I have had to scale back my repair plans because I only have a couple of hours a week to work on my whole allotment now, but really happy with the progress!
I’m not sure how easy it is to tell, but I’ve cut down three hazel coppice around the greenhouse to let in more light, but it still gets a little afternoon shade which seems to work.
Any ideas on what’s good to grow in a greenhouse in the UK over winter?
Hi all - appreciate any help! I’ve planted several plugs but a lot of them are just lying on the soil, especially when I water them.
They’re too small to stand up against watering and too small to support. I’ve kinda forgotten where they are!!
Any tips ok how to support them better? I’m worried they’ll just fade away :(
Hi all, I got this allotment (Isle of Man) about 18 months ago.
Despite appearances, I've cleared a surprising amount (about 50%), however I'm having issues with hogweed, it's really persistent.
I lost about 6 months after initially getting the plot as I strimmed it all to see what I was dealing with and the HW was secreted amongst the grass, long story short I got burned... literally.
Previous occupant as kindly left carpet in various spots as well making clearing the back end incredibly hard. I'm also replacing collapsed fencing as rabbits and hares are rife.
Any advice, hints tips etc would be appreciated.
(Ps the suppressant in the centre is now covered in woodchips).
Thanks in advance.
First time poster here so do let me know if the post requires any changes.
I have turned my back garden into a little allotment and now have 42 tomatoes, 20 aubergines and as many peppers. I barely had half of that last year and fed all my plants religiously with tomorite and a knap sack sprayer every other week which took me a whole afternoon. I don t think continuing with the same method is sensible this year as I have so many more plants. I have bought a cheap hose wnd feeder hoping it could solve this problem but it doesn t seem to be working very well. I was hoping to hear how people tend to feed plots of a similar size within a reasonable amount of time. Do some people skip the feeding all together ?
Some of my plants are in raised beds and some in grow bags fyi.
I’m in Cheshire, and I got my sweetcorn off to a fantastic start this year. They’re 4-6ft high. I have two beds, sweetcorn (Tyson) in the foreground, and baby corn (minipop. Probably) in the background to the left.
Whilst all the baby corn are coming along in a pretty uniform manner, Almost every single plant in the Tyson block has come into flower. The cobs are also tasselling, which I guess is a good sign.
I was anticipating this to be far later in the season, but maybe their start to the season has brought everything forward for them?
For reference, I sowed into 9cm pots, germinated indoors and kept them in a south facing summerhouse during the day, moving them indoors at night. They were around 1ft tall when planted out in the last days of April.
Was just having a moments quiet contemplation on my plot before carrying on and saw a bee go into here which is presumably his nest. Anything I can do to help the fella out or just let him bee?
Im just happy to see my tomatoes growing and looking half decent too me. Slightly behind but ill blame the Welsh 🏴 weather for that! Although its probably my fault!
I've just got the keys to my first ever plot. The council has strimmed it for me so now it's over to me. Im planning on covering most of it, getting the 3 existing raised beds going and going from there. Any advice welcome!
Well my onions where flopping hard and i could use the bed for something else sooo... here is the 2026 onion harvest after a freak.year with regard to weather 😂 the reds did considerably worse than the others as i planted nearly one on one of each type🤔
I rescued some almost dead young plants from a wall, there was a sign saying free tomato plants so that’s what I assumed they were.
Been away for a week and they’re looking healthy but not looking like tomatoes.
Some sort of squash or courgette?
Garden is generally pushing on and stuff is starting to be read for harvest (had a few tiny potatoes from a test dig), french beans, Swiss chard and baby courgettes. However there’s a few spots in the garden I could do with a few bits of advice.
Potatoes - are we thinking this is blight or just dying back one plant has withered back quite a bit, the rest generally look pretty green but I noticed brown developing on the leaves of another this morning. Not sure of variety it was from a bag of Lidl potatoes that sprouted in the bag.
Corn, one of my corn looks like this with the middle looking a bit destroyed and the leaves feeling rough and almost scarred, rest of plants unaffected.
Tomato - I shared my mutant tomato on the tomato sub the other day but now seeing other posts, I’m thinking it’s actually a negative for the plant. It’s off a giant double bloom and as you can see has a stem with flowers growing through the tomato. Do I leave it to ripen? Will it ripen even? Or is it causing such harm to the plant I should get rid so the plant can focus its energy elsewhere. If it was still a flower I’d get rid, but I’m kinda invested now in finding out what happens with it.
After a wet start it's been a pretty dry seasib so far in the SE. I'm interested to know how everyone else is getting on with various different crops. What has worked well for you, what hasn't?
I have quite a few brassicas to go out soon and with the dry weather continuing the main issue I'm seeing is flea beetles, they seem to be ravaging the alyssum at the moment.
It's a male allotment friend's birthday soon. I need to get a suitable gift. I don't have a massive budget, but I'd like to get something practical, that will last.
I was thinking maybe a nice street legal folding knife like an opinel or mam (or whatever the Portuguese brand is).
However, I am open to your suggestions
This is for a newish male pensioner, who doesn't act his age!
Thanks!
Having spent the last 12 months on my current plot, I've just signed up to swap it for a bigger plot, only catch is it is slightly over grown....
Looking forward to the challenge though 🙂
This is my first year growing corn. I have 4 25' rows doing great. It's amazing how much fertilizer they want.
What does everyone do with all the corn stalks. I don't have a way to grind them up.
I've been trying to grow these for four years, but always suspected they weren't suited to our climate as they never lived past infancy. Thanks to this year's early heatwaves this one has finally thrived and I'm really pleased - they're much less watery and more tasty than your ordinary courgette, and the flower is incredibly robust and very much part of the fruit, so I'll be using these to experiment with fried courgette flowers as they're normally a bit crap with normal ones. The slices are also pretty, like little cogs. Never thought I'd be so excited over a courgette, and yet... Anyone else grow them?
I have netting, but, because broccoli grows so big it’s leaves push up against the netting and I can’t stop them :(