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DHM:
Hi all,  I live in Eastbourne on the Sussex Coast and the weekend before last took on our 1st family allotment, an exposed 6 rod plot in poor condition.

My wife and I grew up with green-fingered dads, many happy memories messing about on my dads various allotments. Now we have children of our own (boys aged 2 & 4) so wanted to give them a place to grow, play and discover wildlife as well as understand where food comes from and that homegrown is always best.

Unfortunately we got our plot a bit late to really go to town this year so we're just going to plant stuff as and where we can, all conforming to the 4 course rotation plan I've designed!

Half of the allotment was worked up until last winter so not much work required there, however the other half is all going to have be double dug, couch grass the lot.

Still, we plough on (guffaw titter). Our allotment will use no chemicals and where possible cost us nothing other than rent and seeds. Thankfully it came with a shed and a few tools so we have enough to go with for now.

Hope to chat soon, all the best!
DHM

sunshineband:
Hi there and welcome to the forum  :D  Sounds like you are very organised already, and there is nothing like eating something you have grown for your family. There's no looking back now!

New shoot:
Hi and welcome  :D 

The 'bung in what you can' theory is as good as any when you take on plot late in the season.  We have a couple in the same boat on our site and that is what they are doing.

DHM:

--- Quote from: New shoot on May 30, 2018, 11:14 ---Hi and welcome  :D 

The 'bung in what you can' theory is as good as any when you take on plot late in the season.  We have a couple in the same boat on our site and that is what they are doing.

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Hello (",)
Yeah seeing as they wouldn't give us reduced rent being past the main season for planting and sowing, we thought we'd try and get our moneys worth by buyimg established plants and sowing late crops where there's still time. We've picked up 5 nice moneymaker tomato plants today for 2.50 so they're going in tonight!

New shoot:

--- Quote from: DHM on May 30, 2018, 11:28 ---We've picked up 5 nice moneymaker tomato plants today for 2.50 so they're going in tonight!

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Moneymaker are easy to grow and prolific, so you'll get way more than £2.50 of tomatoes back.  Its not too late to sow courgette or cucumber seeds, or beans for that matter.  I often sow french beans (climbing or dwarf) in June for a late crop.  I have also sown beetroot and turnip in modules (12 cells to a standard sized seed tray) for planting out in clumps.  I filled a pop-up net tunnel one year with module grown clumps and got a couple of carrier bags of roots out of it.

Then you can get ready for chard, perpetual spinach, oriental greens, spring greens, overwintering onions and the like over late summer into autumn  :)

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