Anyone with an allotment?

I’d bet my left nut that’s a hazel coppice.
Very handy thing to have on the plot, especially if you get cobs from it as well.
Going up the plot this evening to sow a bunch of seed ready to fill gaps once the toms start dying back.

Yes yes. Multipurpose and seed compost stations.

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Hazel it is. I’m going to use some to create supports and maybe some sort of small fence around the plot.

Nice, useful stuff!

Blagged an allotment. It’s in Scotland. I’d welcome all advice / suggestions. Things to plant around now ish. :)

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Autumn King Carrots, lettuce, radish, maaaybe beetroot too. Could whack some potatoes in pots in the greenhouse and have them ready for christmas.

Nipped up the plot before work and grabbed a few tomatoes and some pattypan squash which I didn’t intend to grow (some self-saved hybrid seed from a mate, bush part grows patty pan and the runners a different variety).

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Thaaaaanks. Got some autumn king carrot seeds and a mix of different coloured beetroots. This will be the first thing I plant. :)

You can sow some broad beans soon.

Aka winter is coming

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Repotted my chillis into their final resting place.

Also the grape she look plentiful this year.

I don’t want to jinx it, but it’s been a great year at the allotment. Weathers been great plenty of rain lots of sun.

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Now in its third year, I held my potato festival again yesterday. Maris Piper main crop this year. We don't have a kitchen at the moment however pulled them at 9am then had a breakfast skillet followed by some dauphinous, a potato salad, a a few other dishes cooked on the BBQ, camp stove and microwave.
Harvest volume down slightly on last year. I put this down to the significant ammount of rain and slug damage to the leaves. Still, real ale and your own produce at 9am can't be beaten.

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Inspired by this thread I thought I’d share our garden plot.
Another bumper year for toms (beef right down to berries), chillis, peppers, aubergines, courgettes, beans, beatroot, the carrots were eaten by the bloody dog, the raspberries eaten by the clever crows that got in the net by holding it open so one could get in and then hold it for them, the cauliflowers are a right off( rain?), we had tonnes of strawberries, but I don’t like strawberries. Anyway I’m off to water now.

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Great stuff. Got some polytunnel envy, can’t lie. Looking like you’ll get a great crop.

Loving the third annual potato fest. 🤩

New allotment cat.

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I made a hazel fence earlier this year, fun work

https://youtu.be/EbPXEZuOmtE?si=4LaYdBP4HqMWdY21

That will keep the nice down.

There’s a bunch of cats that roam our site but this one is def a new addition. One does tend to shit in any freshly tilled bed but they’ve all been spotted taking out mice so will let them off.
Xmas harvest spuds went in yesterday along with more seeds. Feels really good to be doing a second planting whereas this time last year we were a bit worn out with it all.

Blight on the allotment affecting most plots. I've lost 3 x rows of spuds plants plus my outdoor tomato plants.

Harvested some spuds and indoor tomato along with Radish, a beetroot bonanza and beans.

Shifted 5 barrows of manure too.

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Blight on the allotment affecting most plots. I've lost 3 x rows of spuds plants plus my outdoor tomato plants.

Sorry to hear that. Can really recommend Sarpo Mira maincrop. As close to blight-resistant as you'll get. Crimson Crush and related F1 tomatoes are also very blight resistant. I've always grown Latah tomatoes from the real seed co. outdoors and they're usually close enough to crop before the blight arives.

Tomatoes outside seems to be the trend for blight.

What’s a good way to support my dahlias that are falling over? There are some conditions to this

No plastic
Long lasting
Look nice/be virtually invisible.

steel fencing pins?

This is my go to method. Good old Monty.
https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-make-steel-rod-plant-supports/

I do mine the monty Don way too. However I do a smaller half circle first bend.

The the second bend I vary to make the support wider or narrower. The nearer the second bend to the top of the curve the narrower the support

For wider just move away from the top of the bend and then spread out the legs (if that makes sense)