Anyone with an allotment?

I shouldn’t compost those should I? Virus will go into the compost.

Kill them with fire 🔥

Chutney.

Anyone know if sweetcorn will ripen once harvested? I took a couple without checking and wondering if they’re going to yellow up?

'Ripening' means the sugar turns to starch so no longer sweetcorn which is why your home grown taste so much better than the bought stuff.

Hmmm? So yellow isn’t necessarily sweeter? Just found the lighter coloured ones to have a bit less flavour.

There are white varieties

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Any tips on dealing with whitefly?

Anyone dug up and moved some raspberry plants before? Is it doable without killing them?

Afraid I'm no help on the whitefly front, @Silly_Savage

Any tips on dealing with whitefly?

On brassicas ?
I have spent ages trying to blast them off with a hose spray but they soon come back.
This was on purple sprouting broccoli at about this time of the year but the following Spring the winter cold had bumped them off - do need a proper winter though.

Yes, my whole patch came from some one who dug theirs up to clear a new patch.

Mixed results for me. I dug up a couple of raspberry plants that were about 6” tall. They survived, but looked like they’d had it for a while.

I would leave until really well established then move.

More raspberries

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Need to be allotmenting this weekend:(

Some fucker is eating all my radish seedlings, holes all over the leaves.
Got a bit more waste burned, hadn’t been in almost 2 weeks as was away. Green manure bed is coming on nicely.
There’s been a wood chip delivery so going to cover my top area and paths tomorrow to keep the weeds down while I keep making beds and scalping.
Manure is coming at the end of the month.

I’ve got to sort out my garage :(

On the kale first, but now the PSB. I've sprayed with some pesticide but it doesn't seem to be doing much.

@Light_EDDed how much did those set you back?. Quite a few of our fruit bushes are unproductive and could do with replacing.

On another note I may rotovate my largest bed tomorrow. Terrible idea? I know some people say it damages soil structure and multiplies weeds, but I'll be adding a load more organic matter and covering over for the winter (that's the plan anyway)

Some fucker is eating all my radish seedlings, holes all over the leaves.

This is probably the cabbage stem flea beetle, you can net the plants if you need to but I've found they recover pretty well and it didn't affect the actual radishes much.

Yes, my whole patch came from some one who dug theirs up to clear a new patch.

Cheers, reckon I’ll give this a try.

It really depends on the condition of the soil. If it's compacted or full of large lumps of clay then do it, otherwise just spread the organic matter on top, cover it and let nature do its thing.

Ok I'll not bother in that case. It's a bit uneven from potato rows but not compacted There's clay about 10" down, I'll just flatten a bit and pile on top.

Potatoes are great at breaking up the soil so I’d save yourself the job.

You're right, I dug it all over roughly today, the bit where the spuds were was good and loose, the rest is quite heavy. Will try and get some organic matter on there and hopefully it improves by spring.

If the ground is too heavy only a really powerful rotavator will work. I’ve rotavated about a third of my plot this past week and on Friday the ground was a bit too heavy for it so couldn’t do much. Unless you’ve a ton of weeds to remove (as I do) you should be fine with a little weeding and mulching/manuring.