Allotment Garden
An amateur’s diary of organic allotment growing.
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Composting 2
Allotment inventory for 2016
Pruning for Fan and Espalier Fruit Trees
How I Grow Exhibition Sweet Peas
Nitrogen fixing in leguminous plants.
The way I get rid of couch grass (Elymus repens)
No dig, single dig, double dig, triple dig?
Tying and Winding up the tomato plants. (Supporting greenhouse tomatoes)
Is compost an organic fertiliser?
Why you should not have bonfires on allotments.
Rotation
Trench Hugelkultur and hot bed.
Pest and disease management on organic allotments.
Composting 1
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011
More mundane chores and harvesting the potatoes
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The sweet peas are looking good again after layering. It has taken them a little while to recover but they are beginning to flower r...
Monday, 25 July 2011
Garden maintenance
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The onion bed needed weeding so I started with the onions and worked across the bed. I find that doing this systematically gets it finished...
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Sunday, 24 July 2011
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I am trying to get the sweet peas to produce a really good display of flowers so that I can choose some for a show. I took off a lot of the...
Saturday, 23 July 2011
Continuing to dig over the pea bed.
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Yesterday I dug about half of the pea bed and today I finished it off. Mick was good enough to give me the weeds that he was collecting as ...
Digging over the pea bed
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I don't usually dig in July and this is probably the first year that I have done just that. Due to lack of time the ground is usually j...
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