Comments for Allotment garden

Comment on Potatoes by tonythehoe

tonythehoe — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:06:22 +0000

Thanks Dinzie - you are welcome to visit the allotment any time. There will be a cup of tea waiting for you.

Comment on Potatoes by Dinzie

Dinzie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:18:18 +0000

Have enjoyed reading your blog. We had little success with the potatoes over here in New Zealand ….A consistantly wet spring and summer brought in the blight ……But everything else seems happy enough in my small vegie garden :O)

Comment on Cleaning the greenhouse. by tonythehoe

tonythehoe — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:29:40 +0000

Hi Diane - no I am not tony from West London
I am tony from Wolverhampton. Mount Road Allotments

Comment on Cleaning the greenhouse. by Diane Bulley

Diane Bulley — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:03:28 +0000

Are you Tony who lives in West London, gardens from a wheelchair ?

Comment on Cleaning the greenhouse. by Diane Bulley

Diane Bulley — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:02:41 +0000

Are you Tony who lives down in West London ? Gardens from a wheelchair ?

Comment on Cleaning the greenhouse. by Diane Bulley

Diane Bulley — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:00:50 +0000

Are you Tony who lives down in West London, gardens from a wheelchair ? Wife does all the work ?

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Comment on Winter onions and garlic. by Christine

Christine — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:38:31 +0000

You are not the only person who has had a bad year with sweet peas - those who showed up here were most unhappy with the standard of what they had. A lot of us locally had wind problems which wrecked the runner bean crop.

Shame about your manure problems. I’m leaving manure well out of my plans for the allotment at the present - for at least another couple of years to see how things go. I’ve also got into trouble for eating all the raspberries fresh off the canes to the unhappiness of the family which shares the produce.

Comment on Is burning the best way to get rid of diseased plants? by Christine

Christine — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:33:43 +0000

I do admit that I have had two bonfires since I took on the allotment - that’s one a year. It has to be done when the pigeon men on the adjacent plots aren’t racing their pigeons (doesn’t do them any good). With a clay soil, I’ve no intention of going down anywhere near the subsoil as I’m just only just getting a workable amount of topsoil after three years (previous tenants certainly didn’t believe in adding compost). And the wood ash on the compost heap is a valuable commodity. However I’ve now burned the backlog of rotten timber that I inherited so that will ensure that there’s no need of more fires. Diseased plant material? In the bag and down the tip when there is anything that I don’t want to compost. We have a visit to the tip about twice a year to get rid of “stuff” that turns up which can’t be used. But yes, I don’t see the point of burning excessively. Certainly not some of the things that other allotment holderss would burn.

Comment on Planting sweet peas. by Nell Jean

Nell Jean — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:06:50 +0000

Thank you for the reminder. When I saw the title, Planting Sweet Peas, I thought, ‘Oh, too early. I plant Sweet Peas in November.’ Wait! That’s only a week away.

Comment on Is burning the best way to get rid of diseased plants? by liz

liz — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:23:55 +0000

I agree, I don’t believe burning is the way to go and I’m always surprised when they suggest it on shows such as Gardener’s World… Especially these days when everyone is trying to be carbon neutral!