resolutions for next year already!

Already this year...

Buy tomato plug plants, it's not worth sowing seeds for the couple of plants I need and they only grow leggy anyway.
Only use paper pots for pea, beans and sweetcorn. They stunt the growth of brassicas.
Go back to sowing leeks directly, transplanting is a faff and a waste.
Sow double the number of pumpkins and other squash so I can replace them when they all keel over 2 days after planting them out.
Sow aubergine and chilli MUCH earlier.

It's not been a good year for me so far. The raised beds in the garden are doing really well but the tiny allotment patch is a washout. It dries out too quickly for anything to germinate and I've just discovered that white rot as wiped out all my garlic and most of my onions.

My poor plot looks so bare, despite all my hard work  .

Already this year...

Buy tomato plug plants, it's not worth sowing seeds for the couple of plants I need and they only grow leggy anyway.
Only use paper pots for pea, beans and sweetcorn. They stunt the growth of brassicas.
Go back to sowing leeks directly, transplanting is a faff and a waste.
Sow double the number of pumpkins and other squash so I can replace them when they all keel over 2 days after planting them out.
Sow aubergine and chilli MUCH earlier.

It's not been a good year for me so far. The raised beds in the garden are doing really well but the tiny allotment patch is a washout. It dries out too quickly for anything to germinate and I've just discovered that white rot as wiped out all my garlic and most of my onions.

My poor plot looks so bare, despite all my hard work  .

What a shame    But I just wanted to say I LOVED The Moog - and Mavis Crewitt!  ahhh memories..... :happy:

I keep a daily diary using Word on the PC. It's great for keeping track of what I did and a good place for notes for what I want to do instead next year. I also add photos so I can see where I planted what and the results.

As well as this I have a planting plan for both plots which I update with dates - helps me remember for rotation (where's there's space to rotate!).

Next year (and the rest of this one):

• Take photos earlier in the day instead of using flash because I have stayed there too long and it's dark!
• try again with parsnips - eventually I will get them to grow!

 

Re: Photos in the dark:

Perhaps the answer might be some of those solar-powered garden lights on my "would like for Christmas" list 

My resolution is the same every year - label the seeds when you sow them!
One year I will get it right!

Elaine

Mine is to get that second plot, so i have more space that is not in the shade until lunch time.  We will be bale to grow more spuds sweet corns and pea's and maybe some fruit.

Also not have to do so much root removal next year as i would have done it all this year.

Quote from: Learner on June 20, 2009, 23:21

Re: Photos in the dark:

Perhaps the answer might be some of those solar-powered garden lights on my "would like for Christmas" list 

They're not powerful enough & if they are like mine, they grow legs & walk!

Our allotment site is pretty safe (he says touching wood!). People leave tools and hose-pipes and heaven knows what out on their plots....so the lights would most likely survive but I can't see me getting any... not sure I trust the pigeons not to make a midnight raid as well as day-time fly-bys. Little s*ds!! 

Only time we have any problems are the bi-annual raid by the lads with bolt cutters and they are always after the same thing - light-weight petrol driven equipment that they can readily market   

Hi, i agree with DD to some extent although i do sow the early veg in the greenhouse but this year i made a nursery bed out of an old tin bath for the later veg and i have had such good plants and the big benefit no hardening off.