Life on a UK allotment
Greenhouse 2 is home to all Tomato plants except the Rambling red stripe and two hanging baskets of Red Tumbler. Two hanging baskets of Yellow Tumbler and one of Jester Tumbler. We then have the following upright varieties – Beefmaster Read More …
Greenhouse 1 is home to the Grape vines, Cucumbers, Sweet and Chilli Peppers, Melons and for a short while the celery seedlings. However a slug & snail incursion destroyed all the celery seedlings and all 3 Melon plants. Had a Read More …
Just the one tomato plant in this one, a Rambling Red Stripe variety. Doing well on its own.
Order has been restored finally, and looking much more organised. Have left the small bush varieties in the small mini greenhouse for the time being, and the heartbreakers have some fruit already appearing. Greenhouse 1 is Tomatoes including 3 hanging Read More …
GH1 and GH2 both operational finally. Still a few tasks to complete on Sunday but nearly there!
Started to reclaim the garden back from nature, one section at a time! The awkward shaped space a the top of the garden is now home to two 6×4 polycarbonate greenhouses for tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peppers and melons. Construction was Read More …
Have to start somewhere and its going to take a long time to whip it all back into shape as well keeping on top of the allotment but the project is to sort out the border between ours and next Read More …
Due to other things going on didn’t get chance to include everything in the weekends posts. Here’s the finished pallet strawberry planter (although not in its final outdoors home yet) The Greengage under semi cover is doing even better than Read More …