Gallery Growing your Own Progress 2013

The Allotment Plot

Our Allotment Plot is approximately 160ft long by 45 foot wide at the dug part. not counting the paths either side..  There are around 150 plots of similar sizes on a piece of land which was left as Common Land for the use of garden allotments by the Duke of Portland many years ago now..

Below April 2013

Cabbages and Broccoli in cold frame

Transplanted Strawberry shoots

Raised beds

Rhubarb

Seeds Chitting method to germinate

Potatoes in April 15th 2013

Onion Sets and Shallots planted

Rain Water collected in barrels from the roof of shed.. But there is water on the allotments.

Onion sets, Shallots and Beetroot ..

Peas to the right.. Onion sets to the left May 5th 2013

Rhubarb and Raspberry canes, Gooseberry Bush to the right. Cloches have the Curly Kale underneath. May 5 2013

Curly Kale under cloches for protection from the Pigeons…

Update This is what the allotment looks like the Beginning of June 2013 Below.

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Below is the Allotment from July through to Sept 

Me among the Sunflowers July 4th

Still smiling among the cabbages

Beetroot and Onions

Sweet Corn and Potatoes July 4th

The Runner Beans are now in flower.

Spring Onions and Radishes

Veggie’s from our Garden

Our Granddaughter eating peas walking along the Bean row

Freezing Peas

Sunflowers and marigolds to attract the Bees

Huge Sunflowers we save the seeds

Thank you for the Bees

Hubby just hanging the Shallots to dry out

Onions and Shallots hanging to dry

Onions that are cleaned off and drying before hanging for final storage

Shallots outer skins removed, polished and now drying

Shallots all finished hanging still drying out in the sun

These Blackberries were picked from behind our Allotment Shed,

Onions White and Red, also shallots

Freezing the sweetcorn from the allotments.

5 sacks of potatoes, onions and Apples in store

Potatoes Drying

I removed all the outer eaten leaves eaten by the caterpillars

Removed the caterpillar eaten leaves..

Harvest clearance … Click for more info

Green house Tomatoes

Ripening Tomatoes

Peeping through the Sweetcorn

Its now December 2013 and we have been getting beetroots out every week supplying my daughter and my sister, I have made Beetroot Juice in a morning and we still have a few beets left.. 

Below is the allotment as it was in November after the potatoes were dug up and sweetcorn were gathered in.. Hubby winter dug it and this is what it looked like then. We have since put in some Garlic for next year near the bottom near the shed.. The Red cabbages you can see in the foreground have grown plumper after the caterpillar removal in September..

The Allotment dug over in Nov 2013