Anyone with an allotment?

Manure?

Agreed. In our experience, the more manure you put on it, the more it flourishes.

Agree, completely bury it in the stuff early spring. My sons Beaver troop came up our plot and I let them all have a turn pulling a stem from the crown. Good job we’ve got four massive plants because they went to town. I’ve had school parents thanking me all week.

Any tips on how to make my rhubarb less floppy?

Pharmacist 🤔

Thanks all, I'll give it some seaweed feed in the meantime to see if that perks it up

Spent the day repotting seedlings and reorganising the potting shed. Toms look ready to go out but the weather disagrees.
Brassica seedlings all still surviving.

Might be hard to perk up existing stems, you could try using a plant support in the meantime, like the bent steel rod type

Once again failed to take pics but Lizzie put in a 1.5’x8’ flower bed in front of the shed today. Was just a scrabbly patch of grass and dandelions, surprised how much space it made.
I scored some more insanely cheap terracotta from Gardening Club.
3 for £5 on veg plants in there at the moment for anything you didn’t get round to starting from seed, they’ve got tons of everything.

Undertook another round of seed sowing - runner and French beans, pumpkins x3 varieties, and all the leftover half packets of sunflower seeds from years gone by. If they all germinate I may have to look into oil production!

Direct sow or you still in the greenhouse?
A neighbour direct-sowed her corn a couple of weeks back and they’ve popped up looking good, ours in pots still not done much.

Loads of my potted-on tomatoes are wilting. Not done much different from last year as far as I can recall. Any ideas?

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My first guess would be over watering maybe?

After a few attempts at getting them to germinate we finally have a loofah!

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I’ve used the root trainers again and have them taking up precious worktop space in the house, the greenhouse is still quite chilly at night and I can see some of my toms have frost bite but still surviving.
@Tonts My first impression would be overwater but also maybe not planted deep enough when transplanted? You can bury toms pretty much up to the first set of seed leaves and it gives them loads more roots and stability.
Also, did you avoid touching the stem when transferring, some of them look a bit squashed but that’s also how I’ve had them go if too much moisture/not enough sun.

Domestic garden, rather than an allotment but I feel there's a lot of knowledge here on this sort of thing....

I have a ~1m² patch that I'd like to fill with a large leaved edible rhubarb - the giant gunnera look, but smaller and edible.

Does anyone have a variety? I'm struggling to get any search results.

Cheers.

(ps any other tips for best results appreciated)

Wrong time to plant rhubarb but Goliath ate pretty big https://www.suttons.co.uk/fruit/rhubarb-goliath_mh9536

Runners and peas have gone in, testing out surrounding them with wool to keep the snaily bastards off. Fingers crossed.

Cheers.

As I'm reading I'm coming to realise that :(

Frustrating that once the evenings get long enough and the weather improves a lot of things are already too late/getting on.

Wife started our sweetcorn far to early so we put it in the ground yesterday - about 6-8inches tall. Been in the cold frame for 3-4 weeks but hoping for no frosts.

Thanks and @edmundro too. Hard to work out as they were fine for a week or so but suddenly started wilting and dying. Could be not burying them deep enough, but it’s essentially the same method I’ve used every year. A few seem fine and a few are kinda ok. But quite a few have snuffed it.

Plot neighbour is a carpenter. He was getting serious with the fruit cages today.

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I’ve just started a few toms this week as a backup. Mine are all around 50-60cm tall at this point as I started them early. They look pretty happy but still convinced they’ll up and die on me.

That looks ace.
What the deal with the sunken pots in the bed on the right?

I asked him about those actually. They’re buckets with the bottom cut out of them and they’ll stick tomatoes in them. They were all lined with cut comfrey leaves and banana skins.

Very cool, is there a benefit to constricting the roots and forcing them downwards or is it to reduce the amount of fresh compost required?

He seemed to suggest it was water retention but I didn’t discuss it too much. They grow this epically large plum tomato variety they get from Poland. Always seem to have loads.