5 Year Rotation plan

5 Year Rotation Plan

New Plan for allotment

Potato Bed

I went to lottie yesterday with my hubby and I forked over the beds and then covered them in black fabric sheeting. I also planted the last of the garlic, and added lime to the brassica bed. I also created my 5 year rotation plan. Very pleased with all my hard work. My hubby dug over the area where the tatties are going and built a bed for it too.

2 views of my allotment beds, the lastest one is my potato bed.

A cheeky sign

Fertile? Yes!

Well now I have to stop the weightwatchering because i am 7 weeks pregnant!! Also means i cant do a lot in the allotment and i have now became a bit of a tyrant to my poor husband pointing at the beds and saying dig that area please! Tomorrow we are going over the plot to dig over the beds one more time, adding lime to the brasicca bed and then covering the lot up with black fabric sheeting. Hubby is going to fork over the spare bedding area for my spuds that i am planting in the 3rd week of march if weather holds out. I cant remember what i ordered to be delivered when from the Deflands nursery so want to be prepared for anything!!!!!! Will start other seedlings off towards end of march, last year i started them too early and they all went leggy and died :(

I have also put loads of sand in my roots bed and I have bought my potatoes from Woodcote Nursery. I bought 6 seed potatoes of:
Salad - Charlotte
1st Early: Red Duke of York
2nd Early: Kestrel
Mains: Rooster & Maris Piper

Tidy up

Have been to the lottie today, I chucked the compost bags on to the beds and forked them all over. I then raked over each bed and have left it like that. I am off to B&Q this afternoon to get the lime and sand for the beds. Its all coming together, I am feeling very positive about my plot today.

Plants ordered!

I have ordered plants for next year from Deflands..... have faffed about with what i was going to grow for ages!!

So I am growing from seed:
Tomatoes
parsnips
lettuces - assortments
spinach
chives
broccoli
sweetcorn
courgette
carrots
Brussels sprouts
peas
spring cabbage
butternut squash
aubergine
pumpkin
french beans - green

and i have ordered from defland:
calabrese
cabbage - duchy f1
beetroot
cauliflower
cucumber
sweet pepper
leeks
onions white and red
strawberry - 2 types
french beans - royalty - purple
runner beans
various herbs for the garden and the allotment
red cabbage
cabbage Stanton f1 bit similar to savoy
swede
curly kale
That cost me £58 including postage, but its ordered for the year now, so all i have to do is wait for it to arrive.

My potatoes I am taking a chance and getting them from the allotment shop :S

I really hope i can pull some of this off! I want next year to be a really fertile year for the land and for myself, been trying for bubba number 2 since July! :(

Good luck everyone for 2009!

Merry Meet Again

Well its a few days before Christmas and i am updating my blog. I have found my list of spuds that i wanted to grow next year and i still have to put my order for Jan, Feb, March to Defland nurseries too. Still not sure completely what i want to grow :S. Need to re-read my veg book! Looking forward to next year, lots of learning, lots of growing and lots of fun. I hope that i grow, mentally, and spiritually and I really hope we fall pregnant.

So to all Have a Merry Christmas and a Fabulous New Year, hope that 2009 brings you all that you wish for xx

Not very much progress! :-(

Its been raining, its been windy, its been ice cold and we have now been smoked out!!! I had the compost bags delivered to the site almost 3 weeks ago and Jamie has been trying to make the beds up, but its just not happening for one reason or another - usually the weather. Jamie was half way through making a bed yesterday when someone started a bonfire and smoked him out! Today i am poorly so haven't been over there. I need to get the beds made the compost bags on and the permeable plastic on. So when it comes to January next year I can just get on with it. Quite depressing really!!!