I'm going to be updating regularly this year so I have a record of what went well for next year.
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Tuesday, 28 December 2010
December 2010
The year is nearly over but the new planting year has just started. I decided this year to start off the tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers early. I have planted up 3 Tiffany F1 cucumber seeds, 3 suncherry premium F1 tomato seeds, 3 Rosada F1 tomato seeds and 3 Jalopeno Summer Heat F1 chilli seeds. All are in a heated propagator in the living room. I have saved half the seeds from each packet to do a later sowing if things don't work. I've gone with F1 hybrids this year mostly because I prefer fresh seed every year and you get too much normal seed in a pack to use in one year.
I'm going to be updating regularly this year so I have a record of what went well for next year.
I'm going to be updating regularly this year so I have a record of what went well for next year.
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The allotment started out as a real blank canvas well a muddy weed covered mess really. Here's the earliest picture I've got taken back in December 2007. We had already dismatled the old shed and put up a new one along with a clear area filled with gravel.
From the start we wanted to minimise the amount of digging in later years so we decided to use raised beds. We got all the wood from the Bristol Recycled Wood Project and treated it with Procol organic wood preservative. We added on a small greenhouse and bought some nice wooded barrels off eBay. As the plot was very muddy we covered the paths with wood chippings which the council kindly supplies free of charge to the allotment. It was a bit of work carting it all up in the wheelbarrow though.
Finally for the first part of the allotment we added a pond area which some have nicknamed Tellytubby land. I can't imagine why. We've recently added the other half of the allotment and will be updating on the progress in the blog. Why not click on our web album to see the picturs in more detail.