Thursday, 3 January 2008


I want to post a few New Year Resolutions for my Vegetable growing this year:

1. Quality not quantity, grow less but ensure that it is tasty and the best quality that I can produce.

2. To label plants clearly and keep accurate records of what I have done , too often I am left not knowing what it is, when it was planted and what variety it is.

3. to keep the soil in good condition using compost, leaf mould and green manures

4. Not to buy too many seeds and use up the ones I already have!

5. Only grow produce that we as a family like.

6. Don't sow seeds to early...learn to be patient. learn to succession sow.

second visit

I spent several hours on the plot today. The weather was glorious,calm, sunny and around 10 degrees. Completed a variety of jobs including sowing beetroot, creating a seed bed and sowing cabbages and broccoli, planting garlic and shallots, digging more of bed 3 and adding 2 trugs of wonderful homemade compost. Having cleaned out the rabbits before I went I could add all their litter to my newly constructed compost heap.

I actually remembered to take my camera so will be postings some photos as soon as I know how!

First visit

First day of the month and I have decided to plot my progress at the allotment here on my blog page. The weather was fine, clear but windy. No rain today, thankgoodness, hopefully the soil will begin to dry out now. Temperature was around 10 degrees.

I spent a couple of hours up at the lottie. Still trying to complete the path system and took up two trugs of lovely homemade compost for the bed I am digging over. I also planted 2 rows of broad beans and 2 rows of peas. I was very sad to see that the allium bed has got rust in places and I'm not sure what to do about it. Will check out the forums later.