Rosas New Allotment

Rosa,I have just remebered the bit I forgot earlier,either join your local library or buy yorself a good gardening and vegetable book so you will see what to sow and when.If they are not already in the garden shop already you will be able to buy some winter onion sets,I think they are the Japanese types although not sure as we have only ever grown them once and got them in too late to get a decent crop due to the bad weather the other year and in October if you get some garlic you can grow that for adding to your meals next year.

 

thanks shiney cant wait to get up there next week and get started,
kandy i will look for a vegetable book mind my friend is into all veg so he will keep me right he said we cant grow anything now till next year hes got cabbages growing now.
was wondering iff it will be ok to plant some climbers now or is it to late to do this, clematis, honeysuckle etc.

 

Congratulations, Rosa, on getting your allotment. With some shops selling climbers such as Clematis, I should imagine that it's still time to get them started. My local Aldi has many flowering and are about two metres tall.

 

thanks strawman, im going to have a look at a few shops for climbers and maybe put them in my garden area of allotment next week

 

Rosa, make sure you add some fertiliser or compost to your soil before you put any plants in it because if it hasn't been worked for years it will be lacking in nutrients.Better to prepare the ground properly then they will grow better for you:thumb:

 

Very well done not only for getting your hands on a plot but having a couple of nice but sneaky guys clearing it all for you well done BOYS you did a grand job!:ntwrth:

Yes Rosa find where you want to put your clematis etc. and they are more than happy to go in now...funny but I brought a Montana last week to put in our allotment as I don't have anywhere in the home gardens to put it!:hehe:

You will truly be in your element and no longer restricted to such a small space as on your balcony so I have no doubt at all how lovely, colourful and girly your plot will be.

You could treat the boys and buy a little compact camp stove (we brought ours from BM for £10 and the gas bottles are £5 for 4 or 5 BARGAIN!) which is really handy to make hot drinks with and even a frying pan for a nice bacon sandwich to build the boys energy up from all the digging that they are going to do.

Kandy is correct Jap onions (sets) can go in September/October time and you can still sow Spring cabbage as well.

Good luck Rosa I don't need to tell you to enjoy your extra garden space because I just know you will.:luv: Hel.xxx.

 

hi kandy and helen, the shop at the allotments has half price compost so im getting some for my garden area, hehe ive already bought a camping stove got it in b&q sale, we are also having a barbeque doubt we will do that till next year have that much to do, im going to put my arch up and greenhouse up next week and im buying a 6x4 wooden shed just for my area also looking for small fencing to put around my garden area, ive got some tiles so going to do a little paved area from under my arch, its all in my mind how im planning it just need to put it into action.
the guys are making their own shed so they will be busy doing that on their side, we are going to put my gazebo up to see iff it fits at my top seating area and im buying a table with 2 chairs from b&M bargains seen the one i want for my umbrella i already have.
the guys are not into flowers and they have already planted cabbages they are coming on a treat from what i saw.

 

Sounds nice Rosa. I wish someone had cleared my allotment for me first, heehee.

 

thanks katherna yes its making it easier for my plot to get started having a few guys to dig up the soil and weeds i still have a lot to do on my side to get it just right.

 

im most upset got a phone call today from my friend the allotment holders told him he cant grow flowers on his plot so now hes going to a meeting end of this month and hes going to talk with them, its pointless me going in with him at the moment as i want a flower area, have my name down on a list for council but i will have to wait up to 3 years.
i bought nearly everything for the allotment guess now i will just have to keep everything, iff i hear anything will let you all know.

 

Rosa,don't get too down in the dumps.:flag:

When your friend goes to the meeting at the end of the month he needs to tell these people that you want to grow flowers,ie,Buddleia,Sweet Peas,Tagetes,etc as companion plants to ward off insects that would nosh your valuable vegetables and that all the flowers that you are going to grow will attract Bees which as everyone knows are in decline and you want to do your bit to stop them from dying out.:thumb: all of this is true and if they know anything about allotments, gardening and wild life they would let you go ahead and keep the flowers.In days gone by nearly all the allotments of the past had flowers on them so I don't know why they are being funny about it because flowers make the plots look pretty:D

If it's any consolation the miserable old gits on our allotments moaned at one of the plot holders for having a small wild life pond on one of his plots saying that a child could fall in it and drown,but a few years later the President has built himself a great big pond which he has filled with fish,so now him and his mates sit down there fishing and I heard the other week that he fell into this pond and nearly drowned himself as he can't swim:hehe::rotfl: Talk about double standards:p

Keep us posted as to how you all get on with it:thmb:

 

Oh Rosa please don't get upset there is a way around these things although it may be that you will have to grow a few veg but more flowers if you get my meaning.:wink:

Your friend can ask about companion planting where flowers fight pests when they are planted together also you could ask about a kitchen garden like Geoff Hamilton did on the BBC where his garden was a riot of colour with loads of flowers and a few veg mixed in as well.

On our site there is only four of us total who grow flowers as well as our veg but nobody says anything to us about not being able to grow flowers because they can't really as those of us who do grow our flowers have a more tidier plot then the guys on the committee enough said!:yho:

It's not really nice to say but some of them don't want women or young'uns down on 'their' site but I always say if someone is willing to keep a nice tidy plot who has the right to refuse that plot to them?

Good luck sweetie those men folk can be right so and so's sometimes.Hel.xxx.

 

I agree, dont get down in the dumps Rosa.....it'll work out.

 

Rosa, Kandy is right, certain "flowers" are needed for the insects and also can keep rabbits away.
If thats all they have to do is police the type of plants you grow something is really wrong.
I know the main thing is to grow food on the allotment, give them enough veggies and then the flowers around them.