Ziggys' West Bay,Dorset Veg Plot

Hi FT,

Sorry, the welsh onion is the tree onion, I think the name is interchangable, least I hope it is:DOH:

The ones in the pic are the offspring of the bulbils that formed on the top of the plants last season. They drop off and root in a radiating pattern away from the parent plant. The bulbils aren't very big, so I prefer to grow them on and eat them as spring onions. I'll save a few for parent plants to carry on the process.

Hope you get some better weather today.

As for cloches, its cheaper to make your own up with some wire & polythene. Garden centres usually sell polythene off the roll by the metre. For bigger clotches, a bit of alkathene pipe scavenged off a building site comes in handy.

 

Ladybirds in February!! You'll be planting palm's next then

Up here in Cumbria at 8.30 this morning it was 1°C, now at 9.40 its 7.4°c...these are greenhouse temps too!

Steve...

 

One Palm, ready to go :D

 

I walked right into that one didn't I?..

Steve...

 

Sorry, couldn't help myself.:D

The ants have gone back to bed now, as I mentioned somewhere, the heat from the hotbed made them think it was spring. They charged around looking for aphids to milk & couldn't find any so then went embarrasedly back to their borg alcoves.

 

Wonderful pictures Ziggy makes me very itchy to get down to the allotments, well done honey.x

 

Cheers Helof,

Been out there this morning, moved a couple of wheelbarrows full of compost & realised i'm still worn out from yesterday. Bit of pottering about for the rest of the day then. Probably go down the beach for some seaweed, going to use that as a fertiliser for the International Kidney spuds.

 

My little forage to the beach is planned for later this week I'll be eating "Cumbrian Royals" soon :D

Steve...

 

Excelent Steve

Talking about Origin protected, bit of a flap on down here in Dorset this week when the local brewery, Palmers, found out a supermarket was selling Dorset Ale Pies made with beer brewed in Suffolk.

They weren't very happy.

 

Hi Ziggy

Just having a read & impressed!! Can you help me with my Welsh Onions? I picked up a pot of them in the garden centre last year, stuck them in & now don't know what to do with them!!!

It said on the label they are like spring onions & perennial. But I don't want to dig them up & eat them or I'll have none left!!??!!!

Ta

 

Hi Honeybee,

Cheers, glad you like it

What I did was leave them for the first year to build up my stock. I'll eat some of them as spring onions but save a few to have babies.

I've got some blubbing onions on the go already, and I have some smaller springs coming on at the home plot. So I might just make it through.[hr]
Tipped out the worm bin, been digging it in today, blimey there are a lot of worms in there.

 

Tipped out the worm bin, been digging it in today, blimey there are a lot of worms in there.

 

More worms probably

Had a good few dandelion roots out of there for coffee

Probably maincrop spuds in that bed, but things might change, just watch this space.

I had to be so carefull while digging it over, trying not to hurt any of the little darlings.

 

Thats a great space you've got there Zig:thumb:.....wish i could see the dirt here, still way too much snow