Anyone with an allotment?

Woah! It’s like the fern and the spear in one!

Picked up my free* greenhouse today. Bloke had dismantled it himself and helped me put it in the car *so I gave him some beers as a thank you.

In slightly less exciting news I left my beetroot and lettuce seedling double covered and killed them all.

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I’ve got to dismantle a green house soon. Any advice?

I’m hoping to not break any glass and dismantle it as little as possible

Have you got all the glass/PVC - it isnt cheap

Yep, it’s all hiding in the corner in the photo. One or two panes are slightly cracked but 90% of it is good.

I’ve got to dismantle a green house soon. Any advice?

Well I didn’t do the dismantling, so limited advice I can give but keeping the gable ends in tact worked well as they take a bit of assembly. I only had to transport it a couple of roads, they went on the roof bars. Get a good pair of gardening gloves to handle the glass. I’d guess you’d want to remove the glass first. If I were doing it myself I’d probably take a paint pen and label everything before I took it apart to help the reassembly. I’ve learnt not to underestimate my ability or make a horlicks of a fairly simple task.

Woah! It’s like the fern and the spear in one!

Snake Headed Cactus ! 😮

label stuff, take your time, liberal wd40/gt85 use, IME

Also if you can do what Tonts says and maintain the gable ends then definitely do. Ours was a bit fucked anyway, but is v much a parallelogram now despite huge effort going into the base, and this is v problematic for replacing panes of glass.

Also, if you build a timber base like we did, don't forget to allow for the door to slide around....

I think I speak for everyone by saying we need an update on the mutant asparagus…

Yes, updates!

In duller news, Strawberry crop doing ok

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Is it bad to consider bunking off work early to go and water my allotment?

Not at all. If your workplace ask, tell them an anonymous user from a bike forum said it was OK.

I’d sooner go in the morning and be late for work.

I watered heavily last night. It was roasting still

Thanks, that should wash I reckon.

Had an earlyish job on. Could maybe have squeezed it in betwen dropping kid1 off at school but would have arrived a sweatting mess and unprepared for the task.

Went up in the evening about half nine in the end. Was expecting everything to be wilting and yellow but it actually all looked fine. First baby squash appeared as well. Threw plenty of water about anyways. Onions looking a bit sad, am pretty disappointed with them after last year’s crop.

Thank goodness for this rain

Thank goodness for this rain

Where ?

Send some here please !

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Was expecting everything to be wilting

I was but it was only the potatoes in tubs that were suffering - gave them a really good soak and they had visibly perked up an hour later.

Our onions also not happy
Is there an onionannual thing like fruit trees, year-on, year-off?

Haha! That would make me feel less bad but I’m afraid it’s my own poor vegetable husbandry. It’s one of the reasons I’m trying to turn everything to no dig this autumn. The no-dig bed gave me 50 perfect huge onions last year. This one’s just been swamped by weeds and slugs.

What's your plan with that? Do you have a ready supply of well-rotted manure or will you chuck down fresh and hope it rots enough by the spring?

After neglecting our plot completely for the second year running I'm hoping I'll have a bit more free time (now I've got wedding and child-birth out of the way) and am considering trying the latter. Haven't really got a decent composting set up yet as that's also on my to-do list.

I don’t have a supply of manure yet, once this year’s crops have been harvested I will make some wood borders/vaguely raised beds (wood has been scrounged in advance). The plan then is to start with spent compost from my work that I can take for free. I tend to drive in once a week so will take a load of rubble sacks and fill then once a week then deposit them. I also make my own compost which is food waste/grass cuttings/chicken manure and bedding. So will add that but there’s not huge quantities of it. Occasionally can get access to FYM or anaerobic digestate off folks I know. Above all I don’t want to pay for anything, cos I’m tight and it just seems a bit unnecessary.

I planted some onions ages ago. Haven’t harvested them yet. But the stem is really thick but the built is tiny!