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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 itโ€ฆ

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Root vegetables ๐Ÿฅ— Time to thin the parsnips out so there is just one plant per station ๐Ÿ˜€ Quite a slow process as we have to be so careful not to pull everything out. We thin two rows a day over a week just in case we cock something up and have to transplant๐Ÿ‘‡

The first two rows of parsnips have been thinned out
The little parsnip plants that have been removed

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Potato update ๐Ÿฅ” The potatoes we liked from the Tesco finest range have finally appeared โ—๏ธThey were planted on the 9th May 2023 and are called Venezia ๐Ÿ‘

Potatoes in a bucket popping through the earth

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Corn ๐ŸŒฝ and dwarf french beans ๐Ÿซ˜ planted. ๐Ÿ‘ We have removed the fabric covering from the beds as it was too difficult to get the corn roots out last year ๐Ÿ˜ข Safari beans ๐Ÿซ˜ and Lark sweetcorn ๐ŸŒฝ

All the fabric now removed from the square beds ready for planting corn and beans
Most of the beans and all of the corn are now planted

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Project brassica update โ—๏ธ The two posts on the left were put in yesterday and the two on the right are actually water points ๐Ÿ’ฆ There is fine wire at a height of six feet between the posts and diagonally across. Plan is โ€ฆ. when the netting arrives we will create a large brassica cage that we can walk into instead of dealing with the hoops and netting on the current beds.

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Sometimes itโ€™s hard keeping up with the tasks ๐Ÿฅฒ Watering the plot seems to take an age โ—๏ธ Comfrey chop today. This is the second time this year that weโ€™ve cut this comfrey bed back ๐Ÿ˜Ž It also gives the spare broad beans ๐Ÿซ˜ a chance to grow โ€ฆโ€ฆ

Chopped comfrey
Chopped comfrey
Broad beans growing in the comfrey bed

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Cucumbers galore ๐Ÿฅ’ These will be used soon and the many extra fruits will go to the chickens ๐Ÿ“

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Looking good ๐Ÿ‘ Polytunnel padron peppers ๐ŸŒถ๏ธ cucumbers ๐Ÿฅ’ and aubergines ๐Ÿ† are coming along nicely although maybe a little chilly this morning - going down to 5.4 degrees

Padron peppers in the polytunnel
Cucumbers in the polytunnel
Aubergines in the polytunnel

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Getting ready for a few days away ๐Ÿ˜ So we have placed many of the plants we are still hardening off (or theyโ€™re just not ready to go outside), into trays to keep them damp โ—๏ธ

The corn had been moved outside under netting to harden off
The squash and courgettes are sitting in trays on the floor
The runner beans and the dwarf french beans are also in trays

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This in an attempt to lessen the burden on our neighbours who have offered to look after the plot and chickens ๐Ÿ“

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@peeteepee It truly is ๐Ÿ‘

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Lost another toot this morning - titled Potato update - the published banner appeared but I canโ€™t see it on any timeline yet - strange and sad ๐Ÿ˜ข What I donโ€™t want to do is create toots elsewhere because I like to write them while Iโ€™m on the plot!!! Hey ho โ€ฆโ€ฆ

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Last toot for today โ—๏ธ Potted on a number of the squash plants that have germinated nicely ๐Ÿ‘ Most of the butternut squash failed to germinate so this is the second attempt ๐Ÿ˜Š

Chieftain squash plants that need potting on
Ten Autumn Crown potted on into 4โ€ pots
Six courgettes, six Turks head squash and the initial four butternut squash that germinated a couple of weeks ago

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Will it ever end โ—๏ธAlthough on a beautiful day like today I didnโ€™t mind ๐Ÿคซ The long onion set bed needed weeding ๐Ÿ˜ข Two weeks since it was the last done and the weeds are big again

Weeds in the onion set bed
Weeded onion set bed
Weeded onion set bed

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Potato update ๐Ÿฅ” Eight of the eleven tubs pictured were planted on 01/03 so with some hope the second early spuds could be ready in two or three weeks ๐Ÿ‘

Sagitta potatoes

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Fruit check ๐Ÿค“ It looks like we may have lots of cherries this year๐Ÿ’ The blueberry plants are in full bloom ๐Ÿซ and the currant bushes are making currants

Blackcurrant bush
Red currant bush
Blueberry bush

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Odd job day today ๐Ÿค“ Picked wild garlic flowers to make more garlic butter, took the netting off the small chard bed then planted the land cress and finally planted three kalette plants ( which we have never grown before) โ—๏ธ

Removed the netting from the chard bed and planted the land cress
Three kalette plants now Iโ€™m the ground

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Hosta la vista ๐Ÿƒ The Hosta plants that we dealt with last month are looking really healthy. ๐Ÿ‘ Two of them were divided and re-potted and the other two were re-potted into larger pots. ๐Ÿ˜Š

Hostas in a pot
Hosta in a pot
Hosta in a pot

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Sweet Peas ๐ŸŒธ Well we have eventually got round to planting the sweet peas in their forever home for this year. ๐Ÿ‘ Not a huge fan because they donโ€™t last long enough to enjoy๐Ÿ˜Š

Sweet peas being planted out
Sweet peas being planted out
Sweet peas planted out

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Recycling โ™ป๏ธ The long chard bed which we took the netting off yesterday has been weeded (well the bigger weeds). ๐Ÿค“ Then for the greater good they have been recycled to the ladies ๐Ÿ“ .

The bigger weeds have been removed from the long chard bed
Collection of weeds in the bucket
Weeds did the ladies

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Couldnโ€™t wait ๐Ÿคจ but there was a reason โ—๏ธ Weโ€™ve moved the Fenella strawberries ๐Ÿ“ into two of the new triangular beds in the fruit cage ๐Ÿ‘ One of the two beds moved was way behind the other in terms of growth. ๐Ÿฅฒ New beds, new compost and renewed hope ๐Ÿค“

Second of two strawberry beds planted up
First new strawberry bed covered in fine wood fibre
Second strawberry bed covered in fine wood fibre

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Runner beans ๐Ÿซ˜ take 2โ€ฆ.. As the moonlight beans didnโ€™t germinate we ordered some firestorm runner beans. Following advice, we soaked them on damp tissue and they germinated in five days. ๐Ÿ‘ They have now been dropped in holes with the tap root facing down and weโ€™re hoping that gives them a good start ๐Ÿ™

40 pots prepared for planting the runner beans
Runner beans planted in 3.5 inch pots and watered lightly

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Potato update ๐Ÿฅ” You all may remember the potatoes that we came across from the Tesco finest range we liked and thought weโ€™d plantโ—๏ธ Well they eventually chitted so we planted them today ๐Ÿ‘ Venezia ๐Ÿ‘

Two potatoes planted low with potato fertiliser and two planted half way
Topping up the two potato tubs with damp compost
Finished and labelled two potato tubs

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Tomato time ๐Ÿ… again ๐Ÿง We have finished planting the bush tomatoes in the large greenhouse ๐Ÿ‘ Ola Polka, Red Alert, Sumnerlast, Amateur, Hienz 1350 and Gold Nugget.

Second bed ready to plant eight bush tomatoes
Second bed with eight tomatoes all planted up

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Potato update ๐Ÿฅ” The last net has come of the Picasso tubs this morning so they can now grow away ๐Ÿ‘ They are covered to stop the cats and foxes from digging in the pots before tre shoots appear โ—๏ธThe nets are then put away in the bag they came from and stored away in back of beyond. ๐Ÿคจ If I donโ€™t label things nowadays I have no chance of remembering what is what๐Ÿง

All four rows of potatoes now uncovered
Bag for netting with a label

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Padron pepper ๐Ÿซ‘ bed preparation part 2/2 โ€ฆ.. Added 450 litres of compost to the front of the bed for body and levelled the bed ๐Ÿ‘ Covered the weed membrane and stapled it on to the bed. ๐Ÿค” Positioned the pots where the peppers are going and burnt the holes for planting. The front holes are for the pots to be sunk in to water ๐Ÿ’ฆ

Weed membrane fabric draped to the top of the Padron pepper bed
Pots laid out to identify where the Padron pepper plants are going to be positioned
Holes burnt into the fabric on the bed to plant the Padron peppers

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