Our allotment

Sometimes my little haven for peace & quiet where I love to grow things I can share with my family & friends.

Friday, May 25, 2007

Over the moon with my new greenhouse

After the plastic one blew away I came round to the idea that my cucumbers & melons would be outside but too my delight I got offered a greenhouse. The Saturday we went to look at it and for Hubby to decide how it would come apart it was raining on & off. We went back after lunch and made a start my taking the panes of glass out and it started raining big time and we all got soaking wet. Hubby carried on and I left with the boys. Sunday was a another fun day as we had to lift the greenhouse frame over a brick wall about 5 foot high. Hubby said to his older lad we have to carry this frame through our town to the allotment "oh no i'm not he said!" Lucky for him a guy with a pick up was just in the same road and we asked for his help. And here is my pride and joy .......................


I repotted my melons today that will go in the greenhouse canteloupe, watermelon & honeydew as they were slowly dying at this rate they would get in the greenhouse at all. I'm down to one telegraph cucumber as 3 other have died or been eaten. About 3 gerkins left from 7 and 2 crystal apple/lemon cues. I've started off some more cystal apple & some white wonder so I might get some cucumber this year. Going to put some tomatoes in the greenhouse and I'm hoping next year I can have tomatoes earlier as I had to buy shop ones today with no taste.











These are my little gem & webb lettuces I think they look great and touch wood haven't been eaten yet.





These are turnips (oasis) to me they taste like radishes. I picked a few more tonight and left them at the allotment oops...








The cauliflowers have made a come back and are looking alot better with a spray or too with some pesticide may even get a cauli but don't hold much hope.
The first early potatoes Duke of York look healthy and should be ready in a couple of weeks to dig up as a few plants have flowers on them. The Jersey royals are coming along behind. They had them in the supermarket today but I thought i'm not buying them i'll wait.
The globe artichoke plant is looking super and it even has a couple of globes forming. Not sure what to do with them but i'll try anything. As its very pretty it gives a nice look to the allotment too.
Our harvest this week included some spinach and broad beans.

Thursday, May 03, 2007

A rainbow of radish.

We got our first harvest of radishes after 1 month. I planted them with the parnips so I could see were they were only thing is, yes, I've got radishes but where the parnips have gone I do not know. Can only think either birds or no germination at all of True and Tender as I have some Hollow Crown showing. Made a quick dash to the allotment this morning when children were at School as I wanted to get the tomatoes in as it frees up my weekend a bit. It may look like i'm growing canes in the picture.





I'm growing moneymaker, yellow toms don't know there name as they are a saved seed, Blaby toms from Leicester, plum tomatoes for cooking, black cherry, clear pink early, and a red cherry tomato another saved seed from a friend & last of all a cream sausage.

Hope I have enough...........haha



Put 30 fennel blub plants in just infront of the tomatoes as one grew last year in this bed seeing they need alot of moisture.
Planted my patty pans which i'm looking forward to seeing grow as I have no idea how they do grow as they packet doesn't say alot.