allotmentgirls

Two girls and an allotment… get mucky at the weekend!

   Aug 27

Very short rows!

More weeding and clearing, but dug over a small section (ok, a very small section) enough to plant a very short row of Tom Thumb lettuce and an equally short row of Radish – French Breakfast 3.
I know it’s rather late for lettuce, but thought it was worth a go. The radishes should be fine [...]

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   Feb 17

Seeds & Potatoes have arrived!

Our seeds and potatoes arrived… we ordered them through our allotment association from DT Brown (works out so much cheaper if you do this!).
So we’ve got:
Purple Moldovan Garlic (the bigger bulbs in the pic, the others are supermarket garlic which we’ll experiment with)
Radish – Scarlet Globe (plus two half packs left over from last year [...]

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   Jul 10

Radishes Galore!

We harvested the rest of the radishes – a whole carrier-bag full!
When we sowed the seeds for the radishes we used the entire two packets in three short rows… little did we realise that radishes pretty much have a 100% success rate! Note for next time: sow 2 or 3 seeds per inch.
Despite their over-inhabited [...]

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