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    Anyone have an allotment?

    Anyone else on here have an allotment?

    Don't know why I am asking really - just bored and vaguely interested to see if many other people have one - or grow their own veg in their back gardens etc.?

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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    Quote Originally Posted by stavroshamster View Post
    Anyone else on here have an allotment?

    Don't know why I am asking really - just bored and vaguely interested to see if many other people have one - or grow their own veg in their back gardens etc.?
    Yea, my dad's partner has an allotment and my grandad grows various vegetable type objects in his back garden.

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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    we have a 'soily area where grass doesnt grow so my sister planted other stuff in it' thats guarded by various things to scare away pigeons and cats

    shes planted runner beans, a lettuce, a cabbage and a few potatoes (which my dad chucked at some pigeons and they are growing where they landed.) theres also bucket fulls of strawberries and cherries being harvested weekly.


    heres an old photo to show you were it all happens. (plus it makes the thread like this prettier with pictures)

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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    A garden you say?

    I'll go and take some pictures then...
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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    Yup - we're a big part of the allotment massive. Raspberries, black and redcurrants, beans, squash, zucchini and all sorts.

    Don't mention the bindweed.
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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    Quote Originally Posted by Phage View Post
    Yup - we're a big part of the allotment massive. Raspberries, black and redcurrants, beans, squash, zucchini and all sorts.

    Don't mention the bindweed.
    How are your beans this year? Ours have been crap. Good carrots though - which was a bit of a surprise.

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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    Allll-righty then, one corner of it:



    left off camera are raspberries, behind the greenhouses are blackberries, infront of the greenhouses are blackcurrents.

    Courgettes, marrows, potatoes, beans, cabbage and so on and so forth yadda yadda yadda.

    In the green houses:



    Chillies:



    Peppers:



    Tomatos:



    More peppers:



    More chillies:



    More peppers:



    Cucumbers:



    Lettuce:



    Pears:



    Another pear tree on the left, two more apple trees on the right [another the other side of the greenhouses]:



    Apples:



    Peaches from the greenhouse:



    Some of the stuff with planting/harvesting times:

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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    Good stuff - I am very envious. Is most of your garden full of veg or is that just part of it?

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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    Quote Originally Posted by stavroshamster View Post
    Good stuff - I am very envious. Is most of your garden full of veg or is that just part of it?
    That's the back garden with the three greenhouses end to end

    The front garden is just grass with a pear tree at the top (and car at the bottom), plus out building for one of the dogs.

    Left side garden is just grass with a pond and your usual flowers and sheds and things.

    Right side garden is the one with the pear and two apple trees

    And then if i wander up the road to the farm i get to sunday tea the chickens
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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    Quote Originally Posted by TAKTAK View Post
    That's the back garden with the three greenhouses end to end

    The front garden is just grass with a pear tree at the top (and car at the bottom), plus out building for one of the dogs.

    Left side garden is just grass with a pond and your usual flowers and sheds and things.

    Right side garden is the one with the pear and two apple trees

    And then if i wander up the road to the farm i get to sunday tea the chickens
    Chuck in a goat and a pig in there somewhere and we can start calling you Tom Good!

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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    Unfortunately I don't have any pictures but the GF and I have started growing our food. Unfortunately we got a little carried away sowing seeds and ended up with far too many pepper and tomato plants. We also have runner beans, gooseberries, summer and autumn raspberries, red and black currants, rocket, basil and strawberries. Every thing has some fruit on it now and it wont be long before we're snowed under with toms

    The problem we have is the house is rented so we can only do so much. However if we do end up buying it I can see me ripping half the lawn up for bigger plots.

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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    Quote Originally Posted by TAKTAK View Post
    That's the back garden with the three greenhouses end to end

    The front garden is just grass with a pear tree at the top (and car at the bottom), plus out building for one of the dogs.

    Left side garden is just grass with a pond and your usual flowers and sheds and things.

    Right side garden is the one with the pear and two apple trees

    And then if i wander up the road to the farm i get to sunday tea the chickens
    That is one massive garden ! Ours is less than 1/4 of that. Hence the allotment.
    Society's to blame,
    Or possibly Atari.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stavroshamster View Post
    How are your beans this year? Ours have been crap. Good carrots though - which was a bit of a surprise.
    Beans were mixed. Broad beans never made a showing. Many didn't germinate and the remainder were blitzed by blackfly and pigeons. Ditto the peas, but the french and other round pods are doing well. Know what you mean about the carrots ! First time ever we've been able to keep them to any sort of maturity.
    Huge crop of black and redcurrants this year..
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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    Quote Originally Posted by Gerrard View Post
    Chuck in a goat and a pig in there somewhere and we can start calling you Tom Good!
    We used to have goats , I was brought up on goats milk, but they got old so we ate them
    Quote Originally Posted by Phage View Post
    That is one massive garden ! Ours is less than 1/4 of that. Hence the allotment.
    My house comes with my dads job (farm foreman) so it is just a typical farm house really, small house with lots of land (used to have outbuildings for pigs at some point in the past)

    The only trouble is everyone rings us up to tell us that cows or sheep are out, when they're not the farms cattle the land they're on is just rented out.

    But having easy access to cow manure means we can heap nitrites/nitrates back into the soil, which helps things along no end
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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    TAKTAK you could do with some garden ornaments. a fibreglass lion would work
    and ive just noticed you can see the Owl on the left in my garden.


    if my sister had her way, our back lawn, all 60ftx30ft of it, would resemble yours. but my mum has the final say and she likes the grass because it makes the place look tidy. we have got 3 greenhouses though, so were halfway there to beating you

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    Re: Anyone have an allotment?

    Some very impressive sounding growing going on. We have half an allotment (8m by 13m), with strawberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants, raspberries, rhubarb, beans, carrots, parsnips, leeks, shallots, onions, beetroot, cucumbers, courgettes, squashes, sweetcorn, potatoes, Brussels sprouts, calebrese, purple sprouting, spinach, tomatoes and lettuce. Don't know quite how it all fits in, we have just expanded from a 1/4 plot this year, and now need more space again! Biggest thing we would like is a greenhouse for things like tomatoes and peppers which don't grow all that well in York.

    Quote Originally Posted by Phage View Post
    Beans were mixed. Broad beans never made a showing. Many didn't germinate and the remainder were blitzed by blackfly and pigeons. Ditto the peas, but the french and other round pods are doing well. Know what you mean about the carrots ! First time ever we've been able to keep them to any sort of maturity.
    Huge crop of black and redcurrants this year..
    Same here. Broad beans were crap and hardly did anything (don't think it helped that the missus got a dwarf variety by mistake) and the peas have been disappointing after last year's success - must be the weather I guess. What's annoying is that the next door allotment (taken on by noobs) has LOADS of broad bean plants which they bought from a garden centre and haven't been down for AGES. Firstly, this means that all their beans have now grown too big to eat (there are loads), plus the fact that the whole thing is now covered in MASSIVE weeds. Don't think they will be back next year - or at least they shouldn't be allowed to...

    Who's organic and who uses sprays?

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