Anyone with an allotment?

EBay? £200-400 there

That looks like it can fuck shit right up

If by shit you mean my back, I agree!

@Light_EDDed Looking at sold items I reckon it’s only worth £50 at best and if I can’t use it I’ll donate it to the allotment association.

Just hope it doesn’t get stolen. No dig is such a no brainer. I’m surprised people even bother burning over the soil at all anymore

Onions looking happy and tons of mushrooms in the paths today.

I know nothing about mushrooms- tasty? Trippy? Poison?
Growing on woodchip

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burning

Got a lot of Heather to remove?

No dig is such a no brainer

It is if you have a decent, close supply of cheap/free organic matter. If you have to buy it in or go and shovel it from miles away then a fork and some elbow grease becomes more appealing. That said it is quite a generational thing to turn the soil. Older generation definitely favour digging everything over.

Was growing some potatoes in containers for Christmas but the plants have rotted where it's been so wet. Emptied them out today, wasn't expected much but still got a decent amount out of two containers. Also started putting a pond in at the plot, come on frogs.

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I got a lot of timber for pennies so I spent the day bodging a Shed together. I need to do some horizontal supports and maybe an extra lintel for the roof. I'm now using my girlfriends Facebook account to hunt down some cheapish sheets of outdoor ply and hopefully and odd window or two. I decided im not going to bother with a door as thieves seem pretty adept at breaking in. I'm going to have a Japanese Noren instead.

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Looking ace!

Looks a good few steps above a bodge, that. Great stuff.

I started digging the last row of my spuds out last Sunday. Bit nibbled but largely good. Left another 3-4 plants left Will they have been wrecked by the freezing weather?

Going to power my house solely through wind thanks to the Brussels and ocas I've grown. Got four more Brussels plants to harvest. Toot toot.

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Give it a rest, guys. It’s nearly Christmas!

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How are peoples onion sets getting along? Mine have all sprouted but the tops are a bit spiralled and straggly. Can’t remember what they looked like this time last year..

Spent the afternoon putting plot to sleep until spring. its now a sea of weed proof membrane weighed down with bricks and paving flags

I harvested/collected a few bits today.

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I’m lucky that I have a supply of horse manure.

The sprout gods are pleased

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Nice hauls all! Grabbed a couple of stalks of sprouts, some perennial kale and the last of my maincrop spuds the other day. Taken it all to my dad’s for Christmas.

@KatBalou'sPhone those look well good.

@rhb you still getting onions! Impressive.

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you still getting onions! Impressive.

They were just stored on dry racking since lifted in summer by the shed so not 'fresh' but nice to bring home to use still.

Impressive sprout hauls both!

How are peoples onion sets getting along? Mine have all sprouted but the tops are a bit spiralled and straggly. Can’t remember what they looked like this time last year..

They'll be fine I'm sure. Mine have done sweet f.a. so far. Might be spring planting too!

Yeah my onions and garlic are both struggling but they went in late. Will just have to wait and see.

Broad beans seem to have taken off ok tho.

Have you ever thought about using green manure instead of the membrane

Went and picked some carrots and rosemary just now.
Surprisingly busy on our site today

That’s it until February!

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