Anyone with an allotment?

New raised beds in. Just need to fill them with manure but I’ve run out 🤷🏼‍♂️.

The plot is now completely full. I couldn’t fit anymore in if I tried. Maybe on the shed roof!

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Strong work, looks very good.

Nice work
I do something like that. I don't know what size your paths are in between the frames but mine were about 18 inches and at the height of the growing season the paths were unpassable so now I've cut down on the number beds just to be able to get around.

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Just enough space to walk down probably about 40cm.

I want to plant some beetroot, carrots, onions and spring onions.

I’ve put some kale and spinach in but no doubt they’ll get eaten/die etc etc

My wife treated me to this for my birthday. Can’t wait to give it a go.

I can feel myself edging to 40 it’s like being pushed towards the edge of a cliff

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Looks great! Need to work on a few raised beds myself.

@snoops
Not exclusively vegetables but a close approximation.

Crown prince, beans, raspberries, some other squash of questionable edibility, and chard today. Not bad for a pretty neglected plot!

These squash any good to eat or reserved for the ornamental autumn display category? A bit hesitant after last year's mystery squash saga.

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Soup?

Stuck in my autumn garlic and onions yesterday and today. About a month later than last year 😱 anyone reckon they’ll take or just rot in the ground. It’s the onions I’m most worried about.

^ Put mine in today plus prepped a bed for 2022 spuds.

It is so mild but I think they'll be fine.

Some of my asparagus is still green. Feels like early October, not mid Nov.

Bought a 3-plant blueberry selection from Thomson and Morgan

I did the same last month but they came from Marshalls. I've potted them up into tubs of ericaceous compost because they need acid soil and I can keep an eye on them/move them around if I need to.

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Meet the Blueberries 🎶

'Liberty'. 'Duke' and 'Bluecrop'

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Agree with @rhb - it is mild - I got my garlic in last week.
They will rot if the soil doesn't drain well and gets cold and soggy.

Time for garlic to go in - and broad beans!

We’re just clearing out the poly tunnel and redesigning things for the new growing season.

This time round I’m dividing the tunnel (it’s a big one) into rooms with trellis acting both as dividers and wind bracing. Possibility something naughty might be grown behind all of the tomatoes.

Fruit bushes are consolidated (looking forward to the honey berries fruiting next year).

Love this stuff (must be getting old).

Brussels ready to harvest, still got spuds and carrots in the ground.

Hoping you’re right. A few nights next week look to be touching 1-0 degrees here. Anyways the onions were very cheap, so if they don’t take I’ll replace with spring sets.

On the plus side managed to put about 12-16m of good raised bed wood out of a skip round the corner from our allotment.

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These squash any good to eat or reserved for the ornamental autumn display category?

Hope this isn't too late !
https://www.anses.fr/en/content/beware-inedible-gourds

Hoping you’re right. A few nights next week look to be touching 1-0 degrees here. Anyways the onions were very cheap, so if they don’t take I’ll replace with spring sets.

The soil will help a bit still. Most of mine are under a fleece type cover to keep birds from pecking them out, will help keep marginally warmer too.

Space saved for Spring Onion crop too.

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Yeah, mine are under some netting to keep the bird off.

We stuck to eating the crown prince (definitely good and not inedible hybrids) and the suspect ones are on our "autumn display" (pile of leaves and other assorted crap the kids collect).

Went down to the plot for the first time in weeks. Some onions I planted doing OK. Covered my dahlia and peony beds with compost cardboard and pond lining to resist the frost.

Need to weed the asparagus bed of the most lethal nettles.

Or try and make nettle tea, is that a silver cloud

Aren't peonies super hardy?

I planted some recently that said specifically not to mulch them heavily as they flower better if they get nice and cold in winter - not sure if this applies to all of them