Allotment layout...

RAS

MrsTine wrote: »

No trees allowed either... bushes are though so been thinking of some rasberry canes, redcurrants and white currants and maybe gooseberry bushes on the western side of the plot to give a little protection...

I think it is worth summer and autumn fruiting raspberries.

Loganberries, blackberries (or can you get enough from the hedgerows?) and black currants.

I am also trying vines, although they are slow starting but we have had two crap summers.

MrsTinks

Blackberries are abundant here the same farmer has several fields (backing on to my road hehehe) that are sorrounded by blackberry brambles (and sloes...) so I think I'll keep picking them in the fields I just need a MUCH bigger freezer hehehehehehe
I DO love rasberries though... and strawberries... :drool: might need to allow space for a strawberry bed. Never had one of them before so that will be a new one for me
Vines... I don't know if the allotment will be sheltered enough unless I grow them up against the shed maybe? I know they tend to struggle if not on a south facing wall in this country

melanie22_2

MrsTine wrote: »

LOL the allotment holders have to pay £10 a year per 8x8 plot - that pays for the insurances and the water - but the farmer charges the allotment association £1 a year
Any funds left over will go towards site maintenance and improvement (paths and laying of water pipes etc).

I'm amazed at the fact that for once I can plan the WHOLE allotment at once really... I've never had this luxury before - either there were too many brambles to do more than couple of square metres at a time.

This year I'm aiming for couple of varieties of spuds, 2 types of onion, carrots, peas, sweetcorn, beetroot and salad mainly. If I manage to get more that that done I'll not only be amazed but thrilled
At home I have loads of tomato's in the garden and also a selection of salads and some cucumbers...
If anything else goes in it will be because I get given the seedlings and I can't bear to throw them away

Thats really great. I wish you all the luck with your new perfect plot hehehe. :beer: