they can enjoy the inclement weather before we plant them in their final locations 😎 AAA

Onions moved outside under netting

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@stfn We do not sell them. We store them and have not bought onions for many years 😎 We do give some away to friends, family members and neighbours 👍

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@stfn thought it may be easier to show you. We keep them year round in bakers crates on top of the bantams’ coop

Bakers crates sitting on top of the bantam coop

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Last 2.5 kg of forced rhubarb picked this morning 😎 Going to make some rhubarb and ginger jelly to store 👍

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Morning view on the allotment today 🌅 , , ,

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Couldn’t help it ❗️ We have bought some Edenrose hard neck garlic 🧄 to try 😛 We have not grown hard neck garlic or planted in the Spring before so we’ll see how it grows 👍 Twenty eight cloves in a raised bed and three spare cloves in small pots , , ,

Edenrose garlic label
Three spare garlic cloves
Three small potato which we have planted the garlic

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Spring may be closer than we think 🤔 Strawberries 🍓 planted and the first sign of the horseradish making an appearance 👍 , , ,

Horseradish pushing through the ground

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The following are the conditions we work with at our 👍

Middle of England ( UK )
Latitude 52n
Hardiness Zone 8
Temperature range -10° - +32° C
Altitude above sea level 150m
Average annual precipitation 800mm - 1400mm
Average annual humidity 70-90 %

As requested by Nervensäge 💐 @Irisfreundin

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Onion and Leek – update 😎 Hard to believe that these were planted only five days ago on 26 December and they are all showing through this morning 👍 This year we have planted Red Creole, Red Baron then some Walla Walla & Globo which are yellow onions and some spare Musselburgh leeks 😜 , , ,

After five days the onions are popping up
After five days the onions are popping up

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@levampyre We are also 7 (middle of England) Used to start them in January but wanted to follow tradition this year and see if that make a difference.

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@levampyre under a garland grow light in a room that’s between 19 & 21 degrees

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Must try harder ❗️ We planted five sprout plants this year and have only used two for Christmas meals 🎄 Have to think of meals in which we can use the remaining three plants 😊 , , ,

Sprouts in a netted cage

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I guess we’re officially up and running with planting seeds for next year ❗️❗️👍 Planted seven small trays of alliums 😎 Red Creole Onions, Red Baron Onions, Walla Walla Onions, Globo Onions x 2 and Musselburgh Leeks x 2. Once up we’ll put them under grow lights 😜 , , ,

Allium seeds ready for planting
Trays planted, covered in vermiculite and sitting on the heated propagator

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