Sunday 8 November 2009

Autumn allotment planting.

Well I finally managed to get down the allotment this weekend so I can actually write a post ABOUT the allotment...after all, it is an allotment blog..lol

Well I only went down really to out some broad beans in. The weather has been nice in my neck of the woods this weekend so it was perfect weather for planting. I decided to plant the broad beans in my raised bed as the earth is very fertile here an
d it needed no preparation...laziness really but at least they are in!

lettuce
Out with the lettuce and in with the beans!!

I had to take up the lettuces first but probably just as well as we are predicted some ground frosts this week.

A few weeks ago I went up and planted some garlic in the raised bed and I was very happy on my visit to see one shoot coming through which is an improvement on the last time I planted garlic as none of it grew...but I will tell you about that another time!!

garlic shoot
My first EVER garlic shoot..yay!!

8 comments:

  1. You wait and see Tanya, before long you will be eating garlic with everything! Good to hear you've managed to get out in the allotment!

    Jeanne

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  2. When I was growing up, my dad planted a garden in our backyard every year. He always used to grow leaf lettuce, he liked it, I hated the taste...lol He never did grow garlic though. I'm not familiar with what a broad bean is though.

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  3. It was lovely here at the weekend too. It made a change to be able to get up to the allotment again.

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  4. Mmm, love broad beans. Wish I had the space to grow a bumper crop - still no sign of my allotment!

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  5. Your lettuce did a lot better than mine. Garlic is something that I've been meaning to plant for the longest. Hopefully next year.

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  6. I remember one year when my dad planted lettuce. We had so much that we had to give most of it away. He grew up on a farm, and he used to always plant the biggest garden we had room for.

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  7. The lettuces looks so fresh! The soil are indeed very fertile and good :)

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  8. And there's another award for you on our allotment blog - we hope you will accept it!

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