Anyone with an allotment?

I went back last night and it’s like they’ve grown even more leaves.

I never have much luck with tomatoes. They always get blight.

Talking of clandestine indoor farming. I actually came across the left overs of quite a big grow dumped in a field. I must have gathered up about 25 felt 20L pots, which are amazing and some spent compost and those brown pebble things. That all went on my asparagus bed for drainage.

I think there’s a community project there. Done with your grow I’ll recycle the bits for you.

Soz, missed your question. Yeah, just to stop the compost sucking up all the water and rotting the roots. As someone who has form for overwatering, these are great. Some roots still exit the bottom and fill the trays but not to the detriment of the overall health.

Nice score!

I wish I could find more of them

Great score! I’m shocked people dump the pots though, I guess they must have been about to get busted so dashed everything or just making so much coin they don’t reuse anything :/
25x 20l pots would have been a substantial grow based on my limited understanding of such things.

I know a guy who gathers up dumped similar, occasionally stuff germinates...

I’ve got these in my green house. Any idea what they are so I can buy more?

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They look a bit home made from mild steel box hence the rust. I’d have a look for some stainless or plastic p-clips from Screwfix and then some of those greenhouse t-bolts which you can slip in after it’s been constructed.

Do allotment peeps use pallets? I’m sure I heard that somewhere? Have a couple I want rid of in SE19, one is a double size.

90% of allotmenting is pallets

Happy with these today, plot looking a bit scruffy.

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Now in my third year of potatoes, I've gone for Maris Pipers this year and one is fruiting. Not something I've seen before with the first and second earlies I've had. Pretty purple flowers too.

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Is it time to harvest first earlies?

As soon as they have flowered iirc.

Depends when you put them in. You can usually start lifting them after 12 weeks.

Knowing me I was late putting them in. No flowers yet.

Solid onion harvest yesterday. Not bad seeing as they went in in April. Am I right in thinking they want a couple of weeks before plaiting?

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@edmundro Damn, whatever the gardening equivalent of mic drop is… hoe drop…? Very jealous of those.

@rhb Are they a type of beetroot? Look amazingly clean skinned, mine look like football leather.

Are onions and shallots meant to dry off not touching?

Chioggia (spelling?) variety, they're quite sweet and stripey

Oh wow, they’re awesome, good work!

That's a stock photo, a couple of mine have been more like huge radishes with just white inners, tonight's was nearly no white. I'll get pics of some innards later in the week.

This whole area was raspberries and nettles. I’ve already got loads of raspberries so managed to get this area cleared this evening.

Very therapeutic

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Have this awkward patch on my plot that backs onto an old woodland path. It's very shady/weedy and I usually just sit in it if I get too hot. I'm going to try to grow wine cap mushrooms in straw on it. Will probably put in a pond and make it a wildlife area eventually but going to experiment for now.

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Managed to turn this into this. It probably doesn’t look like much of a change, but all the hollyhocks have been cut back. All the dead raspberry canes are out.

I’m going to try and put some wire between the fence posts and then tie the canes to it.

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