[Thrutchington]

Last couple of evenings, I've sown dwarf French beans and peas in the potting shed, managed to get some tomato and chilli plants so spent an hour rearranging the potting shed so i can grow the tomatoes at the far end. Applied pelleted chicken manure to fertilize overwintered onions and garlic. We've had some rain which softened the ground too so tilled up a couple of beds nice and fine with a rake. Expecting to be doing some weeding this weekend amongst other things. Take care all.

[Plot 6B]

Rotovated and dug dug dug.

[Plot 1 Problems]

Hoed the empty beds and started weeding the woodchip paths. Got as much up as possible but I'm going to have to finish them with weedkiller.

[SimonF1]

I have most things in the ground now. Put in a lot more garlic and onions last night. Somebody said that putting them around the edges of the beds keeps the slugs off. Well, we eat a lot of them, so even if it does not work it is not a loss. Put some horseradish seedlings between the potato plants. Supposed to frighten off the Colorado beetle. The missus put in all the red peppers and tomato plants this week, but they are predicting frost for next week, so that was perhaps premature.

[rowlandwells]

 having a day of from the allotments today plot 1 actually got nearly up with things down there cultivated all the raised beds then planted some raised beds with onions also been laying new chippings on the paths sprayed an area that had got weeds because it had been left over from the winter as soon as the weeds die down I'm going to plough the ground half will be for squashes the other half green manure [mustard]

plot 2 had a fire burnt all the old rubbish sprayed the weeds round the fence cleaned up the cut flower beds spread a load of horse manure over one half got it all ready the plough next week  then hopefully plant our potatoes in the half not manured so we are waiting on our brassicas that we are growing in the greenhouse to grow a bit more then we can plant them in the allotment RB

so had a good week down the allotments catching up on things see what next week brings 
spending a day up the house garden today in the greenhouses and working on the poly tunnel repairs
always plenty to do not to get bored do have a nice day and you all keep safe

[jaydig]

Taking a few precautions in case the lower night time temperatures forecast for next week are low enough to do some damage.  Covered the strawberries with scaffold netting, made a tent of the same around runner beans.  Earthed up potatoes, and yes, you've guessed it, covered with scaffold netting supported on posts.  Dahlias covered with old net curtains.  I debated doing it, but I'd kick myself if I lost plants this late in the season because I hadn't spent a couple of hours covering them.

[Plot 1 Problems]

Getting a bit dry now, so I gave everything a good soak.

[Mr Rotavator]

Planted out leeks, weeded and put some weed membrane on the paths.

[cbo1170]

Built a raised bed for my sweetcorn for when they're ready to go out, and planted main crop spuds in an old metal trough we had spare.

[Mr Rotavator]

Planted out the rest of my leeks. Moved the compost bins and cut the grass.

[SimonF1]

Snow this morning, so not much going to happen today. I really should not have planted out the tomatoes last week. The sweet peppers will survive it, but the tomatoes looked unhappy. It stayed above freezing at ground level, so they might live. You can always rely on the Ice Saints.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Saints

[Mr Rotavator]

Sowed more spring onions and radishes.

[snowdrops]

Yesterday I transported 6  Wheel barrow loads of the 3tons of compost to the allotment. I had it delivered to the drive on Monday. Thankfully most of the 3tons has gone on the garden so not much more to go today.

[Vagabond]

I haven't posted on this thread recently, but that's not because I haven't been busy, busy, busy.
- my tomatoes are in their final resting place in growbags in the neighbour's greenhouse
- earthed up my spuds
- re-potted spinach, kale, beetroot and parsley and returned them to the cold frame
- planted out the Florence fennel into a raised bed
- sowed more runner beans to replace the ones that didn't germinate
- purple sprouting broccoli seedlings are still in the cold frame but small and weedy looking , so I might sow a few more in case they don't make it
- I'm not having much success with my cabbage seeds this year. The ones that have germinated aren't looking great
- onions, salad leaves, broad beans are in the raised beds and coming on nicely (I hope).
Phew!

[Plot 1 Problems]

Planted out some cabbages, realised I planted my broad beans in the wrong bed  going to need to rejig my plans now. After that spent ages trying to catch up on the weeding.