This year we’ve grown just six beds of field or fava beans 🫘 Five beds of Vespa field beans and one bed of Sutton Dwarf broad beans (Fava) The Sutton have already flowered and set beans so we’ll have a crop soon 😛 The Vespa are getting taller and starting to show flowers. These produce tiny beans, many more per plant🪴 and they are so tasty 😋 #Allotment#Today#GrowYourOwn#Gardening
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 #Allotment#Gardening#GrowYourOwn#Today
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 😎#Allotment#Today#GrowYourOwn#Gardening
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❗️ #Allotment#Today#GrowYourOwn#Gardening
Chilies are fun to grow, when i lived in the city i had one in a planter on our porch and it did great, also did a hanging planter of cherry tomatoes there.
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 🌹 #Allotment#Today#GrowYourOwn#Gardening
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 🤞#Allotment#Today#GrowYourOwn#Gardening
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 🤓 #Allotment#Today#GrowYourOwn#Gardening
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 👍#Allotment#Today#GrowYourOwn#Gardening
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 👍) #Allotment#Today#GrowYourOwn#Gardening
Brassica plants doing well and will be planted out next week 👍 the corn 🌽 is popping through and the coriander clumps are speeding along 😎 #Allotment#GrowYourOwn#Gardening#Today
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 🤣 #Allotment#GrowYourOwn#Gardening#Today
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 😎 #Allotment#GrowYourOwn#Gardening#Today AAA