Allotment advice needed!

raeble

Allotments 4 All is a good site with loads of friendly people will to answer all manner of questions.

Oh and don't give up after the first year because your plot doesn't look like a show garden.

squeaky

Hi, I've merged two separate questions on allotments into this thread which has some helpful tips.

There are other tips on growing your own food in our "Organic Foods" section of the "Collections" sticky at the top of the board. or you could follow the clue in my signature below

KTFrugal

2 books which will open your head to all the possibilities:

The Self Sufficient Suburban Garden by Jeff Ball
This Organic Life by Joan Dye Gussow

Other than that, if you put in a few berry bushes, you will have a harvest no matter what happens to the veg plot. It keeps you going if you have something to bring home each day!

Also, try extending the harvest season by using fleece over your crops - you can get a long harvest of spinach, rocket, mizuna, lettuce etc in the autumn with a little extra cover. Sow the seeds at the end of July so that you have little plants to put in your protected bed by the middle of September. You are not extending the growing season, just the harvesting season. It's mainly rain and wind damage that finish things off, before the frosts get going. And think how smug you can feel toting home your salads in November...

Best of luck.

sunsetgirl

Hi everyone,

We have just got an allotment last week in Darlington (county Durham) we rang the local council on the off chance. its so very overgrown but we dont care...we are just cutting the waist high weeds with a sythe and finding the old beds which is exiting! we are lucky as there is a patch of grass for our toddler to play on and people on the allotment are already giving us spare plants to start us off!

If anyone wants an allotment in this area then I know there are about 6 plots empty on this site

housemouse100

Old scaffolding boards are great for raised beds, just the right height. But you do have to find a friendly builder to give you them.

ms_london

Eliza252 - i PM'ed you, let me know what you think? (if you're anything like me, you're crap at checking your PM's). Doh!!

Ms_London

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Hi benjam,

You might get a better response to your question if you post on the Greenfingered MoneySaving board.

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