Allotments, veggie plots anyone?

Ok so Autumn Bliss rasps it is, the kids will love that, thanks for that Germain + Robbo!!

BobP the Rhubarb is cropping well, had rhubarb fool over the weekend, fery yummy!! I will leave it where it is till the autumn + move it then. I've discovered there are 2diff types so will give them a bit more space as they are a wee bit crampt atm!!

Have started a compost heap GeoDave, not sure we will get any slow worms but it would be pretty amazing if we did!! They take a wee bit more work up here. In SKent I used to put garden things on top + dig out the most wonderful black gold from the bottom - amazing!!

Robbo not sure what has been grown wherre so taking a bit of a lucky dip on what I'm planting atm. Will def look at crop rotation, have the kids doing a plan of what's being planted where, one less thing for me to remember Lol!!

Managed a couple of hours on Sat when the rain had stopped for a while + cleared another bed so I popped some challots in - no idea really what to expect but fun all the same. Was advised to leave planting garlic till the end of May.

Still need to get the tatties planted - have them chitting so they will be ready to go when I've managed to get another bed dug over.

Still hoping that DH will come + join in the 'project'. He was very ill with depression a year ago, of work for 6mths - really hard for the kids + I, so fingers crossed that this will get him out of the house a wee bit more + meeting folk!!

Thanks for all the friendly advice everyone, really, really appreciated - all the rain we have been having has also helped, as yet everything has taken + looks quite healthy - even the globe artichokes!!

Another thought or two, if you are putting in runner beans grow some sweetpeas nearby to help bring in pollinators and if you are 'resting' an area red clover is a good green manure and helps bees.

Caroline in Jersey

Osprey, My garlic went in in October, that way it settles in before the winter and is now looking good for cropping in July time.  If it isn't put in in Autumn then it is normally put in in Feb time.   It may be you have a different type of garlic.  Mine is always Isle of Wight garlic.

oh thanks folks!! You are kind!!

Caroline sweet peas are a fav for me esp the 'scented' ones. Took a vaseful to the village show a couple of yrs back - not the showiest blooms by a long way, but certainly the best on the nose. No prizes for me with them though!! Lol

Never grown garlic BobP just cook masses, so no idea what I'm doing with them or most other veggies!! Will look + see what sort it is, might just pop it in + hope for the best, Lol!!

I know we are behind with much we should be doing, but we were offered the plot 2 weeks before Easter so mid March, + are now trying to catch up with the planting, whilst reclaiming the land from the buttercups, dandelion, docks, clover + nettles, being every where!!

Ann S said:

are now trying to catch up with the planting, whilst reclaiming the land from the buttercups, dandelion, docks, clover + nettles,

Thats what you think.  They let you think you are winning and then creep in the back door somehow.