Giving up my allotment plot and moving dwarf beans

smithyjules

Hi there, I have come to the decision after kidding myself for a while that I can keep up with my plot, that I am going to give it up so someone else can have a go.

We got our plot last year when I was poorly and heavily pregnant, and baby number two is certainly more challenging and er "spirited" and I am finding it near on impossible to get over to the plot even once a week. I gave back half of the plot a few months back thinking it would be more achievable but the ground is just solid, coupled with having very little time to get over there I have decided for now at least that the "good life"may have to revert to pots in the garden for a while.

My Daughter 4 will be disappointed and I am disappointed with myself but the longer it goes on for the less I feel like going over there and seeing how little I have done.

The furthest I've got this year is to plant 2 rows of dwarf beans a few weeks back, these are still alive (amazingly) and are about 8 inches tall at a guess, do you think it would upset them if I dug them up and put them in pots in the garden. I'd be upset to loose the only thing I have managed to cultivate so far this year.

Also am I too late to plant any of the 100000's of seeds I had brought in the excitement of it all earlier in the year? In general I've got all the usual suspects like peas, carrots, spring onions, beetroot, purple sprouting brocolli (although I doubt this will be a success in a pot).

Quite a sad day here

RAS

Give it a whirl. Use the largest pots you have - at least 20 cms diameter. Water them well then go back the next day to dig them up.

matt987106

everything will do fine in pots

even make / buy / get made some nice big planters / raised borders

you can do the veggie thing at home easy enough ( of you have the space )

smithyjules

Thanks for the replies, I think I will move the beans after all I'll only be leaving them therefor someone else and it might just work.

Any idea over what from the list on post one I can still plant from seed now or have I left it so late that I should buy plants?

valk_scot

Dwarf beans should transplant just fine. They can go from modules to open ground at that stage so why not the other way? Use as big pots as you can or growbags halved to make two big "pots". Dig them up with a decent sized rootball. They'll be fine.

Peas, stump rooted carrots, round beetroot and spring onions will also be fine in deep enough pots/growing bags. You'll need to be good with watering consistantly and feed after the first four weeks. Salad leaves, herbs, spinach, strawberries and baby turnips all work in big pots too. Or a few small raised beds in the garden and do square foot gardening?

smithyjules

Hi Val, thanks for your advice.

We have a 2 metre square raised bed in the garden at the moment, one side has lots of strawberry plants with garlic in between ( bit of an experiment but all seem to be doing ok. In the middle is an acer in a pot and the other side is awaiting some kind of edible stuff to be planted.

We also have a barked edge alongside the path of about 12-18 inches wide which I plan to put tubs/planters for veggies. I already water my strawbs every day so will be on hand for anything else too.

We also have a 3 shelf blow away green house so hope to make use of that too. This has been restrained with metal eyes and cable ties to the shed:D as the wind has been so far beaten, even though the poor acer keeps falling over...I had thought we were quite sheltered but obv. not!